1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 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 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: in your life. 7 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:15,239 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. 8 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 2: I want to share today from the same subject that 9 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 2: I began last. 10 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: Week, about functional faith. 11 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 3: About functional faith. 12 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 2: Now, judging from your response to my announcement of part 13 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 2: two of the teaching. 14 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: Perhaps you don't remember my sermon let's review. 15 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 2: We were saying that faith doesn't always guarantee the outcome, 16 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 2: but it establishes the outlook. 17 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 1: All things are possible to him who believes. 18 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 2: And so we want to take some time today in 19 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 2: a very famous passage of scripture, and I would ask, 20 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 2: if you don't mind, just stand while I read the scripture. 21 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: And then the seat is yours. Somebody tithe good money 22 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 1: so you could have that seat. 23 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 3: So I want you to use it. 24 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 2: And we will give you that opportunity today. But just 25 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 2: stand for one more month, and I'm gonna be reading 26 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 2: the scripture from the King James version of the Bible, 27 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 2: because it's the one that I memorized it in Now 28 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 2: I don't still have it memorized, but at one time 29 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:16,320 Speaker 2: I did. 30 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: You can believe that or not is absolutely true. 31 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:24,199 Speaker 2: But we're just gonna read like a little sandwich real quick, 32 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 2: from Hebrews eleven and Hebrews twelve. And some of you 33 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 2: who are really churchy, you're gonna be tempted that while 34 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 2: I'm reading the scripture to start getting excited. Don't do it, Okay, 35 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 2: just let me read my scripture. These nice people don't 36 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 2: want to hear you shouting while I'm reading my scripture. 37 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: Okay. 38 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 2: But Hebrew's eleven one says, now, faith is the substance 39 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 2: of things hoped for. 40 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: What did I tell you? I told you to sit still? 41 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 2: And the evidence of things not seen by it? The 42 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 2: elders obtaining a good report by faith, we understand what? 43 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: Do we understand? 44 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 2: That the worlds were framed by the word of God, 45 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 2: so that things which are seen were made of things 46 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 2: are not made of things? 47 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 3: Can I do that whole verse over? Through faith? 48 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 2: We understand that the worlds were framed by the word 49 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 2: of God, so that things which are seen were not 50 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 2: made of things which do appear. Now look at Hebrews twelve, 51 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 2: verse one and two, Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed 52 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 2: about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us 53 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 2: lay aside every weight and the sin which does so 54 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 2: easily beset us, and let us run with patience. 55 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: Tell somebody we're getting fit. We're getting fit, and look 56 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 1: who our trainer is. 57 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 2: Let us run with patience the race that is set 58 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 2: before us, looking onto Jesus, the author and finisher of 59 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 2: our functional faith, who for the joy set before him, 60 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 2: endured the cross, despising the. 61 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 1: Shame, and is set down. Now. 62 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 2: He didn't sit down because he was tired. He sat 63 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 2: down because it was done. Touch somebody say it's already done. 64 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: It's already done. 65 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 2: I have to clarify faith, it's already done. Sat down 66 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 2: at the right hand of God. Now here's what we're 67 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 2: gonna do today. As a sermon title, I'm going to 68 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 2: teach you how to do an exercise. This also an experiment. 69 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 2: I want to talk about the Frame game. The Frame game. 70 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 2: Touch somebody on your way to your seat and said, 71 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:29,799 Speaker 2: we're going to have a great time today. 72 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: You may be seated. Thank you, Worship team. 73 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 2: Hey, keep touring, Mac, keep singing, Stay strong, we believe 74 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 2: in you. 75 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: And now to go to this passage that I am. 76 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 2: So excited to preach, like way more excited to preach 77 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 2: it than you are to hear it. Where I read 78 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 2: you two little passages that are so well known. If 79 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 2: these passages were an exercise, they would be the push 80 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 2: ups of faith, because it's just a really well known 81 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 2: passage where it says, not for in evidence and things 82 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 2: I've seen, and fix our eyes on Jesus, Author and 83 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 2: perfective of faith. 84 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: Those are well known. 85 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 2: In the middle of those verses, there is a picture 86 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:30,919 Speaker 2: that the author of Hebrews provides to encourage perseverance for 87 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 2: anyone who is fatigued in their faith. And to do 88 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 2: it he mentions people who now he calls a cloud 89 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 2: of witnesses, and he's establishing what we might call a 90 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 2: framework of faith. Interesting thing is that that list I 91 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 2: didn't read it to you. It is bookended by these 92 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 2: two descriptions of faith. 93 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: Faith is the substance of things. 94 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 2: Hope for, and that Jesus is the author and finisher 95 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 2: of our faith. 96 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: And in between that he gives a picture. 97 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:08,720 Speaker 2: And these two passages they serve as the frame and 98 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 2: the picture. Here's the thing you got to know, sometimes 99 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 2: the frame is even more important than the picture. 100 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: Can I explain that a little bit. 101 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 2: Sometimes the way you say something is even more important 102 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:27,280 Speaker 2: than what you say. You can say something to your 103 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:30,919 Speaker 2: kids meant to develop them, that will destroy them all 104 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 2: because of the way that you framed it. 105 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: You can put your. 106 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 2: Kids in a competitive mindset with their siblings, trying to 107 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 2: get them to act right and then kind of create 108 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 2: this dysfunction that they have the rest of their life. 109 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,600 Speaker 1: Framework is important any married people, married people, any married. 110 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 2: People, your phraseology in marriage is really important. I just 111 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 2: want to give you this quick tip because sometimes sometimes 112 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 2: it's not what you're saying to your husband, is how 113 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 2: you're saying it that he can't hear it. 114 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: It's quiet, it's real quiet. 