Sunday March 15
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Um, it’s a joy, I don’t know, but you probably do forget just like me, but I try and remind myself how easy we have it, how easy we have it here in Canada right now, here in Delta, that we get to praise God and serve him just like we want to at any time. And so don’t ever take that for granted. Please, please, don’t ever take it for granted. I’m excited for today, just before we get into that, there’s one for next week, I want to ask that you would invite friends, family and all next week, we’re going to do something that we’ve never done before here at church. And it might sound crazy, but we’ve never done something like this, but across all of River Valley, we are going to do what’s called a Selah service. All right now, if you don’t know our theme for this year is speak Lord. We’re listening this year. We want to be more and more intentional about leaning into what God is saying to us. And so next week, we’re going to do this service called sailor service. And if you don’t know what the word Selah means, we’re going to talk about that next week, but we’re going to take some time within the service to just sit at the feet of Jesus as a church. And you might go, Whoa, we do that as a church. Yeah, we don’t do it enough. And so we’re going to start doing that next week in the middle of the service, part of it, we’re going to take 1015, minutes, and we’re just going to sit and listen to what God has to say. So I’m seriously excited for this. And as God, as we prepare for this, I know God’s going to start moving and doing great things, and I just ask that you would come with the only expectations of meeting Jesus, and that should be your expectation for every single week, by the way, but next week, it’s going to be a sale service, and I’m excited about it, and I hope that you would be as well. All right, are we ready for today? I’m ready. Why don’t you open up your Bibles to Genesis six? Genesis six, that’s where we’re going to be today. Yes, I heard oh no, oh no, over here. It’s good while you get there. I just quickly want to tell you that a couple weeks ago, we were in Minnesota, and we went to a youth conference. It was amazing. There was a pastor there, Noah Herron. He has a church in Nashville called way church, and he brought a message to the youth and it was so amazing. I had a fantastic time getting to connect with him, spending some time with him, the messages that he preached over the weekend was fantastic, and he preached for church as well. on Sunday, on that Sunday. And while we were sitting there, God was speaking to me, because I’ve been preparing a similar message and part of this series, because he that we’re doing, I was called because he the sermon series, and and then I was thinking, man, our church needs to hear this message. And so I wanted to play the video sermon, but then the Lord stirred in my heart more that I should come and preach it, and because I already have started planning towards that kind of message. So I just saying, I’m just saying that that some of my notes today are from Noah herons message. And I would like if you can even go and watch that sermon this week as well, just on river Valley’s page or wherever you consume content, go and watch it. It’s a fantastic message. And maybe one day we’ll get him to come and speak here in Vancouver as well. And I’m excited for that. But as you go to Genesis six, we’re going to be in verse 18 to 2218 to 22 and I want to share a little story before we read that in 2017 I believe it’s 2017 We got married in 2017
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Correct? Yes.
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All right, it’s good. It was August, month of August. I’m just gonna drag this out, August. That’s another point. All right,
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it was it was hot. That’s three points. All right, here we go. It was good. There were cows.
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It was great on the field. It was good. It was the 26th right, all right. I remember this day because it was one of the best days ever. It was so great. But someone’s. something to me that was really important that day. And it’s not that I do that. She said that was also it was amazing, okay? But someone pulled me aside that day and said this, because, you know, at weddings, you get all the like wisdom from all the people who’s been married, right? Anyone know what I’m talking about? Everyone wants to give you all the steps on like, what marriage gonna be like, All right, but okay. And so there was one piece of advice that I did take to heart, and it was the best ever. And this is Uncle Jim. He came up to me and he said, fish, the best advice that I’m gonna give you now is this, whenever Haley asks you anything or tells you anything, and she asks anything, ask to do you? Ask you to do anything, this is how you’re going to respond, okay. This will change your life. All you say is yes, dear, yes, dear, yes, dear, okay. That was the greatest advice that I received on August 26 2017 and it has changed my life.
