Make the Break

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概要

TLDRChris Hodges introduces Charlotte Gambill, who delivers a powerful message encouraging gratitude and the breaking of alabaster jars as a metaphor for releasing thankfulness. She emphasizes not growing weary in doing good, highlights the importance of recognizing God's blessings during busy times in the church, and uses the stories of two women who broke their alabaster jars to illustrate the significance of unreserved worship and gratitude. The sermon concludes with a call for individuals to express their thankfulness to God and to accept Jesus as their Savior.

収穫

  • 🙏 Stand in gratitude and expectation in God's presence.
  • 💧 Break the jars of gratitude to change the aroma of your life.
  • 🌍 Celebrate the many salvations and good works done by the church.
  • 📖 Remember the importance of perspective during busy times.
  • 🤝 Don't grow weary in doing good; your labor has purpose.
  • 🌼 Express gratitude to shift focus from negatives to positives.
  • 💔 Recognize that weariness can deplete gratitude; keep a thankful heart.
  • 🕊️ God desires our full attention and gratitude in worship.
  • ❤️ Your gratefulness can transform relationships and atmosphere.
  • 🎉 Expect miracles and breakthroughs when you give thanks.

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  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    In this opening segment, Chris Hodges addresses the congregation, sharing his mission with John Maxwell in the Dominican Republic to implement values-based education. He emphasizes the upcoming series on the Holy Spirit and a 21 Days of Prayer initiative, encouraging the church to prepare for a transformative season.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Charlotte Gambill takes the stage, encouraging the congregation to adjust their posture for receiving God's word. She reflects on the importance of acknowledging God's presence, positioning oneself for divine encounters, and the need to approach Scripture with reverence and anticipation.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Charlotte acknowledges the busy church calendar and reminds everyone not to become weary in doing good, referencing Galatians 6:9, which encourages perseverance in serving others. She emphasizes the importance of maintaining perspective and gratitude amid weariness.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Continuing her message, Charlotte celebrates the recent accomplishments of the church, highlighting 200 recent salvations and countless lives impacted through various outreach programs. She underscores the joy and gratitude that should accompany these achievements, using the metaphor of a heavenly celebration for each salvation.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Charlotte emphasizes that weariness and a lack of gratitude can hinder appreciation for the transformative work being done. She encourages the church to fully acknowledge and celebrate all that God has accomplished through their efforts and to shift from weariness to a thankfulness that invigorates and energizes.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Using the metaphor of an alabaster jar, Charlotte illustrates how it represents a woman's journey and the treasures people hold back due to fear or prior experiences. She highlights the need to break the jars, symbolizing releasing gratitude and love instead of waiting for the 'right moment.'

  • 00:30:00 - 00:38:09

    Lastly, Charlotte contrasts the journeys of two women with alabaster jars, showcasing how both the familiar and the sinful can encounter God by breaking their jars. She encourages using gratitude to change the aroma and environment around them, culminating in a prayer inviting those who are far from God to return and embrace their faith.

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  • What is the new series about that Chris Hodges announced?

    The new series is focused on the topic of the Holy Spirit and the New Testament church.

  • How many salvations occurred during the week mentioned?

    There were over 200 salvations last Sunday alone.

  • Who is Charlotte Gambill?

    Charlotte Gambill is a teaching pastor at the church and spoke during the service.

  • What is one key verse mentioned about not growing weary?

    Galatians 6:9, which says, 'Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.'

  • What does the alabaster jar symbolize?

    The alabaster jar symbolizes gratitude and the importance of breaking it to express thanksgiving.

  • What was emphasized about gratitude in the sermon?

    Gratitude is crucial to overcoming weariness and recognizing God's blessings.

  • What should individuals do with their 'jars' of gratitude?

    They should break their jars, representing the release of gratitude and acknowledgment of God's goodness.

  • What was the response to the sermon at the end?

    A call to action for gratitude, and invitation for individuals to accept Jesus.

