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pull

Said 350 times, in 170 of 378 sermons, across 32 Sundays. Spoken as 4 forms: pull 198, pulled 66, pulling 56, pulls 30.

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Romans 267 125
Let Us 19 11

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you're here struggling with an addiction, waiting for God to pull you out of it. God, I'm really battling through this. It feel
ing light on me. That's what they're saying. But they want to pull you down to the ground, it says, right? Cast you down from yo
an I've ever deserved. But look what it says. They consult to pull you down from your, quote, unquote, high position. They delig
c. And then three and four, is you get in the car and someone pulls out in front of you. Life hits you in the face. God, you're a
quarterback. If God's way doesn't work out, they're ready to pull him in the third quarter. In reality, they don't trust God at
aks, I move. In the major and in the minor, when I'm driving, pulling off the interstate and I see someone sitting there with a sig
ecovery gathering. I tried to preach as if nothing changed. I pull into my house late that night and I'm sitting upstairs. My wi
mes when you are in a storm and God does come and show up and pulls us from it. Or at the times when we're on the mountaintops an
is this battle that is going on internally where our soul is pulling us to be transformed by God, and our flesh is pulling us to b
soul is pulling us to be transformed by God, and our flesh is pulling us to be conformed to the world, to go back to the way that w
hat's not to say it's all on you. That's not to say, Oh, just pull up your spiritual bootstraps and get to work. But sometimes w
ou produce in our lives. Pray that even as our flesh wants to pull us away, wants us to deceive us, wants to get us to look else
realization, oh, here are these things, these things that are pulling us in this direction away from you, Lord. Pray that you would
with this fight, his feet keep slipping. The temptation keeps pulling him into it, pulling him into this pit, this pit of despair.
feet keep slipping. The temptation keeps pulling him into it, pulling him into this pit, this pit of despair. As I thought about th
that fight of faith. Take hold of Jesus forever, and he will pull you out of that pit. And when he has brought you through thos
Moving has a way of stirring things up, doesn't it? Boxes get pulled out, right? You're cleaning out closets, they get emptied. Th
0. Don't. It's totally okay for you to get your phone out and pull it up on an app on your phone. If not, you can also cozy up t
g online, you're listening online, you can do that right now. Pull over to the side of the road, stop whatever it is that you're
ers. That's just adults here serving. And one of the nights I pulled out of the parking lot, I think it was like 8.30, and there w
parking lot, I think it was like 8.30, and there were people pulling in the parking lot. I'm like, you know what? You missed it. I
nk of a funeral procession, where my family's from, everybody pulls off the road. When the hearse goes by, everybody gets off the
ain." I'm like, "Great. This is going to be fun." And when we pulled that casket out of the back of that hearse and put it in a fo
n't do every one of those characteristics. What? Did you just pull the rug out on us? I did. And all those things are realizing
is what you want. I'll go that way. You don't want that. I'll pull back from that. What do you want? It's like this continual st
n't want there to be anything you're, you're displeased with. Pull me back, pull me where I'm supposed to be. Help me do what yo
to be anything you're, you're displeased with. Pull me back, pull me where I'm supposed to be. Help me do what you want. Beauti
e more money, lie and cheat and stealing, but you're going to pull things back or you could make things happen by going this way
u could make things happen by going this way. If I'm going to pull things back, because this is what God wants. Incredible. Now
ken from him. You realize nothing can happen to you that will pull you out of his hand, not life, not death, not sickness, not l
s not an I told you so God. He's a rescuer, our salvation. He pulls us out of the pit when we fall into it and life happens, or w
es between knowing what she wants to do for God, but also the pull of the world. I see it in her. We talk about those things. It
here are no trees. I don't know why. Maybe they think they'll pull them out and kill each other with them. I don't know, but the
, that's going to carry the load, the horses, that's going to pull the carriot or the chariot or the cart. That's not their answ
'm a drowning man that can't swim on my own. Grab my hand and pull me up. If that is our posture, if that is our heart, the Bibl
know. And then we're driving and it's about 1 a.m. and we get pulled over by a cop. And I remember he was just like, hey, just lik
, some perils along the way. The frost on the window, the cop pulling us over, and this tiny little car that felt like it was not g
an picture her. She had just gotten back from Costco. And she pulls up the roll of toilet paper that we just bought. And she sits
to the garbage can. She puts her hand in the garbage can. She pulls out the strawberry, sets it back on the table and says, mommy
t? And they go, that's weird. I wonder how he fell down. They pull him back up. They set him back up again. And the next morning
ed. I don't know why, but they always look at me funny when I pull out a Bible. But I look and say, wherever I'm going, I know I
fear and the stress, right? The enemy was attacking me, but I pulled out my sword. This scripture that I have memorized specifical
on Heston, the one that had the two VHS tapes. Anytime my mom pulled out that or the King of Kings with two VHS tapes, I'm like, w
the big dramatic events. His love isn't just witnessed in him pulling us out of the fire. His love is also visible in the provision
st was no sin, spotless. And if not, he died, and they had to pull him out by a rope. I face Jesus every day with sin in my life
and our properties. And so for us here in Holly, many of you pull up under our awning. That was our last Power of Three that wa
ean that when you're reading the scripture that you might not pull out different points. I'm just saying this is what was shown
e Pharisees and their deception, trying to deceive people, to pull them away from the truth, from salvation. Come and they try t
truth, from salvation. Come and they try to scheme people and pull people away. And in Mark three, five, the Bible says this, Je
ger. Wasn't a light thing. Wasn't a light thing for people to pull someone away from the truth, away from salvation. Jesus was a
go where God is not. There is no sin too deep that God cannot pull you out of. Hear me when I say that. The reason David underst
each out, they wrap their hands securely under their arms and pulls them close. In that instant, the child doesn't have to figure
God's presence, his omniscience, and his power. David doesn't pull back in fear or hide in shame. He opens up his hands and he p
hem off their feet, throws them on the ground and the riptide pulls them out and they end up in this cycle. And that's when peopl
can't get up. Each wave crashes over them again, down again, pulls them out again. I was in one, one time. That's how people dro
from under you and you're on the ground and now you're being pulled around by this thing and you're in danger of drowning. You're
you're going through something and it's like people actually pull away. You go, what is that? I got my own stuff. The Lord runs
w, listen here, Chuck. I'm tired of this nonsense, right? You pull it together. You know what I mean? Have you ever had that con
? Meaning that when God says he will be your refuge, he's not pulling on your chain. He's not looking at you going, okay, you know,
upset. I thought, oh, and I just naturally grabbed my phone, pulled it out of my pocket. I know dad will answer the phone, and di
give our attention to the right things. And this is going to pull us away from those things. But man, who turns down that much
there, they wouldn't be able to get him back out unless they pulled him out. It was a very serious place where God dwelled in the
ou preaching on next week? And I said, Oh, it's Psalm 150. He pulled up his Bible, and he read it, and he goes, That's going to be
u need a Bible, they're back at guest services. Or feel free, pull out your phone. You can download a Bible app or the River Chu

