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Y'all, we have a preacher in the house today. He is a dear friend of mine. I have known Pastor Robbie Hilton for over 10 years. Over 10 years. One of my day ones, there's a theologian, musical theologian, says no new friends. It's bad theology. It's bad theology. You need some amazing friends and some new ones, but this isn't a new friend. This is somebody I've known. I've seen his character, his integrity. He's a phenomenal preacher of the gospel. He and his wife Monica pastor a phenomenal church, Calvary Church in Johnson City, Tennessee. So Tennessee is in the building. So he's gonna come and preach in a minute, and I don't want y'all to welcome him. Shout him down. But before he comes, come on. This is our year to be planted, so let's read our verse of the year. Y'all ready? Come on, y'all. We got keys, so you gotta read it with key enthusiasm. Come on. One, two, three. Those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age. They shall be fresh and flourishing to declare that the Lord is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. Come on, Social, Put your hands together if you're planted and put your hands together for Pastor Rodney Hilton as he comes for the first time to bring the Word in.
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Come on, let's make some noise for Jesus in this place today. I feel like we have given him a praise, but I think he deserves a little bit more. Come on, give him something. Give him something right now. That is unusual out of the box. Come on, at 9:04 in the morning, I think you got something on the inside of you that you can stir up. Man, God is so good. Ah. How is this. How is this possible this early in the morning? What are you guys doing? You should not be this happy. The Cowboys and the Mavs, what are we talking. This should not be. Should not be. Hey, I'm a Bears fan, so I know the. I know the struggle. I know the struggle. Wow, wow, wow. I just. I can't believe it. I've heard the stories, but the stories don't do justice to what God is actually doing in this place. And I'm just so, so thankful to be here today. Can you turn your neighbor and just tell them, I'm glad, just glad to be here today. I'm glad to be a part this move of God. You may Be seated. I am, like Pastor Robert said, from Johnson City, Tennessee. Tennessee is kind of like Texas cousin, I guess, like little brother. So many similarities, Tennessee and Texas. And I love any opportunity I get to come to Texas. But this one's really special because I love pastors Robert and Taylor and their family so, so much. And when we met years ago, I had no idea how God was going to connect us and how God was going to use our relationship, how God was going to use you to encourage me and challenge me and change me and help me even lead my church and my family. And so I just got to say, I would not. I mean, look at me. I'm 5 11. I'm not much to look at, but I. I would jump on somebody in a heartbeat and tear them to shreds for these two people. And I love you. I love you. I love you. Thank you for trusting me today. And, man, are you so grateful for them. Yeah.
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Come on, one more time. Let's give a hand for our pastors. We love you. I got message today. Are you ready? I need to warn you. I grew up in Pentecost. I don't know if you know what Pentecost is, but I grew up in tent meetings and Hammond B3 organs, and the floor was like wood shavings. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? But as I kind of grew in church, I started being introduced to more traditional church. And so I kind of described myself as like a. Like a Baptistal. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? Like, this is what I do. I will fall out in the Spirit singing from a hymnal. That's what I will do. I'm like a Pentecostal with a seatbelt. Does that make any sense? But I am so thankful to be here today because I have heard that you like to respond to the preacher. So I feel like preaching today. Okay. All right, we're gonna go to Judges, chapter six. Judges, chapter six. I'm going to read a lot, a lot of verses this morning, so hang with me and we'll jump right into this. This is what the Bible says. It says the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord. And for seven years, he gave them into the hands of the Midianites. Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain cliffs, caves, and strongholds. Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other eastern peoples invaded the country. They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza, and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep, nor cattle nor donkeys. They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels, how many. You know, you got a lot going on when you got so many camels, you can't count the camels. They invaded the land to ravage it. Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the Lord for help. I love that. I love that sentence. It's all the way through the Bible. You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or image. So as they cried out, the Lord sends a prophet, and he says this, you may. You must not make for yourselves an idol or any kind of image or anything in the heavens or on earth and in sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. Next verse, if you got that one. I said to you, I am the Lord your God. Do not worship the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. But you have not listened to me. Anybody, anybody in something right now. Not because somebody else did it to you, but you did it to yourself. Yeah. The angel of the Lord comes and sits down under an oak tree in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abrazite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, the Lord is with you, mighty warrior. Pardon me, my Lord. Gideon replied, if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt, but now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian. They the Lord turned to him and said, go in the strength that you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand. Am I not sending you? Pardon me, my Lord, Gideon replied, but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family. I love this part. Next verse, please. Is it there? It's there. Yeah, I think it's there. Early in the morning, Jerubaal, that is Gideon and all his men camped at the spring of Herod. The camp of the Midian was north of them, in the valley near the Hill of More. Let's pray. Father, we thank youk for your word. We ask over These moments that we have together, that yout would speak to us. You are an awesome God. You have done incredible things and we thank youk today, even this week, what yout have done in giving us this space, giving us this place where we can build for you and we can worship you and we can gather together. But this is just the beginning. You are a God who doesn't just know how to start a thing. You are a God who knows how to finish a thing. And we thank you that what you began in us, you are going to complete in us. In Jesus name we pray. Come on. And everybody said Amen. I love this story. It starts off with this interesting thought that Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord. And because of that God had turned them over to this oppression from the Midianites. Now what's interesting about this is that they aren't there because of somebody else's actions. They are there because of their own actions. And I was thinking about this this morning and I thought that sometimes we, instead of getting out of a situation, sometimes we allow ourselves to stay in a situation that God wants us to be free from. What I mean by that is what you see here is even though they are suffering the consequences for their own actions, they have enough sense to cry out to God for help. And what I love about this is that it teaches us that even when we are suffering the consequences of our own actions, we don't have to stay in that place any longer than God would have us stay in that place. There is an exit door called Crying out to God. Notice this, that this situation would have continued but they cried out to God. It would have kept going on, but they cried out to God. See, this is an indicator that sometimes God has forgiven you. Sometimes God has even let you go. Sometimes God isn't disciplining you anymore, but sometimes you are disciplining yourself. You are punishing yourself. You have made a prison for yourself. God has set you free. He's not holding anything over your head, but you're still holding it over your head. And I came to talk to some people today who, who have imprisoned themselves, who are self imposing shame, who are self imposing guilt, who have prolonged their suffering and their pain. And God wants you to know, today is the day you cry out for help. Seven years is long enough. Can somebody say Amen? Anybody in the room got enough sense today to say, God, I need you. I need you. Lord, the Bible tells us that Gideon is threshing wheat in a winepress. It's not that you can't thresh wheat in a. In a wine press. It's just that it's an inferior way to do it. And one of the things you have to understand about God is not everything that God wants to change in your life is immoral. Sometimes it's just inferior. Sometimes it's not that God wants to come in and everything you're doing is. Gideon isn't doing anything immoral. Gideon is just living an inferior life. And you serve a God who didn't die for you just so that you can do inferior things, good things, kind of all right. Things you serve an exceedingly, abundantly, above all you could ever. Come on somebody. I'm telling you, God has a desire that you would come out from these inferior places, not just immoral places. Yes, God wants to deliver you from immorality and evil and wickedness, but not everything is evil. Sometimes it's just inferior. And so God comes to Gideon. He's not doing anything wrong. He's just living an inferior life. And he wants to introduce him to this life that God has planned for him. But Gideon has some of the same arguments that you and I have in our life. And I call what is going on very often in Gideon's life like a. I think. I think I heard Darius Daniels say it this way. He said it's a dysfunctional virtue. It looks like a virtue, but it's dysfunctional. It's like if you take something that's virtuous, like loyalty, but you. You put loyalty into a. A relationship that's dysfunctional. It's a dysfunctional. You're staying in a situation, and it looks like you're being loyal, but you're actually dysfunctional. And God wants to fix the areas of your life where you are functioning in a way that is inferior to how he made you. So I came to actually introduce you, some of you, to a version of you you've never met before. You didn't even know you could be. You didn't even know you could do this. You didn't even know this was in you. But we have to deal with a couple things first. So the angel of the Lord comes to Gideon and he. He calls him a mighty warrior. And. And Gideon's response is. Is really