Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.
Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving
Speaker 2: in your life.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.
Speaker 3: I want you to give out ten hugs all around you.
Speaker 3: Make everybody in your section feel so welcome. Tell them
Speaker 3: I'm so glad you're in church today.
Speaker 1: Roll call who made it online? Right now?
Speaker 4: Let us know your name, your country. I'm pulling out
Speaker 4: my phone. I'm checking the role. Hey, Rai's in the
Speaker 4: house front row.
Speaker 1: Good to see you, a ray man. What are you
Speaker 1: doing over there? That's not your seat? He never sits there.
Speaker 5: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: Yeah? How'd you get over there?
Speaker 3: It is gonna throw off the entire cosmic balance of
Speaker 3: my preaching if you are sitting there instead of there.
Speaker 3: I'm not telling the person down there to trade seats
Speaker 3: with you.
Speaker 1: But you got big shoes to fill right there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in the jersey in the Washington Commander's jersey.
Speaker 1: Big shoes to fill. That's my guy right there.
Speaker 3: But apparently he's holding a town on this side today.
Speaker 3: So who do I have over here on this side
Speaker 3: of the road. Come on, who came to worship God?
Speaker 3: Get a word from him, hear from him, Worship him,
Speaker 3: glorify him, put our attention on him.
Speaker 1: Feels good to give God all the glory, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: I have a tattoo on my back that says cavad.
Speaker 3: It's the Hebrew word for weight w e i g ht,
Speaker 3: and it also means glory. And I found out when
Speaker 3: I try to take the glory for myself, I have
Speaker 3: to carry the weight myself. But when I give God
Speaker 3: the glory, I feel like I can move better.
Speaker 1: I feel like I can stand longer. I feel like
Speaker 1: I can make him all right. A few shout outs
Speaker 1: for online, y'all remain standing.
Speaker 3: Forgive us if we're a little loopy. Kind of goes
Speaker 3: along with my series. We're talking about same lies, new loops.
Speaker 3: We're a little loopy because we just recorded thirteen songs
Speaker 3: of brand new worship melodies and anthems. I'm so excited
Speaker 3: that's one of them. Call God, Jesus be the Name.
Speaker 3: Just so much good stuff we're gonna be putting in
Speaker 3: your ears, in your heart, in your life, in your car,
Speaker 3: gonna be playing these songs in your kids nursery. Some
Speaker 3: of y'all got a kid on the way in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty six. I got some anthems coming for your baby.
Speaker 3: Some of y'all gonna be pushing that baby out to
Speaker 3: one of these new songs. Not prophesia right now gonna
Speaker 3: be good too.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be calling God and call him on. Everything
Speaker 1: is going to be really good, all right.
Speaker 3: Shout outs from Adam from Oklahoma, Priscilla from Texas, Someone's joint.
Speaker 1: Someone came to church from Kenya today. Praise the Lord.
Speaker 3: Kenya, Cape Town, Palestine, Madagascar, Cape Co, Chicago. Of all
Speaker 3: the places I've said, which one would you most like
Speaker 3: to go to if you could be transported?
Speaker 1: Right now? I read a few more where else. Somebody said,
Speaker 1: just not here, that's horrible out here.
Speaker 3: Lewis, Hello, Lewis, Hello from Maryland. Anyway, you get the point.
Speaker 3: Let's welcome our Epham all.
Speaker 1: Over the world.
Speaker 3: Post watching it a later time, I want to get
Speaker 3: right into the word.
Speaker 1: If it's all right with you, Raise the Lord.
Speaker 3: The Lord spoke something to my heart for our next
Speaker 3: installment on same lies, New Loops.
Speaker 1: Soh on my graphic real quick.
Speaker 3: It kind of looks like an infinity loop and zoom
Speaker 3: out so everybody can see it at the campuses. Please,
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get you out of these things that
Speaker 3: go on in your mind that keep you from meeting
Speaker 3: with God and keep you from believing what He says
Speaker 3: about you. And to do that, we got to get
Speaker 3: you out of the thought patterns. The renewal of your
Speaker 3: mind is not a one time event. Salvation is Jesus
Speaker 3: saves you as done, is paid for, it's finished. But
Speaker 3: the renewal of your mind is not a one time event.
Speaker 3: It is a moment by moment decision. So when we
Speaker 3: get into God's word, when we worship God like you've
Speaker 3: done today, go ahead and give yourself a hand, because
Speaker 3: you made a new loop today. As you were worshiping God,
Speaker 3: you were joining the angels around the throne of God,
Speaker 3: singing Holy, Holy, Holy. And today for this installment, the
Speaker 3: Lord led me to Psalm one hundred and twenty. We've
Speaker 3: been sharing from a lot of the Psalms because the
Speaker 3: psalms speak to.
Speaker 1: The heart such a unique way.
Speaker 3: This is one of fifteen songs that is categorized as
Speaker 3: a song of a sent a sent meaning going up,
Speaker 3: because literally they would be sung as the people were
Speaker 3: going up to Jerusalem for their pilgrimage to worship the
Speaker 3: Lord for all of the different feasts that they would celebrate.
Speaker 3: Some were written by David, some by his son Solomon,
Speaker 3: and some by an unknown author. They were designed to
Speaker 3: be sung not only along the way, but on those
Speaker 3: fifteen steps going up to the temple, and there were
Speaker 3: fifteen of them. So it's really beautiful sometimes to understand
Speaker 3: that God has given us a song for every season,
Speaker 3: and this is a song of a sin. And go
Speaker 3: ahead and tell your neighbor, just go ahead and prophesy
Speaker 3: over them, say you're going up today. Put it in
Speaker 3: the chat, say I'm going up today. Yeah, A song
Speaker 3: of a sense. How many of you have your Bible?
Speaker 3: And it says that over the heading, it says a
Speaker 3: song of a sense. Right, So here's what he says.
Speaker 3: In my distress, I called to the Lord and he
Speaker 3: answered me, y'all, don't have anything you're happy that God
Speaker 3: answered you about, not one thing, not even just you
Speaker 3: had peanut butter in the pantry this week and you
Speaker 3: wanted it and you put it on that cracker and
Speaker 3: it tasted real good, and it didn't get stuck on
Speaker 3: the roof of your mouth. Come on, how many have
Speaker 3: at least one thing that God.
Speaker 1: Did for you? Praise the Lord, he said.
Speaker 3: In my distress, I called to the Lord, and he
Speaker 3: answered me, I'm going to read the full psalm for context.
Speaker 3: He says, deliver me, o Lord, from lying lips from
Speaker 3: a deceitful tongue. Same lies new loops. Verse three, What
Speaker 3: shall be given to you, and what more shall be
Speaker 3: done to you?
Speaker 1: You deceitful tongue.
Speaker 3: A warrior's sharp arrows with glowing coals of the broom tree.
Speaker 3: Woe to me that I sojourn in meshek, that I
Speaker 3: dwell among the tints of Kdar. Too long have I
Speaker 3: had my dwelling among those who hate peace?
Speaker 1: Wow? Does that, Firse mean you should delete Instagram? I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 3: Too long have I had my dwelling among those who
Speaker 3: hate peace? I am for peace, but when I speak,
Speaker 3: they are for war. Now go back to verse one.
