Don-t-walk-away-from-what-you-love

There are times when the challenge of responsibility will make

you walk away from something that you actually love, and

people will judge you in that moment, and they will

think you're walking away because you're lazy. But you're not

walking away because you're lazy. You're walking away because deep

down inside, I don't know if I have what it takes.

And this is the danger of di engagement. It is

when you find yourself in a state of shame or fear,

or trauma or exhaustion and you walk away from what

God gave you because you don't know how to manage it.

It is the danger of this engagement. It is the

danger of showing up in body and not in mind.

I've learned that there's a big difference between coming to church.

And being in church.

Learned that there is a big difference between coming home

and being home. Y'all ain't gonna say nothing to me

all year? Is that how it's gonna be. You're gonna

look at me crazy all year?

Like that?

There is a big difference between having a child and

being a mom. And sometimes the temptation is not to

exactly run away, but to just disengage. I'm disengaged, not

because I don't care, but just because I'm afraid.

I don't know if I have what it takes. David

was shaken.

The death of Absolom represented his own failure.

If only did you hear him, if only I had

died instead of you, it's my fault. I didn't give

you what you needed, And it's my fault you're dead.

And now it's caught up with him, and he's shaken

and he's disengaged.

He's not defeated, he's disengaged. He has the victory, but

he's not acting like it. He's the king, but he's

not where the king is supposed to be.

See, he's lost his sense.

Of passion because he's moved from his position.

In ancient times, the cities were well.

Guarded by gates. Now David is in Mahanaim, which is

not Jerusalem, the capital city. Apslom is there and he's

going to drive him out, but not yet. The first

thing he has to do is relocate himself around the city.

Are two gates, everybody say two gates. Our theme for

the new year is gates. I want you to pay

great attention right now.

This is very important.

In each city there would be an outer gate that

everybody saw. We all have one of those. We all

have the outer gate that people see. It's our personality

that we rejecting to the world, so people won't judge us,

so we will appear successful. Then there is the inner gate.

It's the second line of defense. We all have one

of those two. It's our actions.

Two gates, two gates, two gates, two dates, two gates,

and the action happens.

Watch this between the gates. The Bible does not say,

put my verse up again? Is my theme verse that

David took his seat at verse eight at the gate,

it says that he got up and took his seat.

What where now?

Up until this point, he's been near the gate, but

he wasn't in it. He was in isolation above the gate,

like a lot of us live our lives watching events unfold,

but not taking responsibility for our outcomes. When we live

online in an ecosystem of pretension and narcissism and opinions,

but don't really make a commitment to make a difference

in the world, and we show up in the places

that are most convenient to our ego, but refuse to confront.

The issues that sabotage our soul.

The action happened between the gates, not outside and not inside,

but often between the gates, transactions would be made.

It was like a market place of the day.

But between the gates of the city there would be

buying and selling and negotiation.

Between the gates.

Profits like Amos would prophesy to maintain justice in the gates.

In the gates.

When Ruth, if you remember the Old Testament story, was

claimed by Boass her kinsman redeemer, he did the deal

in the presence of ten witnesses in the gate.

When Abraham bought the burial.

Ground for Sarah and the Old Testament, he bought it

in the presence of witnesses in the gate. It's where

the witnesses were, It's where the judges would sit, It's

where negotiations happened. It's where the conscience of the nation

was developed. It's where Absalom would stand at the gate

and before people could.

Go through, turn them back.

After he had promoted his own agenda, and everything changed

for David when he did something so simple.

The Bible says that after all.

He had lost, and after all the tears he had cried,

and after all the mistakes he had made. He did

something so simple and so profound. The king got up,

left his chamber.

And took his seat.

In the gate. In other words, I hear David saying,

like Arnold Schwarzenegger, I'm back. My heart is broken, but

i'm back. I made some mistakes, but i'm back. I

wish I could go back and change some things, but

I can't.

But I'm back.

I'm devastated about what happened, but i'm back. I'm uncertain

about the future. I don't know where it's gonna go

from here. I'm a long way from home, but i'm back.

Now.

What I picture in my mind is today thousands of

people who have gathered to hear this message online or

in person at every location. And I see you getting

up from the failure and the shame and the regret

that has kept you paralyzed, and taking your stand in

the Gate of Praise and entering his caates with thanksgiving.

I wish seventy people would sup up on your feet

right now and shout at the top of your lungs.

I'm back.

I'm back. I'm back. Let the devil know I'm back.

Let condemnation know I'm back. Let my pass know I'm back.

I'm not perfect, but I'm back. I don't have it

planned down again, but I'm back.

I don't know what tomorrow's.

Gonna bring, but I'm back. I'm fine. Everybody you can

reach tell me I'm bad.

I'm back in it. I'm pack in it.

Not gonna stand over my life blaming people for the

next twenty years because of the last twenty get they.

May hide me, Satan, I'm bad.

And with the enemy comes, with.

His accusations and his excuses. I want you to look

him square in the eye before the year even gets started,

good and tell him.

Tell them this seat is taken. I set. This seat

is taken.

No room for you to run my life because I

am seated in heavenly.

Places with christ Ah. I'm back in position. I'm back

in purpose.

Get back in the gate. Get back in the gate.

You cannot change what you tolerate. Get back in the gate.

You cannot change what you won't face. Get back in

the gate. You can't change it by complaining. You can't

change it by if only, but now, if you will

take your seat. God has prepared a place for you

in the presence of your enemies.

I not read you of your problems, but he has

given you his freendless get that.

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