1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 2: podcast and I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,959 Speaker 2: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope 5 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 2: it gives your perspective to see God is moving. 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: In your life. Enjoy the message. 7 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 2: I have an exciting word to present to you today. Okay, okay, 8 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 2: well let's do it. Then let's get in Philippians chapter 9 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 2: one together. I'm just going to share two verses that 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 2: introduced two different sections of Philippians chapter one, and then 11 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 2: I can come back and fill it in. I so 12 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:51,520 Speaker 2: enjoyed Holly's message last week. She was preaching on James 13 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 2: and Ruth and just everybody. Old Testament, New Testament. She 14 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 2: helped us, she instructed us, she inspired us. 15 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: Look good doing it. I'm not gonna lie to you. 16 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 2: I was a little distracted at times and not thinking 17 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 2: about Jesus at all. 18 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: But the Lord is good. Touch somebody say he's good. 19 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 2: The Lord is good, and so I want to keep 20 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 2: on going in the flow that I've been in on 21 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 2: functional faith. I've been hearing people that have been with 22 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 2: me like nine ten years saying this. 23 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: Is my favorite series you've ever done. 24 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not saying the other ones weren't good, 25 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 2: but this was really helping me. So I figured, well, 26 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 2: you know, if you've got momentum in an area, just 27 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 2: stay on it. So I'm going to stay on this 28 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 2: idea of functional faith for however long it takes you 29 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 2: to start living it out. 30 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: We might be here a while. 31 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 2: Look at Philippians Chapter one, verse twelve, and I am 32 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 2: bogged down in this chapter. Can't do it justice in 33 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 2: the time that's allotted today, But I do my best. 34 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 2: Where Paul says, now I want you to know, brothers 35 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 2: and sisters, that what has happened to me has actually 36 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 2: served to advance the gospel. 37 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: That's one heading. And then go to verse twenty. 38 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 2: He says, I eagerly expect and hope that I will 39 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 2: in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage 40 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 2: so that now, as always by, Paul's really sticking his 41 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 2: neck out here, isn't he He's facing a trial before Caesar, and. 42 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: He's boasting of the power of God. 43 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 2: And he said, you know, I have a feeling that 44 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 2: whatever happens to me, that God's going to use it. 45 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,079 Speaker 2: And so I eagerly expect and hope that I will 46 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 2: in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage 47 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 2: so that now, as always, Christ will be exalted in 48 00:02:54,800 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 2: my body, just like God sell me through before to 49 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 2: show himself strong on my behalf in this situation too. 50 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:08,080 Speaker 2: Now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, 51 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 2: whether by life or by death. Rather than a title today, 52 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 2: for the message, I'm going to be teaching a little 53 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 2: bit more than I'm going to be preaching. So I 54 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 2: want to use a question to get your thinking today. 55 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 2: And the question is are you headed in the right direction? 56 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 2: Are you headed in the right direction? And we'll do 57 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 2: our best to consider that and take a look at it. 58 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 2: But let's pray before we sit down and learn. Lord, 59 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 2: open our hearts. Your word needs good ground if it 60 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 2: is to grow and produce. So we ask you till 61 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 2: us open us and make us receptive and ready. 62 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: Somebody say I'm ready. Tell the Lord say I'm ready. 63 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, Amen, you may be seated. Thank you, band. 64 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 2: I just love our worship teams so much. I love 65 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 2: our production teams, parking teams. I love our children's ministry teams. 66 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 2: Somebody told me that the e kids album might have 67 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 2: been a Billboard album on the chart or something like that. 68 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 2: That's pretty cool on the Billboard charts with the kids album. 69 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 2: I didn't verify it, but it sounds cool, so I 70 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 2: just thought i'd say it. 71 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: We'll look it up later. 72 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 2: Look here because I want to I want to teach 73 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 2: today and I need a little bit of grace. 74 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: See about my handwriting. 75 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 2: It's gonna make you question whether or not you can 76 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 2: sit under a pastor with the level of intelligence that 77 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 2: my handwriting indicates. I have sent people birthday cards before, 78 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 2: handwritten birthday cards because I'm a I'm a good man, 79 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 2: I'm a thoughtful person, and they didn't have any more 80 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 2: courtesy than to respond to me talking about my handwriting 81 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 2: on the handwritten birthday card. 82 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 1: Never mind what. 83 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,559 Speaker 2: I said, the words of life that I spoke into 84 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 2: their soul. They say things like, wow, do you do 85 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 2: you do you get your kids to write the birthday 86 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 2: cards for you? I write that for you, and well, 87 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 2: that's just mean. So I figured that you're not that 88 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 2: type of people that you are loving and accepting. And 89 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,280 Speaker 2: the message I want to use today requires a little 90 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 2: bit of writing. I want to write some words on 91 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 2: the board and kind of teach from that standpoint. So 92 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 2: I want to plead for your forgiveness of my handwriting, 93 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,159 Speaker 2: if you'd be willing to forgive me for my handwriting 94 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 2: in advance and for anything that I misspell, because there's 95 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 2: no spell check on a whiteboard, and so we're going 96 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,479 Speaker 2: to try to do it, but you know, just kind 97 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 2: of to break it down. And I want you in 98 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 2: the posture of a learner today so the message can 99 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 2: last past when I finished preaching it and go into 100 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 2: your week with you. So you may want to write 101 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:47,599 Speaker 2: some of these things down. And the first thing that 102 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 2: I want to mention from the text and really from 103 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:57,479 Speaker 2: life is progress. Because they say, they say anything sounds 104 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 2: official if you started with they say. They say that 105 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,799 Speaker 2: one of the basic elements and requirements of human happiness 106 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 2: is a sense of progress. 107 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 1: You can't be happy in a sustained. 108 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 2: Way if you don't feel like you're making progress in 109 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 2: life and in different areas of your life. 110 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: And I think that's true. 111 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 2: Maybe I'm a little bit more ambitious than most people. 112 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm not most people. 