WEBVTT - How Did I Get Here? (Travis Greene) 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:06.280 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:09.360 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:10.000 Be sure to. 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.720 Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:27.200 I hope you're blessed today. Elevation Elevation SARTs Wow wow wow. 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.800 So first of all, well, we're not going to do 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:40.400 is act like you don't have the greatest pastor in 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:46.120 the world. Come on, can we get real noisy in. 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:49.479 This building and all around the globe. 0:00:50.120 --> 0:01:00.000 For the Pastor Stephen Ferdick, Holly Rijah Graham aps love you. 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:10.399 I'm excited to be here. I'm black, and that's just 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.880 how we're gonna start. We're gonna start there. And my 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:21.680 roots are Pentecostal, and Pentecostal that like as a fraternity 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:26.399 or something, they'd be like, that's my dog, it's not 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:30.120 a friend. But I was going to use a headset 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:34.160 today so I could dribble with my left hand. But 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.759 I woke up feeling preachy, so I told him give 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:41.399 me a handheld because we about to go up Elevation. 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:49.240 And I love Pastor Stephen. He is a songwriter, he 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:54.279 is an architect. He is the greatest communicator in the world. 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.600 And so to be on his platform is beyond a blessing. 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:05.600 Something funny happened to me. I told myself that I 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.560 would be validated as a good preacher when he invited me. 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.720 And let me tell you how gracious God is he 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.680 refused to allow me to be invited. As long as 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:22.919 I believe that, because when Heaven wants to affirm you, 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:28.359 it doesn't use opportunity and use opposition. I know you're 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.680 annoying it, not by the stages, but by the star 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.320 that you got. I need you to hop up your neighbor, 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.360 but like you and Valentine and tell them I know 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:42.239 I'm annoying it. The struggles that you overcome reveal your anointing. 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.280 We know that the all on David worked not from 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.360 the throne he sat on, but by the giant that 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:53.400 fell at his feet. And if open doors can make you, 0:02:54.400 --> 0:03:00.320 then closed doors can break you. Quit waiting on man 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:05.640 to validate you. And I'm afraid that in our churches, 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.600 Heaven believes in us. And I'm gonna tell you something 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:14.040 you never heard before. Hell believes in you. This is 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.800 why the devil and all his imps and whimps have 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.280 been coming against you because he know how much you carry. 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.560 He doesn't bother you if you're not a threat. But 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:26.760 if the devil's been trying to come against you and 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.480 your family and your neighborhood, I need you to give 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.160 God ten seconds of praise like. 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:35.200 You know, no weapon for him against you. Jem, prosperous, 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.200 come on, plat them like you and over come up 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:42.040 praise them. Ain't no des already over I'm not playing 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:43.200 apart victory. 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:47.920 I'm flighting up from a place of Victoria in Jesus' name, 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.440 in Jesus' name, and so I have a very prophetic 0:03:53.480 --> 0:04:01.800 word for elevation. It's really for the Columbia campus because 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.240 they up the street from me. But if the shoe fit, 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:09.000 you can wear it and hear Orlando or Greenville or 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.080 wherever you're watching from. I told him to send me 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:15.760 a list, it was too long. What y'all do have 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:20.919 is some campuses. My God, we're gonna be a market. 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.719 It's my custom to share the title after I read 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:27.159 the scripture, but today I'm gonna share it before because 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.160 I believe God is about to bring your name up. 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:34.640 I don't know how it happened for me. I was 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:39.840 minding my business, and Chunce texted me and said, are 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.920 you available? And I'm wondering how did my name get 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:49.080 brought up? God's about to bring your name up because 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.960 this is the season. Hear me that God ain't looking 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.120 for gifts. I got degrees, but I'm gonna talk how 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.520 I want to talk. God ain't looking for gifts. He's 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:04.160 after heart. There's so many people that can sing. Man, 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.240 we don't need another song. We need hearts like Chris, 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.800 and hearts like Jen and hearts like John south Man. 