We're in Romans 12 if you haven't been around we decided to take the entire fall and go through Romans 12 specifically Versus 9 through 21 because this is where Paul takes a look at the defining characteristics of Christian This is where he says this is what means to follow God We've been working through that last week we heard from Mark Halston's guard on Fruvancy and zeal a Romans 12 11 right the first part of Romans 12 11 And he was explaining to us through the scripture that zeal and fervency is not when we get struck by lightning bolt from heaven and suddenly We're on fire It's actually taking our pot of water So to speak who we are putting it on the flame of the word and the spirit and starting to boil and heat up as there's a consistency and a faithfulness To positioning ourselves on what he said and did yeah, it was so good if you guys didn't hear that message Please go back and look at that was the first part of Romans 12 11 Today I'm gonna talk about the second part and I have to say part because I can't say half because I get three words There's three words, but we don't have nearly enough time to talk about those three words because those three words are so loaded especially in the Context in the culture that we're in there was a word given as we were praying before service about tonight being like a chiropractic adjustment you guys ever go to the chiropractor and it's like It's alignment, right? It's like trying to get alignment in your body and how many of you know that there are times where it's not even like There was a car crash or something dramatic It's like I use this arm for my work a lot And so something starts to happen on this side of my back And it's like there needs to be an adjustment because if we overuse one side and don't use the other you actually have to be brought into alignment right So I'm just gonna say right off the bat that I fully understand that what we're gonna talk about tonight is Can feel like well, that's out of balance like where's all the pastoral softening then? What I'm gonna say is I'm aware that my one of my greatest weaknesses as a teacher is that I love to be understood and I love to avoid Misunderstanding and so what I can find myself doing is the Lord says hey Ben would you share this and I say yes Lord absolutely and then I go with they're probably thinking about this and this and this and I might have this question and I End up answering all the potential questions and softening everything so everyone understands it and I can miss some of the sharpness What I believe the Lord wanted to say and so I'm carrying that awareness tonight and I'm coming in going man You have so many resources around you you have an incredible Amount of teaching that you can go to for balance because I understand that there are two sides what I'm doing tonight I believe that there's one side that's getting used a lot in the body and one side that isn't so I'm just gonna talk about this side because I believe it's what the Lord wants to do and adjusting our hearts Yeah, have have grace on me if if you want to take something out of context and run with it Go for it. I can't stop you.
Please have grace on me as I preach with conviction What I believe the Lord saying in Romans 1211, okay three words right three words Serve the Lord Serve the Lord everyone's like great. Okay. Well, I thought it was okay. We do that.
Yeah, hold on here's here gets interesting. We love Reading passages like that going well, I'm sure in the Greek what it means is like, you know because you just love so much It's like a response to your love for like we hope that the Greeks has something different I look at the Greek It's the Greek word dual you oh serve right serve the Lord serve dual you oh It means to serve to to submit to To obey as a slave to a master and now we can get a little bit like wait what serve the Lord And and we we hear the stronger the language gets you're like serve the Lord. You're like, okay fine submit to the Lord I guess yeah obey the Lord Oh as a as a slave to a master you went too far a band hold on right and that's where we're I'm wanting us to actually take this seriously And we'll look at it But there's a reason why I think this is so contentious and why somebody standing up here and not giving any context I know serve God why that can feel a little bit of bracelet and I believe I haven't lived in every area of human history In every country, but I believe that we are living in one of the most Selfish cultures that we ever have and we it's not even all bad. Let me just let me start back a little bit.
Where do we live? America land of the free we love freedom one of our highest values as a society is freedom We we get to declare our independence each and every July 4th We get to look back and say I said I couldn't do it. Look at me now Right I can be who I want to be I can build what I want to build I can live where I want to live I can believe what I want to believe a free man started from the bottom now we hear all right And there's this there's this kind of swagger that we have as Americans because we go no We're we're free we're freedom fighters. We're friend.
