Scripture referenced
The passage this message was preached from, in full, with every other passage it reached for.
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Psalm 100:1-5 read aloud in full as the main text for the worship discussion
1 Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!
2 Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.
3 Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.
5 For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
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Psalm 51:12
quoted to show that we can ask God to help us enter his presence and obey
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
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James 1:22-25
read aloud as the text on honoring the word that is preached by actually obeying it
22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
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Psalm 32:1-5
read aloud to show the joy of confessing sin and receiving forgiveness
1 Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
5 I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
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John 14
referenced with the phrase if you love me you will obey my commandments
1 “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.
2 In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
4 Where I go, you know, and you know the way.”
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”
8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’
10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
12 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.
13 Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,—
17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
18 I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
21 One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”
23 Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
24 He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me.
25 I have said these things to you, while still living with you.
26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
28 You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.
29 Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe.
30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
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Malachi 3:10
referenced to show God inviting people to test him through bringing the tithe
10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
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2 Corinthians 9:6-8
read aloud on planting generously and giving cheerfully from the heart
6 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
7 Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
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Hebrews 13:15
read aloud calling worship a continual sacrifice of praise and linking it to sharing with those in need
15 Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
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Recap
The message in order, in a few minutes of reading.
Brian was away this week, so Lissa Hunter and Amanda brought the message together. They focused on what Tribe means when it says worship covers more than singing, walking through three expressions the church names every Sunday: singing, honoring the word that is preached, and giving.
What was said
The morning started from a definition offered by Louie Giglio, quoted early in the talk: follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your allegiance, and at the end of that trail you will find a throne. Whatever is on that throne is what you worship. That framing set the direction for everything that followed, because it means worship is not a slot in a church service. It is the posture of a whole life.
Psalm 100 was the anchor for the singing section, and the word the leaders kept returning to was gladness. Looking at the Hebrew behind that word, they described it as a thankfulness that comes from within and solicits a response. You cannot genuinely encounter something and do nothing about it. The practical implication is that singing to God is not mood-dependent. Lissa was direct about this: it is a discipline, and it starts by opening your mouth even when the feeling is not there, then asking God to meet you in that act.
Several people in the room added to that thread. One woman named Kat said that for her, fixing her eyes on the Lord looks like entering with thanksgiving, which is exactly what verse four of Psalm 100 describes. Renee said the Lord does not hear your voice, he hears your heart, and that singing truth repeatedly will eventually break things off even when you do not feel what you are singing. A man in the congregation said he memorizes simple praise songs and sings them first thing in the morning before he even wants to, and his feelings follow.
James 1:22-25 was the text for the second section. The image the passage uses is glancing at your face in a mirror, then walking away and forgetting what you looked like. Honoring the word that is preached is not just sitting quietly while someone talks. It is looking carefully at what the word shows you and then doing it. Lissa said the habit she has found useful is writing things down in the moment, because the Lord knows how quickly we turn away from the mirror.
Amanda pressed further into why obedience sometimes feels impossible, and said plainly that unconfessed sin puts a wedge between a person and God. She named it not as condemnation but as a practical reality: if the whole conversation about worship makes sense in your head but cannot reach your heart, that is worth paying attention to. Lissa prayed for anyone sitting with active sin, noting that the price has already been paid and that confessing it to God and to another person brings it into the light where the enemy loses his grip.
The third section covered tithing and giving as a form of worship. The leaders were careful to say that money is neutral, but that it has a way of gripping the heart whether a person has too much or too little. The act of bringing a portion of finances to the local church is, in their framing, a proactive measure to stay calibrated rather than a reactive one after things have gone sideways. Second Corinthians 9:6-8 was read, with particular attention to the line that God loves a cheerful giver, which looped back to the gladness and the willing response they had talked about from the beginning.
The service closed with extended, mostly silent worship. Lissa asked people to stay in that posture, let the Lord surface anything that needed to be dealt with, and not leave with unsettled business if he was stirring something up. John and Kate were available in the back to pray, and Lee and Colleen moved around the room for the same reason.
Touch points
Things you could actually do this week.
- Before your next worship service, jot down whatever is crowding your mind on paper or in your phone notes so you can set it aside and actually focus on the Lord.
- When you sit down to read scripture this week, write down anything that convicts you or that God seems to be putting on your heart, so you don't walk away and forget it like the person who glances in a mirror.
- If worry or anxiety hits you this week, open your mouth and sing or hum a worship song over whatever you are facing, applying the promises in the lyrics directly to that situation.
- Start one morning this week by thanking God out loud before you do anything else, listing as many things as you can think of, even if you do not feel like it, and let your feelings follow the action.
- If there is unresolved sin or an apology you know you owe someone, take care of it before next Sunday rather than letting it quietly widen the distance between you and God.
Doing a Bible study?
Here is a guide we have prepared for you: the passages in order, questions for the group, and room to write.
- Louie Giglio's quote said you can find what you worship by following the trail of your time, affection, energy, money, and allegiance to find what sits on the throne of your life. When you honestly follow that trail, what do you find?
- Lissa talked about worship through singing as a discipline, not a feeling, and said the act of opening your mouth and singing is a step you take before the feeling follows. What does that kind of discipline look like practically in your own life, inside or outside of Sunday mornings?
and 3 more questions in the guide
Resumen en español
El mensaje resumido, en español.
El domingo pasado, Brian estaba fuera por unos días, así que Lissa y Amanda llevaron la palabra juntas. El tema de la mañana fue la adoración, pero no solo la parte de cantar. En Tribe solemos decir que adoramos a Dios de tres formas cuando nos reunimos: cantando, honrando la Palabra que se predica, y dando nuestros diezmos y ofrendas. Lissa y Amanda querían que todos entendiéramos de verdad lo que significa cada una de esas cosas, en lugar de repetirlas de memoria sin pensar.
Lo que más se repitió durante toda la mañana fue esto: la adoración verdadera siempre produce una respuesta. No porque tengamos que ganarnos algo, sino porque cuando realmente estamos en la presencia de Dios, algo en nosotros no puede quedarse quieto. Eso aplica al canto, donde la clave es quitarle los ojos de encima a uno mismo y ponérselos a él. También aplica a la Palabra, porque escucharla sin obedecerla es como mirarse en un espejo y luego olvidar lo que uno vio. Y aplica al dinero, porque dar una parte de lo que tenemos es una manera de mantener el corazón calibrado con el de Dios, en lugar de dejar que las finanzas nos agarren por dentro.
Varias personas de la congregación compartieron cosas durante la conversación. Hubo un momento muy honesto cuando alguien admitió que antes la parte de cantar no le gustaba nada, y que tuvo que aprender a dejar el orgullo de lado. Amanda también habló directamente sobre el pecado no confesado como algo que puede bloquear la adoración, y Lissa oró por quienes salían cargando algo así. El servicio terminó de manera diferente a lo habitual: con tiempo de oración en silencio, música suave, y personas disponibles al fondo para orar con quien lo necesitara.
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Pasajes bíblicos usados
- Salmos 100.1-5
- Salmos 32.1-5
- Santiago 1.22-25
- Hebreos 13.15
- Malaquías 3.10 (mencionado, no leído en voz alta)
- 2 Corintios 9.6-8
- Juan 14 (mencionado brevemente: "Si me amas, obedece mis mandamientos")
- Salmos 51.12 (mencionado por alguien de la congregación)
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0:01
If you do feel led to move on forward, that would be greatly appreciated. Let's stand together. Hi, Selah. Hello, we come before you this morning. We're just so thankful for who you are, for all that you've done.
