Holy or Hollow

What if the greatest threat to Christianity isn’t opposition—but imitation?

In this episode of Street Preachers, Tim Timberlake and Philip Anthony Mitchell continue their journey through 1 Peter by confronting one of the greatest deceptions of our generation: a Christianity that looks authentic on the outside but lacks transformation on the inside.

We’ve become experts at curating appearances while neglecting holiness. Culture celebrates image, platforms reward performance, and too often the Church has settled for a faith that’s polished but powerless.

Peter calls believers to something radically different—not a veneer of Christianity, but a life genuinely transformed by the gospel. Together, we unpack what it means to pursue true holiness in a world obsessed with appearances and why God has never been impressed by what merely looks spiritual.

If you’ve ever wondered whether your faith is being shaped more by Jesus or by culture, this conversation is for you.

The question isn’t whether your faith is visible. The question is whether it’s real.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

What's going on, Street Team? It is an honor and a privilege to share this moment with you, both myself and my brother Phil. Kind of an honor that we get a chance to walk through the word of God and extract out of it handles for this time, this day and age that we live in. Listen, do us a favor, go ahead and drop in the chat in the comment where you're leaning in from, whether you're listening or watching. We always love to see how far God has taken the Street Preachers podcast. Yeah. And kind of an honor and a privilege to share these moments with you. Phil, how you feeling today, bro?

SPEAKER_02 0:33

I'm feeling good, man. Shout out to the whole street team across the country and around the world. We love y'all. We thank you for all your support. Uh, all of your prayers, your love uh means everything to us, to Tim and I. Um, we would not be here without you guys. Yeah. And um we are one big family together. Let me just set the record straight, right? Like, this podcast is not just like two dudes from the street. Uh, this is uh a growing national and global family of street teamers. That's right. Street team. And uh, we're just brothers and sisters on mission for Jesus Christ in these final days of the church age. And um, it is an honor and a privilege, man, to for all of us to be together and to be unpacking God's word. Right here at the Street Preachers Podcast is where there is an intersection between God's word and what's happening in the times, an intersection between God's word and the culture. And Tim and I are trying to use this platform as faithfully as possible uh to push out the gospel as far as God would allow it to go. So thank you, Street Team, for all your support, your prayers, your likes, your shares. It means everything to us, man. Uh, we are in uh 1 Peter at the beginning of season two, and uh we've been saying from the very beginning of the season we think that is very important uh what we're working through. Um the Lord dropped this in Tim's heart uh coming back from Europe. And when Tim and I was talking about it, it's like, yeah, bro, this feels right. Feels right. Yeah, it feels right. Um Peter's writing to the church in the first century being persecuted in Rome under the Emperor Nero, and uh we kind of feel the same pressure right now, right? Um like I'm seeing a rise on on social media of just animosity towards Christianity, mockery of Christianity. Um we're seeing it from every level, from uh governmental levels all the way to the street levels. Uh and at the same time, there is a I'm feeling there is uh almost like a quiet revival happening. There is a uh uh interest in faith and spirituality amongst Gen Z, you know, and uh we're trying to feed that, yeah. Right? We're trying to feed that. And so um what what Peter wrote in the first century feel like is a message for right now, and um we feel like the text matters. And let me say this the word of God will always be relevant. Absolutely. Let me let me just let me just put that out there. Let's brag on the word. Uh, this bread right here with the oil on it will always be relevant because the word of God is forever settled in heaven. So in every generation, the word will be relevant. And what we should be more afraid of is when we're listening to people who are teaching without the word of God. Absolutely. You know what I mean, Tim? Like when we if we're hearing teaching that is disconnected from the word of God, we're seeing ministry disconnected from the word of God, we're seeing Christian podcasts that have nothing to do with the word of God. I think we should be more concerned. I think as believers, um, the word should be our wealth, it should govern how the way we live, the way we talk, and um, it should be at the foundation of all of our ministry. And so um, that's what Tim and I are trying to do, man. And uh we feel like what we in right now, First Peter, is relevant to the times, yo. So where we at in First Peter, Tim.

SPEAKER_00 3:43

First Peter.