115 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 2: I'm a little nervous to proceed with this illustration, but 116 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 2: I'll do some nonetheless because I believe this has a 117 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 2: very practical application value to your life. You know, if 118 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 2: you really want to get your husband to change, catch 119 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 2: them doing something right and compliment him. 120 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 3: But you don't have to do that. 121 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 2: You can keep critiquing him for what he's doing wrong, 122 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:29,919 Speaker 2: and he'll keep doing it because men repeat what you 123 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 2: feed them. So to understand how to effectively communicate with 124 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:41,280 Speaker 2: your mate. Communicate with your mate, you have to learn 125 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:43,159 Speaker 2: the art of framing its framework. 126 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:45,600 Speaker 1: As a parent, the way you frame. 127 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 2: A question to your children, especially if they're younger. Now, 128 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 2: my kids are all under the age of eleven, so 129 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 2: I'm not writing my parenting book yet for at least 130 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 2: twenty years to see if any of this crap I. 131 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: Tell you actually works in real life. 132 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 2: But I think you sometimes, as a parent, are tempted 133 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 2: when your kids are small, to give them too many 134 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:09,039 Speaker 2: choices and too many options about dinner, about clothes, just 135 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 2: all kinds of options. And and in my personal parenting philosophy, 136 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 2: I don't ever give my children fill in the blank question. 137 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 2: When I'm asking them to do something for me, I 138 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 2: give I give them multiple choice, you know. So it's 139 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 2: it's not do you want to eat your broccoli? 140 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 3: I don't ask my kids that. 141 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: My kids, what I might say is. 142 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 2: Uh, would you rather eat your broccoli or never play 143 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 2: video games or see the light of day again? So 144 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 2: now see, you have a choice. I'm not telling you 145 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 2: you have to eat your broccoli. I'm just informing you 146 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,239 Speaker 2: of the consequences of not eating the broccoli. 147 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 1: It's called framing, and I learned it from a counselor. 148 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 2: This counselor one time was preparing me to go into 149 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 2: a high intensity, high stress situation and he said, you 150 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 2: get all stressed out. 151 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: Every time you go around these people. 152 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 3: I said, I do. 153 00:07:57,680 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 2: I said, they're stressful people. He said, but what if 154 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 2: the this time you made a game out of it? 155 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 2: And I said, tell me more about this game, because 156 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 2: I like to play games. I'm the kind of guy 157 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 2: who will turn any conversation into a game. 158 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: As college I like to play, would you rather? I 159 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: like to play? 160 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 2: What if I can turn any conversation into a game. 161 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: And I'm competitive by nature. 162 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 2: So when he told me I can make it like 163 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 2: a game, that got my attention. He said, yeah, when 164 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 2: you go into this situation, you know they're crazy, So 165 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 2: go in like you're a sociologist, like you are studying 166 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 2: their species of crazy, and you have to bring back 167 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 2: a field report on the craziness of these people. 168 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,320 Speaker 3: So he gave me a technique. 169 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 2: I didn't know at the time that he was teaching 170 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 2: me cognitive framing. 171 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 1: How fancy is that he was teaching me that I 172 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:46,679 Speaker 1: could I could take a situation or information facts, I 173 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,439 Speaker 1: could take it and frame it a different way. 174 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 2: Now. Advertisers are doing this to you all the time. 175 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 2: Politicians are doing this to you. Occasionally. It is the 176 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 2: invisible frame by which they present the issue or the argument, 177 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 2: and you don't even see that it's there. 178 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 1: Which brings us to Hebrews eleven, where it says that. 179 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:09,559 Speaker 2: The worlds were framed by the word of God. When 180 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 2: I say framed, if you're in the construction industry, you 181 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:15,440 Speaker 2: picture the raw material that builds a house and the 182 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 2: dimensions of it when you frame the house up. 183 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,079 Speaker 1: When you frame the house up, well that's a. 184 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 2: Good picture because the scripture says that when God was 185 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 2: looking around for something strong enough to build the world with, 186 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 2: there was no substitute for the raw material of his word. 187 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,439 Speaker 2: So God framed and built the world which is visible 188 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 2: through the word, which is invisible. Now, we as his children, 189 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 2: get to imitate Him in our life through this thing 190 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 2: called faith. That is, we get to take the same 191 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 2: stuff that God used to frame the world and frame 192 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 2: our lives with it if we choose to that. The 193 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 2: same word of God that framed the ocean can frame 194 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 2: my situation on a Tuesday afternoon if I choose to 195 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 2: use it. So I want to talk about it for 196 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,560 Speaker 2: a little while today because I want to build my 197 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 2: life with something that is sturdy and solid. So I 198 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 2: want to know God, can I borrow some of this 199 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 2: raw material? The rama, the word? The rama. You've heard 200 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 2: this before. The word of God is powerful enough to 201 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 2: shape and create my life. Now I get to frame 202 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 2: my life using the same substance that God used to 203 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:37,840 Speaker 2: make my world. And so I got to get a 204 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 2: sense of focus. 205 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 3: Would you write that word down? Focus? 206 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 2: Some of you are playing on your phone, but you 207 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 2: need to focus and write down the word focus and 208 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:48,559 Speaker 2: multitasking self. 209 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: You need to focus. 210 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 2: Touch your neighbors say focus, tell them focus on me. 211 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 2: Focus on me. Now, I told you i'd do it. 212 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 2: Here's the part about this thing called focus, Okay. Focus 213 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 2: is a skill that must be sharpened continually, and. 214 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 3: I get a lot of practice with. 215 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 2: It in preaching because how well I think my sermon 216 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 2: is going totally depends on which person I focus on 217 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 2: while I'm preaching. 218 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 3: Some of you make me suicidal. 219 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,080 Speaker 1: I mean, like I if. 220 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 2: I only had you to look at while I preached, 221 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 2: I would blow. 222 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: My brains out on stage. But I'm really good at this. 223 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 2: Now. I'm a professional, so I don't really look at 224 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 2: the crowd. 