Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
Speaker 1: this inspires you.
Speaker 3: Hope it builds your faith.
Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving
Speaker 2: in your life.
Speaker 3: Enjoy the message. Time.
Speaker 2: Oh, he's on time, and I better start my sermon
Speaker 2: because you won't be leaving on time.
Speaker 1: If we keep singing, we could sing it all day long. Wow,
Speaker 1: Praise the Lord.
Speaker 2: Let's give him an other hand of praise for his
Speaker 2: faithfulness to us. Hey, welcome to all of our locations
Speaker 2: today around we bless you in Jesus. May this word
Speaker 2: find you well and blessed, prospering good health even as
Speaker 2: your soul prospers. Speak the blessing of Almighty God over
Speaker 2: your family, your business, your house, your endeavors. If you're
Speaker 2: in school, I pray the blessing of God over your
Speaker 2: end of the semester. I just pray that God will
Speaker 2: meet you today. We are in the middle of a teaching.
Speaker 1: Called ghost writer.
Speaker 2: Put my graphic on the screen, would you please. I'm
Speaker 2: so proud of this graphic they made for me.
Speaker 1: You see how that book. Can you see it?
Speaker 2: How there's something blowing on those pages and it looks.
Speaker 1: Like they're about to turn.
Speaker 2: That's the Holy Spirit that is blowing on the story
Speaker 2: of your life, getting ready to take you into a
Speaker 2: new chapter where there will be faith and challenges, where
Speaker 2: there will be blessings and burdens, where there will be uncertainty,
Speaker 2: but there will also be the unshakable presence of Almighty God.
Speaker 2: This series was inspired to me just reading through the
Speaker 2: Book of Acts with my family Bible Club, and I
Speaker 2: asked them for permission to invite and include our whole
Speaker 2: church on our journey through the Book of Acts.
Speaker 1: That's what we're doing today.
Speaker 2: Please stand on your feet wherever you are, if you
Speaker 2: are physically able, and I want to share with you
Speaker 2: the scripture for today the lesson. Go ahead and bring
Speaker 2: the screen too while I'm sharing, would you? And maybe, maybe,
Speaker 2: just maybe God will speak something to you so incredible
Speaker 2: today that you'll be talking about it years from now.
Speaker 2: In Acts Chapter one, Acts Chapter one, I thought that
Speaker 2: we would be an Acts chapter two this week because
Speaker 2: we were in Acts chapter one last week. But the
Speaker 2: Lord had unfinished business, and so in Acts chapter one
Speaker 2: we see the disciples, you know, walked into a middle
Speaker 2: of a movie and try to ask somebody to explain it,
Speaker 2: and they were like, shut up, you're annoying.
Speaker 1: You should have been there. Just sit down and catch up.
Speaker 2: That's kind of how the people feel who come to
Speaker 2: church every week and they're like, you know, get onto
Speaker 2: the next one.
Speaker 1: They didn't come last week. It's their fault. But be nice. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, be nice, Let's catch the whole class up.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost,
Speaker 2: and how a lot of times when somebody sits down,
Speaker 2: if they're say maybe an athlete or musician, and they
Speaker 2: want to write the story of their life a memoir
Speaker 2: or an autobiography, they'll get a ghostwriter, and the ghostwriter
Speaker 2: will take the events that happened to the person and
Speaker 2: translate them to the written page. Now, I think we
Speaker 2: need somebody in our life to help us translate some
Speaker 2: of the trauma that we've been through, some of the
Speaker 2: tests that we're going through, and especially to help us
Speaker 2: when there's a long period of time between what we're
Speaker 2: believing for and where we are currently being stationed. So
Speaker 2: this is the situation for the disciples. They're waiting for
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit to come. Jesus has risen from the grave.
Speaker 2: He's going to send this wonderful Holy Spirit. He has
Speaker 2: sent the Holy Spirit to us to live in all
Speaker 2: of us who call on the name of Jesus. But
Speaker 2: they are waiting in a space of ten days for
Speaker 2: this to happen, and they're praying, and they need to
Speaker 2: do something about Judas, who betrayed Jesus and then hanged himself.
Speaker 2: But they have to replace him before they can go
Speaker 2: forward with the mission. And I'll pick up there and
Speaker 2: acts chapter one, verse twenty for said Peter. It is
Speaker 2: written in the Book of Psalms, may his place be deserted,
Speaker 2: let there be no one to dwell in it, and
Speaker 2: may another take his place of leadership.
Speaker 1: Therefore, or it is necessary to choose.
Speaker 2: One of the men who have been with us the
Speaker 2: whole time the Lord Jesus was living among us, beginning
Speaker 2: from John's baptism to the time when Jesus was taken
Speaker 2: up from us, up all the things to be taken
Speaker 2: from you. Imagine the Savior was walking with you, giving
Speaker 2: you step by step instructions, turn by turn.
Speaker 1: Navigation, and suddenly he's gone.
Speaker 2: Do you all remember when the AT and T network
Speaker 2: shut down a couple of months ago for like three hours,
Speaker 2: and we all thought the rapture was next, and we
Speaker 2: were all looking for white horses, because for me, my
Speaker 2: sense of direction is so poor. I don't even know
Speaker 2: if I can make it to the bathroom without my GPS.
Speaker 2: So I wasn't worried about text messages not coming through.
Speaker 1: I was worried about my GPS.
Speaker 2: Well, Jesus was the GPS of the disciples, and he
Speaker 2: is taken from them. But Peter stands up and says,
Speaker 2: we've got to move forward, even though we are missing
Speaker 2: what matters the most to us.
Speaker 1: It's difficult place to be, and we'll talk about it today.
Speaker 2: But look at this, he said, We've got to take
Speaker 2: somebody who's been with us the whole time, and they
Speaker 2: must become Verse twenty two, a witness with us of
Speaker 2: his resurrection. So they nominated two men Joseph called Barsabas, also.
Speaker 1: Known as Justice and Matthias.
Speaker 2: Then they prayed, very good idea, when you've got a
Speaker 2: mission to change the world and you're a fisherman, you
Speaker 2: better pray. Tell somebody you better pray. Look at him
Speaker 2: again and say I'm serious. You look like you need
Speaker 2: to pray. You look like you didn't pray enough this week.
Speaker 2: You better pray more this week. Then they prayed. Lord,
Speaker 2: you know everyone's heart. Show us which of these two
Speaker 2: you have chosen to take over this apostolic ministry. Which
Speaker 2: Judas left to go where he belongs? So Jesus left
Speaker 2: to go where he belongs, the right hand of the father.
