1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 5 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 6 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 2: Enjoy the message. Something God told me very clearly as 7 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 2: we begin this series called Waymaker, is that before we. 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,119 Speaker 1: Can change the world, we have to change our ways. 9 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 2: Would you please turn with me, if you can find 10 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 2: it in your Bible, to the Old Testament Book of Hagi. 11 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,520 Speaker 2: I'll give you about fifteen minutes to find the Book 12 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 2: of Hagi. After that the screens will kick in and 13 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 2: give you assistance. And what we want to look at today, 14 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 2: we want to take a look at. Give me just 15 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 2: a moment. I got my new notebook. Every series I 16 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 2: get a new notebook. I got the one with the 17 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 2: whole World on it. It's a vision series. So I figured, well, 18 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 2: we're gonna touch the world, we better start with a 19 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 2: notebook with the with the whole world. He's got the 20 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 2: whole world. 21 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 3: He's got you and me, brother. 22 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:37,840 Speaker 2: In his sense, in his hands, got. 23 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: The and if you'll permit me, real quick. 24 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 2: Just uh, he's got the Clemson Tigers. Okay, now let's 25 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 2: look at Hagai Chapter one. I'm ready now touch somebody say. 26 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 2: We can't change the world until we change our ways. 27 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 2: This is the message of Hagid the Prophet. I'm having 28 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 2: you seated because along scripture today fifteen verses we will 29 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 2: endeavor to preach. In the second year of King Darius, 30 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 2: on the first day of the sixth month, the word 31 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 2: of the Lord came. 32 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 4: Through the prophet Hagi to Zaruba bel son of Schiltiel, 33 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 4: Governor of Judah, and to Joshua, son of Josidac, the 34 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 4: High Priest JJ. 35 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 2: You know how we text about preaching all the time. 36 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 2: I would have skipped that verse in my first five 37 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 2: years of preaching. 38 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: One thing that I want you to do. This will 39 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,359 Speaker 1: help you develop your preaching skills. 40 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,679 Speaker 2: Take the verses that you naturally want to skip over 41 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:40,839 Speaker 2: and make yourself preach them. 42 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: What I did. I went back and I figured I'm 43 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: not going to do it, but I could. 44 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 2: Preach verse one for a whole sermon, and what I 45 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 2: would do if I was going to preach it, And 46 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 2: you might want to preach it sometimes, JJ, because every 47 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 2: once in a while. Let you get up here, and 48 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 2: if your beard keeps scrolling, you might get another shot. 49 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 2: But I figured you could reach that verse using only 50 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 2: the prepositions. 51 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: So watch this. 52 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 2: In the second year of King Darius, on the first 53 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 2: day the sixth month, the word of the Lord came 54 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 2: through the prophet Hagi to Zir Rubebel. So what I 55 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 2: was thinking is it was in the second year. That's 56 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 2: the that's the setting. Okay, it was the word of 57 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 2: the Lord. 58 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: That's the source. It came to Zor Rubebel. 59 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 2: Now he's the he's the he's the servant, and it 60 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 2: came through Hagi, and he was the server. 61 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: Now all of those start with the letter S. 62 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 2: And what's cool about it is it didn't come from Hagi. 63 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 2: It came through Hagi. So the word of the Lord 64 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 2: came through Hagi. 65 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. This is how God speaks 66 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: to people. 67 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 2: God will speak to you through others. God will speak 68 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 2: to you through life. God will speak to you through hardship. 69 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 2: God will speak to you to through of the Lord, 70 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 2: through the prophet, to the people of the Lord, through 71 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 2: the prophet to the people. 72 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 1: In the second year of. 73 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 2: Darius, because God's word is not spoken in abstractions and 74 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 2: theoretical constructs. God's word is designed to speak to specific situations. 75 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: So this is not a history lesson that we came for. Today. 76 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 2: We came for a word from the living God, and 77 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 2: his word is living and active and sharper than any 78 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 2: double edged sword. Now, so, if anything ever comes out 79 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,039 Speaker 2: of my mouth that helps you, it might have come 80 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 2: through me. But it wasn't from me, because I have 81 00:04:56,279 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 2: nothing of substance to offer. You are way too desperate 82 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 2: for me to be able to help you of my 83 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 2: own accord. But if God speaks through me to you, 84 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 2: then anything can happen. Verse two. 85 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 1: This is what the Lord Almighty says. 86 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 2: These people say, the time has not yet come to 87 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,239 Speaker 2: rebuild the Lord's house. Then the word of the Lord 88 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 2: came through the prophet Hagi. Is it a time for 89 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 2: you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses while this 90 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 2: house remains a ruin? Now, this is what the Lord 91 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 2: Almighty says. Give careful thought to your ways. There's that 92 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 2: word ways. Give careful thought to your ways. You have 93 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 2: planted much, but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. 94 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 2: You drink but never have your fill. You put on 95 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 2: clothes but are not warm. You earn wages only to 96 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 2: put them in a purse with holes in it. You 97 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 2: are drowning in information and starving for wisdom. You have 98 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:23,720 Speaker 2: twenty four hour news feeds and twenty four hour ignorance. 99 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:31,040 Speaker 2: This is what the Lord Almighty says. Give careful thought 100 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,479 Speaker 2: to your ways. Go up into the mountains and bring 101 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 2: down timber and build my house so that I may 102 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:40,280 Speaker 2: take pleasure in it. 103 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: And be honored, says the Lord. 104 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 2: You expected much, but behold, it turned out to be little. 105 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: And what you brought home I blew away. 106 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 2: Why, declares the Lord Almighty, because of my house, which. 