Hi friend! Below you’ll find my notes for Pastor Steven Furtick’s sermon titled Be Careful What You Copy. This message is from Elevation Church on August 8, 2021.

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Sermon Notes : Be Careful What You Copy

• Hebrews 8:3-7
• Be Careful What You Copy
• A lot of us aren’t conscious into what we are copying – so we have a distorted view of God.
• Sometimes life is like a game of telephone.
• Jesus built a better covenant – he didn’t say to build a tabernacle, he was the tabernacle.
• We are all influenced by culture.
• How do we take God from the mountaintop of inspiration into Monday morning traffic?
• We have to KNOW what God is doing through our life, not someone else’s, so that we build that.
• Be careful what you copy from the culture around you that keeps you from the kingdom within you.
• Sometimes we are copying crazy.
• We don’t have to submit our minds to the stress that the 24 hour news cycle induces.
• Breaking news breaks your brain.
• Be careful what you are holding on from the Egypt that God delivered you from.
• People miss the kingdom by copying the culture.
• Are you having conversations with 280 characters?
• I refuse to conform to crazy.
• Be careful what you copy from a culture that has lost it’s mind.
• Be Careful Who You Envy.
• We crop and copy.
• We see what other people want us to see.
• Some of the people we want to be like are burning out.
• You don’t know what some else’s life cost them.
• There is a surcharge of sacrifice.
• Be careful that you don’t set the blueprint of your life based on someone’s else’s life that you see. They are cropping things out that they don’t want you to see.
• We can miss the bigger picture because we try to copy one part of someone’s life.
• Joshua 1:7
• Where he stopped is where you’re starting.
• The end of your potential is not what you can see.
• Moses is not your model – God is.
• Be careful what you copy from before when God is trying to bring you into something better.
• Most of what we copy in relationships is not what we were taught, but caught from the relational dynamics that we were around.
• We don’t have to copy what we saw when it no longer relates to what we are called to.
• When copying, we lose quality.
• Hebrews 13:7
• We don’t see outcome, but snapshot of someone’s life on instagram.
• God is gibing you permission to do it differently.
• You don’t have to keep doing things the way you’ve always done them.
• Someone else’s context is not your context.
• You have permission to break tradition with whatever does not fit with your calling.
• You need to read the Bible for yourself.
• Be careful you don’t copy the condemnation that other people put on you.
• Be careful what you copy in your heart because it sets the direction of your life.
• Meditate on what God speaks over you.
• Don’t get so caught up trying to copy what you’re not that you never find out who you really are.
• Ephesians 5:1