1 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,240 Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 6 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 2: in your life. 7 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:19,320 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. Are you ready for the word? Shout Amen? 8 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 2: One scripture I want to start with, and there's a 9 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 2: journey that I want us to go on today from 10 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 2: one Corinthians ten thirteen. 11 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,239 Speaker 1: And I ministered this to the young people, and. 12 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 2: Then I've been I've been dealing with it in my 13 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 2: own life too, So I want you to listen to this. 14 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 2: It says no temptation has overtaken you. That is not 15 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:48,319 Speaker 2: common to man. God is faithful. Shout about the part 16 00:00:48,360 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 2: of this verse you believe God is faithful. This part 17 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 2: gets a little bit harder to shout about because it 18 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 2: says that He will not let you be tempted beyond 19 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 2: your ability, but with the temptation, He will also provide 20 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 2: the way of escape. 21 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 1: That you may be able to endure it. 22 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 2: I want to speak for a few moments. The Holy 23 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 2: Spirit helping me on the subject of the way of escape. 24 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 2: Follow Your word is truth, illuminate it so that we 25 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 2: might receive it. After we have received it, may we 26 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 2: water it, and may a harvest come from these moments 27 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 2: that we have together in your presence. Bless your people. 28 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 2: Now give him a leaned imposture and open heart. Do 29 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 2: the surgery that you want to do, and stitch us up. 30 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 2: And when we finish with our time together, we want 31 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 2: to go back into the world better than we came 32 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 2: into this place today. We believe you to do it, 33 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 2: and we thank you in advance in Jesus' name. Amen, Amen, 34 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 2: you may be seated. So when I said the word 35 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 2: temptation in that verse, probably a thousand different things came 36 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 2: to mind, depending on who you are, what stage of 37 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 2: life you're in. It's a lot of temptations that teenagers 38 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 2: probably face today that I didn't have to face when 39 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 2: I was their age. And I'm always like, are you 40 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 2: sure you want me to come and speak to the 41 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,799 Speaker 2: teenagers because I'm afraid of being irrelevant. 42 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: I used to speak to youth groups all the time. 43 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 2: That was all I did was just travel all around 44 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 2: yelling at kids, keep your pants on. You know, the 45 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 2: basic messages abstinence, messages. I would even go into public 46 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 2: high schools and I couldn't even use the Bible, but 47 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 2: I would just have to teach them and try to 48 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 2: hold their attention. That's probably why I yelled so much 49 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:01,359 Speaker 2: today and move around so much, because I got trained 50 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 2: in having to keep people's attention. 51 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: But on things they've changed a lot, you know. 52 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 2: So I'm always afraid that I'm going to say stuff 53 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 2: that the kids are like rolling their eyes at, Like 54 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 2: my kids roll their eyes at me, And now I 55 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 2: have teenagers, and and so I have a little bit 56 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 2: of a frame of reference. 57 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: But I also just don't want to be I don't want. 58 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 2: To be talking on a level that just makes me 59 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,119 Speaker 2: sound like a dinosaur, like a Tyrannosaurus rex up here 60 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 2: trying to preach the word of God. I'm not a 61 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 2: pterodactyl up here trying to preach the word of God, 62 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 2: Brannosaurus trying to. 63 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: Preach the word just naming all the dinosaurs, you know. 64 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 2: And yet something in the scripture that was really interesting 65 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 2: is that Paul said, there's really no new temptations. There's 66 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 2: nothing that you're fighting against right now that somebody didn't 67 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 2: already fight against now that ought to take away a 68 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,119 Speaker 2: lot of the shame for those of you who don't 69 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 2: feel like you deserve to be in church because of 70 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 2: what the man said was true, that no temptation has 71 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 2: overtaken you except what is common to man. 72 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: That means that even if. 73 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 2: You struggle a little bit differently than the person three 74 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 2: seats down your row, they need the same grace that 75 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 2: you need to be saved, and you don't have to 76 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 2: be ashamed about your need for grace. And yet there 77 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 2: is this particular way in which when we are tempted, 78 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 2: we think we're the only ones that I am the 79 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 2: only one who is experiencing loneliness in this unique way. 80 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:44,719 Speaker 2: I am the only one who deals with these thoughts. 81 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,479 Speaker 2: I am the only one who cannot get over this 82 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 2: and just move past it and deal with it. Paul says, 83 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 2: no is common. You're not really that special. Satan didn't 84 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 2: just make up a whole new temptation for you. 85 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: You're really not that special. 