1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:17,280 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: I know y'all don't want to stand up anymore, but 7 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 1: will you stay standing for this scripture because God gave 8 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:28,639 Speaker 1: us a good one today. Ah, God gave us a 9 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:31,479 Speaker 1: good one today. You know how you were debating whether 10 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: to come or not? Can I go or not? You 11 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: did the right day, You did the right thing. You 12 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 1: did the right thing. God gave us a good one today. 13 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 1: I shared on this topic with our kids Tuesday night, 14 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: and I was glad to and I thought it was 15 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: just for them. And I went back after I preached 16 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 1: and a few of my friends were here and all 17 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: my friends were crying and they're grown ups, and they 18 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: all said, that was for me. That was for me. 19 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: That was for me. And then when I prayed what 20 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 1: the Lord would have me share with our church today, 21 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: he told me to give you this. So I'm going 22 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 1: to share this with you today from Exodus chapter three, 23 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: and well, okay, okay, okay okay. Exodus chapter three, verse nineteen. 24 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: Are you ready? But I know that the King of 25 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand 26 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: compels him. So I will stretch out my hand and 27 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will 28 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: perform among them. After that, he'll let you go. I 29 00:01:55,160 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: will read this again and you will respond more appropriate. 30 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: Let so'll make me come through that screen. I'll come 31 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: through that screen and snatch you right out of your 32 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 1: pajamas and make you shout. But I know the Lord 33 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: says this to Moses. Moses is eighty years old, and 34 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 1: I appreciate this to the youth because I'm hoping they 35 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: can get early when it took Moses his whole lifetime 36 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: to understand. And he's telling Moses the ambiance of a 37 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: burning bush that isn't burning up. It's on fire, but 38 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,239 Speaker 1: it's not consumed. And he's telling him, I want to 39 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 1: use you to set my people free, and have an 40 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: assignment in mind with your name on it. But I 41 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: know that the King of Egypt will not let you 42 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: go unless a mighty hand compels him. So I will 43 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:52,399 Speaker 1: stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all 44 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, 45 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: he will let you go. Now, if you have something 46 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 1: in your life today and it feels like it's got 47 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: a hold of you and you need God's help, it 48 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: could be it could be depression, it could be anxiety, 49 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,399 Speaker 1: it could be a situation that out of your control, 50 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 1: but something that's got a hold of you, like Pharaoh 51 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 1: had a hold of the children of Israel, and you 52 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: need God's help with it. If something's got a hold 53 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: of you, we don't have to say what. I'm not 54 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:26,639 Speaker 1: going to make you say it on the microphone. Don't 55 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 1: be nervous. I'm not going to ask you to name it. 56 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 1: But if there's something that has a hold of you 57 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: and it feels like it won't let go, and you 58 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: need God's help today, I want you to raise your 59 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: hand right now. No, the other hand, the other hare. 60 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: That's actually what I want to preach to you about today. 61 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: This message is called the other hand, the other hand. God, 62 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: I thank you that your arm is not short. You 63 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: can reach everybody under the sound of my voice. Do 64 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: it now, Lord in Jesus' name. Amen. Maybe seedy oh, 65 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: I was thinking, Chris, you know how we did in 66 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: quarantine where y'all would say, up here on the stools, 67 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: and so I wouldn't fill a lonely up here preaching 68 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 1: where to go by myself? Can y'all come like for 69 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: y'all where you can bring with you? Are the stools 70 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: still back there? Did the youth x steal it and 71 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: throw them through windows for a segment or something like that. 72 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: I don't know what they've been doing right here. Just 73 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,359 Speaker 1: bring some people back. You want to come, Scott, you 74 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: should come, You should come, Scot coming fresh. I did 75 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 1: it during quarantine. I don't know if you are watching 76 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 1: it online. Did y'll sta connected during quarantine or just 77 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: watching that flips? And I would. I would always have 78 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,039 Speaker 1: the worship leaders stay up here. And it wasn't an aesthetic. 79 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: It was just survival, man, because y'all are so good 80 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: to look at while I'm preaching, most of y'all and 81 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: then I would say, well, I can't just do this 82 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: without someone to talk to. I can't talk to a camera. 83 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:01,159 Speaker 1: So they became, they replaced you traversed for a little while, 84 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: but now y'all are back. But I think it'll be 85 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: cool if y'all came out, So come on, we won't 86 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: wait for him. We'll just get started by ourselves. I 87 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: want you to go back in your mind, you're sixteen 88 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: years old. Close your eyes, you're sixteen. I do this 89 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: when I'm preaching to the youth. Before I preach to 90 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:19,719 Speaker 1: the youth, I always put on the music I listened 91 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: to when I was sixteen, Pearl Jam, No Code and Okay, 92 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 1: So now open your eyes. So sixteen years old, you're 93 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 1: sixteen years old. I like to tell this story when 94 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 1: I speak to the students about one of the most 95 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: significant things that was spoken to me when I was 96 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: that age. Now, the coolest thing that ever happened to 97 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 1: me when I was a teenager is when Billy Joe Armstrong, 98 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: the lead singer of Green Day, called me on stage 99 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: to play his guitar at the North Trustan Coliseum. And 100 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: my best friend is here to verify that that really happened. 