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  1. Welcome to Free Life Chapel, where we

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  16. >> How many of you, you know how to read

  17. blueprints?

  18. How many of you are like me and when you

  19. see blueprints, it just looks like a

  20. really cool coloring sheet?

  21. That's how it is for me. This This just

  22. looks like a grown man's coloring book.

  23. That's all. This is the blueprints, some

  24. of them, for this property that you're

  25. on right now for Free Life Chapel. is

  26. right here. THAT BEFORE YOU EVER got the

  27. chance to sit here, before we ever had

  28. an opportunity to worship, before there

  29. was ever a message that was preached,

  30. before there was ever an aroma cafe

  31. drink that was purchased, before there

  32. was ever a handshake that was given,

  33. there were lines that were put on a page

  34. in order to talk about how do we

  35. maintain

  36. a structural integrity

  37. to where no matter what happens in life,

  38. this building will be able to stand.

  39. These lines that were on the page, they

  40. they determined where weight would be

  41. carried, where where pressure would be

  42. absorbed and what would hold it whenever

  43. the storms of life would hit.

  44. >> Now, here's the thing about some

  45. blueprints. It It could be cool to have

  46. them,

  47. but it's not really smart to not use

  48. them. Imagine if imagine if the people

  49. who built this building, they did

  50. whatever they felt like doing. Even

  51. though they had the blueprints right

  52. next to them the whole time,

  53. we probably wouldn't be standing here. I

  54. I I don't know how much it would be

  55. standing. I I'd be scared uh to to be in

  56. this building. I'm glad it's the house

  57. of the Lord, but I need you to go buy

  58. some schematics. Let's go by some

  59. blueprint. Like, don't don't play with

  60. my life.

  61. >> Do that as you want to. Not not my life.

  62. structure,

  63. these lines,

  64. these blueprints. It did not limit this

  65. building. It actually made it possible.

  66. And there's times in our life, times in

  67. my life where I have viewed structure or

  68. I have viewed the ways of God as being

  69. things that limit me when they actually

  70. provide me the opportunity to live life

  71. to the fullest, to live life the way

  72. that God designed to do it, his

  73. blueprints. Because here's the reality.

  74. These lines did not draw themselves.

  75. >> It took a designer. It took an

  76. architect. It took somebody who wasn't

  77. thinking of what was in front of them,

  78. but had a bigger picture, a bigger

  79. perspective as to what was going on.

  80. That's who made this. And that's the

  81. same thing that happens in your life, in

  82. my life. See, the average person when we

  83. walk when I walk into a room or I walk

  84. into a building, I'm looking at your

  85. paint color.

  86. >> I want to see how dirty are them

  87. baseboards.

  88. Are they as dirty as mine? I want

  89. Hey, look. I'm only half Puerto Rican.

  90. We only wipe down half of the

  91. baseboards.

  92. Get that later.

  93. I look at I look at the lighting

  94. fixtures. I I look at the things that

  95. are seen.

  96. But an architect doesn't just look at

  97. what people will see. They look at the

  98. integrity. They look at what we would

  99. call the heart of a human. But they look

  100. at the internal structure. Can this

  101. support the beauty that it's going to

  102. get wrapped in? Because what good is a

  103. building if it's beautiful, but if it

  104. can't stand?

  105. >> What good is it to be wrapped and look

  106. lavish, but it can't withhold the weight

  107. and the challenges of life? And so, the

  108. designer, the architect, his goal isn't

  109. for it to just look pretty, although

  110. they make that happen. And his goal is

  111. to make sure that it lives better than

  112. how it even looks. This is why the Bible

  113. says this in Proverbs 3:es 5-6. I'd love

  114. for you to read the highlighted parts

  115. with me. Says this, "With all of your

  116. heart, you must trust the Lord and not

  117. your own judgment. Always let him lead

  118. you and he will clear the road for you

  119. to follow."