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    Chris Hodges: Hey, church, PC here.
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    Today I'm with John Maxwell, meeting with the government and
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    business leaders of the Dominican Republic to bring
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    values-based teaching in their schools,
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    businesses, and other spheres of society.
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    We're also sharing the gospel everywhere we go.
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    So, please pray for us.
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    And I want you to know that I'll be back next Sunday,
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    bringing a brand-new series around the topic of the
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    Holy Spirit and the New Testament church.
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    It's gonna be a powerful series, as we study the Spirit-filled
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    values of prayer, miracles, holiness,
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    and the gifts of the Spirit.
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    We'll also begin our biannual 21 Days of Prayer next Sunday,
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    and I'm so excited about this season we are stepping into.
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    So, I hope to see you there.
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    Today, we have our friend Charlotte Gambill
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    speaking to us.
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    She's been serving all week with our students and a group of
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    pastors' kids who were here for a special PKG,
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    Pastor Kids Getaway.
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    I know she'll have a powerful word for us today.
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    So, let's stand on our feet and welcome to the
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    stage Charlotte Gambill.
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    Charlotte Gambill: Thank you.
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    Good morning, good morning, good morning.
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    You know what I'm gonna say.
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    If you've known me for any length of time,
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    I'm gonna say, "Could you stand to your feet?"
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    And so, some of you think I'm joking,
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    but I'm not joking.
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    So, you can see that look of, "Is she serious?
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    Is she not serious?"
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    And this is why. This is my family.
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    This is home away from home for me.
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    Many of you know me.
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    I'm a teaching pastor here on staff and have that privilege
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    and honor, and love this house, and love you, church,
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    and I always love to just remind us that what we're
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    about to do is we're about to stand with an open heaven in
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    the presence of God.
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    We're about to open the Word of God.
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    And we stand for a lot of things, right?
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    We stand, and we applaud our football team,
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    or we stand because there's a ceremony taking place in
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    a college or a university, or somewhere,
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    where something's happening, a wedding,
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    the bride comes down the aisle.
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    But we often, our posture is letting us know in those moments
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    something's about to happen.
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    We're anticipating, we're standing because someone's
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    entering the room.
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    We're standing because the bride's about to walk down.
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    We're standing because we're about so see someone graduate.
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    And so, we change our posture.
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    And I just, I always feel when we come to the Word of God,
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    we've got to get our posture right, okay?
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    We can do church, and we can do worship,
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    and we're like this, and then we sit down,
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    and the announcements happen.
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    We get further, and further, and further back in our seat,
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    and then the poor person that's going to preach the message is
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    like, "Hello?"
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    And you're like, "Yeah, I'm chilled now.
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    I did my energy, and I did my workout in the worship."
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    All right?
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    But I want us to have our posture right,
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    because God is able to do incredible things in our lives,
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    but we have to position ourselves.
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    He is in the room.
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    He is walking the aisles, and that deserves our
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    full attention, right?
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    So, God, we stand in your presence.
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    Who are we that we get to stand in your presence?
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    We are amazed.
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    We are overwhelmed that you would walk the aisles of our
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    lives, that you would walk into the corridors of our marriages
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    and families, that, God, you are present yourself amongst us,
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    and we, we take that for granted so often, God.
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    And I just pray today that we would shift our posture,
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    shift our position, and give you our full attention,
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    for you deserve nothing less, and we just thank you right now
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    for what you're about to do in our lives.
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    And I just pray today this will be a word in season for our
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    house, and for our families, and for our marriages,
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    and for our businesses.
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    And God, help me get out of the way so that you,
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    Holy Spirit, can have your way.
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    We thank you in advance of what you're gonna do today,
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    in Jesus's name.
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    Amen? And Amen.
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    You may take your seats. Thanks, team.
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    I love the Word of God. You know that.
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    If you know me for any length of time,
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    you know that I love the Word of God,
