1 00:00:05,030 --> 00:00:07,910 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Furtick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, 2 00:00:08,070 --> 00:00:10,710 Speaker 1: and this is our podcast. Be sure to subscribe so 3 00:00:10,750 --> 00:00:13,750 Speaker 1: we can get you these new sermons every week. I 4 00:00:13,990 --> 00:00:14,890 Speaker 1: hope you're blessed today. 5 00:00:21,860 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 2: Well, if I haven't met you, my name is Jonathan. 6 00:00:24,140 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 3: I get to serve here at our Ballantyne campus as 7 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 3: our campus pastor for. 8 00:00:29,110 --> 00:00:33,190 Speaker 2: 13 years now, and I'm so... Grateful every. 9 00:00:33,050 --> 00:00:35,530 Speaker 3: Time I get the opportunity to share God's word, but 10 00:00:35,729 --> 00:00:38,610 Speaker 3: I have never been more excited to preach a message 11 00:00:38,990 --> 00:00:41,129 Speaker 3: than I am today. God has really been speaking to 12 00:00:41,170 --> 00:00:42,350 Speaker 3: me and I hope it's. 13 00:00:42,270 --> 00:00:43,540 Speaker 2: Going to be a blessing to you. 14 00:00:44,670 --> 00:00:46,570 Speaker 3: You know, for the past several weeks, our pastor has 15 00:00:46,590 --> 00:00:49,060 Speaker 3: been leading us through this series. I know that voice 16 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 3: and I know it was working on me because I 17 00:00:51,740 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 3: was studying one passage of scripture and been thinking about 18 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 3: a sermon there. And one night I was just sitting 19 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 3: on my porch and God dropped this word into my spirit. 20 00:00:59,020 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 2: I said, I know that voice. 21 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,370 Speaker 3: I got to preach this to Elevation Church on this 22 00:01:03,450 --> 00:01:05,870 Speaker 3: Labor Day weekend. And so I'm so thankful for our pastor. 23 00:01:05,890 --> 00:01:07,430 Speaker 3: Are you so grateful for what. 24 00:01:07,350 --> 00:01:07,810 Speaker 2: He's been teaching? 25 00:01:07,990 --> 00:01:09,610 Speaker 3: Do you ever feel like you're just living in the 26 00:01:09,890 --> 00:01:13,530 Speaker 3: overflow of what he's been pouring out into us? So 27 00:01:13,550 --> 00:01:16,770 Speaker 3: I feel right now I got two scriptures I want 28 00:01:16,790 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 3: to share with you. One from the New Testament and 29 00:01:19,700 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 3: a quick one from the Old Testament that gives us 30 00:01:21,700 --> 00:01:24,380 Speaker 3: our principle for today. And if you're joining us on 31 00:01:24,420 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 3: one of our other campuses, stay standing for just a 32 00:01:26,660 --> 00:01:29,740 Speaker 3: moment while we read God's word. We're gonna be in 33 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:31,060 Speaker 3: Acts 16. 34 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 2: It's so appropriate. 35 00:01:31,819 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 3: We were just singing about a God who breaks chains. 36 00:01:34,380 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 2: Look at this. 37 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:40,530 Speaker 3: In Acts 16, verse 23, it says, after they had 38 00:01:40,550 --> 00:01:43,809 Speaker 3: been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison and the 39 00:01:43,870 --> 00:01:47,570 Speaker 3: jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. When he received 40 00:01:47,590 --> 00:01:50,110 Speaker 3: these orders, he put them in the inner cell and 41 00:01:50,230 --> 00:01:54,790 Speaker 3: fastened their feet in the stocks. About midnight, y'all know 42 00:01:54,830 --> 00:02:00,430 Speaker 3: this story? About midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and 43 00:02:00,590 --> 00:02:04,070 Speaker 3: singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening 44 00:02:04,110 --> 00:02:07,220 Speaker 3: to them. Suddenly, there was such a violent earthquake that 45 00:02:07,250 --> 00:02:10,519 Speaker 3: the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once, all 46 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 3: the prison doors flew open, and everyone's chains came loose. 47 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:16,820 Speaker 3: It's amazing what happens when you call on the name 48 00:02:16,860 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 3: of Jesus. 49 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:19,920 Speaker 2: Chains start breaking, doors start opening. 50 00:02:19,940 --> 00:02:20,579 Speaker 4: Ha, ha, ha. 51 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,580 Speaker 3: The jailer woke up and when he saw the prison 52 00:02:24,620 --> 00:02:26,669 Speaker 3: doors open, he drew his sword and he was about 53 00:02:26,730 --> 00:02:28,310 Speaker 3: to kill himself because he thought the. 54 00:02:28,270 --> 00:02:32,169 Speaker 2: Prisoners had escaped. But Paul shouted, don't harm yourself. We 55 00:02:32,250 --> 00:02:33,209 Speaker 2: are all here. 56 00:02:33,830 --> 00:02:36,490 Speaker 3: The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling 57 00:02:36,530 --> 00:02:40,140 Speaker 3: before Paul and Silas. He then brought them out and asked, sirs, 58 00:02:40,260 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 3: what must I do to be saved? They replied, believe 59 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 3: in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved. You 60 00:02:46,300 --> 00:02:47,619 Speaker 3: and your household. 61 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 2: Amen. Amen. 62 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 3: All right, now, Psalm 77, verse 6. Psalm 77, verse 6. 63 00:02:54,900 --> 00:02:59,630 Speaker 3: The psalmist wrote, I remembered my songs in the night. 64 00:03:00,530 --> 00:03:01,970 Speaker 2: I remembered my. 65 00:03:01,950 --> 00:03:05,090 Speaker 3: Songs in the night. Title of my message today is 66 00:03:05,510 --> 00:03:08,730 Speaker 3: hold on to your song. Hold on to your song. 67 00:03:08,750 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 3: I'll come with a word of encouragement for someone today 68 00:03:11,419 --> 00:03:13,079 Speaker 3: who finds themselves in a midnight hour. 69 00:03:13,139 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 2: The word of the Lord for you is hold on 70 00:03:15,340 --> 00:03:15,900 Speaker 2: to your song. 71 00:03:15,940 --> 00:03:17,859 Speaker 3: Give your neighbor my title as you take your seat. 72 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:25,990 Speaker 3: Hold on to your song. I know there's so many 73 00:03:26,230 --> 00:03:28,060 Speaker 3: OGs here and people have been a part of the 74 00:03:28,090 --> 00:03:30,340 Speaker 3: church for a while, but there's always some new people 75 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,519 Speaker 3: joining us, maybe in the room or joining us online. 76 00:03:32,540 --> 00:03:33,500 Speaker 2: So will you just. 77 00:03:33,419 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 3: Indulge me for a moment while I show a picture 78 00:03:35,180 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 3: of my family real quick? 79 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 2: We've got a picture of my family up here. 80 00:03:37,900 --> 00:03:41,100 Speaker 3: That's my beautiful wife, Anna, 16 years we've been married. 81 00:03:41,140 --> 00:03:45,869 Speaker 3: My oldest son, Zion, Elias, and Olivia right there. And 82 00:03:46,590 --> 00:03:50,770 Speaker 3: we are at such a fun stage in parenting. It's 83 00:03:50,810 --> 00:03:53,830 Speaker 3: a blast right now, isn't it? One of the great 84 00:03:53,870 --> 00:03:55,930 Speaker 3: privileges I have at this stage of my life is 85 00:03:55,990 --> 00:03:59,070 Speaker 3: beginning to expose my boys to just good music, you know? 86 00:03:59,530 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 3: No shade to Forest Frank, but I'm trying to diversify 87 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 3: their palette a little bit. 88 00:04:03,020 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 2: That's all they listen to on repeat. 89 00:04:05,180 --> 00:04:06,500 Speaker 3: So I've been trying to show them some of the 90 00:04:06,540 --> 00:04:08,260 Speaker 3: songs from my childhood, just. 91 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:09,839 Speaker 2: The appropriate ones. I'm leaving out Kanye. 92 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:10,580 Speaker 5: And. 93 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,060 Speaker 3: And most of the songs that I end up showing them, 94 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 3: they just kind of like scrunch their nose and say, 95 00:04:17,110 --> 00:04:18,790 Speaker 3: this sounds old. How many of you have been there 96 00:04:18,830 --> 00:04:20,550 Speaker 3: with your kids before? You're showing them a song and 97 00:04:20,589 --> 00:04:23,050 Speaker 3: it's like bringing back so many memories for you. You 98 00:04:23,089 --> 00:04:25,110 Speaker 3: know every word and you show your kids and they 99 00:04:25,150 --> 00:04:28,510 Speaker 3: just go, this sounds old. But every now and then 100 00:04:28,529 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 3: I show them a song that just seems to hit 101 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:33,339 Speaker 3: a little bit different and they catch on to it. 102 00:04:33,380 --> 00:04:34,780 Speaker 2: And recently we had one of those. 103 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 3: I got to introduce the boys to, I think you'll 104 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:41,280 Speaker 3: agree with me on this, the greatest female vocalist of 105 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:41,870 Speaker 3: all time. 106 00:04:42,930 --> 00:04:46,270 Speaker 2: Y'all know who I'm talking about? Shout it out. Oh, 107 00:04:46,310 --> 00:04:48,580 Speaker 2: I heard a Mick. I heard Mick. Someone said Tiffany Hudson. Oh, 108 00:04:48,750 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 2: that's a good one. That's a good one too. That's 109 00:04:50,300 --> 00:04:53,580 Speaker 2: a good one too. Okay. Whitney Houston. 110 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:55,099 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 111 00:04:55,180 --> 00:04:57,670 Speaker 2: Whitney Houston. Make some noise if you agree with me 112 00:04:57,730 --> 00:04:59,010 Speaker 2: on that. Whitney, Whitney, Whitney. 