Speaker 3: Now that you've heard the whole thing, and let's make
Speaker 3: a loop. In my distress, I called to the Lord
Speaker 3: and he answered me. Today I'm going to talk about
Speaker 3: the lie that the devil has been telling you.
Speaker 1: This message is called not here, not here.
Speaker 3: Just reach around and tell seven people on your way
Speaker 3: to your seat not here, not here.
Speaker 1: You may be seated not here.
Speaker 3: Oh, I want to tell you why I'm here today,
Speaker 3: Why I'm in the pulpit today.
Speaker 1: You like, isn't it? You're well? Not every single Sunday.
Speaker 3: I would have scheduled this Sunday off because of all
Speaker 3: of the intensive labor around our songwriting. But number one,
Speaker 3: I thought, if the team's gonna be here, I'm going
Speaker 3: to be here. But number two, I thought you needed
Speaker 3: this next word in the series. And I didn't want
Speaker 3: the devil to disrupt the flow of what we're doing
Speaker 3: because I really feel like we've got some momentum, and
Speaker 3: I'm really here in testimonies, and I really feel like
Speaker 3: there's something special that he's doing in some of our
Speaker 3: minds and delivering us from the devil that keeps us
Speaker 3: from making decisions and keeps us from rejoicing and keeps
Speaker 3: us depressed.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to keep that going.
Speaker 3: But thirdly, I'm here because it's my son Graham's eighteenth
Speaker 3: birthday today. Occasionally I tell a little bit about our
Speaker 3: family because of a scripture that Paul said, we were
Speaker 3: delighted not only to share the Gospel of God with you,
Speaker 3: but our lives as well. And in this pulpit a
Speaker 3: lot of times I get things wrong, but will and
Speaker 3: to do that sometimes because if I never get it wrong,
Speaker 3: I can never get it real. So I also share
Speaker 3: from my own heart and my own life of the
Speaker 3: things that I'm processing, as well as what the Bible
Speaker 3: says about other people's process. And Graham found out that
Speaker 3: I was going to take this week off because of
Speaker 3: the scheduling of our recording so I could focus on that.
Speaker 3: And he said, wait a minute. Sunday the twenty eighth
Speaker 3: is my birthday. And Mom said we can get a guest,
Speaker 3: and Graham said, no, guest, it's my birthday. And we
Speaker 3: started naming some of his favorite preachers and said, well
Speaker 3: we could have.
Speaker 1: And we named him and he said no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no.
Speaker 3: And Holly even said, how about if I preach and
Speaker 3: Graham goes, it's my eighteenth birthday?
Speaker 1: I want Dad. I want Dad.
Speaker 3: So Graham, you got me. Whatever happens, we're in this together.
Speaker 3: If the ship goes down, come help me bail them.
Speaker 1: He wanted me and he got me.
Speaker 3: And there was a moment a few years ago in
Speaker 3: Graham's life, where as every parent does, I was teetering
Speaker 3: on the edge of not trusting God because as he
Speaker 3: was starting to move into manhood, I started to worry
Speaker 3: about the temptations. And it's one thing to protect your kids.
Speaker 3: It's one thing to pray for your kids. It's another
Speaker 3: thing to become so possessive about your kids that you
Speaker 3: don't realize that they were gods before they were yours.
Speaker 1: And we all can relate to that, either as a
Speaker 1: child or a parent. All the kids are like, did
Speaker 1: you hear that?
Speaker 3: Mom? I am God's God said I could come home
Speaker 3: at twelve thirty, not eleven thirty.
Speaker 1: Don't use my sermon like a weapon later.
Speaker 3: But I was sitting down one Saturday to prepare a
Speaker 3: sermon for our church, and I was so worried about Graham,
Speaker 3: and not because he had done anything wrong. It was
Speaker 3: just that transitional season. Remember I taught you last week,
Speaker 3: When you vent about a situation without God in it,
Speaker 3: you start to invent scenarios in your head. And so
Speaker 3: nothing was really even wrong. Yet there was just the
Speaker 3: possibility of him getting on a bad path, and it
Speaker 3: started to possess my mind. Right now, the Lord spoke
Speaker 3: to me, what do you mean when you say that?
Speaker 3: It was an impression that was louder than a conversation.
Speaker 3: It was an impression that was deeper than a text message.
Speaker 3: And all I felt from God was that he said,
Speaker 3: I've got Graham. It was a short sentence, but I
Speaker 3: knew I heard it. I've got Graham. Immediately a flood
Speaker 3: of peace filled my heart, my soul. I got back
Speaker 3: to work, and since that day he has not sinned.
Speaker 3: I can't say that, but it's funny. You said, I
Speaker 3: get Dad on my birthday and God told me I
Speaker 3: got Graham. And you know, he's doing pretty good, y'all.
Speaker 3: He's doing pretty good. Started a little Bible study. He's
Speaker 3: doing pretty good. Now I'm getting emotional on I'm for
Speaker 3: getting the outline of my message. Will y'all pray for
Speaker 3: me please that I could just preach this from.
Speaker 1: Some one twenty.
Speaker 3: He started a Bible study in the house, and about
Speaker 3: six to eight of y'all would come over, right, and
Speaker 3: he started recruiting me on Sunday nights to come teach
Speaker 3: you a little bit and you talk about loopy after
Speaker 3: I've preached on Sunday. I definitely don't know Hebrew and
Speaker 3: Greek words. I can barely speak English. And so I
Speaker 3: go up there and try to help the boys. And
Speaker 3: you know, when you're talking to the high school boys, it
Speaker 3: really revolves around a few struggles over and over again
Speaker 3: what they're dealing with. And one of those conversations that
Speaker 3: comes up is how do I deal with the times
Speaker 3: when I have a spiritual high but then it goes away?
Speaker 1: And how do I keep the spiritual high?
Speaker 3: Well, of course I told this person who asked this question,
Speaker 3: I'm not interested in teaching you to keep the high.
Speaker 3: I want to teach you how to look for God
Speaker 3: in the lows, because if you can look for Him
Speaker 3: in the lows, you can only go so low. Because
Speaker 3: one psalm says, if I make my bed in shield,
Speaker 3: you are there. If I make my bed in hell,
Speaker 3: you are there. Where shall I go from your prey?
Speaker 3: Where shall I ascend? If I ascend to the heavens,
Speaker 3: you are there. If I descend to the hell, you
Speaker 3: are there. If I say, surely the darkness will cover thee,
Speaker 3: surely light will become a night, to thee, for you
Speaker 3: are there. Your presence is everywhere, so I want you
Speaker 3: to look for God in the lows. Now, the contrast
Speaker 3: we have in someone twenty. Why I thought it would
Speaker 3: be so great for us to study together today is
Speaker 3: because on one hand, this Psawmist is going up.
Speaker 1: He's going up to Jerusalem.
Speaker 3: Jerusalem is in the mountain region, so to go to Jerusalem,
Speaker 3: you go up every.
Speaker 1: Time a song of ascent.
Speaker 3: He's singing a song of a scent as he's going up,
Speaker 3: but it's also a song of lament, which is grief.