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    and I love that you love the Word of God,
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    and I'm passionate today about what I want to share with you.
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    So, buckle up 'cause we're gonna
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    go on a little fast adventure, okay?
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    I'm gonna wake you up, I'm gonna shake you up,
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    and I'm also gonna get you up to what it is that God has for you
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    today, and I have enough energy for the both of us;
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    but by the time of this, I hope you have energy, too.
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    Because I really just believe that I needed to start today by
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    just saying, "Hey, church, we have had a busy week.
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    It has been a busy week in the life of Highlands.
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    Can I get an amen? Right?
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    And oftentimes, when we are busy as a church family,
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    when there's so much going on, we have Motion,
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    we have Grow, we have PKG, the Pastors Camp,
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    when there's so much going on, and then we've got first
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    Wednesday coming up and a new series coming up,
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    and all these things that are happening.
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    It's very easy to get weary.
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    In fact, the Bible tells us it's going to happen.
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    It lets us know, "Hey, guys, when you are busy doing all this
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    stuff, just know you're gonna get tired."
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    And so, the Bible lets us know, by telling us in Galatians 6,
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    and it says this in verse 9, "Let us not become weary
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    in doing good."
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    Okay?
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    "Let us not become weary in doing good,
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    for at the proper time we will," not we might,
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    "we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."
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    And so, it tells us to keep on taking the opportunities around
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    us to keep on serving the lives around us.
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    And I just sense today that I want to kind of nip something in
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    the bud, that the enemy would love to happen in all our lives,
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    and that is that we would allow weariness to actually deplete
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    our life, we'd allow weariness for us to lose our perspective.
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    Because what I know is weary--doing good
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    makes you weary.
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    Weariness can make you quit, and the enemy would love for you to
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    quit right before your harvest.
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    So, I'm on a mission today to say,
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    "Hey, don't grow weary in doing good."
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    Hey, green team member, don't grow weary in doing good.
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    Hey, in that area of your life where you're serving,
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    don't grow weary in doing good.
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    Today, I want us to get a shift of perspective,
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    so that in the tiredness we don't lose the treasure.
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    And I just have a few things that I want to share with you,
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    that have happened from last Sunday to this Sunday.
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    Last Sunday, alone, there was 200 salvations in the house.
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    That was last Sunday.
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    Grow leaders, 662 churches that were represented,
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    45 states, 17 countries, people that came here and drove here,
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    that went away saying, "Because I came,
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    I have fresh hope for my ministry.
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    I have a new vision for the church where I'm pastoring.
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    I feel re-energized and able to go and keep serving.
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    We have Motion Conference with 170 churches that
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    were represented.
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    We had 1,521 salvations at Motion.
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    We had 2,091 students committing to step into leadership at their
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    church and serve in the team and help in the small group.
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    We had over $118,000 given to translate the Bible into another
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    language, where people are not able to access that.
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    And we had 1,688 people give up their time to serve on the Dream
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    Team over this past week that has just happened.
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    Now, I am just letting you know that response was not good.
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    So, we've got some work to do this morning,
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    because the Bible says that in heaven when one person gets
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    saved, they throw a party.
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    They don't give a golf clap.
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    Charlotte: And I'll tell you something.
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    If that was your kid, if that was your husband,
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    if that was your mother, if that was your brother,
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    that suddenly has gone from death to having a life in
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    eternity, you would be on your feet,
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    and you would be applauding.
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    And I'm letting you know, we have to enter into this
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    understanding that we get weary because we lose our gratitude.
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    And just for the next few moments,
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    church, I want us to help replenish our gratitude.
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    I want us to understand that we've gotta fill our
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    tank with thanks.
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    Because when we see things through the eyes of gratitude,
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    when we see things through the eyes of thanksgiving,
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    I tell you that weariness dissipates.
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    Yes, we're tired.
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    But we're like, "Let's go!"
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    Because you realize what we got tired doing was good.
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    What we got tired doing was lives being transformed.
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    What we got tired doing was actually populating heaven.
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    I tell you, when you get to heaven,
