Repentance and Healthy Growth | Todd White

wow [Applause] people like what was that do you remember the power and loves that we did how many people have been a part of power and love somewhere did it help you we're doing our first warriors arise right here march the 12th and the 13th um eddie james is coming with the crew to lead worship dan muller is going to be here it's a friday night and a saturday we got one night one evening session friday night and three sessions saturday and then we have two outreaches that are going to be powerful listen this is our first so this is like our gosh this is the beginner right here i'm so s i'm so super pumped up i just i did 123 power and loves like we did 12 years of those and they were really powerful i believe that this is going to have such exponential increase on it i believe that this intensive that's coming on march 12th is going to be absolutely ridiculous how many of you how many of you have already registered because we need registrations for this one okay i need you to go to lifestylechristianity.com go into warriors arise and register we have we have about 50 people signed up we just launched it and we're only a month out so we've never done just a month out we've always done like months and months to prep this is not a month to months to prep this is right now so how many of you will come first off i need you to go and register now okay all right i mean if you'd like to be a part of this thing i mean don't be so excited don't smile don't laugh don't cheer it's all good all right how about that worship how many of you when the drums hit like something happened i was like what's happening on the inside of me right now i'm not kidding i was over there like in between the seats like oh my wife was like this destiny came out and she was dancing and go did you see your daughter as soon as she looked destiny came off the stage it was so good i just want to thank the worship team i'm i really haven't been the guy i come up and i'm so in the zone that i want to give you what god has in my heart but then at the same time i haven't like properly done the honoring the worship team and all that stuff so please forgive me i'm being pruned in a really big way so i'm just gonna spend some time and just thank some people all right i like here's the deal if we're gonna shift culture it has to start with me wow sometimes people are like you don't have to share your whole life dude yeah i do i don't have another life to share i can't share your life your testimony is so powerful and what god's doing in you it helps other people get through because when they hear like somebody that like somebody that preaches the gospel going through serious stuff they're like wait a minute i thought you guys were the untouchable oh hey i just want to let you know that we're not untouchable the enemy is gunning for anything right so one of the things that um gosh i wasn't even gonna talk about this but i'm gonna so when tom when tom uh went to do what tom's doing and he was a part of what we're doing when he went he was doing everything and he i've never seen anybody do what he did he was the most amazing worker i don't even know how to describe i don't even know a word multi-functioning could think about 12 things at once i've never seen anybody like it in my life so i was traveling i was the itinerant and i'm like the itinerant speaker founder but then coming back doing lcu and then doing friday nights but traveling like 400 000 miles a year so i'm like all over and tom protected me in such a way that he wanted to make sure that i didn't mess my family up he wanted to make sure that i prioritized the things that i need to prioritize but by doing that like i kind of was on the outside and then when tom went on to what he's doing now i kind of jumped in and i was like all right and i was weighing over my head like has anybody ever been over their head do you know that there's grace on other people's lives to do what they're called to do to help you do what you're called to do i just found that out you know i'm being really transparent and really honest with with you guys i have tried with everything i am and i've been in the and in the season of kovid by the way when i say covet was a blessing to me i'm not trying to undermine or say you know people have lost people during covet so when i say that it has been a blessing for me what i mean by that is it slowed me down because i was on high pace i was full bore full speed ahead 400 000 miles a year preaching all around the world hundreds of thousands of people coming back doing lcu trying to pour it all out trying to make sure juggling all the plates and then god took away all the plates and i was like now what he's like i just want you to know me and so i went through this amazing season of pruning and gosh just cutting and a lot of you are aware of that you guys okay if i just be real just talk about stuff yep i look over there my staff's like what's happening right now i have some of the most amazing staff on the planet i'm not kidding i just i really really do i literally have a dream team around me to do their jobs to do that like the worship rachel is doing a tremendous job kaylee i mean hannah all of them ryan ryan all of them they're it's absolutely what marcel they're just incredible they really are and i know that and so what happened was when when the ministry when everything was being headed and tom was doing a wonderful job when tom wasn't here i jumped in and thought i can do this i can't do this but i had other people that were doing it but what happened