86 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 2: It's the same temptations, and it's the same grace that 87 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 2: was available to me as a teenager when my biggest 88 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 2: temptation was aol instant messenger. It's the same grace for Snapchat. 89 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:19,159 Speaker 2: It's grace. It's the same temptations. The Reformers had a 90 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 2: term called common grace that they used to talk about 91 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 2: how all people experience the grace of God in some 92 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 2: measure just by virtue of being humans that were made 93 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 2: in His image and according to His likeness, and then 94 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 2: there is that special saving grace. But here Paul wants 95 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,039 Speaker 2: us to know that just like there is a common grace, 96 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 2: there is a common temptation. And so you're really not alone, 97 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 2: and you're really not that weird, and you're really not 98 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 2: that broken, and there really were no parts or pieces 99 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 2: missing in your box. That you really do have everything 100 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 2: everybody else does that is needed to accomplish what God 101 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 2: has purposed for your life. Just like we think that 102 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 2: the world has never been worse than it is right now, 103 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 2: Paul says, this is nothing new. 104 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 1: This is the same old crap. 105 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 2: Can I say crap in my own pulpit after being 106 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 2: a pastor for thirteen and a half years, a grown 107 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 2: man with gray hair in my beard, I'm sure I 108 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 2: can say crap and you wouldn't be offended by that. 109 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: Right. 110 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 2: It's the same crap, same old stuff that they were 111 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:19,599 Speaker 2: dealing with in Corinth. 112 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: This church was wild, the church at Corinth. 113 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 2: They would come in for communion and get drunk on 114 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 2: the communion wine. That's why we don't even put alcohol 115 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 2: in the cups when we do communion. I don't trust y'all. 116 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 2: It's grape juice, it's prefermented. It's welchous. Some of y'all 117 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 2: be wiling in church talking anyway. It's the same temptations. 118 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,919 Speaker 2: It's not like the church people say, oh, well, we 119 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 2: need to get back to the Church of the New Testament. 120 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 2: You mean the ones where Paul had to write them 121 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 2: a letter and say you shouldn't sleep with your stepmother, 122 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 2: because that was the church. 123 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: If it's the same old stuff, it's the same. 124 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 2: Tom takes like there was some pristine, pure, holy time 125 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 2: when people didn't struggle. It's a different manifestation, But it's 126 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 2: the same temptation. 127 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:09,159 Speaker 1: It's the same stock. It's the same stock. 128 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 2: Have to be really careful because we'll start judging people. 129 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 2: If their temptation has a different flavor than ours. Well, 130 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 2: I just don't see how they could. Well, maybe they 131 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 2: don't see how you could. Paul wants us to know 132 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 2: that this is nothing new. It is the same temptation 133 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 2: In many ways, I've learned that the temptations I'm facing 134 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 2: now as I approach the age of forty are the 135 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 2: same temptations I was dealing with at age fourteen. The 136 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 2: reason that I was so honored to preach to our 137 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 2: youth is that I was hoping to help them to 138 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 2: see that the way that they will deal with temptation 139 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 2: today will have so much to do with what they 140 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 2: have to face in the future at a later time. 141 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 2: It was important for me to get that point across, 142 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 2: because it's really nothing new. 143 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: What you struggled with then, you struggle with now. 144 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 2: It's many of the same temptations that cycle through our lives, 145 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 2: and it's the same need for approval, the same need 146 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 2: for validation, the same reach for something to. 147 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: Fill our soul. 148 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 2: It changes clothes, but it does not change nature. 149 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: It's the same temptation at the root of it. In 150 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: our hearts. 151 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 2: It is our quest to depend on anything but God, 152 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 2: to reach for something physical and visible, to make for 153 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 2: ourselves golden calves and graven images that we can trust 154 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 2: in and say, these are your gods that brought you 155 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,840 Speaker 2: out of Egypt. As we grow weary waiting for the 156 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 2: real God to deliver us in our situation. 157 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 1: As patience becomes. 158 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 2: Harder and harder for us, as we await the fullness 159 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:51,200 Speaker 2: of the presence and the promise of God in our 160 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 2: own situations, we devise for ourself escape routes, a way out. 161 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 2: It's hard to be human, it's hard to deal with 162 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 2: the fragmented heart that is common to each of us, 163 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 2: and so early in life we begin to manage the 164 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 2: pressure to escape the pain, and we all find different ways. 165 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 2: Some ways are innocent enough, some ways are destructive, and 166 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 2: most of the ways are somewhere in between. 