It's Definitely a No For Me, Dawg

Jesus said, it doesn't matter what you want. Being a follower of me means you have to crucify that part of yourself, the part that wants vengeance, the part that wants to be vindictive, the part that wants to be mean, the part that wants to be judgmental, the part that wants to condemn others, the part that wants to be the moral hall monitor of the world. You have to set that aside and do things the way I do them. [00:15:59] (25 seconds)  #CrucifyTheSelf

You you can say yes to anything you want in your life, and that does not remove you from God's grace. You're not in danger of hell. You're not gonna send your way out of God's grace. If that were possible, it means that God's grace has limitations, and it's too weak to stand up to our perpetual sin, and that's not how grace works. What that does say though is that because you have grace in your life, you now have the power to say no to the things that will derail and distract and destroy your life. [00:31:36] (39 seconds)  #GraceEmpowersNo

So listen. This is important for us today for, I think, a really, really, I feel like we are in a historical moment in our history as a nation, but as Christians in this nation. And here's why. Because I think that many, many, many, many, many Christians have said no to a counterfeit form of Christianity that idolizes a hypocritical self righteousness, compassionless thirst for power and control over other people, and for a political ideology. [00:13:32] (47 seconds)  #RejectCounterfeitFaith

Because if you don't know, MRIs are giant powerful magnets. If And there's any metal in you, it will rip that metal through your body to that magnet. And so the right answer was no. I was never happier in my life to say no to a bunch of questions because I didn't wanna go through whatever pain would be associated with just accidentally saying yes. So pain can be avoided in our lives by saying no and not just no once, but no a lot. [00:03:57] (28 seconds)  #NoPreventsHarm

These vocal pastors that get on TV, they've got enough money to be able to say whatever they wanna say and not really face consequences for it. Or I'd love to be able to blame it on some radicalized podcaster. I'd love to be able to say that it's a politically biased news source that's creating all this. I'd love to be able to blame it on a president, on a politician. I'd love to but it is us. It comes from within. The phone call is coming from within the house. The danger lies within us. The worst part of who we are has created this. Right. [00:14:54] (40 seconds)  #ProblemWithinUs

Draw the boundaries around your own life with no's. Say no to people no matter who they are that will derail you and distract you from your mission and purpose. Say no to yourself. Say no to everything and anything that doesn't help keep you on purpose doesn't help your heart stay in alignment with God's heart. think, man, would would this be would this be something that God had put me in so I could I doesn't this doesn't feel like a path that God has me on. [00:33:56] (36 seconds)  #BoundariesKeepPurpose

And then he got up very early in the morning, and he wanted to go be be by himself and pray. And then here's what happens. His disciples who didn't care about Jesus needing to restore and refresh his spiritual energy and his spiritual batteries, Come find he clearly wanted to be alone. And they come in and they go, everyone's everyone's looking for you. Have you ever been the host of a party and needed five minutes to gain your sanity? [00:22:06] (27 seconds)  #GuardYourQuietTime

But I would say this, that every single person in here wishes at many moments throughout your life, probably innumerable times that you had firmly, clearly, and unapologetically when you said yes or just didn't stand on your ground and say no. You can look back over those times and say, oh, man, I wish I would have said no to that. Man, I wish I would have said no to this person. Man, I wish I would have said no. And we can kind of mark really pivotal moments in our lives when we should have said no to something, someone, a moment, an opportunity, or even to ourselves where no should have been the word we used. [00:02:22] (45 seconds)  #WishISaidNo