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0:00 I wanna do a series of messages called power up. Somebody say power up. Power up. And I wanna talk to you on this idea of formed and filled up for life. Take out your bibles at all of our locations. Go to0:12 Genesis chapter 1. Can someone here in the front row just hand me your notes for a second, that note page? Thanks so much. What's your name? Amari. Amari? Hi, Amari. Awesome. Thank you. Take out your0:24 notes, they look like this. I just stole them from somebody named Amari. And I'll give them back, here you go, At all locations. If you don't have the notes at locations or if you're online, you can go to0:35 waterschurch dot guide. It looks like that. Now you'll see here for North Attleboro and I think for Apollo Beach, what's happening, there is Financial Peace University. If you wanna get your money in order, and and0:47 and husbands and wives, if you wanna stop arguing about money, take Financial Peace. So that starts this Tuesday here in North Attleboro. I don't know. Check the date about when it starts in Apollo Beach. Not0:59 quite sure. But that is available to you to help you and empower you, give you the power that you need to rule your finances and not let your finances rule you. So1:11 this Tuesday is a the first class is always a preview and you don't have to go further than that, but just check it out. I encourage it highly. So power up, part 1, Genesis1:23 chapter 1. And the title of the message is formed and filled up for life. Our world is in a power crisis. I don't1:35 know if you're seeing what I'm seeing watching the news. Lots of debate, argument, tension, stress about power. Californians have been through1:46 this horrible heat wave and and the funny thing is is that while their governor is telling them no more gas powered cars, only electric in the future, they're1:58 also telling them to stop charging their electric cars to save power. So it's kind of ironic that that's happening, but nonetheless, there's a there's a need for power. There's a stress on2:10 our lives in this age for power. So California's are dealing with a few years back, Texans I don't know if you remember when Texas was going through a terrible winter. Something happened in the cosmos and God sent New2:22 England's winter to Texas. And so they didn't have the power grid necessary, the heating capacity to take care of that problem. They quickly realized how much they needed power.2:34 And right now, and I don't know if you're seeing what I'm seeing, but Europe is freaking out over power. Their utility bills have tripled, quadrupled, quintupled2:46 in some cases. People getting bills for electricity. Used to be 300 a month. Now it's like 3000 a month. And whatever whatever, you know, monetary system they use, the prime2:58 minister of of England just capped everybody's utility bill at 2500 pounds for the whole year. And and so the government's gonna pay for the rest of their power. Like,3:10 there's a power problem in our world. Russia just said that they're gonna cut off Nord Stream 2, the gas the gas line to Europe until the European countries stop3:22 sanctioning Russia over their efforts to occupy Ukraine. And and then here in this country, there's left and right arguments about everything, and so there's left right arguments about3:34 power. What are we gonna do with power now? Power in the future. Get off of fossil fuels. Get on to renewable energies, and how are we gonna make that happen, and how are we gonna advance in the future? Because here's3:44 what we all know. We need power. And what's powering us today may not be here tomorrow. Let me talk about you.3:57 Individually, you need power. Now I'm a big believer that the physical speaks to the spiritual. So this is all throughout the bible that when Jesus4:08 talks about the word of God, he compares it to bread. He says it's like eating food. That's that the bible's like eating food in your spiritual life that if you want a strong4:20 body, you eat bread. You eat to strengthen your body. But if you want a strong spirit, you eat the bread of life, the word of god. Can I get a good amen in all locations right there?4:31 I've got nothing to say to you outside of what god has revealed in his word. That's all I've got. I've got the word of god. I'm not up here to talk about social issues,4:42 politics, and all that kind of stuff that will kind of get touched on but primarily, we're here to talk about the living, abiding, never changing, inalterable, life giving word of the living god. If4:54 you get this word in you, you'll get power in your life. Your body is a power cell. I don't know if you understand that but right now, every moment that5:06 you're alive, you are emitting power. Right now, you're emitting power in in measurements of heat. I don't know if you understand this, but every hour you emit 585:18 watts of