1 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 2: Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 2: new sermons every week. 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 1: I hope you're blessed today. This is the final week 6 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: of my series. I know that voice your clapping because 7 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: you're ready for me to be done with it, or 8 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: you've enjoyed it so much. Come on, somebody, champ One 9 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 1: more week, one more week, one more week. This is 10 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: gonna be it this week, and I believe the Lord's 11 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,239 Speaker 1: gonna give us a great grand finale. To prepare your 12 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: heart for what God wants to say this week. I 13 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: want to show you a highlight video of how He 14 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: spoke to some people last week. Last week we had 15 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: a powerful encounter in the presence of God in this 16 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 1: place and so encouraged as I saw some of the takeaways, 17 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: I thought it would set the tone for what God 18 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: wants to do. On your way down to your seat, 19 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: touch your neighbor and say death by echo, echo, echo, echo, 20 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:17,119 Speaker 1: you may be seated. Check out the clip. One highlight 21 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: I took away from today was that sometimes when we're 22 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: in the cave season, it leads us to isolation and 23 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: the anchor. 24 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 3: I'd listening to our own voice instead of God's voice. 25 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: What are you doing here in these destructive patterns that 26 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: promise you safety but only make you a shame, and 27 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: the shame leads to the same behavior. What are you 28 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: doing in this cave? Sometimes my business is you know, 29 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: it's a lot of pressure. Sometimes I will go without praying, 30 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: but God always shows up. I want you to thank 31 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: God for the times you didn't even really pray, but 32 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 1: he came. The times where you thought, what if I 33 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: got it wrong? But God said, what if I got 34 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: it right? The threats are empty unless you let it echo. 35 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: So I gotta stop caving in on all the voices 36 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: inside of my head. We can be so focused on 37 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: like you're like the eggles back and the works like divorces, 38 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: that we can even here God like speaking to us, 39 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:10,079 Speaker 1: because when you start with I have had enoughing. I 40 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: I see I was filling the case. I was filling 41 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: the rooms, and now I can't hear the whisper from 42 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: the whisper. When Pastor Stevens told me all I have 43 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: to do is run it back, I could have gotten 44 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: up and run out of that church at that moment. 45 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: Run back the time that he fed you. Run back 46 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: the time that he led you. Run back the time 47 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: that he did come through. Run back the ones who 48 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: put their arm around You've been replaying the wrong things, 49 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: hadn't you. You've been replaying stuff that the devil can't 50 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,960 Speaker 1: even bring up against you because it's nailed to the cross. 51 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: If you just gotta replace something, replay the resurrection, and 52 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: remember that nothing is dead till God is done with it. 53 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 1: Nothing is over till God says so try poems, hear 54 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: the word of the Lord. Run it back. He's been 55 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: good to you. Run it back. He's more than enough. 56 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:05,079 Speaker 1: Run it back. Jehovah Jiro always provides. Run it back. 57 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: You're not alone, all right? 58 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 3: All right? 59 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: Touch ten? People say, run it back, run it back, 60 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 1: run it back. Thanks, h'all. Run it back, run it back, 61 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:20,959 Speaker 1: run it back. We are going to run it back 62 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: all the way to the first scripture that we started 63 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: this series with in one Samuel sixteen. Please open your bibles, 64 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: and we're going to bring this full circle. I know 65 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 1: that voice. One of the things I've most enjoyed about 66 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 1: teaching you this series is that hopefully we have broadened 67 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: the way that you expect to hear God in your life. 68 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 1: We found out that God can speak not only to people, 69 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: but he can speak to storms. And so if he's 70 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: not speaking to you right now in your life in 71 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: a way that you can discern, maybe he's speaking to 72 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: your situation, doing things that only he can do in 73 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: ways that only he can understand. We've understood through this 74 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: series that this not only speaks to storms, but sometimes 75 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: he speaks to stones, the condemnation that is in our life. 76 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: We talked about a woman who was caught in the 77 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: act of adultery and Jesus said, I don't condemn you, 78 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: go and sin no more. And this whole thing started 79 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: with a prophet named Samuel. So for Samuel sixteen, we're 80 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: gonna do a little first Samuel sixteen Sandwich the first 81 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: week of the series. In the last week of the 82 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 1: series will come from this passage. Not because I ran 83 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: out of Bible passages and stories to talk about God speaking, 84 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: but as we revisit it today, I want you to 85 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 1: I want you to take note. Every time you hear 86 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 1: the word of God, an opportunity for faith to be 87 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,039 Speaker 1: born presents itself to you. Faith comes by hearing hearing 88 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: comes by the word of God. The title of this 89 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 1: message today is filled by faith. Say it. Filled by faith. 90 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 1: That's how I want you going back to school this year, students, 91 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: filled by faith. That's how I want you to deal 92 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: with these doctor bills you got to pay. Filled by faith. 93 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: That's how I want you approaching this next challenge in 94 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 1: your business, filled by faith. This employee you've got to 95 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,160 Speaker 1: go fire this week, I want you filled by faith. 