101 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 1: That was the coolest thing, Georgia, your dad was freaking out. 102 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: But the most important significant thing that happened to me, 103 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: at least this would be in the top three, was Well, 104 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: it's been twenty five years and I'm still telling you 105 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 1: about it. This is how big of a deal this 106 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: is that somebody saw something in me. Pastor Mickey, Pastor 107 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: Mickey White, I called him the other day and I said, 108 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: I'm still telling this story of when you came over 109 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 1: to our house twenty five years ago when I was sixteen, 110 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:27,279 Speaker 1: because Pastor Mickey had just taken the job as the 111 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: pastor of Santie Circle Baptist Mission and he needed a 112 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,919 Speaker 1: youth pastor, and he asked me to come work with 113 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: his youth And I think my mom kind of thought 114 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: that Pastor Mickey's church might be a cult. Oh, y'all 115 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: have thought the same thing about elevation. You're sitting right 116 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:45,039 Speaker 1: in a church. You used to think that about so 117 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 1: and then to look at me like that. But Pastor 118 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: Mickey said, well, I'll come over and talk to your mom. 119 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 1: And he used to be in the autoparts business, so 120 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 1: he was a good salesman. So he has to convince 121 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:01,160 Speaker 1: my mom for me to leave the Methodist church and 122 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 1: come over to the Baptist church and be his youth 123 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,600 Speaker 1: pastor at this little church that was meeting in a 124 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 1: Woodman of the World building. And what made it more 125 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: dramatic is big, big guy pastor Mickey's what sixty six, 126 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: sixty seven, he's in his seventies now. But he sat 127 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: down on the middle of the floor. There's like plenty 128 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: of seats open in the house, so I guess he 129 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: can at a Gandhi flow going on the floor. So 130 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: and he sits down, big old guy, and he tells 131 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: my mom, I've worked with youth, I've worked with kids 132 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: for twenty years, and God has his hand on Steven 133 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: twenty five years ago. I can see it, can you. 134 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: I can see him sitting on the floor saying, God 135 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: has his hand on Steven. He said in a way 136 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:49,679 Speaker 1: I've never seen his hand on any of the kids 137 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: that I've ever worked with. And it did the trick. 138 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: My mom let me do it, and I served as 139 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: his youth pastor. And I'm thinking at the time, like 140 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 1: this is a little thick. You're laying it on a 141 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: little thick right now. Does it really take all that 142 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: you know the most? But but when I felt when 143 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: he said that, I mean, on one hand, that felt cool, 144 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: But on the other hand, it kind of was kind 145 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: of scary. It felt like maybe it felt maybe like 146 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: I'm special, Like, oh, God's hand is on your son. 147 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 1: But on the other hand, I'm like, and what exactly 148 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 1: does that mean? And yet when he said it, y'all, 149 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: I can't exactly explain this to you, But inside I thought, Oh, 150 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 1: that's what I'm feeling. That's what I'm feeling. Because I 151 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: had made my personal commitment to Christ, not the one 152 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: where your parents make a commitment to raise you so 153 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: that you can meet Christ, but where you decide to 154 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: follow Jesus for yourself. I had to make that commitment, 155 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 1: and I sensed, you know, something is different. And so 156 00:08:55,559 --> 00:09:00,280 Speaker 1: here's this man who has been in ministry for many years, 157 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: and he says something like God's hand is on Stephen. 158 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: And when I told this story to the young people Tuesday, 159 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,959 Speaker 1: I looked right at him as many of them as 160 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 1: I could in the eyes, and I said, God has 161 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: his hand on you. Because a lot of them never 162 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,199 Speaker 1: had Pastor Mickey sit on the floor Chris Cross applesauce 163 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:25,680 Speaker 1: and say that when they were sixteen, and maybe a 164 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 1: lot of them never even had anybody say something like 165 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 1: I believe in you, you know. And I think, what 166 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: a difference would it make if they get the revelation 167 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 1: right now, not that they're going to be a preacher 168 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: or a pastor one day. That's not what Pastor Mickey meant. 169 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 1: That was a part of my pack. But he meant 170 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:50,440 Speaker 1: something different when he said God has his hand on Stephen. 171 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 1: I want you to say that out loud, or put 172 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: it in the chat, whatever the case may be. But 173 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: say God, Wait, hold on, don't say my name, say 174 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:05,200 Speaker 1: your name God, God has his hand on y'all said, 175 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: that's so quiet. It was terribly unconvincing how you said it. 176 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,319 Speaker 1: You said it with the wrong voice inflection. Say it again, 177 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 1: God has his hand on. 178 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 2: God has his hand on Graham. 179 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: One more time. This time, get the name of the 180 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:40,200 Speaker 1: person next to you. This might be good for like 181 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:42,840 Speaker 1: little Starbucks after church if you're single or whatever, but 182 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: I'm not using it for that music for illustration. Get 183 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: their name real quick, and now say their name. Look 184 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 1: I'm right in the eyes, and say God has his 185 00:10:51,120 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 1: hand on Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop. You need to hear that. 186 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 1: You hadn't been feeling like that lately. I know you 187 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: hadn't been feeling that lately. It doesn't make it any 188 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:11,319 Speaker 1: less true. He wasn't talking about a feeling. He wasn't 189 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: talking about something that necessarily has a physical sensation. I'm 190 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: seeing it in the chat. God has his hand on Dawn. 191 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:19,719 Speaker 1: God has his hand on Leanna. God has his hand 192 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 1: on Esther. God has his hands on Saved. God has 193 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: his hands on Adam. God has his hand on Peter. 194 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: God has his hand on me. It's his hand on me. 195 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: It's his hand on me. I'm glad Past Mickey took 196 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: time out of his very busy life to sit down 197 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 1: on my floor and say something that bowl. I wonder 198 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:42,079 Speaker 1: where would I be if I didn't believe that God 199 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 1: had his hand on me? And now I know he 200 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 1: was right, because now I know that the things that 201 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:01,320 Speaker 1: I've seen God do through me had nothing to do 202 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 1: with me. So I don't mean to preach this early, 203 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: and I plan to pace myself, but I'm excited to 204 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: have some of y'all back in the room with me. 205 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:21,319 Speaker 1: Is it my testimony that it was his hand? I 206 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 1: didn't know what he meant. It sounded good, it sounded profound. 207 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 1: God has his hand on Stephen. I thought that many 208 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: just wanted me to come over and be talk to 209 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:30,560 Speaker 1: the youth and work with the youth. But twenty five 210 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: years later, I don't have to just believe it. I've 211 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: seen it. I've seen it, and sometimes it was confusing 212 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: because God's hand didn't always feel like a Swedish massage. 213 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: Do you understand what I'm saying. God's hand didn't always 214 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 1: feel it. You know, I've experienced God's hand in so 215 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: many different ways, like the hem we growing up. Great 216 00:12:55,920 --> 00:13:00,680 Speaker 1: is thy faithfulness, Oh God, my Father, There's no shadow 217 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: of turning with thee. All I have needed, thy hand 218 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: has provided. And so many times I've seen God's hand 219 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: like this, offering me what I needed in the moment. 220 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:22,359 Speaker 1: All I have needed, all I have needed, Thy hand provided. 