1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the basin. This 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just for 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: you to break it down a little more, to take 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: it a little deeper. I hope you enjoy this overflow message. 5 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 2: Let me know. 6 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: Let's go. Hey, if you saw the sermon Sunday, I 7 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 1: told you that I would try to teach a little 8 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: bit more and I would put it on YouTube. So 9 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: guess what I'm doing. I'm picking up my sermon from Sunday. 10 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: The message was called Instruments of Victory. I'm in the basin. 11 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: This is a place where God gives me overflow. That's 12 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: why I named it the Basin. Great things flow from 13 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: this place for me, and I'm hoping to do a 14 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: few of these as we get out on Elevation Nights 15 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: Spring twenty twenty three. The Lord was speaking to me 16 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: this morning. I was seeking him on what to do 17 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: over these next eight cities we're going to. Let's see Austin, Texas, 18 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,679 Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, Minneapolis. I don't have the list in front 19 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: of me other places to eight cities that we're planning 20 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: to be in. You can still get tickets to some 21 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 1: of them. Elevation Nights Dot com and I would love 22 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: to be with you in person if that's a possibility, 23 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 1: even if you have to fly in I think I 24 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: think it will be worth it because there's something special 25 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,959 Speaker 1: God is doing. I feel it in my spirit. I 26 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: know our team does too. I'm talking to several of 27 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: them over the last week and we just sense it. 28 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: We sense that we're in a season of integration. And 29 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: don't worry, I'm not going to sing, although you love 30 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: my singing. Right one of these days, I want to 31 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: put out a project where I sing different hymns and 32 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: old choruses that I used to sing when I was 33 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 1: a worship leader, and we'll auto tune my voice and 34 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 1: they'll make it sound great. Maybe they'll put some AI 35 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 1: on my voice and make me be able to sound 36 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: like justin Vernon. Maybe they can combine it where I 37 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 1: sound like justin Vernon meets Chris Stapleton meets Eddie Vedder 38 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: meets Darius Rucker. 39 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 2: That would be amazing. 40 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:33,519 Speaker 1: Meets Billy Joe Armstrong meets Marvin sap meets John Peakey 41 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: That's what I really want in life meets Chandler Moore 42 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: meets Brandon Lake meets Chris Brown, The real Chris Brown. Anyway, 43 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: I don't have long because we're about to journey and 44 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: hit the road. And I told Holly today, what an 45 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: amazing privilege to do ministry. You know that girl is 46 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: the same girl that was by my side when I 47 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: was eighteen years old, nineteen years old, singing, Lord, I 48 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:06,959 Speaker 1: lift your name on high. And every move I make, 49 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 1: every on the straps in a way a little rush 50 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,639 Speaker 1: to hear y'all. Every move I make, I'm making you. 51 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: You make me move, Jesus. I don't want to get 52 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: copyright strike, so I'm not gonna sing it. Hopefully they 53 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: get copyright a one four or five chord progression. I 54 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 1: don't know. But it's just amazing that when we were 55 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen years old, we were in little churches. I'm 56 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: telling you, twenty people in the church was packed a 57 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: lot of the places that we went. We had four 58 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: other people on our team. The first summer we ministered together. 59 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: We were eighteen, like just a little older than Elijah, 60 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: and we were out there, you know, leading the ministry 61 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: and stuff. It's crazy to think about, and really wanted 62 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: God to use us. I remember back then, twenty five 63 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 1: years ago, man twenty five years ago. This is even 64 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: before we were dating. But I was working my angles. 65 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 1: You know, hey, come be on my summer ministry team, 66 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 1: and yeah, and come get on this bus with me 67 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 1: and let's go glorify the Lord. And maybe just maybe, 68 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: maybe just maybe the residual effect of that will be 69 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 1: you'd be my girlfriend, maybe be my wife. Anyway, we 70 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: would lead worship and preach the word and our theme. 71 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,279 Speaker 1: I remember that first summer was run to win, and 72 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: we got to the first church and there were no 73 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: kids signed up for the event. Hampton Heights was that 74 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 1: the name, Hampton Heights. I believe that was the church. 