Christmas 2018 Indifference
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Are you hot or are you cold or are you just poop more?
Question. Are you cold or your hot or are you hotter you pull up? However, you want to put it or are you just Luke forum Revelation that was going to be this morning.
1896 there was a Pastor Charles Shelton and he wrote a book called Eternal came out of that book that you're going to be perfect. Wwjd. What would a couple years ago? It still is around but everybody was born bracelets or they would put it on. However remix, what would Jesus do if you were taking and Dan conversation with a friend at work, Jeezy has a very strong.
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What would happen this Christmas season? We're doing it a little bit different. I want to look through a window. What would you do? What do you undo one of the things we looked at last week was I think if you was here you would say stop this madness, right? It is not necessarily about the perfect person to be still and know that I am the Christmas Eve.
So this week we want to look at indifferent indifferent. I think what we see so much in the world is in different or half of it. So what does indifference concern really there's a little unimportant or concerning. My life is the quality or condition of being indifferent. Basically, you know, what is all okay. In fact when I was in
You really shouldn't have you should be aware that the unconscious everybody's opinion of what is right and wrong. Right right. You should just take and accept them as they are. No, really I could have accomplished because my the word of God.
But I'm also going to know what is true. So I am going to have a buyer. This is the word of God what I'm going to stand on. So if you have any difference in your life and it's all good, it's all okay. I really don't have any concern. I really don't have a bra or willing to hire you to change something. I just kind of indifferent to it all and I kind of enjoy.
Show indifference experience that somebody want or desire.
And you really want to give that person very very special more than just somebody that you're going to give a car to or you want to give them something special attention to a lot more than I thought and you finally get the gift and in your Raider rapid, you take your time wrapping it and then you are excited about getting to see the look on their face.
Go to the person and they go kind of.
And then they go on to other gifts or about the Ravens and you come back on their house.
Are experiences. how to make you feel think about beauty Jesus is stepping down out of Heaven out of the glory and beauty of Heaven stepping down away from the relationship with the father always be around a step down into a world where there is no vision therapy paid there is rejection world. Please tell him I don't want you in my life.
In what is a duel? He does that to give it to me. He wants to give us his gift of the Forgiveness of our sins to give us eternal life to give us hope to give us this word changes. And this is the important part is to give us a spiritual purpose.
What happens when we take this gift? I'm just kind of nice when put on shelf. Are we just go about our daily good? We we going to the world we get busy and our daily stop, right?
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We're going to look at this letter written not written to what we would see if there's a problem.
Do you have a spiritual purpose? Are you using your spiritual gift?
Are you really going deep into the word of God are you going to are you going to do?
Are you really wanted to take and see other people's wives pain? Are you going out with anybody?
Are you on fire?
So you wrote the book Letters through John seven churches in Asia. Where is stablished turn until we're up really? Is he the gospel missionary journey?
And the weather going to be in church was a wealthy. It was very wealthy 35 years prior to this letter Landing there. They have an earthquake destroyed everything. They were going to come back strong. I mean is that she can go into and have warm cold water incredible go to.
Think about it. It looks like
and this is where this letter lamb, but the problem is that they had a waterfall. In the water problem wasn't they didn't have any water so they had to bring water in Far Away. There was mountains about 12 miles away where genarian but they had the clay to the ranch in the mountains and put it down into the fields and and then up through the valley of water in it would bring in the cold refreshing water.
By the time it got to live in Theodore all the fire. It would be kind of money and dirt and then a strong purpose.
And so this is how the water would come in stores. Purpose By the timer
Jesus recognized in Jesus is going to speak to them about this and he's going to use this water to speak to the church. This is the church.
I can't sit back and say about that. Listen to church. He says in Revelation, 3:15, 3:16. I know you're being one of these and we were the fruit the fruit of your wife. This is not you sitting in church. What is your purpose? I know you did. 4 liter cold or hot meaning basically, I know I see what's happening out of the church and if needed.
