1 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:06,320 --> 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 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: I hope you're blessed today. Elevation Elevation SARTs Wow wow wow. 6 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: So first of all, well, we're not going to do 7 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: is act like you don't have the greatest pastor in 8 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: the world. Come on, can we get real noisy in. 9 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 3: This building and all around the globe. 10 00:00:50,120 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: For the Pastor Stephen Ferdick, Holly Rijah Graham aps love you. 11 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 1: I'm excited to be here. I'm black, and that's just 12 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 1: how we're gonna start. We're gonna start there. And my 13 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 1: roots are Pentecostal, and Pentecostal that like as a fraternity 14 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 1: or something, they'd be like, that's my dog, it's not 15 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 1: a friend. But I was going to use a headset 16 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: today so I could dribble with my left hand. But 17 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 1: I woke up feeling preachy, so I told him give 18 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 1: me a handheld because we about to go up Elevation. 19 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: And I love Pastor Stephen. He is a songwriter, he 20 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:54,279 Speaker 1: is an architect. He is the greatest communicator in the world. 21 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: And so to be on his platform is beyond a blessing. 22 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: Something funny happened to me. I told myself that I 23 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: would be validated as a good preacher when he invited me. 24 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: And let me tell you how gracious God is he 25 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: refused to allow me to be invited. As long as 26 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:22,919 Speaker 1: I believe that, because when Heaven wants to affirm you, 27 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:28,359 Speaker 1: it doesn't use opportunity and use opposition. I know you're 28 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: annoying it, not by the stages, but by the star 29 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: that you got. I need you to hop up your neighbor, 30 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 1: but like you and Valentine and tell them I know 31 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:42,239 Speaker 1: I'm annoying it. The struggles that you overcome reveal your anointing. 32 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: We know that the all on David worked not from 33 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 1: the throne he sat on, but by the giant that 34 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: fell at his feet. And if open doors can make you, 35 00:02:54,400 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: then closed doors can break you. Quit waiting on man 36 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 1: to validate you. And I'm afraid that in our churches, 37 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: Heaven believes in us. And I'm gonna tell you something 38 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: you never heard before. Hell believes in you. This is 39 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 1: why the devil and all his imps and whimps have 40 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: been coming against you because he know how much you carry. 41 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 1: He doesn't bother you if you're not a threat. But 42 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: if the devil's been trying to come against you and 43 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: your family and your neighborhood, I need you to give 44 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: God ten seconds of praise like. 45 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 3: You know, no weapon for him against you. Jem, prosperous, 46 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 3: come on, plat them like you and over come up 47 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 3: praise them. Ain't no des already over I'm not playing 48 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 3: apart victory. 49 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: I'm flighting up from a place of Victoria in Jesus' name, 50 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: in Jesus' name, and so I have a very prophetic 51 00:03:53,480 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: word for elevation. It's really for the Columbia campus because 52 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: they up the street from me. But if the shoe fit, 53 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: you can wear it and hear Orlando or Greenville or 54 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: wherever you're watching from. I told him to send me 55 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: a list, it was too long. What y'all do have 56 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:20,919 Speaker 1: is some campuses. My God, we're gonna be a market. 57 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 1: It's my custom to share the title after I read 58 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 1: the scripture, but today I'm gonna share it before because 59 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 1: I believe God is about to bring your name up. 60 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: I don't know how it happened for me. I was 61 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:39,840 Speaker 1: minding my business, and Chunce texted me and said, are 62 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: you available? And I'm wondering how did my name get 63 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: brought up? God's about to bring your name up because 64 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: this is the season. Hear me that God ain't looking 65 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: for gifts. I got degrees, but I'm gonna talk how 66 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: I want to talk. God ain't looking for gifts. He's 67 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 1: after heart. There's so many people that can sing. Man, 68 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: we don't need another song. We need hearts like Chris, 69 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: and hearts like Jen and hearts like John south Man. 70 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,840 Speaker 1: We need hearts. And God's about to bring your name up. 71 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 1: Here's the title for today. How did I get here? 72 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: How did I get here? Let me preach because my 73 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 1: wife tell me I'll take too long to transition. I'm 74 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: not gonna show a family picture there all on the ground, 75 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: but my wife is a dying piece on the front row. 76 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: I love you, Mark ten, Mark ten forty six. Then 77 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: they came to Jericho. I teach at Ford City that 78 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:48,559 Speaker 1: you can't just read the Bible. Oh snap, you gotta 79 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: read the Bible. It's a second read. Then they came 80 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: to Jericho as Jesus and his disciples together with the 81 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 1: large crowd. We're leaving the city. A blind man, Bartimaeus, 82 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: which means son of Tomais, was sitting on the roadside begging. 83 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,280 Speaker 1: When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth. He 84 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 1: began to shout, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me. 85 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: Many rebuked him. I hate when you're sitting next to 86 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 1: the loud one. You're like, okay, I get it, you grateful. 87 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 1: I am too. But my God, they told him, be quiet. 