Staying In The Right Environment

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If you 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.880 enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.600 share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:48.080 put God's very best in your life. 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.360 Oh God, bless you. It is always a joy that 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:58.400 coming to your homes. 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.720 We love you and we know that God has good 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.360 things in store for you. The Bible says when you 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.720 draw night of God, he will draw night a you. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.520 I believe you're doing that today. And when you do that, 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.320 God talks about when we obey him, his blessings will 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.079 chase us down and overtake us. And that's what we're 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.000 believing for each one of your lives. And we're so 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:18.880 glad to have you. If you're ever in our area, 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.400 please stop by. We'd love to have you at a service. 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.880 We'll make you feel right at home. I like to 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.760 get started each week with something kind of funny. And 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.799 of course these are not doctrinally correct, but I did 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.800 hear about this minister. He was standing in line at 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.400 the Pearly gates and in front of him was a 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:38.160 guy dressed in a loud T shirt, blue jeans, and sunglasses. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.160 Peter came up and said, okay, who are you? He said, 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:45.480 I'm Joe Cohen, taxicab driver, New York City. Peter checked 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.960 his list, and he then handed him a silk robe 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.960 and a golden staff and said, welcome to Heaven. The 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.639 minister stepped up next, and he said, I'm Reverend Joseph Snow. 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:59.160 I'm the pastor of Saint Mary's Cathedral. Peter checked his 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.960 list and he handed him a cotton robe and a 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:02.760 wooden staff. 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:04.440 He said, hey, wait a minute. 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.600 The taxicab driver got a silk robe and a gold staff. 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:08.760 How could this be? 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:11.760 Peter said, well, sir, up here we work by results. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.200 And when you preached, people slept, But when he drove, 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:20.360 people prayed. Hold up your bibles and say it like 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.919 you mean it. Are you ready? This is my Bible. 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.040 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.760 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.600 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:36.160 of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:41.080 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.840 God bless you. I want to talk to you today 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.360 about the importance of staying in a healthy environment. 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.320 The environment that we choose to live in is. 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.440 Going to have a great impact on whether or not 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.920 we fulfill our God given destiny. And we have to 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.480 understand that God has created each one of us. 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.560 To live a life of victory. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:07.880 He has preprogrammed us before the foundation of the world 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:12.360 to be successful, to be happy, to be fulfilled, to 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.200 be a blessing to others. But if this is going 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.719 to happen, we have to put ourselves in an environment 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.880 that's going to help release the productivity and release the 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:27.520 potential that's on the inside. You have seeds of greatness 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.479 put in you by the creator of the universe. But 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.080 the only way those seeds are going to take root 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:36.200 and really begin to flourish is if you can stay 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:40.359 in a healthy environment. And by our environment, I'm talking 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:44.520 about the things that influence us, what we watch, what 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:48.960 we listen to, and more specifically, our friends, the people 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.440 we choose to spend our free time with. I think 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.320 we'd be amazed at how much these things affect us. