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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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0:00 Well, good morning to everybody. I didn't hear a good morning back. Good Then your mama used to say that like you say, you know, good morning. They'd force you if you didn't say good morning0:12 back. You know? You know, how many of you had an amazing epic Thanksgiving? Alright. Now, you're in church, so you have to tell the truth. How many of0:24 you overdid it in your eating on Thanksgiving? Only 3 people, bunch of liars today. In Jesus' name, we're gonna Well, let me ask you a question today. How many of you0:36 the turkey itself is your best dish? How many of you look forward, you love the turkey? Okay. Only a few of you. That's okay. How many of you it's the ham? How many of you are the ham eaters?0:48 Okay. A little bit more. How many of you are the stuffing eaters? You just love the stuffing. There's a lot more of that. Watch this. How many of you are the macaroni cheat Mac, Mac.1:01 All the Mac hands, raise your hand. All the Mac. Now, somebody next to somebody with their hand up say, I I can tell. Look at that and tell them I can tell.1:14 I don't know about you. I really really love 9 o'clock service. I love it. I think it's the best out of all of them. I think it's the best because you guys are1:26 the loudest, the rowdiest. Yeah. I I I love this service because you wait till the end when we dismiss you before1:38 you get up and start leaving. We're gonna test this today. We're gonna we're gonna really test this whether this is the greatest service or not.1:50 We're gonna pray and we're gonna get in the message. And I really thank you for investing in your faith by coming to church. Because my bible and your bible says in these last days,2:02 people will not be investing in their faith through coming to church. They will start to avoid it and think, I don't need to do church. Father, we thank you today that we value church.2:15 On that resurrection, oh God, a church was immediately started with 3000 people God in Jerusalem. And there's something that only takes place within the confines2:27 of the church whether that is online or whether that is in our courtyard or 1 of our rooms or in the building itself. Where the corporate anointing, discipleship, fellowship,2:38 accountability, encouragement, so much comes through the local church. Now, father, we not come to hear the lectures or the philosophies and opinions of man. Man can't help us. But we're gonna lean in to get ready to2:50 hear God speak to us through the holy scriptures. We give you honor and glory in Jesus name. Amen. You know, don't know if you were here last week. I was literally blown3:02 away with the level of information in how pastor Adam shared the vision and the outlook, not only of the past year, but talked about the future. And I was more3:14 proud of being a member of this church. Not just the legacy pastor or the father, but truly a member where now I pay Well, I did. We've always paid our tithes And where3:26 now I serve as a volunteer within this church and praying for this ministry and doing so much more investing in the future of the next 30 beyond3:37 years of this. And I was proud. But I heard him say something repeatedly that I I just said, I gotta preach on that next week. And he talked overly and3:49 overly and overly about how to have a God story. That we are living out a God story here in Patria. And when he talked about that, he talked about the Corona campus. He talked about the4:01 Newport Beach campus. He talked about how many souls were being saved. How many people were being baptized. He talked about the counseling center. He talked about the outreach, the missions programs, how many people we4:13 fed. And he said that's a God story that's being developed. Can we just give the Lord a clap offering? Come on. Let's give the clap offering for our lead pastor. Let's thank God4:26 for their leadership. Pastor Adam and Ashley. So today I wanna talk about even though you heard a God story related to the church, how can4:38 you have a God story for your personal life? Yes. Because we're this story is gonna live on within the church, but how about your story? What is your personal God story going4:49 to look like? What is written in the pages of your God story? How will your God story end? Are you letting God5:01 write your God story? Or are you writing your God story? With that in mind, I'd like you to stand on your feet and I wanna read 1 little verse to you today that's gonna launch5:13 the message today. It says this in Psalms. In Psalms it says this, let the redeemed, those that have been purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ or simply5:25 bought back, which is you and I, tell their