Just a little more | Pastor Morgan Butcher | Venture Church

Good morning. How's everybody doing. There's the lights there. I

like looking up and screen like, Wow, I got Dan,

it's crazy. Hey, it's good to have you here with us.

If I haven't met you yet. My name is Morgan

Blessed me one of the pastors here at our Mill

Creek campus. Thank you everybody joining online. Good to have

you here with us too. Anybody enjoy the snow, little

snow snow yeah, kind of a you know, not enough

to do anything in, just annoying enough to ruin your day,

you know kind of snow. Well, I hope you enjoyed

it as much as I didn't. But it's good to

have you here with us. I wanted to Kelsey talked

a little bit about Easter, and I just want to

give just point a little light to the whole week

of Holy Week, but especially I've had the honor and

privilege of leading a team who organizes our Passover dinner.

This year, we have one on ours Is on Tuesday night.

This is an incredible way, if you've never experienced it before,

to really learn more about out Israel's freedom that we

read about in scripture and the way that even still

today thousands of years later, the people of Israel and

Hebrews all over the world celebrate in remembering their freedom

using the Sator meal, and we celebrate that on Tuesday

with the pass Over dinner. If you've never been a

part of it, it's a great meal teaching. We'll have

Rabbi Matt back with us this year. He's a rabbi

from down in Seattle. He'll be sharing with us. It's

just an awesome night. Would encourage you to register it

for it if you're interested. But today we're continuing on

in our series through the Life of Solomon. Pastor Brandon

will be back and close out the series next week.

And last week Pastor Brannon really spoke on idols and

really revealed to us the way that Solomon's love of

money began to pull them away from God. But what

I want to tell you is that it wasn't just

Solomon's love of money that pulled them away from God.

There was something else at work, and we're going to

look into that a little bit today. But before we

dive in, I just want to pray over us and

we'll we'll dive in together. Would you guys just pray

with me this morning? Father God, Thank you so much

for your word. God. I'm thankful for your word because

I know the effects of when your word jumps off

the page and messes up my life in the best

way possible. And so Lord, that's what I'm asking for

today in all of our life, is that your scripture

would speak to our lives and that it would change

us from the inside out. God, we love you, we

thank you, we praise you in Jesus name. And everyone said, Hey, man,

let me ask you a question this morning. How many

of you would say, like, Hey, I'm like a TV

show person like you, movies like you love nothing more

than like binging a good TV show series. Yeah, a

lot of like hesitant hands. To reveal that truth, it

seems like not very many high lifted hands. I am

not necessarily like either one. In fact, it takes me

a lot to get into a good TV show like

it really has to capture my attention right from the start,

which is probably why the Office I started watching a

lot of which probably just shows you that have bad

taste in like quality TV shows. It's just funny and

I really liked it. It is really hilarious. It really is.

But how many of you who watched TV shows have

ever said this line before, I'm just gonna watch one episode. Yeah,

seems like probably a lot of us. I recently just

got sucked into this show. It's called Knife's Edge. There

was a time in my life where I wanted to

be a chef, and so somebody recommended the show. It's

about these restaurants and these chefs all around the world

who want to gain Michelin stars. Michelin stars. I don't

know why they put a tire company in charge of

deciding who makes good food, but they did, and so

these people chase Michelin stars, and I got sucked into it,

and it's become my laundry show, okay, meaning that I

felt like when Nicole says, hey, it's time to fold

the laundry, that's my chore. This is my show that

I watched while I fold laundry. Anybody like you watch

a show while you fold laundry. That's the only way

that I can focus my brain enough to fold laundry

is that I watch a show while I do it.

But I sit down and I start watching the show,

and the craziest thing happen. You know, you tell yourself,

I'm just going to watch one episode and then I'm

going to go to bed because I'm a responsible adult.