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And Haley is shaking her head there,
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because she’s like, where did that go? Man,
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sometimes I reply saying, Sure, and that means yes dear as well. Okay, our language kind of changes over time. I’ll get back to saying Yes, dear more often. But in Genesis six, we find the story of Noah, the story of Noah, and all of us might have heard the story of Noah, and Noah is a man who ultimately went, not Yes, dear, but yes. God, yes, God. Let’s. this together in Genesis six. If you’re ready, say, I’m ready 18 to 22 but I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark. You your sons, your wife and your sons wives with you. There are about eight total that went there, and of every living thing, of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark and keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female, of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, and every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every sort shall come with you, and you shall keep them alive. Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten and store it up it shall serve as food for you and for them. And here’s a very important verse that I want to get to. Noah did this. He did all that God commanded him. Noah said, Yes, God. He said, Yes, God. That day in 2020, 2017, I said, not only do I say Yes, dear, today I will choose for the rest of my life. Today, yes, dear Noah, is a great example of saying yes, God for his whole life. So today’s title for the message, if you’re taking notes, is going to be this. We’re going to talk about the faithfulness and what it means to say yes, God, every single day it’s going to be because he is faithful. I can be faithful. Let’s pray. Thank you, God, so much for what you are doing here today, Lord, we we just thank You that You show up in any given moment into our lives, God, and it can change and shake our whole eternities. And God, we don’t want to just go after the moments. We want to go after a life with you. And so God, maybe today is another moment in that life with you, Lord. I just pray that You would speak to us. I pray that you would reveal yourself to us as we as we dive into scripture, as we dive into what you want to say to us today. And I just ask that You would speak to all of us in the way that we need to hear your voice this morning. We love you, God, thank You that Your Word is true, it is real, and it impacts us every single time we open it up. And it’s so amazing to sit right next to the author, to stand right next to the author of the book that we’re reading. And so I thank You, Lord, You are good. Thank you that you are here today in your
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mighty name. We pray. We will say amen,
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and amen. You see, the story of Noah is a story of faithfulness. It’s a story of faithfulness. It’s a great story, and we want to talk about it today. And you might have, like, heard about the story, like, from being a kid. Anyone learned the story about Noah when they were, like, younger, and it’s all about the animals, right? They went in two by two. It’s so cute. They hopped along. All the birds were flying two by two into the ark. How did Noah get them all in there? That’s another sermon for another day, but that’s what we know of the story of Noah. But now that I’m an adult, which, by the way, I am an adult, so when I refer to the younger generation, I’m allowed to, because there is a younger generation than me, all right, but now that I’m older, I look at this story from a whole different viewpoint. I find different things in it. Why? Because I’m more intentional about reading the Word and studying the Word of God. But the story of Noah really talks about faithfulness, faithfulness, and as much as I really wish that he would have just left the cats and the snakes and the spiders off the Boat.
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I want to talk about Noah’s character
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that’s hilarious. Jesus faithfulness, Noah’s faithfulness.
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That’s what we’re going to
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talk about today. The word faithfulness shows up a lot in the Bible, and I want to look at it. It comes from a root word that means to be steadfast, to have steadfastness connected to a trustworthiness that means to be reliable. And here’s a fun one. It is unchangeableness. Did anyone know that that’s the word? I did not unchangeableness. It’s a great one. That’s where the word faithfulness comes from, and it’s great. In the Bible, we can see that there is a faithful God and there’s faithful men and women.
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And we find ourselves in a place today where we get to
