Hey, this is Stephen Furtick. I'm the pastor of elevation, church, and this is our podcast.

I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

Hope it gives you perspective to see God as moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

I want you to look at this scripture in Luke chapter 6.

You share a little story from the life of Jesus. Over the last two weeks, I've been unpacking

what it means to examine your examples and kind of think about what you're modeling your life after

and what mold you are squeezing your mind into and what determines the way you think. So just

stay standing for one more moment while I read the scripture and then you can be seated. You can

use that premium seat that we put in this campus and welcome to all of our locations and our

EFAM around the world. But this is the last sermon that I'm going to preach in this stream of

teaching, but I think it's going to be a really important one. Luke chapter 6 verse 1 says,

one Sabbath Jesus was going through the grain fields and his disciples began to pick some heads

of grain, rub them in their hands and eat the kernels. And you know, I just have a theory, but I

think Peter started this little grain picking thing. Verse 2, some of the Pharisees asked,

why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath? And Jesus answered them, have you never read

what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He entered the house of God in taking the

consecrated bread. He ate what is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his

companions. This is key verse. Then Jesus said to them, the son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.

So I want to talk to you today about when the gift becomes a prison. When the gift becomes a prison.

Lord, I thank you for what you showed me. There's no way I can preach it the way that you showed it to

me, but how many come as close as humanly possible in these moments? I'm excited about it. And God,

I want you to distribute this food through me. I pray that we would just block out distractions

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