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• The church should be like New York City - "a city that never sleeps" - always alert and active in its mission
• Many Christians have fallen asleep spiritually while the world faces increasing challenges
• We've missed critical opportunities to demonstrate God's character to a hurting world
• Many believers maintain a "form of godliness" but deny its power through their actions
• Like the ancient church at Sardis, we often live off past spiritual experiences rather than pursuing fresh encounters
• The solution isn't recreating past emotional experiences but returning to places of obedience
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Thank you, welcome back to the All Purpose Pod for
an all-purpose life.
Wherever you are today andhowever you're listening to the
Call Me Mr U the podcast, Ithank you once again for making
us a part of your morning, yourday and your week.
We're your weekly mirror checkbefore you go change the world.
You can find us on LinkedIn,twitter, facebook and, of course
, on our YouTube channel atTheyCallMeMrU.
(00:51):
Thank you again for joining ourshow.
We appreciate you supporting usliking, sharing and subscribing
and doing all that you do andasking the crazy questions and
offering the comments that youdo.
We really appreciate yoursupport of us.
We know that we're doingsomething impactful because
we're seeing it and hearingmessages from all across the
country about what the world isgoing forth on Tuesday and
(01:15):
Thursday is doing for ourlisteners, so we're grateful for
it.
We know it's not where we wantto be, but we know that we're a
lot better off than where westarted, so we're grateful for
the progression and for yourbeing a part of the Call Me Mr
you the podcast.
Thank you once again.
I want to share a few thingsthat just been on my heart
recently, and I know that we areif you look at your news
(01:38):
channel or however you get yourmedia or your information or
your data, you can kind of seethat our world is undergoing
some very strange changes, areaswhere we're seeing wars and
rumors of wars.
You're seeing about what seemedto be an overwhelming sense of
(01:59):
dread in some cases.
You're seeing some lifestylechoices and ungodliness
spreading out throughout theworld.
You're seeing people basicallygood with destroying each other,
tearing each other down withinnuendo and drama and gossip
and just all the things thatwe've seen before.
(02:21):
We're kind of seeing all thatstuff at a heightened level,
things that we've seen before.
But we're kind of seeing allthat stuff at a heightened level
and it brings me to a studythat I was doing recently in 2
Timothy, chapter 3, where itdescribes some behaviors that
are indicative of the changesthat are taking place in our
world.
If you take a look at it,you'll see a lot of important
things there to watch out forwhen it comes to certain
(02:42):
attitudes and demeanors andbehaviors.
But also you see right in thevery beginning that the Bible
says that perilous times shallcome.
What does that mean?
That means that we're going tobe in times of danger, times of
uncertainty.
This is not a dread message.
I just want to encourage youguys with what we actually can
(03:02):
see, what we know and what wecan believe to come.
Perilous time shall come, andwe're in those times.
Right now You're seeing a greatattack on the family, on
children.
You're seeing pedophiles getinto places that we never
thought they would be able toget into our school systems, our
(03:23):
churches, and they're takingadvantage of our children,
especially over the internet.
Certain social media platformshaven't done a great job with
keeping that kind of entity outand away from our children's
reach.
Some parents could do a betterjob in that regard as well.
But we're seeing a lot ofthings that don't look like
(03:43):
people really care about oneanother, become prone to walk
all over each other, and that'spretty scary to watch that
happen.
We've shown ourselves to beinhuman and unloving inhuman,
excuse me and unloving and notshowing natural affection, which
is what second timothy, chapterthree, prophesied about and
tells us those kind ofcharacters are going to be even
(04:06):
more prevalent than they everwere before, where we see things
that are outside of the scopeof what we think is natural,
normal behavior, one of thethings that I've been realizing.
I want to start with this.
I know what I titled thisepisode today the Church that
Never Sleeps.
This episode today the Churchthat Never Sleeps.
(04:30):
I thought it was cute in theinitial part of it, but it
reminds me of my hometown.
Most people have a misconceptionof what New York is and how it
is.
Some people that go to New Yorkto visit from other places.
Some don't like it because it'stoo big, it's too fast moving,
there's too much going on, it'stoo busy and it makes people
uncomfortable when they're usedto being in a place where it's a
little bit slower, calmer, lessdrama, etc.
