2026 Diesel - Special Men's Event

Senior Pastors here at Christ Fellowship Church, and we're so glad that you're tuning in for service today. - Yeah, Christ Fellowship is one church that meets in lots of different locations, including right here with you. - Yeah, and our prayer for you today is that you would sense God's love for you. See, I don't personally know all that you're going through today and what you're up against, but God does. And here's your prayers, and he knows your name, and he's right here for you today as you call out to him. - Yeah, thanks again for joining with us today. We love you, and we're praying for you. (upbeat music) ♪ Come on, you can come on ♪ ♪ There was no way ♪ ♪ Until you made one ♪ ♪ The praise from all praise ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Oh, you didn't know I thought I deserved it ♪ ♪ You did ♪ ♪ Even though I couldn't earn it ♪ ♪ You did it ♪ ♪ Over and over ♪ ♪ And through my mind ♪ ♪ As you keep me on over ♪ ♪ I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ Yes ♪ ♪ For my life ♪

♪ You've been right here by my side ♪ ♪ God, I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ God, I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ Holy, holy ♪ ♪ There's only one ♪ ♪ That's it ♪ ♪ If you go away from all you've done ♪ ♪ Oh, you didn't know I thought I deserved it ♪ ♪ You did it ♪ ♪ Even though I couldn't earn it ♪ ♪ You did it ♪ ♪ Through my mind ♪ ♪ As you keep me on over ♪ ♪ God, I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ God, I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ For my life ♪ ♪ You've been right here by my side ♪ ♪ God, I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ God, I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ There's only one I gave ♪ ♪ Through my mind ♪ ♪ As you keep me on over ♪ ♪ God, I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ God, I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ You've been right here by my side ♪ ♪ God, I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ God, I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ Come on, let's fill this here ♪ ♪ Let's fill this place with waves to death ♪

♪ Come on, every corner of this room ♪ ♪ Would you raise your hands with me today ♪ ♪ A sign of thanksgiving ♪ ♪ Whoa, oh, oh ♪ ♪ This is your offering ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the answer ♪ ♪ Thank you for your grace ♪ ♪ It's hard ♪ ♪ It's hard ♪ ♪ Give me only I gave ♪ ♪ There's nothing like it ♪ ♪ You gave me the chance ♪ ♪ There's nothing like it ♪ ♪ God, I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ It's hard ♪ ♪ I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ I'm just grateful ♪ ♪ I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ You gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ God, I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ God, I'm just grateful for you ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪

♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me the chance ♪ ♪ And pray for the Father ♪ ♪ And God just pray for the Father ♪ >> Come on, come on, we lift up the name of Jesus over every other name in this place today. He's so worthy of it all, of the glory, the honor, and the praise. Put together with him today. >> I know with it, that His time is glory ways.

>> I know with it, that get empty out of it, I know with it. It's the only thing that says, and it's worthy of it all. >> Come on, come on, come on, come on Jesus, I call you, I call you dealer, risen in rain and power. Something comes out of you, amen, amen. Every time I call you Jesus, I call you, I call you Savior, worthy of glory forever. Something comes out of you, amen, amen. Every time I call you, amen. We'll test the right of that, amen. >> I have a key. With your vision over there, we want to keep. It is holy, man of strong hands, he is the hero, yeah. That's what the service is. Our resurrection reign out of you, I call you, I call you, I call you, I call you dealer, risen in rain and power. ♪ Something comes out of the river ♪ ♪ On your every time I call you ♪ ♪ When it comes to ♪ ♪ I call you ♪ ♪ I call you ♪ ♪ I call you ♪ ♪ I call you ♪ ♪ Where you ♪ ♪ For me ♪ ♪ For me ♪ ♪ I call you ♪ ♪ I call you ♪ ♪ I call you ♪ ♪ Every time I ♪ ♪ Every time I ♪ ♪ Every time I ♪ ♪ I call you ♪

♪ Hey, hey ♪ ♪ Change, trade, drive, move, swing ♪ ♪ Every time I call you ♪ ♪ When you call him ♪ ♪ Say ♪ ♪ Girl ♪ ♪ Gates ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ Hell ♪ ♪ Shake ♪ ♪ Every time ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ Change, trade, drive, move, swing ♪ ♪ Every time I call you ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ Every time I call you ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ Every time I call you ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ Girl ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ I call you ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ I call you ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ Change, trade, drive, move, swing ♪ ♪ I'm always at the time when I pull my yarn ♪ ♪ Oh, is he great? ♪ ♪ Is he great? ♪ ♪ Should he be great tonight? ♪

♪ Someone's gonna remind her, I would say ♪ ♪ Oh, there is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Everywhere ♪ ♪ Oh, great ♪ ♪ You're here ♪ ♪ You're here ♪ Come on, let's put a reminder in the atmosphere tonight, say! ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Everywhere ♪ ♪ There is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Everywhere ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Everywhere ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ You're here ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪

♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Where all dead is now your sleep ♪ ♪ Every time I call you Jesus ♪ ♪ I call you I call you Savior ♪ ♪ Word in your glory forever ♪ ♪ Something goes out of way ♪ ♪ Every time I call you Jesus ♪ ♪ Come along ♪ ♪ Get these come along ♪ ♪ Get these come along ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Get these come along ♪ ♪ Get these come along ♪ ♪ Get these come along ♪ ♪ Get these come along ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪

(audience cheering) (audience cheering) ♪ In the network of Jesus ♪ ♪ In the network of Jesus ♪ ♪ In the network of Jesus ♪ (audience cheering) ♪ In the network of Jesus ♪ (audience cheering) ♪ We say Jesus ♪ ♪ We say Jesus ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ There's something when we call his name ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Why don't you go ahead and do that right here ♪ ♪ Call on the name of Jesus ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Oh there's healing in his name ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ There's identity found in his name ♪ ♪ And it's Jesus ♪ ♪ Every chain is broken in his name ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Oh there's healing in his name ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ There's identity found in his name ♪ ♪ And it's Jesus ♪ ♪ Every chain is broken in his name ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪

♪ The bondage has to go in the name of Jesus ♪ ♪ The wrong holds are broken in the mighty matches name of Jesus ♪ ♪ One more time say Jesus ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ There's no sweet in name that may be Jesus ♪ ♪ Only one name that can truly say Jesus ♪ ♪ Oh, his name is Jesus ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ I shall belong ♪ ♪ Any hurt ♪ ♪ Any answer ♪ ♪ I shall belong ♪ ♪ Any hurt ♪ ♪ Any answer ♪ ♪ I shall belong ♪ ♪ Any hurt ♪ ♪ Any answer ♪ ♪ That's why I trust him ♪ ♪ Anyone else is tired ♪ ♪ Say I shall belong ♪ ♪ I'm from the Lord, in the air ♪ ♪ You turn, I'm from the Lord ♪ ♪ In the air, in the air ♪ ♪ I'm from the Lord, in the air ♪ ♪ In the air, in the air ♪ ♪ That's why I trust Him ♪ ♪ That's why I trust Him ♪ ♪ I'm from the Lord, in the air ♪

♪ In the air, in the air ♪ ♪ I'm from the Lord, in the air ♪ ♪ In the air, in the air ♪ ♪ I'm from the Lord, in the air ♪ ♪ In the air, in the air ♪ ♪ That's why I trust Him ♪ ♪ That's why I trust Him, God ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ I'm from the Lord, in the air ♪ ♪ In the air, in the air ♪ ♪ In the air, in the air ♪ ♪ That's why I trust Him ♪ ♪ I'm not my state ♪ ♪ I'm trusting to believe me ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ He never forgets ♪ ♪ Or forgets ♪ ♪ You never fail ♪ ♪ Or he'll never fail 'cause it's not in his nature ♪ ♪ It's not in his nature ♪ ♪ His sovereign, his supreme, his trust ♪ ♪ He's righteous ♪ ♪ He's so ready ♪ ♪ And this is who he is as we call him ♪ ♪ We've said it never got a noise ♪ ♪ It didn't work ♪ ♪ What is he ♪ ♪ What is he ♪ ♪ He's on the throne above ♪ ♪ Say ♪

♪ Holy, holy ♪ ♪ That's what he says ♪ ♪ He proves he was a father ♪ ♪ He's God in his life ♪ ♪ Holy, holy ♪ ♪ That's what he says ♪ ♪ He never got a noise ♪ ♪ It's not in his life ♪ ♪ What is he ♪ ♪ He says it never ♪ ♪ He's healing on the throne above ♪ ♪ Holy, holy ♪ ♪ Holy, holy ♪ ♪ That's what he says ♪ ♪ That's what he says ♪ ♪ He proves he was a father ♪ ♪ He's God in his life ♪ ♪ He's healing on the throne above ♪ ♪ He's worthy, yeah ♪ ♪ Who else is worthy ♪ ♪ He's worthy, Lord ♪ ♪ He's worthy, Lord ♪ ♪ He's healing on the throne above ♪ ♪ He's healing on the throne above ♪ Give it to me, Lord. Oh, holy Jesus. Yeah. Come on. Greetings. Thank you. [Applause] [Music] Oh, there's breath into your lungs. It's not done with you today. Can we take a moment to set our eyes on him to thank him for who he is and for what he's done. You opened me up this morning. My cup is overflowing. You have blessed me and I know it. So I owe you my praise.