113 00:04:59,050 --> 00:05:02,670 Speaker 3: Whitney. All right, I asked them if I could show 114 00:05:02,710 --> 00:05:05,050 Speaker 3: you this clip because ever since I showed them this song, 115 00:05:05,070 --> 00:05:06,330 Speaker 3: and when I put it on, they were like, I 116 00:05:06,350 --> 00:05:08,950 Speaker 3: don't know about this. And since then, I wake up 117 00:05:08,990 --> 00:05:10,970 Speaker 3: in the morning, they're singing it. I get in the car, 118 00:05:11,029 --> 00:05:13,650 Speaker 3: they got it on karaoke. And I asked them if 119 00:05:13,690 --> 00:05:15,690 Speaker 3: I could show them this clip we recorded, and they 120 00:05:15,710 --> 00:05:17,289 Speaker 3: were a little hesitant. And my boys are in the 121 00:05:17,330 --> 00:05:19,050 Speaker 3: room right now. So when this gets done, y'all better 122 00:05:19,089 --> 00:05:21,390 Speaker 3: make them feel loved right here, okay? Check this out 123 00:05:21,420 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 3: real quick. Y'all got to cut it before you hear 124 00:05:34,820 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 3: me sing. Cut it before you hear me sing. 125 00:05:37,220 --> 00:05:41,070 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay. Zion and Elias, let's go. 126 00:05:41,089 --> 00:05:46,460 Speaker 3: I don't know if you know this about that song, 127 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 3: but of course, Whitney Houston made it so popular. But 128 00:05:48,940 --> 00:05:51,930 Speaker 3: do you know who wrote that song? Dolly, man, y'all 129 00:05:51,950 --> 00:05:56,450 Speaker 3: know your music history. Y'all love Dolly. Dolly recorded that 130 00:05:56,510 --> 00:06:00,070 Speaker 3: song and released it in 1974. And then in 1992 131 00:06:00,070 --> 00:06:04,010 Speaker 3: is when Whitney Houston recorded it. So Dolly recorded, captured 132 00:06:04,029 --> 00:06:06,250 Speaker 3: that song. Whitney, of course, just did a number on 133 00:06:06,290 --> 00:06:08,090 Speaker 3: that song. And that's what we've been singing now. How 134 00:06:08,130 --> 00:06:11,300 Speaker 3: crazy is that? Dolly writes a song in the early 70s. 135 00:06:11,300 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 3: 20 years after that, Whitney Houston records it. And now 136 00:06:14,260 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 3: we're in 2026 and Zion and Alliance Josephs are doing 137 00:06:17,580 --> 00:06:20,340 Speaker 3: their own version of of I will always love you. 138 00:06:21,220 --> 00:06:24,940 Speaker 3: Isn't it amazing how some songs are just timeless? 139 00:06:25,380 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 2: Timeless. 140 00:06:26,540 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 3: Some songs you carry with you your whole life. It 141 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 3: doesn't matter how long it's been since you heard it. 142 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 3: Just that sound of that drum beat coming in and 143 00:06:33,050 --> 00:06:35,690 Speaker 3: you can belt out, I will always love you. And 144 00:06:35,730 --> 00:06:38,030 Speaker 3: bringing back all these memories, you can pass it on 145 00:06:38,170 --> 00:06:40,630 Speaker 3: one generation to another. That's what I'm doing right now. 146 00:06:40,670 --> 00:06:43,930 Speaker 3: It's amazing how These songs have the ability to, we 147 00:06:43,950 --> 00:06:46,330 Speaker 3: have the ability to carry them with us and even 148 00:06:46,470 --> 00:06:49,740 Speaker 3: pass them on. And one of the things that was 149 00:06:49,820 --> 00:06:52,180 Speaker 3: really on my heart to teach you today about worship 150 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:56,219 Speaker 3: is that, different from Whitney, worship though has a similar 151 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:59,410 Speaker 3: way that it has the ability to ground us in 152 00:06:59,510 --> 00:07:02,950 Speaker 3: truths that we can carry with us season to season, 153 00:07:03,390 --> 00:07:06,290 Speaker 3: moment to moment, place to place. Sometimes we go through 154 00:07:06,310 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 3: things in our life and we carry these songs with us. 155 00:07:09,580 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 2: On the inside of our spirit that just pop. 156 00:07:11,740 --> 00:07:13,300 Speaker 3: You ever had that all of a sudden a worship 157 00:07:13,340 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 3: song just pops out of nowhere for your situation and 158 00:07:16,180 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 3: God starts using it to remind you of his faithfulness, 159 00:07:19,620 --> 00:07:22,610 Speaker 3: to remind you of his promises, to remind you of 160 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:23,170 Speaker 3: his goodness. 161 00:07:24,060 --> 00:07:24,980 Speaker 2: And I felt. 162 00:07:24,860 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 3: Burdened to talk to someone today who's going through maybe hardship. 163 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:30,700 Speaker 2: Maybe you find yourself in a midnight hour. 164 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:33,250 Speaker 3: And the encouragement I wanted to give you today is 165 00:07:33,310 --> 00:07:36,510 Speaker 3: to hold on to your song. Because when God gives 166 00:07:36,670 --> 00:07:39,630 Speaker 3: you these songs, it's meant to put something into your 167 00:07:39,670 --> 00:07:41,350 Speaker 3: heart that you can carry with. This is why I 168 00:07:41,390 --> 00:07:43,070 Speaker 3: love our church. I love that we're not just a 169 00:07:43,150 --> 00:07:46,130 Speaker 3: word church, but we're a worshiping church. Are you grateful 170 00:07:46,170 --> 00:07:48,590 Speaker 3: for that? I love that when we come into this place, 171 00:07:48,630 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 3: some of y'all are like, I don't know why they 172 00:07:50,180 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 3: do so many new songs at this church. The moment 173 00:07:52,260 --> 00:07:54,780 Speaker 3: I learned one, they're singing another one because we are 174 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,420 Speaker 3: a worshiping church. And I'm so grateful that our pastor 175 00:07:58,460 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 3: and this team takes so much time to write these songs. 176 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 2: Why? 177 00:08:01,780 --> 00:08:04,710 Speaker 3: So that we have something to hold onto. In the 178 00:08:04,830 --> 00:08:07,390 Speaker 3: trials and in the storms of our life, we have 179 00:08:07,430 --> 00:08:10,130 Speaker 3: these songs that we can take with us that build 180 00:08:10,270 --> 00:08:12,990 Speaker 3: our faith and make us come alive to God. 181 00:08:13,030 --> 00:08:13,670 Speaker 2: Here's what I know. 182 00:08:14,390 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 3: I will preach this message today, and hopefully you're taking 183 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 3: some notes. And it's important you take notes when I 184 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,180 Speaker 3: preach this message, because I know that if I catch 185 00:08:22,220 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 3: you in three weeks from now, and you came up 186 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:27,150 Speaker 3: to me and you said, wow, Pastor JJ, that message 187 00:08:27,170 --> 00:08:29,730 Speaker 3: you preached the other week, it really blessed me. Normally, 188 00:08:29,770 --> 00:08:31,810 Speaker 3: someone will say, I came to church. I was really 189 00:08:31,830 --> 00:08:33,589 Speaker 3: hoping to hear Pastor Stephen, but I want you to 190 00:08:33,630 --> 00:08:35,630 Speaker 3: know I still liked your message anyway. 191 00:08:35,690 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 2: And that's okay. I take it as a compliment. 192 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,500 Speaker 3: He's my favorite preacher too. But you'll say, that really 193 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 3: blessed me. If I said, if it was three weeks 194 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 3: from now, three months from now, and I said, oh yeah, 195 00:08:44,450 --> 00:08:46,010 Speaker 3: what did God speak to you through that sermon? You'd 196 00:08:46,030 --> 00:08:49,650 Speaker 3: be like, let me pull up my notes real quick. 197 00:08:49,710 --> 00:08:49,890 Speaker 1: Why? 198 00:08:49,970 --> 00:08:52,770 Speaker 3: Because we tend to forget sermons, right? We tend to 199 00:08:52,830 --> 00:08:56,950 Speaker 3: forget sermons. But okay, let me demonstrate this and back 200 00:08:56,970 --> 00:09:01,490 Speaker 3: me up. But if I said, your promise still stands, 201 00:09:01,770 --> 00:09:05,620 Speaker 3: you would say, all right, with a little more confidence 202 00:09:05,630 --> 00:09:10,959 Speaker 3: this time. If I said, your promise still stands, Great 203 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 3: is your faithfulness. It's like the moment I say, your 204 00:09:13,460 --> 00:09:15,100 Speaker 3: promise still stands, you can go, great. 205 00:09:14,980 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 2: Is your faithfulness. 206 00:09:17,020 --> 00:09:19,870 Speaker 3: Y'all, that song is over 10 years old, and you've 207 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:21,730 Speaker 3: been holding on to it all this time? 208 00:09:22,150 --> 00:09:23,290 Speaker 2: You mean to tell me at. 209 00:09:23,270 --> 00:09:26,410 Speaker 3: The mention of your promise still stands, you can declare 210 00:09:26,450 --> 00:09:27,610 Speaker 3: the faithfulness of God? 211 00:09:27,910 --> 00:09:30,910 Speaker 2: That's what it looks like to hold on to a song. 212 00:09:31,230 --> 00:09:33,150 Speaker 3: And I don't know what Pastor Stephen and the team 213 00:09:33,170 --> 00:09:35,510 Speaker 3: were going through when they wrote those lyrics. I don't 214 00:09:35,550 --> 00:09:38,370 Speaker 3: know what they were declaring the faithfulness of God through. 215 00:09:38,390 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 2: But But whatever it is, you've been holding on to it. 216 00:09:41,190 --> 00:09:44,210 Speaker 3: And through your valleys and through your storms and through 217 00:09:44,250 --> 00:09:47,210 Speaker 3: your Jerichos, it became an anthem that you can hold 218 00:09:47,309 --> 00:09:48,230 Speaker 3: on to that declares. 219 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:53,220 Speaker 2: Great is your faithfulness. Faithfulness. Now, that's the. 220 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 3: Power of worship. I want to make one thing clear. 221 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 3: The primary purpose of worship is to give glory to God. 222 00:09:59,340 --> 00:10:01,970 Speaker 3: I know that sounds obvious, but I want to say it. 223 00:10:02,020 --> 00:10:05,380 Speaker 3: The primary purpose of worship is to give glory to God. 224 00:10:05,420 --> 00:10:09,740 Speaker 3: In Revelations 4.11, they say, you are worthy, O Lord, 225 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:14,569 Speaker 3: to receive glory and honor and power. You are worthy, 226 00:10:14,990 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 3: O Lord. The primary purpose of worship is to give 227 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,030 Speaker 3: glory to God. That's so important for us to know 228 00:10:20,670 --> 00:10:23,090 Speaker 3: because when we come into church, sometimes we base our 229 00:10:23,170 --> 00:10:24,810 Speaker 3: worship on other things. 