96 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,160 Speaker 1: This boss that's about to fire you this week, filled 97 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,279 Speaker 1: by faith. You know there's both in the room, right. 98 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 1: It's a big church. First. Samuel sixteen versus one through thirteen, 99 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,720 Speaker 1: epic scripture with an everyday application. Now, I never want 100 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,799 Speaker 1: my sermons to be image rich and principle poor, meaning 101 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,039 Speaker 1: that I just give you a lot of symbols abstractions, 102 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: but never get to the application. Today we're going to 103 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 1: talk very plainly about your feelings, and we're only gonna 104 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 1: talk about for a little while, because the main things 105 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 1: is not your feelings, it's your filling. On Samuel sixteen, 106 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: verse one, the Lord said to Samuel, how long will 107 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: you mourn for Saul? Since I have read rejected him 108 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 1: as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and 109 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: be on your way. I am sending you to Jesse 110 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to 111 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:14,559 Speaker 1: be king in Bethlehem. This will not be the last 112 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 1: king to be found in Bethlehem. By the way, I said, 113 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: keep an eye on Bethlehem. Unexpected kings come from Bethlehem. Okay, 114 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:30,159 Speaker 1: I'm getting ahead of myself. Huh. Verse two, But Samuel said, 115 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 1: how are you gonna argue with God? God told you 116 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 1: what to do. Just do it. Aren't you a prophet? 117 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: But Samuel said, how can I go? If Saul hears 118 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: about it, he will kill me. The Lord said, take 119 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 1: a heffer with you and say I have come to 120 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: sacrifice to the Lord. Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and 121 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: I will show you what to do. I am claiming 122 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:49,280 Speaker 1: that as my verse for the rest of this year. 123 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: God said, I will show you what to do. Somebody 124 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: pray it. God, show me what to do. Show me 125 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: what to do about this diet, Show me what to 126 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 1: do about this debt, Show me what to do about 127 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 1: this dysfunction. Show me what to do about this disease, 128 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 1: Show me what to do about this divorce. Show me 129 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: what to do that's a great verse. God said, I'll 130 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: show you what to do, but you've got to go 131 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 1: to Bethlehem to see it. See, God can't show you 132 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: if you don't show up. He said, I will show 133 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: you what to do. You are to anoint for me 134 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: the one I indicate. Well, Samuel did what the Lord said. 135 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: When he arrived at Bethlehem. The elders of the town 136 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: trembled when they met him. They asked, do you come 137 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 1: in peace? Samuel replied, yes, in peace, I have come 138 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves and come to 139 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: the sacrifice with me. Then he consecrated Jesse and his 140 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: sons and invited them to the sacrifice. When they arrived, 141 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 1: Samuel saw Eliah and thought, surely the Lord's anointed stands 142 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 1: here before the Lord. Side note, don't believe everything you think. 143 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: Don't believe everything you see, don't believe everything you hear, 144 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: and don't believe everything you think. Because he saw the 145 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: tall son, and he thought, because he reminded him of Saul, 146 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: who was the former king, this is the one. But 147 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,679 Speaker 1: the Lord said to Samuel verse seven, do not consider 148 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 1: his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. 149 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: The Lord does not look at the things people look at. 150 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: People look at the outward appearance. Ain't that the truth? Way? 151 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: Can I tell you how many times I preached and 152 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 1: somebody came up to me and I thought they were 153 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:38,839 Speaker 1: going to compliment my sermon, and they're like, I just 154 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: wanted to tell you this past Sunday. I love your shoes. 155 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:48,119 Speaker 1: Where did you get those boots? I'm like my shoes, 156 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 1: shoes to my shoes. I'm trying to teach you the 157 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 1: eternal truth of God, but I usually just say thank 158 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 1: you because it is nice to hear you like my shoes. 159 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 1: But one thing, you got to be very careful about 160 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 1: his surface interpretations, because the Lord does not look at 161 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:07,559 Speaker 1: the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, 162 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: but the Lord looks at the heart. If you lose weight, 163 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,080 Speaker 1: people will say, hey, congratulations, you look like you're losing weight. 164 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:17,839 Speaker 1: But if you forgive somebody, nobody can see that, so 165 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 1: they don't know to compliment you. Hey, you lost resentment, 166 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: you lost bitterness. Well, Jesse called a Benadab, another one 167 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 1: of his sons, and had him pass in front of Samuel. 168 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 1: But Samuel said, the Lord has not chosen this one either, 169 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: and he had Shamma passed by. But Samuel said, nor 170 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: has the Lord chosen this one. Jesse had seven of 171 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 1: his sons passed before Samuel, but Samuel said to him, 172 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 1: the Lord has not chosen these, none of them. So 173 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: he asked, Jesse, are these all the sons you have? 174 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: Now watch this. They're still the youngest. Jesse answered, well, 175 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: where is he? He's tendon sheep. He's in the field 176 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 1: tending sheep. He's not even in the house. He's in 177 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 1: the field tending sheep. Samuel said, send for him. We 178 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 1: will not sit down until he arrived. So he sent 179 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: for him and had him brought in. He was glowing 180 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 1: with health and had a fine appearance and handsome features. 