In View of God's Mercy: Become a Living Sacrifice

The trajectory of future generations, the trajectory of your family, the trajectory of your kids, of your grandkids. And here's what happens. It starts when we start laying some things down today. Hey. Hey. Hey. Know this. Know this. Surrender always costs something. Surrender always costs something. But holding onto it, it costs you more than you think. So here's what I invite you to do today. To lay it down. The the place of you in your life that you're holding on to. Lay it down. Lay down your your sex life. Lay down your time. For some of us, it's lay down our our treasure. Develop holy habits and see what the trajectory is gonna be for your life, and for your family's life. So here's the question, what do you need to lay down on the altar? [01:04:43] (71 seconds)  #LayItDownLegacy

I can stand up here and I can preach a message about presenting your body as a living sacrifice, being devoted to God. But if all of your content on your phone, your algorithm is all about doing you, making more money, nobody tells you what to do, living your best life, following your dreams, do this, do that, you're gonna hear the idea of presenting your body as a living sacrifice, and you're gonna be like, I would never do that. Because you've been discipled. But instead of being discipled and transformed by the word, you've been discipled and conformed to the world and your algorithm. [00:55:10] (36 seconds)  #DisciplinedByTruth

For some of you, your algorithm is a a majority of it is sexualized content. And here's the thing about algorithms, is the average person spends forty nine hours a week in front of a screen. And the newest out of this just come out. Forty nine hours a week. It's basically a full time job. It just doesn't pay you. And if you spend forty nine hours consuming certain types of content, the content is going to shape us. We're gonna be conformed to our algorithm. And something about your algorithm to know is your algorithm doesn't ask you who you want to become. It just shapes you based on what you repeatedly consume. [00:54:06] (61 seconds)  #GuardYourAlgorithm

Now, these people would be very familiar with with sacrifices. A sacrifice dies. That's what animal sacrifices would do. These people knew all about that. And Paul says, I want you to be a living sacrifice. Living A sacrifice? What do you mean you want me to, like, die? This is what Paul is saying. Paul is saying, I want to urge you not to try to be a little better, not to try to take a little growth step in your faith, not to not to kinda improve your life a little bit. I wanna urge you to die to yourself and live your life completely devoted to God. [00:42:24] (43 seconds)  #LiveAsASacrifice