It’s Not You, It’s Me


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Got all choked up. It’s not you, it’s me. Anybody ever heard that before? We’ve heard that plenty of times. Most of the time we hear that we hear that about some relationship.

Right? It’s not you, it’s me. But that’s not how we’re gonna talk about it today. We’re gonna talk about it very differently from that. Today, we’re gonna be in the book of first Samuel, if you wanna go ahead and start turning there, chapter eight.

But I just wanted to say, today in this world, it seems people are so self centered and so self consumed. In other words, if you’re talking to someone and conversations go in this direction or that direction, almost every time, the conversation turns to me. Things about me, things I’ve done, things I want, places I wanna go, how the economy affects me, how, my, status is in in the community. Whatever it is, almost always, it seems like conversations end up turning towards self. People are consumed about that.

What about self? Well, of course they are. The world says it should be all about you. Everyone seems to really be lost and wandering around trying to figure out what is real. What is this world really supposed to be about?

Because here’s what they find out. When they follow what the world says and everything is about them and they try to make everything about them, they find out they’re disappointed. They lack direction. They don’t have anything to buy into. If they fail, then everything fails.

And so they begin to turn in directions that they don’t even know what to do because everything was about them. It’s not about somebody else, but we’re not designed like that. Our father in heaven created us to have a desire to worship, and not a desire to worship self, but a desire to worship him. That desire is in us whether we admit it or not. And if people are left on their own, they will find something to worship.

For many, they find, substances. Some find money. Some find even other people, but they find something to worship if they’re left to their own devices with no guidance. Look with me to first Samuel chapter eight verses one through three this morning. We’re gonna start there.

Verses one through three. And it came about when Samuel was old that he appointed his sons judges over Israel. Now the name of his firstborn was Joel, and the name of his second was Abijah. They were judging in Beersheba. His sons, however, did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain and took bribes and perverted justice.

Just what you want for your sons. Right? Just what you want to happen. Obviously, listen, Samuel, if you remember the story of Samuel, he was dedicated to the Lord as a baby. Samuel then was raised in the temple.

He was raised to be a prophet. He was raised to be a priest. He was raised to be a judge. And so he had been judging the nation of Israel. He had been doing that for a very long time.

And as he raised up and did everything in the admonition of the Lord, Israel was going well. But now we’ve come to a place where here they are in Beersheba, and he’s gotten old. And so he’s appointed his sons to take over after him as many men will do. They raise up a son to replace them when the time comes. And he had put his sons in place to rule and be over him, to judge, not to rule.

God was the ruler. They were the judge. But they were dishonest. They perverted the justice. They did all types of things.

When they took their portion, they took a larger portion than they were supposed to. When they did the justice, they took bribes in order to pervert the justice. They did all sorts of things for their own personal gain. They were supposed to be representing the kingdom of God, but instead, they were looking out for self. Everything they did, they were looking out for self.

Obviously, Samuel didn’t raise his sons to be that way. He raised his sons to follow God, but they turned away to selfish gain. Why would they do that? They’d been raised in the admonition of the Lord. They had been shown all of the things that they were supposed to do.

They’d seen how God had blessed and everything that their father did, and yet somehow they turned away and started doing everything for self. One of the biggest lies that Satan tells is it’s all about you. Satan is alive and well, has been since the Garden of Eden. All of this that we see in the scripture, Satan is in. Satan had come into the life of those men, maybe through whatever reasons, and put in them that they needed to be all about themselves.

Make no mistake, selfishness does not come from God, it comes from Satan. Selfishness is something that is in the flesh. It’s in sinful. It’s something that we all battle. We should be battling.

But instead, oftentimes, we don’t battle. We just go with it. Whatever it is. Well, hey. It’s all about me.

So Satan obviously had put into these men, it’s about you. And so everything you can get, you better get because that’s all you’re gonna get. So it needs to be all about you. So they had turned against what god had shown them and began to live for self. They had turned away from what they knew.

Sadly, today, we look at our nation especially, and we see that a nation that’s supposed to be a godly nation has turned away to selfish gain. We have turned away to selfish gain. Even the sons of a prophet and judge were easily turned from serving God to serving self. These are men that were brought up walking with God, walking in a way that was pleasing to him, studying scriptures, knowing what the Bible said, knowing what the scripture said, the way they were supposed to live, yet they turned away from God. Today, we have people that were raised in church from before they were born.