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    you're gonna hear those words, "Well done,
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    good and faithful servant."
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    And on the journey, we've gotta learn how to enjoy the fruit
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    that God is producing because of the labor that we are investing.
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    And so today I want to move us from golf clapping.
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    What we should be celebrating--I mean,
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    some of you are going to get shocked when you get to heaven.
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    I'm just gonna let you know.
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    You're gonna be like, "Why are all these people
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    so carried away?"
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    Like, you're gonna realize, "Man,
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    I wish I'd got my worship ready for heaven.
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    I wish I'd got my, you know, got past my inhibitions
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    before I got to heaven."
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    Like, some of you are like, it's noisy.
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    You know, there's not much silence in heaven.
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    There's a few moments you'll have,
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    and then it's all over.
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    And so, some of you are like, "When does the
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    quiet time start?"
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    They're like, "You missed it."
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    And so, we've gotta get ready for something that will break
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    inside of us.
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    And today, I just want to break something in you that will bring
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    the breakthrough through you.
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    There's a breaking today that will bring a breakthrough
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    in your marriage.
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    There's a breaking today that will bring a breakthrough in
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    your parenting and in your perspective of life itself.
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    And today, I'm after smashing some jars.
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    There's a story in the Bible--thank you for
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    the one "woo."
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    There's a story.
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    You'll all be wooing at the end, yeah.
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    I'm just telling you 'cause God's gonna show you some stuff,
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    because some of you have lost your woo.
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    You lost your wow.
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    And you say, "Ow" more than you say "Wow."
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    And you know what?
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    That's why you're weary, because we look at all the negative,
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    and we forget everything that God's done.
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    We forget his goodness, and his faithfulness,
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    and his provision, because we're weary,
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    or something's gone wrong, or something is not looking like
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    we want it to look.
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    We allow all of that to take our attention,
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    and I want to get your attention all the way back to where the
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    enemy hates where we put our attention,
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    where we find the joy that is our strength,
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    where we find the rejoicing that becomes our energy,
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    where we see the bigger picture than the smaller picture.
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    And so, I'm after smashing some jars today.
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    I'm praying that after I'm done, you're gonna go out of here and
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    smash a whole load of jars in your household,
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    and in your marriage, and in your relationships.
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    Because the Bible talks to us about a jar, right?
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    We know the story, many of us that would be around church
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    for any length of time, about the alabaster jar.
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    Special shout out to the Alabaster Campus.
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    We're talking about the alabaster jar, right?
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    And I don't want just the Alabama campus to smash
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    their alabaster jar.
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    I want all of our Alabama and Georgia campus to
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    smash their jars, too.
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    I want everybody to understand what I'm about to share
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    with you today.
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    And maybe we need to start by understanding what that jar was,
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    because we've heard the story of the woman that broke the jar.
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    And we've heard the song maybe.
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    But do you understand what it represented?
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    See, the alabaster jar was something that was given
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    to a woman.
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    When she became the age where she was ready to actually be
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    betrothed to a man, where she was ready to actually be married
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    and leave her family.
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    And so, her family would have saved up.
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    They would've really invested a lot in this expensive vessel
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    with this expensive fragrance inside of it.
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    And they would hand it to the daughter,
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    saying, "When the man comes, when this moment happens in your
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    life, what you do is you take this jar,
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    and you break it as a sign of gratitude.
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    You break this jar as marking the moment of when this man now
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    asks you to be his wife.
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    It was kind of a dowery.
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    It was a significant expression of gratitude that this was now
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    the next season of this person's life.
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    So, the alabaster jar was not just a random perfume bottle on
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    the shelf of some woman.
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    It represents a journey in somebody's life.
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    And the Bible doesn't just tell us about one alabaster jar.
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    It tells us about two different stories of two alabaster jars,
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    because every girl that had these alabaster jars was
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    on the same journey.