Speaker 3: So he's on his way, headed up to worship, but
Speaker 3: there is something that is weighing him down as he walks.
Speaker 3: Every single person who is you're in this room today,
Speaker 3: on your way up to worship, on your way up
Speaker 3: to lift your hands in praise God, on your way
Speaker 3: over here, there was.
Speaker 1: Something that was weighing you down.
Speaker 3: It's surprising you don't have a flat tire from all
Speaker 3: the weight that was in the car, with the tension
Speaker 3: that is in your family and the tension that is
Speaker 3: in your heart, and the tension of your faith and
Speaker 3: your frustration. And I got this picture that we all,
Speaker 3: like the Psalmist, while we are on our way up.
Speaker 3: We are weighed down, and I want to tell you, Graham,
Speaker 3: and I want to tell you, my friend, that's normal.
Speaker 1: And learning to live with this.
Speaker 3: It's the ascent and the lament, all in the same song,
Speaker 3: all in the same room, all.
Speaker 1: On the same row, in the same mind.
Speaker 3: I could get you to think about something right now
Speaker 3: that would make you so happy. You would start dancing.
Speaker 3: You would even forget that you don't know how to dance.
Speaker 3: You would forget you don't have any rhythm, and you
Speaker 3: would I saw some of y'all doing it, Dearian alelujah,
Speaker 3: I saw it.
Speaker 1: It got you so happy.
Speaker 3: We start thinking about God and how he deserves the praise,
Speaker 3: and so happy.
Speaker 1: And then I could mention something else. If I really
Speaker 1: knew you, if I could really.
Speaker 3: Get in your life for five minutes, I could say
Speaker 3: something else, and you would be so heavy. Your hands
Speaker 3: would drop, your head would drop, your heart would fall out.
Speaker 3: Because as I'm on the way up, it doesn't mean
Speaker 3: I'm not wagh down. I never praise God because my
Speaker 3: situation is perfect. And to wait for a perfect situation
Speaker 3: to praise God, to wait for a perfect situation to
Speaker 3: have peace that's a setup for the enemy. If you
Speaker 3: procrastinate your praise or your peace until your situation is perfect,
Speaker 3: you'll never get the piece.
Speaker 1: Because I'm on my way up and I'm way down.
Speaker 1: And it was.
Speaker 3: Different in his time because listen to some of the
Speaker 3: things he was dealing with. Verse two, he said, deliver me,
Speaker 3: oh Lord, from lying lips. Back in the Bible times,
Speaker 3: they had liars. And you know, we've evolved as a species,
Speaker 3: but in those days there were rampant lies. You couldn't
Speaker 3: even tell what was truth and what was a lie.
Speaker 3: You couldn't even tell if it was their real voice
Speaker 3: or not, or if it was really their lips moving.
Speaker 3: Or Graham showed me a picture the other day or
Speaker 3: a video of some lion jumping to the sky snatching
Speaker 3: a baby lion from a bird of prey, and he's like, Dad,
Speaker 3: why are you crying? It was like about praying moms
Speaker 3: jumping up and grabbing their young from the talons of
Speaker 3: the enemy. And he saw tear in my eyes that Dad,
Speaker 3: that's Ai. You are crying at Ai. It's not real,
Speaker 3: but it was powerful and it was good.
Speaker 1: You should look it up when I'm gone preaching.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what's real anymore, the man said,
Speaker 3: because on one hand, watch this, I'm going up. On
Speaker 3: one hand, there are good things happening in my life.
Speaker 3: On one hand, I'm kind of excited about this new relationship.
Speaker 3: On one hand, I'm kind of excited about what I
Speaker 3: sensed that God might be moving around.
Speaker 1: But on the other hand, there is something heavy. I'm
Speaker 1: on the way up, and I'm way down.
Speaker 3: And I'm on my way to the House of God.
Speaker 3: But there's something waiting for me at home that I
Speaker 3: have to deal with.
Speaker 1: So let me.
Speaker 3: Illustrate this with a picture. Okay, I thought of how
Speaker 3: do I break this down? Not only for Graham's Bible study.
Speaker 3: Who's wondering, how do I stay in the youth camp
Speaker 3: energy year round? Well, you know, kind of all of
Speaker 3: us wish we could live in that youth camp energy
Speaker 3: all year round, or at the very least at the
Speaker 3: Sunday Morning energy year round. If we would all be
Speaker 3: as nice to each other in our vehicles as we
Speaker 3: are in.
Speaker 1: This church, what the world be like.
Speaker 3: It doesn't take much to get you acting like you
Speaker 3: are not a Christian, does it? All I got to
Speaker 3: do is put you in four doors with some glass
Speaker 3: and aluminum, and you forget all about the presence. The
Speaker 3: Lord is everywhere except your car, and in that space
Speaker 3: all is forgiven. I thought about it like this. I
Speaker 3: thought about the song we were singing earlier. We've got
Speaker 3: this song that says, I call God on the mountain,
Speaker 3: I call God in the valley, I call God.
Speaker 1: On the good days. Don't forget those.
Speaker 3: Sometimes the moments of our victory make us more vulnerable
Speaker 3: than the moments of our defeat, because sometimes in the
Speaker 3: moment of defeat you're dependent on God. Sometimes in the
Speaker 3: moments of your victory you pretend like He wasn't the
Speaker 3: one who gave it to you. So it's a great song.
Speaker 3: Are y'all enjoying singing it? I call God on the mountain,
Speaker 3: I call God in the And then we name everything
Speaker 3: where you could call God, because you could call him anywhere,
Speaker 3: and you can put anything in there with two syllables.
Speaker 1: It'll sing good.
Speaker 3: I call God in the kitchen, I call God in
Speaker 3: the bathroom. You can't say that, yes, you can say
Speaker 3: that the Lord can go where he wants to, and
Speaker 3: he can do what he wants. He gave me a
Speaker 3: lot of sermons in the bathroom. I call God everywhere.
Speaker 1: I call God in the shower.
Speaker 3: Some of us that's the only place we sound good singing,
Speaker 3: so we might as well call him in there, right.
Speaker 1: But here's what I wanted to show you.
Speaker 3: I wanted to show you that the mountain in the
Speaker 3: valleys look like this, and if you ever go, just
Speaker 3: put the first graphic please that if you go into
Speaker 3: a hospital and they check your heartbeat and it looks
Speaker 3: like that, the good news is you're not going to
Speaker 3: be in the hospital very long. You going somewhere else.
Speaker 3: But that's EKG. This is the one I wanted them
Speaker 3: to put up first, because this is normal. This is
Speaker 3: a normal heartbeat. I am going to say as little
Speaker 3: about this as possible because there are nurses and doctors
Speaker 3: that go to my church, and I don't want you
Speaker 3: to judge me. Basically is telling me about the heartbeat,
Speaker 3: and it's EKG. And those waves that you see, those
Speaker 3: peaks and those valleys, that's what life looks like. Yeah,
Speaker 3: y'all see point R. I call God on the mountain,
Speaker 3: But do you see point S.
Speaker 1: I call God in the Come on be.
