WEBVTT 00:00:00.381 --> 00:00:04.129 Some of y'all have been here long enough, you know that you sit down just at the right time. 00:00:04.129 --> 00:00:12.442 And then I say if you'll stand, I believe in cardio, praise the Lord. 00:00:12.442 --> 00:00:15.752 Some of y'all are trying to cast out the demon. 00:00:15.752 --> 00:00:23.411 So if you didn't make it Friday night, we know who you are. 00:00:23.411 --> 00:00:24.507 I'm just kidding. 00:00:24.507 --> 00:00:25.013 I'm just kidding. 00:00:25.013 --> 00:00:29.083 I'm just kidding. 00:00:29.083 --> 00:00:31.606 I'm going to preach like this so nobody thinks I'm looking at them. 00:00:31.606 --> 00:00:33.729 We had a great night of worship. 00:00:33.729 --> 00:00:37.716 We had a guest come in and play piano. 00:00:37.716 --> 00:00:41.991 That boy could play. 00:00:41.991 --> 00:00:48.704 It was like he was going to stand up and walk off While we're all standing before we read our scripture. 00:00:48.725 --> 00:00:52.588 Today we have a you may have noticed Brother Vernon. 00:00:52.588 --> 00:00:53.429 He's one of the board members. 00:00:53.429 --> 00:00:56.911 He's also usually the first one to slap you when you come in. 00:00:56.911 --> 00:01:00.854 So he said pray for his wife, who isn't going to be here today. 00:01:00.854 --> 00:01:03.396 He didn't give me specifics, so I'm not going to tell you specifics. 00:01:03.396 --> 00:01:11.930 But when someone asks for prayer, we need to stop what we're doing and make that a priority every single time, because prayer works and it matters when we pray. 00:01:11.930 --> 00:01:15.162 So let's bow our heads and let's pray for his wife. 00:01:15.162 --> 00:01:16.506 Father, we come before you right now. 00:01:16.506 --> 00:01:20.903 You see the need and you saw the need before it ever began. 00:01:20.903 --> 00:01:36.861 I ask you right now, god, in the midst of where they are sitting there watching this service at home, that Lord, your presence, come down and a healing power flood that room and their lives, bodies and minds are transformed like they never expected to happen. 00:01:36.861 --> 00:01:39.584 In the name of Jesus, we pray Amen. 00:01:39.584 --> 00:01:47.115 So now we will get to 2 Kings. 00:01:47.115 --> 00:01:53.326 If you have your Bible or your phone, your favorite little Bible app, I have mine read to me all the time. 00:01:53.326 --> 00:02:00.084 I get a lot of road time for work sometimes and it is a blessing to be able to get read to 2 Kings 13. 00:02:00.084 --> 00:02:03.227 We're going to read two small little verses. 00:02:03.227 --> 00:02:25.829 This little paragraph is all of the story that we get, but in these two small verses, someone who lived a life for God was able to bring back life after his death, and we're going to label that today, leaving a legacy, and we're going to talk about living for legacy. 00:02:25.829 --> 00:02:29.614 So 2 Kings, chapter 13, verses 20 and 21. 00:02:29.614 --> 00:02:31.520 If you don't have your Bible, you can look on the screen behind me. 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:32.282 We have it for you. 00:02:32.282 --> 00:02:34.686 Then Elisha died and was buried. 00:02:34.686 --> 00:02:37.250 That was it. 00:02:37.250 --> 00:02:40.215 He died, he buried. 00:02:41.961 --> 00:02:56.353 A group of Moabite raiders used to invade the land each spring, so they would come when their harvest was plentiful and raid what they spent all year working on and took it from them. 00:02:56.353 --> 00:02:58.436 Verse 21. 00:02:58.436 --> 00:03:10.092 Once, when some Israelites were burying a man, they spied a band of these raiders, so they hastily threw the corpse into the tomb of Elisha and fled. 00:03:10.092 --> 00:03:12.066 They were scared for their lives. 00:03:12.066 --> 00:03:13.787 They didn't do the proper burial. 00:03:13.787 --> 00:03:19.772 If you know, back in this biblical day Old and New Testament there is a certain way to bury people. 00:03:19.772 --> 00:03:21.806 They have a way that they do it. 00:03:21.806 --> 00:03:27.853 They were so fearful for their lives, they threw the body into the grave and they ran. 00:03:27.853 --> 00:03:34.331 So they hastily threw the corpse into the tomb of Elisha and fled. 00:03:34.331 --> 00:03:40.610 But as soon as the body touched Elisha's bones, the dead man arrived and jumped to his feet. 00:03:40.610 --> 00:03:50.259 The word does not even name him his feet. 00:03:50.259 --> 00:03:50.981 The word does not even name him. 00:03:50.981 --> 00:03:55.252 But the legacy that Elisha left behind touched someone that he never met and it brought life to a place that isn't even named. 00:03:57.235 --> 00:03:58.100 Let's bow our heads and pray. 00:03:58.100 --> 00:04:00.126 Father, we thank you so much for your presence here today. 