88 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: Sam Jesus, you ever brought your mama to church? I said, 89 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: mama preaching the elevation, Do not come my mom be 90 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 1: tearing the whole row up in the back. I said, 91 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: be quiet, man, but he shouted all the more. I 92 00:06:55,480 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: love that son of David, have mercy on me. I 93 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: really want to preach this next verse, but I got 94 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 1: something else to preach. But the next verse says, Jesus, stop. 95 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 3: Woo. 96 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: There is a dB. If you're in the audio, there 97 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: is a frequency. There is a shout that is packed 98 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: with enough desperation to get a busy Jesus a focus 99 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: Jesus to stop. Oh my god, are there any praises 100 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: in the room that know how to get them to stop? 101 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 3: By? Come on? 102 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 1: The only reason I'm in church today is because he 103 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: stopped by. 104 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 3: The only reason I'm in my mind right mind because 105 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 3: he stop The only reason I. 106 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 1: Ain't cutting nobody in this week is because. 107 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 3: He stopped bye. 108 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: He stopped by. He stopped by. He stopped by. When 109 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: he stops anything is possible. Who am I to deny 110 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: what the Lord can do? Whatever's impossible for you? It's 111 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: easy for him when he stops by. All right, let's 112 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: keep reading. You're ready to sit down. He stopped by 113 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: and said, call him. I like that. So they called 114 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: the blind man. Cheer up on your feet. He's calling 115 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 1: gibble now. The way my imagination works, I wonder if 116 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: these are the same people who just told him to hush. 117 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: I say, you can't listen to people. One second they 118 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: said hush. That second they saying cheer up, cause what 119 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 1: do you want from me? 120 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:28,679 Speaker 3: Dog? 121 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:33,959 Speaker 1: I mean throwing his cloak aside. He jumped to his feet, 122 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: came to Jesus. He's Jesus. Jesus is really funny. He said, Hey, 123 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: what do you want me to do for you? Blind 124 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: Man's like, let me see he said, rabber, I want 125 00:08:55,800 --> 00:09:01,680 Speaker 1: to see you man. I like this. Go, Jesus said, 126 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: your faith has hewed you. Your shout has healed you, 127 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 1: your resilience has healed you. Somebody took your last twenty 128 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 1: to get to church today. That's the thing that healed you, 129 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: the fact that you believed in spite of what you 130 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: were facing. And the Bible says, I like this word immediately, 131 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: I feel it coming all of a sudden, immediately. This 132 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: ain't for everybody. This is just for fifty people and 133 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,079 Speaker 1: a two year old that can give off a prayer 134 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,559 Speaker 1: to say that thing about to happen quicker then you 135 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: can't even imagine. Immediately immediately he received this site followed 136 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:56,440 Speaker 1: Jesus along the road. How did I get here? Lord Jesus, 137 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: I'm a prayer, prayer? You ready? How did we get here? Amen? 138 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: You could take your seats all right? How did I 139 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: get here? How did I get here? How did I 140 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: get here? This past week I went to Northmortal Beach, 141 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: that's where my dad is buried, where my mom is from, 142 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 1: and we went there to visit my grandma. My grandma's 143 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: ninety two years old. Yeah yeah, her classmate was Harriet Tupman. 144 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 1: My grandma is so old she seen many presidents. And 145 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: I walk in and my grandma. She's like Isaac. Her 146 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: side is felling hers because she you know, she's up 147 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:40,560 Speaker 1: in age and she's sitting there with her snuff. You're 148 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 1: not from the country if you don't know what snuff is. 149 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: No teeth but snuff, I said, Grandma. My grandma had 150 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 1: fourteen kids, y'all. After ten you don't even feel them 151 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: no more. There's another child. They just she got fourteen 152 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 1: over forty grandkids. And I walk in and I'm like grandma, 153 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:07,679 Speaker 1: and she's like, wow, hold dad, get over here. And 154 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: I go over to her and I said, grandma's me 155 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 1: and I can't talk, y'all. I got speech impediment. If 156 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 1: you laugh, you laughed, and that was not a joke. 157 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: So I thought it was just me and my speech 158 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: marks me. So my grandma she knew it, and she 159 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 1: was like, try. 160 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 3: That's you. 161 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 1: I spent some time with her, something about when your 162 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 1: sight is feeling, your senses are heightened. And what's interesting 163 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: about this text. I learned this from Pastor Furd. You 164 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: preach every line in the text, and so the first 165 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: thing I want to acknowledge in this text is that 166 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: the blind man is in Jericho. The word Jericho means 167 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 1: fragrance or to smell. Isn't an interesting that he's blind 168 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: but he can still smell the roses. So I want 169 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 1: to tell you, don't allow your low place cause you 170 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: to mister beauty of the season. You're in he's in Jericho. 171 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: This is not a mountaintop message because most of the 172 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 1: people were asking how did I get here? Aren't on top? 173 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: You feel like you're at the bottom. You're asking how 174 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 1: did this happen to me? How did I get here? 175 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 1: My last great memory was a wedding photo, and now 176 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: I'm a widow. That was my mom at the age 177 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:25,680 Speaker 1: of twenty nine. When my dad died on a Sunday morning, 178 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:27,960 Speaker 1: I was five years old. How did I get here? 179 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:30,439 Speaker 1: How did I get in the back of this police car? 180 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:32,839 Speaker 1: How did I get in divorce court? Come on, y'all, 181 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:34,560 Speaker 1: don't look at me in that tone of voice? How 182 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: did I get here? My life was heading in one direction, 183 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: and then one decision, one thing, caused me to get 184 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:49,680 Speaker 1: into an uncertain, unfamiliar, and unexpected place. How did I 185 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 1: get here? How did I get here? How did I 186 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: get addicted? How did this happen to my child? How 187 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: did I get here? And you may think. You may 188 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:04,840 Speaker 1: be sitting here thinking like, man, my situation is rough. 