Speaker 3: The choir, y'all, And both of them are necessary for
Speaker 3: life to be present, the ussent and the limit. I
Speaker 3: had one just the other day. Man, you know how
Speaker 3: it happens. You're feeling so good and you're feeling so
Speaker 3: much God, and it takes one text message. One This
Speaker 3: is how strong my faith is. One text message, and
Speaker 3: I can go from trusting God to wanting to tear
Speaker 3: into some Okay, Okay, I'm gonna come back behind the pulpit.
Speaker 3: I can go from everything is so wonderful and I
Speaker 3: love my neighbor and I love you Jesus. In fact,
Speaker 3: I think I was singing and working on a worship
Speaker 3: lyric when the text came through.
Speaker 1: And as I'm looking for the lyric, here.
Speaker 3: Comes a text, a mean text text and unnecessary text,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, I felt the bottom drop out,
Speaker 3: just like that, and I'm like, where did you go?
Speaker 1: God? For the next hour, it got in my head.
Speaker 1: Has this ever happened to you?
Speaker 3: Y'all are looking at me so confused, just so quick,
Speaker 3: just so offended. I was so offended that I just
Speaker 3: I was having this moment with God and then boom
Speaker 3: dropped down.
Speaker 1: I went from put it back up there real quick, y'all.
Speaker 1: I went from R to s, just like that. You
Speaker 1: ever gone from R to S? Just like that. I
Speaker 1: used to think God was R and the devil was S.
Speaker 1: But I found out.
Speaker 3: That in between the prayer and the answer is faith,
Speaker 3: and faith is the substance of things hoped for and
Speaker 3: the evidence of things not seen. You don't see your
Speaker 3: heart beating, That's what the readout is showing you that
Speaker 3: you were still here. Your heart is beating while I'm talking,
Speaker 3: and you're still here. There are peaks and valleys in
Speaker 3: your life while you are journeying and sojourning through this
Speaker 3: pilgrim experience.
Speaker 1: Of being a human.
Speaker 3: Being a person, and you keep thinking it's not normal,
Speaker 3: and you keep thinking that you're broken because you think
Speaker 3: that Christianity is always riding the high. But the moment
Speaker 3: that you learn that the God who is the God
Speaker 3: of this is the God of that, and this is
Speaker 3: what life looks like. It looks like I'm headed up
Speaker 3: in one area and I'm way down in another. And
Speaker 3: I'm headed up in one area and I'm way down
Speaker 3: in another. And I got one foot up and I
Speaker 3: got one foot down. And I'm doing better with my health,
Speaker 3: but I'm doing worse in my mind and I'm doing
Speaker 3: better with my money, but I'm doing worse with my time.
Speaker 3: And here I am thinking that there's something wrong with me,
Speaker 3: when God wanted me to know that both steps are
Speaker 3: ordered by the Lord, the one here the one there.
Speaker 3: They are both ordered by the Lord.
Speaker 1: Bring me my teaching, scream.
Speaker 3: I gotta teach you about this because the enemy wants
Speaker 3: you to think that God is here but not here.
Speaker 1: But without here here does not happen.
Speaker 3: So this message is designed to help you with your
Speaker 3: mind today because you keep thinking, what's wrong with me
Speaker 3: that it keeps dropping out? What's wrong with me that
Speaker 3: I keep having to fight for this? What's wrong with
Speaker 3: me that I keep having to relearn the same lessons.
Speaker 3: The transformation and renewal of your mind is not a
Speaker 3: one time event.
Speaker 1: You have to walk this out. You have to walk
Speaker 1: this out. You have to walk this out one moment
Speaker 1: at a time.
Speaker 3: Because another thing I found out put the chart back up, yeah,
Speaker 3: is that not only are both of those important for
Speaker 3: my heart to be Not only are both of those
Speaker 3: important for me to know God as my shepherd in
Speaker 3: the valley so I can praise Him as my provider
Speaker 3: on the mountain, But all of those things are happening
Speaker 3: at the same time. We used to talk about seasons
Speaker 3: of blessing and seasons of burdens, right like, praise God
Speaker 3: on the mountain and call God on the mountain, and
Speaker 3: then when God's blessing you in season, and then when
Speaker 3: you're in the valley season. If I went around the
Speaker 3: room today and asked, are you in a mountain season
Speaker 3: or a valley season?
Speaker 1: The only answer that would be appropriate is yes. So
Speaker 1: let's try it. Class.
Speaker 3: Are you in a mountain season or a valley season?
Speaker 3: You mean you can go from the valley to the
Speaker 3: mountain in a moment with a text, with a thought,
Speaker 3: Because there is something to be said for seas where
Speaker 3: God answers your prayers and you're looking at it. There's
Speaker 3: something to be said for seasons when you see no
Speaker 3: proof that He heard your prayer.
Speaker 1: And you're going by faith not sight.
Speaker 3: But what I realized looking at that heartbeat is that
Speaker 3: those events are not months apart.
Speaker 1: Those are moments apart.
Speaker 3: See, I thought, God will bless you real good for
Speaker 3: about a month, and you'll be on the mountain for
Speaker 3: a month. But God doesn't bless you a month at
Speaker 3: a time. He blesses you a moment at a time.
Speaker 1: And it is not.
Speaker 3: Only the seasons that we need to celebrate, and not
Speaker 3: only the seasons.
Speaker 1: That we need to be strategic.
Speaker 3: The Lord said to tell you think seconds, not seasons, seconds,
Speaker 3: not seasons.
Speaker 1: Seconds.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, this chart that is on
Speaker 3: the screen right now, this chart is showing you what
Speaker 3: happens not in one second in your heart, but in
Speaker 3: a millisecond.
Speaker 1: I had to study that. I know some certain things.
Speaker 3: I know that a season is made up of about
Speaker 3: three months. I know that a month is made up
Speaker 3: of about four weeks. I know that a week is
Speaker 3: made up of about seven days. I know that a
Speaker 3: day is made up of well not about seven days,
Speaker 3: exactly seven days, let's be clear about it. And those
Speaker 3: days are made up of twenty four hours, and an
Speaker 3: hour is made up of sixty minutes, and a minute
Speaker 3: is made up of sixty seconds. But to get to
Speaker 3: a millisecond, I had to find out that is one
Speaker 3: one thousandth of a second that makes up a minute,
Speaker 3: that makes up an hour, that makes up a day,
Speaker 3: that makes up a week, that makes up a month,
Speaker 3: that makes up a season. And you keep trying to
Speaker 3: handle things a season at a time. When God says
Speaker 3: I am a God who beats insight of your heart,
Speaker 3: not every second.
Speaker 1: Take that second and slice.
Speaker 3: It down to a thousand, and I am in every millisecond.
Speaker 1: So the reason I praise.
Speaker 3: Him isn't because I'm on the mountain non stop, but
Speaker 3: it's that God can do a miracle in a millisecond.
Speaker 1: Yeah, said it. I got a millisecond miracle working way.
Speaker 6: Making, coming in, keeping, never.
Speaker 1: Leaving, never forsaking God.
Speaker 3: Give your neighbor five high fives and tell him he
Speaker 3: could do it in a millisecond.
Speaker 1: Doesn't this make sense to us? Don't we know now?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: Wow? I could go from the mountain.
Speaker 3: Up here to the valley, and for everybody who's self righteous,
Speaker 3: I bliss the Lord at all times.