story. Those he redeemed purchased and bought back from the hand of the foe or the enemy. You may be seated.5:38 Let's talk about what a God's story is as we define it from the get go. It's something that gives glory and honor and praise to God. It's something that's unexplainable that only5:50 God could have done. That's a God's story. A God's story is something that I wanted to do something, but God changed my heart to do something different.6:01 That's what a God story looks like in our lives. Let me give you a quote about a God story. Just a list little quote about a God story. A life without6:13 a God story is a life without substance. You and I, how do we prove we're a Christian? How do we tell atheists or agnostic or unchurched people6:25 that we are Christians? Unless there's a God story where God encountered my life and changed the trajectory of my life, and now I'm doing so much more better now6:37 than I was before I found Christ. That's what a God story might look like. You know, in the annals of motion pictures, which is like a a6:49 story or a book, there's been many many famous and the list is endless of actors that you and I like and actresses that beg to be part of7:01 a movie. Either to work with the director or to work with a starring actor in it. And they would do whatever it took. Some got on their knees and begged.7:13 Somebody someone pleaded with them. Someone walked across the room at a party to introduce themselves. Whether it was, I wanna work with Steven Spielberg and I'll do whatever it takes. I'll7:25 take less money to work with Steven Spielberg. I'll take a cameo role. I don't need to be the lead person. I'll do whatever it takes to work with that person. Some famous individuals7:37 that have done that was Timothy Charlemagne in A Beautiful Boy. Helen Marrott wanted to work with Vin Diesel to be in Fast and Fury. Ken7:49 Chung wanted to be in Crazy Rich Asians. Back in the day, Dustin Hoffman wanted to do whatever it took to work with Academy Award winner, Laurence Olivier.8:01 But recently, an actress by the name of Raquel Bailey wanted to be on a Tyler Perry movie or TV. She did it enough so that she she went ahead and8:13 hired somebody to put a billboard so that Tyler Perry, when he drove by, would see it and hire her. How bad do you want to be in God's story? What8:25 length will you go to be in God's story? Will you get on your knees? Will you embarrass yourself? Will you do something that you've never done before? Because I want to be part of God's8:37 story. That will be the challenge for today. So today, I wanna give you 3 points as we talk about what does a God story look like today. The first 18:49 I wanna turn over to Genesis 1 28 as we begin to unfold this. In Genesis 1 28, I love this verse because this verse never stopped. You could put this into your marriage,9:01 in the raising of your kids, in your life, on your job, in everything you do. These 4 commands still remain eminent as a mandate of how to9:12 live a fulfilled life. Notice what God said, and God blessed them. This is Adam and Eve. And God said to them, this is his will now for every 1 of us, be fruitful. In every aspect of9:24 your life, God expects and he wants you to be fruitful. In every area of your life. The second command, multiply. I want you to bring increase to everything that you are fruitful in. Third9:36 thing, replenish. Rebuild the damaged areas of your life. And then number 4, subdue. Take authority over the enemy and don't let the enemy steal9:48 your fruit. I love those 4 challenging words because that's gonna be what we wanna talk about today. That God's stories happen because you and I will solve problems.10:00 You and I will never have a God story if we don't solve problems. And that's what he commissioned Adam and Eve to do. Solve problems. Solve the problems of being fruitful when10:12 there's no fruit. Solve the problems of multiply when things are diminishing. Solve the problem of replenishing when everything is being taken away and depleted.10:24 Solve the problem of subduing when the enemy is stealing, killing, and destroying. Don't let it happen. If you and I want to have a God story, then you and I have to solve10:36 problems. Rather than avoiding them, most people avoid problems. Most people hide from problems. Most people that I know run from problems. Most people I know ignore problems. Most people I10:48 know excuse problems. But you were created by God to solve a problem. Nehemiah's purpose was solve a wall problem. Noah's said, are you gonna11:00 solve a flood problem? Joseph solved a famine problem. Esther solved a Genesis a genocide problem. Some good Samaritan solved a problem of somebody who's11:12 fallen among thieves. You were created to solve a problem. Now, that blows us away because we wanna avoid problems. God11:24 