1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 6 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: So right now in the chat, just say thank God 7 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 1: I'm here. Right, just look at somebody and say thank 8 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: God you're here. Oh. I've been waiting to see someone 9 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: like you all week, someone positive, uplifting, encouraging, well built, tall, sturdy. 10 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: I trust that you smell good. I trust that you're blessed. 11 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: The best rhythm section in Charlotte, North Carolina, with Vinnie 12 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: and Shay. It's great to have Joel with us. Let's 13 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: thank God for Joel. We started dancing the other night. 14 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: We didn't even mean to. We've got this amazing collaboration 15 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: with Elevation Worship in Maverick City. Come in your way, 16 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: somebody say when soon soon? And U Joelle will have 17 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 1: to have you come back and share the song that 18 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 1: you carried. Uh. It's about miracles and your life is 19 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: a miracle. And I can't wait for you to hear 20 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 1: that song and all the other songs. It's great to 21 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: have you, Tiffany, tell me about the leather. I'm a rocker. Now, 22 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:32,559 Speaker 1: she's a rocker. Now, John South, she's a rocker. Now, Jenny, 23 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: do you believe that? Okay, upon this rock, I will 24 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:43,679 Speaker 1: build my church. How many? Thank God for it? Oh, 25 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 1: it's good to see. How did you get off work? 26 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: Good to see you. I miss you so much. Hey. 27 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: By the way, let us know in the chat who 28 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: you are and where you're where you're joining us from. 29 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: It's a worldwide ministry, and we thank God for you. 30 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: But we will know you're here if you don't tell us. 31 00:01:58,200 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: So tell me right now. I'm here, and my name, 32 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: and my favorite movie is, and my favorite food is, 33 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: and my favorite Bible versus, and tell me everything you 34 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: want to tell me about yourself. Okay, where is Cindy 35 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: from Chewies? Hey, Cindy, good to see you. I told 36 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: you I would find you. I told you. Now put 37 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: your name too so we can know you're here, all right. 38 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: Cindy told me she was coming, and she came. It's nice. 39 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 1: She's the one works at Chewies, nicest hostess I've ever seen. 40 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: And we're all a hostess for the Holy Ghost. Today, 41 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 1: y'all be seeing it. This is getting ridiculous. This is 42 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: some very mediocre stand up. We better get to the 43 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: Bible verse first Peter chapter two, and let's really take 44 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 1: our time with this passage so we can taste it today. 45 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: This is a delicious, delicious scripture, and I want us 46 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: to chew our food one Peter Chapter two. I'll read it, 47 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: then i'll break it down. Therefore, rid yourselves of all 48 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 1: malice and deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Basically, 49 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 1: he's saying, delete all your social media accounts. Is how 50 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: I read that. Malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, slam. If you 51 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: can't say amen, say ouch. I'll give you thirty seconds 52 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: to delete some things before we move on. In description, 53 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: he said, therefore rid yourselves. And that's what we've been 54 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: talking about the first part of twenty twenty one. The Lord, 55 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: all the years run together right now. The Lord was 56 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: saying that we need to have room to receive right, So, 57 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: how can I receive the love of God if my 58 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: heart is full of malice? How can I receive the 59 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: truth if my heart is full of deceit? How can 60 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: I receive the real me, the revelation of the real me, 61 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: if I'm living in hypocrisy so determined to look better 62 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: than I really am. Hypocrisy isn't struggling with something that's 63 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:19,600 Speaker 1: pretending like you don't envy slander. Now, if you can 64 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:21,839 Speaker 1: do all of that, if you can get rid of 65 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: all of that, with all of your social media accounts 66 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 1: on your phone, you're just a better person than me. Okay, 67 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: but most of us have to make some decisions about 68 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: what we're going to allow to have access to us, 69 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,279 Speaker 1: So maybe write this down. The first step to getting 70 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: ready is getting rid, get rid, get rid of these things. 71 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: And none of the things that he talks about are 72 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: direct behaviors, their attitudes. So you've got a whole list 73 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 1: of what to do. Some of you logged on today. Lord, 74 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:04,039 Speaker 1: give me words, show me what to do, he just did. Okay, 75 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: you've got plenty to do. You can turn me off 76 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: now and just get busy getting rid of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, 77 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:14,840 Speaker 1: and slander. I don't know what the Lord wants me 78 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: to do. First, Peter two to one just told you. 79 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 1: When you get those five, then come back and then 80 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: ask me about the Book of Daniel in the Book 81 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: of Revelations. So that's first one. We've got nine more, 82 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 1: all right, get rid to get ready. It's like clearing 83 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: out a space that you know God is going to 84 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: fill with something better. Keep going ford Like newborn babies 85 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 1: crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may 86 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,720 Speaker 1: grow up in your salvation. Now that you have tasted 87 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 1: that the Lord is good, let's go slow through this 88 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 1: as you come to him. Verse four, The living stone? 89 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: Who is him? Not a trick question, It's totally Jesus. 90 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 1: Let's run it back as you come to him. Who 91 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 1: is him? Right right, right, good job. The living stone 92 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 1: rejected by humans, but chosen by God and precious to him, 93 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 1: and precious to him. You also, like living stones, are 94 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:30,040 Speaker 1: being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, 95 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:36,279 Speaker 1: offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. I 96 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:40,479 Speaker 1: love it for in scripture, you love when scripture. Quote scripture. 97 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 1: In scripture, it says, see, I lay a stone in Zion, 98 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts 99 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:56,039 Speaker 1: in him will never be put to shame. Now to 100 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 1: you who believe this stone is precious. But to those 101 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 1: who do not believe, the stone the builders rejected has 102 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: become the cornerstone, and a stone that causes people to stumble, 103 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: and a rock that makes them fall. They stumble because 104 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: they disobey the message, which is also what they were 105 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: destined for. But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, 106 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: a holy nation, God's special possession. Not the beaters, the 107 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 1: shoes on the top shelf, he doesn't just wear every day. 108 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 1: That you may declare the praises of Him who called 109 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you 110 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: were not a people, but now you are the people 111 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: of God. Once you had not received mercy, but now 112 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 1: you have received mercy. That's enough, let's stop Verse five. 113 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: You also, like living stones, are being built into a 114 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: spiritual house to be a holy priesthood offering spiritual sacrifices 115 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. I want to use 116 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: for a topic or a title, built different, built different. 