00:04:00.126 --> 00:04:16.800 We thank you, lord, for allowing us one more time to come into a new year, to worship and praise your name, to be more than what we were last year, to seek you harder than we did last year, to read your word more than we did last year, to grow closer to you like we never have known before. 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:18.423 I pray for the rest of this service. 00:04:18.423 --> 00:04:20.410 Use your humble servant as a mouthpiece. 00:04:20.410 --> 00:04:25.487 Let every word out of my mouth be directly from the throne room and nowhere else, and be led by your spirit. 00:04:25.487 --> 00:04:27.168 In your name we pray Amen. 00:04:27.168 --> 00:04:30.334 Y'all may be seated now. 00:04:30.334 --> 00:04:30.954 This isn't a trick. 00:04:30.954 --> 00:04:35.567 I'm not going to ask you to stand back up unless you just feel like breaking in. 00:04:35.567 --> 00:04:40.035 Praise, dance, encourage, stand aloud. 00:04:50.100 --> 00:04:50.682 So this little story. 00:04:50.682 --> 00:04:56.634 Right here we see a foreshadowing of what Jesus did through his death. 00:04:56.634 --> 00:05:02.548 In the death of Elisha, life was brought, brought In. 00:05:02.548 --> 00:05:05.132 The death of Jesus, life is brought. 00:05:05.132 --> 00:05:08.201 Do we have the slide of that little baby? 00:05:08.201 --> 00:05:10.365 I got a baby up here. 00:05:10.365 --> 00:05:14.473 It's not mine, no surprises, not yet. 00:05:14.473 --> 00:05:20.641 I'm wearing her down. 00:05:20.641 --> 00:05:23.687 All right, this little baby right here. 00:05:24.209 --> 00:05:31.610 Y'all may not know this, but as a church we sponsored a family for Christmas and she was Prego capital O. 00:05:31.610 --> 00:05:35.045 She was about to pop, and was it Christmas week or weekend? 00:05:35.045 --> 00:05:37.011 It was a week. 00:05:37.011 --> 00:05:38.290 She had her baby. 00:05:38.290 --> 00:05:39.199 The family that we sponsored. 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:50.226 We were able to give them food, gifts, gift cards, and when we gave her the things, she just started crying and her husband wasn't there. 00:05:50.226 --> 00:05:50.971 We didn't get to meet her. 00:05:50.971 --> 00:05:51.555 He was at work. 00:05:51.555 --> 00:05:52.901 He works at the Walmart down the street. 00:05:52.901 --> 00:05:55.834 But just continue to pray for that family. 00:05:55.973 --> 00:06:02.353 It is important for the members of a church, for the family of God, the body of Christ, to be the hands and feet of Jesus. 00:06:02.353 --> 00:06:15.884 It is important for us to not be so concerned about ourselves but to focus on those who will be left behind when we are gone, and that's what we're going to be focusing on today is living for legacy. 00:06:15.884 --> 00:06:24.531 So today, if you don't know, today is day two of our 21-day fast. 00:06:24.531 --> 00:06:26.473 Anybody hurting? 00:06:26.473 --> 00:06:26.673 Yet? 00:06:26.673 --> 00:06:34.733 If you go to our website, you go to connect-churchcom forward slash 21 days. 00:06:34.733 --> 00:06:36.778 It's also on our Facebook. 00:06:36.778 --> 00:06:42.372 We also have it on our Instagram, we have it on our YouTube, so you can just click and go right to it. 00:06:42.372 --> 00:06:43.942 On the very top. 00:06:44.122 --> 00:06:49.819 It says why we do it, the reason behind fasting and the reason we do prayer. 00:06:49.819 --> 00:06:58.990 When Jesus told them to do something, he said through prayer and fasting, those two things in combination in your life will change your world. 00:06:58.990 --> 00:07:07.271 It makes you submit your flesh to a spiritual goal you're trying to achieve. 00:07:07.271 --> 00:07:10.095 That's tough. 00:07:10.095 --> 00:07:14.110 Am I the only one that my flesh don't want to submit on a regular day? 00:07:14.110 --> 00:07:16.947 And then I throw in not eating or eating different. 00:07:16.947 --> 00:07:17.930 There's a Daniel fast. 00:07:17.930 --> 00:07:19.122 You scroll down that page. 00:07:19.122 --> 00:07:22.766 You'll see every single type of fast that you can do and how to do it. 00:07:22.766 --> 00:07:24.827 It explains it all, and every single day we're posting a YouTube video. 00:07:24.827 --> 00:07:24.985 At 9 am there was one that you can do and how to do it. 00:07:24.985 --> 00:07:27.192 It explains it all, and every single day we're posting a YouTube video at 9 am. 00:07:27.192 --> 00:07:33.581 There was one that went out yesterday and today 9 am, every single morning on our YouTube channel and it'll be scheduled on our Facebook page. 00:07:33.982 --> 00:07:46.392 That is a short talk of the scripture for the day and the focus of our prayer for that day, so you will be able to start your day off with a focus and intentional in your day. 00:07:46.392 --> 00:07:49.829 That's a good way to start your day having intention. 