Get Your BUT Right

Hello, hello. Listen, I know you wanna check out this message, but before you do, I wanna invite you to come check us out in person. Here at Freelife Chapel, we're all about family and would love to connect with you face-to-face. So if you're ever in the Central Florida area, come check us out. Here at FLC, we wanna help you discover and live the free life in Christ. To learn more about who we are, what we do, and how you can be a part, check us out at freelifechapel.org. Until then, check out this message. Have you ever been in a fight? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. You ever been in an unfair fight? Yes. I'm not saying where you stacked it in your favor. I'm talking about where it's all on you, like it's unfair against you. Have you ever been in one of those fights? Some of you have heard me tell the story before and some of you haven't. So I just want you to know, I realize I'm repeating this story. Years ago when I was in high school, years ago, years and years, once upon a time, I was in high school. And I was a baseball guy. So I had my baseball letter jacket on because it was football season. And this is in Virginia where I went to and graduated high school. I'm at the football game, Friday night football game. It's cold in Virginia. And so I'm there and I wanted to get some hot chocolate. It's a good idea. And so I walked to the concession stand. I got my hot chocolate. And just walking the stadium, I was just moving, I was cold.

So I walked from our sideline over to got the hot chocolate. Decided to walk around the other side of the stadium. And when I was crossing behind the visitor side, there were some visitors that weren't happy that I was wearing my letter jacket on their side of the field. And so under the bleachers, because that's where I'm walking, I'm walking behind the bleachers. There was about four, I think it's four or five guys. They were all there, said, hey, Bobcat, that's who we are. Hey, Bobcat, what you doing over here? I said, I'm going to the other side. I'm just saying, what you doing on our side? You're on the wrong side, Bobcat. You're on the wrong side. And I'm like, oh, sugar. They said, you're on the wrong side. You're on the wrong side. And they begin to let me know very quickly. They were getting ready to give me a what for. Now, if you don't know what a what for is, they're about to open up a can on me, is what I'm trying to tell you. They started posturing around me and here I am under the bleachers. The game's going on, everyone's screaming. I'm over here by myself. All I got is some hot chocolate. And I realized I'm getting ready

to get my hiney beat right here underneath. Home field, this is really embarrassing. It was stacked. I mean, there was four, at least four. I'm sure there was like 75 waiting behind them, but there was four that were there. I'm like, are you serious? And so the only thing that came to my mind, it's all I had, it's all I had. It's embarrassing, I know, it's all I had. I figured, go hard. I said, okay. That's me getting forceful. I was scared senseless. That's fine, I took my jacket off. If we're gonna fight, God, I didn't wanna get my blood on my jacket. That'd have been really embarrassing. If we're gonna fight, I just need you to know something. What's up, Bobcat? I mean, they were bringing it, man. They had me shook. I said, somebody's gonna go blind in one eye. That's all I could come up with. The main guy leading this gang that was about to jump me, he said, what? I said, y'all may beat me down, but somebody's going blind. I'm pulling somebody's eye out, do you understand? And they're looking at me like, what in the world?

And I realized partway into it that it started to click a little bit and they were starting to buy into what I, yeah, that's right, somebody's going blind. And I'm walking around with my finger out, like I'm getting ready to, it's all I had. And the guy was like man you crazy that's right. I'm crazy One of the other guys was a man come on come on let him go it and I got that and they and they walked away And then I hit the ground and after I got back up and you know walk back to my side I never went under those bleachers again. I promise you that it's all I had. I was outmatched. I was outnumbered It was stacked against me. It wasn't good and all I could think of to fight with was my finger That's all that's all I had Philippians chapter 1 the Bible lays out and tells us that there's going to be some fights are going to go through in serving God There's going to it's going to hit in fact. Here's what it says Philippians chapter 1 verse 28 says this Don't be afraid of your enemies Always be courageous and This will prove to them that they will lose and that you will win read this with me Because it is God who gives you the victory your faith in Christ Doesn't repel it attracts opposition Because the Christ life is taking you somewhere and When you're moving forward and taking ground that is a threat to the enemy of your life and So opposition is the response opposition is educational. It lets you know you're going the right direction Not because you acting stupid. We I've had that kind of craziness, too But I'm talking about I'm doing what I can to serve God. I'm doing everything. I know to do to make things, right? I'm not perfect. I'm messing up. I'm falling down But man, I keep coming after him and when I get opposition and I get pushback whether it's in people whether it's in situations