181 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor that sounds like you. Did you know 182 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 1: you were in the Bible? Then the Lord said, writhe 183 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 1: and anoint him. The one that wasn't even in the house, 184 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 1: the one that was in the field. This is the one. 185 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 1: So Samuel took this last verse I want to read. 186 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in 187 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 1: the presence of his brothers. And from that day on, 188 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: from that day on, the spirit of the Lord came 189 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 1: powerfully upon David. It filled him from that day on, 190 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 1: and Samuel then went to rama. Everybody say my title again. 191 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 1: Filled by Faith. Now we've got two main characters. And 192 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:09,199 Speaker 1: by the way, put that in the comments too, please, 193 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: if you're watching online, Filled by Faith. Two main characters 194 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: in the text, if you don't count God. There's Samuel, 195 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: the prophet, the priest, the judge. Samuel a prophet and 196 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: a priest and a judge, wearing so many different hats 197 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:30,840 Speaker 1: he can't even find his head some days, dealing with 198 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 1: the disappointment of a failed king named Saul that he 199 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 1: didn't even want Israel to have in the first place. 200 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: And he's not a little boy anymore. He's not that 201 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: same little Samuel whose mom Hannah would bring him a 202 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 1: robe every year at the temple under Eli, where he 203 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:50,479 Speaker 1: first learned to hear the voice of God. He's grizzled now. 204 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: He's gray now. And right alongside Samuel, who is gray, 205 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:03,959 Speaker 1: we got David, who is green. He hasn't done anything yet. 206 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 1: He's a complete rookie. He's a new he doesn't know 207 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: anything about this king business. And what amazes me about 208 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 1: the passage reading it through another time and going through 209 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 1: a second pass was to realize that Samuel was gray, 210 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: David was green, but God was greater than both, meaning 211 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 1: that Samuel wasn't too old to be used by God, 212 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,679 Speaker 1: David wasn't too young to be used by God. One 213 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: is gray, one is green, but God is great. I 214 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 1: like that. So how many gray saints do we have 215 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 1: in the room today? You consider yourself kind of gray? 216 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: God can feel you even in this season of your life. 217 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:44,680 Speaker 1: God can make the rest of your life the best 218 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:48,080 Speaker 1: of your life. I'm prophesying now. God can redeem the 219 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 1: years that the canker worm has eaten. God can redeem that. 220 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:55,560 Speaker 1: How many of you consider yourself a little green? Right now? 221 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 1: I'll tell you how you can know that. If you 222 00:12:57,920 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: can do backsquats and not feel it the next step, 223 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:02,680 Speaker 1: you're green. Raise your hand if you're green right now. 224 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: If you don't have to calculate anything when you see stairs, 225 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:08,680 Speaker 1: you're green right now. Raise your hand. If you're green 226 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:10,839 Speaker 1: right now. If you don't have to do any math 227 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: on getting down those stairs and thinking about getting back up, 228 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,320 Speaker 1: if you don't have to figure any of that out, 229 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 1: you just do it and don't even know that you 230 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: did it. Raise your hand. You're green, but you're not 231 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: too young to be used by God. God will use 232 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 1: a student in this room this year to turn Arjorie 233 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: Kel upside down for the glory of God. Get three 234 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 1: of your kids off drugs. Get hey, there's somebody in 235 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: this room who is anointed to deliver your friends off 236 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: of drugs by the power of the spirit of God 237 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: on the inside of you. Because watch what the Bible said. 238 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 1: It said the spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon 239 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: David from that day, and he was green. And yet Samuel, 240 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 1: who is mourning what was, receives a fresh filling in 241 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:59,679 Speaker 1: his great years, just like David does in his green years. 242 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:02,880 Speaker 1: Speak because God is greater than gray. God is greater 243 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 1: than green. God is greater than tired. God is greater 244 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: than dumb. God is greater Hey, watch this. God is 245 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:16,960 Speaker 1: greater than your former days. Your ladder will be greater 246 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: than your past. Somebody say, filled by faith, you got 247 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 1: to look into your future and start speaking that God 248 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: is not done with me. And you got to realize 249 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: that every breath that you draw is a down deposit 250 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 1: that God is making on the destiny that He still 251 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 1: has for your life. This is not in my note, 252 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: So who am I saying this for that you've been 253 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 1: saying I'm too old, I'm too young. It's too gone. 254 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: Saul is gone. And I want you to also notice 255 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 1: something that ass Samuel is filling his horn with oil. 256 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: He is feeling all kinds of things as he does. 257 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: And this is why I wanted to use the passage 258 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: again today so that we can talk about how it's 259 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: not the feelings that matter, it's the filling that matters. 260 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 1: And I know I kind of have a little Southern accent, 261 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 1: so when I say fill it, you might think I'm 262 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: saying feel it like you know what Southern people say, 263 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: bowl water? You ever heard that? Holly used to say. 264 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 1: My brother in law, Jodie is here. She used to 265 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: say he would always talk about bowling water, and she's 266 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: like bowling water that bowl is you're using it incorrectly. 