Speaker 2: Judas left to go where he belus, not the right
Speaker 2: hand to the father.
Speaker 1: And look at this.
Speaker 2: They cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias, so
Speaker 2: he was added to the eleven Apostles. Just two verses
Speaker 2: from chapter two. And then I'll see you and preach
Speaker 2: a little bit. When the day of Pentecost came, they
Speaker 2: were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like
Speaker 2: the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and
Speaker 2: filled the whole house where they were sitting, and filled
Speaker 2: the whole house. Now, last week I talked about page turner. Huh,
Speaker 2: how there's more to your story and God is the
Speaker 2: page turner. This week I want to talk to you
Speaker 2: about something different. I want to talk to you about
Speaker 2: the plot hole. The plot hole, and that doesn't sound
Speaker 2: as exciting, but it is so essential.
Speaker 1: Father helped me to do it in Jesus' name.
Speaker 2: Amen, you may be seen it a plot hole.
Speaker 1: Plot hole. Are you familiar with the term plot hole? Yes? No,
Speaker 1: a little bit? Maybe?
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I don't know if this screen is helpful.
Speaker 2: I've been drawing and writing things on the screen the
Speaker 2: last few weeks just to give you more of a visual.
Speaker 2: My handwriting might be more distracting than the visual is helpful.
Speaker 2: Just trying to teach the Bible with the handwriting of
Speaker 2: a serial killer is as challenge. Now plot hole, Now
Speaker 2: hold on, let me clarify this. You might be thinking, well,
Speaker 2: I've heard of a plot twist, but that's different than
Speaker 2: a plot hole. Some kind of building on this theme
Speaker 2: of story, right, The Holy Spirit wants to help you
Speaker 2: tell your story. The story you tell to yourself, the
Speaker 2: story that your life tells to the world.
Speaker 1: What you tell yourself about why your.
Speaker 2: Dad didn't stay to raise you might determine whether or
Speaker 2: not you go on to be the dad that you
Speaker 2: never had.
Speaker 1: The story that you tell yourself.
Speaker 2: About why you're a little bit behind in this area
Speaker 2: might determine whether you get motivated to see if you
Speaker 2: can catch up. Or maybe to know that I'm not
Speaker 2: even supposed to be running their race and I'm not
Speaker 2: behind at all. Whether you give up and just sit
Speaker 2: on the sidelines, or whether you stay in it and
Speaker 2: keep moving. So, since the disciples have the story, the
Speaker 2: most important story to tell to the world, the story
Speaker 2: of the Gospel, the life, the death, the resurrection, and
Speaker 2: the coming again of Jesus Christ, they need help and
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, the ghost writer, is
Speaker 2: going to help them tell the story.
Speaker 1: And with every story, you need something to happen.
Speaker 2: Like, it's no good to watch a movie if there
Speaker 2: isn't a plot twist. One of my friends, uh, wanted
Speaker 2: to buy a car, and he bought it and drove
Speaker 2: it home.
Speaker 1: So we're not gonna make a movie about that, right,
Speaker 1: something needs to happen.
Speaker 2: He wants to buy a car, he buys the car,
Speaker 2: only it's not a car at all. It's a steal
Speaker 2: death trap. Yeah, there's you know, there's a bomb underneath
Speaker 2: it or something like that. Now now we're listening. That's
Speaker 2: a plot twist. A plot twist is something in a story,
Speaker 2: is an element that is unexpected but it's intentional. That's
Speaker 2: a plot twist. I think about the people that are
Speaker 2: listening to this on a podcast and they don't see
Speaker 2: me riding on the board, and all they hear is
Speaker 2: kick kick.
Speaker 1: Kick K kick kick kick k kick kick kick kick.
Speaker 2: That must be really annoying. But let just wrote the
Speaker 2: words unexpected and intentional. Everybody say unexpected but intentional, okay.
Speaker 2: An example of a plot twist that probably everybody would
Speaker 2: be familiar.
Speaker 1: With, No, I am your father. That's a plot twist.
Speaker 1: Spoiler alert if you hadn't seen Star Wars from nineteen.
Speaker 2: Eighty, that's a plot twist. It's where the person telling
Speaker 2: the story was always taking it. You just didn't know, okay,
Speaker 2: And those are fun. Plot twists are fun. That's why
Speaker 2: we buy the ticket to go see it. A plot
Speaker 2: hole is a different thing. A plot hole is something
Speaker 2: in a story that doesn't make sense, but instead of
Speaker 2: being unexpected and intentional, it feels unresolved and illogical. It
Speaker 2: feels like, wait a minute, that that doesn't make sense,
Speaker 2: and I don't think they meant for it not to
Speaker 2: make sense. You ever been watching a show and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, like the main character does something that
Speaker 2: that main character totally would not.
Speaker 1: Do, but it's not a character arc.
Speaker 2: It's not a you know, a chemistry teacher starting to
Speaker 2: make meths so he can pay for his son's medical bills.
Speaker 2: Because that's interesting and intentional. That's where the story was
Speaker 2: always going. That's why they called it Breaking Bad, and
Speaker 2: so they told you in the title where it was going.
Speaker 2: That's a plot twist. A plot hole is different. A
Speaker 2: plot hole is this. I'll give you an example of
Speaker 2: a plot hole. Now, it's Daniel's son. Hold on, y'all,
Speaker 2: all right, that's as far as I'm gonna go with it.
Speaker 1: Felt something in my hip.
Speaker 2: It's Daniel son and the Karate Kid, and he wins
Speaker 2: the tournament by kicking Johnny in the face. But earlier
Speaker 2: in the movie The Karate Kid, we learned that kicks
Speaker 2: to the face were illegal. So how did he win
Speaker 2: the tournament if he did the thing that was illegal.
Speaker 1: The answer is somebody just screwed up. Huh.
Speaker 2: Somebody in the scriptor in the editing room. They didn't
Speaker 2: think the whole thing through. That's called a plot hole,
Speaker 2: not a twist. The twist is Daniel's son gets beats up,
Speaker 2: paints fences, and wax his cars, and then kicks the guy.
Speaker 1: In the face.
Speaker 2: The plot hole is he was supposed to get disqualified
Speaker 2: for kicking him in the face.
Speaker 1: This is a very deep church, by the way.
Speaker 2: Okay, we talk about deep things all the time here.
Speaker 1: That's a plot hole. See the difference.
Speaker 2: My favorite plot hole of all time is from the
Speaker 2: TV show Friday Night Lights. There's a character in Friday
Speaker 2: Night Lights named Buddy Garretty who has a daughter named
Speaker 2: Lilah Garritty. And in one of the episodes of Friday
Speaker 2: Night Lights, Buddy and Lila are having a fight and
Speaker 2: Lilah Garretty, Buddy Garretty's daughter, takes her car.