Whether it's in my own Emotions and I'm just feeling heavy. I've got all this stuff like where is this coming from this this this fight is stacked against me It lets you know that you're not going the same direction of the enemy I'm going in the opposite direction of him and that is the right direction The enemy comes to disprove God's Word to turn God into a liar in your life His word doesn't work God failed you does it for everybody except for you? You can't put your full weight on God You can kind of sort of trust him maybe and if it goes through you can give him a thank-you But but you can't really fully trust him because he may not come through in your life And so the enemy the Bible tells us in John chapter 10. He comes to steal To kill and to destroy your hope your joy your faith your Confidence that's exactly what he's after in This opening verse it tells us don't be afraid of your enemies The reason it tells you don't be afraid of enemies is because enemies are coming But that's why he addresses it. So don't be surprised. Don't be shook Number two, he says this don't be afraid always be courageous That means fear is coming with it Fear fear is going to be one of those things that's going to hit it's going to attack your mind Intimidation anxiety of you're good. You're gonna feel overwhelmed. That is on the way. It's a tactic of your enemy It is his it is his desire to become so overwhelming that you bail out top out quit walk away You stop pursuing a future and you decide I'm just gonna hang right here. I choose comfort over growth That's what the goal is stop your advance and then that it finishes with what we read together and God will defeat your enemy and give you the victory. Does anybody like the idea that God does the fighting? That's right. Moses put it this way stand still and see the salvation of the Lord Stop trying to fight it yourself and let God deal with the situation There's a story in the Bible that just so aligns

With this that I want to kind of lean into and I want to look at the drama of this story the stories of a nation called Israel all that all these people they were in bondage in Egypt and God sends Moses in to go get him Moses go get my people and you know the story the ten plagues hit They're coming out. They face a Red Sea They go through that Pharaoh tried to chase them through it the waters close on top of them drowns them get to Mount Sinai Oh Ten commandments are given and then they're moving forward. All of this is happening They get to they get to the next place in their life where they're about to enter the promised land The whole reason God brought them out of Egypt was not to leave them in a Wilderness he brought them out to take them in someone say that he brought them out to take them in he brought them out To take them. He brought you out to take you in He didn't bring you out to leave you halfway mediocre kind of jacked up almost No, that's what not what you Jesus brings you out of where you were to take you all the way into his peace all the Way into his joy all the way into his blessings That's what he wants you to live in but there's gonna be some pushback. There's gonna be some opposition There's gonna be some giants Just like Israel experienced and the Bible says when they got to the edge of the promised land The whole reason that God brought them out and did all of those miracles brought them here And then the Bible says that there were 12 spies that were sent into the land go spy out the land find out what it is and the Bible says that Ten of them came back with a negative report and two came back with a positive report and the nation believed the negative report They went into fear Crying they wanted to go back to Egypt that they were they were a mess all this is going on and watch this Because of their disbelief in what God had promised them They actually went on a 40-year walking funeral God said this generation will die Everybody who's 20 years old and above Will die off before you get to come back and try it again