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[Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Yeah. How many of you, how many of you played football growing up? Yeah. Yeah. You know I did, right? Coach had me playing football when I was like this big right here. We were a bunch of like kids running around like ants on a field running the wrong way. But having a good time, I remember a middle school. My school, middle school team had never lost a game in the history of the school. So we had a lot of fun. We just destroyed everybody. But then I got into high school and all of a sudden football became pretty serious. Like every Friday night, our lives hung in the ballots. Like whether or not we won this game, this was a big game. And I remember one Friday we were playing Glades Day. And Glades Day was a tough team. It was like the toughest team that we ever had to play. Like we had no problem beating St. Ann's School for the Blind. But Glades Day, that was like, that was another thing. And usually Glades Day would defeat us. They would crush us. And I remember we had practiced hard as a team all week long and Friday came. But our spirits were just a little bit down. But then came the Friday afternoon, PEP rally. Remember PEP rallies? A bunch of kids all in a hot, sweaty gym, cheerleaders, cheering, coaches, coaching, yelling at you. We're going to be Glades Day. We had this one cheer that the cheerleaders would lean in. We got spirit. Yes we do. We got spirit. How about you? Right? Then the other side of the gym would yell back. We got spirit. Yes we do. We got more. We got more pretty soon. We're all like, we're going to destroy Glades Day. And we run out of the gym getting ready for the game. But I realized that nothing really changed because of a PEP rally. Like we didn't get any better. We didn't get any faster. Didn't have some magical new play that dropped out of heaven for us to be Glades Day. But our spirit changed. The opponent didn't change. The players didn't change the game. Same game. Different spirit. Guys can I tell you, there is something that happens when your spirit changes. Your opponent can still be there, pounding at you. You can still be dealing with some of the same struggles that you're dealing with. But when your spirit changes, everything changes. And I want to talk to you tonight about your spirit. I want to talk to you about the spirit that you carry and how that one thing can change

everything in your life. And I believe this is a timely message for us as the men of God of this household. There's been a story that I've been reading in the Bible that I've read many, many times before. It's a story when Moses leads the Israelites out of captivity in Egypt into the wilderness towards the promised land. And these guys have just seen me read in the book of Numbers chapter 13 and 14, the story of Israel standing on the edge of their promise. They've witnessed God do miraculous things. Deliver them from the most powerful man in the entire world, Pharaoh. They watch the Red Sea part and they walk across on dry ground and then the Red Sea. They saw manna drop from the sky every morning. It'd be like Brooklyn bagels, just shaking bagels in the front of your porch every day. You didn't even get dressed, you'd just get out there and get a bagel, like it'd be like amazing. Miracle upon miracle. Now they're standing on the edge of a promise. And as I was praying for you, I felt the Lord say, Todd, there's some guys in the room that are standing on the edge of a promise. There is a promise that God has given you, there is a word that you've been holding onto, there's something you've been praying for, and it looks like it hasn't come. It's been a long time in the coming, and I feel like the Lord wants me to tell you it is closer than you think. And so they're right on the edge of the promise, and God says to Moses in Numbers chapter 13, verse two, a very important verse, sends some men to explore the land of Canaan,

which I am giving to the Israelites. Did you catch that? I'm giving it. Before they ever got there, God had already given it. Before they ever had to fight for it, God had already promised it. Before they ever saw one obstacle, God had already spoken the outcome. Can I tell you something that God, when he calls you into something new, when he calls you to step out, man, there is going to, he's going to speak a promise before you ever see any proof. Think about Abraham. God calls Abraham and says, God says, Abraham, I'm going to make you the father of many nations. The problem was Abraham was old, he's like 75 years old, and his wife was old, and they didn't have one kid, and things were shriveling up. I mean, it wasn't looking good. Like, there wasn't a whole lot going on, if you know what I mean. And God said, I'm going to make you the father of many nations, yet he wasn't even the father of one yet. And there was a nine months later, or even nine years later, it was like 20 some years later

before Isaac shows up on the scene, God always speaks a promise before you ever see proof. He's always going to give you a vision before there's any provision. That's where faith comes in. That's where you've got to hold on to what you know. So Moses sends out these 12 spies, one from every tribe into the land of Canaan, to spy out the land. And it says that they went in and they saw the same people, they saw the same fortified cities, they saw the same land, the same fruit, the same situation, the same giants in the land, the same opportunities, and the same challenges, but they came back with very different reports. This is what it says in number 1327. This is what 10 of the spies said. 10 of the spies, they gave Moses this account. We went into the land in which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey. Here is the fruit. But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. I'll tell you what else is large, their butt is large. (congregation laughing) Sometimes our butt's too big. It gets in the way of the big thing God wants to do, they're like, but, but, but, but.

You know, we can be like, oh, but we don't have enough, we don't have enough money, we don't have enough time, but what if I fail, but what if it doesn't work out? Well, what if that's not really God, and that was just the nachos, I ain't allowed to say. What, but, but. Don't let a big butt block the big thing God wants to do in your life. So, they don't want to say, they don't want to say, we even saw the descendants of Anok there. So he's talking about, they saw giants in the land. The Amalekites lived there in Negev, and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites live in the hill country and the termites and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan. Then Caleb stood up and said, shut up. He silenced the people before Moses, and he said this, we should go up and take possession of the land for we can't certainly do it. But the men, the other 10 who had gone up with them said, we can't attack those people. They're stronger than we are. And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said the land will devour those living in it. All the people we saw there were of great size. We saw the Nephilim there, the descendants of Anok. We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.