  120. If we needed a designer to build this

  121. building, then you better believe you

  122. and I need a designer for us to build

  123. our life.

  124. >> This life is above my pay grade for me

  125. to just do whatever it is that I feel.

  126. This life has too much impact. There's

  127. too much collateral damage that can

  128. happen if all I did was what I thought

  129. was right. If I lived my life based off

  130. of my feelings, my emotions, or my

  131. understanding, no matter how good or

  132. wise you are, you're not going to be

  133. able to carry that weight. It's above

  134. us. And so, I don't want to build my

  135. life based off of what I can figure out.

  136. I want to trust the one who sees the

  137. whole structure cuz the designer sees

  138. what you and I cannot see. So, don't

  139. limit. I don't want to limit my life to

  140. my understanding. I want to maximize my

  141. life to the person who sees and knows

  142. everything, who has never once been

  143. surprised. That's who I want to take in

  144. to my life. There's a there's a verse

  145. that I want us to focus on that, man, if

  146. I'm going to be honest, I've been

  147. wrestling this with this verse for a

  148. couple years because I did not like it

  149. because it punches me between the eyes.

  150. And so, I didn't haven't really even

  151. known how to really express this verse.

  152. And so all I can do is express what I

  153. feel like Holy Spirit has been speaking

  154. and talking to me. Paul says this in 1

    1 Corinthians 6:12

  155. Corinthians 6:12.

  156. All things are lawful for me, but not

  157. all things are helpful.

  158. >> All things are lawful for me, but I will

  159. not be dominated by anything.

  160. Paul, he's writing this letter to the

  161. church of Corenth. And and as he's

  162. writing to them, they they they were

  163. they were pagans before this. They they

  164. they believed in a lot of different

  165. gods. Uh they they lived life to please

  166. themselves. So whatever felt good,

  167. that's exactly what they would do. Uh

  168. sounds like my life without Jesus. I'm

  169. just going to do whatever I think I feel

  170. cuz why not? It's a selfish. It's

  171. whatever is self-gratifying. So Paul's

  172. writing this message to them and a lot

  173. of scholars will say whenever he's using

  174. the phrase of all things are lawful for

  175. me. That was something that the

  176. Corinthians used to say that the church

  177. in Corinth used to say the people of

  178. that time that all things are lawful for

  179. me. And here's what they were doing.

  180. They were misusing God's idea of grace.

  181. That because I am under the grace of God

  182. all things are lawful for me. Because

  183. where sin abounds, grace does that much

  184. more abound. Right? And so they were

  185. using it as an excuse not to live to his

  186. standards, but to proclaim his blessings

  187. over their life without the standards of

  188. God's word inside of their life. So then

  189. Paul, he begins to reframe their

  190. mindset. He says this, uh, if it masters

  191. you, it's not freedom.

  192. If it dominate, if you can't have it and

  193. not operate, then it's not freedom. I

  194. just got challenged by this a couple

  195. weeks ago. I was looking on social media

  196. or a couple days ago and I saw this this

  197. pastor that was speaking and he was

  198. talking about, man, we we talk about

  199. things that dominate our life and like

  200. the things that like no, I don't want

  201. anybody to know of. I got convicted of

  202. how many times have I said don't talk to

  203. me before I have a cup of coffee.

  204. It's funny how we allow even allow even

  205. the smallest things to dominate me. So

  206. now my coffee determines if I'm able to

  207. give people the honor that the word of

  208. God says for me to give. So now my mood

  209. determines the lens that I'm looking

  210. through social media. So I no longer

  211. know how to be loving to people because

  212. of something that has happened. No, Paul

  213. Paul was saying this love grace. Embrace

  214. the grace. Embrace the grace. It is

  215. something that you and I need every day

  216. of our life. But don't abuse and don't

  217. attempt to manipulate it because if it

  218. masters you, it's not freedom. And then

  219. Paul goes on to say this that you and I

  220. were bought by a price. WHICH MEANS THAT

  221. YOU AND I, we don't belong to impulse

  222. anymore. We we don't belong to the first

  223. thing that comes to my mind is exactly

  224. what I have to say. I just couldn't hold

  225. it back. I just had to. No, I didn't.