230 00:10:25,030 --> 00:10:26,550 Speaker 2: Besides the worthiness of God. 231 00:10:27,210 --> 00:10:30,620 Speaker 3: Sometimes I come into worship and it's based on my feelings. 232 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:33,420 Speaker 3: Sometimes I go, ah, I don't know if I feel 233 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 3: like it today. I just wanna be authentic. So, and 234 00:10:36,660 --> 00:10:39,030 Speaker 3: I don't feel like it today. Do you think Job 235 00:10:39,190 --> 00:10:41,730 Speaker 3: felt like praising when he says you give and take 236 00:10:41,790 --> 00:10:44,850 Speaker 3: away blessed be the name of the Lord had nothing 237 00:10:44,890 --> 00:10:45,770 Speaker 3: to do with his feelings. 238 00:10:45,790 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 2: He said, I'm going to bless the Lord. 239 00:10:48,100 --> 00:10:51,580 Speaker 3: Sometimes we base our worship on our performance, our behavior 240 00:10:51,620 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 3: thinking like, oh, I had a good week. 241 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:54,590 Speaker 2: I deserve to work. 242 00:10:54,830 --> 00:10:57,870 Speaker 3: When have you ever deserved to worship God? When have 243 00:10:57,929 --> 00:11:00,429 Speaker 3: we ever deserved to be in his presence outside of 244 00:11:00,470 --> 00:11:02,929 Speaker 3: the grace and blood of Jesus Christ? So it was 245 00:11:02,990 --> 00:11:06,390 Speaker 3: never based on my behavior or my performance. I come 246 00:11:06,429 --> 00:11:09,340 Speaker 3: into his presence and give him glory because he made 247 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:11,780 Speaker 3: a way for me to give him glory. The purpose 248 00:11:12,179 --> 00:11:15,260 Speaker 3: of worship is to give glory to God. And yet 249 00:11:15,940 --> 00:11:19,979 Speaker 3: God commands us to worship, not because he's insecure. 250 00:11:19,750 --> 00:11:22,190 Speaker 2: And needs it. God does not need our worship. 251 00:11:22,990 --> 00:11:25,860 Speaker 3: God commands us to worship because he knows that when 252 00:11:25,929 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 3: we worship, it does something in us. I worship God, 253 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 3: whether I feel like it or not, because when I worship, 254 00:11:34,020 --> 00:11:37,340 Speaker 3: I get his strength. When I worship, I get his presence. 255 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 3: When I worship, I get his joy. When I worship, 256 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,780 Speaker 3: I get his peace. I thought Elevation Church would bat 257 00:11:42,820 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 3: me up while. 258 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 2: I'm preaching that. You ever been in those moments of worship? 259 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 2: And you didn't feel like it. 260 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:49,780 Speaker 3: And you were going through storms. You didn't even know 261 00:11:49,820 --> 00:11:51,939 Speaker 3: if you had the strength to praise him. But when 262 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 3: you did, something began to happen in your life. When 263 00:11:55,210 --> 00:11:57,690 Speaker 3: you began to praise him and give him the glory 264 00:11:57,910 --> 00:12:00,809 Speaker 3: that he deserved, he ended up blessing you with something 265 00:12:00,850 --> 00:12:03,469 Speaker 3: that you didn't deserve. How many of you are thankful 266 00:12:03,750 --> 00:12:05,949 Speaker 3: that in the presence of the Lord is the fullness 267 00:12:05,990 --> 00:12:06,470 Speaker 3: of joy? 268 00:12:06,490 --> 00:12:10,590 Speaker 2: Okay. C.S. Lewis said it this way. 269 00:12:10,610 --> 00:12:13,130 Speaker 3: He said, it is in the process of being worshiped 270 00:12:13,170 --> 00:12:17,689 Speaker 3: that God communicates his presence to men. So the purpose 271 00:12:17,730 --> 00:12:20,050 Speaker 3: of my worship is to give glory to God. And yet, 272 00:12:20,309 --> 00:12:24,750 Speaker 3: as I worship, God gives his presence to me. You 273 00:12:24,790 --> 00:12:28,430 Speaker 3: need a song to hold onto. And the Psalmist said, 274 00:12:28,470 --> 00:12:32,390 Speaker 3: he said, I remember my song in the night. I 275 00:12:32,429 --> 00:12:35,689 Speaker 3: remember my song in the night. So you look at 276 00:12:35,730 --> 00:12:38,650 Speaker 3: Colossians three with me for a minute, Colossians 3 16. 277 00:12:38,650 --> 00:12:39,860 Speaker 2: This is the power of worship. 278 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,300 Speaker 3: This is one of the ways that we get God's 279 00:12:42,420 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 3: truth into our hearts. Cause I know you won't always 280 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,569 Speaker 3: remember a sermon. but the way God can just give 281 00:12:48,610 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 3: you a song that you carry with you. In Colossians 3.16, 282 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,660 Speaker 3: Paul writes, let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, 283 00:12:55,300 --> 00:12:59,940 Speaker 3: teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, 284 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:03,980 Speaker 3: and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your heart to God. 285 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 3: Paul says one of the ways that we teach one 286 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:11,860 Speaker 3: another theology, our beliefs about God, is through songs. So 287 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 3: what is worship? Worship is truth with a tune. Worship 288 00:13:16,580 --> 00:13:20,460 Speaker 3: is revelation with a rhythm. Worship is confession with a cadence. 289 00:13:20,820 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 3: Worship is something that I can hold onto and carry 290 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:26,350 Speaker 3: with me. So when I find myself in the midnight 291 00:13:26,390 --> 00:13:29,170 Speaker 3: hour and I don't know what on earth I'm there for, 292 00:13:29,470 --> 00:13:32,310 Speaker 3: I can hold onto something that reminds me what I've 293 00:13:32,429 --> 00:13:34,949 Speaker 3: always believed and what I've experienced in the Lord. It 294 00:13:34,990 --> 00:13:37,630 Speaker 3: can remind me what I've been taught about who he is. 295 00:13:37,670 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 3: So even in the midnight hour, I can declare what 296 00:13:40,380 --> 00:13:42,540 Speaker 3: I learned. Remember what the Psalmist said? He said, I 297 00:13:42,620 --> 00:13:45,839 Speaker 3: remember my song in the night. You don't learn a 298 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,730 Speaker 3: new song in the night. You remember it. 299 00:13:49,300 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 2: You have to have that song in your spirit. 300 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,450 Speaker 3: You have to have that revelation in your heart so 301 00:13:54,490 --> 00:13:57,770 Speaker 3: that when you find yourself at midnight, you have something 302 00:13:57,830 --> 00:13:59,150 Speaker 3: to call forth. 303 00:13:59,210 --> 00:14:01,709 Speaker 2: That's Paul and Silas in prison. 304 00:14:02,410 --> 00:14:05,230 Speaker 3: Whatever they were singing, it was a sticky song because 305 00:14:05,270 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 3: it says that all the prisoners started listening to what 306 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:10,199 Speaker 3: they were singing. They were singing something. Forget Whitney Houston. 307 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:14,260 Speaker 3: They were singing something sticky, something generational. You need a 308 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:17,330 Speaker 3: song in your spirit. You need a song that you 309 00:14:17,350 --> 00:14:21,010 Speaker 3: can carry moment to moment, season to season, that reminds 310 00:14:21,050 --> 00:14:23,890 Speaker 3: you of who God is. I wanna show you something 311 00:14:24,030 --> 00:14:26,690 Speaker 3: that really blessed me. Do you know the first song 312 00:14:26,770 --> 00:14:29,350 Speaker 3: recorded in the Bible? It's okay if you don't. 313 00:14:29,370 --> 00:14:29,870 Speaker 2: I didn't either. 314 00:14:29,890 --> 00:14:32,170 Speaker 3: I studied this this week. Okay, let me, it's a 315 00:14:32,190 --> 00:14:36,350 Speaker 3: rhetorical question. Let me show you in Exodus 15. Exodus 316 00:14:36,350 --> 00:14:38,850 Speaker 3: 15 has the first song recorded in the Bible. 317 00:14:38,870 --> 00:14:40,490 Speaker 2: I'm gonna start in 1431 at the end. 318 00:14:40,550 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 3: This is, the Israelites have been in captivity in Egypt 319 00:14:44,700 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 3: for 400 years. And as God sends the last plague, 320 00:14:47,940 --> 00:14:49,780 Speaker 3: by the way, it says that it was about midnight. 321 00:14:49,980 --> 00:14:52,990 Speaker 3: God sends the last plague and the Israelites in a 322 00:14:53,050 --> 00:14:55,690 Speaker 3: hurry begin to grab all their possessions and everything they can. 323 00:14:55,730 --> 00:14:59,180 Speaker 2: And God is finally leading them out of captivity. in 324 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:00,220 Speaker 2: Egypt and they get to. 325 00:15:00,100 --> 00:15:02,670 Speaker 3: The Red Sea and miraculously Moses sticks out his staff 326 00:15:02,730 --> 00:15:04,450 Speaker 3: and he parts the Red Sea God made away. 327 00:15:04,490 --> 00:15:06,190 Speaker 2: But as they look behind them, they still. 328 00:15:05,990 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 3: See Pharaoh and all his chariots chasing them down and 329 00:15:08,780 --> 00:15:10,940 Speaker 3: they begin to panic and they begin to worry. But 330 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 3: then God by his strength and by his mighty hand 331 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,170 Speaker 3: causes the waters to fold back in and they watch 332 00:15:16,230 --> 00:15:20,450 Speaker 3: as Pharaoh And this chariots and their enemy drowned. So 333 00:15:20,590 --> 00:15:25,010 Speaker 3: Exodus 14, 31, Israel saw the great power that the 334 00:15:25,070 --> 00:15:28,130 Speaker 3: Lord used against the Egyptians so that the people feared 335 00:15:28,170 --> 00:15:30,660 Speaker 3: the Lord. And they believed in the Lord and his 336 00:15:30,700 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 3: servant Moses. Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this. 337 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,340 Speaker 2: Song to the Lord. Look at that. 338 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:40,970 Speaker 3: They were just sprinting and now they're singing. I will 339 00:15:41,110 --> 00:15:44,230 Speaker 3: sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously. The 340 00:15:44,310 --> 00:15:46,630 Speaker 3: horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. 