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.840 We need hearts. And God's about to bring your name up. 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:17.039 Here's the title for today. How did I get here? 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:23.680 How did I get here? Let me preach because my 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:27.520 wife tell me I'll take too long to transition. I'm 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:29.680 not gonna show a family picture there all on the ground, 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.200 but my wife is a dying piece on the front row. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:41.080 I love you, Mark ten, Mark ten forty six. Then 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.560 they came to Jericho. I teach at Ford City that 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:48.559 you can't just read the Bible. Oh snap, you gotta 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:52.400 read the Bible. It's a second read. Then they came 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:55.520 to Jericho as Jesus and his disciples together with the 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.720 large crowd. We're leaving the city. A blind man, Bartimaeus, 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:04.400 which means son of Tomais, was sitting on the roadside begging. 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.280 When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth. He 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:14.240 began to shout, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me. 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.560 Many rebuked him. I hate when you're sitting next to 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:24.160 the loud one. You're like, okay, I get it, you grateful. 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:33.240 I am too. But my God, they told him, be quiet. 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:41.560 Sam Jesus, you ever brought your mama to church? I said, 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:46.960 mama preaching the elevation, Do not come my mom be 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:51.760 tearing the whole row up in the back. I said, 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:55.400 be quiet, man, but he shouted all the more. I 0:06:55.480 --> 0:07:02.240 love that son of David, have mercy on me. I 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.200 really want to preach this next verse, but I got 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.599 something else to preach. But the next verse says, Jesus, stop. 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:09.440 Woo. 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.960 There is a dB. If you're in the audio, there 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.480 is a frequency. There is a shout that is packed 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:23.800 with enough desperation to get a busy Jesus a focus 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:28.480 Jesus to stop. Oh my god, are there any praises 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.200 in the room that know how to get them to stop? 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:31.240 By? Come on? 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.680 The only reason I'm in church today is because he 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:34.320 stopped by. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.800 The only reason I'm in my mind right mind because 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:38.080 he stop The only reason I. 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.600 Ain't cutting nobody in this week is because. 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.080 He stopped bye. 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.040 He stopped by. He stopped by. He stopped by. When 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:52.640 he stops anything is possible. Who am I to deny 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:59.240 what the Lord can do? Whatever's impossible for you? It's 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.440 easy for him when he stops by. All right, let's 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.120 keep reading. You're ready to sit down. He stopped by 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.840 and said, call him. I like that. So they called 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:14.240 the blind man. Cheer up on your feet. He's calling 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:18.680 gibble now. The way my imagination works, I wonder if 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.840 these are the same people who just told him to hush. 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:24.760 I say, you can't listen to people. One second they 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.440 said hush. That second they saying cheer up, cause what 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:28.280 do you want from me? 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:28.679 Dog? 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:33.959 I mean throwing his cloak aside. He jumped to his feet, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:40.160 came to Jesus. He's Jesus. Jesus is really funny. He said, Hey, 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.600 what do you want me to do for you? Blind 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:55.800 Man's like, let me see he said, rabber, I want 0:08:55.800 --> 0:09:01.680 to see you man. I like this. Go, Jesus said, 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:12.360 your faith has hewed you. Your shout has healed you, 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:17.360 your resilience has healed you. Somebody took your last twenty 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:21.320 to get to church today. That's the thing that healed you, 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.600 the fact that you believed in spite of what you 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:29.480 were facing. And the Bible says, I like this word immediately, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:37.400 I feel it coming all of a sudden, immediately. This 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.000 ain't for everybody. This is just for fifty people and 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.079 a two year old that can give off a prayer 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.559 to say that thing about to happen quicker then you 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:51.800 can't even imagine. Immediately immediately he received this site followed 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:56.440 Jesus along the road. How did I get here? Lord Jesus, 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.920 I'm a prayer, prayer? You ready? How did we get here? Amen? 