In the Absence of a Crisis :: You In Five Years | Pastor Levi Lusko

the series we're in it's called you in five years and we're just asking the simple question who will we be five years from now if we continue our present course and who do we want to be five years from now those are the two questions where is our right now momentum taking us and do we like that destination because now is the time to get off the train if we don't like where it's going who will you be in 2023 and who do you want to be by the time the next half decade is over and we're giving some thought to that now instead of the usual New Year's resolution twelve months that's not enough time to do what we want to do we're asking what do I want to accomplish 60 months from now that 12 months will be only unfinished I'll only be partially there we're picking something bigger we're going a little bit deeper the title of this message if you like to scribble stuff down while I talk to you is in the absence of a crisis in the absence of a crisis in first Kings 19 we find one of three passages were going to consider together and it's about the man Elijah Elisha who would eventually become a prophet because Elijah who was the Prophet he was the mightiest of the miracle-working prophets no big deal that's what he's been called Elijah this fiery figure who alongside Moses really represents the office of Prophet you have in in in in in in in Elisha this this this is hard to fill set of shoes but God told Elijah in advance who was going to replace him and he said it's gonna be a lie shut now it was a confusing thing for God to do that because their name stone sounds so similar you had to go pick him I couldn't be Billy no I had to be Elijah and Elijah really that's we were gonna think I'm him and he's me and they'll be all confused forever and I'm like it's not about you get over yourself he's like fine and so what we're gonna see is him going to seek out Elijah so he can let him know that he's gonna be a part of the and one day be be a prophet so he it's a lie Judd departed from there verse 19 and found it Elijah you're probably wondering who his dad is Oh luckily son of shaphat see you're wondering like I don't I don't feel comfortable studying him if I can't know who his dad is so the text was like he's the son of shaphat and elijah when he got found was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him now you didn't respond with a gasp you didn't you didn't seem like blown away that I don't see any of your hair going back but you should have because we just found out he is enormous ly wealthy enormous ly wealthy you see an oxen in that day would be the equivalent of like a expensive John Deere tractor or a costly combine or you know I don't know I'm running out of farming but really souped-up f-150 Raptor Edition or whatever right like Wow twelve pairs of these that means he had twenty four of these expensive fancy pieces of farming equipment now how vast your land holdings have to be to necessitate twenty four of them you know to have one would be a big deal in that day and he's got he's got a lot and so that means that shaphat farms was the place to be Jeff at farming incorporated shaphat and Sons as it were and Elisha is obviously the Bruce Wayne of this whole affair of shaphat enterprises and Elisha is gonna you know be in charge one day and that's that's a lot that's a big deal it's a huge responsibility and so it's a big calling and many of you will be called to be leaders in industry in business and to be successful in to produce wealth not just for yourselves as an end but as a beginning to bless many people and do a great great deal of good and and whether it's farming or banking or being an architect many of you will you know have it upon you to to be like chef at and some of you even now the seeds are going to be sown so that the oak tree can come out of the Acorn of this theory five years you're not you could be in a completely different place when it comes to your vocation when it comes to your career when it your work in the wealth you can produce and the good that you can do and you could be the head and not the tail how great would it be to own or not rent how great would it be to to be the lender and not the one who's borrowing I mean just could be a completely different paradigm for you you could be like shaphat I'm gonna get your shaphat on 24 dream 424 tractors that's that's that's who I'm speaking someone's like that's my word I was just thinking 24 tractors is where I want to be in in five years then Elisha passed by him the text continued for only one verse saying guys passed by him and look at this through his mantle on him that's weird and I need to act it out because Elisha walked four days from where he met with God seeking out Elisha well you have no idea whether he's ever met the guy before they know each other - Elijah Elisha large in life he's chiseled in stone on Mount Rushmore I mean he's the man the mightiest of the miracle-working prophets this guy was so bad one time he said it's not gonna rain until I say it will with an attitude even if it's just like he get it the prophesy needed to happen but he said it was SAS and with style Ilah I like this guy and so Elijah's just plowing just another day just plowing getting his heifer on and and and and all of sudden Elijah just appears out of nowhere with a crazy look in his eye as as he often had and and as he approached him Elijah starts taking off his jacket super slowly and eyelashes like that