00:07:49.829 --> 00:07:55.310 So today's title is Living for Legacy. 00:07:55.310 --> 00:07:56.252 What are you leaving behind? 00:07:56.252 --> 00:08:07.529 If you're like me, I get very easily tunnel vision and I get focused on my task at hand and I forget what I'm leaving behind me. 00:08:07.529 --> 00:08:18.601 I get so focused on working a job providing for my family, coming to church, being a pastor, worship leader. 00:08:18.601 --> 00:08:23.596 It's a job and you better do it good or people won't come back no pressure right. 00:08:23.596 --> 00:08:28.233 And you better do it good or people won't come back no pressure right. 00:08:28.233 --> 00:08:31.492 Then you have your relationships. 00:08:31.492 --> 00:08:34.222 You have to work really hard to keep those going. 00:08:34.222 --> 00:08:42.885 You have to work really hard sometimes to get your challenge of 15 every day, five minutes of prayer, five minutes of reading your word, five minutes of worship. 00:08:42.885 --> 00:08:55.274 It is hard, but you are preparing now, in these times, alone with God, that will echo for generations in your family tree and in your family line. 00:08:57.321 --> 00:08:59.285 Every year we find ourselves anybody done it yet. 00:08:59.285 --> 00:09:01.841 So I saw a meme that I was going to try to share it, but it was too late. 00:09:01.841 --> 00:09:07.354 I found it yesterday and it said that it was, I think, two dogs sitting there and there was a big dog and I think the puppy. 00:09:07.354 --> 00:09:10.466 The big dog said what's a New Year's resolution? 00:09:10.466 --> 00:09:12.811 And the little one said it's your. 00:09:12.811 --> 00:09:13.732 What is it? 00:09:13.732 --> 00:09:16.562 Your checklist for the first week of the new year, or something like that. 00:09:16.562 --> 00:09:25.933 It's like things that you're trying to get done, but it lasts for about a week or maybe a month, because you're trying to change what you do instead of who you are. 00:09:28.176 --> 00:09:29.562 We make New Year's resolutions. 00:09:29.562 --> 00:09:32.128 We declare I'm going to get better. 00:09:32.128 --> 00:09:34.692 I'm going to do it better. 00:09:34.692 --> 00:09:38.582 We're going to be a better parent. 00:09:38.582 --> 00:09:41.850 I'm going to try to not yell so much this year. 00:09:41.850 --> 00:09:46.028 But the other alternative is spanking, so maybe I'll let him decide. 00:09:48.539 --> 00:09:51.048 Maybe you have more serious stuff that you're dealing with personally. 00:09:51.048 --> 00:09:53.830 I'm going to quit smoking or I'm going to quit drinking. 00:09:53.830 --> 00:09:56.086 I'm going to eat better. 00:09:56.086 --> 00:09:59.668 Every one of y'all have done this every single year probably. 00:09:59.668 --> 00:10:02.009 Oh, I'm going to change my diet this year. 00:10:02.009 --> 00:10:05.471 And how long does it last until you get all the chocolates in February? 00:10:05.471 --> 00:10:09.529 It's like we created holidays to set ourselves up for failure. 00:10:09.529 --> 00:10:10.905 Every month we got something. 00:10:10.905 --> 00:10:17.308 I wouldn't eat all the chocolate if it tasted worse. 00:10:17.308 --> 00:10:19.705 That's not on me. 00:10:22.221 --> 00:10:25.029 You ever heard of bodybuilders that do the carb loading? 00:10:25.029 --> 00:10:29.148 That's my entire Thanksgivinggiving and christmas holiday. 00:10:29.148 --> 00:10:30.030 Yo, I'm loading the cars up. 00:10:30.030 --> 00:10:32.538 Good, I'm going to eat better. 00:10:32.538 --> 00:10:33.924 I'm going to get a gym membership. 00:10:33.924 --> 00:10:36.260 Anybody already signed up for their little free thing they're putting out there? 00:10:36.260 --> 00:10:37.663 Nobody not yet. 00:10:37.945 --> 00:10:39.850 All right, your week's coming, you'll see all the advertisements. 00:10:39.850 --> 00:10:42.043 You'll be like man, maybe I should start getting a treadmill. 00:10:42.043 --> 00:10:45.312 I I'm going to get gym membership. 00:10:45.312 --> 00:10:46.743 I'm going to start working out more. 00:10:46.743 --> 00:10:48.226 I'm going to start walking every day. 00:10:48.226 --> 00:10:50.552 I'm going to start praying more. 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:53.884 We've been on this challenge for three months. 00:10:53.884 --> 00:10:57.113 By now you should be to 20 minutes. 00:10:57.113 --> 00:11:00.525 You're supposed to get longer. 00:11:00.525 --> 00:11:11.160 Get longer. 00:11:11.160 --> 00:11:11.822 That's called growth. 00:11:11.822 --> 00:11:12.244 Growth is painful. 00:11:12.244 --> 00:11:12.504 Growth hurts. 00:11:12.504 --> 00:11:12.924 It stretches you. 00:11:12.924 --> 00:11:16.053 It causes you to go outside of yourself, of who you were into, what God is trying to call you to be. 00:11:17.719 --> 00:11:20.043 Has anyone ever done this, all these things I just listed? 