75 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 1: So we end up recruiting kids all week, you know, 76 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: knocking doors and putting flyers on when shields in the 77 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: Walmart parking lot of true story, By the end of 78 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: the week, we had something like twenty thirty kids and 79 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: it felt like we had a Billy Graham crusade. And 80 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,039 Speaker 1: she was by my side during that. On the last 81 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 1: elevation nights to where we were at the Forum in 82 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: La getting ready to do ministry, and it was sold 83 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: out at the Forum, and you know, it's just amazing 84 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 1: because you walk up and down the halls of the 85 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: Forum that kind of iconic venue. And there's all the 86 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,160 Speaker 1: people that have been there. Oh there's Mick Jagger okay, 87 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: and right beside, and there's Madonna okay, and whoever. You know, 88 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: I'm just saying names here, but it's just halls and 89 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: halls of all the people who have played there. And 90 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 1: you know, there's only one reaction to that, all right, 91 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: When you're a kid from Monkst Corner, South Carolina and 92 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: you grew up in a town that at the time 93 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,480 Speaker 1: I've had six thousand people, you just go, what the 94 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:10,239 Speaker 1: heck am I doing here? You know, we started our church. 95 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 1: Many of the people who started with me are still 96 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: with me. My friend Eric, who I brought up on stage, 97 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 1: that's my best friend in high school. You know, he 98 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: started the church with me. He was one of the 99 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: families that came here in Nicole. And you know my 100 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 1: main guy, his name is Chunks. He's kind of famous 101 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: in our church. He's a physical therapist. Started with me. 102 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: And there's Chris Brown. And I've known Chris, our main 103 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 1: worship leader for elevision worship. I've known him since we 104 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: were boys. We were playing at a club called p 105 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:49,040 Speaker 1: S one fifty for Psalm one fifty and the owner, 106 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: the guy named Ross. I remember. I remember his name 107 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 1: was Ross. That's about all I remember about. And you know, 108 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 1: there's a sense in which me and Holly and Chris 109 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:04,119 Speaker 1: and Chunks and Eric flies out. I think he's flying 110 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: out to see me on this tour two and we 111 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: just look at each other and look at God. Isn't 112 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: God amazing? And yet there's this sense of fear. Oh man, 113 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 1: you know I've done this a bunch of times. I've 114 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: been doing this since I was in my twenties. But 115 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: I still always feel and I want you to hear this, 116 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 1: I still always feel a lot of fear when I 117 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: get ready to step into the moments that God has 118 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: called me to step into. And maybe you do too, 119 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: and Gideon certainly did. And that's why I was preaching 120 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: about Gideon over the past several weeks. And I believe 121 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 1: that God is going to call me to take that 122 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: same spirit of faith that I've been preaching in our 123 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 1: church over the last month from the life of Gideon 124 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: and take it into the cities and impart faith to you, 125 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: those of you who will be there for Elevation nights, 126 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: as as well as those of you who have been 127 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 1: listening to the messages and hearing the messages all right, 128 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: Because the idea behind the life of Gideon, in your 129 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: life and my life, and the things God has called 130 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: each of us to do, is that we are instruments 131 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: who need to be put in the right hands. And 132 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: yesterday when I was preaching, I don't know when you'll 133 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: be watching this, but I preached yesterday on how Gideon 134 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 1: was an instrument who had been in the hands of 135 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:46,680 Speaker 1: the Midianites, the people who were oppressing the Israelites, and 136 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:51,479 Speaker 1: he had started to believe his insecurities more than his potential. 137 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: And that's what happens when you put your instruments in 138 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: the wrong hands. What are your instruments? Two that come 139 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: to my mind, your mind, So that comes to my mind, 140 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: your mind, and your mouth. I'm using right now, I'm 141 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: using two instruments. I'm also using a computer. I'm also 142 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,960 Speaker 1: holding a guitar. I also know there's some Wi Fi 143 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: signal that is making this all go to you. But 144 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 1: there are instruments involved in this communication right now, and 145 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 1: I'm using my instrument, my mind, and my mouth so 146 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:31,199 Speaker 1: I can speak encouragement to you. But the thing is, 147 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: these instruments on your end, how you manage them, how 148 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: you care for them, and what you allow to control. 