strange and Elijah runs up behind him and throws his jacket over Elijah shoulders and walks away okay so now Elijah who's plowing behind his oxen he's like thank you I wasn't cold but you have to understand it was a symbolic gesture essentially he handed him a lightsaber and said let's go to the Dagobah system this was in and this was an unpaid internship let's be clear that he was offering him but it was it was the chance to be under his authority it is but we I'm gonna I'm gonna eventually one if you follow me and learn from me be my disciple and and and and be my pupil you you you too could one day be a part of the Jedi that's that's what he gave him a crack at here and Elijah knew full well what was what was being offered to him and that's why the text says verse 20 he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and and he would have of course handed his coke cloak back he realizes he doesn't get it yet right it was just a ceremony how was symbolism and he said please let me kiss my father and mother and then I will follow you so he read it he knew what was happening please let me kiss my mom and dad and then let's do this thing do you realize what he's walking away from right he's walking away from chef fat enterprises he's walking away from Wayne Manor this is kissing the life he knew the life he loved the future that was before him goodbye to follow Elijah whose life was impressive I'll give you that but it was treacherous as almost all lives that are greatly used by God can be Elijah yeah he called down fire from heaven that we love to think about that but let's not forget between it's not gonna rain till I say it will and calling fire down from heaven there were years lived in hardship where well at one point he was hanging out by a Brook true story bear grylls in it right and he was fed by Ravens is that like a fancy new food delivery service like post mates or uber eats or a blue apron no it was just Ravens it was just raven delivery service they twice a day they showed up and brought food to him I'm sure the first day he was like that does that Burt have a capri-sun on earth right and but eventually I bet he got cocky you know the birds bring an Emma a dingdong or whatever and I bet the birds dropping it from 30 40 feet in the air hey see if I bill alright the birds name was Bill and this is the name he probably was resorting to naming the bird I was his only source of companionship it was his Wilson you know I'm saying it means absolutely crazy and then he he goes from there Oh probably to a hotel actually no God said I want you to go stay with a widow in Zarephath which was in the territory of the people who he had offended in the god that he had insulted there in Zarephath Bale was worship I'm gonna go live in Zarephath with a widow when he meets her she's so emaciated she looks like she's about to starve to death and she in fact tells him I'm actually planning on dying later I'm gonna eat one last meal and it's over he's like awesome first make me some pancakes like and he ends up staying with her through the entire famine now Elijah knows full well that that's what he's embracing a life where God's gonna use him dramatically but hardship and difficulty and opposition and and absolutely just not knowing from day today what what is even going to happen okay and that's what he just accepted here on the spot Elijah responds and says go back again for what have I done to you in other words yeah kisser but just make sure you think twice on what you're doing here before you cut once make sure you count the cost before you deny yourself pick up your cross and choose to follow me in the words of in the language of the New Testament to us make sure you understand what you're getting into here make sure you understand that you're embracing sacrifice you're embracing a life where you're not in control once you choose to follow Jesus Christ as your Lord make sure you understand that full well you see cuz a lot of people don't do that and they think I'm basically just getting a genie in a lamp in God and they embrace him saying yeah use me use me only to turn their back three months later when they feel used and it's like what's the matter you got an answer to your own prayer and and that's what is happening here make sure you understand what's happening verse 21 a lie should turn back from him and obviously kissed his mom you always gotta kiss your mama and then he took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and boiled their flesh using the auxins equipment and gave it to the people and they ate then he arose and a and he chose to follow Elijah and he became his servant in answer to Elijah's question do you really mean it do you understand what what's really happening here he turned around and killed these animals and made a bonfire and ate what he wants just a moment before was driving on that represented his life pretty strong so he follows Elijah what does he do well the text told us he became his servant he became his servant get this 18 years passes 18 long years go by long enough to be born and graduate high school and we get one detail one detail of that 18-year long period where he is Elijah's servant you ready for it he poured water on the hands of Elijah waiting for the next verse no that's that's it that's it that's all we get for 18 years as Elijah's servant he poured water on the hands of Elijah his function was that of the one who provided the hand sanitizer after the meet-and-greet were Elijah shook all