1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,320 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to 5 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:16,920 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: We welcome you once again into the presence of God. 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 1: It's a little bit different this weekend, but I'll tell 8 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:24,440 Speaker 1: you one thing I know for sure, there is a 9 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: word from God in the house. Pastor Robert Madeu is 10 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: about to come preach the word. And let me tell 11 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 1: you something when we were talking on the phone when 12 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: all of this craziness started to unfold around this weekend 13 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: of March fourteenth and fifteenth, and we didn't know from 14 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: moment to moment what the restrictions would be. Number One, 15 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: my friend, this amazing gift of a human being, showed 16 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: no hesitation about coming to minister. We had planned it, 17 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 1: of course, months ago. But one thing that he asked 18 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: me was, are you sure you don't want to cancel me? 19 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: And everything is being Hansel right now? Do you just 20 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: need to preach? And I said, trust me, I'm going 21 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: to speak to our people. I'm going to speak to 22 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: all of the people who are part of our church family. 23 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: But God put it in you what we need this weekend. 24 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: God knew, Hey, there is no finer communicator of the 25 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:21,119 Speaker 1: Gospel of Jesus Christ that I know than Pastor Robert Madeu. 26 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: So I know that God's word is in him. Today, 27 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: Let's act like there's one hundred thousand people in this 28 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 1: room right where you are received my friend, Pastor Robert Madou. Oh, 29 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 1: anybody loved Jesus in this place today? Come on, wherever 30 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: you are, can you give Jesus the biggest handclap of 31 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: praise that you got? Oh, come on, you can do 32 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: better than that. You got a reason to give him 33 00:01:53,720 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: some praise today. Whoo. I tell you what greetings to you. 34 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: Whether you've being a part of the EPHAM for a 35 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,519 Speaker 1: long time or whether you're part of EPAM by demand today, 36 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 1: I want you to know this. Whether you're watching this 37 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 1: in a coffee shop with some friends, or in a 38 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 1: living room or in the kitchen, or whether it's just 39 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: you and your bathrobe with your cats. You gotta know 40 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 1: what today is. You gotta know what today is. Hear me. 41 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: Today is the day that the Lord has made Come on, 42 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: we got to rejoice and be glad in it. Come on, 43 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: wherever you are, would you give King Jesus just the 44 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: best praise that you've got. God, we still bless you, 45 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: we still magnifying me. You're still worthy of the praise. Hallelujah. 46 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: You may be seated all the spiritual staff that are here. 47 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 1: And I tell you what, I am incredibly honored and 48 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: privileged to be back here at Elevation. I think this 49 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: is like my fourth time here, so I'm for sure 50 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: a part of the family by now. And I want 51 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: you to know, especially in times like these, it's just 52 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: proof positive that the Church of Jesus Christ gets to 53 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: shine brighter. Just lets us know that the church is 54 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 1: not a building you come to. It's not some organization 55 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,959 Speaker 1: that you join. Church is really a family where you belong. 56 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: And I'm just thankful not just for the Church at large, 57 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: but I'm thankful for Elevation Church. It has already had 58 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 1: a plan in place and just doing what they've been 59 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: doing to make sure come on, that the Gospel of 60 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ keeps going out wherever you are. You ought 61 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: to thank God for this church. You ought to type 62 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: a man put a fire emoticon. If you're thankful, come 63 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: on for Elevation Church. And it's incredible and this church 64 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: is making an impact literally around the world. But I'm 65 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: thankful for Pastor Stephen Hollyforded for saying yes to the 66 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: call of God. And I got to say this, Pastor 67 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: Stephen is one of the most important and powerful voices 68 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: of this generation, not just by sermon by song. But 69 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: what I'm so thankful for is that he's a friend. 70 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: He's an incredible fan. And I thank God for you 71 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: and for your wife and your family. Come on, can 72 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: we celebrate the great Man of God? Come on, y'all 73 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: can do better than that. We'll blessed. So I'm glad 74 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: to be here. I bring you greetings from the great 75 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: country of Texas. And uh, we're gonna have church at 76 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:20,479 Speaker 1: here today. If somebody asked me, what you're gonna preach, 77 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 1: so I'm gonna preach. But I'm really just I'm really 78 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: just giving a news report. That's what I'm doing. I'm 79 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: giving a news report. Puson the gospel is good news. 80 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,040 Speaker 1: I find it interesting that whenever somebody's reporting the news, 81 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 1: they call that person the anchor It's interesting that whatever 82 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: story you let sink into your soul, it will navigate 83 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: your life. And today I want the Gospel of Jesus 84 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: Christ to sink into your soul today. So I'm gonna 85 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: preach it like I feel like. Are you ready? Come on, 86 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: let's jump straight into this word today, Go and meet 87 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 1: to Acts Chapter three. Acts Chapter three. I want to 88 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: look at verses one through ten, and wherever you are 89 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:04,039 Speaker 1: watching this, make sure you get in responsive shout like 90 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: the NBA season was still going on. Don't touch anybody, 91 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: but give God some praise. Acts Chapter three. We're gonna 92 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: start at verse number one and we'll land in verse 93 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 1: number ten. When you're ready to read it, say yeah, 94 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: you need some time, Say hold up, all right. It 95 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 1: says one day, it's already good. One day, Peter and 96 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: John are going up to the temple at the time 97 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 1: of prayer at three in the afternoon. Now, a man 98 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: who was a lame from birth was being carried to 99 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every 100 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 1: day to beg from those going into the temple courts. 