Exalting God: Understanding and Addressing Our Spiritual Debt
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"We ask that, God, you would do in us, O God, what we cannot do for ourselves, O God. We pray, God, that you would equip us, God. We pray, God, that you would embolden us, O God. We pray, God, you open up doors that you have for us, O God. We pray, God, that you would shut doors, God, that are not for us. oh God. We pray, God, you would use us, God, in this dark world, God. We pray, God, we can be light in a dark world, oh God. We pray, God, we can be your voices, God. We pray, God, we can be an extension of you, Lord. We pray, God, we can make an impact for your kingdom, oh God. We pray, God, we can bring hope, God. We can bring encouragement, God. We can bring light to people, God, who do not know you, oh Lord." [00:23:37] (42 seconds)
"We've got people who are cheering for their team, and the person who they're cheering for has never met them, will probably never meet them, and is not thinking about them, but they're buying their jerseys, and they're excited all about them, right? It's Super Bowl Sunday, right? Well, what's the deal? What's the deal? What's the deal? What's the deal? What's the deal? What makes Super Bowl Sunday distinct from any other Sunday? Super Bowl Sunday is significant because it becomes the culmination of an entire season." [00:59:08] (31 seconds)
"so we live in a culture where we are at the adjective super to many things except our Savior we live in a world in a society where we want everything super except Jesus we want to be intense about everything except Jesus we want to be fully committed to most anything whether it's dogs or it's trees or it's vitamins or it's clothing or it's outfits or it's cars we want to be intensive about everything except Jesus you know it's coming up where we're um coming to the internal revenue service time and some of y 'all been calling the church trying to get your refund already because those expenditures you made on December 24th you want to get that refund check as fast and boy I'm cool with it but we're gonna send it right out send it right out right when you think about the internal revenue service it ensures that financial debts are paid and accounted for if if we owe taxes we must settle the debt or face additional penalties we're concerned about the internal revenue service but beyond financial matters there's a far greater debt that we ought to be paying attention to on this Super Sunday the question becomes have you paid your spiritual debt to God my thesis today is to clear your spirit" [01:04:21] (101 seconds)
"account with God you know we live in a day and time where there are so many alternatives to serving Christ there's so many alternatives to the real thing that Christ offers that when it comes to the clarity of who Christ is we become so hyped that we don't even really know who he is and what he offers are we tracking together we live in a world where we believe everything else is the solution except Jesus Christ we live in a world where even even quote -unquote committed Christians have become confused on why he died why he lived and why he rose again amen we become confused about why Jesus even exists so much so that we think that education is the answer so much so we think having the right person in office is the answer so much so that we we we we we think getting the right neighborhood is the answer if we can just get the right person if we can just get the right politicians if we can just get the right education if we can just have the right environment things would be well and what's happened is we have ignored our spiritual debt we have ignored and overlooked the primary reason that he came from from heaven to heaven because he came from heaven to heaven because he to earth we sing this song about come let us worship him let us bow down before him but in our mouths what we think is God you owe us God the only reason that you are here God is to deliver us the only reason you are here God is to give me a better family a better job a better house a better car a better existence nicer vacations God Here I am to worship no no no God God Here I am to receive I'm not here to worship God I'm just here to receive and so I had a terse exchange with one of my friends and it really is a friend and I kind of became fed up with the selfishness I kind of became fed up with this all about me theology I kind of became fed up with you know what this Christianity is about what God can do for me and the reality is Christianity is not just about what God can do for us Christianity is about God what can we do for you because of what you've done for us so the scripture says we love him because he first loved us if you look at the text if you look at Facebook if you look at the t -shirts if you listen to the songs you would think that God is all about us and God is just here to serve us but we're not here to serve God and so the IRS is talking about the Internal Revenue Service how many of you all give much thought to the eternal revenue service how much thought do you give to your eternal life how much thought do you give to life beyond your job even beyond your families beyond your comfort zone beyond your neighborhood how much time do you give to Time beyond time." [01:07:42] (0 seconds)
"Then Peter, not speaking on his own unction, then Peter not speaking by the auspices of some denomination. Now Peter, not based upon what he can do. Now Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, controlled by the Spirit, said to them, rulers of the people with elders, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed?" [01:10:50] (27 seconds)
"Let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man is standing before you well. Verses one through four talks about the Sadducees. They, they, Sadducees questioned the resurrection." [01:11:52] (34 seconds)
"Jesus Christ died on Calvary's cross. Not just to get you a good job. Not just to give you a successful business. Not just to make your family happy. He died on Calvary's cross because somebody had to pay the price for sin. Are we tracking together?" [01:13:49] (22 seconds)
