Sermon
Pastor Brodie Kalamen | Honour Is The Evidence | March 8th, 2026
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Transcript
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Wow.
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At first I thought she was saying that as she starts complaining, Mel starts complaining, she needs to leave, but she's talking about her young one, and that's okay.
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You know that this Sunday is recognized as one of the most difficult Sundays for a preacher to preach because of the one-hour sleep difference.
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But that is not gonna happen today, is it right?
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That's right.
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Turn to your neighbor and say, I'm gonna be vocal today.
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If he says something I agree with, I'm gonna agree with him.
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Says something I disagree with, I'm gonna agree with him.
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That's right.
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Come on.
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It's a tough, tough Sunday uh for uh that's what they've they've actually acknowledged in terms of uh pastors across the country that are like, oh, getting ready for uh March 8th, and uh time change always makes Sunday a unique Sunday morning.
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Uh but I've I just felt like the presence of God was in the room, and that's so exciting.
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That's so good.
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Uh let's read from Mark chapter 6 today, uh, from our text.
Mark 6 chapter mention
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It says, Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples.
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And when the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard it were amazed.
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Where did this man get these things?
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They asked.
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What where uh what's this wisdom that's been given to him?
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What are these remarkable miracles he's performing?
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Isn't this the carpenter?
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Isn't this Mary's son, and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon?
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Aren't his sisters here with us?
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And they took offense at him.
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And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor except in his own hometown, among his relatives and in his own home.
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He could not do any miracles there except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.
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Interesting story.
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Interesting message from Jesus and example at that point.
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It reminds me uh of uh a story that's really uh connected to me is uh a few years ago, uh there was a fascinating social experiment, and it took place in Washington, D.C.
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And uh it was during rush hour, one of the busiest stations in the city.
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A man walked in and he was wearing jeans, a ball cap, a hoodie, and nothing about him really stood out.
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He looked like any other street musician would have looked.
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You might pass by him without noticing, and he opened his violin case, he pulled out his instrument, and he began to play.
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For 45 minutes, he played six of the most beautiful and technically uh difficult classical pieces that were ever written.
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And the sound was incredible, as you can imagine, in the subway.
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The tone was rich, the music filled the whole station, and thousands of people stood, walked by him, right past him, and some slowed down just for a moment, a few people tossed change into his violin case, and most people didn't even look him up.
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And when the experiment ended, the musician had earned a whopping$32 for his work.
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Here's the twist that violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest violinists in the world.
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And two nights previous, he had played to a sold-out black tie concert hall in Boston where tickets were above the average price, and the violin he was playing alone was worth three and a half million dollars.
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He was the same musician, it was the same instrument, it was the same music, but the environment had totally changed.
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People didn't recognize the value of what was in front of them, and so they treated something extraordinary as something that was simply ordinary.
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Now, if we think about that for a moment, it was something world-class, it was something beautiful, it was something rare, it was something valuable.
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Thousands of people walked right by it, and not because uh not because it wasn't valuable, but because they just couldn't recognize it.
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And that's exactly what happened with Jesus in his own hometown, and I would suggest it's something that's happening in the churches in North America, and I pray that it doesn't happen in our church, that in moments like this we are amazed and in wonder, and we don't just stand and sing songs, we don't just close our eyes and just wait for the moment to pass, but we engage and we honor to draw from God the extraordinary and keep it from becoming ordinary.
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Father, we thank you this morning for your word today.
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We thank you for the worship, how it prepared your presence, Lord, and you brought in your presence to this place, and now your word, it becomes that that word that uh that will solidify in our heart, Lord, the work that you intend to do in each and every believer.
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And so, Father, today we open up our hearts to hear, we open up our hearts to receive today, and to listen to your word, Lord, to those nuggets of truth, Lord, through your word that will are intended to change lives and bring transformation to us.
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We thank you, Lord.
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Amen.
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In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus is returning to Nazareth, and it's the place where he grew up.
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And the world, uh, the people there were gathering around him, of course.
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They knew of him as a child.
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Uh they see his power, they see his eloquence in his words and how he's demonstrating the message in the synagogues on the regular basis there.
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And they instead of showing deep respect to him, they began to identify him.
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Uh, isn't this the carpenter's son?
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Isn't this just young Jesus?
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Don't we know his mom, Mary?
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What about his sisters?
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We're familiar with his sisters, aren't we?
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Like he's just a normal person.
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And it was at that point the Bible said something very uh shocking.
