Living Faithfully: Trusting God's Plan in Adversity
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Against culture, right? A culture that says it is all about you. It's all about what you want. Nike says just do it, right? Just do what you want to do. So living faithful lives can be hard. But Paul tells us that because God is faithful, there's an expectation that we are to respond with faithful lives of our own. We're to respond to God's faithfulness by being faithful." [15:42]
2. "We feel like we deserve the victory. We believe that we deserve all the good things as we see it, right? I can see that thing that I want, and I believe that it's fair because I'm generally a good person. But God says, 'Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice.' In their hearts, He says, humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps." [30:15]
3. "Living a life by faithfulness requires us to have the kind of faith that trusts that as God orders our steps, as He orders out the next phase for us, the result can be so much better. We've got to trust that God's way is so much better and so much higher than anything that we could ask or imagine." [35:37]
4. "So we're going to focus on one thing, and that thing is to read the Bible. Just to read the Bible more. Because when you read the Bible, here's what you figure out. This is what you see. As you read God's word, you learn more about God Himself. You learn more about His heart as you read His story." [36:29]
### Quotes for Members
1. "We can't live these out fully because we're sinful people. That is our reality. We are sinful people, so it is a struggle to live these out, right? We're sinful people. We struggle with things of our minds, things with our agendas, our ambitions, and everything else, right? So it's okay that we're going to struggle with them. These are hard for us. But guys, these fruits are part of the very character of God Himself." [09:03]
2. "And even when we are faithless, He remains faithful because faithfulness is who He is. Faithfulness is the definition of who He is, and God can't disown Himself. He can't stop being God, right? He can't stop being exactly what He is. He is perfect. He is without blemish. He is holy. He is loving. And He is faithful. And He cannot not be those things, even when we aren't." [17:43]
3. "Daniel desperately needed to remain faithful to God because he had seen God over and over and over and story upon story. He had seen God's faithfulness in action, and he knew that he had to remain faithful to God because of that, right? Because God was faithful to him, he had to remain faithful back to God." [24:21]
4. "So Daniel hears about this decree, right? No prayer, no bowing down, no worship of any other God or any other people for 30 days. Daniel hears about this, right? And realizes I've never done anything wrong, but this can't fly. This cannot fly, right? He's been living as an upstanding citizen, but he's like, I can't do this, right? This is too far for me. And so he did it. He actually continued to pray three times a day, right out in the open, in plain sight, for everybody to see." [22:45]
5. "Daniel had everything to gain by turning his back on God. He had everything to gain by just simply pretending that it was okay for 30 days, right? To pray openly and bow down. All he had to do was not do those things publicly. He could still do it private when no one's looking. All he had to do was not in front of anybody else pray or bow down to anybody else." [26:39]
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1. "Against culture, right? A culture that says it is all about you. It's all about what you want. Nike says just do it, right? Just do what you want to do. So living faithful lives can be hard. But Paul tells us that because God is faithful, there's an expectation that we are to respond with faithful lives of our own. We're to respond to God's faithfulness by being faithful." [15:42]
2. "We feel like we deserve the victory. We believe that we deserve all the good things as we see it, right? I can see that thing that I want, and I believe that it's fair because I'm generally a good person. But God says, 'Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice.' In their hearts, He says, humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps." [30:15]
3. "Living a life by faithfulness requires us to have the kind of faith that trusts that as God orders our steps, as He orders out the next phase for us, the result can be so much better. We've got to trust that God's way is so much better and so much higher than anything that we could ask or imagine." [35:37]
4. "So we're going to focus on one thing, and that thing is to read the Bible. Just to read the Bible more. Because when you read the Bible, here's what you figure out. This is what you see. As you read God's word, you learn more about God Himself. You learn more about His heart as you read His story." [36:29]
### Quotes for Members
1. "We can't live these out fully because we're sinful people. That is our reality. We are sinful people, so it is a struggle to live these out, right? We're sinful people. We struggle with things of our minds, things with our agendas, our ambitions, and everything else, right? So it's okay that we're going to struggle with them. These are hard for us. But guys, these fruits are part of the very character of God Himself." [09:03]
2. "And even when we are faithless, He remains faithful because faithfulness is who He is. Faithfulness is the definition of who He is, and God can't disown Himself. He can't stop being God, right? He can't stop being exactly what He is. He is perfect. He is without blemish. He is holy. He is loving. And He is faithful. And He cannot not be those things, even when we aren't." [17:43]
3. "Daniel desperately needed to remain faithful to God because he had seen God over and over and over and story upon story. He had seen God's faithfulness in action, and he knew that he had to remain faithful to God because of that, right? Because God was faithful to him, he had to remain faithful back to God." [24:21]
4. "So Daniel hears about this decree, right? No prayer, no bowing down, no worship of any other God or any other people for 30 days. Daniel hears about this, right? And realizes I've never done anything wrong, but this can't fly. This cannot fly, right? He's been living as an upstanding citizen, but he's like, I can't do this, right? This is too far for me. And so he did it. He actually continued to pray three times a day, right out in the open, in plain sight, for everybody to see." [22:45]
5. "Daniel had everything to gain by turning his back on God. He had everything to gain by just simply pretending that it was okay for 30 days, right? To pray openly and bow down. All he had to do was not do those things publicly. He could still do it private when no one's looking. All he had to do was not in front of anybody else pray or bow down to anybody else." [26:39]
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