0:26
Thank you that you came and you found us. We're gonna talk about worship today and Lord we just bring our worship to you today. In Jesus name, we worship you. Amen. Worship worship him.
0:43
Laura, I don't have any monitors. I don't think anyway. I don't think I have anything. For the unmuted. We'll give it one second.
1:03
I'm such a year something that could satisfy. Time. You for for Just take a minute. Just go before the Lord and just ask him to remove the distractions of your mind this morning. Today's gonna look just a little bit different.
5:28
And as we just continue to worship the Lord today, we're gonna this whole morning is gonna be about worship. And Brian is not here this morning, but we're gonna bring the word, Amanda and I, today, all about worship and just some things that the Lord has put on our heart here at Tribe. And so I don't wanna waste a song or two to get into what we feel like the Lord is really speaking to us today. So Lord, just pray with me. Lord, let every part of our life be worshiped to you.
5:59
Let us enter in. Let us not stand in this room right now with the opportunity to lift our praise to you and let our preference or our distractions get in the way. Right now, this time has nothing to do with us. It has everything to do with you. Coming before the king of kings, the lord of lords.
6:23
We give you all the praise and all the glory in this place. Meet every heart today. In Jesus name, amen. Let's worship him freely today. We run to you Jesus.
11:01
You are still good. You are with me in the trial. You are with me in the tribulation. God, you're so good. You're so good.
11:09
You're so good. So Just let your spirit rise. Sing now. You're never Sing that over yourself. Never gonna let me Sing that over your family this morning.
11:50
You're never gonna let you never Sing that over your finances, over your business, over your health. You know, when you worship, take these promises that are in his word that we're singing right now. He's never gonna let you down. Straight from scripture, he'll never leave you or forsake you, and transfer those and apply those to your life right now. As you sing these songs, apply them, put them on like a garment of praise because the enemy may be enemy may be telling you something different and it's just a lie.
13:36
All you have to do is remind yourself of God's promise because he's always faithful. Yes, your marriage this morning. Maybe over your relationship with your parents, Family issue, just speak that. Oh, Lord, right now as we stand here, we may be thinking, have you been faithful, God? What about fill in the blank.
19:45
What about my divorce? What about my loss? What about about what about? I just see this picture of you standing here right now today with breath in your lungs. With the Lord right here, his presence with you, a hope assured, the one who can give you ultimate peace, ultimate joy, not happiness, but true joy in the midst of all of that.
20:17
He has been faithful. He has been faithful to you. And with the very breath in your lungs, you stand here today able to worship him. So faithful. Don't take for granted today his faithfulness to you despite your circumstances because this is a broken world.
20:45
He is faithful. One more song this morning, and it's really the heart of what we're gonna talk about today. Just pouring out our heart heart to the Lord and maybe just confession during this song. Repentance of what we've made our walk with the Lord sometimes to look like. The areas that we hold on to that aren't surrendered to him.
22:07
Or maybe we've gotten in a routine of just singing words or saying prayers, but our heart isn't connecting with him because we're distracted. Maybe we filled our life with all kinds of other stuff and pushed him aside. But we come back today to the heart of worship. It's not about us today. You care about us and you long to meet with us, but right now, we set everything aside because you are worthy.
22:41
You are worthy of us lifting our voices to you today as we sing this. You slurred, receive our praise, receive our worship. Just close your eyes. We're having a technical problem. It's a good thing that the Lord longs for our heart today.
26:18
Speak to him from your heart. Glory. The You deserve all the glory. You're worthy, worthy, worthy of it all. All.
29:44
Everything for pray We pray you. Our heart, with our meditations, obedience to your word. And as we dig into your word, Lord, like we always say, when we go from this kind of worship of singing to the next kind of worship of honoring the word preached. Speak to our hearts today. Give us an awe and a reverence of you today.
30:24
You are worthy. In Jesus name, everybody said, There might not have been goodies on the plate when you came in, but I believe there's goodies now. So go get a goodie, fill up your coffee, get your bible out. We're gonna talk about worship today. Days and two, they have, like, a long wait for the time that you want.
33:12
So he's in Salt Lake doing that, today through I think it's Wednesday. And so he and I had been talking about it's here somewhere. He and I had been talking about what the Lord would have us share today with you guys. And one of the things that we were talking about just in our quiet time and conversations about Tribe and things that we do and say here. And one of the things that we were talking about, mean, obviously worship is an easy topic.
33:42
That's like low hanging fruit for me to talk about. But it had been on Brian's heart to talk about a phrase that we use at Tribe that maybe we just say and we all kind of know it and we're all used to it. But maybe you've never really thought deeper about it and we say it every week. We'll just wait for everyone in the
34:04
They're getting treats.
34:05
Oh, they're getting treats. I told them. They're doing what they were told to do. But the saying and if you know it, you can say it with me, but and I even said it today, which is when we go from this kind of worship from singing, we're gonna move to the next kind of worship. Because I think I was raised and then the church I was at before was like, worship was the thing we just did.
34:29
That was worship. It was the singing. And then it was the message. And then it was whatever else you had going on on the docket for that day. But really, all that we do is worship to the Lord.
34:42
Or it can be, should be. And so one of the things that we say at Tribe is we're gonna worship him with singing, and then we're gonna worship him by honoring the word that's preached, which might be kind of a new saying for you. We're going to worship him by honoring the word that's preached. And then we're going honor him with our giving. So that's kind of a saying that we have at Tribe.
35:07
And so we just thought we would just kind of unpack that for a minute, we're going to do a worship sandwich today. So worship in the beginning, worship at the end. And when I knew Brian wasn't going to be here, I did really feel like the Lord put on my heart to bring this word. Because I was like, oh, ask somebody else. See if anybody else is available and no one else is available.
35:29
And so out of maybe delayed obedience, Amanda and I are bringing the word today. And Amanda just has such a heart for worship. She also has such a heart for God's word. And so I think that together, hopefully, the Lord can use us to all of us collectively, we want this to be a conversation. If you have thoughts or connections, we have a handheld microphone in the room that Kat has over there.
35:55
That's for everyone to be able to hear maybe a connection you're making. And it's for our livestream family as well. So Amanda? Take it away. Here we go.
36:07
I think it's smart to define what worship is first because we get out a lot of different different definitions. And I found that quote we were talking about. Louie Giglio is a pretty cool pastor, he said this. It's easy to find what worship is. You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, and your money, and your allegiance.
36:26
And at the end of that trail, you'll find a throne. And whatever or whoever is on that throne is what's of highest value to you, and on that throne is what you worship. That's a little scary and a little helpful.
36:40
Yes. So pray with me before we start. Lord, we ask that you would examine examine us today. Really, really examine us. We give you permission.
36:56
We just set this time aside and we say, search our heart, oh Lord. Search our heart today. We long to worship you. It's what we were made for. In Jesus' name, amen.
37:10
If you have your bible with you, you can open to Psalm 100. Do you guys say Psalm or Psalms? Psalms. With with a s? What's your bible say?
37:24
Psalms. I know, right? I mean, it's the book of Psalms, plural. Let's see. Matt Grabowski, would you read this for us?
37:37
And you can read it off the screen, too.
37:44
Alright. We'll try off the screen. One through five. Shout with joy to the Lord, all the earth, to worship the Lord with gladness. Come before him singing with joy.
37:58
Acknowledge that the Lord is God. He made us, and we are his. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving. Go into his courts with praise.
38:13
Give thanks to him and praise his name for the Lord is good. His unfailing love continues forever, and his faithfulness continues to each generation.
