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Speaker 2: You're listening to a podcast from Victory. Our spiritual disciplines
Speaker 2: should be real and sincere, not hypocritical nor mechanical. Learn
Speaker 2: more about spiritual disciplines in week nine of our series Redefined.
Speaker 3: So to start with our topic for today, how many
Speaker 3: of you watched the fight this morning? Okay between the
Speaker 3: Mayweather and Connor McGregor. They're saying one of the biggest
Speaker 3: fights in boxing history. Unfortunately, Connor McGregor was snapped out
Speaker 3: in the tenth round and Floyd Mayweather was able to
Speaker 3: establish his title as the greatest.
Speaker 4: Boxer in history with fifty wins.
Speaker 3: Now, I'm showing this to you not because of the
Speaker 3: fight this morning, but month before, a month before this fight,
Speaker 3: there's this Kazakhstan fitness blogger who posts as Connor McGregor
Speaker 3: and went around Las Vegas, New York and La.
Speaker 4: So Telegan totally almost look alike.
Speaker 3: The height, the tattoo, the the hair, and then he
Speaker 3: went around. Then when people saw him together with his
Speaker 3: team Connor Connor so and then the people would rush
Speaker 3: and everywhere he went he attracted this huge crowd.
Speaker 4: It caused huge traffic.
Speaker 3: And then he around taking selfish and videos Tapas Don
Speaker 3: Taimatau Feeling Eamtnam and Siconnor MacGregor, and then they went
Speaker 3: home with their fake picture. Now I'm saying that story
Speaker 3: because in the passage of scripture we're going to read today,
Speaker 3: Jesus talked about religious actors, religious pretenders, and impostors who
Speaker 3: do religious activities for a show during the time of Jesus,
Speaker 3: Mimahtula Din Connor MacGregor going around and doing all the
Speaker 3: spiritual religious activities, pretending to be somebody that they are
Speaker 3: really not, and so they are able to project this
Speaker 3: image and make people believe that they are really more
Speaker 3: spiritual than they really are. So that's what we're going
Speaker 3: to look at today. In Matthew chapter six, if you
Speaker 3: have your Bible with you, we're going to read from
Speaker 3: verse one to verse eight, and then we're going to
Speaker 3: jump to verse sixteen to eighteen. Okay, it says beware
Speaker 3: of practicing your righteousness.
Speaker 4: Beware before other people in order.
Speaker 3: To be seen by them, for then you will have
Speaker 3: no reward from your father, who is in heaven. Thus,
Speaker 3: when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you,
Speaker 3: as the hypocrites do in the synagogues in the streets,
Speaker 3: that they may be praised by others.
Speaker 4: Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
Speaker 3: But when you give to the needy, do not let
Speaker 3: your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
Speaker 3: so that your giving may be in secret, and your father,
Speaker 3: who sees in secret, will reward you.
Speaker 4: Verse five.
Speaker 3: And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites,
Speaker 3: for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues
Speaker 3: and at the street corners that they may be seen
Speaker 3: by others.
Speaker 4: Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
Speaker 3: But when you pray, go into your room and shut
Speaker 3: the door, and pray to your who is in secret,
Speaker 3: and your father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
Speaker 3: And when you pray, do not hip hop empty phrases
Speaker 3: as gentiles do, for they think that they will be
Speaker 3: heard for their many words.
Speaker 4: Do not be like them, for your father knows what
Speaker 4: you need before you ask him.
Speaker 3: And then we're going to skip because verse nine we're
Speaker 3: going to talk about that next week the Lord's prayer,
Speaker 3: and we're going to go through the whole prayer that
Speaker 3: Jesus taught his disciples. But in verse sixteen talking about fasting,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna year you love fasting, Legan, But in verse sixteen,
Speaker 3: and when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites,
Speaker 3: For they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be
Speaker 3: seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have
Speaker 3: received their reward. But when you fast, annoint your head
Speaker 3: and wash your face, that your fasting may not be
Speaker 3: seen by others, but by your father, who is in secret.