And you know, somewhere along the line, maybe you've had

a long day and you start to justify to yourself

after that show ends. You know, I've had a long day,

and you begin to rationalize, like, you know what, I

maybe deserve one more episode. You know, this has been

a hard day, and I deserve another episode. By this time,

the laundry is completely done, that's not even a factor

in the issue anymore. But you begin to rationalize, just

just one more episode. But then the problem is is

that episode leaves you on a cliffhanger, right, and then

so you rationalize again, just one more show. And then

after that show is done, the most convicting an annoying

message pops up on the screen. Are you still watching?

Like?

What what do you mean? Am I still? Of course?

I'm of course I'm still watching, like I'm a grown

man and I've made this decision to watch the show. Okay,

this offensive question, But now you're negotiating with yourself more. Okay,

just just one more episode. I can still function on

five hours of sleep, like I can make it, Like

I'm not gonna be in a good spot. But if

I just tell myself now that I'm just gonna power

through the day, I can make it. And next thing,

you know, it's one forty seven in the morning. That

sounds like a very specific time because it was a

specific time. And the next day you're praying to God

for strength to survive the workday. And here's the thing, friends, Look,

if you've been there, God is just looking. I'm just

convinced God is just looking at us, and he's like, hey, buddy,

you're on your own on this one, okay, Like this

is your own fault. Now we can we can laugh

about that because we all understand the relevancy. Right, we

all been there probably before. But I think we can

all laugh about it because we all understand the poll

of pleasure in our lives. There's a certain poll that

pleasure has on our lives. But pleasure always seems to

whisper the same thing. Do you know what it whispers.

It says just a little more, just just a little more,

just one more episode, just one more purchase, just one

more time. And what feels like a small decision in

the moment slowly becomes something that shapes your life. Slowly

becomes the thing that keeps you awake until one forty

seven in the morning. And that same pattern is exactly

what we see happening in the life of Solomon. Last

week in the series, we talked about Solomon's relationship with money,

but today we see another danger in Solomon's life that

ended up destroying one of the wisest men who has

ever lived. And it wasn't just money, it was pleasure. Now,

before we go any further this morning, I want to

just like make a little caveat for you. Okay, this message.

What I'm not saying to you is that pleasure is bad.

I'm not saying that. In fact, the Bible would actually

say the complete opposite of that, which makes me pretty

confident that what I'm telling you is true. God created pleasure.

God is the one who put pleasure into place for

us to enjoy. He created good food, and all God's

people said, amen, y. God created laughter, He created friendship,

He created celebration, He created music, He created the beauty

of nature. He created the bond of marriage, He created

the joy of family. We could go on for hours

and hours and hours about the things that God has

created for our pleasure. In fact, The Bible even speaks

to this specifically. In one Timothy, chapter six, verse seventeen,

God says written It says in the scripture that God

richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. So hear

me say, God isn't against joy. God isn't against celebration.

God isn't against us enjoying life and experiencing pleasure. The

problem in itself is not pleasure. The problem is when

pleasure becomes the center of our lives instead of God.

Right and truthfully, the thing that you and I need

to understand about pleasure is that pleasure is an amazing

gift from God. But that amazing gift from God, guess what,

it makes a horrible God itself. It's an incredible gift,

but it's a horrible God when pleasure takes its proper

place in our life. Though as a gift, it can

be enjoyed. But when pleasure makes its way into the

throne of our hearts, it can control our lives. It

can shape us into somebody we were never meant to become.

And that's exactly what we see happening in the life

of Solomon. Are you guys with me this morning? The

wisest man who ever lives, slowly allowed pleasure to move

from a gift in his life to the greatest pursuit

of his life. And that's when things started to fall apart.

So today we're not asking the question is pleasure bad?

The real question that we should be asking is has

pleasure become more important to me than God himself? Because

when pleasure becomes the aspiration of our life, it slowly

pulls our hearts away from the one who can truly

satisfy that desire that we are chasing after. And that's

exactly the warning that we see unfolding in First Kings

chapter eleven, and it's why it's so relevant for us today.

