God Is All Powerful

What idols have crept into your heart? Taking hold of it. You say, well, I don't carry around any. I mean, Tyson gave us a seal of Jesus, but I don't think he meant it to be an idol. That is not what I'm talking about. An idol is something that creeps into your life that causes you to get excited or depressed if you have Jesus but don't have it. An idol is also a version of God that doesn't match God as he's revealed himself. When Jeroboam built the golden calves at Bethlehem Dan, he didn't say, here's two idols to worship. He said, here is the god who brought you out of Egypt. Here is your god. [00:38:51] (59 seconds)  #IdolsInTheHeart

Where have I shown haste rather than restraint and trust? Paul, I think you said something about this in small group this morning. Where have I shown haste rather than restraint and trust? I'm not saying she said anything. That's just we were talking about that because we were talking about how Joshua and the Israelite leaders made a covenant with the Gibeonites instead of praying and asking God about it. Where have I shown haste rather than restraint and trust? Two more. In what ways have I shown self reliance rather than dependence on God? That's tough, isn't it? It's tough because since since you guys, since you were three or four years old, you said, I do it myself. [00:41:37] (56 seconds)  #TrustOverHaste

in what areas does your life reflect holiness? You know, we've make it we've made holiness in our day to almost be a dirty word. How many of you have ever heard somebody say, what do you think you are? Holier than thou? Well, no. Because holier than thou, if you're saying it is me, so I'm not holier than me, that's the I don't am I holier than you? I don't know. Maybe because if you're saying that to me, how holy are you? I don't know. But seriously, In what areas of your life what areas of your life reflect holiness? Where is it lacking? [00:43:09] (43 seconds)  #ReflectHoliness

And so, when I read these genealogies, I get I get excited. I know it's weird. I get excited because what it reminds me is though I don't have to be famous to be known by the only one that matters. So what that reminds me or that tells me is that god is aware of all things. When god was walking in the garden, the evening after Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and they were hiding in the bushes. Did god know where they were? Then why did he say, Adam, where are you? Because Adam needed to know where Adam was. [00:23:18] (42 seconds)  #KnownByGod

And we'd go crazy in the wrestling room. Right? I am a winner. And I got pinned in the first round. Why? Because when I declare something, I don't have the power. I don't have the control. I'm not aware of what's gonna happen, but god is. Right. So that raises us some questions that we're gonna finish with. But what does that mean to us now? A guy named Tim Deroshea wrote this. Before we can have an appropriate reverence and recognition of god, we must believe that he is and that he's able to perform any and every word he has spoken. [00:35:41] (41 seconds)  #TrustGodsPower

We especially struggle with this because we want our spouse if we're married, our kids if we have them, our coworkers, or even people at church to respect us. And so we will hesitate to share any weakness, any struggle. We may share frustrations because as guys, we're authorized to be mad. We're just not supposed to be sad. So we hold those things in. Why do we do that? Because we think we have to be aware of everything, and we have to be sovereign over everything, and we have to have power over everything, and we have to be able to do all that we say instead of recognizing it's all about him. [00:40:35] (48 seconds)  #VulnerabilityOverImage

to hope that you'll accept them, to hope that it will be enough. And God, I thank you that you've already said no one's gonna get to you that way. That the wages of sin is death. We're born in it. We live in it. We roll in it. We love it, and it's what keeps us from you. But I thank you that the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord, that because you're omnipotent, you could you could pay the debt, you could satisfy the wrath that our sin deserves, and you did by sending your son, Jesus. [00:45:03] (44 seconds)  #SavedByGrace

So I pray, God, there are some people here that are trying to do it on their own, and I pray, God, that you would help them this morning to see and understand who you are and be drawn to you and surrender. I pray, father, that you'd give them the courage to cry out to you and say, I recognize I am other than you, and I'm separated from you. And that's not who I want to be or where I want to be, but I can't fix it. Would you send Jesus to forgive my sin? Would you send your Holy Spirit to live in me? And you become the leader and I'll follow? God, I make it about you and not about me. [00:45:47] (45 seconds)  #StopDoingItAlone