Did you hear all the negative words spewing out of those 10 spies? Can I tell you fear has a sound? We can't attack. They're stronger than us. The land devours us. We seem like grasshoppers. How do you know you seem like grasshoppers? Just fear talking. But Caleb, he gets up and he says, oh, we should go up. Oh, we got to go up. We can. We can take them on. In fact, he says, we certainly can do it. Not because we're strong enough. Not because we're talented enough. Not because we have enough resources. But if God promised it, he's going to provide it. And then I lost. This is the verse. This is the verse that I've been chewing on for you for like a couple of months right now. In the next chapter, God is speaking in Numbers 14, 21. But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit. He has a different spirit. He follows me wholeheartedly. I will bring him into the land that he went to, the one that he scouted out. He's going to get in there and his descendants will inherit it. God didn't say that Caleb had the best strategic plan. Didn't say that he was the best leader, the most charismatic leader. He said that he has a different spirit, a different spirit. There was something different about Caleb. He wasn't like the other 10 spies. He wasn't like the crowd that heard the negative report and he got scared. There was something different because Caleb was built different. That different spirit means he was built different. He wasn't like the rest. And can I tell you, man, you and I are built different. We are not like the world. We're not supposed to be like the world. We have something different deposited in us by God. His Holy Spirit, which is different. First Peter, chapter 2, verse 9 says, "But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation." Look at that. What's the next two words? A peculiar people, peculiar. You're supposed to be peculiar. We're supposed to be a little different. We're not supposed to fit in. We're not supposed to fit in with the world. And when you go along with what everybody's thinking and what everybody's feeling and what everybody's saying, we're not supposed to be like the world. We're different. Jesus said in John 17, he said, "My followers,

though they are in the world, they are not of the world." Which means we live here. We live here. We don't belong here. We live here. We have an assignment here. We have a God-given destiny on our lives while we are here, but we understand we belong to a different kingdom. And so we live differently because we're a part of a different kingdom. We are built different from the inside out. Back in 1940, in Tacoma, Washington, by as far as you can get from West Palm Beach, Florida, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened up. And it was the third largest suspension bridge in the world. It was a big deal. They had big fanfare when it opened. They said it's an engineering marvel. It's beautiful. It's amazing. You can't believe how beautiful this bridge is. And about four months after the bridge opened, a storm blew through Tacoma, Washington. It wasn't a bad storm. It wasn't like a hurricane. It wasn't even tornado. It was like 30, 40 mile-hour winds. But the bridge began to shake. It began to tremble and it began to twist and sway in the wind. Look at that. They got a video. These are the actual video. It bent in such a way that the engineers did not know how the bridge bent that way. Even in this day, they can't explain it. You look at that video and think it's fake. Like if it was today, you think that was AI doing that, right? This is actual footage from 1940. And after an hour of the bridge swaying and twisting and bending like that, it began to break apart. It began to crush and crumble and it fell into the water beneath it and was completely destroyed. See, the wind didn't destroy the bridge. The wind just exposed the weakness in the bridge. It was strong enough to look like a bridge, but weak enough that when the wind showed up, it fell apart. God doesn't want your life to look like that bridge. God doesn't want you looking good on the outside, but you got nothing going on on the inside. He wants you built on the inside. He wants there to be something of substance and strength so that when the problems of life show up because they will show up, you don't black box, which is orange. Did you know that black boxes and airplanes are not black? They're actually orange, so they stand out. Now this box, this flight recorder, this is an actual flight recorder from an airplane. This is actually built different. Most of the parts of a plane are built to get the plane off the ground and keep it in the air. But this is built for the worst case scenario. It's built to sustain 3,400 Gs, which is 3,400 times the acceleration of gravity. It's supposed to hold up under that. It's built to sustain 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit temperature. It's built so that when it's thrown under the ocean, it can hold up under the pressure of 20,000 feet below sea level and still be

