Today we present a new message from Pastor Steven Furtick, which is titled “Be Careful What You Crown”.
Pastor Furtick teaches us in this message about being careful about what we crown. Sometimes what we call “saving us will end up enslaving us. “You can get a king, and he’ll fight your battles, and if you get the right king, he’ll definitely drive back your enemies and give you a measure of protection, but there’s going to be a cost to having a king like the other nations.” Moses even warned in Deuteronomy that the kind of king they would need in order to lead them in God’s ways couldn’t be like the surrounding nations and cultures, but they wanted to be like the other nations and cultures because they didn’t want to be vulnerable. Out of their vulnerability, they came to Samuel and said, “We need a king. We need a king like the other nations.” Samuel says, “You don’t know what the king is going to cost you. Sometimes we want to be like other people without knowing that God made us different for a reason. If you let God be your king and follow his ways, he’ll fight your battles. He’ll give you the necessary leadership. The system he set up will work. If you try to do this like the world does it, it’s going to cost you to have that kind of king.” He actually uses the word slave.
We have to depend on God to be our leader and fight our battles, because when we depend on something else, we are going to be slaves to those things. Sometimes depending on God can be hard because the current situation is really bad, but knowing that he is able to do all things “The king you choose will make you his slave.” Bob Dylan said you’ve “got to serve somebody.” Everybody has to serve somebody. You’re going to have a king in your life. You’re going to place the crown on somebody or something. For some people, it’s going to be wealth financially or status socially. For some people, it’s going to be acceptance by a certain group or person. For some of us, it’s going to be appearance-based. For some of us, it’s going to be achievement-based—a certain type of achievement—academic achievement, career achievement. Whatever the thing is that you bow to and come when it calls, that’s your king. Sometimes we get into addictions because the feeling we get from the thing we’re addicted to becomes greater than the freedom God has called us to. We choose that feeling over our freedom to serve God and what he’s doing.
Watch and learn from this sermon by Pastor Steven Furtick: Be Careful What You Crown” and remember that we bring the latest messages from Elevation Church to you.
Video Credit: Steven Furtick