189 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: Listen to me. Your situation cannot compare to being blind 190 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: in the first century fam that was the lowest of 191 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: the lowest. They had nothing. There was no brain for reading, 192 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 1: there were no guide dogs to help them, there was 193 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 1: no eighty a compliance. You were just stuck begging. And 194 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: that is the circumstance that this man is in. But 195 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 1: I want to preach to the people who feel like 196 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: your place that you're in is a surprise to you. 197 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:34,839 Speaker 1: The good news is that what is new to you 198 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: is old to your God. Your future is his cast, 199 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: Your life is a rerun to him. Just watching a 200 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 1: movie with a friend of mine named Carlin, clearly his wife. 201 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: There's no black people named Carlin and Carlin. And I 202 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: was watching this movie years ago, years ago called Avatar, 203 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,960 Speaker 1: the first Avatar, and this thing, you know, people were 204 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 1: bragging about how beautiful it is. God, I'm scared of everything. Okay, 205 00:13:57,840 --> 00:13:59,959 Speaker 1: all creatures here below, don't invite me to your house. 206 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 1: So if you got a dog I hate come to 207 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: your house, you'd be like, Oh, I forgot to tell 208 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:04,679 Speaker 1: you I got a dog. You don't forget to tell 209 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:06,840 Speaker 1: somebody black, you got a dog, first of all, second 210 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: of all, second of all, you don't forget. Let me 211 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: just and man, don't tell me he don't bite. No, 212 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 1: he don't bite you. He don't bite. He's just nibbling. 213 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 1: Get he got taste for dark meat. And this is 214 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: so I'm scared. I'm scared of all animals. 215 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 3: Right. 216 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: So I'm watching an avatar. I'm freaking out. These are just creatures. 217 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: They blue and running around. It's supposed to beautiful. I'm 218 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 1: freaking out. I got my hat, I'm covering my said. 219 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: Carling grabs me. He says, wait, don't leave. I said 220 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 1: call him. You wait, because when black folks get scared, 221 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: we get violent. That's what happens. We don't know. We 222 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: just and calling told me. He said, trap, trap, don't leave. 223 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: It gets better. What qualified calling to tell me? This 224 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 1: is because he already saw the movie before. So when 225 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 1: God gives you a word, I don't care how it looks. 226 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: He's confident in the world he gives you because he 227 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: already saw your life before. Do you hear what I'm 228 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: telling you? He's not just Alpha, he is Omega, my God. 229 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 1: And so there's nothing that you face that's new to him. 230 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 1: He saw it coming. Tell somebody he saw it coming. 231 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: He saw it coming. He saw it coming. And so 232 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: here's this blind man. And maybe he didn't know this 233 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 1: was gonna happen in his life, but God did, and 234 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 1: he had a plan for him anyway. Even in the 235 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 1: low place, there is a plan. Even in the low place, 236 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: there is a plan. There's another story in John chapter 237 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 1: nine about another blind man. This story is interesting because 238 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: this man was blind from birth right and the disciples 239 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 1: here's something that happened in the first century because they 240 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: didn't have medical understanding, so they thought. They thought this, 241 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: if you were blind, you were cursed. Clearly you did 242 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: something wrong. This is what they believed. They believed this 243 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 1: so much so that Jesus is twelve thought the same thing. 244 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 1: They walk up on this blind man and John nine 245 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: and they asked him. They say, hey, who's him? Are 246 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: his parents? He was blind from birth. That's a dumb question. 247 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 1: How he gonna sin? For he was born dumb? And 248 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:11,760 Speaker 1: so Jesus answered them. He asks them in verse three, 249 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: he says, hey, man, no one sind We get this 250 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 1: verse right here. But this happened so that the works 251 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: of God might be displayed in him. Can I tell 252 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 1: you something. What this means, ladies and gentlemen, is that 253 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: it's all a set up. I had this thought in 254 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 1: order for a way to be made. That means that 255 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: a way has to be blocked. And if something is 256 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: standing in between you and promised, then it has to 257 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 1: be a setup. If there's something that you see that 258 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: does not match what he said, it has to be 259 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 1: a setup. The rat see from Moses was a setup 260 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: for God. Jericho's war for Joshua was a set up 261 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: for God. Goliath for David was a set up for God. 262 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:08,679 Speaker 1: Death for Lazarus was a set up for God. And 263 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:11,640 Speaker 1: so if it's sitting your way, tell your neighbor, it's 264 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 1: just a setup. I wrote a song years ago called 265 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: made Away, and I wrote this song his What significant 266 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 1: about the song? I wrote it when we desperately needed 267 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:27,359 Speaker 1: a way to be made. So my wife water broke 268 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 1: halfway during her pregnancy of our first child. The doctor 269 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: literally told me, mister Green, I'm sorry, we're gonna take 270 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:34,880 Speaker 1: the baby. You guys can go home and try again. 271 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: Obviously he's not gonna make it, but we know a 272 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 1: God who's still a healer. I know some people think 273 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: his power stopped in the Bible. But we know a 274 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: God who is still able to turn your situation around. 