interesting. Gideon, before he gets into the. I'm the weakest and my family's the weakest, he says something so strange to this statement by the angel of the Lord. Mighty warrior, he says, where were you? What a. What a question to ask the Lord. Where were you? Job asked the same question you Know what the Lord's response was to Job? God turns to Job and he goes, where was I? Where were you, homie? Like, it's as if God thinks that he doesn't owe you or I an explanation for why or how he does anything. As a matter of fact, the angel of the Lord doesn't even address the question. He starts asking, where were you? Why didn't you? I heard you could do this. And one of the things that you are going to have to conquer so that you can make life make sense. If you were looking for a title for the sermon this morning, the title would be Make It Make Sense. Cause you can live your life two different ways. You can live your life going, make it make sense. Or you can live your life going, I'm gonna make it make sense. And Gideon has this mindset. He's got this mindset of, you know, all of these things have happened. All of this stuff has happened to me. All of these things have happened that are against us. And where were you, God? What were you doing? I heard you about your miracles. I heard about what you could do, but what about me? Has anybody ever asked that question? Come on. I've seen you do things for my friends. I've seen you open up doors for them. But what about me? I heard that you can do miracles, but I need a miracle. And you have to conquer that question. If you're gonna make life make sense, you're gonna have to conquer the wise. You have to conquer those parts of you that are still asking God, where was my father? Where were you when I was being taken advantage of? Where were you when I lost my job? Where were you when my spouse walked away? Where were you when my kid got sick? Where were you? And if you're going to make life make sense, you cannot get stuck in those whys. As a matter of fact, the angel of the Lord, he responds. And he doesn't even respond to the question, it seems, but he actually does. He says, go. Where were you? God says, go. What were you doing? God says, go. Why is this important? I think when God doesn't answer the question directly, it's not. It doesn't mean that God doesn't care about the question. It doesn't mean that God doesn't have any sort of sympathy or care or concern for what has happened to you. But I think what God is trying to tell you is that the question you're asking actually is not relevant to the current conversation I'm trying to have. You're asking, where was somebody? Why didn't this happen? What were you doing when this was going on in my life? And God says, that question actually has nothing to do with what I'm trying to do in your life right now. If your father leaving was going to keep you from my plan, I'd talk to you about it. If them not being there was going to keep you from what I. If you. If your inexperience had something to do with where I was taking you, then we could talk about it. If your lack of ability had something to do with what I was going to do, then we could talk about it. But the fact that I don't address it means that it has nothing to do with the current conversation I'm trying to have with you. Because nothing anybody has done or not done to you has anything to do with what God is going to do in your life. And you have to. The way you conquer the why is. You recognize that, yes, all of that happened. But sometimes. Watch this. If he doesn't talk to me about it, then, one, it's not relevant to the current conversation, but two, watch this. Sometimes the understanding is in the going. So he says, go. Have you ever in your life gotten to the other side of something? And then you turned around and you said, look what the Lord has done. You were here and you were like, why? What is happening? But you just stayed faithful. You stayed planted and you just kept walking and you just kept trusting, even though it didn't make any sense. And then you turn around and you look and you say, God was faithful every step of the way. Can we give God a praise today that he is faithful every step of the way? And sometimes the why isn't understood in a conversation. Sometimes the why is understood in going. Just go. I just need you to Abraham, I just need you to go, Moses, go, Gideon, go. Gaba, go. I'll show you as you go. What a God. What happened to you that you don't understand? Where are you stuck today? Could I say to you the same thing that the angel of the Lord said to Gideon? Could I tell you today, God. And watch what he says. He doesn't. He says, go in the strength that you have. Think about that. He doesn't say, go in God's strength. He says, go in the strength that you have. I don't know what you've been through, and I don't know how much you've suffered. Can I tell you something? Today there is something left in you. If there wasn't something left in you, you wouldn't be in this room this morning. You wouldn't have made your way into the house of God today. Can I tell you, there are a lot of people in this room. You're probably thinking, I'm not very spiritual. I'm not like them. Hey, listen to me. The most spiritual decision you could have made today was getting up, putting some clothes on and getting to the house of God. You're more spiritual than you think you are. And God sees that. God sees. Sees it when you go. And it's the going that's going to make sense. But he says, go in the strength you have. You're like God. All I can do, I could barely