00:11:20.043 --> 00:11:24.192 Anybody guilty in the house today, anybody at home watching, say I'm guilty. 00:11:24.192 --> 00:11:25.453 I'm guilty. 00:11:25.453 --> 00:11:32.129 I have done this over and over, and sometimes I get the mid-year religion and I start trying to do it again. 00:11:32.129 --> 00:11:32.751 About July. 00:11:32.751 --> 00:11:37.307 I'm going to get my summer body and it's already like two months into summer. 00:11:37.307 --> 00:11:39.006 I'm like I'll just wait until the new year. 00:11:42.620 --> 00:11:46.125 Now, these are good and we come with the best intentions to the new year. 00:11:46.125 --> 00:11:47.309 Every single year. 00:11:47.309 --> 00:11:48.292 You get that. 00:11:48.292 --> 00:12:02.746 It's like when you first come to God Uh-oh, when you first come to God and you're like I'm going to go save the world, I'm going to go change the world, and you can't even get your house in order that sunk in a little late for some of y'all. 00:12:02.746 --> 00:12:09.211 We want to do good things with good intentions, but we focus on the what instead of the who. 00:12:09.211 --> 00:12:14.307 I will change or I will do whatever. 00:12:14.307 --> 00:12:14.931 Fill in the blank. 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:22.894 It's good to make lists and go down that list and check it off as you become better and towards the goal that you want to do. 00:12:22.894 --> 00:12:29.427 These are great and beneficial to set goals, but today I want you to view your goals a little bit differently. 00:12:29.427 --> 00:12:37.013 Not what I want to do, but who do I want to become and, even further, who I want to be like. 00:12:37.013 --> 00:12:40.749 We see this in our own homes when you have your kids. 00:12:40.749 --> 00:12:46.711 They are little blueprints whether you want to admit it or not, of you. 00:12:46.711 --> 00:12:49.644 They're little screaming fits. 00:12:49.644 --> 00:12:51.128 We all got adult versions of that. 00:12:51.128 --> 00:12:51.951 Come on somebody. 00:12:51.951 --> 00:12:54.880 They're little attitudes. 00:12:54.880 --> 00:12:57.682 Then they start growing into selfishness. 00:12:57.682 --> 00:12:59.543 That's my toy. 00:12:59.543 --> 00:13:05.094 Some of y'all are going to get that when you're driving home. 00:13:05.094 --> 00:13:05.875 That that's you right now. 00:13:05.875 --> 00:13:09.710 I'm going to keep going. 00:13:09.710 --> 00:13:10.272 I'm going to keep going. 00:13:12.186 --> 00:13:16.552 When life begins to squeeze you, what is inside of you starts to come out. 00:13:16.552 --> 00:13:29.504 It is what will come out, and who you are inside will be what comes out when life starts to squeeze. 00:13:29.504 --> 00:13:35.258 When you get in arguments in your spouse, who you are comes out. 00:13:35.258 --> 00:13:38.587 When you get in arguments, let's bring it home. 00:13:38.587 --> 00:13:45.279 When you get in arguments or you get having issues with attitudes at church who you are comes out. 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:49.250 Is that too hard for us? 00:13:49.250 --> 00:13:51.570 On that one, good, because we're going deeper. 00:13:51.570 --> 00:13:55.533 What is inside of you is what pours out of you. 00:13:55.533 --> 00:13:58.173 What do you see when you look in the mirror? 00:13:58.173 --> 00:14:02.774 Who are you when no one is around? 00:14:02.774 --> 00:14:06.855 Because who you are then is what will come out later. 00:14:06.855 --> 00:14:10.730 No one is around, because who you are, then is what will come out later. 00:14:10.730 --> 00:14:16.890 Who you are when no one else is around you is what will be coming out of you towards other people when you are around other people. 00:14:17.230 --> 00:14:24.158 If we're honest, at some point I don't know why, I guess because of New Year, but we always do it at the beginning of the year but we need to do this daily. 00:14:24.158 --> 00:14:29.015 Christians need to start checking themselves before we start telling everybody else how to do their business. 00:14:29.015 --> 00:14:36.177 We need to start looking in mirrors and stop judging people on their mannerisms. 00:14:36.177 --> 00:14:42.495 If we're honest, we've all looked in the mirror at some point and we did not like what we saw. 00:14:42.495 --> 00:14:50.504 If we fashion our lives, our lifestyles, our attitudes, our jobs, our relationship. 00:14:50.504 --> 00:14:53.549 After the world, we cannot expect a spiritual outcome. 00:14:53.549 --> 00:14:59.799 So let's talk about legacy First. 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:02.210 We need to really break down what is legacy. 