341 00:15:46,670 --> 00:15:48,490 Speaker 3: This is what I wanted to show you, verse 2. 342 00:15:48,490 --> 00:15:54,210 Speaker 3: The Lord is my strength and my song, and he 343 00:15:54,250 --> 00:15:59,410 Speaker 3: has become my salvation. They come out of Egypt, and 344 00:15:59,430 --> 00:16:02,890 Speaker 3: they watch God defeat and triumph over their enemies, and 345 00:16:02,910 --> 00:16:03,890 Speaker 3: their response is to. 346 00:16:03,830 --> 00:16:05,290 Speaker 2: Begin to sing to him. 347 00:16:05,350 --> 00:16:07,860 Speaker 3: The Lord is my strength and my song. 348 00:16:08,270 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 2: He has become my Salvation. 349 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:13,580 Speaker 3: When God does something for you in your life, is 350 00:16:13,620 --> 00:16:15,900 Speaker 3: your first response to give him worship? 351 00:16:16,540 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 2: Is your first response to give him praise? Look at this. 352 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:21,370 Speaker 2: This blessed me too. 353 00:16:21,610 --> 00:16:24,870 Speaker 3: Then it goes on to say in Exodus 15, something. 354 00:16:24,650 --> 00:16:26,530 Speaker 2: About Miriam, who's Moses' sister. 355 00:16:27,190 --> 00:16:30,690 Speaker 3: Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, she took 356 00:16:30,770 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 3: a tambourine in her hand and all the women went 357 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:37,780 Speaker 3: out after her with tambourines and dancing. That blessed me 358 00:16:37,820 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 3: for a couple reasons. It blessed me because it lets 359 00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:45,300 Speaker 3: me know that even while she was in captivity in Egypt, 360 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:51,370 Speaker 3: she had a tambourine. So this might be the first 361 00:16:51,730 --> 00:16:54,170 Speaker 3: song recorded in the Bible, but I don't think this 362 00:16:54,230 --> 00:16:57,150 Speaker 3: is their first time singing. I don't think she was 363 00:16:57,230 --> 00:16:59,910 Speaker 3: waiting until she got free to worship the God of 364 00:16:59,950 --> 00:17:02,790 Speaker 3: her ancestors. I don't think she was waiting until God 365 00:17:02,830 --> 00:17:06,010 Speaker 3: delivered her to praise. And then what also blessed me 366 00:17:06,030 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 3: was just think about it. God sends that last plague 367 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,380 Speaker 3: and tells the Israelites, it's time to go, it's time 368 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 3: to go. And they just have moments to get out 369 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:17,050 Speaker 3: of Egypt. Moments, packing everything they can. And of all 370 00:17:17,090 --> 00:17:19,650 Speaker 3: the things that Miriam is packing for the journey, not 371 00:17:19,710 --> 00:17:21,590 Speaker 3: knowing how long it would be as God leads. 372 00:17:21,430 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 2: Them into the promised land. 373 00:17:23,130 --> 00:17:26,910 Speaker 3: She chose to pack a I came to tell someone, 374 00:17:26,950 --> 00:17:29,659 Speaker 3: you got to hold on to your song. I imagine 375 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:31,699 Speaker 3: her friends going, Miriam, you might want to bring an 376 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:33,459 Speaker 3: extra pair of shoes. We don't know how long we're 377 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:35,580 Speaker 3: going to be out there in this wilderness. And maybe 378 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 3: you want to bring some water wings because I don't 379 00:17:37,340 --> 00:17:39,420 Speaker 3: know what we're going to do about that Red Sea. 380 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,850 Speaker 3: But Miriam said, no, I got to bring my tambourine 381 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,250 Speaker 3: with me. I've got to hold on to my praise 382 00:17:45,290 --> 00:17:47,790 Speaker 3: because I don't know how long I'm going to be 383 00:17:47,830 --> 00:17:50,429 Speaker 3: in this wilderness. And I don't know where God is 384 00:17:50,470 --> 00:17:52,510 Speaker 3: taking me. but I know that he's going to be 385 00:17:52,590 --> 00:17:54,750 Speaker 3: with me. And if God's going to be with me, 386 00:17:55,030 --> 00:17:56,790 Speaker 3: I've got to hold on to my song. 387 00:17:57,090 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 2: I've got to be able to worship him. I've got 388 00:17:59,300 --> 00:18:03,340 Speaker 2: to be able to glorify him. Good times, bad. Pharaoh dead, 389 00:18:03,619 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 2: Pharaoh chasing me. I came to bless the Lord. 390 00:18:07,900 --> 00:18:10,140 Speaker 3: And they say in that song, the Lord is my 391 00:18:10,260 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 3: strength and my song. 392 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,770 Speaker 2: He has become my salvation. 393 00:18:15,530 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 3: Now, here's what really, really amazed me about what they 394 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 3: say after God delivered them from the Israelites. 395 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 5: They didn't just sing that song, but that song was 396 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 5: so sticky that it got passed. 397 00:18:27,340 --> 00:18:32,970 Speaker 3: On from generation to generation, from Dolly to Whitney to Zion, 398 00:18:33,510 --> 00:18:38,710 Speaker 3: generation to generation. Because later in Psalm 118, 14, now 399 00:18:38,730 --> 00:18:41,010 Speaker 3: they're in the promised land. They're in the temple that 400 00:18:41,050 --> 00:18:44,430 Speaker 3: God has promised. This is generations later. And the Psalmist 401 00:18:44,470 --> 00:18:47,450 Speaker 3: writes in Psalm 118, 14, the Lord is my strength 402 00:18:47,910 --> 00:18:48,580 Speaker 3: and my song. 403 00:18:49,060 --> 00:18:50,939 Speaker 2: He has become my salvation. 404 00:18:51,619 --> 00:18:56,030 Speaker 3: Later in Isaiah, well, the Israelites are once again in captivity, and. 405 00:18:55,990 --> 00:18:57,330 Speaker 2: They're in exile. 406 00:18:57,609 --> 00:18:59,570 Speaker 3: They said it again, the Lord is my strength and 407 00:18:59,590 --> 00:19:02,010 Speaker 3: my song. The Israelites, the first time, sang it on 408 00:19:02,050 --> 00:19:04,730 Speaker 3: the other side of a deliverance. Now they're in captivity, 409 00:19:04,770 --> 00:19:07,649 Speaker 3: but they're reminding their souls of what they've been holding onto. 410 00:19:07,970 --> 00:19:10,770 Speaker 2: He is my strength. He is my song. He is 411 00:19:10,830 --> 00:19:11,669 Speaker 2: my salvation. 412 00:19:12,010 --> 00:19:14,869 Speaker 3: And then in Mark 14, something amazing happens. 413 00:19:14,910 --> 00:19:16,149 Speaker 2: I never saw this before. 414 00:19:16,850 --> 00:19:20,150 Speaker 3: After Jesus has the last supper with the disciples, where 415 00:19:20,190 --> 00:19:22,850 Speaker 3: he broke the bread saying, this is my body. And 416 00:19:22,869 --> 00:19:25,010 Speaker 3: he gave them the cup saying, this is the cup 417 00:19:25,050 --> 00:19:26,939 Speaker 3: of the new covenant. And he was telling them how 418 00:19:26,980 --> 00:19:29,119 Speaker 3: he was gonna go to the cross and die so 419 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:31,879 Speaker 3: that we could be forgiven and reconciled to the father. 420 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:35,300 Speaker 3: From the Passover dinner on his way to the garden, 421 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:37,460 Speaker 3: look what Mark 14, 26 says. 422 00:19:38,130 --> 00:19:42,369 Speaker 2: When they had sung a hymn, they went out to 423 00:19:42,390 --> 00:19:43,810 Speaker 2: the Mount of Olives. 424 00:19:44,770 --> 00:19:46,439 Speaker 3: Do you remember at the start of this year, Pastor 425 00:19:46,460 --> 00:19:48,990 Speaker 3: did a series called Seeking Jesus and we learned about 426 00:19:49,390 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 3: staying Jesus. and seated Jesus and right here we have 427 00:19:52,460 --> 00:19:57,199 Speaker 3: singing Jesus. He leaves the Passover dinner with his disciples, 428 00:19:57,940 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 3: gives them the bread and the juice and on the 429 00:19:59,420 --> 00:20:01,290 Speaker 3: way to the garden where he would kneel before the 430 00:20:01,350 --> 00:20:04,250 Speaker 3: father sweating blood and say, father, if there's any other way, 431 00:20:04,290 --> 00:20:06,489 Speaker 3: let it be so, but nevertheless, not my will, but 432 00:20:06,510 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 3: your be done. It says that he sang Ahim. And 433 00:20:09,540 --> 00:20:12,340 Speaker 3: do you know what song he sang? Do you know 434 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:16,060 Speaker 3: what hymn he was carrying with him? The tradition was 435 00:20:16,100 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 3: that during Passover, they would sing through a number of Psalms, 436 00:20:18,740 --> 00:20:20,500 Speaker 3: and the last one they'd sing, the song they would 437 00:20:20,540 --> 00:20:25,139 Speaker 3: sing at this point of the Passover was Psalm 118. 438 00:20:25,140 --> 00:20:27,300 Speaker 2: Jesus, going to die on. 439 00:20:27,290 --> 00:20:31,350 Speaker 3: The cross, singing, the Lord is my strength and my song. 440 00:20:32,010 --> 00:20:34,570 Speaker 3: He has become my salvation. You know what else is 441 00:20:34,609 --> 00:20:39,050 Speaker 3: in Psalm 118? It says, I shall not die, but 442 00:20:39,330 --> 00:20:43,629 Speaker 3: I shall live. Jesus is going to the cross, prophesying 443 00:20:43,930 --> 00:20:46,950 Speaker 3: to a situation through a song that he's been holding 444 00:20:47,070 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 3: on to, passed on generation to generation. From the time 445 00:20:51,060 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 3: Moses and the Israelites sang it in Egypt on the 446 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 3: other side of the Red Sea, to Jesus singing it 447 00:20:56,060 --> 00:21:00,659 Speaker 3: between the Last Supper and the Mount of Olives. 