Speaker 3: And your father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
Speaker 3: Can you join me in a word of prayer? Lord,
Speaker 3: We pray today, Lord, that your word will come to
Speaker 3: us with power, with the Holy spirit, and with deep conviction.
Speaker 4: Lord.
Speaker 3: We thank you Lord that every time we hear your word,
Speaker 3: your word brings Lord God comes to us like water,
Speaker 3: like fire, like hammer that smashed Lord God, wrong thinking
Speaker 3: in Lord God, in wrong mindsets. Lord, we thank you
Speaker 3: Lord for what you're going to do. Lord, as we
Speaker 3: listen to your word in Jesus name.
Speaker 4: Amen.
Speaker 3: Okay, now as we read this portion of Jesus sermon.
Speaker 3: When I was studying this, I said to myself, this
Speaker 3: is so relevant to us, especially today, because we're so
Speaker 3: used to telling everybody what is happening about us. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's so common for us. We tell people what we eat,
Speaker 3: we tell people where we are, we tell people who's
Speaker 3: with uh. That's a part of our daily life. We
Speaker 3: post it in Instagram and we post it in Facebook,
Speaker 3: sometimes in the form of humble brag. How many of
Speaker 3: you have heard that phrase humble brag? And I'll show
Speaker 3: you some examples. Melanditon Apathe this one, we just you know,
Speaker 3: cover the phase so that you would not know that
Speaker 3: they are in the five thirty PM service, Sabina, Why
Speaker 3: does the Mercedes dealership always have fresh, big hot cookies?
Speaker 3: Don't they understand how mean that is? So you're saying
Speaker 3: you're always in the you know, in the Mercedes dealership office.
Speaker 3: So basically, what is what she wants people to know
Speaker 3: where she is?
Speaker 4: Next? One at all?
Speaker 3: Hi, I'm sixteen and I'm publishing three books in an
Speaker 3: album this year. Do you have any advice on how
Speaker 3: to handle it? Best knocks very humble. No, you know,
Speaker 3: I want to learn from you guys. This is a
Speaker 3: hard life. Next one, Sabina, I'm featured in People's Most Beautiful.
Speaker 4: What can I say?
Speaker 3: They all make mistakes, but did the shoot with no makeup?
Speaker 3: And I have to say scary and humble.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: The last one, Sabina's setting up your own charity an
Speaker 3: event is no joke.
Speaker 4: Would have thought it to be easier. This is serious. Now.
Speaker 3: In verse one, you know before this portion of jesus
Speaker 3: sermon in verse one, if you still remember in week two, uh,
Speaker 3: in verse one, we're told to be careful, not to
Speaker 3: do our good works for other people to see. In fact,
Speaker 3: Jesus exhorted us to do things in secret. But in
Speaker 3: week two in Matthew chapter five, verse six, we're told
Speaker 3: to let our light shine before man.
Speaker 4: How gonna have you?
Speaker 3: Remember that the Bible is where the salt and light
Speaker 3: of this world, and because of that, we're to allow
Speaker 3: our light to shine so that other people will see
Speaker 3: our good works and hopefully in.
Speaker 4: The process God will be glorified.
Speaker 3: Now it seems like it's too contradicting commands from God.
Speaker 3: Which one do we follow? And the answer is both,
Speaker 3: because sometimes sometimes.
Speaker 4: We need to let other people know.
Speaker 3: We have to let our light shine, just like what
Speaker 3: we did earlier when we showed you the video of
Speaker 3: our real life.
Speaker 4: Foundation.
Speaker 3: Sometimes we have to let people know so that they
Speaker 3: will be inspired and so that they will somehow that
Speaker 3: will create curiosity and point them to God. But sometimes
Speaker 3: we have to do things in secret and not let
Speaker 3: other people know. We need to do both. Now, in
Speaker 3: other words of ab Bruce, I like how he write it.