"the debt our greatest problem is not the national debt our greatest problem is not our personal debt our greatest problem is our spiritual debt we got people going to hell because they think they good people we got folks going to health I think when I got a good job because I have a good job I mean I'm in a different economic echelon that means that God is favoring me and I'm better than the people who have less than me that don't mean it just mean that God allows it to rain on the just and the ungodly unjust it means that God distribute wealth but as boy he decides not as we decide are we tracking together today that's why it says the poor will be with you always it's not because I'm good but they're unrighteous there's some very righteous people who don't have a dime to put down on anything and there's some very ungodly people who can finance many churches Romans 6 23 says for the ways of sin is death I know boy you say what happens that this this just sounds so awkward it just sounds so strange it's because we don't focus on our eternal debt before God we're so focused on on on the financial we're so focused on the on the professional that we forget about the eternal revenue service for the wages what a wage is wages is what you what you are doing is what you are doing do because of what you have done because I did a B and C in return I should receive what we agreed upon the Bible says what you get in return for your sin is death are we tracking together we get eternal separation from God because of our sin debt our sin is a debt against the holy God that we cannot repay on our own how many of y 'all know you got sin debt well pastor I ain't that bad okay have you committed one sin way I committed one sin you got sin debt and you got so much debt you can't pay it with your own life we often try to sell our debt with good deeds morality religious acts education businesses philanthropy but none of these payments are accepted to pay off your bill with the eternal revenue service imagine receiving a bill from the IRS for millions of dollars the money you don't have you say pass then a million but I still ain't got it no amount of good behavior or path of success can erase that debt in the same way sin places us in a spiritual deficit that we are incapable of repaying on our own salvation is not about a house a car material thing it's about your spiritual debt what are you going to do with your spiritual debt what is the payment acts 412 says salvation that means deliverance eternal deliverance I'm resolving your your tax debt with God paying your sin debt salvation is found in no one else for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved people say well Christianity is narrow you're right it is narrow because God didn't open the doors for any way of salvation God didn't open the door for you to make this Burger King and just do it your own way you say well pastor what about people who are extremely excited and boy I've got much zeal for what they do um what they do he says if I bet them record they have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, have gone about to establish their own righteousness." [01:16:09] (0 seconds)
"Jesus empowers you to live a life of purpose and impact. He's able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above and beyond all we can ask, think, or imagine. How many of you ought to live in an exponential life?" [01:38:58] (13 seconds)
"Are you letting your light so shine before men they see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven? Are you saying, I've been crucified with Christ? Are you saying, I've been such a woman, but Christ is fatter and more powerful than even our blessedQueer Jesus? Number three, are you fulfilling why God has left you alive on this earth? In group number three with the last time you started a conversation with somebody. You know Jesus Christ as your Lord and personal Savior, are you fulfilling why God has left you on the planet? Next question. question when was the last time you started a conversation with somebody about the eternal revenue service and told them that Jesus Christ is the only one who can pay off that debt now I want to give you an invitation today to pay off your eternal debt by trusting in the death the burial and the resurrection of Jesus Christ so ain't nobody off the hook today if you don't know him today is your day to trust him Hebrews says there you hear my voice heart not your heart as in the day of provocation so I'm gonna give an invitation I'm asked every person to bow their head every out of be closed in just a moment not right now but just a moment I'm actually are you living in the power of the resurrection on a daily basis you know I had that church conversation with my friend this morning you don't know him you don't know him you don't know any of us but this morning he's got a illness and we've been praying for him but I pray for him multiple times a day I've listened about his situation for hours hours but today I said man you ought to go worship God because you're asking from God but are you worshiping god you want god to do something for you but what did you do for God that's my question to you all today your work stones are not save you but because you serve but because he has saved you will you serve him first corinthians chapter 15 it shouldn't be optional and we give you the impression that you shouldn't give anything back to god because of what he's done for you it shouldn't be there's not anything further from the truth and i said man i've demonstrated what a friend i am you can't deny it i've listened to you for hours on end i pray for you i've been there for you for decades now so i'll make this bold statement to you you need to go worship god you need to go celebrate god you need to go give back to god you're expecting from god you're trying to exploit god and how many of us here today are trying to exploit god god has saved you god has delivered you god has paid your debt what are you going to do for you and do you care if people really go to hell do you really care if people go to hell we're more concerned about how the praise team sounded the size of the church the videos and the reels the pastor put now we're more concerned about who's got more followers and people are going to hell" [01:41:16] (0 seconds)