Right? Nine months before they were born, they were in church. From time they were born all the way through, they were in church. And yet somehow, they get out on their own and they turn away from God, and they turn to selfish gain. Why?

Because the world says that’s what you should do. Why does the world say that? Because Satan is a prince of this world. And so as Satan does that and he tries to convince you, that’s what it is. That’s one of the biggest lies that Satan ever tells.

Look with me, to verse four and five. Look with me to verse four and five. It says, then all of the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. And they said to him, behold, you have grown old. Just what he wanted to hear.

Right? And your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations. Who came to them? The elders, the leaders, the ones that were supposed to be counsel for Samuel, the ones that were supposed to be carrying out God’s will for the people, the ones that when they heard from the prophet and the judge, they were to go to the people and be the leaders.

They were the ones that were supposed to make sure that everything was going as it should, yet they already saw that the leaders that were there now, the sons of Samuel, were not doing what they were supposed to. They knew that they were not doing. You’re old and your sons don’t walk in your ways. That was an observation they needed to see. It was an observation that they knew well that there’s his sons were not walking in the way of the lord.

That wasn’t happening. But then they had a solution. Then they had a solution. Appoint a king over us just like all the other nations. So the solution is not help turn us back to godly ways as we should be, but instead, just make us like everybody else.

Appoint us a king, and let us serve him. They had a king. His name is God. God was the king of the people. Yet they said, we want an earthly king.

We want you to appoint an earthly king over us. We’re willing to submit ourselves to an earthly king, and that’s what we want because that’s what everybody else has. That’s just what everybody else has, so that’s how we wanna do it. We don’t wanna do it the way we’re supposed to anymore. We wanna do it the way everybody else does.

The leaders, those who are supposed to know better, came to Samuel and said, appoint a king over us. These are the leaders. Now I want you to understand something here. This nation had been serving God as king of the nation for over four hundred years. And now they say, no, we want to be like everybody else.

We just want to be like everybody else. God’s people are asking to be like everyone else. We wanna be like everybody else. We don’t wanna be like God wants us to be anymore. We don’t wanna walk in the ways of God.

We don’t wanna have those, restrictions on us. We wanna be able to be self centered. We wanna be able to be like others. We won’t when they look at us, we don’t want them to see anything different than they see in themselves. We just wanna be like everybody else.

If God’s people are just like everybody else, then how will others see Jesus in us? How would people see God if God’s people were no different than the pagans? If God’s people were no different than any other nation, how would people see God in any of that? How would they know? The sons of Samuel have become spiritually blind.

They have become spiritually blind. You see, instead of following God, they were following their own ways. They had become spiritually blind, and they weren’t doing what they were supposed to do. They knew everything, but their eyes had been blinded because they weren’t walking in the way that they were supposed to. If they had become spiritually blind and they weren’t walking the way they were supposed to, the elders needed to step up.

They needed to talk to Samuel. They needed to come before, the group, and they needed to pick some new representation. They needed to do something to make sure that the people were being led in the right way. So the elders decided, I’m gonna step up. And the elders came, but the problem was the elders too were spiritually blind.

They were spiritually blind. They came and they said, we can’t have this with your sons doing all of these things and perverting justice and and doing things selfishly. So what we need is we need a king like the rest of the nations, like the pagan nations, and so they too were spiritually blind. They didn’t see what God’s plan was. You know why?

They weren’t looking for it. They weren’t looking for it. Instead of worrying or thinking or praying or spending time with God, They were spending time wishing they could be like everybody else. Ask the children, if somebody had something, would you want to be like that? Well, yeah.

Everybody would want to be like that. If the person in school is popular, everybody wants to be with the popular people. They don’t wanna be with the ones that nobody cares about. Everybody wants other people to like them, and they want to be like everybody else. They don’t wanna be different.

Why? Because the different person is different. They stand out. They walk in a different way. But what if the person that’s different is the person that’s right?

What if the person that’s different is the one that God has anointed to walk in that way? Understand that when God’s people walk how he anointed us to walk, we’re gonna be different. We will not be like the world. We have to take the blinders off. We have to ask God to remove these blinders so that we might walk in a way that’s pleasing to him and not be spiritually blind.