SPEAKER_02 3:44

I think we finished in chapter in verse five. Yeah. Um, when we were talking about the times. Um Chapter 1, verse 5, chapter 1 is where we left off in verse 5. Uh, talked about God's power, and we talked about the the inheritance that was preserved for us. I think we was also talking about, man, just where our expectation needs to be about what God has preserved for us in heaven. Uh, I think I went off on a tangent, man. I just felt some type of way. You know, I mean, I was on my soapbox.

SPEAKER_03 4:12

I mean, like, I ain't gonna front.

SPEAKER_02 4:14

I was on I was on my soapbox for a minute. I was like, yo, who you fighting in the studio, bro? Like, what you fighting for? I was on my soapbox for a minute because I feel some type of way, Tim. Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, I I feel some type of way that the enemy and the culture has duped our generation and has given us so many other things to love that we almost are, it's like I feel like there's a large swatch of the church that's doing Christianity with no desire to see Christ. We give no thought to what he went to prepare for us, we give no thought to what's gonna happen in glory, and because we don't have that thought, we don't have that context, I think you said it best, we don't see this life right. Yeah, so we're not we're not utilizing our time here right. And I feel like they're we're distracted by so many things because we don't understand the the the never-ending season we're going to next of eternity. And I and I think like you were saying, and uh, we we've touched on this, if we think more about the what's gonna happen in eternity, we'll use this time. Absolutely, you know what I'm saying? Unpack that a little bit though, man.

SPEAKER_00 5:24

Yeah, I I think when there's no perspective of eternity, like when you really think about it, bro. This life is so short. Yeah. If we're blessed 90 years, maybe 70. If we're really, really blessed. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 5:43

Like that's old school and 30. Man, you get 70. You're like scored three years ago. You get three scores and ten, bro.

SPEAKER_00 5:53

You're like, I mean it's short, it's short, yeah. And and we we look at the trappings of this life as if they will last and we will live forever. Yeah. And this glimpse that we get, scripture calls it a vapor. A vapor. And I I even think about that in terms of you think about that with your kids, right? It was like yesterday you were holding them as babies. And Lena and I think about that and we cry a lot, man. Just got four teenagers at home. Just I remember in your hands, and now they're staring you in the face.

SPEAKER_02 6:29

It's crazy. You know what they say about parenting? They say uh the days are long, but the years go by fast.

SPEAKER_00 6:33

That's right.

SPEAKER_02 6:34

You heard what I just said? Absolutely. Because your son is nine. Absolutely. I got four teenagers. The days are long, but the years go by fast. You know what I mean? And um, and so I I think about stuff like that. But you know what though? It's also too, you know, when you're talking about like a vapor, you know how the scripture refers to life as like a blade of grass. Yeah. It springs up in the morning and it's gone in the evening, you know. And um I think we don't think about the rewards, right? Imagine, imagine having eternal rewards that people sacrifice now because they don't see time right, right? They don't see this life as like a test of faithfulness. And if more believers would see this life as a test of faithfulness, I think there'll be less distractions, there'll be more courage to persevere through challenges, and it'll be like, Lord, am I living this life really for you? Am I doing marriage for you? Am I doing parenting right for you? Am I serving my local church right? What am I doing with my money? Is there a percentage of my money that's going towards gospel ministry? You know how the Lord told that parable about gaining friends in heaven through how you steward your money. It's like we use money now to gain friends in heaven, and people that goes over people's heads. It's almost like he says, use a portion of your income to ensure that you help to put souls in heaven. So you'll meet these friends in heaven, like, listen, because of your faithfulness and because of your giving, I'm here. Yeah. Right? We don't think about that. So I think if more of us had that eternal perspective, it will dictate how we spend our time here. Our time, Tim, would become more fruitful here. I'm telling you. If we saw that what I'm doing here is really the setup for the the never-ending rewards we will get in glory.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

Think about what you just said. I feel that in my spirit with the analogy of money, right? Let's just say each one of us was given a hundred dollars from God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the only hundred dollars we would ever get. Yeah. We will be so intentional with how we spend one dollar. That's good, man. You'll be careful about it. You'll be careful with how you spend one dollar because you're not getting anything else. Wow. We don't store it our time like that. That's an analogy, bro. We don't store it our lives like that. That's a good analogy. You know what I'm saying? And we waste days and we waste time and we waste months, and essentially we waste years. And we only get a certain allotment of it. And we don't even know how much time we're gonna get.