221 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 1: You'll know I'm gonna come out of retirement and do 222 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 1: a hymns project one day. Great is I faith? I 223 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 1: know all four verses of every hem zeke you can 224 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: sing harmony. I'm gonna take the lead on those. Great 225 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 1: is our FAITHU on this All I have need, not 226 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: all I wanted, not all asked for. Thank God. One 227 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: of the things I've become grateful for in the last 228 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 1: twenty five years. Did he said, God's hand is on 229 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: you is for what he withhelp? You know you start 230 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:58,680 Speaker 1: off thanking God for when his hand does this, and 231 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 1: then you live a little while and you learn to 232 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: trust in Him with all your heart so you appreciate 233 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: when he does this too. I'm talking about his hand, 234 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: because yes, He's provided for me. I can tell you 235 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 1: days and I bet you've had them too. We're down 236 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: to the dollar. God came through for me, down to 237 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 1: the dollar. I'm talking. God didn't even round down. It 238 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: was down to the dollar, down to the decimal. There 239 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: have been times in this ministry where down to the 240 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: decimal God has provided. And it's not just money, and 241 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 1: it's not just stuff. And if you still think it's 242 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 1: about bags and sneakers, you need to be back at 243 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: youth x because you haven't grown up enough yet to 244 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: realize that some of the greatest things God will give 245 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: you in your life. Y'all better not preach me on 246 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 1: this front line. Some of the greatest things. Now we're 247 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 1: talking about God's hand and sometimes it's like this, and 248 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: he'll bring the right person into your life at the 249 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: right time, and you'll think, how did God know that 250 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 1: that's who I needed to meet at this point in 251 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: my life. And yet the same hand that did this, 252 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 1: well sometimes do this. They stopped shouting Scottie hand like 253 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 1: Job said he gives and takes away. Blessed be the 254 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: name of the Lord. Have you realized that God's hand 255 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: that does this, it's just as capable when he's doing this. 256 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 1: I was on the front row of the Lord told me, 257 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: make sure you tell him I'm a gardener, and that 258 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: the same hand that plants also prunes. Make sure you 259 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 1: tell tell them that the same hand that plants the 260 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 1: seed of all that you're meant to be and all 261 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: that your life is meant to contain and do for 262 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 1: his glory. It's for his glory. It's for his glory. 263 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 1: That's why Pastor Mackey said, God has his hand on you. 264 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 1: Don't you think that God gave you a gift so 265 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: that you could use it for your glory. It's God's 266 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: hand on you. So it's God's glory through you, and 267 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: it's God's purpose. But the same hand that plants do 268 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: you all know the scripture John fifteen, It says that 269 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: every branch that bears fruit he prunes same hand. The 270 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 1: same hand his hand does this. His hand sometimes does 271 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 1: this taking opportunities that you you thought, well, that's it 272 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 1: right there, and then God goes, nah, I know stuff 273 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 1: all right, So praise him. How you praise him when 274 00:16:56,040 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: he does this, when he gives you an opportunity praising him. Now, 275 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna lift your hands like you lift your hands. 276 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:15,200 Speaker 1: Can you lift him when he does this? God's hand. 277 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:17,880 Speaker 1: Say it again. God's hand is on say your name, 278 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:26,159 Speaker 1: God's hand. And that's what the Lord told Moses. He said, 279 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: I see my people suffering. It's been four centuries, and 280 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 1: I've chosen you, the fugitive murderer who has forgotten who 281 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: it really is, if he ever really knew. But I've 282 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 1: seen my people suffering, and I know that it's not 283 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 1: going to be easy. So I'm gonna stretch out. I'm 284 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 1: going to show you the verse again because I learned 285 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 1: a few things about God's hand. I learned that God's 286 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 1: hand is provision. I learned that God's hand is protection. 287 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:05,160 Speaker 1: But I also learned that God's hand is power. He said, 288 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 1: I know that he will not let you go unless 289 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: a mighty hand Verse nineteen. A mighty hand compels him. 290 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 1: A mighty hand, and the mighty hand of God in 291 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,160 Speaker 1: the judgment of the Ten Plagues against Egypt was what 292 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:26,199 Speaker 1: God used to release his people into ultimate freedom. A 293 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: mighty hand and the Lord tells Moses, it's not going 294 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: to happen in your own strength. It's not going to 295 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,440 Speaker 1: happen in your own intellect. It's not going to happen 296 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: in your own ability or your strategy. It's not going 297 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:40,479 Speaker 1: to happen even in the leadership gifts that I've given you. 298 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: It's going to take another hand. And the thing about 299 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 1: it is, this is what God showed me. I was 300 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: looking at the passage, and I looked at it again 301 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 1: a few times after I ap preached it the other night, 302 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 1: and the Lord said, you miss something. I said, what 303 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: did I miss? And he said, you missed the other hand? 304 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: I said, what's the other hand? Look at him Verse nineteen. 305 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 1: He said, I know that the king of Egypt, that's Pharaoh, 306 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 1: will not let you go. He's it. I didn't see 307 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 1: it either. He won't let you go. That means your 308 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 1: enemy thinks he has you so strong in his grip, 309 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 1: and he won't let go unless unless there is another 310 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 1: hand that has stronger than his hand. So while you 311 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:31,639 Speaker 1: feel like the devil has you like this, you know, 312 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 1: let's be honest. A lot of the chains in this 313 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 1: room are forty two years old. These are not saplings. Anymore. 314 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 1: These are oak trees that go down deep. I mean 315 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 1: there's some real deep stuff that's holding you in here. 316 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,840 Speaker 1: It's got you like this. I mean by the throat, 317 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:48,159 Speaker 1: I mean it's got you. It won't let you breathe. 318 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,199 Speaker 1: You try to move, you can't move. You try to 319 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 1: move up, you can't move up. You try to step 320 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 1: into a new opportunity, you can't do it with a 321 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: free heart. It's got you like this, It's got you 322 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: so strong. But God set to tell you about the 323 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: other hand. And this is what Moses needed to know. 324 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,919 Speaker 1: It's no different for everybody in the room today that 325 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 1: your father. 326 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 3: Is stronger than your pharaoh. 