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It says they took offense at him.
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So it went from dishonoring in terms of they didn't show value to something that they considered familiar and ordinary to the point where they actually became offended with who Jesus was.
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And it should stop us in our tracks because Jesus actually said a prophet is not without honor except in his own hometown, where familiarity finds its place in our heart.
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It's a subtle process.
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And the scripture says this he could not do any miracles there except lay his hands on a few sick people.
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And if you think about that, this is Jesus, this is the Son of God, he is the miracle worker, and the Bible says he could not do many miracles there.
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And this is different in that he would not.
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His heart could be intending to, he his desire would be to do miracles, but the reality was he could not do any miracles because of the lack of honor and recognition.
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He just could not do it.
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And so I look at this portion of scripture and I see uh the value of honor, and I see how people can have it in abundance or people can remove it and and uh minimize it, and it becomes scarce in their life.
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And today I want to share about the importance of valuing and carrying an abundance of honor.
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What do you say, an abundance of honor?
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It is the receipt to the fear of God.
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If you fear God, you value God, you will honor, you'll honor the things that He honors, He'll honor, you'll value the things that He values, you'll care for the things that He cares for.
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And so when we look at honor, we recognize that dishonor limits God's ability to actually move in our lives.
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It's not that God doesn't want to, it's that he cannot because of a lack of honor.
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When we fear God, we set the environment of deep recognition and deep value and deep honor for him.
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We learned last week what a great message by Pastor Brian, where he shared about the importance of recognizing what fearing God actually means.
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It's not about a terror of God, that God is going to come after you in some way or trembling in panic, but a biblical fear of God is different.
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To fear God means to carry this spirit of honor.
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If we, it means that we refuse to treat sacred things as common.
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And when the fear of God is present in your life, you actually walk around with this culture, uh like a culture of honor around you.
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You honor God, you honor his people, you honor the church, you honor your your children, you're honoring your parents and your grandparents, you honor the dignified and the undignified, you honor because it's a it's what you carry.
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I I don't honor because even a person is worthy of honor, and I honor because I am an honorable person.
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I honor because honor flows out of me.
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And when it flows out of me, it provides an environment where God can do miracles for me and in my life.
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They saw him, the people saw Jesus as the carpenter's son.
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I'm sure many of them saw him as just a little kid who was running around in the village, and we knew that nothing good comes out of Nazareth.
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Like it's just like, oh, he's just Jesus.
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How could we ever expect something great and grand from this boy?
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But familiarity turned something sacred into something common.
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And so I think about worship.
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From the moment you came onto this property, you chose the environment that you would walk in with.
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From the moment you woke up, I'm just saying my engagement with you comes from this point on the property.
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From the moment you park your car and you come to the front door, from the moment you uh you open, you know, you come in, you greet the greeters, from the moment you sit at your chair, the moment you engage in worship, you stand, you engage, you connect with the word, the way you're listening and engaging, it's a point of honor.
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And honor needs to be restored in our life, in the church, in our society.
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I look at the society and I watch and I see how honor is just like honor towards police officers and first responders, honor towards government officials, honor towards other nationalities and different culture groups.
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How do we learn to honor again?
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So, what God is doing is something that's restorative.
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If there's going to be a revival and a renewal and transformation in society, he's going to begin with honor.
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And so I have a video here I want to share with you.
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It's coming from uh a place that is often forgotten and often uh probably no one's ever heard of before.
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It's in northern Quebec, and it's a community where where drug abuse was prevalent and crime rates were high, and the suicide rate within young people was coming to an unsustainable level, like it was just impacting the community.
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And it's uh it's known as the Mistisney uh area.
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It's a name it's a First Nations place, and uh this is what God is doing in that place.
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I'd like to share with you this video.
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You can feel such heaviness in the community at first, you can feel darkness.
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But now when you enter the community, you can just feel peace.
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Hi, I'm Patricia Gray.
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I'm 14 years old, I'm feeling good, you're gonna so much for me that he pulled me out of that.
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He pulled me away from depression, and you pulled me away from food.
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I have been changing a lot of my fruit and mine as well, and my family.
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My three daughters got safe, got baptized.
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I just I was the first one that got baptized.
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Hi there, my name is Trudy Longchap, and I'm from Nimesca.
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Uh the Bibles are so important for us because we have new youth that have given their lives to the Lord just recently.
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Uh, within the past two weeks, it's just been um a lot of souls being saved.