107 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: Remains a ruin. Well, each of you is busy with 108 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:58,119 Speaker 1: your own house. 109 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 2: Therefore, because of you, the heavens have withheld their due, 110 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 2: and the earth it's crops. I have a very challenging 111 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 2: message for you today, and I hope you're ready for it, 112 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 2: and I'm gonna need your help to preach it. So 113 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 2: look at the person next to you and say, neighbor. 114 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 2: God has given you a great opportunity. Now look at 115 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 2: them and give them my title. Say don't blow it, 116 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 2: don't blow it, don't blow it. I think God presents 117 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 2: himself in the form of opportunity, and when you look 118 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 2: at Hagai chapter one, you are seeing a people who 119 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 2: are responding to an opportunity. Is interesting because Hagi has 120 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 2: a very hard job as a preacher. He has to 121 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 2: deliver a message of urgency in time of discouragement. Often 122 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 2: it's difficult to motivate or inspire people to action when 123 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 2: they are already discouraged about the outcome of their life. 124 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 2: In order to create a sense of motivation, he gives 125 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 2: the people a contrast between their effort and their outcomes. 126 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 2: He has them evaluate the results of their lives relative 127 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 2: to the effort. And so thinking about this passage, of course, 128 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 2: made me begin to think about seventh grade South Carolina 129 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 2: geography class because apparently the people were saying something in 130 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 2: Hagui's time. They had a saying, and God overheard them talking, 131 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:48,319 Speaker 2: and they would say verse two, the people would say, 132 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 2: this is the people from Judah, which is the southern 133 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 2: kingdom of Israel. The time has not yet come to 134 00:08:55,800 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 2: rebuild the Lord's house. Notice that these people say, the 135 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 2: time has not yet come to rebuild the Lord's house. Now, 136 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 2: different cultures have different sayings. 137 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: You know this right. 138 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 2: And if you did not grow up in the South, 139 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 2: perhaps from time to time it is shocking to you 140 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 2: to hear some of our sayings and to try to 141 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 2: decipher the meaning of them. 142 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: I will never forget Miss Taylor. 143 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 2: I probably should have given her a pseudonym, but I've 144 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 2: said her name now. The day that she corrected my 145 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 2: Southern slang in front of the whole class, Now, granted 146 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:33,559 Speaker 2: I deserved it. I was such a punkin seventh grade. 147 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 2: Granted I deserved it because she had told us to 148 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 2: pull out our books and begin our silent reading time. 149 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 2: Granted I was talking to somebody instead of pulling out 150 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 2: the book like I. 151 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 1: Was told to do. 152 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 2: But did it give her the right to say the 153 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 2: following I'll let you be the judge, Stephen Ferdick. Did 154 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 2: you not hear me say pull out. 155 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: Your book now? 156 00:09:53,880 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 2: Miss Taylor was Northerner, So what I said next she 157 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 2: had no context for. I said, I'm sorry, Miss Taylor. 158 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 2: I'm fixing too, she said, Stephen ferdie She said, before 159 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 2: you leave my class, I am going to make sure 160 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:31,839 Speaker 2: that you understand how ignorant you sound when you say 161 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 2: things like I'm fixing too. Nobody else in the world 162 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 2: outside of South Carolina says things like I'm fixing too. 163 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:44,319 Speaker 1: And if you go anywhere. 164 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 2: Else in the world in your life and say I'm 165 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 2: fixing to, it is going to automatically cause people to 166 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 2: question your intelligence. Not only do you not have your 167 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,079 Speaker 2: book out, you are not even able to speak intelligently 168 00:10:57,360 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 2: to deliver an excuse about why your book is not. 169 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: I said, I'm about to Is that better? And it 170 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: really doesn't matter what you call it. 171 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 2: The problem was procrastination. And I found out we have 172 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 2: a lot of different things we say to disguise our procrastination. 173 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: Can I give you one thing we say in church? 174 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 1: We don't say I'm fixing to. We say I'm praying 175 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:28,719 Speaker 1: about it. 176 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 2: I will preach this word until three people are left 177 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 2: in the first two rows of elevation balanine. And it's cool, 178 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 2: because you do need to pray about some things. But 179 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:44,959 Speaker 2: some things that God just told you to do get 180 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:48,720 Speaker 2: your book out, do not require prayer. 181 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: They require action. 182 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 2: And that guy has a hard job because the people 183 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 2: on one level are making progress, at least it seems 184 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 2: to them like progress. 185 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: And the question becomes, this is point number one. They'll 186 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: put these on the screen. 187 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 2: Is it progress or is it procrastination, because apparently there 188 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:19,439 Speaker 2: were some really nice subdivisions going up in the suburbs 189 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,679 Speaker 2: of Judah. The exiles have been back from Babylon now 190 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,200 Speaker 2: twenty years and that was a god thing, wasn't it. 191 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 2: I mean, they didn't know if they'd ever come back, 192 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 2: and only because Persian control took the territory of Babylon 193 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 2: back were they able to come back and rebuild their homeland. 194 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 2: And when they first got back, they thought they'd rebuild 195 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,080 Speaker 2: the temple because it had been destroyed. 196 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 1: It was the. 197 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 2: Preeminent place for the presence of God to be manifest 198 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 2: among his people, so that He would have a dwelling place. 199 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,440 Speaker 2: You and I understand that now this temple is not 200 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 2: a physical building, but it is you and I the 201 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 2: Temple of the Holy Spirit, where God dwells and where 202 00:12:56,200 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 2: God lives. But in the midst of rebuilding this place 203 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 2: where God had appointed his presence to dwell, something was 204 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:09,319 Speaker 2: lacking in their perseverance, or perhaps. 205 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: It was just that they got distracted. 