does not give us perfection. So stop looking for perfection. Well, know it's the will of God if it's perfect. Where did you get that from? Well, I want a11:36 perfect boyfriend. I want a perfect wife. I want a perfect husband. I want perfect children. I want perfect grandchildren. I want a perfect church. Then go to heaven11:48 because there's no purpose for you. There's no purpose for you. What are you doing? You're supposed to represent God, and to represent God is the fact that you have to solve a problem. This is a fallen12:00 world with problems. God put you here and saved you to say, go be my light and solve the world's problems to my glory. We want12:12 perfect mates, perfect children, perfect job. I'm leaving this job. Why? Because of this. I'm leaving this neighborhood because of this. What do you what is that? What do you wanna12:24 Christian commune? I I love Christian. I don't wanna be around you all day long. You and I are here to solve a problem. Let me give you let me give you this just as little12:35 quote along the line. We like finished products rather than the projects. And I'm not talking about neighborhoods. That went over your head.12:47 Anyways, moving right along. Pastor Kenny, they don't get it. You born and raised in South Central, you caught that right away. We want we want a finished listen. Go to12:59 IKEA and tell them you want a finished project project. See you. You're not shopping here. It's this this is a finished product, but it's13:11 not a finished project. And we have to have a little bit of tough skin to understand this when we go through difficulties in our marriage. When we go through difficulty13:23 amongst our brothers and sisters in the Lord. When we go through difficulties amongst our kids. We wanna kick them to the curb. We wanna abandon it. We wanna say it's not the will of God. And I'm not talking13:35 about overly abusive stuff that you have to tolerate. But we just seem to abandon everything that quickly. Come on. Solve a problem. That's right. And13:47 you'll have a God story in your life. This is what the Bible says, how God will help you to solve a problem. Philippians 4 13, you could do all things through Christ that strengthens you. He's gonna give you his13:58 strength. James 1 5, if anyone lack wisdom, you'll get God's wisdom. Romans 5 5, the love of God is shed you'll have God's love. John 14 26, my peace I've given you, God's peace he'll give you.14:10 Nehemiah 8 10, the joy of the Lord, God will give you his joy. In Hebrews 13 5, I will never leave you afraid, He'll give you his presence. Now, tell me how you cannot solve a problem when God gives you strength,14:22 wisdom, love, peace, joy in his presence. Tell me how you can't do it. You know, early early in my14:34 relationship with my wife in the realm of intimacy, I remember her making this statement to me that the only time you are kind to me or nice14:46 to me is when it's sugar night. I'm trying to be gentle here. I don't get an opportunity to preach every week.14:58 The old Diego would be raw and real. I gotta bring it back so that I'm invited back. You know what I'm talking about. And I said15:10 I said, see that that was like a problem. But I looked at her husband, I'm gonna solve this problem rather than run from the problem. I I didn't get mad at her. I didn't get nasty at15:21 her. I just said, wait a minute. Where have I not been nice to you? Just just tell me. Hold me accountable. Was I not nice to you yesterday? Was I not kind to you a week ago? Yes, you were.15:33 Then why are you clumping me with all the bad men, the relationships in your life? They may have only been kind to you when it was love making day, but that's not me.15:46 I'd never heard that again. I only heard it once early in our marriage. But see, it would've been easy for me to say, I'm I wanted to marry a perfect woman, a perfect wife. And she's so15:57 far from being perfect. And I'm not here to solve someone else's problems. No. But I didn't. This is my marriage and I loved her so I was willing to solve that problem. And16:09 today, we have a God story. Next week will be 42 years that we have been married. No, 2 weeks. 2 weeks. In 2 weeks. Sorry. I don't wanna16:21 lie. I'm in the Let me give you a So you want a God story? Then my challenge to you is to solve a problem. Don't run from a problem. Run to that16:33 problem and trust God. The second thing is, and I love this so I'm gonna read this in Proverbs. In Proverbs 21 and verse 25, does does it says, despite their desire, so there's16:45 a will to do something. The lazy. The lazy people are not people that don't have a desire, that don't have a will. Lazy people have a desire and they will. But16:57 the lazy will come to ruin for their hands refuse to work. See, they they they wanna own a house. They they want a great family. They want a clean yard. Whatever it17:09 is. They have a desire, but the reality is is their laziness gets the best of them. So the thought here is they self sabotage their life.17:20 0.2. And that is that you and I will never have a God story if we keep self sabotaging our lives. Well, that was a great place to say17:32 amen. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. And so many of us are self sabotaging our lives and that's why we can never really have a God17:44 story in our lives. We are we are self sabotaging our lives with fear and doubt and unbelief and negativity and victim mentality and we're self17:55 sabotaging our lives with excuses and avoidance and here's a big 1 that's self sabotaging our lives, procrastination. Let's talk about Diego. How has Diego18:07 self sabotaged his life? Diego is a perfectionist. And being a perfectionist, you will self sabotage your life because it's never ever good enough.18:19 Instead of saying praise God, let let's just seal off for a moment and enjoy and being grateful. It's more. It's more. It's greater. It's greater. It's greater. And I self sabotage my18:31 life by living under that extreme. Non management of thoughts and emotions can self sabotage. Overwhelming shame, guilt, and condemnation in your life. Grief18:43 and sorrow that's been prolonged in your life. Disappointments, insecurities, and inadequacies that you're never gonna measure up, that you're never ever good18:54 enough. So I can't own that. I can't buy that. I can't be remarried. I can't do that. I can't be forgiven for what I've done. You're self sabotaging your life. And so19:06 because of that, God's stories can never be written. Gideon was self sabotaging his life because he said, I'm of the weakest tribe and I'm the lowest. Moses19:18 said, I can't talk. How could I ever stand before Pharaoh? Rahab could have said, I'm a harlot who spent my life as a prostitute. How could I ever be born into Jesus'19:30 family and being his grandmother? Mephibosheth said, I'm a dead dog. That's how he defined himself. He was a thug living in Lodebar. How could God19:41 David David and I could become David's son and be forgiven. Jeremiah thought he was too young. And David after the loss of and death of this firstborn with19:53 Bathsheba maybe thought he could ever have another child. And so people self sabotage themselves all the time. Yes. I was in the patrol car this20:05 week and we were driving and then all of a sudden somebody waved us down and they said that our lights were still on on our unit. We have been driving for a while20:17 in the city and our lights were on. And some of you, everyone else sees that your lights are on but you just don't see it. They see that you are self sabotaging your life20:28 at how you talk, how you think, and how you act. But everyone sees your flashing light on. Caution, not right. Turn off, but you just keep driving and you keep driving and you keep driving.20:40 Let's go back to my story with lovely Cindy. My story with lovely Cindy was the fact that she20:52 was this was before she was saved when I would meet her. That she was living with a guy for 6 years. Now, we all 3 worked at the hospital together so21:03 I saw him who he was. And in my mind, he was 6 foot something, perfect skin, a model, and he was gorgeous to look at.21:16 And you can laugh, but there's a lot of men that have my struggle right now of insecurity right now. Why would she choose me over that?21:28 And I would have nightmares and dreams that she would leave me to go back with her ex. She21:40 never put that on me. It was the enemy speaking to my inadequacies, my insecurities as a man that doesn't think that I can deserve someone like that.21:52 So he puts himself down by elevating somebody else. And a lot of people are like that. Man, I just wanna give you a compliment. That was good. Oh, that did nothing. This is22:04 an old old thing. Oh. You got a problem. Your lights are flashing, dude. Chick. Accept the compliment. You make a good macaroni and cheese. What's22:16 the big deal? You can coordinate some clothes. What's the big deal? You look good for your age. Big deal. No. No. Good. Look at all these wrinkles. Look at all these spots. Look at22:28 Shut up. You You're self sabotaging your life. And there's so many of us that22:39 do that all the time and it's time for us to remove the limitations and restrictions and barriers that God did not put on us. And you and I need to stop undermining what God wants to do through the22:51 self sabotaging talk that comes out of our mouths. Words like I can't. I'm not good enough. I don't deserve that. I won't That will never happen. I'm too23:03 blank. Yeah. Yeah. We do it all the time. Yeah. Take the caution tape off of your life. Take the temporary license plates that you've had