We so value freedom and I would submit That we've said that the way that we find happiness is through freedom So then it starts to make sense if you think that the way that you can find happiness is through freedom that it makes sense That'd be a core motivation right so like why do you why do you work your job? To make money why so I can be financially free so I can do what I want to do right? It's like we are we're doing the things because we're going I'll get happiness if I'm free and so I'll do whatever I have to to get free so freedom becomes like the ultimate goal for Americans The way that we're designed we have core motives We have core fears a lot of times interact So I think that it's it's no secret that right now one of our core fears as a society is our freedom being taken away Right, it's it's this great at all costs I need to defend my rights and defend my freedom to defend my ability to do xyz And we're driven now by fear of protecting because what's the worst thing that could happen to an American to be controlled Right, it's it's the ultimate fear that in our culture our greatest motivation is freedom Our greatest fear is being controlled And so we find ourselves in this spot that people are calling a culture war right where there's now two sides and it's It's on the political aisle as they're making these generations So there's the right and there's the left and there's this culture war and what's fascinating to me is that both sides want and fear the same thing Both sides are terrified of being controlled both sides want freedom. So on the on the right It's like you don't get to tell me what to do with my money You don't get to tell me what to do with my guns you know to do with my land I'm free stop pushing your agenda on me stop telling you what to think I'm my own man I'm my own woman.
I get to think about this for myself. I'm free so stop coming on my turf And then on the left, it's like well don't you get to tell what to do with my body You don't get to tell me to do with my sexuality you know get how dare you push your agenda on me I'm free person I get to think what I want to think it's the exact same language And then for both of them if they really want to launch a grenade at the other side They say see they're trying to control you right both sides. I've watched the news both sides They're trying to control you they're trying to brainwash you to get you to do what you don't want to do you can't tolerate this America It's it's this battle over Just don't control me and so we're in this context. We're submission to authority We have no grid for actual submission to authority.
We're going first of all prove it second of all I'm I'll come in cautiously, but you're not gonna control me you can inform me But you're not gonna tell me what to do you can say things like that makes sense and I've decided now that I'm going to align with this But it's still my decision. You're not in control of me. I get picky That's the cultural moment that we find ourselves in and so We're listening to this and we go is Ben anti freedom. Nope not anti freedom There's a massive difference though between like social and civil freedoms and ethical moral freedom You were given jurisdiction within your culture to make your own rules and governance isn't your social and civil freedoms We went too far.
We said so I'm free. So yep You can make your own money. They go sweet. I'm gonna make a ton of money and extort everyone It's like hold on that crossed an ethical boundary You were given freedom to go and make money But when you second started extorting somebody now you've crossed a moral or ethical line you see the difference like um You praise God in this country.
We have the freedom where people like yeah, I I have autonomy over my own body It's like well, that's that's awesome. There are billions of people that don't have that that's amazing You have that but then if you cross the line and go now I'm fully disregarding God's ethic for life then we go oh Because because we've we've thought that because we had limited freedoms in this area that then we were free to do whatever we're not We're not so imagine like this imagine that you are one of eight people that still works in an office every day of the week and You have a dress code and it's you know button up and slacks and the boss says hey, you know what casual Fridays on Fridays you can wear whatever you want and Actually, you can actually have this company card and you can buy you and your team lunch on Fridays It's awesome. It's like great. You're free to do that But if you show up to the sales meeting on Tuesday and your pajamas That's a problem if you take the company card and you just start buying yourself lunch every day That's a problem.
Why because you were given certain freedoms. You were not given cart blanch. You can do whatever you want You are not allowed to then say well, they they gave me that freedom So now I'm telling all of my coworkers when the same levels me you can you can wear whatever you want You get to swipe this card Everyone because because I experienced this limited freedom and now this is what it's it's a crossing of a boundary when we do that Okay, are we tracking good? So the freedom to vote is very different than the freedom to sleep around the freedom to own property is very different Then the freedom to decide that you get to steal from someone else's pop like there's there's boundaries that are set and we have So muddied the waters that we think that if we give up one we're giving up everything if I give up my freedoms morally Now I've lost my freedoms socially.
That's not how it works And so I'm saying all this as context because we don't like being told to serve and submit This is all just context for Romans 12 11 when Paul says serve the Lord Why are we weird? That's that's probably why you have been allowed freedoms by God. You are not entitled To freedoms this is where yeah, please don't just take a clip for 10 seconds and put it on Instagram Freedom freedom is allowed by God But freedom in the hands of people that have eaten from the tree the knowledge of good and evil becomes a very sharp sword And you don't know what to do with it God God designed you In a certain way when we step out of that and take freedom and go I can do it ever I want We have a couple thousand years of human history that says this goes terribly when when people say I guess that I get to make all the rules It's gone horrifically every single time It's it's like if I were to give my son the ability to make every culinary decision in our home So wildly unhealthy if I put my dog in a room full of dog treats I was like yeah, there's no you get to pick what you want to do like he's we aren't designed to call all the shots And so things go terribly wrong But let me pause here because I think that we are in danger as a church we are in danger I mean like American church we're in danger of having our justification for serving God being because it's I do it because it's good for me We are very okay listening the reasons of the benefits that will come if I serve God So then I can sign up for it. It becomes more palatable for me if I can say well It's because I get health wealth and blessing.
