Let's Roll

Hello, hello friend. Thank you so much for tuning in here at Freelife Chapel where we help you discover and live the free life in Christ My name is Kati and I'm so glad that you're tuning in with us If you ever find yourself in the central Florida area come visit us. We want to connect with you face to face But until then visit our website freelifechapel.org to find out more about what's happening at your church There's a phenomenal message in store just for you. I hope you're encouraged Came into my office a couple of it's been a couple of weeks now and When I came in Somebody I saw something on my desk and I walked over getting closer and closer. I Saw Jesus in my office And I found out Jesus is really little Can you get that Little Jesus In case you've never seen these they're all over tik-tok They're all over Instagram like they like these little Jesus's are showing up everywhere and Jesus showed up in my office And I was kind of excited about that and so I've had I've had Jesus in my office, and I begin to think you know Jesus is I mean okay, so he's in this way. He looks little right there, but I'll tell you what makes Jesus little It's when I do this to him I Got Jesus locked up I've got a lid on his ability in my life and I'm not letting him out I Can see Jesus because I love him I Can stir Jesus up every now and then But I'm not letting him out. I've got him confined he could be more, but I've got a lid on his ability to move in my life and Therefore Jesus in my life in my marriage is small He's an accessory

Jesus is cute Look how cute Jesus is But he's limited It's a sad thing to think That You've got so much ability. I have so much opportunity But I still keep it so very small Today, I want to talk to you for a few minutes about breaking the stagnation in your life So that you can move forward It's time to leave here and go there. We see this played out in the book of Deuteronomy I'll set this up for you Moses goes and he gets Israel out of Egypt and they come across the Red Sea and God brings him to this mountain called Mount Sinai and it's it's on Mount Sinai where God's giving the Ten Commandments and and we have this this epic story going on the Golden Cap is at the bottom all of that's happening and and Moses comes down with it with the Ten Commandments and and he's there with the people and these people have been for Generations and generations. They've had a slave mindset They've been locked up in bondage for four hundred and thirty years their grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents had taught them how to think and act in that Mindset in that limitation that there's only so much I can do and then I'm stuck They had never experienced this level of freedom and love and opportunity before but now it's presented to them But they didn't know how to handle it they're so used to limitations and small thinking that they had never been here before and now the God of ever though about the universe had just spoken to them and given him his word and his plan and he said I've got a Promise land that I'm taking you to it's flowing with milk and honey. It's gonna be bomb y'all Reesey cups everywhere. This is what God is telling them and they're and

They're balking at it. They're they're stuck on it. And the Bible says in Deuteronomy chapter 1 verses 6 through 7 check this When we were at Mount Sinai The Lord our God said to us read this You have stayed at this mountain long enough It's time to break camp and move on Would you turn to a couple people and just tell him you've been here long enough. You've been here long enough I'm not talking about this service. I'm talking about your situation. Like I don't leave yet. We're almost done. We're not gonna be here long Understand where they were at Mount Sinai it was God's perfect will like God brought them out of out of Egypt to get to Mount Sinai. So there was nothing wrong with being there. There was just something wrong if they stayed there. Where you are right now, I'm not calling where you are bad. I'm not saying you're outside or you missed, what's wrong with you, that's horrible. I'm not saying that at all. You could be standing in a wonderful place, but I'm just here to tell you right now, it's not a place where you should be unpacking. You gotta realize that there's another step in my life I'm supposed to take. There's more on the way. My best days are ahead of me. God isn't finished advancing and upgrading my life. I'm going to keep moving forward. Don't stop, get it, get it. Like this is the mindset. Like I'm not, I've been living stuck. I've been living, watch this, comfortable. Quite honestly, if I'm gonna be honest,