267 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 1: You put water in a bowl. But he wasn't saying bowl. 268 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 1: He was saying boil. But he said it like bowl 269 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: we bowl water, bowl penuts. If you don't know about 270 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 1: bowl peanuts. I want to have a membership class after 271 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: church and talk with you. We're going to teach that 272 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: in the college because this is the South now now 273 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 1: I understand you might not understand in translation, but when 274 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 1: I say phil it, you might here feel it. One 275 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,359 Speaker 1: time I was talking to a very successful media personality 276 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: has achieved amazing things. You know exactly who I'm talking about, 277 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: and we were visiting the place where he grew up. 278 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 1: I said, how does this feel coming back here? He said, 279 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: it makes me kind of grateful, and it also makes 280 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 1: me kind of guilty. I said, I understand grateful, but 281 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 1: why guilty? He said, I feel guilty because I realize 282 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 1: all God has done for me, but I'm not as 283 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: grateful as I should be about it. I don't appreciate 284 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: it enough. But I looked at him and I said 285 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 1: something that I want to say to you today. I said, 286 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: I don't think you're ungrateful. I think you're anxious. I 287 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 1: think that what you're carrying in this season of your 288 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: life is something that you've never managed or maintained before, 289 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: and you feel guilty because you think you're ungrateful. I 290 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 1: think you're really just anxious because you feel the pressure 291 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: to maintain what God gave you. He said, Wow, you 292 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 1: really helped me right there. I said, that's what I do. 293 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: Only thing I know how to do is say words. 294 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 1: That is my only skill in life, So I'm glad 295 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:06,880 Speaker 1: it help. One time I was talking to a big 296 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: sports we call athlete. I just told myself a little 297 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,400 Speaker 1: bit right there. I was talking to an athlete, professional athlete, 298 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: and he had just won the highest honor in his sport. 299 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,159 Speaker 1: I said, man, you gotta take me back like we're on, 300 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 1: Like we're on the postgame interview. Tell me, how how 301 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,200 Speaker 1: did it feel when you won? That? It was amazing? 302 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:28,360 Speaker 1: I saw it on TV and everything. How did it feel? 303 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:30,400 Speaker 1: I'm so happy for you, I'm so proud. He said, 304 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: worst night of my life? You remember he said, worst 305 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 1: night of my life? He said. We got back to 306 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:41,200 Speaker 1: the hotel room, our families were fighting. Everybody started acting 307 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 1: crazy because one and I thought, isn't that crazy? The 308 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 1: moment we saw as your highlight? You were going through heartbreak. 309 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:52,879 Speaker 1: So here's what I'm trying to say. By giving you 310 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: an example from sports, an example from media, an example 311 00:17:56,040 --> 00:18:00,400 Speaker 1: from Samuel, you can fill it even when you don't 312 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 1: feel it. And let me take it a step further. 313 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: When god fulfills his promise to you, it may not 314 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: feel like you think it will. God may do everything 315 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 1: he promised in your life, and you not even notice 316 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:22,199 Speaker 1: that he did it because it does not feel like 317 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:26,359 Speaker 1: you think it will. What does it feel like to 318 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 1: be used by God? You feel used? You ever seen 319 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 1: a tube of toothpaste that you used? What does it 320 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:37,680 Speaker 1: look like? That's what it feels like when God squeezes 321 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: what he put inside of you. A full tube of 322 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:45,399 Speaker 1: toothpaste is pretty. But once God starts squeezing your life 323 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:47,919 Speaker 1: to release the oil that he put inside of you 324 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 1: for the purpose that He's called you to And I'm 325 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: still not on my notes, but I'm looking for somebody 326 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,719 Speaker 1: who's been like, why does it feel like this in 327 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: my life? Now you think it feels like this because 328 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: you're for sake, You are not forsaken. You are filled 329 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,440 Speaker 1: with the spirit of God. And when you are filled 330 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 1: with the spirit of God, you will almost certainly feel 331 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: other things at the same time. Into Samuel, he's filling 332 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: the horn with oil, but he's feeling disappointed. He's filling 333 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 1: the horn with oil and he's going forward, but he 334 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:27,199 Speaker 1: is feeling a sense of regret. He is filling the 335 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: horn with oil because God is speaking to him. I'm 336 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 1: gonna show you something. Okay, this is so cool to me. 337 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 1: He's gray now, So go back to First Samuel three, 338 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 1: when Samuel first heard the voice of God, when he 339 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 1: first learned to hear God, the Lord spoke to him. 340 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you in First Samuel three what he 341 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: said in verse four, Yeah, it says. Then the Lord 342 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 1: called Samuel, he's just a little boy. He's green, not gray, 343 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: and Samuel answered, here I am. And then verse five 344 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: he ran to Eli, who was supervisor in the temple, 345 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 1: who was all washed up priest who didn't even care 346 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,920 Speaker 1: about the people. And the lamp in the temple had 347 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 1: almost gone out, and he runs to Eli, whose light 348 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 1: is fading, and says, here I am. You called me, 349 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: But Eli said I didn't call you. Go back and 350 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 1: lie down. So when laid down, God did it three times, 351 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: and finally he realized this is the Lord calling me, 352 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 1: and he says, speak Lord, your servant is listening. That's 353 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 1: when he was green. He had to learn who was 354 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: talking to him. Wow. Go to First Samuel sixteen, verse one, 355 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:37,920 Speaker 1: the Lord said to Samuel, how long will you mourn 356 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:40,960 Speaker 1: for Saul since I've rejected him as king over Israel. 