101 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he 102 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: asked them for money. Peter looked straight at him, as 103 00:05:56,080 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 1: did John, and Peter said, look at us. So the 104 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: man gave them his attention, expecting to get a little 105 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: something from them, and Peter said, silver or gold, I 106 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: do not have. First thing Pete said to him is 107 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: bro I ain't got it. That's actually where a lot 108 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: of people get stuck in life. A lot of people 109 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: get stuck because you're fully aware of what you do 110 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: not have. In fact, I found that the enemy is 111 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: proficient at reminding you of what you do not have. 112 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 1: He'll tell you you come on, not only one you 113 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: ever been scrolling through the ground heard the enemy loud 114 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:39,840 Speaker 1: in your ear saying you ain't got that. You ain't 115 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 1: got that. You better be scared. You don't got this. 116 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 1: You don't got that. He loves to remind you of 117 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 1: what you do not have. But thank God for that comma. 118 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: There's power in the punctuation. Peter didn't stop at what 119 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: he did not have. He goes, but what I do have? 120 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,479 Speaker 1: He says, I got something. What I do have, I 121 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:59,280 Speaker 1: give you, and I'm not giving it in my name, 122 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:04,840 Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth walk and 123 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: taking him by the right hand, he helped him up 124 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: and Instantly, the man's feet and ankles became strong. He 125 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he 126 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping 127 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 1: and praising God. And when all the people saw him 128 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 1: walking and praising God, they recognized him. They said, hold up, 129 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: as the same man who used to sit begging at 130 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: the temple gate called beautiful. They were filled with wonder 131 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,679 Speaker 1: and amazement at what had happened to him. Can you say, 132 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: a man, I'm intrigued about this man who is stuck 133 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: at a gate called beautiful. Certainly at this time in 134 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: our nation, many of us feel stuck right now. Look 135 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 1: at where he's stuck. He's stuck at a gate called beautiful. 136 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today just using this 137 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: as a title, the beauty of being stuck, the beauty 138 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: of being stuck. Would you just look at somebody around 139 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: you and say there's a beauty Again, don't touch them, 140 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 1: but you better look at him and say wow. Come on, 141 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: say there's a beauty to being stuck. Come on, let's pray. Father. 142 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: I thank you for your word, but I thank you 143 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: that even in tumultuous times, you are our peace Lord. 144 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 1: We can hang on to you, Holy Spirit, speak to 145 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: our hearts today. God, We've not come to be entertained. 146 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: We have come to hear from you, So speak to 147 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: our hearts in Jesus' name. Everybody said, oh, come on, 148 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: everybody said, the beauty of being stuck. It's anybody been 149 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 1: to an airport lately? I have? I have. I flew 150 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:53,680 Speaker 1: in yesterday and for the first time, after fifteen years 151 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:57,960 Speaker 1: of traveling, almost three million miles flown. I got to 152 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: the airport and the airport was peaceful. Oh, it was feathful. 153 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 1: I'm telling you. There was no crazy lines. There were 154 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: just a few people on the flight. People. I flew 155 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:13,199 Speaker 1: from Dallas to Charlotte for three dollars and fifty five cents. 156 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: It was awesome. It was peaceful. And you're laughing because 157 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: you know that generally the airport is chaotic. Generally it 158 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: is absolutely crazy. It is stressful to travel. In fact, 159 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:28,959 Speaker 1: I've often said that if you really want to test 160 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 1: your faith, book you a flight. Okay, just book you 161 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: a flight, all right. If you really think you full 162 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: of the spirit, fly spirit, and then come holler at 163 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 1: your boy, because it is stressful in these traveling streets. 164 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 1: In fact, the Bible says. The Bible says that the 165 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 1: fruit of the spirit. The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness. 166 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:57,680 Speaker 1: Don't forget that last one self control. If you are 167 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 1: a believer, then that fruit should be evident in your life. However, 168 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,959 Speaker 1: you're watching online or you hear in the room, You're like, man, Robert, 169 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: I got all that fruit, but you've never flown before. 170 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: How do I say this. I don't believe you. Okay, 171 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: I do not believe you because the airport is designed 172 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 1: to suck the fruit of the spirit out of you. 173 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 1: The whole airport system is orchestrated to make you lose 174 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: your sanity and your Christianity. So as a consequence, over 175 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: the years, I've developed what I call Robert's rules of flying. Okay, 176 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: I won't bore you with all of them, but I'll 177 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 1: just give you one. I do NonStop flights only. Okay. 178 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: I'm not about that connection life. Just take me from 179 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: Dallas to my destination. Okay, I'm a NonStop ninja. The 180 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 1: only problem with my rule is the reality that there 181 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 1: are just some places in life. If you're going to go, 182 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,319 Speaker 1: you will have to stop and make a connection. Oh 183 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: that I'll a preach. I might say that again later. 184 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:54,199 Speaker 1: So the challenge for me is when my departing flight 185 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: is late and I got to connect in another city. 186 00:10:57,760 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: And when I get in that connecting city, I got 187 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: one one point five minutes to get to my next gate. 188 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: And to add to that, I landed at gay A one. 189 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: But my connecting gate is at Gates Z ninety nine, 190 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 1: and I got one point five minutes to get to 191 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: Gates Z ninety nine church. At this point, I only 192 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: got three options. Okay, I can miss my flight, ain't 193 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 1: gonna happen. I can call for that cute little cart 194 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 1: to carry me there and gonna happen. I'm a grown mayor. 195 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: Or I can just run with everything I got, like 196 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 1: Usain Bolt or Forrest God. Just run to make this flight. 197 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: This happens all the time. One day I was running 198 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: with everything I got, just trying to get to Gate 199 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 1: Z ninety nine. But one day I was running and 200 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: I just saw something in the distance. I saw something 201 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 1: that reminded me of the goodness of God. I saw 202 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: something that lets me know that God is still in 203 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: the miracle working business. I saw something that lets me 204 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: know that God can do exceedingly abundantly above all that 205 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: you ain't ask or think. I saw one of those 206 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 1: who wait for it move ain't walkways. I've never seen 207 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 1: those before, those a move in walkways. See, I'm about 208 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 1: to have church on the move walkway because to me, 209 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 1: the move and walkway is just like having the favor 210 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:12,040 Speaker 1: of God on your life, because how many know if 211 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 1: you just start walking on that move and walkway, it 212 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:17,719 Speaker 1: is gonna expedite your journey. It can get you that 213 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: quicker than you could have in your own strength and 214 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:23,200 Speaker 1: your own talent and your own ability. I love a move. 215 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:31,320 Speaker 1: The only problem now with the move and walkway, My 216 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: only issue with the move and walkway, My only frustration 217 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:42,359 Speaker 1: with the move and walkway are the people on the 218 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: move and walkway who refuse to move. Oh what is rajo? 219 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: This one I can't even talk about today? What is rawchaw? People? 