I wish you were either one or the other. So because you are lukewarm or cold I'm about to spit you out of my mouth. I'm about to spit you out of my mouth the purpose. I don't see the true that I don't I don't see anything out of your deeds and says that you're my church my bride. I'm about to spit you out of my mouth. Spit you out of my mouth is actually a strong word basically means so.
This doesn't turn the stomach of Jesus.
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self-sufficient Revelation 3:17 you say I am rich I have a choir program until Gaga. back and so we're all good and it says you do not realize.
You don't realize you have this worldly. Well, if you have the stuff in the world that you're
How many disciples were on the boat?
1 the others were all happy and they're all happy with hey, we're Jesus and disciples were good in the boat. What are good just kind of hanging out in the boat is going through life and and you know, we need to go and experience of things of Jesus and and we will send no I'm not I need to step out. I don't want to be self-sufficient. I want to be totally 100% Upon Jesus. I may get hurt. I mean
So I need to step out of the boat. The other business was struck the others were basically we think you know what I just want to live my life would like to step out of the boat seat. Somebody build up on Cancer all over someone house.
Just being real.
The other thing is distraction.
Let the worries at this like the deceitfulness of wealth the desired other things come in and it be getting a joke the word making it on the roof. Did come in and they took the word been choked this word changing. When I allow these distractions to come in I got bills to pay. I got places to be people to me. I got selfies to take a guy to save The Unborn got to save the wells. I got recycle my plastic. I got to I got to do.
But when the word of God is saying Craig you need to change anything to change this thing or two golden place or to do that thing. I'm asking you to do it sometime. It's going to take some effort. It's going to take some strength, but you know what? Taking my time in my effort. My strength is choking the word the little things I like to do. I don't like the other things is going to transform.
So these distractions come in? There's a greater. I don't know where it came from. FreedomPop fulfilling none isn't the absence was feeling but the sensation feeling too much at all once
When you got all of the distraction coming in how many of you have ever felt in your soul?
I remember her as I was reflecting on this back in about 1985.
Innovative or I'm coming out of it at a youth meeting with the person that was a youth pastor and a really close friend of mine. Alitalia I felt the power and the impact employee Spirit upon my life that time I can come out of the service and I really just sent his present on being miserable as he got on you in my life at the time. I was kind of what I need to do. but at the same time I love God, but I believe the day that had I stayed the course and bible school and did what I needed to the ministry and he wanted me to
I miss that allow it wasn't that kept me alive. Then I came back and that's it.
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Athenian the charter, how can this is the church begin this little bit of Jesus to get a little bit I go to church. I have a few people I loved him and he loved me. I'm good. I'm good. But it's not enough to be either hot. Or it's not enough need to be cold, but I got a little bit. Sound good.
He gave everything.
I don't know if I'm turning the stomach of Jesus. How do we know if we have? Some television Cedar strap on the first one. There were more concerned with impressing people than living.
Timothy said that your rubbers himself. Jesus said you when all people speak well of you. If I if I desire that more people like me or I'm doing good as well, whatever out and it's not all about him at the question. We're having sex with the wife on Earth rather than we think we have what I have. This is what I have.
What if he comes in and says give it all the way? What are B says hey, what are you doing? I'm working with what I have.
number three, we rationalized and Amazing Live Crew e. God, we're a smart doll. Everybody. Does it? Everybody know everybody taking gossip a little everybody. You know, it doesn't forgive completely. Everybody doesn't give it.
We're a smile. Not as bad as others. It's not hurting somebody. It's not that big of a deal.
Number for we believe in Jesus, but we rarely share our fake. Eminem
He said if you can bet me right.
Replied. We only turn to God when we kind of how to make an Elf on the Shelf. God I need you because I need to take care of these bills. Oh, well right now I need you because I just got that that that help. No problem. I need you to take care of it.
Hey God, I had understand what you waited. And so we just kind of just take him on and off the shelf right when we need it.
Number 6. We're not much different than the world. We watched a movie in the world. We enjoy the same music before Ohio before long. We raise our kids the same way. I want to know right now that the divorce is just inside the church is higher than Mount Pleasant.
That's pretty sad.