for 5 years. Take the handicap23:15 sticker off your car that got healed you 5 years ago. Take the cellophane plastic off that thing that you've had for 10 years because I don't want it to get dirty.23:29 Stop living out of the suitcase. You've been dating the same person for 15 years, living together for 10 years, have 3 kids and bought a house together. Isn't it time to get married?23:44 Point number 3. Romans 10 14 says, how how but how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in23:56 him? And how can they believe in him if they've never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone, which is you and I, tells someone about24:08 him? The third point is this, is God's stories happen because you're you share your story with someone else. You share your story with someone else. The woman at the well shared24:20 her story and she said, come and see a man and a bunch of people came and saw Jesus. The blind man told his story and said, I was once blind and now I can see and many people received him.24:32 Andrew went and found his brother Peter and said, found the Messiah. We found the Messiah. Peter became a follower. Philip found Nathaniel and said, we have found the 1 that the prophets24:44 foretold foretold. And Nathaniel will become a follower. Philip found the Ethiopian eunuch and the eunuch became a follower. Who are you looking for? Who are you24:56 searching for? Will you share your story with someone else so that they can have a God story? And that God story will touch somebody. It will reach someone. It will save someone. It25:08 could possibly deliver somebody, change someone. It could give them hope. Yes. But you and I have to stop holding back by sharing it and by25:20 giving it to other people. My longest friend that I've ever had is a friend that I met in the ninth grade. His name is Robert Sierra. Can I25:32 just put a side note here? You know I'm gonna do it anyways. You can often talk you can often tell the caliber caliber of of of you as a person and I as a person by how25:43 long you have relationships. Wow. Yes. That's true. Let me drop the mic. Because usually,25:55 once a relationship is offensive or doesn't measure up, I cut you to the curb, you're no longer friends to me. But when you have enduring friends that have lived a lot, they've seen your good, bad, and ugly, you've loved26:07 them and they loved you, which says something about your character. Now some of you can outdo me because you have fifth grade friends, fourth grade friends, but if all your friends are like recent and they're just26:18 associates, then you're not really showing them the real you and you're hiding the real you and you're afraid if they saw the real you. Let me move on because that's another message. I apologize.26:30 When I was in the eleventh grade, I preached the gospel to my cross country and track friend Robert Sierra. Didn't know much. Was just whatever I was 17 years old. What does26:42 a 17 year old know about Jesus or what about the bible? I just told him how he transformed my life and how much I loved him and how much he had forgiven me of my sins.26:54 Robert never said anything. He never accepted the Lord. He never did anything. 19 years later when I'm now a pastor, I noticed Robert Sierra making an altar call27:06 and I led him to the Lord. 19 years later. You keep praying for those unsaved loved ones. Some of them may not come to faith in your27:18 lifetime. Maybe at your funeral, they will give their life to Jesus Christ. But pastor Adam said that seed that's planted won't return void. And so the27:30 reality is is that now Robert has a story because I shared my story. I worked at a company called WPX as we were founding this church. I worked a third27:42 shift with just a few individuals. In that 1 year short time of 3 months, 1 year and 3 months that I worked there, I was able to lead Hugo to the Lord. I was able to lead or lead Ramon27:53 to the Lord. I was able to preach and and share the gospel with many people. And I'd go to somebody, I was as the drivers would come in later in the day and I'd say, you know, do28:05 you know the Lord? And they said, oh, I'm a Christian. I said, well, how long have you been working here? 5 years? And I go over here. Have do you know Lord? Yes. I'm a Christian. How long you've been working here? 1028:13 year. I go over. How long you've you Christian? Yes. I'm a how long you've been? 15 years. I said, do you know brother so and so and brother so and so and brother so and so? They're all Christians. I said, you've been28:23 working here 5 years. I'm just like that. You've been working here 5 years, 10 years, and 15 years, and nobody knows you're a Christian? And I've been working here less than a year, and I've led people to the Lord, and28:34 I'm I'm not here to judge anybody. But if we're