I'm caught in a cycle. And this year looks like the past six years because I'm just doing it on repeat. I suck air, I pay taxes, I go to work, I clean the house. It's on repeat. I don't have anything new going on. There's nothing exciting. It's just me, here I am again, here I am again. I'm just caught in this routine. And God was saying, you trusted me to come out of Egypt. I need you now to trust me for the next step of your life too. There's still more to come, I'm not finished yet. Have you ever felt stuck? Have you ever felt frustrated with life? Empty? Not really excited about tomorrow? The next day, like the next big thing coming? Ladies and gentlemen, can I just make a public service announcement? Time and life are moving quick. Do you realize this is March of 2025? Give it three weeks and we're gonna see Christmas ads coming up on TV, really. Like, it won't be long now, it's on the way. Like, life is not waiting on anybody. It's moving. And you're not meant to stand in the same place and suck air. You were made to move into territories

you've never been in before, which means you gotta take some uncomfortable steps into some places and meet some people that it's not been familiar, but you gotta step into that world anyway, you're graced for it. God's hand is on your life to move you there. And until you go there, you're never gonna experience everything God has for you. For Israel, Mount Sinai, it became that cycle, it became that place where they were just hanging out. It was a place of comfort. We're just glad to be out of there and I'm just settling in here. And whether it was fear, comfort, or disobedience, all of that was keeping Israel from moving forward and God had to tell Moses, tell the people, pack your bags. I didn't bring you out to leave you here, I brought you out to take you in. Don't get comfortable while you're still in the process because here's what happens, when you and I begin to live caught in this cycle of frustration and emptiness and we got comfort going on and fear, I just can't do that, no, I don't know anybody, all that stuff is holding us hostage. It leaves us spiritually, emotionally, relationally, professionally stagnated.

And we're living life based on experiences and memories instead of dreams and expectations. We were made for more than where we are right now. And here's what's scary, this stagnated mindset that they had, that Israel had, this comfort, this love affair that they were having with, this feels so good, but we're just so glad to be here, oh my God, that world right there, it turned an 11 day journey into a 40 year delay. The promised land was literally 11 days that way. But because they were so enamored with comfort and I just want life to be nice and I just want it to be good, they weren't taking ground, they weren't really impressed with the promise, they just wanted comfort or they were afraid of a new step. They were missing on everything God had planned and the reason he brought them out of Egypt to begin with, the best was still ahead of them. Here's what I know, ladies and gentlemen, because I'm just like you, we waste time, money and excuses, protecting comfort, avoiding change and defending our disorders. We put different words on it. I'm no longer out of order, I just have a. Dysfunctional situation, yeah well I happen to be the funk in the middle of the dysfunction. This is this is how we begin to live and and and it's all going it's like it's like we keep putting thicker icing on burnt cake thinking

that it's going to get better. Well I'll just I'll just ignore it. Well I'm sure it's gonna be fine. Well I'm just gonna let it go. Well there's no sense in dealing with it and then all of a sudden when life gets worse and worse and the burnt taste keeps coming out in the cake then we begin to look to God and blame God. Why don't you fix this? Why are you letting this happen to me? And God's going kiss my grits. Well okay that's that's my interpretation. That's not I can't give you scripture for that. God's I've laid out ahead of you. Jesus said this, I died so that you wouldn't just have life but life more abundant. There's more out there. I didn't die for you to live in mediocrity. I didn't die for you to live in almost. I didn't die for you to live stuck and held hostage in a place called comfort. I died for you to take bold steps forward. Greater is he who is in you than the stuff that is around you. Step baby. Walk. Believe me. Trust me. Go get it. Don't stop. Get it. Get it. This is this is what God's message was to his people. The moment you decide to move ladies and gentlemen everything around you has to move with you. Everything begins to change and I need to lay this out because some of y'all going you know what you're right. I do need a different marriage. It's time to move. That's not what I'm saying here and don't go quitting your job. Now my pastor told me I got to move so I'm just getting I'm that's not what I'm saying. You don't need a different marriage but I will tell you this your marriage needs a different you. You don't need a different job but your job needs a different you. And the moment you change that's when things come alive and what you call a curse becomes a joy because you see it different. You feel it different. You're experiencing it different. You don't need a different church. You need a different church. You need to just engage in the one you're sitting in right now and you begin to get involved and you have this life-giving force of community around you that begins to feed you with joy and laughter and friends that are lifting. There is nothing like that in the end. This place was never intended to come on a Sunday and then jet as fast as you can. I'm glad you're here and it takes a minute to experience that but ladies and gentlemen this place was meant for community and to do life together and to