167 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 1: There's always a way of escape. 168 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:32,199 Speaker 2: Everybody in here, young and old, Baptist, Pentecostal, atheist, agnostic, 169 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 2: we all have a way of escape. And I wonder 170 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 2: what is it that you're trying to escape? And I 171 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 2: wonder what is it that makes you feel trapped. 172 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 1: Like you can't get out? 173 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 2: See, it's one thing to be trapped in a situation. 174 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 2: Have you ever been trapped in a situation? I hope 175 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:50,959 Speaker 2: this is not one of those right now? 176 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 1: For you? 177 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 2: What was that ballet that you tricked me into going to? 178 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 2: Oh she took me to sleep in beauty, but she 179 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 2: didn't tell me that there wouldn't be any speaking parts. 180 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 2: I was ten minutes into that ballet with Holly and Abby, 181 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 2: and I was praying. First, I was praying for the rapture, 182 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 2: and then I was looking at the fire alarm, thinking 183 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 2: maybe I could pull that, And then I was praying, God, 184 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 2: if you have to kill me, if you have to 185 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 2: give me a brain hemorrhage to get me out of this, 186 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 2: Just come on. 187 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 1: Have you ever been trapped? 188 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 2: It's one thing to be trapped in a situation. It's 189 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 2: another thing to feel trapped inside yourself, to feel like 190 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:41,080 Speaker 2: there's habits in my heart, ways that I lean and 191 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,959 Speaker 2: I prop up on things that can't support the weight 192 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 2: of my worry. But I find myself doing it over 193 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 2: and over again. And so you devise a way of escape. 194 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:53,439 Speaker 2: You find a way to not have to feel what 195 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 2: you feel. You find a way out. The context of 196 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 2: First Corinthians to give some real insight to the meaning 197 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 2: of verse thirteen, because in order for Paul to show 198 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 2: the Corinthian Church, hey, this is nothing new what you're facing. 199 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 2: And God is greater than your situation, and he's greater 200 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 2: than your sin, and he's greater than your shame, and 201 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 2: he's greater than the thing that has a hold of you, 202 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 2: that won't let you go. God is greater than that. 203 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 2: He takes them all the way back to Egypt. The 204 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 2: Exodus story was critical to the heritage and the history 205 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 2: of the people of God. It was in Egypt that 206 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 2: they escaped from the famine. When the famine hit Canaan, 207 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 2: God had Joseph positioned in Egypt. How many know, God 208 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,959 Speaker 2: always has someone in a position to meet the needs 209 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:42,680 Speaker 2: of his people. 210 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 1: I need y'all to shout. 211 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 2: With an election year coming up, God's going to take 212 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 2: care of us. God is going to take care of us. 213 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,080 Speaker 2: And that's true in every area and season of your life. 214 00:11:55,880 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 2: So when they started starving in Canaan, Joseph said, Dad, 215 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 2: and bring him to Egypt. 216 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: God has given me favor in the midst of this famine. 217 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 2: So they escaped Canaan, where there was a famine, and Jacob, 218 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 2: with his one hundred and thirty year old self, had 219 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 2: to relocate not to South Florida, but to Egypt, a 220 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 2: foreign place where he did not know the pharaoh. 221 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: But the pharaoh knew Joseph. 222 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 2: And since the pharaoh knew Joseph, Jacob and all of 223 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 2: the patriarchs and all of their wives and all of 224 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 2: their children. Not only did they get to move into Egypt, 225 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 2: but they. 226 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 1: Got to go to Goshen. 227 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 2: Goshen was the place with the Kentucky fried quail. Goshen 228 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 2: was the place where you can eat off the fat 229 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 2: of the land. 230 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: Goshen was the place of provision. 231 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 2: For a little while, and for years and years, while 232 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,559 Speaker 2: others were starving, the House of Jacob was eating good 233 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 2: in Egypt, until one day. The Bible says that a 234 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 2: pharaoh or a ruler arose in Egypt that knew not Joseph. 235 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 2: When Joseph died and Pharaoh's change, all of a sudden, 236 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 2: the place where they had escaped to became the place 237 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:18,200 Speaker 2: where they were enslaved in. Sometimes the place you go 238 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:24,079 Speaker 2: to to escape will become the place where you are enslaved. 239 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 2: Can I break this down? It may be that you 240 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 2: are escaping for survival. You escape to a relationship that 241 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 2: is really not good for you, and you know that 242 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 2: the relationship is not good for. 243 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 1: You, but you are so lonely. 