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What's My Piece of the Pie | Joshua 14:1-15 | Pastor Aaron Levy
August 17, 2025 · 44 min
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0:00 Let's give it up for pastor Sammy. Don't you guys love our residency pastor? Announcements, exhortation, offering, pipes, buckets, props, hats, hoodies. May he has it0:11 all? Yeah. Patriot Rancher, you feeling good? Man, it's such an honor anytime I get entrusted to be in God's pulpit. Hey, if we haven't met yet, my name is0:23 Aaron. I get the honor to be 1 of the pastors here and we're gonna squeeze them scriptures together. You guys ready to do that? We go we've been in Joshua 1 series the whole year getting through the book of0:35 Joshua. We are in Joshua chapter 14. There's 24 chapters in Joshua, so we're trucking along. If you have your Joshua journal, go ahead and show your Joshua0:47 journal. Show it. Man, this is awesome. Awesome. And if you're like, what are Joshua journals? You can go to the Patriot shop. What what we've done is we have them they're available on Amazon, but we have them at the0:58 shop as well. On 1 side is the verses, and on 1 side is this blank pages so you could take notes. And then I heard it say goats take notes. So if you want to somebody felt that.1:10 So if if you wanna lean more in, you could get that Joshua Journal. You know, we've been kinda like within Joshua, we've been in kinda like a1:21 inheritance series because 2 weeks ago, I don't know if you remember, Gabe, he preached on stepping into your inheritance. What a clear, practical, powerful word by Gabe.1:34 Just love the communicators on our team. And then last week, who was here for pastor Diego when he preached? Oh my God. He got in our face. Right? So I I was on1:45 vacation. He's gonna say once again, I was on vacation and I saw the sermon, and it's just been living on the inside of me. You remember for for those of you that didn't hear it, go to YouTube. It was just1:57 last week, Joshua chapter 13. But he was talking about the inheritance and how, when if you have a piece of pie, do you wanna hold the knife or you're gonna give the control to God to2:09 hold the knife for the piece of the pie? You guys remember that? So I've been just stirring on that all week and as I've been preparing for this week, I just made my title of the message tonight, what's my piece2:21 of the pie? What's my piece of the pie? Because there's this tension on, hey, I got I wanna give you control so you can have the knife. You have2:33 control of my piece of the pie, but I also wanna declare the promises you have for me. And I felt like pastor Sammy was operating in the spirit realm doing doing exhortation because he talked about2:44 a 38 year testimony. And tonight, we're gonna be talking about a 45 year testimony. And God, whenever he gives a promise, that promise doesn't return void, but sometimes we gotta2:56 wait for that promise to be fulfilled. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna do the whole chapter of Joshua chapter 14. I wanna share at the top of it,3:08 if I put it in 3 sections, here's what the 3 sections of Joshua would be. We're gonna look at verses 1 through 5. That's what we're gonna stand on and I'm gonna call that an inheritance defined.3:21 Part 2 verse 6 through 12 will be an inheritance declared. And part 3 verses 13 through 15, an inheritance dispersed. Let's all stand for the3:33 reading of God's word. It'll be on the screens. You could use your journal, your phones, what have you, or you could just simply listen along. We stand because we honor the word of God.3:45 It it deserves our undivided attention. You guys ready? Joshua 14 1 through 5. Anytime you see the word inheritance,3:56 let's say it as a community. How about that? Guys down? Yes. Okay. These are the Inheritance. That the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar,4:08 the priest of Joshua, the son of Nun, in the heads of the father's houses of the tribes of the people of Israel, gave them to Heria. Their Heria. Was by lot, just as the Lord4:20 commanded in the hand of Moses for the 9 and 1 half tribes. For Moses had given in Inerrance. To the 2 and 1 half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the4:32 Levites, he gave no Inerrance. Among them. For the people of Joseph were 2 tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to4:43 dwell in with their pasture lands for their livestock and their substance. The people of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses. That's important. We'll come back to that. They allotted the4:55 land. Let's pray. God, we acknowledge as a community that your word is truth, that your word is powerful, and5:07 it's the power to change our lives. Help us whether we're inside, outside, or online to give your word our undivided attention for the next few moments. Get Aaron Levy5:19 out of the way. Use your word to convict, to strengthen, to encourage, to transform, to heal, to inspire. Thank you for your word. May it be5:31 clear to us. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. You may be seated. The first 5 verses, I kinda titled that an5:42 inheritance defined because I wanna share what an inheritance is. And again, you can go back to the last 2 weeks. Gabe did a very good job going into the details. So 0.1, I'm gonna kinda5:54 give an overview of what I believe what it inheritance defined is. But sometimes, in order to know the definition of something, you gotta know what it's not. Have you ever had a bad boss?6:06 And then it's like, okay, now in order for me to be a good boss, I just can't be like that 1. You guys understand what I'm saying? So the first definition I will say is inheritances are6:18 not wages. Inherentances are not wages. Because if we remember in verse 1, it says inheritances that the people of Israel received.6:30 It didn't say that they earned. It didn't say that there was like, God, you owe me this. They received it. And the challenge is we live in this culture of6:42 wages, but the kingdom is about inheritance. And I got some tension that'll be on the screen that you can see the difference between wages and inheritance. Wages, if you have a wage6:54 mentality, it's about what you earn, inheritance is received. Wages is what you work for. It inheritance is by faith. Wages is about performance and inheritance is about promise.7:06 Wages, you get that from your boss. Inheritance, you get that from a father. And if I think about me as a father, I got my 2 teenage daughters at7:18 the house and all of a sudden, they just stopped smiling. Like, it's like, now they're just so cool, you know, and and I don't know what makes them happy anymore and it's great. But7:30 but I don't this tension of boss and father, this tension of leader, I I don't I want them to be spoiled. I don't want them to be entitled. Right? I don't want7:41 everything that I give them to be attached to performance. See, 1 of my daughters, she gets straight a's. Another 1 of my daughters, she enjoys the diversity of the7:53 alphabet. So of course, there are rewards for certain things, but just because your8:04 last name is Levy, you're gonna be blessed by your father. And that's what I want that's what I strive to do. And there's tension on how do I reward for obedience, but also since8:16 you're in the family, no matter how you perform, this is for you. And see, that's the thing about being in the kingdom of God. Once we make it about wages, not only will we8:28 sometimes think we're better than other people, or sometimes we'll shame ourselves like we're not worthy of getting anything from the Lord. You know, a good scripture that'll remind us of this is Romans 68:40 23. It says the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus. So what this is saying is like, what we owe is death.8:52 Like, that's what we deserve. That's our wages, but it says the free gift. That's an inheritance. So why does it why does it emphasize free gift if a gift is always free? Was because we live in a culture where gifts9:04 ain't always free. Right. Right. Right. Have you ever like say, hey, this is free. No pressure at all. Just give me your credit card information. Well, I gotta give you my credit card information if it's free.9:16 Here would be a test for you if you have more of a wage bend or an inheritance bend. Have you ever got a Christmas gift from somebody, but you didn't get them9:28 the Christmas gift? And as they're approaching you, it's like, Merry Christmas. I love you. This is for you. What are you thinking in that moment? Are you thinking, man, thank you. Man,9:40 you love me. I wonder what it is. Or are you thinking, oh, shoot. We didn't get them anything. Do I have any gift cards in my purse? What what what is that?9:52 And that's that's a small little little wiring of like, hey hey hey, you don't have to give me a gift. You don't have to I wanna But but if somebody loves you enough to give you a gift,10:04 just take it. Just receive it. Now, you love them and you wanna give it, just then then give it. But let's not have relationships based on barter and have the wage mentality, especially in the kingdom of God because then10:16 what we'll do is we'll do that with our heavenly father. And as the children of Israel are now they fought all those battles. They fought all those wars and are looking at the inheritance from their leader by lot.10:28 And they may be thinking, wait. What