laugh together and be lifted together. Listen there's nobody in this room that's after your spouse. No, no, no. You can rest in here. There's everybody in this room. We don't want anything from you. We want everything for you. We want you elevated. We want God's best for your life. That's what this place is about and that's what the body of Christ is supposed to be. We need to change our minds so we can actually enjoy the life that we have right now. We've been here long enough. Let's roll. That's exactly what God's Word was saying. This is played out big time in the story of a guy named Abraham. Y'all know Father Abraham had many sons and many sons had Father Abraham and I am so right arm Father Abraham. Okay, yeah those are all the churchy people. Those are the churchy people. Got flashback. I start to twitch when I think about those days. This guy named Abraham. Abraham was like the father of our faith. We see in, in Genesis chapter 12 verse 1, a real popular scripture. If you look really close in the room someone's got it tatted on them somewhere I'll promise you but it says this in Genesis 12 1, the Lord had said. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Have you known it? How do you know that the word had said means past tense? I didn't realize this until I began to look into the Hebrew, the original language I began to see that I've always read it the Lord told him, the Lord said, the Lord had said. The Lord had said to Abraham go from your country, your people, your father's household to the land that I will show you. In this verse God did tell Abraham he said I need you to leave your crazy people. I know you have some crazy people in your family. I know you do. You one of them but in this situation God said I need you to leave them. Why? Because the place where that family was was in a place called the Ur of the Chaldeans and it was a massive place of paganism. Godlessness. In fact godless, little g, not big G but but little g. They had little gods everywhere and God said Abram I need you to come out of all of that godless influence and I need you to step into a new realm so I can do something with you that's going to transform From culture and humanity. I'm calling you out and that's that's what God but the Bible says that God had said Which means when we get to Genesis chapter 12, we're talking about a conversation that had already happened

So if I back up just a couple of verses earlier than that in Genesis chapter 11 we get a fuller picture as to what this is about Because before we get to this where we're reminded of what God told Abram We see where Abram has left Err, he left, you know how you spell er that that's like you are like they left er and they were traveling But watch this God had told him to leave your family What did Abraham do he brought his daddy? And he brought his nephew Yeah, yeah, it's really interesting here how he was trying to obey God on his terms I'm gonna I'm gonna do an almost obedience I'll give you I'll give you 70% of me And he was trying to barter with God and the Bible says that when they left He brought things with him that he never should have brought which was the influence that would hold him Hostage and The Bible says the Bible says in Genesis 11 Just before what we just read in Genesis 12, it says this read it with me But when they came to the city of Haran they settled there Instead put that map up put that map up. Let me let me take you to school real fast. Check this out Down here on the bottom right is where they started Err of the Chaldeans, that's where Abraham lived That's where his Torah family and all the paganism and the idols were and they traveled that red line all the way up You see Haran at the top That's where that's where this this verse is taking place. They're traveling Abraham got his daddy got his nephew got his wife all their kids They go all the way up to Haran and they were supposed to cross Haran and come all the way down here to where Jerusalem is into Canaan That was the promised land but the Bible says they got to Haran they got to the top part and stopped It's like we're almost and the Bible says that they stopped because Abraham's daddy's like I'm tapping out. I'm done. I'm hanging right here. I'm not going any further and