  226. Because if I just had to, that means

  227. that it owned me. Now I'm a slave to

  228. what? My thoughts, to my actions, to my

  229. mouth. I have to check me. AND THAT'S

  230. WHY I DIDN'T LIKE THIS VERSE.

  231. >> We all love everybody else being held

  232. accountable.

  233. >> I don't like being held accountable.

  234. >> It doesn't feel good. IT DOESN'T SOUND

  235. GOOD, but it lives good. And God is more

  236. important with how we live than how we

  237. just sound when it comes to life. And so

  238. here here's what Paul was saying. You

  239. don't belong to impulse anymore. You

  240. don't belong to culture anymore. You

  241. belong to Christ. Which means this. Not

  242. everything that is available is

  243. beneficial.

  244. >> Not everything that's available to me is

  245. beneficial to me. One of the I've said

  246. this, one of one of the hardest

  247. decisions that I find myself having to

  248. make right now as a dad, y'all. I got a

  249. four-year-old and a two and a

  250. halfyear-old. They did not I don't have

  251. a license for those kids.

  252. >> Didn't nobody teach me what I I learned

  253. that I got taught some things, but there

  254. was no cl parenting class that I took.

  255. The hospital just gave me them kids and

  256. said, "Good luck."

  257. Like, y'all know how crazy I am. And

  258. they mama real crazy. like you just

  259. going to give it to us?

  260. I find that the hardest decisions that I

  261. make in life are not just between right

  262. and wrong. It's between better and best.

  263. >> It's hard that not everything that's

  264. available for me is actually beneficial

  265. to me. I remember a conversation I had

  266. with Pastor Scott talking about the

  267. structure of this building. I said, "Yo,

  268. P, we it was while we were going through

  269. painting and looking at redoing a couple

  270. things." I was like, "Hey, daddy, what

  271. what you think about like if we knock

  272. down this one area?" Like, I get it.

  273. It's there, but like if we could do

  274. that, then it would open it up and then

  275. we could do this and this. You know,

  276. brains going 1 th000 miles an hour.

  277. Puerto Rican side came out. So, I'm

  278. talking and he says, "Son, that is a

  279. structural wall. It is a loadbearing

  280. wall. We can't take it out.

  281. You can, but we ain't having church in

  282. here that following Sunday. something is

  283. going to crumble. I find that there's so

  284. many things that I misval when it comes

  285. to scripture that I think is an extra or

  286. an additive when God said this is

  287. loadbearing. This can handle the entire

  288. weight of your life. And if you stand on

  289. it and you allow it to be the foundation

  290. of your life, you're going to be good.

  291. But the moment, Caleb, that you try to

  292. alter it,

  293. >> better be careful what pressure you're

  294. poking at. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT FRACTURE

  295. you're going into, you don't know when

  296. it's going to collapse. You don't know

  297. how it's going to collapse because the

  298. damage happens inside, not always on the

  299. outside.

  300. >> And then you're left picking up the

  301. pieces,

  302. cre removing walls that God has placed

  303. up. It doesn't create freedom. It

  304. creates turmoil. It creates collapse.

  305. And that's what happens when we make

  306. decisions based off of only what we see

  307. or what we know. Because God makes

  308. decisions based off of what he sees.

  309. Proverbs 14:12, the Bible says it this

    Proverbs 14:12

  310. way. What you think is the right road

  311. may lead to death.

  312. What you think it can feel right and

  313. still destabilize me.

  314. You can have the opinion wrapped around

  315. facts but doesn't make it truth.