113 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 2: I'm me, but I certainly need a sense of progress 114 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 2: to stick with something. Yeah, I don't show up for 115 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 2: something that's not working. I don't just show up again 116 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 2: and again and again and again. If it's not working, 117 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 2: I'll just stay home. And by the way, that's why 118 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 2: some men quit their marriages because it feels like they 119 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 2: never get back to that original state of love that 120 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 2: they had, and so it feels like they're going backwards 121 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 2: in the relationship. And a man won't show up to 122 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 2: play a game that he never can win at and 123 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 2: women too. I mean, it goes both ways, but we 124 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,919 Speaker 2: all need a sense of progress. Everybody say progress. 125 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, you sound good today, you sound like you want 126 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: to make progress. I sat down with some of. 127 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 2: Our staff members this week and coached them for different areas. 128 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 1: You do know that I work between Sundays. 129 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, so in leading the church one of the things 130 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 2: that I am privileged to do, not as much as 131 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 2: I would want to, but sometimes I get to do 132 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 2: a one on one session or a group session of coaching. 133 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 2: And three of the staff members who are in their 134 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 2: twenties asked a variation of the same question. I thought 135 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 2: it was interesting, and the idea was I do a 136 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 2: lot in ministry and I work hard, but it's hard 137 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 2: for me to tell am I making a difference? Or 138 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 2: is it effective? And essentially they're asking, am I making progress? 139 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,679 Speaker 2: Because I don't mind working hard. I'm a hard worker, 140 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 2: but I need to know that it's working. And in 141 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 2: ministry that's hard to tell sometimes because you don't often 142 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 2: go home with a checked off list. It's not like 143 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 2: you mode seven lawns today and you can see the progress. 144 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 2: And so it's very difficult to see ministerial progress. And 145 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 2: Paul certainly knows something about that, who's writing in the 146 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 2: Book of Philippians. If progressed, then is essential to human happiness. 147 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 2: And if we can't feel satisfied and fulfilled in our 148 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 2: lives without progress, either as moms or as husbands, or 149 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 2: as employees in a church, or as business owners, or 150 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 2: as students or as Christians, then then how do we 151 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 2: make progress? And so you would say to me, and 152 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 2: you would be correct, that effort is essential to progress. 153 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,679 Speaker 2: It amazes me by the way how something that sounds 154 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 2: so simple and seems so obvious seems to have skipped 155 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 2: a whole generation. Talk to me, how in the world 156 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 2: do you expect progress without effort? How you expect to 157 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 2: ace what you didn't study for? How you expect to 158 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 2: burn something off when you won't move what you got touch. 159 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 2: Somebody say effort. So I need effort if I'm going 160 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 2: to have progress, right, I need to push towards something 161 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 2: I need. I need to move towards something I need. 162 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:03,199 Speaker 2: I need effort. It's gonna take effort. However, what I 163 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 2: would suggest to you today kind of my thought pattern 164 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 2: is that effort alone does not produce progress. 165 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 1: Effort alone is not enough. Now you know this. 166 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 2: If you've had a kid with a learning disability, and 167 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 2: some of you are school teachers, you can give. 168 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: A kid more and more and more and more work. 169 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 2: But if they are not learning correctly the way that 170 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 2: they need to learn, they'll eventually conclude I'm not a 171 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 2: good student because they're not making progress and the effort 172 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 2: doesn't help it. 173 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: Can I tell you another thing. 174 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 2: You won't make progress just because you're passionate about something. 175 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 2: Passion is not enough for progress. You can sincerely want 176 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 2: to make something better. I see people who sincerely want 177 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 2: to get in better shape but never learned how so 178 00:09:57,440 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 2: we don't just need effort. 179 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 1: Because you can see p people who go to the 180 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: gym six days a week and don't look like it. 181 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 2: Oh it's quiet. It's quiet because you've been there. Effort 182 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 2: alone does not produce progress. I give you a little 183 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 2: bit fuller equation. Effort plus direction equals progress. I thought 184 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:29,719 Speaker 2: y'allould say amen to that. I mean, I know it's real. 185 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 2: Common sense on one level is that in order to 186 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 2: make progress, I got to know that I'm headed in 187 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 2: the right direction. 188 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 1: I preach from Charlotte. 189 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 2: If we want to go to Columbia, South Carolina, or Miami, Florida, 190 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 2: and I head north, I might get there quick, driving 191 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 2: ninety miles an hour, But is it progress? Progress is 192 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:59,440 Speaker 2: determined by destination and my proximity to the destination. I'm 193 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 2: trying to say that if you get turned around the 194 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:06,200 Speaker 2: wrong way, you'll get there fast. But when you get there, 195 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 2: you'll realize this ain't Miami, this ain't Columbia because I 196 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 2: didn't have direction. 197 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: Now, I mean, I drove hard. 198 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 2: I had my hand on ten and my hand on two, 199 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 2: but I woke up in the wrong place. Because progress 200 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 2: is more than effort. Progress is effort in the right direction. 201 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 2: Now I bring it up because could it be in 202 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 2: your life that you've been pointing your effort in the 203 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 2: wrong direction, Feeling tired, feeling frustrated, feeling stressed, feeling feeling 204 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 2: burned out, feeling like it didn't matter, feeling like it 205 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 2: didn't work. And sometimes all you need is somebody to 206 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:48,719 Speaker 2: come along and point you in the right direction. As 207 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:52,960 Speaker 2: your neighbor, where are you headed? As the other neighbor, 208 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 2: Where are you headed? It's an important question, and I'm 209 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 2: grateful that Paul get gives us a picture, a picture 210 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 2: of how he sees progress. How cool is it that 211 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 2: we not only get a narrative of Paul's missionary exploits 212 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 2: in the Book of Acts, but we have the letters 213 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 2: that he wrote. Because in the Book of Acts we 214 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:21,959 Speaker 2: see what Paul did. In the letters that he wrote, 215 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 2: we saw how he thought. And to me, that's really 216 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 2: a privilege to get inside the head of one of 217 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 2: the greatest thinkers in the world, in the history of 218 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 2: the world, let alone one of the greatest Christians, one 219 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 2: of the greatest minds, and we get in his head 220 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 2: and he's writing to the Philippian Church. You know, he 221 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 2: started this church in eighty fifty. He was going through 222 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 2: on a missionary journey and Philippi was the first church 223 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 2: that he found. It, well, was the first one that 224 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 2: he preached in in Europe, and so he goes through 225 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 2: there and starts a church, and he visits, and he 226 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 2: stops back by a few more times. 