heat. Every hour. That's why when you get into a big room, it's important to have nice, powerful air conditionings so that when people get next to you, they don't fry you5:29 up. Amen. That might be what hell is. Everybody's just so close to each other. We're all just burning each other up. That's probably what it is. I don't know. Anyway, you're a power system. Now now I was doing some5:41 research about this. You you gotta be careful to understand how your physical body operates. Your 3 main power structures in your body, did you know what they are? They5:53 are the brain, the lungs, and the heart. These are the 3 organs that provide power to your body. But every 1 of those organs is made up of cells, and those6:04 cells bring power to the organs, which bring power to your body. But even in the cells, scientists have discovered that there is something called the mitochondrial structure. Does anybody know what I'm talking about?6:16 Mitochondrial structures are the parts of your cell that take your food, your new what you put in and turn it into either6:28 positive, good energy or bad energy. And there is this explosive amount of dietary research going on that6:39 also also is tied to your genetics, so your ancestry on what you should eat for your mitochondrials that have been shaped through hundreds of years of6:50 ancestry that will bring good power to your so for some people, you better be eating vegetables because it's in your DNA and and in ancestry. And so veggie diets, vegan diets, good7:02 for you. For the rest of us normal people, I want me some beef. Hallelujah. I want some steak and ribs and, you know,7:14 maybe not pork ribs, beef ribs. But nonetheless, we we need to do a lot of research now. And I like this because I like my body functioning at peak capacity. And so they've done all this7:26 study about what will feed your mitochondrials, which will feed your cells, which will feed your organs, which will feed your body. And wouldn't you know that the thing that won't do the best for you is not7:38 McDonald's. I didn't know that. That's sad to hear. You actually need to eat right. Now I I imagine that no 1 came in here amped up to learn about mitochondrials today.7:51 And you're probably wondering why is my pastor talking about that? Well, here's why. Because sometimes it's the little things that we don't know that once we know8:03 can change all things. If you ignore your mitochondrials, you suffer. If you ignore what they need, you suffer. Here's the deal. I believe what's in this physical speaks to the8:14 spiritual. If you ignore what's in your spiritual mitochondrials, You're gonna suffer. You're not gonna have the energy God wants for you. And8:26 I'm a big believer in being empowered for Christ. I want you, I want us not to not to feel the weight of8:38 sin on your shoulders, on your back. Some of you are walking through life with guilt all up in here. You got a backpack full of guilt. It's not even 1 of those8:49 normal backpacks from Target. It's 1 of those army issued, military, marine issued backpacks that go from up here to down here, and you've carried your guilt to your life, and you're always hunched over in9:01 guilt and in shame. And some of you are carrying hurt from the past, and what your parents did and what your brother did and what somebody in high school did or what an ex spouse did and you're just carrying your9:11 backpack full of pain and you got all these and some of you got physical ailments and you can't walk as you used to and you can't talk as you used to and you can't remember things like you used to and you've bought into9:22 the lie that the older you get, the worse it gets. That's true for the non Christian but for the god fearing Jesus loving Christian, it gets better with age. Jesus saves the best wine for9:34 last. I'm speaking as somebody who just had a birthday. Hallelujah. I'm excited about getting better. But this is the thing, you need to get some strength in your life, or you'll get9:45 destroyed by all the conflict and worries and stresses and hurts and pains of your life. That's what this series is about. We're gonna look at 7 6, 7 things, something9:57 somewhere in there, from the scriptures that give us power. And the first thing that gives us power is the word of God. Let's stand for the reading of God's word at all of our10:08 locations. If you're new to our South Coast location, this is what we do every week. We stand to read God's word because when we read this book, we are not reading the words of men, but the words of the almighty10:20 God. Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void. Somebody say, without form and void. Without10:32 form and void. And darkness was over the face of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, let there be light. And God10:43 said, let there be light. Next very next line, and there was light. And God saw that the light was good, and God10:55 separated. Somebody say separated. Separated. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Separated the light from the darkness and god called the light day and the darkness he called night and there was11:07 evening and there was morning, the first day. This is the reading of God's word. Let's pray together. Heavenly Father, speak to your people.11:19 Speak through me. Forgive your servant, his sins. There are many, Lord. Thank you for the grace that brings us together. Thank you for the Holy Spirit that11:30 lives inside of us. Thank you for the word that inspires, transforms, and changes us. May we hear your voice, and may we see Jesus, him and him only. In his mighty name, we pray. And everybody said Amen.11:42 Amen. At all locations, God bless you. Have a seat. I don't know if you're like me, but in my house, there is a constant battle for power.11:55 We've got several devices. We're a family of 5. We got several devices, watches, iPads, phones, and then all kinds of other things that have to get charged. And12:07 I am a constant victim of my family stealing my charging cables. I live with thieves, ladies and gentlemen. And12:19 what they do, they'll steal mine, but they'll I swear they do this. I I've gotta get it on video, but they'll replace my cables with other ones just to look like they didn't steal it. And then I'll go to the cable and12:30 I'll like you ever anybody ever do this? You see the white cable, you think, I found power. Okay. And you get all excited. You walk up to the cable and you do the little thing where you come to the end of the cables,12:40 wrong end. Anybody ever do that? Like, that's not a lightning. That's a USB c piece of junk, you know, you throw it away. That's not gonna do look, you gotta have the right connection if you're gonna get12:51 power to your devices. In your life, you gotta have the right connection. Now how has god how has god made us to connect? How do we connect? Through speech,13:04 through talking. We say people, just interpersonal. Doesn't have to be Christian thing. We connect to each other by talking to hi. My name is so13:16 right. Well, hi. Nice to meet you. Speech is a connector. Right from the very first page of the Bible, God is telling us something about how we13:28 connect to him. He speaks and we hear. That's God speaking to us. And if you ever want God to speak to you, all you gotta do is13:39 open the bible. And so it's such a privilege to be able to do that. The God of the universe wants to speak to you. Now I'll be I know what some of you are saying. I have a hard13:51 time receiving or understanding the bible. Okay. If you're in a part of the bible you don't understand, just move on. Go to another part. Go to the New Testament. Primarily, to the New14:03 Testament. Right? And and get yourself some modern version translation. I'm not 1 of these guys where you gotta go only to the King James or only to the ESV. I'm a guy man, whatever it takes to get you to hear God's14:14 word, do it. Amen. Amen. Because it will bring it's your connection to the 1 who created you, the 1 who formed you. The very first verse of the Bible14:26 reminds us that no 1 is here without God. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. What an opening. What a what a14:37 start to a story. It doesn't get much bigger than that. God, the biggest creator. Heavens and earth, everything we could ever see or ask or receive,14:49 and it all starts with God. And then I love what Colossians says about unpacking this text a little bit more. Colossians chapter 1 16, Paul says, for by him, all things were15:01 created, whether they're in heaven or on earth, visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authority. All things were created through him and15:13 look at the last 2 words. For him. For him. Even bigger to understand. I'm not just created by god. I'm created for god. Whoo. Oh, I love15:25 that. What are you here for? You are here for god. Young people going to college, you think you're gonna be an engineer or a nurse or something. Yes, that's what you do, but you do15:37 that for god. If you're teaching in our public schools, god bless you. You are there for God. If you're a doctor, a lawyer, a nurse, a janitor, it doesn't matter what you're you15:49 are here not for yourself, but you are here to bring glory to a mighty God. Amen. That's your life. That's what you're here for. God created you for16:00 himself. Listen to me. Worst sinner among us. Where are you? I I know you're here somewhere. You might feel unworthy. Can I tell you, God can make you worthy?16:13 And he wants to bring you back to himself. He started you. Now here's the truth. I want you to write this down in your notes. What starts you, sustains you.16:27 What starts you sustain you don't take diesel fuel and put it in a gas engine. K? You don't you don't put gas in a