206 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:14,959 Speaker 2: This has helped me so much in trying to minister 207 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 2: to people and challenge people and call people hired to 208 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 2: God's standard. 209 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:20,319 Speaker 1: Is that Often people. 210 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 2: Are not willfully disobedient. They are just distracted, you know 211 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:31,439 Speaker 2: what I mean. I don't think that people always decide 212 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 2: to live in disobedience. Sometimes life just creates such a scenario. 213 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 2: And this is what guy said. He said, each of 214 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 2: you is busy with your own house. I thought that 215 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 2: was an interesting phrase that he said, you're busy with 216 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 2: your own house. He didn't say they were bad people, 217 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:58,319 Speaker 2: just that they were busy people. I don't think those 218 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:00,160 Speaker 2: of you who don't serve in the church don't in 219 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 2: the church because you're Satanic. I just think your kids 220 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 2: probably have soccer. It's not satan at soccer. I'm not 221 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 2: sure the tour that much different. Yeah, no, I hate soccer. Yes, 222 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 2: it's not a secret people. I'm not sure. In a 223 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 2: couple of weeks, we're going to take an offering. And 224 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 2: I don't think there's anybody that will be in the 225 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 2: church who will not appreciate the offering that is given, 226 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 2: because it's the very offering that was given a year ago, 227 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 2: or five years ago or ten years ago that built 228 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 2: the church that you were a part of today, where 229 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 2: God blesses your life. 230 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:39,239 Speaker 1: It is the very. 231 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 2: Sacrifice that happens this time every year, and not just 232 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 2: at the end of the year, but weekly and monthly, 233 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 2: as people give to God and put him first. I 234 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 2: think everybody values that on one level, especially the business owners. 235 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 2: I was talking to a business owner one time. He said, 236 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 2: I'm so glad I don't. 237 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: Have your job. I said, why is that. You don't 238 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: like to speak? 239 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 2: He said, no, I don't mind speaking, he said. I 240 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 2: just can't image imagine running a business where people came 241 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 2: and decided whether they wanted to pay for the service 242 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 2: or not. I would go broke if I ran my 243 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 2: business like that. But here at our church, over and 244 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 2: over again, people have stepped up sacrificially and consistently. 245 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 1: And here's the keyword, systematically. 246 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 2: To put God first, because I understand that my harvest 247 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 2: is connected to God's house. 248 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: Now this is where the word gets rich. 249 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 2: Sometimes you are struggling in your life in ways that 250 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 2: you do not understand, but you are not directly discerning 251 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 2: the source of the dysfunction. Such is the case for 252 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 2: the people in haw Guy's day. He said, you're disappointed, 253 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 2: aren't you. I know you are. 254 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: It's August. 255 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 2: It's the season for figs and grapes and pomegranates, and 256 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 2: you planted a lot of seed, but when you went 257 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 2: to get the harvest, it was only half of what 258 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 2: you expected. Have you ever invested in something or someone? 259 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 2: Keep eye contact with me when I say what I 260 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 2: say next, only to wonder how could I put so 261 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 2: much into it and get so little out of it? 262 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: Have you ever? Have you ever? This is the scene? 263 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 1: And how guys they remember? 264 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 2: This is a specific work to specific people, but I 265 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 2: think it has universal application and it is a timeless truth. 266 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 2: Is that when you do not start your process with 267 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 2: God at the center, it will always end in disappointment. 268 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 2: And it will not matter how much energy you give it, 269 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 2: or how much talent that you have, or or or 270 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 2: how sincere you are in your efforts. 271 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, man. 272 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 2: I have sad with rich people, famous people, people with 273 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:18,159 Speaker 2: great status and no satisfaction, great prosperity, and no peace. 274 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 2: Because any process that does not start with God ends 275 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 2: in disappointment. Write that down, teach it to your kids, 276 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 2: put it. 277 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:29,160 Speaker 1: On your mirror. 278 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 2: Any process that does not start with God ends in disappointment. 279 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:38,640 Speaker 2: You plant much, you reap little, you get dressed, You're 280 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 2: not warm. You drink, you drink you drink, you drink, 281 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:47,399 Speaker 2: you drink, you drink, but you are bottomless, and even 282 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 2: the blessings that God gives you will be will be. 283 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 2: Can I say it this way? 284 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:54,160 Speaker 1: Hollow? 285 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 2: It's a hollow harvest. And while the people were busy 286 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 2: building their own houses, busy building their own bodies, busy 287 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 2: building their own dreams, busy planning their own future, they 288 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:25,720 Speaker 2: neglected the place of God's presence. I was praying about 289 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 2: this message. I said, God, I can't preach that. I 290 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:28,879 Speaker 2: don't want to make them feel bad. Their lives are 291 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 2: already hard enough. And God told me I didn't hear 292 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 2: this out loud. Its just depression I have. Okay, so 293 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 2: let's get that straight right now. But the impression that 294 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 2: I got is if you don't ever make that connection, 295 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,439 Speaker 2: you will live in a continual state of frustration and 296 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 2: wonder why am I doing so much and receiving so little? 297 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 2: Why am I fishing all night and catching nothing? That's 298 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:05,639 Speaker 2: what happened to Peter, you know, fished all night, caught nothing, 299 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 2: but the moment he gave his boat to Jesus, his 300 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 2: biggest problem was breaking nets. Because God is in charge 301 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 2: of the harvest, there is a certain part of success 302 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:24,360 Speaker 2: and a certain part of life. 303 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 1: That you don't control. 