225 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:38,839 Speaker 1: I scan. 226 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 2: And I'm looking for love. That's what I'm looking for. 227 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 2: But I'm really good at it. I'm a professional because 228 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 2: like we go out on video shoots, okay, and sometimes 229 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 2: we go on video shoots to do for the church. 230 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: There's all kind of crazy, chaotic stuff happening, and. 231 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 3: I have to I have to focus and ask buck. 232 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 3: I'm a master of it. 233 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 2: I can lock it in when the cameras. I can 234 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 2: have a million things going on, but I can focus. 235 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 2: We went to Israel a few years ago to shoot 236 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:09,320 Speaker 2: an Easter presentation called seven Mile Miracle, and we were going. 237 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,559 Speaker 1: To different sites like Gaugatha, which is. 238 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 2: Now a bus depot by the way, so if you 239 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 2: ever go, you just need to know that the place 240 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:19,359 Speaker 2: where they hung Our Lord, there's buses there, so anyway. 241 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:20,680 Speaker 3: But you get yours up. 242 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: And we went on the Amais Road and the Garden Tomb, 243 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 1: which is beautiful. 244 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 2: But when we went for the last shoot on the 245 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 2: Via Dolorosa, the crew to me, don't even come in today. 246 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 1: You can't do this. 247 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:31,439 Speaker 2: I said, I could do it. What's the problem. They said, 248 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 2: it's real busy. So we shot this little video. Here's 249 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 2: twenty seconds of it. 250 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:35,679 Speaker 1: We showed it a few years ago. 251 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 3: But watch this. 252 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 2: There's somebody participating in this experience that needs to know 253 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 2: today you've got a new twenty four. His mercies are 254 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 2: new with every rising of the sun, that his faithfulness 255 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 2: is great, That. 256 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 3: He walked a path where. 257 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 2: He was forsaken, so that you could walk a path 258 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 2: where you would never be forsaken. 259 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: That God in heaven remembers you. 260 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 2: Now, let us remember his death, let us remember his salvation. 261 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 2: He created like a holy moment via dolerosa, the way 262 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 2: of suffering, the path that he tried. 263 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: But I asked him to go back and pull the 264 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: wide shot. That's the tight shot. Here's the wide shot. 265 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 2: I want you to see what's going on the via. 266 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 1: Dolerosa that while I was preaching that show the clip. 267 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 2: There's somebody participating in this experience that needs to know 268 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:28,559 Speaker 2: today you got a new twenty four. His mercies are 269 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 2: new with every rising of the sun. 270 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,559 Speaker 1: That his faithfulness is. 271 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 2: Great, That he walked a path where he was forsaken, 272 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 2: so that you could walk a path where you would 273 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 2: never be forsaken. 274 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: That God didn't head. 275 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 2: I see, unless our preacher would have been distracted by 276 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 2: that Middle Eastern girl with a Hello Kitty backpack. Not me, 277 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 2: Why I'm focused? Dot your neighbor say, I'm focused. You'd 278 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 2: be surprised what you could do if you would get focused. 279 00:13:58,240 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: Really you would. 280 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 2: And it doesn't mean that chaos stops in your life either. Oh, 281 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 2: I have focused if it weren't for these kids. No, 282 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:12,080 Speaker 2: you need to control your frame. You can't control everything 283 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 2: that happens out here. 284 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 1: You can control who walks by. But but I can 285 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 1: give me camera one. This is what's called a tight shot. 286 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 2: That means that this shot on camera one is only 287 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 2: designed to show me. We can zoom in, zoom in 288 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 2: a little bit, zoom until they can see the gray 289 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 2: hairs on my beard. Okay, zoom in, zoom in a 290 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 2: little bit more. 291 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 3: It's focus. Now, that's that's a tight shot. 292 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: That's a that's a terrifying shot. You should zoom out, 293 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 1: zoom out, zoom out. Quick. 294 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 3: Quck quick coock uick quck quick. 295 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 2: I just wanted you to see that you choose your focus. See, 296 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 2: they're they're directing those cameras in the back and they 297 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 2: are making the decision in the moment, what needs the attention. 298 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 3: So it's it's interesting coming here to JJ. 299 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 2: JJ can be on the stage, and if we're if 300 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 2: we're working with the wide shot, he's a distraction because 301 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 2: what's he even doing here? What are you even doing here? 302 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 2: But let's say I can't make him go away. You know, 303 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 2: he's a Valentine campus pastor. 304 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 1: Now he wants to stand on the stage. But watch 305 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: what I can do camera one. 306 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:24,119 Speaker 3: I can focus. 307 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 2: I'm trying to say, he might not leave the stage, 308 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 2: but that doesn't mean I have to keep him in 309 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 2: my frame. I am preaching about anxiety, ap preaching about depression. 310 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 3: You might stand there. 311 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 2: Well, my faith gives me Li's sten now a focus 312 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 2: touch three people say focus, focus, focus. Faith is powered 313 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 2: by focus, and so they're deciding back there the camera 314 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 2: operators what to put into the frame. That's what is 315 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 2: called the frame. The worlds were framed by the word 316 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 2: of God. The reasons and they're watching me preach on 317 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 2: a screen is because somebody that you can't see is 318 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 2: running a camera and framing it. You know, it is 319 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 2: the invisible aspects of your life that often determine the results. 320 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: Faith. 321 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 2: This the substance of things hoped for and the evidence 322 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 2: of things not seen. It's a matter of focus. And 323 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 2: so you frame up your life. You know, you do 324 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 2: it every day. And Hebrews eleven and twelve give us 325 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 2: a framework of faith, a focal point, telling us to 326 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 2: fix our eyes on Jesus. Now we need Peter to 327 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 2: come and show us how to walk on water. 328 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 3: Whoops, he slipped. 329 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 2: He slipped because he let the wind and the waves 330 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 2: in his frame. We can't blame him because the wind 331 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 2: and the waves were there. The wind and the waves 332 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 2: were there while he was walking on the water. But 333 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 2: when you allow things in your frame that break your 334 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 2: focus faith this weekend, and you will never build a 335 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 2: solid faith with a weak focus. 