220 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,839 Speaker 1: Why in the world would you be standing with your 221 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:57,319 Speaker 1: bigg suitcase that should have been checked? Why are you 222 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: standing on the move just frustrating people standing the move 223 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: and walk away. I think my frustration with you people 224 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 1: who are watching online right now, it's not that you're standing. 225 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: If you're standing at any other place in the airport, 226 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:19,599 Speaker 1: I would be cool with it. I think my frustration 227 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: stems from the fact that you have brought stagnation on 228 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 1: a mechanism that was created for movement. Yeah, that's my frustration, 229 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: is that you have brought stagnation and stuckness to something 230 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: that was actually designed to move you further and faster. 231 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: And any time you have stagnation in a place that 232 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: was created for movement, you will always have frustration or 233 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 1: always have frustration. Come on, this is traffic. I don't 234 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 1: mind sitting down for an hour looking out of a 235 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,080 Speaker 1: window listening to some music. Come on, if I'm in 236 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: my house, that's catching the vibe, I don't want to 237 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: do it in my car. Come on. That's why some 238 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:01,560 Speaker 1: of you right now are in your mind in your house, 239 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 1: because you are not created to be stuck. And anytime 240 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 1: you have stagnation in a place created for movement, you 241 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: always have frustration. And I'm wondering today if the reason 242 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:15,559 Speaker 1: why so many of us are frustrated with our lives 243 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: and where we are is because our lives have become 244 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 1: stuck still in stationary when God created us for movement. 245 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: Could it be possible even plausible today. The reason you're 246 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 1: annoyed with where you are is not because you're stuck 247 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: in doors. It is because your life has become stuck 248 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: and God created you for movement. Because you do know 249 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 1: that God is a god of movement. Oh, come on. 250 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: He has always taken you somewhere. He has always taken 251 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: you from faith to faith. He's always taken you from 252 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: strength to strength. He's taken you from glory to glory. 253 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 1: God is a God of movement. Come on. That's why 254 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 1: the Bible says that the steps of the righteous, the 255 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: steps are ordered by the Lord, not the stuckness. The 256 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: steps are ordered the Lord. Why are the steps ordered? 257 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 1: Because God is a God of movement. One of the 258 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 1: first things God shows us in the Bible is that 259 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: He is a God of movement. Sore, like, get us 260 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: a scripture for it, Robert, I'll give you a scripture, 261 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: just a chapter one. Chapter one. It says, in the beginning. 262 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, 263 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: and the earth was without form and void, and darkness 264 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 1: covered the face of the deep, and the Spirit of 265 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: God was moving over the face of the waters. The 266 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 1: first thing that God revealed about himself, is that I 267 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: am a God that moves on your behalf. In fact, 268 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 1: to me, Genesis was just the commencement of a symphony, 269 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: the beginning of a symphony with God, the cosmic conductor 270 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: just pulls out his big old omnipotent baton and just 271 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: began the melody of movement. Because everything he made it 272 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 1: had to move. Everything that he created it had a cadence, 273 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 1: It had a pace to it. Not a single thing 274 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: he made got the luxury of stagnation. Everything he created, 275 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: he said, let there be light, but the whole solar 276 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: system in place. And once everything was set, oh yeah, 277 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 1: y'all can't be still. Get to move it. And all 278 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 1: of a sudden and everything just started moving. Everything start 279 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: even right now. We are move right now, we are. 280 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 1: You can't even feel it, but we are moveing right now. See. 281 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: That's why you gotta stop judging what God is doing 282 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 1: in your life based off of how you feel. Sometimes 283 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: it has nothing to do with your feelings, nothing to 284 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 1: do with what you see. Even when you can't see it, 285 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: He is moveing even right now in this nation. He 286 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: is moving. God is a god of movement. Everything he 287 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: made it had to move, he said, let there be 288 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 1: water and told the water to get to move. It said, water, 289 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: you can't be still. Now that's mosquitoes. Get to move it, 290 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 1: and the water started moving. Every animal he made it 291 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 1: had to move. Looked at the cheetah and told the 292 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: cheetah to get to move. And can you see that 293 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 1: cheetah keeps. Everything he made it had to looked at 294 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,400 Speaker 1: a turtle and had the nerve the audacity to tell 295 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,679 Speaker 1: a turtle to get to move it. The turtle was like, God, 296 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:11,199 Speaker 1: I'm an introvert. I don't want to come out of 297 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 1: my shell. He's like, now, you still gotta move. You 298 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: ain't gotta be as fast as the cheetah, but you 299 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:21,200 Speaker 1: still gotta move. And here comes the turtle. Everything God 300 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 1: made it had to move. He reaches down and dirt 301 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:27,679 Speaker 1: creates man breathing to him the breath of lives. And 302 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: guess what your heart started doing. It started move. Man. 303 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:33,439 Speaker 1: Come on. That's why when you go to the doctor 304 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 1: for your checkout, he puts in his headphones and he listens. 305 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:38,919 Speaker 1: You know what he's listening for. He's listening for that 306 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 1: same beat that began in the beginning. And if there's 307 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: a regularities in that beat. That means there's something wrong 308 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 1: in your body. See, this is why I give God 309 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 1: the best praise no matter what's coming against me. Not 310 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: because my life is perfect. I'm praising up because I'm 311 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:59,160 Speaker 1: still here, I'm still alive, I'm not dead. I still 312 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:02,119 Speaker 1: got a purpose, and that alone is enough for me 313 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 1: to give God some praise. Oh, I'm telling you, your 314 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:09,440 Speaker 1: praise ain't quarantined. Ided you to just take ten seconds 315 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 1: and give God some praise, like you're thankful that you 316 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 1: still here, that you still standing, that there is breadth 317 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: in your body, that everything that has breath. Praise the Lord. 318 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:30,120 Speaker 1: I feel like preaching. Now, God is a God of movement. Oh, 319 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: you don't believe God's a God in movement. You don't 320 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 1: believe he's a God in movement. People. Two thirds of 321 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:42,199 Speaker 1: his name is God. He defeated death, hell, and the grave. 