  316. >> There's a difference. There's a

  317. difference. And so how am I deciding to

  318. live my life? I can we can follow every

  319. single desire and impulse we have. We

  320. can remove every boundary. We we can

  321. live without restraint. We could chase

  322. everything that culture celebrates and

  323. have that be the focal point of our

  324. life. We can redefine what truth is. But

  325. can does not mean should.

  326. >> Can does not mean should. There has to

  327. be something that holds me and not

  328. everything that's available to me is

  329. beneficial to me. We see this with Adam

  330. and Eve. From the very beginning, we've

  331. had a problem with our free will. We've

  332. had a problem of too many choices. You

  333. know, like when you go to the ice cream

  334. shop

  335. >> and they say, "What flavor you want?"

  336. And you just looking and like,

  337. "Row three is what I want. Row three."

  338. So many options we can get paralyzed and

  339. I I don't know which one to choose.

  340. Sometimes I allow there to be options in

  341. my life that should not be there.

  342. Shouldn't even be an option. And it's a

  343. non-negotiable. What do you mean? I mean

  344. where God has an opinion, mine is

  345. irrelevant. And so whether I understand

  346. it or not, it really doesn't make a

  347. difference. As long as I do things his

  348. way, I'm able to get his results. Adam

  349. and Eve, they see this. God puts them

  350. into this gu garden. Full freedom,

  351. full protection of all vulnerability.

  352. The Bible talks about how they were

  353. naked, not just in what they were

  354. wearing, but they had nothing to hide.

  355. Full openness and oneness with God.

  356. nothing missing, nothing broken,

  357. absolutely beautiful. And then the enemy

  358. comes in and he he tempts them with

  359. autonomy. He tempts them with free will.

  360. He tempts them with, "I know this is

  361. what he said, but have you thought?

  362. >> Have you thought of it this way? Did he

  363. really mean it this way?" And he wasn't

  364. trying to get them to say that God was

  365. wrong. He was just trying to get them to

  366. ask the question, is there potentially

  367. another way that I could do it to where

  368. it would benefit me more? And so the

  369. issue was never the fruit that they ate.

  370. The issue was that they were trusting in

  371. their understanding rather than God's

  372. design. Because freedom outside of God's

  373. design brings bondage to your life and

  374. to my life. And but here's the good

  375. news. protection lives inside of the

  376. lines of God's design. Again, these

  377. lines, they they they carry weight.

  378. Again, I don't I'm not smart enough to

  379. read blueprints.

  380. Y'all who do teach me later? It's a new

  381. free life group. How to read a

  382. blueprint.

  383. The these don't mean much. Some of these

  384. lines are solid. Some are dashed. I

  385. don't know. Some of them look like my

  386. son drew them. I don't know that. Some

  387. of them look like there was a race with

  388. a mechanical pencil. You remember that

  389. mechanical pencil? Some of them look

  390. like that. I I I DON'T I DON'T KNOW

  391. EVERYTHING THAT'S ON THESE LINES. BUT

  392. here's what I do know. That the designer

  393. whenever he created this, he wasn't just

  394. looking at what it would look like. He

  395. was trying to feel what would it feel

  396. like? What would the weights right here

  397. feel like? What what would the weight h

  398. how would it FEEL WHEN WE'RE BUILDING

  399. OUT THIS BALCONY? CAN THE WALL that

  400. they're sitting on, can the support

  401. beams that they're sitting, can it

  402. handle the weight of the people that are

  403. there, these lines, they carry weight.

  404. And when we remove them, damage begins

  405. to happen. Structural damage happens

  406. behind the walls. Deuteronomy chapter 5

    Deuteronomy 5 chapter mention

  407. starts talking about this exact thing in

  408. Deuteronomy 5, the beginning of the

  409. Bible. Hey, I my daddy has taught me

  410. this. Old school is still teaching

  411. school. So just cuz it's the Old

  412. Testament don't mean there ain't no new

  413. revelation you and I can gain from it.