That's why I serve the Lord well if I serve the Lord Then I actually get all of these benefits and these peace these like peace in my heart Look at the stuff that I get from that I should serve the Lord We are in danger of making service to God a means to our own end that is not what serving the Lord is about You do not serve God because of what benefits He will then give to you God is not a life coach that you hire for a season to bring more balance into your life God is not a therapist that's gonna sit with you and explain Oh, well here are some tools for you to go and unlock on your own over there God's not a doctor that you go to when you're sick and hurting and he heals you and then sends you on your way God's not another voice on your social media feed. It's helping you remember to be kind and drink water and get good rest He's he's God and so our role as creatures is to obey the creator Full stop You were made You you do not have autonomy meaning the independence to do whatever you want you were created by a creator God designed you and put his stamp on you goes human you can think and breathe and make decisions Adam comes to life and now he belongs to God. He is a carrier of God's presence Nothing that Adam can do can ever get rid of that which okay picture this way say that I got branded God designs me and brands me No matter what I do I can't get that off me. I'm still a creature forever I still belong to someone else forever.
This is so important that we understand this this change things for me profoundly when I said Oh, I'm made I'm not just on the planet doing what I want to do. I'm a creature God made me Serve the Lord are there benefits? Yeah, we'll talk about him in a minute But right now don't make this about you and what you get you serve the Lord because he made you and he's God He's the king we don't even have a concept for this We don't like something that the president does we go I'm gonna vote him out right like we don't have a concept for you're the king And if for no other reason than you're the king I obey We don't get it we go, but what if it's wrong? What if they make a bad decision what I don't want to be controlled and we start to just manifest because we're so upset But the thought of just someone saying no just sit down and do what you're told that feels so intense and what I'm wanting To bring right now is that balance on the other side going I get there's benefits I get there's blessing I get there's a reason to be excited about serving God I get that let the healthy balance be whether you want to or not you're still a creature who is made by a king and you deserve He deserves your allegiance So I'm coming in hot guys And I know that because I think that we are so swimming in humanism that we found a way to make God himself about us If there was a book written about your life, you are not the main character You were created The story of your life is about a God who desired you and he made you and now you're living in his story That's the story of your life.
So we need to stop making everything about us serve the Lord serve the Lord Speaking specifically to those of us that are Christians I'm assuming is the vast majority of the room here on this Sunday afternoon at church that's majority of us would say Yes, I'm a Christian what that means is that you gave your life to Jesus Let's break that down You gave your life to Jesus Well, okay, but like I I let him be the decision maker of my eternal destiny part of it He gets to he gets to have a say into what I Do or don't do part of it, but anything that you're doing while you're breathing or your heart is beating or where your spirit is alive That's called your life. So every single part of your life. You actually gave to someone else You aren't in control anymore. You don't get to call the shots because you gave that up We love talking about covenants around here, right?
We've defined a hundred times that covenant is an exchange Where God says everything that I have is yours and we go amen. Hallelujah the blessing see this is what I'm talking about This is a good deal and the Lord says it is a great deal. You're right second part of coming everything you have his mind That's covenant. Otherwise, it is a one-sided like that's not a relationship The the terms of the deal that I sign when I said I'm giving my life to Jesus is you get to call the shots Don't tell me about my money or what to do with my guns.
No, he gets to tell you what to do with everything Don't tell me what to do is my body my sexuality. He gets to call the shots. He is in charge of you You gave your life to Jesus. You are not in charge I'm just gonna say it a couple times and just let us kind of get uncomfortable.
You're not in charge You are not in charge of your life. You don't get to inform God of what's best for you. It's not even your life How often we heard the phrase? It's my life.
