Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, well, did did they put caffeine in your
Speaker 1: communion cups? In the lobby today? Y'all are acting. Y'all
Speaker 1: are wild. Pray for me Ef. They're wild in the
Speaker 1: room today. I don't know if I can manage them.
Speaker 1: I feel like a substitute teacher looking at a fourth
Speaker 1: grade class who just had juice boxes and oreos fired up. Man,
Speaker 1: y'all must be listening to lying on repeating your headphone fascin,
Speaker 1: isn't it. You've been listening to these songs now. I
Speaker 1: need everybody who hasn't heard the whole album yet to
Speaker 1: repent and give your life to Jesus, because I'm telling
Speaker 1: you we worked on this a few years ago. Really,
Speaker 1: back in twenty fifteen, the Lord began to shift me
Speaker 1: to say, I don't want you to see your role
Speaker 1: as preaching only through words. I want you to see
Speaker 1: yourself preaching through melodies. And I don't just want you
Speaker 1: to preach words that the people can listen to when
Speaker 1: you're up there on Sunday or whenever they listen to
Speaker 1: it during the week. I want you to give a
Speaker 1: huge part of your life to developing songs that can
Speaker 1: go where the sermons never will and that shift in
Speaker 1: this amazing team that God gave us here. When we
Speaker 1: release an album, we pray over it and we send
Speaker 1: it as a church because we birth these songs as
Speaker 1: a church. I mean, y'all are the ones who are
Speaker 1: looking at us cross eyed when we said it might
Speaker 1: get loud, and then you know, y'all are slow to
Speaker 1: catch on and you're like, is that a worship song?
Speaker 1: I don't know, But then you kind of liked it,
Speaker 1: didn't you? You kind of liked it. I kind of
Speaker 1: like this. I kind of like this. And what I
Speaker 1: love about it is as we pray for these songs
Speaker 1: to go out today no matter what you're going through
Speaker 1: in your life. There's fourteen songs on this album and
Speaker 1: we wrote them over eighteen months and it's been an amazing,
Speaker 1: amazing process. But there's something for everybody, there really is.
Speaker 1: This is so if you like straightforward worship music, there's
Speaker 1: plenty of that, but but so we need songs. We
Speaker 1: need songs that we can worship too, and that's great,
Speaker 1: and it's all worship. I mean, worship is not just
Speaker 1: one style. You know that, but sometimes you need you
Speaker 1: need a war fair worship song so if you get
Speaker 1: in a battle, Look, if you get in if you
Speaker 1: get in a battle with the devil and I'm not
Speaker 1: there to preach to you, then we've got let the
Speaker 1: Lion roar and and and yeah, so you can put
Speaker 1: that on. So I got you. If you need something
Speaker 1: to listen to for bench pressing and you know dead lifting,
Speaker 1: I got you. And then there's song. There's songs on
Speaker 1: this album you could dance to at your wedding. So
Speaker 1: we got warfare worship wedding worship. Abby said, make sure
Speaker 1: you let them know I was the first person who
Speaker 1: danced to dancing. Yeah, and then I asked her can
Speaker 1: I dance? Can I dance with you to that at
Speaker 1: your wedding in seventy five years when you but that's good,
Speaker 1: that's good. It's all different styles because it's all different
Speaker 1: kinds of people. It's not This is not a black church,
Speaker 1: a white church, a Republican church, a Democrat church. It's
Speaker 1: a Baptist. It's none of that Godness. He's the lion
Speaker 1: and the Lamb, and we Workschappell, We Workshappelle. You cannot
Speaker 1: look at somebody and say you cannot put God in
Speaker 1: a box. He's too big for your box. I felt
Speaker 1: god on that. Tell twenty people he's too big for
Speaker 1: your box. I need go to litter the chat right now,
Speaker 1: say he's too big for your box. He's too big.
Speaker 1: You didn't tell twenty people. You didn't even tell anybody. Man,
Speaker 1: he's too big for your box. You know he's able
Speaker 1: to do exceedingly abundantly above while we ask come out Fredick, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's up Tampa. I heard y'all were coming passing. So
Speaker 1: y'all got me today, right? Our e fan from all
Speaker 1: over the word, let's welcome. Are you fam from all
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Speaker 1: good to focus on some good news today. For me,
Speaker 1: it is and I owe you. I owe you a
Speaker 1: part two of last week's message, and I intend to
Speaker 1: deliver it with the help of the Holy Spirit. Last
Speaker 1: week we talked about move in what You're made for,
Speaker 1: and we used creation. Yeah, we used creation as a classroom.
Speaker 1: We went to the school of the fish and learned
Speaker 1: that God created for the fish the environment that they
Speaker 1: needed to survive, but to thrive in it. And when
Speaker 1: I move in what I'm made for, not not what
Speaker 1: people manipulate me to be, but what God made me
Speaker 1: to be. You know, when when i'm when i'm I
Speaker 1: talked about last week, a bird in a bowl, right
Speaker 1: when I'm in the wrong environment, I never discover the
Speaker 1: equipment that God gave me, specifically as a man, as
Speaker 1: a dad, as a pastor, all of these things that
Speaker 1: we find ourselves challenged in life. We went in the
Speaker 1: school of creation, a classroom of creation. I like that better,
Speaker 1: the classroom of creation, and we use that as a model. Now,
Speaker 1: the Word of God is powerful. How many believe that
Speaker 1: the Word of God is powerful. But the Bible, as
Speaker 1: we understand it as the Word of God, becomes more
Speaker 1: powerful as it becomes more personal to us. So if
Speaker 1: I approach the Bible, I heard somebody say one time,
Speaker 1: the Bible is an instruction manual for life. Well, if
Speaker 1: it's an instruction manual. It's a really bad one, right,
Speaker 1: because you weren't made with the same parts that I
Speaker 1: was made with. So instruction manual it has to be
Speaker 1: the same exact model of the blender or it's not
Speaker 1: going to fit that blender. And I probably could have
Speaker 1: done better than Blender for the analogy that I use.
Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying. And so the Bible
Speaker 1: is not an instruction manual. It's living. It's living. And
Speaker 1: we say that it's the instruction manual because it came
Speaker 1: from the manufacturer, which is true, the maker. But the
Speaker 1: Word of God is actually less like a manual, and
Speaker 1: it's more like a model, a model where I see
Speaker 1: who God is, so I can discover who I am.
Speaker 1: So what the Lord started doing last week? And you
Speaker 1: can catch the message online. You can stop this one,
Speaker 1: go watch that one, come back to this one. We're
Speaker 1: leaving all there like a buffet for you. We're open
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven. This is an IHA kind of situation,
Speaker 1: but international House of Preaching, Am I right? It's y'all's fault.