the light of the world, what are we supposed to be doing? But sharing our story as God sets up the opportunities.28:45 Let's go to the last point. I really love this 1. Because in Matthew the fourth chapter. Matthew 4. Then Jesus was led by the spirit28:57 into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, he was hungry. After the 40 days and 40 nights, here comes the devil, the tempter and Satan. The tempter approached him29:09 and said, if you are the son of man, tell these stones to be turned to bread. The last point is this, is that the enemy is gonna do everything in his power according to John 10 10 to steal, kill, and29:21 destroy your God story from happening. He does not want you to have a God story. And he's gonna do whatever he can to stop that God story. Jesus is a God29:33 story. He is going to the cross and he is gonna redeem mankind of their sins. The Satan knows that and he's gonna try everything in his power to abort29:44 that from ever ever happening. So he shows up in the same way he shows up to divert, to stop, or to steal Jesus' story from happening is the same29:56 way he shows up in your life to stop the story from happening. Notice he said, if you're the Son of God, command these stones to be turned to bread. That's the30:08 first thing. Here's what the enemy is gonna do. He's gonna challenge your identity. And the way he's gonna challenge your identity is through your appetite, what you feed on. Listen to me men,30:20 male species here today. This is massively huge. Because every 1 of us, if you reflect upon your past or even today, you have been challenged with your identity. The enemy wants30:31 your identity, and the way he's gonna control your identity is through your appetites. What do you feed on? What do you lust for? I'll control30:43 you if you eat my food. So he he'll come after your identity, came after Jesus. Had if if question, put forming doubts in your mind. You aren't really saved.30:55 You're not really forgiven of your sins. You're not really a Christian. You're a thug. You're a gangster. You're you're you're a third generation this in your family. Your identity. Who are you?31:08 Who are you? And you and I've got to make sure that no matter what title that we acclaim to or have been given in this earth realm, Christian must go31:19 in front and first in front of all those titles or your identity will get messed up. Let me explain to you what I mean. Alright?31:31 You are a Christian man. You are a Christian father. You are a Christian plumber. You are a Christian carpenter. You are a Christian music artist.31:43 You're a Christian basketball player. You're a Christian cowboys fan. You're a Christian Raiders fan. You're a Christian Dodger fan. Good,31:56 Good. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. You're a Christian black man. You're a Christian brown man. You're a Christian a I am not a black man who's a Christian. I'm not a brown32:07 man who's a Christian. I'm not a fan who's a Christian because your identity will get messed up. I am first a Christian and that mandates how I think, how I talk, how I act, how32:19 I speak, how I react. The other thing is totally different. It'll take a worldly direction and you'll be part of an identity of the world rather than the identity of who32:31 God has made you to be and who and who God has called you to be. The enemy wants to give you an a k a32:43 rather than your birth certificate name. My birth certificate name is Diego Joseph Raymond Damian Messa junior. But I don't like that.32:56 I wanna change my identity. You call me master blaster Pasadie. See, notice notice the moment I said it, how my movements began to change. My mannerism began to change. What's up33:08 with that? Yeah. Hey, that's so real, pastor. I know it is. You dress a certain way and it changes your a k33:20 a. You drive a certain car and it changes your AKA. You got a little chain around you, change your AKA. No, go back to your birth name. You're in Christ, I am born again.33:32 That's my birth name. I'm a Christian. I'm a new creation. The second thing that he challenged them with, it says, and the33:44 devil took him to a pinnacle, to a temple. And he said, if if, again question, if you are the son of God, throw yourself down for it is written, he will give his chain his angels orders concerning you33:56 and they will support you in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. And Jesus told him, it is written, do not test the Lord. The second thing that the enemy will come and question and wanna34:08 challenge is your integrity. A man's identity and he'll try to steal your integrity or have a bad integrity rather than a good integrity. He's trying34:20 to get him to walk outside of the parameters and the boundaries that God has created for him. And you and I have to watch