No, it's not you gave your life to Jesus Paul says in first Corinthians 6 he says you're not your own you were bought with a price There was a purchase You were purchased because God desired you Revelation says that you were slain and you purchased men for God. He's talking about this And we have to address this so we don't get any more traffic about it Okay, so do you remember how I started and I said dual you has this connotation of like slaves to their masters and like oh And that gets really uncomfortable really quick Let's look at the the context here in Romans 6 and then we'll talk about that because that deserves to be addressed But if you want to turn with me is Romans 6, okay This is a passage that we love teaching out of here because it talks about freedom from sin All about it Hooray praise God. He said it's free from sin, okay, we're But Romans 6 has a lot to say about the outworking of that Paul has just said in the first part of Romans 6 that you're now no longer under the law He's saying like all of those things that were telling you that you weren't doing enough and you had to do it better And then there's the power of sin all of that was over you you've been freed from it He starts in verse 15 then Romans 6 15 what then so are we to sin because we're not under law but under grace Oh, so you're saying that because I was now told that I could have casual Fridays now I get to just dress like whatever I want whenever I want Nope By no means no one says that I just think that every time that Paul says by no means in your head just go. No Are we to sin because we're not under law now but under grace?
Nope Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves you are slaves of the one whom you obey either a sin Which leads to death or of obedience which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that you who were once slaves of sin Has become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed and having been set free from sin Have become slaves of righteousness. There is no middle ground here friends It's so you were in bondage to sin before you gave your life to Jesus You were in bondage to sin imagine being chained up you're going I don't want to sing and then sin grabs you by the chain goes no We're sitting now and you are you're controlled you have like I have so much empathy for people that don't know the Lord It's like you're controlled by the power of sin Jesus then comes and sets us free where we go There's now no more chains on me What do we do in that moment when God sets us free from all the things that were binding us? I think that sometimes we mistakenly believe that we go.
I'm free from that now. I can do it ever. Nope Paul saying that you were freed from sin and now you're slave to righteousness There is no middle ground where you get to just be a totally free I get to be a god unto myself and make all the decisions here. You're either in rebellion against God or you serve God There is God frees you so you can serve you've been freed from sin so you can serve and Paul uses slave language Now this feels so uncomfortable and I've seen people miss read this and go all off the wall because I think the Bible is saying something that it's not a human owning another human is one of the most degrading vile things that mankind's ever come up with it makes zero sense It's offensive and it's demonic for a human to say I own you So so Paul knows this I love Paul because Paul is like just blitzing through truth And then he pauses with a little pastoral scoop because he knows that like anyone who's walking with the Lord even back here So I'm just dispelled them if like everyone had slaves and was normal No Christians Christians were told to like hey no release them because humans don't own other people So Paul positive says hold on hold on hold on I'm speaking in human terms because of your own natural limitations Paul Paul saying pause a human only another human is hideous God having ownership over humanity is good theology We're confused sometimes and we go but this is control It's like and that's completely inappropriate if it's a human over a human All might be God calling the shots over humanity is just the right order of creation So Paul's saying you don't there is no option Where you live outside of the jurisdiction of God God is preeminent he's over everything And as I said earlier your options are you either live in deception and rebellion against that truth or you align yourself with that truth God is overall so he finishes out in Romans 6 He says for justice you once presented your members as slaves to impurity into lawlessness leading to more lawlessness So now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification I don't like that Ben.
Do you ever hear that verse? It's for freedom that he said is free. Yes I've also read Galatians it's a great book I've also finished that chapter because it starts in chapter 5 where it says for freedom We've been set free and then in verse 13. It says so then brothers and sisters don't use your freedom as a license to sin But rather with your freedom serve one another right?
How about Peter in 1 Peter 2 16 lives people who are free not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil But living as servants of God you were freed Hooray now you can actually serve God. Just what you were designed to do you were freed up to serve God You were not freed up to now say I'm free. I guess I can do whatever I want I guess I I guess I get to call the shots on where I live I Guess I get to call the shots on what I do with my money I guess I get to call the shots on What I do with my time or my job or my family or my own body? I guess I'm in charge now No, you're not you were freed from sin so you could serve God.
Just what you're always designed for He's still the king How about this one? All right first Corinthians 10? This is one that a lot of us know using old-timey language everything is permissible, right? You guys are up with that everything's permissible, but not everything is beneficial everything is permissible, but not everything is helpful Paul saying okay, so you've been free from some of the restrictions and the rules so what do you do with that?
Yeah, it's not right though. Like are you free where you could do it? Sure? Did God free you from the law?
Yes? You still filter all of your decision making through the king there's nothing in the Bible that says that you've stopped checking in with God because he freaked you He's still God So then he goes through he's talking specifically about food And so he's like yeah, you you can eat what you want from the market But there are some some heart values that I want you to align with as you're doing that and make sure that as you're doing That's what God wants so submit to God be honoring you have freedoms it's casual Friday But there are still some rules here, right? And then he finishes up verse 31 verse 13th 10 so whatever you eat or drink or whatever you do Do all for the glory of God? It's about him your life is about him.