244 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:45,679 Speaker 2: Rather than live by yourself because you feel like you're 245 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 2: dying inside, you would rather join up with someone who 246 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 2: is bringing you down. And even though you know that 247 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 2: they're bringing you down, or they are abusive, or they 248 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 2: are not walking in the same direction as you, you 249 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 2: would rather walk in the direction then walk alone in 250 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 2: the right direction. And credit to you for being a survivor, 251 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 2: because some of the things that you did in your life. 252 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 2: You went to Egypt to survive. You went to Egypt 253 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:15,679 Speaker 2: not because it was a sin. It was just a 254 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:18,959 Speaker 2: matter of survival. Some of the things that we learned 255 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 2: to medicate with, some of the habits that later in 256 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 2: life become masters over us. They did not start as masters. 257 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 2: They started as medication. And so we took a pill 258 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 2: at first just to deal with it so we could 259 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 2: deal with everyday life. But then it was two, and 260 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 2: then it was three, and then it was a bunch, 261 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 2: And now all of a sudden, I find myself enslaved 262 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 2: by something that I escaped too. 263 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 1: This is not just true of pills. This can be 264 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: true of sex. 265 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 2: You can look for a connection in sex and substitute 266 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 2: it for love. It's not that you wanted to be dirty, 267 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 2: it's not that you wanted to be promiscuous. It's not 268 00:14:58,320 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 2: that you don't respect yourself. 269 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: It's just that you. 270 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 2: Wanted to feel something, and the feeling of loneliness can 271 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 2: be so great that you would rather feel a dirty 272 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 2: connection than a clean sense of confinement that comes from 273 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 2: being quarantined. 274 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: In your own mind. 275 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 2: But the danger of escape is that Egypt can feed 276 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 2: you quail one day and whip you with chains the 277 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 2: next day, and the place that you escape too becomes 278 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 2: the place that you are enslaved in. Thank you for 279 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 2: helping me, Lord, I told the Lord I wanted to 280 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 2: preach this message with energy like it was my first 281 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 2: time preaching it. And I feel his health today, a 282 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 2: chain breaking kind of anointing. 283 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 1: That can get deep down in your heart and help 284 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 1: you to. 285 00:15:53,640 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 2: See how sometimes the place that we run too can 286 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 2: become the place that we're trapped in. Because I just 287 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 2: want to escape. I just don't want to feel like 288 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 2: this anymore. So now that's why I'm now, That's why 289 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 2: I'm going outside of God to meet a God given need. 290 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 2: That's why I'm doing things that make me feel bad 291 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 2: in the morning, doing things that leave a wake of 292 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 2: consequences that's going to affect me in a way that 293 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 2: has no alignment but the real intention of what God 294 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 2: has spoken over my life. But I just got to 295 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 2: get out of this. I hope one day that I'll 296 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 2: have the courage to do this series called I already 297 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 2: have the name of it. I just don't have the 298 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 2: guts to preach it yet because I know how church 299 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 2: people are and I can already see the YouTube comments. 300 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 1: But y'all pray for me. 301 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 2: One day, I'm gonna preach a whole series called Sins 302 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:06,199 Speaker 2: with Benefits. Y'all sound a little too excited about that, 303 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 2: kind of sketchy how much y'all clapped about that, because 304 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:14,639 Speaker 2: we will hear a lot of times about the consequence 305 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 2: of sin, but if there were no benefits to it, 306 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 2: it wouldn't be so popular. There is a need that 307 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:35,400 Speaker 2: Egypt meets. There is a need that has met, you know, 308 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 2: there is there is a there is a longing. 309 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: That is fulfilled when. 310 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:42,679 Speaker 2: I when I go outside of God to meet a 311 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 2: God given need. 312 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,639 Speaker 1: It works. See that's the problem. It works. 313 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 2: It gets you out for a little while. It works 314 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 2: until it doesn't. It works until it gets old. It 315 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 2: works until it fries the neural pathways. And now it 316 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:02,119 Speaker 2: doesn't work anymore. And now I'm doing it, but it 317 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:05,199 Speaker 2: doesn't even work anymore. And now I'm chasing something that 318 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 2: doesn't deliver, and I want a way out. So Paul says, 319 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 2: now you got it back all the way up to Egypt, 320 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:13,920 Speaker 2: and look at verse one. This is in the Bible, y'all. 321 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 2: He said, I want you to know, brothers, that our 322 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 2: fathers were all under the cloud. 323 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 1: It's the same stuff. It's the same stuff. 324 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 2: They were all under the cloud and all passed through 325 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 2: the sea. Remember the Red Sea that God brought his 326 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 2: people through. Come on, has God ever brought you out 327 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:40,199 Speaker 2: of anything? I don't mean you had a headache and 328 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 2: it went away. That was hyperprofit, but I mean something 329 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 2: that was deep. It was a pit, It was a depression, 330 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 2: it was a darkness. It was a mistake. It was 331 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 2: a mess you made. But God brought you out. Shop 332 00:18:55,040 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 2: for fifteen seconds. Matter of fact, shout If he didn't 333 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 2: just bring you out, shout if he brought you through. 