If you have your Bibles, you can open up there

with me. First Kings chapter eleven. That's where we're going

to be reading out of. I want to start us.

In the first two verses of chapter eleven of First Kings,

it says this. It says, King Solomon, however, loved many

four women besides Pharaoh's daughter, Moabites, Ammonites, Eedamites, Sedonites, Hittites.

They were from nations. Listen to this. They were from

nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites. You

must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn

your hearts after their gods. Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to

them in love. There are some things that we need

to understand about the dangers of pleasure, and the first

thing is this. It's that pleasure usually starts with compromise.

In our life, it usually starts with compromise. Listen to

how the message starts. It says King Solomon love many

foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter, his first wife, Moabites, Ammonites, Edamite, Cinemites, Hittites.

Now that sounds bad, regardless, it doesn't sound good. But

can I tell you it's even worse than it sounds

right there, because these were women from nations that God

had already warned the Israelites about. He had already told

them what the dangers would be if they were to

intermarry with these other religions. And we have to go

back to the book of Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy chapter seven. God

has already said this. He said to the Israels they

should not marry with these other nations. This is what

is being referenced in first Kings. It's referencing back to

Deuteronomy seven, when God clearly instructed God's people not to

intermarry with these other religions, or their hearts would go

towards these other gods. The writing was on the wall,

So get this. Solomon made a dumb decision. He knew

what he was doing, he knew the command that God

had already spoken in previous times, and he still did

it his own way. And verse two points to something

that is so important. It says, nevertheless, Solomon held fast

to them in love. I want you to underline that

verse that phrase held fast. I found this really interesting.

That phrase held fast is fascinating. In the Hebrew, it's

this word pronounced de bac and this word debac. It

means to cling to something, to stick to something, to

be glued to something. And why this is so interesting

to me is because this same phrase debac, this word

debac in Hebrew is the same word used in describing

marriage in Genesis two twenty four, when the Bible says

that a husband and wife will be joined together to

be united as one, to be de bac together. It's

a word of deep attachment. It's this covenant type of loyalty.

And here is why This is so important, friends. It's

because now Solomon is giving that level of attachment, that

level of connection to something outside of God's will for

his life. He has clung not to God, but to

the thing that God has already warned him about. And

that's the beginning of his downfall. And here is what

I was reminded of when I read this. It's the

truth that sin doesn't usually just start with this open

rebellion on our part. You know what, It begins with rationalization.

It starts with our own rationalization. It usually begins with

these small, little compromises that in the moment feel harmless.

They don't seem like a big idea. But do you

know what this looks like in our life? It looks

like watching something that you know doesn't honor God. It's

a small moment of time that feels harmless, but it

begins to redirect our heart. Do you know what else

it looks like. It looks like entering a relationship that

you know isn't spiritually healthy. It looks it's like allowing

habits in your life to continue to exist and take

hold of your life that slowly dull the convictions that

have gotten you to where you are in your relationship

with God today, it's like all these all of a sudden,

these things that we begin to do in our life.

It's not that they are inherently bad or feel bad

in the moment. In fact, sometimes they feel good. But

the warning and the problem is is that over time

they start to dole down that conviction that we have

to the person that God has called us to be.

And in this moment it always feels small, but that's rationalization,

and over time it reshapes the heart. And here's the reality, Church.

The truth is is that whatever you cling to, whatever

you debac to, will eventually shape the person that you're becoming.

Whatever you cling to, whatever thing that you set up

in your life, whatever thing that you run to, whatever

the thing that you lean on is, it will eventually

shape the person that you're becoming. We get to verse three.

In First King's verse three, it says he had seven

hundred wives of royal birth three hundred concubines. Wow. See,

pleasure almost always starts with compromise. But here's the other

thing we need to know about pleasures that pleasure always

demands more. It always demands more. It's always whispering, just

a little more, just a little more, just a little more.