  414. Deuteronomy 5:32-33

    Deuteronomy 5:32–33

  415. scripture says this. So be very careful

  416. to do what? Act exactly as God commands

  417. you. Don't veer off to the right or to

  418. the left. Walk straight down the road

  419. God commands so that you'll have a good

  420. life and live a long time in the land

  421. that you're about to possess. Protection

  422. lives inside of the lines of God's

  423. design. We see this in the story of see

  424. this in the story of Samson.

  425. Samson, Pastor Scott has said it this

  426. way and I love it. He's a he man with a

  427. she weakness.

  428. Samson

  429. this cat who world's strongest man, best

  430. IFBB power uh bodybuilder, powerlifter.

  431. I hold auto record like Buddy was

  432. yolked.

  433. But he was walking around in a tank top

  434. 24/7, 30 degrees outside, but he's like,

  435. "I know what God gave me."

  436. >> I mean, that Bible don't say that.

  437. That's just my imagination.

  438. Samson over the top strength that came

  439. from God. And God was using him in the

  440. book of Judges in order to show how

  441. amazing God is. But Samson, he began to

  442. do this. He began to compromise

  443. his convictions.

  444. He he began to s to to what culture will

  445. call right now deconstruct

  446. how much of this structure that God has

  447. put do I need to actually have in my

  448. life versus how much should I have in my

  449. life? The difference between what do I

  450. have to do and what do I need to do just

  451. to get by. Like you remember in school

  452. you asking that teacher what do I need

  453. to do to get a 88 on this test? I don't

  454. want to do all the studying for a 100. I

  455. only need a 88 to pass. So, WHAT DO I

  456. NEED? WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO NOT

  457. WHERE'S the line for me to not get

  458. fired? Like, how how many times can I be

  459. late?

  460. How many emails can I get reprimanded

  461. for? Like, WHAT WHERE IS THE LINE?

  462. Samson saw himself doing this

  463. and honestly gets very sad for Samson. I

  464. saw a verse that I had never I had never

  465. identified before. His his collapse

  466. didn't happen overnight. It happened

  467. gradually due to his compromise. And the

  468. Bible actually says in Judges chapter 16

    Judges 16:20

  469. verse 20 that when he got woken up

  470. saying that the enemy is here for you,

  471. he said, "I'm going to go outside and

  472. I'm going to handle it the way that I

  473. had done before whenever I was doing

  474. things based on God's blueprint." But

  475. Judges 16:20, the Bible actually said

    Judges 16:20

  476. this. He did not know that the Lord had

  477. left him.

  478. He didn't even realize

  479. how far gone he was. He didn't even

  480. realize how much he was pulling away at

  481. God's design to where the structure that

  482. used to protect you. The structure that

  483. used to hold you is now not even there

  484. anymore. Now, let me make this very

  485. clear. Let me make this very clear.

  486. There was nothing wrong WITH GOD. GOD

  487. DID not leave. Samson stepped outside of

  488. God's design. GOD SAYS, "I WANT TO BLESS

  489. YOU. I want to set you up. I want to do

  490. some things in your life." But it

  491. happens inside of this place. The

  492. blessing comes from proximity, from

  493. being close to God. I can't claim his

  494. blessings, but be on the whole other

  495. side of town away from his covering.

  496. That's what Samson did. compromises led

  497. him away from God's way of doing things

  498. which then left him feeling like he was

  499. there by himself. When you step outside

  500. of God's design, you step outside of his

  501. covering because protection lives inside

  502. the lines because the designer sees what

  503. you and I don't see can't see.

  504. >> Anybody like puzzles?

  505. >> Like puzzles. My son is into puzzles.

  506. It's the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Come

  507. inside. It's fun inside.

  508. It's where we're at. Jesus and Mickey is

  509. where we're at.

  510. My son really enjoys puzzles. And

  511. honestly, it doesn't even matter what

  512. kind. Talia got a puzzle yesterday for

  513. Valentine's Day. A princess puzzle.

  514. Malachi did it. Mal Malachi wanted to do

  515. the puzzle. Um my son, he he enjoys

  516. puzzles. We enjoy doing them with him.