diesel engine.16:39 You you gotta you gotta know what feeds your spirit and give your spirit more of that. And what started you sustained. God started you.16:51 Now you may have gone off track. You may have gone wrong. You may have made a lot of mistakes and and sinned and and and angered the holy spirit and ruined a bunch of relationships. But can I17:03 tell you that the same god who started you can find you and restore you to his original intention? In fact, that's what's happening right now. The original intention of this17:15 book is god and man dwelling together, and that's how it starts. And guess what? If you read the book of Revelation, that's how it ends. God and man living together in a new heavens and a new earth. No sin, no shame, no17:27 tears, no crying, no COVID. Hallelujah. That's how it is. So this is this is what god is up to. And if you wanna get power in your life, you gotta get connected to the author of life. Now look at what it17:39 says here in verse 2. It says, the earth was without form and void. That without form and void phrase is a descriptor17:51 of all created matter before the word of God comes to it. God has not said anything yet. Verse 3 says, and God said.18:03 But verse 2 says, this was the state of the created things before God started to speak to it. I want you to see this because important. Now the word without form and void in Hebrew18:15 is tuhu wa boohoo. I only share that because it is so fun to say tuhu wa boohoo. I talked to somebody in the office and18:27 I said, hey. They thought I was talking pig Latin. It's it's Hebrew for without form and void. Come on. Everybody in all occasions say that on the count of 3.18:38 1, 2, 3. Tuhu. Yeah. Yeah. Just turn to your neighbor and say, hey. Without god, you are tuhu wa boohoo. That's who you are without god.18:51 I love it. So with your bibles open, look with me again at verse 1, 2, and 3. Verse 1, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And verse 2, the earth was and19:04 darkness and the spirit but the spirit was there. And verse 3, and what? And God said. So God's word is the19:15 means by which becomes no longer. God's word is the means by which you are no19:27 longer formless and empty. Did you hear that? The thing that you need to bring form, shape, and19:39 fullness to your life is God's word. Amen. Amen. Formed and filled for life. My son brought this out yesterday. I forgot that I bought him. Does anybody bought19:51 him this a couple years ago? Anybody know what this is? Anybody know? What is it? It's a balloon. Yeah. Yeah. Can I do anything really with this balloon except tie it up20:03 in knots? No. No. But but listen. This is the cool thing. Can I get that mic stand out here? Stagehand friend, thank you so much. I'm gonna try20:15 this. I didn't practice it much. If you get yourself an air supply to this sucker, watch this.20:29 That's god's word going into you. Gonna leave that there just in case this goes poorly. And then god just kinda, like, seals you in the holy spirit. Hallelujah.20:41 That's the scripture says. He seals us in the holy spirit. Come on. Come on. Here we go. Now god's got something to work with.20:54 The spirit of god was hovering over the surface of the deep. And now God can start to take your life and make you something worth21:07 seeing, make you something worth having make you something other people can say, that's pretty cool.21:18 You were just flopping in the wind a few years ago, but now21:32 Who let the dogs out? All right. All right. Stop that. Tohoo wa bohoo. Okay. That is what God's word does to21:44 you. It fills you so God can form you. Otherwise otherwise, this is all you are. So so the do you need the word21:56 of God? You need to you don't need to binge watch Friends again or The Office. You you need the word of God. Some of you22:07 got your relationships jacked up, but all you've let come in is friends. You you need the word of God. You need truth that will put you together. So 0.1,22:19 God's word puts me together. Write it down. If you're not taking notes, write it down. God's word puts me together. This is how God has chosen to open up the text. This is how God22:31 starts everything. I speak and things happen. I speak and things happen. I speak, light comes into existence. I speak and I declare what things are. Did you see? He22:43 called the light day. He called the darkness night, And then he separated the night from the day. That's what God does. He speaks and things start to happen22:55 in our lives. It's amazing to this day when I preach from this stage and I've preached for 20 plus years. It is amazing to this day that 2 people can come into the room where I'm preaching and23:07 they can sit and hear the same words. And 1 person walks away offended and another person walks away totally changed. Because the word of God does that. It separates. It fills. It forms.23:19 