SPEAKER_02 8:51

Exactly. You know, because it's fixed. We don't know how much time we're gonna get. You know, people really don't know. Yeah, we really don't know how much time we're gonna get. I mean, right before we came into the studio, I was telling one of my guys, man, I think it was uh an NBA player. He was 26 years old, right?

SPEAKER_00 9:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:04

How old was he?

SPEAKER_00 9:05

27.

SPEAKER_02 9:06

Brandon Clark. Yeah, right. Like 27. I was thinking about how Brandon Clark died at like 27 years of age. You know, we just don't know how much time we're gonna get. So since that time is fixed, we want to make good use of it. Um, like even when I was when I was working on my book project contend, um, like I was working with with my editors, and she was like, she was saying to me, she was saying, like, you you try to put a lot of stuff in this one little book, right? And I was like, Listen, I'm writing like a man running out of time. Absolutely. She said, but why you can't put some of this stuff in your second book? I was like, well, I don't know if I'm gonna get a second book. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't I can't say that I will, right? So like I'm just squeezing things in there. Like, let me let me let me name drop a little bit. I'm gonna throw Tim in there, throw this brother in there, I threw my other brother in there, like I'm throwing my kids in there, like I'm just like, let me just name drop a little bit because I don't have a guarantee I get another book. Now, if God allows me another book, praise God. But but I'm I was told I'm I'm writing like a man running out of time. You so there's some things I need to say if I don't get you. Now I'm a now you can find that stuff in preaching on YouTube, but for my first literary work, I'm gonna drop some things in there because I don't know if I'm getting another chance. But I'm saying that to say because the older I get, Tim, the older I get, the more I'm saying I don't want to waste my time.

SPEAKER_00 10:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:12

I don't want to give away time to things that don't matter. I don't want to be in meetings that don't matter. I don't want to, I don't want to be spending my days doing things that don't matter. So I want to be more careful about how I'm investing in Lena. I want to be more thoughtful. Let me not say careful. I want to be more thoughtful about how I'm investing in Lena. I want to be more thoughtful about how I'm investing in my kids, uh, my children. I want to be more thoughtful how I'm investing in my staff, how I'm investing in church, how I'm investing in our podcasts, our businesses, all the things that we have. I want to be more thoughtful about how I'm investing in those things because we don't know how much time we have left.

SPEAKER_00 10:44

That's right. You see what I'm saying? That's it. We got 1,440 minutes in every day, right?

SPEAKER_02 10:48

Yeah. You just knew that off the top of your head?

SPEAKER_00 10:51

Yeah, I wrote a book about it. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 10:54

What was the name of the book? 1440. 1440. Yeah. What was the book about?

SPEAKER_00 10:58

It was about how we stored time. Really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:00

Yo, we plugged the book, man. Come on. We're talking about time. Plug the book. Come on. Go on.

SPEAKER_00 11:06

Go grab the power of 1440. Uh, what's the name of the book?

SPEAKER_02 11:09

The power of 1440. I plugged the book, man.

SPEAKER_00 11:12

The power of 1440. You can find it everywhere books are sold. Uh, grab it off Amazon and it'll be on your doorstep the next day. Also, go cop the bumpy road to better, my latest book, if you have not got that. It will bless you. Trust me.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

Now, that first book you mentioned, what is the book about?

SPEAKER_00 11:24

It's about how we steward moments because we think we own time. We don't own time, we steward it. Right. And we have this misconception and we have this there hundreds of books of how to manage time.

SPEAKER_02 11:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

How can you manage something you don't own?

SPEAKER_02 11:38

Right, right. You know what's powerful about that too? God lives outside of time.

SPEAKER_00 11:42

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 11:43

Right? He has no watch on his wrist. Right. It's not like I got a watch right now. He lives outside of time. And yet he's given you he's locked humanity into time as a stewardship. Yep. It's like you have God outside of time. He creates man, and then he puts man between two boundaries, the beginning of time from the days of Adam until the end of time when Christ returns. And he locked men between those two boundaries. And then he says, steward it. The one who's outside of time puts man in time. Then he says to man, steward it. Why would he do that? It's a test because where I am, you're coming. Right? Like where I am outside of time, y'all all, you all will arrive here. Some of you will arrive and be with me. Others will arrive and be eternally damned. That's right. But everybody's headed to a place where time will disappear. So while I locked y'all in time, watch this word, temporarily steward it. And some people will steward it right and they will be with me, God says, and they will be rewarded for other forever. Others will steward it wrong and they will be away from me, and they will be away from me forever. Right? Man, let's feel like we're doing a whole Bible study right now on your book. Right. So the one who is outside of time says to men who are in time, steward what I've given you is temporary because you all will come outside of time, but everybody will not be in the same place. And for that reason, we need to steward it wisely.

