1 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: Be sure to. 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 2: Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week. 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 1: I hope you're blessed today. Let's praise the name of 6 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 1: Jesus together. 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 2: Come on, lift up every voice to the Great I Am. 8 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 2: If you know God is great and greatly to be praised, 9 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 2: come on, lift. 10 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:37,520 Speaker 1: Your voice right now. That's it. That's it. 11 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 2: A great God deserves a great phrase. 12 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: Let's give him a great phrase. 13 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 3: That's an okay praise, but he's not an okay God. 14 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 3: Let's give a great God a great praise. Open your 15 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 3: mouth and give him praise. 16 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: If you go up your room, give him praise. If 17 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: he's good to you, given phrase, if he kept you, 18 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 1: if he blessed you, if he led you, if he 19 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,680 Speaker 1: fed you, if he's been. 20 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:15,119 Speaker 4: By your side, hid him a great phrase, A great 21 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 4: I am. 22 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:26,119 Speaker 1: Let's lift up one more? Shall come on corporately, Let's 23 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: lift up one horse shout for the King is among us. 24 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 2: It is such a powerful thing to call him the 25 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 2: Great I Am. It means that there is nothing that 26 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 2: you need in your life right now that he cannot 27 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 2: provide nothing. 28 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: We have come. 29 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 2: Together today to worship His great name all over the world. 30 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 2: We're joining now as a global church fan. Let's welcome 31 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 2: our Epham all over the world. 32 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: Right now, where are you joining from? Put it in 33 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 1: the chat. 34 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 2: Let me know. Turn to your neighbor and tell them 35 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 2: where you came from today to come to church. Do 36 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 2: that in a room too, Tell him I drove four 37 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:23,359 Speaker 2: four miles. This gas is expensive. And check in on YouTube. 38 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 2: Y'all stay standing. God is going to speak a word 39 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 2: to us today. 40 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: You believe that? Do you believe it? 41 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 2: This is fun to do every once in a while. 42 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 2: Just to put it in perspective. I just told them 43 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 2: in the chat. Let us know where you're joining from now. 44 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 2: If you don't believe this is a global ministry, listen 45 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:55,399 Speaker 2: to some of this. South Africa, West Virginia, Well those 46 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 2: are different. 47 00:02:58,080 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: Don't you feel sorry for me? 48 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 2: I have to preach a mess that applies to South 49 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 2: Africa and West Virginia. Thank God that the Word of 50 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 2: God can travel through time, zones, accents, backgrounds. 51 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,519 Speaker 1: All right, slow down, slow down, slow down? 52 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 2: How do you make it stop? I can't stop it? 53 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 2: Try and put my thumb on it. Won't stop. God 54 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 2: is unstoppable. Phoenix, Arizona, Alabama, Dubai, Buffalo, Brazil. Just say 55 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 2: Brazil or rock Hill, Welcome Brazil. I was watching some 56 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 2: UFC this morning getting ready for church. I recorded it 57 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 2: so I could get a good night's sleep. Then I 58 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 2: played it so the Lord will fire me up to 59 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 2: fight his battles. When I was praying this morning, it 60 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 2: was a good one too. Barbados, Yukonda. 61 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: If you would have. 62 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 2: Told me, I'm just trying to put this in context twenty. 63 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: Years ago, one day you'll be preaching and you'll be. 64 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 2: Standing a few miles from your home, looking in the camera, 65 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 2: touching people with the gospel of Jesus Christ all over 66 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 2: the world, I would have said, no way. 67 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: But God, God. 68 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:22,280 Speaker 2: Who is amazing and incredible and superfluous. And you know 69 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 2: how we call people extra, but we mean it like 70 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 2: we're kind of putting them down. We're like, man, she's 71 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 2: kind of extra. God is extra in a good way. 72 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 2: He does exceedingly abundantly above and beyond all we could ask, 73 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:39,359 Speaker 2: are imagine, and He has made a way for me. 74 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 2: In fact, that's what I want to preach to you 75 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,159 Speaker 2: about today. And I'm going to go to Isaiah forty 76 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 2: three sixteen through nineteen. Holly was trying to do a spoiler, 77 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 2: but I wouldn't let her. She said, are you giving 78 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 2: us another installment in this series? This God of series? 79 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 2: We talked about how God is the great I Am. 80 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 2: We spend the rest of our lives, you know, in 81 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,799 Speaker 2: the blank. Because when God told Moses his name, he said, 82 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 2: my name is Yahweh, which is I am. 83 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: That's what the name means. 84 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,280 Speaker 2: And then so you can't confine God to one certain 85 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 2: designation or label. As much as we want to make 86 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 2: God like us and just put him in a box, 87 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 2: he will not be boxed. I said, he will not 88 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 2: be boxed. So we spend our entire lives, if you 89 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 2: could say, this kind of unboxing God in our hearts, 90 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 2: as we encounter different battles and blessings and we come 91 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 2: to know Him in different ways. Well, so for a 92 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,119 Speaker 2: few weeks now, we've been going through some unique ones, 93 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 2: not just the normal ones that you hear. Jehovah, Jirah, 94 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 2: Jehovah shalom. Jehovah is the Latin for Yahweh. So if 95 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 2: that ever confuses you, you're like. 96 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: Is he Yahweh? Is it Jehovah? What is the name? Well, 97 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: the name means I am. 98 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 2: And then God tells us to get busy finding out 99 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 2: who he is, getting to know him, and we get 100 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,840 Speaker 2: the privilege in our lives of just discovering that one 101 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 2: phase at a time. Now, this today is going to 102 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 2: be I want to say the last in this series, 103 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 2: but I don't know yet, because he's the god of. Also, 104 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 2: he's the god of again, He's the god of already. 