(04:54):
Some folks come from the sameplaces and they love it and they
end up moving there becausethey want that kind of
fast-paced life.
They love to be in a placewhere it's called a city that
never sleeps.
Why do they call it that?
Mainly because there's alwayssomething going on, all hours of
the night, even until the nextday.
There's usually something goingon.
(05:14):
A lot of businesses orrestaurants open 24 hours or
into the wee hours of themorning, two, three o'clock in
the morning.
There's always something goingon on Broadway and Times Square.
It's never all blacked out.
There's always somethinghappening.
There's always some kind ofactivity.
There's always businesses stillselling even into the wee hours
of the morning to the clothing,jewelry, et cetera.
(05:34):
So that's why they call it thecity never sleeps because it's
always something to doregardless of what hours you're
out and about.
I brought up the church thatnever sleeps because that's
where I believe we should be,but unfortunately that's not
where we are.
I'm not saying your churchshould be opened up 24 hours a
day, because people can'taccommodate that kind of
(05:58):
situation.
They can't have the electricand the lights on for 24 hours a
day, every day.
They probably don't have enoughpersonnel to man the church for
that amount of time.
Well, we're coming to a placewhere the church seems to be
asleep.
That's not a good situation.
I know that you need sleep, weneed sleep.
(06:18):
Most of us advocate getting atleast eight hours sleep.
Some of us are living with fiveand six, some even less than
that, but the bottom line isthat the church should never be
asleep.
There are people out there thatare among us that are not
components of any kind oforganized religion, because the
church has been asleep for solong that they've missed
(06:40):
opportunities to show who Godwants us to see him, as
opportunities to show who Godwants us to see him as, or the
things that, or sort of kind ofthe principles and example that
God wants us to show.
But we failed to do so becausewe were asleep and people were
hurt as a result, and now theyfind themselves hard pressed to
even think about coming to Godor coming to a place of faith
(07:02):
because they've been hurt by achurch that's been asleep, or
even, in a sense, being asleepat the wheel.
I think that's a challenge thatwe have.
If anybody calls themselves aChristian, calls themselves a
believer, we have a challengeahead of us because the times
don't seem to be getting betteraround us and a lot of times in
(07:24):
times don't seem to be gettingbetter around us, and a lot of
times in times in most recentyears, in the past five years,
there have been opportunitiesfor the church to open their
mouths, use their influentialvoices and speak to some issues
that are going on in our world,and without pointing fingers at
any kind of particular church,just as a whole.
We've dropped the ball in doingso.
We've neglected theresponsibility of doing that,
(07:46):
and that's on us as a whole, notme, you and they, but it's on
us as a whole.
We have an opportunity there,in our neighborhoods, even in
our own family, in our ownhousehold.
We have an opportunity in ourown businesses, in our school
systems, in our workplaces, inour community, in our
neighborhoods, at oursupermarkets.
We have opportunity to showcasethe light of Jesus Christ and
(08:09):
for some reason, we declined todo so.
I read in scripture I believethat it's I want to give you the
right address, but thisscripture teaches us that no,
they are a kind of person thathas a form of godliness but
denies the power thereof.
The Bible says from those kindof people.
(08:29):
We should turn away from them.
It's going to be hard for someof us because we're so
comfortable with people whowe've been friends with for a
long period of time we don'trealize that they have a form of
godliness and they're notactually walking in the power
and the authority that God gaveus through Jesus Christ.
What does that mean?
It just essentially means thatwe have potential and we're not
(08:52):
walking it out.
We're kind of doing things on afringe, praying blanket prayers,
not really doing the fullnessof what we're called to do.
Being who we're supposed to bein is fullness, and we're
content with being a portion ora bit of who we're supposed to
be, rather than being able tosay we're walking in the
(09:13):
fullness who God called us to be.
And that refers to those whoprofess to be Christians and
appear to be religious, butGod's power is not manifested in
them.
They're not.
They tolerate immorality in andoutside of the church.
They're okay with it becausethey're not fully committed to
who God is and what he saidthrough his word.
(09:33):
It's not to be preaching, justsaying that we got a big
responsibility and we're nottaking advantage of it.
As a church, we seem to havefallen asleep Major issues
around our world.