get up out of my bed, but I got up out of my bed. I can barely get up on my feet, but I got up on my feet. God, I don't have a walk right now. All I have is a crawl. God loves a crawl. By the way, there was a woman with an issue of blood, and the Bible says she crawled through a crowd and she made her way. Come on. God loves a crawl. I don't know what strength you have left, but I'm telling you, you got something left today. God has not left you empty. You have something left. So he says, go. Go in the strength that you have. I came to tell somebody today that. And this might make sense to some of you, but it might not make any sense to some of you as well. But I came to tell somebody today that the pain of their absence was better for you than the pain of their presence. Can we take about five seconds and just praise God that he loves us enough to let some people leave our life? Because he knows that the pain of their presence would be worse than the pain of their absence. Your future is not determined by anyone else's failure to do for you what they should have done. I've determined in my life I am not going to weep all night and miss joy in the morning. That's why I love that you're in this series on planted. Because it's easy to stay planted in the spring. It's another thing to stay planted in the winter. And I'm not. I'm not going to uproot in the winter and miss out on my spring and my summer and my fall. I'm not going to sow all these tears and miss out on joy in the morning. I love the way the New Testament puts it. Do not grow weary in doing well, for in due season you will reap if you do not faint. Come on. You don't just reap. Cause you sow, you reap. Cause you don't quit. And I feel like there's a don't quit in the room today. I feel like we've already been through so much. Why are we gonna walk away now? I've walked through, so I ain't got nowhere else to go. I feel like some people are in the room, like the disciples, and Jesus says, hey, are you two going to walk away? And they're like, we've already. We've already planted, man. We got nowhere else to go. No option, no other options but Jesus. That's it. So God, through the angel, begins to talk to Gideon, calls him a mighty man, a warrior. And he's trying to talk to Gideon about his identity. But Gideon wants to talk to God about his genetics. Well, I mean, God, my family, watch it. He's like, you know, God, I am the least in my tribe, and my tribe is the least. As if he's informing God. Have you ever thought, like, God shows up and he asks you something and you're, like, going to inform him about something he doesn't know? I don't know if you know this God, but I'm like, hold up. God knows everything. He found you, bro, in a wine press, hiding from the Midianites. He's trying to talk to him about his identity, but all Gideon wants to talk about is his history. If you're going to have a breakthrough, if you're going to make this life make sense, you got to stop getting your identity from your genetics, from your DNA, from 23andMe the Angel. The reason the angel calls Gideon a mighty man of war, a mighty warrior, is because the angel has information about Gideon that Gideon does not have about himself. So when God shows up and he calls you to do something that doesn't sound like you, don't run in fear. You should actually be super excited because God is trying to introduce you to a version of you that you've never met. God has information about you. Jeremiah put it this way. He said, while I was in the womb of my mother, he was knitting me together. He was making me in a way that was for purpose and on purpose. I'm not accidental. I am not just the product of a cosmic meeting between, you know, a sperm and an egg. I am on purpose. My parents might not have planned me, but God planned me. My parents might not have been prepared for me, but God was prepared for me. As a matter of fact, nobody sneaks into the earth. I heard someone say, you get here by design. God was a part of that. So when Go speaks to you and it sounds like he's calling you to do something that you've never known about, you lean into that, because God's trying to show you a version of you you've never met before. All Gideon knows is his circumstance. All Gideon knows is where he comes from. But there are some things that God is going to reveal in your life that you have never discovered about you. You guys have been rolling with me pretty good so far. But I'm about to say something that might make you just not like me. And I just. You might tell Pastor Robert, please never have this guy back ever again. But for about 46 years of my life, I hated coffee. I know that can be offensive to some people. I hated coffee. And I mean, not just like, I don't like it, but I was grossed out by it. As a matter of fact, I think I thought coffee tasted like a little bit of, like, dirt and carpet mixed together. And trust me, remember, I'm Pentecostal. I know what carpet tastes like. I spent most of my teenage life on the floor with my face in some carpet and the tent meetings. So dirt. I know exactly what it tastes like. But I hate coffee. But my wife loves coffee. She's saved. She's saved. She's going to heaven. So. And I'm not a big fan of department stores. I like to shop a little bit, but I don't like a department store. Like, you go in and there's, like, rugs and couches and machines and stuff. But the other day, I found myself in a Crate and Barrel looking for a coffee maker. Now, you're probably asking, robbie, you hate coffee, so why in the world were you in a Crate and Barrel looking