117 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: What you're getting here in one Peter is sort of 118 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: a synopsis of a salvation experience, and it kind of 119 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 1: reminds me of some of the time lapse videos that 120 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: I see on YouTube where they'll show a man. I 121 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 1: saw this series of videos and somebody told me they 122 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:37,680 Speaker 1: weren't real. I don't know if they're real. Where he 123 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 1: was like building a swimming pool with a stick. Have 124 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: you seen these? I thought about playing one, but I 125 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: thought it might be copyright protected or something like that. 126 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: Google might come shut the church down if I've showed it, 127 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: or get demonetized or something like that. Unordained. I don't 128 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: know what happens if you play somebody else's YouTube video, 129 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:00,559 Speaker 1: but they had all kinds. I kind of went in 130 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: a time lapse wormhole preparing for this message. I was 131 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 1: watching people build legos. I remember several years ago I 132 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: wanted to do an illustration how God is doing things 133 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 1: in our life that our purpose appears in pieces. So 134 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 1: I brought up a box of legos and I really 135 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 1: milked the illustration. I had the box and I pulled 136 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 1: it out and I spilled all the pieces everywhere, and 137 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: I said, oh no, it's broken. And my point was, 138 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 1: it doesn't look like it looks on the box until 139 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 1: it's fully built, and kind of how we have this 140 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 1: vision for our life, for our family, our relationships, and 141 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: we want to take it back to God because it 142 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 1: doesn't look like what was on the box. But it 143 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,559 Speaker 1: has to be built. It has to be built. That's 144 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 1: the whole point of the legos you're paying. So there 145 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: was this nine year old on YouTube, and I may 146 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: show him if we can get the copyright cleared before 147 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: we put this message on YouTube. Look into it. He 148 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: built this lego whole Star Wars lego thing. I don't 149 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: know what it was, but it was so big. But 150 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,560 Speaker 1: it only took me about ten minutes to watch him 151 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 1: build it. It was crazy. And I noticed he changed 152 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 1: outfits like six times in the video, so that makes 153 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: me think it went on over several days. And I 154 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: was watching that thinking about how when somebody tells you 155 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 1: their testimony about their relationship with God, or or when 156 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 1: they tell you their testimony of how they got set 157 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: free from something in their life, it's usually a time 158 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 1: lapse testimony it, which is what Peter's doing here, right. 159 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:44,079 Speaker 1: He says it so simply, and the way he says 160 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 1: it it sounds so sudden, and I want to point 161 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: that out to you again. He's like, get rid of 162 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: all the bad things in your life and grow up 163 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: in your salvation. That's the first two verses, but he 164 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 1: uses the image of a baby to let me know 165 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 1: that God's kingdom and the way that it is built 166 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: will be different than the way the time lapse video 167 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: works on YouTube. And so when you hear somebody say, 168 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 1: you know, oh, I gave my life to Christ and 169 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:17,679 Speaker 1: it was wonderful, and I used to live in the darkness, 170 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 1: but now I live in the light. And you know, 171 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 1: I used to be bound by sin, and I was 172 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 1: served only the false gods of Babylon and myself. They 173 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: still go see those gods sometimes, but they don't tell 174 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: you about that in their testimony. Right. What they're doing 175 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: is there fast forwarding past all the stumbles. Right, Oh, well, 176 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 1: all of our kids just grew up to serve the Lord, 177 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: and we just love the Lord. We taught them to 178 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: pray when they were early, and we used to pray 179 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: the blessing from number six of the Ironic Blessing. And 180 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 1: I would they leave out? So much is so fast. 181 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,559 Speaker 1: You can barely watch the three years that their kid 182 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: was on drugs. You barely saw the three years that 183 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: they slept in separate beds. Oh, we've been happily married 184 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: thirty two years. But you didn't know there were eight 185 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: other years. That's called a time lapse testimony. It's not untrue. 186 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 1: It's just you're hearing it so quick. And the hard 187 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 1: part becomes when we compare our real life process to 188 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:38,719 Speaker 1: somebody else's time lapse testimony. Built different, It's something that 189 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 1: I heard my kids say kind of ironically, you know, 190 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 1: I make fun of their hair or something like that. 191 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: I remember one of them was saying to somebody, you 192 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:51,959 Speaker 1: never cry, and the guy say, ah, I guess I'm 193 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: just built different. Man. I was like, that's cool, that's 194 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: something you'll say. This is why I do all the time. 195 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 1: I'm trying to crack the code of how to reach 196 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:06,560 Speaker 1: the youth, you know, sermon research. And I even said 197 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:08,679 Speaker 1: it the other day, Where's Buck? Is he back there somewhere? 