Speaker 1: And I forgot to tell you this. Buddy Garritty owns a.
Speaker 2: Car dealership and he's a booster for the Dylan Panthers.
Speaker 2: And so Lilah is so mad at her dad, Buddy Garrity,
Speaker 2: she drives her car through the front window of his
Speaker 2: showroom and the episode ends. Next episode, the window is back.
Speaker 2: She doesn't get beat, she doesn't get grounded. They're completely fine.
Speaker 2: We were watching that. We looked at each other and wait,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, did we miss an episode? Did we
Speaker 2: skip an episode? No, it's a plot hole, And in
Speaker 2: that particular instance, our family loved it so much we
Speaker 2: created a rule in our family called watch this the garrity,
Speaker 2: named after Buddy and Lila Garritty.
Speaker 1: It's when you do something.
Speaker 2: Dumb in our family, like the equivalent of driving a
Speaker 2: car through a window, and you want to to be
Speaker 2: as if it never happened, you can call a family verdict,
Speaker 2: family counsel and.
Speaker 1: Ask for a garrity. And here's here's the rule.
Speaker 2: Though, everybody in the family has to unanimously agree.
Speaker 1: To give you a garrity. And if everybody agrees to.
Speaker 2: Give you a garrity, we can never mention it.
Speaker 1: But everybody has to agree.
Speaker 2: And many garrityes have been given in our family, and
Speaker 2: many garrityes have been with hell, there's even a subworld
Speaker 2: to this world. There's there's a lot to this little game.
Speaker 2: You can get Elilah. Alilah is when the family can
Speaker 2: talk about it and not around others.
Speaker 1: It's a whole thing.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna teach my parenting class once all of my
Speaker 2: kids are fifty years old and older.
Speaker 1: But that's what we're working on now.
Speaker 2: Let me bring this all together, hopefully, and there's hopefully
Speaker 2: a twist, but not a hole.
Speaker 1: In it.
Speaker 2: When I finish with it, okay, is unresolved and illogical.
Speaker 2: It doesn't match the rules of the world that have
Speaker 2: been created. It makes no sense, and it wasn't intentional.
Speaker 2: Plot twist is it doesn't make sense right now, but
Speaker 2: it will because the author intended it. In Acts Chapter one,
Speaker 2: we are in the midst of the greatest plot twist
Speaker 2: in human history, where death became defeated, and where the
Speaker 2: grave became a trophy of the grace of God, who
Speaker 2: is greater than the violence of men and the sins
Speaker 2: of your heart, and who has overthrown everything that stands
Speaker 2: between you and Him forever and ever. For the disciples,
Speaker 2: though what now is clearly to us through the lens
Speaker 2: of history a plot twist felt like a plot hole
Speaker 2: because they didn't know when he went to the cross
Speaker 2: that he would get up, even though he told them
Speaker 2: he would. Because would you believe your friend if he
Speaker 2: said that. Would you believe your boss if he said that?
Speaker 2: Neither did they really they were shot by the cross
Speaker 2: because what for us has become the jewelry that we
Speaker 2: wear to remember the plot twist. Here's the plot twist.
Speaker 2: We were sinners, enemies of.
Speaker 1: God, but God, that's a plot twist.
Speaker 2: But God, somebody say, but God put it in the comments,
Speaker 2: but God. Yeah, But God, who is rich in mercy,
Speaker 2: demonstrated his own love for us in this that while
Speaker 2: we were still sinners, Christ died for us. So we
Speaker 2: shout about that, but they couldn't. Because when you're living
Speaker 2: in it, it doesn't feel like a twist.
Speaker 1: It feels like a hole.
Speaker 2: It doesn't feel like a twist when you don't know
Speaker 2: how it ends. I'm speaking to somebody today who feels
Speaker 2: like I'm in a plot hole right now, not knowing
Speaker 2: how this will make sense, and pretty sure that it
Speaker 2: never will.
Speaker 1: He just walked out on me.
Speaker 2: He did not explain it, and I did not deserve
Speaker 2: to be abandoned like that. To be in that kind
Speaker 2: of moment in your life, it does not satisfy to
Speaker 2: give spiritual superlose to say to you in those moments, smile,
Speaker 2: Everything's gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: God's got your back.
Speaker 2: Because while it may be a plot twist, I experience
Speaker 2: it as a whole. When you're living in it, it
Speaker 2: doesn't feel like a twist because it hasn't turned around
Speaker 2: just yet.
Speaker 1: Who am I preaching to today?
Speaker 2: Added to the trauma that they are still recovering from
Speaker 2: of watching watch this.
Speaker 1: The innocent one be treated as a criminal.
Speaker 2: To us, that's a plot twist, because we understand that
Speaker 2: we were criminals treated as innocent ones. He was an
Speaker 2: innocent one treated as a criminal to us.
Speaker 1: That's a twist. To them, it was a whole to them,
Speaker 1: it was the end.
Speaker 2: To them, the cross meant the end of his mission,
Speaker 2: and yet what they saw as the end of the
Speaker 2: mission from his perspective, was really its fulfillment. I wonder
Speaker 2: could that be true of some of the things that
Speaker 2: you're going through in your life right now too, That
Speaker 2: these apostles who are waiting for the Holy Spirit. Let's
Speaker 2: talk about waiting for the Holy Spirit. You don't have
Speaker 2: to do that. He already came. Now imagine this, Jesus
Speaker 2: is not here anymore, and either is the Spirit that
Speaker 2: he said is coming. Put yourself in that position. And
Speaker 2: this is what's real crazy about it. You're going to
Speaker 2: talk about a plot hole. A plot hole when something
Speaker 2: happens is just completely random and ridiculous. A plot hole
Speaker 2: when something happens that you completely.
Speaker 1: Don't expect and it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: All right, Let me show you how little sense this makes,
Speaker 2: and maybe this will encourage you for your own situation today.
Speaker 2: In Acts chapter one that I just read you, the
Speaker 2: Bible says something that if you don't trust the author
Speaker 2: of this story, you might even think this is a
Speaker 2: plot hole. You might stop reading the Bible because it says,
Speaker 2: for said Peter, it is written.
Speaker 1: In a book of Psalms.
Speaker 2: If you've been reading your Bible up to this point,
Speaker 2: we have seen Peter.
Speaker 1: I don't mean to bring up his lowest moment when.
Speaker 2: Jesus was being crucified. He was cussing. So we have
Speaker 2: seen Peter cussing while Christ.