for a coffee? Remember, my wife loves coffee. I'm not there because I love coffee. I'm there because my wife loves coffee. And my wife has loved me so well that I want to show her how much I love her. I'm not looking for a Keurig machine, by the way. I'm looking for, like, the Rolls Royce of coffee makers. You know what I'm talking about. You put the beans in the top, and you press the button and it grinds the beans, and it comes down in that little thing, and then you. And you snap it and then it. And then. Why does it pour out of two sides? I don't. That makes no sense. But that just must make it taste better. That's what that is. But my wife has never looked at me and gone, hey, I love coffee. I know you hate Coffee. But if you don't love coffee like me, you're gonna burn in hell for the rest of your life. Never said that. It's been her love for me that has motivated me to show her how much. So I'm not there because I love it. I'm there because she loves it. And it is amazing how loving God will transform what you do for God. You will find yourself in some places doing some things that you are not naturally inclined to do because of love. I'm not there for me. I'm there for her. But what I found out when she made me a cup of coffee from that Rolls Royce coffee machine, I found out that it wasn't that I didn't like coffee. I just had had the wrong cup of coffee. I had just had the wrong cup of coffee my whole life. And what I found out about Jesus was I didn't really know life was good until I met Jesus. I had had a lot of other. Anybody know what I'm talking about? I've had a lot of other experiences, but when I met Jesus, everything changed. I thought I was living, but then I met Jesus. I thought I knew good, but then I met Jesus. I realize I just had a bad cup of coffee my whole life. Some of y'all didn't like church, but then you showed up to social. Oh, and then you realize I just been having the wrong cup my whole life. Come on, somebody give God a praise that there are some things in you that you didn't know. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. Whoo. I just been drinking Dunkin. No, nothing against Dunkin, Jesus. So there. I. Now I'm a coffee lover. They text me this morning, Pastor Robbie, what's your coffee order? I said, give me a brown sugar. I ordered an espresso at dinner last night. My life has changed. There, there. There are some things that God is going to reveal about who you are and what he wants to do. But you just. You gotta keep going. You got. You can't get stuck in the. Why you gotta go. You can't get stuck in the. But I. I've never. I never met a mighty warrior. I don't know who you talking to. I. I'm not a mighty warrior. You gotta go in the strength that you have. And when you go in the strength that you have, what you'll find out is that strength will ultimately turn into God's strength. Cause you're gonna run out of that. You're gonna run out of that. I love the way the apostle Paul he Says, I pray. There was this thorn in my flesh, and I prayed, and I asked God to deliver me from it three times. And three times God said no. And then he said, my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in your weakness. What is God saying? I think he's saying, paul, I'd remove that thorn, but I've never seen you pray like that. I'd take that out of your life, but I've never seen you as desperate as you are right now. So I'm gonna leave it just a little bit longer, because I'm trying to produce something in you that cannot be produced in a life without thorns. Cause some people, the only way they stay planted is in crisis. And God loves you enough to not take you out of crisis if it takes you away from him. And I came to tell God this morning, hey, I got the point. I don't need drama to stay planted. I heard you in 2024. Let's not repeat the same thing in 2025. Sheesh. You ain't got to do that anymore. I'm done. Seven years is long enough. This next season for you requires that you come out of hiding so that you can discover who you are in Jesus. I'm not going to wait for life to make sense. I'm going to make it make sense. What's wild about Gideon is in Judges 6, he does all these interesting things to kind of figure out how God works. And then in Judges chapter seven, we see that Gideon is now ready. Fight. He's ready to do the thing that God has called him to do. And he's got 32,000 men ready to go to battle. 32,000. And God comes to him. He goes, hey, that's cool, but there's way too many of you guys. He says, this is what I want you to do, Gideon. I want you to tell everybody that's afraid of the battle that they can go. Go where, Lord? Into battle. No, they can go home. Go home. Okay. So Gideon goes out, and I'm sure when he's making this announcement, there is no part of him that thinks that 22,000 people are going to walk away. So he goes, hey, anybody here who's afraid you can leave? You don't have to. 22,000 people bounce like that. 22,000. Isn't it incredible How. I've heard of girl math, right? You heard of girl math, But God math is even stranger than girl math. The way God math works is God. Very often, to add to your life, he subtracts from your life. So what feels like sometimes that you're going in the opposite direction is actually an indicator that you are probably most likely in the will of God. As long as there's no immoral activity. Very often you feeling like you're going backwards. I live in a small town. Johnson city has about 70,000 people in it. And I have to get on. We have a regional airport. So every time I fly, I get on a small