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Beyond the Noise: Silencing Satan and the World || Pastor Adam Mesa
February 16, 2025 · 54 min
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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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The Journey of Faith and Sacrifice 0:00 You may be new to service or church for the past couple weeks. When you leave service, across our campuses they do it different. So, Dream Team during the service in Alameda or Pomona, maybe passing them out if you never0:12 got 1. If you're here in Rancho, when you leave service today, if you didn't get 1 of the journals over the past couple weeks, you can go see our guest services team, the dream team, and they'll be able to grab 1 for0:23 you. So if you want to jump into your journal, we want to recap some things as we've been in something together as a church. What we've experienced as a church is that God has totally been breathing on0:34 Patria, and we've been growing in incredible ways. And that has led us as a church to take an opportunity that all of us take a journey over the next 36 months together, the next 3 years0:47 of believing God that what He's been doing in our church, we want to fan the flame. And so in your journals you can see the projects that we're doing. What we're doing as a church is we're0:58 believing God that collectively, if we all do our part in sacrifice, not equal equal gift, but equal sacrifice, we'll see that God does something incredible. And so we've started a 200000001:10 dollar project together, where we're believing God for some things. And I think, do I have to go over here closer to it in order for us to see it? I could do it. So over here we can see we have some projects we're doing1:22 together as a church over the next 3 years. And so, we want to be able to get into some churches. And so, literally, as soon as this week, I have meetings with real1:33 estate agents in Corona where we're looking at some properties. Because what happened was, we're looking at least options, owning options. And what happened was, when we started launching1:45 Corona, more people came than we expected. And so, Corona doesn't have a lot of opportunity for space. And so, some of the city's new, some of it's older, but there's not a1:57 lot of opportunities for over 500 people to meet. And so therefore, we're looking at warehouses, office buildings, we're looking at a old like Best Buy or Toys R Us that's empty, you2:09 know, this week. And so, we're just believing God for favor. And we're believing as we take steps of faith that our church campuses will align with that faith together over the next 3 years, because we don't want to live2:20 in a world where we take on debt as a church. How many of you guys know economy can change left and right? Amen. And I met a pastor not too long ago from Texas who they had to sell their church2:32 building because they couldn't afford the finances during Covid. So they sold their building and they consolidated their church in 3 campuses across the city of Austin. It just broke my heart, but it also sobered in me2:43 to say, if we don't take care, we don't get out of our debts, and we try to pay down everything as fast as possible or as much as possible, then what happens is we ebb and flow with the economy. And that may2:55 happen individually, my finance, Adam's finances may change, but I don't want Patriot to be able to have to make decisions whether a campus is open or closed based off of finances. And so when we take care of our house,3:07 that's what we're doing. We're taking care of our campuses, we're taking care of Rancho. You can see all the Rancho campus things that are happening, expanding our kids ministry, creating a teenage youth resource center,3:18 creating space for Alameda. I've been getting emails every week of opportunities in Alameda as well with our pastoral team up there, with Fuego and Tiffany. And so what we see is as God's been breathing on our church, we3:29 have an opportunity to align together. If this is your home church, if Patriot is not your home church and you're just visiting or checking us out, this isn't for you in any way, unless you would like to be part of3:41 it. But there's no pressure on that. But what we do want is everyone who calls Patriot home, we would love a hundred percent participation. We're just asking that you talk to God, here's some events I want to share with3:52 you, just 2, and then we're gonna jump in the message. We got 2 more events. Number 1, we ask let's continue to go to service every weekend as much as possible or watch online from February first to March ninth.4:04 Additionally, what we're doing is 2 big weekends. I'd love for you to put them in your calendar, because what's happening is there's 2 big weekends. March first and second is what we're calling our commitment weekend. In4:15 your journals you've seen these pledge cards that we've been asking you to pray over, to ask God what is it that you would have our family doing? Me and Ashley have been talking about it. I we4:27 had a number in our heart, and as we've been doing this series and we're believing God for much, we talked to each other, we talked to each other, felt like God's stretching us. But what I've also done is I said, God, if4:35 you're stretching me, then I live on a fixed income. And