334 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 2: Oh God, that's good to me. He didn't just bring 335 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 2: me out of it. He brought me through it. And 336 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 2: since I went through it, I got something from it. 337 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 2: I'm stronger, wiser, better talk. I had to go through 338 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:42,160 Speaker 2: the valley of the Shadow of Death so I could 339 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 2: know it's just a shadow the Lord is. 340 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: My shepherd, and I shall not want Now. 341 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 2: I got a table in the presence of my enemies. 342 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,640 Speaker 2: But the only way to the table was through the valley. 343 00:19:55,840 --> 00:20:00,680 Speaker 2: I had to go through the pain. And that's what God. Now, 344 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 2: watch this a history, lesson, Tell somebody, it's nothing new. 345 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:05,879 Speaker 2: It's nothing new what you're going through. God's people have 346 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 2: been standing in front of stuff that they didn't think 347 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:11,160 Speaker 2: they could make it through for a long time. They 348 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 2: came to that red sea, Pharaoh behind them, the chariots. 349 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:19,440 Speaker 1: Clacking. 350 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 2: These were not these were not These were not basic chariots. 351 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 2: These were Lamborghini chariots, faster than them, stronger than them. 352 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:33,920 Speaker 2: But somehow, some way, they passed through the sea. God 353 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 2: brought them through it. God said, I'm not just gonna 354 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 2: lift you out of it. I'm gonna give you the 355 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 2: strength to walk through it. No temptation. He brought them 356 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:54,159 Speaker 2: through it. He brought you through it. He takes you 357 00:20:54,200 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 2: through it, not around it, but through it. Keep trying 358 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 2: to work around it. We put all these workarounds in 359 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 2: our life, all these ways that we don't really have 360 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:11,159 Speaker 2: to deal with real issues, all these ways of escape 361 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 2: that we try to make for ourselves, you know, since 362 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 2: I really can't be happy, let me just take pictures 363 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:27,680 Speaker 2: like I am. They said we had overflow at Valentine. 364 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:29,640 Speaker 2: I'm just trying to make some seats for next week. 365 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 2: I appreciate this till we got some empty seats. But 366 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:36,119 Speaker 2: really it's the mercy of God, because he said it 367 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 2: was the same cloud, same sea, same grace, and the 368 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:42,919 Speaker 2: same grace that is available if you are facing a 369 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:47,399 Speaker 2: red sea of trouble is available if you are facing 370 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 2: a temptation in your life. 371 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:51,199 Speaker 1: That has overtaken you. 372 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 2: Interesting language, because to say it has overtaken you acknowledges 373 00:21:55,400 --> 00:22:01,479 Speaker 2: that it's stronger than you. So being told that there 374 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 2: is something that is stronger than me working against me, 375 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 2: and you know exactly what that is in your life, 376 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 2: you know exactly what it is that you escape too, 377 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 2: that you have become enslaved by. 378 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,160 Speaker 1: And if it's not sex, and if it's not. 379 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,680 Speaker 2: Peels, Look, some people do it with pharmaceuticals, some people 380 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 2: do it with food. You can do it with drugs, 381 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 2: you can do it with donuts. That's why I said 382 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 2: temptation is a funny word. If we start making a list, 383 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 2: we'll make a list of all the ones we don't 384 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 2: struggle with, and then we'll shout about how God is 385 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:40,639 Speaker 2: faithful with that. But blame can be a way of escape. 386 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 2: You hear me preaching to you today, because blame will 387 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 2: get you out of having to take responsibility. The only 388 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 2: problem is it gives the keys to your freedom to 389 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 2: whoever you blame for the situation. And now you're enslave 390 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:01,199 Speaker 2: too the very thing that you were trying to escape from. 391 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 2: Now you're enslaved to bitterness because you escape through blame. 392 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 2: I could do this all day long. 393 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 1: I could talk about how when you feel trapped. 394 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,959 Speaker 2: In something, it's important what you trust in because whatever 395 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,679 Speaker 2: you trust becomes your master. 396 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,880 Speaker 1: What are you escaping to? What are you escaping from? 397 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,400 Speaker 2: And have you escape to something that has now started 398 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:29,879 Speaker 2: to enslave you. Cynicism is an escape because it hurts 399 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 2: to have hope. It opens the door to disappointment. So 400 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 2: you just beat life to the punch. You just expect 401 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,680 Speaker 2: the worst. That way, you're not surprised and you put 402 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:56,440 Speaker 2: your faith in reverse and call it realism. So what's 403 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 2: really sad about coming through the Red Sea is that 404 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 2: after all the miracles that God does for you, and 405 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:05,560 Speaker 2: after the way that he saves you and after the 406 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 2: way that He becomes personal in your life. 407 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 1: The Bible says that even after they. 408 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 2: Went through the Red Sea passed under the cloud through Moses. 