336 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 3: Focus. Focus focus. 337 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 2: Maybe it's just because my eight year old is playing 338 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 2: baseball right now, and that's the thing I hear coach 339 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:17,800 Speaker 2: Dave Yelle more than anything to these eight year old boys. 340 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 3: Focus focus. 341 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 2: Focus is not real complicated when they're eight, Like, just. 342 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: Have your glove on your hand when the ball comes. 343 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 2: Okay, focus, somebody show focus. Look at your neighbor, tell 344 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 2: them focus. Some of y'all won't even receive this word 345 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 2: at a deep enough level to build your faith for 346 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 2: your life, because you're not focused on what I'm saying. 347 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 2: You're thinking about who you're meeting after church. 348 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 3: But if you would focus. 349 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 2: On this word, the breakthrough that you need is in 350 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 2: this word I'm preaching. 351 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 3: All you gotta do is. 352 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 2: Focus, focus, focus, because the frame of your faith. 353 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:56,360 Speaker 3: Let's build this out. 354 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 2: Actually, we need focus, and then we need a friend 355 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 2: of reference, a frame of reference. So the writer of 356 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 2: Hebrews said that God started the world with his word. 357 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 1: And now that same word is the word by. 358 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 2: Which, if you receive it, you will receive a measure 359 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 2: of faith. And then you frame your world according to 360 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:20,920 Speaker 2: the same word that God spoke the universe into existence with. 361 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 1: He's given a frame of reference all the way. 362 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 2: To Jesus, who endured the shame of the Cross through faith. 363 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:28,919 Speaker 2: It's a frame of reference for a suffering church. And 364 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:31,679 Speaker 2: he's given them a frame of reference, reminding them of 365 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 2: Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. This is the picture that's 366 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:37,200 Speaker 2: inside the frame of Hebrews eleven and twelve. He's given 367 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 2: them a picture, and it's given them a frame of reference. 368 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: Like when you and Rachel took Bo to the hospital 369 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 1: last week. 370 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 2: Bo, their little son is prone to injuries more than 371 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 2: most little boys. Even I would say, when you say, 372 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 2: it's just got a bruiser. And so he bangs his 373 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:00,439 Speaker 2: head against a poll on the playground during church, and 374 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 2: they took him to get some stitches, and the emergency 375 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:07,920 Speaker 2: room wait was eleven hours for some stitches. Now, Elaijah, 376 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:09,679 Speaker 2: if that had been you, I would have put a 377 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 2: shoelace in your eye and tied it up. 378 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 1: We would not have waited eleven hours. 379 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 2: But it was a deep gash, so they probably needed 380 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:19,880 Speaker 2: to wait. I said, were you mad, buck, I would 381 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 2: have been furious. Eleven hours for some stitches? 382 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: He said. 383 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 2: I was at first, But the more people that came 384 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:30,120 Speaker 2: into the er that night that I realized I might 385 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 2: have to wait a little while. 386 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 1: But some of them aren't leaving, he said. 387 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 2: The longer I sat there, the less frustrated I was, 388 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 2: and the more I started realizing that this might be 389 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 2: how I'm spending my night in the hospital. But some 390 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,679 Speaker 2: people have spent their last six months in the hospital. 391 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:54,879 Speaker 1: Nothing changed, but the frame. 392 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:57,400 Speaker 3: Nothing changed. 393 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: But the frame. 394 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 2: That's so often what we need is a frame of reference. 395 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:12,440 Speaker 2: Sometimes white people need to have a black friend. Sometimes 396 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 2: black people need to have a white friend. Broke people 397 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 2: need some rich friends. Rich people need some broke friends. 398 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:29,680 Speaker 2: And what we're doing, we're trading perspectives. Hey, take a 399 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 2: look at life through my lens, and we get wiser 400 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 2: and we get smarter. Because it's a frame of reference. 401 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 2: So often your perspective is developed in reverse. Sometimes the 402 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,639 Speaker 2: way to get through what you're going through right now 403 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 2: is to go to the wide lens. Wide lens, camera two, 404 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 2: camera two. The wide shot is what gives me a 405 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:59,199 Speaker 2: frame of reference. This is the tight shot. It's an 406 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,440 Speaker 2: important shot. But sometimes what I need is a wide 407 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:06,679 Speaker 2: shot so that when I see Goliath on the battle lines, 408 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 2: I have a frame of reference that takes me back 409 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 2: to the lion and the bear in. 410 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 1: The sheep field. 411 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 2: Sometimes I need a frame of reference to realize that 412 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:23,200 Speaker 2: I was worried last month, this time when the bills 413 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 2: were due, God made away. It's a frame of reference. 414 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,920 Speaker 2: This is why we're instructed in the Bible. As often 415 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:32,359 Speaker 2: as we're instructed. 416 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,880 Speaker 1: Anything to remember, to remember. 417 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 2: Sometimes you got to play the tape back, you know, 418 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 2: because the enemy will get you so focused on this 419 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:44,880 Speaker 2: one frame, this one thing, and you will lose your 420 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 2: whole frame of reference. 421 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 1: What are you doing staying. 422 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,399 Speaker 2: Up late worried about this one? No, you gotta zoom 423 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 2: out and change your frame of reference. That's why I 424 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 2: came to church the way I needed to be around 425 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 2: some other believers. I needed to broaden my frame of reference. 426 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 2: I needed to remember that I'm not the only one 427 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,119 Speaker 2: serving God, and I'm not the only one going through 428 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 2: And I need Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. I need 429 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 2: the whole cast of characters in Hebrews eleven. I need 430 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,960 Speaker 2: Jesus to remind me that if he endureed the Cross, 431 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 2: I can make it through this crisis. 432 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 1: So we zoom out and we zoom in in life 433 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 1: and what they. 434 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 2: Really got to do back on the camera to be successful, 435 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 2: to keep me in the frame. 436 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 1: Touch. 