198 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:16,320 Speaker 1: But y'all know Buck? But Buck He sent us a 199 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: workout the other day, me and Elijah, and told us 200 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:23,479 Speaker 1: to put only here's how the workout goes, superset superset, 201 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 1: superset superset, where you don't have any rest between Then 202 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:31,679 Speaker 1: he said, after doing four super sets and not resting, 203 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: to only rest two minutes between sets. So I told 204 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 1: Elijah what Buck wanted us to do. And I told 205 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: him what we were gonna do. And I said, because 206 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 1: Buck's built different. Some would call him a psychopath and 207 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: some would call him an athlete. Here's a fine line. 208 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 1: I just built different. He just built different. And if 209 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: I try to do what Bug does, it's gonna end 210 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:13,959 Speaker 1: in vomit injury. She said, manslaughter. I'm not that bad. 211 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 1: I wouldn't kill him. I went in through that. That's 212 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 1: all you. What's what you would do? Said, She's built different, 213 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: watch out for that one. Now. I was studying the 214 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: scripture and I was reading how Peter said, uh, and 215 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: as you come to him the living stone, rejected by humans, 216 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 1: chosen by God, precious him. You also like living stones 217 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 1: are being built. This is verse five. Police into a 218 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices 219 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Time lapse testimony, like 220 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: it's just all one thing, Like it's just all one moment, 221 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: like I have decided to follow. Jesus says it all, 222 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: God said it. I believe that settles it. Yeah, I 223 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: feel you. But why did Jesus use the illustration of 224 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: a mustard seed to describe how His Kingdom grows in 225 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 1: our life if we expect salvation. Like when I gave 226 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: my life to Christ. My mom had been planting seeds 227 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 1: for years, right, She'd been planning, and so for me, 228 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 1: I experienced that suddenly. But she had been sewing that 229 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: from the time she was singing to me as a baby. 230 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: So when I would share my testimony, I'd be like, 231 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 1: on such and such date, when I was sixteen years old, 232 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: That's how old I was when I kind of made 233 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: my own decision to follow Christ and it was real. 234 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 1: But for me to just skip to that and say, 235 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: when I was sixteen, I went down forward at this 236 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: Baptist church, first Baptist Church, Monk's Corner, gave my life 237 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 1: to Christ. That's how I told my testimony for years, 238 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 1: But that was the time. That was just when what 239 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: she was sewing into me finally caught up with what 240 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: God was doing all along. Right. That really blesses me 241 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 1: as a parent now to know train up a child 242 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: in the way they should go, and when they are old, 243 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: they won't depart from it. So everybody wants to skip 244 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 1: telling you about the stuff that doesn't make them look 245 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: so spiritual. That really bothers me that little crackle in 246 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: the microphone that isn't planned, So somebody needs to fix it. 247 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: Come fix it, y'all are like he's doing an illustration. 248 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 1: No I'm not. It's a malfunction. Now let's back up 249 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 1: all the way and talk about how God built a nation. 250 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 1: How God, when he decided to build a nation, he 251 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: found a man with a wife who had a barren womb. 252 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: We should have known from the very beginning that this 253 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 1: nation is going to be built different, right, because you 254 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 1: don't build a nation through a woman's barren womb, right, 255 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 1: That's not how you do it. But God was sending 256 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: us a signal from the very beginning that this nation 257 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:19,879 Speaker 1: will be built different. It will be built in the 258 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 1: face of impossible odds, through even what seems to be 259 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: a physical impossibility. So if that's you today and you 260 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 1: have an impossible situation, that should be a great encouragement 261 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:35,640 Speaker 1: to you, right because God doesn't need God doesn't need 262 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: to have the finished product in hand to fulfill his 263 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 1: promise to you. I'm just trying to say that the 264 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 1: way God works, he builds different than how people build it. 265 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: Is there any way to get this fixed or just 266 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:51,200 Speaker 1: keep going with the hen help. Okay, I'm gonna take 267 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: this off. Somebody put in the chat while I'm stalling 268 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: a little bit. I'm built different. I'm built different. I'm 269 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:03,360 Speaker 1: built different. So when Jesus chooses his disciples, right, you'll 270 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: remember Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John who wrote the Gospels. Well, 271 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:13,119 Speaker 1: there's James and John, the sons of Zebedee. There's Peter, Peter. 272 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: We should have known from the moment that Jesus picked 273 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:26,400 Speaker 1: Peter that whatever team Jesus is building, I mean, Peter 274 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:30,679 Speaker 1: is so far off the scouting report for all the 275 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 1: professional Christians. And he's not even in rabbi school. He's 276 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: a fisherman. So if you're going to the if you're 277 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 1: going to the fishing boat to pick your team to 278 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:46,199 Speaker 1: change the world, you must not be building according to 279 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:54,439 Speaker 1: the values and the systems of this world. Holly preached 280 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: about Gideon last week. Did you hear it? How Gideon 281 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:01,400 Speaker 1: had too many men to fight the battle? She didn't 282 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: get to that part. This is a sequel, how he 283 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: got down to three hundred men to attack the Midian Ice. 284 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:09,880 Speaker 1: She just mentioned that part. But you know what's crazy 285 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:15,199 Speaker 1: about that? That is, if you're building an army and 286 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: you go from thousands to hundreds. That's called building backwards. 287 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 1: Has God been building backwards in your life over the 288 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 1: past year so that sometimes He is stripping and subtracting 289 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:39,119 Speaker 1: more than he is adding and multiplying. I mean, really, 290 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:41,639 Speaker 1: the whole clue is built into the text that I 291 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:45,120 Speaker 1: read you before you can be ready for what God 292 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: is building. You've got to get rid to make room. 293 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,679 Speaker 1: But what drew me to it more than anything, and 294 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: I'd love to get your attention on this verse please, 295 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:02,640 Speaker 1: is one Peter two four. He says that this living stone, Jesus, 296 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: who we worship, who is perfect, was rejected by humans 297 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 1: but chosen by God. I don't know if you've ever 298 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 1: heard me say this before, but it seems to be true, 299 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 1: whether you're talking about Moses or Peter or Mary who's 300 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 1: a virgin, or whether you're talking about you know, pick 301 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 1: your Bible character right, the overlook the unlikely, the little 302 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 1: boy with the lunch that wasn't even included in the 303 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 1: crowd count that God selects what man rejects. In this passage, 304 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:45,640 Speaker 1: we're given a picture of Jesus. He's what God put 305 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 1: on the box to show you what your life can 306 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 1: look like. And he's so kind, and he's so powerful, 307 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:57,439 Speaker 1: and he's so perfect. He's like big enough to do miracles. 