so, I need you to bring income in other areas, you know, for us, because we want to give it back to our church so that we can see God do. So however4:47 God's talking to you, however you're at financially, some can do more, some can do less. We're just asking that you ask the Lord, and on March first and second, we're gonna all come together, and we're going to pray over4:59 these commitment cards. It's a commitment over 3 years. And you'll see on your pledge card what those kind of categories are on what you could kind of as examples commit to. And then what we're going to do is we're going5:09 to say, this is what we're all committing to over the next 3 years. And we're gonna see what God does in our church. We've just seen God do incredible things, and we're believing God that he's gonna blow our mind. And5:21 then on March eighth and ninth, what we're saying is we're saying, hey, let's sow a 1 time seed to the Beyond campaign to start projects right away. As a church, we're ready to go. And so we need to pay5:33 for what we want to do in kids ministry, we got to pay architects for architectural renderings. Believe it or not, people don't operate off of IOUs. Okay? And so all this stuff we want to start, we5:45 want to be able to say when we go talk to an architect and say, hey, we want to start building out this space. They're gonna go, oh well we need a percentage of what the total cost is in order to start turning those into5:54 the city. Well we want to be able to have finances from the miracle offering ready to go. And with your Church Patriot, you're going to see stuff start literally within days after that miracle offering. So these6:06 are 2 really big things that we're asking anyone that calls this church their home to participate in across all of our campuses, and we're going to allow God to do the rest. Because what we're going to talk about today6:18 is, what does it mean to hear the voice of God? 1 of the things that we talk about with this is as we're in this Beyond campaign, what we're saying is number 1, in order to be6:30 able to see God take us to where he's taking us, we would have first had to be able to say, God, is this you? Are you speaking? Are you taking Patriot in this direction to reach more people?6:42 Additionally, in the same way, we're also as we're asking people to partner with us, we're asking all of us to make a God decision, not a human decision. There's always something that God that you may put6:54 on your heart, but when you go and ask God, God may say something else. And so, 1 of the biggest values you'll have in your life, and you're lucky, since we're in the Beyond campaign and we're blessed together, is as7:05 we're talking about hearing the voice of God, you're gonna be able to apply this to pretty much every area of your life. Because how many of you guys have ever struggled before hearing the voice of God? Knowing what7:17 direction to go in, God what what do you want from me? What do you think I should do about this? Where do you think I should go about this? Should I move away? Should I not move away? And you're gonna see me as7:28 examples this weekend that we're gonna be able to show how can I decide, how can I be guided on what the voice of God is? 3 weeks ago when I was speaking, and you'll see it's 1 of the7:40 ways that you can hear the voice of God. 3 weeks ago when we launched this campaign, 1 of my biggest thoughts that I shared was every believer needs a home base. And then what I said in that conversation7:52 was, if we're not your home base and patriot isn't your mix, I encourage you to go, and I'll even make recommendations to go find your home. Because the enemy wants you homeless.8:05 God wants you to have a home. So 1 of the things I said was, in this church, if you feel God taking you somewhere else, feel free. I pray you out. There was 2 couples that came to me that said, I8:17 had got a job offer in another state and the only thing that was keeping me was thinking I just don't want to let my church down with this new project that they're doing. And they said the moment you said that we're8:29 released, they go can you just pray for me that I find a home church in Texas? I'm like absolutely. And over the past couple weeks, I've prayed for multiple people. And I said I'll even help you find a church if I know8:40 someone there to be able to get you. That is 1 way God may speak to you, is when you are confused, God may bring a voice into your life that begins to confirm direction of what's already secretly in your8:52 heart. I want you to see this verse in the Scriptures today. It's in John chapter 10 verse 27 to 28. Would you join me today standing for the honor of reading God's word? Cause this is where we're gonna9:04 be at today with this thought a little bit. 2 verses as we've been doing to make it simple today. Here's what it says for all those following along. This is Jesus speaking. Jesus says my sheep9:15 hear my voice. I know them and they follow me. I want you to sit right there. He says I know them, and he doesn't say and9:27 they know me. He says I know them and what? They follow me. Okay? I give them eternal life and they will never perish,9:39 and no 1 will snatch them from my hand. No 1. No thing can snatch them out of my hand. You may be seated. Leave that up there for a second. Jesus says, my9:50 sheep what? Hear my voice. And