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Hi friends! Below you’ll find my notes for Pastor Steven Furtick’s sermon The X Factor. This sermon is from Elevation Church on January 30, 2022.
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Sermon Notes : The X Factor
- John 5:1-15
- It was Jesus.
- Jesus is on the porch for any problem that you have in this season of your life.
- Jesus looks for need.
- Heaven’s x factor is not dependent on talent, height, charisma.
- Anywhere there is unbelief, Jesus stands to confront it.
- God shows up where you need him the most.
- Don’t you let the enemy talk you out of what God gave you.
- Have you given up on never getting better?
- Jesus will not walk past you to bless someone who is better than you.
- However, the devil will do everything in his power to keep you from realizing the resource that is right in front of you.
- Experience
- Explain
- Not what you experience, but how you explain what you experience.
- Not to others, but to yourself.
- It determines whether you stay stuck, or move forward.
- Stop limiting the truth to your past experiences.
- We add things that God didn’t really say to explain situations that we can’t understand.
- Excuse
- We need to go though and make sure that what we believe about God is really revealed in the verses not just the traditions of men.
- You can’t cross out parts of the Bible because they are hard.
- Some of the things you believe, God didn’t speak.
- We can fall in love with our stuckness.
- We get our way with the silent treatment so we don’t need communication.
- You used to have no one, but Jesus is here now.
- Jesus is risen so we don’t need to operate like he’s not.
- Your sin is forgiven.
- Jesus is on your porch!
- God wants to change your explanation.
- Let your faith explain, not your fear.
- Take something you used to be and still feel, and cross off the un. (
Unworthy) - Colossians 2:14
- The cross is the x factor.
- Grace changes everything.
- God doesn’t make you get to the water, he brought the water to you.
- Do you want to get well?