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Even after services, after churches, we still have calls going to homes, to homes.
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You're still being free, and we still have work to do out here.
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People were changed, people being delivered, being set free, and those are the things that we have to join.
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Jesus Christ, he was your father.
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For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.
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First John chapter 2 verse 15.
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Do not love the world.
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If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not within him.
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The police wrote that they had had like really minimal calls since this revival started.
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You know, we have this fool, can you have living waters here?
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Can you have the Baptist church that still young people going there?
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One more time.
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But I'll tell you this: that when a nation and people decide to honor God and decide to choose honor, all of a sudden it doesn't matter about fancy lights or screens or smoke or what kind of city you live in.
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It doesn't have to be the most beautiful city in all of Canada.
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Hey, we're living in Kelowna.
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God can work where what God looks for and what God is looking for in terms of his place to work is going to be in a place where there is honor.
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And where there's honor, God can do miracles.
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So God goes to a place, the Misnisni uh tribe or uh location there, and they God works there because there was a return to his heart.
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And they first had a group of a hundred students uh for prayer, and now they had to rent out their uh main Coliseum for a whole week with held two thousand up to two thousand people worshiping and praising God for the whole week.
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It keeps going and going and going, and God is continuing to do a work in that location.
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Kids are going to school with a backpack in one hand and a Bible in the other.
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And they're moving to school, they're having Bible studies and staying out in minus 26 degrees after service where they close the doors, they're in a circle outside in the parking lot, praying, and and and because God actually shows up because there's a place of honor for him in that location.
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We honor God, and when God, when when honor is restored, and the fear of God is what restores honor, it's a recognition of him, it's an honor of him.
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It provides, God provides uh miraculous events in our life.
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So today, just for a moment here, I want to talk to you about building this culture of honor.
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Honor flows best when it's flowing in all directions.
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When you're walking in a place of honor, you're it's flowing in every direction.
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And when honor is flowing in every direction, powerful things happen.
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God moves, there's unity.
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People, families, children flourish.
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So the first place we honor is we honor up.
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And that just doesn't mean honoring God, it means honoring the people who are in authority, that God has placed in authority over us.
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How many of you know that God has placed you in a home with a mother and father?
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And the scripture says, honor your mom and dad, right?
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And if you do, you'll live long on the earth.
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Because I can't imagine what happens if you dishonor them.
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But what happens is we give honor where honor is due.
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And so this is a a perfect example.
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And some people struggle with this uh action of honor in their own home because they're like, well, the family that I'm in don't deserve the honor, don't deserve my honor.
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And I when I look at scripture, I struggle because I see examples like David and Saul, where David is literally being chased by Saul through caves and ditches and across deserts, and he's hiding from Saul, and in the process, he literally has to uh get to a point where he gets close enough to actually kill his pursuer.
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And instead, all his guys are like, you can do it, David, finally, you know, put an end to this chase.
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And David decides I'm not going to do anything because I realize that God actually has placed him in my life.
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That honor isn't necessarily agreement, it's just recognizing God's hand.
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And when God places someone in authority in your life, it you have to choose a place of honor.
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It doesn't mean you have to agree, but it means you have to come to a place of honoring and even being honorable in disagreement.
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You know that you can be honoring and still disagree.
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Joseph, sold into slavery by his brothers, falsely accused by Potiphar's wife, thrown into prison, yet when Joseph stood before Pharaoh, he didn't show bitterness or arrogance or rebellion.
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Instead, he honored Pharaoh and served with excellence.
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He had every right to speak up against uh Potiphar, hold back the The interpretation of the dream that he had had.
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But instead, he honored Pharaoh in that place.
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And Joseph didn't honor Pharaoh because Pharaoh was righteous.
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Joseph honored Pharaoh because Joseph feared God.
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And he had the call in his life to actually honor those in authority because of his um his honor towards God.
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The fear of God actually determines how we actually treat people.
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I think about this in terms of even modern sports, where you have a student who's on a sports team and a sports championship team, and you'll they'll always have one thing in common.
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The best player still honors the coach.
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When you look at a sports team, even though you may be the best player on that team, you even looked at Michael Jordan and his coach Phil, he was still honoring his coach.
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Honor those who are in authority.
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And so I don't want to allow dishonor to find a way into my heart at any point in time.
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Dishonor will criticize what honor carries for a person.
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And when we fear God, we choose honor.
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And this can be tricky because how many of you know that sometimes uh your boss or uh politicians or leaders in our country don't do the things that are righteous.