The sons of Samuel have become spiritually blind. The elders have become spiritually blind. And today, that’s more of a common thing than we realize. Understand, churches that call themselves Christian churches. In other words, they say we are the children of God.

We are brothers and sisters in Christ. Churches that call themselves that have allowed worldly things to come into the church. They have allowed worldly things to dictate and direct what’s going on in the church. They have allowed things to happen that never should happen. And because of that, we’re not following in God’s will.

We’re not doing what God called us to do. So the churches across the nation, believers across the nation are not walking in the ways that we’re supposed to. We have become spiritually blind. And you know what? We seem to be okay with that.

There’s a air freshener commercial. Talks about being nose blind. I’m sure you’ve probably seen it on television. And they go into a teenage boy’s room, and there’s dirty socks and underwear and everything all over the place, and, of course, it smells bad. The boy sitting in there playing video games, he’s oblivious to the whole thing, says he’s nose blind.

He doesn’t smell that anymore. Why? Because he smelled it so long that he’s just ignores it. It doesn’t doesn’t bother him anymore. God’s people have ignored sin for so long that sin is not repulsive to us.

Sin is not repulsive to us. We become spiritually blind, and sin doesn’t upset us anymore. We see it all around us on a daily basis, but it doesn’t cause us to have any hard feelings. It doesn’t cause us to be brokenhearted. It doesn’t cause us to try to share God with people that we see these things happening.

We’re spiritually blind because we just ignore it. Samuel’s sons were spiritually blind because they just decided, you know what? We’re gonna do things this way, and they didn’t worry about all the rest of it. The elder said, oh, we see that, but they too were spiritually blind because we wanna be like everybody else. In the nation today, people in their head know that these things are not right, but in their heart, they don’t do anything about it.

They don’t do anything about it. People who were raised to follow god just wanna be like everybody else, and they’ve become spiritually blind. Look at verse six. When the elders came to Samuel and said, appoint us a king, it was displeasing. He said, but the thing was displeasing in the sight of Samuel when they said, give us a king to judge us, and Samuel prayed to the Lord.

So when they came to Samuel and said, hey, this is what’s going on. You need to appoint a king just like everybody else has. Samuel didn’t say, well, sure. Yeah. We can do that.

Samuel said, uh-uh. That’s not right. I’m going to pray about this. I’m going to talk to the Lord about this because this isn’t right. In fact, he became angry that the people wanted to become like a pagan nation.

He got upset. He’s like, this is not how it’s supposed to be. You know better. You know better. You know what the law of god is.

You know what god’s word says. You know how we’re supposed to live, yet you wanna be like everybody else. No way. You know better. Why are you asking for this?

Truthfully, today, we should be feeling the same way when we see god’s people completely ignoring things that we know are wrong, completely ignoring what God’s word says, living like everybody else. It should upset us. We should be upset that people are okay with that, that God’s people are okay. Our heart should be broken when we see God’s people that are okay with sin. We should be brokenhearted when things around us are sinful and we’re just okay with that.

Well, you know, it’s just kind of the way of the world today. The way of the world, not the way of God. Not the way of God. And when someone looks at God’s people and they look identical to people who are not God’s people, how do they see Jesus? How is it?

How can we see that? We’ve got to stop being like everybody else, and we’ve got to start standing apart as God’s people. God’s people said, we want a king. We want a king. Samuel got angry, and he began to talk to the only one he could talk to.

Everybody else was all about the king, but he went to God. He went to God. Now listen. I want you to understand this too. Lost people are also spiritually blind.

Lost people are also spiritually blind. So even if someone is trying, oftentimes, they’re spiritually blind. Samuel went to God. He said, god, I don’t know what to do. Your people are asking for a king, and I know that’s not right.

We’re gonna find out how God answered that in a little bit. But he went to God because he knew that things were happening. He didn’t know how to handle it. Oftentimes, lost people we know lost people are also spiritually blind. So here’s part of the problem.

When we talk to people and we try to share with people the gospel of Jesus Christ, sometimes they’re spiritually blind and they don’t hear it. They don’t see it. Sometimes I think we have friends that seem to be spiritually blind and we react with anger when when they can’t see what they’re doing. Sometimes when we try to share the gospel with somebody and they reject it, we get angry. How can you not see?