let-us

n from that today? Did they all go? Well, awesome. Let's just pull this veil down and and no, no, they didn't they sewed it back
old on to something because someone or something is trying to pull you away or you hold on to something because someone or somet
old on to something because someone or something is trying to pull you away from it. So the Bible says, let us hold fast the con
se there are going to be some things that are going to try to pull you away from that. It's going to be like, well, Jesus is gre
hope. Do so without wavering. There's some things that try to pull us away. There's some things that try to pull what we're hold
ngs that try to pull us away. There's some things that try to pull what we're holding on to, that hope that we have in Christ aw
ion or things in this world or false teaching or other things pull us away from a holding on to a clear commitment to the gospel
out where i'm at in the anyway it takes a while sometimes to pull the card right um right but those divine appointments meaning
getting to the car and hopefully there's not a lot of traffic pulling out of the parking lot. Church becomes something we go to rat
e battles within our own heart, the things that are trying to pull our allegiance away, addictions, sin that just wants to corru
o stop we just want to give up we just want to curl up in bed pull the covers over and not leave we want to just take off not le
to you he said your name he tried to convince you he tried to pull you towards himself he called you you, right? And then he rec
sequence and the judgment of God are wrapping around and will pull us to a place we don't want to go. Once heard it said that si
's kind of fun to be a little bad. So, all right. So how do I pull it back to the tracks there on that one? All right. So a lot
re told that we've abandoned and so that's what they're being pulled apart from and they're they're they're told they're wrong and
een those who are coming to faith in Jesus, but they're being pulled back, pushed, persecuted, pressured to go back to Judaism. Ve
ssy is. I'm like, dude, I'm not James Bond, okay? Like, let's pull ourselves together here. I'm at the Holiday Inn, you know. Bu
do with those is about once over some period of time, they'll pull them all out because it gets stuffed with paper a lot. And th

romans

1:1-17
You remember this right? We know. There was a point when God pulled Paul aside. When Jesus pulled him aside. And told Paul what h
now. There was a point when God pulled Paul aside. When Jesus pulled him aside. And told Paul what he wanted him to do. And it was
can. I think about it this way. If you were drowning and were pulled to safety and then others were drowning too, wouldn't you fee
ow try to, if you could with everything you had now to try to pull people out of the water? You've been saved. You owe it now to
lture, the world, and everything that surrounds them seeks to pull them into sin. The very foundation of their world is deemed f
y Romans, what can happen is you can open up the jar. You can pull out the pepper. I'm gonna be careful not to do this because I
into salvation. Can I encourage you to take it off the shelf, pull it out, cut it open and take it in. You will see the power of
faces that we stick in the closet and when it's convenient we pull it out. It's not one of those faces we brush under the rug an
es we brush under the rug and when it's a convenient thing we pull it out and act like we have it. I want you to think about thi
got spread throughout the world? Because, you know, they just pulled it out when it was convenient. When they wouldn't have to dea
itant maybe you've been that Christian that kind of just only pulled out your faith when it was easy or convenient I want to chall
17 this morning. And I know if you have your devices, you can pull those out. If you don't have a Bible app on your phone, you c
ery time he thought of his calling, he remembered what he was pulled out of and how he met Jesus, that Jesus met him on that road
ntirety of scripture is focused on Jesus. And so he basically pulls out here that he says in Jesus' human nature, he was a descen
do? He's obligated to preach the gospel. Again, Paul had been pulled out of deception. He thought he was doing the right thing by
nd God in his mercy met him in his deepest darkest moment and pulled him and let him see the light of the truth. His debt was to G
different kingdom. My purposes are different because this God pulled me in. He pulled me out of a pit and became my father when I

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