149 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,959 Speaker 1: The instruments that God has given you will determine where 150 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: you end up at the end of this day, at 151 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: the end of this week, at the end of this month, 152 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 1: at the end of this year, and ultimately where your 153 00:09:56,200 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: life goes. So that's why we need a word from 154 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 1: God to renew our minds, and that's why we need worship. 155 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:17,479 Speaker 1: Worship coming out of our mouth. It purifies our atmosphere, 156 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: It resets our intention, it realigns our motives. And that's 157 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 1: why I'm going out with our whole team over the 158 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 1: next two weeks. That's why we show up each week 159 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: and invite people into the presence of God and honor 160 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 1: what He says from his word. And that's why we 161 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:40,559 Speaker 1: sing songs of declaration of truth when we don't feel it, 162 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 1: when we do feel it, by faith, we declare what 163 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: God says. We use our instruments instruments. So what was interesting? 164 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: Interesting instruments? What was interesting? Touch somebody right now and 165 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: say you are an interesting instrument. I had everybody do 166 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: that in church yesterday, but just put it in the 167 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 1: comments right now. I am an interesting instrument. That means 168 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 1: God has given me. This is a hollow body guitar. 169 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 1: That's how I can pick it up so easy. I'm 170 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: not that strong. A guy sent me this. This is 171 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:17,439 Speaker 1: a gretch guitar. A guy sent me this from California. 172 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 1: He said, Pastor Ferdick, I want you to have this guitar. 173 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: I appreciate your ministry. I hope somebody will write a 174 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 1: song on it one day to glorify God. A few 175 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: weeks later, I took it into an appointment with Chris 176 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: and Brandon and Tiffany, and we wrote the song Graves 177 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: into Gardens. That song was in this guitar, and the 178 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: man from California he sent me the guitar and we 179 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: took it in and we collaborated together, and God sent 180 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:53,679 Speaker 1: a song, Graves into Gardens that has now gone around 181 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:57,560 Speaker 1: the world to touch people. How grateful am I that 182 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: he sent me this instrument. Something in him new and 183 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 1: I need to thank him again. I hope you're watching this. 184 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:09,080 Speaker 1: I hope he's watching this. I don't want to make him. 185 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 1: I don't want to publicly say his name, but you 186 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: know who you are. It wasn't that I needed a 187 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 1: new guitar. I had guitars, we have guitars here. But 188 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: and then cool that he sent the instrument and the 189 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: song came out. And I wonder what instrument God is 190 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: trying to send to you today, An idea that he 191 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: wants to put in your mind, and encouragement that he 192 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,319 Speaker 1: wants to put in your mouth. You go, well, I'm 193 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 1: not a songwriter, I'm not a preacher. I'm not talking 194 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: about that. I'm talking about how God uses you in 195 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 1: your daily life. Nobody can encourage your best friend like 196 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,440 Speaker 1: you can. Nobody can encourage your husband like you can. 197 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 1: Nobody can speak the word of life and faith over 198 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: your family like you can. 199 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 2: Nobody. 200 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 1: The instrument is in your hands. And yesterday I called 201 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 1: my buddy Eric up and the only thing he knows 202 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 1: on guitar is one half song intro from the nineties, 203 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 1: and I knew that, so I handed him my first guitar, 204 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: not this one, the first one I bought, the Paul 205 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: Reid Smith that I bought when I was about fourteen 206 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 1: for about fourteen hundred dollars, and I said play it, 207 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: and it wasn't plugged in, and he didn't really know anything. 208 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 1: And then we handed it to E, which is funny 209 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 1: because in my phone there's E, my best friend from 210 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 1: high school. And then E who's one of our guitar 211 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: players at Elevation, very gifted. Look him up. He's got 212 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,559 Speaker 1: a lot of guitar tutorials out as well. All the 213 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 1: musicians at Elevation Worship are to me, world class, no 214 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:44,679 Speaker 1: argument about it. And when I put the instrument in 215 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 1: his hands, you should have heard it. Go watch the sermon. 