437 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 2: Somebody say, keep it in the frame, keep it in 438 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,879 Speaker 2: the frame. Yeah, because you've got to keep joy in 439 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 2: the frame. You got to keep hope in the frame. 440 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 2: Faith is the substance of things hope for faith is 441 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,959 Speaker 2: that invisible connection point by which I reach out and 442 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 2: grab what I'm hoping for and bring it into this moment. 443 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 1: So that requires anticipation. I'm building something here. By the 444 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:03,640 Speaker 1: way I'm building something I'm framing something. Here, I'm framing something. 445 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: You gotta are you? Are you follow? 446 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 3: You gotta That's that's their whole job. 447 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 2: There are camera operators who have been who have been fired, 448 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:21,320 Speaker 2: and they're volunteers because they don't anticipate my movements. Now 449 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 2: you know these guys are professionals. We got the A 450 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 2: team on the cameras today and they are instructed. 451 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 1: Look, Pastor Steven doesn't stand still. 452 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 2: And just because he preached it one way at nine 453 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 2: to thirty doesn't meet. He's gonna preach it that way 454 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:42,680 Speaker 2: at eleven thirty. So you gotta be ready. You gotta 455 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:43,399 Speaker 2: switch quick. 456 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:46,679 Speaker 3: And God is like that. 457 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 2: You know, you can't just you can't just set the camera. 458 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,359 Speaker 2: This is how some of you live your lives. And 459 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,199 Speaker 2: it's and it's why you it's why you don't have 460 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 2: any faith, by the way, and it's it's why you 461 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 2: haven't seen God do anything in your life. Take your 462 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,359 Speaker 2: hands off the camera. Some of y'all just set the 463 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 2: frame and then and they say, well, where is God? 464 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 4: But if you have faith, the substance of things hoped 465 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 4: for and the evidence of things not seen, Jesus for 466 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 4: the joy that was set before him. 467 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 2: He didn't get stuck in one spot. But for the joy, 468 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 2: watch this camera. See I'm gonna show you how good 469 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 2: they are. I can come down here. I can come 470 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:48,160 Speaker 2: down here. I turn around, hit this camera. Look how 471 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 2: trained they are. There's nowhere I can go in this 472 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 2: auditorium because they know I am libel and likely to 473 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,399 Speaker 2: do just about anything. So if you'll sit at the 474 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 2: front of the church, you better know that too. But 475 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:08,160 Speaker 2: they might have to follow me to the back. It's 476 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 2: your job to anticipate where I might go. Well, I 477 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,640 Speaker 2: feel the anoying of winging Bretzky on me. Remember when 478 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 2: he said, I don't skate to where the puck is. 479 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,160 Speaker 2: I skate to where the puck's gonna be. I don't 480 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,399 Speaker 2: set up camp where God was. I want to know 481 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 2: where God is gonna be next. So God lead me 482 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,400 Speaker 2: by faith to somebody, say I'm moving by faith. 483 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 3: Catch me if you can. So that's their job. 484 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 2: It is an anticipatory spirit. 485 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 3: You know. 486 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 2: The thing that faith and fear both share in common 487 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:49,159 Speaker 2: is they are empowered by anticipation. So you wake up 488 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 2: in the morning and if you frame your day with 489 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 2: the anticipation of depression. 490 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 3: And discouragement. 491 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 2: Some of you have framed your day to suck before 492 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 2: it ever gets started. 493 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:09,959 Speaker 1: Got a tough week coming up? 494 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:15,120 Speaker 2: I guess you do, because you've framed it that way. 495 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:16,400 Speaker 1: I guess you do. 496 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:18,679 Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to be you this week either, not 497 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:22,120 Speaker 2: the way you're talking, because the worlds were framed by 498 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 2: what was spoken. So when you say it's gonna be 499 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 2: a tough week, you're speaking something that you're gonna see. 500 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 2: But it came out of your mouth. And so the 501 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:39,959 Speaker 2: song hast had the right idea. He said, this is 502 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:40,720 Speaker 2: the day that. 503 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 1: The Lord has made it. 504 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 3: What's he doing? He's framing his day. 505 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 2: I will rejoice and be glad in it. 506 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: Well, what are you glad about? 507 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,880 Speaker 3: I don't know yet, but I will be glad. 508 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,440 Speaker 2: You're gonna freak people out when you start acting this way. 509 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 3: By the way, it's gonna freak people out. 510 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,879 Speaker 2: You are gonna be at the same job you were 511 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 2: at last week this week, and people gonna be looking 512 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 2: at you like what happened? 513 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: What happened to you? Do you get a promotion? 514 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 2: No? 515 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 5: I didn't get a new promotion. I got a new perspective. 516 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,199 Speaker 5: I got a new frame. Touch somebody saying I got 517 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,440 Speaker 5: a new frame. I got a new frame. That's what happened. 518 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,160 Speaker 5: Some of you who have been talking to. 519 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 2: Your girlfriends about your husband and complaining about him. 520 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: When you get around those girlfriends. 521 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 2: This week and you're starting to brag about all the 522 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,959 Speaker 2: things he's doing, right, they're gonna look at you like, 523 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:43,680 Speaker 2: did you get a new husband? 524 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: No? 525 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 2: I didn't get a new husband, but I put him 526 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 2: in a new frame. I started looking for something that 527 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:58,439 Speaker 2: I could be glad. I will rejoice repeat after me. 528 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 2: Touch your neighbors say frame it up? 529 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 1: What are you talking about? 530 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 3: All right? 531 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 2: When I sit down to do a video shoot, the 532 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 2: first thing they have to do, well, I'm getting ready 533 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 2: and putting on a little makeup. Yeah, you gotta put 534 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 2: a little makeup when you do the video shoot. I 535 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 2: know it's terrible. I know you used to respect me. 536 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,199 Speaker 2: I'm still a man. But they just a little bit 537 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 2: of powder, Just a little bit of powder, and they say, 538 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:23,359 Speaker 2: hang on a second, pastor, we gotta frame up the shot. 539 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 2: Wonder what your week would be like if you framed 540 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 2: it up before you went into it. 541 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,719 Speaker 1: Frame it? Oh. I like the way they say it, 542 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 1: frame it. 543 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 3: Oh. 544 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 1: I think that's what worship is. 545 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 2: By the way, it's framing it. It's framing it. When 546 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 2: I lift my hands. You need to know what I'm doing. 