227 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 1: But by the time he's writing the Book of Philippians. 228 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:07,680 Speaker 2: There has been a turn of events and Paul is 229 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 2: in prison. Scholars debate as to whether Paul was in 230 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:17,559 Speaker 2: Cesarea or whether he was in Rome. I take the 231 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 2: view that he was in Rome, and in Rome he 232 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 2: rented a house where he taught everybody who came to him. 233 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 2: He was under a form of house arrest for preaching 234 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 2: the gospel, and the Philippian church knew that he was 235 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 2: in prison. But these latest developments had the community at 236 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 2: the church at Philippiles shook up, and they're saying that 237 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 2: there has been a setback for the gospel because Paul, 238 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 2: who's kind of like the point guard for their team, 239 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 2: is locked in prison. That's kind of bad when your 240 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 2: point guard is on the bench in the championship and 241 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 2: they're worried about it. And so Paul writes to them 242 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 2: and he says, I need you to know something. 243 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 1: About what has happened. What had happened was Paul might say. 244 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 2: He says, we need to talk about what has happened 245 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 2: and in that phrase, that that phrase right there, for 246 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 2: everybody in the room would have a different meaning depending 247 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 2: on the time in. 248 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 1: Your life or the area of your life. 249 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 2: You apply it to what happened when I was young, 250 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:43,119 Speaker 2: what happened in my first marriage, or what what happened 251 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 2: that caused me to leave that job, what happened that 252 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 2: caused that relationship to fail? What what everybody say? 253 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: What happened? 254 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 2: Well, what happened was Paul got moved from his house 255 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 2: arrest to the palace guard where they would keep the 256 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 2: prisoners while they were waiting for the trial. And so 257 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 2: the church at Philippi is hearing secondhand information. There wasn't 258 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 2: good journalism in that day, very different than the day 259 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 2: we live in where the journalism is accurate. But Paul said, no, 260 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 2: I want you to hear this straight from me, what 261 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 2: has happened. But then it's interesting because he doesn't go 262 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 2: on to detail what happened to him, which is weird. 263 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 2: He goes, I want to talk to you about what 264 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 2: has happened to me. But then and I love this 265 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 2: and I'm excited to share it with you. I was 266 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 2: telling him the last time I preached this, that this 267 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 2: is one of those sermons that if I wrote it 268 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 2: just for myself, it was worth the time. I preach 269 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 2: this stuff too. I watched this in the imax theater 270 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 2: of my own mind before I present it to the 271 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 2: general public viewing audience, and it got to me that Paul, 272 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 2: instead of going on to describe what happened to him, 273 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 2: which is he's falsely accused, he's been in prison for 274 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 2: his faith, he doesn't describe so much what has happened, 275 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 2: but instead he gives, and this is so important, an 276 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 2: interpretation not just of what has happened, because life really 277 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 2: isn't about what happened to you. Life really isn't about 278 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 2: what has happened. Life is more about what it means 279 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 2: to me. And Paul is not gonna spend the next 280 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 2: fourteen verses describing in detail what happened to it. He 281 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 2: makes a swift transition, can I teach this message? He 282 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 2: makes a swift transition to say, instead of going into 283 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 2: the details about what has happened, which is largely outside 284 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 2: of my control. 285 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: Because there's a lot of things that happen to you 286 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: that are in your control. 287 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 2: But sometimes you get in a situation where there's absolutely 288 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 2: nothing you can do about it. 289 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: And so Paul said, since I can't change. 290 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 2: The what, let me talk to you for a moment 291 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 2: about the why. And he starts talking about the very 292 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 2: first thing that your kids want to know, the moment 293 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 2: they start learning to use their words to ruin your life, 294 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:19,920 Speaker 2: and what they want to know about every decision, every bedtime, 295 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:24,880 Speaker 2: every curfew, every rule, is why. And then you get 296 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:31,119 Speaker 2: to invoke that great parental privilege of the response that 297 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 2: every parent ought to use every chance you get while 298 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 2: you can. And it starts with because, and it ends with. 299 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 1: I said so. And it feels good just to look at. 300 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 2: Your kids and say, cause I this is not a courtroom, 301 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 2: this is not a negotiation. I do not have to 302 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 2: structure logic to help you understand my decision. It has 303 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:56,239 Speaker 2: been implemented by the highest court in the lean. 304 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:58,719 Speaker 1: I said, so, lest why pick it up? 305 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,400 Speaker 2: And they asked this question because it's the most important 306 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:08,240 Speaker 2: question of life. 307 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:09,640 Speaker 1: Why why? 308 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:12,680 Speaker 3: Why? Why? Why? 309 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: Why? Why? 310 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 2: And of course we grow out of this. We never 311 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:19,880 Speaker 2: ask God why when we go through anything. That's only 312 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 2: children that do that. And so Paul says, life is 313 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:48,120 Speaker 2: less about this and more. You don't realize how long 314 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 2: this word is until you write it in front of 315 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 2: twenty thousand people. He said, let me give you instead 316 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:58,400 Speaker 2: of a description of my current state, let me give 317 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 2: you an interpretation of my state. You know what faith is. 318 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 2: Faith is an interpretation. Faith is an interpretation. Paul's faith 319 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 2: didn't change this, It changed this. Paul's faith didn't affect. 320 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 1: This, it informed this. Now. 321 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:31,399 Speaker 2: One of the things I love about the Holy Spirit 322 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:38,360 Speaker 2: in my life is that he is my interpreter. He 323 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 2: helps me take a situation and instead of starting with what, 324 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 2: I start with why. Instead of instead of starting with what, 325 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 2: I start with why. Here's the secret. You can survive 326 00:19:55,480 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 2: any what if you have a good enough why. The 327 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 2: reason people quit when all hell breaks loose is because 328 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 2: they didn't have. 329 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:15,120 Speaker 1: A strong enough why when they started. 