We should be speaking to what.
We've fallen asleep.
We're trying to avoid tensesituations and trying to avoid
issues that are controversial,issues that are controversial.
(09:57):
We fall asleep and that's aproblem.
A form of godliness is aresemblance or an established
standard or expectation based onpast experience.
We look kind of like what theoriginal thing should be.
It's kind of a form how weshould act traditionally,
(10:19):
religiously, how we should act.
It's basically a known abilityto perform.
That's what it means to have aform of guidance.
We know how to do the rightthings, say the right things,
pray in tongues at the righttime, lay hands in the right
situations, lift our hands andpray in the right moment, but
all we're doing is rehearsingand learning things by
(10:41):
experience, but not really byrelationship.
We know how to shout when acertain kind of music plays
maybe an organ.
Perhaps we know how to danceand appear to be caught up in
the spirit when we hear drumsplaying.
It's a form of godliness.
We've got to protect our heartfrom that behavior, because it's
(11:03):
not godly.
It's not something he approvesof.
He wants the heart, he wantsthe thing that we're withholding
.
By walking in this partialversion of who we're supposed to
be as believers, we're denyingthe power there, we're refusing
something that's been offered tous, that's been sacrificed and
(11:23):
given to us by blood, by bloodand flesh.
We're denying the power, we'rerejecting the offer that's been
made to us.
And that's not people who don'tbelieve in Jesus Christ, that's
people who believe in him thathave done that.
We know the sacrifice has beenmade.
We've heard it, we've seen itover and over again for years
and years, but we don't want toaccept.
We don't want to accept what'sactually happened.
(11:47):
We don't want to actuallyaccept what's been given to us.
I ran into a sermon fromRevelation, chapter 1, which I
thought was pretty awesome, andwhat it talked about is a great
city who had a great militaryposition, called Sardis, and
(12:07):
they were known for theirsuperior military position
Because of where they wereplaced.
Where the city was located on ahill, they had superior
position where they could seethe enemy before he even showed
up.
Nobody could catch them bysurprise because of where they
were strategically located.
They were known for that.
They were a prominent andpowerful city, but they made one
(12:28):
mistake.
I think it's a mistake that weall make and Jesus called them
out on it in the book ofRevelation, chapter one.
He called them out on itbecause they were living in the
book of Revelation, chapter one.
You call them out on it becausethey were living in the
prosperity of years past butcurrently not doing changing,
advancing, progressing andgrowing.
They were living off their pasthistory, living off what they
(12:49):
used to do back in the day andhow things used to be.
I think that's part of thesleeping church.
That's part of the reason whywe are asleep and we need to be.
I think that's part of thesleeping church.
That's part of the reason whywe are asleep and we need to be
awakened so that we can see whatthe enemy is doing and rally
against that and begin to standup for what's right, stand up
for what's God, stand up forwhat his word is saying to us
(13:10):
and for us and about us.
But we are asleep because we'reresting on our former laws.
Back in my day this is what weused to do.
People who are quite normallyhere say that they're usually
wallflowers Standing at the backof the church, perhaps not
doing anything, perhaps notreally actively involved.
Maybe they're still sitting intheir car while service is going
(13:33):
on.
Maybe they're in a lobby.
Maybe they're spending extratime in the bathroom.
Maybe they're sitting in thepews looking at their phones.
Maybe it's for some reason.
They can't get excited aboutworship.
They can't get excited aboutpraising the Lord.
They can't get excited aboutbeing around fellow brothers and
sisters who have accomplishedsome great things, seen some
(13:54):
miracles in their life.
They can't get excited about it.
It's just kind of meh.
Maybe they don't even come tochurch at all.
They stay home because they'vegotten to the place where the
things that they used to haveand used to experience are more
valuable to them than whatthey're experiencing right now,
like the church in Sardis, theylive off the prosperity of
(14:16):
previous years as opposed togrowing and progressing into the
right now and into the future.
They're living off of what usedto be.
I know a lot of people who havebeen in church for a long time,
at least five or 10 years.
I'm positive you've seen thisbefore.
We see somebody who's tried torelive a dramatic time in their
(14:38):
church's history.
They tried to relive a feeling,tried to reinvent an experience
or a moment that was a goodtime in their life, in their
spiritual walk.