547 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 2: I'm framing it. I'm saying that come win, come wain. 548 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 2: I'm not afraid. I got Jesus in my boat, and 549 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 2: I gotta faith the up. 550 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 3: Frame it up. I lift my eyes to the hills 551 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 3: from whence come at my health. I'm sorry, y'all. My 552 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 3: help comes. 553 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 2: From the Lord. 554 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 3: What am I doing it? I'm framing it up. 555 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 2: Can't look back, can't look down, Gotta look up. I have. 556 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 1: Oh. 557 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 2: So it's anticipation. And watch this. This is good. It's motivation. 558 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 2: It's motivation. It's motivation. Hand me the picture in my office. 559 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 1: Now. 560 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 2: I need to tell you something. I am an image 561 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 2: driven person, all right. So faith subs and so forth 562 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 2: the evidence of things. And I've seen I have a 563 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 2: great imagination. So I pictured you being at this church 564 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:55,000 Speaker 2: before you came right and I preached to you were 565 00:29:55,000 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 2: in that seat. I preached until what was not seen 566 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 2: became the reality that I hope for. 567 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 1: But sometimes on Wednesday or Thursday, I won't feel it. 568 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 1: You ever, just don't feel it. 569 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 3: I still love God, I still love you. 570 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 1: I love this word. 571 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 2: It's precious to me, Sweeter than the honey from the 572 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 2: honeycomb if you want to know the truth about it. 573 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:39,800 Speaker 2: But you know, I have to have pictures, So I 574 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 2: have pictures all around the office, people getting baptized, people 575 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 2: raising their hands to give their life to Christ, and 576 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 2: then just different staff members, people. 577 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: That have been there along the journey. 578 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 2: About a year ago, one of our photographers caught something 579 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 2: and whoever this is, I would love to know who 580 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,959 Speaker 2: you are. I would send you a check filet coupon. 581 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 1: In my mind, I just kept like going down until 582 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: I felt comfortable with the offer. 583 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:17,320 Speaker 2: But they caught a moment in worship, and they captured 584 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:19,960 Speaker 2: this moment and this is right on my desk where 585 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 2: I preached my sermons. 586 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 1: You see how al I just looking at me. 587 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 2: That might be the only time during one of my 588 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,040 Speaker 2: sermons that he's ever been paying attention, but in this moment, 589 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,360 Speaker 2: and then you see my wife that one right there. 590 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 2: See that in my mind, that picture is it puts 591 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:45,040 Speaker 2: me in the right frame of mind to remember that 592 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 2: somebody is looking up to me, because look how they're 593 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:49,960 Speaker 2: looking at me. 594 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,200 Speaker 1: They are looking at me like I am their hero. 595 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 2: Don't you agree they sess the interpretation that I have. 596 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 1: I draw my own. You know what I'm saying. I 597 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:03,480 Speaker 1: can frame it how I want to frame it. 598 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 3: Amen. 599 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 2: So he's thinking, Wow, I have big shoes to fill. 600 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 2: That's what he's thinking in my mind. And she's thinking, God, 601 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,880 Speaker 2: how what have I done to deserve this specimen of 602 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 2: spiritual out her? 603 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 1: Tell somebody frame it up. 604 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 2: So sometimes I look at it and I think, you know, 605 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 2: I got people counting on me this week, and the 606 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:36,760 Speaker 2: way he's looking at me, it motivates me to dig 607 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,600 Speaker 2: down deeper. Now, if this motivates me, consider Jesus. The 608 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 2: Bible says, for the joy set before him, what is that? 609 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 3: That's you? 610 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 2: It means that while he was on the cross, while 611 00:32:55,600 --> 00:33:00,600 Speaker 2: he was dying, the motivation that he had to Is 612 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 2: this what the author of Hebrews is teaching that it 613 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:08,320 Speaker 2: was the glory of his father and the salvation of 614 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:15,920 Speaker 2: his creation that kept him there. So sometimes you need 615 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,880 Speaker 2: what we call an establishing shot hit the back of 616 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:23,400 Speaker 2: the room camera, an establishing shot. That's what reminds me 617 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:28,400 Speaker 2: in life that sometimes I can get so focused on 618 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:33,040 Speaker 2: one moment that I can compromise everything that's related to 619 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,760 Speaker 2: my destiny in one moment of pressure. So I got 620 00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:40,160 Speaker 2: to establish it again and realize that what I'm doing 621 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,800 Speaker 2: by faith isn't just for me. This is a generational faith. 622 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 2: I want something to hand to my kids that's worth. 623 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 3: Holding on to. 624 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,760 Speaker 2: Sometimes your frame is too small. That shot is designed 625 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,600 Speaker 2: to give a context of the whole room for The 626 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 2: perspective is the one that we put on television so 627 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 2: people can go, Oh, people actually show up to hear 628 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:04,480 Speaker 2: this guy preach. 629 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:05,720 Speaker 1: I should maybe listen to. 630 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,000 Speaker 2: Motivation. And you need all of these shots in your life. 631 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,040 Speaker 2: You need all of these frames of reference. You need 632 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 2: all of these perspectives. Sometimes when you have all this 633 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 2: stuff swirling around you, you need camera one. That's the 634 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:26,800 Speaker 2: focus shot, that's the tight shot. I'm going to deal 635 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:31,640 Speaker 2: with what I'm dealing with today, and tomorrow is sufficient enough. 636 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,520 Speaker 2: The grace of God will cover tomorrow. Today is sufficient 637 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 2: for its own trouble. I'm going to focus on what 638 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:41,520 Speaker 2: I've got to do right now now. 639 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:45,000 Speaker 1: Faith is the substance of things hope for so I 640 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:45,480 Speaker 1: need that. 641 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 2: And then sometimes I need that lion, and I need 642 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:49,000 Speaker 2: that bear. 643 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,120 Speaker 1: I need that camera too. Shot. Give me camera two because. 644 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,239 Speaker 2: Sometimes I need to know that the God who was 645 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 2: faithful in my past is no less competent in this 646 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,719 Speaker 2: present struggle. I need to remember that the lion went 647 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 2: down and the bear went down. While we're talking about David, 648 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,399 Speaker 2: can we establish the fact that David was looking at 649 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,239 Speaker 2: the same giant as his big brothers, but he had 650 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:14,160 Speaker 2: a different frame. It wasn't too different, Golias. It was 651 00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,440 Speaker 2: the same giant, but it was a new frame. I'm 652 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:18,760 Speaker 2: changing my frame today. 