plane and we go to Charlotte or we go to Atlanta, we have a direct flight to Dallas now, which is incredible. It's beautiful. But it's a God thing. I know it. And I'm supposed to move here. Wait, my church would kill me for that. But. But it feels like, especially when I have to go north, it feels like if I get on a Delta flight, I have to go to Atlanta. Has life ever felt that way? Like. Like I'm trying to get there, but it feels like I'm going here. Well, the way God works very often is to add to your life. He subtracts from your life. And I love the way God does this because he lets Gideon understand in Judges six, kind of how he works. They go through this whole process where Gideon is putting out a fleece and he's testing God and he's trying to figure out how God works. And now he understands it. And so when 22,000 people walk away, watch what Gideon isn't asking in Judges 7, Gideon is asking why. He's conquered the why. So when 22,000 people walk away, you don't see Gideon going, what are you doing, Lord? Why are you doing this? No, he understands that God is going to do what God is going to do. And it doesn't matter if it's just me that shows up to the battle. God is going to get the glory and God is going to get the victory. And watch what he does. He. He allows 22,000 people to walk away before the fight. Why? Because if 22,000 people start to run in the middle of the fight, fear is contagious. And maybe this is the year where God is trying to remove you from people who run in a fight. And it feels like God is subtracting from your life, but God is actually adding to your life. Sometimes. Sometimes the way God adds peace is he removes people. You know, we don't like that because we think, I need more relationships to be having. God's like, no, you got too many. You need less. You, you, you. You got some weird people in your life. And. And if you get. Have you ever been watching the Animal Planet and a lion just, like, creeping up on that herd. And soon as he goes, they all. It's like they all have the same brain. They all run and they run, like, in unison almost. Have you ever seen this? Because fear is contagious. And this is what God wants you to understand. The reason I let them leave is because there's a fight. And if you get into the middle of the fight and they run in the middle of the fight, if 22,000 people leave in the middle of the fight, the way you're wired, you could follow their fear. So I'm actually. I love you so much that I'm going to make sure when you get into the battle, the conditions are right for you. It's not that you won't have to fight. It's just God is going to take care of some things before, if you'll let him. But if you're not careful, you'll do like a lot of people. And they try to keep people in their life that God is trying to remove. You ever heard of Moses? God comes to Moses one time. He's like, I'm sick of these people. I'm going to kill them all. Moses says, no, please don't. Don't do it. God says, okay, because you asked, I won't do it. But it's the same people that Moses pleaded with God to keep in his life that ended up disrupting his spirit so much that he hit the rock instead of spoke to the rock and he missed out on the promise. Could it be that the people that are leaving your life, God is like, hey, if you're not careful, these are going to be the. The same people that make you m. You got to trust God with your relationships. I'll leave you with this thought. Paul in the Book of Acts, he's hanging out in a region and he's preaching the gospel and he's praying with people. There's this woman, she's following him around, and she's saying, this is a man of God sent by God to declare the word of God. Sounds really good. I would love to have somebody just promote me like that. You know, that's cool. But Paul realized something. She might be saying the right thing, but she's got the wrong spirit. So he turned and he said to her, you're rebuked. I rebuke you in Jesus name. And he cast the devil out of her. You know, it made me realize. It made me realize that some of us are partnering with people. We're supposed to actually be casting the Devil out of some of you. Somebody's dating somebody. You should actually be. God put you in your life, in your life to rebuke them, but you're dating them. If I had time. Will you stand with me today? How many of you in the room today you're deciding. I'm not gonna wait for life to make sense. I'm gonna make it make sense. As a matter of fact, I'm gonna make the enemy pay. I'm not gonna suffer all that I've suffered without making him pay. I love what David did before he fought Goliath. He asked the question. He says, what do I get? What do I get if I defeat Goliath? I'm not interested in 2025. I'm not interested in fighting any battles that don't prosper me. Come on, somebody. Will you throw your hands up in the morning if you can? Today? If not, just close those eyes. Father, in the name of Jesus, there's a lot of things that have gone on in our lives that just do not make sense. But we're not going to sit around, Lord, and wait for those things to make sense. We're going to live in a way that makes it make sense. And today we might not feel strong, but we are going to go in the strength that we have. In Jesus name we pray. Come on. And everybody said amen. Thank you. Love y'all. Come on.
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Social fan. Would you show your appreciation to Pastor Robbie for that powerful on time word? Look at the person next to you. Say, you gonna make it, you gonna make it, you gonna make it.