WEBVTT - The Frame Game 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.280 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:10.680 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:12.840 Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:13.560 in your life. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:15.239 Enjoy the message. 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:20.599 I want to share today from the same subject that 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:21.840 I began last. 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:23.640 Week, about functional faith. 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:26.440 About functional faith. 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.320 Now, judging from your response to my announcement of part 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:30.600 two of the teaching. 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.040 Perhaps you don't remember my sermon let's review. 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:37.000 We were saying that faith doesn't always guarantee the outcome, 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:38.760 but it establishes the outlook. 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:41.640 All things are possible to him who believes. 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.240 And so we want to take some time today in 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.320 a very famous passage of scripture, and I would ask, 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:50.760 if you don't mind, just stand while I read the scripture. 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.560 And then the seat is yours. Somebody tithe good money 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:55.520 so you could have that seat. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:56.680 So I want you to use it. 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.160 And we will give you that opportunity today. But just 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.360 stand for one more month, and I'm gonna be reading 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:05.480 the scripture from the King James version of the Bible, 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.120 because it's the one that I memorized it in Now 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.000 I don't still have it memorized, but at one time 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:16.320 I did. 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:19.160 You can believe that or not is absolutely true. 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:24.199 But we're just gonna read like a little sandwich real quick, 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:28.280 from Hebrews eleven and Hebrews twelve. And some of you 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:32.000 who are really churchy, you're gonna be tempted that while 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:35.800 I'm reading the scripture to start getting excited. Don't do it, Okay, 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.560 just let me read my scripture. These nice people don't 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.040 want to hear you shouting while I'm reading my scripture. 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:41.880 Okay. 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:46.120 But Hebrew's eleven one says, now, faith is the substance 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:47.920 of things hoped for. 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:52.720 What did I tell you? I told you to sit still? 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:56.520 And the evidence of things not seen by it? The 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:01.600 elders obtaining a good report by faith, we understand what? 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:02.240 Do we understand? 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:06.200 That the worlds were framed by the word of God, 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:10.600 so that things which are seen were made of things 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:12.360 are not made of things? 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.200 Can I do that whole verse over? Through faith? 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:19.000 We understand that the worlds were framed by the word 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.080 of God, so that things which are seen were not 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.960 made of things which do appear. Now look at Hebrews twelve, 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.919 verse one and two, Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.600 about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:38.000 lay aside every weight and the sin which does so 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.880 easily beset us, and let us run with patience. 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.560 Tell somebody we're getting fit. We're getting fit, and look 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:45.520 who our trainer is. 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.560 Let us run with patience the race that is set 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:53.800 before us, looking onto Jesus, the author and finisher of 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.560 our functional faith, who for the joy set before him, 0:02:58.000 --> 0:02:59.359 endured the cross, despising the. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.240 Shame, and is set down. Now. 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.640 He didn't sit down because he was tired. He sat 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:09.160 down because it was done. Touch somebody say it's already done. 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:10.480 It's already done. 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:15.440 I have to clarify faith, it's already done. Sat down 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.040 at the right hand of God. Now here's what we're 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.280 gonna do today. As a sermon title, I'm going to 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.080 teach you how to do an exercise. This also an experiment. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:27.000 I want to talk about the Frame game. The Frame game. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:28.520 Touch somebody on your way to your seat and said, 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:29.799 we're going to have a great time today. 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:34.480 You may be seated. Thank you, Worship team. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:41.040 Hey, keep touring, Mac, keep singing, Stay strong, we believe 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:41.280 in you. 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:48.880 And now to go to this passage that I am. 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:54.520 So excited to preach, like way more excited to preach 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:58.920 it than you are to hear it. Where I read 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:04.240 you two little passages that are so well known. If 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.560 these passages were an exercise, they would be the push 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:11.840 ups of faith, because it's just a really well known 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.360 passage where it says, not for in evidence and things 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.159 I've seen, and fix our eyes on Jesus, Author and 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:18.960 perfective of faith. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:19.960 Those are well known. 