I know them. I know who they are. I could spot them out in a crowd. And how do I know10:02 that I know them? Because they follow me. And he says, I give them eternal life and they'll never perish. And no 1 will ever be able to snatch them from10:14 my hands. That was a great thing about a shepherd, and even shepherds to this day. Ever since a sheep is a little lamb, shepherds begin to make whistles and noises so that the sheep can10:26 identify the shepherd. And so what will commonly happen if you're in Israel or other parts of the world, is what shepherds will do is as their flocks are grazing, you know every sheep looks10:37 exactly the same. And so what happens is when all sheeps look the same, not every shepherd's voice is the same and their call isn't the same. So how do you differentiate between10:49 individuals that look exactly the same? Not only do they know the shepherd's voice, but they respond to the shepherd's voice. So what shepherds do in Israel is you'll see them get mixed up with their11:01 sheep will get mixed up while they're grazing land, and then you'll see multiple shepherds begin to whistle, and you'll just see sheep just begin to separate and go towards their shepherd. That's what Jesus11:13 says when he says the sheep know my voice. And he says and I know them. And how do I know them? Because they follow me.11:25 Just last week, I was gone for the weekend and so I have a dog named Rooster. He's not a rooster, he's a dog. But that's his name. I'm a big fan of Top Gun Maverick, you know. And11:37 so, I got Rooster is my dog's name. He's a Doberman. And so last weekend, I had Rooster at a kennel that watches over him, because Rooster's a very protecting11:49 dog. He's been trained to look after my wife and kids and my family. And so, Rooster is a highly trained military dog. Okay? If there was a Navy SEALs of12:01 dogs, Rooster would be in that. Okay? And so, the thing about Rooster is I have to, if I'm ever traveling, I have to take him to just, there's a there's a veteran who owns a a dog12:13 clinic nearby, and so they train service dogs. So so he knows the they know how to work with with Rooster. Not everyone can work with a dog like that. They they're highly disciplined, and so you highly have to discipline12:24 them. And so last weekend, I was gone for most of the weekend, but at church. And so I I asked Jacob, who's 1 of the young guys on our team who serves, I said hey, can you do me a big favor?12:36 Because we have a guest speaker and it's the Super Bowl. Could you do me a big favor? Could you go pick up Rooster and bring him over here for me so I could go straight home? He said, yeah, no problem. He's done it12:46 before, he helps a lot with Rooster, you know, with me and stuff like that. And so, he goes to the kennel, and it's just a young kid that's working there. And he says, oh hi, I'm here to pick up Brewster. And so the guy12:59 brings a Doberman out. And Jacob, he grabs the leash, and the dog pulls back. And then Jacob begins13:11 to use his commands that Jacob knows, and so he starts to say, you know Rooster come on. Rooster pulls back. And he says Rooster, where's your bark? The13:23 dog just stares at him. Rooster come. The dog just stares at him. Rooster heal. The dog just stares at him. Finally Jacob goes, hey man, I don't mean any13:34 disrespect, but this isn't Rooster. And the guy looks at him like, tell me how to do my job. He said, that's Rooster. Jacob said, I'm13:46 sorry to tell you, this is not Rooster. And then he goes, there's no way. That he was in Rooster's kennel. I know that that's Rooster. And Jacob's like, I'm telling you right now it's not. And he says, do you have13:58 another Doberman in the kennel by any reason? He says, yeah, but I know who Rooster is. I do have another Doberman. And he goes, can you get it? So I showed you a picture. When you have Dobermans that are all lined up,14:10 they look exactly the same. They look exactly the same. You know some may be a little chunkier, skinnier, you know and obviously to a trained eye, me14:22 who's with rooster every day, I would know right away because I it's my dog. But Jacob's way of having to tell cause it's not his dog, he's helping me out. He goes, can you get the other14:33 doberman? The doberman comes in the kennel. He gets the other doberman that's not Rooster. And Jacob goes, Rooster, heel. Rooster, rooster down. Rooster goes14:45 down. Rooster where's your bark? Rooster come. Rooster lines up, and then he looks at the employee and he goes, this is rooster. And the guy14:57 goes, I'm sorry. What's the difference between a breed that looks exactly the same, barks exactly the same, tends to eat exactly the same? The difference is,15:10 is when the master calls. Do the sheep, are the people, are we obedient? Do we listen? Yes. Obedience. Obedience15:22 dictates whether we are connected to the master or not. It's obedience. The thing that told Jacob right away, that's not rooster, was not because of the way the dog looked. It15:33 wasn't because the dog had a cross around its neck. It wasn't because the dog had a scripture in its bio. It wasn't because the dog goes to church on weekends. It was because15:45 when he said bark, the dog barked. When he said sit, the dog sat. When he said come, the dog came. There was no negotiation. When the master voice speaks, Rooster listened. And he15:57 said