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.280 And the Scripture says in Proverbs thirteen, verse twenty, if 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:03.560 you walk with wise men, you will become wise. In 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.960 other words, that's saying we are going to become exactly 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:11.440 like the people that we continually associate with. If you 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.120 want to see a picture of your future, just take 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.240 a good look at your friends. If you're hanging around 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:21.680 people that are negative, people that are selfish, people that compromise, 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:26.080 people that are loosing their morals, well, unfortunately, there's a 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.800 good chance you're going to become just like them. Our 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:33.400 environment is extremely important. I think about Sampson. He hung 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.000 around with the wrong people, and he thought that he 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.760 was strong enough to overcome. He said, hey, I'm just 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.160 having little fun, it's not hurting anything. 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.280 Leave me alone, and sure. 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.280 He got away with it for a little while, but 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.719 eventually his environment caught up to him. 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:49.719 Eventually it destroyed him. 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:54.600 See, our environment can corrupt us, and our environment can 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:58.520 confuse us. That happened to the prodigal son. He came 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:02.200 from a good family. He started making poor choices, and 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.880 he ended up in the hog pen feeding the hogs. 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.960 And as he sat in that environment, he got confused 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.960 as to who he was, so much so that he 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.719 started eating the hogfood. It's because he was in the 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:20.919 wrong environment. Now, our environment can restrict us. If we 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.719 take a tree and plant it in a pot, it 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.960 can only grow as large as the root system grows. 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.559 It may be a huge oak tree, but as long 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.719 as it's being restricted by that pot, it will never 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.159 become what God created it to be. And some of 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.559 you today you need to get out of the pot 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:43.240 that you're in. You're hanging around with small minded people, 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.240 people that are telling you what you can't do and 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.160 what you're not going to become. Listen, you've got to 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.120 get away from that junk or that's going to restrict you. 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.560 Don't hang around with sloppy people, or you're going to 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.919 end up being sloppy. Don't hang around with lazy people 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.600 and people that take the easy way out, you'll end 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:05.080 up doing the same thing and on a regular basis. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.600 We need to evaluate our friendships. 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.280 And if you find that you're associating with people that 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.360 don't have any dreams, people that are not going any 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:19.560 place in life, please recognize their influence can keep you 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.600 from being all God's created you to be. And they 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.520 may be good people, they may not even realize they're 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.880 doing it. And I'm not saying to be rude and 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.440 just blow people off, but I am saying that we 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:31.560 shouldn't spend a lot. 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.960 Of time with them friends. Life is too short to 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:36.280 be dragged down by. 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.600 Other people, and we already have enough battles to fight 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:41.440 without choosing the wrong friends. 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:43.480 We need to be very. 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.240 Selective when it comes to who we spend our time with. 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:50.240 Be very careful with whom you eat lunch with every day. 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:54.080 Don't just take that for granted. Ask yourself, does this 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:55.960 person have the qualities that. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:56.560 I really want? 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.680 Do they inspire me to rise higher, challenge me to 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.960 do better? Are they a person of excellence? Or do 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.920 they just drag me down and cause me to compromise, 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:10.400 cause me to be negative. No, Remember, they're gonna rub 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.480 off on you. And that means you shouldn't sit around 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.600 at lunch every day with a group of people that 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.760 complain about the company and gossip about the balls and 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.880 talk about this person and talk about that person. Know 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.119 that junk is gonna poison you. And if you stay 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.640 there long enough, you're gonna end up just like them. 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:33.800 We have to understand our environment will change us before 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:38.440 we change it. That means we need to put ourselves. 