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    And one of the stories is in John,
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    and the other story is in Luke, John 12,
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    and Luke 7, and I'm going to reference both of those stories
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    today, and I'm going to take you on a journey.
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    I'm going to talk to you about the jar,
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    and then I'm going to talk to you about the journey,
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    and them I'm going to talk to you about the jewelry,
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    and then I'm going to talk to you about Jesus.
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    I'm gonna fit all that in, in 20 minutes.
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    Lord, help me, Jesus.
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    So, you ready?
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    So, the jar, the jar represented,
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    it signified, when that thing happens,
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    I will break this.
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    When that moment in my life happens,
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    I will take this gratitude, and I will pour it out.
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    The jar represented, when I've reached a certain stage of my
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    journey, the people recognize it's important.
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    When I get to that stage, I smash this to say,
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    okay, this has happened.
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    We can celebrate.
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    The aroma changes.
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    This was way more than just a jar on a shelf.
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    It represented so much more.
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    And I feel like I'm on a mission today.
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    I feel like God's asking me today to say where's your jar?
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    Where's the thing that you've put on the shelf of your life?
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    And you've said, when that happens,
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    I'll get grateful.
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    When that happens, I'll really begin to thank God.
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    When that happens, when I get the promotion,
  • 00:14:59
    when I get--hello, single people--when I find the one,
  • 00:15:04
    then you know I'll really feel it.
  • 00:15:05
    You know, I can really be grateful.
  • 00:15:07
    Or when my kids stop acting like fools,
  • 00:15:10
    I'll really be thankful.
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    Or when I get the new car, or when I get the promotion.
  • 00:15:15
    Like, we all have these things that we put in jars,
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    and we say, you know, when that happens,
  • 00:15:20
    then I can be more free.
  • 00:15:22
    When that happens, I can be more--when that happens,
  • 00:15:24
    I'll be more generous.
  • 00:15:26
    When that happens, I'll give more of my time.
  • 00:15:28
    When that happens, I'll be more complimentary.
  • 00:15:30
    When that child changes, then I'll tell them more
  • 00:15:33
    that I love them.
  • 00:15:35
    And I don't know what it is, but I'm telling you we all have
  • 00:15:37
    jars, and we begin to buckle up stuff that God never intended
  • 00:15:41
    for us to buckle up.
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    Our lives should be a river of gratitude,
  • 00:15:46
    a river of thanksgiving, a river of God.
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    I am so, so grateful.
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    If he did not one more thing for me,
  • 00:15:54
    I have rivers of thanksgiving that will last
  • 00:15:56
    me until eternity.
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    But we waste all our time, all our energy focusing on the
  • 00:16:06
    negative, talking about the negative,
  • 00:16:08
    looking at what's going wrong in our marriages,
  • 00:16:10
    in our homes, in our situation, our finances.
  • 00:16:14
    And while our attention is here, we have a jar over here,
  • 00:16:16
    that if we'd just break it, the whole aroma would change.
  • 00:16:20
    Your little would be enough.
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    Your small would become big.
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    What you don't think you have, you would realize
  • 00:16:26
    what you do have.
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    And this jar sat on the shelf.
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    The first house it sat on the shelf of was the house of Mary,
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    whose sister was Martha, whose brother was Lazarus.
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    She had one of these jars.
  • 00:16:39
    And clearly, we know that we don't read of a husband,
  • 00:16:42
    and so this jar had sat on Mary's shelf for a long time,
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    and no one had come along that she was supposed
  • 00:16:47
    to break the jar for.
  • 00:16:49
    And so, it just sat there gathering dust.
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    Like, I feel like some of our best worship is
  • 00:16:54
    just gathering dust.
  • 00:16:56
    Our best thanksgiving is gathering dust.
  • 00:16:58
    Our best abandoned worship is gathering dust.
  • 00:17:02
    It's time to blow the dust off and let the enemy know,
  • 00:17:05
    "I'm not going to contain my praise.
  • 00:17:07
    I'm not going to contain my thanksgiving."
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    And another one of the jars that was in the home of a woman
  • 00:17:17
    that's called the sinful woman.
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    That's the title over the passage in Luke 7.
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    We just know that she's a sinful woman,
  • 00:17:24
    and she'd lived a life where there'd be lots of men.
  • 00:17:26
    It wasn't that she didn't have the men around.
  • 00:17:29
    She'd had lots of men for all the wrong reasons,
  • 00:17:32
    and they'd used her, and they'd taken advantage of her,
  • 00:17:34
    and she was a woman that had a reputation.
  • 00:17:37
    But we know that she'd never found the one.
  • 00:17:39
    And so maybe for her the jar was on the shelf,
  • 00:17:42
    and she's like, "It's just never happened,
  • 00:17:44
    and now I'll never find that love,
  • 00:17:46
    and now I've made mistakes, and so I have to hold
  • 00:17:49
    that part of me back.
  • 00:17:50
    Because who would love someone like me?"
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    And there's lots of different reasons.
  • 00:17:54
    Failure. We can buckle ourselves up.
  • 00:17:56
    A situation that went wrong, a fallout that happened
  • 00:17:59
    relationally, a walking away from God.
  • 00:18:02
    There's lots of things we can do and go through.
  • 00:18:05
    And every time we do, if we don't watch it,
  • 00:18:08
    we're going to start buckling stuff,
  • 00:18:10
    putting it on the shelf.
  • 00:18:11
    And God just wants releasing.
  • 00:18:14
    And so, each of these women, they had a jar,
  • 00:18:17
    and that jar was supposed to be broken.
  • 00:18:19
    But for them, the moment hadn't happened.
  • 00:18:21
    And then, they had to go on a journey.
  • 00:18:24
    And, you know, you have to also go on a journey with your jar.
  • 00:18:27
    You have to go on a journey with your jar,
  • 00:18:30
    and I want to just picture for you the journey that these two
  • 00:18:33
    women went on, because their journey was very different.
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    And maybe one of their journeys is more appropriate
  • 00:18:39
    for your story today.
  • 00:18:40
    But whichever one it is, you have to go on a journey.
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    And so, he says of Mary and Martha's home,
  • 00:18:46
    that actually in John 12 we read,
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    "It was six days before the Passover.
  • 00:18:51
    And Jesus entered Bethany, where Lazarus so recently raised from
  • 00:18:54
    the dead," note that, "was living.
  • 00:18:55
    Lazarus and his sisters invited Jesus to dinner at their home,
  • 00:18:59