Speaker 1: Was being crucified. Now this guy who.
Speaker 2: Was cussing while Christ was being crucified is quoting not
Speaker 2: only the Bible, but the most.
Speaker 1: Beautiful book of the Bible, the Book of Songs.
Speaker 2: That's almost a plot hole that somebody could be cussing
Speaker 2: one moment and quoting Psalms the next moment.
Speaker 1: But won't God do it? I said, won't God do it?
Speaker 1: Because it can go the other way too.
Speaker 2: Some of you who are singing real beautiful songs in
Speaker 2: church today, let's see when the traffic hits tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Are you still quoting the Lord is good. I sought
Speaker 1: the Lord high up.
Speaker 2: That's a plot hole right there. Christians that don't act
Speaker 2: like Christians and sinner that start acting like saints. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you could change. You could change. You can change, you
Speaker 2: can change. That's what I heard when I said, for
Speaker 2: it is written in the book of Psalms, said Peter.
Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, if the one who was cussing
Speaker 2: can start quoting the scriptures, then there is hope for
Speaker 2: everybody I'm going to preach to today. Then I don't
Speaker 2: care if you're watching this in prison. I don't care
Speaker 2: if you're watching this addicted. I don't care if you're
Speaker 2: trying to reach for a pill while I'm preaching. This
Speaker 2: powerful grace of Almighty God.
Speaker 1: Can twist the plot. Ah, lift you up out of
Speaker 1: your pit. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: That's who I'm praising, the plot twister, the page turner.
Speaker 1: Who I can be cussing one minute and preaching the next.
Speaker 1: Get ready for.
Speaker 4: A revolution in your life.
Speaker 2: Your kids might shock you. Yet, your kid might not
Speaker 2: even have graduated high school and they might end up
Speaker 2: doing a ted talk that people who are professors at
Speaker 2: Harvard end.
Speaker 1: Up watching on YouTube.
Speaker 2: This is a twist. Tell somebody, it's a twist. It's
Speaker 2: a twist from cussing to quoting. It's a twist from
Speaker 2: sorrow and mourning to the oil of gladness and joy.
Speaker 1: It's the twist.
Speaker 2: Now, some people twist the truth, but sometimes the truth
Speaker 2: will twist you. And that's why Jesus said to Peter
Speaker 2: before he left the earth, to send the precious Holy
Speaker 2: Spirit after you have turned back, after you have turned back.
Speaker 1: He hadn't even messed up yet.
Speaker 2: The Lord was predicting the comeback before the fall even occurred.
Speaker 1: How does that make you feel? How does that make
Speaker 1: you feel about your failure?
Speaker 2: Now, y'aught to feel a little bit better about.
Speaker 1: Your future.
Speaker 2: Because God saw your failure from the future and he's still.
Speaker 1: With you in it. We got to go quicker than this, y'all.
Speaker 2: We're on the first verse of the same passage I'd
Speaker 2: freached last week. But I think that if I can
Speaker 2: show you this, you really understand the heart of it
Speaker 2: for the moments in your life that.
Speaker 1: Feel like a plot hole.
Speaker 2: Now, seeing about several categories, I was thinking about how
Speaker 2: a plot hole is not only when somebody drives the
Speaker 2: car through the glass and they act like it never happened.
Speaker 2: It's not only the event, it's when the individual does
Speaker 2: something that's completely out of character, like this in the text.
Speaker 2: And so that could mean for you that you were
Speaker 2: doing so good and then hit a setback, you were
Speaker 2: sober so long, and then one night, one business trip.
Speaker 2: That could mean for you that you thought that people
Speaker 2: who treated people with kindness received kindness in return, and
Speaker 2: you did it, And you really should have known better,
Speaker 2: because Christians follow Christ, and he gave nothing but good
Speaker 2: and received evil in return and returned kindness and grace
Speaker 2: for evil.
Speaker 5: But even though it's easy for us to see that
Speaker 5: in the story of Jesus, it is so art to
Speaker 5: see that in the story of You. Please tell your
Speaker 5: neighbors so they're not confused. I'm not Jesus, so it's
Speaker 5: not easy for me to believe this stuff when I'm
Speaker 5: living in it. You're living in a.
Speaker 2: Twist, but it feels like a hole. You're living in
Speaker 2: a new beginning, but it feels like the ending. Every
Speaker 2: new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. I think
Speaker 2: that was a song from the nineties. I'm not sure who.
Speaker 2: I just ripped off with that quote, but it felt
Speaker 2: annoyed when I said it. So I said it and
Speaker 2: I let it fly. Yeah, it's closing time. That's what
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: That's what it is. I remember it. Don't copyright strike me.
Speaker 2: And he said, watch this, he said, two scriptures from
Speaker 2: the book of Psalms.
Speaker 1: Now he's reaching back to go forward. I want you
Speaker 1: to understand.
Speaker 2: That sometimes I have to reach back to go forward.
Speaker 2: He reaches all the way back to David and he
Speaker 2: quotes something that David said in Psalms sixty nine. That's
Speaker 2: the first thing Psalm sixty nine to twenty five. David
Speaker 2: is talking about someone who took over the throne, but
Speaker 2: they didn't have the rightful place. And David said, may
Speaker 2: his place be deserted, let there be no one to
Speaker 2: dwell in it. So, in other words, he's saying, get
Speaker 2: the wrong people out of the right places. And how
Speaker 2: many want God to do that in your life. I
Speaker 2: don't want the wrong best friends. I don't want the
Speaker 2: wrong boyfriend. I don't want the wrong confidence. I don't
Speaker 2: want the wrong enemies in my mind, I don't want
Speaker 2: to be pushing people away from me that God is
Speaker 2: trying to send to me to help me. So now
Speaker 2: Peter has a plot hole. I'm waiting for the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: I am a.
Speaker 2: Failure because of my lack of courage at the moment
Speaker 2: of his crucifixion. But he he starts quoting scripture and
Speaker 2: applying it to his life.
Speaker 1: Watch not just one scripture, look at.
Speaker 2: The second one, and may another take his place of leadership.
Speaker 2: They're talking about Judas, but see David wasn't talking about Judas.
Speaker 1: David was talking about something totally different.
Speaker 2: This is from Psalm Oh shoot, is it one oh nine,
Speaker 2: verse eight, something like that. Please pray for me that
Speaker 2: that's the right Psalm. Up, Dard, it's round there writing
Speaker 2: about some one oh something other right there on the
Speaker 2: ing him verse. He is in there somewhere. How many
Speaker 2: y'all use that approach.