357 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 1: Fill your horn with oil and be on your way. 358 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:43,959 Speaker 1: I'm sending you to Jesse of Bethlam. I've chosen one 359 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,119 Speaker 1: of his sons to be king. And Samuel knows who's 360 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 1: talking now, but watch what he said verse two. How 361 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,360 Speaker 1: because I know who's talking to me, I don't know how. 362 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 1: Isn't it a child at the point in your life 363 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 1: when you know God is speaking to you about something, 364 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 1: but you don't know how. I don't know how to 365 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 1: balance all of this. I don't know how to manage this. 366 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 1: I don't know how to deal with it. I don't 367 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 1: know how to put it behind me, exactly, because the 368 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:23,439 Speaker 1: moment I think I put it behind me, it sucks 369 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 1: me back. In the moment I think that I've gotten 370 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:30,920 Speaker 1: rid of it, its head, I don't know how. And 371 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:34,400 Speaker 1: so God speaks, and Samuel knows who, but he doesn't 372 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 1: know how. Am I preaching to anybody that I know 373 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: God is speaking to me about some things. I know 374 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:43,399 Speaker 1: God is working on me about some things. Libya, I 375 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: know God is dealing with me. I know who. I 376 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,959 Speaker 1: know that voice, but I don't know how. And so 377 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 1: you hear God speaking, you say Hallelujah. And I hear 378 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: God speaking, I say, how leilujah? Because I know that's 379 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 1: God tell me to move on. I know that's God 380 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: telling me to be pure. I know that's God telling 381 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: me to switch how I deal with this. I know 382 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 1: that's God telling me not to depend on this anymore. 383 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: I know that's God telling me to let this go. 384 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:16,679 Speaker 1: I just don't know how. I know who I sensed 385 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: that is God, But I don't know how to balance 386 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 1: doing this and that. I don't know how to balance 387 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 1: wearing all these hats. I don't know how. And besides 388 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: being confused and anxious and fearful, Samuel is grieving. How 389 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:39,479 Speaker 1: long will you mourn over what I have rejected? Well, 390 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,679 Speaker 1: look at verse four. He did what the Lord said, 391 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,639 Speaker 1: even not knowing how God was going to do what 392 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 1: he promised, he went. He decided, I've got to go, 393 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: even not knowing I've got to go, even unsure I've 394 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,640 Speaker 1: got to go, even turned inside out, I've got to go, 395 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:03,440 Speaker 1: even though I'm grieving. So I have taught you week 396 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,640 Speaker 1: after week in this series that you can be anxious 397 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 1: and excited. That's called anxcited. I make up words while 398 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,920 Speaker 1: you're doing your real job during the week. Okay, this 399 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: is what I do. I'm excited and you can be 400 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 1: anxious and excited, and the one that you lean into 401 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:27,360 Speaker 1: the most determines where your life leads. Somebody say, I'm 402 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 1: excited about this giant, I'm excited about this challenge. I'm 403 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:35,680 Speaker 1: excited about this school year. I'm excited about this battle. 404 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: I'm excited about this I'm axcited. But I'm choosing to 405 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,680 Speaker 1: excited over the anks because I've got to lean into 406 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 1: the Lord's voice this season of my life. Now. Talked 407 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 1: to you a new word last week called thanks Austin. 408 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 1: It's when God is doing amazing things in your life 409 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,720 Speaker 1: and you're too tired to go to the party. It's 410 00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: when you just won the championship and all you want 411 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 1: to do is go to bed. It's when you can 412 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 1: no sooner make it down the mountain than Jezebel sends 413 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: a death threat. Now you've got to go fight another battle. 414 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,360 Speaker 1: How you feeling, I'm thankful, I'm exhausted. I'm exhausted. We 415 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: need another word for what Samuel is in this passage, 416 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:21,159 Speaker 1: because he's grieving, but he's going, what do you call 417 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 1: it when you're grieving and you're going, Oh, maybe we 418 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 1: could say it's called growing. I didn't make that one up. 419 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: But I guarantee you that's what's happening in your life 420 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:44,919 Speaker 1: right now. Because every time you step forward in faith 421 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:49,119 Speaker 1: when you don't feel it in your situation, somebody shout, 422 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:54,400 Speaker 1: I'm growing. Notify your neighbors say I'm growing. I'm growing. 423 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 1: I'm growing because I'm still not over it yet. But 424 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,479 Speaker 1: I don't have to be over it to move forward, 425 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 1: because I'm too grown to let my emotions tell me 426 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 1: what I can and can't do. I'm too grown to 427 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 1: let a broken heart become a barricade in my life. 428 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 1: I'm too grown to let a boy who broke up 429 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 1: with me convince me that my life is over. I'm 430 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:22,359 Speaker 1: only sixteen. I'm green baby, and God is great and 431 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:31,880 Speaker 1: I'm growing even though i'm grieving because I'm growing. Such 432 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,920 Speaker 1: a neighbors say, I think you're growing. I think you're growing. 433 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: Put it in the chat, say I think I'm growing. 434 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 1: I think I'm growing because I don't know exactly what 435 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: God is doing. But I came to church anyway, and 436 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 1: that's how I know I'm growing because I used to 437 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:51,560 Speaker 1: check my mood before I came to church. But I'm 438 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,919 Speaker 1: growing now. When I was a toddler. I used to 439 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,160 Speaker 1: have a tantrum and lay down and die. But I'm 440 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,679 Speaker 1: growing now. Even when I feel angry, I don't have 441 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:09,639 Speaker 1: to give into the anger. Okay, I'm growing. That's what 442 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 1: it call. It's called when you feel fear and you 443 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 1: choose faith. Anyway, somebody say I'm growing the growth. Growth 444 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:26,879 Speaker 1: doesn't feel like growth. So now you're discouraged. I'm not 445 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:31,439 Speaker 1: growing in my faith. You most certainly are. And the 446 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 1: reason I know you're growing is because you don't know it. 447 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 1: That's why you got to go visit your aunt and 448 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 1: your uncle every once in a while when you're a kid. My, 449 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:50,919 