308 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,119 Speaker 1: And then he's also a ten enough that when a 309 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:03,120 Speaker 1: child wants to come up and sit on his laugh, 310 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 1: he makes time. He is, you might say, the new 311 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:14,199 Speaker 1: blueprint for humanity, God's second atom, the way to do 312 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:18,119 Speaker 1: it right. And he's using Jesus as an illustration to 313 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 1: say that when God sent perfection into the world, people 314 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: didn't recognize it. Let me give you a theology lesson 315 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 1: on why people did not recognize perfection when it came. 316 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 1: Because people are dumb, because people look at all the 317 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 1: wrong stuff all the time. So we will find a 318 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:46,239 Speaker 1: celebrity to emulate and not even take into account that 319 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:50,159 Speaker 1: that celebrity is miserable, and we will model our life 320 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:56,439 Speaker 1: after somebody who is secretly miserable. Meanwhile, God puts people 321 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 1: in our life that are actually good, you know, examples 322 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,640 Speaker 1: in our life that are actually good, and we call 323 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:04,879 Speaker 1: them old heads, and we don't like them because they 324 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: don't wear the stuff that looks attractive. But it's okay, 325 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 1: because here's here's a message. Jesus was rejected. Jesus was rejected. 326 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 1: Can you believe that the eternal word of God, the pure, thoughtless, 327 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:28,959 Speaker 1: without blemish, lamb of God, Jesus, the Alpha, the Omega, 328 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:34,639 Speaker 1: and everything in between. Jesus was rejected. But that in 329 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: the chat Jesus was rejected. He's talking about Jesus. He said, 330 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: the stone that the foundation on Christ, the solid rock, 331 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,919 Speaker 1: eyes stand, the thing that everything was built on, the 332 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 1: word that is eternal, that was spoken from the portals 333 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: of eternity into the labor pangs of time. That Jesus 334 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: was rejected. He came to his own, and his own 335 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: received him not. He was despised and rejected. A man 336 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 1: of sorrows and acquainted with greed. Jesus was rejected. What 337 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:15,119 Speaker 1: made you think you would never be He was despised. 338 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 1: Why do we always think we're going to be so 339 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:23,879 Speaker 1: well liked? Hmm? Jesus was rejected. I don't think we 340 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: get that message very much anymore. We get Jesus was resurrected. 341 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: But before he was resurrected, the only reason that he 342 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,919 Speaker 1: needed to be was that he was rejected by the people. 343 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:44,639 Speaker 1: He came to say, And that's a very painful thing, y'all. 344 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,119 Speaker 1: There's not a person under the sound of my voice. 345 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 1: Who hasn't experienced Maybe you don't call it being rejected. 346 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 1: Maybe it just feels like being ignored. The popular term 347 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:03,120 Speaker 1: now is unseen. I need to feel seen, And it's 348 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: like you change your hair color and all that stuff, 349 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 1: and nobody even cares about it much. And you know, 350 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 1: you bought those shoes on a credit card you can't afford, 351 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: and me paying them off till you're raising your grandchildren 352 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:18,160 Speaker 1: and nobody even cares about that. And so yeah, I'm 353 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: trying to be seen. But really, if I come to 354 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: the theological truth that's in the text, it's nothing new. 355 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,920 Speaker 1: Jesus was rejected. So I was sixteen when I gave 356 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 1: my life to Christ. The language that we used was 357 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: I accepted Jesus. I remember that's what the preacher said, 358 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 1: if you would like to accept Christ as your I 359 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 1: think he said your personal Lord and savior. And you're saying, 360 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 1: make a decision, you know, put your faith in Christ, 361 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 1: put your trust in him. And when I did that, 362 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: I meant it. And I would say I've never looked back. 363 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,399 Speaker 1: I've looked back plenty, but I've tried to keep moving forward, 364 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 1: or at least get back up when I fall down, right, 365 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 1: So you know the time life testimony is, I gave 366 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,639 Speaker 1: my left to Christ when I'm sixteen, and here I 367 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: am today preaching the word of God. Shout out in Nairobi. 368 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 1: Shut out Buttswana, shout out ben Burke, South Carolina, keep 369 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 1: saying things that start with A be unto your shot. 370 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 1: Shout out Valentine. All right, but accepting Jesus was easy. 371 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: What's not to accept? I mean, He's gonna pay for 372 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:43,920 Speaker 1: my sins, not my bill at Chewies, my sins, my wrongs. 373 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,359 Speaker 1: He's gonna take away my shame. He's gonna stand in 374 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 1: the place where I deserve to stand. He's gonna die 375 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 1: for me. He's gonna put his resurrection power of me. 376 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,159 Speaker 1: He's gonna pray for me to the Father. When I 377 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:01,160 Speaker 1: don't have the words to say, I'll take it. I'll 378 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:06,160 Speaker 1: take it. This is a good deal. I'm accepting Jesus. 379 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 1: That happened when I was sixteen. This week I turned 380 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: forty one years old. That's about It's about the right 381 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: amount of applause, somewhere between pity and celebration. That's how 382 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 1: I feel. That means it's been twenty five years since 383 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:37,440 Speaker 1: I accepted Jesus. That's a quarter of the century since 384 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 1: I accepted Jesus. When I accepted Jesus, I bet it 385 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 1: took me twenty five seconds to walk down the aisle 386 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 1: Boom boom, boom, prayed this prayer. I accepted Jesus twenty 387 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:56,440 Speaker 1: five seconds. But what's taking me twenty five years is 388 00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:06,959 Speaker 1: accepting Stephen. Oh, my Lord, that hasn't been as easy. 389 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: He's not perfect, he's not always forgiving, he doesn't have 390 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 1: all wisdom, he doesn't have a lot of things. He's 391 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: five foot eight and a half. People say things when 392 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,679 Speaker 1: they meet him, like you look taller on the screen. 393 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 1: That's appropriate. Accepting Jesus took a moment. Accepting me is 394 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 1: taking a lifetime. And the longer I live with Stephen, 395 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:57,680 Speaker 1: the sicker of him I get. You know, every day 396 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 1: with Jesus sweeter than the day before. There was a 397 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 1: hymn that went like that. I changed the melody a 398 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 1: little bit. Every day with Steven, I discover a new 399 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 1: depth of the depravity. You know, there's good stuff too. 400 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 1: I'm not up here just self flagelatd like, oh I'm 401 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 1: so horrible. A lot of y'all suckers than I do. 402 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,639 Speaker 1: But the point I'm saying is, I mean, I'm a 403 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,640 Speaker 1: good man. I love my family. That's not the point 404 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,880 Speaker 1: I'm trying to make here. And I do good things sometimes. 