1,500 448 00:21:00,660 --> 00:21:03,680 Speaker 3: years those songs and words have been sung. Y'all, that's 449 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,890 Speaker 3: not just a cover song. That's an inheritance. And some 450 00:21:06,930 --> 00:21:09,389 Speaker 3: of us are living in the favor of blessing, of 451 00:21:09,430 --> 00:21:12,270 Speaker 3: a measure of faith that has been passed on to 452 00:21:12,330 --> 00:21:15,429 Speaker 3: us one generation to another. Some of us are holding 453 00:21:15,530 --> 00:21:17,930 Speaker 3: on to songs that our grandma used to sing around 454 00:21:17,950 --> 00:21:20,379 Speaker 3: the house, and it just pops into your spirit. You go, 455 00:21:20,390 --> 00:21:22,490 Speaker 3: where did that come from? I remember her singing it, 456 00:21:22,660 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 3: and I don't know what she was going through, but 457 00:21:24,380 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 3: I know what I'm going through right now. And we've 458 00:21:26,580 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 3: been holding on to these songs. It's amazing that the 459 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:33,920 Speaker 3: Savior of the world was singing, reminding himself that the Lord. 460 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:34,419 Speaker 2: Is my strength. 461 00:21:34,990 --> 00:21:37,930 Speaker 3: And my song. Y'all, you need a song to hold 462 00:21:38,030 --> 00:21:40,770 Speaker 3: on to. You need a song that's sticky. Here's Paul 463 00:21:40,810 --> 00:21:45,490 Speaker 3: and Silas. They get thrown into prison earlier in that day, 464 00:21:45,869 --> 00:21:48,750 Speaker 3: and they're sitting there, but something happens around midnight, and 465 00:21:48,790 --> 00:21:51,620 Speaker 3: they just start to sing. I wonder, do you have 466 00:21:51,630 --> 00:21:53,620 Speaker 3: a song that's sticky? Do you have a song that 467 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,740 Speaker 3: you can carry with you through season to season in 468 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 3: your life? I'm so grateful that In this church, we 469 00:21:59,820 --> 00:22:01,820 Speaker 3: get to learn so many songs that I get to 470 00:22:01,859 --> 00:22:03,820 Speaker 3: see my kids singing, not knowing what it'll mean to 471 00:22:03,859 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 3: them in their future, but it's putting God's word in 472 00:22:06,740 --> 00:22:09,820 Speaker 3: their heart. I have a song for when I find 473 00:22:09,859 --> 00:22:12,420 Speaker 3: myself going through a storm in life that simply reminds 474 00:22:12,460 --> 00:22:14,460 Speaker 3: me that God is Lord over the storm and I 475 00:22:14,500 --> 00:22:17,459 Speaker 3: can be still and know that he is God. I'm 476 00:22:17,500 --> 00:22:20,620 Speaker 3: so thankful that when I'm drowning in shame, I can sing, 477 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,550 Speaker 3: I've never been more loved than I am right now. 478 00:22:24,090 --> 00:22:26,670 Speaker 2: I wasn't holding you up, so there's nothing I can 479 00:22:26,710 --> 00:22:28,070 Speaker 2: do to let you down. 480 00:22:29,180 --> 00:22:31,750 Speaker 3: I still get teary when I think about my dad 481 00:22:31,790 --> 00:22:35,970 Speaker 3: playing Bishop Joseph Garlington around the house saying, knowing you, Jesus, 482 00:22:36,650 --> 00:22:41,410 Speaker 3: knowing you, there is no greater thing. And it reminds 483 00:22:41,450 --> 00:22:43,740 Speaker 3: me of my purpose when I start to wander. It 484 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 3: reminds me of what God put me here for when 485 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:48,560 Speaker 3: I start to get off track, that my purpose, it's 486 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:50,400 Speaker 3: a song that I've been holding. 487 00:22:50,220 --> 00:22:53,379 Speaker 2: Onto because it was passed on, passed on. 488 00:22:54,270 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 3: Look at this letter that we got. from someone named 489 00:22:57,300 --> 00:23:00,680 Speaker 3: Alexandro in Sao Paulo, Brazil. All the Brazilians make some noise. 490 00:23:00,740 --> 00:23:02,880 Speaker 2: I know you're all in here. There we go, there 491 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,360 Speaker 2: we go. That's quiet for y'all, actually. That's crazy. 492 00:23:08,500 --> 00:23:10,780 Speaker 3: He sent in this testimony just a few weeks ago, 493 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 3: and he was talking about how he first heard the song, 494 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:14,780 Speaker 3: Do It Again, you know, the one we were singing earlier. 495 00:23:14,820 --> 00:23:15,879 Speaker 3: Your promise still stands. 496 00:23:15,940 --> 00:23:16,860 Speaker 2: Great is your faithfulness. 497 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,780 Speaker 3: He said, I first began singing that song in 2018. 498 00:23:20,780 --> 00:23:22,859 Speaker 3: The words, I've seen you move, you move the mountains, 499 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:24,700 Speaker 3: and I believe I'll see you do it again, became 500 00:23:24,740 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 3: part of my faith. At the time I could sing 501 00:23:27,020 --> 00:23:29,199 Speaker 3: those words without knowing just how deeply I would one 502 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 3: day have to live them. At the end of September, 2021, 503 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,240 Speaker 3: my father was diagnosed with leukemia and what followed were 504 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,270 Speaker 3: 49 days of one of the hardest battles my family 505 00:23:38,350 --> 00:23:41,889 Speaker 3: ever experienced. We prayed, we believed, we worshiped, we believed 506 00:23:41,930 --> 00:23:45,310 Speaker 3: God could move the mountain. And on November 8th, 2021, 507 00:23:45,310 --> 00:23:48,250 Speaker 3: my father passed away. One week later, our church sang, 508 00:23:48,290 --> 00:23:50,510 Speaker 3: do it again. That moment changed the meaning of the 509 00:23:50,570 --> 00:23:54,810 Speaker 3: song for me forever. My father was not healed physically, 510 00:23:54,850 --> 00:23:57,030 Speaker 3: but I came to understand that God had not stopped 511 00:23:57,070 --> 00:24:01,100 Speaker 3: being God. His faithfulness did not disappear just because the 512 00:24:01,170 --> 00:24:03,120 Speaker 3: answer was different from what I wanted. In a way, 513 00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:06,239 Speaker 3: we learned to worship through the pain. We learned that 514 00:24:06,340 --> 00:24:08,740 Speaker 3: God is worthy of our worship. Wasn't I telling you 515 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 3: all that before? 516 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:10,000 Speaker 2: That God is. 517 00:24:10,340 --> 00:24:13,770 Speaker 3: Worthy of our worship before the miracle, during the battle, 518 00:24:14,070 --> 00:24:16,810 Speaker 3: and even when the miracle looks different than what we expected. 519 00:24:16,930 --> 00:24:19,470 Speaker 3: Do it again became a declaration of faith for me. 520 00:24:20,030 --> 00:24:22,990 Speaker 3: not simply that God would perform another miracle, but that 521 00:24:23,130 --> 00:24:26,050 Speaker 3: I would continue believing him no matter what. 522 00:24:26,470 --> 00:24:28,100 Speaker 2: That's what a sticky song looks like. 523 00:24:28,630 --> 00:24:32,340 Speaker 3: Something you can hold onto in the 49 hardest days 524 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:34,939 Speaker 3: of your life. Reading that story reminded me of when 525 00:24:34,980 --> 00:24:37,900 Speaker 3: my grandfather was dying of leukemia and I would visit 526 00:24:37,940 --> 00:24:39,900 Speaker 3: him in the hospital and I didn't have words to say, 527 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:41,360 Speaker 3: but I would worship. 528 00:24:42,100 --> 00:24:43,739 Speaker 2: I didn't know what to say, but I knew what 529 00:24:43,780 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 2: to sing. 530 00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:48,060 Speaker 3: Sitting there next to his bedside singing, to worship you 531 00:24:48,140 --> 00:24:48,500 Speaker 3: I live. 532 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 2: To worship you. I live, I live to worship you. 533 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,060 Speaker 2: You need a song that's sticky. 534 00:24:54,580 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 3: Paul and Silas are in prison and they start singing 535 00:24:57,780 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 3: hymns to God. And all the other prisoners started listening. 536 00:25:02,619 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 3: I've been preaching my whole first point to you. So 537 00:25:04,859 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 3: let me give that to you. The first thing is 538 00:25:06,580 --> 00:25:08,980 Speaker 3: you need a song that's sticky. You need a song 539 00:25:09,020 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 3: that's sticky. And my second point is you need a 540 00:25:12,060 --> 00:25:17,570 Speaker 3: song that's shared. You need a song that's shared. Paul 541 00:25:17,609 --> 00:25:20,990 Speaker 3: and Silas, nothing to lean on, nobody to hold, shackled, 542 00:25:21,070 --> 00:25:24,590 Speaker 3: wounds in their back, in prison for casting a demon 543 00:25:24,650 --> 00:25:26,590 Speaker 3: out of a woman that ticks somebody off, and now 544 00:25:26,609 --> 00:25:27,250 Speaker 3: they're in jail. 545 00:25:27,450 --> 00:25:28,690 Speaker 2: They didn't even do anything wrong. 546 00:25:28,930 --> 00:25:30,790 Speaker 3: You ever been in circumstances, you're like, I don't think 547 00:25:30,810 --> 00:25:31,270 Speaker 3: I even. 548 00:25:31,150 --> 00:25:33,290 Speaker 2: Deserve to be here. What am I doing here for? 549 00:25:33,330 --> 00:25:34,250 Speaker 2: I didn't deserve this. 550 00:25:34,369 --> 00:25:36,790 Speaker 3: That's where Paul and Silas are, and they start singing 551 00:25:36,830 --> 00:25:40,050 Speaker 3: their song, and it says that the prisoners were listening. 552 00:25:40,609 --> 00:25:42,350 Speaker 2: I love this detail because, you. 553 00:25:42,290 --> 00:25:43,830 Speaker 3: Know, if I was in prison, the first thing I'd 554 00:25:43,850 --> 00:25:45,730 Speaker 3: start asking all the other prisoners is like, what. 555 00:25:45,630 --> 00:25:50,870 Speaker 2: Did you do? It doesn't tell us what they did. 556 00:25:50,890 --> 00:25:54,630 Speaker 2: It just tells us what they were doing. It says 557 00:25:54,650 --> 00:25:55,710 Speaker 2: they were listening. 558 00:25:56,730 --> 00:26:00,060 Speaker 3: Your song is personal, but it's not meant to be private. 559 00:26:01,460 --> 00:26:03,700 Speaker 3: That's why Apple Music puts a share button right next 560 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 3: to the song you're listening to. When you find a 561 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 3: good one, you can share it with someone. Your song 562 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,590 Speaker 3: is personal, but it's not meant to be private. You 563 00:26:11,630 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 3: need a song that's shared. It lets me know that 564 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,900 Speaker 3: Paul and Silas weren't mumbling or humming while they sat 565 00:26:17,940 --> 00:26:20,969 Speaker 3: in that prison cell. Whatever they were singing, they were 566 00:26:21,010 --> 00:26:23,810 Speaker 3: singing it with passion. They were singing it out loud. 567 00:26:24,150 --> 00:26:26,970 Speaker 3: They might've been weak from the persecution that they just 568 00:26:27,030 --> 00:26:30,020 Speaker 3: went through, but they were singing a song to God 569 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:30,980 Speaker 3: and the prisoners. 