105 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 1: What did I do last week? 106 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 2: I already forgot it after Okay, So. 107 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: He's all of those things. And then watch this. 108 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 2: I got one more for you today in Isaiah forty three, 109 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 2: And man, do I love this scripture? And boy did 110 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 2: God confirm this word. When I was not sure if 111 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 2: I should preach this today, he confirmed it three different ways, 112 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 2: so I know it's him. 113 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: Listen to this. 114 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,599 Speaker 2: Isaiah forty three, verse sixteen in the English Standard version, 115 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 2: thus says the Lord who makes a way in the sea, 116 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 2: a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariot 117 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 2: and horse, army and warrior that represents your enemies. He 118 00:06:56,120 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 2: brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior. They lie 119 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 2: down they cannot rise. They are extinguished, quenched like a 120 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 2: wick y'all must not be fighting anything. 121 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 5: Just me gets excited about that. 122 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: Now he says something else, very interesting. 123 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 2: He says, remember not the former things, nor consider the 124 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 2: things of old. Behold, I am whose name is that? 125 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,559 Speaker 1: That's God's name. So I'm paying attention. Now. 126 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 2: Behold, I am doing a new thing. 127 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: Now it springs forth? Do you not perceive it? 128 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 2: I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers 129 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 2: in the desert. Can we double down on that verse? 130 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 2: That's the one right there? Behold, God says, I am 131 00:07:56,320 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 2: doing a new thing. Now it springs forth. Do you 132 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 2: not perceive it? I will make a way. So I 133 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 2: want to talk to you about the God of Away Away. 134 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: Do you need him. 135 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 2: To clear some space in your life today? Do you 136 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 2: need him to come through in a way that only 137 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 2: he can? I got good news. He's the God of. 138 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: Away. Father. 139 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 2: Your word is already blessed, So just open us up 140 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 2: to receive it. That's all I ask. What you're already 141 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 2: doing in this place, continue it. I step into alignment 142 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:38,319 Speaker 2: and agreement with your spirit concerning each person here in Jesus' name. Amen, 143 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 2: He's already doing it. Take your seat, Take your seat. 144 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's the god of. 145 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: Away. 146 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 2: Holly does this thing for me, and it really helps me. 147 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 2: I think it's her way of encouraging and rebuking me. 148 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:01,680 Speaker 2: All with one stroke and two birds with one stone, 149 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 2: as they say, even that a horrible little saying. 150 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: By the way, why are you killing birds? To start 151 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: with birds not hurting you? 152 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 2: But anyway, she does this thing for me from time 153 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 2: to time when I'm in a moment that's really wonderful. 154 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 2: But I think she senses that I'm taking it for granted. 155 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 2: She'll ask me a question, what would eighteen year old 156 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:29,439 Speaker 2: Stephen say about this? See, that's how long we've known 157 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 2: each other. She met me when I was eighteen. I 158 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 2: was wearing a Superman shirt and some yellow tinted glasses 159 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 2: running around North Greenville College double x L Superman shirt. 160 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 2: I was chopping at Goodwill back then and enjoining it too, 161 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 2: And she fell in love with me, not for my 162 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 2: Superman shirt, but for my spiritual acumen. So we started 163 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 2: traveling together do a ministry together, and we've known each 164 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 2: other pretty intimately since that time. 165 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: And so she knows. 166 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 2: The dreams I had and the things that I used 167 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 2: to pray for, and she knows how big of a 168 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 2: deal a lot of the things that God has done 169 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 2: for us would be to that guy. She also understands 170 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 2: the dynamic that happens that while God is doing those 171 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 2: things that you dreamed about, you often don't realize them because, well, 172 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 2: you're doing it, and when you're in something, it can 173 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 2: be easy to miss something that you're in. Does this 174 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 2: make any sense when I'm saying like, okay, okay, okay, 175 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 2: because I used to think it meant I wasn't grateful, 176 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 2: But I was talking to one of my friends and 177 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:39,840 Speaker 2: I realized, I don't think it's that I'm not grateful 178 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 2: for the great things God has done for me. 179 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:44,959 Speaker 1: I think it's that the pressure. 180 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:50,079 Speaker 2: Of trying to maintain the ministry God has given me, 181 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 2: the marriage that God has given me, even the money 182 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 2: that I need to live in this world and to 183 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 2: reach people around the world. You know, all of that 184 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 2: pressure can cloud your perspective. So she'll just from time 185 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 2: to time she doesn't do it that much because he'll 186 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,559 Speaker 2: probably lose its efficacy if she did it too much. 187 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 2: You like that twenty dollars word, She'd go, what would 188 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 2: eighteen year olds Stephen think right about now. Let me 189 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 2: give you a few examples, not to brag or anything 190 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 2: like that, but just to help you, because I believe 191 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 2: there are some things in your life that are just 192 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 2: like this today, and if we can get you to 193 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 2: think about them, I think it will help you so 194 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 2: much for whatever you're up against right now. Okay, So 195 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 2: one night I was talking to one of my heroes 196 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 2: on the phone. This is just like a month or 197 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:36,599 Speaker 2: two ago, and it was my preaching hero. And so 198 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 2: I'm talking to my preaching hero on the phone on 199 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 2: a Saturday night and she walks in and she sees it. 200 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 2: And when I get off the phone, she goes, what 201 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 2: would eighteen year olds Stephen say if I came up 202 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 2: and told him that he was going to be talking 203 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,439 Speaker 2: to his preaching hero on the phone on a Saturday night, 204 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 2: just swapping sermon titles before Sunday in the pulpit, the. 205 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 1: Guy he used to watch on TV. 206 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 2: And I said, what would eighteen year old Stephen say 207 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 2: if you told him that? She said yeah, and I said, 208 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 2: he'd say, no way. Here's another one we were. 209 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,439 Speaker 1: We were this is kind of crazy. We were in Toronto. 210 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 2: I mean eighteen year old Stephen had been on one 211 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 2: plane in his life, so even being in Toronto was crazy. 