was the my want to make sure that everything's done i jumped in and said hey how's everything being done how's this being done how's this being done hey are you guys what are you guys doing over here and then over like that right and so it wasn't so much a on my part of oh my gosh they're not doing their job it was i want to see what you guys are doing how do you do it what are you doing well that wasn't my role my role was great job guys but i went how's everything being done what's going on hey i just want to make sure like how do you do this and how do you do that and what about this and did you forget about that and i'm and they're thinking we're doing that but in my mind i just want to make sure but in that thing i like i came in and kind of made a cluster does that make sense to you you guys all right this is going out live so everybody knows you know why because if you confess you're false one to another and if i can't lead this way then i should not be a leader are you with me the culture of honor and edification and encouragement and building people up what happened was because i was trying to find out i lost the i lost that encouragement and edification and great job and this and that i could do it outside of here but the hard part for me was going around the staff and telling everybody how good they did because i was wondering how are you doing it does that make sense are you guys okay some of you were like why are you telling us this because it's real and it's happening and it might be happening in your life to you and so this week has been officially the most painful week of my life ever where i realized i i haven't i haven't been the most honoring person i haven't been gosh i haven't been the person that i've always wanted to be because i got into busy so you guys already know about my journey with busy like my 400 000 miles a year in cranking but then the other part of busy was i tried to figure everything out but like i don't have that here people are like yes you have all things according no i don't have that but here's the deal god created me to be a man of prayer a man of vision and a man of preaching the word studying the word and going after that he didn't create me to be the try to figure this out try to fix that try to do audio video try to he didn't create me so when i tried to get into that stuff what happened was i stepped outside of the grace that's on my life and my life became this a whirlwind but that whirlwind stopped this week i can't even explain to you what's happening right now i i am so healthy in my heart so so rejoicing in a place where i am i make any sense or am i just sounding like a fool theo my son is okay theo is the pastor man so he'll like talk he sounds like jesus when he speaks so i'm not kidding right sir todd let me listen bro yes it's just awesome and chris chris has just done donald has just done a tremendous job i'm so i'm so excited like chris is our resident evangelist like he's insane in a great way in a great way and ben meckel has done such an amazing job all these people i've got around me i didn't need to ask questions about how things were going i just need to trust that they were doing it and have other people that could do it and and sabrina whom you guys might not know and she's just a genius and cara that does our marketing and media like absolutely amazing wow do you guys know danny and sherry silk does anybody know danny silk yeah well he's he's going to come and he's going to he's going to help us and help me and just be in my life bill i just i'm so thankful for the people that are willing to pour their guts into me and i got a coach that is going to be coaching me on a consistent basis like that's amazing for me like i'm not i just want you to know i'm not my own guy i have a lot of people that pour into me and dan muller and robert morris and bill johnson and heidi baker and all these people are like pouring in but i'm at the best season of my life that i've you know that song jesus take the wheel see lifestyle i was an itinerant but then when we stepped into this building it became so much bigger like i don't know if like from not having an office and being a man that's preaching all around the world and loving it and and being excited about being able to pour in to everything and then getting a building that's 200 000 square feet and having a couple employees and believing that god said get it so we we're like yes and everybody's like hey dude um you guys don't even own a 7-eleven you just are buying a walmart think about what you're doing count the cost i did we can do it faith says see i'm a guy that has the faith to see the cone and that's the cone and that's where we're going i am not the guy to get us there are you with me staff are you with me yes yes of course i'm the guy that has the vision that is this like i see it like i see it and we're gonna get that but i'm not the guy to okay how do we do it i need how do i do it people i need well easy like here's operations this is how we operate here's structure this is what we do here's the systems that we need to have here's the staffing that we need to have for this these are all those things and here's the secret place that's involved in all these so they're like the big s's that all of those are in place we run well but i gotta make sure that i can see the cone so that's me i'm the cone guy i am a conehead but i'm serious i've got vision i've got lots of vision and god's given me vision it's apostolic in nature like i want to do this and plant and whoa oh i see it whoa but then there's other people go well