38:26
Amen. That's a that's a good one. I feel like we could spend months just on Psalm 100. It's so, so, so good. The thing that stood out to Brian and I as we were praying over this is, obviously, this is about shouting to the Lord all the earth, worship him with gladness.
38:48
And the word that really stood out to us and that I feel like is key for, the key for worship and worship of the Lord is that word gladness. And when we look at that word in the Hebrew, it's what you think it would be. It's joy or pleasure. But when you dig into the deeper meaning of that original word, it's more like the Thanksgiving that comes from within that solicits a response. So think for just a second, Done in gladness solicits a response.
39:29
So I think we recognize this as human beings. We respond when we're excited about something, right? I mean, like God made us to respond to things. Like when something's funny, we laugh.
39:44
Or you should.
39:45
Or you should. Depends on what you find funny. It worked. It did work. Good job.
39:52
This Brian But gave two definitions, we laughed about it because they were, like, such old timey examples. Well,
39:58
we're in a bar, though, so go ahead.
40:00
That's true. That's true. He said, you know, like he was, like, trying to think of, like, something age old that everyone would know when you're excited that you do. And he said, you know when you ring a bell in a bar and you're like, get everybody a drink. Drinks on me.
40:14
Because something has happened or you just won the lottery. And so out of that gladness, you want to give people something. You want to do something about it. And then the other one he gave was, is totally not even legal anymore, but when a baby is born and the husband is, like, passing out cigars to everybody in the hospital,
40:34
just such a Bubblegum cigars for our kids. Aw. Which is sillier than your
40:39
last time. I wonder where that tradition ever got started. Let's smoke over the baby. Congratulations.
40:47
They would tell pregnant moms to smoke to calm their
40:49
nerves. To keep their birth weight down, yeah. Oh, science. We know so much. We know so much more.
40:57
Don't either of those things. I just wrote down, as we were talking about that, this is our daughter, Selah. She just got home. We got home at one in the morning this morning, driving her back from San Diego. And I was thinking about a practical thing recently, when I was excited about something that moved me to doing something.
41:19
And I was thinking, I was so excited for Selah to come home. And I was marking the calendar and having her back for the summer. And there was a day I just kept going in her room and looking in her room and going in her room and looking in her room. I'm like, Okay. And then I was like, oh.
41:33
I just needed to do something more because she wasn't home yet. And so I wrote her a note and put it on her pillow. And it was so cute because when we came home, Brian had also written her a note and stuck it in the door. And then there was a note from our friend on her desk. And I thought, what an interesting thing, like when you're thinking of someone.
41:52
Like it led to taking a pen and putting it on paper and doing something about it. And so I think that that is kind of in all the three things that we're going to areas that we're going to talk about with worship that we're just going to touch on, and then like I said, we're going to worship some more with song is that true worship of the Lord when you spend time with him leads you to responding to him. There should be a response if you're truly worshiping him. And I don't mean like works. Like, well, if I'm worshiping Lord, then I go do that.
42:28
If I'm worshiping Lord, then I give that amount. But there's an overflow out of your heart when you truly encounter him that you
42:37
You can't help but respond.
42:38
You can't help but respond. And when you're in his presence, you can't not worship him when you're truly in his presence because of who he is, right? And so I just want us to kind of think and meditate on that when we touch on these three things. So we worship the Lord through singing, which is, I think, the most obvious or maybe the most common to people. Like, oh, yeah, worship.
43:00
I'll sing to the Lord. But then honoring the word that's preached. And I think that that's a really good one we'll dig into and then giving. So the first one is just we worship the Lord through singing, honoring the word that's preached in giving. I feel like the key to when we come to worship, what can make it go from singing songs to actually encountering the Lord is the difference of getting our eyes off of us and fixing our gaze on him.
43:37
I don't think that there's any huge secret to how to worship the Lord other than we take our eyes and our focus off of us, and we just fix our eyes on him. Like, it's not about us. I'll just say this on a practical level in this. I'm not scolding anyone because I do the exact same thing. But we can get really into our preferences when we come to sing together.
44:03
Know, oh, that song, or why aren't the words up? Or I've heard that with a slower tempo. It sounds better that way. It's on my pitch. Yeah, that doesn't I don't sound good singing that song.
44:13
Or, you know, especially as a musician, for me, it's like sometimes it can be really hard. I'm listening to music. I'm thinking who's singing harmony. And all that is fine. We have to deal with all that.
44:24
That's why I always say when we come into time of singing together, I always say, let's remove the distractions from our mind. I'm saying that to myself. Like I'm starting to play the guitar, I'm like, oh my gosh, the monitor's not on, or, or, why is there nobody here? What's I mean, like I'm saying that for me. Like I have to discipline my mind every time I go to enter into song to sing over him and sing to him.
44:50
And he is so faithful. When we sing those words, just, all my life you've been faithful and you'll never let me down. Like, all you have to do is step out and and in action of opening your mouth and singing, tell him, Lord, I am trying to remove the distractions from my mind right now. Would you help me? Like, you know what even happened this morning, or you know what I'm going through.
45:15
Or maybe you just feel distant from him. But it's a discipline to actually enter into worship. It's a discipline. I know we're like up here playing the music, but you guys know, right? Like you can come into a place where the presence of the Lord is and never ever encounter him, right?
45:35
Like, you can come in and enter in and you'll look around and you'll see people worshiping or even maybe there's an outward response, they have their hands raised or they're weeping, And you're just going, You know? It's a discipline to actually enter into worship in song. And it just starts by just opening your mouth and singing, which is what we try to do when we start and get our heart right before the Lord.
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Practically speaking, you can like, phone, a note open notes in your phone, and whatever's distracting you, write it down. There's science about that, getting it out of your head and onto paper. Like, whether it's good or bad, like, okay. Need eggs and bread and whatever. It could be like that or as intense as, like, I don't feel like it because I have an unresolved problem with the person I care about.
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You know? Like, whatever it is, big or small, just write it out. Write it out. Whatever it takes. Because when you, like, start running per se, that's a discipline.
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You don't just start with perfect, you know, cape perfect gait. Is that what it's called? Sure. Right. You don't start on anything perfect.
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You have to get there. Every discipline takes practice. So what if that looks like for worshiping the lord is the same. Practice entering into that space. Kat?
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Lisa, there's something I just wanna touch on that you said, and I'm probably only preaching to myself here. But We usually are. Very true. I used to worship used to not like, the singing used to not be my favorite part at all, sincerely, because I used to wait for the message because it applied to me, and I wanted to see how it applied to me. And so pretty much every time I come to worship now I I I'm learning how to appreciate it sincerely, but I literally have to tell myself, get over yourself.
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And so if that is speaking to anybody, just that's helped me get over yourself because what it was is really pride. And so I had to literally get over that to enjoy the singing part of it. And so I really and Lissa, Amanda, I love you guys. You guys were not my favorite. It was Brian's sermon and I no no you were not now but that's what I but that's the point is get over yourself.
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It's not about you, it's about Jesus. And that was that's been hard for me and it and then coming to salvation started changing that and it's still changing changing to this day. So that's huge. Get over yourself.
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That's so honest and so real.
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That, Mike. I'm remembering tribe we we had a cool opportunity in July, our tribe worship team, to go down to Dallas and play for this conference. And I remember Holger, one of our favorite German guys, he impacted Cory a lot. He was like, oh, I won't try to do a German accent. He's like, thank you.
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Oh, please, Jack. Oh, no. I can't I can't even. It would be terrifying. He just said, thank you so much for not singing songs about yourself.