Speaker 3: He said, show when tempted to hide, and hide when
Speaker 3: tempted to show. We need to practice both. But the
Speaker 3: difference is the motive. The difference is the motive. Now
Speaker 3: Here Jesus mentioned if you in the Bible, if a
Speaker 3: word is repeated twice or trice, it means it's important.
Speaker 3: How many of you know that everything written in the
Speaker 3: Bible is important. Now, if it's if it's repeated twice
Speaker 3: or three times, it means it's very very important. Now,
Speaker 3: it's interesting because in this passage of scripture, Jesus repeated
Speaker 3: the word secret six times, repeated the word reward seven times,
Speaker 3: and then he repeated the word father seven times, making
Speaker 3: it obvious to us what is trying to emphasize. So
Speaker 3: for the remaining time that we have, I want to
Speaker 3: talk about the word secret, the word reward, and the
Speaker 3: word father. First one is the word secret. Now three times.
Speaker 4: Also, Jesus used the word hypocrites.
Speaker 3: And during their time, it originally meant actors who wear mask.
Speaker 3: It refers to people who are playing roles on stage,
Speaker 3: like a theater or a stage play. So that's the
Speaker 3: original meaning of the word hypocrites. And and and Jesus said,
Speaker 3: don't be like the hypocrites. Don't wear masks, don't put
Speaker 3: up a show, and don't just do things just to
Speaker 3: project a person that is very different from who you
Speaker 3: really are. Jesus said, do not be like them. Then
Speaker 3: he gave three specific examples. Okay, so, Sabina, if you're
Speaker 3: going to be a follower of Christ, be real, don't
Speaker 3: be a fake follower of Christ. If you're going to
Speaker 3: worship God, worship God with all your heart. And then
Speaker 3: he cites specific examples. But these are just examples. Of course,
Speaker 3: this principle can be applied in different areas of our lives.
Speaker 3: And he talked about first and foremost about giving, about giving,
Speaker 3: and he said, when you give to the needy sound
Speaker 3: no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: I tried to research and study, and what I discovered
Speaker 3: was it's not really a practice during their time, so
Speaker 3: incong if they're going to the temple and they're going
Speaker 3: to give their money, nobody does that.
Speaker 4: Well, I may have no trumpet has impact offering envelope. Sorry, guys,
Speaker 4: just dropping my envelope.
Speaker 3: Okay, So Jesus is just trying to make an exaggeration.
Speaker 4: It's a figure of speech.
Speaker 3: But the point that Jesus was trying to make is
Speaker 3: that it's weird. It's weird when you're giving and you're
Speaker 3: finding a way to let people know about it.
Speaker 4: So when you give, do not be like the hypocrites.
Speaker 3: If you're giving, it's because of the generosity, out of
Speaker 3: the overflow of the generosity of God in your life,
Speaker 3: you know, as Christians. Amazingly, when Jesus thought this, when
Speaker 3: he thought about giving, fasting, and praying, he said, when
Speaker 3: you give, when you pray, when you fast, because these
Speaker 3: spiritual disciplines are expected of Jesus followers.
Speaker 4: It's not if, it's when. If you're a.
Speaker 3: Christian as a as a byproduct of following Christ and
Speaker 3: experience experiencing who God is, his goodness, his grace is generosity.
Speaker 3: Out of the overflow of God's goodness, we overflow.
Speaker 4: With goodness as well. We become generous.
Speaker 3: And so Jesus said, if you give, do not be
Speaker 3: like the hipocrites. Then he moved to prayer. He said,
Speaker 3: when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because
Speaker 3: they love to pray in public.
Speaker 4: Ustunelayung.
Speaker 3: They want to maximize the the traffic.
Speaker 4: Sosan maraaminta fucky God.
Speaker 3: And you know, the point that Jesus was trying to
Speaker 3: make is not that it's wrong to pray in public.
Speaker 4: No, we pray in public. We have prayer meetings.
Speaker 3: Sometimes we do our victory groups and coffee shops and
Speaker 3: restaurants and we pray right there. So the point is
Speaker 3: not that it's wrong to pray in public. But if
Speaker 3: you're praying more in public than in private, then there's
Speaker 3: something wrong. We should pray more in private than in public.