He has freed you from sin to the end But you can now serve him which is the right thing for a creature to do now This all sounds very harsh and this all sounds like Yeesh. I thought this was good news It's fantastic news because he's the best But we'll get to that in a minute. We Our tendency then when we hear this we can feel the tinge of conviction that goes on man I've been doing this wrong and our natural default is to build rules that say do not handle do not taste do not touch This is language from the Bible Paul says those things have an appearance of wisdom I can see why you do that he says those have an appearance of wisdom if your goal is man-made religion and impose rules and aestheticism And I'm just gonna build this little box here because those things actually have no value in combating the lesson flesh The scripture where Paul says just building a little box and saying well, then I just follow the rules He's like that's not what this is about either And so what do we do if the answer isn't To beat myself up and feel really bad about it and build a little box and just live in submission and live like this the whole time How do I do this? How does what you're saying Ben fit in with everything else?
I've ever heard it every day about freedom and joy in the life the vibrant life and life abundant that's found in God I was very intentional in starting this message by trying to dismantle the humanistic tendencies that we have that make serving God about us Because then if if I do all this stuff, but mom is still sick Then I go oh well guess it wasn't worth it if it's a means to an end Something's out of order now the reality is that you were designed by a really really good God Who knows you who knows what's best for you? I think that one of our largest struggles and the reasons why we hate submitting to authority is this trust of leadership Because someone says we're doing this now and you go. I think I think I know better I don't trust you you have some sort of ulterior motive. There's something that's not right there who you are isn't safe or what you do I go I think I know better You're telling me to do this but in my mind I should be doing that and so then we don't trust authority So rather than build a box and just live in a little cave and try to just hide from God the antidote to this How we can have a sustainable life of serving God is to build trust with him to get to know him and see what he's like Building limitations and restrictions is never gonna be good enough It hasn't appeared so it's not get why you do it, but it actually doesn't do anything change your heart What's gonna change your heart is you go?
I need to be convinced all over again that you are who you said you are I need you to open my eyes to see you more because the more that I trust the more I obey Guys can I bring some clarity? I used to be terrified by that verse that where Jesus says if you love me you'll obey me because it sounded like a threat Right sound like he's saying prove that you love me by your obedience. I don't think that's what he's saying. I think he's saying if you love me You'll obey me because you're going no, I love him.
I see who he is So of course I'm gonna follow him the natural outflow of loving God is obedience to God The system was designed from the beginning that you weren't even supposed to eat the tree of the knowledge of good and evil You were supposed to go to him all the time. It was it was the way you were designed was to be in connection with him because you just got safe You trust him you eat that fruit. What's the first thing that happens? We stiff arm God, right?
That's a story in Genesis So God's wanting to re-institute trust and it's not because you are entitled to that. That's just how it works God in his sovereignty could have said yep. This is the way that things are talk about the sovereignty doesn't mean control So I'm sure means I answer to no one God. No, this is the way they're doing it now He could have done that he has every right to do he's got we said the system that designed here is I actually want to win your heart I want you to see me and I want you to trust me and we're gonna grow together That is not because you're so special.
That's because God's so good. That's not because you were entitled to that It's because God is full of grace and mercy. He adores you. It's about him and so as we're talking about how we actually can serve the Lord Here's my number one pro tip of how you can do this Get small before God Spend your time looking at how big and good and beautiful and strong and wise he is and get humble The more you see who he is the less interested you're gonna be in inserting your own opinion into the conversation Read Job 38 and just get humble before him Job and his buddy spent 37 chapters telling God what he's doing wrong or why the system's not right or it's Job's fault Or this person's fault and everyone's just doing this trying to figure it out and then God stands up and says All right buckle up.
I'm gonna make myself known God could have come with an explanation There was misinterpretation happening right? Job and his buddies didn't get it and rather than explain them to them explain everything to them God said what what you need is just get small Where were you when I built the earth? Where were you you who's going and telling me what to do? Where were you when I fashioned the earth together?
Have you seen where I store all of the oceans and then the ocean started to explode out and I said no you'll stop right here Where were you when I held the universe in my hand? You want to come and insert your own opinion? God's God's flexing a little bit there and depending on our posture. We can either go.
Oh, that's really scary But I'm telling you guys there's a couple prayer rooms ago. I just sat over here read Job 38 and bald with Thanksgiving He's like I love how strong you are. I love how big you are. I love that you made that God.