Speaker 1: To the Bible? He is in there somewhere. I know
Speaker 1: he's in there somewhere. Well, Peter didn't have to say
Speaker 1: is in there somewhere? He had read some things. This
Speaker 1: is not It's on the surface it kind of looks
Speaker 1: like Peter is doing.
Speaker 2: Did you'll ever hear the old preacher story about the
Speaker 2: guy who he needed God to help him make a decision?
Speaker 2: So he said all right, Lord, I'm just gonna flip
Speaker 2: my Bible open and the first thing it lands on,
Speaker 2: I'm a point and I'm gonna do it. So he
Speaker 2: flipped his Bible open and pointed, and the scripture that
Speaker 2: his finger landed on said Judas went and hanged himself.
Speaker 2: He said, oh Lord, let me turn the page. Try
Speaker 2: another one. And he did it again, and it said, uh,
Speaker 2: go thow and do likewise.
Speaker 1: And he said, well, I'm gonna try one more time.
Speaker 2: Whatever thou doest, do it quickly. And so he closed
Speaker 2: the Bible. He said that don't work. And it seemed
Speaker 2: like Peter. It seemed like Peter is just trying scriptures
Speaker 2: like a well.
Speaker 1: This one song says that he's left it is early.
Speaker 1: Let another ticket of leadership.
Speaker 2: No, no, this is a very systematic student you're watching here.
Speaker 1: Don't get it twisted about Peter.
Speaker 2: These psalms were actually known as psalms that referred to
Speaker 2: the righteous sufferer Jesus Christ. So not only were they
Speaker 2: pointing to Jesus, but they were pointing to Peter's situation too.
Speaker 1: And I need you to know.
Speaker 2: That God has a back then word for whatever is
Speaker 2: your right now situation. Yeah, and and may another take
Speaker 2: his place of leadership. So he's saying, Lord, I need
Speaker 2: you to not only move the wrong stuff out, how
Speaker 2: many need God to move some clutter out of your
Speaker 2: life in this season, some wrong thoughts, some wrong paradigms,
Speaker 2: some dirty habits, some nasty thoughts, some things that are
Speaker 2: keeping you bound and in chain. And you smell like
Speaker 2: what you've been through and you need a change of clothes.
Speaker 2: So not only is Peter saying take all of that away,
Speaker 2: but he's also saying, put in what needs to be
Speaker 2: put in, put in what needs to be put in.
Speaker 2: Let another take his place of leadership, put in what
Speaker 2: needs to be put in. And that's exactly what's about
Speaker 2: to happen on the day of Pentecost. God is about
Speaker 2: to put in exactly what needs to be put in.
Speaker 2: And what they need is not human resources. And what
Speaker 2: they need is not just to have a nice, pleasant
Speaker 2: time about it. And what they need is not for
Speaker 2: Judas to have never betrayed Jesus. Stop revising the way
Speaker 2: you wish it would have went in your mind. It
Speaker 2: didn't go that way. What they need is the power
Speaker 2: of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: What I needed, say it out loud, What I need
Speaker 1: is the power of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2: What I need is the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2: What I need is the plan I felt God on
Speaker 2: that one. I need the plan of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2: And this is where it gets very interesting in your life,
Speaker 2: because it is amazing that Peter knew what was necessary.
Speaker 1: I'm going to spend a few minutes on this word necessary.
Speaker 2: I need God to show me in this season of
Speaker 2: my life, what is necessary where it is necessary for
Speaker 2: me to spend my time, where it is necessary for
Speaker 2: me to put my money, where it is necessary, necessary
Speaker 2: for me to invest in relationships that will be fruitful.
Speaker 2: And I don't just mean that people are supposed to
Speaker 2: always be helping me. Show me who I'm supposed to help.
Speaker 2: Y'all don't like that one as much. Show me who
Speaker 2: to be a blessing. To show me who to convert
Speaker 2: the bitterness of my regret into the wisdom of experience
Speaker 2: so that somebody else never has to hurt like I
Speaker 2: had to hurt. I need to know what's necessary.
Speaker 1: And my question is this okay?
Speaker 2: Because we know the twist the Holy Spirit is coming.
Speaker 1: We know the twist, the sound of a mighty rushing wind.
Speaker 1: We know the twist.
Speaker 2: They all speak in other tongues, and they all hear
Speaker 2: it in their own languages. And the Gospel goes forth
Speaker 2: and fills the earth. But remember before the Gospel filled
Speaker 2: the earth, God had to fill them.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it again.
Speaker 2: Before the Gospel could fill the earth, God had to
Speaker 2: fill them. Before the mission can go forward, I need
Speaker 2: God to fill me. Somebody say, fill me, Lord with
Speaker 2: your wisdom, fill me, Lord with your ways, fill me,
Speaker 2: Lord with your will. Now you've heard of the Sinner's prayer,
Speaker 2: before the sinner's prayer, Lord, be merciful to me a sinner.
Speaker 2: Or maybe you've been through recovery and you heard of
Speaker 2: the serenity prayer. God grant me the It's good, but
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: Remember it at the moment. Something about the.
Speaker 2: Courage to the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Speaker 2: the courage to change the things I can, and the
Speaker 2: wisdom to.
Speaker 1: Know the difference about like that. Well, this is different
Speaker 1: prayer I want to give you today. Those are beautiful.
Speaker 2: I cannot add to those, and I never would subtract
Speaker 2: from them. But I won't teach you a prayer called
Speaker 2: the plot hole prayer. For you to pray when it
Speaker 2: makes no sense. I'm gonna give this to you, and
Speaker 2: I only pray. The only thing I ask in return
Speaker 2: is use this sucker. Now you're like, but I don't
Speaker 2: know if it went to yet. It's from the Bible.
Speaker 2: I'm about to show you. It's only in the Bible.
Speaker 2: I'm not I didn't make it up. It's when Peter
Speaker 2: is trying to figure out what to do next. Are
Speaker 2: you trying to figure out what to do next? Okay,
Speaker 2: then you need this prayer. It's when Peter is in
Speaker 2: a position that is new for him. Are you in
Speaker 2: a season of life that is new for you? Come on,
Speaker 2: everybody over fifty five, it's new to be old. And
Speaker 2: I'm going to show you two things. I'll come back
Speaker 2: here in a moment, but let.
Speaker 1: Me get to it. They nominate two men, and they know.
Speaker 2: For a fact that they are nowhere near smart enough
Speaker 2: to know what to do next.
Speaker 1: And they're probably smart enough to know.
Speaker 2: That they would have picked Judas if they had been
Speaker 2: given the choice, and that didn't turn out too good.