327 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 1: So like with Graham. With Graham, he wrestles me. In fact, 328 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 1: since you're here, you want to do it real quick, 329 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:28,879 Speaker 1: just illustrated. Come here, real quick, come here, go ahead. 330 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,440 Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you. He hates when I do this 331 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 1: because he's strong. Graham is so strong. He's thirteen. He 332 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 1: won the state championship for hold On for freestyle wrestling. 333 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 1: It was a small tournament, but it was still state championship. 334 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 1: And I won a state championship when I was in 335 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 1: eighth grade two. But there was nobody else in the 336 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,919 Speaker 1: weight class. And so I won the state championship. So 337 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 1: we'll have battles, and I'll say old man versus young man, 338 00:20:56,359 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: South Carolina versus North Carolina state champions And he's oh quick, 339 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 1: and he's so good. But what I do. I got 340 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:07,120 Speaker 1: old man moves. I got old man moves. I got 341 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:11,439 Speaker 1: pressure points I can do right here, see right. 342 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 4: There, right there, that spot right there, right there, in 343 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:21,320 Speaker 4: my hands, I can stop him. 344 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 1: All I need is this anointed forty one year old thumb, 345 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, watch this. It doesn't matter 346 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 1: how much youth you have. I will put my thumb 347 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 1: in his tech right there. If he now, I'll let 348 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 1: him wrestle me. But if it gets too rough, because 349 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 1: he's getting too strong for me to play with him, 350 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: I can't play with him anymore. He'll get on my 351 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 1: legs so quick, and I'm not gonna go out like that. 352 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:48,679 Speaker 1: I don't know who's videoing this. I don't know if 353 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 1: this is Instagram live. So sometimes I got pop. Just 354 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:53,200 Speaker 1: put him right there? All right, all right, you're done, 355 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 1: go back down there. Then't want to fight right now. 356 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,439 Speaker 1: I saw it. I saw him getting in his stands. 357 00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 1: I'm not getting taken down in front of the world. 358 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: Ah ah, God said, I know where to put the pressure. 359 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 1: See that's why I'm God. I've been doing this a 360 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 1: long time, and I'll see your enemy shoot it in 361 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 1: on you. But when I use my hand, I got 362 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 1: a mighty hand. I got a strong hand. I don't 363 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 1: even have to flex I'm God. So Pastor Mickey didn't 364 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:35,919 Speaker 1: tell me that part. He told me God's hand was 365 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: on me. I thought it meant God is my provider. 366 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,120 Speaker 1: I didn't know that the same hand that brings provision 367 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 1: also brings pressure. And how God will use the pressure 368 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 1: of life to bring me into freedom. I know it 369 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: won't let you go unless a mighty hand, a mic 370 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 1: cand mighty hand. Twenty five years later, I can tell 371 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:08,120 Speaker 1: you that God has a mighty hand. Ten plagues later, 372 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: Moses and Pharaoh knew it's a mighty hand. It's a 373 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: mighty hand. It's a mighty hand. It's a mighty hand. 374 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:22,399 Speaker 1: It's a hand that you can't always feel it, you 375 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 1: can't always see it. But see, Moses was well acquainted 376 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 1: with this hand, whether he knew it or not, because 377 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 1: when he was a baby, all the little Hebrew boys 378 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:41,360 Speaker 1: were getting killed by Pharaoh, not him. His mom made 379 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,199 Speaker 1: a basket and put him in the Nile River. This 380 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 1: is act of this chapter two. And the Bible says 381 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 1: that that basket floated to the daughter of Pharaoh, and 382 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 1: she saw the basket and she drew it out, and 383 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,119 Speaker 1: she felt sorry for Moses because he was crying, and 384 00:23:56,160 --> 00:24:00,440 Speaker 1: she took him and God raised him. As a matter 385 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 1: of fact, as I thought about that basket floating down 386 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,159 Speaker 1: the Nile River, I thought about your life and my life, 387 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 1: because what are the chances that a basket would float 388 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 1: down the Nile River and miss all of the alligators 389 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: unless there was a hand. I'm grateful for God's saying 390 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: how he guided me past certain attacks. You know, the 391 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,440 Speaker 1: same hand that did this sometimes does that, and sometimes 392 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:42,159 Speaker 1: God just did that with his hand. Anybody grateful for 393 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 1: the times God did that and anxiety came for your life. 394 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,639 Speaker 1: You thought about ending your life, and the gators almost 395 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:02,120 Speaker 1: got you, but God's handed that. We don't really even 396 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,920 Speaker 1: know how to praise God. When I say praise God, 397 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: and I say, you know, what do you have to 398 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 1: be thankful for? You don't even know the things that 399 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:14,680 Speaker 1: God did this and if he didn't do this, you 400 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 1: wouldn't be here. I'm thankful that he provided. I'm thankful 401 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,680 Speaker 1: that he pruned and took some things out. I'm thankful 402 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 1: that he protected with his mighty hand and an outstretched arm. 403 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 1: God said, I see your struggle, and I know that 404 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 1: it won't let you go easily. And so since you've 405 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 1: been doing it in your own strength, making bricks without straw, 406 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:39,960 Speaker 1: doing everything that you know to do to be free, 407 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: but never finding freedom, it's time for my hand to 408 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 1: work in your life. In fact, the scripture says something 409 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 1: powerful in Peter. He says, humble yourself. What a thing 410 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 1: for Peter to say. He's not exactly mister humility and 411 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: the senior superlatives if you read the yearbook, but he's learned. 412 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 1: Now humble yourself under God's mighty hand. 413 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 5: Say that phrase, God's mighty hand. How's Pharaoh gonna let 414 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 5: you go? God's mighty hand? How in the world is 415 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 5: it gonna happen this time? You don't even know the 416 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 5: mess I'm in. 417 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 1: I know you feel like Moses right now, But God 418 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: came to reveal to you that his hand, what is it? 419 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 1: It's a mighty hand, God's mighty hand. Pharaoh's got a 420 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: strong hand. God's is stronger. God's mighty hand. How many 421 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: praise God for his mighty hand. God doesn't try to 422 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 1: do anything. God does not intend to do anything. He 423 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 1: can't do God's mighty hand. But that's not what I 424 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:58,200 Speaker 1: came to preach about today. I want to preach about, 425 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: yeah hand. See it seems like Moses didn't have a 426 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:10,120 Speaker 1: lot of trouble believing that God was mighty. He didn't 427 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 1: argue with God at all. God said I am, the 428 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 1: God of Abraham, the God of Jacob. And all Moses 429 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,680 Speaker 1: wanted to know is what's your name? And God said 430 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: I am. And I'm sure Moses waited around for a 431 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 1: little bit more detailed, but God said, you better leave 432 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 1: it blank because I'm gonna do so much you will 433 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,879 Speaker 1: not be able to quantify me by one word, not 434 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: a agative, not a verb, not an adverb, not a 435 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 1: So the Lord, the very essence of true presence and being, 436 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,440 Speaker 1: says I am. After he gets I'm telling Moses what 437 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,400 Speaker 1: he's gonna do and how he's gonna set the people 438 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 1: free in a mighty hand and all of that. See, 439 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 1: Moses doesn't argue with God about what God can't do. Now, 440 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 1: here's where I need to just talk to you. Can 441 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 1: we just talk like we've known each other all our lives? 