sending out a signal 30 days later. It's built differently because it has a different assignment on it. The rest of the plane can fall apart. The wings can fall off. The fuselage can burn it, but this box is still doing what it was built to do because it was built with a different assignment on it. Let me tell you, man, you've got a different assignment on your life. You're built differently because God has an assignment on your life. You are a man of God, which means you don't think like everybody else. You don't live like everybody else. We don't react like everybody else. We are under the same pressures that everybody's under. We face the same battles, the same temptations. You've got the same enemy coming against you in your marriage that the guy that doesn't follow God has got coming against him in his marriage. We've got an enemy trying to take out our hearts and our purity and distract us from the things of God. The difference isn't that men of God don't face battles. It's how we face battles. It's not with our own strength. It's with a power, with a spirit of God that is inside of us. We get tempted. Yeah, but we don't have to give into the temptation. We get tired. We don't have to quit. We get under pressure, but that pressure doesn't have to shape our character. We can get angry, but anger does not direct our actions. We might fall down, but we're going to get back up because we are built different. A couple truths that I saw in Caleb's story that relates to us so that we can live with a different spirit on us. First thing I saw was that men who are built different, see different, men who are built different actually see different. In the story, they all saw the giants. They all saw the fortified walls. They all saw the problems, but Caleb understood something more powerful. The problems don't cancel promises. Problems, though you have them, don't cancel the promises of God. Listen to me, just because it's hard doesn't mean it's wrong. Just because it stretches you doesn't mean it isn't good for you. Just because there isn't a battle or sacrifice required doesn't mean it's bad. Often what I have found, the presence of resistance is evidence that the ground you're fighting for is worth it. The reason there's a battle in your marriage is because your marriage is worth it. The reason it's hard sometimes is because that is territory that is really important for the things of God to do in your life. So when other guys all they see is the problem, yappin' at 'em, when other guys all they see is an easy way out or justification why they need to throw in the towel, you see something different. Because people who are built different, see different, you see that

the enemies that play, you're like, "Oh, no, no, no, Devil, you ain't gettin' my wife, you ain't gettin' our family, you ain't gettin' our home. I'm coming against you in the name of Jesus. I'm gonna sacrifice more. I'm gonna love more. I'm gonna surrender more. I'm gonna serve her more. That's what I'm gonna do. Give her your best shot. The reason you might be having trouble with a kid. A son or a daughter is because that ground matters. If you're a father, that is sacred ground, that is sacred territory, you have been given a spiritual responsibility to help these kids know God and love God. So because you are built different, you see different. You don't just see a rebellious teenager that's going through something. I mean, you see the enemy that's trying to divide the father's heart from the heart of his children and you're gonna like get on your knees and When they're not home, you're going to anoint their bed with oil in Jesus' name. You're going to pray over it all because you see difference. (congregation applauding) See Caleb, Caleb didn't just see the giants in the land. He saw his God. He remembered what his God did. He remembered when God parted the sea. He remembered when Pharaoh's army got swallowed up. He remembered, so he wasn't just looking at the problem. He was looking back at God's faithfulness. It is amazing how pressure can make us have spiritual amnesia. The little problem comes up, we forget all the times, God answered all the other problems we've ever dealt with. What one bad report, and we forget all the prayers that he answered like our whole life. What one giant that we're facing this week we're like we forget all the battles that he helped us win before, right?

And that's happened to me more times than I could tell. I mean, times that I've been up against something, I'm like, oh, God, God, man. And he's like, Todd, don't you remember last week when you were saying the same thing, and like I showed up then, and last month when I did that? Some of you know the story of, I've shared it with about my son, Jefferson, when he was about like 13, 14 years old, he had lost his will to live. I don't know what happened to him. I don't know what he was going through. It was one of the darkest places as a family we ever had to walk through. And I remember looking in my son's eyes, and it was just, it was blank. We took him to doctors, doctors couldn't tell us what was going on, there was like no hope. And I remember, man, it made me call out to God, like I'd never called out to God before, but this didn't just last for a few days or a few weeks or a few months, it was a couple of years. And being a dad, I like to fix problems. And I wanted to fix this problem for my son, but I couldn't fix this problem. And I remember it about, it about took me out, this giant. It about took out my faith. And I had some brothers in the church that were part of my crew men's group, and they saw what I was going through,

and say they were calling me all the time, praying for me. They were texting me prayers, texting me scripture. I mean, I got to the place where I'm a pastor, and I didn't want to pray anymore. I'm like, it didn't seem like it was working. And so they would come over to the house, and they would begin to remind me of times God had answered prayer for Jefferson when he was two, when he was four, when he was five, when he was seven, and when he was nine. They began to help me see what I could not see. They began to remove the shackles from my eye so I could actually see God's faithfulness, right? Because see, during those dark times, the whisper of the enemy was that your son was going to die. The whisper of the enemy was that if he lived, he wouldn't have a life. Those were the lies that I was listening to over and over again, and I needed somebody to help me open my eyes and see the truth of the matter, which by the way, I don't know if Jefferson's out here or not. He might be in the back. Jefferson, come up here. Jefferson. Jefferson was playing... (audience applauding) Hurry up, hustle. Jefferson was, he was playing bass tonight. He leaves worship, plays bass. You're nice licks on the thing too.

I was like, yeah, I heard you, it was really good. Yeah, and you're a husband. You're a great husband. You are a father, a great dad. (audience applauding) Of course, he had a pretty good example. He had a pretty good example of a dad. He's a good dad, right? But Jefferson, you were like a living testimony for me of God's faithfulness. Like, when I see you, it helps me see God because of what God's doing in your life. I love you. (audience applauding) Here's the point. You don't face today's giants by forgetting yesterday's God. You don't face today's giants by forgetting. You gotta remember the good things that God has done. The 10 spies allowed what they saw to change what God said. Caleb, because remember God said I've given it to you. Caleb allowed what God said to change what he saw. His eyes were open. If you're built different, you see different. Open your eyes. I want you to see what God has you to see. The second thing I see from the story is that men who are built different, they actually think different.