  517. But there's something he only gets like

  518. the 24 puzzle piece puzzles. Like that's

  519. a lot.

  520. That's a lot. And it takes us some time.

  521. But the colors are really bright. The

  522. the the shapes are really really big. So

  523. it makes it a lot easier in order to to

  524. to put them together. Uh the problem is

  525. I act as if my life is only 24 puzzle

  526. pieces and it's not.

  527. We have thousands

  528. of pieces

  529. inside of our life. Timing, calling,

  530. relationships, consequences,

  531. generational things, a generational

  532. impact that has happened. And when my

  533. son and I are putting together the

  534. puzzle pieces, because it's only 24

  535. pieces, I don't have to know what it's

  536. supposed to look like for me to be able

  537. to figure it out.

  538. >> We can figure it out.

  539. But you know that the bigger the puzzle

  540. p the bigger the puzzle, the more pieces

  541. that you add, you better have a

  542. reference point. Otherwise, you'll think

  543. that what goes in the bottom left corner

  544. goes all the way up or bottom left

  545. corner goes all the way up on the top

  546. right. We can get so discombobulated. So

  547. we have to have a visual reference for

  548. what our life is supposed to look like

  549. because our life is a puzzle which means

  550. this. You don't work anywhere. You work

  551. somewhere.

  552. >> Yeah. You and I, when we were birthed

  553. into this earth, there was a puzzle

  554. piece that got pulled out of our heart

  555. that the only one who fits inside of

  556. that piece is the one who hung on the

  557. cross for you and I. But you could we

  558. could try to fill it with thing after

  559. thing and person and bottle and social

  560. media and success and another business

  561. and another boat and another house and

  562. another vacation and then still be

  563. frustrated because they were never meant

  564. to fill the void of our life.

  565. >> We have we have to understand the

  566. severity, the impact and the the the the

  567. how large our life actually is. give it

  568. the the respect that it deserves and

  569. understand it's above my pay grade for

  570. me to try to assemble all on my own. I

  571. need the master designer to give me the

  572. blueprints for my life to let me know

  573. where things are supposed to be. This is

  574. what Jeremiah was talking about.

  575. Heard my whole life Jeremiah 29:11

    Jeremiah 29:11

  576. quoted. But Jeremiah

  577. the prophet in the Old Testament as he's

  578. writing, he wasn't talking to people who

  579. just won the Super Bowl.

  580. >> HE HE HE WASN'T TALKING TO PEOPLE THAT

  581. WERE ON A MOUNTAINTOP EXPERIENCE. He was

  582. talking to people who were in exile.

  583. Talking to people who were in bondage.

  584. Talking to people who felt like it was

  585. all over. Talking to people who were

  586. ready to just throw in the towel because

  587. it what happened? The people of Israel,

  588. they stopped doing things God's way.

  589. They went away from his blueprint, his

  590. design of doing things. They came into

  591. captivity. And while they're there,

  592. they're frustrated. And you have false

  593. prophets that are saying one thing. Then

  594. you have people that are left with

  595. disappointment, unmet expectations,

  596. saying, "God doesn't work anymore. We're

  597. in a different place. So then God must

  598. not work. God only worked for my

  599. grandma, grandmama and them. He don't

  600. work for me." You have all these people

  601. that are battling this idea. They're

  602. dealing with the consequences of their

  603. decisions of lack of obedience. And then

  604. Jeremiah steps up and he says, "For I

  605. know the plans I have for you."

  606. >> Says who?

  607. >> Not the king.

  608. >> Not the person in charge. Not the oldest

  609. guy and not the youngest guy. Not the

  610. one that had the most money. Says, "I

  611. know the plans that I have for you,"

  612. says the Lord. They are plans for good

  613. and not for disaster. to give you a

  614. future and a hope. They thought that

  615. their structure had collapsed and God

  616. said, "I still see the finished design."