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:24.640 In the middle of those verses, there is a picture 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:30.919 that the author of Hebrews provides to encourage perseverance for 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:36.320 anyone who is fatigued in their faith. And to do 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:40.839 it he mentions people who now he calls a cloud 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:45.120 of witnesses, and he's establishing what we might call a 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:49.320 framework of faith. Interesting thing is that that list I 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.640 didn't read it to you. It is bookended by these 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.440 two descriptions of faith. 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:56.960 Faith is the substance of things. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.880 Hope for, and that Jesus is the author and finisher 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:01.000 of our faith. 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:03.760 And in between that he gives a picture. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:08.720 And these two passages they serve as the frame and 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.320 the picture. Here's the thing you got to know, sometimes 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.440 the frame is even more important than the picture. 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:18.520 Can I explain that a little bit. 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.800 Sometimes the way you say something is even more important 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:27.280 than what you say. You can say something to your 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.919 kids meant to develop them, that will destroy them all 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.520 because of the way that you framed it. 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:35.520 You can put your. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:40.680 Kids in a competitive mindset with their siblings, trying to 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.440 get them to act right and then kind of create 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.640 this dysfunction that they have the rest of their life. 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.600 Framework is important any married people, married people, any married. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:56.600 People, your phraseology in marriage is really important. I just 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:00.200 want to give you this quick tip because sometimes sometimes 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.640 it's not what you're saying to your husband, is how 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.719 you're saying it that he can't hear it. 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:10.560 It's quiet, it's real quiet. 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:12.800 I'm a little nervous to proceed with this illustration, but 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.400 I'll do some nonetheless because I believe this has a 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.240 very practical application value to your life. You know, if 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.240 you really want to get your husband to change, catch 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:25.240 them doing something right and compliment him. 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:26.200 But you don't have to do that. 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:27.880 You can keep critiquing him for what he's doing wrong, 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:29.919 and he'll keep doing it because men repeat what you 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:36.960 feed them. So to understand how to effectively communicate with 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:41.280 your mate. Communicate with your mate, you have to learn 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.159 the art of framing its framework. 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.600 As a parent, the way you frame. 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.120 A question to your children, especially if they're younger. Now, 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.719 my kids are all under the age of eleven, so 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.080 I'm not writing my parenting book yet for at least 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:54.920 twenty years to see if any of this crap I. 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.000 Tell you actually works in real life. 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:01.760 But I think you sometimes, as a parent, are tempted 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:03.480 when your kids are small, to give them too many 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:09.039 choices and too many options about dinner, about clothes, just 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:14.480 all kinds of options. And and in my personal parenting philosophy, 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.840 I don't ever give my children fill in the blank question. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.360 When I'm asking them to do something for me, I 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:26.440 give I give them multiple choice, you know. So it's 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.080 it's not do you want to eat your broccoli? 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:30.200 I don't ask my kids that. 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:32.520 My kids, what I might say is. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.960 Uh, would you rather eat your broccoli or never play 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.120 video games or see the light of day again? So 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.640 now see, you have a choice. I'm not telling you 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.200 you have to eat your broccoli. I'm just informing you 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.239 of the consequences of not eating the broccoli. 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.200 It's called framing, and I learned it from a counselor. 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:52.280 This counselor one time was preparing me to go into 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.880 a high intensity, high stress situation and he said, you 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:55.760 get all stressed out. 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:56.840 Every time you go around these people. 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:57.560 I said, I do. 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:59.880 I said, they're stressful people. He said, but what if 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:01.600 the this time you made a game out of it? 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:03.400 And I said, tell me more about this game, because 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.000 I like to play games. I'm the kind of guy 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.240 who will turn any conversation into a game. 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.000 As college I like to play, would you rather? I 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:11.640 like to play? 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:15.200 What if I can turn any conversation into a game. 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:16.560 And I'm competitive by nature. 