304 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,119 Speaker 2: You can decide how much to plant, but without the 305 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:32,439 Speaker 2: cooperation of the elements, it will only grow to be 306 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 2: so much. It takes a little while to learn this 307 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 2: that you can do everything in your human strength that 308 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 2: you know to do to guarantee a happy life, but 309 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 2: there is a certain dimension of life that is outside 310 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:51,679 Speaker 2: of your control. Touch your neighbors, say, don't blow it. 311 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 2: Here are these people. It's been twenty years. I understand. 312 00:19:58,720 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 1: They come back from Babylon. 313 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 2: They're really trying to get acclimated to being back in 314 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 2: a place that has been so ravaged. They're settling into 315 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 2: their towns. Maybe two years, maybe five years, but it's 316 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:14,159 Speaker 2: been twenty years. It's been twenty years now, which is 317 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:15,880 Speaker 2: a significant number for me. Let me tell you why. 318 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 2: This summer, I was going back and watching some of 319 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 2: the sermons that inspired. 320 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 1: Me to be a preacher. 321 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 2: They're all on YouTube, and it's cool because I don't 322 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 2: have to pay for them. 323 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 1: I can bootleg them now, and. 324 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 2: I've long since lost the cassette tapes, but they're all 325 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:32,639 Speaker 2: online now, And so I was online watching some of 326 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,160 Speaker 2: my favorite preachers that were inspiring me as a boy. 327 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,880 Speaker 1: These were my heroes. I was watching them. 328 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 2: Just to kind of get in touch with sixteen year 329 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 2: old Stephen, who used to walk around the block with 330 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:47,640 Speaker 2: the walkman, and I would preach with the preachers and 331 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 2: I would hold an imaginary microphone I've said too much, okay. 332 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 2: And I was listening to them preach, and I was 333 00:20:56,119 --> 00:21:02,679 Speaker 2: watching them on YouTube, and I thought, man, these guys 334 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 2: looked so much older to me. And then I did 335 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 2: some math, and I realized that the guys that I 336 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 2: used to watch when I was sixteen were the age then. 337 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:19,639 Speaker 1: Right that I am. Now. 338 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 2: You talk about a broken heart, you talk about a 339 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 2: wake up call, because see, I still feel like I 340 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 2: got all this time. You know, I still feel like 341 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,199 Speaker 2: we're just getting started. The church is just getting started. 342 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 2: I mean, in my mind, this is still the IPO. 343 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 2: But it was a wake up call for me to 344 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 2: realize that what they were to you, then you are 345 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:48,680 Speaker 2: to somebody now. In other words, you don't have any 346 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:52,119 Speaker 2: time to waste. Touch your other neighbors say, don't blow it. 347 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 2: You only got so much time. I know. 348 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 1: You keep telling. 349 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,919 Speaker 2: Yourself one day when and we're gonna get around to it, 350 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:02,880 Speaker 2: and I'm fixing, but you might find yourself one day 351 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,440 Speaker 2: run it out of strength. What is it your heart 352 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 2: to do? You better do it now. Some of your 353 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 2: neighbors say, do it now, cock a doodle, do this 354 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 2: is your wake up call I was twenty years ago. Man, 355 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 2: if we're gonna build it, we gotta build it now. 356 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 2: But sometimes the devil will tell you you're being patient 357 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 2: when really you are procrastinating. 358 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 1: And if he can get you. 359 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 2: To mistake procrastination for patients, he can keep you locked 360 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 2: out of the blessing. 361 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 1: That is on the other side of your obedience. 362 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 2: Yes, it's a process, I mean, yes. 363 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 1: It takes time, but really twenty years. 364 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 2: And after all, hat guy says, it looks like somehow 365 00:22:55,560 --> 00:23:00,400 Speaker 2: you found time to build your own house. So glad 366 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 2: Pastor Mickey taught me that. He beat that into my head. 367 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 2: He said, boy, you find time for what you want 368 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 2: to do. He said that because I told him I 369 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:10,680 Speaker 2: didn't have time to do something he told me to do. 370 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 2: He said, boy, you find time for what you want 371 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 2: to do. You find time for what you want to do. 372 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 2: You find passion and energy. If I could get some 373 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 2: of you to apply the same energy to serving God, 374 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 2: that you apply to sin. We would turn every county 375 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 2: in the United States of America, and it looked to 376 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,359 Speaker 2: them like progress. But the prophet had guy says, wait 377 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 2: a minute. Progress is more than just effort. Progress is 378 00:23:51,720 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 2: effort in the right direction. Consider your ways, Consider your ways. 379 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 2: He gets into a vivid description, this sound is so modern. 380 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 2: When I was reading it, I don't know if you 381 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 2: had the same experience, because I thought about all the 382 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 2: streams that we live in now, and the feeds, and 383 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:17,199 Speaker 2: when he said you eat and are never full, and 384 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 2: you scroll and are never entertained. He didn't say that, 385 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 2: but that's what it made me think of. He said, 386 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 2: you YouTube, and now you're over in cat videos and 387 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,320 Speaker 2: you don't even know how you ended up. 388 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 1: How did I? 389 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 2: How did I get here on a Minecraft tutorial? I'm 390 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 2: thirty seven years old. And then it gets kind of dramatic. 391 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:53,239 Speaker 2: I don't apologize for God's word. He said, when I 392 00:24:53,280 --> 00:25:00,160 Speaker 2: saw that you were so busy with your own work, 393 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 2: when I saw that you were so busy with your 394 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 2: own interest, I didn't mind you building your own house. 395 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 2: I didn't mind you driving a new car. I didn't 396 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 2: mind you enjoying yourself on the weekend and telling your 397 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 2: friend who's always trying to use you that you didn't 398 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:19,160 Speaker 2: have time to help them move. 399 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: It was fine because they're always asking you in. 400 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 2: There there, But what I minded was what I minded 401 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 2: was that you lost your sense of what was really important. 402 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,879 Speaker 2: And so now God says I had to take action. 403 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:50,159 Speaker 2: I had to frustrate your process to remind you of 404 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 2: your priorities. 