that is how you know that's Rooster. Jesus says, I know my sheep. In other words, I know there's small subtle differences. Just like me,16:09 I could've I would've looked at that dog right away. I would've said I don't need it to bark, I don't need it to be obedient, but what but you know, we could just to double check to show you that this is my rooster, what16:19 I'll do is I'll have him follow me. And if he follows me and obeys me, that'll be proof to you, the world, that he's really mine. And so16:31 immediately Jesus stretches us. It's 1 thing to know his voice. It's 1 thing for Him to know you. Yeah of course, of course. You know, you16:43 believe in the resurrection? You're gonna go to Heaven. But are you gonna go to Heaven with your butt burning in fire right on that door? You're like oh I barely slipped in. Barely made it.16:56 I said a prayer once. So he makes some differences. He says hey, my sheep, they hear me, they know my voice. Second of all, he says I know17:08 them. But then he says, but when I speak, how you can really tell they're mine is they follow. They follow Jesus. And there's a lot of situations in our17:20 life where we get into trouble because we aren't obedient. We aren't understanding the shepherd's voice. And we aren't clearly following Him. We're just disobedient children.17:33 We're just disobedient children. And we think to ourselves, God, where are you? I haven't heard you in forever. Are you taking the steps to learn the shepherd's voice? Because to follow Jesus appropriately,17:44 we have to learn how God speaks. And when we learn how God speaks and we know what type of things God looks for in us, then I'll tell you this, navigating your life, it's not that it won't be17:56 easy, but it will be clearer. You know, coming to faith is not a promise that faith will be easy, but I will tell you this, if you start to follow Jesus, and you18:08 begin to learn his voice, the steps will become clear. That's why Psalm says the word of God is a lamp unto my feet. It's not, it's it's not a light18:20 tower. It's not lighting up an entire city. God's word is lighting your feet, which means it gets clear 1 step forward at a time. But a lot18:32 of times we're saying God give me the whole picture first. First give me the whole picture before I make any decisions. We're gonna go and we're gonna make this even clearer right now. Here's 3 things that we're going to18:43 look at that ultimately lead us, that I believe to be able to hear God's voice much clearer in our life. Here's an imperative first thing that you and I must do if we want to hear God's voice clearly. The first thing we18:55 have to do is we need to silence Satan's voice. First thing you got to do, is if you are looking to hear God's voice more19:07 clearer, then you and I must learn how to silence Satan's voice. Gotta be able to silence it. I want you to see what happens19:19 is a lot of times when God speaks, I want you to see in Genesis what what God tends to do when he speaks, God will speak in in a pattern. God God will speak in a progress. So when God speaks19:30 oftentimes, and we saw it with Jesus statements, I'm the shepherd, they hear me, I know them, they follow me. In other words, he's sharing a pattern with you. I speak,19:42 I see them, in other words no 1 can fake it, I know them. But also they're obedient, there's a step forward. It's it's very clear. And you'll see a lot of other times in Scripture, whether you want to hear the story of19:54 Abraham, it doesn't mean that their life is perfect, but it means as their path they're following God, there is a progress. And a lot of times you'll see biblical characters, they get into trouble when either they20:06 doubt God, question God, or just all around pause in life. Just pause. You know, you you see it with Jonah, you see it with other individuals in the Bible, You20:18 see it when they're just at a pause in light. They just pause. They back up. It's like whatever God, I'm starting to give up mentally. Start to see things get messed up. And so what happens is Genesis 1 to 3 says that, 320:28 to 4 says this, God said let there be light, and there was light. And God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. In other words, there is a20:40 pattern and there is a progress. God spoke, let there be light. Then what happened when God spoke? Progress, there was light. What happens after that? Now God sees the light and20:52 he deems it good. He qualifies that it was good, it's sufficient. And then what does he do? He separates the light from the darkness. There is a pattern that he does.21:04 And a lot of times, what happens is when you see these patterns, we get we get stuck in a certain period not knowing that God may be progressing our life. If God is in your life, there is a progress forward, because21:15 that's how God operates. There is a pattern that God's doing. So if you ever feel like, I talk to people, I just feel like I'm in limbo. That's not God. God doesn't operate in limbo. Even when people21:27 are on pause like Job, it's because God is in the process of doing something in Job's life. There's a process even then. So what does God do? If God21:39 does pattern, what does Satan do in return if we're learning how to silence God's voice? What will happen is Satan will operate in question. God has21:50 patterns, Satan has questioned for you. I want you