Speaker 3: Praying should be a regular part of our life. It's
Speaker 3: it should be as normal as eating and talking and
Speaker 3: checking our phones. The bopment may phone tile. There's no
Speaker 3: particular place or time we just check it anywhere anytime, counting, gap, plan, conting, break, lamp,
Speaker 3: kid at the travel miss and kite my meeting. Miss okay, okay,
Speaker 3: wow Wow. We are so attached, We're so connected. The
Speaker 3: Bible says, pray without ceasing, pray non stop. What that
Speaker 3: means is that don't just pray when you're in church.
Speaker 3: Pray when you're driving, Pray when you're waiting for your appointment,
Speaker 3: Pray when you're with your kids. Pray before you sleep,
Speaker 3: Pray before you eat. I mean, pray when you're afraid.
Speaker 3: Pray when you're excited, different times, different places, different length pray.
Speaker 3: Pray because you want to connect to God. Pray because
Speaker 3: you want to because you want to intercede for others.
Speaker 3: It's okay to pray in public as long as we
Speaker 3: don't pray for the sake of publicity.
Speaker 4: So we pray. And then he.
Speaker 3: Talked about fasting, and I like the message translation of
Speaker 3: verse sixteen. I want to show this to you is
Speaker 3: that when you practice some appetite denying discipline to better
Speaker 3: concentrate on God, don't make a production out of it.
Speaker 3: It might turn you into a small time celebrity, but
Speaker 3: it won't make you a saint. I like that translation
Speaker 3: is that when you fast, it's because you want to
Speaker 3: be able to focus on God.
Speaker 4: But when you fast, make sure you're not turning it
Speaker 4: into a production.
Speaker 3: Because people might admire you, people might praise you, You
Speaker 3: might be a rock star for a minute at the
Speaker 3: expense of what God is doing in your character and
Speaker 3: in your heart. It might turn you into a small
Speaker 3: time celebrity, but it won't make you a saint.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: I think the importance of doing things in secret, the
Speaker 3: point that Jesus was trying to make is in doing
Speaker 3: these spiritual disciplines, in practicing your righteousness, whatever that is,
Speaker 3: whether that's serving, whether that's singing, whether that's preaching, whether
Speaker 3: that's serving your family, whatever that is that you do
Speaker 3: as a follower Christ, he said, make sure that you
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 4: With the right motive.
Speaker 3: And if you're tempted, if you know, every time you
Speaker 3: do good works, there's a temptation to be proud to
Speaker 3: take the glory rather than to give God the glory, than.
Speaker 4: Do things in secret.
Speaker 3: And I think the importance of doing things in secret
Speaker 3: is that we are forced to focus on God and
Speaker 3: to trust in Him. And I think that's the power
Speaker 3: of doing things in secret. It forces us to focus
Speaker 3: on God. When nobody is aware of what we're doing,
Speaker 3: then we're forced to actually.
Speaker 4: Devote ourselves to Him.
Speaker 3: Nor it doesn't matter if people recognize it. It doesn't
Speaker 3: matter if people thank me for what I've done, because
Speaker 3: I'm not doing this for people. I'm doing this primarily
Speaker 3: for you, and it's you that I want to please.
Speaker 3: Doing things in secret, I'm forced to depend on God,
Speaker 3: not giving other people a clue because when I give
Speaker 3: to somebody, I'm not expecting that person to return to
Speaker 3: me the favor. When I give to that person, it's
Speaker 3: because I want to be a blessing and I'm looking
Speaker 3: to God to be the one to reward me. I
Speaker 3: think that's the power of doing things in secret. It
Speaker 3: forces us to trust God and to depend on him.
Speaker 3: Next one, he talked about reward. How many have you
Speaker 3: heard you want to receive rewards?
Speaker 4: You know? It motivates us. You know.