322 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 1: He's about to ascend back to the right hand of 323 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 1: the Father. But before he leaves, the disciples of looking 324 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: at him, like, hold on, can we get like a 325 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 1: commission or something like a great Commissioner's all? You want 326 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:58,119 Speaker 1: a commission? All right, go into all the world and 327 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 1: preach the Gospel to every living making disciples of all nations. 328 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 1: God is a god movement challenge. The problem that occurs 329 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:11,679 Speaker 1: is that God is a god in movement. But humanity, 330 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: you and I, we have this tendency, We got this 331 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 1: propensity to always get stuck. Have you noticed this is 332 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 1: about us, how we love to get stuck. I'm not 333 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:24,919 Speaker 1: even talking about what's going on in the world right now. 334 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: I'm just talking about just natural stuff, like like you 335 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: go to the same four restaurants some of y'all all 336 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:32,239 Speaker 1: the time, Samone, I don't know what to do on 337 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: this weekend because when you go to church, you sit 338 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:38,640 Speaker 1: in the same section, in the same seat every weekend. 339 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:40,440 Speaker 1: I know, we've been to church for years. Don't even 340 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 1: check out the left of the right side of sanctuary. 341 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 1: You just sit in the same spire all the time. 342 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 1: Gets stuff. We get stuck in relationships. Some of y'all 343 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: dating the same people, same girl, got a different name, 344 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 1: but it's the same girl, it's the same person. Just 345 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: get stuck. We get stuck. It is intrinsic within our DNA, 346 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,399 Speaker 1: even a theologically, that all that is wrong with the 347 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 1: world today is because humanity got stuck. Adam and Eve, 348 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: they got stuck. They didn't keep it moving. They got 349 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 1: stuck at the wrong tree, listening to the wrong voice, 350 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 1: so they made the wrong choice, and now we are 351 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 1: reaping the ramifications of their decisions that they made when 352 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 1: they were stuck, and intrinsic within our DNA is this 353 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: sickness of stuckness. My text today is an Acts chapter three, 354 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:32,119 Speaker 1: and no doubt there's a man who is stuck. But 355 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 1: I mentioned Genesis chapter three would have an eve because 356 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 1: I think there's actually a connection, there's a synergy between 357 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 1: Genesis chapter three and Acts chapter three, because if you 358 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 1: look at Acts chapter three just at a micro level, 359 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 1: which we will look at today, you're going to see 360 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 1: a man who is stuck, who is lame, excuse me, 361 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 1: lame from birth, outside the temple gate, begging no access 362 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 1: to the presence of God, and one day Peter and 363 00:20:56,040 --> 00:21:00,080 Speaker 1: John full of the Holy Spirit, raise him up. If 364 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 1: we brought them the scope of this text and look 365 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 1: at it really at a macro level, keeping Genesis Street 366 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:06,159 Speaker 1: in mind, I submit to you that this man is 367 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: really just a picture of the spiritual condition of humanity, 368 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 1: because every single one of us spiritually were lame from birth. 369 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:18,160 Speaker 1: Oh you know you were born lame, right born lame. 370 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:22,120 Speaker 1: You came out the womb spiritually speaking, completely lamee saying 371 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 1: be like, oh, Robert, I'm a good person. No lame. 372 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: You were born spiritually lame, and I'll prove it to you. 373 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 1: Have you noticed nobody had to teach you how to lie? 374 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: What class did you take on selfishness? No? Not one? 375 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,439 Speaker 1: At two you perfected the art of nahm. That's why 376 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:40,120 Speaker 1: some of y'all freaking out right now, just getting all 377 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: the toilet paper, Just all the toilet paper. You don't 378 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 1: want to say nothing, nobody just it is in our DNA, 379 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:52,879 Speaker 1: just to get stocked, to be selfish, narcissistic, individualistic people. 380 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:54,919 Speaker 1: This is what sends it to us. We had no 381 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:58,159 Speaker 1: access to the presence of God. So really, Peter and 382 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,919 Speaker 1: John raising this man up, it's a picture of what 383 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 1: the Cross did. It is the cross of Jesus Christ 384 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: that raised me up. I don't have to be a 385 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: becker now I actually have access to the presence of God. 386 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: I can approach the throne of Grace with confidence, not 387 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,120 Speaker 1: because of what I did, but because of what He 388 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 1: did on the cross. It is the blood of Jesus 389 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:24,400 Speaker 1: that gives me access. So there is a synergy between 390 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 1: Acts chapter three, in Genesis chapter three, because in Genesis 391 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: chapter three, when Adam and Eve took of that forbidden 392 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: fruit and all of humanity God stuck. In that moment, 393 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 1: we were all stuck. And it's not the way it 394 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 1: works in the Bible. This is how my exogetical imagination works. Think, 395 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,479 Speaker 1: let me just pause wherever you are, just Lena, get 396 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: a little water to break real quick. You can give 397 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: God some praise while I get a little water break 398 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 1: real quick. Boy, you can do better than that. Give 399 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:54,679 Speaker 1: them some praise. There's no smooth way to do that. 400 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 1: You just got to give God praise. When Adam and 401 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: he had got stuck. I think that moment, all of 402 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 1: a sudden, It's not how this is in the Bible. 403 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 1: This the way my mind works. All of a sudden, 404 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 1: God the Father, Son Holy Spirit immediately call an executive 405 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: Trinity team meeting in heaven. God the Father's Son, Holy 406 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 1: Spirit all three there one oh at the same time, 407 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 1: and they look down and God the Father goes, y'all, 408 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 1: see what I see? They stuck. You know, they can't 409 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 1: get themselves out. So one of y'all gonna have to 410 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 1: go down there and get him out, and immediately Jesus 411 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 1: looks at the Holy Spirit and says, well, can nobody 412 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,439 Speaker 1: move like you? So haunt you go down there and 413 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 1: get them out, and the Holy Spirit's like, nah, nah, no, Jesus, 414 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: don't play. Don't play. Come on, come on, you know 415 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 1: I'm acts chapter two, you Matthew chapter one. Don't try 416 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 1: to jack up the Bible. Jesus, nah nah nah, you 417 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: to save the other world. You go down there and 418 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:43,639 Speaker 1: get him out. And Jesus like you right, you're right. 