I I showed you exactly what the gospel is, the good news of Jesus Christ. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. That includes every one of us. Every one of us. The wages of sin is death.

That’s a separation from God and eternal hell. But the free gift of God is eternal life. And if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, you will be saved. It’s that easy. Are you ready to pray with me?

No. Why not? Yeah. I’m just not ready yet. And we get angry.

We don’t understand. But don’t you see? No. They don’t. They don’t see.

Their eyes are blinded. And so once for yours until God opened them. What do you do about it? The same thing Samuel did when the people of the day could not see that what was going on was wrong. He went to god and he prayed.

And he prayed, god, your people are asking to be like everybody else, and I know that’s not right. What do I do? They’re rejecting me. They’re turning me away. They don’t wanna listen to what I have to say.

What am I supposed to do? The answer’s kinda shocking, actually. We need to talk to God just like he talked to God. We need to pray and we need to ask God to open our eyes, to open their eyes, to open everyone up that they might see. Sometimes what happens is we feel when we talk to someone and they reject God, we feel like it’s a personal attack against us.

Well, I tried. They rejected me. They rejected me. Really? Were you asking them to receive you as their lord and savior?

No. That’s not what you asked them. Were you asking them to be like you? I hope not because most of us are too much of a failure. We don’t want them to be just like us.

What were we asking them? We were trying to get them to accept Jesus. Why do we take it so personally if they reject it? As if it’s us they’re rejecting. Samuel said, they’re not listening, god.

They’re not I’m telling them telling them everything, and they’re not listening to me. Verse seven and eight says this, then the lord said to Samuel, listen to the voice of the people. In regard to all that they say to you, in regard to all that they say to you. For they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. Like all the deeds which they have done since the day I brought them up from Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me and served other gods, so they are doing to you also.

They haven’t rejected you. They rejected me. It’s not you, Samuel. It’s me. I was their king, and they’re saying we don’t want him as our king anymore.

We want a earthly king. It’s me that they’re rejecting. Yes. You’ve been telling them the right things, but they’re rejecting me. There comes a point when they continue over and over to reject that god says, okay, then you can have that way.

He gives them over to depraved minds. He gives them over to the things that they want. I still believe that even though that happens, there are times when that happens and God still wants them to come to him. And he’s still putting someone there trying to show them what they need to do. We know in this story, they were given over, but guess what?

God eventually brought them back, didn’t he? He eventually brought them back. Over and over, that happened. They would reject God, but he would eventually bring them back. He still wants to bring them back.

So as we share with someone, we share the gospel, we tell them about Jesus, all of that, we need to hear and understand. It’s not about us when they reject Jesus. It’s about him. And if they reject him, that doesn’t mean that’s the end. Well, wait a minute, preacher.

You know, the Bible says sometimes a person can harden their heart to such a degree that they can’t be saved. How do you know? How do you know if their heart is at a point where they can’t be saved? You don’t know. You don’t know.

We can’t see that. So you know what we should do? Keep praying. Keep sharing. Keep talking to them.

Keep trying to lead them to the right way. Keep trying to show them who Jesus is. Well, they’re not gonna like me if I do that. Who cares? If they don’t like you, but they receive Jesus and spend an eternity in heaven, what a celebration it’ll be.

But if they like you, but they never accept Jesus and they spend an eternity in devil’s hell, what a tragedy that would be. Because we were so concerned about them liking us, and we took it so personal when they rejected God that we stopped telling them about Jesus, and they never heard. The children of God said we don’t want you anymore. We want a king, a earthly king. We wanna be like everybody else.

Samuel said, God, no. That can’t be. I know this is wrong. God said, they’ve been saying that ever since I brought them out of Egypt. Everything that I have done to this point, they have rejected me.

We know that right after they came out of Egypt, they put up a golden calf and started worshiping that. They turned away from every time something got hard, they turned away from God. That was their MO over and over and over. And guess what? It’s today’s person’s MO as well.

Things get hard and people reject. They’d walk away. They look for other things. Well, God’s not answering my prayer, is he? Maybe he’s not answering how you want it, but he’s answering your prayer.

His word says that he will. Well, god is how could I have a god that treats people like that? I I prayed so hard, but my loved one still died. Why would God do that? Maybe he was answering a different prayer.