this is how we get there and i've got the most wonderful dream team ever and god's put around me and i just wanted to thank god and tell you that this is going to be the most craziest amazing season that we've ever seen in our lives i'm not kidding it really is all right okay so i need to talk about this how many of you liked theo last week speech speech okay um how many of you com how many of you completed the growth track amen i need you to do me a favor if you are a member i want you to complete the growth track just do it so we can be on the same page with where we're headed that's all okay but i want to say congratulations to all of you that did it awesome job and the people that have created the growth track theo and the boys and the girls all right um oh yeah thea wrote this for me he's like hey remember this he put on the bottom you're an incredible pastor and amazing leader thanks bro i honestly believe that i'm really learning the whole leadership aspect and it's being humble enough to know that you can't do it by yourself that god has created all different facets of people that have the gift of administration that have the gift of this the gift of helps all that and we could not do this without all of you too and the volunteers thank you for what you've done we need help thank you for volunteering it's so crazy thank you for wearing your red shirts so that we know who you are and if you have read on today you've just been brought in to volunteer thank you so much you didn't know that that was a prophetic actually action that you have done great job thank you so much for being a part of our team people are looking down go on no okay all right that's it okay so i'm gonna share with you now you good yes one of my one of my things um i heard reinhardt bunkey share this and and i i've shared it before but i just want to kind of bring this in the context reinhardt reinhardt and daniel kolenda reinhardt was doing all these crusades in africa and the lord told reinhardt not to invest in bricks and mortar to invest in souls and so one day reinhardt lives in lived in west palm beach and he called daniel kalinda i think it was on a a sunday and daniel's in orlando and he says daniel daniel i need you to meet me right now i'm driving and it's early sunday morning and daniel goes reinhardt what's this about the lord has spoken and i need you to meet me can this wait till it will be now and so daniel's like okay so reinhardt meets daniel and they sit down and it's a breakfast meeting you know and he sits down and he says the lord has spoken daniel's like okay what what did he say he said we are we are to build a facility in orlando and it's sunday so daniel's like reinhardt we could have the real estate places aren't even open so we could have talked it doesn't matter he goes i need the lord to see when he speaks i jump and when i heard that this was like gosh this was seven eight years ago when i heard him say that something hit me in my soul in my heart shook my whole being i'm like that's how i want to be so in my zeal of jumping i've sometimes even announced stuff that we're going to do from the stage without telling the staff so when i come up and i start speaking they're just like okay and that's not the proper way to go about it because what needs to happen is systems strategies stuffing secret place prayer vision implementation right and so when reinhardt said that i just took it and like a little kid it's like the lord said and and even though it's faith oh my gosh it's like a bull in a china shop like right and my wife has dealt with that like in the just even like in the prayer for the sick i did it doesn't matter and and that still there's grace on it now but when we first started and i first started to pray for people it didn't matter like it didn't matter that my grocery store trip took two and a half hours it didn't matter and i'd go 20 minutes away i'd be in the store for two and a half hours praying for people and then it was 20 minutes back and i'd get home and we're looking at three hours and 20 minutes she's like what have you been doing i've been praying for people what but it was also at she didn't she didn't understand praying for people so i was like a bull in a china shop so i've always plowed through and really done that so what i did was i kind of took that into when we got the building and i'm like and we've done pretty well but we would do so much better if jesus took the wheel i'm not talking about compromise and i'm not talking about negotiation i'm talking about wisdom are you with me you have no idea how much in this week i've learned i go in my closet and the lord's like i'm not kidding because i i pour my guts out lord this doesn't even seem okay this doesn't seem and he'll go which means shut your mouth that's okay do you know that god wants you to actually have discussions with him do you know that he doesn't always just want you to ask him for stuff he actually wants to talk to you like a dad you know that he is a father he's a father so when we start to engage with him when he engages with us you better know that you're a son because if you are thinking like an orphan and he's trying to speak to you like a father you won't hear him okay gosh let me just let me just lay down some stuff real quick and not keep you for long like i know this is crazy did this help anybody look all my staff will raise their hand gosh i am so grateful of her his mercy for me he sees me like a little kid just learning how to walk he does yay yay oh good job he sees me like in my mess-ups and he's like oh he's not willing he's