216 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 1: It's available right now. You can go watch it. It's 217 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:53,679 Speaker 1: called Instruments of Victory and man, when we got it 218 00:13:53,720 --> 00:14:02,439 Speaker 1: in his hands, it sounded like clapped and it sounded 219 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: like John Mayer. Probably I'm probably embellishing a little bit, 220 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: but it's how really good. It sounded really good. Same guitar. 221 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 1: It still had six strings, not eight. Nothing changed, but 222 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 1: it got plugged in and it got put in the 223 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 1: right hands. And I think that's sometimes what has to 224 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: happen in our life is that we feel defeated, we 225 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 1: feel deflated, we feel discouraged, we feel depressed. Remember that's 226 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: just a state. That's not your true self. God calls 227 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 1: you what more than a conqueror an overcomer. He calls 228 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 1: you precious He proved that because he paid for your 229 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: life with his blood. Remember Romans six thirteen from yesterday, 230 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: that he has brought you from death to life. How 231 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: did he do that? How did Jesus bring you from 232 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: death to life? He I went from a perfect sinless life, 233 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: shed his spotless blood, the spotless lamb shed his blood 234 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: and brought you from death to life. Because he went 235 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 1: from life to death, He died for you, rose again, 236 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 1: sent his spirit to live in you. And now he 237 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: wants to make you an instrument of victory. But for 238 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: that to happen, there are two things I want to 239 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: point out and just picture all day as you go 240 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: through that you're not a hollow body, gretch guitar. You 241 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 1: are a wind instrument for the Holy Spirit. What I 242 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 1: mean wind instrument? Well, I shared yesterday that in the 243 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 1: passage where Gideon gets the victory over the Midianites, I 244 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 1: didn't get time to get all the way to the 245 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: end of Judges chapter seven. But the enemy turns against 246 00:15:55,360 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: itself the Midianites. That they were so afraid of Midianites 247 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: that outnumbered each other. They got confused when Gideon told 248 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: his men to do two things. Okay, remember that only 249 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: three hundred men stayed, only three hundred men who lapped 250 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: water like dog. I got that dog. Put it in 251 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 1: the chat. I got that dog. I don't have to 252 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: be fancy with my faith. I got that dog. I 253 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 1: don't have to be proper with my praise. I got 254 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: that dog. Put both of those in the comments. That's good. 255 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: I don't have to be fancy with my faith. I 256 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: don't have to be proper with my praise. I got 257 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: that dog. Man. I thought about that woman who said, 258 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 1: even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the 259 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: master's table. Jesus said, go, your daughter is healed. Don't 260 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 1: be too dignified to fight the devil back man, Praise 261 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 1: God in your current situation. Praise God with what you've got. 262 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: Take your trumpet and blow your breath and praise God. 263 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:08,679 Speaker 1: See when I say Gideon is a wind instrument, wind 264 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:12,160 Speaker 1: represents the Holy Spirit a lot of times in the scriptures. 265 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: So I think the reason God loves the instrument of 266 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 1: the trumpet as a symbol is because it signifies how 267 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: he breathes the breath of life into us. And sometimes 268 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 1: we're so busy trying to figure out solutions to situations 269 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 1: when really we need to get in the spirit by 270 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 1: being grateful, by spending time with God's Word, by aligning 271 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:44,879 Speaker 1: our day just those three things along by getting grateful 272 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: starting from that place I've been teaching lately on that 273 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: here in the basin. You can go find one of 274 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: those teachings too. I'll load you up, man, I'm gonna 275 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:56,440 Speaker 1: get you ready this week. It's gonna be a good week. 276 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:59,200 Speaker 1: You're gonna worship God this week. But you're gonna start 277 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:02,119 Speaker 1: from a grateful place, right, And then you're going to 278 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:06,120 Speaker 1: start from a place of God's word. A chapter a day, 279 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: a little passage a day. I want you reading more 280 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: than one verse a day. Though a verse you can 281 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:14,120 Speaker 1: focus on a verse, but I want you to get 282 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: enough context to understand what this meant originally, so then 283 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 1: you can say, well, what does it mean to me? 284 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 1: Gives you more accuracy. Let's the word penetrate a little deeper. 