They're not building towardwhat God is saying and doing now
, but they're trying to recreatethat moment.
People who have deep psychosisand people who have serious
(15:01):
mental issues almost like whatyou would do with a computer,
they try to go back to the timewhen things were the best.
And people who I've seen thateven in my own family, people
who have serious mental issuesand disorders, they default back
to the best time that they hadthe most happiest time, the most
(15:22):
pleasurable time they had, andthey end up staying there.
And if this was a computer?
If it was a computer, whatwould happen is a computer
expert or a technician orsomebody in tech support would
go back to the point where yourcomputer worked the best and
delete everything that happenedsince then that might have
injected a virus or some kind ofabnormality.
(15:44):
It would go back to the lastpoint where your computer was
working the way it was supposedto, updating properly and
functioning and processingproperly.
It would take you back.
The technician would take youback to your computer, back to
that place where your computerworked the best.
And a lot of times that's whatwe've done.
We've gone back to the placewhere we've been at our highest
(16:06):
point and we try to recreate it.
I want to challenge you to dosomething different this time.
It's cool.
Go back to where you wereobedient to God.
Go back to that place where youwere serving him and listening
for his voice.
Go back to the time where youwere praying with consistency.
Go back to the time where youwere fasting without having to
be told to fast or forced into afast.
(16:29):
Go back to the time where youwere so excited about the Lord
and so on fire for God that youdid what he said, no matter how
strange it was, no matter howawkward it sounded in your ears
and in your mind.
You did what he said.
Default back to that point andstart from there.
Go back to the place where youwere obedient.
(16:50):
Perhaps you're in a place rightnow where you've added some
things to your life, some peopleinto your life, and you're not
where you were.
You didn't even realize that.
You know what I missedsomething.
I kind of got off here.
Go back to the place where youwere first obedient to the Lord.
Go back to that place.
Go back to where you listenedto what he told you to do and
(17:13):
you honored him with your lifeand you fasted and prayed before
him and you were submissive andyou cared about what he said
and you cared about whatmattered to him.
Your heart was aligned with hisheart.
That's one time.
Going back it's not a bad thing.
Right now, the church is asleep.
We're ignoring things that weshould be paying attention to
and our voices are.
(17:34):
Our lack of voices, I shouldsay, is one of the reasons why
the earth is experiencing whatthis experience is trembling,
the way it's being shaken, theway it's being shaken because we
won't speak, because we won'tstand up, because we won't be
who God called us to be.
That's one of the sins that weare committing by.
(17:57):
By being asleep and staying inslumber, we resemble a church
that's dead Rather than a churchthat's actually alive.
We have a reputation for beingalive, but we're not alive, and
that was Jesus' condemnation tothe church of Sardis.
I know your works.
You have the reputation ofbeing alive, but you're actually
(18:17):
dead.
You were once powerful, butyou're living off of the
fruitfulness of ages that havealready gone by.
You're living off of old fruitwhen God wants to renew you day
after day, every day.
The inside man is starting toperish, but the outer man is
(18:39):
starting to perish, but theinside, the spiritual man, is
growing and desiring to groweven more and progress even more
, and we're suffocating that manwith the way that we live, our
refusal to wake up and take careof our specific
responsibilities.
We can blame the church as awhole and say it's all their
(19:02):
fault, but at the end of the,what's really an accurate
situation is that we are notfooling anybody by our outward
appearance.
We have a responsibility andwe're not taking advantage of
that.
We have to.
It's time for us to takeadvantage of the opportunity we
have, because, as long as you'rebreathing today, as long as you
live, move, breathe and haveyour being in God.
You got a chance to turn thecorner and make some changes.
(19:24):
There's some areas of your lifethat ain't lining up.
There's some ways you treatyour fellow brothers and sisters
.
It's not of God.
He's not good with you playingmean girls and start exclusive
clubs and cutting your brothersand sisters off.
He's not good with that.
He's not good with you seeingimmorality in your house and in
your house and in your lifestyleand you come to church, pretend
(19:47):
like nobody can see thatbecause they're not at your
house, but God still sees it.
How do you spend your money?
Are you generous or are youstingy and selfish?
God is seeing this.
