WEBVTT 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:11.919 You're listening to The Road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:18.160 At The Road, our vision is to raise up wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ. 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:22.719 For more information on The Road, visit theroad.org. 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:28.079 We hope you are encouraged by today's message from Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:36.399 Hey, listen, before you get started, five, what do you what do you think are the five top New Year's resolutions? 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:41.119 No men can speak it out who are at men's fire this morning because you already heard this. 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:45.679 What do you think's number one New Year's resolution for Americans? 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:46.320 What? 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:48.560 Okay, good. 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:51.520 Okay, number one, stay fit and healthy. 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:55.439 Okay, um, that's the biggest one. 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:05.519 Most signups for gyms between now and February, and 45% of those within a month will not be used again. 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:08.400 And that's actually a stat too from Time Magazine. 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:10.000 Uh what do you think is number two? 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:15.200 Ooh, better finance is coming, but it's not number two. 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:17.120 Number two is lose weight. 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:26.959 So if you got a resolution to lose weight, you join 60% of the American population as one of their New Year's resolutions is to lose weight. 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:30.079 Number three, enjoy life to the fullest. 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:35.439 Number four, spend less, save more. 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:42.000 Spend all you can, save all you can, earn all you can, and give all you can. 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:45.840 It's a little bit of a rendition of Steve Holt and John Wesley. 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:56.400 So number five, spend more time with family and friends, and I'll give you number six, quit doing New Year's resolutions. 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:01.359 No, actually, it's be less stressed, which I think they kind of were the same. 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:07.920 I want to talk about um what we mean by uh getting a breakthrough. 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:14.960 God gave me this idea of breakthrough when we were in Costa Rica this summer for our church and for our lives. 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:20.879 And I am serious that you have to get serious to get a breakthrough. 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:26.719 And at the road, I believe God's word is on us for breakthrough. 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:31.439 And if you'll get serious about a breakthrough, God will get serious about your breakthrough. 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:34.159 But you have to get serious about the breakthrough. 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:45.520 You have to have a conviction in your heart that you're sick and tired of being sick and tired, that you're sick and tired of status quo in something in your life. 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:55.360 And that God is a God of breakthrough, and we're gonna talk about that tonight, but he's also a God that is able. 00:02:56.319 --> 00:02:59.680 He is able to change stuff in our life. 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:03.759 That's what being wholehearted is all about. 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:08.639 Wholehearted is where people want to be, but very few ever experience it. 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:17.120 And the reason is because there's these barriers that we just will not pay the price to penetrate. 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:26.879 And so let me give you three definitions found in different dictionaries on what a breakthrough is. 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:27.840 I like these. 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:39.280 The first one, here's a breakthrough: an act or insistence of moving through or beyond an obstacle. 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:40.479 I like that. 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:50.080 An insistence, an act, it's action, it's an action word of moving through or beyond an obstacle. 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:53.439 So you have obstacles in your life and it's an action. 00:03:53.520 --> 00:04:04.319 It's not thinking about it, it's not dwelling on it, it's not just praying about it, it's actually an action and an insistence that you're gonna break through this obstacle. 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:10.159 A second definition: an offensive military assault. 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:20.480 An offensive military assault that penetrates and carries beyond a defensive line. 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:22.240 I really like this one. 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:33.759 It is an offensive military assault that penetrates and carries beyond a defensive line. 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:40.480 And so it's this idea of not being on the defensive, but being on the offensive. 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:46.560 And there's a passage of scripture I'm gonna read in just a moment that, I mean, captures this in a mighty way. 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:49.600 And then lastly, it's a sudden advance. 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:51.600 It's a sudden advance. 00:04:52.319 --> 00:05:00.560 It's where you weren't advancing, you were not making progress, you were, you are not uh moving forward, and then you suddenly do. 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:03.120 That's a breakthrough. 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:11.600 Like you couldn't, it's like you couldn't get through, or you've been trying for a long time, and something happens and you get through. 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:13.519 That's a breakthrough. 