SPEAKER_00 13:08

Which gives the statement, the test of time, a completely new meaning.

SPEAKER_02 13:12

The test of time.

SPEAKER_00 13:14

Right. Because how you steward this time dictates and determines how and where you would spend eternity. This is a fact, right?

SPEAKER_02 13:22

And then we even think about like the man who wrote this letter, Peter. He stewarded his time well. Yeah. Like once he he really got a revelation of the resurrected Christ, he went on to give his life. He was executed upside down, according to church tradition. And then he wrote these two powerful letters. One of them we're studying right now, he gave his life for what mattered because he understood what we're talking about right now. He understood time, he understood who Christ was, he understood what really mattered, and he gave his life for what really mattered. And I think more believers need to do that. We need to give our lives, not just physically, socially, spiritually, like mentally, emotionally, financially. We need to give our lives for what really matters because all of this is temporary.

SPEAKER_00 14:08

So let me ask you this because you you live your life like this, you steward your life like this, and many people don't. When I hear you talk and when we talk, you live with the end in mind. I talk about that all the time. Right. You live from the perspective of this is how I want my life stewarded because I have the end in mind. Yeah. If the Lord tarries, this is how I want my life to be represented as my final breath. Yes. What was the breaking point for you? How did you get to that place in that point where you lived with the end in mind?

SPEAKER_02 14:42

I think for me, it it the breaking point for me was that encounter I had with God in Jerusalem in 2018. Right. I think before that I wasn't I wasn't pastoring thinking about that. And I wasn't living life thinking about that. But I think when I had that encounter with God at the garden tomb in 2018 in Jerusalem, um it it really it really marked my life. It was like it left an indelible imprint on my life in which I understood the holiness of God. And I think my reverence for God had increased so much I started seeing myself properly in light of who God really was. I saw my life as finite, I saw myself as the sinner I was, and I saw myself as like as a man who has a fixed amount of time to honor this holy God who just revealed himself to me in a very powerful way. And so it was even around that time I had changed my definition of success, right? I used to think like success in ministry was some type of actualization, a place we arrived. If your ministry, you know, grew to this number, and you know, people are trying to break these certain attendance goals. And, you know, if I got to this place financially, if I was able to leave this amount of money for my children, and and all of that, you know, there's nothing evil in breaking attendance goals. There's nothing evil in leaving money for your children, you know, there's nothing evil in doing that. But I had I had changed my definition of success to what Paul wrote before he died, right before he died. I shouldn't say die, right before he was executed. Right? Right before Paul was executed, in the last letter that he wrote to Timothy, he said in that letter, he said, I've I've I've fought the good fight, I've kept the faith, and he talks about finishing his race. And then he goes on to say, There is a crown now that has been laid up for him. And uh, and I've redefined my definition of success. Like that is my definition of success to him, right? If if by God's grace you and I, if by God's grace you and I can come down to the end of whenever our life would be, yeah, right? Um, whenever that if we can come down to the end of our life, marriage, parenting, ministry, all the things, and on my deathbed, whatever that looks like. My mother had a dream of my end, right? I try I try not to talk about it ever, but whatever my end will look like. If I can come to my end, whether in a casket or in a jam, and in my heart, or if I'm allowed to speak and say, I fought the good fight. I I did keep the faith. And if this is my end and I'm in the will, I did finish my race. Not somebody else's race, my race. And I'm headed to get my crown. If I could say that at the end, whether I'm on my deathbed or in a jam, then that to me is success. And if I could say that with confidence, then I was successful in this life. That that that's the way, that's what changed for me. That's the way I see that. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 17:48

That's what changed for me. What about for you? Man, that's powerful. Like Paul, there's a statement he says at the end, my life is being offered up like a drink offering. Yeah, man, like a drink offering, man. You know, and for me at the end of my life, if I can stand before God and say, I was emptied, emptied. And I was obedient down to the last drop. Poured out. Poured out. That's powerful. I didn't think about that.