409 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 2: After he references this Exodus motif that is so prevalent 410 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 2: in the Jewish scriptures, he says in verse five, nevertheless, 411 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 2: God was not pleased with most of them, for they 412 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 2: were overthrown in the wilderness. 413 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,399 Speaker 1: And that's where the battle is. In the wilderness. 414 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:41,120 Speaker 2: Even Jesus went through the wilderness, and what you do 415 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 2: in the wilderness determines whether you stay enslaved or move 416 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:52,160 Speaker 2: forward into freedom. We don't just pass through the wilderness 417 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,159 Speaker 2: once in our lives. The wilderness is not something you 418 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 2: did eighteen years ago. The wilderness isn't just when you 419 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,640 Speaker 2: lost your first job. The wilderness can happen several times 420 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 2: any given week. I asked my friend before I came out, 421 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 2: how was your week? 422 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 1: And I said, I take it back. 423 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,879 Speaker 2: I hate that question because you could ask me that 424 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 2: hour by hour and get a different answer. There are 425 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 2: some weeks I have where Monday is milk and honey 426 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 2: and Tuesday is Canaanites, Hittites, Jebuzites, parizites, termites, cellulites, and 427 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 2: when they went to the wilderness, they were overthrown. 428 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: They grumble, they wanted out, you know where they wanted 429 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:39,879 Speaker 1: to go Egypt. At least we could eat in Egypt. 430 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,400 Speaker 2: Never Mind, you forgot about the fact that they gave 431 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 2: you mud without straw, trying to get you to make 432 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:50,159 Speaker 2: bricks without giving you materials. Never mind that the devil 433 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,360 Speaker 2: has constantly been trying to keep you all your life 434 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 2: in a state of feeling like you're not enough. You 435 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 2: just want to go back to the world because at 436 00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 2: least it works for a little while. We want to 437 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:05,479 Speaker 2: build a tunnel back to Egypt, and then the tunnel 438 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:10,360 Speaker 2: becomes a trap. And they died in the wilderness. They 439 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 2: died in the place where there was no water. They 440 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 2: died in the place where there was no worship. They 441 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 2: died in the place where there was no perspective. It's interesting, then, 442 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 2: that the Bible says that Jesus is a great high 443 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 2: priest and that he is able to be touched with 444 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:37,160 Speaker 2: the feelings of our infirmities. In fact, that says that 445 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:43,640 Speaker 2: he was tempted in every way like we are now. 446 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 2: I read that and started to argue with the Bible. 447 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:54,200 Speaker 2: Jesus didn't have kids, He wasn't tempted in every way 448 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 2: as I am. He didn't ever want to choke the 449 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 2: very life that he produced. Jesus didn't have Amazon Prime. 450 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 2: But yet it says that he faced every temptation, because 451 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 2: there's really only three. I know we make it complicated, 452 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,680 Speaker 2: but the Bible condenses it and says that any temptation 453 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 2: you're facing today, not just the external ones, the internal ones. 454 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 2: The same Bible that gives commands about sexuality gives commands 455 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,919 Speaker 2: about worry. So don't think the temptation is only for 456 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:39,479 Speaker 2: one person. It said, in every temptation, Jesus faced it. 457 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:45,680 Speaker 2: Yet he was without sin. He was perfect in the 458 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 2: ways that we will never be. And guess where he 459 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:53,479 Speaker 2: went to prove his perfection. Let me show you this. 460 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,400 Speaker 2: In Matthew chapter four, give me the verse, it says 461 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:02,640 Speaker 2: that Jesus was led up by the spirit into the 462 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 2: wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Why would God 463 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 2: remember the Lord's prayer my father word. 464 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 1: In having helly the name can it come will be down. 465 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 2: And lead us not into And the Spirit led Jesus 466 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 2: to the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. So 467 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 2: Jesus is driven. Is the more accurate word than lead 468 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 2: sounds nice. Driven is more accurate. He had to go 469 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 2: to the wilderness. Why why did Jesus have to come 470 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:48,320 Speaker 2: incarnate the word made flesh. Why did Jesus have to 471 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 2: take on the form of human weakness and go to 472 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 2: the wilderness. It says that they were overthrown in the 473 00:28:56,080 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 2: wilderness when Jesus came on the scene, the true Israel, 474 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 2: the true expression of God, the second atom. When Jesus 475 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:09,440 Speaker 2: came the man who is fully man and fully God. 476 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: Jesus, who is the. 477 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 2: Express image of the radiance of God, Jesus by whom 478 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 2: whom through whom all things were created that were created. 479 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 2: Jesus came to the wilderness. Watch this for a rematch. 480 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 2: See in your flesh, in your power, in your strength, 481 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 2: in your mind, in your human ingenuity, you are no 482 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,960 Speaker 2: match for the devil in the wilderness. But Jesus showed 483 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 2: up in the wilderness because of unfinished business on behalf 484 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 2: of anyone who would believe on his name and call 485 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,520 Speaker 2: on him in the day of trouble. 