So I wanna give you some points underneath this point about God's word putting you together. Number letter a, receiving God's word forms my faith. If you want faith, get God's word in you.23:32 Romans chapter 10 verse 17, and faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ. Go back to the point, guys. Letter a, receiving God's word, forms my faith. You need work23:44 you need to put the word of God in if you're gonna believe God's word. It's like it's like a letter. Somebody leaves you. I will be back in town in 3 weeks, and you're not gonna show up at the airport unless23:56 you believe what you've read in the text. You gotta read god's word. Remember that god Jesus said, I'm going away. I'm gonna go up into heaven and I'm gonna rule and reign from there but I'm coming back24:08 again. See, there's a lot of people who aren't gonna be ready. The scripture says there 5 virgins who are foolish and 5 virgins who are wise. Half the church is not gonna be ready for the return of Christ. You know why?24:17 Because they stopped reading the letter that Jesus sent them. I'm going away for a while, but I'm coming back. Get ready cause the world's gonna change. I want you ready for my coming. This is this is the end of the that24:29 we're looking forward to, and it will give you faith when you don't see it. And sometimes it'll give you faith when you see the nations raging, and you see the crazy of our country and you see the wars and the rumors of24:41 wars and you realize that what Jesus said is 100 percent true. Yeah. Yeah. Because I read the letter he sent me. Plagues and pestilences and famines and droughts and war24:54 this stuff. They call it climate change. I call it Jesus' warm up act. He's coming back again. I love what first Timothy says. Second Timothy 3 15, Paul writing to25:06 Timothy, and he says, you from childhood have been acquainted with the sacred writings. What are those? Those are the scriptures, which are able. I love that. The sacred writings are able. Underline able in your25:18 notes. They are able to make you wise salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. God's word makes God's word makes us able25:30 to understand salvation and faith. How do I come to how many people I've heard their story telling me that all they did was they just started reading the bible, and before they25:42 knew it, they were changed. So some of you are living with darkness all around your life. The scripture says this is a light. You wanna get you wanna get25:54 light in your life? You wanna get light scattering the dark areas of your life? Get yourself this word. Start reading it. Start listening to it. Putting it in. Number letter b, receiving God's word26:05 reforms my body. Let's go to letter b. Receiving God's word reforms my body. It fixes your body. It does. There's a26:17 fantastic book you should get ahold of. I've talked about it on my YouTube channel several times. It's called None of These Diseases. It's from a text in Deuteronomy about how how God before the Israelites go into the26:29 land, he says, listen. If you listen to my word, none of the diseases that have plagued all these nations shall touch you. And so the book is called None of These Diseases because, listen, life without God will lead to26:39 disease and disrepair in your body. Ever realize that God gave his people a diet? That he gave them a physical diet. That diet was no shellfish, no pork, no all that stuff. Right?26:51 And it was specific for them because I think that god knew what their genealogical makeup was and what was perfect for their bodies, and then he also wanted them to be distinct and separate from the nations that ate all27:01 those foods. So so God gave them a physical because the word of God will help you live healthy. And in that book, none of these diseases, it talks about the the diseases that are caused by27:13 drunkenness, diseases that are caused by smoking, diseases that are caused by sex outside of marriage as God defines between 1 man and 1 woman.27:25 And and now we got monkeypox, and people wanna figure out how do we solve the problem. Why is the problem there? Oh, we don't wanna talk about that. No. No. We just want the government to27:37 fix it. No. No. Why is the problem there? There there's an issue. There's a prop something's causing it. Now you can dance around the issue as a politician all you27:49 want, but there's a fact of the matter is, is that if we treat our bodies improperly, our bodies will rebel accordingly. And and then all about the science of28:00 overeating and and and and now isn't it amazing how our country is all about this? Don't fat shame people. Don't fat shame. That's fat shame. Don't be a fat shaman. Like seriously, we don't wanna tell anybody that maybe28:12 they should take care of their bodies? Like, that's where we're at now. This is not this is not fat shaming. This is helpful. I