not wanting to beat me he just wants me to learn how to hear him better he wants me to hear his voice better i do hear his voice he is my father i can hear him because i know i'm right with him if i don't know that i'm right with him i can't hear him are you guys with me all right let me just go into i want to go into first peter and just share a little bit and bounce around a little and then just go after something and it won't take me long you guys good thank you for coming like no joke like thank you for coming thank you for saying i believe in lifestyle church thank you for being a part of what we're doing it's going to be amazing i'm really not kidding it's going to be amazing how many of you that are here have had real life-changing stuff already already be happening in your life i am hoping i am praying my goal my goal in life is to like my vision is to equip every believer in righteousness the miraculous the power of god the wisdom of god i believe that no matter who you are no matter what walk of life you're in that you can walk and live a supernatural christian life free from guilt shame condemnation see one of the great things for me is even though like i'm telling you about all you know all of this when i talk about it i don't get condemned by it this isn't normal for most people like when i talk like when something when when i'm corrected on something and i realize that something's wrong god has made the cross more than a default for me the blood of jesus is living and active so when you if you make a mistake and you see it for what it is god is faithful and just to cleanse you of all unrighteousness it's not just words on a page it's the truth in your heart that reality has kept me free for my whole life in christ it's when you mess up and you can't get over what you've done that the enemy capitalizes to keep you where you were so that you can never go where you're supposed to go it is the biggest stronghold that i see in the church and the number one attack point from the enemy if you could live without guilt without shame and without condemnation you could live in the freedom that he paid a price for you to live in so my goal is to establish that in every christian's mindset on the planet to equip everyday believers in their identity of being right with god when you're right with god you're wrong with the devil but when you make a mistake if you make a mistake and you see it for what it is and you repent of it repentance means that you're going to change the way you think but you can't change the way you think unless you put the right way to think in so a lot of people repent of stuff but never find out the truth of what they repented of in context of what you really should have lived like so the word of god is alive sharp and active sharper than any two-edged sword it separates your soul from your spirit so it separates the way that seems right to a man in your soul from your spirit man and your spirit your heart gets it your spirit holy spirit connect and they become one first corinthians 2 talks about it the deep things of god are revealed to the deep things of man who knows the depth of god except the spirit of god and who knows the depth of man except the spirit that's in a man when your spirit is born again what happens is holy spirit your spirit do research together are you with me it's search and rescue so i've got a bad thought i've got a bad mindset i've got just a way of thinking the holy spirit wants to go in with my spirit and he wants to do heart surgery and the word of god judges the thoughts and intents of the heart so he takes out that mindset he takes it out but he has to put the mind of christ in so that we can think from what jesus would think if i don't spend time in doing that there's no way there's no way for repentance to bear fruit in your life is this making any sense i know we know it in theory but if we knew this basic piece right here it'll change your life it'll make this is why people don't like to have problems confronted because they don't know how to get over the problems they've already had confronted orphan mindsets get taken out for your whole life knowing that you're a son is amazing but there can still be like fear comes from an orphan mindset just the fact that i tried to dive in to fix stuff shows that i was operating out of out of fear in a mindset thinking that it's not getting done so i should be concerned but i shouldn't have a mindset of fear so that thing needs to be taken out so when i'm talking about this i'm talking about that very mindset in me that has to be kicked out so now i'm in process of getting truth in so that that mindset never has a voice in my life and the only way it happens first of all i always get in the word but i can't afford to just have a relationship with the word and not a relationship with the god of the word and when people have brilliance in that area i can't say and think i know it all i have to be willing to say oh my gosh i honor what's on your life i really want like when you have somebody that has grace on their life it's like a it's like a a race car on a racetrack when they're going around the track when they come up on a car they go right into their draft when you go buy a big truck on the road do you ever feel like like it pulls you that's the draft so what happens is when somebody has grace on their life and you can actually say i need what you have on my life what happens is you go into their grace and the grace that's on their life will come onto yours we need one another are you with me have you ever heard bill say if you want to