Maybe the time for your loved one to spend an eternity and no longer be in this evil world had come. Maybe the best thing that could ever happen was your loved one could go home and be with god. But I prayed and god didn’t answer my prayer. I prayed that god would heal them, and he didn’t heal them. Yes.

He did. They’re healed now. I prayed for this, and it didn’t happen. I prayed for that, and it didn’t happen. I’ve often thought, what if at some point in our life, we could look back?

See what we wanted and see what God did, and how wrecked we would be knowing that God was doing all these good things, and instead, I was begging for him to do something else. We don’t get a chance to do that until we get to heaven. Right? We won’t see that. But we know that God said he’ll answer those prayers.

God said, they’ve been asking for this for the whole time. I want you to give them what they want. Sometimes we take that rejection personally and we say, I’m just not gonna witness to him anymore. Is that the right thing to do? No.

We need to keep doing it. Will there come a time can there come a time where their heart is so hard that God says, you know what? They’ve rejected me. They’re never gonna change, and it’s over for them. Yes.

But we don’t know when that is. We don’t know, and so we need to keep talking to them. Just like these people, god said, we’re gonna give them that king. I’m gonna give them what they want. I’m gonna give them the king.

Sometimes I’m so thankful that god did not give me what I prayed for. Because if god gave me what I prayed for, I’d really messed it up. Maybe we have to talk to people about god multiple times. Maybe it’s the thirty seventh time that we shared the gospel that they accepted Christ. Maybe they have to go through something hard like these children of Israel had to go through.

Maybe they have to go through something hard before they finally turn to god. I don’t know. We need to pray for everyone who’s suffering from spiritual blindness. We don’t give up. Instead, we pray because prayer changes things.

Prayer changes things. But also, he told Samuel to warn them. I’m gonna give them what they’re asking for, but I want you to warn them and tell them what it’s gonna be like. Look at verse nine. Now then, listen to their voice.

However, you shall solemnly warn them and tell them of the procedure of the king who will reign over them. Ultimately, the king who’s going to reign over them is Satan. No. Not by name in that passage. It was a human, but it was a human.

It was under the influence of Satan. Ultimately, when we say, god, we want someone else to rule over us. We want to follow everybody else. We want to be like all those other people. Understand that the king they’re following is Satan.

Hold up. You try and tell me that if they’re not following God, they’re following Satan? That’s exactly what I’m trying to tell you. If they’re not following god, they’re following Satan. Well, I’ve never heard anybody say they follow Satan because they’ve been confused.

They’re blinded spiritually. But make no mistake, if they’re not following god, they’re following Satan. Those are the only two choices in this world. Either you’re with me or you’re not. Either you’re following God or you’re following Satan, there is no in between.

There’s no middle ground. Warn them. The king who will reign over them is Satan. Warn them that when they accept to be like everybody else, that they have rejected God. Later in the passage, it says, I’ll give them the king.

And after this king comes over him, and the king destroys them and takes from them and has them in such oppression that they’re slaves, and they call out to God and say, God, rescue us. I will not listen to their voice. That’s what it says in that passage. We know that over and over, god did rescue them, but only because someone came up in the group who was faithful. And because of them, God rescued the rest.

Maybe you’re the one that’s faithful. And because of you, God wants to rescue other people. But if we stop talking to people because we think we’re the ones being rejected, if we stop talking to people because our feelings are hurt, then how’s God going to reach them? How will they know? You see, spiritual blindness is something that happens not just to the lost, but also to the saved.

We would get we get blinded. We lose our way and we stumble away from God. But the good news is if you know Jesus as Lord and savior, you can find your way back. And when you do, you gotta work extra hard to try to bring those others with you. We live in a world today where everybody wants to be like everybody else.

Oh, my goodness. If if you look at TV commercials, man, you gotta have this brand of jeans because this is it. If you don’t have this, then then you can’t be anything. You gotta have this thing. And people buy into that.

Problem is they buy into that, and two weeks later, there’s a new kind of jeans that’s better than the old kind of jeans, and now you gotta have them or you won’t be able to do it. Why? Because the genes weren’t that good in the first place. You gotta follow what you want. You gotta be all about self, except that you find out that when you’re all about self, it’s an empty thing.

And no matter everything you try to do, all the things you try to put together for self is gonna fail. Why? Because God designed you to worship him. God designed you to be in a relationship with him, and everything you do apart from that is unfulfilling. Billionaires.