is he getting versus what I'm getting? Or every good and perfect gift comes from the Lord. It's all about perspective.10:41 Thank you for the 7 claps. Now, we talked about what an inheritance is not. Let's talk about what an inheritance is.10:52 Inherentances are received from God through leaders. That's what makes it complex. Many times, inheritances are received from God through leaders. What do I mean? Look at verse11:04 2. The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses. Verse 3, for Moses had given an inheritance. Verse 5, the people of Israel did as the Lord commanded11:16 Moses. So what happens is there's the hand of the Lord directing it, but the hand of the Lord is directing the hand of Moses so the children of Israel are getting their inheritance11:28 from Moses or from God? You see, what happens sometimes is if I'm used to just getting inheritance11:40 from my leader, I put the hand of the leader over the hand of the Lord. And as long as I'm good with the leader, I don't really have to spend time with the Lord.11:52 So I want I really wanna just see what Moses was on his mind and how I can help Moses and what I can do for my But wait, woah, woah, Everything that Moses is doing is connected to God. So let12:03 me explain the tension behind this, and preferably I can illustrate it because Proverbs 21 verse 1 says, the king's heart is a is a stream of water in the hand of the12:15 Lord. He turns it wherever He will. So this is you and I. And I'm gonna act like I have the Lord's hands. Okay? You guys12:27 got the illustration? Okay. So on a daily basis, our role is to be in the hand the the hands of the Lord, and then he pour he turns12:39 our heart to pour into people. You guys catch it? So every day as I spend time with the Lord, remember the song we're singing? You hold my world in your hands? Right?12:51 So what happens is the Lord turns you to just give favor for them. Have you ever had just somebody on your heart? You just didn't really know them, but like, how is so and so doing? The Lord turned your heart to pour13:02 into that person. So that's what that's what it's supposed to be. Now is that the Lord or is that the person? It's the Lord working through the person. So the more that you and I are aligned with the13:14 Lord, we will be a blessing to others. That's why it's a it's a more of a blessing to give than to receive. So what happens sometimes in life, we see that there13:26 are leaders that pour into people and then the people start recognizing, wait, wait, wait. I just gotta get under the blessing. I just gotta get under the blessing. And sometimes, instead of getting13:38 with God, they just get with the leader. And let me just position myself in a way that wherever my leader is gonna get blessing, not where the Lord wants me, where my leader wants13:50 me, that I'll get the blessing. There's a picture on the screen that might demonstrate this, and we gotta think about that Negro spiritual by TLC. Don't go chasing waterfalls.14:03 But sometimes when we're worshiping God, this is what we're hoping it's going to be, That I open up to God and as I open up to God, I have a life of just being poured into.14:15 But what if God is saying, no. No. I'm only pouring into you so you could pour into others. Now if you're a leader, you already know this, especially you know your role is to pour into other14:27 people. And your and your heart is supposed to be open. Your heart is supposed to be water to be poured. But sometimes, people will be taking advantage. It's the14:38 people that we pour into that lie on us. It's the people that pour into us that just don't hurt. So what happens sometimes, instead of us being water, our heart turns into ice.14:50 We're a leader. We got some experience on how people are. So when God tries to use me to pour into others, I have a hard heart.15:02 Because why am I gonna waste my time helping this person? They ain't grateful. They ain't gonna go to church. They ain't go wait, woah, woah, woah, woah. Is it your job for the outcome or is it just your job for the15:13 outpour? That's why when we're singing the song, you hold my world in your hands, when we are hard hearted, let the15:24 hands of the Lord melt our hearts so we can begin and continue to pour into people. So what God is trying to tell us, just like what he's15:36 telling the children of Israel, yes, I'm using Moses' words, then it's through Joshua for the allotment of what it's going to look like. But at the same token, don't look to15:48 Joshua only for your reward. Don't look to Moses only for your reward. Look to the Lord for your reward. Now I want you to think about Caleb in16:00 this moment and give you a little bit of context because this is