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:38.960 In a different environment. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.679 Now, you say, Joel, I can't help what they say. 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.520 I can't make them do what's right. I understand that. 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.160 But you can choose where you sit. You can choose 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.400 to drive down to the park and eat lunch. You say, Joel, 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.480 if I do that, I may not have any friends. 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.280 I may not have anybody to eat lunch with. Well, 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.880 let me tell you, I'd rather go through a season 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.280 of being lonely in my life than to allow somebody 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:07.000 to poison me and keep me from fulfilling my God 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.480 given destiny. And the Bible talks about one of the 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.600 things that God dislikes the very most is someone that 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:19.560 sows discord, someone that's always stirring something up. In other words, 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:23.720 a troublemaker. They'll take the smallest things, blow it way 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.560 out of proportion and end up making a big deal 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:26.920 about it. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:27.880 That's a troublemaker. 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.680 If you're around somebody like that, or somebody that starts 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.240 to talk about a person, first thing you should do 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.000 is try to put a stop to it. Just say, hey, 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.480 instead of talking about them, why don't we pray for see, 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.920 take up for them, believe the best in them. And 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.720 if they wan't do that, if they continue to talk, 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:47.760 the next thing you should do is just find the 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:51.200 nearest exit, just walk away, and you can do it politely. 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.200 Just say, excuse me, something has come up that I 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.720 really need to take care of. Well, you say, Joel, 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:58.960 wouldn't that be lying? No, you do have something to 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.240 take care of. You need to take take care of yourself. 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.560 You are a temple of the ghost I God. 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.680 Let me tell you your ears are not garbage cans 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.439 to fill with all kinds of gossip and who did this? 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:12.679 And can you believe that? 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.560 No, don't allow other people to contaminate you, change your environment. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.439 You are controlling your own destiny. And let's not kit 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.960 ourselves to think that we can just sit there like 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.080 old Sampson and think that it's not influencing us. 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.600 We're being influenced, whether we realize it or not. 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:34.040 The scripture says in One Corinthians fifteen thirty three, bad 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:39.040 company corrupts good character. That means our good is not 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.880 going to necessarily rub off on them. They're bad is 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.559 going to rub off on us. And again, we can 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.720 do it politely, but we need to learn to distance 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:53.199 ourselves from that junk. Distance yourself from contaminating influences. One 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.439 thing Victoria will tell you is I want to listen 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.199 to junk. If you know something bad about somebody, I 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.040 don't want to hear it. Tell me I need to pray, 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.160 and that's enough. But I don't want to be a 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.480 part of gossip. And I'm asking us today to put 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:10.640 ourselves in an environment so that we can grow. This 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.400 may mean that you have to eliminate a few friendships. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:14.920 It may mean that. 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.920 You can't play on that ball team that's always partying 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.880 after every game and causing you to compromise. It may 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:25.160 mean that you can't ride with that car pool, that 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.600 group that poisons you to work every day anymore. Well, 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.920 you say, Joel, they're good Christian people. They go to 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.199 church every Sunday. Now you know what I found. Some 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.440 people don't want to go as high as I want 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.280 to go. Some people want to do just enough to 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:43.599 barely get by. And they're good people, but they'll compromise 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:45.840 left and right, take the easy way out. 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.719 And that's fine for them. But I'm talking. 