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choose whether or not we are going to be faithful to a faithful God. It’s a great word faithfulness. God’s faithfulness to us we have to realize is the very foundation of our faithfulness to him. So we get to be faithful because he is faithful. And if you ever thought that God had let you down in your life, I just want to say that you just got to spend time with him, and you’ll find and you’ll realize all the times that he has been faithful in your life. And I’m here to tell you today that we serve a faithful God no matter what, no matter what you might be going through, no matter what you might be facing. He is a faithful God. This morning, I heard great testimony from one of the guys here in our church too about how God has been faithful throughout his whole life, 60 years old, and he’s reflecting back on times in his life, and he’s like God has been faithful to me all this time. Why? Because I’m here today speaking to you, God is faithful. That word Faithful is a big word, and we have to understand what it means and why we should live faithful lives. It’s actually also the same root word the faithful comes from, the same root word that Amen comes from. If you didn’t know that, amen, you know, we say it’s true. It can be trusted. When we say at the end of prayers, we say it is a universal thing all around the world, people say Amen, but it’s connected to faithfulness. And so every time we pray, every time I go, Amen and Amen, we’re declaring the faithfulness of God in what we’re talking to about, it’s a great word, Deuteronomy, seven, nine says, Therefore, know, therefore that the Lord your God is God. He’s the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love Him and keep His commandments to 1000 generations. Anyone here today that love God, that love God that say, I love a faithful God. And what I found here by reading more and more scripture about the faithfulness of God, I discovered that faithfulness is always connected to a covenant, just like a saying there that he’s a god that keeps covenant and with His steadfast love to those who love Him, that God has made covenants with us. God has made a great covenant with us, and we’re going to get to that. But faithfulness in the Bible is connected to covenant where covenants are made, faithfulness will have to follow. See God made a covenant with Noah in Genesis six, right in the beginning of verse 18, it says that God made a covenant with Noah. Now, if you just go before that, prior to verse 18, you’ll hear all about how God’s people had turned away from him, and God was going to come and do a great reset, in this sense, and God made a covenant with Noah, he said, Because you love me so much. Here’s what’s going to happen. You’re going to take these eight people, you’re going to go onto the ark, and we’re going to do a little bit of Clean up, clean up everybody. It’s kind of what happened there. Yeah, there was a covenant made, and there was faithfulness that followed in the story. Noah’s faithfulness to God was connected to the covenant that he made with him. And I love that there’s so many examples in the Bible. You look at Abraham and all these, all these guys in the Bible, where there’s a covenant made and faithfulness that’s a part of the covenant. And today, the covenant that God has made with his people really comes the way that we grab hold of this covenant that God has now with all all the people, is through the New Testament. What happened in the New Testament? And it all comes down to Jesus, and that’s where I kind of want to get to today. If you would allow me, we’re going to get there, alright, but covenant, covenant language is used all over the Bible, and I’m grateful that we use covenant language in the Bible and not contractual language. I love that there are no contracts, but there’s covenants in the Bible. Anyone know what I’m talking about? Because a contract means, if you fail, the agreement is off. If you fail, the agreement is off. But God makes covenants, and it says, Even when you fail, I will be faithful. I will be faithful, which is talking about 2017 August, 26 why? Because that day, me and Haley stepped into a covenant together. We didn’t just sign a contract. Did we sign some papers? Yes, to be legally married? Here we did, but we stepped into a covenant, a covenant under the authority of God, saying that even when we fail each other, we will remain faithful in pursuing each other, and I will keep on saying Yes, dear, yes, dear, because a contract means that you can just walk away and that it can be cut The moment that you failed, the agreement is broken. But a covenant is something much greater, much greater, much greater. God made covenants. He made a lot of covenants in the Old Testament, we see with Noah, with Abraham, you read the old story with Israel. God made covenants, and then the New Covenant came through Jesus. I love this, this word covenant. It comes from the root word bereaved, which means testament, testament. So when you talk about a covenant and talk about testament, so now we read the Bible, it’s kind of if you’re if you’re new to reading the Bible, you’ve been reading for a long time. We got the Old Testament and the New Testament, the two big sections of the Bible. In the Old Testament, we can see how God made covenants with individual people, and then it’s the judgment of God came unto the people, and he made covenants with these people, and how to lead the people through to God’s promises. And then the New Testament, the New Covenant, is all about Jesus, and that Jesus is the one that brought the fulfillment of God’s covenant in how we can be in right standing with God is through Jesus. So in the Old Testament, the Old Covenant, and then we have the new covenant. I just find this fascinating that all over you would find this because why? Why are covenants so important? Because you get, you get two parties, in a relationship, joining together. And this is the very message of God. God is not this, this religion that we like go after this, this thing, this dude up in the sky, the big man upstairs. He’s not that. He’s a relational God that wants to be involved in your whole life, and the way that we get to be in relationship with Him is through the New Covenant. Just like God made a covenant with Noah, saving his family, God made a covenant with all people right now, saving all of humanity through Jesus, is the new covenant that God made with his people. CS Lewis wrote, he said, faith or faithfulness is the art of holding on to things you your reason has once accepted in spite of all your changing moods.