a 45 year testimony. If you take it back 40 years ago, and we're gonna read it in a in a16:12 moment, but Joshua and Caleb were boys. And Moses had a group of 12 people go spy out the land to see what the inheritance was. And it was only Joshua and Caleb16:24 that came back with a good report. The other 10 came with a bad report. If you wanna read that story, you'll go to Numbers chapter 13. So what's happening is16:36 Caleb is sitting here watching the meeting of the leaders give out the inheritances. So I know what an inheritance is, and the16:48 Lord sent me He has something for me, so Lord, I know you have the knife, but what do you want me to do in this moment? And that's why point number 2, we go from an inheritance16:59 defined to an inheritance declared. Because there's some things that God told Caleb 45 years ago that Caleb wants to bring to his friend's remembrance.17:12 If we look at verses starting at verse 6, we're gonna go all the way to 12. You guys good? Yes. Okay. Then the people of Judah came17:24 to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb, the son of Jephunah, the Kenizzite, said to him, you know what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God at Kadesh Barnea concerning you and me?17:36 I was 40 years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh Barnea. Whenever there's repetition of words like that so close in scripture, I get very curious because it's17:48 trying to tell us something. To spy out the land. And I brought him word again as it was in my heart. But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, yet17:59 I wholly followed the Lord my God. And Moses swore on that day saying, surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and the children forever because18:11 you have wholly followed the Lord my God. And now, the Lord has kept me alive just as he said these 45 years since the time that the Lord has spoke this word to Moses while18:23 Israel walked in the wilderness. And now behold, I am this day, 85 years old. I am still as strong today as in the day that Moses sent me. My strength is now my my strength is18:35 as my strength was then for war and for going and coming. So now, give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day. For you have heard on that day how the Anakin were18:46 there with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord will be with me and I shall drive them out just as the Lord has said. This is a beautiful moment and18:58 it talks about the tension. Last week pastor Diego says, hey, give the knife to the Lord. Let him a portion what's for you. But when God19:10 tells you that that portion is for you, you speak and declare that portion. So that's just not taking the knife back, it's using the word of God in faith, but being19:21 patient in waiting. Does that make sense? Yes. So let's look at Caleb. And first of all, let's look at his name in Hebrew. If we look at Caleb, it's 2 words, ka and lev.19:33 Ka means whole or all, and lev means heart. So Caleb means wholehearted. Or Caleb means dog. Not my dog, Simba. Simba is not wholehearted.19:45 But Caleb is wholehearted, loyal, obedient. Now, Kadish Barnea, remember it was mentioned twice? Let's look at the19:57 tension. Kadesh barnea is 2 words as well. Kadesh means holy, set apart, consecrated. But barnea means field, desert, wonder,20:09 stagger. So wait a minute. Caleb is saying, I wholly followed the Lord in a wilderness. And the test20:21 for you and I is, can we live up to our name no matter the season or the location that we're in? Anybody can talk about the Lord is faithful when you're in20:33 Canaan. It is very hard to wholly follow the Lord in a wilderness. To wholly follow the Lord when you don't know what's next. To wholly20:45 follow the Lord when Joshua, your homie, gets promoted and you'll get a promise. Wait. We both went20:57 over there. And everybody has cake for Joshua. Hey, here's king Joshua. Joshua's the guy. Caleb's the dog. Say, can you21:09 picture Joshua? What's up, dog? And Caleb could be like, wait a minute, Lord. Why didn't I get promoted? Why why do you want me to be faithful, but you had nothing for21:20 me? But see, I read this morning in Proverbs 30 verse 6 that the promises of God don't turn void. Now, the promises of God are also not on our timing or terms.21:32 And sometimes what we do, we don't know God's word. We know our desires and we think our desires are faith in God. So we put our desires on God and we say, God, do this21:44 for me. But what do you do when Joshua, he got promoted? Kayla, you got a promise. Okay. I'll walk around with21:56 the promise for about a year. Could you walk around with the promise for 45 years? See, when you're saying, holy, follow the Lord,22:08 no matter what the season, the circumstance, the pain, the determination to just continue on your faith journey no matter what it looks like because I trust God. God is good. God is22:20 faithful. God is merciful. This is the lane that I'll stay in. There's another man of God that's similar to this, and it's David because David is called22:32 a man after God's own. And David has my my favorite Psalm is Psalm 1 0 3. 