That number, those numbers, they should shock you. And here's

the conviction that I have this week. Maybe it's not

seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines,

but maybe it's seven hundred website visits. Maybe it's seven

hundred lies. Maybe it's seven hundred times going to that

thing that has fulfilled my desire in the moment, but

really hasn't fulfilled my heart. It always asks for more.

That numbers should shock us because it reveals something about

the very nature of pleasure in itself. The truth is

is that pleasure is never satisfied. It always demands more.

It whispers the same thing, just a little more. It's

why we see Solomon keep adding to his life more relationships,

more experiences, more money, more stuff. And later in Solomon's

life he actually is reflecting on all the things that

he has built up for himself, all the things that

he has acquired, and he writes an Ecclesiastes two nine,

and he says, I became greater by far than anyone

in Jerusalem before me. And then he says something crazy.

He says, I denied myself nothing that my eyes desired.

Oh my gosh, you know what Solomon's talking about. Maybe

we've never said those words out loud, but we've probably

lived them. I denied nothing my eyes desired. Think about that,

everything that he ever wanted he had the power to

get at the snap of his fingers. He didn't even

have to leave his throne. He sent out the order,

and every pleasure imaginable was at his beck and call.

And yet, friends, listen to me, at the end of

his life, he had all of those things available to him,

and he decided it was empty. This is a story

that if somebody who had no church background, who just

lived their life without any context of who God was

for their life, would come to hear and they would

ask the question, how how could that possibly be? How

could that be that you could have anything that your

eyes imagine, anything that your heart desired, anything that you

could ever want, right at your feet. How could you

end your life feeling empty? I'll tell you why. It's

pretty simple. It's because pleasure is a great servant, but

a horrible master. Pleasure is a great gift from God,

but it is a horrible God to have sit on

the throne of your heart. The truth is, friends, that

Solomon's life at the end was empty because pleasure cannot

carry the weight of your and my soul. It can

fulfill the flesh until your flesh falls off, but it

will never hold the weight of your soul. God created

pleasure as a gift. Food is pleasurable, laughter is pleasurable,

Friendship is pleasurable, celebration is pleasurable. Sex is pleasurable. These

are all gifts from God. But when we take the

gift and put it on the throne of our hearts,

it becomes an idol. And idols always do the same thing.

They demand more and more and more. And pleasure is

no different. Friends, It asks for more and more and

more from our lives. And because pleasure demands more and

more and more, you know what else it does. Pleasure,

over time will slowly redirect your heart in a place

that you never thought you'd find yourself. It will slowly

begin to move you. Verse four gives us one of

the most chilling lines in the entire story of Solomon.

It says, as Solomon grew old, his wives turned his

heart after other gods. Sometimes I think we can learn

a lot about scripture by what scripture chooses not to say.

Sometimes I read scripture and I have to like look

beyond it and say, like, what is it also not

saying by saying something, it's choosing not to say something.

Do you know what scripture is not saying here in

this context, It doesn't say Solomon woke up one morning

and decided to worship idols. It says as he grew old,

as time went on, it slowly redirected his heart. And

here's the truth about you in my life, friends, I bet,

much like your life, you didn't wake up one morning

and just start living a life that wasn't what you

wanted it to become. I bet you you didn't wake

up one morning and decide, like, hey, I'm just going

to lean my whole life into this one thing. And

I know it's going to be bad for me, but

I'm just going to choose to do that. That's not realistic.