Speaker 1: you've gotten so big, but you were developing in the dark. 450 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 1: And I just want to let you know that even 451 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: listen to me, even the fact that you are asking 452 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,200 Speaker 1: God what he wants you to do, means growing. Because 453 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,679 Speaker 1: there was a time you didn't care what God wanted 454 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: you to do. You cared what your hormones wanted you 455 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,160 Speaker 1: to do. I'm gonna go back over here and get 456 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 1: in this Bible before I get in trouble. So the 457 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 1: Lord says, The Lord says, you're growing. You're growing, And 458 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:21,679 Speaker 1: even though you don't know how, I remember that parable 459 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: about the man who planted the seed and he didn't 460 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: know how it grew, but it grew and it grew 461 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 1: and it grew. And not so much to share with you, 462 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 1: man about everything that you are feeling while you are 463 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:42,640 Speaker 1: filling fulfilling your responsibility. You have a horn and God 464 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: wants you to fill it with oil. And I want 465 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 1: to give you a little piece of marriage advice while 466 00:27:47,720 --> 00:28:01,160 Speaker 1: we're out here. Nobody can fill your horn for you. 467 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:02,960 Speaker 1: You know how they say, don't toot your own horn. 468 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: Don't brag on yourself. You've heard that before. That's a 469 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 1: Southern saying. I guess all kind of Southern stuff in 470 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 1: this sermon today, boiling water and tooting horns and all 471 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,119 Speaker 1: this stuff. Now, don't toot your own horn, but you 472 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 1: got to fill your own horn. It's something interesting about 473 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,719 Speaker 1: the oil gram. And maybe some of our young preachers 474 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,239 Speaker 1: would like to learn this because the anointing oil that 475 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,240 Speaker 1: sounds so amazing. Oh. I want to be anointed. I 476 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,119 Speaker 1: want to be anointed, And even if you're not a minister, 477 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 1: you want to be anointed. Right. I want to be 478 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: set apart by God, and I want to be empowered 479 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,399 Speaker 1: by God for his specific purpose that He's given me 480 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: to accomplish in the earth. Even if it's just to 481 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 1: raise my children, that's not a small thing. I want 482 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 1: to be anointed for that, even if it's just to 483 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: carry out my assignment, even if it's just to build 484 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 1: this company, even if it's just to create what I'm 485 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 1: supposed to create and put it forth into the world. 486 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 1: I want to be anointed for that. And you are anointed. 487 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 1: You can be anointed and annoyed. It's called and anointed. 488 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: All right, I'll stop. That's the last one. I promise. 489 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 1: That's the last. This week is the theories. I promise, 490 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 1: and many true that the anointing oil, what's in Samuel's 491 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,560 Speaker 1: horn is just like what's in his heart. It's mixed. 492 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 1: If you ever study about the oil that made the 493 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 1: anointing oil, it had several main ingredients. One of those 494 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: ingredients with cinnamon. That's a sweet fragrance. It's a celebration fragrance, 495 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 1: you would expect it at a wedding. And one of 496 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 1: the ingredients was murr and murr is a burial spice. 497 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 1: And then it amazing that the same oil that comprised 498 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 1: the symbol of the anointing had the ingredients for a 499 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 1: wedding and a death, And is God trying to show 500 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 1: us something about our life? Is God trying to show 501 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 1: you that it's going to be mixed. It's going to 502 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: be mixed. The biggest moments in your life where you 503 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 1: hold the trophy is going to to be mixed. The 504 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 1: biggest moments of your life where God is fulfilling your 505 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: every dream, It's going to be mixed. The moments when 506 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: God finally gives you wisdom, You're gonna feel too old 507 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 1: to have the energy to do anything with it, but 508 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 1: you gotta go anyway, because it's gonna be mixed. When 509 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 1: God gives you the energy to do something, you're not 510 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:21,640 Speaker 1: gonna feel like you have the wisdom to do it, 511 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: but you gotta go anyway. It's gonna be mixed. One 512 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 1: person in your family's gonna be doing good and another 513 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: one's gonna be doing bad, and it's gonna be mixed. 514 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 1: And you can't wait to smile for the picture until 515 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 1: everybody is doing good. You gotta put that plastic smile 516 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 1: on and smile in that picture and go back home 517 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 1: and praise God for your jacked up family and praise 518 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 1: God for the one that's doing good, and pray for 519 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 1: the one that's doing bad. And keep it moving. Keep 520 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 1: it moving, keep it moving, keep it moving. That's what 521 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: God told Samuel. I know your mourning, but keeping moving. 522 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 1: I know your heart is broken, but keeping moving. I 523 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,480 Speaker 1: know you don't see seven steps ahead. You only gotta 524 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: take one at a time. Keep it moving. I know 525 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 1: some oil is filling out of your horn right now, 526 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,120 Speaker 1: but keep it moving. I know you got some murry 527 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 1: in your life, but keeping moving. So the message of 528 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:19,880 Speaker 1: faith is this, I'm moving, even though it's mixed. I'm 529 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 1: moving even though it's mixed. My life is mixed right now. 530 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,760 Speaker 1: I'm happy right now, I'm heavy right now. It's mixed, 531 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 1: but I'm moving. I feel God on this message. It's mixed, 532 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: but I'm moving. There are some people who like me, 533 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 1: there are some people who hate me. It's mixed, but 534 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 1: I'm moving because if God chose me, there's not anything 535 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 1: anybody on either side can do to stop. Buddy put 536 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 1: inside of me. I got some blessings, I got some burdens. 