653 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,440 Speaker 3: That's it. I made my decision. 654 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,960 Speaker 2: I framed up my life long enough by limitation and lack. 655 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:25,479 Speaker 3: Today I'm making a. 656 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,040 Speaker 2: Decision that if the word of God was good enough 657 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,520 Speaker 2: to frame the world with, it's good enough to frame 658 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:34,920 Speaker 2: my struggle too. To seven people, tell him, change your frame, 659 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:37,280 Speaker 2: change your frame. 660 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,040 Speaker 1: Come on, you gotta do it. 661 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:41,960 Speaker 3: You gotta do it this week. Do it, do it, 662 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:42,200 Speaker 3: do it. 663 00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:43,279 Speaker 1: Do it real quick, do real quick. 664 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 2: Get your hands and put them like this. And this 665 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,200 Speaker 2: is what I want you to do to that stack 666 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,520 Speaker 2: of bills that you've been wondering about. 667 00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:51,400 Speaker 1: Reframe it. 668 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:53,399 Speaker 3: Touch somebody, say, reframe it. 669 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:55,879 Speaker 2: All right, this is what I want you to do 670 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,040 Speaker 2: to the annoying people in your life. This is what 671 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,200 Speaker 2: faith will enable you to do You're gonna reframe them. Oh, 672 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,239 Speaker 2: you are no longer an annoying person. You are a 673 00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:08,440 Speaker 2: part of my spiritual development program designed to bring me patience. 674 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,040 Speaker 2: I just reframed you and. 675 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:11,120 Speaker 3: You didn't even know it. 676 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:21,480 Speaker 2: Joshua and Caleb have faith because they had a different frame. 677 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,800 Speaker 2: What is your frame? My frame is this, If God 678 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,520 Speaker 2: is for me, who can be against me? 679 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,560 Speaker 3: That's his word? Right, Well, that's my frame. 680 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,880 Speaker 2: I'm going into every situation knowing that He's for me, 681 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:44,759 Speaker 2: and whatever comes against me, he's got it. I got 682 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,839 Speaker 2: a new frame, and so there are some things give 683 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:50,719 Speaker 2: me that. There are some things that if you're going 684 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:51,839 Speaker 2: to touch somebody, say change your frame. 685 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:52,919 Speaker 1: Change a frame, change your frame. 686 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:55,640 Speaker 2: There are some things that are in your life right 687 00:36:55,680 --> 00:37:01,640 Speaker 2: now that need to be eliminated from your friend. See, 688 00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:03,920 Speaker 2: that's the fifth thing I wanted you to get. I 689 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,560 Speaker 2: wanted you to realize that as you frame your life, 690 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,680 Speaker 2: as you reframe your situation, it's going to take focus. 691 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:10,640 Speaker 3: It's going to take. 692 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,040 Speaker 2: Perspective to have a new frame of reference, to realize 693 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,120 Speaker 2: that there are other people who have gone through worse 694 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,080 Speaker 2: and made it, that there's more to this life that 695 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,120 Speaker 2: you're living than the season that you're in. 696 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,440 Speaker 1: It's going to take anticipation to know that. 697 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,040 Speaker 2: I got to be ready for change and I got 698 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,240 Speaker 2: to be ready for challenge. But my life is framed 699 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:27,080 Speaker 2: by the word of God. 700 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:28,480 Speaker 3: So I'm not worried about. 701 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,279 Speaker 2: It because I'm more than a conqueror through Him who 702 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 2: loved me. 703 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:32,040 Speaker 3: Because He made this day. 704 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:35,279 Speaker 2: I will rejoice and I've got a spirit of motivation. 705 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:37,200 Speaker 1: For the joy set before me. I'm going to endure 706 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:37,920 Speaker 1: like Jesus. 707 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,200 Speaker 2: But the writer of Hebrew says that there are some 708 00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:46,920 Speaker 2: things called weight and sin that have to be removed. 709 00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:55,000 Speaker 3: From the frame. See, this. 710 00:37:56,680 --> 00:38:00,480 Speaker 2: Was an important part of the worship till I got 711 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:05,960 Speaker 2: up to preach. But now that it's preaching time, this 712 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:10,919 Speaker 2: thing is in my way. So it's not a bad thing, 713 00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:16,520 Speaker 2: but it doesn't belong in this shot. So got to 714 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:20,480 Speaker 2: learn how that sometimes in your life there are some things. 715 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,600 Speaker 2: I mean, how annoying would it be if Mack would 716 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:27,280 Speaker 2: have left his stupid mic stand out like a rock star. 717 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:28,600 Speaker 3: This ain't Chicago. 718 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,120 Speaker 2: Come get your MIC's stand and get it out of 719 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,680 Speaker 2: my frame. Tech somebody say, get your down out of 720 00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:37,239 Speaker 2: my frame, get your fear out of my frame. Sometimes 721 00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:39,400 Speaker 2: you got to look at situations in your life and 722 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:40,200 Speaker 2: say not. 723 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,360 Speaker 3: Right now, I don't have time to carry this weight. 724 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,920 Speaker 2: My faith is a substans of something I'm hoping for. 725 00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,400 Speaker 3: I'm headed in an upward direction. 726 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:54,280 Speaker 2: Get out of my frame. I'm sorry to get aggressive 727 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,839 Speaker 2: about it, but would you push five people and tell 728 00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:03,760 Speaker 2: them get out of my frame? Out of my frame 729 00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:08,880 Speaker 2: and looking looking see this is gonna be so freeing 730 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,200 Speaker 2: for you because you didn't know that you were the 731 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,200 Speaker 2: director of this shot. 732 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:25,160 Speaker 1: You didn't even know. But but faith is a frame. 733 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,320 Speaker 3: Faith is a frame. 734 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:36,000 Speaker 1: I would love for you to go by Target, Dollar General. 735 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:42,440 Speaker 6: Whatever your taste, and get get a get a frame 736 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:47,879 Speaker 6: to a picture frame, and leave it empty and put 737 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,160 Speaker 6: it on your desk this week. 738 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,480 Speaker 2: If you don't have a desk, put it on your 739 00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,040 Speaker 2: coffee table. If you don't have a coffee table, put 740 00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:55,359 Speaker 2: it on. 741 00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:57,680 Speaker 1: Your window sill. If you don't have a windows put 742 00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,440 Speaker 1: it on the floor. My point is. 743 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,399 Speaker 2: I don't want you to hear this message. I want 744 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:15,560 Speaker 2: you to work this message to see your life through 745 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:17,480 Speaker 2: the frame of faith. 746 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,360 Speaker 3: Every once in a while I will. 747 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:27,800 Speaker 2: Talk to somebody in our church who has received news 748 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:32,440 Speaker 2: that they have a very short time to live. Almost 749 00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:36,960 Speaker 2: without fail, talking to that person encourages me more than 750 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,920 Speaker 2: it encouraged them. There are very few exceptions. Because they're sad, 751 00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:45,480 Speaker 2: they're nervous, they're worried. All of that's there. But it's 752 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,960 Speaker 2: like when you talk to them, their frame has changed, 753 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,239 Speaker 2: and so they actually it's the strangest thing. I can't 754 00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,520 Speaker 2: really explain it, but some things you can only understand 755 00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:01,239 Speaker 2: by faith. It's like this wasn't a good thing that 756 00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:05,080 Speaker 2: came into their life, but it gave them a new 757 00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:06,520 Speaker 2: frame to see their life through. 