419 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,199 Speaker 1: I'm tripping, and Jesus, check this out, gets on the 420 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 1: balcony of Heaven, jumps off the balcony of Heaven. It 421 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:53,199 Speaker 1: was a forty two generation jump, but he lands in 422 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 1: the womb of a virgin named Mary. I'm a Christmas 423 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Mary goes ooh, I'm not 424 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:02,880 Speaker 1: feeling good, so she called. He calls her fiance josephin 425 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: says I need to talk to you, and Joseph's like, yeah, 426 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 1: we need to talk. Why you've been so distant lately? 427 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: What you don't want to get married anymore? Mary's like, no, Joseph, 428 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: don't do that. You know I love you. Don't play here, 429 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:14,959 Speaker 1: come here. He's like what he's like, here, come, and 430 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: she takes Joseph's hand puts it on her stomach. Joseph goes, WHOA, 431 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 1: some just moved. She goes, yeah, that's what he does. 432 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 1: All of a sudden, there is tension in their relationship, 433 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,360 Speaker 1: so Mary calls her pregnant cousin Elizabeth. He says, girl, 434 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,199 Speaker 1: I gotta see you, and Mary takes an uber to 435 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 1: her pregnant cousin Elizabeth's house. But when she gets to 436 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 1: the uber, she steps out and meets her pregnant cousin Elizabeth, 437 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: and they both waddle up on each other like two 438 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:43,199 Speaker 1: penguins in Alaska meeting for the very first time. And 439 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 1: Elizabeth goes, girl, you ain't gonna believe this. I have 440 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,919 Speaker 1: not felt my baby move and weeks, but as soon 441 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 1: as you got out of that uber, girl, my baby 442 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: started kicking and moving around. I don't know what's on 443 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,879 Speaker 1: the inside of you, but it's making my baby move 444 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: on the inside of me. And Mary goes, yeah, that's 445 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 1: what he does. All of a sudden, Elizabeth goes, I 446 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,160 Speaker 1: can numb believe you took an uber down here, girl, 447 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,120 Speaker 1: you are pregnant, and Mary goes, yeah, and the uber 448 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: driver was weird too. Elizabeth goes, really, what was his name? 449 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,360 Speaker 1: Mary goes John, Elizabeth goes, whom I like that name. 450 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 1: Fast forward thirty years later, John the Baptist is baptizing 451 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 1: people in the Jordan River, and please believe that the 452 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:26,159 Speaker 1: water is still moving from the same cadence of creation. 453 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: And John almost drowns a dude in the middle of 454 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: the baptism because he looks in the distance and says, 455 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 1: behold the lamb of God that takes away the sins 456 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 1: of the world. This is the one I was telling 457 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 1: y'all about. I'm baptizing you with water, but He's gonna 458 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,880 Speaker 1: baptize you with fire and with the Holy Spirit. Somebody 459 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,159 Speaker 1: else to give him some praise wherever you are. I 460 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: feel like preaching it live. All of a sudden, All 461 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,440 Speaker 1: of a sudden, John and Jesus meet in the water 462 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 1: and it goes in slow motion, and one of John's 463 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: disciples Lord, he goes, yo, you know this dude, And 464 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,720 Speaker 1: Jonna's like, yes, I know this dude. He is the dude. 465 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: And what's crazy is the first time we met we 466 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:13,920 Speaker 1: were in water. Now we're meeting again in water. This 467 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: must be a destiny moment you know the story. He 468 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 1: baptizes Jesus. The Heaven's open up. Jesus starts moving in 469 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 1: the earth, healing the sick, raising the dead. He gets 470 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 1: to the cross and defeats Shin, gets up from the 471 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,439 Speaker 1: grave and defeats death, and then he ascends back to 472 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: heaven and the Trinity Executive team meeting is readjourned, and 473 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit and God the Father look at Jesus 474 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,719 Speaker 1: and go, man, you killed that thing. And Jesus goes, 475 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: you know, I did the best that I could. And 476 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 1: then they look at the Holy Spirit and say it's 477 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,480 Speaker 1: on you. Now. Holy Spirit goes, I know, I know, 478 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: I know. The Holy Spirit gets on the balcony of Heaven, 479 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:52,639 Speaker 1: jumps off the balcony of Heaven, but lands in the 480 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 1: upper room at chapter two, and suddenly a sound, there's 481 00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 1: a mighty rushing wind begin to fill. Some people who 482 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 1: was stuck in a room was that I'm still gonna 483 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 1: wait for the promise, even though I'm stuck and can't 484 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 1: go out, His Presidence can come in and all of us, 485 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: son and all of them. I feel with the Holy 486 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:16,119 Speaker 1: Spirit in the speaking tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. 487 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:21,639 Speaker 1: And in that room was Peter and John. Now I'm 488 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: at my text. By the way, I just gave you 489 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 1: the whole Bible like in ten minutes when a it's cool, 490 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,440 Speaker 1: just sit there. Sorry, I just sit side. And in 491 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:34,359 Speaker 1: that room it was Peter and John. Peter and John go, well, 492 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,480 Speaker 1: we just got power to be his witnesses to Jerusalem 493 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,920 Speaker 1: today and Samarian to the ends of the earths s 494 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,920 Speaker 1: would have started in Jerusalem. So Peter and John say, hey, 495 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:47,440 Speaker 1: what do we do. Well, let's go pray. Let's go pray. 496 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 1: Let's go to the church and pray. Can you see 497 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 1: Peter and John walking together to Elevation Church to pray? Peter, 498 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 1: who and John together going to church? Peter and John 499 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: quick question, what are these two dudes still doing hanging out? 500 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: You realize they don't have to hang out anymore. Jesus 501 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 1: already ascended to heaven. The only thing that connected them 502 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 1: was that Jesus hand picked them. He selected them. They 503 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,400 Speaker 1: don't got to hang out anymore. Well in the world 504 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 1: are Peter and John going to church together? You realize 505 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: they're a walking contradiction. Peter and John, Come on, one 506 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,880 Speaker 1: of these things is not like the other. First of all, 507 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: Peter is much older. John is younger. Okay, let's bring 508 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 1: it to you. John is walking on TikTok. Peter is 509 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 1: still on Facebook. Peter and John takegether. But Peter and John, 510 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 1: they are walking contradiction people. John is a lover, Peter 511 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 1: is a cusser. They are completely different. When John got 512 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 1: ready to express his love and his loyalty to Jesus, 513 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 1: he would put his head on the chest of Jesus. 