Speaker 3: One of the couples in our victory group during the
Speaker 3: couple's retreat, showed me a real time video of their
Speaker 3: kids at home. So we are in Santa Rosa and
Speaker 3: then they are showing me what's happening in their house
Speaker 3: here in New Manila, Kidaminaga, man Before during my time,
Speaker 3: before the internet, uh era, and before that, that typewriter
Speaker 3: Daniel Bone, well, I'm on computer, well on internet. Before
Speaker 3: that was difficult to imagine. That's unheard of for you
Speaker 3: to see what exactly other people are doing in real
Speaker 3: time in another place. But now it's so common for us.
Speaker 3: It's part of our daily life. It's not impossible, it's
Speaker 3: it's a reality for us.
Speaker 4: And you know, the Bible says the Bible.
Speaker 3: Uh the Bible says that your father, who sees what
Speaker 3: you do in secret, will reward you.
Speaker 4: How many of you are convinced that God.
Speaker 3: Sees what you do in secret? And that's the confidence
Speaker 3: we have. You know why we can do things in secret.
Speaker 3: You know why we don't have to flaunt our goodness.
Speaker 3: You know why we don't need to show off. You
Speaker 3: know why we don't need to go to other people
Speaker 3: for acceptance and approval. You know why because we are
Speaker 3: confident our father in heaven sees what we do in secret.
Speaker 3: And I'm not depending on other people for my reward.
Speaker 3: I'm depending on my father for my reward. You know,
Speaker 3: I think about my children. I have a seven year old,
Speaker 3: I have a two year old, and the simplest act
Speaker 3: of obedience, especially the younger one.
Speaker 4: The two year olds.
Speaker 3: Been called come on, fist bump, high five, come on kiss,
Speaker 3: daddy does me?
Speaker 4: It's alive about But you know, the simplest.
Speaker 3: Act of obedience, it brings so much joy to me
Speaker 3: as his father.
Speaker 4: But it's nothing. It's not like they've done something phenomenal.
Speaker 4: But so yes, that better for me. But wow, I'm
Speaker 4: so proud of you. You're a man. I'm so proud
Speaker 4: of you, and I want to do good things to them.
Speaker 3: You know why because I believe that's the heart of
Speaker 3: a father, and I believe that's God's heart for us.
Speaker 4: Our God is a good rewarder. You know. God rewards
Speaker 4: is in many ways.
Speaker 3: But you know, the greatest reward always for everything that
Speaker 3: we do, is not the money, the promotion.
Speaker 4: The healing, the favor, the relationship.
Speaker 3: No, in everything that we do, always the greatest reward
Speaker 3: is God himself.
Speaker 4: He is our very great reward.
Speaker 3: It's knowing him, it's being close to him and becoming
Speaker 3: more and more life I him.
Speaker 4: That's our reward.
Speaker 3: That's why sometimes when you do something Paranagzoka, pastor Sibishamani
Speaker 3: was telling us and during the early days, they were
Speaker 3: preaching about generosity in church because we're a very small church.
Speaker 4: There's not much.
Speaker 3: Resources, but we're believing for more fund so we can
Speaker 3: plant more churches and send more missionaries. And so the
Speaker 3: only way for us is to believe for provision from God,
Speaker 3: to believe that God is good, that God is generous,
Speaker 3: and the Bible says in order for us to experience
Speaker 3: the abundance of God, we need to sow by faith.
Speaker 3: So during their time, to sona five hundred within the week,
Speaker 3: may I'm be blessed them five thousand? Whoa so inspiring
Speaker 3: pastor many was so inspired. He was believing for a car,
Speaker 3: but all he had was a pair of rubbers shoes.
Speaker 3: So Scenoni, he was in faith.
Speaker 4: He was believing, You're able to do more than what
Speaker 4: we could ask for.
Speaker 3: Imagine after a month will happening after two months, third month,
Speaker 3: he received a pair of rubber shoes. But you know,
Speaker 3: they continued on believing. But you know what he got
Speaker 3: more than Maybe he did not get what he was expecting,
Speaker 3: but in the process he became closer to him.
Speaker 4: His faith, muscles was built.