Speaker 1: His phrase shall continually be on my mouth. Okay, Moses, when.
Speaker 3: You come off the mountain, make sure you cover your
Speaker 3: face because.
Speaker 1: You're not always shining.
Speaker 3: And I can interview your family members and find out
Speaker 3: more details if I need to, But please be honest.
Speaker 3: I'm on the mountain for a minute, but most of
Speaker 3: us are one spilled cup of coffee on our khaki
Speaker 3: breeches away from saying the name of the Lord in
Speaker 3: a different way, because it.
Speaker 1: Is not a one time event.
Speaker 3: And if you can go from the mountain to the
Speaker 3: valley in a millisecond, I wonder, can God bring you
Speaker 3: from the valley. Come on, let's turn this thing around.
Speaker 3: Let's turn this thing around. Think of the goodness of
Speaker 3: Jesus and oh that He's done for you, and command
Speaker 3: your soul cry out Hollah, thank you God for saving me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, come on, baseball team, praise God with me.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you are in the house. You had to
Speaker 1: be here. God wanted you to get this word. So
Speaker 1: what it is? When you're here, you're like, oh, that's God.
Speaker 3: The psalm is back to some I am not going
Speaker 3: to get to all this all week unless.
Speaker 1: Y'all would like to.
Speaker 3: Stay until about three pm.
Speaker 1: That did not sound convincing. I'll plan on wrapping.
Speaker 3: Up, he said. First one. In my distress, I called
Speaker 3: to the Lord and he answered me past tense circle,
Speaker 3: answered justin.
Speaker 1: How did he do that?
Speaker 3: He not even here in this room, but he hears
Speaker 3: what I said, and even though I can't see him,
Speaker 3: he can do what I asked him to do from
Speaker 3: a room where I cannot see him.
Speaker 1: With my eyes, he said.
Speaker 3: I called to the Lord and I couldn't see him,
Speaker 3: but he answered me, tastings. Well, if he answered you,
Speaker 3: then what is verse two all about? Deliver me, o Lord,
Speaker 3: from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. Why does he
Speaker 3: say in verse one he answered me, and go on
Speaker 3: through the next six verses to describe a problem that
Speaker 3: is still waiting.
Speaker 1: For him at home.
Speaker 3: I tell you next week, y'all want it today, all right.
Speaker 1: I'm not like the Lord. I won't make you wait,
Speaker 1: all right. The lie is this. You know, God is
Speaker 1: with you, but the devil wants you in this loop.
Speaker 1: Not here now.
Speaker 3: In the Old Testament, the temple was in Jerusalem, right,
Speaker 3: we are the temple of the Spirit of God. Now,
Speaker 3: God is not in this room until you show up.
Speaker 1: Yes he is.
Speaker 3: He's in the empty room. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: God does not fill buildings, He feels people. But in
Speaker 3: the Old Testament, construct the glory of the Lord would
Speaker 3: fill the temple, so they had to go to a.
Speaker 1: Location to worship. So now get the contrast with me.
Speaker 3: He's going, I'm headed here to worship, but I'm holding
Speaker 3: some stuff as I do, and I'm in between.
Speaker 1: I'm in between a battle and a blessing all in
Speaker 1: one heart beat. You keep thinking the season is going
Speaker 1: to change, It's going to be all mountains.
Speaker 3: I hope not, because then you're dad right, then your
Speaker 3: faith will flat line. And God's going to give you
Speaker 3: some of these and He's gonna give you some of
Speaker 3: these and you will have to learn to praise him
Speaker 3: and worship him in the same heartbeat that your heart
Speaker 3: is broken, and praise him and call him holy anyway.
Speaker 1: And the enemy will say, not here.
Speaker 3: You can't praise him here, not in this hospital, not
Speaker 3: in this prison, No, this rehab. When you get out, yeah,
Speaker 3: when you get out, you can give a testimony. You
Speaker 3: can give a testimony right now. Because he's the master
Speaker 3: of the millisecond. When I put it online, I might
Speaker 3: call it the master of the millisecond. He doesn't just
Speaker 3: command the times and the seasons and creation from eternity.
Speaker 3: Not only is call and response built into the cadence
Speaker 3: of creation, but.
Speaker 1: In this moment, in this heart, he's showing.
Speaker 3: Me gooka gooker, I'm all of ita, go goa. I
Speaker 3: reveal myself in the rhythms of the ups, the downs,
Speaker 3: the ebbs, the flows, the yes, the nose, the leavings,
Speaker 3: the comings. I'm in all of it.
Speaker 1: It's all me.
Speaker 3: I'm in all of it. And the devil will say, well,
Speaker 3: God is not in this, not here, not here. And
Speaker 3: when he says not here, have your confidence like the
Speaker 3: Psalmist did, because it's so beautiful about the psalm is
Speaker 3: that he says, God answered my prayer. But he doesn't
Speaker 3: even see the proof yet. The answer is in past tense,
Speaker 3: but the trouble is in present tents.
Speaker 1: But he knows.
Speaker 3: Watch, just here's your new loop. The devil is telling
Speaker 3: me God is not here. But I tell the devil,
Speaker 3: he heard last week I preached on he answered, And
Speaker 3: in that wonderful when the Lord answers, when you see
Speaker 3: your kid leading the Bible study, it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 3: But between the prayer and the Bible study is a
Speaker 3: stage called he heard. And I don't have the answer yet.
Speaker 3: It's not here. The answer isn't here. I'm speaking to
Speaker 3: somebody today and the answer isn't here. The healing isn't here,
Speaker 3: the result isn't here, the reconciliation isn't here, the proof
Speaker 3: isn't here, and the enemy keeps trying to tell you
Speaker 3: what's not here. But in this moment it is so
Speaker 3: vital and important for the health of your heart and
Speaker 3: the life of your faith that every time the enemy
Speaker 3: points to an area and says God didn't do that yet,
Speaker 3: how can you trust him?
Speaker 1: That hasn't happened yet. And you are not whole.
Speaker 3: This is not complete yet, and so you cannot call
Speaker 3: yourself a real Christian.
Speaker 1: Every time he says not here, you remind yourself.
Speaker 3: But he hears me. When I pray, he heard me.
Speaker 3: When I prayed, he heard me. He's not hard of hearing.
Speaker 3: God hears me. He heard me. There is a space
Speaker 3: between prayed and answered, called heard.
Speaker 1: And when you know God hears you, you have confidence.
Speaker 3: First John chapter four, verse fourteen and fifteen says something
Speaker 3: very interesting that if we know Verse John chapter five,
Speaker 3: verse fourteen says something very interesting. This is the confidence
Speaker 3: that we have in approaching God. If we ask anything
Speaker 3: according to his will, shout it.
Speaker 1: He hears us. Let's read it again.
Speaker 3: And if we have confidence in approaching God, we ask
Speaker 3: anything according to his will, he hears us. I can't
Speaker 3: hear you up here. Say it again. He hears us.