kill giants get around a giant killer why because the grace that's on the giant killer's life gets on yours and then all of a sudden you become a giant killer we learn from one another we grow that way it's so amazing so with this whole mindset change like god god cut out the itinerant speaker mindset and a lot of other things that i was groomed with pretty much on the road constantly being busy he cut that stuff out so when stuff is taken out other stuff needs put in and so now i'm in process of leadership training uh i'm i'm going to go through coaching all kinds of stuff to gain wisdom in leadership because i have to be i can't afford to stand before god one day and not have fulfilled the call of my life because i wasn't willing to learn are you with me okay you have no idea how good this feels inside because i because if people were like oh i'm not going back to that church that guy's too vulnerable whatever live in your unvulnerability for life and see how far that gets you okay it's so weird okay that was good i'm gonna say that again i love it man i have learned since theo's been here i have learned so much in the pastoral arena from listening to his wisdom and listening to like just how he speaks it's fascinating to me i go home in my prayer closet theo doesn't know i go make me more like you in the pastoring department i need it i need grace on my life that other people have i say like about chris god listen to him he's look at the witness that he is listen to how he teaches listen to how he equips like this is amazing make me more like chris in these areas lord that's awesome like ben mackel i've never seen anybody strategize like he's like think like he thinks and and preach kingdom family and share family like him and him and and deidra share like god help me make me more kingdom minded family minded like they are i'm like i listen to him with his kids ben i remember one day we were over at his house for something and it was like a picnic or something and one of ben's kids came up and said dad they this and dave that ben looks at his son he goes did you process this with her i went have you ever heard him say that chris doesn't it like you sit back and go am i a dad no just hearing other people and how they function that's fascinating to me i'm like whoa and i'm listening what's he gonna say he goes not yet he goes well go do it and come back then talk to me and tell me how that went and i went oh my gosh are you with me we're not meant to do this alone see here at lc church we want this to be where community becomes family are you with me but if we're not willing to grow together and to learn from one another how can that ever happen like you were never meant to be in isolation outside of here come on a sunday and then be isolated and go back to what you're doing and just come on sunday and be isolated until you come back on the next sunday and then go back and be isolated be apart like let's grow together let's commune together but you have to be willing to take correction in that place too because correction is like is amazing like people are deceived because they don't know they are deception is deception because people don't know they're deceived and if somebody sees that you're deceived and they say hey listen this right here is not doing well oh wow we have to be willing to say all right go back to the lord and say lord what is the deal with this look i've went back people have said stuff to me before and i've went back to my prayer closet and like that's absolutely ridiculous lord i don't understand that shh and y'all speak to me i'm like oh my gosh i never saw that but you need to take that with the lord and have intimacy relationship with him as a father so he can speak into your heart and cultivate the you that you're supposed to be are you with me all right let me share this in first peter chapter two oh my gosh gosh so hard because he says therefore then you gotta go back and find him why it's there for now i know but i don't want to read the whole chapter i have 50 seconds left it's not good he's talking about preparing your minds for action keeping sober in spirit and fix your hope completely in first peter on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of jesus christ and then he he goes through here and says be holy for i am holy the father if you address the father the one who impartially and and partially judges according to each one's work conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay here on the earth knowing that you are not redeemed with perishable things like silver gold from your feudal way of life inherited from your forefathers but with the precious blood as of a lamb unblemished and spotless the blood of jesus and he talks about obedience to the truth he says that you've purified your soul for a sincere love of the brethren fervently fervent fervently love one another from the heart for you have been born again not of the seed not of seed which is perishable but imperishable that is through the living and enduring word of god so the words alive you get born again you didn't get born again through silver or gold or anything like that you got born again to a loving father who loves his kids that that's you so understanding that love and diving into that love is imperative but understanding that you are also required to love the brethren loving your brothers and sisters and hurt and offense and all that stuff comes in man sometimes somebody corrects you like i know somebody that corrects people in a sarcastic way he's 100 right in his correction but the way he goes about it is