Speaker 1: Y'all got me wound up, So I take no responsibility
Speaker 1: and we will sit in just a moment. But let's
Speaker 1: go to a personal example in the Bible. Because last
Speaker 1: week I used creation. This week the Lord directed me
Speaker 1: to use Moses as a model. The Bible says that
Speaker 1: these are examples for us, good and bad, so that
Speaker 1: we can have our own foundation of faith. And I
Speaker 1: want to look at Exodus chapter four from the Life
Speaker 1: of Moses and read you this. As we continue deeper
Speaker 1: into this thing, God is trying to rebuild your self
Speaker 1: image in his image. Okay, that's what God is trying
Speaker 1: to do. Let us make man in our image. That's
Speaker 1: God talk. So that's what He's trying to do for you.
Speaker 1: And I thought it would be good since we looked
Speaker 1: at how God created man in Genesis one. Now let's
Speaker 1: look at God creating a nation. Now they've been a nation.
Speaker 1: The people have been a nation, but they've been enslaved.
Speaker 1: And now as they come into their identity as free people,
Speaker 1: God speaks to one man, the man, the myth, the legend, Moses.
Speaker 1: Y'all know Moses. You think you know Moses. You don't
Speaker 1: know Moses. Tell somebody you don't know Moses. You're gonna
Speaker 1: know Moses a little bit better. When we finished today,
Speaker 1: Exodus four, verse ten, Moses said to the Lord, pardon
Speaker 1: your servant, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in
Speaker 1: the past nor since you have spoken to your servant.
Speaker 1: I am slow of speech and tom and the Lord
Speaker 1: said to him, who gave human beings their mouths? Who
Speaker 1: makes them death or mute? Who gives them sight or
Speaker 1: makes them blind? Is it not I? The Lord? Now
Speaker 1: go move in, go move now, go right now, now,
Speaker 1: get it all figured out. Now go. I will help
Speaker 1: you speak. I'll teach you what to say. I wish
Speaker 1: I could tell you that it ended on a happy note,
Speaker 1: but you know Moses said in verse thirteen, pardon your servant, Lord,
Speaker 1: please send someone else. Reminds you of and the New
Speaker 1: Testament doesn't. When Jesus helped him catch all those fish,
Speaker 1: and he said, go away from me, Lord, I'm a
Speaker 1: sinful man. God, you know I'm not cut out for this. God.
Speaker 1: You know I got secrets. God, you know I got weaknesses.
Speaker 1: You know I can't speak. That was Moses's response. He said,
Speaker 1: sind someone else. Then the Lord's anger burned against Moses,
Speaker 1: and he said, deals off, We're done. That's the God.
Speaker 1: Some of us were taught about but it's not the
Speaker 1: true God. It's not the true God. The Lord was angry,
Speaker 1: but he didn't turn away. The Lord was angry. Did
Speaker 1: you know that some of what you call humility is
Speaker 1: really insecurity and it insults your maker when you don't
Speaker 1: like what he made. He was angry. He was angry
Speaker 1: with Moses, and he said, what about your brother Aaron
Speaker 1: the Levite. I know he can speak well, and he
Speaker 1: is already on his way to meet you, and he'll
Speaker 1: be glad to see you. You shall speak to him
Speaker 1: and put words in his mouth. That's awesome. I will
Speaker 1: help both of you speak, and I'll teach you what
Speaker 1: to do. He will speak to the people the Israelites
Speaker 1: for you, and it will be as if he or
Speaker 1: your mouth, and as if you were God to him.
Speaker 1: But this is less script. Shomride, I know your feet
Speaker 1: are hurting. Take this staff in your hand, somebody say
Speaker 1: your hand. Take this staff in your hand so you
Speaker 1: can perform the signs with it. And the Lord directed
Speaker 1: me to talk to you today about making peace with
Speaker 1: missing pieces, making peace with missing pieces. Thank you for
Speaker 1: your word, Lord, We say yes in advance in Jesus' name. Amen,
Speaker 1: you may be seated making peace with missing pieces. P
Speaker 1: E A C E and then P I E eye
Speaker 1: before you Right. Yeah, spelling on my feet is hard. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, speaking of that, y'all, pray for me.
Speaker 1: I'm struggling with self esteem like never before because of Holly.
Speaker 1: She's got me playing this game called wordle. Y'all know it.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if it was like a little cult
Speaker 1: thing that Holly had gotten into. She's always texting this
Speaker 1: group text on the phone on the bed. I'm like,
Speaker 1: who you're texting us? Eleven thirty p She's like, I
Speaker 1: only got thirty minutes to get my wordle in. It's
Speaker 1: a word puzzle, five letter words. And the reason I
Speaker 1: asked you to pray for me is because she keeps
Speaker 1: beating me daily. Because we put a family wordle group chat,
Speaker 1: and on the group chat, if you were to see it,
Speaker 1: you would pray for all my kids because it's Graham
Speaker 1: calling Abby a cheater. It's Abby telling Graham I'm not
Speaker 1: a cheater, you know. And then our family is normal.
Speaker 1: So we're going back and forth and find I know
Speaker 1: your family, y'all read scripture every morning, take the blood
Speaker 1: of the communion, and put the cross on the door
Speaker 1: and send them off the school on the bus singing
Speaker 1: about you know, proud Mary, keep on burning. But you're
Speaker 1: talking about the Virgin Mary because you're a Christian. But
Speaker 1: when I tell you she beats me every day, she
Speaker 1: beats me every day, and you could look up the game.
Speaker 1: I'm not sponsored by the New York Times or anything
Speaker 1: like that, but it's it's pretty fun. It's frustrating. And
Speaker 1: what I can't get over is Abby beating me. That's
Speaker 1: been that's been rough, that's been rough. And Abby beat
Speaker 1: me the other day. Because you have so many guesses
Speaker 1: to get it, and she guessed it in two and
Speaker 1: I guessed it in four. Graham said she cheated, and
Speaker 1: I just texted back to the group chat kind of sarcastically.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well we oh, no, I'm bad with words
Speaker 1: because I was like overcompensating for the feeling of getting
Speaker 1: beat by my ten year old. And Holly says back
Speaker 1: on the group chat, Nope, not words, just puzzles, and
Speaker 1: she's right, I suck at puzzles. I do. I showed
Speaker 1: you last week some things that I'm not so good at,
Speaker 1: and I used the words suck when I said that
Speaker 1: so I'm trying to say it in a way where
Speaker 1: you can understand how much I hate puzzles because of
Speaker 1: how much I lack patience. Holly is a better person
Speaker 1: than me. I can tell you this over and over.
Speaker 1: She has more patience than me to sit with pieces
Speaker 1: and try to make it look like a picture that
Speaker 1: I can already see. Why do I need to spend
Speaker 1: five hours taking something that is intentionally broken and putting
Speaker 1: it together just so I can see what I already saw?
Speaker 1: Why this thing was still at the store on the shelf.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel about puzzles. I'm bad at puzzles.
Speaker 1: I'm bad at puzzles. Any puzzle people in the house
Speaker 1: make some nook such a weird thing to be pumped about.