the hands he would come over in Elijah Wood that was his life 18 years 18 years of pure acts 18 years seems Elijah was a bit of a germaphobe right and so he would just come over Elijah Wood and that all right and back to the fanny pack it went it was zipped up and on they went to the next assignment that was his only job that we know of 18 years of his he could have been somebody he was somebody how many times during those 18 years did he think back to how life was on shaphat farms and cringe at the notion that he fought 18 years of obscurity 18 years as a servant 18 years and all he did was we hear of him pouring water we don't hear of a sermon there's no miracle he just merely was in a role in the background supporting the ministry that made what Elijah did possible that's the second movement to the story finally the detail start to flow a little bit as Elijah's life was nearing its conclusion you see God told Elijah in advance you're about to go to heaven you're about to be done here on this earth and he let Elijah know it's it's it's about to end it's all it's all coming to a conclusion here and they began walking to a solitary place where he was gonna go to heaven and they had to cross a river first as they were they were traveling they came to a body of water and Elijah stopped at the river's edge Elijah probably 18 years in knew better than to ask any questions you know he just assumed if a lie just thought there was a good reason to it early on probably in 18 years he probably would like here's my suggestion we Ford the river we do this we could you know we could climb over a tall tree and then jump from the other and I'm sure that as time went on the more he just you know learned to just speak when spoken to he was that's a good question come up with the best answer he could ask a lot of questions but not not run his mouth a lot and I'm sure that that wisdom paid off as when they arrived at the edge of the river Elijah looked at it took his jacket off the mantle that he had put on Elijah and smacked the edge of the river with this jacket this is just the Bible I'm just reading scripture to you guys right you're looking at me cross-eyed and religious I'm just telling you this is a Bible right feel like the Bible so boring have you ever read this thing he hits the river with his jacket and the jacket divides in half that is precisely what happened and then it says in second Kings chapter 2 verse 9 for the third movement of the story and so it was when they had crossed over that Elijah said to Elisha ask what may I do for you before I am taken away from you that's nice hey you've been a good servants these 18 years anything I can do before you before you before I die and Elijah said please let a double portion of your spirit be upon me I love that request I love that request and I hope that's what's in your spirit I hope as you think of the great things that God has done in other people's lives and in the world and in your life I hope your requests facing the future is God do twice as much in the coming days I hope that's what you're praying over your kids I hope that's what you're praying over your grandkids I hope you're saying god you've done great things before I hope if you think about our church and all that's come before us I hope you're saying God a double portion in the coming days I want to see you do even more and far from being offended by that that's God's heart all along he's like finally there's some faith there he wants to do exceedingly and abundantly more than you could ever ask or think or imagine the problem with praying small prayers is that you might just get what you asked for instead of what God wanted you to have all along so Elijah considers what Elijah asked for I mean he is the mightiest of the miracle-working prophets we know in his entire life that were that are recorded he performed 14 different miracles and what Elijah is asking for Elijah's like okay hmm I mean look his response he says you've asked a hard thing 14 times - we have to carry the 128 miracles you guys the hard thing okay here you go nevertheless if you see me when I am taken from you it shall be so for you but if not it shall not be so nothing's ever simple with this guy is it no he's just being mystic to be weird I think at this point playing with him yeah in a minute I'm going to heaven and if you see when it happens you know from that moment Elijah doesn't blink one single time this guy's wily coyote he's not vanishing into the bushes and dying on my watch right he's thinking that he might like be blinking while elijah expires but but god had something much weirder in store for elijah than dying like an ordinary person oh no there would be no dying for him because as the text continues it says then it happened as they continued on and talked that suddenly a chariot of fire appeared with horses of fire as it does and separated the two of them and elijah went up by a whirlwind in to heaven of course he did of course he did that's that's how one goes to heaven I mean no I've actually requested I have an official request that that's how I get to heaven - Oh God has an answer definitively I'm just like you know what you could I honestly I want to go on a fiery chariot in a whirlwind that's so there was there was approximately I mean we know Elijah was just messing with him because how could one miss that like you can't really miss something like that right yeah the world something with the whirlwind and the horses in the chariot and the fact that