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So you gotta speak up.
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It doesn't mean silence, but you can be silent and speak up in an honor with an honorable spirit that still honors God in the process.
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Because the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and wisdom provides blessing, and blessing provides riches in your life where there I'm struggling with the sound here.
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Is it just my ears?
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No, it's not.
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I wonder if I can should take the other mic.
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Is that better?
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Check?
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Yeah, okay, we'll do that.
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Check, check.
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Let's give a hand for our sound guys back there.
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Yeah.
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Everywhere Jesus went, we honor up.
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We honor those who are in authority.
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But when we honor, we can also honor in different directions.
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Not just up, we honor, but we honor down.
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And this comes when we look at society and we honor the children.
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When I look at Jesus and how he modeled honor in his life, he honored children, he honored women, he honored the poor, the sick, he honored the leper, the adulterer.
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He showcased honor towards tax collectors.
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How many of you find it this time of year?
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That's a difficult one.
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It's like, oh yeah, you want more money?
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What are you gonna do with it?
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Everywhere Jesus went, he demonstrated an honor, and honor is critical for there to be transformation.
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And that's why I'm I'm I'm bringing it to light today because as a church, we will be limited by the degree of honor that we carry.
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Honor must be not just alive in us personally, privately, but must be demonstrated in us.
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How do you honor the children?
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Honor people in society where uh where they need to be lifted up and where people need to be carried.
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Jesus looked at every individual and he saw them as people who are carrying the image of the Father.
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And if we want to see God move in our city, we need to demonstrate that honor, showcase that honor to those who are valuable in our society.
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And that means to your server, that means to uh the people that you engage with when you're shopping.
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Honor, honor, honor.
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Living with that culture and that value of honor.
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Oftentimes we honor when we think that the honor is going to be reciprocated, but the hardest time to honor is when we know it's not going to be reciprocated.
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And we continue to honor in the process.
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And we, I'm sure we can all we all know people in our life who aren't good at honoring back, but that doesn't change the fact that we become we remain people of honor.
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Romans chapter 2, 11 says this God does not show favoritism or partiality, God does not show it.
Romans 2 chapter mention
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So in we have to be the people who actually honor as part of our general, uh our general expression, honoring.
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Uh, one of the businesses in the states, uh, I it's come to Canada a little bit, and we can all just pray it does.
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Um it just sticks around a little longer than it has, is Chick-fil-A.
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How many of you know Chick-fil-A?
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Oh man, Chick-fil-A is a great place to go.
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If you're ever traveling and you get to go to a Chick-fil-A, get in there.
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Uh, a number of years ago, uh, when they were doing a study on workplace, on healthy workplaces, uh, they went to different companies to actually discover why they became successful, and they looked at the leadership uh structure, they looked at compensation, they looked at their business strategies and their marketing.
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But what they found is that the businesses that were most successful were built businesses that valued their people, that actually didn't always look up but looked down and said, Hey, how can we benefit the people who are working for us?
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And they valued, they listened, they engaged, they encouraged, they created environments where those individuals could find success.
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And and one of them uh became chick was Chick-fil-A that they studied, and the founder believed in the business model that um if you honor God and honored people, your business would find success.
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So what he did is he shut uh the Chick-fil-A from operating on every Sunday.
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Chick-fil-A goes closed on Sundays in order to honor God and to honor the families, realizing that the families want needed a break to actually be with their families, be with their kids, do other things together, and engage um with time with one another.
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And what happened is that they became one of the most successful restaurant chains in the world.
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When everyone was saying, no, you gotta go seven days a week, you gotta be that company that's running 24-7.
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They said, No, we're gonna honor God and honor the people.
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This is what the people need.
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And when when a culture of honor is present, people actually respond.
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And they respond well.
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Great leaders don't come into a place and crush it with authority, but they come into it and they look at ways they can honor others that they're working shoulder to shoulder with that are in their space.
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So a good father comes in and he says, he looks at his kids.
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How do I come under you and support you?
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How do I come under you and bless you?
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How do I come under you and promote you forward?
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Even Jesus said that of us.
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He said, Greater things will you do in my name than I've even done.
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I want more for you than I was even able to do.
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The honor was there for everyone.
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So we honor up, but we also honor down and we see potential in one another.
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We encourage growth, we speak life, we celebrate the wins that each one has.
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Uh, like I love, I didn't see you guys before, but our short-term missions team, I know Josh is back.