wrong so it's hard to receive correction in a sarcastic way but it's easy to receive correction in a loving way so we want to correct people we want to not compromise the truth but we want to bring the truth into people's lives here's why because we don't want to see them go off track if you see something that's going to be damaging down the road then you should say something now and if you don't you really don't love them okay on to next therefore putting aside all malice all deceit all hypocrisy all envy and all slander like newborn babes long for the pure milk of the word so that you may grow in respect to salvation if you have tasted the kindness of the lord so he talks about the word and he talks about the things that you're laying aside you've been born again you have a sincere love for the brethren you haven't been bought with silver or gold you've been bought with the precious blood of jesus christ amazing purify your soul understand who the father is grow in relationship with the father and then he says that growing he initiates the growth process and he says that growing is desiring growing is not just desiring to come to church growing is not just desiring to hear a message are you with me so many people grow in their life for what the pastor says but i'm telling you that jesus paid more of a price you cannot you cannot have the proper growth unless you start on the proper feeding method so he said that the proper feeding method is the pure milk of the word so that you may grow thereby so here's the process we get saved we're born again it's amazing we have a pacifier in our mouth why because we just got born again and we need something to put in here it's the easiest picture for me a baby is born that baby is crying that baby doesn't stop crying that baby then goes on mom skin-to-skin that baby gets hungry and you don't feed that baby that crying turns into rage are you with me how many moms know what i'm saying how many dads are very thankful that their wife breastfed they were like ooh no you don't get it see when mom is the bottle when that baby goes off in the middle of the night mom just goes i'm not kidding any mom and that baby gets nurtured here christians get saved they get born again it is amazing at the altar they get there they find out that they were in sin and oh whoa and then no more shackles and no more chains and it's amazing and if they don't take that pacifier out of their mouth and replace it with a bottle you don't grow the reason why 95 of the church never leads somebody to christ their whole life is because of a lack of feeding amen how can you tell someone else something about something that you don't really know about yourself that's not mean we know that god loves us says god so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whoever believes in jesus won't perish but have eternal life it's true and when you get saved he becomes your savior and god loves you and that's amazing you will not grow in understanding the love of god unless you nurse and if you don't grow with the milk of the word what happens is you start to fall away here there are christians that have been christians for 35 years 40 years and have never opened the bible themselves because they think they can't understand it it's not for your brain it's for your heart the bible can take you places that your heart can fit but your brain can't squeeze through and what happens is it starts to speak to your heart he starts to tell you who you are so that you start to find out who your father is and who you are and you're his son and he's your dad you're not an orphan but until you drink the bottle you remain an orphan okay that went over well hey i'm good i mean we can say what we want to say but the word is real man when i got saved i had so much trash and so much junk in my in my mindset all that stuff and when i started to read the bible at the first book i could actually read because i knew that nothing was going to change unless i got what he thought in here are you with me so then he started to put his strongholds in and take out strongholds that i had lies that i believed neglect rejection all that stuff i grew up with it all rejected rejected rejected dude you ever go and be in sales do you ever do telemarketing i have mercy on telemarketers and they call me i answer hello hi uh this is so-and-so and usually by then i'm not interested and i'm like uh-huh and then just keep going and going and going and going and going and i say you're doing a great job what oh and they're like okay well it's only this and i'm like well i'm not interested in buying what you're selling but i i do want to talk to you about something i'm not it's not manipulation they'll let you talk because you listened it's a horrible thing to be thinking about what you're going to say instead of listening to what people in front of you trying to tell you do you ever try to talk to somebody like that where they're not even hearing you that they're more interested in what they're thinking and what they want to tell you than they are about listening to what you have to say try that with a telemarketer just try it see what happens i've had a breakdown in tears oh my god this is real i've had words of not many hundreds of times get words of knowledge or prophetic word about the telemarketer on the phone they get healed they're like oh my god this is real yeah it's real man you know what you're a born evangelist i can hear it in your voice right now you're actually meant to you know what man my family told me that when i was growing up but but i thought you know what