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:52.240 About reaching your highest potential. I'm talking about experiencing God's 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:53.040 abundant life. 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.719 And if this is going to happen, if I can be. 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.560 Real honest with you, You're gonna have to eliminate the 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.439 toxic people from your life. Eliminate the people that are 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.720 poisoning you, Eliminate the people that are dragging you down. 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.920 Listen, you are a child of the Most High God. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.600 You have a destiny to fulfill, you have an assignment. 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:16.079 There's something God wants you to do. Your attitude should 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.920 be I'm on my way somewhere. Don't poison me with 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.200 that junk, don't try to drag me down. I'm going 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.840 to fulfill my God given destiny. Well, you say, Joel, 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.439 If I do that, I'm afraid I may hurt some feelings. 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.120 I'm afraid I may get some people upset at me. Well, 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.520 you have to ask yourself, do you want to please 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:34.640 people or do you want. 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:35.240 To please God? 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.320 And yes, you may ruffle a few feathers and you 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:42.160 may have to spend a few months being lonely, But 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.040 what if they keep you in a lifetime of mediocrity? 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.880 What if they keep you from fulfilling your call? Friends, 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.439 you cannot soar with the eagles as long as you're 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.400 pecking around with the chickens. And some of you today, 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:58.240 if you don't make some radical decisions to put yourself 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.080 in a better environment and to get rid of all 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:05.160 these contaminating influences, then you're never going to become all 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.760 God's created you to be. And what a shame that 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:11.000 would be. That's why I'm challenging us to take the 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:15.559 necessary steps to eliminate the negative influences in our lives. 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:19.400 Let's put ourselves in an environment so our seeds of 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.880 greatness can really begin to grow. And when we do this, 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.079 at first, you know it's kind of uncomfortable. But let 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.480 me tell you, God seize it. And I found you 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.040 never give up something for God without him giving you 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.679 so much more in return. You may have to give 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:34.640 up a few friendships and you think, man, I'm going 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.400 to be lonely. No, listen, God will give you new friends, 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.480 He'll give you better friends, He'll give you people that 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.120 inspire you to rise higher. 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:45.160 For one thing I've learned is you cannot help a person. 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:49.319 That won't separate themselves from a toxic environment. And I'm 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.600 not saying that we shouldn't be friendly. I do my 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.520 best to be friendly to every person I meet. Doesn't 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.880 matter who they are. They can have every bad habit 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.760 known to man, they can compromise left and right. But 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.080 you know that doesn't stop me from smiling, being friendly 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.000 and challenging them to rise higher. 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:05.920 See. 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.719 I can be friendly, but when it comes to being friends, 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.960 when it comes to spending time together and coming over 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.880 to my house and interacting with my family, that's a 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.880 different story. I can be friends from a distance all 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.600 day long. But if they run around on their spouse, 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:23.800 let me tell you, we're not gonna hang out together. 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.920 Or if they're not honest in their business dealings, we're 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.360 not gonna pow wow around. If they can't control their temper, 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:32.800 they can't control their mouth, you're not gonna see me 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.760 being buddy buddy with them. And it's not because I 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.520 think I'm too good. It's not because I'm just too 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:42.880 self righteous. No, it's simply because I understand this principle. 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.400 I understand no matter how strong I think I am, 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.160 if I hang around with them too closely, too often, 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.320 they have the potential to drag me down. They have 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.320 the potential to pollute my life. I don't even want 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.680 to give that junk a chance of rubbing off on me. 