285 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,199 Speaker 1: But it doesn't have to be a whole book of 286 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 1: the Bible. Be a few verses, but you're going to 287 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:34,360 Speaker 1: get that going in your life. And then on top 288 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:36,920 Speaker 1: of that, the gratitude to God for what He's already 289 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: given that gives you breath. The Word of God, which 290 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,360 Speaker 1: is going to speak to you. The spirit of God 291 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: will never contradict the Word of God, and then aligning 292 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 1: each day. And that's the image that I didn't get 293 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,439 Speaker 1: to in my sermon. That I may come back and 294 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 1: preach a little bit here in the next few weeks. 295 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: We'll see, but I want to share it with you today, 296 00:18:58,200 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: and you can think about it and we come back 297 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 1: to it another time, all right. I hope I get 298 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: to do some more of these from the tour bus 299 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 1: the basin on the bus, somebody on my team needs 300 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:10,920 Speaker 1: to make me a little sign that I can take 301 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:15,640 Speaker 1: on the road. It could say the bustin the bustin. 302 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 1: Somebody make me a little sign. I'll put it up 303 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 1: and I'll come on here and teach you. 304 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 2: While we're out and about this week. 305 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:25,440 Speaker 1: God willing no promises, but I'll try pray for us. 306 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 1: But listen to this. And there's this one cool part 307 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,920 Speaker 1: where Gideon tells the Israelites in verse seventeen. This is 308 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 1: Judges seven, verse seventeen. I'm back into NIV. Watch me, 309 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 1: he told them. Follow my lead. When I get to 310 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:45,840 Speaker 1: the edge of the camp, do exactly as I do. 311 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: Now this takes guts. Gideon has come a long way. 312 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: He's seen how God works. You recognize that song, you 313 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 1: put it in the comments. If you recognize it, we're 314 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: gonna be singing that on elevation nights. I promise you 315 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 1: that he's come a long way. He's seen how God works. 316 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 1: And he just heard the enemy saying, oh, no, Gideon 317 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 1: is coming. Gideon is coming, and he's like, wait, the 318 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: enemy is intimidated by me. Yeah, he's gone from an 319 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 1: army of twenty thousand men who were trembling and turned back, 320 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:24,959 Speaker 1: and he himself is trembling. And you might be too, 321 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: You might be kind of trembling on the inside, like, oh, 322 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:29,359 Speaker 1: another week of this job. 323 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 2: I can't do it. Oh the meeting today, I can't 324 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:34,120 Speaker 2: do it. I'm not going to be able. I got 325 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 2: to be here at four o'clock. I gotta be there 326 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 2: at six o'clock. Ah, my knee is still. Man, I 327 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 2: can't even get up out of this chair without it. 328 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 1: Heard it. 329 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 2: And every time I think about this, it just gets 330 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:46,640 Speaker 2: a fest to me. I can't do it. I can't 331 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:50,199 Speaker 2: do it. Gideon was there, But then he has a flip. 332 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 1: He reinterprets the the intact what's the word when somebody 333 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 1: antagonizes you, he rethinks, let me say it this way. 334 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: He rethinks, the intimidation of the enemy, because the enemy 335 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 1: will try to intimidate you. You can't do that. You're 336 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: the smallest, you're the least, you're the worst, You're terrible. 337 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:10,679 Speaker 2: You tried that already. 338 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: Nobody's everybody's gonna laugh you, nobody saying attention to you. 339 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:14,399 Speaker 2: Just go do what God called you to do. 340 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,400 Speaker 1: Right, And he thinks to himself, Wait a minute, if 341 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 1: the enemy is talking about me, if the enemy is 342 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:28,919 Speaker 1: focused on me, the enemy must know something about me 343 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: that I don't even believe. So if all hell is 344 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 1: coming against you, that might be because Heaven, all of Heaven, 345 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 1: has an agenda for you, and the enemy doesn't want 346 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 1: you to realize that that you are an instrument in 347 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 1: the hands of a god whose power is infinite. Say 348 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 1: it in the comments. I am an instrument in the 349 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: hands of a god whose power is infinite. Again, i 350 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:14,119 Speaker 1: am an instrument in the hands of a god whose 351 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:19,719 Speaker 1: power is infinite. I'm in his hands. I'm in his hands. 352 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 1: And not only that am I in his hands? But 353 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 1: I'm a wind instrument. And he breathes the breadth of 354 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,879 Speaker 1: life into me, and He's put something in my hands today. 355 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 1: What I want to ask you as I close this 356 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 1: little teaching today, and not a little teaching, it's a 357 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 1: big teaching. This could change your life, is since you 358 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 1: are in his hands, right, God, renew my mind, it's yours. 