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:17.439 And I did a I did a search, I said, I said, images of breakthrough. 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:25.600 And there's things like breaking glass and shattering, and then I also saw the one that uh Dick used on Sunday, so I saw where he copied it. 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:35.439 Um but but it's this it's kind of this idea of shattering through because I was thinking, you know, I should get a big piece of glass up here and just shatter it. 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:39.279 And um, and tomorrow night I might do that, you never know. 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:41.920 Um but it's uh it's like that. 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:44.800 It's it's you know what it is? 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:52.959 It's that guy in the commercial who likes running into things more than changing cable. 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:54.399 You know, have you seen the guy? 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:58.000 He's got the little platter of food, he goes, BAM, but he doesn't make it through. 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:03.759 And so some of us feel that way, like we've been hitting the glass wall forever. 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:18.480 Well, what God wants to do is he wants to take a sledgehammer, and he wants to break you into a new advance in your life, and a new work of God, where you're gonna see stuff, experience stuff that you never have before. 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:29.279 So look at Matthew 11, 12, and Jesus predicts, prophesies that there's a new day. 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:33.439 There's a new day that started with John the Baptist. 00:06:33.600 --> 00:07:10.560 That when John the Baptist came, he inaugurated breakthrough like no other prophet before, like no other leader before, that with the coming of John and the coming then of Jesus, there was this new advancement, this new ability to assault the enemy, this new power, which we know now to be the Holy Spirit, that was going to break in with miracle-working, exceptional authority and super, say supernatural authority. 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:16.800 Say supernatural authority to give you supernatural authority to break in. 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:20.800 And here's what he says: it's one of my favorite verses in scripture. 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:28.480 And if I sound hoarse, it's because I am I watched the national championship last night. 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:57.839 I don't know if in my lifetime I've ever gone from so much thrill as a 26-yard missed field goal to so down and depressed as a touchdown, some 60-yard touchdown pass by the Crimson Tide, like 10 minutes later. 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:01.519 Anyway, I lost my voice, but it's it's gonna come back, I know. 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:03.519 But probably not tonight. 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:05.680 Uh Matthew 11, 12. 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:21.680 And from the days, this is Jesus speaking, it's in red, from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:25.600 Here's what one commentator says of this passage. 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:43.120 This is a passage about people of keen enthusiasm and commitment who are willing to boldly respond to God in proclaiming and demonstrating the kingdom of God on earth, Luke 16, 16. 00:08:43.279 --> 00:09:01.600 It is a new way inaugurated by John and Jesus and the apostles, listen, of forceful breakthrough, forceful enthusiasm, forceful advancement, taking back ground from the enemy. 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:05.840 Jesus inaugurated breakthrough. 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:10.879 And God, the God we serve, is a God of breakthrough. 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:12.799 That is who he is. 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:16.639 That's his character, church. 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:25.759 So look at one of the best passages, one of the best metaphors in scripture, I think, of breakthrough, a literal story that happened, and that's in 2 Samuel 5. 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:37.279 So turn to 2 Samuel 5 and a situation with David that I want to just camp on tonight, and I want to call this the God of breakthrough tonight. 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:39.200 The God of breakthrough. 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:41.200 Dr. 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:46.960 Eastman got me a little uneasy because he started with this passage on Sunday. 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:49.200 He doesn't know what I he didn't have any idea what I was gonna teach him on. 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:50.480 I'm going, oh no. 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:55.759 He's gonna, he's gonna steal my message, and I'm gonna have to work on a new message. 00:09:55.919 --> 00:09:58.080 But all he did was reference it and he went on, so that was great. 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:01.440 And his message is way better than mine anyway, and that would have been cool. 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:11.679 But 2 Samuel 5 is where we actually we actually see in Scripture this idea of the master or the God of breakthrough. 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:15.120 That God is a God of breakthrough. 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:29.919 And in this story, I like to say, for you that have heard me talk on the Old Testament, Old Testament is God concealed, New Testament revealed. 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:35.440 So truth or God concealed, New Testament revealed. 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:41.679 So what's concealed here is what we just read in Matthew 11, 12. 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:51.840 What's concealed here is the God of breakthrough is this storyline, and it's always it's always narrative in the Old Testament, it's almost always narrative. 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:59.279 It's and I won't get too, I don't want to get too techy, I mean too nerdy here, but but it's didactic a lot of times in the New Testament. 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:11.600 So it's the truth is concealed through story in the old, but it's revealed in truth concepts, New Testament revealed. 