the chariots and horses are on fire in Fuego to see a low okay so this is a dramatically interesting day that you can't you can't even make this stuff up you're like the Bible's made-up the Bible is way too weird to be made up nobody nobody would make up stuff this dramatically and Elijah saw and he cried out my father my father the chariot of Israel and its horsemen so he saw him no more and he took hold of his own clothes and tore him into two pieces why out of respect out of grief to show honor that he loved Elijah and would miss him until his own day came to go to heaven probably not as spectacularly he also took up the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him I need you to imagine this he's watching the whirlwind go by and the horses shoot off into the sky is air horse one that things I do for you okay and all of a sudden out of the whirlwind comes whoops Elijah's jacket 18 years of slave 18 years left whoo 18 year boom no joking he didn't sing that song he was sad look at this this is really funny to me he took up the mantle that had fallen from him and he went back and stood by the bank of the Jordan he definitely hit it with the Manchus look at what happened he took it up he struck the water and said where is the Lord God of Elijah and when he instruct the water it was divided this way and that and Elijah the Prophet crossed over come on somebody there's there's so much in this all right so listen listen it wasn't me this story has three movements and I believe this this story has much to speak to our lives as we seek to get to where we want to be in the next five years what do you mean well I called this message in the absence of crisis in the absence of a crisis why because a crisis is an event that if you think about it proves we are all capable of change I could never change I could never do that well if you had to you'll find a way if you had to right why do moms pick up cars they had to they had to their baby their baby they had to if you had to what could you do I can't say I just say every time I tried what if you had to come up with a ransom I'm reading this book by an FBI negotiator he's talking about the differ situations where families came up with money why they had what could you do if you had to do it I could never fast I'm so hungry I had a pastor one time to him I said you guys ever faster the church I'm trying to figure out what how where's the treasure gonna do it you know I don't really I don't really like I don't know we don't really do that our church so why not he goes I get hungry so that's the point I think I suffer as I can tell I'm not an expert I didn't go to seminary like you did but I think that's the idea he goes oh I'm just not good at it I said no one's good at it gone the only other than Gandhi all of us get hungry and that's the idea no good if you had to your car broke down in the woods and you were stranded for weeks people deal with they do things they it's just when you have to when you have you're capable of change but how do we change in the absence of a crisis I think we have to come to a place where we can generate an internal crisis even when we don't have the luxury of an external one Tony Robbins put it this way he said change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change change hurts and so that's why we don't like it because fasting is hard and so is savings and so is picking up a car right it's to do picking up anything heavy and we could do it if there was a crisis but how do we generate the crisis because I don't think that staging external crises is the way to go right I get someone to hurt my child at unplanned intervals and I quickly pick something up that's my weight lifting regimen yes that is not realistic moving forward but if you can generate an internal crisis because you think about the pain of staying where you are as opposed to whatever pain it's going to be that that's gonna take to get to where you want to go and I see in this text in these passages three different movements that will help us first it's going to take drastic action drastic action to get to where we want to be drastic action is Elijah not demonstrating drastic action when he chooses to light on fire the yoke and eat with his friends his f-150 right that's drastic that's full-on that's ripped from Cortez's playbook even though it was it was not until 1519 that Cortez made his men stand on the shores and watch the ships that were on fire that had brought them there right we got to do like Cortes a bit not the raping and the plundering and the pillaging please I'm it was barbaric and unspeakable what they did but in the results in the determination in the choice to say we will die or we will succeed but there will be no retreat are you are you drastic in the action you're taking or are you soft and you are you pleasant with your desire to change tomorrow and what you're surely going to get around to next month that drastic action is called for and I wonder if you're willing to do so it's necessary why why is the drastic actions so necessary at the beginning right it's that first domino if you heard last week's message that knocks over eventually the Empire State Building of change in your life but it's knocking over of a first domino its drastic to knock something everything's sitting up something's got to give something's gotta like the views it's gotta it's gonna take a spark to get that fire going and without the sport you can pile up all the killing you want it's not gonna happen