405 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,920 Speaker 1: You know how, sometimes you'll be doing something that. 406 00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 2: Used to be fun for you and it's not fun anymore, 407 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 2: and you can't even explain why. Sometimes that's God sucking 408 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:10,080 Speaker 2: the fun out of something that is keeping you from your. 409 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: Calling him purpose. 410 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 2: It is getting frighteningly quiet on week one of Waymaker. 411 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 2: Good news is if I keep preaching like this, you 412 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 2: will have plenty of seats for the rest of the 413 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 2: four weeks of Waymaker. This is a space maker. That's 414 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 2: what this sermon is. Nobody said I had to do 415 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 2: something about it. I had to interrupt you in order 416 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 2: to get your attention because I brought you back from Babylon. 417 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 2: I made a way for you, and I gave you 418 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:50,199 Speaker 2: an assignment to rebuild my temple. But you took what 419 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 2: I gave you, and you spent it on yourself. And 420 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 2: so here's what I had to do. 421 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:55,919 Speaker 1: And I'll watch this. 422 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,879 Speaker 2: You might not like this to you of Godess okay, 423 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,679 Speaker 2: God is not running for any office. He does not 424 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 2: need your vote. I said, he does not need your vote. 425 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 2: He is not on any ticket. You expected much Verse nine, 426 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,199 Speaker 2: But see it turned out to be little. This is 427 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 2: the part. And what you brought home I blew away. 428 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:31,720 Speaker 2: Well that's not nice, Heavenly Father. I thought your eye 429 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 2: was on the spare row. I thought you had the 430 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 2: whole world in your hands. I thought you would give 431 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 2: me this day my daily bread. I didn't know you 432 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:48,399 Speaker 2: would blow it away. Touch somebody say, don't blow it 433 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 2: what you brought home? I blew away. Why would you 434 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:02,160 Speaker 2: do that? Why would you Why would a good God 435 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 2: called something to leave your life? I blew it away. 436 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 2: It wasn't the devil. This would be my first assumption. 437 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 2: Anytime anything that I don't like happens, it was the devil. 438 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 2: The devil made me do it. The devil gave me 439 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 2: a flat tire. The devil gave me a stomach flu. 440 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,439 Speaker 2: The devil gets more breast time in a lot of 441 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,399 Speaker 2: pulpits than Jesus Christ. 442 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 1: Does. 443 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 2: God said, no, I did that. I let it go bad. 444 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:52,160 Speaker 2: I made him break up with you. I made her 445 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 2: not call you back. 446 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,040 Speaker 1: This is crazy stuff here now, this is. 447 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 2: This is the stuff that you get in the parts 448 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 2: of the Bible, like Haggi. That's flip pass to get 449 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 2: over to the good stuff. My God shall supply all 450 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 2: your knees according to his glorious riches. Can we get 451 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 2: back to that, No, not this week. This week is Hagi. 452 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:21,840 Speaker 2: And Hagi said, God, blew it away? Why why would 453 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,920 Speaker 2: you do that? Why would you blow it away? Why 454 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 2: would you blow it? God said, so you wouldn't. It 455 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 2: was not to punish you. It was to protect you. 456 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 2: If I allowed you to depend on your stuff, you 457 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:50,080 Speaker 2: would forget your source. So when I see you getting 458 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 2: too attached to something that I gave you, sometimes I 459 00:29:54,920 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 2: gotta make sure that you remember that I give you breath. 460 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 1: And if I don't breathe out, you don't breathe in. 461 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 2: Touch somebody say, don't blow it, don't blow it. When 462 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 2: I see you building your house on sinking sand, sometimes 463 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 2: I gotta send a storm. 464 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 1: To check your foundation. 465 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 2: And the rains came down, and the streams rose, and 466 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 2: the winds blew and beat against that house, because God 467 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,960 Speaker 2: would rather have you go through a season of frustration 468 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 2: than to build your whole life on the wrong foundation. 469 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 2: You uh, I'm fixing too. They didn't say they wouldn't. 470 00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 2: You never say you won't. You say you're gonna. Ah, God, 471 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,360 Speaker 2: I'm gonna. This was the craziest got I tell y'all, 472 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 2: crazy story. 473 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:07,960 Speaker 1: Crazy people go to this church. 474 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:09,920 Speaker 2: Wow. 475 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 1: See what I'm. 476 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:15,080 Speaker 2: Saying right on June good crazy, bad crazy. This is 477 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,200 Speaker 2: bad crazy, I told the man. 478 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 1: He kept saying, I love the church. 479 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 2: I love the church is the gravest. 480 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 1: I love the church. 481 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 2: Do have a lot of money too. I love the church. 482 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 2: I'm so successful. I love the church. Church is so great. 483 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 2: I love the Lord. I love the church. I checked 484 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 2: the record. He never gave anything to what he said 485 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 2: he loved. Now in my universe, God so loved the world. 486 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: That he gave. 487 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 2: I said it real respectfully, and I don't check everybody's record. 488 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,000 Speaker 2: This was a long time ago. I just got so 489 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 2: tired of it because he always loved the church. Love 490 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 2: the Lord, love the word, love the worship, Love what. 491 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 1: Y'all are doing for the community. I love it. I 492 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,680 Speaker 1: love it. He's a baller. Yeah, I love it, I. 493 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 2: Said, I said, there might be something wrong with our records, 494 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 2: but we have no recorded gift you ever made. This 495 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 2: is when I was a younger preacher. I wasn't as sophisticated. 496 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:21,040 Speaker 2: I said, is that correct? He said, oh yeah, oh 497 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,640 Speaker 2: dog son, but hold I had. He was a Baptist, 498 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 2: but he started speaking in tongues. 