the the things that relate to our34:31 integrity. And the 2 words is where do you get your approval and where do you get your acceptance from? Will will shape your integrity.34:43 Who do you need to pat you on the back? Who do you need to be accepted by? Whose approval do you need? That will reflect the integrity in which you live by.34:57 When I was growing up, and I'm gonna date myself because there's a young generation who doesn't know what I'm saying right now. If if you were not a truth teller or lived in integrity, they call you a bull jiver.35:09 Anybody my age know what a bull jiver I'm in church. There's another term, but I can't use that other term. But you know what I'm talking about. Which meant everything that came out of Diego's mouth was not true. He's a35:21 bull jiver. He'll bull jive. He has a lack of integrity. In a carpentry world or or a construction worker, there there's something called something that like is straight and something35:33 that's crooked. Something that is plumbed. So so I'm gonna build a wall, But but, you know, I'm gonna just build it anyway. So so I I don't really don't care that the the dirt35:44 looks even from my eye. I don't need no tape to measure the distance. I don't need no leveler to do all that. I don't really care that it's plumb. Well, how long is that gonna last? Do35:57 you wanna live a plumb life? When I go to Home Depot and I'm gonna build something, get a 2 by 4. I don't just grab the first 2 by 4 and put it in my tray or cart and drive off. I get that36:09 thing and I lay it up and I study it and I go like this. I lay it down. I look what am I looking for? To see if it's crooked. And God's saying, you know what? Let's work on our integrity. Allow me to take the crookedness36:20 out of your life so that it's straight. And the third word is here is the last thing he said in 8. And again, the devil took him up to a very high mountain showed him36:32 all the kingdoms of this world and their splendor. The enemy is after your influence. He's after our influence. The enemy wants our identity. He wants36:44 our integrity and he wants us to influence things in a bad way. And influence is driven by ambitions. What are you striving after? What are you running36:55 after? Look at your ambitions. We'll tell you if you're influencing something right or you're influencing something wrong. I wanna bring value wherever I go. I wanna I wanna37:07 make something better than when I entered into it. That's what influences is. And and I wanna I want wherever I go you did you. I wanna be an example of37:19 who Jesus is. I wanna be a model who Jesus is. But when you and I don't wanna be an example to nobody and I do what I want whenever I want and I can live for myself and there's no repercussions37:30 and I've heard this before. Who am I hurting by doing this? Then you don't wanna be an influence. You don't wanna be a role model. You don't wanna be an example. But that's why we're here to be the light and37:42 to be the salt, to be the influencer. I'm gonna end with this story. I have a picture. I'm gonna show you my 2 dogs that I have today. This is leather and this37:54 is cinnamon. And so I just took this yesterday. I'm down low and so notice how their head is bowing to their master. Notice notice that. I didn't make them do they just No. No. No. I'm just kidding. They did38:06 it but anyways, I thought it was pretty funny. So this is They're about they're about 8 years old, my chocolates. So let me show you 1 of their predecessors. So the next picture is their predecessor. This is Samson.38:18 Okay. So Samson lost his female partner and when we lost him, he he kinda went sad and so we got the 2 pups for him to keep him alive and keep him entertained. Well,38:30 let me tell you about Samson here today. Samson is a master lizard gecko killer. It was embedded to him. This, I've never seen a dog like that.38:42 He'll snatch a lizard off of a wall in his mouth. But he was a master. He'd go like this. And he'd wait there for minutes. And then when he didn't see the lizard move, he'd go.38:58 And then boom, he go after and he get it. Well, these little pups now have been influenced by grandpa Samson, and now they're gecko lizard killers. It's39:10 it's all over the neighborhood. All the lizards and geckos say, do not go to pastor Diego's house because you will not live. Leather and cinnamon have been influenced by the trait of their grandfather,39:21 Samson, who have passed on a good trait and is living on in another generation and another generation. And that's what faith is. That's what our belief system is. That's what God fearing is in. Will it end with39:33 us or will it be passed on to another generation? So let's end over here with our God book. Our God story.Show more
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