514 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 1: He loved to cuddle with Jesus. When Peter got ready 515 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: to express his loyalty for Jesus, Homeo put out a sword, 516 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 1: a switchblade, cut a dude's ear all the way off. 517 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 1: Jesus had to heal it real quick, Like, Peter, what 518 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 1: are you doing. Peter's like, I'm with you, Jesus, I'm 519 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 1: right to die. I don't know about him, but I'm 520 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 1: with you. Peter and jud Johnson introvert. He's always to himself. 521 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,360 Speaker 1: Peter gonna say something crazy. I'm just trying to figure 522 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 1: out how a gangster and Gandhi are going to church 523 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 1: together talking about it's gonna be a good service. Peter 524 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:41,880 Speaker 1: jel They're a walking contradiction. Oh maybe that's the point. 525 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 1: Maybe that's the point. You understand. The healing of this 526 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 1: layman is the first miracle after the birth of the 527 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 1: New Testament Church. I submit to you, this is in 528 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 1: the ordinary miracle. This is a prototype miracle by which 529 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 1: God is trying to show the church today how his 530 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 1: power moves in the earth. Perhaps the reason that Peter 531 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 1: and John are walking together as a walking contradiction, it's 532 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: because God is still trying to get the church today 533 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 1: to understand that what the culture calls a contradiction, the 534 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 1: Kingdom calls collaboration. Oh what the culture sees as the 535 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 1: greatest place of division and separation. How you know, in 536 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God, it is the greatest place of collaboration. 537 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 1: It is the place where lame people can get up again. 538 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,080 Speaker 1: And I want to challenge some of y'all, especially in 539 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 1: this day and age in which we live, where everybody's 540 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: trying to keep us divided. I know we're divided now 541 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 1: because we can't touch each other. I'm talking about divided 542 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 1: in the church, focusing on the contradiction, and I'm telling 543 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,240 Speaker 1: the power is in our ability to collaborate in spite 544 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,719 Speaker 1: of the contradiction. Come on, somebody. This is the power 545 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 1: of the church. The power of the Church is not 546 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 1: that we have all everything in common. The power is 547 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 1: in our differences. But in spite of our differences. If 548 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,480 Speaker 1: we can agree that Jesus Christ is the law to 549 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 1: the glory of God the Father, if we can agree 550 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 1: that broken people need to be restored and lay people 551 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: need to get up, if we could just collaborate, Oh, 552 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: I wonder what God would do. It's a trick of 553 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 1: the enemy to get us to focus on the contradictions. 554 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 1: You black, I'm white. Oh you're a democrat, I'm a Republican. 555 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 1: Focusing on the contradictions. I'm telling you our power is 556 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 1: in our ability to collaborate in spite of the contradictions. 557 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy that the first miracle after the birth 558 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 1: of the New Testament Church was a collaboration between one 559 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 1: disciple that had a big heart, John and another disciple 560 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:45,719 Speaker 1: that had a big mouth, Peter. And perhaps it was 561 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 1: perhaps it was John's compassion that noticed the lame man 562 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,640 Speaker 1: that it took Peter's courage. You know, hey, bro, get 563 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 1: up and I'm i gonna feel sorry for you. Get 564 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 1: I still got a knife in my pocket. Get and 565 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:07,000 Speaker 1: y'all was like Peter Love collaboration. Can't just talk about 566 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: Peter and John. Come on, They're not the star of 567 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 1: the text today. I think the star of the text 568 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 1: is a man that many of us right now in 569 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 1: our world can relate to. It's this man who is 570 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 1: who is stuck. I didn't tell the camera man I 571 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 1: was gonna do this, but y'all got all kinds of 572 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 1: cameras everywhere here, so I know we could. But often 573 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:30,680 Speaker 1: when I preach a text like this, I will do 574 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:35,120 Speaker 1: this because I want to feel, even if it's just 575 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:39,600 Speaker 1: for a moment, who I'm preaching about what they had 576 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 1: to go through. Can you think about, even in our 577 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 1: current context today, we don't understand where many of our 578 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,880 Speaker 1: disable to disabled brothers and sisters have to face. Can 579 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:53,480 Speaker 1: you imagine in Biblical antiquity, no wheelchairs, no hove arounds. 580 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 1: It was the epitome of being stuck. Somebody dropped you off. 581 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: You better get comfortable, you're gonna be there for a while. 582 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 1: And I thought about this. The only thing that didn't 583 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 1: work in this man's life were his legs. Everything else worked, heartbeating. 584 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,920 Speaker 1: I sein cognitive capabilities there. Homeboy probably had good teeth. 585 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,880 Speaker 1: All that was shut down because one thing didn't work. 586 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,360 Speaker 1: It affected his economy, he's got a bag, It affected 587 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:28,160 Speaker 1: his relationships. Know, when you're stuck, you can only talk 588 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 1: to other stuck people. Because Lane recognized his life just 589 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,240 Speaker 1: stuck because one thing didn't work. Any crazy how one 590 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 1: issue in your life can affect everything. Look at our world. 591 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:45,240 Speaker 1: One thing has affected everything. One thing is shut down 592 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,479 Speaker 1: this whole life. And you get stuck. And when you've 593 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,200 Speaker 1: been stuck for a while, you start developing what I 594 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:54,280 Speaker 1: call systems of stuckness. Start doing what you gotta do 595 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,440 Speaker 1: to get around, Start getting comfortable, because this is the 596 00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:01,560 Speaker 1: way that life is going to be. Start having stuck 597 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,240 Speaker 1: conversations with other stuck people. You've been stuck conversation, Hey, bro, 598 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,200 Speaker 1: what you're gonna do today? Man? Probably lay here for 599 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 1: a little bit. I was thinking the same thing. I'm 600 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,080 Speaker 1: probably gonna lay here. So you've had stuck conversations with 601 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:15,319 Speaker 1: other stuck people, just the same thing they talk about 602 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,400 Speaker 1: now gonna be the same thing. Human just stuck. Stuck. 603 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 1: There's not the worst of being stuck. But how many 604 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,520 Speaker 1: know some of you experienced it. Have you ever been stuck? 