212 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 2: Let alone fourteen thousand people were there for elevation nights. 213 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 1: Wasn't it amazing? 214 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 2: Hey, LJ is Toronto's finest. Y'all, forget Drake, we got LJ. 215 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: I would trade three Drakes for one LJ. But that's 216 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 1: just me. So she just said, turn to me in Toronto. 217 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 2: What would eighteen year old Stephen say that the songs 218 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 2: from this church, this ministry that God has given are 219 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 2: being sung tonight by fourteen thousand people? Was it fourteen 220 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,959 Speaker 2: thousand people in Toronto? And I just looked back at 221 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 2: her and he would say, no way. But it does 222 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 2: the trick because it helps me realize that what I'm 223 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 2: standing in in that moment is something that I never 224 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 2: would have even had the mind or the perspective to 225 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,599 Speaker 2: imagine in the past. Let me say that again, sometimes 226 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 2: what you're standing in in the moment is something that 227 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:33,199 Speaker 2: you couldn't even have imagined in the past. Y'all don't 228 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:34,839 Speaker 2: want to help me preach, but it's true in your 229 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:37,840 Speaker 2: life too. There are some things if I could pass 230 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 2: around the mic today and I'm not going to because 231 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 2: I don't. 232 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:40,720 Speaker 1: Trust all of y'all. 233 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 2: There's way too many people watching in West Virginia and 234 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:46,440 Speaker 2: South Africa for me to freely pass this microphone around. 235 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna get canceled off of something you said 236 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 2: because I was stupid enough to pass the mic around. 237 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:53,839 Speaker 2: But if we could pass it to the right people, 238 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 2: there would be something that you could say that today, 239 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:02,839 Speaker 2: somebody shout today that God is doing in your life. 240 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 2: That if I told you, little boy you I don't 241 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 2: know what age, maybe twelve year old officer van Allmen, 242 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 2: maybe ten year old. But if I said this is 243 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 2: where you're gonna be, and this is how it's gonna be, 244 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:17,559 Speaker 2: and this is what you're gonna be dealing with, this 245 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 2: is what you're gonna be managing, you would say. 246 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: But now. 247 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 2: What you would say, no way about yesterday is actually 248 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 2: today just so normal. And that is why it is 249 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 2: good for Holly to turn to me every once in 250 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 2: a while and say, you need to talk with eighteen 251 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 2: year old Stephen, because this forty three year old Stephen 252 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 2: is grumpy. This forty three year old Stephen is complaining 253 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 2: about stuff. 254 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 1: That he prayed about yesterday. You missed it. He prayed 255 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: about this. 256 00:14:55,720 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 2: Thing yesterday, God did it. Now he's praying, complaining about 257 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 2: what he prayed for, and he's standing in now what 258 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 2: he said in no way about and he's worried about 259 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 2: what's ahead, when if he could just look back a 260 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 2: little bit. I'm getting warmed up too soon. Let me 261 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 2: get to this scripture. Isaiah has a difficult task, y'all. 262 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 1: He's prophesying to the nation. 263 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 2: Of Jerusalem just before they are carried away into exile. 264 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: It won't be long. 265 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 2: They'll be taken from their homeland, They'll be taken from 266 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 2: everything that they know. 267 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: They'll be taken by. 268 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 2: Not only the Assyrians, but the Babylonians after that. And 269 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 2: no matter how he warns them, they will not listen. 270 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 2: Up until Isaiah forty, there's not much hope to be 271 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 2: found in this prophetic record. But something shifts in Isaiah 272 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 2: chapter forty, and he starts looking toward the future that 273 00:15:56,760 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 2: even after they are carried away. Did not just preach 274 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 2: last week something about after, and am I. 275 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: Preaching today about away? So even after. 276 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 2: They are carried away, God will still be faithful in 277 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 2: order to give them this picture. He tags back to 278 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 2: the past and says thus says the Lord verse sixteen, 279 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 2: who makes away in the sea, a path in the 280 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 2: mighty water, who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior. 281 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 2: They lie down, they cannot rise. They are extinguished, quenched 282 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 2: like a whig. This is a very familiar framework for 283 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 2: Isaiah's audience, maybe not so much for us, but this 284 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 2: refers to the Egyptian army that God drowned in the 285 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 2: Red Sea centuries before Isaiah would write these words, and 286 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 2: he reminds them of the past. And then in verse 287 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 2: eighteen check this out, he tells them remember not the 288 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 2: former things. So it's kind of confusing because he's telling 289 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:11,400 Speaker 2: them in a sense, God made a way in the past. 290 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 2: Now forget the past and trust Him in the present. 291 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 2: Now you're clapping, But I'm confused because it's kind of 292 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,399 Speaker 2: like stand on your right foot, stand on your left foot. 293 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 2: I'm like, at the same time, I can do with 294 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,639 Speaker 2: both at the same time. No, do both, you know. 295 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 2: I think what Holly's trying to get me to do, 296 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 2: what the Holy Spirit wants us to do today, and 297 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 2: what Isaiah wants his audience to do as well, is 298 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 2: to find a way to tap into the past. That 299 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:49,120 Speaker 2: will cause you to trust God in the present. There's 300 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 2: somebody here today who needs God to make a way. 301 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:54,919 Speaker 2: That way could be financial, that way could be physical, 302 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 2: there could be something in your family. I mean, I'll 303 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 2: be honest with you when I list those categories. I 304 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 2: think we're all just a week away from needing any 305 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 2: of those things in our life, one text away from 306 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 2: needing something you don't know you need right now. The 307 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 2: beauty of God's word for me is in the fact 308 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 2: that he teaches me how to tap into my past 309 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 2: in order to find my faith. To talk to eighteen 310 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 2: year old Stephen, and just remember that many of the 311 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 2: things that you are standing in today you said no 312 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:39,120 Speaker 2: way about yesterday, somebody say no way. If I would 313 