0 my God. It just talks about the the fatherhood22:44 of God. It's beautiful. But but I love paralleling David and Caleb because before they got their inheritance, they would have to go through a wilderness.22:56 And later in his life in Psalm 1 0 3, he reflects on his life and this is what he says, Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that's within me bless his holy name.23:08 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not his benefits, the inheritance. Look at this benefit package. Who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your23:20 disease, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagles. Who doesn't want this benefit23:31 package? Isn't this amazing? That when we come to God, that it's not about what's my piece of the pie. Like if pastor Garfield gets a piece that there's less for23:43 me. That God has a whole pie for me, a whole pie for pastor Garfield, a whole pie for Sean, and it's more based upon what I give to God so there's room for what God gives to23:55 me. See, notice, it says, bless the Lord, oh my soul, all that's within me bless his holy name. So before we talk about the benefits, what24:07 what what the what the psalmist is doing, he's saying, I'm gonna give everything to God so there's room for God to give everything to me. But many times when we come to God, and this was my experience when I came to24:19 God, all I wanted to do is receive from God. I didn't wanna change nothing about my habits, my desires, my no. No. I heard Jesus could heal24:30 you and so and there may be a picture on the screen of the pie that's from Psalm 1 0 3 because we come to Jesus, we smell this pie. Man, I want that forgiveness. Man, I want that healing. God,24:42 how many more crowns you got? I want renewal. I want satisfaction, and we're going to God and say, just God, give me this. Give me this. Give me this. And God is like, how can I24:54 feel you when you're already full of yourself? So what the psalm is actually saying is, bless the Lord, oh my soul,25:07 all that's within me. So what what what we're supposed to do is give God all that's within us. The problem is what's within us is bad. We got sin,25:18 desires, wounds. We got pits. We have control issue. Our thoughts are not all over the place. And what God is saying is my love language is confession.25:30 My love language is release. My love language is give me your honesty. And the more that you give yourself of me, the more that you can receive from me. There are25:42 so many Christians that are looking at other why are they so blessed like that? Why wait wait. Look at what you're giving God before you see what other people are receiving from God.25:53 There is 1 level of Christianity. Gotta trust God. I gotta make sure I trust God. Trust in God. There's another level of Christianity. Does God trust you?26:04 The blessings that we're asking to receive, does God trust you for that? Because 1 of my failures as a Christian is coming26:16 here, learning the songs, starting to serve, but holding on to my thoughts, holding on to my control. But God, will you give me renewal? And that26:27 tension right there is a wage mentality. Where, God, I I I I I've given you this, now give me that. Or I don't26:39 deserve nothing from God because I'm not worth anything. And that's why it's by faith, not by works. But Caleb is in this moment of his life, and he26:51 said, you know what? God was faithful then, and it's been 45 years. God is still faithful now. I'm gonna still declare that same promise, and I'm gonna trust that even though I have a new leader, back then my leader was27:03 Moses, now my leader is Joshua. But you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna keep declaring what the Lord said, not just what Moses said. 1 of the things you and I can do for27:14 application, we're gonna put this grid on the screen right here. And maybe you can just pick which 1 of these items is an area of focus.27:26 Meaning that, like for me, it's my thoughts. Like I Romans 12, don't be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. Right? So27:38 I need to release thoughts so I can get new thoughts. His mercies are new every morning so I gotta cast out old thoughts. If we want a crown, we gotta give up control.27:51 And if we look at Psalm 1 0 3, it's he crowns us with steadfast love and mercy. It's a mercy mindset. And when we seek control, mercy is not really on our mind.28:04 So it'll be just a good exercise because Psalm 1 0 3 is beautiful, but just remember it says, and all that's within me bless his holy name, and then I get the benefits. So28:16 that'd be just good to think about for application. So 0.1, we talked about an inheritance defined. 