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"We've got people who are cheering for their team, and the person who they're cheering for has never met them, will probably never meet them, and is not thinking about them, but they're buying their jerseys, and they're excited all about them, right? It's Super Bowl Sunday, right? Well, what's the deal? What's the deal? What's the deal? What's the deal? What's the deal? What makes Super Bowl Sunday distinct from any other Sunday? Super Bowl Sunday is significant because it becomes the culmination of an entire season." [00:59:08] (31 seconds)
"so we live in a culture where we are at the adjective super to many things except our Savior we live in a world in a society where we want everything super except Jesus we want to be intense about everything except Jesus we want to be fully committed to most anything whether it's dogs or it's trees or it's vitamins or it's clothing or it's outfits or it's cars we want to be intensive about everything except Jesus you know it's coming up where we're um coming to the internal revenue service time and some of y 'all been calling the church trying to get your refund already because those expenditures you made on December 24th you want to get that refund check as fast and boy I'm cool with it but we're gonna send it right out send it right out right when you think about the internal revenue service it ensures that financial debts are paid and accounted for if if we owe taxes we must settle the debt or face additional penalties we're concerned about the internal revenue service but beyond financial matters there's a far greater debt that we ought to be paying attention to on this Super Sunday the question becomes have you paid your spiritual debt to God my thesis today is to clear your spirit" [01:04:21] (101 seconds)
"account with God you know we live in a day and time where there are so many alternatives to serving Christ there's so many alternatives to the real thing that Christ offers that when it comes to the clarity of who Christ is we become so hyped that we don't even really know who he is and what he offers are we tracking together we live in a world where we believe everything else is the solution except Jesus Christ we live in a world where even even quote -unquote committed Christians have become confused on why he died why he lived and why he rose again amen we become confused about why Jesus even exists so much so that we think that education is the answer so much so we think having the right person in office is the answer so much so that we we we we we think getting the right neighborhood is the answer if we can just get the right person if we can just get the right politicians if we can just get the right education if we can just have the right environment things would be well and what's happened is we have ignored our spiritual debt we have ignored and overlooked the primary reason that he came from from heaven to heaven because he came from heaven to heaven because he to earth we sing this song about come let us worship him let us bow down before him but in our mouths what we think is God you owe us God the only reason that you are here God is to deliver us the only reason you are here God is to give me a better family a better job a better house a better car a better existence nicer vacations God Here I am to worship no no no God God Here I am to receive I'm not here to worship God I'm just here to receive and so I had a terse exchange with one of my friends and it really is a friend and I kind of became fed up with the selfishness I kind of became fed up with this all about me theology I kind of became fed up with you know what this Christianity is about what God can do for me and the reality is Christianity is not just about what God can do for us Christianity is about God what can we do for you because of what you've done for us so the scripture says we love him because he first loved us if you look at the text if you look at Facebook if you look at the t -shirts if you listen to the songs you would think that God is all about us and God is just here to serve us but we're not here to serve God and so the IRS is talking about the Internal Revenue Service how many of you all give much thought to the eternal revenue service how much thought do you give to your eternal life how much thought do you give to life beyond your job even beyond your families beyond your comfort zone beyond your neighborhood how much time do you give to Time beyond time." [01:07:42] (0 seconds)
"Then Peter, not speaking on his own unction, then Peter not speaking by the auspices of some denomination. Now Peter, not based upon what he can do. Now Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, controlled by the Spirit, said to them, rulers of the people with elders, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed?" [01:10:50] (27 seconds)
"Let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man is standing before you well. Verses one through four talks about the Sadducees. They, they, Sadducees questioned the resurrection." [01:11:52] (34 seconds)
"Jesus Christ died on Calvary's cross. Not just to get you a good job. Not just to give you a successful business. Not just to make your family happy. He died on Calvary's cross because somebody had to pay the price for sin. Are we tracking together?" [01:13:49] (22 seconds)