This is a this is a crazy story as to an almost moment that they could have had the best But they forfeited today. I want to talk to you about moving into your promise Moving into how do we navigate? Stuff that tries to keep us out of the best that God has for us, and it's locked up in this story The first thing I would tell you if you're going to get into your promise is you got to get your butt, right? Turn your neighbor tell him he's talking to you you need to listen right now. He's tough you need to get your butt, right? That's right Okay, so so so so so watch this watch this here we go Shemua Gadiel Nabi Shafet Godi Guell Igal Emiel Palti Sether how many of you have heard these guys? No That's the names of the ten guys that doubted God's promise And you've never heard a message preached on him. Have you? You don't see their names highlighted anywhere. Do you? No, because unbelief is not worth remembering Negativity is not something you celebrate You cancel it as fast as you can you walk around it you get it behind you because negativity and unbelief Disbelief and what God said will only rob still kill and build a lid on your life. There's some names. You've got to forget You and I if we're going to if we're going to embrace the promise there we've got to reject some limiting voices Anybody got no don't raise your hand. Don't don't we we've all had some limiting voices in our life. Sometimes we've been our own Limiting voice in our life the book of Numbers chapter 13 verses 27 and 28

These are the ten spies these ten guys that I just read from ten of the tribes of Israel. Listen to this Here's here's what it says about them. They gave Moses this account We went into the land to which you sent us and it does flow with milk and honey here is its fruit just like God said but The people who live there are powerful and the cities are fortified and very large we even saw descendants of a neck there These these ten spies they start talking about it's just like God said and Then he put a big butt Right in the middle of something they shouldn't had That they broke down they stated what God did threw their butt in the situation and Then they went scary negative another watch watch watch first the land is just as God said But we saw Giants too big for us. Let me help you with this but Can be a conjugation but in this stead in the in the original language in the Hebrew the ancient Hebrew. It's not just a conjugation, it's a statement. I need you to understand this. The root word of this word that they use here for but, it means to fail, to end, and to bring to nothing. In other words, their but, it cancels, it cancels the first point and it emphasizes the second point. God, everything he said is true. But, canceled, fail, not gonna work. There's giants in the land. Man, that would have been nice wouldn't it? God screwed up. Man, God almost had us there. Ditto. This is, this is where, this is what the spies were, begin to tell, and they're reporting this throughout the camp. The ten spies had a but so full of unbelief that they convinced the entire nation to reject God's promises. They convinced the entire nation that God wasn't able to finish what he started. That's, that's the power of influence of somebody's voice in our life. Someone who says, no, I've seen something you haven't seen, God isn't able. I saw how big it was, you haven't seen it, God can't do it. And if you and I are not careful, we'll depend on somebody else's testimony about God's character to allow it to decide what our

future is. And you've got to be able to pull that mess down, because all that is is their butt talking. Turn to your neighbor and tell him, you got to get your butt right. Tell him, you got to get your butt right, you got to get your butt right. I mean you, you need your butt right, because watch this, your spouse is listening to you. You better get your butt right, because your kids are being influenced by what you say about God. You, you better get your butt right, because there's co-workers that know that you love Jesus, but how you handle your butt is going to determine whether they can buy into who Jesus is or not. You and I are to be that living testimony, but if your butt gets out of order, we're going to build a lid on not just our life, but somebody else's too. This is what the two faith-filled spies did. In Numbers chapter 13, verse 30, here's what the Bible says. By the way, Caleb and Joshua were the two guys of faith. Anybody ever heard of Caleb and Joshua? Heck yes you have, because you celebrate people with faith. That's who they are. Here, here's what they said in Numbers chapter 13. Caleb calmed down the crowd. He said, chilleth out. Hold on. Here, read this with me. Let's go and take the land. I know I can do it. The people were freaking out. These ten spies came back throwing their butt around. The people were scared, and just the Bible says they were crying, they were screaming, I mean they were a train wreck, and Caleb steps in and goes, y'all, stop. Time out a minute. Hold on. We were there too. We saw it too. Do you understand? When they came back, when they came back from spying out the land, they were in the land for 40 days. They didn't take a 30-minute tour. 40 days of spying out the land, and when they came back, the Bible says that the fruit in the land was so much that it took two guys with a pole to bring back one bunch of grapes. They're like holding one grape with two hands, and they're whole facing a daggone grape. The fruit was crazy that was hanging inside the place. It was everywhere, and Joshua was like, y'all, do you understand the grape jelly in that place? Like you, we got to get in there. Begin to push back, and what he began to do then was give hope back. Can I tell you something as Christ followers? If we're gonna get into our promise, we need to begin to speak with hope and speak with life and speak