    and Martha was serving, and Lazarus was one of those sitting
  • 00:19:05
    at the table with them."
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    And then Mary, this is the journey,
  • 00:19:08
    she came in, and she was carrying this jar,
  • 00:19:12
    a jar of very, very expensive aromatic oils.
  • 00:19:16
    And she went towards Jesus, and she went with that jar and broke
  • 00:19:20
    it, and anointed, and massaged Jesus' feet,
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    and wiped them with her hair, and the fragrance filled
  • 00:19:26
    the whole house.
  • 00:19:28
    Wait a minute.
  • 00:19:29
    This jar was not supposed to be for this moment.
  • 00:19:32
    But I think she went on a journey.
  • 00:19:36
    I think every day she saw that jar,
  • 00:19:39
    and it reminded her, "This hasn't happened for me,
  • 00:19:41
    yet, and I can't really be thankful about this yet,
  • 00:19:44
    and I'm missing something until this happens."
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    And if she's in the cupboard, she sees the jar that's
  • 00:19:51
    collected dust for I don't know however many years.
  • 00:19:55
    And she looks, and she's like, "It's still there."
  • 00:19:57
    And as she looks at it, she has to go on a journey.
  • 00:20:00
    And for her, I believe the journey was pushing
  • 00:20:03
    past familiarity.
  • 00:20:06
    Because all of a sudden she realizes,
  • 00:20:07
    "Wait a minute.
  • 00:20:09
    I have a jar on my shelf that represents gratitude and
  • 00:20:13
    love and an outpouring.
  • 00:20:15
    And I'm saving it for a dude?"
  • 00:20:20
    And at my kitchen table is Jesus.
  • 00:20:29
    And not only is Jesus at my kitchen table,
  • 00:20:34
    but Jesus has sat next to my brother,
  • 00:20:38
    Lazarus, who a few days earlier was dead.
  • 00:20:45
    What am I waiting for?
  • 00:20:47
    Like, the brother that I loved would not be here today if Jesus
  • 00:20:50
    had not come and raised him from the dead.
  • 00:20:53
    And we're just all like having, like,
  • 00:20:55
    brunch, like this is just a normal afternoon.
  • 00:20:58
    And I think she walked in the cupboard.
  • 00:21:00
    She's like, "Heck no, I'm not saving this for a dude."
  • 00:21:04
    Like, everything that is in this needs to be broken at his feet.
  • 00:21:07
    Everything of my gratitude.
  • 00:21:09
    needs to be poured out right now.
  • 00:21:11
    I have this moment.
  • 00:21:13
    I don't know if I'll get that moment,
  • 00:21:14
    but I have this moment.
  • 00:21:16
    Why am I saving it, when he's right there at the table?
  • 00:21:25
    It's amazing to me how we can just become so familiar,
  • 00:21:31
    how we just roll in to church, and we just sit in our seats,
  • 00:21:35
    and we're like, "Yeah, worship, mm-hm.
  • 00:21:38
    Yeah, somebody got saved, cool.
  • 00:21:42
    Yeah, yeah, that's great, you know,
  • 00:21:44
    thousands of dollars are raised and we commit the Bible.
  • 00:21:48
    Mm-hm, so cool, yeah, great."
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    Scroll in on our phones, thinking about our lunch.
  • 00:21:56
    Drop our kids off at Kids Church.
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    And like, oh yeah, they just watch our kids.
  • 00:22:01
    That's what they do.
  • 00:22:04
    I'm like, "Guys, when did we forget?"
  • 00:22:07
    This is the house that built me.
  • 00:22:10
    This is the presence and the power of God that
  • 00:22:12
    changed my life.
  • 00:22:14
    This is the place where I found hope again.
  • 00:22:16
    This is where I found Jesus.
  • 00:22:18
    This is where my marriage got put back together.
  • 00:22:19
    Those are where my kids have been believed in
  • 00:22:21
    and prayed over.
  • 00:22:23
    This house that I live in is because God has been good to us.
  • 00:22:25
    This car that I drive is because he's a provider.
  • 00:22:31
    My body is healed 'cause he's my healer.
  • 00:22:33
    My mind is fixed 'cause he came, and he restored me.
  • 00:22:35
    I feel free because he cut some chains off me.
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    And we're like walking past, as it were,
  • 00:22:41
    the table, and Jesus, and Lazarus,
  • 00:22:44
    saying, "Well, now's not a good time for me to smash my jar."
  • 00:22:48
    No, now is the time for us to smash our jar.
  • 00:22:50
    Because when the jar is smashed, the aroma changes.
  • 00:22:53
    And some of you want the situation to change,
  • 00:22:56
    but you won't change the aroma.
  • 00:22:59
    You want the marriage to change, but you won't change the sink.
  • 00:23:04
    You want the kids to change, but you won't change the confession.
  • 00:23:07
    you want the business to change, but you won't break out your
  • 00:23:10
    thanksgiving until it changes.
  • 00:23:12
    And I'm telling you the change is in the breaking.
  • 00:23:15
    It's not in trying to do all the stuff to make it better.
  • 00:23:18
    It's simply saying, "If you do nothing else for me,
  • 00:23:21
    God, You've done more than enough.
  • 00:23:23
    I am grateful.
  • 00:23:24
    I am so grateful."
  • 00:23:30
    We get familiar in our marriage.
  • 00:23:32
    We get familiar with our kids.
  • 00:23:35
    Remember he day you prayed for them?
  • 00:23:37
    Now you're trying to send them back.
  • 00:23:40
    Like, they're a miracle.
  • 00:23:42
    And okay, might not--maybe they're not behaving in the way
  • 00:23:43
    you want them to the behave.
  • 00:23:45
    But I'll tell you what will change their behavior:
  • 00:23:47
    you breaking your jar, you changing the aroma,
  • 00:23:50
    you changing the atmosphere.
  • 00:23:52
    I'm telling you things begin to shift when you begin to break
  • 00:23:55
    the alabaster box that's on the inside of you,
  • 00:23:58
    for you to break out the words, "I love you," and break out the
  • 00:24:01
    words, "I'm so grateful," and break out the words,
  • 00:24:03
    "I'm sorry," and break out the words,
  • 00:24:05
    "I forgive you," and break out the words,
  • 00:24:07
    "Thank you, Jesus."
  • 00:24:10
    Hallelujah, exactly.
  • 00:24:14
    Like, church should be the place where we're shouting,
  • 00:24:16
    and we're calling it down.
  • 00:24:18
    Why? Because we're so grateful.
  • 00:24:20
    We're like, "Man, I'm gonna interrupt the message to say,
  • 00:24:22
    "Hallelujah," because I've just realized what
  • 00:24:25
    I've been saved from."
  • 00:24:26
    Like, we should have the revelation all the time of,
  • 00:24:28
    "Oh, my goodness, I somehow became familiar that this
  • 00:24:32
    is holy ground."
  • 00:24:36
    Like, I'm gonna spend eternity in heaven.
  • 00:24:41
    That's better than any promotion you can get at work,
  • 00:24:44
    any degree that you can earn.
  • 00:24:46
    Like, let's put it in perspective.
  • 00:24:50
    You know, I was at Motion, and I was sat up a little higher than
  • 00:24:53
    where the kids were all down on the flat,
  • 00:24:56
    and so I had a different perspective,
  • 00:24:58
    and it was just a moment in the worship where I was watching the
  • 00:25:01
    kids, and I felt God remind me that is his vantage point.
  • 00:25:07
    Whenever we gather, he's watching us.
  • 00:25:10
    He's looking down.
  • 00:25:11
    And I don't want God to look down.
  • 00:25:13
    My hands are in my pocket.
  • 00:25:15
    I'm checking my Instagram.
  • 00:25:17
    I'm drinking my coffee.
  • 00:25:19
    Like, he's looking down, and I want him to see I'm so grateful.
  • 00:25:24
    Hallelujah.
  • 00:25:25
    He's the one that set me free.
  • 00:25:27
    Hallelujah!
  • 00:25:34
    You've gotta take your jar on the journey and say,
  • 00:25:36
    "I'm smashing my gratitude.
  • 00:25:38
    I'm smashing my love.
  • 00:25:39
    I'm not holding back."
  • 00:25:41
    There was the other woman.
  • 00:25:42
    Her story is in Luke 7. Her journey was different.
  • 00:25:45
    Maybe this is more your journey today.
  • 00:25:47
    But she knew that that jar represented for her now
  • 00:25:49
    probably shame.
  • 00:25:51
    Like, I could've broke it, if I had enough,
  • 00:25:53
    if I've not spent my time with people I shouldn't have spent my
  • 00:25:56
    time with, if I'd not failed in the way I've failed,
  • 00:25:58
    but now I don't feel worthy.
  • 00:26:01
    I don't feel worthy of coming to Jesus.
  • 00:26:03
    I don't feel worthy of his forgiveness.
  • 00:26:05
    I don't feel worthy of opening my heart and letting out
  • 00:26:07
    my thanksgiving.
  • 00:26:09
    And so, for her, her journey was different.
  • 00:26:13
    But it says that one day she just decided she heard Jesus
  • 00:26:16
    was in town, and in Luke 7 it says when she heard Jesus was
  • 00:26:19
    in town, she thought to herself, "I'm gonna go get my jar."
  • 00:26:24
    And in Luke 7 it says there was a woman in that town who'd lived
  • 00:26:27
    a sinful life, but she learned that Jesus was eating at the
  • 00:26:31
    Pharisee's house, so she came there with her alabaster jar."
  • 00:26:35