Speaker 1: I love puzzles. But now I need you to understand
Speaker 1: why I'm bringing all of this up. Not random, not random,
Speaker 1: not random, not random, not random. This is one of
Speaker 1: the pieces that I want to use to get you
Speaker 1: to think about what I'm trying to communicate to you
Speaker 1: about how God made you in his image. But you
Speaker 1: don't get to see all of God at once, Therefore
Speaker 1: you don't get to know all of you at once.
Speaker 1: In the Scripture, it's called progressive revelation. That doesn't mean
Speaker 1: God changes. God didn't grow two inches since last Sunday
Speaker 1: when I saw you, But it does mean that our
Speaker 1: understanding of Him changes. We see through a glass dimly.
Speaker 1: We don't see God as he really is. We see
Speaker 1: God as we think we are. So then for God
Speaker 1: to do work in my heart, for God to show
Speaker 1: me something about myself, I have to start with the source.
Speaker 1: Start with the source. I want to encourage somebody to
Speaker 1: start with the source when you are trying to figure
Speaker 1: out who am I and I don't know whether I'm
Speaker 1: a bird or a fish, or whether I'm good at
Speaker 1: this or whether I'm good at that. I really don't
Speaker 1: know yet. That's good, But don't start with what you
Speaker 1: think you are, and don't start with what you think
Speaker 1: God is. You have got to spend time to really understand.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm all about self improvement. I'm all about
Speaker 1: self help. Somebody's like, well, you know, we don't need
Speaker 1: self help, we need God's help. But I promise you this,
Speaker 1: God is not going to do for you what you
Speaker 1: can do for you. God doesn't reveal himself by osmosis.
Speaker 1: I spend time in his presence. That's how I get
Speaker 1: the picture of who he is. And when I get
Speaker 1: the picture of who he is, I can begin to
Speaker 1: put together the pieces of what He's making me to be. Now,
Speaker 1: the big picture of this text is the Hebrew children
Speaker 1: coming out of Egypt because God is their deliverer. Remember
Speaker 1: in Genesis one, God is creating. Now in Exodus chapter three,
Speaker 1: he's liberating. Same God in a different dimension, same God
Speaker 1: in a different season, same God meeting a different need.
Speaker 1: He formed the man from the dust in Genesis chapter
Speaker 1: one and two, and he formed the nation. Watch this
Speaker 1: from the dust of their slavery and the cries of
Speaker 1: their groaning. He spoke. He spoke to Moses, I love that.
Speaker 1: How we kind of have a war of words going
Speaker 1: on in this passage. Let me illustrate. In verse ten,
Speaker 1: Moses said to the Lord in verse did you see that?
Speaker 1: Did they put it up? Okay? Now, I want you
Speaker 1: to see this with your own eyes, because it's this
Speaker 1: back and forth that's been happening in your life too.
Speaker 1: Moses said to the Lord, I can't do this. I
Speaker 1: never did it before. Wrong, dude, Moses said to the Lord,
Speaker 1: I wasn't good at what you're asking me to do
Speaker 1: when you met me, and not much has changed in
Speaker 1: the last ten minutes, because you know, we think the
Speaker 1: word of God is just going to change us on
Speaker 1: the spot. We think that God's gonna speak to us.
Speaker 1: All the fear is gonna go, all the all the
Speaker 1: all the bitterness is gonna go. It's just gonna go. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna drink. When I'm supposed to drain every
Speaker 1: disappointment out of your life in fifty minutes on a Sunday.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work like that, but it's a starting point.
Speaker 1: Moses said to the Lord, and then verse eleven, the
Speaker 1: Lord said to him, it's a war of words. It's
Speaker 1: a war of words. Now, I'm not gonna talk on
Speaker 1: this pulpit today about the war that's in the news,
Speaker 1: because there nothing I can do about that. I can pray,
Speaker 1: we can give, but beyond that, there's not much I
Speaker 1: can do. I want to take this moment to talk
Speaker 1: about the war in you. You hearing a lot about
Speaker 1: a world war, but don't we see in the scripture
Speaker 1: that there's a word war happening as well. Where the
Speaker 1: Lord said to Moses, I got something for you to
Speaker 1: do I'm going to use what you have. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take you forward into something that is going to set
Speaker 1: others free. Is not just about me. There is a
Speaker 1: bigger picture here. For four hundred years, get this, Get this,
Speaker 1: for four hundred years, there is no record of God
Speaker 1: revealing himself. Demand for four hundred years. And then the
Speaker 1: Lord's word came to Moses, sending you to Pharaoh. And
Speaker 1: when you get to him, tell him Pharaoh, Pharaoh, old baby.
Speaker 1: Let my people go, oh yeah, yeah, make sure you
Speaker 1: put the uh in there and mostly uh uh. And
Speaker 1: he walks through it. And I'm gonna walk you back
Speaker 1: through this. But first, can we acknowledge that there is
Speaker 1: a war of words happening in your soul too, that
Speaker 1: there is a war of words happening in your home,
Speaker 1: that there is a war of words happening in your heart.
Speaker 1: The enemy waged war against Moses before he was ever born.
Speaker 1: He had to be floated in a basket on the
Speaker 1: nile to survive. Some of you, the devil has been
Speaker 1: after you your whole life. People should have spoken affirmation
Speaker 1: over you. People should have smoken direction to you. People
Speaker 1: should have given encouragement to you, and they didn't so
Speaker 1: other words take root. I told Holly, I'm bad at words.
Speaker 1: She said, no, just puzzles. You're just not patient enough.
Speaker 1: You're just not patient enough. You don't like puzzles because
Speaker 1: you're not patient. And then I said back, I said, well,
Speaker 1: if you would get off wordle and get in the
Speaker 1: wordle of God. Maybe I didn't say that to such staid,
Speaker 1: but really, now let's go to it. This is not
Speaker 1: a game here. What's on the line here is not
Speaker 1: whether or not God's people will be set free, because
Speaker 1: God will always accomplish his purpose. God will always accomplish
Speaker 1: his purpose. God will always accomplish his purpose. I promise you.
Speaker 1: If Saul gets crazy, David is already in the sheep field.
Speaker 1: God will always accomplish his purpose. If you get fired
Speaker 1: while being faithful, God will use the fertilizer of what
Speaker 1: you call a failure to create something in your life
Speaker 1: that you didn't even know to pray for him. The
Speaker 1: question isn't whether God's calling and purpose will be confirmed.
Speaker 1: It's not whether God will do it. Will he do
Speaker 1: it in you and through you? Unless we get too
Speaker 1: excited about this war of words, because you know, I
Speaker 1: think the assumption is that since Moses went to Pharaoh
Speaker 1: and God unleashed frogs and hail and locusts and all
Speaker 1: this stuff, and the people got to go through the
Speaker 1: Red Sea. That Moses won, But he really didn't because
Speaker 1: it was the words of the tense spies who told
Speaker 1: him the giants are bigger than us that kept him
Speaker 1: from going into the promised Land. It was the words
Speaker 1: of grumbling study it sometime it was words, words, words, words, words, words, words.