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Do you remember him saying that?
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That's right.
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And we're like, oh, and you were like, I didn't do that
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on purpose. Was like was like, do I have any lined up that are about me?
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Exactly. He's like, so many songs. They just are like, me. Bless me. Bless me.
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And I was like, I think he's right. You know, there's a lot of Christian songs that aren't good for a lot of reasons, but just the lyrics, like, I they probably really their hearts are right. They're just, like, off. Yeah. Because there's a lot of songs about, like, why aren't you fulfilling your promise to me?
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Like, do it. Do it. Do it. Is the tone it gives, and that and what we're saying is it's not about you at all. And I that that was really good.
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Kate.
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I just wanted to in Psalm 100, I was thinking when you were saying, Lyssa, about, you know, part of worship is coming in and, like, taking our eyes off ourselves and putting our eyes on the Lord. And as you were saying that, I was thinking, you know, I know for me sometimes it's like, you know, like putting it's like, what does putting my eyes on the Lord look like? You know? Because, like Practically? Practically, it's like, am I seeing what I think is a picture of Jesus, or am I just kind of like, what does that look like for me?
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And I realized what it looks like for me is really what, verse four is talking about is enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. And for me to, like, put my focus on the Lord and come into the Lord's presence so often, it means I need to take my eyes off of my concerns of the day, and I need to start giving thanksgiving. And I need to start, in my mind, start recognizing all the things I have to be grateful for and how good the Lord has been and just kind of put myself in that posture before the Lord, and it really that helps me a lot to enter into worship.
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Gretchen, that's that's so good, Kate. And isn't it awesome that when we're like, like, I'm not feeling like worshiping, God actually tells you what to do. Like, just start thanking him. Enter his gates with thanksgiving. Okay, I can do that.
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Like, thank you, Lord. And just start. Just start thanking him, you know? And suddenly your heart starts to change, and then start to praise him. It's just like sometimes when I don't even know what to pray and I'm I'm like, oh, yeah.
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The Bible actually says, how how should we pray? Oh, pray this way. Oh, our father who aren't like, he he doesn't leave us to have to even figure it out. He gives us a guide. Gretchen.
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Something that you said just I think, you, like, touched on it briefly, but, like, asking God to help remove distractions and to step into his presence. And I think, like, it reminded me, we read Psalm 51 this morning, and verse 12 says, restore me to the joy of your salvation and make me willing to obey you. And I think for so long, I thought that I had to, like like, I couldn't ask God to help me obey him or to help me enter into his presence or to help me wanna put my eyes on him. I had to do that myself because it was rude
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to do it,
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you know, to not. And then I realized, like, reading stuff like this, I was like, oh, I can ask him to help me to do that. I can ask him to help me to enter into his presence, and I think that that was such a shift for me to be like, help me to worship you right now.
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It's beautiful.
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Help me to remove distractions.
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Do you remember that song, 10,000 reasons? Yeah. Of course. 10,000 reasons for my heart to sing, I will bless you, Lord. The time that that was coming out, I had a friend in another state.
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Joy, do you remember this? And she lost baby after baby, and it was just such a depressing and hard time. And she took this first to heart. She's like, I mean, I'm just gonna what am I thankful for then? Because I'm literally depressed, and this is the worst.
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And so she just started writing, writing, writing, and she ended up it was over the course of a year, maybe longer, 10,000 literal reasons that she was thankful. And it completely changed the trajectory of her heart. I mean, don't don't think it took away the pain because that's a whole other sermon how that works, how you can have joy and pain in the same space. But, man, it sure changed the trajectory of her family and her attitude towards it and then her story. And then she let that be you know, it was a I think she wrote a book about it and, you know, talks to women when they're going through the same thing.
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So it's like thankfulness is the response that we were talking about to worship. And only the the lord knows what he's gonna do with that. Your job is to be obedient. That's the natural part. And then let the lord do his supernatural part, which is turn it into something beautiful.
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That's so good. Isn't it funny, like, Gretchen, what you said is, like, we even can think that, like, the obedience that comes to be obedient to the Lord somehow comes from us. Like, we just we always, like, just because of our flesh and, like, who we are as humans, we just always take everything back on ourselves. It's it's such a human thing to do. And I think, like, when you're feeling that, like, I don't feel like worshiping the lord.
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I don't feel like it. That's valid to the lord. You know? Like, he cares about how you feel. It might not be right, and he might, like, help you work on it, but, like, he cares about how you feel.
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You don't have to, like, well, I gotta deal with all how I feel over here so that I can then come before the Lord. Like, he wants you to come before him and pour it out and be like, okay, Lord, you know me. You know me right now. Like, you know I don't feel like worshiping, but I'm gonna open my mouth and I'm gonna do this. It reminds me of just a simple, like, again, like, the action when we are encountering the Lord or we wanna hear from the Lord, there's, a partnership.
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There's an action step that he usually calls us to because he wants to partner with us.
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Just for our benefit. He doesn't need us. Right. He create he works outside of time and space, and he created the universe with his breath. He would need us.
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So it's for our and our benefit.
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That's right. I was thinking about this just popped in my head, but when God we felt like God was calling the idea came to run across Mongolia. We felt like God was in it. And I say we ran across Mongolia. I was in a support vehicle.
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But we got there and we felt like we were in complete obedience to the Lord to do this thing. Brian was gonna run 1,500 miles across country Mongolia to raise money and awareness for these hurting children in the city that you see things all the time, but then one will just it'll just sink, you think, oh, Lord, is that a thing I'm supposed to respond to? And we were on the plane flying over to Mongolia. We had our kids with us. We were going to be there about three months is what we figured it would take.
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And Brian had gotten a root canal. He had gotten a toothache, root canal, ended up getting the tooth pulled. He was in tons of pain. And he had rolled his ankle while riding his mountain bike, like the week before. He's like, I'm not going to run the week before I'll ride my mountain bike.
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So his ankle was swollen. We're sitting on the plane. I was like, Well, Lord, here we are in all of our obedience. Like, what? Like and it was maybe day four, and Brian had run a 100 miles.
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And all these thoughts, all these doubts were, like, creeping into my mind. Like, is this how fast he's going to run? Thought Like, he was going to run so much faster. Like, what? Like, this is going to and I just all these like, oh, my gosh, how are we going to do this?
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And we're figuring it out. But anyway, I'm having all these doubts. Brian is on that very same day sitting down on the road and has completely bonked. Do you know that feeling? Done.
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Mentally, physically, the motivation, done. 100 miles, done. Sat down on the road, so done, he just ate all his snacks, drank all his water, was trying to convince himself, hey, bud, you did 100 miles. That's a lot. You raised the money ahead of time.
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Good job. And gave it to the orphanage. No one like making all these excuses. Right? Like thinking it had what he was gonna say.
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All that to say. So he's like, finally, he just is like, but lord, I thought you said to do this thing. I thought you were in this. And Brian just felt like a huge slap on his hand. He was like, are you done?
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Are you done thinking that this had anything to do with you? Like, you were just the one who said yes. Like, I want to use you. I want to use you, but not because you can run 1,500 miles.
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He would have picked anyone that said yes.
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Yes. And so he was like, well, then what do we do? And he just sat there having this conversation with the Lord on the road, and the Lord said, I want you to stand up. He he said, you take one step? I can take one step.
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And the Lord he said that the moment he took one step, he felt like the Lord say, now I got something to work with. Like, now I got something to work with because now you know it's not about you. You had to get to the end of yourself so that now I could do every single step through you. And it was. It was miraculous.