00:15:02.210 --> 00:15:12.111 So if you Google legacy, this would be one of the first definitions and I want you to think about this, would be one of the first definitions and I want you to think about this. 00:15:12.113 --> 00:15:15.605 I listened to a lot of Dave Ramsey stuff like his little podcast and stuff Cause it like fires me up to save money instead of spend it, which is really hard for me. 00:15:15.605 --> 00:15:16.567 My wife is the saver. 00:15:16.567 --> 00:15:21.648 She wants to choke me every time I Amazon and me got a bad relationship but it's so good I can't. 00:15:21.648 --> 00:15:23.049 I can't leave her. 00:15:23.049 --> 00:15:30.120 Legacy is an amount of money or property left to someone in a will. 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:36.293 It's what for someone Left, it's left for someone. 00:15:36.293 --> 00:15:38.879 So legacy is not something that is for you. 00:15:40.505 --> 00:15:51.418 When we go through the growth track, if you don't know, out there on the table there's a sign-up sheet for growth track, our Growth Track, the first week is you understanding who we are as a church, what we believe, our core values, our core beliefs? 00:15:51.418 --> 00:15:54.428 Everything is based on the Bible and if we don't line up with that. 00:15:54.428 --> 00:15:56.053 You have that paper to take home with you. 00:15:56.053 --> 00:15:58.212 You can call us out on it. 00:15:58.212 --> 00:16:03.729 The second week is finding out your spiritual gifts. 00:16:03.729 --> 00:16:07.715 How can you be fulfilled in the spirit if you don't know what your gifts are? 00:16:07.715 --> 00:16:11.120 How can you work in a church and serve in a church if you don't know where you fit? 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:13.610 So that's what we do on that. 00:16:13.610 --> 00:16:15.311 It's something that you leave behind. 00:16:15.311 --> 00:16:20.932 In the Spiritual Gifts Week we talk about scriptures that say the gifts are not for you. 00:16:20.932 --> 00:16:25.870 Your gifts and talents, your life is not for you. 00:16:27.072 --> 00:16:34.725 When we become me-centered instead of you-centered, we start doing things selfishly and we're not worried about legacy. 00:16:34.725 --> 00:16:43.995 We get so caught up in short-sightedness so it's something you leave behind for the person that is coming in after you so that they will have a better future. 00:16:43.995 --> 00:16:49.293 Now, when you think about legacy and you think about your life in this way, it changes the way you see things. 00:16:49.293 --> 00:16:52.852 To what can I get? 00:16:52.852 --> 00:16:54.791 To what can I leave? 00:16:54.791 --> 00:16:57.730 Have you ever been living your life? 00:16:57.730 --> 00:17:06.236 Spending your money, raising your kids, coming to church, going to your job and these tasks that we do year after year? 00:17:06.236 --> 00:17:14.808 There's a reason we have 401ks because we're looking towards the end and we're wanting to get out of here and not have to work anymore and get some money coming in and not have to do a squat. 00:17:14.808 --> 00:17:18.778 That's what retirement spells for me. 00:17:18.778 --> 00:17:22.828 But then we do this for years. 00:17:22.868 --> 00:17:31.872 But in the middle of that, before you get to the land over the rainbow, you get to this place where you're like man. 00:17:31.872 --> 00:17:33.459 This is just the same job year after year. 00:17:33.459 --> 00:17:42.960 I got the same family every day. 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:44.244 Some of y'all are more blessed than you know. 00:17:44.244 --> 00:17:50.626 I got the same job man provides for me. 00:17:50.626 --> 00:17:50.867 Every year. 00:17:50.867 --> 00:17:52.132 I go to the same church that loves me with no strings attached. 00:17:52.132 --> 00:17:53.977 We do these tasks, we go to these places. 00:17:53.977 --> 00:18:02.483 It becomes so mundane, we become bored with our lives and this is why one of the main reasons people go outside of marriage. 00:18:02.483 --> 00:18:03.326 Can we get real today? 00:18:03.326 --> 00:18:07.546 They get bored with what they got and start looking at what they don't have. 00:18:07.546 --> 00:18:13.218 We are playing footsie with the devil under the table sitting at Jesus' table. 00:18:13.218 --> 00:18:29.567 We are playing games year after year, going no closer, getting no deeper in the waters that God has available to us, getting no wiser through scriptures, because we're content and satisfied with where we are. 00:18:29.567 --> 00:18:33.675 We like the knowns. 00:18:33.675 --> 00:18:34.958 Does anybody like the knowns? 00:18:34.958 --> 00:18:36.067 You know what's coming. 00:18:36.067 --> 00:18:36.969 You know it. 00:18:37.509 --> 00:18:38.573 Our kid is ADHD. 00:18:38.573 --> 00:18:40.136 If you don't know, I've said this multiple times. 