Zion Church | Pathway To Success Part 19 | Pastor Keith Battle

When you're gonna make a decision, it can't just be a discussion. It must be a decision. No delays, decision. So Elijah took every bull he had and he killed it, sacrificed it, took all of his farming equipment and burnt it, gave all the food to the townspeople. Why? So that there'll be nothing left of his business. He says, I can't go back now. I can only go forward. [00:33:14] (31 seconds)  #DecideAndMoveForward

No. You you don't get to pass on Jesus. He paid too high of a price for you to be neutral with him. Who am I talking to? He bled to death. You can't be on the fence about that. He shed his blood for you. He was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities. You cannot be blase blase about Jesus. You got to choose. [00:18:24] (24 seconds)  #ChooseJesusNow

Can I tell you why people don't serve God wholeheartedly? It's because of the same thing that's happening in this verse. He says, fear the Lord and serve him wholeheartedly. How? Put away forever the idols. My my my Your ancestors worship when they live beyond the Phraseas River in Egypt and serve the Lord alone. Whether it's ancestral stuff or stuff you started, the reason why you half heartedly serve the Lord is because you got another God in your life. [00:22:26] (37 seconds)  #ServeWholeheartedly

That sound like two people on the throne. You have pledged your allegiance and loyalty to something or someone other than God. Yeah. Yeah. We're we're y'all ain't standing on that one. Don't make you a bad person. It just means you got two gods. That means you're polytheistic. For you to be polytheistic, that means you serve more than one god. That is unbiblical because Deuteronomy six four says, the Lord our God is one. [00:23:28] (34 seconds)  #OneGodOneHeart

There it is. I don't know who said this. People don't usually fail because they can't go forward. They fail because they made it too easy to go back. I'm gonna give you an opportunity today at all of our campuses to make a decision because it's only you. It's on you to choose whether Jesus Christ is gonna be your savior or not. That's on you. And I'm a give you an opportunity in a moment to come forward to make that decision. Why I gotta come forward? Faith and progress is forward. It is not neutral. It is not backwards. It is forward. [00:33:49] (45 seconds)  #FaithGoesForward

When they landed on Mexico, he told all his soldiers, burn the ships. Why do we burn the ships? Because we will not make a way to go back. He says, either we're gonna succeed here or we're gonna die here. But one thing we're not gonna do is go backwards. If you're playing basketball and you cross half court, even if somebody calling you, if you go back in the back court, that's a turnover. And some of you can't build because you won't burn with stealing idol to you. [00:30:15] (36 seconds)  #BurnTheShips

But it it happened because here's what watch this. Success is not just what you build, it's what you burn. People talk about elevating. You can't elevate, you can only elevate at the at the at the dimension you're willing to eliminate. The reason why you can't build something is because you won't burn something that's keeping you from building it. [00:29:36] (27 seconds)  #BuildByBurning

When it comes to worship, God is not supposed to be first. He's supposed to be only. Only God deserves worship. How do we fix that? Let me tell you a quick story. When I was 19 years old, something happened in my life. First of all, my God was my music collection. I got my first car when I was 17. My parents wouldn't let me drive their car. So I got my first job when I was 15. I was just working work, I bought a car for my cousin Marty. It was [00:25:39] (41 seconds)  #OnlyGodDeservesWorship