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I can do one more step. Lord, I can't do this without you, you know, because we try to go out in our independence. So that's kind of off the topic of worship. But with that, it's just that the Lord loves to partner with us. We have to open our mouth.
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We have to step out. We have to discipline our mind and ask Him, Lord, I don't feel like this right now. Will you give me the obedience to take that one step? As I was looking through just like what the Bible says about worship, how many times it talks about worship, two forty six times in the Bible the word worship is used, either towards the Lord or something we worship, like in the actual form of giving our praise, our adoration to. And not in that two forty six, but a separate two ninety three times the Bible talks about praising the Lord.
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Like, it's a big deal to God, our worship and our praise, and what it's directed towards. So I just encourage you, when we leave this time together, our goal today as we talk about worship is that you would have some tools, some practical tools that you can think about next time, because it's gonna happen when you leave here or you start to get stressed. Like, okay, what do I do? You know, always tell Sailor Kai, like, put on worship music. Or Kai's stressing me out, like, on worship music.
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And he's like, I don't want to put on worship music. And he's like, I don't care. Trust me. It will help you. Put on some worship music, and just sit for a minute, and remove the distractions.
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And so, Lord, help us to discipline our minds and our hearts in the area of, like, actually singing worship and praise to you because your word calls us to. Let us not think of this time at church or when we put on worship music in our cars as, like, song time to get to something else. Let us take every advantage of every opportunity you give us to worship you. Amen.
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I have one more thing before we move to number two. The, the lord woke me up at 3AM the other day, and, immediately, I just had this reggae song in my head because it's what I've been jamming to, like, while I do stuff. And I was just singing. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, of course, but it was just such a gentle tap tap tap. He's like, if you're gonna wake up at three and start singing a song, do you think you could change it to something that honors my name?
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I was like, really? Sure. And so then I was cleaning the house.
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Did you find some Christian reggae?
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Yes. But it's not quite the same. But, yeah, I so, yeah, just little nudges. And that's the holy spirit nudge because that was just a gentle conviction, not condemnation. It was just a gentle, you're a little bit off track, baby girl.
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I'm gonna stitch you back on. But as we, gosh, if you're singing, whether it's at church or at home or while you're cleaning or in your car, whatever it is, I just encourage you, it's not, if you if you don't have a reason or a motivation, just read what Jesus did for you even if you know it. Just go ahead and read it in the Bible. I mean, let's not give casual worship to an extravagant god who's given everything for us. I mean, it no matter what you have going on, if you read what he did on the cross, how the veil was torn, like, you it is the most powerful and impactful thing you can possibly read.
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If you read it and feel nothing, do it again. Just read it again and again because he is so worthy of every form of worship we have for him. And singing have we talked about this? Singing and worry. I don't think like, singing, worship, and worry cannot exist in the same space.
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Anxiety or worry are things that we all deal with on a daily basis cannot exist in the same space when you're worshiping your king. There's something supernatural. This is why he likes worship better than reggae for me at 3AM because something supernatural happens. Not because of the author of the song or whatever, but it's because you are singing your praise to him, the one that the one and only who is worthy of our praise.
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That's right. There was some and you can look this up, but I was reading this article the other day about how when you that it like and if there's anybody that knows this better than I do A neuroscience? Yeah. Neuroscientists? That there's actual humming, not they didn't go into singing, but humming itself I sent it to Sarah.
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We were talking about fixing our minds on getting out of that loop, when you get in that panic loop or whatever. And they've done these studies where you can't and have the anxiety released at the same time because there's the vagus nerve. That humming stimulates that.
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So this cold water on your face?
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Oh, yes.
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It resets your vagus nerve and calms your nerves.
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Uh-huh. But like
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It's cool how the Lord designed it that way.
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Yeah. It's super cool. And I mean, just what a cool response and proof that when we sing, it focuses our heart on him. It is supernatural. It's supernatural.
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So the discipline of and I know it might seem like I always have a hard time speaking about worship because I feel like a lot of people are like, well, yeah, that's easy for you to say. You're a singer. And I married a non musical human. Out of all respect for Brian, he's one of the least musical people that I know. Like tempo, pitch, all the things.
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But he loves music. But you know what? He worships the Lord with music and with his heart. It is not about whether you sing good or you sound good or you like to sing. It has nothing to do with that, nothing.
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I mean, thank goodness that the Lord picks people in the areas that they're gifted at to lead those things, Cause there's things I am not gifted at that other people are.
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We were in The Philippines one year doing ministry, Corey and I, and there we were at a worship session for this little church out in the middle of the sticks, and it sounded awful. I mean, terrible to the ears. Different songs. I think they're playing different songs on every instrument. The bass was way loud.
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He just had an amp, and there was chickens that kept running in and out of the drums. Like, no joke. And you'd come in and you'd be like, oh my god. But every one of them, their hands were raised and there's hot tears streaming down their face. And I've never that's the second most powerful time I've ever felt the presence of the Lord.
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And it was such a reminder, like, even through worshiping through song, it has it's not about I mean, sure. We all like a pleasant sound. Great. Get on Spotify for that. We'll come to try and hear Lizzie every Saturday.
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But it's not about how it sounds.
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It's about
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the lord and about your heart posture. Let's move to the second one.
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Get over yourself and scat yourself.
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That's a t shirt. Renee has something to you.
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Yeah. Renee.
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I I've said this before in in this setting, but, you know, the word came to me one day about how the lord does not hear your voice. He hears your heart. And so so what if Leo doesn't like my singing? So what if the person next to you thinks you're singing off key and might be judging you? That's on them, man.
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Like, it
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is a supernatural thing that happens when you get rid of the distractions and sing truth.
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That's true.
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If there's no rational explanation to it, it is a supernatural thing. And sometimes you just need to sing truth to have things break off of you. Mhmm. Yes. So that's I just you know, there's been countless times in my life where I don't I'm not I'm not feeling what I'm singing, but I know that as many times as I repeat truth, eventually, whatever that is that's on me is gonna break off.
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And That's right.
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And it's it's a gift to us. Yes. God doesn't need to hear us singing worship. We need there's something in us designed to need to worship him.
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Yep. Worship something. You choose. Right.
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Yeah. That's so true. We do have a choice, what we worship. That's so good, Renee. The second form of worship that we mention at Tribe is we worship him with song, and then we always say, and now let's worship him by honoring the word that's preached.
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And so let's turn in our Bibles to James one twenty two through 25. And if someone would read that, and you can read it off the screen if you want that. Brian and I both read out of the New Living Translation for no specific reason other than it's just the version we have.
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But don't just listen to God's word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you're only fooling yourselves. For if you listen to the word and don't obey, it's like glancing at your face in a mirror. You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like.
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But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what it says and don't forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing
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it. That's so good. That's interesting when I was reading that over and over this week. It's like glancing at your face in a mirror. You see yourself walk away and forget what you look like.
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Can I just you know, when I was thinking about that, I was thinking for me, writing down in the moment when the Lord puts something on my heart, either a conviction or you need to reach out to that person and apologize or you're not right there, like deal with that? You know, we're right now we're in this, like, group setting. But, like, during service, if the Lord puts something on your heart, I just encourage you write it down because he knows us so well. He knows that we look in the mirror and we turn around and we forget what we even look like. Or maybe in that moment, it's like the conviction is there, and then you leave here and you get all distracted about going to the grocery store, and then all of a sudden you kind of lose that, and the enemy would love that, right?
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He'd love for you to not be obedient about what the Lord just convicted you We
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don't mind it either. We don't mind forgetting. I know. Makes life feel easier for the moment.
