FOMO Faith – Pastor Michael Todd – Transformation Church

A lot of us make hasty decisions and display hasty faith because of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out).
- Saul had FOMO in 1 Samuel 13: 5-14; he acted hastily and did the burnt offering because he had the FOMO (fear of losing his men in battle).
- The difference between hasty faith and crazy faith is that you have to know that your time, life, and family are in God’s hands. FOMO will have you trying to make a way for yourself when God is saying that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

FOMO:

FOMO: An omnipresent anxiety brought by our cognitive ability to recognize potential opportunities; a lot of anxiety because of potential opportunities
- People start moving in haste because of what potentially could happen
  - EX.) Saul forfeited the promise of God not because of what did happen, but because of what could have happened in 1 Samuel 13: 5-14. Saul moved out of fear.
- FOMO is fear and hasty faith is fear; hasty faith has FOMO

Many of us are running away from what God has called us to do because we have the fear of meeting any opposition.
- This fear is what made Saul do the burnt offering before it was time because he didn’t want to face the giants ahead of him.
You cannot see the victory because you’re too afraid to show up for the fight and meet opposition. Running from opposition never allows you to overcome.
The opposition is supposed to change you positively on the inside rather than negatively destroy you on the outside. You just need to have the faith that you can overcome with the power of Jesus Christ.

Because Saul couldn’t kill the Philistines in his season (1 Samuel, Chapter 13), David, the next generation, had to fight the mutated consequences (e.g. Goliath)
- Q: What will your children have to murder that you should’ve killed?
- A: You have to have the faith to go straight at the opposition.
Hasty faith runs away from opposition but crazy faith says that “I’m not going to allow the next generation to face what has kept me down.”
- God has already gave you victory, so why fear opposition?

When you are moving in haste, you forget what God has told you to do and make up options that seem better at the time.
- Saul made the decision to do the burnt offering by himself when he saw his men rapidly fade away.
  - Pro Tip: When stuff are falling away, don’t start making decisions based out of what you lost. When you do this, you move out of the timetable of God.

Most of us follow orders to a point, but we don’t maintain the obedience when we face opposition, and things start going away.
Many of us want a new word from God, but God won’t give us a new word, He’s trusting us to maintain the last one He gave us.
- Galatians 6:9: Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
  - Encouragement to continue doing what is good.

1 Samuel 13:10-14: Just as he finished making the offering, Samuel arrived, and Saul went out to greet him. “What have you done?” asked Samuel. Saul replied, “When I saw that the men were scattering, and that you did not come at the set time, and that the Philistines were assembling at Mikmash, I thought, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt compelled to offer the burnt offering.” “You have done a foolish thing,” Samuel said. “You have not kept the command the Lord your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.
- Saul lets his feelings of the situation override his obedience to follow God’s Word.
  - Saul never even consulted God during his whole thinking process – just his feelings.
- Your feelings are real but they are a bad manager. If you’re looking to your intuitions, you’re heading for destruction.

Crazy faith says that my opinion loses every time to my faith – the latter being rooted in the Word of God.
- When Jesus was in the garden, before going to the Cross, he voiced his opinion, but he also submitted to the will of his Father (done in faith).
God would rather protect you than heal you; God would rather keep you from it than you going through it and then doing surgery after the fact.

Saul had 42 years of his reign after 1 Samuel Chapter 13 to get this one issue of his life right.
- A grace-filled God gives us time to stop fumbling and turn to Him.
- 1 Samuel 15:22-23: But Samuel replied: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams. For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has rejected you as king.”
  - Obedience is better than sacrifice.

Anointing oil only means God’s approval; all God wanted Saul to do is wait for His approval.
- God is not trying to keep you from stuff, He just wants you to have his approval on it.
God wants us to flip from Hasty FOMO to Crazy FOMO
- Obedience/Disobedience doesn’t just affect you, but everyone around you also.
- 2 Peter 3:9: The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
God is not slow on His promise.

Hi! My name is Tinsai Worke, but you can just call me Tina. I am a young, devoted Christian and a part-time note-taker for different online sermons.