The promise given to Abraham because he took an influential voice with him Talked him out of going all the way He allowed a voice to change God's direction for his life and I will choose to stop Partially instead of completing fully what God said to do because voices determine choices You better be careful what your family tells you about Jesus Family can be one of the biggest draws on your life can be one of the biggest encouragers also But you better check your family better check your friends voices determine choices The people in your life the people that you hang with your posse just because you've been doing life with them for seven years Don't mean there's got to be ear number eight And I'm not saying they're bad I'm not saying that anything wrong, but if those voices are not encouraging you to go all the way in Jesus Ladies and gentlemen, they're a draw and they will leave you stuck in Heron and you'll go partway and you'll miss fully What God had planned for your life? There's more. Don't stop now. You got to keep moving. You got to roll It's time to pack the bags. I was made for more than where I'm living Do you know what Heron represents Heron was the midway point? Do you know what midway actually means in a word that we use all the time? Mediocrity in the middle I've settled for mediocrity. I'm not living in the best. I'm not where I was I'm not where I'm supposed to be. I'm just hanging out and now you're caught in a spin cycle of frustration I'm irritated life should be better and I know it should be better. I love God I want God's best for my life, but I'm hanging out and I'm making excuses right here for why I'm not walking in faith Why I'm not serving in the church why I'm not reading my Bible why I'm not doing my ministry Bible why I'm not worshiping why I'm not taking more steps in him I'm just making excuses because I got voices making me feel better about my mediocrity I've learned to live down to what they're saying instead of up to what his promises are and I came to ring the bell and Wake you up and tell you God's plans for you are greater than where you're living right now Do not stop partway go all the way and get everything God said you can have There's more there's more there's more Heron was holding Abraham him hostage. It had locked him down and he was living with halfway faith. It locked his

family down, locked his home down. But somewhere in there we got to decide that it's time to choose to really follow Jesus. I'm going to put my full weight on Him. I'm just going to, if His Word says that I'm going to do it, I'm going to commit. I'm here on Sundays. I don't have this thing down and I might even do it wrong, but at least I'm going to show up and just take another step. One step more than where I'm living right now. One step closer to the promise. I've got to step out of Heron to go towards the promise. I've got to change something in my life. You've got to get serious about getting a healthy home. You've got to go radical because I promise you comfort will try to hold you back and say it doesn't take all that. It's fine. You can get by. And ladies and gentlemen, inside of a home, nice is a dangerous word. You don't want just a nice home. You want one that's alive and growing and laughter and joy and hope. We need that, but it's one step beyond where you are right now. We've got to break out of that attitude that's real big in our culture and it's called an attitude of I. You ever heard of that I attitude? I. You got to live a rigorous life. I. I. I. You need Jesus. Oh I got him. Jesus can do great things. No, He's little in my life. He ain't doing much. We've got to get the lid off of it. You've got to let Him back out. You've got to, you've got to let Him become the Lord and the lead of your life. What's frustrating is to know more than what we're living. You see, the truth is none of us need God to come down, send angels and tell us anything else. We already know more than what we're living. You know how I know that? Someone could come and ask you, I just don't know what the next step for my life is. And you can give them 12 things to do that will move them towards Jesus, but you and I struggle with the top seven. If we would just follow what we already know. Abraham stopped short of his promise because his dad quit moving. The Bible says that his dad died at 205 years old. That's my goal. He died at 200, don't laugh, he died at 205 years old in Haran. Watch, in Haran, that's where his daddy died. And the Bible scholars will debate on this as to how much longer. It was years that Abraham stayed there and then he finally left and he went towards the promised land. In other words, watch this. Abraham, just like you and I, we don't leave a place of comfort until something dies in our life. Usually we make big moves after we got our heart broken. Why do we have to wait till we're disappointed before I decide to change something? The company's closing and they

just dropped all of us. And all of a sudden we're in church for the next four Sundays in a row. Jesus. What's amazing to me is Jesus isn't mad at that. He's okay with that. But it tells me something. He'll use the breakdowns in life in order to pry us out of a place where we're stuck. And I'm just refusing to move. And I love my comfort so much, I'm trading the promise for my comfort. I'm choosing to live as a hostage in Haran as opposed to a product of the promise. And I'm just trading it out and I can't figure out why life isn't working, why I'm not excited. Because I'm not moving. You've got to roll with life. You've got to go somewhere. The good news is this. When comfort dies, Jesus is there. This past Friday, there was a young man came walking in. He was in our first service. He came walking in the offices on Friday. He was driving by the property and something told him in his heart, go to that place. He drove in, drove around the property, found the offices, walked in the front door. Genesis met him there. He was emotional. He just knew he had to be here. Did the best thing in the world, got him with Pastor Freddy, the mayor of Free Life Chapel. He spent a few minutes with Pastor Freddy. The young man prayed, gave his heart to Jesus right there in the office. He was right here in that seat this morning in the nine o'clock service. He's so hungry for an answer. When life is falling apart and we run to Jesus. Something dies in my life, and we run to Jesus. He's there with open arms, and He doesn't have a scorecard. He's not throwing elbows or mad at you. He says, come on in here, I know it hurts, I love you. Did God cause the pain? Oh, no, no, no, God doesn't cause those pains, but He will use those pains for His glory and for our good. And when we just say, God, I need you, just like this young man, Sam, he stepped in. Not only was he here this morning, he came Friday night, single young man. He came to Love Lab because he just wanted to be around where people were,