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But it's why Brian always says, if you're taking notes today or write in your notes because the not because what Brian's saying is, like, so important he wants you to write it down. It's because the Lord might speak to you a specific way. He wants you to then go and be obedient in it. And so if you write it down like, yeah, the Lord's convicted me on that. Because if his word is living and active, this, what we're reading right now, is gonna change us.
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That's our expectation. Like, it's gonna change us. So honoring the word that is preached. I think that maybe when we've said that before, I think maybe even I thought, oh, honoring the word that's preached is by being quiet and listening to what Brian has to say. Like, that's kind of how I've thought of it.
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That's just common courtesy. That's just called listening.
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Yeah, like, I'll honor you by listening to you and paying attention. But really, the honoring the word that's preached is listening to it. It says that we're gonna we can fool ourselves. For if you listen to the word and don't obey it, it's like glancing in the mirror. So you're seeing something that's real, you're seeing the truth of what you look like.
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You see yourself walk away and forget what you look like. But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free and if you do what it says and don't forget what you heard, which is why we take notes or we write it down, then God will bless you for doing it. How many times have I heard something in God's word, believed it, but then didn't obey it by actually going and doing that? Like when we honor the word that's preached, You take what you're hearing in God's word today. Let him speak to you through it.
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Like maybe, you know, when we worship here at the end, maybe he's gonna bring something up in your heart. Like, I keep bringing up, like, maybe you need to apologize to somebody because that's what always happens to me is I say, Lord, search me. And then he'll bring up something I did or said that was not lovely or kind or just that he was not pleasing to him. That's the first thing. But I could stop right there.
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He's bringing that up so that I can repent of it. But then I also need to obey it, and I need to which it's normally like, you need to go to Brian and you need to apologize for what you said on the drive to church this morning.
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Metaphorically.
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Metaphorically. Nobody else knows how that is. But that's the obeying it part. I feel like we just stop with the hearing of the word, and frequently we don't go and then obey it. That's how you honor his word is by obeying it.
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And it changes you from the inside. When you honor the honor the word and you dig in and you take notes and you really study scripture and you get, like, Blue Letter Bible app is incredible. You've heard Brian talk about that because it digs into the meaning of the words. And, yeah, it's like it changes you from the inside. And so then you're so again, it's not about words.
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It's about your heart posture being calibrated with the Lord's. And when you're changing on the inside, naturally, your outside things will change. You don't even have to try. You'll be kinder. You the nine fruits of the spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control, those things will occur naturally when your heart posture on the inside is right, when you're honoring the word, the word of god.
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That's right. I like how you just said that back here, Alyssa.
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Oh, there you are.
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I was, like, scanning scanning for Lanisha.
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Because the scripture has been replaying a lot recently for me this exact passage of three verses. And the Lord has really been working and showing me whenever I would read this, I would only ever read it in, like, action step. Like, only follow through on the things that he says for us to do as in worship, as in tithe, as in, like, honor your parents. Like, I only ever thought of it in
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All good ones.
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Oh, good ones. Still do that. Still do that. But I only was taking it in that way, and it wasn't until recently when the Lord's like, you need to really read what I'm saying right here. And it's also an emotional sense as well because in the Bible it says not to have doubt and believe in the Lord and come to him and ask him for things, the desires of your heart, and let him speak to you and love you in that way.
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And he really called me out. It was like, you will read those scriptures. You'll go, oh, that's so good, and then you'll close your bible. You won't ask, or you'll still have the doubt in your heart, or you won't listen to the wisdom that I've given you. Instead, you're just following the other action steps.
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So I say that as an encouragement. If you've been doubting or anything that the lord will do any form of breakthrough to your life, his word is true and stands firm in that and I encourage you to ask the lord for forgiveness for doubt and ask him for the desires that have been on your heart that you know that you should have asked him for.
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Mhmm. It's good.
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Or you'll you'll take a screenshot, post it on social media, and not do it.
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I I
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found that when I take a minute before starting reading my scripture, if I ask for knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, it opens up and Brian's encouragement to look for different scenarios and what it took to get into that scenario, I have not only enjoyed my reading more, but feel more fulfilled. Because he will honestly impart what we ask. Mhmm. In his name.
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Amen. I just wanna jump in here because it's been the women. It's time for a
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man to speak. And that The ladies. The ladies.
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Years ago, I memorized some pretty simple songs, praise songs. And what I do when I get up in the morning is I don't wanna talk. I just want some coffee. I'm gonna go outside, walk around. But I have learned if I just belt out these songs that I memorize, I don't feel like it, I croak, I stink, but I don't care, I'm going for it.
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I never feel like worshiping the Lord before I have coffee in the morning.
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Never. Do the dogs howl?
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Well, I'll tell you what, it it gets gets me going that I have my coffee and the next thing I know, oh, man, I wanna get down on my knees. Wanna worship. I wanna pray. So, anyway, I throw that out there for the men.
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Just do it. Even if you don't feel like it,
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your feelings will follow. Yeah.
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I'm listening to all these you should act this way and do this, and I agree, but I really want to read a quick verse here. And what I would ask folks is, have you had a person in your life that you respected and had such a deep admiration and close relationship with that if they were to suggest or ask you to do something, you would be like, well, of course. Or even like with I was lucky to have a great dad. Dad told me to do a lot of things I didn't want to do or didn't even agree with, but it was a deep love. And I of course, I usually eventually did it.
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But this verse, John 14, If you love me, you will obey my commandments. And that's the heart of a lot of this is do we love God, and why would we love God? Well, because he loved us first. And so to go even deeper in all of this is who is he and how much how great is his love and how wide and how deep and nothing can separate. And so much of the love of God is driving this, and what a beautiful thing.
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Bless everybody here to find that and cling and experience and have that joy.
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Mhmm. That's right. That's good, John.
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Okay. Well, I'm gonna piggyback off that. Thank you for teeing me up. I had heard this quote once that this kind of reminds me of, but never call yourself ugly because you don't see the way your face looks when you're reading something that you love or you don't see the way you look when you laugh or, like, when you're lit up with joy or even when you're sad and you cry. You know?
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And, like, I've thought about that a lot, and then I'm just thinking, like, you know, I don't know that I could describe what I look like to someone in like great detail, but I could describe my husband's face in every moment. I could describe your both of your faces in every moment because we've had so much interaction and there's so much love there. And so I think of that in this that, like, if we going off of what John said, if we love the Lord and if we fill our hearts with him and we gaze upon his face and we look at his word and we really dive into it, then we will want to obey him because, like John said, if when we love someone, it's we'll do whatever they say, you know, well, within reason. But but, like and so I think it's the same thing here. Like, if we love the lord and we gaze upon his face and memorize the lines of what he's saying and the lines of what he's doing and how he's moving, then obeying him will come more naturally.
1:18:25
Mhmm. Yeah. Even if it hurts, it'll just feel like a natural response. I I am like, as we're talking since that there's some people in here who are like, okay. Agree.
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Agree. Agree. But, like, it's just so hard. Like, I hear what you're saying. My mind understands, but my heart doesn't.
1:18:40
And I just feel strongly, sin is a big deal, and it puts a wedge in between you and god. And so if you're maybe this isn't the reason, but maybe there's something big or small. There's a sin or like an unforgiveness that you're talking about, Liz. Like, that that's what's blocking you from this full expression of what we're talking about. Not that you'll just immediately start singing and you'll just so much joy like Lee and then first thing in the morning, that's not necessarily the case.