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.920 I have a destined to fulfill. I have an assignment. 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:03.880 Each one of you do as well. 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:05.800 And I'm not. 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:09.400 Saying that we should just isolate ourselves and not have 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.320 any contact with anyone that has a bad habit or 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:13.440 anyone that needs help. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:14.080 Of course not. 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.840 The Bible talks about how Jesus was a friend of sinners. 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.920 He was always reaching out to help people in need. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.280 He went to eat with some of the worst ones 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.680 of his day. But when it came to the ones 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.400 Jesus chose to live with day in and day out, 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.680 to eat with, to travel with, to sleep with, those 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:33.120 were his twelve disciples. 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.120 Those were his closest friends. 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.080 And sometimes I hear people say, well, I'm just hanging 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.640 around with him to try to help him, try to 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:41.040 get his. 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:42.040 Life on the right course. 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:43.240 And that's good. 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.760 We should mentor people, we should be good examples, but 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.440 please don't use that as an excuse to compromise. 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:50.640 Well, I'm just. 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.080 Gonna go party with everybody after work because I'm trying 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.800 to be a good influence on this guy. No, a 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.520 better influence would be to take a strong stand and say, 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:00.680 you know what, I'm not going there with you. I'll 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:02.960 meet you some other time, but I'm not gonna put 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:04.560 myself in that kind of environment. 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.960 And a good rule is as long as. 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:11.680 You are affecting them and they're not infecting you, then 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:15.359 it's okay. But the moment you realize that you're compromising 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.560 and they're starting to rub off on you, you're gonna 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:18.520 have to make some changes. 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.920 And I know some of these things we don't have 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:22.560 a choice. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.760 You may be married to somebody that's very negative and 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.920 somebody that's always dragging you down, and I'm not saying 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.840 to go get rid of that person. Some of you 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:33.880 have never looked so happy. You think you've got the 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:38.160 word that you needed today, Joel told me I'm gonna 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:42.320 go get rid of this old goat man. No, a 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:46.960 marriage is a different situation, or maybe you work besides 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.400 somebody that's a bad influence and you can't help it. 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.280 Man, their desk is next to yours, and this thing 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:52.080 you can do about it? 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.000 Well, I believe in those cases that God will give 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.440 you the grace that you need. If you'll have the 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.400 right attitude, God will keep you protected, He'll keep. 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.680 That junk from rubbing off on you. And if you 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:03.480 are married to. 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.200 Somebody that's negative and somebody that tends to pull you down, 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.120 one thing you need to do is every time you 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:13.280 can put yourself in an environment that will build you up. 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.719 When you have free time, find some friends that are happy, 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.040 find some people that will cheer you up. 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:21.560 You got to do something to compensate for it. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.160 But don't you dare go out and find five other 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:28.200 depressed people and sit around and sit around and talk 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:31.679 about how bad your marriage is. No more than anybody. 