330 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 2: The reason that people get so confused when they get 331 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:24,879 Speaker 2: thrown in prison is because they didn't determine. 332 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:28,359 Speaker 1: Their purpose before they were behind doors. 333 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 2: I can't tell that this is getting through to you. 334 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: So help me and touch somebody next to you and 335 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 1: tell them. 336 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 2: You need a why. You need a why. And see, 337 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 2: here's the thing. You can't depend on God to give 338 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 2: you the why. He's already given you the why. I 339 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 2: put you on earth to glorify Me. So whatever happens 340 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 2: to you, you already know the why before you see 341 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 2: the why. 342 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:56,160 Speaker 1: Here's the key. 343 00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 2: Decide why before the what. Decide the why before the why. 344 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,880 Speaker 2: Decide the why before the why. 345 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:10,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna repeat it. I'm a redundant preacher. Decide the why. 346 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 2: So if I go into a situation and I don't 347 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 2: know what's gonna happen, I already predetermine the why. I'm 348 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 2: not waiting to find out why. I predecided why. I'm 349 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 2: here to glorify God. I'm here to see his goodness revealed. 350 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,399 Speaker 1: In my life. That's my why. Teuch, somebody say, you 351 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 1: can't take my why. 352 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,640 Speaker 2: You can throw me in prison, but you can't take 353 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 2: my why. You can disrupt my financial situation, but you 354 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 2: can't take my why. 355 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: You might even mess. 356 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 2: With my marriage, but you can't take my why. You 357 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 2: can mess with my car, but you can't take my why. 358 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 2: My why is my why. You can't have my why. 359 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 2: I've got a deep motivation, I've got a sense of purpose. 360 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 2: My life has a larger context. I'm here for the Gospel. 361 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 2: I'm here for his glory. I'm here to bring him pleasure. 362 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 2: That's my why. That's my why. That's my why. There's 363 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 2: no what in the world that can defeat you if 364 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 2: you know your why. 365 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:13,879 Speaker 1: I got my why. That's how I survived. I survived 366 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:14,640 Speaker 1: on a why. 367 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 2: The devil threw a lot of what at me, but 368 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 2: I had my why intact before the what started. 369 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 1: Happening, and I can. 370 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 2: Make it through the what if I got a good why. 371 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,880 Speaker 2: So let's look at how God might want to adjust 372 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 2: our interpretation. 373 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 1: Touch somebody say why why? That's the question. My dad 374 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:38,680 Speaker 1: had this funny thing he used to do. 375 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 2: He would always interpret someone else's silence as judgment. So 376 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 2: he would tell me about somebody in the church and 377 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:54,719 Speaker 2: he would say he thinks he's bitter than me. And 378 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 2: I would say why why do you think that? And 379 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 2: he would say, because he walked right by me and 380 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:01,199 Speaker 2: didn't even speak to me. 381 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 1: Did you consider that perhaps he had something on his mind? 382 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: And my dad would hate you for seven years. 383 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 2: In fact, the lady stopped me at the baseball field 384 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,880 Speaker 2: the other day and I had taken one of our 385 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 2: kids to the bathroom, and I was walking out of 386 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 2: the bathroom trying to get back to the field to 387 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 2: watch my kid play. And the lady said, well, just 388 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,120 Speaker 2: walk by me then, and don't even ask how I'm 389 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:37,679 Speaker 2: doing past her. How many want to know My response, 390 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 2: I simply said, right now, I'm dad more than i'm pastor. 391 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 2: I don't care if you like it. That's what I said. 392 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:58,679 Speaker 2: I said, But hello, I didn't notice you. I was 393 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 2: going to the bathroom is private, but hello, it is interpretation. 394 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,199 Speaker 2: I wasn't not thinking about her, I wasn't not speaking 395 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 2: to her. 396 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: I was going to the bathroom. Would you please stop. 397 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 2: Drawing thought bubbles over other people's heads. 398 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,440 Speaker 1: This was part of Paul's issue. 399 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 2: There were these other preachers who wanted to use his 400 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 2: imprisonment as an opportunity to kind of like get ahead 401 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 2: of Paul, and so they were preaching, but they were 402 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 2: preaching with bad motives, and Paul said, it doesn't even matter. 403 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 2: Doesn't even matter to me. The important thing is they're 404 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 2: preaching christ. Paul said, I'm so focused on my own motives. 405 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:50,879 Speaker 2: I don't have time to worry about anybody Else's A 406 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 2: good marriage requires interpretation. Oh yes, it is a cross 407 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 2: culture or relationship, and you need an interpreter. You do, 408 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 2: and the Lord will help you interpret it and say, 409 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 2: you know, she didn't really say that because she's mad 410 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 2: at you. 411 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:09,400 Speaker 1: She just under a lot right now. 412 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 2: And the Lord will help you with that, and it'll 413 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,359 Speaker 2: help you to forgive offenses and it'll help you. 414 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: I'm telling you. 415 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 2: Interpretation is everything in relationships. Interpretation is everything when you 416 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 2: face conflict. I can't count the number of times that 417 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 2: I wake up on a Monday and two things go 418 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 2: wrong and I go, guess, it's going to be that 419 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:36,640 Speaker 2: kind of week. So I'm interpreting as an inconvenience, as 420 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 2: an omen that the universe has conspired against me with 421 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 2: the help of Lucifer himself, It's gonna be one of 422 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 2: those weeks. Now, that's an interpretation. You are not experiencing life. 423 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 2: You are experiencing your interpretation of life. Interpretation is the 424 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 2: ability that Paul has to say, watch this. 425 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,640 Speaker 1: I know you're hearing a lot about what has happened 426 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: to me and. 427 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 2: The church at Philippi apparently viewed it as a setback, 428 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 2: and it may be corny, but it's true. Paul said, 429 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:20,400 Speaker 2: It's not a setback, is a setup because it has 430 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 2: actually served give me verse twelve on the screen. It 431 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 2: has actually somebody say, actually, actually, if you have the 432 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 2: right interpretation of what I'm going through, it has actually 433 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 2: served to advance the gospel. The word advance is interesting 434 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:40,399 Speaker 2: in the original language because it denotes making headway in 435 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 2: spite of severe blows. 