to question everything. Not not in a question to not a wrestle. Jacob means Jacob means to wrestle with God. God22:02 likes wrestling. But Satan brings questions. There's a difference between wrestling something with God and questioning God. Satan wants to lead you to questioning. Genesis chapter22:14 3 verse 1 to 4, just a few chapters later says this, now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, did God actually say22:26 you shall not eat from the tree, any tree in the garden. What happens? What happens? Satan issues a question which22:37 causes Eve to doubt God. Did he really say? Does he really care? Does he really know you? Does he really hear you? Does he really love you?22:50 Satan will question. I have a different way of putting it on the next slide if you see it, about Satan's question and what happens. Give me the next verse, the actual slide I had. Okay. So23:02 Satan's first question. Did God actually say? I want you to pause right there. Does anyone know God's first question in the Bible? God's first question23:14 in the Bible is shortly after this. What does God say? God says, where are you? He asks Adam and Eve, where are you? In other words,23:25 where's your position right now? Where are you with me right now, Adam and Eve? So what happens is when when Satan asks a question, he wants to lead you to doubt God can't do23:37 anything. Doubt God. Can't do anything, he can't do any of it. When God approaches a question, what does he do? Where are you? He cares about where you're at.23:49 Are you good? Why you got clothes on? Who told you you were naked? Hold on. God knew what Adam and Eve were doing. God knew, but imposing the24:01 question to him, he wanted to reveal to them just where they are at. They're at a place where they've gotten to a point where they began to doubt God, which is what?24:13 Distanced their relationship from God. It's distanced their placement from God. And so how many of you guys like this, we got our stairs and as we've been talking about the Beyond campaign, you24:25 haven't heard us give too much clarity on what the stairs is. It's kind of self evident. But it's the place that the final destination is where God, wherever God wants us as a church family. That we24:37 would hear God's voice so well that the doors God would cause us, that cause to open and want us to walk through, that we will understand God's voice so well that we will step through those doors.24:50 And what will happen is, through this journey as a church that we've taken for over 30 years, and here we're at now, for another 30 we want to go for the next generation. What happens is through these steps25:02 of stairs, how many of you guys have children or grandchildren? 1 of the things that drives me nuts is my boys, they play with Legos, and they25:14 leave them everywhere. And then I'll be walking around the house, and I'll go a step and I'll And it's just painful.25:27 I'm in pain right now. And most people or a lot of people they they sit This is the first step. This is Satan's voice right here. And Satan would love25:38 for you and I to stop right here. Stop at the pain. Stop at the pain. Satan would love for us to stop here and then just sit here. And25:50 then look up and be like, well God I can't go any closer. It hurts every time I take a step. They don't know that at some point it ends. They don't know at some point God will grow them out of it. They don't know at26:02 some point the pain and the journey may be different, but it's not the pain. And so Satan's voice will get you right here. This is where Adam and Eve were. For that first moment, they just stopped right here where it was26:12 painful. Where they're just like, oh God lets us see everything but this 1 thing? And then Satan causes them to question and doubt God? And so then what do they do? They sit here and what results?26:25 Adam's hard work is painful and Eve has pain in childbirth. The fruit of doubting God was pain. And there's a lot of people, even when we come to26:36 church, and we think to ourselves God you are my end destination. Where you heading us is where I want to go. But every step hurts so much that you just stop right here, cause you think every step is gonna hurt. So you26:48 think I'll just stop right here. And so we stop in our broken marriage, and we stop in our addiction, and we stop in our pain, and we stop in our unforgiveness, and we stop in our trauma. Because we don't think that27:00 Jesus can't free us and heal us. And so so many times, instead of going okay, I'm gonna take 1 more step forward. I'm gonna take 1 more step up. A lot of people, they stop right27:11 there. You may know people today that they've stopped their whole relationship with God because of pain. And I'll tell you this, stopping right there, that's not them hearing God's27:23 voice. That's Satan going, I got you to doubt God. I got you to question God. Cause what God wants to do is what he cares at when you are broken, when you are from27:35 God. God's concern is, where you at? What's going on? I love my wife and all the time when I call, even though I have her location on my phone that I could check anytime, my first question when I27:47 ask when I call my wife when I get home and she's not home. And not not in like I'm trying to like tag on her or anything. Just because I love her, I'll call her and be like, hey where you at? I