Speaker 3: Better than Siri. He hears us better than the people
Speaker 3: advertising to you on your phone. When you're talking about
Speaker 3: lawnmowers and all of a sudden, a weed eater shows
Speaker 3: up on your phone, he hears us. That's why God
Speaker 3: spoke to me when I was praying. He said, I've
Speaker 3: got Braham. But he did not tell me the timeline,
Speaker 3: and he did not tell me that there wouldn't be lows.
Speaker 3: And nobody knows what the future holds, and nobody knows
Speaker 3: what there will be in the next season. But I'm
Speaker 3: not serving God's season by season. I'm serving him step
Speaker 3: by step, second by second. And since he's the master
Speaker 3: of the millisecond, I can trust him right now and
Speaker 3: know that he heard me.
Speaker 1: Tell three people he heard you. Tell him he.
Speaker 3: Heard you the first time. I'm gonna say that again,
Speaker 3: he heard you the first time. Sometimes you keep asking
Speaker 3: him to take things away, and he leaves them he
Speaker 3: heard you. He just isn't gonna take it away right
Speaker 3: now because he's gonna teach you something with it, and
Speaker 3: after he gets done teaching you with it, you will
Speaker 3: thank him for it. But that does not mean that
Speaker 3: it's fun to go through the season called heard have
Speaker 3: you ever left somebody on red on a text message?
Speaker 1: Have you ever left somebody unheard? In a common My
Speaker 1: family picks on Holly all the time.
Speaker 3: They'll say, Mom will leave you unheard, meaning that they're
Speaker 3: just asking her what they want, telling her what they
Speaker 3: want like she's an uber driver, telling her what they want,
Speaker 3: like she's some kind of servant to their every desire.
Speaker 3: And she's just looking right back at him. And they'll say,
Speaker 3: Mom will leave you unheard. And I'm thinking to myself,
Speaker 3: it's not that she didn't hear you, it's just that
Speaker 3: she doesn't have to. She doesn't have to do everything
Speaker 3: you ask. Look at first John five, verse fifteen.
Speaker 1: This is powerful. The Bible says, if we know that
Speaker 1: he hears us whatever we ask, we know that we
Speaker 1: have what we ask of him.
Speaker 3: But verse fourteen gives a condition. It says, if we
Speaker 3: ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And
Speaker 3: this is the part we don't know because we think
Speaker 3: this is always his will. What if this is too.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. You don't know how much I
Speaker 1: needed that encouragement. I'm gonna get your.
Speaker 3: Seat on the front road next week, all right, He
Speaker 3: says he heard me and I can't really describe it
Speaker 3: to you like I want to.
Speaker 1: But another one of our songs says I sought the Lord.
Speaker 3: And he answered. But there is a part that says
Speaker 3: I sought the Lord and he heard, and he heard,
Speaker 3: serve me so hot. I'm dropping stuff over here. And
Speaker 3: I realized that when he hears my prayer, when he
Speaker 3: hears my needs, when he hears my do you know
Speaker 3: the Bible says that God even speaks the language called groaning.
Speaker 3: One scripture says that God can interpret your groans in
Speaker 3: the Holy spirit, will turn them into a prayer. God
Speaker 3: hears all those sounds you make. One Psalmis said, I
Speaker 3: love the Lord. He heard my cry. Did you know
Speaker 3: that God speaks grief, God speaks grown, God speaks pain
Speaker 3: that you can't express in a word.
Speaker 1: God gets in that stuff too. And the devil will say.
Speaker 3: Not here, And God will say, right here, in your tears,
Speaker 3: in your fears, in your sorrow, in your worry, in
Speaker 3: your anxiety, right there.
Speaker 1: I'm coming right here, right here, right here, new loud,
Speaker 1: because he hears.
Speaker 3: And what I learned while I'm waiting for the answer
Speaker 3: is to trust that what he hasn't answered, he's holding.
Speaker 3: He's holding the Bible says the Lord to keep your
Speaker 3: tears in a jar. He's holding the Bible says that
Speaker 3: he will keep your prayers in a like incense, like
Speaker 3: a fragress. He's holding it, and he heard you. And
Speaker 3: sometimes he's holding it because he's got two hands. And
Speaker 3: sometimes he needs to do this for you, and he will.
Speaker 3: And sometimes he needs to do this for you, and
Speaker 3: he will. And he's the same whether the hand is
Speaker 3: like this or like this, that's all. And we don't
Speaker 3: like to be left unheard. We definitely don't like to
Speaker 3: be left on hold? How long will you give somebody
Speaker 3: before you hang up on hold?
Speaker 1: But you don't really have that option with God, do you.
Speaker 3: You can't press star one three to speak to a supervisor.
Speaker 3: He ain't gotten a supervisor. You ask for God's supervisor.
Speaker 3: You're gonna get God beside him, there is no other.
Speaker 3: So what are you gonna do? I'm trusting that he's
Speaker 3: holding I got Graham. What else are you gonna do
Speaker 3: with your kid? But give him back to God? What
Speaker 3: else are you going to do with this thing? You
Speaker 3: can't control it.
Speaker 1: In any way?
Speaker 3: You might as well give it to him. I promise
Speaker 3: you can walk up better if you let him hold
Speaker 3: it at the bottom. You can go to work better,
Speaker 3: even if you don't like the job, if you let.
Speaker 1: Him hold the part you can't control.
Speaker 3: So I realize everybody say he heard Do you believe that?
Speaker 1: Do you believe he heard you? He heard you?
Speaker 3: And I don't profess to know why God does what
Speaker 3: he does. He's my supervisor. I can't speak to that.
Speaker 3: But what I can see is times in my life
Speaker 3: that he was holding a problem for me. And I
Speaker 3: cannot only see times where he was holding a problem,
Speaker 3: but I can look back. If I look back, I
Speaker 3: can't always see it when I'm in it, because it's
Speaker 3: this and it's that. But if I look back over
Speaker 3: my life, sometimes I see how he used a problem
Speaker 3: to answer a prayer.
Speaker 1: Because he's holding both. He's holding both.
Speaker 3: Sometimes the stuff I was asking him to take away, Hey,
Speaker 3: it's the stuff that he used to give me grace
Speaker 3: for the thing that I didn't know what I was
Speaker 3: gonna do about.
Speaker 1: Am I right about it?
Speaker 3: Sometimes God sends a problem to answer a prayer.
Speaker 1: But if you can.
Speaker 3: Realize that he is big enough to hold both and
Speaker 3: you're not, and.
Speaker 1: You don't have to be. But I called to.
Speaker 3: The Lord and he answered my prayer. And the proof
Speaker 3: that he answered it isn't that.
Speaker 1: The problem went away.
Speaker 3: The proof that he answered it is that he came.
Speaker 1: He came. He didn't just give the answer. Get ready
Speaker 1: to shout. He is the answer.
Speaker 3: So not only am I saying, listen to me, Not
Speaker 3: only am I saying to every person who's praying about
Speaker 3: a situation that.
Speaker 1: He heard everybody's shout he heard.
Speaker 3: And not only am I saying that he's holding everybody
Speaker 3: say he's holding Yeah, he's whole, he's holding it.
Speaker 1: He holds it all together.
Speaker 3: Not you. When Chad was up here earlier, I know
Speaker 3: you didn't get to see it online, but he said
Speaker 3: those exact words to you. I was like, thank you
Speaker 3: for the confirmation. God, this is the word somebody needs.