405 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: But the point I'm trying to make is to accept 406 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: Jesus and not accept Stephen is to miss the gift 407 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 1: of salvation where it matters the most. Because Peter doesn't 408 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: just say he's holy. He said that the same hymn 409 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 1: that was holy is making you holy. Y'all shouldn't have 410 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 1: handed me this mic. I preach harder when I hold 411 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 1: the mic. I don't know what's wrong. He didn't just 412 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:02,959 Speaker 1: say that Jesusjesus was a stone. He said, look at 413 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 1: verse five, Look at verse five, Verse Peter two five. 414 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 1: He said, you also. So I read this scripture a 415 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: million times. I thought, yeah, Jesus was rejected. Jesus was crucified. 416 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 1: Jesus came and the Jewish people didn't receive him. So 417 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,680 Speaker 1: the gospel I had to go to the Gentiles. Jesus 418 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 1: was hung up and they took took Barabbas instead of 419 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: Jesus on the cross. Yeah, they rejected Jesus. And I thought, well, 420 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 1: this is a scripture about how the wisdom of men 421 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: is always faulty, and the wisdom of God is only wisdom. 422 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 1: Give me trusting. That's all right. There, I missed the 423 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 1: hinge verse five. You also so like he's the stone 424 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 1: that I build on. I'm the stone that he builds on. 425 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:58,200 Speaker 1: Yes you, yes you, yes you. Who better to hear 426 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 1: this from than Peter Freaking Peter. Peter had problems. Peter 427 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:18,560 Speaker 1: was cussing what Jesus was going to the cross, but 428 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: the promise was to Peter. And Jesus said that flesh 429 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,160 Speaker 1: and blood did not reveal this to you. But my 430 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 1: father is in heaven. Watch this, and I say to 431 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:36,560 Speaker 1: you that you are Peter, and on this rock. Now, 432 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 1: his faith would still be shaken. He would still at 433 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: times in his life be belligerent, obnoxious. Am I talking 434 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:47,880 Speaker 1: about Peter? I'm I tell about Steven, I'm I talking 435 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: about you. I don't I'm talking about I'm talking about 436 00:30:50,640 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 1: what God builds on, bearing wounds, virgin girlseople who have 437 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: no business being built on. The reason you don't know 438 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: that is because you've only heard time lapse truth, so 439 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: you only see it happen in like ten minutes, and 440 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 1: then when it's been ten years for you, am I preaching? Okay, 441 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,479 Speaker 1: you don't realize that the same one who is sitting 442 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 1: here saying in one Peter too, is the same Peter, 443 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,960 Speaker 1: the same Peter this saying you are chosen. When Jesus 444 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: first said I want to use your boat, he said, 445 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:39,360 Speaker 1: go away from me, Lord, I'm a sinful man. I 446 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 1: never caught that before. How far Peter has come to 447 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,480 Speaker 1: be able to go from saying not me, you can't 448 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 1: use me to now God is using the same one 449 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 1: who tried to push Jesus away, the stone that the 450 00:31:55,560 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 1: builders rejected. It's the one who on the day of Pentecost, 451 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 1: the one with the loud mouth, the one who lied 452 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 1: about his affiliation with God, the one who couldn't seem 453 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 1: you know, Peter was always the one who was jumping 454 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,240 Speaker 1: up at the wrong times and shrinking back at the wrongness. 455 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 1: And God said, I'm gonna build on that. My kingdom 456 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 1: will not be built on prestige and personas and images. 457 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 1: My kingdom will not be built on perfect people. Now 458 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 1: this kingdom will be built different. See, I'm gonna find 459 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,600 Speaker 1: somebody who's real, rock solid, who knows they need grace, 460 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:43,120 Speaker 1: and I'll build on that. So now throw both their 461 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,720 Speaker 1: hands up and say, thank you Lord for choosing me, 462 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,480 Speaker 1: thank you Lord for saving me, thank you Lord for 463 00:32:49,560 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 1: seeing me. I was so so thankful that Jane was 464 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 1: up here when I came to preach. You wrote me 465 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,680 Speaker 1: a letter ten years ago that I never forgot. I 466 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,080 Speaker 1: memorized that like it was Bible verses, the Book of 467 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 1: Second Jane Jane Williams. We were celebrating some milestone for 468 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,200 Speaker 1: the ministry, I don't know, four years or something like that, 469 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 1: and she said, I thank God for you, She said, respectfully, 470 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:37,120 Speaker 1: I want to tell you something. She said, what God 471 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: is doing in you and through you is going to 472 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 1: look different than any of the heroes that you have, 473 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,000 Speaker 1: and she listed them. She knew who my heroes were 474 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:51,000 Speaker 1: because I'm unashamedly you know, I look up to people 475 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 1: in big ways. And she named my heroes and she said, respectfully, 476 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,680 Speaker 1: I just want to encourage you to just be open 477 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,920 Speaker 1: to what the Holy Spirit wants to do through you you. 478 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:12,560 Speaker 1: I never forgot that letter because when we started going 479 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:16,280 Speaker 1: away and writing songs together, none of my other pastor 480 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,399 Speaker 1: friends were writing music. And I would quote, you know, 481 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:24,560 Speaker 1: Third Jane two fourteen, it's gonna be different. It's gonna 482 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,959 Speaker 1: be different. Put that in the chat. It's gonna different, 483 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,759 Speaker 1: It's gonna be differ it's gona different. It's gonna be different. 484 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:34,200 Speaker 1: It's gonna be different. It's gonna be different. You're trying 485 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:38,840 Speaker 1: to build what's on somebody else's box with your pieces. 486 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:49,680 Speaker 1: You're trying to squat bucks weight bucks are built different. 487 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:56,879 Speaker 1: He's an alien, he's a freak. He is not a man. 488 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,840 Speaker 1: He is a machine. You get the point, built different 489 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:11,280 Speaker 1: and the more look he said, get rid of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy. 490 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,480 Speaker 1: Your life is gonna be built different. Your seeson is 491 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,520 Speaker 1: gonna look different, Your timing is gonna be different. Everything 492 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,000 Speaker 1: about it, How God uses you. You know the principle 493 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,440 Speaker 1: what God selects, men rejects. What men rejects God selects. 494 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:22,840 Speaker 1: I don't remember which order I said it in, but 495 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:26,040 Speaker 1: it's true the way you put it. That's true of you. 496 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,600 Speaker 1: Your life is true of David, who wasn't even in 497 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 1: line to be looked at as a future king, but 498 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,919 Speaker 1: was still out in the field. Study it. God said, 499 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,400 Speaker 1: I have rejected Saul, who the people chose, and I 500 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:42,000 Speaker 1: chose David, who the people didn't even know was there now. 501 00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:44,799 Speaker 1: In the same way that was true of Jesus the 502 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:51,080 Speaker 1: suffering servant. They wanted a king, not a carpenter, and 503 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:55,000 Speaker 1: he was both. We should have known that this kingdom 504 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 1: was gonna look different when we crowned a carpenter as 505 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,880 Speaker 1: our savior. That means there's going to be cutting, sanding. 