Speaker 1: It was the words of the grumbling Israelites who were
Speaker 1: thirsty in the desert that made him take his staff
Speaker 1: that could split seas and strike a rock out of
Speaker 1: frustration to bring forth water. And because he listened to
Speaker 1: their words, grumbling, complaining, murmuring comments, twitter, I mean, uh,
Speaker 1: grumbling complaining. Now I'm in the wrong decade, y'all. But
Speaker 1: some things never change. It's still a war of words.
Speaker 1: It's a war of words. Five letter words. Y'all know
Speaker 1: about four letter words? Oh, y'all never say four letter
Speaker 1: words in your head? Okay, okay, okay, okay? And word
Speaker 1: will they have five letter words? And I just saw
Speaker 1: two five letter words here, And I think it's very simple.
Speaker 1: Faith in doubt, Faith in doubt, and I want to
Speaker 1: break this down so you can understand the war of
Speaker 1: words that's happening not out of your mouth, but out
Speaker 1: of your mind in this moment that you're standing. At
Speaker 1: this moment, maybe you're not leading a nation out of slave.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes we dumb the Bible down to kind
Speaker 1: of make it about whatever we want it to be about.
Speaker 1: So God is calling Moses to be a deliverer, right,
Speaker 1: and we're like, well, that's kind of like me. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to go on a diet and you know, and boy,
Speaker 1: I really need God because it's hard. Okay, Well, the
Speaker 1: principle does apply because I think that Moses is a
Speaker 1: model for us for our life. But you know, this guy,
Speaker 1: this would be the equivalent of God tells you to
Speaker 1: stop putin. That's what it's like for Moses to go
Speaker 1: before Pharaoh. That's that's that's what that's what he's up against.
Speaker 1: So we're judging Moses, Well, Moses, you have the word
Speaker 1: of the Lord, go fourth mighty warrior in the word
Speaker 1: of the Lord. You know, we're judging this dude like
Speaker 1: I can't even find my car keys without saying four
Speaker 1: letter words. You know, I'm trying to judge Moses about
Speaker 1: him fighting with God over speaking to the most powerful
Speaker 1: man in the world who has terrorized his people for centuries.
Speaker 1: But I like it because I dare you to show
Speaker 1: me something bigger that God is trying to bring you
Speaker 1: into than this. And that's why it's a good model,
Speaker 1: because it shows me this is this is ridiculous what
Speaker 1: God is giving him to do. This is not improblem
Speaker 1: this is impossible. This is not like a lord, I
Speaker 1: need you to show me whether to move to Atlanta
Speaker 1: or Cincinnati, And the Lord's like, I really don't care
Speaker 1: about that. I just want you to find a good
Speaker 1: church when you get there, get good friends, and make
Speaker 1: a difference either place. He is deciding whether or not
Speaker 1: to him embrace his destiny or to be limited by
Speaker 1: his history. And that's where you are. A few months
Speaker 1: ago I preached when Never meets Now. Three of y'all
Speaker 1: heard it when Never meets Now, and I had this
Speaker 1: scripture ready, but I didn't get to use it where
Speaker 1: he said I have verse ten never. I remember, we
Speaker 1: are different than everything else God created because He made
Speaker 1: us by hand down in the dust, and he made
Speaker 1: us ruoc the breadth of life in you. Let everything
Speaker 1: that has breath, praise the Lord. Let everything that has
Speaker 1: breath praise the Lord. HM. But one other way we're different.
Speaker 1: That I realized when I was preaching last week. It says,
Speaker 1: over and over again, God spoke, and God saw God spoke.
Speaker 1: He said, let there be light, and the light said yes, sir,
Speaker 1: and it's shown. Then he spoke, which is crazy because
Speaker 1: he hadn't even made the sun yet, but the light
Speaker 1: still decided to shine even though there was no sun.
Speaker 1: That's how powerful God's word is. It doesn't have to
Speaker 1: make sense if he speaks it. Y'all are ready for that? Hey, Tampa,
Speaker 1: I thought, y'all have my back today God God will
Speaker 1: speak something you have no context for. He'll tell Noah,
Speaker 1: build an arc and there's no such thing as rain yet.
Speaker 1: And can you do that? Can you believe what God
Speaker 1: says when you don't see it at all? That is
Speaker 1: the five letter word faith. And it goes on and on.
Speaker 1: You know. On the first day, God says light, B.
Speaker 1: Light says yes, sir. Light was Day two, God says
Speaker 1: clouds in sky B C B and the sea said yes, sir.
Speaker 1: And the cloud said, I'll take the high road. You
Speaker 1: take the low road, and the sea went deep and
Speaker 1: the clouds went high, and it was good. God spoke,
Speaker 1: God saw. On the third day, God told the land
Speaker 1: land produce living things, make plants, and the land said, yes, sir,
Speaker 1: And the plants started to grow. On the fourth day
Speaker 1: kind of different. But God said, hey, Sun, you take
Speaker 1: the day shift. The sun said, yes, sir. The moon said, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm not a night person. No, the moon didn't say that.
Speaker 1: The moon said, I'll go where you need me to go.
Speaker 1: I'll do what you need me to do. I'll be
Speaker 1: what you need me to be. I'll hang where you
Speaker 1: need me to hang. I'll pull the ocean that you
Speaker 1: made on the second day, I'll pull it. I'll control
Speaker 1: the tides. Everybody's doing its job. Everything is working in
Speaker 1: perfect order, according to the spoken word of God. In
Speaker 1: the creation of cow. In the fifth day, he told
Speaker 1: the birds, I made a place for you called Scott.
Speaker 1: They're like, this is amazing. I believe I can fly.
Speaker 1: I'm a flap till I get there. And they start
Speaker 1: flying around. And then Nemo and Dorry and all of that.
Speaker 1: On the fifth day, and nobody argued. On the sixth day,
Speaker 1: he made the living creatures and the cows, and the horses,
Speaker 1: and the oxen and the donkeys, everything in his place
Speaker 1: till you came along. Now, of everything God spoke, only
Speaker 1: one talked back, Lord, I don't know how to do
Speaker 1: what you're telling me to do. I'm making fun of Moses,
Speaker 1: but I already told you he has much greater faith
Speaker 1: than me to even be in this place. The first
Speaker 1: thing Moses did when God spoke, he took off his shoes.
Speaker 1: So now let's step into his shoes so we can
Speaker 1: step in, because he took them off when he saw
Speaker 1: that burning bush. And let's imagine this is me. Let's
Speaker 1: imagine this is you, and the Lord is talking about
Speaker 1: world peace, and you are carrying a shepherd's staff, and
Speaker 1: the Lord is speaking to you about generational blessing, and
Speaker 1: you are still wrestling with a generational curse. It's a
Speaker 1: war of words what God has spoken over your life.
