The Cost of Thoughtless Gifts
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever been given a gift that you weren’t able to use or just didn’t want? In this message, we talk about how some of the things we do for God out of routine are not a gift to Him, but rather a burden. The routine of religion is a false substitute for a genuine relationship with Jesus.
1) Your rebellion leads to ruin
2) Your heartless actions aren’t accepted
3) Your forgiveness is final
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| 0:16.0 | Well, last time I preached, I told you that I've been to 27 of 32 Major League Baseball |
| 0:20.7 | stadiums, and I just wanted to update you that I've now been to 28. Thank you. There we go. Because a couple weekends ago, I got to go to Boston to visit some of my closest friends who lived there, went to college with them. So my wife and I, we got to go to a game with them at Fenway Park. And I'm telling you, it was like one of the best nights in my life. Like, it was. Like, I'm sitting there with my best friends in the world, eating the Fenway Frank, and I'm like, this is the life. It doesn't get any better than this. Except it did. Because in the middle of the fifth inning, my wife and I were having a great time. They turned on the music, so we start dancing and all of a sudden, we're on the screen dancing. Like, I look up. I'm at |
| 1:00.0 | Fenway Park on the screen. I'm like, this is the highlight of my life. For some of you, this would have been your worst nightmare but for me this was a dream come true |
| 1:15.5 | and what happened was i could show you the video i have it i think some of you couldn't take me |
| 1:20.5 | seriously the next 30 minutes if i did what happened was that they showed us when they cut to someone |
| 1:26.1 | else then they showed us again and they cut to someone, then they showed us again, and they cut to |
| 1:28.2 | someone else, and they showed us again, and I didn't even realize it was a dance off. Like, I had no |
| 1:33.8 | idea. I was competing against anybody. But then, yeah, again, show it on the screen again. It said |
| 1:37.8 | the new balance, dance off winner. So I have never want to dance off in my life and never will again. But what happened was |
| 1:48.2 | someone from the Red Sox came and found me and they gave me this gift from New Balance. |
| 1:53.1 | It was this card that said, congratulations, you've won one free pair of shoes up to $200. |
| 1:58.7 | Like, let's go. That's awesome. |
| 2:01.9 | I'm like, I love the Red Sox. |
| 2:04.2 | I'm moving to Boston. |
| 2:05.8 | This is amazing. |
| 2:07.8 | Then we came home and I gave the gift to my wife because she's honestly a better dancer. |
| 2:13.6 | If you've seen the video, you realize she's really the one who wanted. |
| 2:16.3 | I was just kind of taller and bigger and whatever else. So I gave it to her and she picked out the shoes that she |
| 2:21.7 | wanted and she typed in the coupon code and hit submit. And when she hit submit, it said, |
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