Speaker 3: He looked onto God and depended on him. Eventually somebody
Speaker 3: blessed him with a brand new van for the family.
Speaker 3: But you know that's not the greatest blessing, and the
Speaker 3: greatest reward, Our greatest reward is him. And thirdly is
Speaker 3: the word father, Father. You know, it's amazing because in
Speaker 3: just the verse as we read, not including the Lord's prayer,
Speaker 3: if you include the Lord's prayer, the word father was
Speaker 3: mentioned twelve times and over and over again. God has
Speaker 3: so many titles, he the Lord, the Messiah, the healer,
Speaker 3: the provider, el Shadai. I mean, there's so many names
Speaker 3: and titles given to God, but it seemed like his
Speaker 3: favorite title is the title of a father, and he
Speaker 3: wants his people to relate to him as such.
Speaker 4: Like sabit.
Speaker 3: You know you don't have to you know, you don't
Speaker 3: have to be hungry for approval from other people. But
Speaker 3: if you do things in secret, me, your father sees
Speaker 3: what you do in secret. And over and over again,
Speaker 3: he said, you have a father in heaven. You have
Speaker 3: a father in heaven who is not who is involved
Speaker 3: in your life. You have a father in heaven who
Speaker 3: is generous and good, who delights in your prosperity, who
Speaker 3: wants to bless you, who wants to do you good.
Speaker 3: You have a father in heaven, and God wants to
Speaker 3: communicate to the people because this is something that the
Speaker 3: Pharis has missed these religious leaders, because for them it
Speaker 3: became all about rules and traditions. It's all about keeping
Speaker 3: external rules. It's all about the external and Jesus was
Speaker 3: bringing them back to the heart of the message. It's
Speaker 3: not about tradition, it's not about rules, it's not about religion.
Speaker 3: It's about you having a relationship with your father in
Speaker 3: heaven and you being his son and his daughter. He
Speaker 3: wants us to know him as our father. Do you
Speaker 3: know him as a father? Are you confident that you
Speaker 3: have a father who cares for you, who loves you,
Speaker 3: who is great plan for your life, who will reward
Speaker 3: even the smallest act of your obedience. He's not obligated,
Speaker 3: is not required, but by the grace and goodness of God,
Speaker 3: he promised to reward every act of obedience we do
Speaker 3: for him. That's the God we serve, that's the Father
Speaker 3: we serve.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: As I end, I want to end with a quote
Speaker 3: from one noted philosopher and theologian modern theologian about the
Speaker 3: reason for living.
Speaker 4: And here's what she said. Some people live for.
Speaker 3: The fortune, some people live for the fame, some people
Speaker 3: live for the power.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some people live just to play the game. No,
Speaker 4: it's a song.
Speaker 3: I was listening to it last night, and I want
Speaker 3: to ask you this question, what do you live for?
Speaker 4: Who do you live for?
Speaker 3: Are you living for the approval of man or are
Speaker 3: you living for the approval of God? Are you trying
Speaker 3: to please men or are you trying to please him?
Speaker 3: The Bible says if you are doing things just to
Speaker 3: impress people or get more likes, you have received your reward,
Speaker 3: meaning that's all you will ever get. After the like,
Speaker 3: that's your reward. After people write a comment on your
Speaker 3: Facebook post, that's your reward. That's all you'll ever get,
Speaker 3: that fleeting moment of public recognition.
Speaker 4: Then it's over.
Speaker 3: But everything we do for God, everything we do for God,
Speaker 3: will be remembered for all of eternity. Everything we do
Speaker 3: for God will echo through eternity.
Speaker 4: That's why the simplest.
Speaker 3: Life and the least impressive person in the eyes of
Speaker 3: this world, maybe you're just a maybe you're a mom
Speaker 3: who's part of your worship to God is waking up
Speaker 3: every day and serving your family, loving your spouse, and
Speaker 3: doing the most mundane of things. There's no trumpet when
Speaker 3: you fold the laundry and.
Speaker 4: Standing.