275 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 1: We know a God whose blood still works. Does anybody 276 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: know this Jesus that I'm talking about? And so we 277 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:02,639 Speaker 1: started praying God to praying. My son was born at 278 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 1: twenty eight weeks two pounds. He was in the incubator 279 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:08,879 Speaker 1: for two months. My wife was in the hospital for 280 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: two months. Her lege was with her in a way. 281 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 1: I mean, this was a desperate situation. But this is 282 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:16,439 Speaker 1: what I need you to hear. This is where I 283 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:20,680 Speaker 1: wrote the song you Made Away. I did not write 284 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 1: a song that said you'll make a way. I wrote 285 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:27,439 Speaker 1: it in past tense. You ready, because anything God's about 286 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,639 Speaker 1: to do, He's already done. Did you hear what I 287 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 1: just said? Anything God's about to do in your life, 288 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 1: it's already done. And ladies and gentlemen, this is the 289 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:41,879 Speaker 1: difference between reactive praisers and proactive praisers. A reactive praisers 290 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 1: wait today, see the solution, wait today, see the victory, 291 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 1: wait until the X ray is turned around in that favor. 292 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: But a proactive praiser set I walk in with that, 293 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 1: I into this date with that Shitn't I into this 294 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: course with praiser. 295 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 3: I got enough history with God to know that. 296 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:00,959 Speaker 1: He's able to do exceeding. Leah, Mother, Lee, Oh, I 297 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: can ask them, oh to think I praise them in advance. 298 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:06,360 Speaker 1: Are there any poor hack the phrasing and elevation? 299 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 3: Take your top ten, take this, lift your hands, lift. 300 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 1: Your points and blifts up like it's already up. 301 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 3: I won't wait till my doom on the door up. 302 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:18,679 Speaker 3: I won't wait till my child get queer, till I 303 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 3: won't wait till my marriages restored. I would lift the 304 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:22,199 Speaker 3: little that. 305 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 1: All time, and it ray more continually beat than my 306 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: mouth proactive. He's not going to just make away. He's 307 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:50,160 Speaker 1: already made away because it's a center. Anybody can praise them. 308 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:56,120 Speaker 1: When you turn around and Pharaoh's army is drowning, that's elementary. 309 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 1: Ooh the enemy gone, but it take a ride or die? 310 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: Radical crazy praiser to see a sea close in front 311 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,160 Speaker 1: of you or army coming behind you, and say, God, 312 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: you're still worthy because I know you didn't free me 313 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: to leave me. God, you still worthy because if you 314 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 1: did those ten plagues? What is this sea? Who is 315 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 1: this uncircumcised, felistyde. What is cancer? What is the person? 316 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: What is anxiety? 317 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:27,639 Speaker 3: For my God? 318 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: It's easy, it's easy. So God has been conditioning the 319 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 1: unconditional worshiper in you. Some of our worshiper is too circumstantial. 320 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 1: If I feel like it, don't let Starbucks run out 321 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 1: of your favorite drink on your way to church. Oh 322 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 1: my whole day, this is ruin. That's a conditional praiser. 323 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 1: But maybe God has had you in jered to teach 324 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:06,120 Speaker 1: you how to worship him here. It is even when 325 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:10,440 Speaker 1: you don't feel like it, even when your head hurt 326 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 1: a little bit, even when your chald didn't show back 327 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 1: up home last night, even when Bak of America, what 328 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:20,719 Speaker 1: are you telling me? Right now? Come on, I just 329 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 1: need ten people. I gotta move in this message. I'm 330 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 1: not gonna be greedy. Give me ten people. I gotta 331 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:28,160 Speaker 1: lie to on top. That's all I need. 332 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 3: I need ten. 333 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 1: People gotta give him a praise in advance. 334 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 3: So cause you know God's about to pick you up, 335 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,159 Speaker 3: hurt your fit to wait for the last. This is 336 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 3: about to walk in your favor for out your neighbor. 337 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:42,440 Speaker 1: And tell him it's about to walk in your favor. 338 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 1: It's about to walk. 339 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 3: I feel this. 340 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 1: I tell him turning it, I tell him fifting that. 341 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: I feel him moving it in your favor. 342 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 3: It's all a. 343 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:59,640 Speaker 1: Setup because man's set back, it's God's set up. Hey, hey, 344 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: can you trust God in the setup? Can you trust 345 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: him in the setup? 346 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 3: See? 347 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: The problem with new school Christians y'all can say that 348 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: I'm about to offend you, is that we act like 349 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 1: God owe us something. That's why I like those three 350 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: Hebrew boys. They said, even if he don't, I'm not 351 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 1: praising them because he will. I'm praising him because he can't. 352 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,239 Speaker 1: So even if it don't happen like I wanted to, 353 00:22:52,000 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 1: that does not change the consistency of his character. Proactive, proactive. 354 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 1: What's interesting about this text is that every gospel account 355 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 1: speaks about the blind being healed. Everyone over Matthew Mark 356 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:13,360 Speaker 1: and Luke John. They all talk about Matthew markat Loup, 357 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 1: they all talk about blind Bartimaeus. But Mark's account is 358 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:23,879 Speaker 1: a little different. Mark's account goes straight from blind Bartimaeus 359 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:28,119 Speaker 1: to the triumphant entantry. This is a climatic event for 360 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:34,359 Speaker 1: Jesus hilling ministry. Next it's Passion Sunday. Next Palm Sunday. 361 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,639 Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. Next, He's writing in 362 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 1: What's Interesting, I didn't really come to talk about Bartimaeus. 