Hi friends! Below you’ll find my notes for Pastor Steven Furtick’s sermon When Jesus is Your Jury. This sermon is from Elevation Church on July 26, 2026, and is part of the I Know That Voice series.

These are simply my own notes, and you’ll definitely need some context. Click here to watch When Jesus is Your Jury on YouTube.

I’ve also linked the Bible verses, so you can click on them to read if you’d like.

Sermon Notes : When Jesus is Your Jury

• I call God and He answers!
• God can use you how he wants to. 
• To discern that voice and then do what it says. 
• 1 Corinthians 4:1-5
• Speak Lord, your servant is listening. 
• There are some mysteries god has no revealed we are not responsible for those but we are entrusted with the ones that god has revealed. 
• Faithful
• There are internal verdicts happening in mind and heart everyday about yourself, others and your life. 
• Fresh & messy vs. moldy with no meaning. 
• There is a pressure that comes with blessing that you need to learn to manage. 
• Winning but weary. 
• Are you trying to be impressive or a blessing?
• I gotta work on me. 
• You gotta know your job, and also your jury. 
• Who is your jury?
• When people judge they do it in the surface and they do it as a summary 
• Don’t compare who you are with who others pretend to be. 
• Who are you doing it for?
• Praise
• Patience
• Power
• Whose praise you crave the most tells a lot about what you are chained to. 
• God didn’t call you to convince the jury he called you to please him. 
• What would it improve you if they did approve of you?
• Can’t be controlled by a jury when god has given you a job. 
• The praise that comes from God. 
• Stop performing for people that don’t hold your prize. 
• How can you commit to the praises of god if you are addicted to the praise of people?
• When you are a servant to gods purpose you won’t be a slave to people’s praise. 
• You’ll be a casualty of their criticism. 
• The danger lies in the praise from people. 
• Do you know the difference between the claps of the crowd vs the voice of God. 
• People don’t know what God gave you. 
• You are not responsible for the outcome but consistency. 
• My eternal verdict hinges on my relationship with Jesus. 
• We have to trust god timing even when we don’t hear him talking. 
• Some of the greatest fruit from your life will come out the greatest failures. 
• Distracted because we judge things we don’t expect. 
• Distractions vs. demonstration. 
• God tells us before what we are there for. 
• Stop judging stuff that god is not done with yet. 
• Not a weakness but a weapon. 
• Are you hearing this through the filter of guilt?
• We know too much about ourselves to let a compliment in. 
• John 8:1-11
• From Jesus at the center to sin at the center. 
• Don’t ask Jesus if you don’t want to know. 
• Don’t trap the answer with your questions. 
• Stoops before he speaks. 
• None of us wants Jesus to start bringing for the evidence of our thoughts and struggles. 
• The Holy Spirit is not an accuser but an advocate.
• The power to change belongs to god. 
• He’s such a savior. 
• Whose voice is that?
• Your job is not to be Jesus but to trust him. 
• Shame can’t lift you out of your sin, and grace will not leave you in it. 

Be sure to leave a comment with your favorite takeaway from this message! As always, thanks for reading.

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