570 00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 2: We're listening. Your faith is meant to be shared. 571 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,060 Speaker 3: This is why it's so important that when we come 572 00:26:36,100 --> 00:26:38,419 Speaker 3: to church together that you don't just stand there with 573 00:26:38,460 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 3: your arms crossed and let other people do the singing. 574 00:26:41,260 --> 00:26:43,060 Speaker 3: You know, there might be other people who need to 575 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,820 Speaker 3: borrow from your faith, other people who need to borrow 576 00:26:45,900 --> 00:26:49,620 Speaker 3: your worship, your praise. Something happens when we come into 577 00:26:49,660 --> 00:26:52,420 Speaker 3: this church together and say, we're all going to bring 578 00:26:52,530 --> 00:26:53,410 Speaker 3: praise to God. 579 00:26:53,730 --> 00:26:53,970 Speaker 1: Why? 580 00:26:54,050 --> 00:26:56,590 Speaker 3: Because he's worthy, but also because he's given us a 581 00:26:56,670 --> 00:26:57,990 Speaker 3: song to share. 582 00:26:58,580 --> 00:27:01,740 Speaker 2: We got to share it, y'all. And after the prisoners. 583 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,220 Speaker 3: Listened to this song, did you notice what it said? 584 00:27:03,260 --> 00:27:06,830 Speaker 3: When the earthquake came, it says everyone's chains got loose. 585 00:27:07,250 --> 00:27:10,129 Speaker 3: Could it be possible that your song has the power 586 00:27:10,430 --> 00:27:12,820 Speaker 3: to break things off of other people's lives? 587 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,300 Speaker 2: Could it be possible that someone in your row is 588 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:16,940 Speaker 2: sitting here. 589 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,820 Speaker 3: Today coming in bound, coming in chained, but your praise 590 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,160 Speaker 3: begins to shift things and their spirit and they walk 591 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,619 Speaker 3: out of here free because you shared your song about 592 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 3: the mighty hand of God, how he's become your strength, 593 00:27:30,980 --> 00:27:34,220 Speaker 3: how he's become your song, how he's become your salvation. 594 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 3: If you've got a praise to share, back. 595 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 2: Me up right now and give God glory. 596 00:27:44,410 --> 00:27:47,330 Speaker 3: Something starts shaking in the room when they started singing. 597 00:27:47,590 --> 00:27:50,690 Speaker 2: People's chains started getting loose when they started singing. 598 00:27:52,109 --> 00:27:54,150 Speaker 3: I love that when people come to this church, so 599 00:27:54,230 --> 00:27:56,780 Speaker 3: often they say, I felt the presence of God from 600 00:27:56,820 --> 00:27:59,620 Speaker 3: I pulled into the parking lot. That's what happens when 601 00:27:59,660 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 3: you bring your faith. That's what happens when you hold 602 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,760 Speaker 3: on to your song. You carry the presence of God 603 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:08,619 Speaker 3: with you because he inhabits the praises of his people. 604 00:28:08,859 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 2: You have to hold on to your song. You need 605 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:12,850 Speaker 2: a song to share. 606 00:28:13,970 --> 00:28:16,190 Speaker 3: And as they sang and the chains broke and the 607 00:28:16,270 --> 00:28:18,670 Speaker 3: doors opened, the jailer sees what's happening and he thinks 608 00:28:18,830 --> 00:28:21,609 Speaker 3: all the prisoners have escaped. And he runs into the 609 00:28:21,690 --> 00:28:23,970 Speaker 3: prison and he thinks they're all gone and he's about 610 00:28:24,020 --> 00:28:24,659 Speaker 3: to kill himself. 611 00:28:24,700 --> 00:28:26,260 Speaker 2: And Paul says, no, no, no, we're all here. 612 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,420 Speaker 3: And Paul begins to tell this jailer, actually he asked 613 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,980 Speaker 3: the question, what do I have to do to be saved? 614 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,300 Speaker 3: And he starts sharing his faith with them, preaching the 615 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,180 Speaker 3: word of the Lord. You can share the word of 616 00:28:37,220 --> 00:28:38,980 Speaker 3: the Lord with people through your words. 617 00:28:39,010 --> 00:28:42,260 Speaker 2: But you can also share it through your song. And 618 00:28:42,300 --> 00:28:44,480 Speaker 2: I don't know what Paul. 619 00:28:44,260 --> 00:28:47,220 Speaker 3: And Silas were thinking as they stood in that prison cell, 620 00:28:47,300 --> 00:28:49,410 Speaker 3: but the moment the jailer came in, they knew what 621 00:28:49,430 --> 00:28:49,770 Speaker 3: to do. 622 00:28:49,830 --> 00:28:53,590 Speaker 2: They started sharing. And I wonder if there's people. 623 00:28:53,350 --> 00:28:55,700 Speaker 3: In your life who are waiting to hear your song. 624 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 3: I wonder if there are people who are asking, what 625 00:28:58,100 --> 00:28:59,660 Speaker 3: do I have to do to be saved? And what 626 00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:02,780 Speaker 3: does it look like for you to notice them and 627 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,460 Speaker 3: share what God has done in your life? Y'all, I 628 00:29:05,530 --> 00:29:07,770 Speaker 3: say this every time I preach because sometimes I think 629 00:29:08,050 --> 00:29:10,750 Speaker 3: we get in this mindset that everything we do for 630 00:29:10,790 --> 00:29:13,390 Speaker 3: our faith is just personal. It's just private. It's about 631 00:29:13,430 --> 00:29:15,870 Speaker 3: me and the Lord. And I always want to emphasize that. 632 00:29:15,910 --> 00:29:18,620 Speaker 2: Everything God does in your life is not just about you. 633 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,380 Speaker 2: There are things that God does in your life. There 634 00:29:21,420 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 2: are things you go through. 635 00:29:23,060 --> 00:29:24,900 Speaker 3: You're wondering, Paul and Silas are wondering, why are we 636 00:29:24,940 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 3: the ones in this prison cell? 637 00:29:26,460 --> 00:29:27,740 Speaker 2: We didn't deserve to be here. 638 00:29:27,780 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 3: And yet sometimes God will take you through things because 639 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,430 Speaker 3: he has a purpose for somebody else that he wants to. 640 00:29:33,370 --> 00:29:34,370 Speaker 2: Do through you. 641 00:29:34,750 --> 00:29:36,810 Speaker 3: Some of the things you're going through right now, you've 642 00:29:36,830 --> 00:29:39,090 Speaker 3: been hesitant to share. You go, I can't share my 643 00:29:39,150 --> 00:29:41,580 Speaker 3: faith with that person. I'm still in chains right now. 644 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,300 Speaker 3: I can't share my faith. I'm still locked in addiction. 645 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,580 Speaker 3: I can't share my faith. And Paul, and the Lord 646 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 3: is saying to you today, no, no, no. Share what 647 00:29:48,980 --> 00:29:50,920 Speaker 3: God has put in you because it might just be 648 00:29:50,940 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 3: the thing that sets somebody else free. You need a 649 00:29:54,900 --> 00:29:57,770 Speaker 3: song that's sticky, but you need a song to share. 650 00:29:57,950 --> 00:30:00,590 Speaker 3: And here's my last point for you today. You need 651 00:30:00,620 --> 00:30:06,030 Speaker 3: a song that shakes. You need a song that shakes 652 00:30:06,070 --> 00:30:07,950 Speaker 3: you out of your apathy. You need a song that 653 00:30:08,030 --> 00:30:10,470 Speaker 3: shakes you out of your hopelessness. You need a song 654 00:30:10,710 --> 00:30:13,130 Speaker 3: that shakes you out of your selfishness. You need a 655 00:30:13,230 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 3: song that shakes you out of your bitterness. You need 656 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,950 Speaker 3: a song that shakes. When they started singing to God 657 00:30:20,230 --> 00:30:21,710 Speaker 3: and I don't know how long they were already in 658 00:30:21,750 --> 00:30:24,410 Speaker 3: that prison before, before they started singing, but it was 659 00:30:24,490 --> 00:30:27,620 Speaker 3: at about midnight, Paul and Silas opened up their mouth. 660 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 3: And when they started singing, look what the scripture says suddenly. 661 00:30:31,610 --> 00:30:34,090 Speaker 3: There was an earthquake, such a violent earthquake, that the 662 00:30:34,190 --> 00:30:37,830 Speaker 3: foundations of the prison started to shake. At once, the 663 00:30:37,930 --> 00:30:41,250 Speaker 3: prison doors flew open, and everybody's chains came loose. When 664 00:30:41,270 --> 00:30:44,190 Speaker 3: they began to sing, things began to shake. When you 665 00:30:44,230 --> 00:30:47,100 Speaker 3: begin to sing, things begin to shake. When you begin 666 00:30:47,150 --> 00:30:50,260 Speaker 3: to sing, things begin to shake. When you begin to sing, 667 00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 3: things begin to shake. 668 00:30:51,820 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 2: You need a song that shakes. 669 00:30:55,090 --> 00:30:57,690 Speaker 3: And they start singing and the doors open and their 670 00:30:57,770 --> 00:31:00,750 Speaker 3: chains broke off. And when the jailer comes in, it 671 00:31:00,770 --> 00:31:03,710 Speaker 3: says that everyone's chains were loose, but he woke up 672 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 3: and he saw that the prison doors were open. 673 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 2: He drew his sword. 