499 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 1: I was so confused. I didn't know what to do 500 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:39,760 Speaker 1: about that. Tom. He's he's so long. He said, you 501 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 1: know what he said to me? 502 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,440 Speaker 2: He said, he didn't say I'm fixing to but he said, 503 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:50,200 Speaker 2: he said, all right, when I die, I'm gonna put 504 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,080 Speaker 2: the church in my will, and I'm gonna send you 505 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:59,520 Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars. I wish I would have told 506 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,040 Speaker 2: him what I thought, but I didn't think of it 507 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:07,200 Speaker 2: right then. Holly does this all the time. She'd come 508 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 2: home to me and she'd tell me about somebody who 509 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 2: said something to her. 510 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:10,200 Speaker 1: And they just say, I was like. 511 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 2: Time to town, and she just slices and burns them 512 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,600 Speaker 2: and roast them and told them to down. 513 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 1: And I was like, Donna, sat down. I'll be like 514 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,720 Speaker 1: you sat that because she's so nice. I'm like you 515 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,800 Speaker 1: sat that. She's like, no, I was like that. 516 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,160 Speaker 2: I was like, it means I mean I would have 517 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:32,719 Speaker 2: said it. I mean I'm fixing too. I mean when 518 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:34,160 Speaker 2: I when I die, I mean, I'm gonna get my 519 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 2: money over here, my checking in, my savings, and I 520 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 2: got this thing over here, my money market, and it's 521 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:39,200 Speaker 2: somebody's gone. 522 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:45,840 Speaker 1: But we don't say never. We say not now. 523 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:52,680 Speaker 2: And twenty years past, and you were gonna, and you 524 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 2: were gonna, and now the kids graduated and you were gonna. 525 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:04,120 Speaker 1: You were gonna. We were gonna. Oh, we were gonna 526 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:04,520 Speaker 1: build it. 527 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:05,960 Speaker 2: He God, we were gonna build it. 528 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:07,000 Speaker 1: We were going building a. 529 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:13,600 Speaker 2: Bamba son dahmba shan. And you say I'm fixing to 530 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,280 Speaker 2: And your whole economy is broken. Maybe not your financial economy. 531 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,520 Speaker 2: I mean you can financially succeed without God, but you 532 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:27,879 Speaker 2: can't have significance, not without God. There is no significance 533 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,000 Speaker 2: to any process that God is not the center of. 534 00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,120 Speaker 1: I don't believe anything more than I believe. 535 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,719 Speaker 2: That there may be short term success, there may be 536 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:42,120 Speaker 2: illusion of happiness, but there will be no deep seated 537 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,920 Speaker 2: fulfillment in any process. That God is not the center 538 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:51,360 Speaker 2: of whether it's your money, whether it's a marriage, and 539 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:55,360 Speaker 2: God doesn't want you to blow it. He does not 540 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:59,399 Speaker 2: want you to waste the opportunity. I don't think there's 541 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:06,640 Speaker 2: any greater pained and the pain of a wasted opportunity. 542 00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:15,759 Speaker 2: To neglect your priorities is to forfeit your provision. And 543 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:20,080 Speaker 2: what struck me about the text is that there was 544 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 2: no lack of resource, natural or spiritual that prevented the 545 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:30,440 Speaker 2: people from prospering. How guys said, you planted plenty, there 546 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:34,600 Speaker 2: was nothing wrong with the seed. But I interrupted the 547 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,760 Speaker 2: cycle of the harvest so that you would not depend 548 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:42,399 Speaker 2: on anything that was disconnected from me. So now here's 549 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:46,719 Speaker 2: what I want you to do, very simple, very strategic, 550 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:51,800 Speaker 2: so basic that you cannot you can't, you cannot refuse 551 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,560 Speaker 2: to do it because you didn't understand it. Here's what 552 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:59,000 Speaker 2: I want you to do Verse eight. Go up into 553 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:03,840 Speaker 2: the mountains. That's the position, because you've got to be 554 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,960 Speaker 2: in the right place. You've got to be in the 555 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,160 Speaker 2: right place for God to bless you. You've got to 556 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:13,920 Speaker 2: stay planted to flourish. So go up into the mountain. 557 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:20,160 Speaker 2: When you get there, bring down timber. That's the potential. 558 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:27,640 Speaker 2: That's the potential. This is the temple in potential, this 559 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,040 Speaker 2: is the dwelling place of God. 560 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,600 Speaker 1: But right now it looks like simple timber. 561 00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:38,000 Speaker 2: Bring down the timber, which represents the potential where the 562 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,400 Speaker 2: place where my glory will dwell. Right now it looks 563 00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:45,480 Speaker 2: like timber. The temple is in the form. Now you 564 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,920 Speaker 2: got it. That's my dude right there. That's my dude 565 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,879 Speaker 2: right there. How did you know where I was going? 566 00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:55,000 Speaker 2: The temple looks like timber until you bring it down 567 00:36:55,320 --> 00:37:00,320 Speaker 2: and build my house. That's the process. So there's the position, 568 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,440 Speaker 2: there's the potential, and there's the process. 569 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:09,719 Speaker 1: Here's the thing. There was no shortage of provision. There 570 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,560 Speaker 1: never is. There never is. 571 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,239 Speaker 2: When God made the earth and spoke it into existence, 572 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:20,160 Speaker 2: When God breathed the breath of life into man, he 573 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,879 Speaker 2: gave everything that would be needed in the form of seed. 574 00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,040 Speaker 1: There's no shortage in God. 575 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:32,720 Speaker 2: You think the unlimited God of the universe has shortage? 576 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,839 Speaker 2: Do you think there's anything in your life that is 577 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,320 Speaker 2: too hard for God? 578 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,320 Speaker 1: Even when you see a nation ravaged. 579 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,759 Speaker 2: By poverty, it's not because there wasn't enough stuff. It's 580 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:50,000 Speaker 2: because the systems did not allow the stuff to be distributed. 581 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:55,840 Speaker 2: There's never a lack of provision. In God, never everything 582 00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,120 Speaker 2: that you need is already here. There is never a 583 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,279 Speaker 2: lack of provision. So the problem of the people in 584 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:05,400 Speaker 2: the way they experienced it was a problem with provision. 585 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:09,759 Speaker 2: Haw God said, it's not provision. Consider your ways. What 586 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:13,239 Speaker 2: you think is a lack of provision is a lack 587 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,400 Speaker 2: of priority. 588 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,279 Speaker 1: Because if you will seek. 589 00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:24,080 Speaker 2: First the Kingdom of God and make this your foundation, 590 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:30,680 Speaker 2: if you will seek first His righteousness, all these. 591 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,400 Speaker 1: Things will be added to you. 592 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,680 Speaker 2: Everything you need, and everything you don't even know that 593 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,920 Speaker 2: you need, and everything that you really want beneath what 594 00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:41,959 Speaker 2: you think you want. 595 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,279 Speaker 1: All of these things will be added to you. 596 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,480 Speaker 2: But if you seek the things, you'll miss the kingdom. 