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.760 You need to make especially sure every chance you get 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.520 to put yourself in a healthy, positive environment. I think 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.720 about Abraham. God made him a great promise there in 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.600 Genesis twelve, verse two. God said, Abraham, I'm gonna bless 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:49.120 you and prosper you. I'm gonna pour out an abundant 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.160 increase of my favor, and you're gonna be a blessing 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.960 everywhere you go. And I believe that's God's dream for 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.280 every one of us. But you notice Verse one tells 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.440 us what Abraham had to do in order for this 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:06.080 to take place. God said, Abraham, you've got to get 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:10.360 up and go away from where you are, leave your country, 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.080 leave your relatives, leave your father's house, and go into 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.840 the land where I'm showing you. In other words, God 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.679 would say, in Abraham, if you want this great promise 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.200 to come to pass, then I'm gonna have to get 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.159 you in a different environment. 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.560 You're going to have to make some changes. Why was that. 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:32.239 It's because Abraham's relatives and all the people around him 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:36.120 at that time were idol worshipers. Everywhere he looked there 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:39.840 were bad influences, and God knew as long as he 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.040 was in that type of environment, it would not permit 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.000 the growth that God had in mind. And I'm sure 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:49.000 at first Abraham thought, oh, God, just change my family. 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.040 Why don't you change my relatives, change the people around me. 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.359 But most of the time that's not the way it works. 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.840 God asked us to walk away from the bad influences. 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.560 He asked us to leave the places where we're constantly 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:06.040 being tempted, and we need to put ourselves in a 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:09.000 new environment. And some of you today, if you don't 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:12.200 make these changes, you're not gonna see the great promises 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.399 of God come to pass in your life. And of 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.000 course I'm not saying to just leave your family. I'm 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.520 not saying to not have anything to do with your relatives. 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:22.520 But you know as well as I do, sometimes the 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.000 people that are closest to you can be the ones 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:28.720 that hinder you the most. Sometimes your own relatives will 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:30.480 be the first ones to try to talk you out 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.480 of your dreams. You mean you're gonna do what, You're 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:37.040 gonna be prosperous, You're gonna be successful. You think you 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:37.960 have God's favor. 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:39.520 I don't think so. We've never had it. 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:42.840 And if you listen to no wonder right, and if 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:44.919 you listen to that junk long enough, you know what, 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:47.320 it'll take root and it'll keep you from God's best. 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:51.040 And some of you today, you know God has put 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:55.359 something bigger in you than the environment you're in. Everywhere 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:59.359 you look, there's negativity, there's bad influences, there's people with 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:00.639 small mind and to thinking. 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:03.680 And if you don't make some changes, if you. 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:07.200 Don't put yourself in a different environment that will permit 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:10.520 this new growth, then unfortunately it's not going to come 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:14.120 to pass. The problem is you're being limited. You're being 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.919 restricted by your environment. And they may be good people, 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:21.280 but sometimes it's just a new season. It's just time 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.400 to move on, to make some changes. Something is bigger 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.600 in you than the environment that you're in. This is 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:30.040 just what happened to my father way back in nineteen 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:32.960 fifty eight, before I was born. Daddy was pastor of 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:36.080 a very successful church here in town. They just built 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.399 a brand new sanctuary. He was on the state board 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:43.080 for his denomination. Life was going very well. But about 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:46.160 that time, my sister Lisa was born with a birth 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:50.000 injury that was similar to cerebral palsy. The doctors told 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:52.240 my parents Lisa would never be normal, and as you 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:54.800 can imagine, it was a very dark day in their life. 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:58.200 And so my father went away and he began to search. 