i don't want to be religious they're not you're not religious this is this is awesome and people get saved on the phone get healed and then other telemarketers from the same company call me i'm not kidding it's awesome it's in your perspective it comes from training your heart watch this this is so amazing in hebrews 5. and then i'm going to close with this i'm going to pray you guys all right this was a different kind of service today i said it it was for me sorry but how many of you how many of you what i shared today can really help you in your own life come on man listen i'm not i'm not kidding like this is so liberating if we would just be a people that are more that are transparent like how many of you read our book anybody what do you think but like my whole my our family is our testimony like when you read that my life is my testimony so is yours your life is your testimony when god breaks through in your life it's breakthrough for other people it's breakthrough for other people so don't be afraid to share it people are like well i don't want to look like a fool got news for you really good news rachel was singing it about foolish and about dignity and dignity is not a fruit of the spirit it's actually what comes before the fall you don't want to hold on to that kind of pride you don't want the pride of life you don't want that stuff man gosh be willing how we're going to grow as a church in a community be willing to be vulnerable not everybody's out to get you do you know how many people right now that are watching online heard this that are hunters that are going to take what i said and shift and twist and make it sound like what they wanted i don't it doesn't matter because if you tell the truth everything it will set you free you live in truth it's okay you be vulnerable you be in love with jesus you live your life unto god don't hide anything and don't have any secrets the only secret that is legal to have is your secret place with jesus you don't want to have other secrets you don't want to have stuff that oh my gosh what if they find this out don't walk on eggshells man you don't want that you don't want to live that life of eggshells that's that's shame and guilt and condemnation i won't ever live that way i want to make sure that i'm completely honest when i get like when god adjusts me everybody knows i'm not kidding i tell everybody they're like okay it was tmi too much information no no no god's working on me it's amazing yeah it's called chastisement do you understand that if you're not disciplined you're not a legitimate son god says don't despise hebrews 12. don't despise the chastening of the lord that word chastening is instruction and sometimes that instruction comes through people around you you just got to be a big boy and take it but you can't be a big boy unless you nurse okay verse 11 in hebrews 5. he was talking about mechizedek and he says concerning him in verse 11 we have much to say and it's hard to explain since you have become dull of hearing so he's saying you know what it's really hard to talk about because you guys can't really hear that's what he says and he says for the by this time by this time you ought to be a teacher that's what he said he's correcting them saying by this time you ought to be a teacher watch you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of god and you have come to need milk and not solid food so in second in first peter 2 he says desire milk desire milk so you can grow in hebrews he's saying you still need milk this is amazing now i want you to see this this is a key here you've come to need milk and not solid food in other words you got off of the nunny or the pacifier or the dummy whatever some countries call it all kinds of different things when they said it was a dummy because that's not good like no that's what we call it okay you say it but that pacifier doesn't give you nutrients here's the deal we can't grow if we remain thumb-sucking christians we have to pull away from that and drink the milk and then once we drink the milk we will grow into chewing it's like a a baby that is now a toddler and they're starting to eat soft foods but now they're eating like different foods now they're eating meat so this is what it says it says strong meat strong meat solid meat is for the mature but right before that it says you have come to need milk and not solid food verse 13. for everyone who partakes only of milk this isn't talking about christians that don't read the word this is talking about people that are reading the word but they're not implementing what they're learning we want to hear it and we want to do it you can't just be a hearer you need to be here and a doer because if you're a hearer and not a doer it's like looking in the mirror james says and forgetting who you are when you walk away but being a hearer and a doer that's it so it says everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to what to the word of righteousness so he is saying that we go from the nunny or the pacifier our thumb to the milk and then as we start to drink that milk we start to grow it says that pastors apostles prophets teachers evangelists all fivefold gift is for the equipping of the saints so that why so that we all grow up into the knowledge of the son of god so all of us are growing up once we once we start to feed righteousness starts to open up to us and once righteousness opens up to us it starts to train our senses between good and evil to where this was okay it's no longer okay why i'm right with god those things aren't right for somebody that's right with god