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Get back to the manufacturer
o We have got
to stop going through third party repairs
* Wouldn’t it
make sense to take a broken Pepsi machine to the Pepsi Company?
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Many of us have been trying to take our brokenness
somewhere else and G-d is tired of that
* Matthew
28:11
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“Come to me all who are weary and burdened and I will
give you rest”
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Stop waiting to break down before you get repairs
o Any good
machine has something called “Preventive Maintenance” done on it
- Work on you before you work on somebody else!
- Make sure
you are allowing G-d to do the preventive maintenance on you
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Realize that producing is not enough
o You have
got to be producing the right thing
- You can’t
be a Pepsi machine giving people coke products….yes you are still producing,
but you’re not producing the right thing
o 1
Corinthians 13:1-3
- “If I speak
in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a
resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can
fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move
mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the
poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love,
I gain nothing.”
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It is not enough for us to have and work in spiritual
gifts…If you are not working with them in love, you are still lost!
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Don’t be content with just being “worked on”
o There
should be a measurable change that happens when G-d works on you. You wouldn’t be content with somebody keeping
your car in the shop for weeks and continuing to give you the “I’m working on
it” situation
- But that’s
what we do to G-d. We keep HIS product
in the shop and we keep giving him the “I’m working on it” line…The bad part is
that He already paid for it
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Don’t be okay with being out of order
o When you
are out of order you cannot produce! When you are out of order you cannot
function at full capacity!
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