597 00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,560 Speaker 2: But if you seek the kingdom, you'll get the things 598 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:53,160 Speaker 2: thrown in. 599 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,000 Speaker 1: If you will seek God. 600 00:38:54,880 --> 00:39:02,360 Speaker 2: First everything your heart desires, we will be made manifest 601 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:09,640 Speaker 2: in His presence. And so often we are asking God 602 00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:14,000 Speaker 2: to send provision. God can't send provision where there are 603 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:19,480 Speaker 2: no priorities. And if I can be just as basic 604 00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:24,319 Speaker 2: about it as Pastor Mickey was, you find resource for 605 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:24,680 Speaker 2: what you. 606 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:25,080 Speaker 1: Want to do. 607 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,800 Speaker 2: How come people who can't afford to tithe can afford 608 00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:37,560 Speaker 2: to iPhone seven Oh, they sit him back down now, 609 00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:41,960 Speaker 2: just to write it down, Just to write it down 610 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:47,640 Speaker 2: when we take an offering at the end of the 611 00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:49,839 Speaker 2: year in our church this year, and I want every 612 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:53,319 Speaker 2: campus to hear this, especially the newer ones. The only 613 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,200 Speaker 2: reason that you're sitting in a seat is because somebody 614 00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:58,000 Speaker 2: brought down timber for the temple. 615 00:39:59,120 --> 00:39:59,960 Speaker 1: Somebody did that. 616 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:07,359 Speaker 2: Somebody did that, And this is the time of year 617 00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:12,680 Speaker 2: where we develop and demonstrate our faith as a family 618 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:17,040 Speaker 2: for those who have not yet been reached, for those 619 00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,920 Speaker 2: who do not yet know the ways of God. 620 00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,479 Speaker 1: This is the time where we go up. 621 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,960 Speaker 2: To the mountain. Our church is called elevation. After all, 622 00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,120 Speaker 2: we go up to the mountain. We don't stay down 623 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:34,759 Speaker 2: in the in. 624 00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:35,520 Speaker 1: The muck. 625 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:41,080 Speaker 2: Of the of the current viewpoint of our culture. 626 00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:45,200 Speaker 1: We go up on the mountain. We access the resource. 627 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:49,359 Speaker 2: After all, the same resource that God was calling them 628 00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:51,799 Speaker 2: to build his house with was the resource they were 629 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:55,319 Speaker 2: already building theirs with. Because you find timber for what 630 00:40:55,400 --> 00:41:01,960 Speaker 2: you want to build, right, And why I love to 631 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:07,440 Speaker 2: seek God first is because when I prioritize my life, 632 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:13,239 Speaker 2: God's provision has a place to land. If you really 633 00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,359 Speaker 2: remember some of the miracles in the Bible, where God 634 00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:20,680 Speaker 2: did something great for someone, the first step was for 635 00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:22,120 Speaker 2: their priorities to be ordered. 636 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:29,279 Speaker 1: The first step when the woman needed a miracle from 637 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:30,080 Speaker 1: the man of God. 638 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,840 Speaker 2: In the Book of First Kings, do you remember this story, 639 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,880 Speaker 2: the prophet said, I know you don't have much left. 640 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:39,520 Speaker 1: I know you lack provision in your own eyes right now. 641 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:41,919 Speaker 2: But if you will first give me a little cake 642 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:46,080 Speaker 2: and prioritize the purpose of God, if you will sustain 643 00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:51,839 Speaker 2: God's work in the earth, God will sustain you. If 644 00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:55,200 Speaker 2: you remember the little boy with the lunch that Jesus 645 00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,439 Speaker 2: had Peter go over, beat him up, take his lunch, 646 00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:58,600 Speaker 2: pass it out to the crowd. 647 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:00,439 Speaker 1: Creative internation. 648 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:07,359 Speaker 2: What started with a lunch ended in leftovers, But it 649 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,640 Speaker 2: was because of the prioritization to bring it first to 650 00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,200 Speaker 2: Jesus and put it in his hands. That's what we 651 00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:17,840 Speaker 2: do every time we tithe. It's the first ten percent 652 00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,799 Speaker 2: of your income. It's setting it aside for God and 653 00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:27,319 Speaker 2: saying God before anything else. You be the foundation of 654 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:31,880 Speaker 2: my finances. You be the foundation of my family. You 655 00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:36,040 Speaker 2: be the foundation of my future. I want to build 656 00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:40,080 Speaker 2: my life on you. And when you bring that first 657 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,239 Speaker 2: fruits to God, when you do it. Every time you 658 00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:48,279 Speaker 2: do it, God says, I can build on that. But 659 00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,080 Speaker 2: how can God build on a foundation that. 660 00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,200 Speaker 1: You don't lay. 661 00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,040 Speaker 2: And you are waiting for God to send something, and 662 00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,839 Speaker 2: He's waiting for you to lay a foundation that will 663 00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:58,880 Speaker 2: sustain what he sends. 664 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,320 Speaker 1: When you seek God first, all these. 665 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:10,120 Speaker 2: Things will be at it to you. And that's why 666 00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:14,640 Speaker 2: I'm not afraid of what I might face in the future, 667 00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:20,200 Speaker 2: because I have a foundation, because God is the bottom line. 668 00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:21,560 Speaker 1: Of my life. 669 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:23,920 Speaker 2: Now, when you can't say that, you live in constant 670 00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:30,839 Speaker 2: fear and suspicion and paranoia and emptiness, and even your 671 00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:35,200 Speaker 2: blessings seem hollow, and you expect much and you. 672 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:36,400 Speaker 1: Come up empty. 673 00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:44,520 Speaker 2: But God says, go up, bring down, and build. I 674 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:48,160 Speaker 2: love the Lord because even when he has to correct me, 675 00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:53,040 Speaker 2: he still gives me another chance to get it right. 676 00:43:55,520 --> 00:44:00,040 Speaker 2: God said, you've had twenty years to do it. I 677 00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,440 Speaker 2: send in my prophet Hagi. By the way, you might 678 00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:07,799 Speaker 2: be interested to know that Hagi's name means feast. So 679 00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,920 Speaker 2: God is preaching to a people in a famine about 680 00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:14,799 Speaker 2: a feast. And if you will have the faith to 681 00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:20,600 Speaker 2: go up, bring down, and build, this is what the 682 00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:27,000 Speaker 2: Lord Almighty says I am with you. I send my 683 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:32,040 Speaker 2: word through my prophet to give you another chance, another 684 00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,719 Speaker 2: chance to build your life on the foundation of the 685 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:40,040 Speaker 2: solid rock of Jesus Christ. This is your second chance. 