are you with me this is the fine tuning of the gospel okay gosh i'm in teach mode i love it everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness for he is an infant for solid food is for the mature who because of practicing their senses having their senses trained to discern between both good and evil so right standing with god starts to train our senses between both good and evil to where i know something is absolutely not okay and i know something is absolutely amazing and for me and as i grow through go through life and christianity and i have righteousness i have sonship when something like what i just what i just am coming out of right now with wanting to make sure i can make sure everything's okay because righteousness is part of my life when wisdom speaks and says hey you're involved in too many things and you are not created for this righteousness the reality of me being right with god enables god to speak to me as a son in right standing and i know that thing that i was in isn't good for me are you with me now i can pull into where the father is go into my secret place take that correction go to god and say father yes you're involved in too many things i've placed grace upon other people's lives to do this you are not meant to do everything you're meant to seek me i want you to get back and then eric gilmore yeah how many know eric eric sends me a text at the same time i'm going through probably the hardest time the end of this week he sends me this text i just want to read it to you and i'm done sorry it says this and this is this is acts 6 1. now at this time while the disciples were increasing in number a complaint arose from part of the hellenistic jews against the native hebrews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily serving of food so the twelve summoned the congregation of the disciples and said it is not desirable for us to neglect the word of god in order to serve tables in other words it's not good for us to be involved in so many different things and neglect the very word of god and what we've been called to do he goes he texts me and he goes hey i don't know i kind of i'm kind of trembling in sending you this but i believe the lord just spoke this to me about you he wants you to read it and i'm like okay he's such a lover man he's such amazing but these guys have a voice in my life so eric sends me this and then it says therefore select from you seven men of good reputation full of the spirit and of wisdom that we may put in charge of this task this is where stephen came into the picture right and then he said it was hebrews 6 4 or i mean i mean acts 6 4 and it says but we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word so i text him back and i went this is the lord because what happened is because of all that stuff and being into everything i still studied the word but i had so many different things and i still had secret place my secret place has increased exponential but just think if i didn't have to involve myself in all those things that i wasn't supposed to be involved in to begin with oh you don't know you don't understand it's like today's christmas yay i'm serious i woke up this morning it was like christmas i'm like whoa jesus take the wheel went back in my prayer closet and i'm like i'm not kidding super super exciting here's what i want to do how many of you believe that you've got a white knuckle grip on this thing and that you're taking on way too much and there's actually other people around that can handle the stuff that you're trying to handle yourself and how many of you believe that you've taken stuff away from god and you've become people's savior if that's you stand up come on freedom oh i'm not kidding can i get the worship team please because i want this freedom that i'm experiencing to be on you i'm serious it's unneeded pressure it is it's unneeded pressure it's like a pressure cooker thing man like we're just gonna release the steam are you with me oh i want people that are around them because of this right here we are family since we're family i want some people that are around them just to gather around them right now if you can please oh there is such healing in this man you have no idea i am so oh that steam's going to be released i just want you guys right now to pray grace on them right now just to pray on them pray the shalom of heaven the peace of god i want you to pray for grace to be released to them come on pray out loud please please shalom pray shalom that's the peace of god that surpasses understanding shalom we pray the shalom of god the peace of god upon you and even though we can do all things through christ jesus who strengthens us the key is is that we can we can together collectively father i thank you in the name of jesus god for release right now of the pressure of trying to hold everything together where jesus we've actually taken your place in certain situations [Music] the pressure of life the pressure of being a father trying to make sure that everything's there you are not meant to do this alone we at lifestyle church are not going to let you do this by yourself father we thank you in the name of jesus for everyone here the pressure of business of trying to to maintain business the pressure of of trying to figure everything out god we say yes to you we release right now father thank you [Music] in the mighty name of jesus god we thank you right now jesus jesus jesus we love you we give you glory glory jesus we love you jesus we love you jesus we love you jesus we love you

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