486 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 1: So Jesus, after fasting. 487 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 2: For forty days and forty nights had to pay a 488 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 2: visit to the devil in the wilderness. Jesus came from heaven, 489 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 2: which was Christine, to the earth to visit your enemy, 490 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 2: and pay a visit to what is tormenting you. To 491 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 2: let the enemy know that he might be bigger than you, 492 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 2: but you've got a big brother and a high priest 493 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 2: who knows your weakness. And he went to the wilderness 494 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 2: to be tempted by the devil. So now this is 495 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 2: gonna be interesting, because how do you tempt the son 496 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 2: of God. Maybe if you can get him to question 497 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 2: his identity, and the devil hits him with three temptations. 498 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,920 Speaker 1: Remember there's only three. They're all three listed in one 499 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 1: John two point fifteen. 500 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 2: Spoiler alert. The devil is not creative. There's only three 501 00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 2: things he can tempt you with to try to get 502 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 2: you to be something that you're not. There's only three 503 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 2: things he can tempt you with. It's the lust of 504 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,840 Speaker 2: the flesh. That's what I feel like doing. 505 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 1: The email. I feel like sending. The lust of the eyes. 506 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 2: It's what my senses tell me, living by senses, living 507 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 2: by surface appearances. 508 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:26,000 Speaker 1: And then there's the pride of life. That's what I think. 509 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 1: I know. 510 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 2: That's what I tell myself that I know when I 511 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 2: start being like Adam and Eve in the garden. Their 512 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 2: sin wasn't eating an apple. Their sin was that they 513 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 2: thought they were like God, knowing the difference between good 514 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 2: and evil. That's what the sin was in the garden, 515 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 2: and that's what it is today. It's the lust of 516 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 2: the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life. 517 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 2: If you're sixteen, if you're sixty one, it's the lust 518 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 2: of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride 519 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 2: of life. I told God, I can't preach this to 520 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 2: the whole church. This is a youth sermon, he said, 521 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:57,600 Speaker 2: tell them just like they told. 522 00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 1: Them, some of them. 523 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 2: If they would have heard this sermon when we're sixteen, 524 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,000 Speaker 2: they wouldn't be struggling with what they're struggling with at 525 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 2: sixty one. 526 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 1: But you're hearing it now. You're hearing it now. 527 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:16,719 Speaker 2: So the lust of the flesh he catches Jesus hungry. 528 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,800 Speaker 2: He's been fast in forty days and forty nights, and 529 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 2: he's hungry. He's hungry. The devil always knows when you're hungry. 530 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 2: And if you only come to church every five weeks 531 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 2: when it's convenient, you are going to be too hungry 532 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:39,200 Speaker 2: to be strong against the temptation of the enemy. I 533 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,720 Speaker 2: got six claps, and one is my mom. But it's 534 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:48,960 Speaker 2: true all the same. You're too hungry. You eat junk 535 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 2: when you're hungry. You're susceptible. When you're hungry, you. 536 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:54,920 Speaker 1: Try to turn stones into bread. 537 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,320 Speaker 2: When you're hungry, you try to eat stuff that won't satisfy. 538 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 1: You try to live off of people. 539 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:04,080 Speaker 2: Compliments when only God's validation is able to sustain you. 540 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 1: That's the lust of the flesh. It's the pride of life. 541 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 2: He said, Okay, if you won't turn the stones into bread, 542 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 2: then throw. 543 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: Yourself off this cliff. Watch this. Prove it. 544 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 2: Prove you're the child of God. Prove you're a real man. 545 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,840 Speaker 2: Prove your intelligence, prove your worth. Just keep earning and 546 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:30,080 Speaker 2: earning and chasing and chasing, and never stop to ask why, and. 547 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,520 Speaker 1: Never stop to be generous. Just keep proving it. 548 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,320 Speaker 2: Just keep going out there confident, and never really admit 549 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,120 Speaker 2: your need to anyone so that they can see the 550 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,040 Speaker 2: real you, and give the water to your soul that 551 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,480 Speaker 2: you need to make it. Just prove it. It's the 552 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 2: pride of life. And then there's the lust of the eyes. 553 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,000 Speaker 2: You know. He took him up on a high mountain, 554 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,400 Speaker 2: showing him all the kingdoms of the world. By the way, 555 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 2: Jesus didn't leave the wilderness and go to another place, 556 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:01,240 Speaker 2: because the temptation is always on the movie screen in 557 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 2: your mind. And he showed him something that looked like 558 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:09,440 Speaker 2: an opportunity. But Jesus knew that he came for the cross. 559 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:12,480 Speaker 2: The devil said, if you bow down and worship me, 560 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:16,160 Speaker 2: I'll give you all this, and you don't even have 561 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,280 Speaker 2: to go to the cross. 