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You made it back from Mexico.
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Yeah, I see.
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Uh Bill, Bill was back today, and some of the team members.
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Man, they were they did just such a fantastic job in Mexico while we were down there, and uh bless the churches, and we're just looking forward to a report when it comes, when it becomes available.
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I think when did you guys get in?
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Friday, Saturday?
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Saturday, yeah, a day late?
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A day late, yeah.
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So we're so glad you guys made it back.
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When the fear of God is present, leaders recognize the value of every person.
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But we don't just honor up, and this is our value here at KCC.
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Honor.
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We honor up, we honor down, and we honor towards one another.
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We honor all around.
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And it's not just about honor from uh others or honor up or down, we honor one another as teammates.
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Honoring means that we lift up one another, and the strongest uh groups and the strongest uh churches are those who are looking to benefit with one benefit each other, aligned with each other.
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So when there's a culture of honor again, when God comes to visit a place, and I think that's why God moved so easily in the Misnisni people, is that they have a a culture that honors the grandparents, honors the parents, honors the children, honors the men and women, and when you honor one another, God has an easy way of actually coming in and blessing a place.
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And so we want to be like that type of place and says, Lord, we're open and we're open for your blessing, we're open for your movement, we're open for your miracles.
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Don't let us be this church that you can do just but a few miracles here.
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Lay hands on but a few sick people.
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We want you to do signs and wonders, we want you to overcome uh this place and overcome our city and and shift it in ways that we can't even imagine.
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There was a team in uh an Olympic rowing team, and it's uh it's kind of a historic story about a group from Washington, the University of Washington, and they entered into a rowing competition with uh with kind of the the underdog title.
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And uh there were eight young guys and they had one boat, one mission, and the rowing is just like a fascinating sport because uh all you can see is the back of the person's head in front of you.
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And before you guys are like, rowing is just rowing.
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If many of you have ever been in a canoe, I I've watched some of you in a canoe, and if you go to youth camp and they pull out the canoes and the kids get in, the first thing they start doing is paddling in circles because they're not rowing in unison.
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Well, these guys learned how to work with one another.
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Literally, the time and the moment that the paddle hits the water, the glide length, the the beat, the cadence of the row, they learned from one another how to row as a team together.
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They honored one another and each other's role.
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That even when it came to a point where they couldn't see ahead, all they could see is the back of the head of the person in front of them.
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They were moving in unison together.
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And when they did that, the boat glided across the water, and actually their team spirit, their unity between one another allowed them to win that Olympic gold.
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Not because one was better than the other, stronger than the other, not because they had one great rower on their team of eight, but that they learned how to row in synchrony.
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That's what honor looks like.
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Unity is not always uniformity.
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How many of you know that we're different than each other?
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And that's part of this next steps class after church today is being able to identify leadership style, identify your spiritual gift and your personal passions.
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Each of us are created uniquely uniquely and have a sweet spot in our life that says, God, you've engineered me a particular way.
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Not all of us have been called to sing.
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Not all of us have been called to to play the drums or to play an instrument.
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Not all of us have been called to uh to do the the things that are to teach or to s uh to um to pray, even like in terms of like prayers of faith and prayers of uh prophetic prayers.
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We're not all called to do the same thing, but some of us are called to do that, and so we work together with each other to actually build um the church.
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God has created us all uniquely, and that unity is not even thinking the same, but it's rowing in the same direction, it's moving together in the same spirit.
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So dishonor will divide us, but honor actually multiplies what God can do with us.
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And here's the deep truth that honor is not just about having good relationships, like, yeah, if I honor, my life will go smoothly because I'll just be at peace with everybody.
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But that's not just the point.
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Honor actually creates an environment for God to move.
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And when you honor God, it means you're placing Him first, you're fearing God, and when you fear God, it's the beginning of wisdom, and wisdom breeds blessing, and blessing breeds prosperity in your life.
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And we're not just talking about financial prosperity or blessings that way, we're talking about health and life and relational richness, and and the blessings that don't uh cause sorrow to enter into your life, but cause you to experience trueness of life, joy, peace, gentleness, kindness, like where you walk with like an attitude of of of uh joy in your heart.
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I I've heard of some people, they get saved, and I love hearing, I'm like, oh, you got saved.
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You made a decision to to follow Jesus.
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And over time, I'm like, what has been the area in your life where God has transformed the most?
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And some people are saying, well, there was a point where I was just quite angry all the time.