442 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 1: How many y'all you'll feel sometimes when I'm preaching like 443 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,439 Speaker 1: we know each other, I feel that too. So I 444 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 1: was praying about this message, and God said, it's not me. 445 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: They doubt most of the time. They believe I'm big, 446 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: they believe I'm powerful, and they believe I can do 447 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: great things through others. Moses didn't say, how will I 448 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: know that your hand is strong? How will I know 449 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,960 Speaker 1: that you're great? How will I know that you're stronger? 450 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 1: How will I know? No, he didn't doubt God at all. 451 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 1: And that's what I want to preach to you about. 452 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:32,399 Speaker 1: Because after God told Moses what he would do, Moses answered, 453 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 1: and I'm only sharing this with you because I relate 454 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: to Moses, not in the sense that I can deliver 455 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 1: a nation or anything like that. I don't want to 456 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 1: change jobs with Moses. I'm just saying how he feels. 457 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 1: I felt, because you can know that God's hand is mighty. 458 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 1: But watch this, he answered Verse one Exodus, for what 459 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,160 Speaker 1: if they do not believe me or listen to me? 460 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 1: And what if they say, the Lord did not appear 461 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 1: to you. I'mlet me give you a little hand. When 462 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 1: he's talking about they, it's not really their doubt that 463 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: he's dealing with a lot of times when we try 464 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,840 Speaker 1: to identify what the obstacles are of us being who 465 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 1: God called us to be. Because look what the Lord 466 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 1: asked him Verse two. The Lord said to him, what 467 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: is that in your hand? Whose hand? We talked about 468 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 1: God's hand. We shout about God's hand. We need God's hand. 469 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: It's a mighty hand. See for me, it's not that 470 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 1: hand that gets me in trouble. It's the other hand, 471 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: my hand, the mighty hand. I like that one, my hand. 472 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 1: That's a different story, because what's just Moses said, how 473 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: are we going to do this? And God said, what 474 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 1: is that in your hand? So now after God tells 475 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 1: him what he's going to do with his hand, he 476 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 1: points to Moses's hand. Now I think this is where 477 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 1: I think this is where we should spend a little 478 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 1: time today talking about the other hand. Oh God is awesome, 479 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:25,959 Speaker 1: and he's so great, And how great does our God? 480 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 1: Sing with me? How great is our God? And all 481 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,720 Speaker 1: will see how great? How great is our God? That's 482 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:35,840 Speaker 1: not the part I have a problem with, because twenty 483 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 1: five years ago, when Pastor Mickey said that God's hand 484 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 1: was on me, he only told me half of it. 485 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 1: You know, God's hand can be on you in a 486 00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 1: great way, but if you don't believe it, if you 487 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 1: don't receive it, do you know, God can put you 488 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,000 Speaker 1: in position. That's one thing about his hand. The Bible 489 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 1: says that if you humble yourself under the mighty hand 490 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 1: of God, he will live you up in due time. 491 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 1: You don't have to do it yourself. You don't have 492 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 1: to position yourself. You don't have to show off what 493 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,080 Speaker 1: you can do. God will do amazing things through your 494 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:12,120 Speaker 1: life if you stay under his hand. Yet, the hard 495 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,120 Speaker 1: thing for me has not been God's hand. I can 496 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 1: trust his hand, I can believe in his hand. I 497 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,520 Speaker 1: can see the evidence of his hand. Only he listen 498 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: to me. I'm from Monks Corner, South Carolina. The things 499 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,240 Speaker 1: God has done for me in my life, the places 500 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 1: He has taken me are so far from where I started. 501 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 1: I know it had to be him. In fact, even 502 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,960 Speaker 1: the people that mistreated me, they didn't know it, but 503 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 1: God was using their hands to get me where I 504 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 1: needed to be. Y'all don't believe me, Joseph. Joseph told 505 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 1: his brothers, you intended to harm me, but God meant 506 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:56,840 Speaker 1: it for good. You sold me, but God sent me. 507 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:03,000 Speaker 1: How's that possible? Even what their hand did, even what 508 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 1: they did to you or did not do for you, 509 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 1: has to pass through God's hand. By the time it's over. 510 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 1: It's not his hand I struggle with. It's the other hand. 511 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 1: Are you all really on my second week back from 512 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,680 Speaker 1: vacation on the summer gonna look at me like you 513 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 1: don't have another hand? What you're talking about here a 514 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,719 Speaker 1: pastor for me is pretty like I just you know, 515 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,800 Speaker 1: I am called, I am chosen, I am anointed, I 516 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:41,880 Speaker 1: am blessed and highly favored. You got another hand? I 517 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,520 Speaker 1: know you got it in your pocket right now. Oh, 518 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 1: Jesus went to church one day. You'll know this. Jesus 519 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 1: went to church one day. In Matthew chapter twelve, Jesus 520 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 1: went to church one day, and while he was there, 521 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 1: he noticed something nobody else saw. This is an amazing scripture, 522 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,040 Speaker 1: and I'm bringing it right now because I think it 523 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,959 Speaker 1: represents how a lot of us came to church or 524 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,920 Speaker 1: logged on this morning it says. Going on from that place, 525 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,920 Speaker 1: he went into their synagogue. Next verse, police and a 526 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,480 Speaker 1: man with a shriveled or some version say withered hand 527 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 1: was there and looking for a reason to bring charges 528 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,800 Speaker 1: against Jesus. They asked him, is it lawful to heal 529 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,640 Speaker 1: on the sabbath? Now? He said to them, if any 530 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,720 Speaker 1: of you as a sheet and it falls into a 531 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 1: pit on the sabbath, will you not take hold of 532 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:33,880 Speaker 1: it and lift it out? So Jesus is saying that, 533 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 1: just like you would take your hand and something that 534 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: was valuable, you would pull it out. That's what he 535 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 1: wants to do for this man. He wants to take 536 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,360 Speaker 1: you where you are, in the place that nobody else 537 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:50,040 Speaker 1: can see that you struggle. Because here's the problem. All 538 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:56,280 Speaker 1: of us have one hand that looks just fine. All 539 00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,240 Speaker 1: of us have one hand, and it's an amazing miracle 540 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:04,120 Speaker 1: because Jesus skips over the hand that's working to get 541 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 1: to the one that won't work. He said to the man, 542 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,759 Speaker 1: this is such a crazy thing to say to somebody. 