well, if I have cancer, I don't want the doctor saying, well, you you got something. I just28:23 don't wanna cancer shame you. Like, no. Tell me the real problem. But we live in a culture that is so devoid of truth, so empty of truth that28:35 they will eat the lie like it's going out of style. God's God's word will reform your body. Psalm 1 0 7 20, he sent out his word and28:46 healed them. His word came and he healed their body. Or how about Psalm 1 19 50? This is the comfort in my affliction that your28:58 promise, the word of god, your promise gives me life. Amen. Jesus saw a woman in the synagogue. She was hunched over. She couldn't straighten up. The doctors would have come along and29:10 said, spina bifida or osteoporosis or or whatever. They would have had a diagnosis. They can diagnose, but they can't deliver. God's word delivers people from the diagnosis. God, god's word is29:21 stronger than the cancer, stronger than the bone problem, stronger than the mental problem. Some of you got mental illness, mental illness, and sometimes I think that you just use those phrases to give you an excuse to29:33 act stupid but truth is there is such a thing as mental illness and god's word is stronger than your brain. It can reform your mind so that your brain is not struck down by anxiety and worry and consternation29:45 but your brain is rooted in the peace of God that surpasses all understanding. The older people I know that are healthy and29:57 strong in their body, they're people who love the word of God. They're people who honor God and serve others because that's what God's word says. You can either serve yourself or serve others. I got a picture30:09 here. I wanna put 2 people up on the screen. 1 of them made news this week. 1 of these people is not like the other.30:22 We all know the person on the right. That's queen Elizabeth the second. May God rest her soul in peace. She, I do believe, is with our Lord and savior Jesus Christ right now. This is30:34 this is a woman, 96 years old. I would like to look like that at 96. On the other side is Mick30:46 Jagger. Yeah. Time is not on his side. On the right is a woman who said at30:58 the age of 21, quote, put the next picture up, I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service. This is a woman who said,31:10 I hope that Jesus Christ comes back in my lifetime so that I can cast my crown at his feet. Hallelujah. This is a woman who said billions of people across the world follow the teachings of the lord Jesus Christ, and I am31:21 1 of them. And I don't know if we're ever gonna get someone like that again on the throne of England. The guy on the left said, quote, next picture, I can't get31:33 no satisfaction. And he tried, and he tried, and he tried and he tried. So which 1 of you31:45 which 1 of these 2 looks more like to hoo waboo hoo to you? How do you wanna look when you're older? That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm31:57 saying. Alright. Letter c. Receiving God's word informs my mind. So receiving God's word informs my mind. What are you learning32:08 today? Not everything that you learn is worth learning, gender studies majors. I don't know why I always have to slip into those things. I'm sorry.32:21 Psalm 1 19 98. Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies. Oh, I want that promise. Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies for it is ever with me. I have32:33 more understanding than all my teachers for your testimonies are my meditation. You wanna be smarter than the people in your office? Get ahold of God's word.32:44 You wanna be the smartest business owner your division, in your in your locale? Get a hold of God's word and then pump your employees full of it. You know, you might have to do it, like,32:56 secretly, but you can do it. You you wanna you wanna you might not be able to get valedictorian because of the way that the education system is working right now. But but if you wanna be smarter than the33:08 people who designate who's valedictorian, get a hold of God's word. Because who cares if they think you're stupid? The Bible says that God's foolishness is wiser than man's wisdom.33:21 And then I this. Receiving God's word informs my mind. Letter d, receiving God's word transforms my habits. Every word is a form. Forms my faith, reforms my33:33 body, informs my mind, and transforms my habits. How are you being formed? Psalm 1 19 11. I have stored up your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.33:46 Do you have the word up in here? I guarantee you, to the level that you have memorized and ingested and internalized and meditated upon the word of God, that's the level of victory that you're having over33:58 sin and temptation in your life. Say that again. You need to have more word to have more power in the face of temptation. When Jesus was in the wilderness, he didn't bring a Bible with