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 2: have told some of you that you would be in 314 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 2: church this morning, like actually sitting in church this morning 315 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:51,159 Speaker 2: listening to a guy opened a Bible and talk, you 316 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 2: would have said. And you know, some of y'all heard 317 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 2: that elevation was a cult. So if I told you 318 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 2: that you'd be at elevation, I'm gonna wave at me. 319 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:02,879 Speaker 1: I know they say stuff about us. I don't scare 320 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 1: me a bit. I don't care anything about it. 321 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 2: If they said you're gonna be going to that church 322 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,680 Speaker 2: with the orange little arrow that you saw on all 323 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 2: those cars on the sticker driving around all those cars 324 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:17,919 Speaker 2: you were cussing at on the on the freeway, You're 325 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 2: gonna be sitting with them on a Sunday morning. I mean, 326 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,719 Speaker 2: there were people who were baptized last week that if 327 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:29,120 Speaker 2: I would have told you, In fact, can I say 328 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 2: this if you would have told me when we started 329 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 2: the church and this was not that long ago, this 330 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 2: was less than twenty years ago when we were trying 331 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 2: to find one person to baptize that in one Sunday 332 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 2: we would baptize over a thousand people. See, you weren't 333 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 2: there then, so it doesn't mean so much. 334 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: But if you would have. 335 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 2: Been there in the yesterday, you be standing in today saying. 336 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:04,919 Speaker 1: What in the world. 337 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 2: I would have said, No way, if you would have 338 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:11,119 Speaker 2: told me. Not only in Toronto, ya. One time I 339 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 2: got up in front of our church when we had 340 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 2: two hundred people, I said, what are y'all gonna do 341 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 2: when we have two thousand people every week? 342 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 1: And they look back at me like, no way, you'd 343 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:26,200 Speaker 1: have told me there were gonna be two. 344 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:38,159 Speaker 2: Thousand last week in our church just in Toronto. Should 345 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 2: I go back and take a nap and come back 346 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 2: and see y'all later. 347 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,160 Speaker 1: I would have said, no way. 348 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 2: But I'm standing in now what I said no way 349 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 2: about then, and I'm not bragging, and I'm not saying 350 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 2: that everything in my life has exceeded my expectations. Because 351 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 2: on the other hand, if you would have told me 352 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:02,400 Speaker 2: some of the stuff that I would still struggle with 353 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 2: today that I thought I would have been passed by now, 354 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 2: I would say, no way. 355 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:12,360 Speaker 1: You mean I'm. 356 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 2: Still gonna pick out my wardrobe some weeks like a 357 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,120 Speaker 2: fifth grade boy trying to figure out what the cool 358 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,360 Speaker 2: kids wear, like, I won't care about that when I'm 359 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:25,360 Speaker 2: in my forties. If you would have told me these 360 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 2: baggy jeans would be back in style when we were 361 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,920 Speaker 2: all get a wide shot for the cameras, when we 362 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 2: were all cutting off our circulation with skinny jeans about 363 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 2: five minutes ago, now past, the boot cut's gonna come back, 364 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 2: I would have said, So, I'm trying to bring a 365 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 2: variety of dimension to this concept so that we can 366 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,199 Speaker 2: set the context for whatever it is in your life 367 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:05,360 Speaker 2: where you are standing now, where you're saying no way, 368 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 2: Because if I tell you sometimes that the depression actually 369 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 2: can lift and you can come into a greater season, 370 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 2: and that your best days may be ahead of you. 371 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,920 Speaker 2: There will be a little devil to tell you, no way, 372 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 2: no way. You've already been to the doctor three times 373 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 2: about this. You've already tried three different prescriptions for this. 374 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:30,640 Speaker 1: So when we say. 375 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:34,680 Speaker 2: Things like this, that we say he's the god of away, 376 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 2: you have an enemy who says no way. That's why 377 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 2: I love the very first four words of Isaiah forty 378 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 2: three sixteen. 379 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:54,160 Speaker 1: Thus says the Lord. 380 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:58,879 Speaker 2: You could get happy off those four words if you 381 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 2: knew what hung on those words, because when you read 382 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 2: thus says the Lord, it's tagging into his name, the 383 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 2: Lord Yahweh, And it is saying that what Yahweh says 384 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:23,159 Speaker 2: about your situation is greater than any past indicator of 385 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 2: your potential. 386 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 1: Now follow me. 387 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 2: Here, because it's important that you really tag into your past. 388 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,640 Speaker 1: If you don't, if you don't. 389 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 2: Ever tap into your past like Isaiah's doing here, he 390 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 2: says he makes away in the sea a path in 391 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,239 Speaker 2: the mighty waters. If you don't ever tap into what 392 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 2: God did in your past, do right now, just close 393 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 2: your eyes, Just close your eyes. I promise nobody's gonna 394 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 2: steal your purse. These are good Christian people. Close your 395 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 2: eyes right now where you are. 396 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,920 Speaker 1: I'm watching on the confone and my roommate is gonna 397 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,480 Speaker 1: think I'm weird. Your roommate's weird. They need to be watching. Okay, 398 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,159 Speaker 1: close your eyes, all right, close your eyes. 399 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,040 Speaker 2: I want you to think and tap into something and 400 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 2: then your past, and when you got it, say I 401 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 2: got it something that God. 402 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 1: Did that you would have said no way about. 403 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,159 Speaker 2: Something that God did that you would have said in 404 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 2: no way, and say I got it. 405 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 1: When you got it, all right, that was quick? Do 406 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,720 Speaker 1: another one, Do another one, do another one. 407 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:20,960 Speaker 2: For some of you, it's the fact that your kid 408 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:22,880 Speaker 2: is in church with you today. 