543 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:15,920 Speaker 1: Stretch out your hand. So he stretched it out and 544 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:21,160 Speaker 1: it was completely restored, just as sound as the other. 545 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,160 Speaker 1: The Lord showed me something in this sermon. It's kind 546 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:26,840 Speaker 1: of warm to wear a jacket, but I needed it 547 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,239 Speaker 1: to show you this that a lot of us walk 548 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:35,560 Speaker 1: around showing people the hand we want them to see it. 549 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 1: I am coming for your other hand today, the one 550 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:47,320 Speaker 1: that won't work. And don't feel bad about it, because 551 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:53,240 Speaker 1: everybody that you're sitting next to has another hand. There's 552 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,279 Speaker 1: the one that they show you, and there's the one 553 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,279 Speaker 1: that they know about and God knows about, but they've 554 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:03,640 Speaker 1: learned how to keep it very carefully contained. So nobody 555 00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:05,760 Speaker 1: other than the ones who live with them know about 556 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,000 Speaker 1: their anger issue because they're nice to the server at 557 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:13,960 Speaker 1: the restaurant. The other hand, nobody knows about the thing 558 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,799 Speaker 1: that they struggle within their own emotions because they make 559 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,719 Speaker 1: a lot of money. Nobody knows about the tears that 560 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:21,920 Speaker 1: they cry over, the things that they can't get straight 561 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,840 Speaker 1: in their mind, because in their life everything looks fine. 562 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:30,240 Speaker 1: But Jesus didn't want that hand. They wanted the other hand. 563 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,560 Speaker 1: And when the man stretched his hand out, the Bible 564 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:44,520 Speaker 1: says that it was completely restored. His hand has always 565 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:50,759 Speaker 1: been on you. It was his hand. How you just 566 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:54,880 Speaker 1: all of a sudden you felt like you could stand 567 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,440 Speaker 1: after thinking you had collapsed and something picked you up. 568 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,279 Speaker 1: That was his hand, That was his hand. It was 569 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:07,839 Speaker 1: his hand. But now it's time to stretch your hand 570 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:13,600 Speaker 1: because you still don't believe it. You still don't believe 571 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,719 Speaker 1: that you're the one He chose for that situation. You 572 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:18,919 Speaker 1: still don't believe you have what it takes. You still 573 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,480 Speaker 1: don't believe that He in you is more than enough. 574 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,680 Speaker 1: You still don't believe that you have a spirit without measure. 575 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,319 Speaker 1: You still don't believe that the gifts that you have 576 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:25,440 Speaker 1: are the ones that you're meant to have, and if 577 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:26,759 Speaker 1: you will grow and develop those, you will be able 578 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:28,879 Speaker 1: to accomplish everything God's called you to accomplished. You still 579 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,200 Speaker 1: don't believe that you still in the other people's hand, 580 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,160 Speaker 1: but you're looking at their good hand comparing it to 581 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:41,480 Speaker 1: your bad hand. The way this works in scripture is 582 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,839 Speaker 1: that Jesus is healing a man on the Sabbath, which 583 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,600 Speaker 1: is work, who has a condition that renders him unable 584 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:50,200 Speaker 1: to work. His entire identity has been consumed by this 585 00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:57,120 Speaker 1: one issue, and God did a miracle for him. Can't 586 00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:01,439 Speaker 1: he do the same thing for me? The other hand? 587 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:08,759 Speaker 1: The other hand, I said, Lord, let's talk about the 588 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:12,480 Speaker 1: mighty hand. But then he told me to talk about 589 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,120 Speaker 1: my hand, because to sit here and tell you, oh, 590 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:16,600 Speaker 1: God has had his hand on me, that makes it 591 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:22,239 Speaker 1: sound like God just makes it easy, like he just no. 592 00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,440 Speaker 1: You know how many times I've almost called Larry Bride 593 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:30,040 Speaker 1: on a Saturday night to tell him, I'll bet you 594 00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,920 Speaker 1: got to hope you got your backup sermon ready. And 595 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:34,319 Speaker 1: you think like, oh, well, you don't have much faith, 596 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:38,799 Speaker 1: you don't trust God. I trust God. This what's in 597 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,719 Speaker 1: my hand? I'm so glad y'all are up here. They're 598 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:47,000 Speaker 1: real judgmental, they're on judgment level ten today. What's that 599 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:51,080 Speaker 1: in your hand? He said? A staff. I'm kind of 600 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,120 Speaker 1: going back and forth between the man and the synagogue 601 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,080 Speaker 1: and God, and I know it's kind of confusing as 602 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,520 Speaker 1: I'm moving here. But you got to see Moses on 603 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,799 Speaker 1: the far far side of the wilderness, sheep for his 604 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:06,319 Speaker 1: father in law named Jethro, with a staff in his hand. 605 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,520 Speaker 1: And God said, what's that in your hand? And he 606 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:12,000 Speaker 1: said a staff? But when he set a staff, there's 607 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,600 Speaker 1: more symbolically contained in this answer than on the surface, 608 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:21,040 Speaker 1: because this is more than a stick. The only reason 609 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,360 Speaker 1: Moses is even holding a staff to begin with, is 610 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,560 Speaker 1: because of what he did forty years ago when he 611 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:32,240 Speaker 1: killed an Egyptian for beating one of his brothers. Because 612 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:34,040 Speaker 1: God's hand was on his life then, but he did 613 00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:39,360 Speaker 1: not handle it. Yet. You understand that when God wanted 614 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,520 Speaker 1: to show Moses who he was and what he could do, 615 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,600 Speaker 1: he points to something that is in his hand that 616 00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,160 Speaker 1: is a symbol of the mistake that he made that 617 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:52,400 Speaker 1: landed him in this place. And watch what he does, 618 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,360 Speaker 1: because this is the hand we need to talk about. 619 00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:56,920 Speaker 1: You're holding on the stuff so tight. Some of you 620 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,560 Speaker 1: have such a death grip. Your knuckles are white, holding 621 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,520 Speaker 1: on to your staff, holding on to your identity that 622 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,799 Speaker 1: you've told yourself this who I am, This who I'm 623 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,319 Speaker 1: gonna be. This is what I did. Yeah, you did it. 624 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:14,760 Speaker 1: Nobody's hands are cleaning here. None is righteous, no, not one. 625 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,160 Speaker 1: Nobody lifted their hands because they don't have any blood 626 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,319 Speaker 1: on them. I lifted my hands because his blood will 627 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:25,279 Speaker 1: cleanse me of all unrighteousness if I confess it and 628 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:30,680 Speaker 1: own it and give it to him. So it's not 629 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,560 Speaker 1: about God's hand. You've got more than enough aptitude, You've 630 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,919 Speaker 1: got more than enough experience, You've got more than enough height. 