SPEAKER_02 18:20

And then my life was needed for it was meaningful. It's almost like, it's almost like I don't even know why we hit him. We supposed to be the end of it so good. Maybe somebody needs us. You know, it's it's it's dope too, because I was thinking, like, maybe, you know, I I like to encourage people. I would I would talk about this in the dark, but I should talk about this more in the light. I've encouraged a lot of people in the dark. I would say to them, you need to die empty. Yeah. Right? You need to die empty. You need to die empty. Like, we don't want to die full.

SPEAKER_00 18:47

No.

SPEAKER_02 18:47

And I don't, I personally, I don't want to arrive before the Lord full. Like it would be traumatizing to me to arrive before the Lord and realize I was supposed to do that. 100%. I was supposed to finish this. I was supposed, I don't want to. It's like if if the Lord packed our locker with things we were supposed to pull out and do in this life, I don't want to arrive before him knowing that it was stuff in that locker I was supposed to do. I was supposed to write one more book. I was supposed to preach one more sermon. I was supposed to do one more crusade. Like I don't, I wanna, I wanna die empty. Me. I want to die empty. You want to die empty. We want to die having, like you said, I love that. Poured out everything we're supposed to pour out in this life. Because here's the thing like when we arrive in glory, he's not gonna need our sermons in glory. He's not gonna need this podcast in glory, he's not gonna need our songs in glory, like all the things we we he's not gonna need that there. Yeah, the things he has given us is for now, right? Like, somebody's watching this right now, and I just want to say to you, like the things that the Lord has called you to do, he's called you to do it now. This is why obedience matters, right? There might be somebody watching us now, you're far away from God, and maybe he's calling you to surrender your life to him, he's calling you to do that now. Now is the hour of salvation. Today is the day of salvation. You don't have next week. You may not have the next three hours, right? So, so I want to say to the street team who's just sitting on things that God has spoken to you, obey. Be faithful in your local church, give away a percentage of your income to support gospel ministry. Love your spouses, love your children and disciple them. Help gospel ministry go forward. You know the things that God said to you last season and you still ain't do it. You asking for something this season, but you ain't obeyed last season. What was the last thing he told you to do that you did not do? Let's talk about that. You know, before we have this laundry list of all these things we want to do, we have zeal without wisdom. What was the last thing he told you to do that he did not do? What relationship do you have to reconcile? Who do you have to apologize to? What works you got to go back and fix? Like, let's spend our days being watch these words, faithful and fruitful so that we can die empty and stand before our Savior and said, Listen, we did everything we were supposed to do, or at least like what Catherine Coleman said. I love this. She said she would stand before Jesus and said, I tried.

SPEAKER_00 21:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:05

I love Katherine Kuhlman. I love her, man. You know, um, I love Katherine Coleman, and I love when she said that she said, I will I will stand before the Lord and said, Lord, I tried. I gave it my best.

SPEAKER_00 21:16

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 21:17

You know, and let's let's give God our best.

SPEAKER_00 21:18

Man, that's powerful. I think, you know, especially for the time that we live in, people often ask us, man, it seems like you all are everywhere. Why are you preaching so hard? Why are you preaching so much? Why are you traveling podcasts?

SPEAKER_02 21:34

Businesses, oh, all the time.

SPEAKER_00 21:36

All those things, why are you doing those things? And I really believe the Bible is true, and the Bible says, run while it is day. Yeah. And this is the hour, this is the window. We gotta lay that while it's done to lay down our comfort and to run and spread the gospel. I was sharing with uh Phil uh A couple of days ago uh about these two revivalists, John Wesley and George. Uh they traveled together. Yeah, George with George Wakefield, they traveled together from Europe to the Americas preaching the gospel and sparking revival where they went. And they did most of this horseback. You know what I'm saying? Think about the discomfort of net. Horseback across Europe, horseback across America, taking boats across uh uh the sea to make sure and ensure that people in these various pockets of the world are equipped with the gospel of Jesus Christ. We got cars, we got planes, we got sprinters, sprinters, you know what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 22:40

We have money, resources, comforts.