537 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 1: It's mixed, but I'm moving. I got some things i'm 538 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 1: ashamed of. I got some things i'm pretty proud of. 539 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 1: It's mixed, and I'm moving. And the steps of a 540 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 1: good man are ordered by the Lord. And every time 541 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 1: you don't feel it, but you feel it anyway, your 542 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 1: faith grows. I'm growing, I'm growing. I'm growing. I'm growing. 543 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 1: I'm pushing back against the cave. I'm pushing back against 544 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 1: the threat, and I'm growing. I'm growing. This is your 545 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,720 Speaker 1: last day to have an empty horn. This is your 546 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 1: last day to have an empty horn. Drop by drop, 547 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:45,720 Speaker 1: we're gonna fill you back off. Notice. Notice, Notice, Samuel 548 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: didn't even know who he was filling it for. You 549 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 1: ever had to pour something out and you don't even 550 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 1: know what it's for. I don't even know why I 551 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,640 Speaker 1: took this job. I don't even know why I'm in Charlotte. 552 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,640 Speaker 1: I'll tell you why you're in Charlotte, and and so 553 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,320 Speaker 1: you can look at my shoes, and so God can 554 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 1: give you this sure word and speak to you and 555 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:15,080 Speaker 1: get you up out of your situation. Tell your neighbor. 556 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,280 Speaker 1: Feel your horn, feel your horn, Fill your horn, your horn, 557 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,880 Speaker 1: your horn, the thing God gave you, your horn, the 558 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:25,080 Speaker 1: instrument of your call, and feel it. Sit on. I 559 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 1: gotta show you something. But we don't realize about Samuel 560 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 1: as great as he was, and as great as he was. 561 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 1: And what we don't understand about David, as great as 562 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 1: he was and as great as he was, is that 563 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 1: when Saul vacated his rightful place as king by his disobedience, 564 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 1: it left an empty seat. I don't know if they 565 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:50,800 Speaker 1: can make the camera where they show it or not. 566 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 1: I sure would love that because I really need this 567 00:33:55,360 --> 00:34:00,680 Speaker 1: demonstration to get my message home. When I get up 568 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:05,440 Speaker 1: to preach, they fill this seat with someone else and 569 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,879 Speaker 1: slide everyone down so we don't have an empty seat 570 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,160 Speaker 1: on the front row today. I told them I was 571 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 1: going to be preaching about filled by faith, and I said, 572 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:20,719 Speaker 1: so when I get up to preach, leave the seat empty, 573 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:33,200 Speaker 1: because it represents something to everyone in this church today. 574 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,799 Speaker 1: And this is the thing that Saul was grieving, the 575 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:41,160 Speaker 1: empty seat. It wasn't even that Saul was a good king, 576 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:48,200 Speaker 1: but he filled a seat. And even when God removes 577 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:53,000 Speaker 1: something in your life that you don't like, it leaves 578 00:34:53,000 --> 00:35:00,680 Speaker 1: a hole. Let alone something that you love, Let alone 579 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:02,359 Speaker 1: someone that you love. Do you know how many people 580 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:07,320 Speaker 1: listening to me for today are grieving the empty seat. 581 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,600 Speaker 1: It is not the empty throne of a king. Maybe 582 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:15,319 Speaker 1: it's a person that you loved very dearly who was 583 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:20,080 Speaker 1: taken away too soon. Maybe they weren't even taken away. 584 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,760 Speaker 1: Maybe it represents a person who chose to walk away 585 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,560 Speaker 1: and now you don't even know if they were supposed 586 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,279 Speaker 1: to be in your life or not. But all I 587 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:33,320 Speaker 1: know is I got this seat and I wanted to 588 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,839 Speaker 1: leave it empty on purpose because I wanted to talk 589 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:41,440 Speaker 1: about grieving the empty seat. It may not represent a 590 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:45,080 Speaker 1: person at all. It may represent provision in your life. 591 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,360 Speaker 1: It may be the fact that there's something that you 592 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,399 Speaker 1: need God to do for you, and you are not 593 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:56,520 Speaker 1: saying Hallelujah. You are saying how how? And I'm in church, 594 00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:00,840 Speaker 1: but I am still very frustrated waiting for God to 595 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:05,480 Speaker 1: show me about this empty seat. I need help, and 596 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,359 Speaker 1: I don't know who to call. Do you know how 597 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:10,600 Speaker 1: many people are saying, I'm gonna get in therapy when 598 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,640 Speaker 1: I figure out who to call. Y'all? I felt the 599 00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,319 Speaker 1: same way, and one day I just had to ask 600 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:18,799 Speaker 1: a friend, who did you see? And go see them? 601 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,279 Speaker 1: And I said, if I don't like them, I can 602 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:25,440 Speaker 1: fire them. You can't fire your kids, you can fire 603 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:29,360 Speaker 1: a therapist. Let me just do one session but I 604 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:33,600 Speaker 1: could have sat all the next decade of my life 605 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,880 Speaker 1: knowing that I needed help and telling myself a story. 606 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:42,600 Speaker 1: How long do you want to sit there? You know, 607 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,520 Speaker 1: my dad is probably the greatest source of my sermon 608 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,480 Speaker 1: illustrations these days, because now he's in heaven and I 609 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,840 Speaker 1: can say whatever I want about him, and it's awesome. 610 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,040 Speaker 1: It's awesome because I can tell all the stories from 611 00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:59,200 Speaker 1: my side of the story. I waited a long time 612 00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,600 Speaker 1: to do that, and I miss him dearly, but I 613 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,320 Speaker 1: honor him in every message as I tell these stories 614 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,520 Speaker 1: about him. And there's one I've told over and over again, 615 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,759 Speaker 1: and I said, I can't share that story in church. Yea, 616 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:10,719 Speaker 1: I've told it so many times, but I think it 617 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:14,439 Speaker 1: really reflects what I'm trying to say about the full 618 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 1: horn and the empty sea, about the times when you 619 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:21,440 Speaker 1: don't feel it, but you choose to feel it anyway. 