Speaker 3: You're not holding it together.
Speaker 1: He is. And all things work together for the good
Speaker 1: of them that loved the Lord.
Speaker 3: So it's this and it's this, and it's this, and
Speaker 3: it's this and it's this and it's this. And they're
Speaker 3: not a season apart, and they're not a month apart,
Speaker 3: and they're not.
Speaker 1: A minute apart.
Speaker 3: It is second by second bless the Lord. It is
Speaker 3: second by second the Lord has been good to you.
Speaker 1: It is second by second his mercy endures forever.
Speaker 3: That's why I couldn't believe when I told you after
Speaker 3: your dad's death. I didn't know what to say to you,
Speaker 3: and all I could think of to say was you
Speaker 3: have one job breathe next breath.
Speaker 1: When your son.
Speaker 3: Died and I cried on the porch, and I felt
Speaker 3: so incompetent to advise you at that moment because what
Speaker 3: would I do, And through my tears, I told you
Speaker 3: one job, next breath.
Speaker 1: I got off the phone.
Speaker 3: With him, and I left your house feeling like such
Speaker 3: a failure because that's all I could think of to say.
Speaker 3: But he told me, and he told me that that
Speaker 3: simple thing next breath.
Speaker 1: Was enough to get them through.
Speaker 3: The hardest season of their life, one millisecond at a time.
Speaker 1: I thought I failed when I told him that.
Speaker 7: But he heard, he heard, he heard, he heard, he
Speaker 7: heard what you didn't say, he heard what you don't.
Speaker 1: Know how to say.
Speaker 3: Still, he heard how disappointed you were and how they
Speaker 3: responded to you and didn't reciprocate after all you did
Speaker 3: for them. He heard what they said about you that
Speaker 3: wasn't true. He heard, he heard what they said about
Speaker 3: you that was true that you wish wasn't. He heard,
Speaker 3: he heard what you said about yourself that wasn't so.
Speaker 3: He heard, he heard what you said about yourself that
Speaker 3: was so. But he speaks a better word. He heard.
Speaker 3: I'm here to remind somebody today that he heard, and
Speaker 3: he's holding. The God of seasons is the god of
Speaker 3: seconds and milliseconds. And I realize why I'm alive now
Speaker 3: because my first point is he heard, and my second
Speaker 3: point is he's holding, and my third point is it's him.
Speaker 3: Y'all can't decide whether to write that down or clap
Speaker 3: your hands. I see a lot of conflict in the
Speaker 3: and the crowd is him, and sometimes you don't recognize
Speaker 3: as him.
Speaker 1: Because it feels like this.
Speaker 3: The Salmist said, man, I got some stuff waiting for
Speaker 3: me back home, don't we all? I hate when y'all
Speaker 3: go fake on me. Don't we have some stuff waiting
Speaker 3: for us at home? Every bed is not going to
Speaker 3: be made up in your house when you go home,
Speaker 3: just because you made up your mind to worship God today,
Speaker 3: and everybody that's around you didn't hear this message.
Speaker 1: Like you did, and they are not going to encourage
Speaker 1: you in your dream. Go for it. The Lord is
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 3: He said, I got some lyon tongues, and if God
Speaker 3: doesn't step in, but see he did. Now I realized
Speaker 3: why he said answered in past tense, because the answer
Speaker 3: to his prayer wasn't it The answer was him. Remember
Speaker 3: what Graham said, He said, I want Dad on my birthday.
Speaker 3: He didn't ask for a cake, but he's gonna get
Speaker 3: a cake. He didn't ask for any of those things
Speaker 3: that I've got wrapped back there. Let's be honest that
Speaker 3: Holly's got wrapped back there. See, I am the gift today.
Speaker 3: I don't have to wrap anything. Just put on a
Speaker 3: black hoodie and preach. But since you called for me,
Speaker 3: if you need something, I got it. And since I'm here,
Speaker 3: and since you're here, what do you need, you can
Speaker 3: have it. Oh I'm not saying God to give you
Speaker 3: everything that you greed.
Speaker 1: I'm saying He.
Speaker 3: Will meet all your needs according So if you need
Speaker 3: another one, I got you because I'm here.
Speaker 1: Because when you said I.
Speaker 3: Want Dad, you got everything that Dad has with Dad.
Speaker 3: This is the confidence, not that the answer came, but
Speaker 3: the one who is the answer.
Speaker 1: Pastor Mickey used to.
Speaker 3: Say, I went to school, and when you know the answer,
Speaker 3: you raise your hand. I wonder, is there anybody in
Speaker 3: here who.
Speaker 1: Knows the answer. And his name is God. His name
Speaker 1: is el Sha died, his name.
Speaker 3: Is Ellllyd, his dame is Jehovah Shirah, and your father
Speaker 3: has what you ask for. It's him that is the
Speaker 3: answer to this. It is not when it goes away
Speaker 3: that you can say he answered me. It's when he
Speaker 3: shows up to remind you that if you make your
Speaker 3: bet in hell, I will be your bunk mate. If
Speaker 3: you make your bet in a bad decision, I'll start
Speaker 3: breaking prison doors to.
Speaker 1: Get you out.
Speaker 3: If you make your bet in depression, I'll give you.
Speaker 1: A birth deploy.
Speaker 3: In this moment, and as long as you're breathing, I
Speaker 3: want you to know that God's got Graham, God, Scott, you.
Speaker 1: God's got this.
Speaker 3: Oh. I thought, chills on my what do you call
Speaker 3: these traps? When I said it Gods, God, this no
Speaker 3: pastor not here. I made too many mistakes. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: Him that shows up in this and in this it's
Speaker 3: Him that's what life looks like. How can I ride
Speaker 3: the spiritual high.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: When you figure it out, write a book, we'll all
Speaker 3: buy it. We will make you a New York Times
Speaker 3: bestselling author every day for the rest of our life.
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, most of us have to look for.
Speaker 3: God in the lows, wow and to praise Him with
Speaker 3: the next breath. Yes, he said, I'm going to worship,
Speaker 3: but I'm dealing with some things back home.
Speaker 1: I wonder is that you today? It's to your feet.
Speaker 1: I'm here to worship. I'm here to worship.
Speaker 3: How many of you are here to worship today?
Speaker 1: Hey, don't raise your hand.
Speaker 3: If you didn't come to worship, if somebody made you come,
Speaker 3: don't raise your hand.
Speaker 1: It's all right. But even in the chat say I'm
Speaker 1: here to worship.
Speaker 3: Okay, what you have to do is get this work
Speaker 3: to go, because what good is it for you to
Speaker 3: go to Jerusalem for a minute if you're not going
Speaker 3: to invite God into the low places too. I remember
Speaker 3: a Bible story. It's normally for Easter, but it doesn't
Speaker 3: have to be where this woman named Mary Magdalene who
Speaker 3: had had seven demons and Jesus had cast them out
Speaker 3: of her mind. Tradition says she was a prostitute. There's
Speaker 3: no textual evidence for that. The tradition will label a
Speaker 3: lot of things wrong on it. Bible says that she
Speaker 3: went to the tomb of Jesus early in the morning
Speaker 3: while it was still dark and Peter and John were
Speaker 3: having his arm wrestling match to see who could see
Speaker 3: him first, and he wasn't there. What would be like
Speaker 3: to get to the tomb and an angel tell you
Speaker 3: not here? And what do you do when you look
Speaker 3: for Jesus in the last place you saw and you
Speaker 3: feel like he's not here? What do you do when
Speaker 3: you experienced God in one season of your life and
Speaker 3: it was so high and now he's got you down here.