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How many of you know that?
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It's like, now I don't get angry as much.
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I used to wake up, I'd feel depressed.
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Now I'm not depressed anymore.
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Now I'm waking up with a sense of encouragement and direction and purpose for my day and for my future.
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Some people say, I came to Christ and all of a sudden my language shifted.
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Instead of cursing, it got replaced with blessing.
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That is the life that brings richness to each of us.
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And that happens because we fear God, we honor Him first in our life, and when we do that, our whole culture, the whole environment shifts and changes.
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Would you uh come up, worship a team?
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And as they're coming, just honor makes way for this blessing.
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Honor makes way for it in our homes, honor makes way for it with our families, honor makes way for it in our business, honor makes way for it in our uh relationships with one another, but it requires us to take uh God's the sacred moments, taking the sacred things and not making them common.
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And so would you just stand with me this morning?
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I truly believe this, and uh I know it's something that you can't just like flip a switch and you just become an honorable person.
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How many of you wish life was like that?
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You gotta practice it, you gotta work it.
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And when I look at the life of Jesus, I see his expression of this with every individual, and the way he moved, and the way he talked, and the way he walked, and his gesture, and his heartbeat, and we don't just honor those who can reciprocate honor back, easy honor, but we honor, we honor God in the process, we honor the things that God honors, we honor the people who carry his image, the people who carry his value.
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It doesn't matter where we go or who we're with, we walk with that spirit of honor in our heart towards God first.
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So, Father, today, would you give us your heart?
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Would you give us your spirit?
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Would you give us Lord your presence?
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May that honor, Lord, be rich in us, rich in us, Lord.
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Fill us, Lord, with your heartbeat for the lost.
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You said you looked on over the crowds of people and you saw them as sheep without a shepherd.
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You didn't despise the people who are lost, you didn't tell them to get back in line, but Father, you began to honor those who were just lost, and you began to pray for rescue, pray for harvest hands, pray for those who would come out and reach the lost and bring them home.
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Father, we honor today, Lord, we honor you first and foremost.
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We want your heart, we want your direction, we want your uh spirit, Lord, to be alive in us.
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In Jesus' name.
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In Jesus' name, Lord, would you create a space in our life, Lord, that is full of your heart, Lord, for the people in our community, the people in our church, the people in our family, Lord, that honor would be rich and honor would flow from this place, Lord.
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Uh just flow from this place, Lord, into our neighborhoods and into our city and into our hall, Lord, that this would be known as a house of honor because Lord, we fear you first.
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We honor you first today, in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name.
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Hallelujah.
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If that's you today, you want that honor, would you just raise your your hand today?
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I want to walk in that spirit of honor.
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I want to walk and create that culture of honor in my life and in my home and in my in my community, within my friendship groups, in my place of ministry.
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I want to I want to create a culture of honor.
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Lord, forgive us for times where we have have stepped in our own right, Lord, and and dishonored, Lord.
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We ask for forgiveness, Lord, for the dishonor that has been in our heart, the words that have been said in our heart, Lord, towards people and positions uh that you have placed in our life, Lord, teach us how to walk honorably before men and before you.
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We ask this, Lord, in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Before we close today, if anyone's here today, with every head bowed, eye closed, just between you and God, you're sensing today that that tug in your heart towards Jesus and towards him, and you sense how his heart for you has been good and been gracious and been loving, and you he's pulling you close, and you've never made a decision to actually embrace him as your Lord and your Savior.
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You felt the invitation, you've rejected it.
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But today you're saying yes to God, yes to Jesus, yes to him today.
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I want to pray a prayer with you along with the church.
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Just raise your hand really nice and tall if that's you today.
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If anyone's in this room, I'll see your hand nice and tall, nice and tall.
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I want we want to pray together with you.
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As a church, let's just pray this prayer together.
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Father God, I accept today the invitation for salvation.
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I believe that you died on the cross for my sins, and you rose again to give me new life.
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I confess that I am a sinner, and I need your grace, I need your forgiveness.
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Save my soul.
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I welcome you today as my Lord and Savior.
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In Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Let's give them a round of applause today.
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Amen.
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We're gonna have a team up front who's gonna be able to pray with you if you have any type of prayer requests.
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You just need people to stand along with you in prayer.
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We wanna pray together as well as we have communion on uh on my right.
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Uh, for anyone who's interested in taking communion this morning.
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God bless you, God bless you, God bless you.
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Walk out in honor, amen.