436 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:44,119 Speaker 1: It means I'm rolling with. 437 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 2: The punches, but I'm still making progress. How many of 438 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 2: you have had to roll with the punches to make progress. Yeah, 439 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 2: it wasn't a steady straight line. It wasn't a path 440 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 2: that was unencumbered. You weren't walking along smelling flowers, but 441 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 2: you had to light uphill. But you may progress. And 442 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:06,160 Speaker 2: Paul is saying, don't get it twisted. I may look chain, 443 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 2: but these chains on my ankles are actually serving to 444 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,880 Speaker 2: advance God's purpose. Sometimes you got to look at what's 445 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 2: on you and realize it's subject to what's in you. 446 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,120 Speaker 2: And God is doing something in my life. Right now, 447 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 2: I'm speaking to somebody by the spirit of God. It 448 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 2: looks like I'm going backwards, but it's propelling me forward. 449 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 1: It looks like a setback. 450 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 3: It's a set up. 451 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: Touch somebody say, it's a set up. You got to 452 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: get involved in this message. Touch somebody say, I'm moving forward. 453 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:39,200 Speaker 3: I know I might not. 454 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,919 Speaker 2: Look like I'm moving forward. I might be slow and 455 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 2: steady like the tortoise. But as long as I inch 456 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,640 Speaker 2: my way in the right direction. 457 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 1: I cannot be stopped. 458 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 3: I will not be blocked. 459 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 2: The gospel cannot be contained. Get happy about the praisers. 460 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 2: You got a new interpretation. Oh it's really hard, Well, 461 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:09,920 Speaker 2: God must be in it. You'll keep thinking, if it's 462 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 2: really hard, it must not be God. Jesus didn't get 463 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,479 Speaker 2: to the cross with that line of logic, and you 464 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 2: won't get to your destiny either. 465 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 1: But you have to have a faith interpretation. 466 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 2: Is as helpful. All right, don't get nervous, But that's 467 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 2: my introduction. Sit down, I'll be quick. But what really 468 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,439 Speaker 2: got me is this shift that Paul makes after talking 469 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 2: about after talking about his why, he said, I'm in 470 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 2: chains for Christ. And he said that around here, man, 471 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,160 Speaker 2: he said, I got a captive audience, and I'm preaching 472 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 2: to all of them, the guards, the other prisoners. He said, 473 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 2: don't even worry about it. I know y'all think this 474 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 2: is a bad event. But faith is an interpretation of 475 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 2: event that sees progress even in pain. 476 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: My God, this preaching is rich. 477 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 2: I feel like I need to go on the elevation 478 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 2: app and watch it back on Monday myself to get 479 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 2: the fullness of this message that God gave me. You know, 480 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 2: somebody wrote me online one time and said, you shouldn't 481 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 2: say that you're preaching good when you're preaching, because you know, 482 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 2: I'll stop preaching every once in a while and say, ah, 483 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,960 Speaker 2: I'm preaching good. And what I wanted to say is 484 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,520 Speaker 2: if I don't like it, why in the world should you. 485 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 2: I mean, I want to preach something that I need 486 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 2: and that I like. But anyway, by the way, most 487 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 2: people who criticize you are really just showing you that 488 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 2: they don't like themselves very much interpretation though, and when 489 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,240 Speaker 2: you see it that way, you can have compassion and say, okay, 490 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 2: well they must really be going through something. 491 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 1: How can I help? He makes a shift. 492 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 2: Everybody say shift happens. 493 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 1: When he does it. I want to walk you through it. 494 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 2: He picks up in verse eighteen, and the Bible is 495 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 2: put in these verses for us. But originally there weren't 496 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 2: like verses breaking up the different letters. 497 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 1: It was just there so we can find it. 498 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,000 Speaker 2: But sometimes it jumps in in a weird place. And 499 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 2: I think that happens in verse eighteen, because Paul says, 500 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 2: verse eighteen, but what does it matter? And that's a 501 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,560 Speaker 2: phrase that you should use as well. What does it matter? 502 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:38,560 Speaker 2: What does it matter? 503 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 1: Y'all pray for me that I. 504 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 2: Would get better at that because I take little things 505 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 2: really seriously. 506 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 1: So he holly laughed when I think that point. That's 507 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 1: a good sign. And he says, you know, what matters? 508 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 2: The important thing, the priority is that in every way, 509 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 2: whether from false motives or true through Christ is preached. 510 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:01,880 Speaker 1: That's what matters to me. 511 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,280 Speaker 2: And so everything that serves that purpose is fine with me, 512 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 2: whether I like it or not. 513 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:12,120 Speaker 1: In the moment, that's what matters to me. What matters 514 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 1: to you? 515 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 2: What matters to you, because what matters to you will 516 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,080 Speaker 2: determine the direction that you point your life in. 517 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 1: What matters to you, that's your destination. 518 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 2: So Paul says, what matters to me is that Christ 519 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 2: has preached, and that's happening. So you know, whatever they're 520 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 2: saying about me, that's fine. For the important thing is 521 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 2: that in every way, whether from false motives or true, 522 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:40,719 Speaker 2: Christ is preached. 523 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:42,120 Speaker 1: Because of this, I rejoice. 524 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:46,280 Speaker 2: Now this next phrase to me should be a different 525 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 2: verse they put it right. 526 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 1: In the same verse. 527 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 2: But when Paul makes this next statement, he goes into 528 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 2: a completely different mode. He goes in a different zone. 529 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:56,960 Speaker 2: And what I want to show you is the next 530 00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 2: skill that Paul teaches us. And this is not the 531 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 2: skill of it interpretation. This is the skill come on, 532 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 2: say it when you got it, anticipation. It feel like 533 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 2: we'll a fortune up in here today, trying to buy 534 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 2: a vow. 535 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 1: Figure out what I'm writing on this court. 536 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 2: He shifts and he says, now that I've given you 537 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 2: my interpretation of what has happened, let me give you 538 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,320 Speaker 2: my anticipation of what. 539 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 1: Say it of what happened. 540 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,880 Speaker 2: And on one level, Paul says, I don't know. They 541 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,320 Speaker 2: might kill me. I might live. I'm not sure about 542 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 2: that part. But I want you to notice the frame 543 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:54,240 Speaker 2: of mind and the state of consciousness that Paul engages 544 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 2: over these ten verses, starting with eighteen B where I 545 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,120 Speaker 2: read to you, where he said yes and I will 546 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:01,240 Speaker 2: continue to rejoice. 547 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 1: He uses the word will. He's shifting. 548 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 2: Now, I've spending off time talking to you about what happened. 