Speaker 1: That is one thing about the Spirit of God who
Speaker 1: lives within us through the Holy Spirit. Now Moses didn't
Speaker 1: know about the Holy Spirit inside of you. He didn't
Speaker 1: even know who he was talking to yet. But the
Speaker 1: Spirit of God in Genesis was doing what the Spirit
Speaker 1: of God is doing today. It says, the spirit of
Speaker 1: God hovered above everything that God had made. When the
Speaker 1: word of God speaks, he speaks from above. That's why
Speaker 1: he can tell you things in your spirit that you
Speaker 1: can't see with your eyes and that people can't confirm
Speaker 1: with their words. Because he speaks from above. It can
Speaker 1: I show you this on a deeper level? You ready,
Speaker 1: there are at least at least you could probably find
Speaker 1: more four missing pieces that Moses had to wrestle with
Speaker 1: to move forward in the mission God gave him. I
Speaker 1: think they will apply to everybody in this room. How
Speaker 1: can that be. There's twelve year olds in this room.
Speaker 1: There's eighty year olds in this room. There's people who
Speaker 1: are on unemployment in this room. There's multimillionaires in this room.
Speaker 1: But when God speaks his spirit and personal lives the
Speaker 1: word directly to the way He made you to be.
Speaker 1: God likes puzzles. Now, He's not gonna give you the picture.
Speaker 1: That's the worst part about trying to be who God's
Speaker 1: made you to be. He dumps the pieces out on
Speaker 1: the table and doesn't show you a picture. Well, he
Speaker 1: shows you one piece at a time. That's how God works,
Speaker 1: one piece at a time. Step by step, day by day,
Speaker 1: Give us this day seventy years worth of bread so
Speaker 1: we never have to go to the store again. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: our daily bread. You get overwhelmed by this. You have
Speaker 1: no peace. You're overwhelmed. You're thinking about thirteen hypothetical scenarios.
Speaker 1: You can't fight the devil on a hypothetical. And that's
Speaker 1: how Moses started. I'm gonna just pull him up real quick.
Speaker 1: You're ready, I'm I'm gonna give you all four of
Speaker 1: them so quick. So pay attention. The first thing that
Speaker 1: Moses said, the missing piece, because God is saying, I
Speaker 1: got something for you to do. Now, how many of
Speaker 1: you feel like God has something for you to do.
Speaker 1: It's not leading people out of slavery or something like that,
Speaker 1: big like that, but God's given you something to do.
Speaker 1: Raise your hand or die. Okay, all right, So this
Speaker 1: is for everybody that's still here. Ah. The first thing
Speaker 1: Moses said, give me that Exodus three scripture. He said, no, no,
Speaker 1: Exodus three, Exodus three? Who am I that I should
Speaker 1: go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?
Speaker 1: God said, I'll be with you. So then that follows
Speaker 1: this next question. You got, who am I. And then
Speaker 1: look at verse thirteen. Moses said to God, suppose I
Speaker 1: go to this real liace and said to the God,
Speaker 1: your father send me to you, And they asked, what
Speaker 1: is his name? Then why shall I tell them? In
Speaker 1: other words, my first question is who am I? But
Speaker 1: who are you? I hadn't heard from this in four
Speaker 1: hundred years. It's been four hundred years since a personal
Speaker 1: epiphany like this, God spoke to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph.
Speaker 1: But you got to understand there has been a long gap.
Speaker 1: When's the last time you had an encounter with God?
Speaker 1: When's the last time that you were like? That was
Speaker 1: God that did that for me. That was God that
Speaker 1: held me in his arms. That was God that reassured me.
Speaker 1: That was God that kept me from ending at all.
Speaker 1: That was God that kept me from going to prison,
Speaker 1: because if I would have done what I thought about
Speaker 1: doing it, I would not be here today. That was God. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he's kind of getting honest. He's like, who am
Speaker 1: I to do this? But then who are you? Give
Speaker 1: me a second together? My thoughts. If you're knew to church,
Speaker 1: knew to God, knew to religion, I need to warn
Speaker 1: you about us we're the worst. We are the worst
Speaker 1: about pretending like we have faith figured out, and so
Speaker 1: we say words, words, words, words, words, words, But we're
Speaker 1: really good at hiding our war. Not many people quit
Speaker 1: coming to church because they assume, oh, they all have
Speaker 1: something that I don't have. They have like this deep
Speaker 1: relationship with God. They know them. You know, they say
Speaker 1: words propitiation. I don't know what that means. That's not
Speaker 1: a five letter word. I'm telling you the truth about Christians.
Speaker 1: And we Meanwhile, but a lot of us were taught
Speaker 1: that we had to have the whole thing figured out
Speaker 1: or it wasn't faith. So we mastered the art of
Speaker 1: sounding certain. We mastered the art of magnifying your missing pieces,
Speaker 1: so I don't have to deal with mine. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: dying out. Lord, Am I still on the right track.
Speaker 1: It was a lot more clapping earlier. Now. Now that's
Speaker 1: good news only if you are willing to get honest.
Speaker 1: That is good news about how God works in our life.
Speaker 1: Unless we think that the only way for us to
Speaker 1: have peace is to have no missing pieces. And this
Speaker 1: is where a lot of us who are perfectionists of
Speaker 1: talking any of Graham one, we think everything has to
Speaker 1: be us, so for us to be happy, for us
Speaker 1: to be grateful. And so we get in this thing
Speaker 1: all the time, a lot of us, do not all
Speaker 1: of us, but we get in this thing at a
Speaker 1: lot of the time that we say, when this, then i'le,
Speaker 1: When this than i'le. Now. The worst thing you can believe,
Speaker 1: please hear me, The worst thing that you can believe
Speaker 1: is that when you get here, then God will love you.
Speaker 1: That is from the pit of hell, that is alive,
Speaker 1: That is not in the Bible. It is by grace.
Speaker 1: You are saying, a kid, you God, grace. You got
Speaker 1: a lot, You got the greatest gift. His name is Jesus.
Speaker 1: We all need Jesus. We all need Jesus. Look at
Speaker 1: somebody say you need Jesus more than me. No, don't
Speaker 1: say that. Don't say that need him just as much
Speaker 1: as you. I need him just as much as you.
Speaker 1: I need him just as much as you. I was
Speaker 1: yelling at the ump and a baseball game and somebody said,
Speaker 1: I thought you were supposed to be a preacher. I said,
Speaker 1: my name is Stephen today, no pastor on the front.
Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Ram's dad. Okay, but I'm in the process
Speaker 1: he's fuckis. It's called sanctification, and it happens in stages.
Speaker 1: And I just wish that Moses would have asked the
Speaker 1: second question first. I just wish that he would have
Speaker 1: started with the source, not himself, because if you ask
Speaker 1: who am I, before you ask God who are you?
Speaker 1: You will misunderstand what you're made of. You're not made
Speaker 1: of dirt, You're not made of flesh, you are not
Speaker 1: made of bone, you are not made of I ran
Speaker 1: out of physical things to say. I'm winging this. You
Speaker 1: are made of spirit. Is that cool? Then everything else
Speaker 1: doesn't define you. So I like to telegram I'm five
Speaker 1: nine in the natural, but in the spirit, David is
Speaker 1: bigger than Goliath. You don't understand. You don't understand. When
Speaker 1: I watch Holly putting a puzzle together, I do two things.