I'm so small You're so big. I can't believe I get to talk to you. This is phenomenal I can see all of God's authority and go praise God. I'm not in charge Praise God I don't have to figure out how to live my own life much less my family much less my country much less the world No chance.
I've got it by trust you look at who you are look at what you've done And God says give away that chunk of money. I go yes, sir Because look at you. I'll do whatever you say I become so much less interested in what I have to contribute to the conversation When I see him rightly service to God becomes a joy where I can't believe he's talking God wants to include me in this story I can't please talking to me. Of course.
I'll do that Let's not get too familiar that we lose the wonder of the fact that God even addresses us at all It's David sitting down and going what is man that you're mindful of him when I consider The planets and the stars and the way that there's a burning ball of gas that gives light and heat to the whole planet I'm looking at all of that and then I go and you're listening to me as I talk to you What is man that you're mindful of and the son of man you'd consider him we need to get humble before God We need to serve God because of how much better he is than I said everything Estimates say that there have been around 117 billion people who have lived on the earth God's out of front row seat to every decision ever made by all of them He's the right person to ask for advice when you're making a decision each one of those hundred and seventeen billion people was created when two became one There have been billions of relationships and people coming together some of them horrific and some of them profoundly beautiful He's seen all of them. He knows how things work You owe it to yourself to ask him his opinion about your dating life and about who you're with He's seen every economy of every city in every civilization that's ever existed He's seen every person's individual finances and the macro structure of how the whole thing knits together She probably listened to what he has to say about your money He knows every thought every experience every motivation and every pain point that your coworker has ever gone through So maybe let him tell you how to respond to that email rather than just shoot in your mouth off He has designed and assigned the 30 trillion cells that constitute your physical body Rub your fingers together like this He decided that the skin you just touched would host the presence of almighty God and bring the kingdom of heaven to earth I think he knows better than you do what your body's worth We can trust in him Candy you can come on up where I think it's so funny and infuriating when we try to inform God of what we need And feel like we need to defend ourselves against him. You just don't get it look at it We find ourselves telling God what love is Being mad at if he disagrees with that Serval Lord we find ourselves telling God what justice looks like Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. He gets it He doesn't need us to inform him we get to serve him and this all comes back to seeing him rightly going You're the king you created me.
I'm yours. I trust you. I love you and then we serve Yeah What I want us to do is Candy's gonna start playing on the piano and what I want us to do is let's stand up and spread out But before you do that quick listen, sorry my fault What what I want us to do is actually take everything that I just kind of flame throwered and And go okay, Lord What's the what's the questions that I have? What's the irritation that yeah, I've been saying that he's got a mic If I was in a conversation I'd let him have it about this thing or that thing or that doesn't make sense not afraid of that I want you to write that down though And then you can you have plenty time to process that this moment right here is for you to actually connect with the Lord And we're gonna ask the Holy Spirit to let us just see God a little more in this context There are things in your life that you're controlling because you think there's distrust of leadership you go I think I know best there's a transition we seem to go.
Oh I think you know best we need to come out of this self-preservation that says that I need to protect me go I think you know best and in that space then we can ask him questions This is what serving the Lord really looks like it's just submitting to him and like what do you want? This transformed our church staff. We we started doing this thing where it's just oh, I just listen in obey That's my job. I just ask God What do you want to do today?
Lord says I want you to do this today. You go. Yes, sir You do it that this is this is what serving God looks like and I can just demystify the whole thing Your in relationship you see him right when you trust him you go God. What do you think?
He says this you go then I agree not because I not because I even necessarily Have an opinion on it, but you said it so that God be true in every man a liar what you say goes So we're gonna take some space to just be with him hold our hearts before him and ask him What do you want to do? And then God's gonna in his kindness start to show little areas of little things that we just smile ago. Yes, sir I can't believe he's talking to me God on the universe is talking to me Yes, sir, and there's joy in it. So now's the time we can stand up and spread out We're doing this because I want to actually give you space So you're not thinking about the person next to you as this is happening.
We're gonna get some space See him rightly because I'm telling you that's that's the crux of this whole thing, okay I loved when I found out that one of the Holy Spirit's hobbies is revealing God. I think that's amazing That what he loves to do is reveal God and so I just encourage you ask the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit would you show me God's glory and just invite him to blow your mind holy spirit we come up under your authority We submit to you and we say we want to serve the Lord God. What do you think? Look down at my life God.
What do you think? Look at my relationships God? What do you think we want to see you? I want to get small before you and see you