Speaker 1: So they pray. Okay, they prayed.
Speaker 2: Lord, you know everyone's heart, Show us which of these
Speaker 2: two you have chosen.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: The essence of the prayer is this, God, help me
Speaker 2: choose what you've chosen. To believe that you have a
Speaker 2: path for me, that you have a plot for me,
Speaker 2: that you have a purpose for me, that you have
Speaker 2: a calling on my life, that you have an anointing
Speaker 2: on my life. That you gave me your spirit for
Speaker 2: an assignment, not just for leisure. I believe that, Lord,
Speaker 2: so believing that you have given me an assignment, and
Speaker 2: believing that you are writing a story that.
Speaker 1: Is unfolding with time in my life.
Speaker 2: I want to pray this prayer like Peter prayed. Lord,
Speaker 2: you know, show us that's the plot hole prayer people,
Speaker 2: when you don't know why it happened, when you don't
Speaker 2: know how it will, when you don't know what would
Speaker 2: possess somebody to act like that, and why didn't God
Speaker 2: stop it?
Speaker 1: Pray this Lord, you know, show us.
Speaker 2: Now, whatever you need to put in that blank, fill
Speaker 2: it in, because they prayed. Lord, you know everyone's heart.
Speaker 2: And by the way, this is how I would show
Speaker 2: you in the Bible if we were just hanging out.
Speaker 2: And that's why I've been trying to circle in highlight,
Speaker 2: because when I want to show my kids something in
Speaker 2: the Bible. I pull them over and I say, here's this,
Speaker 2: and here's that, and I start writing and I start
Speaker 2: showing because I get so excited.
Speaker 1: And I saw this in the Bible.
Speaker 2: And I thought about us, and I thought about you,
Speaker 2: and I thought about the hole that you're in, and
Speaker 2: I thought about the deficit, and I thought about the
Speaker 2: thing that you feel behind it, and I thought about
Speaker 2: the thing that you can't figure out.
Speaker 1: And I thought about that thing that can make sense.
Speaker 1: And I figured, if we could just get you to pray.
Speaker 2: This, Lord, you know, show us whatever needs to go
Speaker 2: in that blank. You can bet this is true about it?
Speaker 2: Shall I hit it again?
Speaker 1: Whatever is in this blank? Oh, I wish you could
Speaker 1: see this right now. I wish you could see it
Speaker 1: like I see it.
Speaker 2: Because whatever you put in this blank, they said, Lord,
Speaker 2: you know everyone's heart. Show us whatever you can put
Speaker 2: in that blank. Lord, you know how long it's going
Speaker 2: to take. Show me how to stay strong while I wait. Lord,
Speaker 2: you know who was supposed to go into the next
Speaker 2: decade of my life with me, So show me who
Speaker 2: to pick up along the way, to make up for
Speaker 2: the people that I thought would still be here. Right
Speaker 2: now Lord, you know what I'm gonna go through for
Speaker 2: the next few years. So here you can start even
Speaker 2: praying bold like this. This is a pothole, not a pothole,
Speaker 2: a plot hole prayer.
Speaker 1: What I would preach to, wasn't it pothole prayer?
Speaker 2: You might pray another prayer, hit the pothole too hard,
Speaker 2: might be cussing like Peter, But this is this is
Speaker 2: what This is what you can pray. Watch this. This
Speaker 2: scripture that Peter is quoting was written centuries before he
Speaker 2: needed it, and he did not wait until he needed
Speaker 2: it to know it.
Speaker 1: So I read it again, and I read it.
Speaker 2: Again, and I asked the question, how did Peter know
Speaker 2: therefore it is necessary?
Speaker 1: How did he know?
Speaker 2: How do I know what's necessary at this point in
Speaker 2: my life?
Speaker 1: How did he know what was necessary? It's because he
Speaker 1: knew what was written. And the more you know this,
Speaker 1: the better you can figure out this. Ah shout like.
Speaker 2: You're recovering Episcopalion that wants to be a Pentecostal.
Speaker 4: Try it out right now, because the more I know,
Speaker 4: somebody say, the more I know about what he spoke,
Speaker 4: the more.
Speaker 2: I can see what he's showing me to do. So
Speaker 2: you come up on a situation right, and you come
Speaker 2: up on a red sea, right, but you read about
Speaker 2: a red sea somewhere, so you don't stop.
Speaker 1: And die at the red sea. You read about.
Speaker 2: Moses who stretched out his staff, and you say to
Speaker 2: yourself self, I.
Speaker 1: Don't have a staff, but I got a praise. I
Speaker 1: don't have a staff, but I got a hallelujah.
Speaker 2: I don't have a college degree, but I got a
Speaker 2: calculator and zero plus God equals in for that.
Speaker 6: Hey, he's lit there. I know something, I know something.
Speaker 6: I know something.
Speaker 2: I know enough scripture to pull the scripture out like
Speaker 2: the sword. And some people will say, well, you know,
Speaker 2: well that's what they did in the Bible days. Huh,
Speaker 2: they didn't even have the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: At this point. You have something they didn't even have.
Speaker 2: So when you get in your Bible, you better have
Speaker 2: your ribbon ready. Huh, your ribbon ready, so you can
Speaker 2: go all right, devil, I don't even need this scripture
Speaker 2: right now, But the next time you show up on
Speaker 2: my door boom, I'm gonna hit you with that scripture
Speaker 2: that I ran when I didn't need it, because I
Speaker 2: remember red when I didn't.
Speaker 1: Need it, and I put a ribbon in it. Oh yeah, Beyonce,
Speaker 1: say put a ribbon in it. Put a ribbon in it,
Speaker 1: not a ring on it. Put a ribbon in it.
Speaker 1: When you come across something that God gave you for Manna,
Speaker 1: put a ribbon in it. So the next time the
Speaker 1: enemy starts from minding.
Speaker 2: You up, you're saying, you say, very sad for.
Speaker 1: Miss come up Brazila.
Speaker 3: They miss that for now.
Speaker 2: No, God, damn Nason.
Speaker 1: I'm rendedant for people. Five five four people say put
Speaker 1: a ribbon in it.
Speaker 2: I don't really feel like this sermon is for me.
Speaker 2: Today nobody left me. I'm doing pretty good. You better
Speaker 2: put a ribbon on this. You better remember I was
Speaker 2: up here telling you so. When you find yourself in
Speaker 2: a plothole, and I'm not really in a plot hole,
Speaker 2: I make careful whines decisions. I have avoided the calamity
Speaker 2: that comes with living a foolish life.
Speaker 1: I don't really need it. You're gonna need.