605 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:26,440 Speaker 1: But experience God raising you up. Oh, this is a 606 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,440 Speaker 1: beautiful thing that when you've been stuck. Maybe it's happening 607 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,520 Speaker 1: for some of you right now. You heard a word, 608 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,200 Speaker 1: you heard a worship song when you were Panican, but 609 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,520 Speaker 1: you realize that the favor of the Lord was upon 610 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,400 Speaker 1: you. You You ever been stuck and had God raised you up? 611 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,319 Speaker 1: It's a beautiful thing to be raised up when you've 612 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,640 Speaker 1: been stuck. Well, the problem is you spend so much 613 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,760 Speaker 1: time being stuck. You still got relationships with the stuck people, 614 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,040 Speaker 1: and don't you try to go back and have those 615 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:54,319 Speaker 1: same stuck conversations. But the jokes ain't funny anymore. You're 616 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,040 Speaker 1: trying to figure out when the world did I ever 617 00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 1: have in common with you? You still doing You're fifty 618 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,080 Speaker 1: years old, You're still trying to turn up in the club. 619 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,440 Speaker 1: You must just still the same thing. And then they 620 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,799 Speaker 1: got the nerve to look at you and say, mmm, 621 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,000 Speaker 1: seem like you're changing. Yeah, it seem like something different 622 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,879 Speaker 1: about you. It seems like you're changing, as if it's 623 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:15,120 Speaker 1: a bad thing. How many No, that is the point 624 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:18,360 Speaker 1: of life. You are supposed to be changing. Come on, 625 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:19,920 Speaker 1: I don't want to be who I always want was 626 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 1: I want to be everything that God has created and 627 00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:26,879 Speaker 1: ordained me to be. You better believe I'm changing every day. 628 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:31,000 Speaker 1: I'm changing. I seem like you change. It seemed like 629 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,279 Speaker 1: you stuck up. No, I'm not stuck up. I'm just up. 630 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:39,080 Speaker 1: You stuck. That's why the conversation ain't working anymore. God 631 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:43,480 Speaker 1: raises you up when you've been stuck. But that's not 632 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,040 Speaker 1: really what I want to talk about. All that was 633 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:50,240 Speaker 1: my intro. I think the thing that I missed about 634 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:54,280 Speaker 1: this text of the Bible says, every day they dropped 635 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,600 Speaker 1: him off in front of the temple. Come on, not 636 00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:02,000 Speaker 1: just on a weakened experience, not just once a week, 637 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:07,120 Speaker 1: every day they dropped this man and from the temple game. 638 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:09,480 Speaker 1: So if he got dropped every day, that means there 639 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:11,960 Speaker 1: are two people in this passage that nobody ever talks about. 640 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,560 Speaker 1: I've never talked about him. Everybody talks about Peter and John. 641 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,560 Speaker 1: But if he got dropped at the temple gate every day, 642 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,560 Speaker 1: that means there are two other people in this passage 643 00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:26,040 Speaker 1: that nobody ever talks about. And guess what, I invited 644 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,799 Speaker 1: them to Elevation Church today. I'm gonna ask them to 645 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,719 Speaker 1: come out real quick, because everybody is focused on the 646 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:38,279 Speaker 1: lame man and Peter and John. But I want to know. Yeah, 647 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:47,040 Speaker 1: everybody talks about the lame man. Everybody talks about Peter 648 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:51,880 Speaker 1: and John. How come nobody talks about y'all because he 649 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,759 Speaker 1: got dropped every day? Come on, I study, I did 650 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,319 Speaker 1: my due diligence. I did an etymologicalspiratory on this word. 651 00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,120 Speaker 1: Every day. Guess what every day means? Or a day? 652 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:06,160 Speaker 1: Every day? They dropped him every day? Do you know 653 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:07,920 Speaker 1: what every day means? Now? Which is gonna be interesting 654 00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:12,560 Speaker 1: because we're gonna keep our distance here. That means Sunday, 655 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:18,520 Speaker 1: you came, you picked him up, don't touch them. Come on, 656 00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,040 Speaker 1: I just want to abide to the rules. You picked 657 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:25,440 Speaker 1: him up, you picked him up, You carry him from 658 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:29,480 Speaker 1: where we lived to the church. You would hold out 659 00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:31,480 Speaker 1: your cup in bed, Just hold out your cup, hold 660 00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,680 Speaker 1: out your cup and bed. Maybe y'all would come back 661 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:37,239 Speaker 1: about five o'clock, pick him right back up, drop him 662 00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:40,719 Speaker 1: back off, and then go about your day. That's Sunday, Monday. 663 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:43,560 Speaker 1: Here come these two again. Let's give him a name. 664 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,960 Speaker 1: Billy and Bob. Nobody talks about Billy and Bob. Everybody 665 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,240 Speaker 1: talks about Peter and John. That means Monday, you come, 666 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:52,640 Speaker 1: you pick them up, You carry him all the way 667 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,960 Speaker 1: over here to the church, you hold out the cop 668 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,719 Speaker 1: and bag. You come back about five o'clock, drop him 669 00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,680 Speaker 1: back at the house, then you go home. That's Tuesday. 670 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,640 Speaker 1: Wednesday morning, Ding dong. Here come Billy and Bob again. 671 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:07,560 Speaker 1: They pick him up. Just pretend like you're going to 672 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,040 Speaker 1: don't touch keep it this, Pretend like you gonna pick 673 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:10,440 Speaker 1: them up. Pet like, don't touch them dewath and you 674 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,359 Speaker 1: pick him up again, and then you come back over 675 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,399 Speaker 1: here and you drop off at the church, holds out 676 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,400 Speaker 1: his cup and bags. They come back about five o'clock 677 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:21,560 Speaker 1: and then drop him off. That's what every single day. 678 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:27,239 Speaker 1: Can you imagine the laborious nature of picking him up 679 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:33,080 Speaker 1: every day, holding out his cup, begging, picking him back up, 680 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,279 Speaker 1: drop him off. And I hope I'm not bringing my 681 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,400 Speaker 1: own presupposition to his biblical passages. But I think one 682 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,759 Speaker 1: of those days, after every day, maybe Billy and Bob 683 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,479 Speaker 1: did out the contents of their heart for like a week, 684 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:46,880 Speaker 1: scratch that they go to the elevation. They did it 685 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:51,000 Speaker 1: for like a month every day. I think one of 686 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:55,319 Speaker 1: those days Billy and Bob dropped them off. He held 687 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:59,879 Speaker 1: out his cup. He came back about five o'clock looking 688 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:05,080 Speaker 1: that cup. Yeah, you see what I'll see. There's money 689 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,480 Speaker 1: in that cup. You see what they just did. They 690 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,960 Speaker 1: got their cut. Actually, you took too much. Put some back, 691 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:11,640 Speaker 1: put some back. Don't do that. Don't do that. Yeah, 692 00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:16,200 Speaker 1: put some back. Now that you have your cut, then 693 00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:20,239 Speaker 1: you pick them back up, not for real. Then you 694 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:29,279 Speaker 1: take them home. And now they have become collaborators to 695 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:35,080 Speaker 1: a sick system, somebody who's stuck. How many know at 696 00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:42,319 Speaker 1: this point, Billy and Bob don't want him healed. They 697 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:48,920 Speaker 1: don't want him home. It would affect their pockets. They 698 00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:56,360 Speaker 1: have become, maybe unbeknowing, the beneficiaries of his brokenness and 699 00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:01,040 Speaker 1: his stuckness. That's why whenever you are stuck, you got 700 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,560 Speaker 1: to check your environment. You got to check who's around 701 00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,319 Speaker 1: you and make sure you got to check what you're 702 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:12,960 Speaker 1: hearing and make sure nobody is benefiting from your stuckness. 