until that first spark of decision and that line is crossed over it's hard by design but necessary to overcome inertia inertia it's really impact us we got to go to our boy from the 16 and 1700s Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton who I mean I want to listen to him just when I see this painting of him I I just speak to speak into my life Sir Isaac Newton - look the jaw the chin the hair it's fabulous so Sir Isaac Newton of course famous for discovering the rules behind gravity and all of that he has this this theory he postulated that his look to now and describe now is the the laws of motion and the first law of motion or what is described as inertia is stated as follows objects will remain at rest or in uniform in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of state with me an external force drastic action that the point is everything in the in the universe wants to keep doing whatever it's doing it doesn't want to change everything is resistant to a change of state we call that inertia and the word inertia itself comes from the latin word lazy can you believe that or idle everything in the universe every object everything the first law of motion states is lazy that makes so much sense our default thing is to stay where we are default thing is not to move it's not to change because the first law of motion states that everything's lazy everything's idle this brick is so lazy that brick is so idle look at it that brick does not want to change it doesn't want to move he doesn't want to go anywhere a brick pay brick you have any plans today no I'm gonna sit here and if everything stay the same if there was no drastic action taken guess what a thousand years from now this brick would still be sitting here the table was removed suddenly gravity would cause it to move but other than that that brick is not going anywhere because it is lazy it wants to stay as it is I have a hammer and the hammer can bring force to it and with drastic action I can move the brick now I can't move it very much why because that brick has a great amount of mass this balloon on the other hand does not have a lot of mass and so it can be easily moved with much less force in fact even the wind and static electricity can cost to cause that balloon to move some look at that but if I hit it with an external force it can move a lot I can move this foot a lot because almost all the force goes to it because more mass means more inertia more mass means more inertia this brick so much of the force going into it is spent on overcoming inertia that not very much of it gets transferred through it and that's why I can break the brick on my hand and have it not hurt at all because the great amount of force went into disrupting the inertia and very little goes through it you're still not getting it you need a bigger example fortunately I have access to toys and one of them is an 8 pound sledge hammer I need my lab assistants for this though because we start to bring danger and we safety first everybody so the brick gets bigger the hammer gets bigger the stakes get bigger and as your life goes on the harder it becomes to change the longer you've been entrenched in your laziness the easier it is to stay little to stay lazy and idle and the morpheus thank you Oh missed it missed it missed it missed it totally totally blew the landing on that one where's that Oh found it thank you appreciate that all right so this brick I'm gonna smash gel mark smashed it off my chest with this sledgehammer and proved to you that that so much of the inertia being overcome absorbs the great deal of the energy and when it breaks the flying piece that's going that way it's going to take a lot of the kinetic energy as well and almost none of its going to get transferred to me I can totally safely have them do this but I also want to demonstrate something to you called pressure pressure is force applied over an area and it's it's an amazing thing we learn from physics as well if we take this bed of nails that we made here and we have me lie down on it I can do so because of physics when I lie down on this oh wait why don't I just lie down on this one because that would be a terrible plan because of pressure force over an area all of me on this it's a 161 pounds I'm working on it guys want a journey on this one nail it would go through me but when we have a couple hundred of these nails guess what I can lie down on a bed of nails and when I do so there's no pain it's more comfortable than a tempurpedic mattress because my whole body is spread out over this area now we have another bed of nails upside down that we can place on top of me and when we do I again don't feel anything why I've already had my children John mark we're fine we're fine so so here's the deal when we put this breakdown listen I'm totally fine because of physics now watch John Mark is going to smash this brick but all of the sledgehammer has force that's going to go into it and it's going to be used to dispel the inertia of this brick that doesn't want to go through my body it wants to stay where it is so most of the energy disrupts the inertia the rest of it gets blown out through the flying debris this Plexiglas shield held by my daughter keeps me from having my face broken by little bits of flying rock on my count unleash hell 3 2 1 I'm not dead so it must have worked let's hear it and that's why it's so difficult to change your life because all the normal energy you apply to change gets spent just overcoming