  617. Jeremiah 29:11. It's not a promise of

    Jeremiah 29:11

  618. ease that you and I are going to have in

  619. life to get to our future. It's a

  620. promise of God's sovereignty that even

  621. when you and I don't understand the

  622. season of life that we're in, the

  623. designer still sees the plan. He still

  624. knows the blueprints. And although I

  625. have stepped away, the design is still

  626. perfect. He calls us back into

  627. alignment. And if you'll get back in

  628. alignment, you'll see that the plans

  629. that I have for you are to set you up in

  630. a way that you can't do if you were to

  631. try to go away from my blueprint, away

  632. from my way of doing things and try to

  633. do them on your own.

  634. We deal with this aspect of the choices

  635. that we make due to sin.

  636. When sin entered into the world, uh,

  637. humanity stepped outside of the design

  638. of God. When sin entered in, it it it

  639. made us question, uh, God's way or my

  640. way. God's thoughts, my thoughts, God's

  641. way of doing things versus my way of

  642. doing things. And God's design has

  643. always been perfect. Please don't get it

  644. twisted. When sin entered in, God didn't

  645. say, "Whoops, didn't plan for that.

  646. didn't know how to handle that. He

  647. wasn't caught off guard. God's design

  648. was always perfect, but our alignment to

  649. his design is what stepped outside. But

  650. Romans 5:8 says, "But God showed his

    Romans 5:8

  651. great love for us by sending Christ to

  652. die for us while we were still sinners."

  653. Jesus,

  654. this guy that we talk about with grace

  655. and with mercy and forgiveness,

  656. he didn't come to create a new design.

  657. >> That was not his MMO. He came to restore

  658. the original one.

  659. >> This is right. Scripture calls Jesus

  660. Christ the cornerstone.

  661. that when when you get the cornerstone

  662. placed just right, everything else is

  663. able to be built off it. When he is in

  664. his rightful place, when the cornerstone

  665. is secured, everything else can realign.

  666. The design was never wrong.

  667. We just happened, I happen to step

  668. outside of God's design.

  669. Jesus came into this world and comes

  670. into our life to get us back under God's

  671. original plan and design for our life.

  672. So, back to the original verse, staple

  673. verse for this message,

  674. 1 Corinthians 6:12,

    1 Corinthians 6:12

  675. all things are lawful for me, but not

  676. all things are helpful. Do they push me

  677. towards Christ? Do they push me away

  678. from Christ? If it's helpful to me, then

  679. it builds this relationship. Anything

  680. that goes against or pulls me away from

  681. building this relationship is not

  682. helpful. All things are lawful for me,

  683. but I will not be dominated by anything.

  684. What is the first thing that I go to

  685. before I go to Jesus? That's what owns

  686. me. And how do I put him back in his

  687. rightful place as being the master

  688. designer, the master architect, the

  689. master engineer for my life? So, I'll

  690. just ask you, what's been dominating you

  691. in life?

  692. Where have you trusted your

  693. understanding over God's sovereignty?

  694. What what boundary have you erased? What

  695. have you tried to pull and deconstruct

  696. away from God's model

  697. that really we're we're living in the

  698. consequences

  699. not of what God said but of my

  700. misalignment

  701. to him. Everybody will stand to your

  702. feet.

  703. Some of you, you might be in the room

  704. and you might be feeling like you're in

  705. exile like Israel was when Jeremiah was

  706. talking to them.

  707. You might be feeling like, man, I at one

  708. point I was there and I was good. I've

  709. kind of stepped away from God's design

  710. and now I feel like I'm a slave to

  711. people's opinions. I feel like I'm a

  712. slave to what's said on social media. I

  713. feel like I'm a slave to my own mind. I

  714. feel like I'm a slave to the

  715. consequences of my decisions that I've

  716. been making. I don't know what it is,

  717. but I know that God is always calling me

  718. back to realignment,

  719. saying, "Caleb, if you just align with

  720. me, I know you've done it your way and

  721. accidentally got it right, but your life

  722. is too valuable to live it by chance."