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:01.680 The scriptures as never before, and he saw how Jesus 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:05.840 went about healing everybody everywhere he went. He saw how 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.359 God was a good God that he wanted. 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:09.959 Us to prosper and be in health. 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:12.560 He went back to his church, and he began to 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:16.080 preach with a new fire, a new enthusiasm. He told him, 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:18.520 we're going to believe for miracles. We know God's a 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:21.640 supernatural god, and you can live a life of victory. 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:25.760 He thought everybody'd be excited. He thought they'd all be thrilled. 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:28.600 But do you know most of them didn't like it. 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:31.960 They were offended by it. They were very steeped in 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:35.119 their tradition. It wasn't what they were used to. He 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:38.000 began to ruffle a few feathers and make a long 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:40.679 story short. You know how God did heal my sister. 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:42.240 She's perfectly normal today. 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:45.360 But Daddy knew one of them. Amen. 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:51.440 Daddy knew the best thing he could do in order 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:53.879 to keep the peace in that church was to just 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:57.240 walk away. And so he left there and went down 0:21:57.320 --> 0:22:00.560 to an abandoned feed store, and on my Mother's Day 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:04.600 in nineteen fifty nine, they started at Lakewood Church. See 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:07.840 deep down in here, Daddy knew God had put something 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:11.440 bigger in him than that environment could handle. And they 0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:14.200 were good people, but he knew if he stayed there, 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:17.040 just like planting an oak tree, in a pot that 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:20.160 was going to restrict his growth. And don't get me wrong, 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:22.719 it was hard for my parents to leave. They had 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:26.200 just built that beautiful sanctuary, and now they were meeting 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:29.480 in a run down, dirty feed store, a place where 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:33.080 they actually had sold hay and feed. My mother told 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:35.560 how she was twenty eight years old at the time, 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:38.520 and she lost almost every one of her friends. They 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:40.879 wouldn't have anything to do with her. They thought Daddy 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:43.160 had gone off the deep end, and here they were 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:45.919 having to start from scratch, and in the natural it 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:49.239 looked like a big mistake. The easy thing was to 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:51.560 just stay where it was safe and comfortable. 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:55.160 The easy thing was to just conform to that environment. 0:22:55.760 --> 0:22:58.040 But no, they knew they had something bigger in them 0:22:58.280 --> 0:22:59.640 than the environment they were in. 0:23:00.000 --> 0:23:01.600 They dared to take a step of faith. 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:05.440 And had they not been willing to walk away, had 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:08.360 they not been willing to make those tough choices, I'm 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:11.240 sure I wouldn't be standing here today. And some of 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:13.399 you right now you know you have something bigger on 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:16.320 the inside. You know you're made for more than what 0:23:16.359 --> 0:23:19.520 you're doing. But every voice all around you tells you 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:22.080 to just stay where you are. Man, this is all 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:24.600 your parents had, this is what your grandparents had. You'd 0:23:24.600 --> 0:23:26.120 better just play it safe. 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:26.480 I know. 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:29.000 Sometimes you've got to be willing to take a risk. 0:23:29.600 --> 0:23:32.000 Sometimes you've got to get out of your comfort zone 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:35.520 and put yourself in a new environment. If you don't, 0:23:35.680 --> 0:23:38.639 it's going to limit your potential. If you don't, it 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:41.639 can restrict your growth. And I'm not saying to be 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:44.000 foolish and just leave a city or leave a job. 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:46.320 Of course, you've got to pray, and you've got to 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:48.720 use common sense and ask God to really show you. 0:23:49.440 --> 0:23:51.760 But there are some things that we can do simply 0:23:51.800 --> 0:23:55.760 to change the atmosphere around us. I have these friends 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:58.760 that pastor a church in another state, And when they 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:02.520 first started the church and years ago, they were totally broke. 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:04.960 They didn't have any money. They were living in a 0:24:05.040 --> 0:24:08.920 tiny apartment. The men would work all week. On the weekends, 0:24:08.960 --> 0:24:11.000 he would pass through the church and they met right 0:24:11.000 --> 0:24:13.600 there in their apartment. Only had about fifteen or twenty 0:24:13.640 --> 0:24:16.679 people coming. This went on for years. They were so 0:24:16.880 --> 0:24:20.280 tempted to get discouraged. They hardly had any furniture, didn't 0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:21.840 have money to do anything extra. 