To Caleb and Joshua, they actually thought different than the other 10 spies. They weren't conformed by what the majority was thinking. Listen to me, do not be conformed to what the majority is thinking. The majority of your school, the majority in our nation, Paul says in Romans chapter 12, "Don't be conformed to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." Then you'll be able to know just to prove what God's will is. Can I tell you, man, there is a battle going on for your mind, for the way that you think. The world has got a pattern, Paul says there is a pattern, a way of thinking. The world has a way of defining what success is. The world has a way of defining what manhood looks like. The world has a way of defining everything, from sexuality to how marriage should go, to what commitment, to what truth is. The world has a pattern, and every day you and I are being discipled by something. What we watch, what we listen to, what we scroll through, it is discipling us. That's why you cannot renew your mind by coming to church three or four times a month. I ain't going to cut it for you, and I wish you came every Sunday. Dear God, please show up every Sunday. But even that's not enough for you to renew your mind. Psalm 119 verse 11 says I have hidden your word in my heart that I may not sin against you. I have hidden your word in my heart that I may follow your ways. Do you remember in the book of Matthew chapter 4, Jesus has been in the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights fasting and praying before his ministry started. And right when he was wrapping this up, Satan comes to him and begins to tempt him. He says, hey, you know, worship me, bow down to me, do this, and every time he was tempted, he quoted scripture about to say, he said, it is written. It is written.

Satan would say, do this. He says, no, it is written. You will worship God and him alone. It is written. You will not survive. But just read. But by the living word he got. It is written. I think we need some. It is written on the inside of us, man. We got to have some. It is written because when temptation comes to you at midnight, you need more. You need more than will power. When fear comes knocking at your door, you need more than just the power and positive thinking. You need the word of God. When you start hearing in your own head, I don't have what it takes. I mean, if people knew who I really was, they wouldn't want. Or you start thinking, oh, it is just one look, what does it matter? Everybody is doing it. You got to have the word of God. Let me tell you something, guys. Every thought that enters your head does not need a seat at your table. Every thought that enters your head does not need a seat at your table. It does not need to be welcome there. Second Corinthians chapter 10 verse 5 says we who are built different, we take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ. Not everybody does that. Your friends at work may not do that. Your friends at school may not do that.

You influence your following on social media. They ain't doing that but you are built different. So you take every thought captive and you make it obedient to the word of God. What does the word say about that? What does the word say about me? What does the word say about sex? What does the word say about marriage? What does the word say about kindness? I make it obedient to the word of God. See as men of God, the difference isn't the absence of temptation. It's actually the authority we give temptation. We don't give it any, we don't give it any authority in our lives. Temptation doesn't mean you're weak. Temptation means you're human. Temptation means you're in a battle. Temptation means there's something worth fighting for. Think about Joseph in the Old Testament when Potiphar's wife was like, hey, she's like the first cougar in the Bible right there coming on poor little Joe. Joe, Joe didn't hang out trying to talk to her. Joe, Joe didn't like start quoting Scripture to her. Joe ran. He got out. He got out. Some of y'all need to run. You don't need to be flirting with temptation. Well, how close can I go? What can I look at? Who can I follow? What? Let me go.

Oh, no, no, no. You need to leave the app is what you need to do. Some of you, some of you, the most holiest thing you can do is go back to a little flip phone. That's why you need one of those little flip phones. You better have a plan of attack because I'm talking about the battle for your mind. If you don't have a plan of attack, when the enemy attacks, you're going down. You better get ready. You go on a run. Like, just, okay, I'm going to go for a run and go for a jog. I want to leave my phone in the kitchen, right? Know who you're going to call. Who do you call for accountability when you're being tempted? "Hey, I'm having a rough day." Can we just get together, go get a pizza, go hang out. Can we just go play some ball? Can we just, we just got it, can we? We just talk, you're right. Third thing, turn on some worship music. Here's what I found. It is hard to fall in temptation when you're worshiping. Who am I? Now you can't be doing that and doing that. You know what I'm saying? (congregation laughing) Men who are built different, think different. And here's the last one. And it really comes down to this because if we miss this one, I think we missed it. Men who are built different, act different.

