- In today’s influencer culture, people are elevating fame over faithfulness.

- People are lusting for fame.

- As a result, they elevate likes over lives.

- Much of it has been learned from pastors.

- When your income, image, and influence are determined by people liking you, you’ll never stand strong.

- I heard a speaker say, “With the rise of social media, young people would rather be discovered more than developed.”

- Oswald Chambers said, “Focus on depth, and let God handle your breadth.”

- Notice how it worked for Jesus.

- He was simply faithful to do exactly what God told Him to do.

- vs 28 - “And at once his fame spread everywhere throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee.”

- His fame spread.

- The news about who He was and what He was doing spread.

- Was that the goal?

- No. He didn’t come for fame - He came for faithfulness.

- Fame was simply a byproduct of His faithfulness.

- If fame were God’s goal for Jesus, He would’ve been born in the 21st century when social media was a thing.

- I was in a green room with several famous people and one of them joked that they had never heard of me and David and had to look us up on Google.

- Then he laughed.

- He meant it light-heartedly, so we all laughed with him.

- But the more I thought about it the more I realized that our culture elevates fame over faithfulness all the time.

- The reason David and I aren’t fame is because of our faithfulness to stand by God’s truth on marriage and life.

- Because of that, we were canceled.

- As a result of being canceled, people don’t know who we are.

- We’re now “non-famous” Christians, and I feel really good about it.

- We don’t need famous Christians.

- We need faithful ones.

- And if fame comes as a result, as it did for Jesus, so be it - use it to bless those who aren’t famous!

- NOTE - if you keep an eternal perspective, God rewards all faithfulness with fame in His kingdom.