These are all indicative of achurch that's asleep.
It's time for us to wake up.
How do you entertain yourself?
What do you watch?
What do you listen to?
Who do you hang around?
(20:08):
What's your friendship circlelook like?
Is it all religious folks or isit folks on fire for God that
can't do anything but love Godand praise God and live for God?
Are we going to be the churchthat's asleep or are we going to
wake up?
I encourage you to open youreyes, see what's actually going
on and wake up.
(20:29):
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Have a great day, coach out.
Thank you, welcome back to the All Purpose Pod for
an all-purpose life.
Wherever you are today andhowever you're listening to the
Call Me Mr U the podcast, Ithank you once again for making
us a part of your morning, yourday and your week.
We're your weekly mirror checkbefore you go change the world.
You can find us on LinkedIn,twitter, facebook and, of course
, on our YouTube channel atTheyCallMeMrU.
(00:51):
Thank you again for joining ourshow.
We appreciate you supporting usliking, sharing and subscribing
and doing all that you do andasking the crazy questions and
offering the comments that youdo.
We really appreciate yoursupport of us.
We know that we're doingsomething impactful because
we're seeing it and hearingmessages from all across the
country about what the world isgoing forth on Tuesday and
(01:15):
Thursday is doing for ourlisteners, so we're grateful for
it.
We know it's not where we wantto be, but we know that we're a
lot better off than where westarted, so we're grateful for
the progression and for yourbeing a part of the Call Me Mr
you the podcast.
Thank you once again.
I want to share a few thingsthat just been on my heart
recently, and I know that we areif you look at your news
(01:38):
channel or however you get yourmedia or your information or
your data, you can kind of seethat our world is undergoing
some very strange changes, areaswhere we're seeing wars and
rumors of wars.
You're seeing about what seemedto be an overwhelming sense of
(01:59):
dread in some cases.
You're seeing some lifestylechoices and ungodliness
spreading out throughout theworld.
You're seeing people basicallygood with destroying each other,
tearing each other down withinnuendo and drama and gossip
and just all the things thatwe've seen before.
(02:21):
We're kind of seeing all thatstuff at a heightened level,
things that we've seen before.
But we're kind of seeing allthat stuff at a heightened level
and it brings me to a studythat I was doing recently in 2
Timothy, chapter 3, where itdescribes some behaviors that
are indicative of the changesthat are taking place in our
world.
If you take a look at it,you'll see a lot of important
things there to watch out forwhen it comes to certain
(02:42):
attitudes and demeanors andbehaviors.
But also you see right in thevery beginning that the Bible
says that perilous times shallcome.
What does that mean?
That means that we're going tobe in times of danger, times of
uncertainty.
This is not a dread message.
I just want to encourage youguys with what we actually can
(03:02):
see, what we know and what wecan believe to come.
Perilous time shall come, andwe're in those times.
Right now You're seeing a greatattack on the family, on
children.
You're seeing pedophiles getinto places that we never
thought they would be able toget into our school systems, our
(03:23):
churches, and they're takingadvantage of our children,
especially over the internet.
Certain social media platformshaven't done a great job with
keeping that kind of entity outand away from our children's
reach.
Some parents could do a betterjob in that regard as well.
But we're seeing a lot ofthings that don't look like
(03:43):
people really care about oneanother, become prone to walk
all over each other, and that'spretty scary to watch that
happen.
We've shown ourselves to beinhuman and unloving inhuman,
excuse me and unloving and notshowing natural affection, which
is what second timothy, chapterthree, prophesied about and
tells us those kind ofcharacters are going to be even
(04:06):
more prevalent than they everwere before, where we see things
that are outside of the scopeof what we think is natural,
normal behavior, one of thethings that I've been realizing.
I want to start with this.
I know what I titled thisepisode today the Church that
Never Sleeps.
This episode today the Churchthat Never Sleeps.
(04:30):
I thought it was cute in theinitial part of it, but it
reminds me of my hometown.
Most people have a misconceptionof what New York is and how it
is.
Some people that go to New Yorkto visit from other places.
Some don't like it because it'stoo big, it's too fast moving,
there's too much going on, it'stoo busy and it makes people
uncomfortable when they're usedto being in a place where it's a
little bit slower, calmer, lessdrama, etc.