409 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 1: Your kid didn't want to. 410 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 2: Come to church, and then all of a sudden, somehow, 411 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,360 Speaker 2: some way got well, maybe you dragged them and maybe 412 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 2: you bribed them, and maybe you had to pay them 413 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 2: twenty dollars, but some way God got them here. For 414 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 2: some of you, it is a physical illness that you 415 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 2: thought you wouldn't recover from. 416 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: If that's your testimony, shout that's me. Okay. 417 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,160 Speaker 2: It's a physical illness that you thought you wouldn't recover from. 418 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:49,679 Speaker 2: You recovered from it, and you're strong by the grace 419 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 2: of God God made away. 420 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:53,920 Speaker 1: For some of you, it is. 421 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 2: An addiction that crippled you, and now you find yourself 422 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 2: gaining momentum a little bit stronger every day. Some days 423 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 2: is harder than others. Some days it seems like you 424 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,159 Speaker 2: might not make it today. But even when you slip 425 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 2: off the path a little bit, you feel him pulling 426 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 2: you back. 427 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,440 Speaker 1: God is making a way. If that's you, shout, that's 428 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:13,640 Speaker 1: me okay. 429 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 2: For some of you, it is something in your life 430 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:19,239 Speaker 2: that God provided in the resource realm. You didn't know 431 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 2: how you were gonna come up with that money. You 432 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 2: didn't know how you were gonna do it by that date. 433 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 2: You didn't know how you were gonna make it through 434 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 2: that unemployment season. You didn't know how your industry was 435 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 2: gonna collapse all around you. And God was gonna send 436 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 2: ravens to feed you by the brooke call Karen. But 437 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:38,199 Speaker 2: God did not take a vote to see how he 438 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 2: could bless you. He just tapped a bird on the 439 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,160 Speaker 2: shoulder and dropped something off for you and did something 440 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 2: for you. And He did it just in the nick 441 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 2: of time, not early, not late, And you found out 442 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 2: He's an on time god who makes a way where 443 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 2: there is no way. 444 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 1: At just the right time. 445 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 2: As you abided him, you bore much fruit. For some 446 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 2: of you, it's the revelation that God gave you of 447 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 2: the strength that you didn't know you had. You walked 448 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,440 Speaker 2: through the valley of the shadow of depth. But is 449 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:09,639 Speaker 2: rotting his staff. 450 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:10,639 Speaker 1: They comforted you. 451 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 2: So now you're standing looking at another wolf saying, I 452 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,880 Speaker 2: will fear no evil, for thou. 453 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: Art with me, Thou art always with me. Great Toaha 454 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:21,439 Speaker 1: guid me. 455 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 2: South he made away, So I gotta tap into that. 456 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: Now watch this. This is the important thing. 457 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 2: Isaiah said, tap into that, but don't get trapped in that, 458 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 2: because you know where I'm going with this. The way 459 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 2: that he made yesterday may not be the way that 460 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:58,399 Speaker 2: he makes today. So there's two ways to approach the past. 461 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,359 Speaker 2: One you tap into and you trust God in the present. 462 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 2: The other way is you get trapped in it and 463 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:10,880 Speaker 2: you doubt God in the present because he isn't guaranteeing 464 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 2: that he will do in the future what he did 465 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 2: in the past. Breaking down pastor I think I follow you, 466 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 2: but I'm a little bit confused. I can do that 467 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 2: the relationships that God used to support you in one 468 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 2: season may not be the same relationships he uses to 469 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:33,879 Speaker 2: support you in the next. As a matter of fact, 470 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 2: sometimes the removal of a relationship is an opportunity for 471 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 2: a revelation, because some of the things that I trusted 472 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 2: in were a trap holding me back from trusting in God. 473 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 1: Who is my supply? Who is my provider? Who is 474 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 1: my help? How don't look for the hills for my help? 475 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 1: My health comes frum. 476 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:13,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Jesus is my health, and he is the 477 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,400 Speaker 2: same yesterday, today, and forever. 478 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: So here's the dance. 479 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:23,679 Speaker 2: I gotta tap into yesterday, but not get trapped in yesterday. 480 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: I gotta tap. 481 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,920 Speaker 2: Into what he did enough to trust what he's doing, 482 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 2: and I gotta move through what he's doing, even though 483 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 2: I cannot predict where it ends up. Who am I 484 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 2: preaching to five people who need this message? I keep 485 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 2: no secrets from you. We are family. I am preaching 486 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 2: from a personal place. I just dropped my oldest son 487 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 2: off at college this week. I'm not okay. I miss him. 488 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 2: That's my dude. Who else am I going to listen to? 489 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 2: Guns and roses in the pound and lift weights with 490 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 2: I don't know, happy are you available? But here's what 491 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 2: I'm learning about this, this whole process. 492 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 1: You talk to these parents who. 493 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 2: Dropped their kid off at college and they're like, yeah, 494 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 2: we dropped them off and they graduated in their doctor. 495 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 1: Hmm, thank you, Mike. I felt better. 496 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 2: Mike Mitchell said, it's not easy. 497 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: Thank you for saying that. Cause you know what, Mike, when. 498 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 2: People talk about we dropped our kid off and they 499 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 2: were the salutatorian and they went to Harvard and then 500 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 2: they did the post graduate Yale and then they operated, 501 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 2: they'd have. 502 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 1: Invented a cure to cancel culture. 503 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:55,480 Speaker 6: And yeah, uh, I just don't even know. 504 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 1: I don't even know. I didn't didn't even go that far. 505 00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,680 Speaker 2: And I'm just saying, we're still gonna talk every day, 506 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 2: but let's to just miss him. 507 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 1: And I'm trying to trust God with that. 508 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 2: And people would just tell you their own testimony like 509 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 2: it was just a clean. 510 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: Miracle, you know, And this is how I read the Bible. 511 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:16,840 Speaker 1: This I read the Bible, And I don't know if 512 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 1: you read the Bible like this. 513 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 2: When I read it like that, and it sounds too clean, 514 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 2: like this is the clean version. 