0:24:22.280 --> 0:24:24.520 I mean, their future didn't look very bright. 0:24:25.280 --> 0:24:28.840 But deep down in here they knew God had put 0:24:28.880 --> 0:24:31.480 something bigger in them than the environment they were in. 0:24:31.920 --> 0:24:33.760 They knew one day they would. 0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:36.879 Be ministering to thousands of people. And so instead of 0:24:36.960 --> 0:24:40.439 just sitting in their little apartment every night complaining, feeling 0:24:40.520 --> 0:24:42.080 sorry for themselves, you know. 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:42.600 What they did. 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:45.280 They would drive down to one of the big fancy 0:24:45.320 --> 0:24:46.480 hotels down the road. 0:24:47.080 --> 0:24:48.760 They didn't even have money for parking. 0:24:49.000 --> 0:24:51.240 They'd have to park way down the street and walk 0:24:51.280 --> 0:24:53.480 the rest of the way. But they would go there 0:24:53.600 --> 0:24:56.800 night after night and just sit in the hotel lobby 0:24:57.320 --> 0:25:01.000 and do nothing more than dream. They wanted to put 0:25:01.040 --> 0:25:05.680 themselves in an atmosphere of success, an environment of victory. 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:09.199 As they looked around at all the beautiful surroundings, a 0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:11.960 new image was taken root on the inside. 0:25:12.200 --> 0:25:13.680 Night after night, they just sit. 0:25:13.520 --> 0:25:15.720 There and thank God, one day you're going to bring 0:25:15.760 --> 0:25:16.800 our dreams to pass. 0:25:17.040 --> 0:25:19.720 One day we know we're going to be ministering to thousands. 0:25:20.560 --> 0:25:25.000 See, they put themselves in an environment that would inspire growth. 0:25:25.600 --> 0:25:28.200 They didn't have too much, but now that new dream 0:25:28.440 --> 0:25:31.480 was really taken root on the inside. They were enlarging 0:25:31.520 --> 0:25:35.240 their vision. Today, many years later, they're seeing those dreams 0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:35.959 come to pass. 0:25:36.520 --> 0:25:36.800 Friends. 0:25:36.840 --> 0:25:40.400 It's so important the environment we put ourselves in, from 0:25:40.480 --> 0:25:44.280 the friends we choose to, even our physical surroundings. And 0:25:44.280 --> 0:25:46.240 you may be at a place that's not too hot, 0:25:46.560 --> 0:25:49.359 but you can do something like this couple, Go find 0:25:49.440 --> 0:25:53.160 somewhere you can dream, Find someplace that inspires. 0:25:53.200 --> 0:25:53.360 You. 0:25:53.880 --> 0:25:56.679 Don't just sit around night after night focused on the 0:25:56.760 --> 0:25:59.440 negative and focused on what you don't have. You got 0:25:59.440 --> 0:26:02.960 a change your environment. You need to leave the place 0:26:03.000 --> 0:26:06.159 where you are. It may not be physically, some of 0:26:06.200 --> 0:26:08.639 you just need to leave a bad attitude, leave a 0:26:08.680 --> 0:26:11.680 wrong mindset, start dreaming bigger dreams. 0:26:12.240 --> 0:26:15.679 Well, God told Abraham to leave his country, leave his relatives. 0:26:15.920 --> 0:26:18.720 And Abraham did leave, but he made one big mistake. 0:26:19.160 --> 0:26:22.680 He took his nephew Lot with him. God never told 0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:25.199 him to take Lot. And do you know, Lot was 0:26:25.240 --> 0:26:29.120 the one that ended up causing him problems. They got 0:26:29.119 --> 0:26:33.280 into strife and eventually they had to separate. And I 0:26:33.320 --> 0:26:36.440 believe that Lot represents that one thing we try to 0:26:36.480 --> 0:26:37.400 hold onto. 0:26:37.560 --> 0:26:39.080 Oh Joe, just this one friend. 0:26:39.640 --> 0:26:41.679 I know he's not a good influence, but we've been 0:26:41.720 --> 0:26:45.560 friends a long time. Just this one bad habit, just 0:26:45.600 --> 0:26:50.320 this one wrong mindset. It's interesting when God told Abraham 0:26:50.400 --> 0:26:52.840 to leave, he didn't speak to him again. 0:26:53.359 --> 0:26:55.679 Until he got rid of Lot. 0:26:56.480 --> 0:27:00.600 In other words, Lot was keeping Abraham from hearing god voice. 0:27:01.000 --> 0:27:04.960 Lot was keeping Abraham from fulfilling his destiny. We have 0:27:05.040 --> 0:27:08.679 to understand God will not make us do anything. He 0:27:08.840 --> 0:27:12.439 asked us to walk away from bad influences. He asked 0:27:12.520 --> 0:27:15.600 us to stay in a healthy, positive environment. Then it's 0:27:15.680 --> 0:27:18.879 up to us and some of you today. I believe 0:27:19.160 --> 0:27:22.280 that you would get clear direction for your life. You 0:27:22.320 --> 0:27:25.679 would see God open up new doors of opportunity if 0:27:25.720 --> 0:27:29.520 you'd simply separate yourself from the things that you know 0:27:29.680 --> 0:27:32.720 are holding you back. It may be a friend, it 0:27:32.760 --> 0:27:35.720 may be something you're watching, may be a wrong mindset. 0:27:36.080 --> 0:27:39.159 Whatever it is, I really believe if you just make. 0:27:39.040 --> 0:27:42.040 A clean break, you would see God's favor in a 0:27:42.119 --> 0:27:45.479 much greater and a much newer way. So I challenge 0:27:45.520 --> 0:27:49.000 you again today to evaluate your friendships. Who are you 0:27:49.080 --> 0:27:53.120 spending time with, Who's influencing you? What kind of environment 0:27:53.160 --> 0:27:54.360 are you putting yourself in? 0:27:54.560 --> 0:27:57.080 Is it restricting you? Is it causing you to make 0:27:57.119 --> 0:28:00.479 poor choices? If so, why don't you make some changes? 0:28:00.920 --> 0:28:04.720 Do your best to stay in a healthy, positive environment. Remember, 0:28:04.720 --> 0:28:07.560 our environment is going to change us before we change it. 0:28:08.200 --> 0:28:10.680 That means we need to stay in the right culture 0:28:11.119 --> 0:28:14.440 so those seeds of greatness can take root and really 0:28:14.480 --> 0:28:17.280 become a reality in our lives. And I know if 0:28:17.320 --> 0:28:19.399 you do this, God will do for you what he 0:28:19.440 --> 0:28:20.280 did for Abraham. 0:28:20.720 --> 0:28:22.600 He will bless you and prosper you. 0:28:22.960 --> 0:28:25.840 He'll pour out his goodness and you'll experience the life 0:28:25.840 --> 0:28:27.600 of victory that he has in story. 0:28:27.600 --> 0:28:30.399 Amen. Do you receive it today? 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