What Ground Might We Need To Plow / Pastor Randy Goldenberg / FCF Church

But finally, they reached the point of no return. Don't go there. You don't have to. It doesn't have to end this way. It didn't have to end that way with Israel. And I'm not talking down to anybody in here. I mean, we're we're all made of the same stuff, and we all need to be willing to to stay tenderhearted and open and humble before god so that we can receive his blessings and not bring unnecessary cursings on ourselves. [01:25:17] (25 seconds)  #HumilityOpensBlessings

Confession means that I am owning the thing that I've done that is discordant with god's will. I'm saying no excuses. It's not somebody else's fault. It's my fault. I did it. This is what I did. So I am naming the sin. I am owning it. I'm taking responsibility for it, but that is only the start in my opinion. Then I need to be willing to tell god not just what I did. Here's why I did it, god. [01:22:26] (24 seconds)  #OwnYourConfession

What the Israelites needed to do, what some of us in here today, am sure need to do, not tomorrow. Don't don't think about tomorrow. Today before we leave here. And and I'm just being honest. This this is affects me as much as any of you. We all go through periods where it's our time to do this next step this next step. Today might be the day some of us in here, we need to seek the lord while he may be found. Israel was three years away from this this disaster. [01:23:40] (31 seconds)  #SeekTheLordToday

During the forty year reign of Jeroboam two, Israel, the 10 northern tribes, all of a sudden became very prosperous and very powerful militarily. They regained some of their lands that had been taken away from them. And so they were feeling like, hey, man. God must he must be really pleased with us. The wind is in our sail. We're we're we're living high, you know, so that must indicate the favor of god. When we start reading our circumstances to indicate the favor, the love, the affection, or lack thereof of god, that is that is the wrong place to look. [00:54:59] (28 seconds)  #DontReadCircumstances

I I know that we have a tendency to to deceive ourselves, to think that we can live discordant with god's word, that we can ignore him, ignore his will, ignore his word, and just think, oh, god's gracious. Nobody's perfect. You know? The more he forgives us, the better it makes him look, and and we we lie to ourselves because nothing's happening. We're not experiencing any consequences, so we think, hey. He must be okay with me. [01:00:32] (24 seconds)  #GraceIsNotLicense

We think that sin, unless the consequences are immediate and obvious, we're like, oh, I sinned and nothing happened. But this is saying that when we sin, we immediately are absolutely impacted. We are hardened. We are desensitized, and that makes us in danger to go further and further and further. Now here here's the thing I find interesting. How many of you would feel very comfortable going up to someone and warning them not to sin. There's always a couple. [01:14:41] (31 seconds)  #SinHardensFast

Do you see the raw transparent vulnerable relational pain that God is expressing? He's not angry at these people. He is heartbroken that the blessing he wants to give them which is dependent upon union with himself, they are not seeking. They are turning away from him. They are kinda in a marital dependent loving relationship with these fallen angel false gods [00:52:16] (26 seconds)  #GodIsHeartbroken

and he wants us to have the best life possible, but he cannot give that to us because the best life possible requires I trust him and obey his will as it's revealed in his word. This is a big day for some of you in here. This is a day just like it was a big day for them. They didn't understand that it was big, but it was gonna turn into an unnecessary head on collision. I don't want that to happen for any of us in here today, and I know the lord doesn't and that's why we're all gathered, we're all here, we're all wide eyed, and I hope wide eared as well. [01:01:41] (34 seconds)  #YieldForBestLife