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:15.519 So David has become king. 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:18.080 He's been on the run for 17 years. 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:20.960 He gets anointed king over Judah. 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:25.519 So for the next seven years in Hebron, he's the king. 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:39.519 Then uh a civil war occurs over seven years, and finally David consolidates the kingdom with Israel, and Judah and Israel are brought together with him as a king. 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:43.279 And so that's where we pick it up in verse 17. 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:59.759 Now, when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David, and David heard of it and went down to the stronghold. 00:11:59.919 --> 00:12:04.639 Now, circle in your Bible, highlight it, whatever you're using, anointed. 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:16.799 I want you to circle that, underline it, uh, make it yellow, um, star it, you know, whatever you do with your computer or your phone or your notebook. 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:19.600 Here's what I want you to get first here tonight. 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:26.080 If you go after God's anointing, Satan's gonna go after you. 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:42.559 If you will let God anoint you and call you into something for which he wants to use you, you might as well draw a big target on your back because the Philistines are coming. 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:44.639 Always works that way. 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:50.159 So, one of the first things we need to think about with breakthrough is you gotta get ready to battle. 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:54.960 You gotta get ready to fight, you've got to be on the offensive. 00:12:55.679 --> 00:13:00.960 And and if you don't, we'll see what we'll see what the battle's like here. 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:02.879 He's ready to take you out. 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:06.080 But if you'll fight, he'll back off after a while. 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:09.120 But it takes time and it's always a fight. 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:18.080 And here's the thing: you're here, I'm convinced every one of you here is because you want to break through, and you can't get a breakthrough though until you know your anointing. 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:22.559 And the anointing is the work of the Spirit. 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:24.159 You know where anointing comes from? 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:28.480 Anointing is what shepherds did in Israel to their sheep. 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:30.799 That's where the whole term comes from. 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:34.960 They would take oil, they would take olive oil, and they would anoint it on their sheep. 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:36.080 You know why? 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:46.639 Because Israel is a dry climate, but not as dry as here, now not as humid as Georgia, where I'm from, but lots of insects. 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:49.039 And they wanted to protect their sheep from insects. 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:57.759 They wanted to protect their sheep from insects and different things like that and diseases, so the oil was protective over the sheep. 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:03.600 And then later in time, God began to use this idea of the anointing of oil for kingship. 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:10.639 And so, you guys, you're anointed by God and it's protective. 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:13.600 It's protective for you. 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:17.279 And every one of us in this room has an anointing from God. 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:21.679 You're called to do something with your life. 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:24.720 We're not called just to worship. 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:32.960 We're not called just to attend church, we're not called to just get saved, we're called to do something that changes people's lives. 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:34.480 And it starts with us. 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:37.440 You experiencing intimacy with Christ. 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:40.639 And that anointing is there and it's available to you. 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:42.879 Look at 1 John. 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:45.440 Um, 1 John 2.27. 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:46.960 I love this passage. 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:51.120 John says this about all of us. 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:57.519 The anointing, the anointing which you have received from him abides in you. 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:02.399 Every one of us that's a believer in Christ is anointed by God. 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:05.919 Now listen, don't, I don't, I want to talk about two anointings. 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:13.600 One is the anointing everyone has because you've received the Holy Spirit by being born again. 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:15.600 That's what he's talking about here. 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:20.399 But there's a second anointing, and that is for empowerment. 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:28.960 That's where the Spirit of God empowers you, church, for something he's called you to do. 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:35.279 It's why all you beautiful women out there, you get fall in love, you get married, and you have a baby. 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:39.919 And you said all your life, I don't know how I could ever be a parent. 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:46.240 And then you have a baby, and something happens to you, and you get weird. 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:49.200 And you start wanting to be a mom. 