SPEAKER_00 22:42

What is our excuse? You know what I'm saying? And we get trapped in this idea of comfort, and you know, technology is phenomenal. I I thank God for technology. But there's nothing like going to be in a room with people.

SPEAKER_02 22:58

But you know, those men, I think those men had a burden, Tim.

SPEAKER_00 23:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:02

I think those, I I love the fact you brought those men up. I think those men had a burden. And I think those men, those men saw the bigger picture. And I think we was, you kind of alluded to this. We why we might alluded to this in a previous podcast, I can't remember, but I just think we don't have enough believers that see the bigger picture. Right? We we don't see the bigger pictures. Like right, I'm I'm staring at you right now. Thank you, Holy Spirit. I'm staring at you right now, but behind you is a massive window. But behind you, I see the skyline of New York City, right? I see the skyline of New York City. I'm seeing buildings, I'm seeing all types of things behind you, skyscrapers and everything. If I just focused on you, I would be missing the bigger picture. See? But but if I if I if I step back just a little bit, right, I can see you and the bigger picture all at the same time. So I got I got one eye on you, but in the foreground, I see the bigger picture. I think too many believers, they're so fixed on right now. So you would be considered now.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:02

Like, can we can't let me just do this for a second? Absolutely. Right. So if I'm if I'm just looking at you, I will call you now. But behind you, I see eternity. Right? So it's like if we don't have both in view, we would waste now. And I think I think too many believers, their view is myopic. It's like they only see now, but they don't see the bigger frame of the totality of what God is trying to do. And I think men like men like Wesley, Whitfield, others throughout time, what I've done in the beginning, I was only looking at Tim. I only saw now. That was in the beginning of my salvation when I was an immature Christian. I think the longer I've walked with the Lord and the more that I've wrung out my heart from sin, the more that worldly things have gotten burned out of me, the more I see Tim, but the more I see the window. And because I see the the vastness of the window, I understand staring at you is only temporary because of this massive thing behind you. And I think that's the thing is like, how do we keep one eye on now, but both eyes on eternity? And then that will help govern how we steward right now. Like, like, like I'm sure they could hear this siren. The siren in the back. Like that's what the church needs. Yeah, they need that that siren to go off so that we can see the bigger picture of what's really going on, and especially right now as time is running out.

SPEAKER_00 25:16

Man, think about this. If we got closer, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:21

Oh, I know.

SPEAKER_00 25:28

Let's just say I was to get closer to you. No, I know where you're going. You wouldn't be able to see the window. I wouldn't even be able to see the window. You wouldn't be able to see the window. I only see your face. That's it. You wouldn't be and it's not until you have distance between back up just a little bit. Just a little bit. Yeah. That you get the full scope of both now and eternity.

unknown 25:47

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:47

And see what God is actually doing.

SPEAKER_02 25:49

I think too many believers are right here on life. Right here. This is all they see. They just see the job. They just everybody right here.

SPEAKER_00 25:55

They don't back up to nose is on the mirror.

SPEAKER_02 25:57

Nose is right here. They don't back up to see, oh snap. The Lord has a plan of redemption. Oh snap, he's preparing us for eternity. Oh snap, Jesus is coming. Oh snap, we're living in the last days. Oh snap, I need to be faithful and fruitful. You know, take a moment, Tim, and encourage the street team to back up just a little bit to see the bigger picture. Like, just take a second and do that, bro.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

Think about this for a second. If you were getting ready in the morning, you know, they they got all these get ready with me's. Get ready with me. If you if you did a get ready with me and your nose is on the mirror, you wouldn't be able to see the details of your face.

SPEAKER_02 26:30

You cannot.

SPEAKER_00 26:30

You wouldn't be able to tell where where you've put makeup for the ladies on there. Me and you wouldn't be able to see if your hairline was straight or cricket because your nose is on the mirror. It's not until you take a step back that you're able to see the details of what needs to be done in order for you to get ready. It's the same thing in this life. If you're standing too close to now, you can't put your eyes on eternity. And you won't be able to see the details and how God desires for you to get ready for the coming of his son. And so we just want to encourage you with this episode, take a step back. Allow there to be space for the Holy Spirit to work in between your now and your next. And watch how he weaves together even the things that you thought were unusable by God for his glory and for his power in your life. And that is one of the greatest evidences of his grace being at work in your life. Not that you can preach, not that you can teach, not that you can cry, not that you can sing, work done, not that you can shout, but that you can step back from now. Work done. And really put a focus on eternity so that you live with the end in mind. One of the things, bro, me and Jen talk about is at the end of our life, what do we want to be known for? Yeah. If I had to limit it to one word, what is it that I want to be known for? It's not my preaching, it's not the church, it's not my leadership. It's love. Love. And so everything I do, I do it from the lens of the word I want people to say about me after I take my last breath.