0.2, an inheritance declared, and we'll close with an inheritance28:28 dispersed. We're gonna read 13 through 15. Caleb is declaring what he believes God says is for him, and let's see how God, through his leader, responds.28:40 Then Joshua blessed him. He didn't say, stop complaining. Why are you no. No. No. Joshua blessed him. And he gave Hebron to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, for an28:52 inheritance. It's beautiful. Then Hebron became an inheritance of Caleb, son of Jephunah, the Cheshonite to this day because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel. Now29:03 the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath Arba. Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim, the giants, Goliath's family. And the and and the land had rest29:15 from war. There's a quote from Coryton Bohm. It says, God is not merely preparing a place for us. He is preparing us for the place.29:29 That that right there would just have me sit down with some tea and be like, Lord, sorry. Because I'd be thinking I'm ready for stuff I'm not ready for. Maybe I prayed for29:41 something and it's like, thank God he didn't give that to me then. Or did you ever pray for something, you get it, you're like, why did God take this from me?29:53 It'll just be wise that we just ask God. God, open the doors that you wanna open. Close the door that needs to be shut. Let me not be trying to pry doors open. Give me the courage to walk through the doors that you open,30:05 but let me not be prying through other people's doors. 45, your testimony. I'll tell you a story for the sake of time. I'll conclude with this.30:17 I remember I I was an assistant vice president at Bank of America, and man, I thought I had it. I thought I made it until I lost it.30:29 And when I lost it, I was looking for redemption. God is gonna give me an inheritance. And then I get into another job and I thought this job was my inheritance.30:41 God sometimes sometimes things happen in life and instead of asking God how should I interpret this, we interpret it and say, God, make that the interpretation. Yes. Oh, maybe30:53 maybe not y'all because y'all so quiet. I I do that. I've done that. So I get a new job and I thought it's perfect because I'm working for a university. Great31:05 money. Great benefits. The timing that my oldest daughter's about to go to college, about to this is perfect. Thank you God for my inheritance. It wasn't inheritance. It was31:16 training. It ended up being 1 of the most painful, humiliating, crushing jobs I've ever had in my life. And I thank God for every moment of it31:28 because God knows my future. He was training me. I remember being in an investigation with my employees,31:40 and it was like the unions and all these different things. And I'm like, Lord, this is so draining. And I remember my boss's boss came to me. I never spoke to this man before.31:52 So Aaron followed me. Walked in the office, shut his door. Big ole office. Like, wow. What are you He was like, hey. I just want you to know what's going on right now. They're lying on you. I'm gonna protect you. I32:04 didn't know he knew my name. I'm a I'm a protect you. And I I I see you. I like what you got here. You're probably gonna get promoted. Oh, I drove home like, yeah. Yeah. God, yeah. Yeah.32:16 So did. He got fired a week later. And I'm like, oh god. What am supposed to do here? Trusting in the32:28 hand of your leader more than the hand of your Lord. And it would be cute if I'm like, and look what God did32:40 now. And now, I'm a pastor and this is my inheritance. But no, what God did is change my palette on what an inheritance is.32:52 My my my inheritance today is Matthew chapter 6 verse 11. It's the Lord's prayer. Give us this day our daily bread. Give me the daily bread that33:04 I need to be a blessing for others today. 1 of 1 of the and remember I said earlier, 1 of the things that that I need to grow in is in my thought life. So sometimes I33:16 negotiate in my mind, I just gotta get to this day. And God is saying, no. No. This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it.33:29 And this is what the word of God is supposed to do in our life. Have us reflect to us and have it read us. What does it do for you? What are the areas in your life? What are the stories in your life where you're33:40 considering this to be an inheritance? Or what are the moments in your life where you feel like you've been overlooked? What are the moments in your life where you feel like you're Caleb, and Joshua gets all the credit,33:51 and you're in the background? Have you forgot about God's promises? Are you low key upset with God? And what I wanna tell you today is34:03 Psalm 1 0 3 makes it very plain. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that's within me. What's within me sometimes is anger. God can handle your anger.34:15 But just please give God your anger before your employees. Give God your anger before your spouse. Give God your anger before your kids. The Bible says be34:27 angry, don't sin. So God can handle those moments, but then when you release that, you give that to God, will you stay long enough to receive the promise that He has for you?34:40 For Caleb, it's 45 years. So it took his loyalty, it took his obedience, it took his integrity, but also his courage to step up and say, you know what? I've been faithful for 45 years.34:52 I still got strength. I'm still on the team. And I remember the last leader said that this is for me, and God said that this is for me, so I'm stepping up to that.35:08 I want you to think about your slice of the pie. When we when we because when I worked in corporate America, in order for me35:20 to win, somebody else had to lose. And I was okay with that. Kingdom of God is completely different. Kingdom of God is we both win,35:32 but we win on God's terms because we're on God's team. So the whole goal is getting with God and saying, God, what slices of35:44 pie am I missing out on? I want the whole pie, but show me things in me that I need to release out of me so I can receive more from you.35:55 Let's pray. God, thank you so much for this holy moment. And I think it's just appropriate for us to just change the cadence of36:07 this moment. And just think about broken promises from people and interpreting that as if36:19 you've broken your promise. You've reminded us tonight that no matter how long it takes on our timing, your timing's perfect. Because by36:31 the time you gave Caleb his inheritance, he wasn't weaker. He had the same strength. Give us the strength to endure your timing for the promises and36:43 the inheritance you have for us. Give us the honesty to release all that's within us. You said in your word, blessed are the poor in spirit36:55 for theirs is the kingdom of God. God, help us to be destitute. Help us to to be open with you on where we really are so we can receive all you have for us. In37:07 Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. You know, before we leave and online, I would love for you to lock in with me. I would listen to37:18 messages like this. I'm like, man, that's that's some really good content. And and what I gotta do is I gotta wait on God. And I would try to run plays without37:30 eating the first slice. The first slice of the faith journey is forgiveness. So what I wanna extend37:42 an invitation to, you may know church, but you don't know Jesus. So it's gonna be very complex for you to try to give up control,37:53 give up desires, give up your wounds, and you don't know if you're saved yet. Or to really know how much you're loved, that Jesus Christ38:05 died for all of our sin to reconcile our relationship with God the Father. You're worth dying for. And that truth is enough for38:17 us. When we taste that slice of forgiveness, we're saying, dang, man. This tastes good. God, you're my savior. And some of us stay at that slice.38:30 That we only limit God that when I mess up, I ask for forgiveness. We keep him as savior. We never make him Lord. And the reason why we never make him38:41 Lord, we don't wanna give up our slice of control. God, I know you'll forgive me for my past. No. I got my current relationship, my current situation, where I'm a live, where I'm38:53 over. So I believe that there's 2 groups of people in here that I'm talking to specifically. The bible says taste and see that the Lord is good. The39:05 bible says the goodness of God lead leads to repentance. Meaning that God will be so good to you, it'll change your mind about God and yourself. Will you taste his forgiveness39:17 tonight? And what and what it tastes like is freedom. What it tastes like, I don't have to remember my past. There's 1 song that says, I don't have time to maintain these39:29 regrets when I think about the way that he loves. Taste his forgiveness tonight. Make him your savior. And I believe that there's a group of people in here that you're gonna taste that first slice. You're gonna giveShow more
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