363 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 1: I can't talk about Mark. This god John Mark is 364 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 1: a very interesting character. Here's why. His mom is the 365 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 1: one who hosted the prime meeting for Peter's miraculous prison break, 366 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: which means her house was big enough, which tells me 367 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: Mark was privileged. Like me, you can judge me. I'm 368 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 1: not from the hood. I'm a military brat. I don't 369 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: know what government chiefs this. I have my own bathroom 370 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 1: since I was five. I got everything I wanted for Christmas. 371 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:18,680 Speaker 1: This is Mark. Mark's cousin is Barnabas. So Mark is 372 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 1: out with Paul on the first mission trip and Mark 373 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 1: is like, you know, you get hiked up and you're like, 374 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:25,360 Speaker 1: I'm going. 375 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:25,640 Speaker 3: All the way. 376 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,120 Speaker 1: That was Mark, I'm going all the way. They get 377 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: out there. Mark was like, Paul, you crazy dog. It's cold, 378 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: I'm hungry, shipwreck. I ain't from the Paul talking about 379 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,160 Speaker 1: it's good that we suffered. Mark's like, man, I am 380 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: going to the crib. I gotta get up out of here. 381 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 1: So Mark drops out Paul gets offended. He starts calling 382 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:52,400 Speaker 1: Mark a coward. Barnabas says, hold on now, though Barnabus 383 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:58,120 Speaker 1: from University City. He's like, listen, listen, Cuse, what we 384 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 1: ain't gonna do is be talk about my family like that. 385 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 1: I mean, I know you annoying it. Damascus. Listen, that's 386 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 1: still my cousin. 387 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 3: Man. 388 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,399 Speaker 1: You can't be talking about a little cousin. And so 389 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,479 Speaker 1: the Beatles break up. This is the true story. They 390 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 1: break up. He's like, yo, I'm out they leave. I'm 391 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,880 Speaker 1: gonna tell you two reasons I'm so glad that Mark 392 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,160 Speaker 1: left Paul. I'm gonna give you the second one later 393 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 1: in about ten minutes. The first reason I'm so glad 394 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 1: that Mark left him is because Mark now it's hooked 395 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 1: up with a man named Peter, and Mark don't leave Paul. 396 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 1: Mark don't get connected to Peter. Why is this important. 397 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this or not, but 398 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:44,720 Speaker 1: Mark's gospel is actually Peter's gospel. So now Marcus his student, 399 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: and the whole book of Mark is Mark writing but 400 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 1: Peter speaking. This is why it's the shortest gospel. This 401 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: is why it gets straight to the point, because Peter 402 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,119 Speaker 1: was a straight shooter. This is why it's the only 403 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:04,119 Speaker 1: gospel to talk about Peter walking on water. Nobody else 404 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:05,920 Speaker 1: talked about it. Peter was like, don't miss this one part. 405 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:13,639 Speaker 1: Because Mark was like, gotcha, it's the only gospel that 406 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 1: talks about Peter denying Christ three times, so telling me 407 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 1: Peter also wanted us to know his laws. It's the 408 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 1: only gospel that talks about getting money from fish. So 409 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 1: Mark gets exclusive content. It is director's cut. This is 410 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: straight from Peter, y'all. Peter wasn't just one of the twelve. 411 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,680 Speaker 1: He was in the top three. This is a man 412 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,919 Speaker 1: who walked with Jesus everywhere. He was in the inner circle. 413 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 1: And so Mark now got the inside school. And he's 414 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 1: taking all of these notes, all these cliff notes, getting 415 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:45,119 Speaker 1: them down. And this is why whoa you ready for this? 416 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 1: This is why I'm so glad that Mark wrote this, y'all. 417 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,479 Speaker 1: This thing's setting me all the way up. I'm so 418 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 1: glad Mark wrote this because you gotta understand the context 419 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:57,160 Speaker 1: of the content. Mark is actually feeling like a reject. 420 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,680 Speaker 1: Mark is at home scratch in his head, wondering is 421 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,159 Speaker 1: there any ministry left in me? Mark is like I 422 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 1: came from a woman of faith, and here I am 423 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 1: a ministry dropout. Is God's hand still on me? Have 424 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,920 Speaker 1: you ever felt like that before? It's God's hands still 425 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 1: on me? Here I am talking about it. I believe God, 426 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,399 Speaker 1: and I'm pregnant and I'm not married. Is God's hands 427 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: still on me? Can God still use me? I was 428 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 1: an entrepreneur known for taking risks, but I dropped the ball. 429 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,679 Speaker 1: I gambled and I lost everything. Can God still use me? 430 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,440 Speaker 1: This is Mark. He's wondering how did I get here? 431 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,879 Speaker 1: And Peter sees him and says, they're still valuing you. 432 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,360 Speaker 1: How does Peter know that? Because Peter also was a dropout. 433 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: Peter knows what it feels like to drop the ball, 434 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 1: and so he invites Mark in and Mark starts writing this. 435 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 1: And here's the reason I'm glad Mark wrote it. You 436 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,400 Speaker 1: ready because Mark knows what it means to be marked 437 00:27:55,560 --> 00:28:00,879 Speaker 1: by God. If anybody knows what it means for God's 438 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 1: hand to still be on you, Mark knows it. Here's 439 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 1: the significant part. You're ready for this. Mark is the 440 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: only one who names Bartimaeus. Imagine with me. Mark's sitting 441 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 1: there taking notes, Peter talking, and he leans over and 442 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 1: said Peter, but what was his name? And Peter said, 443 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 1: his name is Bartimaeus. Y'all this thing jumped out at 444 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: the pages and hit me in the heart. Because this 445 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 1: is God's way of telling us, when you're marked by God, 446 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 1: he'll bring your name up. When God's hand is on you, 447 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,439 Speaker 1: it does not matter what hand is against you. Somebody 448 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,719 Speaker 1: knows what I'm talking about. When God is for you, 449 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who post stuff against you. That was 450 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 1: so many haters that thought elevation was gonna close, and 451 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 1: you're five, but look at us, not started from the bottom. 