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:54.639 And every father should be really happy about that because you ain't no mom. 00:15:55.519 --> 00:16:00.720 And so that you're changed because God's transforming is kind of an anointing for motherhood. 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:04.159 And same with fathers, but there's something if they'll go with it. 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:24.480 Well, in service, in different areas of our life, some of you are called to be writers, and some of you are called to be musicians, and some of you are called to be to be mechanics, and some of you are called to be to be lawyers, and some of you are called to be artists and graphic artists, and I could go on and on, and that's from God. 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:26.879 That's from Him. 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:37.360 And so one of the aspects of breakthrough is the enemy often does his biggest work in the area you're most anointed by God. 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:41.360 And so oftentimes you'll see people with a prophetic gift. 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:56.639 I mean, they can see stuff in the spirit and they get into drugs because they get addicted to the high that comes from drugs, which was a high that God meant them to have, to have insight into other people's lives. 00:16:56.720 --> 00:17:06.880 And God's anointing them that way that Satan knows it, and so they come in and they skew it, and they kill their ambitions, and they kill their anointing. 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:10.079 And you gotta want the anointing. 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:12.559 David was anointed. 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:15.039 So here's this is a great example. 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:18.240 David is anointed by Samuel. 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:21.359 He had nothing to do with it, it's all by grace. 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:36.079 He's just in Bethlehem with a bunch of sheep, gets called in, uh, oil's poured on him from the prophet of Israel, but for the next 17 years, what happens? 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:38.720 He has to fight for the anointing. 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:43.519 So when you're when you receive Christ, it's all by grace. 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:48.880 You have nothing to do with it, you receive it, but now you have to fight for that next anointing. 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:51.680 And that next anointing is a call in your life. 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:57.039 And calling has nothing to do with vocational Christian work. 00:17:57.119 --> 00:17:58.480 That's not what I mean by calling. 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:01.279 Because in certain circles, he's called by God. 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:03.440 Well, that means he's become a pastor. 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:05.119 Heaven forbid. 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:12.799 You know, but but what I mean by calling is that you're a believer, you're a disciple of Christ, and you're called to do something. 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:15.119 And so, and but you have to fight for it. 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:20.720 David had to battle, so he's he's consolidating the kingdom, you guys. 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:25.440 And that's when the enemy begins to work. 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:27.759 And that's what he does. 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:29.519 So count on it. 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:31.839 So I want you to fight for your anointing. 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:34.960 Start asking God, God, what am I anointed to do? 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:37.519 What am I called to do this year? 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:40.240 What what's your what's your call on my life? 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:45.440 You start praying that prayer, you start knocking on that door, you're gonna get a breakthrough. 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:48.720 And I say, just go with your desires. 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:52.400 Just go with your desires and see where God leads you. 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:56.559 It's so cool because he'll open doors that no man can shut. 00:18:57.440 --> 00:18:58.640 Verse 18. 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:01.839 So, let's go back to verse 17. 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:05.119 All the Philistines went up to search for David. 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:07.759 So now they're searching for him, right after he gets anointed. 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:08.720 Now, verse 18. 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:17.440 The Philistines also went and deployed themselves in the valley of Repham or Rephim. 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:20.400 Guess what that means? 00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:25.039 In your Bible, if you have a study Bible, it says the valley of giants. 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:29.519 They go into the valley of giants. 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:34.960 They go into the valley of giants. 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:39.119 There's always a valley of giants. 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:43.599 There's giants in all of our lives. 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:48.799 There's areas of our life where there's always been strongholds of the enemy. 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:53.519 Satan wants to fight you in that valley. 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:56.000 This is my valley. 00:19:56.799 --> 00:20:02.400 And you're familiar with it because it's the same valley that you've been in since childhood. 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:11.200 It's the same valley where your dad put you, or your mom put you, or that coach put you, and shamed you. 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:14.559 And demons want to keep you there. 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:19.920 Because if he can keep you there, there's no way you're going to experience breakthrough. 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:24.720 Giants, I'm going to say it's a valley of shame. 