359 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 1: I'm sorry God that I've spent so much time thinking 360 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 1: like you don't exist, worry in like you don't exist, 361 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:56,680 Speaker 1: trading my imagination where there should be faith for thoughts 362 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: of fear that lead me to dead ends. God, I 363 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: repent of that way of thinking. Thank you that you 364 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:07,160 Speaker 1: forgive me. And I'm moving forward and I'm putting all 365 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,359 Speaker 1: these situations I can't control in your hands. I'm putting 366 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 1: all my gifts in your hands. I'm believing that you're 367 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:15,880 Speaker 1: enough and I'm trusting in your enoughness and that you 368 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: breathe into me and I can make it one step 369 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: at a time. Watch this giddy and says to all 370 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 1: the people, do what I do. And man, that really 371 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:30,120 Speaker 1: touched me because I realize in this season of my life, 372 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 1: I need to be a leader, and so do you. 373 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 1: I don't care if you're sixteen or sixty, somebody in 374 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 1: your life needs to watch you win today. They need 375 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 1: to watch you win so that they can believe that 376 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:46,439 Speaker 1: God can do it for them. Don't be selfish and 377 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 1: just think about Oh man, I don't have enough and 378 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 1: I can't do enough. I realize now I got a 379 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 1: teenage daughter. Oh she's going to be a teenager next year. 380 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,919 Speaker 1: Two teenage boys. I can't play around with this stuff. 381 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 1: I got to come into the truth. You got to 382 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 1: come into the truth of who God says you are. 383 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,680 Speaker 1: My teenagers are watching. My teenagers need to see me win. 384 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: They need to see me win over any battle that 385 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 1: I am facing that tries to keep me from being 386 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 1: who God has said that I can be and doing 387 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 1: what He called me to do. And the same is 388 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: true of you, even those little battles. Your daughter needs 389 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:30,119 Speaker 1: to see you blow your trumpet. Your son needs to 390 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: see you blow your trumpet to rise up, mighty warrior 391 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 1: and watch you win so you can say to your 392 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: kids one day, watch me win. I'm not doing it 393 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: in my own strength. This is God. He gives me 394 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,680 Speaker 1: the victory. Watch God help me. He'll help you too. 395 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 1: I think a lot of times in certain religious traditions 396 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 1: we get into this thing. I'm like, oh no, I 397 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: can't do it. It's all God is great, and I'm terrible. 398 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:04,919 Speaker 1: The Great I am put his name on you, and 399 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: you say terrible after that, I'm terrible. I'm horrible, I'm worthless, 400 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: I'm a loser, I'm an idiot, I'm stupid. Stop stop. 401 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:16,160 Speaker 1: Gideon said, all right, the Lord has given them into 402 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 1: our hands. Now let's go. And then he's going from 403 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 1: letting go of how he saw himself, letting go of 404 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: things and people that he thought he needed. That God 405 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,160 Speaker 1: is now saying it's that season is over. Send them home. 406 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,199 Speaker 1: And some of you have been in a season of 407 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: a great letting go. Well, now he goes from letting 408 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:44,160 Speaker 1: go to let's go, and the Bible says, you're ready. 409 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,800 Speaker 1: The Bible says Gideon, and the hundred men with him. 410 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: So he's got thirty two twenty three hundred. Now he 411 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,399 Speaker 1: takes one hundred from the three hundred and reaches the 412 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle 413 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 1: of watch, just to say, it changed the guard, and 414 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: this is what I want to challenge you to do today. 415 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:07,440 Speaker 1: They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were 416 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: in their hands. They blew their trumpets, everybody put that 417 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 1: in the comments. They blew their trumpets. I'm so glad 418 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 1: God led me to do this bonus teaching. Holly's the 419 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 1: one who told me. She said, get on the basin 420 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,280 Speaker 1: and do the stuff you didn't get to do Sunday. 421 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: I said, I got a lot to do. I don't 422 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 1: know if I have time. She's like, okay, she planted 423 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: the seed and the Lord told me to do it. 424 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,479 Speaker 1: So I know this word is ministering. I know it. 425 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 1: They blew their trumpets and broke the jars. Remember, the 426 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: trumpets were what they took when they had ten thousand, 427 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 1: and they only kept three hundred out of the ninety 428 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 1: seven hundred that left, there were three hundred trumpets enough 429 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 1: for every man. You've got enough. You've got enough. Now. 430 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: You can't beat the enemy to death with a trumpet. 