"the debt our greatest problem is not the national debt our greatest problem is not our personal debt our greatest problem is our spiritual debt we got people going to hell because they think they good people we got folks going to health I think when I got a good job because I have a good job I mean I'm in a different economic echelon that means that God is favoring me and I'm better than the people who have less than me that don't mean it just mean that God allows it to rain on the just and the ungodly unjust it means that God distribute wealth but as boy he decides not as we decide are we tracking together today that's why it says the poor will be with you always it's not because I'm good but they're unrighteous there's some very righteous people who don't have a dime to put down on anything and there's some very ungodly people who can finance many churches Romans 6 23 says for the ways of sin is death I know boy you say what happens that this this just sounds so awkward it just sounds so strange it's because we don't focus on our eternal debt before God we're so focused on on on the financial we're so focused on the on the professional that we forget about the eternal revenue service for the wages what a wage is wages is what you what you are doing is what you are doing do because of what you have done because I did a B and C in return I should receive what we agreed upon the Bible says what you get in return for your sin is death are we tracking together we get eternal separation from God because of our sin debt our sin is a debt against the holy God that we cannot repay on our own how many of y 'all know you got sin debt well pastor I ain't that bad okay have you committed one sin way I committed one sin you got sin debt and you got so much debt you can't pay it with your own life we often try to sell our debt with good deeds morality religious acts education businesses philanthropy but none of these payments are accepted to pay off your bill with the eternal revenue service imagine receiving a bill from the IRS for millions of dollars the money you don't have you say pass then a million but I still ain't got it no amount of good behavior or path of success can erase that debt in the same way sin places us in a spiritual deficit that we are incapable of repaying on our own salvation is not about a house a car material thing it's about your spiritual debt what are you going to do with your spiritual debt what is the payment acts 412 says salvation that means deliverance eternal deliverance I'm resolving your your tax debt with God paying your sin debt salvation is found in no one else for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved people say well Christianity is narrow you're right it is narrow because God didn't open the doors for any way of salvation God didn't open the door for you to make this Burger King and just do it your own way you say well pastor what about people who are extremely excited and boy I've got much zeal for what they do um what they do he says if I bet them record they have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, have gone about to establish their own righteousness." [01:16:09] (0 seconds)
"Jesus empowers you to live a life of purpose and impact. He's able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above and beyond all we can ask, think, or imagine. How many of you ought to live in an exponential life?" [01:38:58] (13 seconds)
"Are you letting your light so shine before men they see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven? Are you saying, I've been crucified with Christ? Are you saying, I've been such a woman, but Christ is fatter and more powerful than even our blessedQueer Jesus? Number three, are you fulfilling why God has left you alive on this earth? In group number three with the last time you started a conversation with somebody. You know Jesus Christ as your Lord and personal Savior, are you fulfilling why God has left you on the planet? Next question. question when was the last time you started a conversation with somebody about the eternal revenue service and told them that Jesus Christ is the only one who can pay off that debt now I want to give you an invitation today to pay off your eternal debt by trusting in the death the burial and the resurrection of Jesus Christ so ain't nobody off the hook today if you don't know him today is your day to trust him Hebrews says there you hear my voice heart not your heart as in the day of provocation so I'm gonna give an invitation I'm asked every person to bow their head every out of be closed in just a moment not right now but just a moment I'm actually are you living in the power of the resurrection on a daily basis you know I had that church conversation with my friend this morning you don't know him you don't know him you don't know any of us but this morning he's got a illness and we've been praying for him but I pray for him multiple times a day I've listened about his situation for hours hours but today I said man you ought to go worship God because you're asking from God but are you worshiping god you want god to do something for you but what did you do for God that's my question to you all today your work stones are not save you but because you serve but because he has saved you will you serve him first corinthians chapter 15 it shouldn't be optional and we give you the impression that you shouldn't give anything back to god because of what he's done for you it shouldn't be there's not anything further from the truth and i said man i've demonstrated what a friend i am you can't deny it i've listened to you for hours on end i pray for you i've been there for you for decades now so i'll make this bold statement to you you need to go worship god you need to go celebrate god you need to go give back to god you're expecting from god you're trying to exploit god and how many of us here today are trying to exploit god god has saved you god has delivered you god has paid your debt what are you going to do for you and do you care if people really go to hell do you really care if people go to hell we're more concerned about how the praise team sounded the size of the church the videos and the reels the pastor put now we're more concerned about who's got more followers and people are going to hell" [01:41:16] (0 seconds)
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