because he needed community. Ladies and gentlemen, you're not built to do life alone. We need each other. We need a friend, we need a posse, we need a group. And if it's two, if it's three, but you need people to do your life with. You're not made to do it alone. You're not built that way. We're built for community. It was God's grace that evicted Israel from their mountain-sized comfort. And it was God's grace that got Abraham out of his half-hearted, that hostage situation in Haran. It broke him loose. In fact, we have a picture here on the rest of the verses. Deuteronomy chapter one, what we read in the beginning of today's message. Listen to how this plays out. Verse six, God talking to his people. You've been here long enough. That means you're made for more. I made you for more than staying here. Your best is in the future. Verse seven, it's time to break camp and move on. Somebody shout, let's roll. Verse seven, he goes on to say this. Go to the hill country. In other words, God wasn't saying, I'm gonna send you, but there's no plan. God's no, I've got a specific plan.

And if you read the rest of that passage, it was detailed. God is not guessing what to do with your life. And it's not a one-size-fits-all. He knows who you are, how he wired you, your talent, your ability, your personality, what makes you laugh, what your heart's after. He knows how to take all that and send you somewhere, not anywhere, not everywhere. Somewhere, it's designed, it's tailor-made just for you. That's his plan. It goes on to verse eight, he says this. Look, I am giving all this land to you. That word look doesn't mean just see it with your natural eyes. I need you to start dreaming about it and perceive it in your heart. I need you to get excited about it. Go, silky, silky, this thing is about to change in my world. My best days are coming. What's crazy is when your perspective changes, it doesn't matter what's happening out here. When that joy hits you, it elevates your life. Greater is he who is in me than the stuff that's going on around me. When that hits, ladies and gentlemen, all of a sudden your world is different. And then verse eight goes on and says, go in and occupy it. In other words, this is not just a pipe dream. It's not just a spiritual fantasy.

This is a real place I'm taking you to. You can live in it. You can live in a promise. You can flourish in the promise. The increase, the favor, the joy, the laughter, the dreams, the peace, the sleep at night, all of that is waiting for you, but it's one step beyond where you're standing right now. God's word was so specific to them. In fact, this message of roll with it, let's go, let's move, let's get up, activate, lead your life forward, this message is the message of the entire Bible. God was always prying people out of stuck places because God connected movement to miracles. Watch this. Israel was at the Red Sea, and they came up against the Red Sea. They just left out of Egypt. They're at the Red Sea. They're going, ah, and God said, quit crying and move. Literally, that's what God said, quit crying and move. But there's a circumstance, step in it. Step in the circumstance, I'll split it and get it out of your way, but move. They did, and God did. Stop crying about the circumstance, step. When you step, God moves. The miracle happens after you move. Okay, you don't believe me.

God gave Jacob a dream. He said, your uncle Laban, he's a scoundrel, he's a mess. You need to leave your uncle. Get up, pack up, and leave, and Jacob did. Esther, she was there for a purpose to approach the king and save her people, but she had to move to the king. The king didn't invite her in. She put her life on the line and took a risky step forward, only for God to sanction it and open doors. The miracle was on the other side of her step. If she hadn't have stepped, nothing would have happened, but because she did, God did, and everything changed. Oh, the same thing happened with a young girl named Ruth. She had to leave her home in Moab and she had to move to Bethlehem It wasn't until she got to Bethlehem that she met a guy named Boaz and all of a sudden we got all that love story Going on. What about the lame man? The lame man is approached. Jesus says you want to be healed? He goes. Yeah, Jesus said pick up your mat and walk pick it up and go you can't you know You can't stay here. Your healing doesn't happen here. Your healing happens as you go start walking What about the woman who was caught in adultery? Jesus gets on the ground with her protects her from all the idiots that were in the area the religious people throwing elbows and Jesus says I love you. I forgive you now. Listen get up go and sin no more The man with the withered hand. I'm sick Jesus. I have a condition. What do I do? I want you to do what you say you can't do. What's that stretch out your hand? You got to move Peter is out on the boat and he sees Jesus walking on water Peter goes Jesus Jesus goes come here Leave a perfectly good boat. Come here. You want to be where I am? Come on and Peter stepped out and Did what we still talk about this day is one of the most crazy miracles, but Peter had to step Jesus didn't come to him Peter had to go to him