431 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you can, but probably not gonna happen. 432 00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:01,160 Speaker 1: There's too many of them. But it wasn't that God 433 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,879 Speaker 1: wanted him to use the trumpet in order to defeat 434 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,399 Speaker 1: the enemy. He wanted him to confuse the enemy. And 435 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:13,440 Speaker 1: sometimes you've just got to come from within. And whether 436 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 1: it's anxiety, fear, greed, lust, any of the things that 437 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,919 Speaker 1: we struggle with, each and every one of us. You 438 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: blow your trumpet, and watch the second one break the jars. 439 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,920 Speaker 1: Because the Bible says he put a trumpet in one hand. 440 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 1: Gideon told the man, come here, three hundred I got left. Okay, 441 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 1: here's who I've got left. He put a trumpet in 442 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,679 Speaker 1: their right hand and a torch in their left, and 443 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:37,480 Speaker 1: it was a jar with a light under it, and 444 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: he said, blow the trumpet. When I blow it, break 445 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:46,919 Speaker 1: the jar. Blow the trumpet, break the jar. When they 446 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: broke the jar, it created a light all around the camp. 447 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 1: Because this is like two in the morning, and they're 448 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 1: they're looking at a big enemy, numerous enemy, but they've 449 00:27:55,040 --> 00:28:00,920 Speaker 1: got a greater God. Remember that your enemy is numerous, 450 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 1: but God's name is greater. So whatever your enemy is, fear, depression, disease, 451 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:20,239 Speaker 1: you know a name that is greater. We have this 452 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 1: treasure in earth and vessels. The New Testament says that 453 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,879 Speaker 1: the excellency of the power might be of God and 454 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: not of us. So we have weird weapons. Right, they 455 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:36,439 Speaker 1: broke the jars, and they blew the trumpets, and the enemy, 456 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 1: you're not going to believe this turned on the enemy. 457 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 1: So the enemy had swords, and Gideon and his boys 458 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 1: and his dogs. Ohoo, his dogs had a torch and 459 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 1: a trumpet. When they took what they had in their hands, 460 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 1: God took his mighty hand, his outstretched arm, and he 461 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 1: took what was in the enemy's hands. Remember, he takes 462 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 1: what the enemy means for evil and turns it for good. 463 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 1: And the enemy wiped itself out, and they started running. 464 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 1: I see your enemy starting to flee. As you take 465 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 1: a step of faith and make a sound of praise. 466 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 1: Two things. The broken jar. Boom, that's a step of faith. 467 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 1: What do you mean to break the jar? It means 468 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 1: that you're gonna go in the light that you have 469 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: right boom. I don't know how God's going to do this, boom, 470 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,640 Speaker 1: but I'm going in the knowledge I have. Go in 471 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 1: the strength that you have. You say, when I know, 472 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 1: I'll go. No, when you go, you'll know how's God 473 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: going to do it. You'll know as you go. Remember 474 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 1: what God told Gideon. He said, if you're afraid to 475 00:29:58,080 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: go down to the camp, you have to watch the 476 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 1: sermon to get this. If you're afraid to go down 477 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 1: to the camp, go down, and when you see the 478 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,720 Speaker 1: enemy you're gonna hear they're talking about you. 479 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 2: And if the enemy is trying to. 480 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 1: Discourage you, he must know he's already. 481 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 2: Defeated, and he is. He's defeated by the blood of Jesus. 482 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: He's defeated by the cross of Christ. 483 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 2: He's defeated by the word of your testimony. So there's 484 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 2: the step of faith. 485 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 1: What is that in your life today? The call, the appointment, 486 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 1: the apology, the prayer, the commitment. 487 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 2: The next thing, the step of faith. The light that 488 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 2: you have. 489 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: His word is what a lamp unto our feet and 490 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: a light unto our path enough for the next step. 491 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 1: Say that out loud. He has given me enough light, 492 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 1: enough revelation, enough grace, enough strength. His grace is sufficient, 493 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 1: His strength is enough for today. I can't get out 494 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 1: in tomorrow. I can't control tomorrow. I can break the jar, 495 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 1: and I can blow the trumpet. The trumpet is the 496 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:01,680 Speaker 1: sound of praise. 497 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 2: I don't just mean shot ja das Jada. 498 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: There's always an elevation nights. Every night, somebody who waits 499 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:09,480 Speaker 1: till it gets quiet and goes. 500 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 2: We love you, Jadas. 501 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 1: And I always look at holland there he is always 502 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,479 Speaker 1: every time. It never fails. Probably, like I don't know, 503 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 1: ninety seven percent of the time, there will be that guy. 504 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: I don't mean that, I mean you can do that whatever. 