may have a question, but27:57 my first question is where where you at? And she'll do the same with me. Where are you? I'm like oh I'm at lunch with Soz. Okay, call me later. It's all, it's not just her jumping in. She always wants to where am I at?28:07 God loves you so much that 1 of the questions he wants to ask you all the time is, where are you at? And 1 of the best things you can do is when you're trying to discover God's voice, is when you go to God in prayer,28:19 tell God where you're at right now. You gotta keep it real with God. God, I'm naked. I've been building my own clothes out of fig leaves. And I've been hiding from28:30 you behind bushes. That's where I'm at right now God. Like I I I'm I'm done. I wanna hide. I wanna walk away. That, he wants you to say that. So then he can say okay, you wanna stay in that28:42 bush? You wanna stay in those fig leaves? Or you wanna step out? And we gotta be able to answer God, because what will happen is then obedience will dictate are we really wanting what God has for us. And here's the28:53 second thing, is as we're discovering you gotta silence Satan's voice. And here's Satan's voice. Satan's voice wants you disconnected from God and he wants you fully in sin. Now here's the thing, you may get to a29:05 point in your life where you say okay, I'm fairly well with you know, I can tell when Satan speaks. I can tell when he's trying to guide me. I can see it, I can spot it, but I'm29:17 still feel kind of disconnected from God. I still feel like I don't hear his voice. Well here might be the second reason, and it teeters between these 2 reasons and why oftentimes God's voice is muted in our life. We29:27 have to silence Satan, but the second thing is, is you have to filter the world's voices. You got to filter the world's voices. So you may be good at silencing29:39 Satan's voice, but then you got to filter the world's voice. Now here's the thing. It's not silence the world's voice, because there are people you will do life with that unfortunately, you29:51 just can't silence. Like there's family members. Then I mean I guess you could, but it's probably not going to end well. You can't just fully block, you know, a family member.30:03 You can't just fully block your mom. You can't fully block your dad, you can't fully block an in law. You may feel like it at times, but it wouldn't be beneficial. But what you can do is when all those voices spread, and30:14 when you turn on the TV and you watch all the news, and then you go on social media and you see everything coming at you, and then you go to work and you hear and you just hear and you hear. What you can begin to get30:24 good at is you can filter. Yeah. Be in the filter. How many of you guys have ever seen a dirty pool before? You ever seen a dirty pool? Yes. It's It's like a broken down filter that just that pool30:36 is so dirty. And then what happens is, 1 of 2 things happens. Is if you see a dirty pool, more than likely you have an unfunctioning filter. Or if you see a30:48 clean fill if you see a clean pool, you have a dirty filter. So if you saw a pool like this, more than likely at times over time what's going to develop is the filter is going to be dirty. That's what a31:00 filter would look like. It's doing its job. The pool is clean and the filter's working. At some point you got to change the filter out and put a new 1. But if the goal of it is you want it to31:12 collect all the dirt. And so you and I, what we have to do is we have to get to a point in our life where we're able to filter out the world's voices. Not take in the31:23 good and the bad, no. Take in the good and release the bad. If advice comes, take the good advice. Spit the old bad advice down. If you31:35 got friendships, may take good friendships and there may be time, you gotta spit out bad friendships too. There should be times that happens, Where we have to take in what God says is good, and we gotta release what is31:46 said back. And you and I have to get to a place where we can see the filters that God has. First John chapter 2 verse 15 and 16 says, do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves31:58 the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and the pride of life is not from the Father, but it is from the world.32:11 Jesus encourages us that there are voices all around us all the time. That are trying to be louder than God's. So you get to a point that you know how to silence Satan's voice. So32:23 you can feel it, you can jump out, you're like Satan, you don't got those tricks. I'm not addicted to nothing no more. I'm free. I don't be watching things no more. My my my language has changed. My life has changed.32:35 So you you could dance on this step all day. Right? Like man, I'm free. God's delivered me. I'm healed. Praise God, and then what happens you're like okay. I can move up and then you go to these steps and then you just32:50 Where all that noise coming? Now it's just loud. So you're like, God talk to me.33:02 You gotta make a decision like, is that God? I don't know. And what you gotta do is as you get God's voice well,33:14 you'll be able to know that's not God. God wouldn't say that. That was, you know, my best friend. I appreciate you. I love you, but you're just squawking right now. That's not33:26 God right now. That's not God right now. Or I appreciate you. You may care about me a