Jesus looked at us. He looks at you and me today He said you weary You're tired You feel beat down Come to me All you who are weary and heavy laden. I will give you rest Rest is on the other side of your step It's not coming to you It's not You got a step We get so insulated in where we are and we so protect our excuses and We make cases for them and we hold on to them and we got reasons and I've got a right to be where I am You don't know what happened to me and you're right But you can live at that mountain or you can live hostage in here and all you want But if you want to get the promise of God Activated in your life. You've got to take a step towards the promise. You can't stay here God's love his grace his mercy Ladies and gentlemen all of that He's for you. And it's what got Israel out of off the mountain It's what got Abraham out of Heron and it's what's going to move you from where you are to where you need to be If you need a miracle you got to move If you wanted things to change you got a step You want the frustration to go if you're tired of being unfulfilled you've taught him feeling stuck. Let's roll. Let's go Let's go. We got to move it forward. Let me help you with this nothing moves until I move Nothing grows until I grow Nothing changes until I change. I think we want to say that together class. Are you ready? Nothing grows until I grow nothing changes

till I change nothing moves till I move That's life That's the reality I'm gonna keep him locked up Keep him small You're gonna oh Dito he's so cute My pet Jesus When I hit a really rough spot I'm gonna get him out. I Need you Okay, things are pretty good Don't play with him Don't leave him little let him rule your life and He'll move you from the mountain. He'll get you out of Heron and he'll get you fully in the promises Would you stand to your feet, please? You You're made for more than where you are and that's not a slam on where you are I Celebrate where you are Many of you are where you are right now. It took courage to get to where you are right now But can I tell you something? Where you are right now was yesterday's promise Where you are right now is tomorrow's past If you don't keep stepping you'll live in a past and repeat that past over and over if you don't step you'll always live in A past I've got to keep moving. I got to take one more step towards Jesus. I got to try again I got to show up on Sunday. I'm gonna hit the men's breakfast. I'm gonna do some life groups I just got I'm gonna step into this financial piece. I'm gonna I just got us. I've got to move my life

Whatever it takes we got to fix this house. I got to fix my mind. What help do I need? I can't stay here the rest of my life. I will not live It was a hostage. It's time to go. It's time to go. Father, thank you for your word that just irritates the hell out of our lives. You will not leave us where we are. You stir us, you prod us, you provoke us with your blessings and your grace and your mercy. You're not here to hurt us. You're here to advance us, to elevate our lives. And today, God, I pray for my friends in this room. Their hearts are beating 90 miles an hour. They know it applies to them and they don't like hearing it because they know it's the truth. It resonates on the inside. And I pray, God, that you would let this in the most beautiful, loving, godly way, let it haunt our hearts, I pray, and stir and provoke us to have conversations we've not been having and entertain thoughts of leaving that I've not had before. I've unpacked my bags and I've put pictures on the wall. It's time to take it down, pack it up, and get ready to go. I'm calling the U-Haul. I'm leaving here. I was made for more than this day. So, God, I pray your strength and your courage so that people will understand that there's a miracle

on the other side of this move. If we'll take one more step, we can have the best of what you promised. Love your people, guide your people, let them feel the peace, love, draw of your presence, I pray in Jesus' name. Amen, amen. Did I or did I not say you were gonna be encouraged? Yeah. Feel free to check out our website. For more encouraging messages. Until then, I hope you have a great day.