Speaker 3: Ovation become the club we well happens in it's just
Speaker 3: you doing that in secret.
Speaker 4: Maybe that you're a dad.
Speaker 3: You're working very hard for your family, loving your wife,
Speaker 3: leading your leading your kids, quietly serving and advancing the
Speaker 3: Kingdom of God. But if you're doing that for God,
Speaker 3: it will be remembered and it will be rewarded. The
Speaker 3: simplest life and the least impressive person in the eyes
Speaker 3: of this world can live a life of eternal significance.
Speaker 4: When you live it for His glory. Amen. Can I
Speaker 4: just pray right now?
Speaker 3: Lord Father, We really we thank you for your word today. Lord,
Speaker 3: I pray, make us a people who will not be
Speaker 3: obsessed with the things of this world, who will not
Speaker 3: be obsessed with the approval of men. But I pray
Speaker 3: make us a people whose passion is to honor You
Speaker 3: and everything that we do.
Speaker 4: Lord, I pray.
Speaker 3: That every time we do something, I pray Lord, that
Speaker 3: our hearts will be pure. It's not to get the
Speaker 3: glory for ourselves, but to give you glory, because only
Speaker 3: you deserve all the praise and all the worship and
Speaker 3: all the glory. Lord, I thank you for aligning our hearts.
Speaker 3: I thank you for aligning our focus. Sometimes life can
Speaker 3: be complicated, Sometimes we can be too distracted, Sometimes we
Speaker 3: can lose our focus, and sometimes we focus too much
Speaker 3: on ourselves or what other people say about us, to
Speaker 3: the point of not valuing what you're saying about us.
Speaker 3: We value other people's opinion more than your opinion of us.
Speaker 3: But Lord, today, thank you for reminding us that only
Speaker 3: you deserve our all. Lord, remove the insecurities in our hearts,
Speaker 3: remove the pride and the desire to be known, and
Speaker 3: replace it with the desire to make you known. Lord,
Speaker 3: we acknowledge that everything we do, our talent, our wealth,
Speaker 3: our relationships, our help, every blessing that we have, it's
Speaker 3: all designed for us to use to worship You, for
Speaker 3: us to be a blessing to other people. Lord, we
Speaker 3: thank you for the promise reward, even though we don't
Speaker 3: deserve it, even though you don't have to. Just what
Speaker 3: you've done for us on the cross is more than enough.
Speaker 3: Everything after salvation is just a bonus. What you've done
Speaker 3: for us on the cross is the greatest gift.
Speaker 4: We will ever receive in this life.
Speaker 3: Yet, out of your grace and out of your goodness,
Speaker 3: you promise to reward even the smallest act.
Speaker 4: Of obedience we do.
Speaker 3: What a great God, What an awesome God we serve. Lord,
Speaker 3: I pray for each and every one of us, give
Speaker 3: us a greater revelation.
Speaker 4: Of who you are as our father.
Speaker 3: Some of us, Lord, we don't have a good experience
Speaker 3: with our biological father, and sometimes that hinders us from
Speaker 3: relating to you as our father.
Speaker 4: Lord, I pray remove those.
Speaker 3: Negative image and ideas about you as a father.
Speaker 4: Help us love you.
Speaker 3: And know you as our perfect, heavenly father who cares
Speaker 3: for us, who loves us, who has great plans for us.
Speaker 4: Lord, thank you so much, Lord.
Speaker 3: Even today, for those who are here for the very
Speaker 3: first time, Lord, I thank you for Lord God giving
Speaker 3: them an idea of what this is all about, that
Speaker 3: it's not about religion, it's about relationship.
Speaker 4: Lord.
Speaker 3: I pray, let this be the starting point of their
Speaker 3: relationship with you. Let this be a trigger, a spark
Speaker 3: in their heart, Lord, to know you better. Lord, God,
Speaker 3: we thank you for the message we've heard today. We
Speaker 3: thank you for the assurance we received from you today.
Speaker 3: May we live our lives for your glory and honor.
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