506 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,200 Speaker 1: That means that the raw materials don't look like the 507 00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,400 Speaker 1: finished product. But you've got to stay entirely confident in 508 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:20,040 Speaker 1: the carpenter's process. Your belief is your blueprint and all 509 00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:23,279 Speaker 1: the behaviors that we're trying to change to rebuild our life. 510 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,240 Speaker 1: If we don't first deal with the belief that caused 511 00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,520 Speaker 1: the behavior, it will be short term in nature. The 512 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:33,439 Speaker 1: change will not stick. It will be a time lapse transformation. 513 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:42,000 Speaker 1: But real transformation takes time. It took Peter, if I 514 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:45,640 Speaker 1: have my dates correct, roughly twenty five years to go 515 00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:49,919 Speaker 1: from saying Jesus, you are the chosen One to being 516 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,080 Speaker 1: able to say to the gentiles that he wrote this 517 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:59,160 Speaker 1: to you are the chosen one. You also, But people 518 00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,400 Speaker 1: skip that stuff. They tell you, I'll admit I do it. 519 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:04,839 Speaker 1: I have a word I've heard from the Lord I'm 520 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,640 Speaker 1: excited to preach. When I woke up this morning, my 521 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:09,480 Speaker 1: stomach was so tor You know, I don't tell you 522 00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,719 Speaker 1: that part. You don't need to know all that. See, 523 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:14,799 Speaker 1: it was even too much information right there, and I 524 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:16,520 Speaker 1: didn't even say the full sentence. That's how that you 525 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,279 Speaker 1: can't handle this all right, and you don't need to 526 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,680 Speaker 1: tell everybody everything. But my point of it is, don't 527 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:27,480 Speaker 1: judge your transformation by somebody else's time lapse. It's just 528 00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:29,600 Speaker 1: like I said a million years ago. You know you're 529 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,560 Speaker 1: comparing you're behind the scenes to everybody else's highlight reel. Well, 530 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,600 Speaker 1: this is a matter, he said, you are being built. 531 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,480 Speaker 1: So when I walked in and heard Holly telling her 532 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,040 Speaker 1: friends about when we got to take a COVID test, 533 00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,799 Speaker 1: this is a few weeks ago, and I heard her 534 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,880 Speaker 1: tell the story, and I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 535 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:51,080 Speaker 1: You didn't tell them the part when the men stuck 536 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:55,080 Speaker 1: the cute tip in your nose? Can I please tell them? 537 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,880 Speaker 1: She is looking at me so evil, I might not 538 00:37:57,920 --> 00:37:59,480 Speaker 1: get a kiss for a month. I don't know if 539 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:04,359 Speaker 1: this was worth this. I mean, when that man put 540 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:09,160 Speaker 1: that Q tip up her nose, this woman, this woman 541 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,720 Speaker 1: who was so tough, who has delivered three human beings, 542 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:16,840 Speaker 1: precious babies into the world. This woman who I have 543 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,080 Speaker 1: seen weather storms and controversies and criticisms of the church 544 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,080 Speaker 1: that were giving our life to Bill, this woman screamed 545 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,960 Speaker 1: in agony, like she was thrust into the flames of 546 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,000 Speaker 1: an eternal hell, like she had just survived a head 547 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:32,560 Speaker 1: on collision with a UFO. She screams at the top 548 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,040 Speaker 1: of her lungs, and the man says, I'm like kidding, ma'am. 549 00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,000 Speaker 1: I'm not even in the nose yet. It was touching. 550 00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:41,040 Speaker 1: The rich of her notes. Yes it's true. Yes, it's true. 551 00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,200 Speaker 1: You didn't tell him that part. You didn't tell her 552 00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:50,520 Speaker 1: that part. I got the mic this week, and all 553 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,960 Speaker 1: she told them. There were all these people around. She said, 554 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,440 Speaker 1: I got a COVID test I said, that's all you're 555 00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:59,279 Speaker 1: gonna tell her, And that's all we do. I made it, 556 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:04,600 Speaker 1: by the grace of God. You barely made it. You 557 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,440 Speaker 1: still aren't sure you made it. Don't make me take 558 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:22,600 Speaker 1: my slater off the preaching. Everything we showed you for 559 00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:29,440 Speaker 1: the fifteen year anniversary was a time lapse testimony. You 560 00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:33,400 Speaker 1: don't get to see the deleted scenes, but I know 561 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:37,600 Speaker 1: them deep down and that's what gives me confidence for 562 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:42,880 Speaker 1: the grace of God to know that you again, it 563 00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:47,160 Speaker 1: will be faithful to completed. I'm looking for a city 564 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:52,439 Speaker 1: whose builder and maker is God. And what's so weird 565 00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,759 Speaker 1: about us is that knowing all this, that God is 566 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,520 Speaker 1: building us as stones, and that means we need each other. 567 00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:02,840 Speaker 1: Because it's not a singular stone, we will isolate ourselves 568 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,360 Speaker 1: and think we have to be good at everything. No, No, 569 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,440 Speaker 1: this kingdom is going to be built different. The kingdoms 570 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,000 Speaker 1: of this world are built on self reliance and independence. 571 00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,520 Speaker 1: The Kingdom of God is built on a coming together 572 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:22,680 Speaker 1: of imperfect people. Death built different. This kingdom is built different. 573 00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:31,600 Speaker 1: It's enhanced by the imperfections. It enables grace, It enables 574 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,520 Speaker 1: us to fit with one another. That we're not perfect. 575 00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:42,000 Speaker 1: It's an amazing thing. It's an absolutely amazing thing that 576 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,640 Speaker 1: I can accept Jesus and not accept me. And yet 577 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:48,760 Speaker 1: the scripture says that the process of maturity is offering 578 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:53,600 Speaker 1: to God a spiritual sacrifice that's my life acceptable through Jesus. 579 00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,000 Speaker 1: So the real challenge of my faith will not be 580 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:06,920 Speaker 1: accepting Jesus. It will be accepting His process with me. 581 00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:12,719 Speaker 1: And if that's sanding, and if that's cutting, and if 582 00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:14,760 Speaker 1: that means that I've been looking at the wrong box 583 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,520 Speaker 1: and that God wants to build something completely different in 584 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:23,719 Speaker 1: my life than what I had in mind, then I'm 585 00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:27,360 Speaker 1: good with it. Now. I don't have any clock. I 586 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:28,880 Speaker 1: don't know how long I've been preaching, But can I 587 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:37,080 Speaker 1: show you one more thing? Somebody say, built different, Built different. 