515 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 1: Of what happened in Exodus fourteen. Thus says the Lord. 516 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 2: Isaiah's like reminding them God was faithful because that was 517 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 2: something they didn't experience, that was hundreds of years before 518 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 2: they lived. But he's trying to get them ready for 519 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 2: something going through now, so he taps into the past 520 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 2: to teach them to trust in the presence. So he says, 521 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,240 Speaker 2: Thus says the Lord who makes a way in the sea, 522 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 2: a path in the mighty waters? 523 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:43,840 Speaker 1: And how good that. 524 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 2: Sounds, and how easy that sounds, who brings forth chariot 525 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 2: and horace, army and warrior. They lie down, they cannot rise. 526 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:49,720 Speaker 2: You got to put verse sixteen up there because it 527 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 2: just sounds so good. Who makes away in the sea 528 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 2: a path in the mighty waters? Show you what that 529 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 2: doesn't say? Leave it up so I can prove it. 530 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 2: And I feel like Moses wants me to tell you this, 531 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 2: because Moses was the one who. 532 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: Was actually there. 533 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 2: Moses be like, hey, hey, are y'all shot about that 534 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 2: God who makes away in the sea a path in 535 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 2: the mighty waters? It does not say, because I don't 536 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 2: know what y'all are shotting about. 537 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: Because it doesn't say he makes a way around the 538 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 1: sea in that good This is Moses. 539 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:37,440 Speaker 2: I'm speaking on behalf of Moses, not a path around 540 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 2: the mighty waters. 541 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 1: You see that little word in Oh, when you're in it. 542 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:52,479 Speaker 2: I'm gonna come to this side. There's a little bit 543 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 2: of they're judging me over there. They're like, just trust 544 00:31:54,720 --> 00:32:00,200 Speaker 2: God when you're in it. 545 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna come down there. I'm coming down there. I'm 546 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,560 Speaker 1: sick of this. I'm sick of y'all. 547 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 2: Because it's like and they crossed over on dry ground. 548 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 1: They went through the red sea, and the. 549 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 2: Waters went back, and they crossed through on dry ground. 550 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:25,680 Speaker 2: How dry I speculate. I'm not a scientist or a meteorologist. 551 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:30,120 Speaker 2: I speculate that if there was a sea, and God 552 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 2: sent a wind and split the sea and told them 553 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,320 Speaker 2: to go in the middle where the water had just 554 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:41,400 Speaker 2: been and was still standing up on the right and 555 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 2: the left as they walked through it. 556 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 1: If they stepped into the middle of. 557 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:51,000 Speaker 2: Where water had just been, let me check your shoes 558 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,840 Speaker 2: real quick. I'm thinking it was muddy. 559 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,320 Speaker 1: Let me check y'all real quick. I'm checking the seed. 560 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 2: Because you're quick to hear about other people's miracles. 561 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:20,240 Speaker 6: But I found out, no mud, no miracles, chick, check 562 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 6: those are nice. 563 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:28,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I'm checking. I'm checking to see. Yeah, I'm 564 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 2: just checking to see. I know, I know, this kind 565 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,880 Speaker 2: of weird thing to do. I'm checking to see if 566 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,600 Speaker 2: there's anything in your life right now, this kind of 567 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:41,640 Speaker 2: money where you're in it. 568 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: I mean in it. 569 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 2: Because in church it's a time for us to remember miracles, 570 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:55,440 Speaker 2: it is also a time for us to accept the 571 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,680 Speaker 2: mud that comes with the miracles. 572 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,280 Speaker 1: And I will tell you. 573 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 2: The truth about everybody that sits on your row. If 574 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:15,000 Speaker 2: they have a miracle, they also have some mud. 575 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,200 Speaker 1: And I just need you to know it. 576 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:25,040 Speaker 2: So you don't feel judged by all the perfect families 577 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,880 Speaker 2: that you thought were perfect. You just haven't gotten close 578 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,839 Speaker 2: enough to see their mud yet. They just keep their 579 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,279 Speaker 2: shoes clean enough when they're around you. 580 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,960 Speaker 1: But if you ever saw what was really underneath, you 581 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:42,120 Speaker 1: wouldn't feel. 582 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,680 Speaker 2: So bad about the stuff you struggle with either. 583 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,360 Speaker 1: So Yeah, I got miracles, Yeah I got. 584 00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:56,080 Speaker 2: Testimonies, Yeah I got open doors, Yeah I got victories. 585 00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:00,839 Speaker 2: Yeah I got songs, Yeah I got praise report. Yeah 586 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:05,759 Speaker 2: I got miracles. But I also got mud. What I'm 587 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,520 Speaker 2: trying to say to you today is that if you 588 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,640 Speaker 2: are in a money situation, if you are in the 589 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,920 Speaker 2: money middle of a transition in your life, if you 590 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,839 Speaker 2: are in the money middle of begetting a recovery process, 591 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:19,840 Speaker 2: if you are in the money middle of trying to 592 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:21,600 Speaker 2: figure out who am I now in my life? 593 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:23,560 Speaker 1: If you are in the money middle. 594 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 2: Of sending your kid off or having your kid back, 595 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,320 Speaker 2: or trying to have a kid but can't have a kid, 596 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,480 Speaker 2: or trying to raise a kid and not kill a kid, 597 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,560 Speaker 2: or trying to finish a degree, or trying to start 598 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,600 Speaker 2: a degree, or trying to go back or trying to 599 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:42,320 Speaker 2: get away. If you've got some money, I gotta word 600 00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:43,400 Speaker 2: for you. 601 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,400 Speaker 1: Mud means ye come. 602 00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:57,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 603 00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:56,560 Speaker 1: Come on. 604 00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:00,959 Speaker 2: This is for the money ones, the ones I see 605 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:01,600 Speaker 2: it kind. 606 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:09,400 Speaker 7: Of forcing for the flow down day. Whoa check your 607 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:13,200 Speaker 7: neighbor's shoes, say you got mud, You got mud. 608 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,959 Speaker 1: We better tell them, We better tell the team. 609 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,320 Speaker 2: They're gonna have to clean the church a little extra today, 610 00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:24,400 Speaker 2: because today is not a day for you to walk. 611 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,440 Speaker 1: In church and walk out unchanged. 612 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:31,280 Speaker 2: Today is today that you can come into the presence 613 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:36,279 Speaker 2: of the Lord Mud and all hurting, all brokenness. 614 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,640 Speaker 8: And all doubts and all questions. 615 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:41,880 Speaker 1: And all failures and all mistakes and all and this 616 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:48,160 Speaker 1: is a miracle moment. Give it thirty seconds of phrazy break. 617 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,320 Speaker 2: Money, messy, ridiculous praise. 