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I bring that up to say that God has a covenant with us, and we are supposed to follow in faithfulness to keep with that covenant with him. But here’s the thing, life gets tough. Life gets tough. Times get rough. We feel great and we feel horrible, like we go up and we go down. We have all these emotions and feelings and and moods that we go through and faithfulness with God. Our covenant with God is not based on feelings, and it should never be, because you’re going to find yourself on a roller coaster. It’s never going to end, and it’s just going to make you sick. And so what see, as Lewis was writing there, he says, Your faithfulness to God should not be depending on your mood. Because here’s the thing, things might get tough. Things might get tough, and following Jesus in good seasons of your life is always easy. But what happens when things get tough? It’s actually a big challenge to follow God with your whole heart. Alright, now I know we’re talking about Noah here. I just want to say that Noah, Bible scholar, said it that they think he built the ark, the big boat that God instructed him to build, that was connected to this covenant for about 120 years. I don’t know exactly how long it was, but let’s just go with that. I believe so and so like about 120 years, Noah had to choose faithfulness and obedience every single day, every single day. And this is why I wanted to talk about this passage, because it truly shows what it’s like. Because if you imagine doing something for 100 years, can you imagine? No, you can’t. Most of us don’t even live that long. How can we do that? Noah was an example of how to be faithful for such a long time. He lived much longer than that, but for 120 years, he was faithful with the thing that God called him to, the covenant that God made with him. Noah was faithful with it, with it. Day one, I imagine he had a craftsman hammer, by the way, all right, from all the way back then Noah, day one showed up. It’s like building the boat. It’s like, God, I don’t even know. I don’t see any rain coming. Hasn’t rained for a long time. Like, what are people going to think about me? But no, Noah showed up. Day one, started building the boat. Day 10, come along, start building the boat. He’s still swinging the hammer. Can you imagine what the bystanders would have said to him on day 100 this dude is what? Crazy. Crazy. That’s what we would have said. Day 100 no one’s still swinging this hammer. He’s building this boat. Sorry, we’re probably doing nails like this. Okay, I don’t know, but he’s building this boat. Day 150 he’s still swinging the hammer. Day 1000 swinging the hammer. Day 10,000 he’s swinging the hammer. He was faithful throughout his whole journey. How many of us just give up when things get tough? Your faithfulness and obedience to God should not be connected to your moods and your feelings, how you feel. Why? Because you should be faithful to God no matter what. Here’s the thing, life does get tough. So what are we going to do about it? Because Noah is a great example of that. 10,000 days in, he’s like nailing still building this big boat. He’s gonna get all the spiders on that boat. He knows the cats are going so he’s gonna build this boat. Days, 20,000 days, 30,000 40,380 and 30 days. He builds this boat. That’s 120
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years, by the way, for those mass nerds out there,
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he built, I think so he builds this thing every single day. Can you imagine what was said about Noah during that whole journey? I know that all of us can relate to to that in some way or form, shape or form. What have people been saying about you? And have you quit on something that God called you to just because of what people have said about you. I can’t imagine that. You know, everyone just left him alone and said, You go, Man of God. You go, Man of God. That seems pretty normal what you’re doing. I don’t think so. I think it was criticized. He’s really like, people were talking against what he was doing. And what was Noah doing, he was remaining faithful in the covenant that God made with him. Said, I’m going to save you and your family. You got to build this book. So you got to be faithful. And I want to ask you today, Are you faithful with what God has placed in your hands? Are you faithful with what God has asked you to do. Are you going to carry on, or are you going to quit midway through, because it’s tough? Is there something in your life right now that you maybe have stopped being faithful with because you either started doubting, you started looking at something else, and it’s like,
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you stay faithful. You remain faithful. You remain faithful.
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I think we should teach our kids the story of Noah, the adult way, by the way, and not the kids way, where the animals went in two by 2/5 grade. But what if we were to teach the next generation just with the real story behind all of it, faithfulness, sticking with it, day in and day out, sticking with it. I know so many people who are just constantly praying for more opportunities, all the way like, especially in this next generation, in the younger generation, and even in millennials, like we know we’re like praying for more opportunities. I just saw statistics that says that most young adults know within a year they plan to leave their jobs within a year. So bosses and employers are actually starting to lay off millennials in the next generation, Gen Z and millennials because they know they’re not going to be with us for a long time. How have we become like so weird in our thinking, where we can’t remain faithful in with the things that God has placed in our lives? We can learn so much from Noah here, but we can’t keep chasing opportunity after opportunity, because when God calls you, it’s not you stepping into an opportunity. It’s God giving you an assignment. God gave Noah an assignment, not an opportunity to save his family. He gave him an assignment based on the covenant. It’s not a contract that he signed for a great opportunity. It was a God given assignment. Here’s the thing, if you keep chasing the opportunities, you’re it’s going to be easy to just give