lot. That's not God right now. And so what happens is is just because it's loud, just because it's noisy, doesn't mean it's of God.33:39 Sometimes we think God just give me a cloud in the sky and I'll do it. And we just start cryptically reading clouds, like, is that a heart? Does that look like a heart? Trying to decide to marry someone. Hey does that33:50 look like a heart? It just, we're injecting junk. And we're looking everywhere other than where God speaks. And so we gotta filter out the voice.34:02 So then, here's the last voice as we just uncover this for the last few moments we have, is what happens is is if you can silence Satan's voice, and you can filter the world's voices, then the third, what you will begin34:14 to do is now you'll begin to be able to hear God's voice. A lot of times, 1 of the first things I'll do with people that are like, I just feel like I can't hear God. I feel like I'm trying to make some big life34:24 decisions. And I'll ask them what their pattern looks like. Who's the people closest to you? When something goes down, who do you call? Who do you listen? Okay. Oh, I call my best friend.34:36 Does your best friend go to church? Oh gosh, no. No, she doesn't. She like, she like goes and does this thing once a year in like Columbia and then you know, she and34:48 then she drinks this tea and then she does this and then she But she's my best friend. That's who you're calling for. Right. Wisdom on where God is guiding your life.35:01 Someone who looks at crystals and thinks that they talk to them? That's who you're calling. Or you're like, oh yeah, I'm deciding if I should marry this girl or not. Well who you talk to? My35:13 best friend. Is your best friend married? Oh no, man. He be taking a girl home almost every day from the gym. Alright. Hold on. That's who you're talking35:25 to on whether you should take the See a lot of times we don't realize how foolish we are when it comes to trying to decide God's things. We don't realize the voices we're taking are are not You don't mean you35:37 gotta cut them out your life. But you better know on the hierarchy of voices where they sit. Where they sit. And God's voice is number 1. And so how35:49 do we hear God's voice? What will happen is second Timothy, for the first part, and it'll be the biggest value of your life. Second Timothy chapter 3 verse 16. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for36:01 teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete equipped for every good work.36:13 What is the number 1 place that you will find that God speaks to you? What do we call this? Let's just let's just do it interact. What do we call this? This is the36:26 Word of God. Okay. So we're trying to hear God's voice. He gives us something that we call the word of God. Yeah. Right. Right. And36:38 we never open it. Right. And we don't read it. We don't study it. Say, well I struggle with it. I encourage you, get a study bible. Have someone help you36:50 along in studying. Get a commentary bible where they're commenting. You can learn it. You can understand it. God would not give you something that you can't understand. It may be a learning curve at first37:02 because we got a lot of filtering. You don't realize how much filtering you got to do. I can take a group of children. My son came home 1 day from school and memorized all of the fruits of the Spirit and37:14 the 3 verses that followed it. And I was like, I don't know grown adults who know 1 of the fruit of the Spirit. And if I taught it all day, they wouldn't even be able to remember it the next day. Not37:26 because adults aren't smart, it's because we got so much junk up here. We got so much junk in here that there's a lot going on, but but as a child man he's fresh. Well37:38 that sticks out. Joy, love, peace, self control. Oh yeah, I remember those. I can retain those. So God will often He's gonna speak in this word. And so if you're ever at a37:49 point in your life where you're trying to understand the voice of God and you aren't reading God's word, then then I pray He does a miracle, but I also pray that He taps your behind at the same time.38:01 Because if he gave us something for us to know not only how to be saved, but how to guide our life, and we don't read it, then we're missing out on his voice.38:13 We literally call it the word of God. And so God will oftentimes use his word to guide you. You can also use his word to filter out38:25 junk. God does this sound right? Let me study the word of God. Let me study the life of Jesus. Because what will happen is, the first thing will happen is God's word will begin to speak, the logos, his word.38:38 Scripture John chapter 1 verse 1 says that Jesus is the logos in flesh. So Jesus is the word of God in flesh. And then he gives us his word, which is everything that we need to sustain our life. And then38:50 what will happen is though as the word is read, the rhema, the convertible word where the Holy Spirit begins to translate this to you. Where the Holy Spirit begins to make it make sense39:02 for you, what will happen is God will begin to help you understand it. But a lot of times we're not reading enough. Most of the time when I talk to people are saying, I tried the bible but I didn't understand it. I'llShow more In this video 0:00 The Journey of Faith and Sacrifice
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