Hijacked Faith Pt.2

And I looked at him, and I opened up my little small red bible that I had, and I read to him the verse. There is one mediator between God and man, the person Jesus Christ. And I looked up at father Quinn, and I said, that's not you. Eight year old David. See, I knew what the word of God said. And I looked at him and I said, that don't add up. So you need to read the word and let the holy spirit reveal to you his word and then stand on his word. [00:12:40] (41 seconds)  #oneMediatorJesus

So I went over there and I put the water, but then here was like the tide. And you know Costco don't sell small stuff. Right? It's like the tide weighs 24 pounds, the downy weighs 24 pounds. So I just started unloading her entire cart, and then walks up her husband in his walker. And he looked and said, thank you. And I said, can I tell you something? God loves you. And then I turned back around, got my buggy, finished loading my car, drove away. That's not because I'm pastor. Amen. That's because I'm Christian. Amen. When I was a teacher in Dade County Public Schools, supposed to do the same thing. [00:24:07] (39 seconds)  #loveinaisle

From the highs of highs, the minute you shift the focus from God to man, you're gonna hit the lows of lows. And that's what happened to Peter. From the high to the low because he shifted his focus, his mindset. His mindset went back. Jesus just said, I'm gonna die, and on the third day, I'm gonna be raised. Every prophetic word about the Messiah is about to come true. But Peter went to the mind of man that said the Messiah would come and have a physical reign, and said, Barf, be it from you. You ain't dying. And Jesus had to say, get away from me, Satan. [00:39:41] (38 seconds)  #keepGodasFocus

Because I need you to get the don't get this twisted. We're all called to full time ministry. Amen. While you're at Publix, you're in full time ministry because you're a son of God. It doesn't turn off. I'm not better than you because I'm called pastor, and I'm supposed to do this. I went to I was at Costco this week because we needed, you know, picadillo and toilet paper and all that jazz. And I went to put myself in my cart, and I was on a time crunch. But I felt the holy spirit, and I turned around, I see this old lady. [00:23:21] (31 seconds)  #ministryEverywhere

And when you're trying and focusing on the pleasing of a person as opposed to pleasing God, it's never enough. And most of the time, it actually gets you further and further and further away from God. The more you're pleasing man, the further you get away from what God wants in your life. We can't please God and man at the same time. [00:16:43] (21 seconds)  #cannotPleaseBoth

He goes to walk away, and Saul rips the robe of Samuel. And Samuel turns around and says, this moment, God has stripped the kingdom from you and given it to someone better than you. He got hijacked because he went to please man over pleasing God. To the eye of man, it looked like he was still fine because he was still king for thirty eight more years without anointing Wow. Because David had been anointed. [00:30:07] (34 seconds)  #saulsStripped

And when we obey what he told us to do, when we obey his commands, when we obey his statutes, when we obey his laws, when we obey him, it pleases him. We can't earn it. We don't deserve it. Many times, we bring that mindset of wanting approval because we've learned that we want the approval of man. We wanna hear somebody say, I'm proud of you. We wanna hear our parents say, I'm proud of you, or your teacher, your your your boss. Like, we wanna hear these things, and then we bring it into our relationship with God, and we think that I've got to do a good work to get the approval. [00:18:16] (39 seconds)  #obedienceNotApproval

Be the son of God and the daughter of God that you're called to be. Jesus said, bless those who curse you. And then there's believers all around the world that don't talk to a family member because when they went to the thing, they didn't, like, you know, cover their soda. Stupid trivial things. Well, I can't talk to them anymore. No. As pastor Larry Stocks, he says, love pastor Larry at pastor's university. He says, go to the hardware store, get a ladder, and get over it. Get over it. [00:26:12] (30 seconds)  #getOverIt