Speaker 2: This plot whole prayer. When you raise your kids exactly
Speaker 2: right and they still act a little crazy. It only
Speaker 2: takes one fool friend to mess the whole plan of it,
Speaker 2: and then you better pray.
Speaker 1: Lord, you know show us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody explained something to you, and then after they
Speaker 2: explained it, you felt so stupid that you acted how
Speaker 2: you did before you had that piece of information. I
Speaker 2: was mad at this guy the other day because he
Speaker 2: didn't do his job, and I was speaking to a supervisor,
Speaker 2: and a supervisor said, I understand your frustration.
Speaker 1: Let me fill you in a little.
Speaker 2: And he told me that the man had a terminal
Speaker 2: disease and he hadn't even told his whole family yet,
Speaker 2: and that's why he had been distracted at Were you
Speaker 2: think I listened different?
Speaker 1: Do you think that gave me a different lens.
Speaker 2: All because somebody in a superior position filled me in.
Speaker 1: What do you do.
Speaker 2: When your story hits a plot hole? You say, Holy Spirit,
Speaker 2: fill me in. I got this plot hole and I
Speaker 2: need something to fill in. And if the Holy Spirit
Speaker 2: doesn't fill in the enemy will, You're gonna let him
Speaker 2: keep tormenting you like that because he keeps feeling in.
Speaker 2: The devil will fill in details that aren't real. He
Speaker 2: will make you block people that could have blessed you
Speaker 2: because you had a bad temper, because you got offended.
Speaker 1: Maybe they needed you.
Speaker 2: One of the biggest revelations I ever had about people
Speaker 2: when I'm preaching in church, and I just share this
Speaker 2: with you in case it ever happens in your life.
Speaker 2: Some of the people that look like they're getting the
Speaker 2: least out of the sermon need it the most. So
Speaker 2: what I used to think, like, oh, that person looks
Speaker 2: very bored.
Speaker 1: They hate me.
Speaker 2: Now I think they're hungry change everything. Now that's something
Speaker 2: that I say, Lord, you know what they're going through.
Speaker 1: Show me you know, fill me in, fill me in,
Speaker 1: fill me in.
Speaker 2: It's like when you had Kristin Hannah on the book Club,
Speaker 2: and this is Holly's favorite author.
Speaker 1: She's read a lot of her books.
Speaker 2: I was going to say all of them, but I
Speaker 2: think she's written about thirty books, and I bet Holly's
Speaker 2: read about ten of them. And when she got her
Speaker 2: on the book Club, she was so excited. Always wanted
Speaker 2: to talk to Kristin Hannah, and I watched her do
Speaker 2: the interview, and Holly did such a great job, and
Speaker 2: I could tell I could tell Kristin Hannah was like,
Speaker 2: I would talk to you for hours, because Holly's so
Speaker 2: good at drawing stuff out and when she's just talking,
Speaker 2: when she's listening, and talking.
Speaker 1: It's just she has a real gift for that. And
Speaker 1: that's why I call her the Holly Spirit, by the way.
Speaker 2: And and then at the end of the interview they
Speaker 2: talked about the book and what happened, and they did
Speaker 2: all the spoilers and all that, and everybody listened and
Speaker 2: asked questions, how'd you write it?
Speaker 1: Would you do?
Speaker 2: Then at the very end, this was a move I
Speaker 2: never saw before. Holly said, so do. And let's say
Speaker 2: the characters' names are Jim and Nancy. She said, so
Speaker 2: do Jim and Nancy get together in the end, because
Speaker 2: the book ends without revealing then and Kristin Hannah said,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, absolutely, of course, not because it was in
Speaker 2: the book, but because it was.
Speaker 1: In the author.
Speaker 2: See, when we talk about the Holy Spirit, some people
Speaker 2: get scared, Right, are you going to be talking in tongues?
Speaker 2: Maybe I sure will.
Speaker 1: I will talk in tongues in a minute, I will.
Speaker 1: But that's not really what I wanted to talk to
Speaker 1: you about today.
Speaker 2: Was like goosebumps and excitement. Because a UFC fight can
Speaker 2: give you goosebumps. What only the Holy Ghost can do
Speaker 2: is show me what he knows that I don't.
Speaker 1: And it's a very.
Speaker 2: Natural starting place to just say, Lord, you know, if
Speaker 2: you would reinstate that core belief in your life, it
Speaker 2: would help you so much with your stress. To see
Speaker 2: from his perspective, it's a twist, even though from yours
Speaker 2: it's a hole. The cross was always where Jesus was going.
Speaker 2: Peter was always meant to be the one to preach
Speaker 2: on the day of Pentecost. Even when he failed, his
Speaker 2: future was secure. So when Holly asked Kristin Hannah, do
Speaker 2: they get together in the end, she did it because
Speaker 2: she was in a unique position that she had an
Speaker 2: audience with the author. I came to tell you today,
Speaker 2: my brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen, Peter and Matthew
Speaker 2: and Bartholomew, I came to announce to you today, you
Speaker 2: don't only have a savior who died for you. You do
Speaker 2: have a savior who died for you, but that's not all.
Speaker 2: You don't only have a savior who defeated death and
Speaker 2: held the keys of death.
Speaker 1: Hell and the grave.
Speaker 2: Although you have that, and he's seated in heavenly places
Speaker 2: beside the Father. Make an intercession for you right now
Speaker 2: as I preach. But you also have an audience with
Speaker 2: the author. And that means if you want to, you
Speaker 2: can get in the presence of God anytime you want,
Speaker 2: starting right now, and say, Lord, you know you know
Speaker 2: the plans you have for me. You know the plans
Speaker 2: you have for me. Plans to press for me and
Speaker 2: not to harm me, plans to give me hope and
Speaker 2: the future. You not only know how my story ends,
Speaker 2: you know what's not going to be written in the
Speaker 2: book that time will reveal through the corridors of eternity.
Speaker 2: You know, why do you keep taking opinions from the
Speaker 2: crowd when you have an audience with the author. Why
Speaker 2: you keep living in the shadow of a critics insecurity
Speaker 2: when you have an audience with the author. Why do
Speaker 2: you keep staying up worry about stuff that the author
Speaker 2: is working on.
Speaker 1: I told you last week there's.
Speaker 2: Gonna be a sequel, and in this sequel we win.
Speaker 2: And if you flip to the end of the back
Speaker 2: of the book, I spoke to the author and he said, everything's.
Speaker 1: Gonna be all right. I gotta feeling. I got more
Speaker 1: than a feeling. I got that. And suddenly somebody shouts.