beyond just what I feel and what I see. You're gonna be confronted what he said or what you see, and you gotta begin to speak God's Word over your situation or that God is good and he's able to do what he promised. If you're gonna butt into something, do it right. Get your butt in order. In other words, after someone finishes talking about their giants, remind them this, but our God is greater. So you gotta get your butt right. You gotta get your butt in order, and it begins to change everything. You got some bad, I've got bad news, but I need you to add to it, but God will make it all work for my good. You gotta tag it, you gotta you gotta finish it with the right butt. After fear and anxiety hits your heart, but Jesus is my peace and Jesus is my joy and Jesus is my hope. You've got to speak back to these things and you got to put it back in order. You got to slap that problem with the butt and finish it by declaring God's promises. We got to get it right because we can't just let that report linger. It deserves a response, but if we get it out of order we'll kill our opportunity to keep moving forward. If you're going to get into your promise, number one, you got to get your butt right. Number two, you got to choose the grapes over the Giants. You got to choose what you're going to focus on, the grapes or the Giants. Are you going to focus on it's just the way God said, let's get it. Or are you going to be, oh my god we can't do that, it's just too much, I'm just going to hang here. You're going to have to decide what your response is because it's based on your focus. In fact, you've heard me say it but it's so true, whatever you focus on becomes the biggest in your life. You focus on the problem, oh it's only going to grow. It went from a speed bump to a mountain because you kept focusing, you kept obsessing, you kept thinking about it, you started adding layers to it. All of a sudden, you got a headache, oh my god I'm sure this is something more than a headache, I'm sure it's more than a headache, like oh my lord. And all of a sudden you have run down the road and like they're doing a lobotomy on you next week. As far as you are concerned, you're googling this thing now, you've got all the diagnosis over here, you're calling everybody you can think of. It's amazing what happens when you let your

mind run without a stop on it. Whatever you focus on becomes the biggest. You can obsess over the problem or you can start moving into your promise but you can't do both. And you and I've got to decide, is this marriage a problem or is it going to be a miracle? You've got to decide. Is God finished? Is my way stuck? Am I done? Am I over? Or is my life about to be a miracle that people are going to say I can't even believe that you're here right now? The truth is, there's people that can't even believe you're here right now already anyway. You don't even deserve to be here but God has been good to you. God has been faithful. We're living experiences. We're living miracles in this. And Numbers chapter 13 verse 30, continuing with this story, look at this. In fact, read this with me. This is so important. Listen to what these people said. These are the ten spies. Here's what they said, read it. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers and so we were in their sight. Oh, men of faith. The ten went in and they — when Caleb spoke back, said, no, no, no, y'all don't understand. Wait, wait, wait. The land is good. We can take it. Let's go. Let's get — bowed it, bowed it. We can take this thing right now. He was jumping. He was ready. Caleb and Joshua were side-by-side ready to take the whole place on. And all the ten spies, when they heard Caleb and Joshua speak in faith, it made them angry. It's crazy how you can talk in faith and people don't like it. It's crazy. When you can, like, try to give some hope to somebody and they're mad because you ruined their pity party. They were having a great time. And, oh, you don't even care about me. No, I do care about you. Not to leave you in this thing. I'm not here to pet you. I'm here to pry you out and get you down the road into your future. So how about some love and some truth and some life? Let's go, boo. Let's go. They come. They're giving this hope. And all of a sudden, these ten begin to speak up. And now they're fighting with Joshua and Caleb. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, here's one for you. We are as small as grasshoppers. And guess what? The giants thought we were, too. So you're now interviewing giants and you're asking them what the opinion is about you? No. You see, this is what happens. We begin to think, I'm too small to win and the enemy of my life feels the same way. The moment you buy into that grasshopper syndrome, all of a