452 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 1: Now we're here. When God marks you, it doesn't matter 453 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: what giant, what disease, what famine, what hater, what devil 454 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: try to rise against. I need you to put your 455 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 1: neighbor in knee count and tell him you're marked by God. 456 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 1: That brother Carl Wreck couldn't take you out because you're 457 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 1: marked by God. No poet of the deeds had to 458 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 1: stand back and wait. Because you're marked by God. That's 459 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 1: why you didn't take your own life. Because you're marked 460 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: by God. I've been marked. Don't count me out, don't 461 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: call me out, don't call me out. I'm marked. I 462 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: brought a prop. You can't preach an elevation without a 463 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 1: prop marked marked. Blind Bartimaeus was marked without even knowing it, 464 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: because even when you can't see Jesus, he sees you. 465 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:50,080 Speaker 1: When you're marked, he had to die on you. When 466 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 1: you're marked, he has his eye on you. I'm so 467 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 1: glad for the stick. Some of y'all like, oh Jesus, 468 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 1: this can go real bad. That's how I felt last 469 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 1: week in fort Worth. She's when God gave me this message. 470 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,600 Speaker 1: I was in Fort Worth with my little sister who 471 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,480 Speaker 1: lives there, and she said, I got to take you 472 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 1: to stockyard. Anybody from Texas good for you? She said, 473 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,280 Speaker 1: I gotta take you the stockyard, y'all. We went to stockyard. 474 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: I said, what in the andy Griffin? 475 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 3: It was. 476 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 1: Crispy white cowboy hats. I said, I'm one wrong move away. God, 477 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 1: I'm this close to elevation. Don't let me get killed. 478 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: I almost made it to the mountaintop. Let me at 479 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 1: least let me get through next weekend. True story. There's 480 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 1: an old black man blind was walking with a stick. 481 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 1: He was just close to the road, and I wanted 482 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 1: to pull over and help him. And right before I did, 483 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: a cowboy couple came and grabbed his hand, and I said, 484 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 1: oh my god, it's a preach because when you're in 485 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 1: the dark, you're not picky about who help you. Oh yeah, 486 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 1: when you when you're in the dark, you're not selective 487 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:28,200 Speaker 1: about who decides to give you mercy. That's why I'm 488 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 1: grateful for Elevation, because it's a safe place. There's some 489 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 1: black people that's been going here, and your family like, 490 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:42,360 Speaker 1: how are you following that white man? And you said, child, 491 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: I was blind so long. I'm not selective about who 492 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,480 Speaker 1: leading me to the light. I'm not selective about who's 493 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: helping me. I'm not selective about who's value in me, 494 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 1: as long as he believes in the blood, the only 495 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 1: color that matters here and dread. I gotta get to 496 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 1: the right. I gotta get out of this dark place. 497 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 3: And here he is. 498 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:13,480 Speaker 1: There's people who think that the only darkness is sin. 499 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 1: That's not the darkness to beware of. You Ready, it's 500 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 1: lacking vision, and there's so many people here who's been 501 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 1: lacking vision. You're wondering, where are you? God? What happens 502 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,719 Speaker 1: when I obey him and it feels like he disappears? 503 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:36,600 Speaker 1: We don't know what I'm talking about. You haven't lived 504 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 1: long enough. I believe it's promises. But my situation don't 505 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,800 Speaker 1: look like what I've been declaring. And I'm wondering where 506 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,680 Speaker 1: do I go from here? Where do I go from here? 507 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 1: How do I get out of this? And ladies and gentlemen, 508 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:57,120 Speaker 1: this is blind barda Mayas. He's stuck in a cycle, 509 00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:01,680 Speaker 1: He's stuck in a circle, He's stuck going lacking vision. 510 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 1: There are people watching today from all over the world. 511 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 1: Pastors who are trying to build a church that won't grow. 512 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 1: Businessman who has this business plan that won't get off 513 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: the ground. Parents that's believe in God. For your teenager 514 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:19,600 Speaker 1: who won't listen. Can I get an amen? Lacking vision? 515 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 1: What's interesting about this? Let's go back to Jericho. Bartimaeus's 516 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 1: ancestors got into Jericho with a shout, But Bartimaeus got 517 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:38,840 Speaker 1: out with a shout. He got out with a shout, 518 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: and he shout until Jesus stopped. And the Bible says, 519 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:46,280 Speaker 1: my favorite part that he followed him. He followed him. 520 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 1: I like this because Bartimaeus, he refused to stay where 521 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: he listen. I may be here, but I don't have 522 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: to stay here. I may be in this abusive relationship, 523 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,080 Speaker 1: but I don't have to stay in it. I don't 524 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 1: know who I'm preaching to. You too embarrassed, and tell 525 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:04,800 Speaker 1: your parents that that gud been hitting you. 526 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:05,120 Speaker 3: Child. 527 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,960 Speaker 1: You better get you and your tahuahuah and get to 528 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,480 Speaker 1: step in get. I might be in here, but I 529 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:15,320 Speaker 1: don't have to stay here. Bartimeea says, I'm following Jesus. 