674 00:31:05,980 --> 00:31:07,580 Speaker 3: He was about to kill himself because he thought the 675 00:31:07,620 --> 00:31:08,940 Speaker 3: prisoners had escaped. Go on. 676 00:31:09,780 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 2: But Paul shouted, don't harm yourself. We are all here. Huh? 677 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:15,580 Speaker 1: Huh? 678 00:31:17,260 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 3: You mean to tell me that the doors opened and 679 00:31:19,940 --> 00:31:22,720 Speaker 3: the chains were loosed and nobody left? 680 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:25,460 Speaker 2: I kept thinking about that. 681 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,300 Speaker 3: I thought, well, maybe Paul and Silas didn't leave because 682 00:31:28,380 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 3: somewhere along the way, maybe in their prayer time, God 683 00:31:30,700 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 3: spoke to him and said, hey, you're here for this jailer. 684 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 2: Maybe that's why they didn't leave. I don't know. 685 00:31:35,700 --> 00:31:38,240 Speaker 3: But the bigger question for me was, if the doors 686 00:31:38,370 --> 00:31:42,550 Speaker 3: opened and the chains broke, what kept all the other 687 00:31:42,630 --> 00:31:48,550 Speaker 3: prisoners in the room? If there weren't chains holding them, 688 00:31:49,370 --> 00:31:52,510 Speaker 3: what was in that room that was. 689 00:31:52,430 --> 00:31:56,980 Speaker 2: Holding them to the ground? You need a song that shakes. 690 00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 3: When it says that there was an earthquake, it's a 691 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,920 Speaker 3: call back to Exodus where the Lord met Moses on 692 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,740 Speaker 3: Mount Sinai. It says that the ground began to tremble. 693 00:32:05,980 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 3: When Paul and Silas began to sing in that prison cell, 694 00:32:09,180 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 3: the earthquake is a picture of the manifest presence of 695 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:16,730 Speaker 3: God coming into the room, opening doors, breaking chains, and. 696 00:32:16,710 --> 00:32:17,450 Speaker 2: Yet Have you. 697 00:32:17,370 --> 00:32:19,770 Speaker 3: Ever found yourself in that place of worship where God 698 00:32:19,810 --> 00:32:22,470 Speaker 3: starts ministering to you, and God starts meeting you in 699 00:32:22,490 --> 00:32:25,210 Speaker 3: your pain, and God starts meeting you in your anxiety, 700 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,420 Speaker 3: and things start breaking off of your life, but you're like, 701 00:32:28,700 --> 00:32:31,620 Speaker 3: I can't leave this place. The presence of God is 702 00:32:31,660 --> 00:32:35,120 Speaker 3: just too good. What was happening in that cell as 703 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,140 Speaker 3: they began to praise? The Spirit of God came in, 704 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 3: and even though the doors were open, nobody left the room. 705 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,800 Speaker 3: When you're in the room, anything can happen. When you're 706 00:32:43,820 --> 00:32:46,610 Speaker 3: in the room, chains start breaking. When you're in the room, 707 00:32:46,930 --> 00:32:49,450 Speaker 3: anything can happen. When you're in the room, there's healing. 708 00:32:49,650 --> 00:32:51,890 Speaker 3: When you're in the room, there's joy. When you're in 709 00:32:51,930 --> 00:32:54,690 Speaker 3: the room, there's peace. I don't want to leave this place, Lord, 710 00:32:54,710 --> 00:32:55,670 Speaker 3: because you're here. 711 00:32:55,890 --> 00:32:57,390 Speaker 2: You're here. You're here. 712 00:32:58,330 --> 00:33:01,290 Speaker 3: The doors opened, and the chains were loosed, and nobody 713 00:33:01,350 --> 00:33:04,690 Speaker 3: left the place. It lets me know something so powerful 714 00:33:05,190 --> 00:33:08,090 Speaker 3: about worship. It lets me know that the reason I 715 00:33:08,150 --> 00:33:11,790 Speaker 3: worship isn't so that I can get out. The reason 716 00:33:11,850 --> 00:33:14,400 Speaker 3: I worship is so that I can let God in. 717 00:33:14,390 --> 00:33:21,320 Speaker 2: Can I say it again so you can write that down? 718 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,580 Speaker 3: The reason I worship is not so that I can 719 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,820 Speaker 3: get out, so that I can let God in. Something 720 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,940 Speaker 3: happens when you hold on to your song. I love 721 00:33:30,980 --> 00:33:34,120 Speaker 3: what Moses and the psalmist and the prophet in Jesus' name. 722 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:35,780 Speaker 2: The Lord is my song. 723 00:33:36,460 --> 00:33:38,300 Speaker 3: When I find myself in a prison, when I find 724 00:33:38,340 --> 00:33:41,040 Speaker 3: myself in a midnight hour, when I find myself being 725 00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:44,000 Speaker 3: weighed down by the circumstances of my life, the word 726 00:33:44,020 --> 00:33:45,820 Speaker 3: of the Lord is I can hold on to my song. 727 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:49,300 Speaker 2: Who's my song? The Lord is my song. He is 728 00:33:49,380 --> 00:33:52,320 Speaker 2: my strength. I can always hold on to him. 729 00:33:52,700 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 3: Even if I'm beaten and even if I'm chained down 730 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,280 Speaker 3: to the ground, I can hold on to him. 731 00:33:56,540 --> 00:33:58,120 Speaker 2: I can begin to sing songs. 732 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,780 Speaker 3: Reminding me of his faithfulness, reminding me of his power, 733 00:34:01,020 --> 00:34:03,120 Speaker 3: reminding me of his goodness, songs that have been passed 734 00:34:03,220 --> 00:34:06,620 Speaker 3: on generation to generation, songs that my grandmother used to sing, 735 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 3: songs that my father used to sing that I can 736 00:34:08,660 --> 00:34:11,489 Speaker 3: hold on to in the midnight hour and remind myself 737 00:34:11,530 --> 00:34:14,030 Speaker 3: that God is with me, and I don't worship just 738 00:34:14,070 --> 00:34:16,569 Speaker 3: so that I can get out of my circumstances. I 739 00:34:16,650 --> 00:34:19,129 Speaker 3: worship because when I begin to lift up his name, 740 00:34:19,430 --> 00:34:22,049 Speaker 3: I worship because when I begin to exalt him, I 741 00:34:22,110 --> 00:34:24,509 Speaker 3: worship because when I remind my soul of who he 742 00:34:24,570 --> 00:34:27,530 Speaker 3: is and what he's done, God comes into the place. 743 00:34:27,810 --> 00:34:29,610 Speaker 2: Like an earthquake, suddenly. 744 00:34:29,830 --> 00:34:32,790 Speaker 3: It can happen so quickly, walking into church wondering if 745 00:34:32,810 --> 00:34:34,890 Speaker 3: this is going to be my last day, and they 746 00:34:34,910 --> 00:34:37,230 Speaker 3: begin to praise, and I find the strength to lift 747 00:34:37,310 --> 00:34:41,060 Speaker 3: up my hands, and suddenly, God comes in. So I 748 00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:43,400 Speaker 3: came to tell someone today, you've got to hold on 749 00:34:43,940 --> 00:34:44,660 Speaker 3: to your song. 750 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:45,719 Speaker 2: Don't be one of. 751 00:34:45,700 --> 00:34:47,830 Speaker 3: Those Christians who come to church and say, I just 752 00:34:47,870 --> 00:34:48,870 Speaker 3: don't worship like that. 753 00:34:48,969 --> 00:34:50,229 Speaker 2: It's not my personality. 754 00:34:50,550 --> 00:35:00,379 Speaker 3: Personality or preference? What if your preferences don't align with 755 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,150 Speaker 3: the purpose God has for your life? I came to 756 00:35:03,250 --> 00:35:04,530 Speaker 3: praise today. 757 00:35:04,989 --> 00:35:08,190 Speaker 2: Some of you are like, I don't know why David 758 00:35:08,230 --> 00:35:10,450 Speaker 2: has to dance like that. Do you think he's dancing 759 00:35:10,510 --> 00:35:12,930 Speaker 2: for you? I came to praise. 760 00:35:13,330 --> 00:35:15,709 Speaker 3: I have a song in my heart, and I don't 761 00:35:15,750 --> 00:35:21,110 Speaker 3: just praise in the good times. I want you to 762 00:35:21,180 --> 00:35:23,780 Speaker 3: hear that some of the most powerful times of worship 763 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,980 Speaker 3: for me have been in the moments that were the hardest, 764 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,200 Speaker 3: where I felt the furthest from God, where I felt abandoned. 765 00:35:29,460 --> 00:35:32,279 Speaker 3: And yet in those moments, the manifest presence of God 766 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:33,820 Speaker 3: came in and met me in that place. 767 00:35:34,380 --> 00:35:36,219 Speaker 2: And things start shaking so quick. 768 00:35:37,100 --> 00:35:39,720 Speaker 3: I came to tell someone today that you can praise 769 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:40,360 Speaker 3: with chains. 770 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,990 Speaker 2: Did you hear me? You can praise with chains. 771 00:35:45,410 --> 00:35:47,550 Speaker 3: You don't have to wait until you're free of that addiction. 772 00:35:47,790 --> 00:35:50,230 Speaker 3: You don't need to wait until you're free of those 773 00:35:50,290 --> 00:35:53,859 Speaker 3: generational curses. You can praise while you're bound. You can 774 00:35:53,900 --> 00:35:56,520 Speaker 3: praise while you're hurting. You can praise while you've been 775 00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,020 Speaker 3: bleeding out your back. You can praise while you're still shackled. 776 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:05,020 Speaker 2: You can praise. With chains. I remembered my song in 777 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,069 Speaker 2: the night. I remembered it. It was nighttime. 778 00:36:07,110 --> 00:36:09,729 Speaker 3: It was dark all around me, but I remembered the song. 779 00:36:09,770 --> 00:36:12,729 Speaker 2: I remembered the Lord is my strength. He is my song. 780 00:36:12,770 --> 00:36:16,090 Speaker 3: I remembered him in the night. You can praise with chains. 781 00:36:16,150 --> 00:36:18,750 Speaker 3: And I was picturing someone today. Maybe you're in a 782 00:36:18,830 --> 00:36:21,450 Speaker 3: circumstance that you never could have predicted. I don't know 783 00:36:21,489 --> 00:36:23,339 Speaker 3: if it was your own decisions that led you there. 784 00:36:23,380 --> 00:36:25,339 Speaker 3: I don't know if it's things other people have done 785 00:36:25,380 --> 00:36:28,120 Speaker 3: to you. But you find yourself in a midnight hour, 786 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,580 Speaker 3: and you didn't know how to prepare it. for the 787 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,140 Speaker 3: circumstances that you're in today. 788 00:36:32,780 --> 00:36:38,259 Speaker 5: And maybe you don't have a tambourine, but you know 789 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:39,609 Speaker 5: what chains sound a lot like? 790 00:36:45,570 --> 00:36:48,630 Speaker 3: I said I came to tell someone today at Elevation Church. 