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But if you're like, I hear you. I understand it, and I even agree, but I just can't do it. I haven't been able to. Honestly, there's probably some kind of sin or unrepentance that needs to be handled first so that you can enter into what we see in the Old Testament, the holy of holies. And then when Jesus died on the cross, we have full access to that for him.
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So just do not and that's a this is a whole other sermon, but, like, please don't let sin or unrepented something get in the way because the enemy is so sneaky, and he'll take the tiniest little thing, you know, like, oh, they're sinning. The door's open. The door's open. He'll put his foot in there real quick. And then over time, you'll just open yourself to more and more, and your heart will get harder and harder.
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And what we're talking about today, which today is beautiful and you agree with, you'll be like, that's bullcrap. Don't don't get to that point. Do you have something, Clay? Let me
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as you bring the mic to Clay, let me just pray that in this moment. Lord, maybe as Amanda said that, someone's heart is beating out of their chest because they've got some sin going on in their lives. We're all sinners that are forgiven, but maybe there's some active sin that they are aware of right now in this moment where they sit in the chair. Lord, they don't have to leave today with that weight of sin on them, that if they confess that sin, you're faithful. You're faithful.
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You already paid the price for those sins. You went ahead and you did it ahead of time, paid in full. But we can wear the shame of that because of our choices. So, Lord, I pray for any heart in here that, well, Amanda said that, yeah, that's great, that's great. Sure, read the word and then obey it.
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That's great. But you can't even, like, receive that as revelation today because there's just active sin in your life. Lord, I pray for courage for those people that at the end while we worship that they would first take it before you, ask for your forgiveness, and that they would then reach out to someone and confess their sin and receive prayer today so that you can bring it out in the light and that the enemy wouldn't have any power over them anymore because we are made new in you. In Jesus' name,
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amen. Listen to Psalm 32. Oh, we're about gladness and worship. Oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is put out of sight. Yes.
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What joy for those who record the Lord and has cleared been cleared of their guilt, whose lives are in complete honesty. Doesn't say ease. It says honesty, authenticity. And he says, when I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long. Day and night gosh.
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We've all been there. Am I right? Day and night, your hand of discipline was heavy on me in the most loving way. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. But finally, this is where we want you to be today.
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Verse five, I finally I confessed all my sin to you and stopped trying to hide my guilt. I said to myself, I will confess my rebellion to the Lord. And lord, you forgave me and all my guilt is gone. Psalm 32.
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So beautiful.
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Clay, do you have something?
1:22:39
So I'm gonna go a little old school and kind of tell you that I mean, we lived in Jackson or in the surrounding area. Most people, if you surveyed in this room, would say we are blessed to see God's creation. And but I just I warn you, I encourage you to seek God first. Yeah. In the mornings, when you're getting your day started and you want to think about everything but God, ask God to show you something.
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Stop being in entertainment mode and wanting to fulfill your needs from an entertainment standpoint to do things that you like. I had to go through cancer to realize that I needed God every day. I needed to submerge myself in his word. And that I'm a sinner today, I'm a sinner tomorrow, I'm a sinner the next day, and if I'm not seeking God, I just I think I'll back it up. I just want to encourage I've gone back to my paper bible.
1:24:21
I love my iPhone, don't get me wrong. Great to take notes and it is so easy. But I think in the not too distant future there's going to be a day when you wake up and you go, what's wrong with my phone?
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Oh, boy.
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Something has happened. Maybe tomorrow, maybe one hundred years from now. I may not even be on this world at that time, but I'm just telling you what It I've took me a long time to realize that I needed to seek God first in everything that I do and it started in the morning, sometimes with coffee, sometimes without. But at the end of the day, it's the best thing that's ever happened to me.
1:25:15
So good.
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As we kinda land the plane, we're gonna just talk about the third one. So you've heard us say there's hundreds of way to worship the lord. There really is because worship is where you put your time, your energy, your affection, your money, your thoughts, everything. And so when we're together at Tribe, we only have the time frame to do three. The worshiping through song, which we talked about today, worshiping through the honoring of his word, which we're actively doing right now.
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And then this last one, you hear us say every week and we'll just kinda it deserves more time. We'll just kinda hit it. It's when we bring our tithe and our offering to him, that's an act of worship. And to go off of what Lissa was saying at the beginning, it's because, gosh, money is neutral. It's not good or bad, it's neutral.
1:26:00
But what you do with it makes it good or bad. And there's a scripture that's been taken out of context, mostly taken out of context for all the time. The love of money, people say is the root of all evil, so you shouldn't have it. And the even the scripture, like, rich it's easier for a rich man to go through the eye of a needle than to get into heaven. And you're like, what?
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There's context around that. There's actually very meaningful you'd be like, oh, yeah, duh. If you read the whole story and the whole context, but people have this weird thing with money. Whether you have a little this is the craziest part. Whether you have, like, little to none or more than you could ever use.
1:26:38
Money is a tricky thing for us humans, and that's why the Lord asks us to bring our tithe and our offering because it can money can tie us up no matter how we feel about it. It can be a tricky thing, and so the Lord is so brilliant, and he knows that. And while it's the way for now that we make exchanges, and again, it's neutral. It's not a bad thing inherently. But, man, if it get if it grips our heart, whether because we have too much or not enough or anywhere in between, God knows that's a hindrance between us and him.
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And so when we bring our tithe and our offering to tribe and every local church I know bring you do that because not only I remember that that story I told when I was little, I thought that the offering, the physical money floated up. And as a little kid, I was always watch when the ushers brought it in.
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Was like, the money, it's gonna float.
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Like, it's so silly. It does the work of the ministry. It goes to provide groceries for people in our town. It goes to help people move. Like, we we get to be the hands and the feet of Jesus.
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So when you bring your tithe and your offering and if Tribe isn't your home church, don't get to Tribe. Give to your local church to do the work of the ministry where you're being fed. There's scripture that talks all about that. Malachi three ten, we won't take the time to read it, but it says bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there'll be room enough in my temple. This is Jesus talking.
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If you do, says the lord of heaven's armies, I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great, you won't have enough room to take it in. Try me, he says. This is the only way in scripture you see the Lord say this. Put me to the test.
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Try it. God just knows that money can. It doesn't automatically, but it can grip our heart in a way that takes our eyes off of him. So that's why it's a simple practice to your local church where you bring a portion of your hard earned money to him so that you're staying calibrated. It's, like a proactive measure so it doesn't grip your heart in a negative way.
1:28:36
So and it does the work of the ministry. It's just a brilliant way that the Lord has designed that for the local church. Second Corinthians nine six through eight says, remember this when we think about our it it says a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop, but the one who plants generously will get a generous crop. You must each decide in your heart how much to give, and don't give reluctantly or in response to pressure. Really take that to heart.
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For God loves a person who gives cheerfully. We talked about that. Yeah. The gladness. It's not
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like, okay, Lord. I'm giving cheerfully.
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I'm fake happy. That's not at all what it's talking about. It's this heart posture where you're just like you said, you've come to the end of yourself and you're like, whether I have a lot or a little, God, I'm giving a portion of my finances to you because I love you, because I trust you, and because this is a natural act that will keep me calibrated with your heart. It could be a reactive measure, like I gotta get back on track, and it's meant to be a proactive measure, like, this will keep me on track. You know, if you drink water before you're dehydrated, it's a good thing.
1:29:42
Right? You don't wanna get to that point. You can fix it, but it's better to drink water before you feel dehydration. So just think of that when we bring our tithe and our offering to the Lord, you're bringing a portion of your finances. And like it says in second Corinthians, ask the Lord what you should give.