Omega some will wake up. Sound well actually say, you know what? I do want to step out and you know what? I don't have what I believe the town. I don't believe
Someone saying if you know what I wanted to take and use my gift outside the family, to go serve shelter. I'm going to take him and go in and help somebody and give them away or whatever it is.
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Today and today's call where we're at the church in America. I want you to think of to make a beautiful character after evangelist teacher. She is Anointed teaching. She's annoying and investor. God loves you if you can think about it and you can believe it in your heart going to have them God is good for you. God is always there for you. You know what God wants you to have and he loves you so much. How many movies did that message that she could probably
Today, yeah, okay over here. Jesus if you want to call me, you're going to have to pick up your cross.
What are you that person?
You must take and leave them to serve me. How many are going to come to Jesus by Palace. What church is going to be bigger today?
Amazing things, right?
Mention that how far are we from live being lukewarm?
Just a question. So, how do you be a buyer? How do we take if not become Church? The easy way to just be for me to say we just need to pray more. We need to study the word or we need to take it and get in and I'll Holy Spirit we need to get out and get us and we'll take a nap for worship and I hope some of you took it up. I've heard some of you did. I hope that you took it up. I try and I still And let God speak to you in journal. telling you the job give you this week in this actual season this month is this
doing something that requires bag that actually requires you to get out of the boat. InStep on the water running. Do you know oh come let us adore him. I'm not texting. I don't say every day actually intentionally and consciously required to stand up for something you might be mocked. Gear when is Shrek doesn't have any money, but give it something when it's a straight apologize to someone and forgive them really really hard.
Maybe decide in 2019. You know what I am going to start small group. I don't think I can do it. I feel like it. Domino's DeKalb
reach out to someone that God put on your heart expose yourself to someone even though they break your heart pray for something impossible.
You know the god giving you this word. You've never seen any life board attempt to do something that you could not do without God's help.
What are you getting the weirdest indifference behind and we only began to live by what price of everything, purposeful in our purpose in our life whole thing? I give you the ability to see if you watch the funeral service for president before President Bush in London.
So maybe we can step out of the boat and we can preach Christ and we can witness to people buy something.
fire actions I want you to I want me to do that when you can't realize that something is going on.
I'm not just sitting around being.
Revelation 3:19 says I correct this point everyone. I love Sophie diligent turned on your chin. I don't want to be I want to be.
So here's the thing.
So, how am I craving when I stepped out before I left?
someone on Earth someone someone has as I've asked forgiveness and they said No at back hurt or or when I took it and went up to that person that I thought. So basically just yelled my face told me to get away and then it broke a relationship or when I stepped out.
How do you say well in her care and her to become cold or hot in her? I don't want to do that exist.
It really is true. I know many of you and I I I do we cherish scars from those time, but we don't want to do this shrink back and become lukewarm to have a purpose.
just will Jesus I'm not sure that I'm no different.
Going to pull up with that. I just pray that we accept his gift to Jesus given to us. We use in yet and we made it different.
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morning, is that there is something that's real nice built this from spare this morning that have I don't know because they had stepped out. And I want to pray that you can let go of the anchors of the past. anchors that have interview to hang of this
Bankers of the first bankers of something that fill the angels have something that had regret because I did that is not anymore that I don't have any time.
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When stepping out of the boat that we would not be comfortable. And just kind of floating along and just waiting for the next person to come into the fold towels about their experiences about what happened when they just totally went and stepped out of their purpose, but we would say that there would be just that that refreshing a spirit inside of us a dirty side of this ticket be used for your glory father. God father. I right now,
There are a million people buy. We just a querer over those things to be broken off in the name of The Doors Live the enemy would come in and say well you had to her before don't do it or or you don't have the ability of the town from the gift father. I pray that those things to be broken off in the name of Jesus. I pray that we would be of people there would take and just be used at unit season that we would take and see gifting. Did you give it to us just be using a powerful way to record by you father God?
Don't let it be in different file, whatever it takes.
What is span on a troop? What is a Dan on your purpose for our lives?
Your name now?