758 00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:10,480 Speaker 1: And they're not irritable. 759 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,440 Speaker 2: About some of the things that they were irritable about anymore. 760 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,640 Speaker 2: And they're not worried about some of the things they 761 00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:19,560 Speaker 2: were worried about anymore. And they don't even give attention 762 00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:21,480 Speaker 2: to some of the things they gave attention to anymore. 763 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,239 Speaker 2: And I started the phone call to pray for them, 764 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,480 Speaker 2: and I end up asking them to pray for me 765 00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:33,240 Speaker 2: because they have a better frame, because here. 766 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:39,960 Speaker 1: I am worried about, worried about this daily stuff, and 767 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:44,120 Speaker 1: here they have a frame that lets them know that 768 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:45,320 Speaker 1: tomorrow isn't promised. 769 00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,560 Speaker 2: I mean, if you've ever seen somebody who was about 770 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:53,040 Speaker 2: to die, and then they really started living. And it 771 00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:56,520 Speaker 2: took the possibility that they might die to really start living. 772 00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:58,440 Speaker 1: It took the possibility that they. 773 00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,040 Speaker 2: Might not get to make it to see to walk 774 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,399 Speaker 2: their child down the aisle, to start being a good father. 775 00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,560 Speaker 3: Don't, don't. 776 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,160 Speaker 2: Don't let your life get so out of focus that 777 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:19,799 Speaker 2: it takes a tragedy to change your frame. Don't let 778 00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:21,560 Speaker 2: it be that it takes a funeral to make you 779 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:26,279 Speaker 2: appreciate your friends. Don't let it be that God has 780 00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:28,839 Speaker 2: to take something away to make you appreciate how good 781 00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:32,239 Speaker 2: it was while you had it. My advice to you 782 00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:35,480 Speaker 2: is to change your frame. And I think the writer 783 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:39,360 Speaker 2: of Hebrews would agree. He would say that when you 784 00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:43,600 Speaker 2: fix your eyes on Jesus, even if you haven't fixed 785 00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:48,800 Speaker 2: the situation, if you fix the frame, fix a frame, 786 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:53,960 Speaker 2: bring into visibility what really matters, my God. We are 787 00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:57,400 Speaker 2: so consumed with the wind and the waves that we 788 00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:01,000 Speaker 2: are missing the one who is able to walk on water. 789 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,279 Speaker 2: And what I'd like to pray for you today is 790 00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:09,440 Speaker 2: that your frame leaving this place for whatever your facing 791 00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:14,239 Speaker 2: in your life, would be a faith frame. I want 792 00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,520 Speaker 2: to pray that you would become a framer in your 793 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,760 Speaker 2: everyday life. And this means that you will see potential 794 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:25,400 Speaker 2: in people that other people don't see potential in. This 795 00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:28,000 Speaker 2: means that you're going to stop spending all your time 796 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:34,239 Speaker 2: trying to frame everybody else's life and start framing your own. 797 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:36,759 Speaker 2: I just said a lot, and I didn't get a 798 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:38,839 Speaker 2: good response on it, so I'm gonna stay on it. 799 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,320 Speaker 2: Some of us are so busy trying to frame somebody 800 00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:47,040 Speaker 2: else's future what they should do and what you would do. 801 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:51,080 Speaker 2: God didn't call you to frame anybody else's life. He 802 00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:53,600 Speaker 2: called you, And if you'll ever get busy with the 803 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,080 Speaker 2: big picture of your life, you won't have time to 804 00:43:56,120 --> 00:44:03,239 Speaker 2: adjust my frame. So I want you to stand in 805 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,799 Speaker 2: the presence of God, and I want you to do 806 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:11,440 Speaker 2: something that has been symbolic in the church for thousands 807 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:15,640 Speaker 2: of years. But put down your purse. The person next 808 00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,080 Speaker 2: to you is completely trustworthy. 809 00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:19,319 Speaker 3: Put down your pen. 810 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:20,600 Speaker 1: There's nothing more to write down. 811 00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:31,920 Speaker 2: Lift your hands, yeah, lift them up. Let go of 812 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,480 Speaker 2: all of the things that have been in the frame, 813 00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,720 Speaker 2: all of the shame past. 814 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,640 Speaker 1: You can't change all of the names. 815 00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,640 Speaker 2: Of the people that didn't come on. Let's get in 816 00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:47,399 Speaker 2: a faith frame of mind. What things are you hoping for? 817 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:50,759 Speaker 2: What are the things that you can't see right now 818 00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:56,879 Speaker 2: that you believe not? Pray that the eyes of your 819 00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,680 Speaker 2: heart might be open. I pray that the perspective of 820 00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,520 Speaker 2: your faith might be ENLiGHT and I pray that your 821 00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:07,359 Speaker 2: imagination might be awakened to see the good things that 822 00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:11,719 Speaker 2: God has prepared for you. Lift your hands high. The 823 00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:15,200 Speaker 2: spirit of the Lord is in this place, and I 824 00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:19,040 Speaker 2: pray today for liberty and freedom in your life. I 825 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:21,120 Speaker 2: pray today that in the presence of the Lord you 826 00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,359 Speaker 2: would find the fullness of joy and in. 827 00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:26,080 Speaker 1: His right hand pleasures forevermore. 828 00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,719 Speaker 2: I pray that whatever you've been looking at through the 829 00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:33,560 Speaker 2: lens of fear would look different today when you leave, 830 00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:37,880 Speaker 2: because of what the Word of God has reframed in 831 00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:41,600 Speaker 2: your life. I pray today that the eternal Word of 832 00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:46,800 Speaker 2: God would reframe your situation and yes, even reframe the way. 833 00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:48,480 Speaker 1: You see yourself. 834 00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,440 Speaker 2: God, we thank you today in Jesus' name that you 835 00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:57,960 Speaker 2: are reframing and recreating and renewing. 836 00:45:57,239 --> 00:46:01,239 Speaker 3: All things to look like your word. We declare it, 837 00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,600 Speaker 3: confess your word over our situation. 838 00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:09,239 Speaker 2: We declare it, confess your word over our insecurity. We 839 00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,279 Speaker 2: asked that the same word that frame the world, what 840 00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:16,120 Speaker 2: frame our lives this week, and we declare we will 841 00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:19,120 Speaker 2: say the goodness of the Lord in the land of 842 00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,719 Speaker 2: the Living. If you believe that, put a praise on 843 00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:25,760 Speaker 2: it and clap your hands in the presence of God. 844 00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:29,680 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. 845 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,440 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 846 00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:36,000 Speaker 2: this ministry. 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