618 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:54,120 Speaker 1: Waymaker praise. 619 00:36:54,920 --> 00:37:01,480 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. 620 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:09,439 Speaker 8: You're ready When I say this show from beat after 621 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:16,279 Speaker 8: me saying it's money, but I'll make you get his mind. 622 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:17,319 Speaker 2: The mean here that. 623 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:25,040 Speaker 1: Yeah it's money, yes, because it feels like. 624 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:31,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, that kind of sor But I know one thing 625 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,880 Speaker 4: he make song Why. 626 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:38,000 Speaker 1: What's his name? 627 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,240 Speaker 4: Yr way y'r. 628 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:49,000 Speaker 1: Way yah way say yah wah, the sess lord. So 629 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:50,160 Speaker 1: with the devil. 630 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:55,440 Speaker 2: Says no way, you'll say. 631 00:37:56,840 --> 00:38:02,640 Speaker 1: What with the devil says, Oh, it's gonna catch on 632 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:04,640 Speaker 1: in a minute. You don't get it yet. 633 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,080 Speaker 9: But when the devil says no way you're ever gonna 634 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:08,320 Speaker 9: pay off this stint. 635 00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,120 Speaker 2: No way you're ever gonna sick on this burden, No 636 00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,840 Speaker 2: way you're ever gonna make it through this lowly season. 637 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:21,360 Speaker 1: When the devil says no way, we say we sid 638 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:26,360 Speaker 1: When the devil says no way, you'll side. When the 639 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:30,560 Speaker 1: devil said no say, you say I'll get it? 640 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:43,239 Speaker 10: Pray how few that when the devil says, no way, 641 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:45,600 Speaker 10: we say. 642 00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:53,520 Speaker 5: When the devil says, whoa? 643 00:38:54,080 --> 00:39:00,400 Speaker 9: When the devil said, what do you say? Again with 644 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:05,920 Speaker 9: the devil said, I say, y'all, wag. 645 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,440 Speaker 1: Let's make a live recording right now. Let's put this 646 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:12,360 Speaker 1: on kiktok. 647 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:17,440 Speaker 2: To let every Sarian know, to let every Babylonian know, 648 00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:22,680 Speaker 2: to let everything seese no, to let every bad report no. 649 00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:28,919 Speaker 9: To let that table with a table say hey, we 650 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:31,120 Speaker 9: say I love it. 651 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:39,680 Speaker 1: With a table, say what do you say? Let's do 652 00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,080 Speaker 1: it for real? Let's do it for real? 653 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:47,840 Speaker 4: He say, with a devil says no. See how he said, 654 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:53,280 Speaker 4: we say how we say, y'all do it? 655 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:57,240 Speaker 1: You say, y'all right, do a man ather you see. 656 00:39:59,040 --> 00:39:59,719 Speaker 2: It? Plea? 657 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:24,120 Speaker 1: Nobody say that, says the Lord. Give me nineteen and 658 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:24,839 Speaker 1: I'll shut off. 659 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:34,239 Speaker 11: Somebody shout no way, now, shout yeah a way. I'm 660 00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,080 Speaker 11: on fire on the inside. I'm on fire on the inside. 661 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,720 Speaker 11: I'm on fire on the inside. 662 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,279 Speaker 2: I'm gonna bring a bustload of Pentecostals to help me 663 00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:44,160 Speaker 2: preach part two. 664 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:44,840 Speaker 1: Of this next week. 665 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:52,919 Speaker 2: I see yeah, way behold, I am. 666 00:40:54,120 --> 00:41:06,040 Speaker 1: I am doing new thing. He's gonna do a new thing. 667 00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:12,319 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah, He's gonna do a new thing. 668 00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:21,080 Speaker 2: So tap into the past, but don't be trapped in that. 669 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:23,640 Speaker 1: Because he said, I. 670 00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:30,520 Speaker 2: Am the God of also, I am. 671 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:34,279 Speaker 1: The God of again, I am the God of already. 672 00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:36,560 Speaker 1: I am the God of. 673 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,759 Speaker 2: After all the hell you've been through, you mean you 674 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,759 Speaker 2: don't want to stick around and see what God can 675 00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:47,680 Speaker 2: do through you. 676 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,520 Speaker 1: You want to go through all that suffering for nothing, 677 00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:53,759 Speaker 1: not me, devil. You want to stand in front of. 678 00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:58,640 Speaker 4: This goliath for nothing, not me, devil, because I say, go. 679 00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:12,040 Speaker 5: Mad, Behold, I am doing a new thing. 680 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:18,239 Speaker 2: Is this word for you or just for me? I'm 681 00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:20,680 Speaker 2: talking to forty three year old Steven. I'm talking to 682 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,879 Speaker 2: eighteen year old you. I'm talking to sixty seven year 683 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:27,799 Speaker 2: old you. I'm talking to broke you, discouraged, you, down, you, anxious, you, 684 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,560 Speaker 2: panic attack you. I'm talking to all of them, and 685 00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,080 Speaker 2: I'm giving you an instruction that you can carry in 686 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,320 Speaker 2: your heart by the Holy Spirit this week. 687 00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:41,480 Speaker 1: When the devil says no way, you. 688 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:51,319 Speaker 2: Say, He's the God of away. Now, that might mean 689 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,239 Speaker 2: some of the things from your past aren't going to 690 00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:54,799 Speaker 2: happen again. 691 00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:58,520 Speaker 1: But look at this, he said, I'm doing a new thing. Shot. 692 00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:04,239 Speaker 2: The next word now, Oh, a new thing, now, a 693 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:08,640 Speaker 2: new thing now. For you to stay trapped in your 694 00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:15,000 Speaker 2: past would be like you're trying to send effects when 695 00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:18,360 Speaker 2: you got an iPhone. See, because God has given you 696 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,600 Speaker 2: new tools. God has given you new opportunities. God has 697 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:23,040 Speaker 2: given you new wisdom. God has given you new strength. 698 00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:25,239 Speaker 2: God has given you new experience. God has given you 699 00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:25,560 Speaker 2: new No. 700 00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:33,360 Speaker 12: How so when the devil says no way, you say, 701 00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,239 Speaker 12: I think this is the part that makes us really 702 00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:37,000 Speaker 12: want to scream. 703 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:41,920 Speaker 2: Where he says, do you not perceive it? And a 704 00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:48,319 Speaker 2: lot of us want to say, no, I don't. I 705 00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:52,560 Speaker 2: don't know what I'm doing. I think that's what Moses 706 00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:56,279 Speaker 2: would say standing in the mud in the middle of 707 00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:59,080 Speaker 2: the Red Sea. You know, there's an interesting verse about 708 00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:00,960 Speaker 2: Moses in some way three verse seven. 709 00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:03,120 Speaker 1: It says that. 710 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:09,040 Speaker 2: God made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to 711 00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:09,960 Speaker 2: the people of Israel. 712 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:12,160 Speaker 1: What does that mean? 713 00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:15,879 Speaker 2: That means that Moses, who led them through the Red Sea, 714 00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,360 Speaker 2: got to know God in a way that none of 715 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,960 Speaker 2: them did, in a way that you can only know 716 00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:25,040 Speaker 2: God when you have to move through the muddiness of 717 00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,560 Speaker 2: not knowing how to manage your own self. Can we 718 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:33,520 Speaker 2: be honest we're going to eGroups this week. Marriage is money. 