(04:54):
Some folks come from the sameplaces and they love it and they
end up moving there becausethey want that kind of
fast-paced life.
They love to be in a placewhere it's called a city that
never sleeps.
Why do they call it that?
Mainly because there's alwayssomething going on, all hours of
the night, even until the nextday.
There's usually something goingon.
(05:14):
A lot of businesses orrestaurants open 24 hours or
into the wee hours of themorning, two, three o'clock in
the morning.
There's always something goingon on Broadway and Times Square.
It's never all blacked out.
There's always somethinghappening.
There's always some kind ofactivity.
There's always businesses stillselling even into the wee hours
of the morning to the clothing,jewelry, et cetera.
(05:34):
So that's why they call it thecity never sleeps because it's
always something to doregardless of what hours you're
out and about.
I brought up the church thatnever sleeps because that's
where I believe we should be,but unfortunately that's not
where we are.
I'm not saying your churchshould be opened up 24 hours a
day, because people can'taccommodate that kind of
(05:58):
situation.
They can't have the electricand the lights on for 24 hours a
day, every day.
They probably don't have enoughpersonnel to man the church for
that amount of time.
Well, we're coming to a placewhere the church seems to be
asleep.
That's not a good situation.
I know that you need sleep, weneed sleep.
(06:18):
Most of us advocate getting atleast eight hours sleep.
Some of us are living with fiveand six, some even less than
that, but the bottom line isthat the church should never be
asleep.
There are people out there thatare among us that are not
components of any kind oforganized religion, because the
church has been asleep for solong that they've missed
(06:40):
opportunities to show who Godwants us to see him, as
opportunities to show who Godwants us to see him as, or the
things that, or sort of kind ofthe principles and example that
God wants us to show.
But we failed to do so becausewe were asleep and people were
hurt as a result, and now theyfind themselves hard pressed to
even think about coming to Godor coming to a place of faith
(07:02):
because they've been hurt by achurch that's been asleep, or
even, in a sense, being asleepat the wheel.
I think that's a challenge thatwe have.
If anybody calls themselves aChristian, calls themselves a
believer, we have a challengeahead of us because the times
don't seem to be getting betteraround us and a lot of times in
(07:24):
times don't seem to be gettingbetter around us, and a lot of
times in times in most recentyears, in the past five years,
there have been opportunitiesfor the church to open their
mouths, use their influentialvoices and speak to some issues
that are going on in our world,and without pointing fingers at
any kind of particular church,just as a whole.
We've dropped the ball in doingso.
We've neglected theresponsibility of doing that,
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and that's on us as a whole, notme, you and they, but it's on
us as a whole.
We have an opportunity there,in our neighborhoods, even in
our own family, in our ownhousehold.
We have an opportunity in ourown businesses, in our school
systems, in our workplaces, inour community, in our
neighborhoods, at oursupermarkets.
We have opportunity to showcasethe light of Jesus Christ and
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for some reason, we declined todo so.
I read in scripture I believethat it's I want to give you the
right address, but thisscripture teaches us that no,
they are a kind of person thathas a form of godliness but
denies the power thereof.
The Bible says from those kindof people.
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We should turn away from them.
It's going to be hard for someof us because we're so
comfortable with people whowe've been friends with for a
long period of time we don'trealize that they have a form of
godliness and they're notactually walking in the power
and the authority that God gaveus through Jesus Christ.
What does that mean?
It just essentially means thatwe have potential and we're not
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walking it out.
We're kind of doing things on afringe, praying blanket prayers,
not really doing the fullnessof what we're called to do.
Being who we're supposed to bein is fullness, and we're
content with being a portion ora bit of who we're supposed to
be, rather than being able tosay we're walking in the
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fullness who God called us to be.
And that refers to those whoprofess to be Christians and
appear to be religious, butGod's power is not manifested in
them.
They're not.
They tolerate immorality in andoutside of the church.
They're okay with it becausethey're not fully committed to
who God is and what he saidthrough his word.
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It's not to be preaching, justsaying that we got a big
responsibility and we're nottaking advantage of it.
As a church, we seem to havefallen asleep Major issues
around our world.
We should be speaking to what.
We've fallen asleep.