686 00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:41,400 Speaker 1: Don't blow it. 687 00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:47,719 Speaker 2: And some of you have had the kind of year 688 00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:54,880 Speaker 2: that Hagi describe, eating not filled, drinking not quenched, dressed 689 00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:59,040 Speaker 2: not warm. And God is sending his word to you 690 00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,400 Speaker 2: today saying that the storm that I brought you through 691 00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:11,520 Speaker 2: was to check your foundation. Everything you've been through was 692 00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:16,200 Speaker 2: about establishing a foundation for your future. And I want 693 00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,600 Speaker 2: to take a pastoral privilege right now and agree in 694 00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:22,920 Speaker 2: prayer with all of God's people on every location. 695 00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,040 Speaker 1: And I need you to join your faith. 696 00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:30,280 Speaker 2: With me, everybody who's been coming up empty and reaping 697 00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:35,520 Speaker 2: in disappointment and reaping in tears and reaping and frustration 698 00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:42,239 Speaker 2: and wondering why. And God is now bringing you to 699 00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:46,799 Speaker 2: a point of prioritizing His presence above all else. I 700 00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:48,440 Speaker 2: want to pray with you right now, and that's that 701 00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:49,720 Speaker 2: we stand at every location. 702 00:45:54,880 --> 00:46:01,080 Speaker 1: This is the word of the Lord coming through the sermon. 703 00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:07,440 Speaker 2: To your life, to your famine, to your frustration, to 704 00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:14,680 Speaker 2: your barrenness. This is the word of the Lord, go up, 705 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:19,040 Speaker 2: bring it down, and let's bill. 706 00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:20,040 Speaker 1: Don't blow it. 707 00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:23,360 Speaker 2: God has put you in this season for a reason. 708 00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:27,000 Speaker 2: God put you in this church for a reason. God 709 00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:29,719 Speaker 2: put you in this city for a reason. God gave 710 00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:33,719 Speaker 2: you those children for a reason, on that job, in 711 00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:37,520 Speaker 2: that school for a reason. Now, don't you blow it. 712 00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:45,000 Speaker 2: God kept you alive this long for a reason. God 713 00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:48,839 Speaker 2: delivered you from sickness for a reason, brought you out 714 00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:52,400 Speaker 2: of sin for a reason, kept you from going down 715 00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,000 Speaker 2: for the last time for a reason. 716 00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:56,520 Speaker 1: Don't you blow it. 717 00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:05,800 Speaker 2: Don't waste his grace, don't waste your opportunity weeping over 718 00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:07,080 Speaker 2: what you didn't do. 719 00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:08,600 Speaker 1: Let's get building. 720 00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:13,600 Speaker 2: We've got a kingdom to build people. Let's get building. 721 00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:20,440 Speaker 2: Now is the time God said, I want to be 722 00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:24,279 Speaker 2: your highest priority. And when I see you giving your 723 00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:32,239 Speaker 2: best self to lower priorities. But if you will bring 724 00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:37,319 Speaker 2: your best self and make God your highest priority, I 725 00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:41,000 Speaker 2: guarantee you you've never experienced deep peace like this before. 726 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:45,640 Speaker 1: Now I'm going to pray in just a moment. 727 00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:48,279 Speaker 2: After I pray, there will be a little bit more 728 00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,120 Speaker 2: of a setting up of what's going to happen over 729 00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:51,919 Speaker 2: the next few weeks. 730 00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:53,120 Speaker 1: I'm excited about the journey. 731 00:47:53,120 --> 00:48:02,239 Speaker 2: How many are excited about the journey. God is going 732 00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,960 Speaker 2: to do some things in your life like never before. 733 00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:10,600 Speaker 2: That's the phrase I hear, like never before, a blessing 734 00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:16,440 Speaker 2: like never before, even now, making a way away in 735 00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:23,040 Speaker 2: the wilderness, doing a new thing in your life in 736 00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:26,960 Speaker 2: this ministry. And I come into agreement with you right 737 00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:30,440 Speaker 2: now in the name of Jesus Christ, the son of 738 00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,959 Speaker 2: the Living God, the eternal Word made flesh to dwell 739 00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:38,319 Speaker 2: among us, full of grace and truth. And I come 740 00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:41,160 Speaker 2: into agreement with you today that God would become the 741 00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:45,080 Speaker 2: highest priority in your life, so that you can receive 742 00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:50,080 Speaker 2: the deepest peace, the peace of knowing, the peace that 743 00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:55,000 Speaker 2: passes all understanding, the peace of knowing that my house 744 00:48:56,160 --> 00:49:01,799 Speaker 2: is built on the rock. Give us a passion for 745 00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:06,480 Speaker 2: your house, Give us your heart for your world. 746 00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:11,040 Speaker 5: We want to see the things you see. We want 747 00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:14,200 Speaker 5: to know the things that you speak, and we want 748 00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:19,000 Speaker 5: to walk in your ways. After all that you've. 749 00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:22,279 Speaker 2: Done for us and after all that you've been to us, 750 00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:26,200 Speaker 2: and in consideration of all that you're going to do, 751 00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:32,280 Speaker 2: we give you our full and total lives, our complete selves. 752 00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:38,240 Speaker 2: We repent of all the ways that we've put everything 753 00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:39,279 Speaker 2: else ahead of you. 754 00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:44,880 Speaker 1: We repent of the excuses that we've made. We repent 755 00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:46,560 Speaker 1: of the spirit of procrastination. 756 00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:49,560 Speaker 2: There are some things you called us to do that 757 00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:52,480 Speaker 2: we keep putting off, we're fixing to. 758 00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:55,800 Speaker 1: But today we declare. 759 00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:02,480 Speaker 2: That what you have spoken, because you say so, we 760 00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:05,520 Speaker 2: will let down the nets, and we believe for a 761 00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:08,680 Speaker 2: great catch, a great harvest, more than we can ask 762 00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:12,080 Speaker 2: or imagine, according to your glorious richest. 763 00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:15,960 Speaker 1: In Christ, do it. God, you are a wave maker. 764 00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:21,320 Speaker 2: Do it in their life, do it in their life. 765 00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:26,960 Speaker 1: You are Thank you for joining us. 766 00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,680 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 767 00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:33,240 Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 768 00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:35,879 Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give 769 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:40,120 Speaker 2: now or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more 770 00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:43,920 Speaker 2: information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 771 00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:45,560 Speaker 1: You can share it with your friends. 772 00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,120 Speaker 2: You can click the share button, take a screenshot and 773 00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:50,279 Speaker 2: share it on your social stories and tag us at 774 00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:51,160 Speaker 2: Elevation Church. 775 00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:57,840 Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening. God bless you.