588 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,400 Speaker 1: That's a statement of clarity, right. It helps you to know, hey, man, 589 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:45,920 Speaker 1: it's all right if my life doesn't look like your life, 590 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,120 Speaker 1: or if my gift doesn't look like your gift, or 591 00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:52,719 Speaker 1: if my timeline doesn't look like your timeline. Who gave 592 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:59,120 Speaker 1: you your blueprint to begin with? Your beliefs are your blueprint, 593 00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,680 Speaker 1: And for most of us, we never really checked out 594 00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:04,840 Speaker 1: what model we're building accord to according to And what 595 00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:09,480 Speaker 1: happens in a marriage is that you essentially repeat the 596 00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:17,120 Speaker 1: same blueprint that was demonstrated in front of you without 597 00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,960 Speaker 1: ever stopping to analyze. Is there a new blueprint that 598 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:27,239 Speaker 1: God wants to give our family? Nobody was supposed to 599 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:32,319 Speaker 1: have a church this diverse in Charlotte, North Carolina. But 600 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:36,000 Speaker 1: God had a blueprint that we were building according to 601 00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:42,960 Speaker 1: before we knew what the blueprint was. So I love 602 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,120 Speaker 1: the picture and I think I'll make this the last 603 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:49,600 Speaker 1: thing that I share with you today. When Moses is 604 00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:54,919 Speaker 1: building the Tabernacle where God's presence would dwell in the wilderness, 605 00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,400 Speaker 1: remember it was mobile the tabernacle, you had to be 606 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,759 Speaker 1: able to follow, kind of like life is right now. 607 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:06,160 Speaker 1: You got to plan everything in pencil right now, right 608 00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:10,520 Speaker 1: with a big fat eracer, just to know that everything's 609 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,320 Speaker 1: moving right, just to know that you know, the blueprint 610 00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,120 Speaker 1: might not be what we think it is. There was 611 00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,799 Speaker 1: a verse that always got my attention. I would use 612 00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:23,279 Speaker 1: it to talk to leaders. And the verses after God 613 00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:27,520 Speaker 1: has given Moses these very specific instructions about here's how 614 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:31,319 Speaker 1: you build the curtains for the tabernacle, here's how you 615 00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,840 Speaker 1: build he goes into great detail about the lamp stands 616 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,160 Speaker 1: and the table of presents, where the showbread was, and 617 00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,480 Speaker 1: he gives great instructions about where the Covenant was to 618 00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,680 Speaker 1: be kept, all of these things in the holy, Holy, 619 00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:46,759 Speaker 1: Holy of holies, the most holy place. And then there's 620 00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,120 Speaker 1: a verse where it's like God is reminding Moses because 621 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:50,920 Speaker 1: he showed him all this on Mount Sinai, where he 622 00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:52,680 Speaker 1: gave him the law, he gave him the instructions, he 623 00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,520 Speaker 1: gave him the vision, he gave him the blueprint, he says, 624 00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,000 Speaker 1: after telling him all of where the furniture should go 625 00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:02,360 Speaker 1: in the tabernacle, he tells him in Exodus twenty five forty, 626 00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:10,440 Speaker 1: please see that you make them according to the pattern 627 00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:21,560 Speaker 1: shown you on the mountain. See to it that when 628 00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:23,600 Speaker 1: you come down from this place where I'm giving you 629 00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:28,640 Speaker 1: a revelation of what's real, and you have to go 630 00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,920 Speaker 1: down into everyday life where people are. You have to 631 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:35,440 Speaker 1: go down into everyday life, where problems are. You have 632 00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,960 Speaker 1: to go down into everyday life where confusion is. You 633 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,680 Speaker 1: have to go down to everyday life where things aren't 634 00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:46,080 Speaker 1: so direct connection. See to it that the pattern you 635 00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:49,919 Speaker 1: build according to is not the pattern that you see 636 00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:54,040 Speaker 1: in the world, but the pattern that you see in 637 00:44:54,080 --> 00:45:02,239 Speaker 1: my presence. And I think is so hard for us, 638 00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:06,240 Speaker 1: because God gives us these great glimpses of the kind 639 00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,319 Speaker 1: of person that we can be becoming. You see it 640 00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,400 Speaker 1: through somebody else, you hear it in a moment, you 641 00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:13,319 Speaker 1: glimpse it, You get a glimpse of it, and then 642 00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:17,160 Speaker 1: you've got to carry that glimpse all the way down 643 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:22,000 Speaker 1: into the distractions of your real life. I mean, let's 644 00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,680 Speaker 1: be honest now, because many are having church in home. 645 00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,880 Speaker 1: You don't even get to just have church by yourself anymore. 646 00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,840 Speaker 1: Even as I'm preaching this, there is a distraction. While 647 00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,600 Speaker 1: I am giving you the details that God gave me 648 00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:36,560 Speaker 1: to give to you for what He's building your life 649 00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,319 Speaker 1: and designing your life according to There's stuff running around 650 00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,560 Speaker 1: all over your house. Some you even have AirPods in 651 00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:44,840 Speaker 1: because you're embarrassed to be listening to a sermon in 652 00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:46,520 Speaker 1: front of your roommates because they know how you really 653 00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:47,920 Speaker 1: live and you don't want to make fun of you. 654 00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,160 Speaker 1: So now you got to take the faith that God 655 00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,279 Speaker 1: birth while I was preaching in your ear and live 656 00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:56,719 Speaker 1: it out loud in the face of people who might 657 00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:01,680 Speaker 1: not respect or expect or accept you at all. But 658 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:06,280 Speaker 1: don't worry about it, because God selects what people reject. 659 00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:13,919 Speaker 1: Don't you turn around and do the opposite. Don't reject 660 00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:19,759 Speaker 1: what makes you special, don't downplay what makes you destined. 661 00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,520 Speaker 1: Don't you take what God gave you on the mountain 662 00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:27,480 Speaker 1: and the true you and build with an old blueprint. 663 00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:32,959 Speaker 1: And I read that and thought, that's it right there. 664 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:35,880 Speaker 1: You got to take what God shows you on the 665 00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:39,600 Speaker 1: mountain and build it in the valley. You got to 666 00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:41,520 Speaker 1: take what you know to be true when you feel 667 00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:45,399 Speaker 1: joy and apply it when you feel depressed. You've got 668 00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,600 Speaker 1: to take the blueprint of what God showed you as 669 00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,440 Speaker 1: supposed to look like and just build and him. You 670 00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:52,719 Speaker 1: got to build an arc when you've never seen rain. 671 00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:57,920 Speaker 1: You've got to build in the valley what God showed 672 00:46:57,960 --> 00:46:59,759 Speaker 1: you on the mountain and not take a vote of 673 00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:01,480 Speaker 1: a the Midi of cynics, who are going to tell 674 00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:07,399 Speaker 1: you it can't be done. He told Moses, make sure 675 00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,120 Speaker 1: that you put all the furniture where it goes in 676 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:13,680 Speaker 1: the tabernacle according to what I showed you on the mountain. 677 00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:19,480 Speaker 1: And you know what's crazy, Chris, Moses had a pattern 678 00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:25,279 Speaker 1: that was shown to him on Mount Sinai. But that's 679 00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:30,319 Speaker 1: not the mountain that we get our pattern from. That's 680 00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,960 Speaker 1: the mountain where God gave the law to his people. 681 00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:40,960 Speaker 1: The kingdom that Jesus came to inaugurate is built different. 