    She's like, "I'm taking my jar on a journey.
  • 00:26:37
    I'm blowing the dust off."
  • 00:26:41
    And she would've had to walk from her house to the
  • 00:26:44
    house where he was.
  • 00:26:45
    And she probably walked past the door where she'd spent the night
  • 00:26:47
    with a man that didn't even care for her.
  • 00:26:48
    She walked past the place where people talked about her
  • 00:26:51
    behind her back.
  • 00:26:52
    She walked past the place where people wagged their finger,
  • 00:26:54
    saying, "I know what you did."
  • 00:26:56
    She walked past all the judgmental people.
  • 00:26:57
    But she knew, "I just, no need to spend my jar here.
  • 00:27:01
    I've gotta get my jar to Jesus.
  • 00:27:03
    If I just get my jar to Jesus."
  • 00:27:09
    Because here's what you need to know.
  • 00:27:11
    When you go on the journey, there'll always be a jury.
  • 00:27:16
    There'll always be people to tell you not now.
  • 00:27:18
    "Don't be carried away.
  • 00:27:20
    Why are you shouting in our church?
  • 00:27:21
    You don't say amen.
  • 00:27:23
    You don't say hallelujah.
  • 00:27:24
    You're just quiet.
  • 00:27:25
    We all know that, so behave.
  • 00:27:27
    Like, what happened to you?
  • 00:27:29
    Who got you wound up?"
  • 00:27:30
    "Oh, I found some jars, and I decided to smash them."
  • 00:27:34
    "What, without my permission?"
  • 00:27:36
    "Yes, without your permission, and I hope by me smashing mine,
  • 00:27:39
    you're gonna smash yours.
  • 00:27:40
    I hope the aroma on me gets aroma on you.
  • 00:27:42
    I hope it changes some of you."
  • 00:27:43
    Your marriage, oh, my goodness.
  • 00:27:46
    You would kiss better. Just say it.
  • 00:27:50
    Some of you, that got your attention.
  • 00:27:52
    Some of you, "I didn't hear a word she said until now."
  • 00:27:54
    You'd have more passion.
  • 00:27:56
    You'd fall back in love again, because you're like,
  • 00:27:58
    "Man, we've made it by all this stuff.
  • 00:28:00
    We've gotta get back to, like, 'I love you,
  • 00:28:02
    and I'm grateful for you, and I'm serving my life with you,
  • 00:28:05
    and God is in this, and he's gonna help us through this.'"
  • 00:28:08
    I tell you, it begins to change the aroma.
  • 00:28:13
    But the jury, watch out, because when Mary walked across her
  • 00:28:18
    kitchen to where Jesus is reclining at the table
  • 00:28:21
    with Lazarus, Lazarus's miracle, right, sat next to him.
  • 00:28:25
    It's not a moment after the jar is broken that Judas
  • 00:28:28
    finds his voice.
  • 00:28:31
    And Judas says, "Oh, excuse me.
  • 00:28:34
    Why wasn't this oil sold and money given to the poor?
  • 00:28:39
    Like, this is too extravagant.
  • 00:28:42
    What you're giving is too much.
  • 00:28:45
    Your thanks just needs to be reined in.
  • 00:28:47
    Like, you need to stop serving on every team.
  • 00:28:50
    Like, what's going on here?
  • 00:28:52
    And it says that he talks about how much he could've done,
  • 00:28:55
    how much good.
  • 00:28:56
    But then it says this.
  • 00:28:58
    He says that it's not because he cared two cents about the poor,
  • 00:29:00
    but because he was a thief.
  • 00:29:03
    And he was in charge of the funds,
  • 00:29:05
    but he was also embezzling them.
  • 00:29:06
    Your generosity will reveal someone else's stinginess.
  • 00:29:11
    Your surrender will reveal someone else's selfishness.
  • 00:29:17
    Your extravagance will reveal someone else's limited.
  • 00:29:20
    When you start doing this, and you're like--and your friend's
  • 00:29:26
    like, "First of all, I didn't know you could bend.
  • 00:29:29
    That's impressive.
  • 00:29:31
    And second of all, we don't do this.
  • 00:29:33
    Like, like, stand up.
  • 00:29:35
    It's embarrassing."
  • 00:29:37
    You're like, "I'm sorry.
  • 00:29:40
    I have to break my jar.
  • 00:29:41
    And I know you're judging, and I know you're looking.
  • 00:29:43
    I know you don't get it.
  • 00:29:45
    But see, if I don't break my jar,
  • 00:29:47
    I'm gonna stay with dust on my life for the next ten years,
  • 00:29:49
    and I've decided that is not the life that I'm called to live.
  • 00:29:51
    So, I have to break my jar."
  • 00:30:00
    Charlotte: And the woman in Luke 7,
  • 00:30:04
    when she went and she broke her jar,
  • 00:30:06
    the Pharisees were like, "Jesus, do you know who she is?"
  • 00:30:10
    Like, bringing up her past, bringing up her shame,
  • 00:30:14
    bringing up her mistake, like, "Rein it in,
  • 00:30:17
    or I'll tell him what you did."
  • 00:30:21
    But your freedom is in your breaking the jar.
  • 00:30:26
    Your forgiveness is in you breaking the jar,
  • 00:30:28
    and the enemy will put people along the way.
  • 00:30:31
    When you're thinking about breaking out your gratitude,
  • 00:30:33
    he'll just send you the post.
  • 00:30:35
    He'll just put the comment in your Instagram feed.
  • 00:30:37
    He'll just begin to deplete your gratitude however he can,
  • 00:30:41
    because he realizes when your gratitude is big,
  • 00:30:44
    you are magnifying the God who you are grateful to;
  • 00:30:47
    and when your gratitude is small,
  • 00:30:49
    you are looking at what the enemy is doing more than what
  • 00:30:51
    you see what God is doing.
  • 00:30:56
    So, you have a jar, and you've gotta go on a journey,
  • 00:30:59
    and there'll always be a jury.
  • 00:31:02
    And finally, the best part is then you get to Jesus.
  • 00:31:06
    What does Jesus say when we break our jars?
  • 00:31:10
    I told you to say that.
  • 00:31:12
    This is not for this moment.
  • 00:31:13
    Now, when you break your jar, like when Mary broke her jar,
  • 00:31:19
    Jesus said, "What you just did, it will be remembered forever."
  • 00:31:27
    Think about that.
  • 00:31:29
    Some of us are trying to get remembered by our business,
  • 00:31:31
    and our money, and our status, and our preaching,
  • 00:31:37
    or our serving, or whatever we put our pride in.
  • 00:31:41
    And he's like, "I'm gonna remember you for your gratitude.
  • 00:31:46
    I'm gonna remember you for breaking a jar on my feet that
  • 00:31:50
    was the aroma that went to the cross with me.
  • 00:31:52
    I'm gonna remember that this moment changed the environment
  • 00:31:55
    of the--that's what I'm gonna remember,
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    and that's what other people are gonna remember."
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    And that's what other people will remember about you long
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    after you've left the room, where you're the guy in the
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    business suit or the one that's got the impressive accolades.
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    Long after you've left the room, they're not gonna
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    talk about that.
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    They're gonna talk about the aroma you left.
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    Like, I feel different.
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    They were just so grateful.
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    They just weren't greedy.
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    They weren't selfish.
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    They were just so--so, Jesus said,
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    "What she's done I'll always remember."
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    What you do when you break your jar will always
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    make a difference.
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    And then in Luke 7, when that sinful woman breaks her jar,
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    Jesus makes it really clear what he feels,
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    and he says this.
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    "Do you see this woman? I came to your house.
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    You did not give me any water for my feet.
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    But she wet my feet with her tears and she wiped them
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    with her hair.
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    And you did not even give me a kiss,
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    but this woman, from the time I entered,
  • 00:32:57
    has not stopped kissing my feet.
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    And you did not put oil on my head,
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    but she has poured perfume on my feet.
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    And therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven--
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    as her great love has shown.