They live different. It's not enough just to see different. It's not enough just to think different. At some point, faith has got to move to your feet. At some point, it's gonna take action in your life and affect the way you live. Look again at Numbers 14, 24. It doesn't just say Caleb had a different spirit. It actually tells us what that different spirit produced. He says, my servant Caleb has a different spirit. Say that last part with me and follows me wholeheartedly. Follows me whole, with this whole heart. I wanna stay there for just a minute. 'Cause here's my burden. I'm afraid in the American church. We have gotten too comfortable with casual Christianity. It's become the norm. (congregation applauding) We don't talk about sacrifice. We don't even know what self-denial looks like anymore. We come to church when it's convenient. We pray when we're in a crisis and we need something. We obey if it doesn't like cramp our style too much, but that's not what God requires of us as men of God. That is not what it means to follow Jesus. I don't follow Jesus when it's convenient for me to follow Jesus. I don't have a Sunday morning faith, but no Monday morning faith. Our faith impacts all of our life.

Do you remember Jesus? He said, the greatest commandment in Mark. He said, is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength. Do you just hear the allness of all of that? Like there's no room. God doesn't want just a part of your life. He doesn't want just a piece of your soul, a piece of following. He wants all of it. Not even 90% is good enough. Not even 99% is good enough. He wants everything that he, which means that if I'm a follower of Jesus, then my whole life belongs to Jesus. My barriers belongs to Jesus. My business belongs to Jesus. My job belongs to Jesus. My schooling belongs to Jesus. My thoughts belong to Jesus. They're not my own. My sexuality belongs to Jesus. Everything, how I live when nobody's looking that all belongs to Jesus. It all belongs to him. So the question that we all have to answer is what does God not yet have all of? What does God not yet have all of in me? Is there any area that I haven't yet fully surrendered

to God, how I treat people? My words, what I'm looking at, what I'm watching, what I'm doing, is there everything? 'Cause wholehearted, wholehearted means there are no locked rooms in my life that Jesus doesn't have access to. Wholehearted means God, you got all my heart. Now let me just tell you something. That's a journey, right? For me, that's a journey. I gotta want that every day. I just can't want that when I was 25 and it's done. No, no, no. Every day, we gotta go every day, every day. And here's what I found, guys. I found that if I wait long enough, when I say God, is there any area of my life that I've kept closed off from you? Any area that I've not surrendered everything to you, if I wait long enough, he'll show me something. And if you wait long enough, he'll speak to you. And when he speaks to you, it's not because he's mad at you. It's not because he's frustrated with you. It's because that if you will open that area to him, he wants to step in and bless it. He wants to step in and bring freedom there. He wants to breathe life there, but you gotta open up to him and say, okay, all to Jesus, everything to him. Wholehearted.

I was thinking about this passage, and my mind went to a verse of scripture in 1 Corinthians 16, 13, where Paul says this. He says, "Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, When we say that out loud together. Be watchful, stand firm in the faith. Act like men, I love that passage, right? Be watchful, that first part means be on guard. Be alert. Peter says your enemy is like a roaring lion looking for whom he may devour so you better be on guard. Be watchful, stand firm in your faith. Don't move because culture moves. Don't give in because everybody else is giving in. Don't compromise because your friends are compromising. Stand firm in your faith. And as I was praying for you, I felt like the Lord clearly said, Todd, many of the men who will be with you tonight, they are not firm in their faith. Your faith is weak. Your faith should be stronger by now. Your faith is immature. Your faith will not hold up. Your faith will look like that bridge into coma, Washington. As soon as the pressures of life come or the peer pressures from other people come or the enemy starts attacking you, everything starts falling apart. He doesn't want you to live that way. He doesn't want your faith to be that way. He wants your faith to be more like the black box, which

is orange. He wants it to be solid. He wants it to stand strong and firm. Your faith has to be firm. Your faith has to be strong. In fact, let me tell you something that's happening this Sunday. This Sunday, Diesel continues. Diesel was too big to get into one night. So we've got Diesel Sunday coming up on Sunday, OK? So we're just going to carry it right over. My dad, Coach, is preaching a message. I'm sure there'll be something in there about football. But man, he's going to get us pumped up to be the men that we're called to be and what we've got to do. But after every service at your campus, we are having a guys gathering with your campus pastor in the teams. And the purpose of this is because in a setting like this, it's hard to get connected. But if you don't group up, you'll never grow up. Your faith will stay weak. Your faith will be anemic. It'll be just this little tiny thing that someone comes along and stamps on, it's done. So you've got to get around some other people whose faith is stronger. So we're going to show you how easy that is. We've got groups of guys that are playing basketball together and praying together.

We've got reading the Bible together, studying the Bible. We've got guys going out into the community, serving together, praying for people together. We've got some mission trips coming up to Honduras that you need to go on because you're not connected. And if you don't get connected, you're never going to be the man God has created you to be. And you might be here and you might say, well, Todd, I'm good. I'm already connected. Well, that's good. You need to show up on Sunday to help get the guys that aren't connected, connected, connected, right? So I'm asking, I'm asking, I'm asking, all of y'all, I'm asking, all of y'all to be back on Sunday, which you'll be back Sunday. But I'm asking you to go to your guys gathering at your campus right after the service. So tell your wife, tell your kids, hey, you're going to have to wait 15 minutes because I've got to go meet with my campus faster. This is too important. I want to grow up in my faith. First Corinthians 1613, be watchful, stand firm in the faith, and the last part is act like men. Act like men. Paul's saying, take responsibility, be a man. Quit blaming somebody else for where you are right now. Take responsibility, stop making excuses. Lead like a man. Serve like a man.