631 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,879 Speaker 1: You got the right feet, the right inches, you got 632 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,839 Speaker 1: the right genetics. It's all right there. It's never been 633 00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:47,520 Speaker 1: about his hand. Before you were born, he knit you together, 634 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:51,759 Speaker 1: before you were conceived, he set you apart. It's never 635 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:56,960 Speaker 1: been about his hand. God said, what's in yours? Before 636 00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:02,360 Speaker 1: God could use him, I really wanted to use him. 637 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:04,080 Speaker 1: He had to do what we all have to do. 638 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:08,719 Speaker 1: He had to take what was in his hand, not 639 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:13,400 Speaker 1: God's hand. God's hand is already He's already got the 640 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:17,239 Speaker 1: plagues loaded. He's already ready to unleash. That's not the 641 00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:22,239 Speaker 1: question anymore. But when Moses said his staff, God told 642 00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:28,640 Speaker 1: him what to do. Throw it on the ground. And 643 00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:32,719 Speaker 1: he threw it, and it became a snake. And he 644 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:37,239 Speaker 1: ran from it because he wasn't an idiot. I heard preachers. 645 00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:41,160 Speaker 1: I heard preachers here say, and Moses ran because he 646 00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,839 Speaker 1: still had not recognized the sovereignty of God. No, he 647 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:52,120 Speaker 1: ran because it's a snake, and run from snakes. How 648 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:56,239 Speaker 1: stupid do we have to be to think that? Now, 649 00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,200 Speaker 1: this makes it even more powerful with what God tells 650 00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:02,200 Speaker 1: him to do next, right, so he has to release 651 00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:08,680 Speaker 1: what's familiar. And then he asked to watch this. Reach 652 00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:14,160 Speaker 1: out Who's hand? Come on, y'all. I put it on 653 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:18,160 Speaker 1: the screen. Reach out your hand. And I know you're 654 00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:22,040 Speaker 1: praying about God's hand, but God is saying, reach out 655 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,160 Speaker 1: your hand. Do you know there's nothing God's hand can't do. 656 00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:30,040 Speaker 1: But there are some things God's hand won't do. God 657 00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:35,560 Speaker 1: did not pry Moses's fingers from the stick. He didn't 658 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:39,080 Speaker 1: do it. He won't do it. It's in your hand. Now. 659 00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:42,600 Speaker 1: There are some things that need deliverance. There are some 660 00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:47,640 Speaker 1: things that need discipline. God will let you use your 661 00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:50,680 Speaker 1: hand to lift a spoon with ice cream on it, 662 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,000 Speaker 1: or you can curl a dumbbell. It's in your hand 663 00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:56,960 Speaker 1: at that point, there are some things God will not. 664 00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:02,359 Speaker 1: Come on Moses. He throws it down, and then after 665 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,279 Speaker 1: he releases what's familiar. This is the process for me, 666 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,920 Speaker 1: for me because God has his hand on me, and 667 00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:11,040 Speaker 1: I know that that's not the question. It's a mighty hand, 668 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:16,680 Speaker 1: but my hand. Sometimes what's in my hand? And now 669 00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:21,279 Speaker 1: you have to release what's familiar, and he has to 670 00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:26,880 Speaker 1: reach for what he's afraid of. And in whose hand 671 00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:33,799 Speaker 1: Moses's hand a miracle happens. So what are you telling 672 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:39,480 Speaker 1: me preacher, you said the other hand, You said God's hand, 673 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:45,839 Speaker 1: then you said my hand. All right, well, the Lord said, 674 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:51,719 Speaker 1: everybody in here is going to need both hands in 675 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:55,560 Speaker 1: order to move forward. But the problem is the problem 676 00:42:55,640 --> 00:43:04,160 Speaker 1: is you won't bring God. What's really wrong with you? 677 00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:08,279 Speaker 1: You keep stretching out that good hand. You know what 678 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:13,960 Speaker 1: I never noticed after Moses's stick became a serpent, and 679 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,000 Speaker 1: then the serpent became a stick, and all these awesome 680 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,040 Speaker 1: things that happened when we let go and God transforms 681 00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,120 Speaker 1: our greatest spears into instruments of faith, that he would 682 00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:21,800 Speaker 1: go on to part the Red Sea with that staff. 683 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,640 Speaker 1: I know, I know all that I appreciate before. But 684 00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:27,879 Speaker 1: watch what God told him to do next, because he's saying, 685 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:29,239 Speaker 1: what if they don't believe me? What if I don't 686 00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,200 Speaker 1: believe me? God, I believe you. What if I don't 687 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,520 Speaker 1: believe me? What if they don't believe me? Look what 688 00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:41,640 Speaker 1: the Lord said, verse six, Please be nice to detect people. 689 00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:46,239 Speaker 1: They're tired. What's just Mossa holding his staff. Remember it 690 00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:48,200 Speaker 1: was a snake a minute ago. Ah, it's a staff. 691 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,160 Speaker 1: Now it's going to part waters. Wow, watch what God 692 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,000 Speaker 1: can do. He could change your greatest mistake into the 693 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:57,680 Speaker 1: instrument of your greatest miracle. Well, no, Pastor, I've heard 694 00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:01,920 Speaker 1: these cliches before. Your setback is sit up for all 695 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,920 Speaker 1: this stuff. Now I'm telling you what daily I have 696 00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,200 Speaker 1: to experience in my life is picking up the thing 697 00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,239 Speaker 1: I was afraid of. After releasing the thing I was 698 00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:15,160 Speaker 1: familiar with, what is in your hand? But then he tells, Moses, 699 00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:20,840 Speaker 1: put your hand inside your cloak. So how's he going 700 00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:24,040 Speaker 1: to do this? He's got the staff in his hand. 701 00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:33,400 Speaker 1: How's he gonna Oh, it's the other hand. The staff 702 00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:37,640 Speaker 1: represented what he did, but the other hand represents who 703 00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:43,920 Speaker 1: you think you are. Put your hand in your cloak, 704 00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:47,840 Speaker 1: he said. Moses put his hand in his cloak, and 705 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:53,640 Speaker 1: when he took it out, the skin was lepros. What 706 00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:59,200 Speaker 1: do you know about? Leprosy? Keeps you isolated, makes you ashamed, 707 00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:06,400 Speaker 1: just like Moses has been for these forty years because 708 00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:15,760 Speaker 1: of what he did. The other hand, nobody touches lepers. 709 00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:21,040 Speaker 1: Remember the leper in scripture. Everybody would tell him six 710 00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,400 Speaker 1: feet back, six feet back, six feet back. But one 711 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,600 Speaker 1: day when Jesus walked up, it was the first time 712 00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:32,799 Speaker 1: that he saw this. See, because nobody touches lepers. That's 713 00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,279 Speaker 1: what I see God doing. We're all standing at a 714 00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:37,359 Speaker 1: distance from what God gave us to do. I don't 715 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,120 Speaker 1: know if it's raising your kids. I don't know if 716 00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:41,919 Speaker 1: it's fully entering into the life that God has given 717 00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:46,080 Speaker 1: you right now or being content. But God said, put 718 00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:49,760 Speaker 1: your hand back in your cloak and pull it out. 719 00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:54,839 Speaker 1: And when he pulled his hand out next verse, it 720 00:45:54,880 --> 00:46:02,200 Speaker 1: was restored like the rest of his flesh. God wants 721 00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:06,960 Speaker 1: to restore your other hand. Your other hand, you know 722 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:10,560 Speaker 1: the one nod at me if you know the hand, 723 00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,279 Speaker 1: and you hope I don't mention your specific issue in 724 00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:17,719 Speaker 1: front of this whole August body of believers. I know 725 00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:22,839 Speaker 1: the one stretch that one for it. I see God 726 00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:27,600 Speaker 1: restoring your hand today because His hand has always been 727 00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:32,480 Speaker 1: on you. Holly preached an amazing message about the voice 728 00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,480 Speaker 1: of God last night to our youth. But let me 729 00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:37,360 Speaker 1: tell you something that she said that I really believe, 730 00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:40,240 Speaker 1: and I wrote a song about it when I was sixteen. 