Speaker 1: One I'm marvel that she can stick with this, and second,
Speaker 1: I notice that she puts the frame first. I've never
Speaker 1: done a puzzle, don't intend to, but if I ever do.
Speaker 1: She taught me that you start with the frame. Five
Speaker 1: letter word f r am me. You start with the frame.
Speaker 1: Do you know the author of Hebrews said that the
Speaker 1: worlds were framed by the word of God. That everything
Speaker 1: we see, I'm in it now. I'm in it now,
Speaker 1: That everything we see visibly is made by something that
Speaker 1: God spoke invisibly, that the worlds were framed by the
Speaker 1: word of God that he told the sunshine. Sun said yes, sir.
Speaker 1: He told the moon, now it's your turn, and the
Speaker 1: moon said, I'll do it when you need me to
Speaker 1: do it. He told the fish to flap around, he
Speaker 1: told the birds to elevate. Everything in created order understands
Speaker 1: when God speaks. Stop speaking against what God has spoken
Speaker 1: over life, because it's a war of words, and you
Speaker 1: have become your own worst enemy. You know, there's only
Speaker 1: two characters in Exodus four. It's God and Moses and
Speaker 1: the bush. I reckon the bush deserves a shout out.
Speaker 1: Is burning up and not burning down. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: pretty good special effects. And I guess there's four. There's
Speaker 1: the staff. There's the stick, which becomes significant later in
Speaker 1: his life. But he doesn't know that yet. See, you
Speaker 1: don't know yet, You don't know yet. When the Lord said,
Speaker 1: what is that in your hand? Remember, he said, who
Speaker 1: are you? Lord? Who am I? An amazing turn of
Speaker 1: events in Exodus chapter four Moses. Next objection was, when
Speaker 1: I go to my people and tell them that I
Speaker 1: met with you and they weren't here to see it.
Speaker 1: What if they say to me, you are on drugs.
Speaker 1: You saw bush, This is psychedelics. This is not scripture.
Speaker 1: You saw bush burning up. And the Lord said, I am,
Speaker 1: And there's so much to study here. Would y'all be
Speaker 1: cool if we did a whole series one day on
Speaker 1: the God of Moses. I want to do it. I
Speaker 1: did God of Jacob years ago, and then I put
Speaker 1: that verse in the song. I'm calling on the God
Speaker 1: of Moses, the one who opened up the ocean. Now,
Speaker 1: if you hear it like that, it sounds like Moses
Speaker 1: opened the ocean. Sounds like Moses opened the ocean. He
Speaker 1: was so mighty and strong, you had such great faith.
Speaker 1: We're talking about the same guy, the guy who said
Speaker 1: I can't even talk straight. It was God that opened
Speaker 1: the ocean. It's God that's going to do it for you.
Speaker 1: You hear me. It is God that works in you
Speaker 1: to will and to do according to his good pleasure.
Speaker 1: It is God. It is his word that does the work.
Speaker 1: So he said, who am I? You've been wondering that
Speaker 1: hadn't you You really wonder when you have to transition
Speaker 1: and identity. I'm a shepherd, now I'm supposed to be
Speaker 1: a spokesman before that, Moses, we don't have time to
Speaker 1: do it, but will do it. In the series, Moses
Speaker 1: was known as a murderer because before he learned how
Speaker 1: to manage what God had called him to, before he
Speaker 1: knew what to do with that. A lot of the
Speaker 1: mistakes you make early in your life, you have the
Speaker 1: wrong response, but it's for the right reason. He saw
Speaker 1: one of his fellow Hebrews getting beat by an Egyptian,
Speaker 1: and he killed a man and hit him in the sand.
Speaker 1: Now he's been in hiding forty years and the Lord comes.
Speaker 1: He hasn't to anybody in four hundred years, and the
Speaker 1: word comes. Are you open to a better word? Or
Speaker 1: are you so addicted to your excuses? Three categories? Right?
Speaker 1: Who am I? Let's look at these? That speaks of
Speaker 1: his preparation. Who am I? I'm not ready for this?
Speaker 1: Who am I? And then he wants to know who
Speaker 1: are you? That's information. I don't know who you are. God,
Speaker 1: I don't know enough to do this. Nobody gave me
Speaker 1: a class for pastoring the church through a global pandemic.
Speaker 1: Nobody if they did that class, I skipped that day.
Speaker 1: And nobody gave you a class for some of the
Speaker 1: stuff you're going through. Either, nobody tells you how to
Speaker 1: survive the loss of somebody who was your life a
Speaker 1: missing pieces, missing pieces? Who am I? I'm not ready? Preparation,
Speaker 1: Who are you information? Lord? I don't even know the
Speaker 1: Book of Ruth from a baby Ruth. Lord, I'm just
Speaker 1: new to the That's fine, that's fine, That's fine because
Speaker 1: God wants to show you how you cannot know and
Speaker 1: still go. This word is so real for somebody, and
Speaker 1: I don't know who is for. I don't have to
Speaker 1: know who is for. I just got to preach it
Speaker 1: and then the Holy Spirit of God will apply it
Speaker 1: to that area of your life where you're insecure, because look,
Speaker 1: Moses is like, I can't talk. That's a very specific thing.
Speaker 1: But really what he's dealing with is what if they
Speaker 1: don't believe me? That's validation. Are you one of those
Speaker 1: in your life? Today? Let's go through them slowly and
Speaker 1: you can write these down and ask the Lord to
Speaker 1: speak to you about them throughout this week. Preparation, Lord,
Speaker 1: Who am I to do this? I wouldn't. This is
Speaker 1: not my story. But you may be saying this. I
Speaker 1: wasn't even raised right, How do I raise kids myself?
Speaker 1: I don't have any experience owning a business. Here I
Speaker 1: am God in I didn't see this comment preparation information?
Speaker 1: Who are you? God? What do I not know? You know?
Speaker 1: The ones who are in the worst trouble who are
Speaker 1: here in this word today, the ones who have made
Speaker 1: their own picture of what they think their situation is
Speaker 1: supposed to look like. And they built that picture based
Speaker 1: on somebody else's puzzle. And you are going to spend
Speaker 1: the rest of your life thinking that you're missing pieces
Speaker 1: because you are trying to build somebody else his picture.
Speaker 1: And so not who and so now now God has
Speaker 1: you here, and God wants to teach you the art
Speaker 1: of going forward when you don't know where, Abraham, when
Speaker 1: you don't know how, Moses, and God's answer is pathetic
Speaker 1: if you think about it. What's that in your hand?
Speaker 1: You mean my stick? Then I'm only holding because I
Speaker 1: fled to Egypt and had to work for Jethrow, because
Speaker 1: I made the mistake of murdering someone because I didn't
Speaker 1: know how to do it. And I read that over
Speaker 1: and over again this week, thinking about your stick, thinking
Speaker 1: about your mistake, and the Lord said clearly to me
Speaker 1: to tell you He's going to turn the mistake into
Speaker 1: a miracle. No, no, no, no no, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: God's gonna work around it. I'm saying he's actually gonna
Speaker 1: use it. Because you're like, okay, well, I'll praise God anyway.