him, Did he?34:10 He went out into the wilderness and the devil came and tempted him and he said, don't you think you're worthy enough of turning these stones into bread? If you're the son of god, you're hungry, feed yourself, serve34:19 yourself. And he said, it is written. Man does not live by bread alone. And then he brought him to the temple. He said, hey, if you're the son of god, throw yourself down because the bible says that the saint that the34:29 that the angels will come and protect you. And the and Jesus knew the bible better than the devil and said, yeah, but it's also written. Don't put your the lord your god to the test. Yep. Whoo. And then the devil came34:38 and said, look at all these kingdoms. Avoid the cross. I'll give you all the kingdoms. All you gotta do is bow down and worship him. It is written, Jesus said, worship the lord your god and serve him only and the Bible34:48 says in that moment, the devil left him. The devil can only take so much of you quoting back the scriptures. You want power in your life? Have it up in here so that when the temptation comes, you can speak it34:59 out. Yes. Yes. Amen. The devil the devil has no problem with philosophies of men. No problem with educational centers of men. The devil has a serious problem with the truth of God's word.35:12 Because he knows what this word says about him. It works what this word says about you, and most importantly, what this word says about yours and his future. And yours is bright and his is dark. That's why I always love35:24 to say whenever the devil reminds you of your past, just remind him of his future. Hallelujah. Point number 2, God's word sets me apart. God's word sets me apart.35:36 I love this 1. Sets you apart with truth. Verse 6 of Genesis chapter 1, and god said, let there be an expanse in the midst of the water. So the world, the earth35:48 was surrounded by waters, and god now let's separate the waters. And he separates the heavenly waters from the earthly waters. God's word listen. God's word separates. And then36:00 he made the expanse and separated the waters under the heavens from the the ones that are above the expanse, and it was so. Now if you look at the narrative of Genesis chapter 1, the rest of the the rest of the chapter,36:08 you will see this throughout the whole chapter. It says that God separates on the first 3 days. He creates space. And on the second 3 days, he he fills36:20 the space. This is a beautiful harmony of Genesis chapter 1. God creates the earth and the heavens in 6 days. Well, he doesn't do that. He creates order and structure to the heavens and the earth in 6 days.36:33 And so the first day, light and darkness, but then he separates them. And then then the waters below and the waters above, and he separate. He creates and then in day 3, he separates the waters36:45 on the earth from the land. This is important. You gotta realize how scripture speaks. Because right on the first page, god is showing you, this is how I operate. So I speak and things happen.36:57 I speak and I separate. I speak and I separate bad or darkness from light, land from sea, and disorder from order. And so37:09 then day 4, he fills the sky with the birds. On day 5, he fills the seas with fish. And on day 6, he fills the land with37:20 beasts and man. Are you hearing what's happening here? God separates first. This is what God's word does to you as a follower of Jesus.37:33 It separates you. It creates a division in your heart between the world and the world to come. You are no longer37:45 at home once you come to Christ. This earth is not your home. You are not gonna be comfortable here. You're not gonna be liked here. You're not gonna be celebrated37:57 here. You're gonna feel strange to this world. Anybody feel a little bit more strange every day? Amen. That's a good thing. Jesus said in John 17 when he was praying for the38:09 church, he said, sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth. So here the word sanctify, meaning make holy. Holy is not about moral performance. Holy is about38:20 being set apart for special purposes. Just like God separated the land to to have animals, and he separated the space to have birds. So God separates38:32 you from the world to fill you with his goodness. You're sanctified by the word. The word tells you this of course,38:44 this is what nonbelievers do, but this is what you do because you're a believer in Jesus. Christian, this is a good moment to do a self inventory, a check on your life.38:56 If you're living just like your pagan neighbor, something's wrong. If you're cohabitating as a young man and young woman and you're not getting married and you're waiting and39:08 praying about it and shacking up and fornicating, you are not sanctified. You need to let God's word sanctify you. There this might bring someShow more
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