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:18.120 So when he told me I can make it like 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.560 a game, that got my attention. He said, yeah, when 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.080 you go into this situation, you know they're crazy, So 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:27.160 go in like you're a sociologist, like you are studying 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.720 their species of crazy, and you have to bring back 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.320 a field report on the craziness of these people. 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.320 So he gave me a technique. 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.439 I didn't know at the time that he was teaching 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:39.679 me cognitive framing. 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:43.200 How fancy is that he was teaching me that I 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:46.679 could I could take a situation or information facts, I 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.439 could take it and frame it a different way. 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.800 Now. Advertisers are doing this to you all the time. 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:57.040 Politicians are doing this to you. Occasionally. It is the 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:01.000 invisible frame by which they present the issue or the argument, 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.000 and you don't even see that it's there. 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.680 Which brings us to Hebrews eleven, where it says that. 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.559 The worlds were framed by the word of God. When 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.520 I say framed, if you're in the construction industry, you 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.440 picture the raw material that builds a house and the 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.160 dimensions of it when you frame the house up. 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.079 When you frame the house up, well that's a. 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.160 Good picture because the scripture says that when God was 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.040 looking around for something strong enough to build the world with, 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.280 there was no substitute for the raw material of his word. 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.439 So God framed and built the world which is visible 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:38.600 through the word, which is invisible. Now, we as his children, 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.360 get to imitate Him in our life through this thing 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:45.320 called faith. That is, we get to take the same 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:49.280 stuff that God used to frame the world and frame 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:53.280 our lives with it if we choose to that. The 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:57.200 same word of God that framed the ocean can frame 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:01.320 my situation on a Tuesday afternoon if I choose to 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:05.920 use it. So I want to talk about it for 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.560 a little while today because I want to build my 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:12.080 life with something that is sturdy and solid. So I 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.640 want to know God, can I borrow some of this 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:19.480 raw material? The rama, the word? The rama. You've heard 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:23.280 this before. The word of God is powerful enough to 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.960 shape and create my life. Now I get to frame 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:31.400 my life using the same substance that God used to 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:37.840 make my world. And so I got to get a 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:39.240 sense of focus. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.400 Would you write that word down? Focus? 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.320 Some of you are playing on your phone, but you 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:47.160 need to focus and write down the word focus and 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:48.559 multitasking self. 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:49.480 You need to focus. 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:53.520 Touch your neighbors say focus, tell them focus on me. 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.679 Focus on me. Now, I told you i'd do it. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:04.480 Here's the part about this thing called focus, Okay. Focus 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:10.760 is a skill that must be sharpened continually, and. 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:12.520 I get a lot of practice with. 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.040 It in preaching because how well I think my sermon 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:21.480 is going totally depends on which person I focus on 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:22.360 while I'm preaching. 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:25.920 Some of you make me suicidal. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.080 I mean, like I if. 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:29.760 I only had you to look at while I preached, 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:30.520 I would blow. 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:35.320 My brains out on stage. But I'm really good at this. 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.520 Now. I'm a professional, so I don't really look at 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:37.960 the crowd. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:38.839 I scan. 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.600 And I'm looking for love. That's what I'm looking for. 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.280 But I'm really good at it. I'm a professional because 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:48.520 like we go out on video shoots, okay, and sometimes 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.360 we go on video shoots to do for the church. 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.000 There's all kind of crazy, chaotic stuff happening, and. 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.240 I have to I have to focus and ask buck. 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:57.280 I'm a master of it. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.440 I can lock it in when the cameras. I can 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.880 have a million things going on, but I can focus. 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.280 We went to Israel a few years ago to shoot 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:09.320 an Easter presentation called seven Mile Miracle, and we were going. 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.559 To different sites like Gaugatha, which is. 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.000 Now a bus depot by the way, so if you 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.320 ever go, you just need to know that the place 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.359 where they hung Our Lord, there's buses there, so anyway. 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:20.680 But you get yours up. 