At Some Point You Have to Go | Pastor Andrew Gard | 02.22.26

Stop thinking that resistance means I'm not in alignment with God. No. Sometimes resistance is like the sign that, like, I'm on the right path. There's resistance here. Why? Because there's breakthrough. And when there's breakthrough on the other side, you get to inherit that land. So my application to all of us is this, when was the last time you took a faith step? A real one. A real one. For some of you again, you might have a broken heart. Like, it's it's time for you to get back in the dating game. Stop protecting yourself. Stop insulating yourself. [01:10:28] (42 seconds)  #ResistanceMeansBreakthrough

There are times where pastor Tyler has been preaching, and he's talking about forgiveness, and you're like, man, it's time for me to forgive that person. But then you get in the car, prudence takes over. Wisdom takes over. And you and I gotta be careful that no. No. No. I can't please him without faith. Not my prudence, not my intellect, not my wisdom. No. My faith pleases him. And so you cannot get the things out of your life that God has for you with just wisdom. You're gonna need faith. Number three, [01:04:21] (29 seconds)  #FaithNotPrudence

This pursuit of an elimination of uncertainty is an unending journey. You are never gonna get to the bottom of uncertainty. And so here's my point. My main point this morning is this, is that certainty is a floor that we will spend our whole lives trying to touch. Faith is the disposition that I can trust God even when I don't have the floor of certainty. God is trying to get you to the place of greater faith. Like [00:46:25] (30 seconds)  #EmbraceFaithOverCertainty

you're gonna spend your whole life looking for a floor that you'll never find. And you will miss opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to live this faith filled life with God because you're searching for solid ground that you'll never actually find. Be because it's a land that God will show you. Yeah. Yeah. And that you're not gonna see the land, and you're not gonna experience the land, and you're not gonna see the land until you actually go. [00:53:05] (31 seconds)  #StepIntoTheUnknown

You know, I believe every single one of us in this room, in our modern society share an addiction. Every single one of us in this room probably experienced this probably almost on a daily basis. And this is this addiction to information. Every single one of Man, we have this addiction for more and more and more information. This is why my family can't even get through a dinner without saying, hey, Siri, like 14 times. [00:43:09] (35 seconds)  #InfoAddiction

See, I I think if we're not careful, I think we've let prudence drive the this is why there are times where you can be in environments like this, and you know that God is speaking to you. Yeah. Yeah. And it could be pastor Tyler up here talking about, hey. We're giving to the building campaign, and you feel a number in your gut that you know is from God. Yeah. Oh, but then you get in the car. Then you get in the car, and prudence takes over, and wisdom takes over. [01:03:50] (31 seconds)  #DontLetPrudenceWin

You cannot worship that which you don't know the nature of. And so when you come to God, you come to him with faith, but you come to him with an accurate measure of who he is. It's why good theology and good doctrine and understanding the nature and the character and the way of God is so important because we may find ourselves worshiping a God that doesn't truly exist. And so you can't just have faith in anything. You gotta have faith in the true nature of who God is. [00:40:32] (28 seconds)  #KnowWhoYouWorship

faith was the thing that captivated Jesus, not certainty. Faith was the thing that stopped Jesus dead in his tracks in which he saw this Roman soldier that said, hey, I know that you don't even have to come to my house. You can just say the word and my servant will be healed. And Jesus goes, I've not seen faith like this in all of Jerusalem. I think we're chasing something that we'll never find, and it's causing us to live in a to live a life of paralysis. [00:46:55] (32 seconds)  #FaithMovesJesus