But slowly, drift happens day by day, choice by choice,

compromise after compromise. And that's what makes drift so dangerous

because it feels subtle. You know what drift looks like

in our lives. It looks like prayer not being the

first resort. But the last resort. It looks like worship

in here being just like this routine. It looks like

our mornings waking up and pulling out our phone rather

than opening up this. It looks like our convictions of

who God has called us to be just slowly kind

of softening around the edges. And eventually Verse six gives

us the tragic outcome of Solomon. It says, Solomon did

evil in the eyes of the Lord. He did not

follow the Lord completely. It might be one of the

most heartbreaking sentences in all of scripture, you know, because

the truth is is that Solomon still believed in God,

but he was no longer first in his life. But

that should create an issue for us. That means we

can go to church, That means we can stand in

these services. That means we can profess with our mouth

that God is first in our lives. But if God

doesn't sit first on the throne of our hearts, friends,

that's how a heart becomes divided. And Solomon's heart had

become divided. He said, God, I believe in you, but

everything about his life communicated something different. And Solomon begins

to grow old. And what we see about pleasure is

that his pleasure ultimately leads him into a life of idolatry.

Look at what it says in verses seven and eight

of chapter eleven. It says, on a hill east of Jerusalem,

Solomon built a high place for Chamash, the detestable god

of Moab, and for Molek, the detestable god of the Ammonites.

He did the same for all his foreign wives, who

burned incense and offered sacrifices to their god. This is

the same guy that like three weeks ago we read

about the way that he put all of his heart,

all of his attention, all of the finances into building

the temple of God, of making it the most beautiful, ornate, special,

spirit filled place in the history of the world. And

now the same guy is building altars to the idols

of his wives. And you know what I began to realize.

We are reading in the life of Solomon. We are

reading the progression of sin in a person's life. That's

what we're watching. We've like just watched it firsthand over

the course of this series. You know what, it starts,

as it always starts first, as we're just tolerating the

thing that's happening around us. Well, yeah, I married this

lady and she happens to have a different faith, and

you know, so it's what it is. You know, it's

like she's whatever, you know, like it's not my faith,

it's her faith. It's just, you know, like whatever. We

tolerate it. But then you know what we begin to do.

We begin to do something else with that sin. We

don't just tolerate it. We justify it. We begin to

justify why it's okay. We begin to justify how it's

not having an effect on our life. And then you

know what happens is that that thing that we begin

to tolerate and justify, all of a sudden, we begin

to participate in that sin. We begin to step into

it ourselves. And it doesn't take too long for the

ripple effect of sin to not just be something that

we ourselves are participating in, but friend, every single decision

you make has a ripple effect of consequences, and eventually

it's not just something that we participate in. It's something

that we promote with our lives. It begins to affect

those around us, It begins to affect our family, it

begins to affect our own faith, and all of a sudden.

It's not just something we're participating in. It's like our

life is promoting this thing that has taken over our life.

In church, we don't often realize what our sin is

doing in our life. We think that we're doing a

good job hiding it. Hear me, friends, you can convince me,

and you can fool me all you want. You can

have Pastor Die fooled. You can have Pastor Brandon fooled.

You can have your spouse fool you can have your

friends fooled. But hear me, say, Jesus knows when your

worship is divided, you're not fooling him. And there's gonna

be a day, friends. I mean, I just talked to

our youth students about this. There's gonna be a day

where we stand in front of Jesus himself and we're

not gonna be able to look him in the eyes

and say, I fooled you too. He's gonna know that

our worship has been divided. And so look what happens.

Verse nine says the Lord became angry with Solomon because

his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God

of Israel, who had appeared to him twice. Although he

had forbidden Saul and to follow other God. Solomon did

not keep the Lord's command. So the Lord said to Solomon,

since this is your attitude, and you have not kept

my covenant and my decrees which I commanded you, I

will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you and

give it to one of your subordinates. You know the

verse that stood out to me so much when I

read it was verse nine. It says the Lord became

angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away. He

is so interesting. When we think of the life of Solomon,

we think of all these things that he had. We

think of his possessions, we think of his wealth, We

think of all the pleasures that were at his disposal,

and we think of all the things that he had acquired.

We think of this great man of wisdom. We think

of this man of leadership stature. We think of this

man who created and built the Temple of God. Like

we think of all these great accomplishments that go with

his name, all the things that the world looks at

at a person and says, wow, look at that person.