1:29:58
10% is the standard. 10 actually, tithe means 10%, and that's what we see in the Old Testament. And you've heard Brian talk about, like, the cross, Jesus on the cross, and so many things from the Old Testament, like, are filtered through the cross. And some of them stay the same, some of them are eliminated, and some are edited. And so when we we look at this scripture and we say, God, what do you want me to give?
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It's okay if you give 10%. That's a solid you're you're being biblical. But I really think you ask the Lord because sometimes he'll surprise you and it's usually a number that you're not pleased with, but he just knows your heart. He knows the exact dollar amount that will get you off of track. And so he's he'll say give this or give, you know, something might come in, a bonus check or something we're expecting and so often, this has happened to you I think, the Lord's like, just keep passing it.
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Don't even sign it. Just keep passing along. You're
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like, okay.
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So when we bring our tithe and our offering to the Lord at every every Sunday service, we do it corporately because we see that in the word, and it's just a way that we worship him because we're taking our focus off of our finances, and we're putting them on the Lord and just saying, gosh, it's yours anyway. It's yours anyway. What would you like me to give? And that blesses his heart, and that's a that's a form of worship that he loves us to give.
1:31:25
So good. I just see this picture, if you just close your eyes with me. That really the like John said, like, there's all these, oh, we should do this and we should do this. But it all comes down to being close to the Lord. He just wants to remove anything Mhmm.
1:31:46
In our lives, anything in our lives. Anything in our lives that would keep us at a distance from him, anything that would look like an anchor, our sin, Our finances, whatever, whatever it is. He just wants he wants to take our little hands and pry open our fingers from whatever it is that we think that we're holding on to that would keep us from running into his arms.
1:32:22
Do you know what I kept hearing again and again? Is that worship is a sacrifice. Every time, no matter what form it is, you see in the Old Testament, they brought sacrifices as a form of worship like animals. We don't do that anymore, but every form of worship is a sacrifice. And that's so pleasing to the Lord.
1:32:44
One more thing I'll read and then Hebrew Hebrews thirteen fifteen says, therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise to God, proclaiming our allegiance to his name. And don't forget to do good and share with those in need. These are sacrifices that please God. Oh, like, oh, highlighted. Mhmm.
1:33:10
Yes. There's works of giving to the poor and doing those things, but, man, worship is a sacrifice. You have to give something up to worship him. And like we've said, he is more than worthy of it. Continual.
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All the time. The Bible says to renew our minds how often? Daily. He must know something about us humans that we don't accept about ourselves. We must know.
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It needs continual daily sacrifice and discipline.
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Amanda, give us just briefly how we give it tribe, and then let's just worship and let the Lord Mhmm. Let's do what that scripture said, not just hear it, but do it.
1:33:54
Exactly. We've done we'll just roll right into it here at Tribe. You know, we worship him through our giving in a few different ways. If you are brand new, we don't pass buckets like traditional church, but there is a little box at the, exit when you leave today. You can drop cash or check.
1:34:09
Also, tribejh.com. There's a giving link on there. You can see see that. And then the easiest way, and you'll see this on your screen here, is that you just open your smartphone and you type a number like it's a new friend to 84321. And then you type in the amount you wanna give.
1:34:27
And this is our natural part. Right? As you as you text send, just pray over it. Encourage you. Let the Lord do his supernatural part after you pray over that number and what he's telling your heart to give.
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When you types when you hit send, just be like, oh, Lord, it's yours. Do your will with this. And he honors that obedience every single time. So let me pray over that, and then we'll spend our last few minutes together just soaking in yet another form of worship. Heavenly Father, thank you for who you are and how you love.
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You are so faithful. We can be terrible sometimes, and yet you knew that and you sent your son to die for us anyway. What extravagant love and grace you have for us. You love us so deeply and so dearly. Nothing is more important to you than us.
1:35:23
Wow. So, father, as we think about worshiping you in these different ways, today, as we bring our tithe and our offering to you, whether it's today during service or a different rhythm, however we get paid and whatever rhythm we're on, god, thank you for accepting what we bring to you as our heart hearts are calibrated to you in obedience. We give freely because we love and trust you, and you have never let us down. Sometimes it's been preached incorrectly that like, you gotta give a certain number. This is terrible.
1:35:56
In Jesus name, amen. Sometimes it's been preached terrible like if you give a certain amount of money, you'll get your blessing. Or if you give, you know, $9,099.99 right now, no joke, your prayer will be answered. What a disservice to the kingdom. That's not how God works.
1:36:16
He's not a manipulator. So as we bring our tithe and our offering to him today, let's just have our hearts be calibrated to his. Lord, we love you so much. Thank you for honoring us as we honor you. In Jesus' name, amen.
1:36:33
Amen. Let's just take these last few minutes and just let all that we've talked about today go from our head to our heart. I just encourage you to be obedient to what the Lord is speaking to you. Lord, we just come before you and we worship you. We long to worship you with everything that we are.
1:37:03
First, just deal with our sin. Bring it up so we can get it out so it wouldn't separate us from you. Let us be thankful and come before you with a thankful heart. Lay our burdens down at your feet and worship. Let's just lay everything down, Lord, at your feet so that we can be free to worship you, Put you in your proper place, king of kings, lord of lords.
1:37:33
Let's just do some business with him. There's not gonna be words up on the screen so you can just keep your eyes closed. Maybe you just need to start with thanking him. Let him just bring up anything that would keep you from him. His worship just comes from the overflow of our great love for the one who loved us first.
1:44:59
I just really feel like we're to stay in this place of worship, this place of holy reverence. I feel like there's bondages that are being broken off just in his presence. So we're gonna do something a little bit different today. We're gonna end the service. Colin and Jen are gonna pray over us.
1:45:25
He's on our pastoral leadership team at Tribe. And just that everything that we talked about and all that the Lord is stirring, that he would just continue to cultivate it. Kat, if we can get a call in the mic, that'd be great. And then what we're gonna do is if you would today, let's just stay in this attitude of worship. We're gonna stay up here.
1:45:49
We're gonna just keep playing. And rather than, you know, get boisterous and turn the music up and I know there's conversations that need to be had and people you need to hug. I would just ask you just go out into the hallway out there if you wanna talk and and let's just keep this place for another just few minutes after Colin and Jen prayed. Just a place where we can continue to just lift his name up. And then in the back by the booths, John and Kate are gonna be back there and Lee and Colleen are gonna roam around and pray over maybe what the Lord would speak to them.
1:46:25
Lanisha is gonna go and today we could even just spread out but I just want this place to be a place of worship and prayer for this last time that we have together. Like, just keep doing business with him. Maybe there's something that your heart is just like beating out of your chest that you need to confess today. I just keep sensing that I have been there. Like, oh, just say amen so I can run out to my car.
1:46:50
And the Holy Spirit's just like, oh, if you would humble yourself. If you would humble yourself and confess your sin and let me wash wash forgiveness over you today, you can leave here changed. Maybe there's someone in this very room that you need to go to today and in humility ask for forgiveness. I don't know what the Lord wants to do in your own heart today, but I would just implore you to not leave here with unsettled business that he's stirring up into. Can we do that?
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Call him, will you pray for us?
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Yeah. We just wanted to lift up a blessing through everyone here, our tribe family, and everyone listening on the livestream. So, Jana, go first.
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King Jesus, thank you so much that we can live connected to you through different
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so that we can be blessed by you, father. In Jesus name, we pray.
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Amen. Have a great week. If you need prayer, please don't leave without going to someone. And I'll say quietly, you got this. Have a great week.
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