731 00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,600 Speaker 1: It was the first Christian song I ever wrote. Before that, 732 00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:49,000 Speaker 1: I was writing some songs that well, let's just say 733 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,080 Speaker 1: we won't be singing them on the arena tour and 734 00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,560 Speaker 1: putting it on a project on Spotify. It was some 735 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,480 Speaker 1: songs that never need to be heard by anybody, but 736 00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,279 Speaker 1: I wrote one that said out of someone thirty nine, 737 00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,480 Speaker 1: if I take the wings of mourning or dwell within 738 00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:08,799 Speaker 1: the sea, even there, your hand will lead me and 739 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:14,480 Speaker 1: your right hand will hold me fast. Who is it 740 00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:17,800 Speaker 1: for today that the Lord said, I want to restore 741 00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:23,400 Speaker 1: your hand? Did I see what you're grabbing onto that 742 00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:26,879 Speaker 1: you identify yourself with? And the signs that God gave 743 00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,240 Speaker 1: Moses were for God's glory, not for Moses. But before 744 00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:35,040 Speaker 1: God's glory could be revealed, Moses had to release something, 745 00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:39,120 Speaker 1: and so do you. And when he brought his hand 746 00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:46,719 Speaker 1: back out, it was restored. It was restored. God wants 747 00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:50,719 Speaker 1: to give you your hand back today. God wants to 748 00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:54,279 Speaker 1: give you your hand back today. God wants to enable you 749 00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:56,400 Speaker 1: to do by faith what you can't do in your 750 00:47:56,440 --> 00:48:00,279 Speaker 1: own effort. God's hand is still on your life. And 751 00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,120 Speaker 1: in case you have something in here that is bigger 752 00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,120 Speaker 1: than you, I want you to know that is a 753 00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:08,320 Speaker 1: job for God's hand. But God has given you a hand, 754 00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:12,319 Speaker 1: and symbolically, right now, I want you to see the 755 00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,480 Speaker 1: hand of God that has always been on your life. 756 00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:17,719 Speaker 1: In your hand that is holding on to what. If 757 00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:20,120 Speaker 1: you don't let go of it, you are never going 758 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:24,080 Speaker 1: to receive what you need for the season that you're in. 759 00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:27,640 Speaker 1: And all over this auditorium, I want you to lift 760 00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:31,839 Speaker 1: your hands to God, both of them. In fact, stand 761 00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:35,400 Speaker 1: up on your feet. We started this way, We're going 762 00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:45,640 Speaker 1: to end this way. What is that in your hand? 763 00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:50,319 Speaker 1: We can stand here the rest of our life on 764 00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:55,360 Speaker 1: the far side of the desert, Lord, clutching onto mistakes 765 00:48:55,360 --> 00:49:00,360 Speaker 1: we made and things we did. But you did for 766 00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,880 Speaker 1: that man who has mentioned in Matthew chapter twelve. I 767 00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:04,640 Speaker 1: believe you want to do for men and women under 768 00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:08,240 Speaker 1: the sound of my voice today and restore their hand 769 00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:14,120 Speaker 1: just like the other one. I thank you for the 770 00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,719 Speaker 1: signs of your provision and faithfulness and protection on my 771 00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,360 Speaker 1: life today. But I believe God that there are some 772 00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:22,359 Speaker 1: people that because of shame, they're hiding in isolation. They 773 00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:24,440 Speaker 1: feel like a leper themselves. They don't feel like they 774 00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:28,320 Speaker 1: can do it. In fact, they've considered giving up. Today. 775 00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:32,440 Speaker 1: You sent your word to heal them and restore their hand. 776 00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,600 Speaker 1: With your hands lifted, just pray it out loud, God, 777 00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:41,000 Speaker 1: restore my hand, restore my hand. I'm stretching it out now. 778 00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:45,799 Speaker 1: I'm stretching it to you no other help. I know. 779 00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:50,799 Speaker 1: I need your hand God for what has me in 780 00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:53,880 Speaker 1: it script. I need your hand, God for what I 781 00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:57,440 Speaker 1: can't get away from. From the memories and the thoughts 782 00:49:57,440 --> 00:49:59,239 Speaker 1: and the fears. God, you know what they are. But 783 00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:04,960 Speaker 1: I need your hand. Here's my hand. Here's the one 784 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:08,960 Speaker 1: I don't show anybody else. Here's the resentment I can't 785 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:12,640 Speaker 1: get let go of. Here's the thing I can't forgive. 786 00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:18,160 Speaker 1: Here's the thing for which I can't forgive myself. That hand. 787 00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:23,200 Speaker 1: Stretch it out right now, in God's presence. I believe 788 00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:28,160 Speaker 1: God is restoring hands. He's gonna give you the ability 789 00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:32,040 Speaker 1: to take hold of your calling again. Looks like a 790 00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:34,560 Speaker 1: snake right now, but it's gonna turn back into a 791 00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:43,080 Speaker 1: staff in your hand. I'm telling you, man, I'm telling you, 792 00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:44,799 Speaker 1: you reach out and take that by the tail, and 793 00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:47,680 Speaker 1: you trust him, and you're gonna watch it transform in 794 00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:51,720 Speaker 1: your hand, in your hand, in your hand. The miracle 795 00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,839 Speaker 1: is in your hand, not the good hand, not the look. 796 00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:58,640 Speaker 1: How great I am, how smart I am, how together 797 00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:02,040 Speaker 1: I am? That other hand that we can't that hand 798 00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:04,640 Speaker 1: that hasn't been able to do it. God said, today, 799 00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:13,719 Speaker 1: I'm touching that hand, that hand, that hand. Thank you Lord. 800 00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:18,560 Speaker 1: When you showed me this message, I cried God, because 801 00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:21,840 Speaker 1: you showed me that somebody is going home with the 802 00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:22,800 Speaker 1: other hand working. 803 00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:37,840 Speaker 6: I don't know who it is, God, but you do. 804 00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:41,279 Speaker 6: You brought them here today. You wanted them to know 805 00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:48,040 Speaker 6: that they don't have to hide their head. You wanted 806 00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:50,040 Speaker 6: them to know that your hand is still on them. 807 00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:57,080 Speaker 6: You're not afraid to touch them. You wanted them to 808 00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:02,040 Speaker 6: remember that you have a mighty hand and that even 809 00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:06,600 Speaker 6: if their hand is withered, if they will stretch. 810 00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:12,840 Speaker 1: It out, then it'll be made hold. Oh God, I 811 00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:23,760 Speaker 1: feel so stupid right in front of these people right now. Okay, 812 00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:31,440 Speaker 1: I know what it feels like to believe that your 813 00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:33,680 Speaker 1: hand is strong, but to know that my hand is weak. 814 00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:40,520 Speaker 1: And yet you've taught me that what Pastor Mickey told me, 815 00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:52,480 Speaker 1: it's true. God's hands all my life. Thank you for 816 00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,120 Speaker 1: joining us. Special thanks to those of you who give 817 00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:58,080 Speaker 1: generously to this ministry. 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