  723. God said, "I don't want you to play the

  724. odds because I value you more than that.

  725. I've given you a structure. I've given

  726. you a blueprint. I've given you a way to

  727. do things that blesses not just you, but

  728. everybody who comes in contact with you.

  729. That this thing of generational curses.

  730. What about a generational setup? What

  731. about a generational blessing? What

  732. about a generational INCREASE? WHAT

  733. ABOUT SOMETHING THAT BECAUSE OF YOU,

  734. THINGS BEGIN TO CHANGE. BUT WATCH THIS.

  735. You can't do it without doing it his

  736. way.

  737. >> That's right. That's right.

  738. >> I get in his way. He's saying, "Caleb,

  739. just come back into alignment with me,

  740. son. Remember that I am the designer.

  741. I'm the one that sees the future."

  742. Caleb, just because you because you can

  743. doesn't mean that you should. What

  744. should I do? Whatever honors and

  745. glorifies God. What word should I say?

  746. Whatever honors and glorifies God. Where

  747. should I go? Wherever honors and

  748. GLORIFIES GOD. WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH my

  749. life? Whatever honors and glorifies God.

  750. Should I date this person? Would it

  751. honor and glorify God? Should I post

  752. this? Does it honor and glorify God?

  753. That becomes the framework for how

  754. everything else happens. Cuz I can

  755. doesn't mean I should. Protection lives

  756. inside of the lines of God's boundaries.

  757. They're not there to limit us. They're

  758. there to protect us. THEY'RE NOT THERE

  759. TO KEEP us to keep us from having fun.

  760. They're there to keep things from coming

  761. in to steal, kill, and destroy our life.

  762. There's protection inside of his lines.

  763. The designer sees what you and I don't.

  764. And God's design for your life is not

  765. restricting you. It's protecting you.

  766. Because here's the reality. Freedom

  767. starts

  768. where surrender starts.

  769. >> You want to feel freedom like you've

  770. never known. Bible says that where the

  771. freedom of the or where the spirit of

  772. the Lord is, there is freedom, that

  773. means that I get into submission of his

  774. word. And the moment I start submitting

  775. to doing things God's way, I'm able to

  776. experience this

  777. inside of life. Not because life is

  778. easy, not because you're not going to go

  779. through things, but because I don't feel

  780. the pressure of having to build

  781. something that I know I can't keep up.

  782. I'm deciding to do it based off of the

  783. master designer's plans. Let's pray.

  784. Father God, we love you. We thank you

  785. that you loved us enough to not make us

  786. figure out this way of life on our own.

  787. To not make us figure out what puts a

  788. smile on your face. How can we honor you

  789. with our lifestyle? Now, no matter what

  790. my occupation is, no matter if I'm

  791. single or if I'm married, no matter if

  792. I'm a male, if I'm a female, no matter

  793. what state, what city I live in, you've

  794. made it very clear to us what your

  795. blueprints are for our life. God, would

  796. you help me? Would you help all of us

  797. come back into alignment with you, doing

  798. things your way, understanding that you

  799. don't restrict us, you protect us like a

  800. parent protects a child. You have a

  801. divine yes and you have a divine no. So

  802. God, would you help us to trust your

  803. heart that you're not a God that is

  804. doing things because you're mad at us.

  805. You're a God that does things out of the

  806. abundance of your love in order to

  807. protect us in life. And so God, would

  808. you help us obey you faster, lean into

  809. you more even before we understand it

  810. fully? Would we say yes? Would we obey?

  811. And then grow into our understanding as

  812. we grow inside of our relationship with

  813. you. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen.

  814. Amen.

  815. >> We really hope this message encouraged

  816. you. For more encouraging messages, feel

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  819. I hope you have a fantastic day.