sudden, you are living totally defeated and the enemy has to do nothing else in your life. You bought his lie. You bought his growl. He built a facade and you bought it. You didn't even try it. Instead of believing God's promise, I bought the enemy's facade. I didn't even talk to him, but I decided for him that I'm not able. God's not able. The issue's too big. It's beyond my ability. And all of this, all this evidence begins to build a case against God. They were, they so lost sight of God that they forgot the giants weren't their problem. The giants are God's problem. Would you tell somebody your issues are not? Would you just tell them that your issues are not your issues? They belong to God. No, you gotta stay engaged, you're there, you got a front row seat to watch it happen. But God is gonna get involved, God will fight the battle, God is the one that defeats enemies and gives us the victory, that's what his word says. In fact, I got a question for the 10 spies, I mean, here they're just ranting and raving over how bad things are right now, but I wonder, who was the one who promised you a land foaming with milk and honey to begin with? I think it was God, I think it was God. And how did you get out of Egypt? I'm just curious about that. Oh, it must have been God. And when you got to the Red Sea and it was impossible and it parted and you walked through on dry ground, who did that thing for you? Oh, that was God. Oh, and who was it that stood on the top of Mount Sinai and made a covenant with you? You heard his voice talk to you and he made promises to you, oh, that was God also. Who was it that made a rock give you water in the desert so that you wouldn't dry, oh, that was God. Who was it that rained manna out of the sky every day to feed and sustain you, oh, that was God too. When you got tired of manna and you cried and complained, who gave you quail to eat

that was just dropping out of the sky? It was, then the same God who did all of that is the same God who can handle this situation. Don't forget where he brought you from. Don't forget his faithfulness in your life. It's amazing how we can just so quickly forget. And I've got news for you. If God did that, then he can do it here again. I'm going to say it again. If God did it, if God did that, then he can do it here again. How many of you have a giant you need God to take out of your life right now? You got an issue. You got something. Yeah, okay, okay. You got a giant killing business. You didn't get yourself here. God did it. God's the one that has sustained you. The giants are his. The grapes are yours. The giants are his. The grapes are yours. Get your eyes back on the promise. Get your eyes back on what he said. Get your eyes back on the outcome and where your head, you got to reset your focus and trust him. Number three, if you're going to move into your promise, not only do you have to get your butt in order, and not only do you have to start focusing on the grapes instead of the giants, you need to stay spicy, my friend. You got to live on that edge. Let me just finish with this.

You never give up on your promise. I dare you to get two handfuls of it, reach up and bite it as hard as you can, and hold on for the ride. I'm not letting go. God called it a promised land, not a probable land. It's not, it might, it might not, we got a 50-50 chance, it's according if the giants are strong. God never consulted the giants to decide if that land could be yours or not. In fact, before all of this happened, God promised in Exodus chapter 23, he said, I need you to know something, when I take you into the land, there's going to be an angel that will precede you. And as the angel precedes you, I just need you to know when you run into giants in the land, I'm going to send hornets ahead of you, and I will let the hornets drive out the giants from before you. It was never God's intention for them to deal with one giant they were looking at. God said, I've already given you the plan, but you forgot what I told you. I didn't send you there and try to start figuring things out. The fact that you are where you are is proof that I've been working in your past, I got you in your present, and I can sustain you in your future. Everything is going to be all right. You can rest, you can laugh, you can smile. The same God is working on your side. Joshua and Caleb, man, they were the only two spies that were allowed to enter the promised land. The only two. You want to read, you want to read some heavy words, Numbers chapter 14. God said, all y'all, all y'all can kiss my grits. That's my interpretation, all right? That ain't Hebrew, that ain't Greek, that's Polk County. All y'all can kiss my grits.