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.000 And we went on the Amais Road and the Garden Tomb, 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:24.840 which is beautiful. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:26.520 But when we went for the last shoot on the 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.000 Via Dolorosa, the crew to me, don't even come in today. 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:29.560 You can't do this. 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:31.439 I said, I could do it. What's the problem. They said, 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.600 it's real busy. So we shot this little video. Here's 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:34.400 twenty seconds of it. 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:35.679 We showed it a few years ago. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:36.400 But watch this. 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.000 There's somebody participating in this experience that needs to know 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:44.120 today you've got a new twenty four. His mercies are 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.760 new with every rising of the sun, that his faithfulness 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:49.000 is great, That. 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:50.400 He walked a path where. 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.040 He was forsaken, so that you could walk a path 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:54.880 where you would never be forsaken. 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:56.960 That God in heaven remembers you. 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:01.880 Now, let us remember his death, let us remember his salvation. 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.160 He created like a holy moment via dolerosa, the way 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.120 of suffering, the path that he tried. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.600 But I asked him to go back and pull the 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:15.600 wide shot. That's the tight shot. Here's the wide shot. 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.400 I want you to see what's going on the via. 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.000 Dolerosa that while I was preaching that show the clip. 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.400 There's somebody participating in this experience that needs to know 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:28.559 today you got a new twenty four. His mercies are 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.600 new with every rising of the sun. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.559 That his faithfulness is. 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.640 Great, That he walked a path where he was forsaken, 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.280 so that you could walk a path where you would 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:39.280 never be forsaken. 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:40.600 That God didn't head. 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:44.120 I see, unless our preacher would have been distracted by 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.760 that Middle Eastern girl with a Hello Kitty backpack. Not me, 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:53.120 Why I'm focused? Dot your neighbor say, I'm focused. You'd 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:58.360 be surprised what you could do if you would get focused. 0:13:58.240 --> 0:13:59.000 Really you would. 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.520 And it doesn't mean that chaos stops in your life either. Oh, 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.800 I have focused if it weren't for these kids. No, 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:12.080 you need to control your frame. You can't control everything 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.520 that happens out here. 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.480 You can control who walks by. But but I can 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.840 give me camera one. This is what's called a tight shot. 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.480 That means that this shot on camera one is only 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:29.560 designed to show me. We can zoom in, zoom in 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:33.680 a little bit, zoom until they can see the gray 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.880 hairs on my beard. Okay, zoom in, zoom in a 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:37.400 little bit more. 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.640 It's focus. Now, that's that's a tight shot. 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.080 That's a that's a terrifying shot. You should zoom out, 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:46.640 zoom out, zoom out. Quick. 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:47.680 Quck quick coock uick quck quick. 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:52.400 I just wanted you to see that you choose your focus. See, 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.440 they're they're directing those cameras in the back and they 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.960 are making the decision in the moment, what needs the attention. 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:00.960 So it's it's interesting coming here to JJ. 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.400 JJ can be on the stage, and if we're if 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:08.480 we're working with the wide shot, he's a distraction because 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:13.040 what's he even doing here? What are you even doing here? 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.200 But let's say I can't make him go away. You know, 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.320 he's a Valentine campus pastor. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.400 Now he wants to stand on the stage. But watch 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:22.920 what I can do camera one. 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:24.119 I can focus. 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.560 I'm trying to say, he might not leave the stage, 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:29.480 but that doesn't mean I have to keep him in 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:34.520 my frame. I am preaching about anxiety, ap preaching about depression. 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:35.880 You might stand there. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.520 Well, my faith gives me Li's sten now a focus 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:47.120 touch three people say focus, focus, focus. Faith is powered 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.840 by focus, and so they're deciding back there the camera 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:55.320 operators what to put into the frame. That's what is 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:59.320 called the frame. The worlds were framed by the word 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.120 of God. The reasons and they're watching me preach on 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.400 a screen is because somebody that you can't see is 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:05.880 running a camera and framing it. You know, it is 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:10.520 the invisible aspects of your life that often determine the results. 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:10.760 Faith. 