530 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,160 Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, Verse forty eight. Many 531 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,840 Speaker 1: rebuke to him, told them to hush, but he shouted 532 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 1: all the more, son, no, David, have mercy on me. 533 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,520 Speaker 1: The haters try to silence them. I like Bartie. He 534 00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 1: didn't talk to them. He didn't speak about them. He 535 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:42,040 Speaker 1: spoke above them. When God has taken you somewhere, ooh, 536 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,839 Speaker 1: let me just park here just for one second. Quit 537 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,800 Speaker 1: feeling like you got to reply that all the haters online, 538 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 1: the battles that you engage in reveal the level you on. 539 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,719 Speaker 1: That's time somebody say, did you read that? Yeah, but 540 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,279 Speaker 1: I'm a buff that, I'm abuff that I need you 541 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 1: to hit somebody to you above that, you above that? 542 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:07,520 Speaker 1: And so he shout, son of David, this title, son 543 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:12,839 Speaker 1: of David was reserved. Hear me for the Messiah exclusively, 544 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,799 Speaker 1: So it wasn't just the fact that he shouted, it's 545 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:21,000 Speaker 1: what he said. What he was saying was that, Jesus, 546 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,640 Speaker 1: you're surrounding it by a lot of people, hear me. 547 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:28,040 Speaker 1: But they don't see you like I do. He says, 548 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:32,239 Speaker 1: I see you, I see the real you. They see 549 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,640 Speaker 1: you as a miracle worker. I see you as Messiah, 550 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,359 Speaker 1: they see you as a problem solverig but I see 551 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,000 Speaker 1: you as a promised to one. They see you as 552 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,680 Speaker 1: a leader. But I see you as Lord. I see you. 553 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:48,680 Speaker 1: I see you. And his title to Jesus got Jesus 554 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:53,319 Speaker 1: to stop in its tracks. He stopped because the only 555 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 1: thing worse than physical blindness is spiritual blindness. Here we go, 556 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,480 Speaker 1: Verse forty nine. Jesus stopped and said, call him. I said, 557 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,680 Speaker 1: tear up on your feet. He's calling you. Hey. You 558 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:10,000 Speaker 1: may feel stuck, but he's calling you. You may feel disqualified, Mark, 559 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,600 Speaker 1: but he's calling you. You may feel under but he's 560 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:19,160 Speaker 1: still calling you. Favorite part Verse fifty, throwing his cloak aside. 561 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:26,000 Speaker 1: Throwing his cloak aside, he got up a random Jesus, 562 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:30,000 Speaker 1: you know what, It's significant because the cloak is the 563 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:38,440 Speaker 1: only thing that marked you as a legitimate beggar. When 564 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:39,880 Speaker 1: I thow this on you fall out, so they think 565 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 1: I'm annoying it. That's where I came from, man, I said. 566 00:36:55,440 --> 00:37:01,880 Speaker 1: He threw his cloak aside. He threw his cloak aside. 567 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:07,600 Speaker 1: He threw his cloak aside. He took off the thing 568 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:11,040 Speaker 1: that marked him as a beggar. Hear me, this is 569 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:14,360 Speaker 1: where it gets crazy. He took it off before he 570 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:18,520 Speaker 1: was healed. We got to crank up, just for a second, 571 00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,440 Speaker 1: just for a second, he said, I don't know what 572 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,920 Speaker 1: you're about to do, Jesus, but I know I won't 573 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,160 Speaker 1: need this no more. I gotta take this off of me. 574 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,800 Speaker 1: Somebody put it on me, but it's not my identity. 575 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,279 Speaker 1: Somebody put this lame on me, but it's not my 576 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,359 Speaker 1: He put his name on me. He took what they 577 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,439 Speaker 1: on him. He said, I don't know where we're going, 578 00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,839 Speaker 1: but I'm not staying here. I don't know what it had, 579 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,000 Speaker 1: but I'm not staying here. 580 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,160 Speaker 3: I don't know what the future holds, but I know 581 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:45,960 Speaker 3: who holds the future. 582 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,839 Speaker 1: Say this off of me. Somebody get on a plate 583 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,879 Speaker 1: like you're breaking out. I'm fucking freaking yeah, yeah, yeah. 584 00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,560 Speaker 1: Now now I'm ament there, I'm mon there, I'm more, 585 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:02,480 Speaker 1: I'm gone now, He followed Jesus, what's this? 586 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:03,359 Speaker 3: What's this? What's this? 587 00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:12,400 Speaker 1: Out of Jericho to Jerusalem for the triumphant entry PAULM. Sunday. 588 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:18,440 Speaker 1: Imagine Peter James, John, both of the James, the Dolomew 589 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,680 Speaker 1: Judas is still there matter, all the boys standing there 590 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:26,040 Speaker 1: watching Jesus ride in on a donkey, and the ex beggar. 591 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,000 Speaker 1: I'm sorry when I do that, I feel the Holy ghost. 592 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,040 Speaker 1: You got the Holy Spirit? I got the Holy Ghost. 593 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:39,200 Speaker 1: The ex beggar is standing there with the disciples, scratching 594 00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:46,520 Speaker 1: his head wondering how did I get here? How did this? 595 00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:49,839 Speaker 1: Priest us? Because God wants you to know, I need 596 00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,440 Speaker 1: everybody under the age of fifty to sit down. If 597 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,640 Speaker 1: you're fifty and older, I want you to stand up 598 00:38:55,719 --> 00:39:00,120 Speaker 1: because this is your word. Now there's somebody here and 599 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,760 Speaker 1: denial you are. You've been forty nine for ten years. 600 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:12,920 Speaker 1: Stand your button. Stella got her group back. Your boyfriend 601 00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:14,919 Speaker 1: thinks that you're thirty. You it's fifty two. 602 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:16,080 Speaker 3: Stand up. 603 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:24,480 Speaker 1: This is what God told me to tell you. You may 604 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:28,280 Speaker 1: have missed some things in the past fifty years. But guys, 605 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:32,359 Speaker 1: about to open up your eyes and you won't miss 606 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:37,400 Speaker 1: his next move. Bartimaeus, I don't know what you haven't seen, 607 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,479 Speaker 1: but you're about to see him ride in. You about 608 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:42,520 Speaker 1: to see this thing open up. And I want to 609 00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,600 Speaker 1: talk to everybody who's time for six three old and 610 00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,080 Speaker 1: tell him you're about to kid. I don't know what 611 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:52,319 Speaker 1: you miss but you're about to see it. And the 612 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,840 Speaker 1: Lord told me to tell you you don't have a problem. 613 00:39:55,880 --> 00:40:01,600 Speaker 1: Believe in God for everybody else. One of you told yourself, 614 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,799 Speaker 1: as long as my child make it, I'm okay. God 615 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:10,160 Speaker 1: says you have a child, but you're my child. You're 616 00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:14,520 Speaker 1: gonna see it. You're gonna see it. Go back to 617 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,680 Speaker 1: the diary you wrote forty years ago. You're gonna see it. 618 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,719 Speaker 1: Get your vision back. You're gonna see it now. I 619 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,239 Speaker 1: need everybody to give God afraid like he's about. 