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:06.520 You could take your seats all right? How did I 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:10.400 get here? How did I get here? How did I 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:14.280 get here? This past week I went to Northmortal Beach, 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.400 that's where my dad is buried, where my mom is from, 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.600 and we went there to visit my grandma. My grandma's 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:25.800 ninety two years old. Yeah yeah, her classmate was Harriet Tupman. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:32.280 My grandma is so old she seen many presidents. And 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.480 I walk in and my grandma. She's like Isaac. Her 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:38.640 side is felling hers because she you know, she's up 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.560 in age and she's sitting there with her snuff. You're 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.360 not from the country if you don't know what snuff is. 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:50.120 No teeth but snuff, I said, Grandma. My grandma had 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:54.040 fourteen kids, y'all. After ten you don't even feel them 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.760 no more. There's another child. They just she got fourteen 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:03.000 over forty grandkids. And I walk in and I'm like grandma, 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:07.679 and she's like, wow, hold dad, get over here. And 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.600 I go over to her and I said, grandma's me 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.800 and I can't talk, y'all. I got speech impediment. If 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.960 you laugh, you laughed, and that was not a joke. 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:23.000 So I thought it was just me and my speech 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.040 marks me. So my grandma she knew it, and she 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:26.040 was like, try. 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:28.240 That's you. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.760 I spent some time with her, something about when your 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:38.120 sight is feeling, your senses are heightened. And what's interesting 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.160 about this text. I learned this from Pastor Furd. You 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.880 preach every line in the text, and so the first 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.400 thing I want to acknowledge in this text is that 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.040 the blind man is in Jericho. The word Jericho means 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:54.040 fragrance or to smell. Isn't an interesting that he's blind 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.720 but he can still smell the roses. So I want 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.440 to tell you, don't allow your low place cause you 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:05.280 to mister beauty of the season. You're in he's in Jericho. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:09.400 This is not a mountaintop message because most of the 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.520 people were asking how did I get here? Aren't on top? 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.800 You feel like you're at the bottom. You're asking how 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.319 did this happen to me? How did I get here? 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.960 My last great memory was a wedding photo, and now 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:23.480 I'm a widow. That was my mom at the age 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.680 of twenty nine. When my dad died on a Sunday morning, 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:27.960 I was five years old. How did I get here? 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:30.439 How did I get in the back of this police car? 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.839 How did I get in divorce court? Come on, y'all, 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:34.560 don't look at me in that tone of voice? How 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:39.240 did I get here? My life was heading in one direction, 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.920 and then one decision, one thing, caused me to get 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:49.680 into an uncertain, unfamiliar, and unexpected place. How did I 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.880 get here? How did I get here? How did I 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:58.280 get addicted? How did this happen to my child? How 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.640 did I get here? And you may think. You may 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.840 be sitting here thinking like, man, my situation is rough. 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.840 Listen to me. Your situation cannot compare to being blind 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:15.160 in the first century fam that was the lowest of 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.520 the lowest. They had nothing. There was no brain for reading, 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.720 there were no guide dogs to help them, there was 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:25.160 no eighty a compliance. You were just stuck begging. And 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.480 that is the circumstance that this man is in. But 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.200 I want to preach to the people who feel like 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.640 your place that you're in is a surprise to you. 