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.320 This the substance of things hoped for and the evidence 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:21.320 of things not seen. It's a matter of focus. And 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.880 so you frame up your life. You know, you do 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.160 it every day. And Hebrews eleven and twelve give us 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:31.960 a framework of faith, a focal point, telling us to 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:36.560 fix our eyes on Jesus. Now we need Peter to 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:38.200 come and show us how to walk on water. 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.400 Whoops, he slipped. 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:44.880 He slipped because he let the wind and the waves 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:49.160 in his frame. We can't blame him because the wind 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.840 and the waves were there. The wind and the waves 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.000 were there while he was walking on the water. But 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.720 when you allow things in your frame that break your 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:03.200 focus faith this weekend, and you will never build a 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.639 solid faith with a weak focus. 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.960 Focus. Focus focus. 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.280 Maybe it's just because my eight year old is playing 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.359 baseball right now, and that's the thing I hear coach 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.800 Dave Yelle more than anything to these eight year old boys. 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.280 Focus focus. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.040 Focus is not real complicated when they're eight, Like, just. 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.520 Have your glove on your hand when the ball comes. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:30.440 Okay, focus, somebody show focus. Look at your neighbor, tell 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.560 them focus. Some of y'all won't even receive this word 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.240 at a deep enough level to build your faith for 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:36.960 your life, because you're not focused on what I'm saying. 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:38.720 You're thinking about who you're meeting after church. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:40.320 But if you would focus. 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.560 On this word, the breakthrough that you need is in 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:43.760 this word I'm preaching. 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:47.320 All you gotta do is. 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:55.560 Focus, focus, focus, because the frame of your faith. 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:56.360 Let's build this out. 0:17:56.400 --> 0:18:00.000 Actually, we need focus, and then we need a friend 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:07.280 of reference, a frame of reference. So the writer of 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.240 Hebrews said that God started the world with his word. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.159 And now that same word is the word by. 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:15.520 Which, if you receive it, you will receive a measure 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:18.080 of faith. And then you frame your world according to 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.920 the same word that God spoke the universe into existence with. 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.320 He's given a frame of reference all the way. 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:26.320 To Jesus, who endured the shame of the Cross through faith. 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:28.919 It's a frame of reference for a suffering church. And 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.679 he's given them a frame of reference, reminding them of 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.560 Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. This is the picture that's 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.200 inside the frame of Hebrews eleven and twelve. He's given 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:41.240 them a picture, and it's given them a frame of reference. 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:44.760 Like when you and Rachel took Bo to the hospital 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:45.680 last week. 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:50.560 Bo, their little son is prone to injuries more than 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.600 most little boys. Even I would say, when you say, 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.359 it's just got a bruiser. And so he bangs his 0:18:56.520 --> 0:19:00.439 head against a poll on the playground during church, and 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.320 they took him to get some stitches, and the emergency 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:07.920 room wait was eleven hours for some stitches. Now, Elaijah, 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:09.679 if that had been you, I would have put a 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.160 shoelace in your eye and tied it up. 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:14.200 We would not have waited eleven hours. 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.240 But it was a deep gash, so they probably needed 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:19.880 to wait. I said, were you mad, buck, I would 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.080 have been furious. Eleven hours for some stitches? 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:22.840 He said. 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.840 I was at first, But the more people that came 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:30.120 into the er that night that I realized I might 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:31.359 have to wait a little while. 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:36.760 But some of them aren't leaving, he said. 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.800 The longer I sat there, the less frustrated I was, 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:44.280 and the more I started realizing that this might be 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:47.080 how I'm spending my night in the hospital. But some 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.679 people have spent their last six months in the hospital. 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:54.879 Nothing changed, but the frame. 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:57.400 Nothing changed. 0:19:58.000 --> 0:19:59.000 But the frame. 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.840 That's so often what we need is a frame of reference. 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:12.440 Sometimes white people need to have a black friend. Sometimes 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:17.480 black people need to have a white friend. Broke people 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:25.200 need some rich friends. Rich people need some broke friends. 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:29.680 And what we're doing, we're trading perspectives. Hey, take a 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:31.600 look at life through my lens, and we get wiser 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:36.040 and we get smarter. Because it's a frame of reference. 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:43.320