620 00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:24,200 Speaker 3: To open up your eyes. 621 00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:27,640 Speaker 1: Ayes, I haven't seen here, Tyvin heard what God's about 622 00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,120 Speaker 1: to do in New York, Like you're gonna see it? 623 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,680 Speaker 1: All right, I'm done. This is crazy what I'm about 624 00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:38,160 Speaker 1: to say. This is crazy what I'm about to say, 625 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,880 Speaker 1: because I haven't ap preached, yet I got four minutes 626 00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:46,479 Speaker 1: to really preach, and I'm gonna hit that clock because 627 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:50,680 Speaker 1: I want to come back. You ready for this till 628 00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:54,760 Speaker 1: your neghbor get ready? This is crazy. The second reason 629 00:40:54,840 --> 00:41:00,560 Speaker 1: I'm glad Mark left Paul is because if Mark didn't Paul, 630 00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,680 Speaker 1: the Beatles wouldn't have broken up. If the Beatles didn't 631 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:09,319 Speaker 1: break up, Mark would have been in the Philippian jail 632 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:14,880 Speaker 1: with Paul homesick on Paul's second missionary trip. If Mark 633 00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:18,640 Speaker 1: was homesick in the jail, then the right praise partner 634 00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:23,160 Speaker 1: named Silas wouldn't have been with Paul. So maybe God 635 00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,600 Speaker 1: calls it an eviction in that last relationship to Chris, 636 00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,239 Speaker 1: vacancy for the right partner, didn't you hit what I 637 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:33,360 Speaker 1: just said? Silence had to be there because the Bible 638 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,359 Speaker 1: said add about midnight. Wait a minute, wait a minute, 639 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:43,040 Speaker 1: wait a minute, at about midnight. Hey, Matt, make it dark. 640 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:48,280 Speaker 1: I know you able make it midnight at about midnight? 641 00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:55,600 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, hey, hey, midnight is 642 00:41:55,640 --> 00:42:03,799 Speaker 1: the darkest moment. Ain't that paulae Silas were blinded by 643 00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:10,080 Speaker 1: their situation, but they refused to allow their sight to 644 00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:15,640 Speaker 1: silence their shout. They never asked for freedom, because all 645 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:17,720 Speaker 1: you have to do is shout loud enough for Jesus 646 00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:21,959 Speaker 1: to stop. And when he stopped, he brings everything you need. 647 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:26,879 Speaker 1: And the Bible said, watch this, watch this Waimeas took 648 00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:31,640 Speaker 1: off his clothes, God took off their chains. I'm gonna 649 00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:35,640 Speaker 1: count the three, and I want you to shout for 650 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,879 Speaker 1: your vision to come back. When I count the three, 651 00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:41,279 Speaker 1: we're gonna shout. Matt, You're gonna turn the lights up, 652 00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:44,520 Speaker 1: and we're gonna give God thirty seconds of a pentecostal 653 00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,839 Speaker 1: store front praise because you're about to see again, your 654 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,560 Speaker 1: family about to see again, your business is about to 655 00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:53,080 Speaker 1: see it again. Yeah, the light is coming back to you. 656 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,800 Speaker 1: Are you ready to shout? I want you to shout 657 00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:59,720 Speaker 1: the name that's above every name, for the name of Jesus, deamons, 658 00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:01,760 Speaker 1: trump at the name of Jesus. 659 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:03,480 Speaker 3: Can't say drinks at the. 660 00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:04,240 Speaker 1: Name of Jesus. 661 00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:14,000 Speaker 3: The break the back top, walk the through three. John 662 00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,919 Speaker 3: for your business, y'all, for your family, Joh for tree, 663 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,040 Speaker 3: show me put this coming on this. I'm grieving. Tell 664 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:24,600 Speaker 3: your call. I'm walking into the bomings, I'm walking into everything. 665 00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,080 Speaker 3: Got half from me? I don't know what the juice 666 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,160 Speaker 3: or holds them, but I know we'll hold it. I'm 667 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:33,239 Speaker 3: making it great top. I'll pushed the south the thing 668 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,960 Speaker 3: a wretch like me. I want what laws us? 669 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:36,399 Speaker 1: Now? 670 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:41,040 Speaker 3: How fam what brood? But I can see clearly now 671 00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:44,600 Speaker 3: the light in the back corder. I can see clearly. Now, 672 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,800 Speaker 3: jump this back up. I can see clearly now. We 673 00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:53,000 Speaker 3: opened my eyes again, and I can see. How did 674 00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:53,600 Speaker 3: I get here? 675 00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:56,080 Speaker 1: Now? What's crazy? 676 00:43:58,200 --> 00:43:58,399 Speaker 3: Here? 677 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:04,200 Speaker 1: Doing yourself matters because when pauland Silence shouted, the Bible says, 678 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:13,759 Speaker 1: not only their change fell, but everybody around them were 679 00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:19,799 Speaker 1: standing free, wondering how did I get here? Can I 680 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:23,520 Speaker 1: prophesy some of you going back home and your child 681 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,399 Speaker 1: gonna be free from that addiction? Wondering how did I get? 682 00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:30,680 Speaker 1: Somebody pray for me, somebody prays for me, somebody shouted 683 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:40,759 Speaker 1: for me. Lift your hands, Lord, Jesus, thank you for 684 00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:47,040 Speaker 1: giving sight to the blind, given sight to the blind. 685 00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:53,560 Speaker 1: I receive this vision. I'm gonna believe again, because a 686 00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:59,120 Speaker 1: small vision is an insult to a big God. I'm 687 00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,759 Speaker 1: gonna see again. I'm gonna believe again in Jesus' name, 688 00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:05,080 Speaker 1: Hey man, come on, give them a praise Goblin. 689 00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,520 Speaker 2: Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 690 00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,640 Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 691 00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,279 Speaker 2: get you all of these new messages as soon as 692 00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,080 Speaker 2: they're available. I also want to take a moment and 693 00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:19,960 Speaker 2: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation. 694 00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,839 Speaker 2: Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or 695 00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,920 Speaker 2: just share these messages, it's because of you that we're 696 00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,360 Speaker 2: able to reach people all around the world. 697 00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:32,279 Speaker 1: And if you want more information on how to be a. 698 00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:35,320 Speaker 2: Part of Elevation, click the link in the description. 699 00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:36,840 Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening. 700 00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:40,160 Speaker 2: Make sure to leave a review, share the message, and subscribe. 701 00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:49,920 Speaker 1: God bless you.