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:27.200 It's the valley of shame. 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:40.640 And Brene Brown, you guys know I'm a big fan of Brene Brown, and she's done some of the greatest um research on shame and vulnerability. 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:45.279 In her book, Daring Greatly, which I'm reading right now. 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:49.759 She gives what are the shame, biggest shame areas for women. 00:20:50.079 --> 00:20:56.079 And by the way, I'll give you a little just a little um advertisement for the women's breakthrough. 00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:58.880 I'm speaking at the breakthrough for women. 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:01.599 You women better watch out. 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:05.440 Because I'm coming locked and loaded. 00:21:05.759 --> 00:21:07.680 And I love speaking to women. 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:09.759 Women are way easier to speak to than men. 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:11.200 Men are like this. 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:13.839 Entertain me. 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:14.880 You know. 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:20.640 Women are like fired up and excited, and lots of cool stuff happened with women. 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:22.640 So I love speaking to women. 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:26.559 Sometimes I wish I was a woman so I could just speak to them more often. 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:38.799 But um, but I'm gonna I'm gonna just give you like one little section here of part of what I'll define way more deeply at the women's breakthrough on shame. 00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:45.119 But uh Brene Brown and her research um would say these are these are some of these. 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:55.440 I'm gonna give you about eight keys at the retreat, at the advance, but here's just a few about some of the giants in women's lives or shame in women's lives. 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:58.880 Looking perfect, trying to look perfect. 00:21:59.039 --> 00:21:59.599 This is through over. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:03.599 10,000 women that were interviewed. 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:12.160 Look perfect, do perfect, be perfect, anything less is shaming. 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:14.000 Never enough. 00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:16.319 That's the key word for women. 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:19.519 Never enough blank. 00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:22.480 Never good enough. 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:25.359 Never sexy enough. 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:28.160 Never beautiful enough. 00:22:28.559 --> 00:22:30.160 Never enough at home. 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:31.920 Never enough at work. 00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:33.680 Never enough in bed. 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:35.839 Never enough with my parents. 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:39.519 Shame means to a woman never enough. 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:41.119 Men. 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:43.039 What about men? 00:22:43.599 --> 00:22:53.519 Well, I elaborated more on this this morning at Morning Fire, but this is how we'll put men in a kind of a nutshell description from all the interviews with men. 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:57.839 Men, shame is failure for a man. 00:22:58.480 --> 00:23:02.160 Shame is weakness for a man. 00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:10.319 Shame is failure and weakness at work, in your marriage, with money, with the children. 00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:15.200 Bottom line, shame is being seen as weak. 00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:21.519 That's our valleys of the giants, men and women. 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:25.839 David is in this valley, but let's look at what he does. 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:32.720 David does five things that bring breakthrough and can bring breakthrough in your life. 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:36.319 Number one, let's go to verse 19. 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:42.799 So David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? 00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:45.039 Will you deliver them into my hand? 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:51.119 And the Lord said to David, Go up, for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into your hand. 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:52.319 So here's number one. 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:55.440 Number one, you got to inquire of the Lord. 00:23:55.680 --> 00:24:03.920 Number one, men and women, a breakthrough begins not with you writing out a strategy of how you're going to get a breakthrough, but seeking God. 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:07.200 We seek intimacy with God. 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:11.279 We come here, that's why I want to open up every night with worship. 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:12.960 We're going to start with worship. 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:15.119 The first 20 minutes, worship. 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:17.119 And we're going to go for it. 00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:18.240 Be here on time. 00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:20.480 If you come in time, I'll try to end on time. 00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:22.559 We'll make a covenant with each other. 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:27.759 But when we come, we're going to inquire of the Lord. 00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:29.519 We're going to seek God. 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:45.359 It's deciding tonight, if you haven't decided yet, man, I'm going to make a covenant with the Lord this year of a sanctuary I'm going to go to, a closet, a place in the house, I'm going to open the word, PB and J, Prayer Bible, and Journal. 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:50.640 I'm going to seek God and I'm going to ask God, what does He want me to do about this or that? 