We're trying to avoid tensesituations and trying to avoid
issues that are controversial,issues that are controversial.
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We fall asleep and that's aproblem.
A form of godliness is aresemblance or an established
standard or expectation based onpast experience.
We look kind of like what theoriginal thing should be.
It's kind of a form how weshould act traditionally,
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religiously, how we should act.
It's basically a known abilityto perform.
That's what it means to have aform of guidance.
We know how to do the rightthings, say the right things,
pray in tongues at the righttime, lay hands in the right
situations, lift our hands andpray in the right moment, but
all we're doing is rehearsingand learning things by
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experience, but not really byrelationship.
We know how to shout when acertain kind of music plays
maybe an organ.
Perhaps we know how to danceand appear to be caught up in
the spirit when we hear drumsplaying.
It's a form of godliness.
We've got to protect our heartfrom that behavior, because it's
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not godly.
It's not something he approvesof.
He wants the heart, he wantsthe thing that we're withholding
.
By walking in this partialversion of who we're supposed to
be as believers, we're denyingthe power there, we're refusing
something that's been offered tous, that's been sacrificed and
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given to us by blood, by bloodand flesh.
We're denying the power, we'rerejecting the offer that's been
made to us.
And that's not people who don'tbelieve in Jesus Christ, that's
people who believe in him thathave done that.
We know the sacrifice has beenmade.
We've heard it, we've seen itover and over again for years
and years, but we don't want toaccept.
We don't want to accept what'sactually happened.
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We don't want to actuallyaccept what's been given to us.
I ran into a sermon fromRevelation, chapter 1, which I
thought was pretty awesome, andwhat it talked about is a great
city who had a great militaryposition, called Sardis, and
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they were known for theirsuperior military position
Because of where they wereplaced.
Where the city was located on ahill, they had superior
position where they could seethe enemy before he even showed
up.
Nobody could catch them bysurprise because of where they
were strategically located.
They were known for that.
They were a prominent andpowerful city, but they made one
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mistake.
I think it's a mistake that weall make and Jesus called them
out on it in the book ofRevelation, chapter one.
He called them out on itbecause they were living in the
book of Revelation, chapter one.
You call them out on it becausethey were living in the
prosperity of years past butcurrently not doing changing,
advancing, progressing andgrowing.
They were living off their pasthistory, living off what they
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used to do back in the day andhow things used to be.
I think that's part of thesleeping church.
That's part of the reason whywe are asleep and we need to be.
I think that's part of thesleeping church.
That's part of the reason whywe are asleep and we need to be
awakened so that we can see whatthe enemy is doing and rally
against that and begin to standup for what's right, stand up
for what's God, stand up forwhat his word is saying to us
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and for us and about us.
But we are asleep because we'reresting on our former laws.
Back in my day this is what weused to do.
People who are quite normallyhere say that they're usually
wallflowers Standing at the backof the church, perhaps not
doing anything, perhaps notreally actively involved.
Maybe they're still sitting intheir car while service is going
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on.
Maybe they're in a lobby.
Maybe they're spending extratime in the bathroom.
Maybe they're sitting in thepews looking at their phones.
Maybe it's for some reason.
They can't get excited aboutworship.
They can't get excited aboutpraising the Lord.
They can't get excited aboutbeing around fellow brothers and
sisters who have accomplishedsome great things, seen some
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miracles in their life.
They can't get excited about it.
It's just kind of meh.
Maybe they don't even come tochurch at all.
They stay home because they'vegotten to the place where the
things that they used to haveand used to experience are more
valuable to them than whatthey're experiencing right now,
like the church in Sardis, theylive off the prosperity of
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previous years as opposed togrowing and progressing into the
right now and into the future.
They're living off of what usedto be.
I know a lot of people who havebeen in church for a long time,
at least five or 10 years.
I'm positive you've seen thisbefore.
We see somebody who's tried torelive a dramatic time in their
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church's history.
They tried to relive a feeling,tried to reinvent an experience
or a moment that was a goodtime in their life, in their
spiritual walk.
They're not building towardwhat God is saying and doing now
, but they're trying to recreatethat moment.
People who have deep psychosisand people who have serious
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mental issues almost like whatyou would do with a computer,
they try to go back to the timewhen things were the best.
