Our faith is seen as something of restrictive or inhibiting or diminishing and it's a lie.

It just isn't true. Darkness and evil will diminish you.

Addictions will diminish you. The pursuit of Edenism will diminish you.

The pursuit of greed and jealousy. Deedenism will diminish you.

The pursuit of greed and jealousy and envy and covetousness will diminish you.

Honoring the Lord with your life will bring fulfillment and contentment and satisfaction that can't be achieved any other way.

Apart from God, there's a forfeiture.

We are lost.

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We're working through a little series under the general theme of the power to be

different. The gospel is a declaration of power. It's not an invitation to become

a theologian or a church person or to be more tame or polite. Those things may happen, but

they're not the heart of the gospel. The gospel is a declaration of

power. When Jesus came and began his ministry, the first comments that that were

directed towards him, they said we've never seen anybody that speaks with the kind of

authority that he has.

The wind obeys him and the waves obey him and the demons obey him.

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