719 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:39,560 Speaker 2: Marriage is money. All the men make some noise. Holly 720 00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,319 Speaker 2: was having the women shout earlier for reflect all the men. 721 00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:55,719 Speaker 2: Manhood is money. Manhood is money. You're supposed to be 722 00:44:55,800 --> 00:45:01,320 Speaker 2: some tender warrior. What left foot, right foot? What is muddy? 723 00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,279 Speaker 2: It's muddy, man, I get it. I got mud on 724 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,879 Speaker 2: my white shoes too. I should have wore different shoes today. 725 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:09,799 Speaker 2: I shouldn't have worn the white ones because I got 726 00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:16,520 Speaker 2: mud all over my shoes. Money is money. Trying to 727 00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:18,359 Speaker 2: figure out how to trust God with your stuff. Well, 728 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,239 Speaker 2: you don't need God. You don't need money. You just 729 00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:27,960 Speaker 2: need God. Okay, take me the cracker barrel on a 730 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:28,480 Speaker 2: pretty saw. 731 00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:31,720 Speaker 1: You can't do it. You can't sing for your supper 732 00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:32,640 Speaker 1: at cracker barrel. 733 00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:39,840 Speaker 2: But I want to say this to a lot of you, 734 00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:45,600 Speaker 2: and the Lord wants me to encourage you. It's muddy, 735 00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:55,200 Speaker 2: but you're making it. No, no, no, he said, He 736 00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:59,560 Speaker 2: made his ways known to Moses and his deeds to. 737 00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:03,280 Speaker 1: The people of Israel. Now watch this. Israel saw everything 738 00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:04,279 Speaker 1: that God did. 739 00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:07,600 Speaker 2: Moses was the one who had to stand there in 740 00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:12,640 Speaker 2: the muddiness and wonder will this really work? Well, I 741 00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:15,399 Speaker 2: really have what it takes. Did I really do it right? 742 00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:18,279 Speaker 2: Did I really get it right? Am I getting it right? 743 00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:24,000 Speaker 2: It's muddy in the middle. That doesn't mean there's no miracle. 744 00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:29,160 Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, the more mud you walked 745 00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,799 Speaker 2: in here with, the more miracles you're a candidate for, 746 00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,920 Speaker 2: because that means you're walking through stuff, praying through stuff, 747 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:41,080 Speaker 2: pressing through stuff. I don't mean we continue in sin 748 00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,800 Speaker 2: that grace may abound and just start celebrating our shame. 749 00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,680 Speaker 2: What I do mean by that is that gives God 750 00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:52,040 Speaker 2: something to show you through the mud that he can't 751 00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,439 Speaker 2: always show you if you just stand on this side 752 00:46:55,480 --> 00:47:01,240 Speaker 2: of it. He made not his ways to Moses. 753 00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,200 Speaker 1: Yahweh. 754 00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:06,680 Speaker 2: Maybe maybe it's not going to happen your way. 755 00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:12,000 Speaker 1: Maybe you need to say, yahweh, how. 756 00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,640 Speaker 13: You want to do this? Try and do this on 757 00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:16,040 Speaker 13: my own. I'm trying to figure this out on my own. 758 00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:17,520 Speaker 13: I'm trying to do this in my own strength. I'm 759 00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:20,799 Speaker 13: trying to calculate it with human reasoning. Lord, I don't 760 00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:22,560 Speaker 13: want to get stuck in the way I thought it 761 00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:23,760 Speaker 13: was supposed to be done. 762 00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,399 Speaker 1: He said, behold, I'm doing a new thing. 763 00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:32,560 Speaker 2: And look at nineteen Now it springs forth. Now it 764 00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:36,759 Speaker 2: springs forth. Somebody shout, Now it springs forth. You whispered it. 765 00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:39,040 Speaker 2: I meant for you to shout it. Now it springs forth. 766 00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:40,880 Speaker 2: Say it again. 767 00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:49,000 Speaker 1: Now it springs for Yeah, no way to now? Way now? 768 00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:51,000 Speaker 1: And you know what's beautiful about the picture? 769 00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:54,800 Speaker 2: Oh God, I see the Lord all over this message today. 770 00:47:56,160 --> 00:48:00,319 Speaker 2: If a spring comes forth from the desert, what does 771 00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:00,680 Speaker 2: it make? 772 00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:03,480 Speaker 1: It makes mud at first. 773 00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:09,280 Speaker 2: Every change God makes in your life will be muddy 774 00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:14,279 Speaker 2: at first. Everything He accomplishes through your life, it will 775 00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:20,279 Speaker 2: be muddy at first. Every miracle starts with mud. It 776 00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:23,799 Speaker 2: springs forth now from the desert. Do you not perceive it? 777 00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:27,080 Speaker 2: Sometimes we miss what God is doing because it's muddy 778 00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:28,880 Speaker 2: and we don't see it. 779 00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:38,239 Speaker 1: That doesn't mean he's not doing it. Whatever is your 780 00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:40,040 Speaker 1: no way? 781 00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:45,120 Speaker 2: I know a name, Yahweh who can make a way 782 00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:49,239 Speaker 2: where there is no way. What are you standing in 783 00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:52,800 Speaker 2: front of today? What are you needing from God? Right now? 784 00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:56,000 Speaker 1: He said? Now it springs forth, and. 785 00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,520 Speaker 2: It's not gonna be what it was, and it's not 786 00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,600 Speaker 2: gonna be what you think. But if you can perceive 787 00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:05,320 Speaker 2: it in this moment, you can receive it in your future. 788 00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:07,600 Speaker 1: Give God praise. 789 00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:12,080 Speaker 2: If you know the waymaker, give him praise right now, 790 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:14,640 Speaker 2: because let me. 791 00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,720 Speaker 1: Tell you what I learned. Worship is my way. 792 00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:22,080 Speaker 2: It's my way through defeet, it's my way through despair, 793 00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:24,040 Speaker 2: it's my way through fear. 794 00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:26,800 Speaker 1: This is how I fight my battles. Y'all. 795 00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:30,600 Speaker 9: I throw up my hands and I call on your way, 796 00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:31,840 Speaker 9: and I tell. 797 00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:34,920 Speaker 2: Him You're a miracle worker, so work a miracle. 798 00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:39,160 Speaker 1: You're a promise keeper, so fulfill your word. I need 799 00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:43,720 Speaker 1: a now word for a now situation. I gotta now God, 800 00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:47,920 Speaker 1: I gotta now faith. I gotta now praise. Let's get 801 00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:51,920 Speaker 1: in ten seconds a praise in the life. Come on 802 00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,839 Speaker 1: giving praise now, getting. 803 00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:58,440 Speaker 4: Down the money, getting praise, you, get down the benson 804 00:49:58,560 --> 00:49:59,280 Speaker 4: your praise. 805 00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:00,719 Speaker 1: Come on in. 806 00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:04,160 Speaker 4: Hey. 807 00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:06,520 Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 808 00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:09,680 Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 809 00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:12,319 Speaker 2: get you all of these new messages as soon as 810 00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:15,120 Speaker 2: they're available. 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