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:52.960 Don't assume you know. 00:24:53.519 --> 00:24:58.319 But ask Him, God, what do you want to do in that area of my life? 00:24:58.640 --> 00:25:01.119 So David went to, and this is really fun. 00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:07.519 So then David went to Baal Parazim, and David defeated them there. 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:09.279 So David, listen, I want you to notice. 00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:14.000 David does not go to the valley of Rephim in verse 18. 00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:22.400 God tells him what to do, and it says, David went to Balperazim, and David defeated them there. 00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:27.119 And he said, The Lord has broken through my enemies. 00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:29.599 Here's where we get the word the God of breakthrough. 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:34.799 He broke through my enemies before me like a breakthrough of water. 00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:39.359 Therefore, he called the name of that place Baalperazim. 00:25:39.440 --> 00:25:47.440 Now we don't know if it was already called Baalperazim, and then he just adopted the name, or if it had some different name and he gave it the new name. 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:52.880 But Baal Perazim means the God of breakthrough, the master of breakthrough. 00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:55.359 And David, here's a second thing. 00:25:55.759 --> 00:25:56.559 Second thing. 00:25:56.799 --> 00:25:58.079 David obeyed. 00:25:58.319 --> 00:26:01.039 He obeyed what he heard God tell him to do. 00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:03.359 David prayed, David obeyed. 00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:06.160 David prayed, David obeyed. 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:13.119 How many of us pray, but then when God tells us something hard to do, we go, I must have missed it. 00:26:13.359 --> 00:26:14.960 I mean today. 00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:19.680 I overheard a conversation with someone. 00:26:20.240 --> 00:26:22.960 I'm listening to this conversation, I'm going, uh-uh. 00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:26.000 This is not good. 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:28.000 This is like not good. 00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:33.519 I know that this particular person is making a decision. 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:36.000 It's not anywhere close to God's will. 00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:38.319 Because it's hard. 00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:46.160 So if you signed up for easy, man, you are in the wrong faith and you're definitely in the wrong church. 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:53.839 Because hard is most often where the greatest victory occurs. 00:26:54.640 --> 00:26:58.079 I want to be courageously scared this year. 00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:18.079 We went and saw Darkest Hour, which is the early days of Winston Churchill when he became prime minister in 1940, May 1940, right when Dunkirk was occurring, and then the fall of Europe had just occurred, and Churchill becomes Prime Minister, and then the Battle of Britain's just about to get going. 00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:19.440 You ought to watch that movie. 00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:28.160 But if any of you know the story, it's it's I mean, it just scratches the surface of what the next four or five years are gonna be for uh Churchill. 00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:32.319 But there's a guy that's a study in courageous fear. 00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:41.119 If you can't handle fear, if you can't handle being scared, everything has to be comfortable for you, forget that word. 00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:44.079 Don't come tomorrow night. 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:49.200 I'm gonna make you so flipping uncomfortable that you'll hate my guts. 00:27:50.400 --> 00:28:00.880 Because the reality is this is that the people who walk fearful but courageously keep going are the ones who get breakthrough. 00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:04.720 It was actually Churchill who said, if you're in hell, keep going. 00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:22.400 If you need a if if you're a complainer, if you're a compla if you're a perpetual complainer, you're gonna courageously be fearful if you start to quit complaining. 00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:32.720 If you're a gossip and you love to gossip, you're gonna be courageously fearful this year if you decide to quit gossiping. 00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:50.559 If you've never tithed your money, if you've never been a generous giver, and God's saying, I want to set you free to be a generous giver, you'll walk in courageous fear this year as you go, Oh, how can I trust God with that? 00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:52.640 We only have that amount. 00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:55.920 But guys, that's obedience. 00:28:56.400 --> 00:29:01.599 And let me just tell you, it's way more exciting than the boring life of the status quo. 00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:07.119 If you don't want to do this stuff, then just have your own little boring life. 00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:09.440 Serious. 00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:16.640 Everything will be perfect, and you'll just be bored stiff, and you'll be watching soap operas. 00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:21.359 And I mean, have you ever watched a soap opera? 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:26.160 Has anybody I've never watched a full episode of a soap opera. 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:29.680 But I've passed and I'm going, people watch these things. 00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:32.720 They wouldn't be there if they didn't watch them, I guess. 00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:38.000 They I mean there's advertisers and stuff, so that's bored people. 00:29:39.279 --> 00:29:39.920 Right? 00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:41.759 Everybody go like this, you know. 00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:42.960 I don't want to be bored. 00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:44.079 Go like that. 00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:46.400 I mean, we want joy and adventure. 