549 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:08,280 Speaker 1: That's over. 550 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,680 Speaker 2: Can't control it, can't do anything about it. Okay, I've 551 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,080 Speaker 2: acknowledged it. I've interpreted it. That's that. 552 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:15,959 Speaker 1: Now I'm moving forward. 553 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,440 Speaker 2: Now I want to tell you what will happen, and 554 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 2: I want us to do an exercise, okay, on every campus. 555 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,560 Speaker 2: So this is for those of you at Butler High 556 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:24,960 Speaker 2: Score Matthew's campus temporarily homeless. 557 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 1: This is for our uptown location. 558 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 2: This is for Weddington, This is for University City, this 559 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:32,360 Speaker 2: is for Lake Norman. 560 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 1: This is even for those in Raleigh. 561 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:38,240 Speaker 2: North Carolina, and Toronto, Canada who had record attendance last weekend. 562 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,200 Speaker 2: I want all of you, whether you're good at math 563 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 2: or not, I want you to count with me the 564 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 2: number of times that the word will is used in 565 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 2: these ten verses that start in verse eighteen. There's the 566 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,760 Speaker 2: first one. You already got it, so put your hand up. 567 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,600 Speaker 2: Is one, he said, I will continue to rejoice. 568 00:33:55,640 --> 00:34:00,960 Speaker 1: Count out loud. That's next verse. I know he's. 569 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,720 Speaker 2: Confident about this that through your prayers and God's provision 570 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:08,120 Speaker 2: of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has happened to 571 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 2: me will turn out. 572 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:12,080 Speaker 1: For my deliverance. 573 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,520 Speaker 2: I eagerly expect and hope that I in no way 574 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:20,200 Speaker 2: be a shame, but have sufficient courage so that now 575 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,800 Speaker 2: as always, Christ be exalted in my body. 576 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:25,439 Speaker 1: Whether by life or by death. 577 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,839 Speaker 2: I don't know what, but I know why. And so 578 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 2: for me to live as Christ and to die is gain. 579 00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:32,600 Speaker 2: If I'm to go on living in the body, this 580 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,400 Speaker 2: mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? 581 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:37,400 Speaker 1: I do not know. 582 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,440 Speaker 2: I'm torn between the two. I desired apart and be 583 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 2: with Christ. Would have put up with anything anymore, be 584 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,160 Speaker 2: a lot betterfies than heaven, much more necessary that I 585 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 2: remain in the body for you. The midst of this, 586 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:51,399 Speaker 2: I know that I remain, and I continue with all 587 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:57,920 Speaker 2: of you for your progress. Maybe sometimes our life is 588 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,600 Speaker 2: meant to be more about somebody else's price, rest in 589 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:01,040 Speaker 2: our own. 590 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:07,160 Speaker 1: Come on, let's keep counting. 591 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:08,480 Speaker 2: And I just wanted to point that out because I 592 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,200 Speaker 2: was talking about progress, and I wanted you to know 593 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:17,120 Speaker 2: sometimes it's not all about you, so that through my 594 00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:21,080 Speaker 2: being with you again, you're boasting in Christ. Jesus abound 595 00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:28,440 Speaker 2: on account of me. Whatever happens, what has happened, whatever happens, 596 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,080 Speaker 2: conduct yourselves in a minute word of the Gospel Christ, 597 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:32,120 Speaker 2: and one that come see your on and hear about 598 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:36,040 Speaker 2: you my absence, I will know that you stand firm 599 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,440 Speaker 2: in one spirit. Now, only about three of you counted 600 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:42,600 Speaker 2: with me through the whole time. But if you counted ten, 601 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:50,640 Speaker 2: you counted right. Ten verses and ten times. He doesn't 602 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:58,319 Speaker 2: say has, he says will. He doesn't say maybe, He 603 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:05,480 Speaker 2: says will why because he has an eager expectation. Did 604 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,160 Speaker 2: you see it in verse twenty? And this is what 605 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,239 Speaker 2: we need? Okay, he said, I eagerly expect and hope. 606 00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:19,239 Speaker 2: How many are enjoying the Bible lesson today? He said, 607 00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:25,640 Speaker 2: I eagerly twenty expect and hope. I eagerly expect and hope. 608 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:30,960 Speaker 2: I was interested to learn Jody Jennings that in Greek eagerly, 609 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,719 Speaker 2: expect and hope are not verbs, but they're nouns, and 610 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,560 Speaker 2: they're joined together by the word kai in Greek means and, 611 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,520 Speaker 2: and they have within them the idea. 612 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,759 Speaker 1: And this is where I really need you to focus, because. 613 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,759 Speaker 2: I flunk Greek in college, and then I took it 614 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,200 Speaker 2: again in seminary. 615 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,280 Speaker 1: And I passed with a C plus. 616 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,560 Speaker 2: And I'm only telling you that for full disclosure, to 617 00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,840 Speaker 2: let you know that I don't typically. 618 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,120 Speaker 1: Walk around my house quoting Greek. 619 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,040 Speaker 2: But when I saw this in the text, It was 620 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,440 Speaker 2: worth bringing out because when Paul says. 621 00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,560 Speaker 1: I eagerly expect. 622 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,319 Speaker 2: He uses a word here's what's crazy, that has never 623 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,279 Speaker 2: been used before. He made up his own word to 624 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,680 Speaker 2: describe the kind of hope that you have to have 625 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,560 Speaker 2: to survive in a situation. 626 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:28,560 Speaker 1: Where there seems to be no way out. 627 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,000 Speaker 2: Paul said, this is the kind of hope that there 628 00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:37,560 Speaker 2: is no vocabulary for. So Paul had to take three 629 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:41,680 Speaker 2: words and put them together to make a new word 630 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,840 Speaker 2: to describe the kind of hope that can make you 631 00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,680 Speaker 2: look at your kid on drugs and your husband acting 632 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:51,759 Speaker 2: crazy and your money low and your emotions erect, and 633 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,480 Speaker 2: say I still have an expectation. 634 00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:55,720 Speaker 1: And I still have a hope. 635 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,360 Speaker 2: And so he looks through his vocabulary he goes, I 636 00:37:58,360 --> 00:37:59,759 Speaker 2: can't even I can't even think of. 637 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,799 Speaker 1: How to tell you how I feel about it right now. 638 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,080 Speaker 1: I can't. There's no word. So I'm gonna I'm gonna 639 00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:04,680 Speaker 1: make one up. 640 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,440 Speaker 2: And uh And he makes up this word, and I'm 641 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:08,879 Speaker 2: gonna give it to you right now, and you're gonna 642 00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:13,239 Speaker 2: use it this week. The word in Greek is it's 643 00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:26,080 Speaker 2: made up of three words. Yeah, come on, let's say 644 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:34,320 Speaker 2: it together. On the ground kind of three one two three, 645 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:35,919 Speaker 2: All right. 646 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:44,239 Speaker 1: We're gonna need some remedial classes. Apo carra. 647 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:59,720 Speaker 4: Dokia Appo carra Dokia, apacarra, appercara, donkia Come on, apacar 648 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:00,200 Speaker 4: do you. 649 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:03,360 Speaker 1: Opo? 650 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:11,880 Speaker 2: It means to turn away with concentration, ignoring other interests. 651 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:13,960 Speaker 1: That's the prefix. 