I did all that, and you get here, standing at the door of everything I brought you out for, and now you're questioning whether I'm God, whether I'm good, whether I'm able, if I forgot anything. You're going to question me now? And He said, I tell you what, all y'all above 20. Forty years forty years One year for every day you walked in the promise, but you rejected it You'll walk until this whole generation dies It's gonna take 40 years, but all y'all 20 and under you got round to learn from what your parents screwed up Learn from their lack of faith learn from their rejection. They learn from them. Don't don't don't take on Oh, there's look there's I've learned some amazing things from my family. I've learned amazing things from out there. I'm grateful for my parents I'm grateful for their faith, but ladies and gentlemen There is a place you're gonna have to as for me in my house And you got to re-up and rise there's some things we learn to do Some things we learn not to do and we take those steps forward into the future God said all y'all are gone But here's what's beautiful. Here's what I love. Here's what I love that. I mentioned. I love this. I love this When God said all y'all can kiss my grits you're out of here 20 and under you'll come in in 40 years When he made that statement God said wait, in fact, let me read it for you Numbers chapter 14 verse 23 and 24 This is God talking none of those who treat me with contempt will see it the promised land But Oh God's got a big old but to y'all understand that mm-hmm, but Because my servant Caleb has a different attitude and has wholeheartedly followed me I'll bring him to the land. He already explored his Descendants will possess it You see when you choose right Even when folks in your life may back decisions you feel like that it's put a delay in your life God is still good to his promise

You keep a right heart. You stay focused on him. You keep trusting him and God will make it all work for your good in fact The Bible gives us the account in the book of Joshua That they came back around 40 years later. And now Moses did not go in but Joshua is the leader and now the Bible records a story where Caleb goes up and talks to Joshua Caleb at this time is 85 years old He ain't no spring chicken He's got some experience under his belt, but the Bible says and it records their their conversation Caleb walks up Give me my mountain and Joshua did It's yours. Go get it and Joshua climbed that mountain and he took over what he saw 40 years earlier No one was able to cancel his promise from God and he got his hands on it and he built the lineage In fact, it wasn't just for Caleb, but all of his descendants ladies and gentlemen You're fighting a war and you're fighting for something much bigger than you your kids and your friends and your family are watching They're going to inherit the things the ground that you're taking. It's important It's critical that you and I stay in the fight and keep trusting God stand to your feet if you would stand to your feet if you would You can get your promise you can get in there you can experience it all But you got to understand there's going to be pushback and I just got I need to make this announcement to you When Giants show up in your life, it's proof that you have arrived to a promise Giants are not there to prevent you from anything They're there to prove to you and mark that you made it now. It's time to go in and get it You don't lock doors on places that have no value You only meet opposition when someone's afraid you're going to get into what's good and there's a real enemy in your life that will push back because if you ever get a taste of what God is promising you What he's bringing in your business what he's going to do with your children how he's going to turn this marriage around Peace that's about to rush to your heart gonna amaze the doctors. They're not going to understand How do we explain this the x-ray showed this but now the end is showing that how do you describe that because God is going?

To get involved and he's going to turn this old. God's got a big old butt Oh, yeah, and he's going to throw his butt into your situation and make it work for your good. He's good to his word Gotta trust him Don't be afraid of your enemies Always be courageous and this will prove to them that they will lose and that you will win because it is God's Who gives you? the victory Father thank you For your hope your life your joy your word That pushes us out of where we are into everything. We're supposed to have I Will not live down to emotions. I will not live down to negativity I will not let your promise be canceled by somebody else's bad situation. No, no, no. I'm looking to you I'm trusting you I didn't get where I am because of my power of my ability and I won't make it into the next season because of my Power and my ability the Giants are your issue. The grapes are mine So I'll keep my eyes on what you promised so I can have it all today God. I trust you We're coming after you and I'm asking God that you would invade hearts and minds You would bring hope alive that people would find a joy and a strength even in the struggle even in the struggle We'll find a way to smile big and find our laugh again knowing I don't have to understand how it's going to happen in Order to know that it will happen Because you're one that promises and when you promise Your word says you're not a man that you should lie. You don't have to repent You don't have to back up if you said it it will happen. It will take place today We honor you and celebrate you and thank you for the promise that we're about to step into our best days are ahead of us We will not quit now God encouraged my friends in this room and online I thank you that as we walk with you our best days are unfolding ahead of us in Jesus name Everybody said amen. Amen Amen, amen We hope you enjoyed this message to hear more impactful messages

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