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    But whoever has forgiven little loves little."
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    Jesus is like, "Guys, you're the ones that are supposed to be
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    the ones that kiss me and greet me, and you're the ones
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    that--you know this stuff.
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    You're supposed to be the ones that take care of me.
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    But it took the sinful woman to break a jar to change an aroma.
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    And I'm letting you know she's doing what you should've done."
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    And I don't want anyone to out-worship me,
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    out-give me, out-serve me.
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    I don't want God to go, "You knew what you should've done
  • 00:33:40
    but--" I have been forgiven much,
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    and therefore I'm gonna love much.
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    I've been saved much, and so therefore I'm gonna be
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    grateful much.
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    He's done all that he ever needs to do for me,
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    and he's done all that he ever needs to do for you.
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    So, why are we keeping our thanks in jars?
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    Why are we keeping our praise contained?
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    Why are we keeping our mouths closed when it should be open?
  • 00:34:07
    Why are we putting our hands in our pockets when we should be
  • 00:34:10
    reaching our hands out?
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    Don't grow weary in doing good.
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    And the way you don't grow weary is by reminding yourself of
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    how good he's been to you.
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    He's a good God!
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    So, I want us to stand to our feet in every campus and
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    even at home.
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    Because you know what?
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    God has a vantage point.
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    So, when we get up, he sees it.
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    When we reach up, he sees it.
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    When we declare "Thank you," he hears it.
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    And just for a moment, in this space,
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    I just want us to be grateful.
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    I want us to go on the journey.
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    I'm praying that this week you'll go on a journey in your
  • 00:34:52
    marriage, in your family, in your business.
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    Somebody needs to write a card to your boss saying,
  • 00:34:56
    "Thank you."
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    He's gonna fall off his chair 'cause all he's ever heard from
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    you is that you don't like your job and you want a promotion.
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    But try thanksgiving.
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    I'm telling you, it changes the aroma.
  • 00:35:06
    And in your marriage, some of you need to sit down and say,
  • 00:35:08
    "I'm thankful for you.
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    You know what?
  • 00:35:10
    We're going through a tough season,
  • 00:35:12
    but I'm thankful you're still here,
  • 00:35:13
    and I'm thankful for the way that you love me.
  • 00:35:14
    I'm thankful for the way you stood by me."
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    Let's break some jars.
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    Let's break some jars. Come on.
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    Let's break some praise and break some thanksgiving.
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    Oh, God, you've been so good to us.
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    You've been so good to us.
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    You are so good.
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    You're a good, good Father.
  • 00:35:40
    We're so grateful today.
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    Oh, God, if you did nothing else,
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    you've done more than enough.
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    Thank you for the breath in my lungs.
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    Thank you for my family.
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    Thank you for where you've placed me.
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    Thank you for what you've done for me.
  • 00:35:51
    Thank you for when you healed me.
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    Thank you for when you picked me back up.
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    Thank you for when you dusted me off.
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    Thank you for when you cleansed me.
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    Thank you for when you wiped my sins as far as the east is
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    from the west.
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    Thank you that you pursued me.
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    Oh, God, I pray today this will be a day where we break
  • 00:36:07
    our jars, where we commit to break our jars.
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    Right now, in this moment, as eyes are closed,
  • 00:36:16
    I'm just asking one more thing.
  • 00:36:19
    If you don't know Jesus, he's not your personal Lord and
  • 00:36:22
    Savior, if you never said, "God, I need you," 'cause that's
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    the first breaking that allows his aroma in your life.
  • 00:36:29
    His body was broken for you.
  • 00:36:33
    Or maybe you're far from God, and you're like,
  • 00:36:35
    "I don't know if I can come home," and you're like that
  • 00:36:37
    woman that's like, "I don't know if I can walk past the doorway
  • 00:36:39
    where I said those things, and I walked out on those things,"
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    but you need to know you've gotta take your jar on a journey
  • 00:36:44
    because God is waiting for you.
  • 00:36:46
    You've just gotta break that aroma,
  • 00:36:48
    and he forgives you.
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    And if that's you today, you say,
  • 00:36:52
    "I need that moment," I just want you simply to lift your
  • 00:36:54
    hand up on every campus, even at your kitchen,
  • 00:36:56
    or home, or your living room.
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    I'm telling you why.
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    Because God has a vantage point, and he sees our hand raised,
  • 00:37:02
    and he sees it reaching out, saying,
  • 00:37:04
    "You know what, God?
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    I'm reaching my hand out.
  • 00:37:07
    I need you in this way.
  • 00:37:08
    I want you, God.
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    Touch me afresh, God."
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    So many hands on every campus, I know.
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    And right now, I'm just going to ask that we all,
  • 00:37:16
    in this moment, repeat these words after me.
  • 00:37:18
    "Dear Jesus, today I come to your feet,
  • 00:37:24
    and I ask you for your forgiveness.
  • 00:37:28
    Today I want you, Lord, as my Savior,
  • 00:37:33
    as my King.
  • 00:37:36
    Today I thank you, that you broke your body,
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    so that I could be made well, that you gave it all so that
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    I could spend my eternity with you.
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    Today I choose to break my jar and receive you.
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    Thank you, Jesus, for saving me.
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    In your name, amen and amen.
  • 00:38:03
    Come on, let's give God a huge round of applause.
  • 00:38:06
    Come on, come on, come on.
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