Speaker 1: I hate life, I hate myself, but God is good.
Speaker 1: That's attractive. That will win a world to Jesus. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what he bled on the cross for. He's
Speaker 1: already been through all of them. Look, you might have
Speaker 1: to move forward in this season of your life without preparation,
Speaker 1: and you might have to figure it out as you go.
Speaker 1: You might have to read books at night. You might
Speaker 1: have to read you might you might have to you
Speaker 1: might have to read books period. All right. You might
Speaker 1: have to ask people. You might have to get honest
Speaker 1: and say to somebody like, hey, man, I gotta be
Speaker 1: honest with you know anything about managing money. I'm driving
Speaker 1: this because I'm so stupid that I signed up for
Speaker 1: seventy five thousand percent interest. By the way, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: bring Dave Ramsey in a couple of weeks to help
Speaker 1: y'all with all that. All right, all right, so that'll
Speaker 1: be good, but you might have to get honest and say,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not prepared for this. I don't
Speaker 1: have this right now. But don't think that just because
Speaker 1: you don't know it right now doesn't mean you can't
Speaker 1: grow in it. You can. You can't. You can't, you can't.
Speaker 1: The devil is a liar. And and and don't think
Speaker 1: you need to know everything when God said, when God,
Speaker 1: when Moses said, huh, tell me who you are? You
Speaker 1: know what God told him? I am I love the Lord.
Speaker 1: Can you be more specific? No? Nope, Because every situation
Speaker 1: I put you in that is too big for you.
Speaker 1: You are gonna see another dimension of who I am.
Speaker 1: I am gone, I'm too big for your box. I am,
Speaker 1: I am Resurrection, I am Water, I am the great
Speaker 1: I am, and the great I am. It's bigger than
Speaker 1: all your little I'm not. That's why I came in
Speaker 1: his presence today, and that's why when some people are
Speaker 1: standing there looking at the song, I'm letting it wash
Speaker 1: over me because I need those words from God. I
Speaker 1: need a spoken and sun over me. I need it
Speaker 1: in my heart because y'all, honestly, I'm bad at words,
Speaker 1: not the ones I say. I'm good at those most
Speaker 1: of the time, bad at the ones that I say
Speaker 1: to myself, I'm stepping in moses shoes today. I'm asking
Speaker 1: you to do the same INChO what are you not
Speaker 1: and what what you're not have to do with who
Speaker 1: God is. I got to meet somebody so inspirational the
Speaker 1: other day who was blind shortly after birth and it's
Speaker 1: been blind all their life, and they were saying how
Speaker 1: how their mom, meaning well went around to all these
Speaker 1: different churches to get him healed. And he said, up
Speaker 1: until about age nine, he went along with it, and
Speaker 1: they would put oil on his eyes and he said
Speaker 1: it would just burn. I didn't get any better. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying God can't heal, and I'm not saying
Speaker 1: any of this is bad. But this was his story
Speaker 1: and I was listening to it, and I thought this
Speaker 1: is crazy because he finally said to his mom, and
Speaker 1: I think he was about Abbey's age nine or ten,
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, he said, Mom, one night, his
Speaker 1: mom was crying and praying God, please heal my boy.
Speaker 1: Heal my boy, heal my boy, here my boy, And
Speaker 1: that's a good thing for mom to pray. And who
Speaker 1: wouldn't pray that? And you know, I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: God causes this or God causes that. The Lord said,
Speaker 1: you always identify me by what I give you, and
Speaker 1: sometimes I want you to know me in what I
Speaker 1: didn't give you. Is it not I? And he said
Speaker 1: I heard my mom crying and I finally went in
Speaker 1: and said, Mom, you are giving me a headache. You're
Speaker 1: crying so much. Did you ever think maybe God made
Speaker 1: me this way for a reason and he has something
Speaker 1: for me to do? And then a few minutes later,
Speaker 1: he was telling me about songs he wrote like Love's
Speaker 1: in need of love today And I just called to
Speaker 1: say I love you, and superstition, it was Stevie Wonder, y'all,
Speaker 1: it was Stevie Wonder. Stevie said that. Stevie Wonder said that,
Speaker 1: he said, Mom, you ever think maybe God has something
Speaker 1: for me to do just like I am? And I'm
Speaker 1: thinking Stevie was right. Huh. I'm thinking he was right.
Speaker 1: And I think how horrible it would be if those
Speaker 1: songs didn't exist because he didn't have his sight. You
Speaker 1: probably won't ever write a song as good as Stevie.
Speaker 1: In fact, I can say this, you will never write
Speaker 1: a song as good as Steevee, and neither will I.
Speaker 1: But something in you will go unsung if what is
Speaker 1: in your hand goes unstretched. Because when Moses said, I
Speaker 1: have never I've never been good at this, that was
Speaker 1: the fourth That was the fourth one. It was a limitation,
Speaker 1: and God got angry. God got angry. You think I
Speaker 1: don't know that about you? You think I put you
Speaker 1: in a sky without wings. I gave you what I
Speaker 1: wanted you to have. And since you're so insistent on
Speaker 1: being insecure, since you don't believe me about all this. Now,
Speaker 1: Moses has already seen a lot. He turned his staff
Speaker 1: into a snake. He still isn't convinced. He put his
Speaker 1: hand in his cloak, it came out lepros Ah, put
Speaker 1: it back in. It came out here. That's crazy. But
Speaker 1: he still doesn't want to go. And it comes out
Speaker 1: in this moment. Send someone else, not me, God not me,
Speaker 1: not me. It's a war of words. See, the Lord
Speaker 1: keeps speaking over you, not only that you're gonna make it.
Speaker 1: He keeps telling you you're doing better than you think
Speaker 1: you are, and you won't believe him. He keeps telling
Speaker 1: you put it in my hands, I'll deal with it,
Speaker 1: and you won't believe him. It's a war of words.
Speaker 1: It's a war of words, and which one will win,
Speaker 1: which one will win. So we're standing in this in
Speaker 1: this scene with Moses and his shoes, and the Lord
Speaker 1: told me to ask you, are you ready to make
Speaker 1: peace with the way things are, believing that God can
Speaker 1: use it somehow for his glory, or are you gonna
Speaker 1: let one missing peace to find the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: One thing we learn about from a puzzle is that
Speaker 1: something can be in pieces on purpose. If God is
Speaker 1: only giving you one thing at a time, do one
Speaker 1: thing at a time. We just released an album on Friday,
Speaker 1: another Shameless Plug I Loved album. We wrote it one
Speaker 1: song at a time, one verse at a one word,
Speaker 1: one syllable, one note at a don That's how it works.
Speaker 1: You are not supposed to know where God is gonna
Speaker 1: have you in twenty years. It's a five letter word.