652 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,880 Speaker 2: You know. Paul is good because I could preach a 653 00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,880 Speaker 2: whole sermon just on his prefix Appo. He said, I'm 654 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,160 Speaker 2: in a situation right now when if I look to 655 00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,719 Speaker 2: my left, I see prison walls. If I look to 656 00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,320 Speaker 2: my right, I see prison walls. If I look to 657 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,320 Speaker 2: my feet, I see a prisoner's chains. So I gotta 658 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:37,000 Speaker 2: turn my head intentionally from what's over here and what's 659 00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,239 Speaker 2: over here. Everybody said, Appo, sometimes you got to turn 660 00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,799 Speaker 2: your head from what's here and what's here and what's here. 661 00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,680 Speaker 2: And so we said, I turn my head on purpose, 662 00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:53,680 Speaker 2: ignoring what I could be focused on. Apo apo apo 663 00:39:55,120 --> 00:40:01,840 Speaker 2: apakarra Karra means head. It doesn't require much explanation. It 664 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:10,600 Speaker 2: literally means head. Apacara Pacara Dokia company that was originally 665 00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:15,160 Speaker 2: founded in Sweden that sells ready to assemble home furniture 666 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:24,680 Speaker 2: and appliances and accessories dokia. Dokia originally means I'm trying 667 00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,600 Speaker 2: man to stretch forward. 668 00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,080 Speaker 1: So when you put it together, you get this meaning. 669 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:32,440 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna teach this to. 670 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:36,480 Speaker 2: You and we are gonna break it out on whatever 671 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:41,880 Speaker 2: situation comes up in your life this week that tries 672 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,719 Speaker 2: to break your focus or steal your faith. You need 673 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:51,239 Speaker 2: a little bit of apocara dokia, which means stretching the 674 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:53,240 Speaker 2: head forward. 675 00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:57,080 Speaker 1: You missed it. I'm coming to this side. He said, 676 00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:00,879 Speaker 1: I'm in a prison cell right now and I can't move. 677 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,320 Speaker 1: I wish I was a better preacher. 678 00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,920 Speaker 2: If I was a better preacher, you'd get excited about 679 00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:08,240 Speaker 2: apple caara dokia because he said, I can't move my feet, 680 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:14,040 Speaker 2: I can't move my body, but I'm stretching my head 681 00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:22,720 Speaker 2: forward toward the future, and so I will rejoice because 682 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:29,319 Speaker 2: I'm stretching my head forward. Would you touch three people, 683 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:33,400 Speaker 2: tell him stretch your head, stretch your head. See here's 684 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,360 Speaker 2: the problem with a lot of people. A lot of people. 685 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:42,279 Speaker 2: We have our heads so far up our past that we. 686 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:46,000 Speaker 3: That we caiss. 687 00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:49,440 Speaker 1: That we can't see our future. 688 00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:54,920 Speaker 3: But God brought you to church today that gets your. 689 00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:58,880 Speaker 5: Head out your past and give you a little apple, 690 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,240 Speaker 5: kara tokyo. 691 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:02,560 Speaker 1: And ignor expectation. 692 00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:05,959 Speaker 2: I'm stretching my head toward what's next. 693 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:08,880 Speaker 1: I'm not stuck in what was, I'm not. 694 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:10,360 Speaker 2: Worried about what's gonna be. 695 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:14,879 Speaker 5: I'm stretching my head toward Monday. I'm stretching my head 696 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:19,439 Speaker 5: toward next year. I'm stretching my head toward retirement. I'm 697 00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:21,680 Speaker 5: stretching my head toward fullness. 698 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:23,120 Speaker 1: I'm stretching my. 699 00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:27,040 Speaker 2: Head toward healing. And I'm stretching my head toward my mission. 700 00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,400 Speaker 2: Let's practice. Jump up on your feet. This is a 701 00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:36,000 Speaker 2: series called functional faith. Shove your neighbor, tell them stretch 702 00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:40,240 Speaker 2: your head. If you're gonna be fit, you gotta stretch. 703 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,400 Speaker 2: If you're gonna have faith, you gotta stretch. If you 704 00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:44,879 Speaker 2: don't stretch, you might break. 705 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:46,080 Speaker 1: So let's stretch. 706 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,640 Speaker 2: Come on, let's stretch our hand strings. First of all, 707 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,239 Speaker 2: I know how to stretch my hand strings. I know 708 00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,880 Speaker 2: how to stretch my hand strings. That's about as far 709 00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:55,520 Speaker 2: down as I'm willing to go in this tight suit 710 00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:56,800 Speaker 2: to demonstrat it to you. 711 00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:02,520 Speaker 1: Bad things, man, bad things. But I know how to. 712 00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,839 Speaker 2: Stretch my hand strings. I know how to stretch my back. 713 00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:08,960 Speaker 2: I know how to I know how to stretch my body, 714 00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:14,279 Speaker 2: but nobody teaches us how to stretch our head. Appercrudokia. 715 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:20,520 Speaker 2: Stretch your head, Appercrudokia. There is a brighter day. Appercrudokia. 716 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:24,359 Speaker 2: It does make a difference. Opper Carudokia. God is working 717 00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:28,640 Speaker 2: in my situation. Come on, say it, Appercrudokia. Tell the 718 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:32,640 Speaker 2: devil what you got. Tell him devil, I got that, Appercoradokia. 719 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,640 Speaker 1: And the next time you run up on me with discouragement, 720 00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,480 Speaker 1: you need to know. I'm turning my head and I'm 721 00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:40,719 Speaker 1: stretching my neck. 722 00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:46,439 Speaker 5: Apa Cardoki, all the dample. 723 00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:51,000 Speaker 1: Come on. 724 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:55,560 Speaker 2: This is better than Brazilian jiu jitsu. This is better 725 00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:59,600 Speaker 2: than taekwon though. This is gonna teach you how to 726 00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:02,920 Speaker 2: stick your neck out. And I got good news for you. 727 00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,120 Speaker 2: Paul said, it doesn't matter if they kill me or 728 00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:10,439 Speaker 2: they let me live, because this is not a situational interpretation. 729 00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,880 Speaker 2: This is not a situational anticipation. 730 00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,160 Speaker 1: I feel like preaching this. I'm gone teaching now. I'm 731 00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:22,719 Speaker 1: in full all preaching mode. On the count of three, 732 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,120 Speaker 1: when I say three, I want you to start with 733 00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:29,640 Speaker 1: your head to the right. You're of the right. And 734 00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:32,200 Speaker 1: when I say three, I want you to turn your head. 735 00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,399 Speaker 2: And the symbolic of all of the distractions that aren't 736 00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,600 Speaker 2: going to distract you this week, and all of the 737 00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:40,120 Speaker 2: cynicism that you're not even going to pay any attention 738 00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,279 Speaker 2: to this week, I want you to turn your head. 739 00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,319 Speaker 1: I want you to give them an APPO on three. 740 00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,480 Speaker 1: This is your APO. What two three? Turn it? You 741 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:47,880 Speaker 1: missed it? 742 00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:49,960 Speaker 2: One't quick enough? Turn your head to the left. Come on, 743 00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:52,640 Speaker 2: we got a practice. I am your spiritual trainer. 744 00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,160 Speaker 1: I'm trying to teach you what to do when life 745 00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,320 Speaker 1: gets stuff and I'm not here for you. And you 746 00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,319 Speaker 1: look into the right and you looking to the left. 747 00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:01,600 Speaker 2: On the count, I want you to jerk your head 748 00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:03,400 Speaker 2: forward and give yourself whiplash. 749 00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,520 Speaker 1: One two three APO. Do it again. Head to the right. 750 00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:08,719 Speaker 2: You're looking at that person, trying to see what they 751 00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:10,840 Speaker 2: think of you, looking at that situation. 