Man, they have the money. They’ve done all this stuff, and they’ve been given all the money. They’ve worked for all the money. Somehow, they have all the money. And almost every single billionaire that you talk to and ask them, do they have enough money?

No. Why? Well, I I haven’t earned as much as I want to yet. How much do you wanna earn? You have a hundred billion dollars.

How are you gonna you know, what why do you need more money? Well, I’m just still not happy. Guess what? Another hundred billion ain’t gonna make you happy either. Because those are things that are not what god designed you for, but that’s your idol.

That’s the thing that you’re worshiping. And really, it becomes back to your worshiping self. You want it all to be about you. God says, it’s not about you. It’s about me.

He told Samuel, they’re not rejecting you. They’re rejecting me. But the reality is that this life is not about you. It’s about god. This life is not about you having everything you want.

It’s about serving god while you’re here. Well, how long am I here for? Nobody knows. Nobody knows. We don’t understand.

There are people that come on this were on this earth, and they live to be a hundred plus years old. And everybody always wants to know how they do that. Was it their diet? Did they exercise like they should? They eat like they should?

That, you know, what is it about them that caused them to be able to live that long? And they’ll talk to one person and they’ll say, oh, yes. I had a good diet. I did whatever all my life. And the next person they talk to is a hundred and two said, I ate bacon for breakfast every morning.

That’s my secret. Or somebody says I had a drink of whiskey every night. That’s my secret. I did this every time. It that’s not a secret.

The reality is it had nothing to do with their longevity. Why did they live to be that long? For some, unfortunately, it’s because God kept giving them more and more chances to turn to him, and some never did. There are some that die very young, and we wonder why. Why did God take this this child away?

Why was this this child gone? Well, the world doesn’t understand, but God puts us in the world for something. And when that’s accomplished, he’s ready to bring us home. Some accomplished it much earlier than others. Some accomplished it as a baby.

Well, how could a baby accomplish anything? They don’t know anything. Yes. But that life that came into someone else’s life accomplished just what God wanted it to accomplish. And then he took him home.

We don’t know why, but here’s what we do know. God did not create us and put us in this world to do everything for self. He created us and put us in this world to worship him, to have a relationship with him, to tell others about him, to reach out and share the gospel of Jesus Christ. Here at the Church of Orchard, there’s a community all around us that’s lost, that doesn’t know Jesus. They’re lost.

They don’t know him. They’re right in our shadow of our steeple, and yet somehow they still don’t know. There are people maybe that are in your life that you work with, live next to, their family members. There’s somebody you see every day, and yet they don’t know Jesus. Have you ever told them?

Well, I think they might be a Christian because one time they were talking really little. It didn’t have anything to do with them knowing Jesus. We don’t know if we don’t ask. People are spiritual blinded, and we need to help them come to see Jesus. Ultimately, God is the only one that can remove the veil.

But if we continue to pray, and we continue to do, and we continue to serve, God might just use you to help remove that veil. He might just use you to be the one to lead someone to Christ. He might just use this church to be the one to start a revival in this land. We don’t know. But if we don’t act as if that’s true, then we become spiritually blind like the rest of the world.

Today, I wanna encourage you. No matter what is happening in your life, instead of trying to be all about you, be about God. Somebody says, you don’t understand. I’m struggling with so much stuff. I don’t know what to do.

I’m just in torment. I’m sad. I’m crying. I’m overwhelmed in everything that I’m doing, and you’re telling me that I need to worship God. Yes.

Yes. I am. Because when we begin to worship, it takes it all off of us and it puts it on God, and God’s burden is a whole lot easier than ours. God begins to carry that. He begins to show us.

We begin to see how he wants to use us. We began to be lifted by giving him the burden and by turning everything over to him. We need to be those spiritual leaders that God calls us to be. Well, I’ve never really been a leader. That’s okay.

Neither had Moses, but God said, come and do this. He gave me every reason why not. God said, no. No. You come do this.

I’ll take care of the rest. God will use you if you let him. If we want to be like everybody else, then how can we have a close relationship with God? Today, I’m encouraging you stand apart. Not just to stand apart, but stand apart and stand with God.

That’s what we’ve gotta do right now. That’s what God’s people have to do right now if we wanna see this nation begin to turn back to Jesus Christ. Let’s pray.

 


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