up midway through, but when you step into the God given assignment that he gave you, you’re going to have to remain faithful. And you’re going to say, God, I will swing this hammer day in and day out, even if it takes 43,000 days, I will remain faithful in this opportunities will make you ultimately look great, because you might be dealing with a skill or a talent that you have, and it’s great, but it will make you great. But assignments will make God look great. Noah didn’t look glamorous. He didn’t look cool building that boat. I would assume he must have looked pretty crazy, but God, God, ultimately, at the end of it, not the glory for it. Opportunities will satisfy maybe a moment in your life, but assignments will give you purpose. Noah was nailing away at the purpose that God has. Opportunities will please man, ultimately, and assignments will please God. You know, the Bible is very clear that it’s impossible to please God without what, without faith, without faith, it’s impossible to please God. So if we don’t live a faithful life, we’re not pleasing God. Noah was given a great assignment like this. He was given a great assignment to do a great thing. Many of us are doing many good things in our lives, but they’re not great things, because they’re not assignments from God. Have you taken the time to sit with the Lord and ask him, like God, what is my assignment for my life. What is my assignment? Because, like, maybe you’re maybe you’re the one that’s been like, I’m trying to be faithful, but there’s just great opportunities around the corner all the time. Maybe today, maybe I’m just here saying that you should just stick with it. Maybe you should be reminded to be faithful with what God has called you to when a couple years, few years ago now, when me and Haley were asked to lead River Valley Vancouver here. You know, I don’t know if I’ve shared this with everyone here, but many of you know like I said no, by the way, first time. So love you. It’s all good. No, but here’s if I could just be real for a moment. Okay, I said no, because I didn’t know what God was calling me to. And at this time, God, I had other opportunities on the table at this point, and I had to lean in to see what my assignment was. And during this time, when we were asked, God woke me up one night after, like, looking at the other opportunities, like even having, like, phone call interviews and just seeing, like, oh, Lord, what is it that you have for me next? It’s like, because I never chased after doing this, but God had an assignment on my life that I had to respond to, and one night, he woke me up and said, fish, I’m not I’m not asking you to go anywhere. I’m telling you to stay and be faithful with where I have you. And here we are, two and a half years later, with River Valley Vancouver, seeing over a couple 100 people give their lives to Jesus, I just chose to be
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faithful. It’s not because of me that those things happen. I’m just saying that I get to be a part of what God has been doing here, because I chose to be faithful with where he has me. Maybe today, maybe you’re sitting with choices that you’re making. You’re like, should I move? Should I go? Maybe you should be faithful. Sort it out with God. Maybe you need to go. It’s up to you and God to figure that out. But I just want to say, have you’re moving your feelings in the way that you feel dictated way too much in your life. Instead of you sticking with the assignment that God has for you with your life, Are you faithful with what God has called you to? You keep showing up. You keep showing up. You build the boat like Noah did. Galatians six nine says, Let us not grow weary of doing the things we’re in due season we will reap if you do not give up. Can you imagine if Noah gave up 100 days in because of what people might have said to him? You know, I’m sure that there were people like walking around going either like yelling at him or singing songs like, hey, Noah, I want to know. Have you ever seen like, I don’t know.
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Oh my gosh. CCR song.
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Why should we remain faithful?
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Remain faithful with what God has called you to. Faithfulness is not glamorous. Noah didn’t just he didn’t say yes God and then God put him a part of a yacht club with the boat already built. Alright? Noah had to actually go build the boat. Noah had a long road of obedience in front of him. He didn’t know how long. All he had to do is trust God and remain faithful every day, faithful and obedient every single day. God’s not looking for people who are saying like, Oh, I want to jump into the next opportunity. That seems great because it might make me famous, or I might look glamorous, or these are flashy things that I can do. No God is saying, I’m looking for those who will be faithful. The Bible is very clear that one day we’re going to stand in front of God, and the very thing that you want to hear from him is going to be well done, good and faithful servant. It’s not, oh man, well done, you good and fleshy man. Well done, good and famous lady. Wow. Well done, good and well followed person. No God’s gonna say well done, good and faithful servant. Are you faithful with the things that God has placed in your life, what he the very thing that he’s called you to, the assignment that’s on your life. And Are you faithful with your relationship with him? How can you be faithful with someone if you don’t truly love them? How can you be faithful with someone if you don’t truly care for them? So this might just be a little checkup moment. How do you really feel about God? What do you really know about God? How much time do you take to get to know him? More and more, Bible says that we should daily, daily, be leaning in to our walk with God daily, we should be faithful. And the last thing that I’ll say here, and then I’ll wrap it up, is that there’s a trap that we way too often fall into when it comes to being faithful with all of this, like faithful following Jesus, faithful with our assignments that’s on our life like just like Noah did. I’m sure there were so many opportunities
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that he could have, like, just quit.