00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:47.599 So David obeyed. 00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:48.880 So David prayed. 00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:53.680 And then so God's gonna speak to us, church, and then let's go for it. 00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:55.200 All right? 00:29:56.559 --> 00:29:57.920 Verse 21. 00:29:58.559 --> 00:30:02.559 And they left their images there, and David and his men carried them away. 00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:08.400 So they they beat them, they defeated them, then they carried away their images. 00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:12.880 Underlying men, men, men, men. 00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:18.160 Thirdly, you've gotta have bloodstained allies to fight with. 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:21.359 David could not do this on his own. 00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:24.319 He had men who helped him. 00:30:24.640 --> 00:30:26.319 Men, you need other men. 00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:30.079 Women, you need other women, not just your spouse. 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:31.920 I mean, it starts there. 00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:33.359 It's wonderful for that. 00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:34.400 I mean, it's beautiful. 00:30:34.559 --> 00:30:42.960 Your number one blood-stained ally should be your spouse, but there's things in a man's life that a woman shouldn't have to say. 00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:46.720 Men should speak that into the man's life. 00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:54.720 And most of us men that don't have blood-stained allies, you will be the same person this time next year if you don't have any blood-stained allies. 00:30:54.880 --> 00:30:56.400 You'll just be the same guy. 00:30:56.640 --> 00:31:03.440 I mean, you can try hard and all that, but the reality is you are created for connection. 00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:06.799 You are created for belonging. 00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:11.039 You are created for love, and that is not gender-specific. 00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:12.240 That's for all of us. 00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:19.519 And you need men in your life who can say, dude, would you quit doing that? 00:31:20.960 --> 00:31:23.279 You're driving your wife nuts. 00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:28.000 Get out of the web of porn. 00:31:28.880 --> 00:31:30.720 And I'll be a partner with you. 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:34.559 I'll be an accountability guy for you with covenant eyes. 00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:38.240 So I was talking to a guy who started a ministry here in town. 00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:46.240 He was over at my house watching the game with me last night, and we were talking about covenant eyes and how important that is in porn for guys. 00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:51.359 And he's got one of the largest now ministries, and these are college students. 00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:56.880 College students that are doing covenant eyes in this Christian ministry that he has going. 00:31:57.119 --> 00:31:58.160 Isn't that exciting? 00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:02.400 So these these 18, 19, 20-year-olds, they're getting serious. 00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:06.079 And so, and so, women, you need it too. 00:32:06.319 --> 00:32:09.440 You need, I think all you need is one or two. 00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:10.960 You don't need 18. 00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:15.680 You just need one or two men or women in your life that'll love you, that'll trust you. 00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:19.759 Let me give you what I think are four characteristics of a blood-stained ally. 00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:20.720 Four characteristics. 00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:23.359 Number one, you do life together. 00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:26.000 Number one, you do life together. 00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:28.559 In other words, you like each other. 00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:30.559 So you do life together. 00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:35.359 Number two, you trust that person to keep a secret. 00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:39.119 They speak well of you behind your back. 00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:42.720 They speak well of you behind your back. 00:32:42.799 --> 00:32:43.920 They keep a secret. 00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:45.279 Confidentiality. 00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:52.559 Number three, you have a reciprocal relationship of sharing shame, areas, disappointment, and sin. 00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:54.240 You can be utterly honest. 00:32:54.400 --> 00:33:02.240 It's not just you with a mentor, and mentoring is important, and that's great, but I'm talking about a reciprocal relationship. 00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:04.640 So there's a give and take to it. 00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:09.440 And then fourthly, they don't cut and run when things get tough. 00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:12.079 They don't cut and run when things get tough. 00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:14.559 They really love you and they're really for you. 00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:16.720 So you need that in your life. 00:33:17.119 --> 00:33:22.160 And the Philistines went up once again and deployed themselves in the valley of Rephim. 00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:23.359 Huh? 00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:24.799 Wow. 00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:28.400 The Philistines didn't roll over and die. 00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:33.839 Demons don't roll over and die just because you had a few victories. 00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:39.920 They reconstituted themselves, they redeployed themselves. 00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:41.680 So here's the fourth point. 00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:47.279