Today I want to take you all off roading - today we talk

about getting off the beaten path and trail blazing. Did you know the

Spirit desires for you to go off road, to think different, to live

different, to go a different road? Did you know that the Spirit led

Jesus into the wilderness - took Him off road. Jesus' whole life was

spent going off road, He did things differently, He wasn't with the

pack. He didn't succumb to the pressures of what everyone else thought

or said. The Bible doesn't use the normal paths, it doesn't work on the

9-lane freeway. The Bible takes us right over the water, it moves the

mountain out of our way, the word of God isn't saying what the world is

saying. It's a completely different way of living life, and has a

completely better destination. We love the guys who pave new ways,

discoverers. They reject status quo, they go against the grain. The

world is flat, you'll fall off the edge, but Columbus sails on. Famous

men and women, whose name we still remember, discovered, pursued ideas

that were rejected. Einstein claimed light was made up of particles,

although it had already been proven light was a wave. Galileo fought

even against the pope for his belief in heliocentrism, that the earth

and planets revolve around the sun, Neil Armstrong the first man to step

on the moon. Discoverers, off the path, marching to the beat of a

different drum.