But do you know what is interesting? God doesn't address

any of those things. God doesn't address his wealth. He

doesn't address his success, he doesn't address his wisdom, he

doesn't address his possessions. Do you know what God confronts

his heart? And I don't know who you are today,

but the thing that I felt so convicted by God

of is the truth that God loves you way too

much not to confront your divided heart. Do you know why?

It's because the heart determines the direction of our lives.

And when God looks at your life, he doesn't want

you to look back years from now and say I

wish I would have done it differently. And what do

we see God do in the life of Solomon, He

confronts his heart. The heart determines the direction of our lives.

That's why Matthew verse twenty one. Jesus later says in scripture,

where your treasure is there, your heart will also be.

You see, God knows that whatever captures your affection eventually

shapes your life, and He loves you way too much

to watch you just waste away your life on the

emptiness of pursuing pleasure. The story of Solomon forces us

to ask a really honest question, and the question that

I feel like we may need to ask ourselves. Is

where is pleasure shaping my life more than my love

for God. Maybe it's entertainment. I'll be really honest with you, man.

I sat in my living room this week as I

was just praying about this message. And you know, it's

not like I just sit and think about my message

all week. That'd be absurd and crazy. But I felt

the conviction of God as I was sitting there, scrolling

through my phone, and I felt this conviction of the

Lord saying, Morgan, I wish that you would pay as

much attention to me as you pay attention to this feed.

Hours of scrolling and streaming at ignoring the reality that

God's desires that we would spend the same amount of

time with Him as we do on these other things.

Maybe it's comfort that's shaping your life, structuring our lives

around conveniences instead of being obedient to the things that

God has actually called us to step into. Maybe it's success.

Maybe it's building up our little empire and our little kingdoms,

pursuing achievement, stepping up into the latter, pursuing this a

life of wealth and convenience, and all the while like

building our little worlds up on top of them solves

based on all the things that we've done and acquired

in our accomplishments, and all the while having a spiritual

life that is so dry. See, the problem, friends, isn't

that pleasure exists in our life. It's not the problem

at all. The problem is when pleasure becomes the king

of our hearts. I'm a very visual person, and so

this was the image that God gave me as I

was thinking about this. I was thinking about being stranded

on an island in the middle of nowhere. Doesn't that

sound just so fun? Sounds awesome for about twelve hours

and a beach chair. I just want you to imagine

being stranded in the middle of the ocean. I mean

miles and miles and miles of water as far as

the eye can see. It's like full on castaway Tom

Hanks Wilson, the volleyball, the whole nine yards, right. You're

just out in the middle, and sooner than later you're

out there, and eventually your thirst becomes unbearable. And so

what do you do. You you go and you go

to the water source that is available. You know it's

the wrong decision. You're a smart person. You understand that

drinking salt water isn't actually going to quench the thirst.

But you go to the source and you begin to

drink in what's available, and guess what. At first, it

feels like relief that water hits your mouth, and maybe

it feels good for a moment, but you know, saltwater

actually dehydrates your body more than it does good. And

the more that you drink, the thirstier you become. It

promises relief, it promises it feels like relief, it feels

like satisfaction. It promises satisfaction, but it actually is making

the problem worse. And friends, that's exactly how pleasure works.

When it becomes the center of our lives. Promise satisfaction,

it will promise relief, it will promise to fill that

void in our lives. But the more we drink, the

thirstier our soul becomes. And that's why Solomon, the man

who experienced more pleasure than anyone in history, would eventually

write in Ecclesiastes two nine, I became greater by far

than anyone in Jerusalem before me, and yet he still

concluded it was empty because our souls were never designed

to be satisfied by pleasure. They were designed to be

satisfied by God and God alone. And the world is

going to offer you and I a lot of salt water.

And it promises relief, it promises satisfaction. It might even

feel good for a moment. But friends hear me say,

nothing will quench the thirst of your life like the

love and the forgiveness and the blessing of knowing God.