Speaker 2: Suddenly because they prayed the prayer the plot hole prayer,
Speaker 2: the Lord.
Speaker 1: You know prayer.
Speaker 4: Watch us.
Speaker 1: They didn't even do all the right stuff. Neither do we.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, they cast lots. That's like rolling dice,
Speaker 2: that's like flipping coins. That's like shaking a magic eight ball. Y'all, no, no,
Speaker 2: And yet even though they didn't do it exactly right,
Speaker 2: watch this. They didn't even get the right process. But
Speaker 2: they prayed the right prayer. How deep can I go?
Speaker 2: How deep can I go? How deep can I go?
Speaker 2: Because you keep thinking, Oh, I gotta do it exactly right,
Speaker 2: You're never gonna do it exactly right. Oh I made
Speaker 2: the wrong choice. What's that got to do with it?
Speaker 2: God has already chosen. God is already sovereign. Even if
Speaker 2: Matthias was the wrong disciple, Paul was on the way.
Speaker 2: Come on, come on, come on, come on, come with me.
Speaker 2: Let's don't just splash around on Sunday morning. Let's get
Speaker 2: you something you can pray.
Speaker 1: In your real life. When you don't know how.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be, when you don't understand why they did it,
Speaker 2: when you don't feel the empathy inside of you, you pray, Lord.
Speaker 1: You know, fill me.
Speaker 2: In Acts Chapter two, Verse one, Acts.
Speaker 1: Chapter two, Verse one.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, they were all together Acts Chapter two,
Speaker 2: Verse one, the Bible says, when the day of Pentecost came,
Speaker 2: come on, I'm waiting for something from God.
Speaker 1: Well, when it came, they were all together in one place.
Speaker 1: And look what the Lord did. Verse two.
Speaker 2: Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind.
Speaker 1: It sounds like trouble, but it's really transformation.
Speaker 2: I'm almost done, I promise when you hear when that
Speaker 2: sounds like trouble, but it wasn't trouble.
Speaker 1: It was transformation. Something's blowing through your life right now.
Speaker 2: Something's changing in your life right now, Things rearrange, ancient
Speaker 2: pages flying everywhere.
Speaker 1: You feel like it's a plot.
Speaker 4: Hole.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, it's a twist. It's a twist. It's
Speaker 1: a twist. It's a twist. It's a twist. It's a turnaround.
Speaker 2: And suddenly came a sound like the blowing of a
Speaker 2: violent wind. And it came from heaven. And what did
Speaker 2: the spirit do? Read the words with me. It came
Speaker 2: from heaven and filled the hole.
Speaker 4: Come get me, Mama, come give me, Come.
Speaker 1: Give me like they get James Brown. Give me off
Speaker 1: this stage because I hear.
Speaker 7: God saying, I'm a tame to fill the hole, the
Speaker 7: whole thing, the rest of your life. It's gonna be
Speaker 7: the rest of your life.
Speaker 2: How about to fill the hole?
Speaker 7: Say it the Lord who does see it from the beginning,
Speaker 7: I say, God, felling your home your home. There's the
Speaker 7: whole church, there's the horror and the horor this fill
Speaker 7: with this flory, will way, filling with this.
Speaker 1: With your glory, Law glory. Fill in with your glory.
Speaker 2: Filling with your glory, Lord, with your fill it with
Speaker 2: your glory.
Speaker 1: Every story filling.
Speaker 2: With your glory when you ory, filling with your glory,
Speaker 2: with your So this story is not ending in death,
Speaker 2: because he said, Peter said, we have to choose what
Speaker 2: God has chosen that he already knows.
Speaker 1: Now, I need you to.
Speaker 2: Get it firm in your heart that there is a
Speaker 2: God and he knows. He knows what you're crying about.
Speaker 2: He knows what's behind what you're crying about. He knows
Speaker 2: what you're crying about that happened last week, that's really
Speaker 2: about what happened eight years ago. Lord, you know, show me,
Speaker 2: show me what's really going on with my wife. So
Speaker 2: I can be a support like she needs show me
Speaker 2: what's really going on with my husband so I can
Speaker 2: step in with the right words.
Speaker 1: Show me what I'm supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Doing with the experience I have, even though I don't
Speaker 2: have the youth I had. Show me what I'm supposed
Speaker 2: to be doing with the youth I have, even though
Speaker 2: I don't have the experience I need. Lord, you know,
Speaker 2: fill me in. I hear Heaven saying, let me fill
Speaker 2: you in. He filled the whole house. Let me fill
Speaker 2: you in. Let me witness to you today. He said,
Speaker 2: they have to be witnesses of the resurrection, because the
Speaker 2: resurrection of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Is the greatest plot twist in human history. That if
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 2: To that empty grave, you'll see a hole, a hole
Speaker 2: where power came from, a.
Speaker 1: Hole where purpose came from.
Speaker 2: We might even call it a plot hole, for while
Speaker 2: the enemy was conspiring and plotting to wipe Jesus out,
Speaker 2: Jesus was planning to bring us.
Speaker 1: Now shall now shout now? Shout now, shout now, shout now?
Speaker 1: Shall oh?
Speaker 2: I learned the most important thing about plot holes is
Speaker 2: what do you fill it with? H You're gonna fill
Speaker 2: it with fear, You're gonna fill it with faith.
Speaker 1: You're gonna fill it with junk. You're gonna fill it
Speaker 1: with Jesus.
Speaker 2: What you fill it with will determine what comes forth
Speaker 2: from it. And suddenly, No, you won't see wind, you
Speaker 2: won't see rain, to drown with. Everything can change all
Speaker 2: of a Suddeny, that's a plot twist, all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: Get ready and he will come.
Speaker 2: Cooky's name, Holy, Oh, that's the Holy Yall street up Sunday.
Speaker 1: That's the Holy Spirit filling that hole. I want you
Speaker 1: to sing it like you know him.
Speaker 4: No, you won't see when and you won't see it,
Speaker 4: mister travel and everything can say, Mama.
Speaker 7: Side on your own healing, Mama sade, where your name is,
Speaker 7: Mamma Sats'll call your street.
Speaker 1: I'm dealing coming.
Speaker 7: The son of the Sun.
Speaker 5: He's gonna come on the.
Speaker 1: Sat It's gonna come on on facade.
Speaker 2: Fill the fact.
Speaker 1: He's the sagay thing. Marks got any comment? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's gone out.
Speaker 7: That will be class break.
Speaker 1: It's gonna come on.
Speaker 7: Well, be good, pray not feeling comments.
Speaker 1: Will I'm filling a milling.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 3: Thank you for someone you all, thank you for.
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