inertia and you're not able to use any of it to build up speed let's here for our lab assistants you did a tremendous job and that's why baptism is so important fully wet it's a drastic thing to say the whole world I'm soaking wet and saved it's drastic action I remember the day of my baptism it's hard to forget I was wet from head to toe and fist-bumping God it was a great day drastic action that's why fasting is so drastic I'm gonna Knight e4 awawa I want to hear from heaven I'm telling you strass Nick action it's drastic to grab the food that you don't want to eat and throw it in the trash and step on it for good measure I'm telling it's drastic to delete some numbers from your phone because they're dysfunctional it's drastic to break up with someone who's no good for you and God's got something better for you and God Himself is your reward and when you find what you need in him then you can be brought into a relationship it's drastic to say here's a line no more the time for half-measures is over otherwise five years from now you're an older version of who you are right now but exaggerated drastic actions there's the second thing I see an Elijah story steady progression a steady progression slow and steady slow and steady 18 years what was he doing pouring water 18 years pouring water 18 year pouring water steady drastic action tips over our first domino but then what do we need just consistent just consistent just consistent it doesn't look like much has happened just consistent pouring water pouring water pouring water Epictetus the Greek philosopher put it this way no great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of sir fig if you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you there must be time let it first blossom then bear fruit then ripened you see whatever change you want it's dramatic and sudden an instant if it's instantly visible it's likely not long-term sustainable you want things to go into the ground and compound interest to take hold you want the processes that God put in of slow and steady to win that race because God always works in sowing and reaping in seasons and summer and winter and that we are found a year from now doing the thing that we were meant to do and thinking of what could happen in 60 months and what could happen even in 60 years to modernize it a little bit and go from Epictetus to a current philosopher Darren Hardy in the book the compound effect put it this way he said it's time someone told it to you straight you've been bamboozled for too long there is no magic bullet secret formula or quick fix you don't make 200 grand a year spending 2 hours a day on the internet lose 30 pounds in a week rub 20 years off your face for the cream fix your love life with a pill or find lasting success with any other scheme that is too good to be true it'd be great if you could buy your success fame self-esteem good relationships and health and well-being in a nicely clam shield package at the local Walmart Walmart but that's not how it works what is it gonna take day in and day out day in and day out keep sowing keep water and keep dreaming keep planted keep planted small groups life decisions Bible Jesus prayer save save work out right choices right choices right people day in day out Planeta the house of God flourishing in the courts of our Lord it takes the right things overtime to get to where we want to be John Maxwell put it this way he said he said improvement doesn't happen in a day but it must be daily it's not gonna happen in you cannot be changed by tomorrow but it has to happen daily if we're to get to where we want to be there's a third movement the third movement is when there has been drastic action followed by a steady progression can then enjoy momentum enjoy momentum isn't it interesting the way that Elijah eventually comes to a place where slow and steady he's been filling up his life with these small decisions and that eventually comes to this dramatic place of momentum momentum I love it so much by the way when you think about what happens when you've just got not just one nail of a drastic action but you have nail after nail after nail after nail just how different things become if you just take the one thing any one thing like there's a there's a weakness to it but if you take that same thing of what you're trying to do and you multiply it out hundreds and thousands of times over and over again you get to a place where everything's spread out and look what can happen in your life and by the way that's why you should be in a small group you're not in a fresh life group we don't people in your life loving you helping you encourage you to spread the weight of your life around so hold you up when you're weak you need to be on a team you need to be in community if you're to thrive but here's the cool thing all of this leads to momentum why because inertia is a double-edged sword isn't it Newton's said things that are at rest stay at rest what was that second partner but objects in motion stay in motion and do so in a straight so course-correction and steering followed by compounded decision-making eventually leads you to a pretty spectacular thing and that's called inertia once more you see the Space Shuttle uses more fuel in taking off than it does in the rest of the flight put together because it's just got to break free from what's holding it to it being an object at rest but then eventually it becomes an object in motion and without friction or any of the things that cause us to