It's why Jesus would later say in the Book of John.

He would literally tell his people in John seven, if

anyone is thirsty, don't go to the world, don't go

to the things that you so often chase for. Come

to me, and I will give you something that will

never leave you thirsty again. The world offers saltwater, but

friends hear me say, Jesus offers a living water that

will never run dry. And the only difference of you

and I and any other person is the question of

who do you go to to quench that thirst of

your soul? And I know that maybe you're here this

morning and you just say, Morgan, I have been going

to some things that have left me dry. They have

left me more thirsty than I was when I started.

Maybe you're here and you've never experienced a relationship with Jesus.

But you would say, man, I've been trying it my

own way. I've been going my own way. I've been

making my own choices, and man, I've been left in

a place where I feel like I have nothing. It

is empty. Can you just hear me say? God loves

you way too much to not confront your divided heart.

God loves you, he says, Come to me, all who

are weird and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Come to me and drink of what I have to offer,

and it will quench whatever thirst that you have in life.

So I want to invite you just to bow your

heads and close your eyes for a moment, because I

want to just give you an opportunity to respond. Maybe

you're here this morning, and you would say, Morgan, God

is speaking to me. I know the parts of my

life that I have run to, that I have depended on,

and they've left me empty. But this morning, I say, Jesus,

I want you. I want to know you. I want

the pleasure of being with you. And if that's you

here this morning, would you just do something really quick.

Would you just lift up your hand wherever you are

in this room. If that's you here this morning. Lift

your hand high and Usher is going to hand you

a card right now. This is you saying Jesus, I

want to know you. I want a relationship with you.

That is you first, you centered. I'm not choosing my

own desires. I'm not choosing the way of the world.

I'm choosing to live off of what you can provide

for my life. Would you do me a favorite this morning?

Would you stand all over this room. We didn't do

this in first service, but man, I listened to this

worship song that we sang just a minute ago, and

there's nothing else that makes more sense for us to

respond to a message like this and say, Jesus, you're

my everything. You have control of my heart. And so

maybe you're here this morning. I want to give you

an opportunity to just come forward. If you're here and

you need to say that with your life this morning.

I'm not going to count down to three. I'm just

going to invite you to make your way forward if

you need to say, Jesus, you sit on the throne

of my life.

God.

All of my affection and my attention is for you

and you alone. I just want you to step out

of your seat. I want you to come forward. I

want your life to be a demonstration of a life

that says Jesus, I choose you. So wherever you are,

maybe you made that decision this morning. Maybe you just

need to redirect your heart to that place and say, God,

I want to worship you with my life. If that's you,

I want you to step out of your seat this morning.

I want to worship to God who has the focus

and the soul of our life. Let me pray, Father, God,

I pray over our church right now. God, I pray

God that you would be on the throne of our life.

God. That Father.

When we look our life God, it is not dependent

on the world around us.

God.

We're not going to salt water. We're going to living water. God.

We're gonna live off of what you provide for our lives.

And God, we say, there is nothing else for my life.

You are my one thing. You are my heart's desire,

You are the affection of my heart. You have all

the attention in my life. And so Jesus we say

this morning, we choose you with our life in Jesus' name, Amen.

On anyone else, not me, anything.

You are.

We choose you, Jesus, anyone else.

Anything you you on any I.

Don't need anything else.

You are about you are.

It's not all they're not want anyone else.

I don't need anything else. You are you. I don't

want anyone else.

We gonna need anything else. You are about.

You are you are You know you are.

You are you are you are you are about you

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Where isten? Where listening?

Listen?

Cheese, thank you cheese.

You laid on the seal's laid on the seal.

Dird.

We leave it here right now, in this place. God,

we give it all to you. Fill us Jesus your

mighty name.

We pray. Amen.

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wondering what's next, we have What's Next page with resources

and next steps that you can follow. Aside from that,

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a blessed week.