752 00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:12,320 Speaker 1: Trying to see how that's gonna turn out. But on 753 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,239 Speaker 1: the count of three, we got some APO for the devil. 754 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,359 Speaker 2: On the counter three turn your head, shout OPO one 755 00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:19,440 Speaker 2: two three. That's the first step. Now we need the 756 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:22,879 Speaker 2: donkie Everybody say donkyo. Now we need that thing where 757 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,160 Speaker 2: you stretch your neck like a giraffe, where you look 758 00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,080 Speaker 2: forward to your future and smile at it, where you 759 00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:32,480 Speaker 2: look forward to problems and difficulties and say, I got 760 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,680 Speaker 2: something for you called the Spirit of God for me 761 00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:36,520 Speaker 2: to live. 762 00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,640 Speaker 3: As Christ and to guy is game? 763 00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:40,080 Speaker 1: What's Paul saying? 764 00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:44,280 Speaker 2: He's saying, either way this turns out, I'm coming out ahead. 765 00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,040 Speaker 1: You missed it, he said. 766 00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:51,080 Speaker 2: I don't know what's gonna happen next, but I'm headed 767 00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:55,680 Speaker 2: in the right direction. Somebody shout, somebody shout, somebody shout, 768 00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,680 Speaker 2: somebody's shout, somebody shout, somebody's shout somebody. I'm not there yet, 769 00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:04,480 Speaker 2: but I'm headed in the right correction. I got my 770 00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:08,719 Speaker 2: focus on, I got my brave on, I got my 771 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:12,560 Speaker 2: courage home, I got my whole pong, I got my 772 00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:13,200 Speaker 2: faith on. 773 00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:15,560 Speaker 1: Get your hands out your pocket. 774 00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:18,440 Speaker 2: And when I say three, I want you to stretch 775 00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:20,040 Speaker 2: your neck towards your future. 776 00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:21,800 Speaker 5: W two three strategy. 777 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:23,000 Speaker 3: You missed it. 778 00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:24,640 Speaker 1: Let's do it on every campus. 779 00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:25,960 Speaker 3: Come on on the counter of. 780 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:27,479 Speaker 1: Three, stretch your head. 781 00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:28,719 Speaker 3: I put Carl. 782 00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:32,160 Speaker 2: Tokyo and tell the devil I'm coming toward my future 783 00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:33,040 Speaker 2: in faith. 784 00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:40,000 Speaker 3: What two three again? What two three what two three? 785 00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:40,759 Speaker 2: I pull? 786 00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:44,319 Speaker 3: What two three? Dora? What two three? 787 00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:45,080 Speaker 1: Donkyo? 788 00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:46,480 Speaker 3: What two three? 789 00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:47,440 Speaker 2: What? 790 00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:53,040 Speaker 3: Two three? You got it? You got it, you got it, 791 00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:57,800 Speaker 3: you got it, you got it, you got it. 792 00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:01,840 Speaker 1: Clad like you got it, Shout like you got it, 793 00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:04,160 Speaker 1: Rejoice like you gotta. 794 00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:12,560 Speaker 3: I will, God tell you to rejoice thord to. 795 00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:15,360 Speaker 1: Me, I feel cud about it. 796 00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:21,040 Speaker 3: To live is Christ the dying guy, And I'm coming 797 00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:34,879 Speaker 3: out ahead. Yeah, wha two three? Whoa two three? 798 00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:39,600 Speaker 2: This your new cadence this week. You're not going into 799 00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:43,560 Speaker 2: this week like thinking about what happened when you were thirteen. 800 00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:53,840 Speaker 2: I got some for regret. It's called applecara, donkia turn. 801 00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,640 Speaker 1: My head from that. If I think about that too long, 802 00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:57,480 Speaker 1: I get depressed. 803 00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,359 Speaker 2: If I think about that too long, I start get bitter. 804 00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:03,920 Speaker 2: If I look over here, I might get jealous. If 805 00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:06,440 Speaker 2: I look over there, I might get discouraged. So I 806 00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:12,240 Speaker 2: got stretch my head toward my future in faith. 807 00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:21,759 Speaker 1: I will, I will, I will riduals now. Stretch your 808 00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,600 Speaker 1: hands to heave it. You stretch your head now, stretch 809 00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:28,360 Speaker 1: your hands to let the Lord know. 810 00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:32,000 Speaker 2: That what matters to me is what matters to you. 811 00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:44,160 Speaker 2: I have an eager expectation Applecarudokia. My expectation creates my hope. 812 00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:50,520 Speaker 2: And I don't know what, but I know why, and 813 00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,480 Speaker 2: I can survive the why when I know the why. 814 00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:58,439 Speaker 2: Lift your hands, Lord, We thank you for the word 815 00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:02,520 Speaker 2: that you gave us today. We thank you for the 816 00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:07,400 Speaker 2: instruction that you gave us through Paul. He told us 817 00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:12,440 Speaker 2: that we got to stretch our heads forward. 818 00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:15,719 Speaker 1: Forward, that we. 819 00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:17,799 Speaker 2: Can't do anything about the time that we've lost. We've 820 00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:22,400 Speaker 2: got to forget what's behind us and strained toward what's ahead. 821 00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:26,160 Speaker 2: That we got to get our eyes fixed on where 822 00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:34,240 Speaker 2: we're headed, to get our lives headed in the right direction. 823 00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,480 Speaker 2: And I pray it over your people now in Jesus' name, 824 00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:46,440 Speaker 2: that they would experience this week significant steps forward. 825 00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:51,160 Speaker 1: Everybody, say forward forward, look at me for a moment. 826 00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,160 Speaker 2: I asked a race car driver one time, if you 827 00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:56,960 Speaker 2: were going to teach one thing about driving that people 828 00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,000 Speaker 2: wouldn't know, what would it be? He said, You've always 829 00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:02,160 Speaker 2: he's got to keep your eyes where you want to go. 830 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:04,759 Speaker 2: When you're on a track, you tend to look at 831 00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:06,759 Speaker 2: what you don't want to hit and what you don't 832 00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:09,560 Speaker 2: want to happen. He said that will always cause you 833 00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,359 Speaker 2: to crash every single time. 834 00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:20,480 Speaker 1: What was he talking about? Applecaradokia? Stretch your head. 835 00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:22,720 Speaker 2: Forward. 836 00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,640 Speaker 1: Forward. I can just see it this week that you're 837 00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:29,920 Speaker 1: going to preach this back to the people that. 838 00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,320 Speaker 2: You love, and you're going to preach it without words 839 00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:35,800 Speaker 2: when they start talking about what went wrong, And I 840 00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:36,360 Speaker 2: just want. 841 00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:38,600 Speaker 1: You to look at him and like a turtle coming 842 00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:39,160 Speaker 1: out of his shell. 843 00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:46,399 Speaker 2: Just I want moms to do this to your daughter 844 00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:51,680 Speaker 2: this week, But most importantly, I want you to do 845 00:50:51,760 --> 00:51:05,680 Speaker 2: it for yourself. I've already been practicing this in my 846 00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,880 Speaker 2: own life as I've prepared to preach it to you, 847 00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:13,279 Speaker 2: and it's amazing how just a quick shift stretch of 848 00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:17,279 Speaker 2: the head can get you out of discouragement, can get 849 00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:22,440 Speaker 2: you out of defeat, can get you out of despair. Forward, everybody, 850 00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:26,920 Speaker 2: say forward. That's where I'm looking. I'm looking forward. I 851 00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,160 Speaker 2: can't go into this week like this. I can't go 852 00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:31,719 Speaker 2: into this week like this. How am I going into 853 00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:36,520 Speaker 2: this week? I'm going say it forward? 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