562 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,600 Speaker 1: Just like God will offer a way of escape, so 563 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:24,360 Speaker 1: will the enemy. 564 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,560 Speaker 2: But when the way of escape becomes just another set 565 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:37,719 Speaker 2: of chains, Jesus set away from me, Satan, for it 566 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:43,600 Speaker 2: is written, you shall worship the Lord God only, and 567 00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:53,360 Speaker 2: him only will you serve Jesus in the wilderness forty days, 568 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:59,760 Speaker 2: forty nights. Why forty that's the exact number of years 569 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,880 Speaker 2: that the nation of Israel has been in the wilderness. 570 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:08,360 Speaker 2: Jesus said, I'm going to do in forty days what 571 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,040 Speaker 2: you couldn't do in forty years. 572 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:18,680 Speaker 1: And no temptation. Come on, Bible lovers. 573 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:24,440 Speaker 2: No temptation has overtaken you the same grace that enabled Jesus, 574 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:29,440 Speaker 2: the same spirit that enabled Jesus to endure the cross 575 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,319 Speaker 2: and despise the same and sit down at the right 576 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:43,719 Speaker 2: hand of God. This spirit lives in you. And the 577 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,640 Speaker 2: only way Jesus made it through the wilderness in Matthew 578 00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:53,000 Speaker 2: chapter four is because of what happened in Matthew chapter three, 579 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:58,760 Speaker 2: where it says that Jesus went down to the Jordan River. 580 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,239 Speaker 1: And let me give you this for your own heart. 581 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,719 Speaker 2: Today when he went to be baptized by John the Baptist, 582 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:11,000 Speaker 2: it wasn't just for an external show of obedience. It 583 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,520 Speaker 2: was for the voice of affirmation that he would need 584 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:18,960 Speaker 2: from his father to survive in the wilderness of temptation. 585 00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:26,440 Speaker 2: Is so beautiful that I can't do it justice in 586 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:28,960 Speaker 2: the time. We have a lotted But it says that 587 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,759 Speaker 2: when Jesus came up out of the water, that a 588 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:35,360 Speaker 2: dove descended on him, and a voice from heaven said, 589 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:40,200 Speaker 2: this is my beloved son, this is my beloved daughter. 590 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:45,560 Speaker 2: So when the devil questioned who Jesus was in the 591 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:50,799 Speaker 2: wilderness in Matthew chapter four, the dove had already told 592 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:55,600 Speaker 2: Jesus who he knew he was. In Matthew chapter three, 593 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,960 Speaker 2: I'm trying to say, when you've been through the water, 594 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,880 Speaker 2: and when you've heard the voice of your Father, and 595 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,560 Speaker 2: you'll know you came from God, and you're going back 596 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,759 Speaker 2: to God and your life is in God's hands. You 597 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:15,200 Speaker 2: can make it through the wilderness when you've been through 598 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:22,040 Speaker 2: the water. But you've got to get to the water. 599 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,360 Speaker 2: You got to get to the water. You've got to 600 00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,640 Speaker 2: know where to go in these times. You've got to 601 00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:34,160 Speaker 2: know who to trust in these times, or else you'll 602 00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:38,400 Speaker 2: escape to things that will enslave you. In the end, 603 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,000 Speaker 2: I'll tell you something on the authority of God's word, 604 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,600 Speaker 2: maybe not even knowing your name today, God has already 605 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:53,120 Speaker 2: made the way of escape for you, and it will 606 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:54,360 Speaker 2: not always be obvious. 607 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:56,279 Speaker 1: Let me promise you. 608 00:37:56,320 --> 00:38:00,120 Speaker 2: The Red Sea did not look like a four lane highway. 609 00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,640 Speaker 1: It looked like a death trap. But it is sometimes 610 00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:05,600 Speaker 1: straight through. 611 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:09,160 Speaker 2: The thing that you fear that leads to the freedom 612 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:20,480 Speaker 2: that you desire. He will not allow you to be 613 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,839 Speaker 2: tempted beyond what you are able. Oh yeah, well, on 614 00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:28,200 Speaker 2: your own, you'll be overthrown in the wilderness too. And 615 00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,680 Speaker 2: if you've been in a wilderness season by yourself. That's 616 00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:34,080 Speaker 2: the problem. You need to go down to the waters. 617 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,200 Speaker 2: You need to go down to the waters where you 618 00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:42,719 Speaker 2: can worship God and be filled with His presence. This 619 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,840 Speaker 2: is a ministry moment for somebody who needs water for 620 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,719 Speaker 2: your soul. The Bible says that the spiritual rock in 621 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,160 Speaker 2: the desert is the same rock that we stand on today. 622 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:56,440 Speaker 2: It is Christ on Christ, the solid rock I stand. 623 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,279 Speaker 2: All of the ground is sinking sand. Every other thing 624 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,560 Speaker 2: will pass away. But he who does the will of 625 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:09,640 Speaker 2: God lives forever, and so listen to me. Is by 626 00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,240 Speaker 2: grace that you are saved. It is not through effort. 627 00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:17,399 Speaker 2: It is not through behavior modification. If that would have worked, 628 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,080 Speaker 2: it would have worked by now. If it could work, 629 00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,680 Speaker 2: it would have worked by now. If you could be 630 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:24,920 Speaker 2: free in your flesh, you'd be free from now. You 631 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,440 Speaker 2: need the water, You need the spirit. You need the 632 00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:29,799 Speaker 2: voice that is above you. 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