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:34.839 The good news is that what is new to you 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.520 is old to your God. Your future is his cast, 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.480 Your life is a rerun to him. Just watching a 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.760 movie with a friend of mine named Carlin, clearly his wife. 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.960 There's no black people named Carlin and Carlin. And I 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.840 was watching this movie years ago, years ago called Avatar, 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.960 the first Avatar, and this thing, you know, people were 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.600 bragging about how beautiful it is. God, I'm scared of everything. Okay, 0:13:57.840 --> 0:13:59.959 all creatures here below, don't invite me to your house. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:01.640 So if you got a dog I hate come to 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:03.240 your house, you'd be like, Oh, I forgot to tell 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:04.679 you I got a dog. You don't forget to tell 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:06.840 somebody black, you got a dog, first of all, second 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:10.120 of all, second of all, you don't forget. Let me 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.120 just and man, don't tell me he don't bite. No, 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:17.560 he don't bite you. He don't bite. He's just nibbling. 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.480 Get he got taste for dark meat. And this is 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.520 so I'm scared. I'm scared of all animals. 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:23.800 Right. 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.120 So I'm watching an avatar. I'm freaking out. These are just creatures. 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.960 They blue and running around. It's supposed to beautiful. I'm 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.760 freaking out. I got my hat, I'm covering my said. 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.760 Carling grabs me. He says, wait, don't leave. I said 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:40.960 call him. You wait, because when black folks get scared, 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.520 we get violent. That's what happens. We don't know. We 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:48.640 just and calling told me. He said, trap, trap, don't leave. 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:53.280 It gets better. What qualified calling to tell me? This 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:57.360 is because he already saw the movie before. So when 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:01.760 God gives you a word, I don't care how it looks. 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.240 He's confident in the world he gives you because he 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.560 already saw your life before. Do you hear what I'm 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:11.440 telling you? He's not just Alpha, he is Omega, my God. 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:15.080 And so there's nothing that you face that's new to him. 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:17.960 He saw it coming. Tell somebody he saw it coming. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.480 He saw it coming. He saw it coming. And so 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:24.720 here's this blind man. And maybe he didn't know this 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:26.800 was gonna happen in his life, but God did, and 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.040 he had a plan for him anyway. Even in the 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.480 low place, there is a plan. Even in the low place, 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.000 there is a plan. There's another story in John chapter 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.280 nine about another blind man. This story is interesting because 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.880 this man was blind from birth right and the disciples 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.640 here's something that happened in the first century because they 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.680 didn't have medical understanding, so they thought. They thought this, 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.360 if you were blind, you were cursed. Clearly you did 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.600 something wrong. This is what they believed. They believed this 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.480 so much so that Jesus is twelve thought the same thing. 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.280 They walk up on this blind man and John nine 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.320 and they asked him. They say, hey, who's him? Are 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.960 his parents? He was blind from birth. That's a dumb question. 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:09.200 How he gonna sin? For he was born dumb? And 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.760 so Jesus answered them. He asks them in verse three, 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.800 he says, hey, man, no one sind We get this 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.560 verse right here. But this happened so that the works 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:24.760 of God might be displayed in him. Can I tell 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:29.080 you something. What this means, ladies and gentlemen, is that 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:34.320 it's all a set up. I had this thought in 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.480 order for a way to be made. That means that 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:42.040 a way has to be blocked. And if something is 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.240 standing in between you and promised, then it has to 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:50.240 be a setup. If there's something that you see that 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.240 does not match what he said, it has to be 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:57.080 a setup. The rat see from Moses was a setup 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.960 for God. Jericho's war for Joshua was a set up 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.600 for God. Goliath for David was a set up for God. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.679 Death for Lazarus was a set up for God. And 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.640 so if it's sitting your way, tell your neighbor, it's 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:15.359 just a setup. I wrote a song years ago called 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:19.760 made Away, and I wrote this song his What significant 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.639 about the song? I wrote it when we desperately needed 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:27.359 a way to be made. So my wife water broke 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.679 halfway during her pregnancy of our first child. The doctor 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.240 literally told me, mister Green, I'm sorry, we're gonna take 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:34.880 the baby. You guys can go home and try again. 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.800 Obviously he's not gonna make it, but we know a 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:43.520 God who's still a healer. I know some people think 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.240 his power stopped in the Bible. But we know a 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:50.800 God who is still able to turn your situation around. 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:54.000 We know a God whose blood still works. Does anybody 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:58.040 know this Jesus that I'm talking about? And so we 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:02.639 started praying God to praying. My son was born at 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:06.520 twenty eight weeks two pounds. He was in the incubator 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:08.879 for two months. My wife was in the hospital for 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:10.600 two months. Her lege was with her in a way. 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:13.840 I mean, this was a desperate situation. But this is 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.439 what I need you to hear. This is where I 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:20.680 wrote the song you Made Away. I did not write 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.920 a song that said you'll make a way. I wrote 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:27.439 it in past tense. You ready, because anything God's about 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.639 to do, He's already done. Did you hear what I 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.800 just said? Anything God's about to do in your life, 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.480 it's already done. And ladies and gentlemen, this is the 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:41.879 difference between reactive praisers and proactive praisers. A reactive praisers 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:45.080 wait today, see the solution, wait today, see the victory, 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:47.720 wait until the X ray is turned around in that favor. 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:51.000 But a proactive praiser set I walk in with that, 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.040 I into this date with that Shitn't I into this 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:55.280 course with praiser. 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.840 I got enough history with God to know that. 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.959 He's able to do exceeding. Leah, Mother, Lee, Oh, I 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.760 can ask them, oh to think I praise them in advance. 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.360 Are there any poor hack the phrasing and elevation? 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.880 Take your top ten, take this, lift your hands, lift. 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.320 Your points and blifts up like it's already up. 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:15.560 I won't wait till my doom on the door up. 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.679 I won't wait till my child get queer, till I 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.760 won't wait till my marriages restored. I would lift the 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:22.199 little that. 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:27.240 All time, and it ray more continually beat than my 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:38.080 mouth proactive. He's not going to just make away. He's 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:50.160 already made away because it's a center. Anybody can praise them. 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:56.120 When you turn around and Pharaoh's army is drowning, that's elementary. 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:03.800 Ooh the enemy gone, but it take a ride or die? 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:09.040 Radical crazy praiser to see a sea close in front 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:12.160 of you or army coming behind you, and say, God, 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:15.320 you're still worthy because I know you didn't free me 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:18.080 to leave me. God, you still worthy because if you 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:21.119 did those ten plagues? What is this sea? Who is 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:25.280 this uncircumcised, felistyde. What is cancer? What is the person? 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:26.520 What is anxiety? 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:27.639 For my God? 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:34.720 It's easy, it's easy. So God has been conditioning the 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:42.159 unconditional worshiper in you. Some of our worshiper is too circumstantial. 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:47.480 If I feel like it, don't let Starbucks run out 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:50.560 of your favorite drink on your way to church. Oh 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:56.200 my whole day, this is ruin. That's a conditional praiser. 