00:18:40.136 --> 00:18:43.654 I got a lot of stories, I'll get to them eventually but our kid is severe ADHD. 00:18:43.654 --> 00:18:48.115 In the morning he does not have his medicine in him yet. 00:18:48.115 --> 00:19:10.237 So getting him from his bedroom to the table to eat his breakfast, I have everything sitting on the table where there's no unknowns, because kids that are ADHD, if there's anything that's out of place or anything that kicks them in a different gear, all of a sudden they're woo. 00:19:10.237 --> 00:19:13.789 That's not a good day. 00:19:13.789 --> 00:19:17.373 He gets disrespectful and mouthy. 00:19:17.373 --> 00:19:23.449 It takes everything inside of me to not punch him Because I ain't going back to jail. 00:19:23.449 --> 00:19:28.941 Sorry, sorry, because I ain't going back to jail. 00:19:28.941 --> 00:19:36.673 Sorry, sorry, but our routine is great to have and sometimes, and a lot of times, it has its place. 00:19:37.045 --> 00:19:38.348 People you come into the church. 00:19:38.348 --> 00:19:40.275 You expect somebody to greet you at the door. 00:19:40.275 --> 00:19:49.651 You know where you sit and God help them if someone's sitting in your spot and you know that the worship is going to start when that counter goes down and if it doesn't, something's wrong. 00:19:49.651 --> 00:19:50.433 People are waving. 00:19:50.433 --> 00:19:51.710 Things ain't right in my ears. 00:19:51.710 --> 00:19:53.029 My guitar ain't playing. 00:19:53.029 --> 00:19:59.969 That happened all this morning, before you even got here and I was like man. 00:19:59.969 --> 00:20:01.233 We've got to find our groove again. 00:20:01.285 --> 00:20:03.092 But if we're not careful, our groove becomes our rut. 00:20:03.092 --> 00:20:03.905 Come on, man, appreciate it. 00:20:03.905 --> 00:20:05.710 We, our groove becomes our rut. 00:20:05.710 --> 00:20:10.358 We get so easily distracted by our consistency. 00:20:10.358 --> 00:20:16.247 We forget that we're not just being consistent. 00:20:16.247 --> 00:20:18.089 Now, we're becoming complacent. 00:20:18.089 --> 00:20:30.054 Things get boring, it gets dull and we as people not even throwing in the Christian factor, we as people start becoming unfulfilled because our life is the same every single day. 00:20:33.146 --> 00:20:34.111 You want to spice things up. 00:20:34.111 --> 00:20:40.671 Take your wife to an actual restaurant where you got to dress up and I'm not talking about Burger King. 00:20:40.671 --> 00:20:53.095 They will give you a crown though I've worn it before but you may want to stop and you may want to take a step back and say am I really doing what I, who I am called to be? 00:20:53.095 --> 00:20:57.895 Am I stepping into the position that God has promised me? 00:20:57.895 --> 00:21:00.833 Every single person in here, you have a purpose. 00:21:00.833 --> 00:21:04.574 That's the purpose of our growth track, so you can know where we are. 00:21:04.574 --> 00:21:05.446 Someone asks you. 00:21:05.446 --> 00:21:06.551 You can say it. 00:21:06.551 --> 00:21:07.193 You have papers. 00:21:07.193 --> 00:21:08.590 You can flip back and say we believe this. 00:21:08.631 --> 00:21:10.409 Right here, we're all on the same page. 00:21:10.409 --> 00:21:11.913 Same line, same chapter. 00:21:11.913 --> 00:21:14.374 Everything is good because we're on the same page. 00:21:14.374 --> 00:21:18.415 You can't do marriage without being on the same page. 00:21:18.415 --> 00:21:21.224 You can't do relationships. 00:21:21.224 --> 00:21:32.273 If you go to your job, if you go to your job and start machining something with a hamburger, that doesn't even make sense, they'll be like what are you doing? 00:21:32.273 --> 00:21:35.746 You look like you need some ketchup, what? 00:21:35.746 --> 00:21:41.719 That sounds really out there and crazy, but we do this in our spiritual walk every single day. 00:21:41.719 --> 00:21:45.009 We bring fleshly weapons to a spiritual fight. 00:21:45.009 --> 00:21:51.720 We start labeling people as our enemy and forgetting that it's not them we wrestle against. 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:54.172 It is not flesh and blood. 00:21:54.172 --> 00:22:01.013 People carry around things that you don't even understand and know and we judge them on face value without even getting to know them. 00:22:01.013 --> 00:22:04.232 Any other Christian in here guilty of that? 00:22:04.232 --> 00:22:06.132 Christians are probably the best at it. 00:22:06.132 --> 00:22:08.352 We could all probably write a book. 00:22:13.027 --> 00:22:20.894 Are you living for today or are you living for a legacy to leave behind, for generations to have a better future? 00:22:20.894 --> 00:22:34.151 So let's talk legacy blockers, because I can tell you all the things to do, but if I don't tell you what may be holding you back, I'm not doing you any good. 00:22:34.151 --> 00:22:38.634 When I did this, I promise you, I did not add up. 00:22:38.634 --> 00:22:39.750 You know the challenge of 17,. 