Speaker 3: I love the Word of God because it helps me
Speaker 3: get a new way of thinking about those moments for myself.
Speaker 1: Hey, I go through them too.
Speaker 3: I got flipped off on Friday on the road.
Speaker 1: In my jeep within the roof. Doown you know what
Speaker 1: the roofdown means? That means easy access for reciprocation. Man,
Speaker 1: the Lord helped me so much. Holly said, don't look
Speaker 1: at this guy, because here what happened.
Speaker 3: But that was such a tender moment and I feel
Speaker 3: like I need to tell you.
Speaker 1: This real quick, to make it practical.
Speaker 3: He's driving this big pickup truck right, and I already
Speaker 3: let two people out ahead of him, and it's a
Speaker 3: busy intersection. Now. I don't know how you feel about
Speaker 3: good Samaritan rules on the road, but I think if
Speaker 3: you more than two people go out and I have
Speaker 3: to stop behind you and the light is green, you
Speaker 3: are no longer a good Samaritan.
Speaker 1: You are overdoing it.
Speaker 3: Okay, you just do what the light says and let
Speaker 3: the Lord work out when they get out. You can
Speaker 3: let one, maybe two out, but two is the max. Okay,
Speaker 3: you're not helping anymore. You're overdoing it.
Speaker 1: That's the loudest show shout it all day. So now listen.
Speaker 3: I let not one, but two people out, but he
Speaker 3: thought he should get out too, But no, I can't
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 1: We got to go.
Speaker 3: The light's green, is busy, so I go, and Holly said, ooh,
Speaker 3: don't look over there at him.
Speaker 1: He is mad at you. I said, don't look over
Speaker 1: at who.
Speaker 3: And he had that middle finger up in his truck
Speaker 3: and the Lord. I called on the Lord and he answered,
Speaker 3: and he told me what to do.
Speaker 1: I stuck my finger back up at him this arm
Speaker 1: right out my top of my roof. You know how
Speaker 1: good that fell?
Speaker 3: I said, hey, yeah, praise the Lord, and I drove
Speaker 3: on to my house and I checked to make sure
Speaker 3: he wasn't following me, because sometimes the Lord will call
Speaker 3: you to answer something a little different than you normally
Speaker 3: would have and take but a milliseconds just to go
Speaker 3: from what you wanted to do to hey, boy, I
Speaker 3: even can see you walking around this week just doing
Speaker 3: this to situations.
Speaker 1: I can see it. I can see it in my mind,
Speaker 1: putting up, turned to three people say hey, hey buddy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the renewal of your mind is moment by moment.
Speaker 3: It is not on this row on Sunday. It is
Speaker 3: on the road on Monday that it will be tested.
Speaker 3: Did you get this message? And it is sometimes in
Speaker 3: the place where you expected God to be that he
Speaker 3: is not, that he shows you the greatest revelation of
Speaker 3: who he is. So the Bible says in John chapter twenty,
Speaker 3: verse eleven that if she's there at the tomb crying,
Speaker 3: and as she wept, she bent over to look into
Speaker 3: the tomb and saw two angels in white seated where Jesus'
Speaker 3: body had been past tense. He's not here, he's not here.
Speaker 3: There was one at the head, the other at the foot.
Speaker 3: They asked her, woman, why are you crying? She said,
Speaker 3: they're taking my Lord away, and I don't I don't
Speaker 3: know where he is. I don't know where's God in this.
Speaker 3: I don't know where the answer is. I don't know
Speaker 3: what the right thing to do is. I don't know
Speaker 3: what doctor to talk to next.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do about it. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I should call him. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I should block him. I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: I don't know what God wants me to do.
Speaker 3: I'm just kind of like, honestly, I thought faith was
Speaker 3: like this all of my life, trying to get God
Speaker 3: to do what I want him to do, and now
Speaker 3: realize it's more like this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3: And in the dark outside the tomb ass she's weeping.
Speaker 3: She turned around and saw Jesus standing there. Oh wait,
Speaker 3: it's him, but she doesn't realize that it was Jesus,
Speaker 3: and he asked her, woman, why are you crying? Not
Speaker 3: only a savior who speaks the language of tears can
Speaker 3: ask a question like that, who is it you are
Speaker 3: looking for Jesus, is so funny who you're looking for?
Speaker 3: Thinking he was the gardener, and he kind of is.
Speaker 3: She said, sir, if you have carried him away, tell
Speaker 3: me where you have put him, and I will get him.
Speaker 3: And Jesus said to her Mary, and she turned toward
Speaker 3: him and cried out in air meg rabb o'e eye,
Speaker 3: which means teacher. And Jesus said, do not hold on
Speaker 3: to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father.
Speaker 3: Go instead to my brothers and tell them I am
Speaker 3: ascending to my Father and your father, to my God
Speaker 3: and your God. This is the gospel that God in
Speaker 3: human form died for your sin, descended to the grave,
Speaker 3: defeated death, and Hell awoke, holding the keys to death,
Speaker 3: Hell and the grave. And he heard when you called
Speaker 3: to him for salvation. And he's holding the keys of death, hell.
Speaker 1: And the grave.
Speaker 3: And it is him in life, in death, on the mountain,
Speaker 3: in the valley, it's him.
Speaker 1: It's him. Yes, it's God. You're called on him. He's here.
Speaker 1: That's God making your heart beat.
Speaker 3: That's God giving you the next breath.
Speaker 1: That's God holding your tomorrow.
Speaker 3: That's God taking care of your knees.
Speaker 1: That's God, that's him. Give him a praise like.
Speaker 6: You would give him if you knew he was here,
Speaker 6: if you knew he was worthy, if you knew he
Speaker 6: was holy, if you knew he was holding your life.
Speaker 3: So now you know why it says I call God
Speaker 3: on the mountain, I call God in the valley.
Speaker 1: I call God.
Speaker 3: It's all God, Oh God, don't even need anything.
Speaker 1: Lord. I just love you because you love me first.
Speaker 3: And I'm so thankful that you're here with me, that
Speaker 3: you got up out of that grave. God.
Speaker 1: So I call you when it's gone.
Speaker 6: I call y'all here, I call you down there.
Speaker 3: You're God with is gone her god.
Speaker 1: Win is hard.
Speaker 6: So I'm calling today has to say I love you, concerned,
Speaker 6: I just to say I love.
Speaker 3: You, O God.
Speaker 6: Now listen, I don't know to got a frocking heart,
Speaker 6: but he's a healer, poor God's and I know what
Speaker 6: you need. But he's a provider. And I don't know
Speaker 6: what to fight, but he's a defender.
Speaker 5: I need every hit the name fuck God. So yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: so hey, yeah, you're.
Speaker 1: God, saying sir, baby surd So thank you for joining us.
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