And people who I've seen thateven in my own family, people
who have serious mental issuesand disorders, they default back
to the best time that they hadthe most happiest time, the most
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pleasurable time they had, andthey end up staying there.
And if this was a computer?
If it was a computer, whatwould happen is a computer
expert or a technician orsomebody in tech support would
go back to the point where yourcomputer worked the best and
delete everything that happenedsince then that might have
injected a virus or some kind ofabnormality.
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It would go back to the lastpoint where your computer was
working the way it was supposedto, updating properly and
functioning and processingproperly.
It would take you back.
The technician would take youback to your computer, back to
that place where your computerworked the best.
And a lot of times that's whatwe've done.
We've gone back to the placewhere we've been at our highest
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point and we try to recreate it.
I want to challenge you to dosomething different this time.
It's cool.
Go back to where you wereobedient to God.
Go back to that place where youwere serving him and listening
for his voice.
Go back to the time where youwere praying with consistency.
Go back to the time where youwere fasting without having to
be told to fast or forced into afast.
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Go back to the time where youwere so excited about the Lord
and so on fire for God that youdid what he said, no matter how
strange it was, no matter howawkward it sounded in your ears
and in your mind.
You did what he said.
Default back to that point andstart from there.
Go back to the place where youwere obedient.
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Perhaps you're in a place rightnow where you've added some
things to your life, some peopleinto your life, and you're not
where you were.
You didn't even realize that.
You know what I missedsomething.
I kind of got off here.
Go back to the place where youwere first obedient to the Lord.
Go back to that place.
Go back to where you listenedto what he told you to do and
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you honored him with your lifeand you fasted and prayed before
him and you were submissive andyou cared about what he said
and you cared about whatmattered to him.
Your heart was aligned with hisheart.
That's one time.
Going back it's not a bad thing.
Right now, the church is asleep.
We're ignoring things that weshould be paying attention to
and our voices are.
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Our lack of voices, I shouldsay, is one of the reasons why
the earth is experiencing whatthis experience is trembling,
the way it's being shaken, theway it's being shaken because we
won't speak, because we won'tstand up, because we won't be
who God called us to be.
That's one of the sins that weare committing by.
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By being asleep and staying inslumber, we resemble a church
that's dead Rather than a churchthat's actually alive.
We have a reputation for beingalive, but we're not alive, and
that was Jesus' condemnation tothe church of Sardis.
I know your works.
You have the reputation ofbeing alive, but you're actually
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dead.
You were once powerful, butyou're living off of the
fruitfulness of ages that havealready gone by.
You're living off of old fruitwhen God wants to renew you day
after day, every day.
The inside man is starting toperish, but the outer man is
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starting to perish, but theinside, the spiritual man, is
growing and desiring to groweven more and progress even more
, and we're suffocating that manwith the way that we live, our
refusal to wake up and take careof our specific
responsibilities.
We can blame the church as awhole and say it's all their
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fault, but at the end of the,what's really an accurate
situation is that we are notfooling anybody by our outward
appearance.
We have a responsibility andwe're not taking advantage of
that.
We have to.
It's time for us to takeadvantage of the opportunity we
have, because, as long as you'rebreathing today, as long as you
live, move, breathe and haveyour being in God.
You got a chance to turn thecorner and make some changes.
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There's some areas of your lifethat ain't lining up.
There's some ways you treatyour fellow brothers and sisters
.
It's not of God.
He's not good with you playingmean girls and start exclusive
clubs and cutting your brothersand sisters off.
He's not good with that.
He's not good with you seeingimmorality in your house and in
your house and in your lifestyleand you come to church, pretend
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like nobody can see thatbecause they're not at your
house, but God still sees it.
How do you spend your money?
Are you generous or are youstingy and selfish?
God is seeing this.
These are all indicative of achurch that's asleep.
It's time for us to wake up.
How do you entertain yourself?
What do you watch?
What do you listen to?
Who do you hang around?
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What's your friendship circlelook like?
Is it all religious folks or isit folks on fire for God that
can't do anything but love Godand praise God and live for God?
Are we going to be the churchthat's asleep or are we going to
wake up?
I encourage you to open youreyes, see what's actually going
on and wake up.
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