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And you do that well, bro. You love well. You love me well, you love your family well, you love well. And I I think anybody who knows you personally will be able to testify that you've done that, man, because I feel that beaming off you every time you and I come together, right? And I think anyone who has a personal relationship with you will be able to say that, right? I even think, to be honest, Tim, you know, um, you know, I think that you are you are you are living now for what you want people to say about you when you're gone. It's it's evident beyond your preaching, it's evident in the way that you live. And I think that's encouragement, right, for the street team who's watching right now. Just when I think about my brothers Tim's life, um a lot of you may not know Tim personally. Um you'll meet up, you'll meet him, you'll get a chance to on our second tour. We got a tour coming up this year. Absolutely. By God's grace, pray for us. We'll talk about that in an upcoming episode. We'll give you some more details, but you'll get a chance to meet Tim. Tim is one of the most loving men I've ever known. And uh he loves self-sacrificially. He thinks about people more than he thinks about himself. Um, you'll bump into Tim and he won't talk about himself. He'll talk to you about you, he'll pray for you, he'll always encourage you. And uh he is one of the most loving, godly men. It's not it's not something like he may preach from a platform, something you can feel coming out of his life. And he's he's living his life in such a way that when he dies, that will be his testimony. And you know, the question I ask to you, Street Team, you know, uh I want to be known for love too. I want to be known for just being faithful, you know. Uh I want to be known for a piece of trash that God took from the dumpster and was able to use for his glory. And uh, I would I would say to you, Street Team, what do you want to be known for? You know, to be truth be told, we're not even gonna get to First Peter. You know, we'll we'll come back to we'll come back. Maybe maybe the Holy Spirit hijacked, well, I mean the Holy Spirit leads Tim and on everything that we do because we don't we don't script anything, um, which I don't know if we should be. Um I like these moments. I mean, I don't we've never scripted anything. Not podcast, not studio. We just open God's word. Our preparation is prayer. Tim and I we pray a lot. Yeah, we open God's word and we let the Holy Spirit lead us. And I don't know if we should script anything, but I at this point, I I feel like we're gonna we're just gonna spend the last few minutes of this podcast just talking to you about time. Um time uh is fixed. You're not gonna get another day than what God intends. And he knows when that last day is coming. You're not gonna get another year, another month, another decade more than what God intends. And he he knows when that season is gonna come to an end. And I just say to you, street team, I say to anybody watching right now, what are you doing with your time? How are you stewarding your time? Are you giving your time away to things that are not gonna matter? Are you giving away your days to things that's not gonna matter? Are you giving away your time to people that's just wasting it? Um how are you stewarding your marriage? How are you stewarding your children? If you have them, Psalm 127 calls them gifts, not inconveniences. It doesn't matter if you plan for them to be here or a condom broke, you know, they're here. Yep. And how are you stewarding them? You know, how are you stewarding the opportunities God has given? You know, opportunities are gifts too. Just like children are gifts, opportunities are gifts. How are you stewarding your opportunities? Are you stewarding them with faithfulness? Are you stewarding them with pride and arrogance? Are you stewarding them with a sense of entitlement? How are you stewarding? How are you stewarding the job that you have? Are you always late and leaving early? You know, are you stealing things from your job that don't belong to you? Are you being faithful at your job? You say my boss is an unbeliever. Most of us are bosses are unbelievers. So what? The scripture teaches us, man, you should work as unto the Lord. That's right. Right? You should work as unto the Lord. So it doesn't matter if your boss is unbelievable. Your boss could be uh in another religion. It don't matter. You work as unto God wherever you are. You could be working at Starbucks or you could be working at a church, but it don't matter if you're cleaning toilets or you're preaching the gospel. We should be doing everything as unto the Lord with excellence. When I first got saved, the first thing I was doing at church was cleaning the bathrooms, and I will put on my headphones, listen to worship, and clean them bathrooms. They will be immaculate, and I did them to the glory of God. And my question to you is what are you doing with your time? How are you stewarding your opportunities? You know, how are you stewarding your resources? How are you stewarding your relationships? Alright? There is no second