00:22:39.750 --> 00:22:39.931 Right. 00:22:39.931 --> 00:22:42.607 Five minutes of prayer, five minutes of reading your word, five minutes of worship. 00:22:42.607 --> 00:22:43.692 Invite one person to church. 00:22:43.692 --> 00:22:54.731 And one small act of faith every single day, small act of faith, and maybe you're telling your spouse you love them when you don't mean it, when you get complacent, you end up there. 00:22:54.731 --> 00:23:04.913 Well, we're going to talk about 17 things today and, seriously, it came to me this morning while I was getting ready. 00:23:04.913 --> 00:23:07.550 I was like, oh, I did 17 things, seven blockers. 00:23:07.550 --> 00:23:13.973 And then we're going to talk about 10 things that will get you motivated to do it now, because now is the best time to start. 00:23:13.973 --> 00:23:20.554 We're going to run through this quickly, if you're taking notes seven legacy blockers. 00:23:20.914 --> 00:23:32.526 Number one is lack of focus, of focus. 00:23:32.526 --> 00:23:33.807 I mentioned this a minute ago. 00:23:33.807 --> 00:23:37.292 Tristan that's our son he'll try to do eight things at once and not accomplish a one of them. 00:23:37.292 --> 00:23:42.520 I will walk in the living room and we would just get home. 00:23:42.520 --> 00:23:45.769 I don't know he's fast, I don't know how he does it. 00:23:45.769 --> 00:23:51.512 I walk in the living room and he has, as of right now I know there's a hat on the couch. 00:23:51.512 --> 00:23:53.457 Then he'll have a piece of wood. 00:23:53.457 --> 00:23:57.766 I know there's a piece of wood right now, with a knife on top of it, that he was going to try to carve on the couch last night. 00:23:57.766 --> 00:24:04.454 That's sitting on the coffee table and I'm pretty sure he's got another knife sitting on the table over here. 00:24:04.454 --> 00:24:10.851 That's almost every surface in our living room and he's nowhere near them. 00:24:10.851 --> 00:24:16.412 He's back in his room or outside riding a bike or something, and I'm like Tristan, come get your stuff. 00:24:16.412 --> 00:24:19.854 He walked in last night, my dad thank you, by the way, dad, for being here today that's my father. 00:24:19.854 --> 00:24:22.890 As far as I know, he is my real father. 00:24:22.890 --> 00:24:31.046 I just can't say he is my real father. 00:24:31.046 --> 00:24:32.388 He doesn't claim me much, but maybe today he will. 00:24:32.409 --> 00:24:35.938 Tristan walks in the house coming back from my dad with my dad and I walked through the hall and they just came in. 00:24:35.938 --> 00:24:40.132 His leather coat is on the like, right in front of the door. 00:24:40.132 --> 00:24:46.694 I'm like Tristan, he's not even in the house, he's outside riding something he got for Christmas. 00:24:46.694 --> 00:24:49.333 He's not even in the house, he's outside riding something he got for Christmas. 00:24:49.333 --> 00:24:50.737 Like all this kid, I will not pick up his stuff. 00:24:50.737 --> 00:24:56.053 He's going to learn that he will spend his entire day picking up after himself or he won't make a mess. 00:24:56.053 --> 00:24:58.619 But he lacks focus. 00:24:58.619 --> 00:25:05.108 He gets excited about one thing and he drops something over here and runs to this and then does it, then drops it wherever he stopped and then run over here. 00:25:05.108 --> 00:25:07.396 And we, we do this with trying to leave legacy. 00:25:07.396 --> 00:25:09.202 We do this in our spiritual walk. 00:25:09.202 --> 00:25:17.288 We jump around the Bible and don't read it in order, we don't read like a collective thought, we just cherry pick and try to use it. 00:25:17.288 --> 00:25:27.525 I can make the Bible say anything I want, word for word, and I can choose any word I want in there If I go and pick every little thing and I have the lack of focus Now. 00:25:27.565 --> 00:25:31.537 Number two is living the life others want you to live. 00:25:31.537 --> 00:25:36.978 We are trying to echo our neighbors more than ever before. 00:25:36.978 --> 00:25:40.776 If your friend gets a new car, I know it's got that new car smell. 00:25:40.776 --> 00:25:44.191 Oh, it's got 20 miles on it. 00:25:44.191 --> 00:25:44.932 Man, that'd be nice. 00:25:44.932 --> 00:25:47.977 You ever say it must be nice. 00:25:47.977 --> 00:25:49.025 You ever say it must be nice. 00:25:49.025 --> 00:25:49.846 You ever say that. 00:25:49.846 --> 00:25:53.636 I say that all the time until I realize what I have is exactly what I need. 00:25:53.636 --> 00:26:10.810 When I start focusing on other people and I start living according to what they got, all of a sudden I don't start appreciating what I have and then I get out of that grateful attitude towards God because all of a sudden, what I have and what he's given me isn't good enough anymore. 