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But the one thing that I’ve seen that really, really, like, rips people apart
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is distraction. In comparison,
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you imagine like Noah is like, looking at if you had a neighbor, it’s like, oh, that boat is nice. I want to build a boat like that. And like neglecting all the instructions that God gave him, I don’t think so. Noah remained faithful with what God told him. He remained faithful with that. So I just want to say today, do not try and build your neighbor’s boat. Do not build that boat. You build the boat that God asked you to build. You build that boat. Do not look at your neighbor. Do not look at other people and go, Oh, I’m not that good like them. Oh, I don’t have that in my life. No, here’s the comparison and distraction ultimately kills you. It kills faithfulness. It kills passion. It kills authenticity. If you keep on looking at your neighbor’s boat, you might see them swing a nice, gold, flashy hammer, and all I have is a beaten up craftsman thing, and it’s like, I don’t want to build my boat anymore, because there’s look greater. I mean, look at the grass on their lawn. It’s so much greener on the other side. No, let me tell you where the grass is green. The grass is green where you water it. Do not look at your neighbor and go the grass is greener on that side. You water what God has placed in your life.
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Hallelujah. You
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stop comparing ourselves to other people around us, comparing ourselves about oh, those people are further along in their lives than me. Look at that. Stop it. Because the moment you do that, you’re taking your eyes off of Jesus and you’re looking at them. Who do you want to look at? Want to look at God? Look at Jesus, or do you want to look at your neighbor? Look at your friends?
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So maybe all the young ones in here too, like young adults.
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It’s not just young adults, but young adults like, don’t feel like you’re you’re behind Amen. Just look at what God called you to do. What is your assignment? Because the grass isn’t greener on the other side. It’s green where you are faithful. Genesis, 622, I think it’s the greatest verses. It’s the greatest line, I think that can be written about you. It says, Noah, did. did everything that God commanded him to do. Noah did everything that God commanded him. What a great line to be written about someone. Can that be written about you today? Are you faithful with what God has placed into your life. Some of you might need to take a little moment, and I’m going to give that moment now, and I just want to pray for us. I just think that we should not grow weary in the things that God has called us. So today, why don’t we just close our eyes? We’re going to pray.
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We’re going to pray, and we’re
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just going to ask God that he would reveal to you the things that you might have like neglected and stopped being faithful. And so Lord, I pray right now that you would just speak to us that you would just come and have your way with us, Lord, would you show us where in our lives we are lacking faithfulness? Would you show us exactly what it is that we stopped swinging the hammer at So Lord, right now we we just also want to say sorry for the moments that we swept faithfulness under the rock and.
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just like Noah
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stuck with it for all that time, just so that not only his family can be saved, which was part of the Covenant, but that humanity then would be able to go on. And so I thank you right now, Lord that there is a covenant made with us to have a true life. And Lord, Your Word is very clear that when we step into relationship with your Son, Jesus, the one who, who, who swung the hammer on our behalf. He built the boat. Jesus made a way. Jesus made a way for us to be saved. I just thank you God that we have that way to step into the new covenant today and in all the areas of our lives where we have fallen short in being faithful with what you’ve called us to hope right now, if that’s you, you just tell God. Tell Him in your heart. You can tell him aloud whatever you want to do. You just say, God, I choose today again, to say yes, God, yes, God, just like I chose to tell Haley, I will say yes, dear for the rest of us right now, again and again, I’ll say yes, God Yes, I will be faithful, and I want to be faithful with what you have placed in my life. So Lord, I thank you that Your promise says that when we remain faithful, and we will see it through
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that there’s so much life on the other side
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of that that if we could just stick it through, keep swinging the hammer, build that book that there’s so much life in. We will learn so much along the way. So Lord, I pray right now, for every voice that has spoken into our lives and said, You’re not good enough, you can’t do it, your hammer is not good enough that build this, that boat’s gonna break. God, I pray for all of those voices to be silenced in our lives right now, and that none of that will keep on having effect on our lives, that we would stop looking at our neighbors all around and say, Wow, how great it is. But instead, just look at you and say, how great you are and what you’ve called me to. So Lord, we’re here. We are your church, and we want to be a faithful church. Thank you,
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Jesus. Thank you. Jesus, thank you. Today we choose to say, Yes, God,
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so maybe you’re here in this place, and as everyone’s eyes are closed, even I just want to give this opportunity.
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