be unable to slide something forever in the vacuum of space if I were to throw that same brick it would first stop until it hits another star or hits a comet you would just keep going forever why because an object at rest turned into an object in motion that will remain in motion I love the demonstration that I saw on The Ellen Show of inertia in motion where she took a tray she was instructed by steve Spangler to take this tray and to set it on top of three glasses but first to fill each of the glasses with what was Elijah's job oh it's interesting magic happens when you pour water over and over again you didn't respond that was pretty cool whatever it's fine oh that's great guys [Music] the cool thing about the the demonstration is that it involves toilet paper rolls which is always nice to get it find a second life for these little guys before they're tossed out I mean normally you're so disappointed to see him oh my gosh and sometimes you're terrified to see them but on this day we're glorified as we see them right it's pretty cool and you think about what they can actually provide and that is support for these oranges and this is a force being applied below them and it's holding them up in the air and of course objects at rest they're gonna stay at rest they're not going to go anywhere on their own they want to stay there those oranges want to stay there but if I apply a force to them on this side then here's what's going to happen I'm gonna take away the support I'm gonna take away the pedestals and these oranges should not follow the tray they should not follow the tubes that they're on but if Newton is right then they should fall straight in line because objects in motion stay in motion and they do so in a straight line and this is what's possible for you as you make the right decisions eventually you come to a place where the right things have been set in place and just continue and it's hard to get off the ground and you got to keep going here here's your here's that here's the overview different outline that I was I was thinking of and I want to tell you is that yeah it's difficult to do drastic action unbearable and the steady progression uncomfortable but once you get to this face for your enjoying momentum you become unstoppable in Jesus name do you receive it father we're thankful for this time just continue to unpack the single message spread out over a number of weeks I pray we all be back to keep hearing these things and keep giving the attention to our soul that it deserves as we follow you but now we want to take a moment and consider who among us has never said yes to Jesus who's never begun this race of faith for them it's not the action and the progression the momentum is needed it's salvation this means just to start with God if you're here and you've never trusted Jesus for salvation you don't know that when you die you're gonna go to heaven you never had your sins forgiven Bible says Jesus hung on the cross and died for you to pay for your sins if you trust him with your faith with your your life with the weight of your soul it'll save you make you new and said you set you on a new course set your feet to dancing take away the morning and bring festive celebration that's what he wants for you he wants to speak over your life and over your future may the party continue but you have to make a decision you have to choose to accept him he won't save you against your will a lot of people talk about well you can't make me believe I wouldn't even try you have to choose just to say yes to Jesus I'm just a delivery boy God loves you wants to save you but your life is in your hands whether you choose to trust him or not with heads bowed and eyes closed I'm gonna say a simple prayer and if you're ready to trust Christ if you sense the Holy Spirit of God knocking on your heart even now and I believe that's the case for many of you [Music] I want you to pray this prayer after me out loud with your mouth and as you prayed I want you to mean it to God and he'll hear you and he'll you say this church family prayed with us to show that we're proud to be with you in this decision those of you making it dear God I know I'm a sinner I can't fix myself I asked you to come into my heart make me new I believe Jesus died for me and rose from the dead come into my life I give it to you what an incredible message thank you so much for joining us in this teaching from fresh Life Church if while you were watching you felt led to make a decision to follow Christ congratulations we'd love to send you a 21 day devotional through the book of John that pastor Levi wrote to receive that send the word fresh life to 99,000 or you can register your decision online by clicking the button Oh God and we'd love to connect with you if you've been impacted by what God is doing through fresh Life Church we'd love to hear from you click the share your story tab on our site or email us at story at fresh Life Church share how God is using this work to impact your life these stories are incredibly encouraging to both our staff and our church family finally if you'd like to partner with us financially and support the things that God is doing in and through this house you can text the word fresh two four five seven seven seven click the give button at fresh Life Church or give via the fresh life app thank you so much for watching

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Length: 44min 12sec (2652 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 15 2018