chance with life in terms of life as a whole. The unknown writer of Hebrew says, it is appointed to a man and woman to live, wash his word, once. And then the judgment. It's coming for all of us. We will give an account to the Lord for how we have stewarded this life, and no one escapes that account. So let me use the final moments of this episode of our podcast to just encourage you, straight team. Man, to make a pivot today. Maybe some of you, when this episode ends, you need to get down on your knees and just repent before God for how you have wasted time, wasted opportunities, wasted relationships, blown things that God has given you. Not faithful at church, not faithful what you're giving, not faithful at your job, complaining all the time, acting as if you have all this time to do right. No, we have a fixed amount of time to watch, be stewards over everything that God has given us. Listen to me, you own nothing. You do not own anything, everything under the auspice of your leadership, everything under your hands, God has given you to watch this word, steward. Let me give you a more modern word, manage. And we're gonna give an account for that. So this is not to beat you up, this is to just encourage you. Um that with the fixed amount of time you have, let's be better stewards of everything that God has entrusted to you. Your platforms, your ministry, your finances, your relationships, your opportunities, your jobs, your your children, everything. And you know, that's gonna be our prayer for you. That God will make you a better steward of everything He's given you because time is running out and time is fixed. The name of your book is The Power of 1440. The Power of 1440. How to be a better steward over your time. So, Father, in the name of Jesus. Yeah, Lord, like that alarm is going off right now in the studio. In this exact moment. Um, we pray, God, Lord, that an alarm will go off in the hearts of your sons and daughters. We can't script stuff like that. We pray an alarm will go off in the spirit for the body of Christ. We pray for every man, woman that's watching, listening right now, God, that you would give them awareness. You would pull them back just enough that they can see now and they can see eternity, yeah, the bigger picture. We pray for increase in conviction um that they would be grieved over how they have wasted time, wasted opportunities, mismanaged relationships, mismanaged resources, all the things. And right now, in this moment, I pray God that there will be an increase in awareness of the fixed amount of time that we have. Give our brothers and sisters wisdom, yes, Lord, awareness, a burden, to be better stewards over everything you have entrusted to them, from their relationships to their opportunities to ministry to budgets, to their jobs, to finances, everything, to their own physical bodies, the temples that you have given them. Help us all to be better stewards of everything that you've entrusted to us. Let let let this moment a seriousness come upon us so that we don't have that much time left. And and for the global body, may we maybe start to set aside differences and rally together for the spread of the gospel, for the winning of souls, for the multiplying of disciples, for the pushing out the message of Jesus Christ, as we know we're living in the final hours of the church age. Uh I pray this right now over our brothers and sisters in Ovar Street Team that something would shift in their hearts, in the mighty, in the majestic, in the matchless name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Hey family, if you're watching this episode, I want to encourage you to grab a copy of my brother Tim's book. The Power of 1440. The Power of 1440. It is available right now everywhere. Books are sold, man. You can when you hop off this podcast, go straight to Amazon and order that book. You need it. As a matter of fact, I'm encouraging every single person right now watching this episode, every single person, go order that book, read the book. Go beyond this episode. Go beyond this time of prayer. Get the book that you have a resource to help you understand the importance of stewarding your time. When this episode ends, when you hop off, go order that book right now so that you have something to help you understand the importance of time. And if you will be so inclined, go ahead and pre-order my book that's coming out in October. Contend is also available online right now, everywhere books are sold. You could go to Amazon and do the pre-order. That would mean everything to me. And uh if this episode has been a blessing to you, like I feel like it's been a blessing to Tim and I, man, do us a small favor. Like, comment, subscribe, and share it with somebody, man, who needs to understand the importance of stewarding their time. This episode was brought to you by the Holy Spirit.

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That's right.

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This episode was made possible by the Holy Spirit. Yo, we love you, Street Team. Uh, you mean everything to us, and uh, we'll catch you in the next episode of Street Breaches Podcast. Yo, peace.