703 00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:18,000 Speaker 1: And Billy and Bob could be anybody. Billy and Bob 704 00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,640 Speaker 1: could be the news that you're watching. Billy and Bob 705 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,840 Speaker 1: could be a friend. Billy and Bob could be somebody 706 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:25,640 Speaker 1: a dating some of you. It's awkward because you sit 707 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:29,160 Speaker 1: next to your Billy and Bob right now. But in 708 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,160 Speaker 1: your life, whenever you're stuck, there will always be Peters 709 00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:34,400 Speaker 1: and John's who are trying to pull you up out 710 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:36,920 Speaker 1: of your stuckness. They're trying to call you into your 711 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:40,120 Speaker 1: purpose and your destiny. But there will also be Billies 712 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:44,239 Speaker 1: and Bob's who want you to stay stuck and not 713 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,120 Speaker 1: step into what God has for you. Thank you so much, 714 00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,520 Speaker 1: y'all were brilliant, especially for not touching anybody. Y'all, play 715 00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:54,200 Speaker 1: something real soft and make me sound spiritual. Later we'll 716 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,560 Speaker 1: find out that system of getting picked up and dropped off. 717 00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:04,160 Speaker 1: Don't miss this that went on for fourty years. Forty years. 718 00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:09,440 Speaker 1: Can you imagine forty years? Every day, get picked up, 719 00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:15,799 Speaker 1: hold out my cup, make a few bucks, give them 720 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:21,719 Speaker 1: their cut, go back home. Forty years, get picked up, 721 00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:28,160 Speaker 1: hold out my cup, make a few bucks, give them 722 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:33,480 Speaker 1: their cut, go back home. Forty years. After forty years, 723 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,920 Speaker 1: you're just the robot, just going through the motions. Some 724 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,120 Speaker 1: of you I just described your life. You call it 725 00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:47,480 Speaker 1: your job. Go to work, get picked up, make a 726 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:52,359 Speaker 1: few bucks, give the eye, arrest their cut, go back home. 727 00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:56,960 Speaker 1: Is that why God created you. No, He came that 728 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:01,600 Speaker 1: you might have a life and life more ab no 729 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,480 Speaker 1: matter where you are, no matter what's going on, even 730 00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,319 Speaker 1: in our world right now. You were not created to 731 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:12,239 Speaker 1: be stuck. God created you from movement. He's taking you somewhere. 732 00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,719 Speaker 1: I love it because even after forty years of that system, 733 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:20,240 Speaker 1: even after forty years, the Bible says, one day, after 734 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,640 Speaker 1: forty years of going through the motions, after forty years 735 00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:26,960 Speaker 1: of never looking up, after forty years of no hope, 736 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:30,120 Speaker 1: after forty years of the monotonous routine of just going 737 00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:33,440 Speaker 1: through life and not living life. After forty years, the 738 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:39,000 Speaker 1: Bible says, one day, after forty years, one day, come on, 739 00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:40,960 Speaker 1: don't tell me that you've been stuck in whatever you're 740 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,239 Speaker 1: stuck in too long. You can have the hope of 741 00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,359 Speaker 1: one day, somebody watching me right now, this is your 742 00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:50,759 Speaker 1: one day that even after being stuck some of you physically, 743 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,800 Speaker 1: some of you spiritually, some of you for so many years, 744 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:58,440 Speaker 1: you can have a one day. One day after forty years, 745 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,520 Speaker 1: he hears voices for the Holy Spirit who say, look 746 00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:05,400 Speaker 1: at us. Bible says that he gave Peter and John 747 00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:11,120 Speaker 1: his attention, expecting to get something. He gave them his attention, 748 00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,000 Speaker 1: because if God can get your attention, then he can 749 00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:17,120 Speaker 1: shift the direction of your life. If he can get 750 00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:20,759 Speaker 1: your attention, he'll exceed your expectation. But he's got to 751 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,880 Speaker 1: get your attention. I believe even right now, everything some 752 00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:25,959 Speaker 1: of us are going through, God is just God trying 753 00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,279 Speaker 1: to get your attention. He's trying to say, come to me, 754 00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:33,000 Speaker 1: you gotta get out of being Stock gave him his 755 00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:38,160 Speaker 1: attention expecting to get something. Peter and John said, silver 756 00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,279 Speaker 1: and gold I do not have. But what I do have, 757 00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:45,680 Speaker 1: that's what I give you. Isn't it crazy that his 758 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:49,440 Speaker 1: greatest miracle was on the other side of his greatest disappointment. 759 00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:52,880 Speaker 1: Can you see him? He finally has Peter trying look 760 00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,320 Speaker 1: at him. He's like, woh, I'm about to get paid today. 761 00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,360 Speaker 1: They're like, hey, we ain't got it. He's like, what 762 00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,800 Speaker 1: what you're looking at me for? Then? Isn't it crazy 763 00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,360 Speaker 1: that his greatest miracle was on the other side of 764 00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:09,280 Speaker 1: his greatest disappointment? Because sometimes God will tell your dream 765 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:12,960 Speaker 1: known if you got the wrong dream, Because sometimes when 766 00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:16,799 Speaker 1: you're stuck, you will downgrade the dream to fit your reality. 767 00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,400 Speaker 1: But God never calls you to downgrade your dream to 768 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,919 Speaker 1: fit your reality. Now when he wants to exceed your expectation. 769 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,759 Speaker 1: Silver and gold I do not have. But what I 770 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:29,040 Speaker 1: do have I give you in the name of Jesus 771 00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:32,239 Speaker 1: Christ of Nazareth. Oh, I need somebody that knows there's 772 00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:36,400 Speaker 1: power in that name. In the name of Jesus Christ 773 00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:40,600 Speaker 1: of Nazareth. I love Peter because he's just name. Drop him. 774 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,960 Speaker 1: Come on. You know people that don't know about that 775 00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,600 Speaker 1: kingdom clouds. But sometimes if you don't drop a name, 776 00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,200 Speaker 1: you better drop a name that they get. Somebody back 777 00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,920 Speaker 1: up again. Drop the name that is above every single name. 778 00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,040 Speaker 1: Drop the name that can heal the sick. Drop the 779 00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:59,160 Speaker 1: name that can raise the dad. Drop the name that 780 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,000 Speaker 1: can open up the come on, drop the name that 781 00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:06,759 Speaker 1: can turn grades to godness. Drop the name of Jesus. 782 00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:16,960 Speaker 1: Somebody get up, somebody can Hallelujah. Judy, thank you for 783 00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,600 Speaker 1: joining us. Special thanks to those of you who give 784 00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:22,560 Speaker 1: generously to this ministry. Is because of you that this 785 00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:25,520 Speaker 1: ministry is possible. You can click the link in the 786 00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:29,480 Speaker 1: description to give now or visit Elevation Church dot org 787 00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:33,239 Speaker 1: slash podcast for more information, and if you enjoyed the podcast, 788 00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,240 Speaker 1: you can subscribe you can share it with your friends. 789 00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:38,840 Speaker 1: You can click the share button, take a screenshot and 790 00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,000 Speaker 1: share it on your social stories and tag us at 791 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,560 Speaker 1: Elevation Church. Thanks again for listening. God bless you.