505 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 1: It's also a sound that comes from within. And when 506 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 1: you get those two together, what do you get an 507 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 1: instrument of victory? Now, go watch the sermon from Sunday. 508 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 1: Go watch the sermon Instruments of Victory. Read that passage 509 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 1: again where it says break the jar, blow the trumpet, 510 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:53,920 Speaker 1: and watch the part where I said that the guitar 511 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,400 Speaker 1: that I bought when I was fourteen, Oh, I love 512 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 1: that guitar. I had to empty out my bank account 513 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 1: to by that guitar business. As a fourteen year old have 514 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,120 Speaker 1: buying a fourteen hundred dollars guitar. You say, well, were 515 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 1: you a drug dealer? No? I actually worked for the 516 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 1: pet Rest Cemetery and Cremation service. I had a beeper, 517 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,960 Speaker 1: but I wasn't a drug dealer. When it would beep, 518 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 1: I would have to come run the crematory. Don't judge me. 519 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 1: You're like, oh, you did you kill dogs? I kill dogs. 520 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,959 Speaker 1: I lovingly help people say goodbye to their dogs. It 521 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 1: was a great job. Actually, Thank you Diane for giving 522 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,680 Speaker 1: me that job, an amazing job, and I saved up 523 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 1: and I bought the guitar. And two weeks after I 524 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 1: bought it. You can see it if you go watch 525 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 1: the sermon. I dropped it and it cracked all down 526 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,240 Speaker 1: the back. I took it to one guy, I said, 527 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 1: I can't fix it. I took it to another guy. 528 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 1: He glued it together. You can see the cracks down 529 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,840 Speaker 1: the back to this day, but you can't hear it 530 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: when he plays it, because when I get it in 531 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 1: the right hands, a broken instrument can still make a 532 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:04,760 Speaker 1: beautiful sound. Is that why a broken jar and a 533 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:09,320 Speaker 1: blown trumpet are side by side in the passage? Is 534 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,360 Speaker 1: God trying to get you to see that, Yeah, there's 535 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,720 Speaker 1: places in your life that are broken. We all have 536 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 1: those broken places his cough being human. But in his hands, 537 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:27,760 Speaker 1: your life has still got songs in it, melodies. After all, 538 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 1: he turns graves into gardens. It's cool. I'm holding the 539 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 1: guitar that he sent me about to travel around different 540 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 1: parts of the country, telling people that God can do 541 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 1: something very beautiful out of something that you think is broken. 542 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:53,040 Speaker 1: Leonard Cohen said, ring the bells that still can ring. 543 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:57,160 Speaker 1: Forget your perfect offering there's a crack in everything. That's 544 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 1: how the light gets in, and that's how the sound 545 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:05,960 Speaker 1: comes out too. You're a wind instrument. God is breathing 546 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 1: new life into you as we speak. Receive it. Receive it. 547 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,920 Speaker 1: Everything you can't control, let it go, put it in 548 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 1: his hands. And after you've put it in his hands, 549 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,880 Speaker 1: let's go. You got a jar to break today, you 550 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:23,839 Speaker 1: got a trumpet to blow. You got something to thank 551 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:24,279 Speaker 1: him for. 552 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:27,719 Speaker 2: Do it. 553 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:31,200 Speaker 1: Use your mouth to thank him. You got something to 554 00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:35,839 Speaker 1: think about, something he's calling you to do. Get those 555 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:41,040 Speaker 1: instruments and glorify God with them. I appreciate your prayers. 556 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,760 Speaker 1: What an amazing day we live in that I can preach. 557 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,879 Speaker 1: I ran out of times Sunday, I said, I got 558 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,520 Speaker 1: to finish this, and the Lord really did speak to us, 559 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 1: didn't He let me know in the comments. I think 560 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,160 Speaker 1: y'all like these teachings hearing from people, They're like, oh, 561 00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 1: we love the basin. Not everybody knows about it yet. 562 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:01,879 Speaker 1: It's just our secret for now. But it's a real 563 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:05,400 Speaker 1: privilege to minister to you. And I appreciate your prayers. 564 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,440 Speaker 1: Let me know if you come into elevation nights, if 565 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,719 Speaker 1: you're anywhere near the cities. Go to Elevation Nights dot 566 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 1: com go check out the sermon from Sunday. Let's stay connected, 567 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 1: let's encourage each other. I'll check in here on the 568 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,480 Speaker 1: comments and you can let me know what spoke to you. 569 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,040 Speaker 1: And you can just say in the comments right now, 570 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,799 Speaker 1: I'm in his hands. 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