00:26:10.810 --> 00:26:13.057 I'm going to move on from that. 00:26:13.057 --> 00:26:14.327 Number three Now. 00:26:14.327 --> 00:26:17.596 We've touched on this a few times and I may do another one pretty soon. 00:26:17.596 --> 00:26:24.259 But bitterness, anger and fear these things will wreck your spiritual walk. 00:26:24.259 --> 00:26:28.154 They will ruin where God is trying to bring you to. 00:26:28.154 --> 00:26:34.713 These three things are the joy and the purpose, stealer and killer. 00:26:36.356 --> 00:26:38.259 Number four consumerism. 00:26:38.259 --> 00:26:42.832 Take in without giving out. 00:26:42.832 --> 00:26:57.108 If someone is always this is I'm doing marriage stuff because I've been married twice, so I know more than most of you If you always receive love and you never give love, eventually that love flow will stop. 00:26:57.108 --> 00:27:02.057 Sorry, I just saw somebody poke somebody. 00:27:02.057 --> 00:27:11.671 If you, if you always are taking in and you never give out what you receive, that well will dry up Every single time. 00:27:11.671 --> 00:27:18.915 Eventually it will being a consumer instead of a contributor. 00:27:18.915 --> 00:27:23.251 We have this issue. 00:27:23.251 --> 00:27:24.375 Don't get mad at me. 00:27:24.375 --> 00:27:25.438 I'm not looking at anybody specific. 00:27:25.438 --> 00:27:29.474 People come to church and they consume and they never want to contribute. 00:27:29.474 --> 00:27:31.548 All right, I said it, I can look down now. 00:27:31.548 --> 00:27:34.114 Don't be that person. 00:27:34.114 --> 00:27:34.454 Why? 00:27:34.454 --> 00:27:43.911 Because God has placed a purpose and an anointing on your life specifically for you, in the circle of influence that you have and every single person in here has influence. 00:27:43.911 --> 00:27:47.596 Don't compare your influence size to someone else's. 00:27:47.596 --> 00:27:53.476 You will get caught up in comparison, and comparison is the calling killer every single time. 00:27:53.777 --> 00:28:01.598 Number five urgencies that make you push back or suppress priorities. 00:28:01.598 --> 00:28:12.613 It will distract you by things that shouldn't take priority, giving priority to things that will yield the least amount of profit and outcome. 00:28:12.613 --> 00:28:15.018 This is a big thing in business. 00:28:15.018 --> 00:28:20.616 If you are spending money to try to sell an item and it is not selling, you need to cut that item. 00:28:20.616 --> 00:28:28.338 There are some things in your life that are not getting you the valuable return that you need in your life and are becoming toxic to you. 00:28:28.338 --> 00:28:34.233 You need to cut it loose and let it go, and when I say it sometimes, it may be a them. 00:28:38.146 --> 00:28:40.335 Number six safety. 00:28:40.335 --> 00:28:43.472 This will block your legacy. 00:28:43.472 --> 00:28:46.170 Nothing ever happens. 00:28:46.170 --> 00:28:56.872 That is great when you stay where you are comfortable, If you stay in your comfort zone, where you feel safe and you feel good and you're not having the stupid faith that you need to have to pray with somebody. 00:28:56.872 --> 00:28:58.375 I am kicking myself. 00:28:58.396 --> 00:29:00.710 For the past three days I didn't even tell my wife about this. 00:29:00.710 --> 00:29:04.407 We were in this place and she wanted to get some coffee at this little place. 00:29:04.407 --> 00:29:06.093 We were over by where we live. 00:29:06.093 --> 00:29:14.273 We went in there and this guy was talking to this other guy that he was serving the guy that worked there and he was talking about his back hurt, like he was in pain. 00:29:14.273 --> 00:29:15.744 He was like this, the young guy. 00:29:15.744 --> 00:29:20.612 I felt that I should have prayed for him then and I did not. 00:29:20.612 --> 00:29:36.097 When I allow the enemy to get me focused on what other people are going to think, miracles will slip through our fingers. 00:29:36.097 --> 00:29:43.132 I didn't want to get outside of my comfort zone and I talked with some people before about this. 00:29:43.244 --> 00:29:48.665 You know we often, and several times, healings in the church, healings in the church. 00:29:48.665 --> 00:29:52.512 When Jesus healed, it was for the sinners. 00:29:52.512 --> 00:29:57.326 He didn't make them do a sinner's prayer. 00:29:57.326 --> 00:29:59.912 He was just proving who God was. 00:29:59.912 --> 00:30:01.154 And then he said go and sin no more. 00:30:01.154 --> 00:30:03.547 Your faith has made you whole. 00:30:03.547 --> 00:30:13.836 We need to get our faith in order and get out of our comfort zone and stop trying to be safe and start grabbing people's hands, laying hands on their back and saying be healed in Jesus' name. 00:30:13.836 --> 00:30:19.073