791 00:36:49,950 --> 00:36:57,260 Speaker 4: You can praise with chains. You can praise with chains. 792 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:03,279 Speaker 4: You can praise with chains. Praise them in that addiction. 793 00:37:03,620 --> 00:37:06,950 Speaker 4: Praise them in that despair. Praise them in those circumstances. 794 00:37:09,890 --> 00:37:13,370 Speaker 3: I remembered my song in the night, and I picture 795 00:37:13,410 --> 00:37:15,210 Speaker 3: Paul and Silas getting thrown in prison. 796 00:37:15,270 --> 00:37:17,149 Speaker 2: What did we do to deserve to be here? 797 00:37:17,930 --> 00:37:20,950 Speaker 3: Bleeding out their back, getting chained and shackled, sitting there going, 798 00:37:20,989 --> 00:37:22,029 Speaker 3: what are we going to do now? 799 00:37:22,489 --> 00:37:24,890 Speaker 2: Wondering, why does God have me in these circumstances? And 800 00:37:24,930 --> 00:37:26,390 Speaker 2: I wonder if maybe at one moment. 801 00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:31,870 Speaker 3: While they're sitting there with their feet shackled, Silas began 802 00:37:31,910 --> 00:37:32,890 Speaker 3: to shuffle his feet a. 803 00:37:32,870 --> 00:37:37,779 Speaker 2: Little, and Paul just heard. And Paul goes, Silas, what 804 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,860 Speaker 2: was that? He goes, what was what? No, no, no, 805 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,899 Speaker 2: move your feet again. What was that? Silas shuffles his feet. 806 00:37:44,140 --> 00:37:46,029 Speaker 2: Paul goes, I know that beat. 807 00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:48,600 Speaker 5: Hang on. 808 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,160 Speaker 2: Silas, keep wiggling your feet a little bit. Silas is like, 809 00:37:52,180 --> 00:37:54,319 Speaker 2: what are you talking about, Paul? He goes, no, no, no, no, no. 810 00:37:54,739 --> 00:37:56,600 Speaker 3: What you're doing right there, that reminds me of something. 811 00:37:56,620 --> 00:37:59,209 Speaker 3: It reminds me of something my grandmother used to sing. 812 00:37:59,530 --> 00:38:01,290 Speaker 3: It reminds me of a song they used to sing. 813 00:38:01,210 --> 00:38:01,790 Speaker 2: At my church. 814 00:38:01,830 --> 00:38:04,509 Speaker 3: Something about how I know the night won't last. Hang on. 815 00:38:04,530 --> 00:38:05,510 Speaker 2: Do it again, Silas. 816 00:38:06,110 --> 00:38:08,630 Speaker 3: Something about how his word will come to pass. 817 00:38:10,340 --> 00:38:11,940 Speaker 2: Something about silence. I know that one. 818 00:38:11,980 --> 00:38:12,919 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 819 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,509 Speaker 2: Come on, wiggle your feet against silence. Praise with those chains. 820 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,049 Speaker 2: Praise with those chains. And he said, yeah, yeah. That 821 00:38:19,110 --> 00:38:23,540 Speaker 2: song that said, I've seen you move. You move the mountains. 822 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,160 Speaker 2: Then Silas answers back, and I believe. I'll see you 823 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,009 Speaker 2: do it again. Paul goes, wait, you know what else 824 00:38:31,090 --> 00:38:33,410 Speaker 2: it said? Didn't it say that he. 825 00:38:33,330 --> 00:38:35,930 Speaker 4: Would make a way when there was no way? 826 00:38:36,270 --> 00:38:40,330 Speaker 2: Silas goes, and I believe. I'll see you do it again. 827 00:38:40,750 --> 00:38:44,200 Speaker 2: He says, keep wiggling your feet. Keep wiggling your feet. 828 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,140 Speaker 2: Don't wait for the chains to break. You can praise 829 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:52,810 Speaker 2: with chains. I'm seeing you move. You moved the mountains, 830 00:38:53,430 --> 00:38:58,259 Speaker 2: and I believe. Hold on to your song. Remember it 831 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,239 Speaker 2: in the night. Begin to lift your hands and declare, 832 00:39:01,580 --> 00:39:04,320 Speaker 2: I've seen you move the mountains. 833 00:39:20,580 --> 00:39:20,950 Speaker 1: To be. 834 00:40:18,969 --> 00:40:21,310 Speaker 2: Raise your hand and wave at me if you find yourself. Oh, 835 00:40:21,410 --> 00:40:22,810 Speaker 2: hang on, let me get, everyone's doing it. 836 00:40:22,830 --> 00:40:27,690 Speaker 3: Hang on, hang on. Yeah, I'm so thankful for how 837 00:40:27,710 --> 00:40:29,129 Speaker 3: this word ministered to me and. 838 00:40:29,090 --> 00:40:31,969 Speaker 2: I pray that it blessed you today. But I want 839 00:40:32,010 --> 00:40:34,010 Speaker 2: to pray specifically right now. 840 00:40:35,430 --> 00:40:37,570 Speaker 3: For those of you who find yourself in a prison, 841 00:40:37,630 --> 00:40:39,890 Speaker 3: find yourself in a midnight hour and you're waiting and 842 00:40:39,930 --> 00:40:42,640 Speaker 3: you're waiting and waiting for God to deliver you. And 843 00:40:42,660 --> 00:40:44,660 Speaker 3: it seems that along the way you lost your song. 844 00:40:44,700 --> 00:40:45,780 Speaker 3: I want to pray that God. 845 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,750 Speaker 2: Would help you remember. Remember. You don't learn the song 846 00:40:49,790 --> 00:40:52,910 Speaker 2: in the night. You hold on to it there. That's 847 00:40:52,950 --> 00:40:54,330 Speaker 2: you today. You need prayer. 848 00:40:54,710 --> 00:40:56,110 Speaker 3: Slide your hands so I can see you. I want 849 00:40:56,130 --> 00:40:59,930 Speaker 3: to pray for you specifically for just a second. Those 850 00:41:00,010 --> 00:41:02,149 Speaker 3: of you online or at another campus, raise your hand. 851 00:41:02,190 --> 00:41:04,069 Speaker 3: Your campus pastor will pray for you. We have people 852 00:41:04,090 --> 00:41:05,750 Speaker 3: in the chat who would love to pray for you too. 853 00:41:07,700 --> 00:41:11,759 Speaker 3: Psalmist said, I remembered my song in the night. Lord, 854 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:16,030 Speaker 3: you are our song. We remember you. Call to mind 855 00:41:16,070 --> 00:41:17,930 Speaker 3: your faithfulness. Call to mind how. 856 00:41:17,850 --> 00:41:19,590 Speaker 2: You got us through situations before. 857 00:41:19,630 --> 00:41:22,089 Speaker 3: It looks different than what we're facing now, but God, 858 00:41:22,130 --> 00:41:24,750 Speaker 3: we've seen your mighty hand. And I pray for those 859 00:41:24,770 --> 00:41:26,509 Speaker 3: who have a hand lifted right now. Lord, I don't 860 00:41:26,550 --> 00:41:29,109 Speaker 3: know what circumstances they're going through. I don't know what 861 00:41:29,190 --> 00:41:31,350 Speaker 3: midnight hour they're facing right now, but I know that 862 00:41:31,390 --> 00:41:32,270 Speaker 3: the night won't last. 863 00:41:33,010 --> 00:41:34,350 Speaker 2: And I know that you've moved before. 864 00:41:34,390 --> 00:41:36,890 Speaker 3: And so, God, I pray that through the Spirit of God, 865 00:41:36,930 --> 00:41:40,210 Speaker 3: you would help them remember, Lord, your faithfulness and remember 866 00:41:40,469 --> 00:41:42,529 Speaker 3: your goodness, that they would not lose their song, but 867 00:41:42,570 --> 00:41:44,759 Speaker 3: that they would carry their faith through the hardships of 868 00:41:44,820 --> 00:41:48,340 Speaker 3: life right now. Give them strength. Give them joy. Holy Spirit, 869 00:41:48,420 --> 00:41:51,100 Speaker 3: guard and protect them. In the mighty name of Jesus, 870 00:41:51,180 --> 00:41:51,560 Speaker 3: I pray. 871 00:41:52,180 --> 00:41:52,560 Speaker 5: Amen. 872 00:41:52,980 --> 00:42:02,590 Speaker 3: Amen. Now, if you've been listening to this message and 873 00:42:02,610 --> 00:42:05,569 Speaker 3: you've never made a decision to place your faith in 874 00:42:06,250 --> 00:42:08,890 Speaker 3: the person of Jesus, the name that breaks every chain, 875 00:42:09,510 --> 00:42:12,250 Speaker 3: the anointed one who breaks every yoke of bondage, it 876 00:42:12,270 --> 00:42:14,070 Speaker 3: would be my privilege right now to lead you in 877 00:42:14,110 --> 00:42:16,799 Speaker 3: a prayer to make a decision today to put your 878 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:22,259 Speaker 3: trust in Jesus, to put your trust in him. I'm 879 00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,520 Speaker 3: going to pray right now out loud, and we're going 880 00:42:24,540 --> 00:42:26,540 Speaker 3: to pray out loud together as a church family for 881 00:42:26,580 --> 00:42:28,799 Speaker 3: the benefit of those who are making a decision today 882 00:42:29,390 --> 00:42:32,149 Speaker 3: to surrender their lives to God, to receive the gift 883 00:42:32,190 --> 00:42:34,590 Speaker 3: of his grace and salvation through the person of Jesus. 884 00:42:34,650 --> 00:42:35,350 Speaker 2: Repeat after me. 885 00:42:35,430 --> 00:42:39,710 Speaker 3: Say, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of 886 00:42:39,770 --> 00:42:43,660 Speaker 3: God and the Savior of the world. I believe he 887 00:42:43,700 --> 00:42:49,160 Speaker 3: died and rose again to forgive my sin and give 888 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:49,620 Speaker 3: me life. 889 00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:54,969 Speaker 2: I receive your grace. By faith, come into my life 890 00:42:55,890 --> 00:42:58,989 Speaker 2: and make me new. Head still bowed, eyes still closed. 891 00:42:59,050 --> 00:43:00,840 Speaker 3: If that prayer was for you, when I count to three, 892 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:02,660 Speaker 3: throw your hand up in the air. I want to 893 00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:04,580 Speaker 3: celebrate what God has done in your heart today. 894 00:43:05,100 --> 00:43:08,130 Speaker 2: One, two, three. Throw your hand up high so I 895 00:43:08,130 --> 00:43:14,450 Speaker 2: can see it. Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast. 896 00:43:14,530 --> 00:43:17,100 Speaker 1: And if you did, make sure to share it and 897 00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,680 Speaker 1: subscribe so we can get you all of these new 898 00:43:19,739 --> 00:43:22,719 Speaker 1: messages as soon as they're available. I also want to 899 00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:24,739 Speaker 1: take a moment and thank all of you who are 900 00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,270 Speaker 1: a part of Elevation. Whether you support us financially or 901 00:43:28,469 --> 00:43:32,010 Speaker 1: serve with us or just share these messages, it's because 902 00:43:32,050 --> 00:43:34,569 Speaker 1: of you that we're able to reach people. all around 903 00:43:34,590 --> 00:43:37,610 Speaker 1: the world. And if you want more information on how 904 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:40,380 Speaker 1: to be a part of Elevation, click the link in 905 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,120 Speaker 1: the description. Thanks again for listening. Make sure to leave 906 00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:46,740 Speaker 1: a review, share the message and subscribe. God bless you.