682 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:47,600 Speaker 1: It's not built on Mount Sinai with rumbling thunder, flashing 683 00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:53,520 Speaker 1: lightning and wrath. It was built on a hill far 684 00:47:53,600 --> 00:48:01,400 Speaker 1: away stood an old rugged cross. See the mountain that 685 00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,800 Speaker 1: I want to pattern my life after is not Sinai, 686 00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,319 Speaker 1: where the Law lives. The mountain that I want to 687 00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:13,239 Speaker 1: pattern my life after is called Calvary, where grace is 688 00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:19,960 Speaker 1: greater than all my sin and shame. So what I 689 00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,520 Speaker 1: think God is saying, more than anything else, is to 690 00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:31,480 Speaker 1: make sure that you are building by grace, building by grace, 691 00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,160 Speaker 1: so that when your faith runs out, Peter, and you 692 00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,600 Speaker 1: run short, and when your faith runs out and your 693 00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,880 Speaker 1: answers aren't there, and when your faith runs out and 694 00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:46,720 Speaker 1: your explanations fall short, that you have a greater grace 695 00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:51,560 Speaker 1: working in your life. See. God is not going to 696 00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:55,520 Speaker 1: build the rest of your life based on what you deserve. No, no, no, 697 00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:58,799 Speaker 1: It is built on a much truer foundation than that. 698 00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:03,319 Speaker 1: This foundation cannot be shaken. If the rain blows, if 699 00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:06,640 Speaker 1: the winds blow, if the streams rise, if it beats 700 00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:09,759 Speaker 1: against your house, it will have its foundation on the 701 00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:13,160 Speaker 1: rock and it will stand firm. And that's what you've 702 00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,080 Speaker 1: been learning. In this season of your life. You face 703 00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:19,600 Speaker 1: some rejection, Some doors have been shut, some things have 704 00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:23,000 Speaker 1: gone wrong, some things have toppled, some truths have been 705 00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:26,880 Speaker 1: tested ah, But it's not about the furniture. It's about 706 00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:30,919 Speaker 1: the foundation. God can move it all around. But how 707 00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:36,280 Speaker 1: great a foundation, how firm a foundation is Jesus our Lord, 708 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:40,399 Speaker 1: if you know you've got the right foundation, give God 709 00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:51,720 Speaker 1: a shout of praise right now, hold it up. So Lord, 710 00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,880 Speaker 1: I released this word in the spirit you gave it 711 00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:58,200 Speaker 1: to me. You said to tell these people that if 712 00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:00,560 Speaker 1: a thousand fall at their right or they're it will 713 00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:04,080 Speaker 1: not comnigh them because they're built different. You told me 714 00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:06,240 Speaker 1: to tell them that though the world may be dismayed 715 00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,520 Speaker 1: and discouraged, not so with them, because we're built different. 716 00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,000 Speaker 1: You told me to tell them that, in a divided 717 00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:16,080 Speaker 1: time politically, that your church still stands together, united under 718 00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:19,640 Speaker 1: the only name that matters, because we're built different. And 719 00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:23,520 Speaker 1: upon this rock you have built your church, and upon 720 00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:27,040 Speaker 1: this rock you are building our lives. And upon this 721 00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:31,160 Speaker 1: rock of revelation, you are building an understanding that can 722 00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:37,319 Speaker 1: never be shaken. And we praise you for it. In Jesus' name. 723 00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,880 Speaker 1: Come on, lift up a high phrase. If you receive it, 724 00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:46,880 Speaker 1: if you believe it, that the stone the builders rejected, 725 00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:56,640 Speaker 1: That the stone the builders rejected. It's the chief cornerstone. 726 00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:01,560 Speaker 1: So Lord, here we are. We're not shifting sand. Our 727 00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:07,040 Speaker 1: lives are built on you, the solid rock, the one 728 00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:10,359 Speaker 1: who never walks away, the one who never gives out. 729 00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:15,080 Speaker 1: I pray for people today who have been flapping back 730 00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:20,680 Speaker 1: and forth. And maybe they've been more concerned with the 731 00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:26,360 Speaker 1: furniture than the foundation. Maybe they've been more concerned with 732 00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:28,799 Speaker 1: certain little items and things in their life and this 733 00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:31,920 Speaker 1: going right and that going right. But none of that 734 00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:37,239 Speaker 1: mattered when the storm came. Only what mattered was what 735 00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:44,480 Speaker 1: is it built on? Lord? We want to build what 736 00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:49,080 Speaker 1: we behold in your presence today you showed us some things. 737 00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:50,880 Speaker 1: I could feel it. While I was preaching, you were 738 00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:54,560 Speaker 1: showing us some things. All we ever see is what's 739 00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:58,239 Speaker 1: wrong with us. Today you showed us what's right with you. 740 00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:04,280 Speaker 1: And if I can accept Jesus and Jesus accepts Stephen, 741 00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:11,160 Speaker 1: I got to accept me too. We joined with Peter's 742 00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:14,520 Speaker 1: pronouncement today. He said it to people thousands of years ago, 743 00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:17,480 Speaker 1: but he was saying it for us too. You are 744 00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:26,040 Speaker 1: chosen people. Once you weren't. Now you are lift your 745 00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:27,960 Speaker 1: hands like you're receiving on the mountain. God give me 746 00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:31,920 Speaker 1: a new blueprint. This week, I've been looking at some 747 00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:35,000 Speaker 1: of the wrong models. Give me a new blueprint for 748 00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:36,839 Speaker 1: how to spend my day, for how to spend my week. 749 00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:40,160 Speaker 1: Give me a new blueprint for how to handle temptation 750 00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:43,279 Speaker 1: and pressure and stress. Give me a new blueprint for 751 00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:45,279 Speaker 1: how to treat other people when they're unfair to me. 752 00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:50,120 Speaker 1: Give me a new blueprint for what significance really is 753 00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:58,879 Speaker 1: because I need it. Listen to me, I know who's four. 754 00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:02,400 Speaker 1: I got to say it. What is built on determines 755 00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:09,400 Speaker 1: what it can be destroyed by. So anything that isn't 756 00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:15,239 Speaker 1: built on Jesus, who is eternal, can be destroyed by 757 00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:25,240 Speaker 1: something that is temporal. But you are chosen people. Peter 758 00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:28,239 Speaker 1: was chosen while he was cussing. He was chosen while 759 00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:35,799 Speaker 1: he was preaching upon this rock, the living Stone, rejected 760 00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:42,080 Speaker 1: by men, accepted by God. We thank you for it. 761 00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:52,319 Speaker 1: Right now. Receive it. Just receive it. Say I receive it. 762 00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:55,120 Speaker 1: I receive it. If you receive the word, make sure 763 00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:57,120 Speaker 1: you not only receive the word, but apply it and 764 00:53:57,239 --> 00:53:59,640 Speaker 1: share it. You know, you could take a moment right 765 00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:01,799 Speaker 1: now if you watch the whole sermon and it bless you, 766 00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,200 Speaker 1: share it, share it with somebody right now, God can 767 00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:08,359 Speaker 1: use you as a witness and make sure you're subscribed. 768 00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,160 Speaker 1: And I want to thank all of you who pray 769 00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:14,120 Speaker 1: for me and Holly and our team here and those 770 00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:16,440 Speaker 1: of you who give and so into the Kingdom of God. 771 00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:20,359 Speaker 1: When we say that you're a chosen people. God has 772 00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,560 Speaker 1: chosen us to make a difference in this time. So 773 00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:25,879 Speaker 1: let us choose to do the things that God has 774 00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:27,759 Speaker 1: called us to do, the work He's called us to 775 00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,040 Speaker 1: do to build his kingdom. I'm so grateful for what 776 00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:32,640 Speaker 1: he's doing. Give him all the glory. I'll see you 777 00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:35,200 Speaker 1: next time. Pray for us for praying for you. We 778 00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:35,600 Speaker 1: love it.