Speaker 1: It's called faith. And if you will go, God said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send Aaron to help you. I'm gonna send
Speaker 1: somebody to help you. I love it because I read
Speaker 1: Moses saying send somebody else, send God. It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll send your brother. I will send a partner into
Speaker 1: your life for the pieces that you don't have. I
Speaker 1: will send people into your life who have the pieces
Speaker 1: that you don't have. But you've got to receive this word. God.
Speaker 1: Make me more like the moon. Let me hang where
Speaker 1: you told me to hang. God, Make me more like
Speaker 1: the birds who sore where I'm supposed to soar. Make
Speaker 1: me more God. Make if this isn't too much that,
Speaker 1: make me like a bean sprout who knows how to
Speaker 1: come forth when you call it. God. Make me more
Speaker 1: like Jesus, who is the image of God, who knew
Speaker 1: that even in his life, even in his human existence,
Speaker 1: when he laid aside his privilege as God and took
Speaker 1: on flesh the word incarnate to be with you to
Speaker 1: fulfill the great I am, God said, whatever you're not,
Speaker 1: I am whatever you're You don't I do? You keep
Speaker 1: saying I don't, God says, I do. This is a
Speaker 1: weird wedding ceremony. I don't I do. I don't I do,
Speaker 1: I don't I do. I don't think I can make it.
Speaker 1: I do think you can make it. I don't know
Speaker 1: what to do. I do know what to do. I
Speaker 1: don't know how it's gonna happen. I do know how
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. All I'm trying to say is who
Speaker 1: made your mouth? Why you keep saying stuff that goes
Speaker 1: against what the one who made you spoke over you.
Speaker 1: Why would you line up against yourself. It's a war
Speaker 1: of words, and I'm on the winning's side because the
Speaker 1: final word over my life was spoken before my first
Speaker 1: breath was breathed. I said the final word over my life.
Speaker 1: God's got the big picture, and the final word over
Speaker 1: my life is spoken, and all of his promises are
Speaker 1: yes and Amen. Now just stand up and lift your
Speaker 1: hands right where you are. This is a God moment.
Speaker 1: This is a God word. This is a God word,
Speaker 1: This is a God thing. This is a God intersection.
Speaker 1: This is a burning bush, this is holy ground. This
Speaker 1: is time for you decide to decide. Are you gonna
Speaker 1: Are you gonna make peace with the missing pieces who
Speaker 1: didn't love you? I'm sorry they didn't love you, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't get to stop you. I'm sorry they left you,
Speaker 1: but God didn't I'm sorry that it hurts, but he's
Speaker 1: a healer. I'm sorry you're broken, but there is a
Speaker 1: ball in Gilead. When all we see is broken pieces,
Speaker 1: God sees the big picture. And what is that in
Speaker 1: your hand? I'll see I got this stick, I got
Speaker 1: this situation, I made this mistake, I got these doubts.
Speaker 1: And the Lord says, if you want to see what
Speaker 1: my hand can do, I want you to stop speaking
Speaker 1: against what I put in your hand. We're gonna work
Speaker 1: on this. We're gonna work this word deeper and deeper
Speaker 1: into our hearts. We're gonna work on this because it's
Speaker 1: a war. You have no peace in your heart. You
Speaker 1: keep saying, ah, when this happens, that happens, if this
Speaker 1: didn't happen, if they come, when they acknowledge, when they see,
Speaker 1: when I get this, But the Lord says, I want
Speaker 1: you to be at peace right now. And I know
Speaker 1: there's some things you don't know, and I know there's
Speaker 1: some questions. Have you know how we get there? And say, Oh,
Speaker 1: when I get to God, I'm gonna ask him a
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff. You're not going to ask God anything
Speaker 1: except why did I let the devil beat me? Up
Speaker 1: so bad when you're this big? Who are you? Who
Speaker 1: are you? Now? Lift your hands again. I know you
Speaker 1: didn't keep them up that whole time. Show me who
Speaker 1: you are, God, Show me who I am. I'm not
Speaker 1: waiting on something else, because that that'd be crazy for
Speaker 1: me to wait to have peace until there's peace in
Speaker 1: the Middle East, peace and other parts of the world.
Speaker 1: Know God, let it begin in my wort, and I
Speaker 1: thank you for how you made me. Would you say
Speaker 1: that out loud? Thank you for how you made me
Speaker 1: missing pieces? And all you ever thought those missing pieces
Speaker 1: were a space for God to fill? Maybe it is.
Speaker 1: If you have heard this word today and you have
Speaker 1: never taken the moment to put your faith in Jesus Christ,
Speaker 1: I want to give you the opportunity right now to
Speaker 1: give him your life. He is what you've been missing.
Speaker 1: Jesus is what you have been missing. And no matter
Speaker 1: what you achieve, what you chase, what you earn, what
Speaker 1: you do, you are never going to have peace in
Speaker 1: your heart until you receive Jesus as your Lord and savior. Never.
Speaker 1: I believe God brought us together for this moment so
Speaker 1: I could lead you in this prayer. Now. The Bible
Speaker 1: doesn't say if you do seven things you'll be right
Speaker 1: with God. The Bible doesn't say that if you'll change
Speaker 1: your life that you'll be right with God. The Bible
Speaker 1: says that it is by grace we are saved through faith.
Speaker 1: It is the gift of God, not of work, so
Speaker 1: that no one can boast. We all need Jesus and today,
Speaker 1: if you're ready to place your faith in Him and
Speaker 1: turn from your sin and trust him with your life,
Speaker 1: the Bible says that if you confess with your mouth
Speaker 1: Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart God raised
Speaker 1: him from the dead, you will be saved. Heads bowed,
Speaker 1: eyes close. All around the world, this is an encounter.
Speaker 1: This is a burning bush moment. This is you and God.
Speaker 1: He brought you here. You've been missing peace. This is
Speaker 1: the missing peace. This is what you've been looking for.
Speaker 1: This is what you've been searching for. And while you
Speaker 1: were looking for God, God was looking for you. There.
Speaker 1: He is in this moment to meet with you and
Speaker 1: call you. So, if that's your heart I'm speaking to,
Speaker 1: I want you to pray after me. I'm gonna pray
Speaker 1: and I want you to repeat after me. We're praying
Speaker 1: out loud as a church family. For those who are
Speaker 1: coming to God, are coming back to God. Repeat after me,
Speaker 1: Heavenly Father. I am a sinner in need of a savior,
Speaker 1: and I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Speaker 1: And today I make Jesus the Lord of my life.
Speaker 1: I believe you die that I could be forgiven and
Speaker 1: rose again to give me life. This is my new beginning.
Speaker 1: On three, shoot your hand up if you pray that
Speaker 1: with me. One two, three, Shoot him up, Shoot him
Speaker 1: up in the room, shoot him up in the chat.
Speaker 1: Let's give God praise. That's awesome, that's amazing. Come on,
Speaker 1: Let's give him a better praise than that. Let's give
Speaker 1: him a better pray. Give him your best phrase all day. Well,
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