Keep your word like a man. Love your wife like a man. Love your parents like a man. Love your children. Lead your family. Ask forgiveness. Follow Jesus like a man. I want to look again at Numbers 1424 and then we're going to pray. This is important. Remember God says this, but because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, he says, I will bring him into the land that he went to and look at that. His descendants will inherit it. His descendants, his kids, and his grandkids got in on his spiritual blessing and inheritance because he kept the different spirit. He didn't have a contaminated spirit. And because of it, it rolled over to his kids. They got in on it. Can I tell you, your children and your grandchildren are going to eat the fruit of your spiritual life or die in starvation from the lack of it? And you get to choose. Say, I know, I know. I know today. I am eating fruit from trees. I did not plant. I am eating fruit today from trees that my father planted. Decisions that he made when I was too young to understand.

Decisions to follow Jesus. Decisions to build his life around the things of God and the ways of God. Decisions to honor my mom. Decisions not to quit and not give up when he had every My son, Jefferson, is eating the fruit from trees, from decisions that his grandfather planted. His daughter, Adeline, is gonna be experiencing and living off the fruit of that. Now, you get the opportunity to do the same thing. You get to do the same thing. There's decisions that I believe you're gonna make tonight. There's decisions you're gonna make tonight that is actually going to produce an inheritance that not only you get in on, but your kids and your kids' kids are gonna get in on it. And if you're here tonight and you're maybe thinking, "Dodd it's too late for me, man, I've blown it. "I've made so many bad choices and bad decisions. "I've left so much pain in the past listening to me." Because of Jesus, your story doesn't have to end like it is right now. No, no, no. By the grace of God, you can't rewrite yesterday, but you can rewrite tomorrow. You can say, "God, I'm making a different decision "with my life, and for the rest of my life, "you're gonna use it for your glory. "What decision do you need to make tonight? "What decision do you need to decide in your life

"that I'm gonna have a different spirit like Kaleb? "For some of you, your decision is, "I've been looking too much like the world, "following the world, and tonight, "I'm gonna make a decision to follow Jesus. "For some of you, you are a Gabriel story, "and you related to that story when he said, "Man, is there enough grace for me? "I wanna tell you, there is enough grace for you. "If there's enough grace for me, there's enough grace for you. "There's enough grace for all of us tonight. "And God welcomes us with open arms, "but you gotta run to him." (audience applauds) And so, kind of like Gabriel said, with no heads bowed and no eyes open, if you know tonight you need to make a decision. Like you know you gotta turn to God. You know that there's just like something where you're headed down the wrong path, and God is saying that tonight was for you to get your act together, to start living with a different spirit, start walking the ways I've got for you. If that's you tonight, I just want you to stand right where you are. It's not gonna be everybody, but you know it's you, like right now your heart's going like that. You just stand up.

(audience applauds) (audience cheers) Okay. (audience applauds) Anybody else, anybody else before we crank? I don't want you to miss out. Somebody else needs to stand up. Somebody else, you know it's you. You know there's one or two more, then you just go, "Okay, it's me, it's me, it's me, it's me." (audience applauds) So here's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna ask our prayer team and our pastors, if you'll just start making your way all around the sides of the building here and all the way in the front. And I want you to move out of your seat and come forward. I want you to actually move forward. Those of you up here just hang right here, we're gonna pray together. And I want you to pray. The Bible says we confess our sins to God, and He forgives us, but when we confess our sins to a brother, it actually brings healing to us. And so I want you to make your way forward. Come on forward. If you're standing right now, just make your way forward. Find somebody to pray with. Make your way up here, get with somebody.

We may have to pray with two or three, but we're gonna pray together. The worship team's gonna come and lead us in a time of worship. We are not done. (audience applauds) We are not done. This is the most holy part of the night. And so I'm gonna pray a prayer. Worship team's gonna lead us in a time of worship and response. If you're out there, you're praying over the guys coming forward right now. Father God, we thank you. That your grace is sufficient. We thank you. That God, every one of us can walk in a way, in a path that leads to life. I thank you for the decisions that these men are making right now. I thank you God that they're running away from the things of this world, and they're running to the things of God. I thank you that you are starting something new on the inside of them. I pray that God, you bring healing and strength and forgiveness and grace. I pray that God, what is old, will be left behind tonight, and they'll walk out of here with a different spirit,

a new spirit, a spirit that is in step with your Holy Spirit. It's in Jesus' name that we pray. And everyone say, "Come on, let's stand together and worship." Let's stand. Come on, worship. (audience applauds) (audience applauds) (audience applauds) [BLANK_AUDIO]