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:01.840 But maybe God has had you in jered to teach 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:06.120 you how to worship him here. It is even when 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:10.440 you don't feel like it, even when your head hurt 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:13.840 a little bit, even when your chald didn't show back 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:17.520 up home last night, even when Bak of America, what 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:20.719 are you telling me? Right now? Come on, I just 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:23.960 need ten people. I gotta move in this message. I'm 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:26.480 not gonna be greedy. Give me ten people. I gotta 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:28.160 lie to on top. That's all I need. 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:29.240 I need ten. 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:32.000 People gotta give him a praise in advance. 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:34.480 So cause you know God's about to pick you up, 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:38.159 hurt your fit to wait for the last. This is 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:40.720 about to walk in your favor for out your neighbor. 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:42.440 And tell him it's about to walk in your favor. 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:43.240 It's about to walk. 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:43.800 I feel this. 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:46.040 I tell him turning it, I tell him fifting that. 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:49.000 I feel him moving it in your favor. 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:50.560 It's all a. 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:59.640 Setup because man's set back, it's God's set up. Hey, hey, 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:06.800 can you trust God in the setup? Can you trust 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:08.840 him in the setup? 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:10.440 See? 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:14.040 The problem with new school Christians y'all can say that 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:21.760 I'm about to offend you, is that we act like 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:27.840 God owe us something. That's why I like those three 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:38.280 Hebrew boys. They said, even if he don't, I'm not 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:46.760 praising them because he will. I'm praising him because he can't. 0:22:48.240 --> 0:22:51.239 So even if it don't happen like I wanted to, 0:22:52.000 --> 0:23:00.000 that does not change the consistency of his character. Proactive, proactive. 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:04.879 What's interesting about this text is that every gospel account 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:10.840 speaks about the blind being healed. Everyone over Matthew Mark 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:13.360 and Luke John. They all talk about Matthew markat Loup, 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:17.320 they all talk about blind Bartimaeus. But Mark's account is 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:23.879 a little different. Mark's account goes straight from blind Bartimaeus 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:28.119 to the triumphant entantry. This is a climatic event for 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:34.359 Jesus hilling ministry. Next it's Passion Sunday. Next Palm Sunday. 0:23:34.359 --> 0:23:36.639 You know what I'm talking about. Next, He's writing in 0:23:37.800 --> 0:23:40.600 What's Interesting, I didn't really come to talk about Bartimaeus. 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:43.720 I can't talk about Mark. This god John Mark is 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:48.040 a very interesting character. Here's why. His mom is the 0:23:48.080 --> 0:23:52.639 one who hosted the prime meeting for Peter's miraculous prison break, 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:56.000 which means her house was big enough, which tells me 0:23:56.040 --> 0:24:02.840 Mark was privileged. Like me, you can judge me. I'm 0:24:02.880 --> 0:24:05.480 not from the hood. I'm a military brat. I don't 0:24:05.480 --> 0:24:07.240 know what government chiefs this. I have my own bathroom 0:24:07.280 --> 0:24:09.280 since I was five. I got everything I wanted for Christmas. 0:24:09.359 --> 0:24:18.680 This is Mark. Mark's cousin is Barnabas. So Mark is 0:24:18.720 --> 0:24:22.080 out with Paul on the first mission trip and Mark 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:24.720 is like, you know, you get hiked up and you're like, 0:24:24.760 --> 0:24:25.360 I'm going. 0:24:25.200 --> 0:24:25.640 All the way. 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:28.120 That was Mark, I'm going all the way. They get 0:24:28.119 --> 0:24:32.080 out there. Mark was like, Paul, you crazy dog. It's cold, 0:24:32.640 --> 0:24:37.600 I'm hungry, shipwreck. I ain't from the Paul talking about 0:24:37.640 --> 0:24:40.160 it's good that we suffered. Mark's like, man, I am 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:43.040 going to the crib. I gotta get up out of here. 0:24:43.400 --> 0:24:47.960 So Mark drops out Paul gets offended. He starts calling 0:24:48.040 --> 0:24:52.400 Mark a coward. Barnabas says, hold on now, though Barnabus 0:24:52.440 --> 0:24:58.120 from University City. He's like, listen, listen, Cuse, what we 0:24:58.160 --> 0:25:01.560 ain't gonna do is be talk about my family like that. 0:25:01.680 --> 0:25:05.720 I mean, I know you annoying it. Damascus. Listen, that's 0:25:05.720 --> 0:25:06.520 still my cousin. 0:25:06.560 --> 0:25:06.720 Man. 0:25:06.720 --> 0:25:08.399 You can't be talking about a little cousin. And so 0:25:08.440 --> 0:25:10.479 the Beatles break up. This is the true story. They 0:25:10.520 --> 0:25:13.680 break up. He's like, yo, I'm out they leave. I'm 0:25:13.680 --> 0:25:15.880 gonna tell you two reasons I'm so glad that Mark 0:25:15.960 --> 0:25:19.160 left Paul. I'm gonna give you the second one later 0:25:19.240 --> 0:25:22.119 in about ten minutes. The first reason I'm so glad 0:25:22.280 --> 0:25:27.200 that Mark left him is because Mark now it's hooked 0:25:27.280 --> 0:25:32.680 up with a man named Peter, and Mark don't leave Paul. 0:25:33.320 --> 0:25:36.920 Mark don't get connected to Peter. Why is this important. 0:25:37.000 --> 0:25:38.800 I don't know if you know this or not, but 0:25:38.840 --> 0:25:44.720 Mark's gospel is actually Peter's gospel. So now Marcus his student, 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:49.680 and the whole book of Mark is Mark writing but 0:25:49.800 --> 0:25:54.320 Peter speaking. This is why it's the shortest gospel. This 0:25:54.359 --> 0:25:56.080