620 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,680 Speaker 1: Because there was a time in my dad's life that 621 00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:27,919 Speaker 1: we weren't speaking. There was a time in his life 622 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:29,440 Speaker 1: where I thought he would die and we would not 623 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,680 Speaker 1: be reconciled. There was a time in his life when 624 00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:36,480 Speaker 1: he was so violent and disruptive that I didn't know 625 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,759 Speaker 1: how to make the relationship. Right. See, I knew what 626 00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,520 Speaker 1: I wanted God to do, reconcile the relationship. I didn't 627 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:51,799 Speaker 1: know how. Ain't that a place to be? Samuel has 628 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:56,239 Speaker 1: been doing this for decades and he still doesn't know how. 629 00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:01,120 Speaker 1: And so God says phil it phil it, fill it. 630 00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,640 Speaker 1: And after not speaking to my dad, remember he's dying 631 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,359 Speaker 1: with als, I know he has a short window of time. 632 00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,080 Speaker 1: He won't reconcile with my mom. He won't reconcile with me. 633 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,719 Speaker 1: I keep paying for people to come take care of him. 634 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:17,400 Speaker 1: He fires people that I'm paying. How am I supposed 635 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,120 Speaker 1: to help you when you fire the help by sin? 636 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:22,680 Speaker 1: But see, he had a lot going on in his 637 00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,200 Speaker 1: body too. He had a lot of pain in his 638 00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:25,880 Speaker 1: body too. He was doing the best he could, and 639 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:27,720 Speaker 1: I'm doing the best I can. How are we gonna 640 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:31,640 Speaker 1: do this? And one Father's Day round about twenty eleven 641 00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:35,400 Speaker 1: or twelve, I was driving home with my family from vacation, 642 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,520 Speaker 1: and I thought of an idea. I would be passing 643 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,160 Speaker 1: nearby Monk's Corner, where my dad was living by himself, 644 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,879 Speaker 1: by his own choice. At that point, we couldn't speak 645 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:46,200 Speaker 1: on the phone because every time we try to speak 646 00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,520 Speaker 1: on the phone. It would erupt. Every time we try 647 00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,160 Speaker 1: to speak on the phone, somebody hang up on somebody. 648 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,319 Speaker 1: And driving down the road that day, it was as 649 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:57,960 Speaker 1: if the Lord said to me, how long are you 650 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:02,480 Speaker 1: going to keep playing chicken with this? You know how long? 651 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:08,000 Speaker 1: He asked, left? How long? How long? I said, Lord? 652 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,200 Speaker 1: How to? Well? I got an idea. I don't know 653 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:16,520 Speaker 1: if this was the Lord. Usually you don't when you're 654 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:22,400 Speaker 1: doing it. You'd be asking all kinds of crazy questions, 655 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:27,400 Speaker 1: like what if I got it wrong? But this seemed 656 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:31,920 Speaker 1: harmless enough, so I asked Hollywood she drives. She said sure, 657 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:33,880 Speaker 1: I said, I need to do something. I was too 658 00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:35,480 Speaker 1: embarrassed to tell her what I was doing, but I 659 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,520 Speaker 1: pulled out whatever I could find her right with and 660 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,040 Speaker 1: write on, and I began to make a list. I 661 00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:40,840 Speaker 1: decided I'd make a list at the time I was 662 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,640 Speaker 1: thirty one or thirty two years old, of a memory 663 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,040 Speaker 1: from every year that I had been alive, that he 664 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,279 Speaker 1: had been my dad, and I would drive by his 665 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,799 Speaker 1: house and drop it off, even though we couldn't talk. 666 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,160 Speaker 1: Maybe I could hand him a list. And I want 667 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,239 Speaker 1: to tell you that picking up my pen to start 668 00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,839 Speaker 1: that list, as mad as I was at him as 669 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:08,800 Speaker 1: confused as I was. The pen weigh three thousand pounds. 670 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:20,000 Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm carving into my flesh to try to 671 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:23,200 Speaker 1: think of anything good, because when you're really mad at somebody, 672 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,960 Speaker 1: I mean, when you're really good and mad at somebody 673 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:32,560 Speaker 1: and the Lord is saying forgiven, you're going hell. When 674 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:38,560 Speaker 1: I wrote one word to start the list, and it 675 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,719 Speaker 1: took me twenty minutes, and I thought this is going 676 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,840 Speaker 1: to take a long time, Lord, But the first word, 677 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:50,400 Speaker 1: when I started to fill it, even though I didn't 678 00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:57,000 Speaker 1: feel it, I wrote down one word. I wrote, bunt. 679 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:03,920 Speaker 1: Be you into as in baseball bunting, because when I 680 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:08,120 Speaker 1: was ten, he coached my team, the Pirates, and we sucked, 681 00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:11,239 Speaker 1: and we were so bad he didn't allow us to 682 00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:15,040 Speaker 1: swing the bat the entire season. He made us bunt 683 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:19,680 Speaker 1: every single at bat. I don't know if that's good 684 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,280 Speaker 1: parenting or child abuse. I don't know whether to praise 685 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,239 Speaker 1: the Lord or call child Protective Services. But he made 686 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:30,279 Speaker 1: us bunt. So I wrote bunt. And then bunt made 687 00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:35,759 Speaker 1: me remember punk, as in punk rock, as in when 688 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,600 Speaker 1: he took me to a punk rock show in Lads 689 00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:42,399 Speaker 1: in South Carolina and there were only three people there 690 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,680 Speaker 1: meet him and one other person who I think was 691 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,000 Speaker 1: with the band. And it was so bad in the room, 692 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:55,239 Speaker 1: and I wrote punk rock show in lads, and and 693 00:41:55,239 --> 00:42:00,799 Speaker 1: then I wrote let the wild hog eat inside joke 694 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:02,160 Speaker 1: I'll tell you about later. That's when we went to 695 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,680 Speaker 1: that independent fundamentalist church and that preacher was up there preaching. 696 00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:06,480 Speaker 1: That little one on the front row stood up and yelled, 697 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:08,600 Speaker 1: let the wild hog eat. And I looked at my 698 00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:10,799 Speaker 1: dad liked that. He just talked about a hog. Who's 699 00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:16,359 Speaker 1: the hog or you the hog? Where's the And when 700 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,759 Speaker 1: we got to the door, I had my list. I 701 00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:24,080 Speaker 1: filled it, but I still didn't feel it. And I 702 00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:25,960 Speaker 1: knocked on the door and he answered the door and 703 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:31,279 Speaker 1: I said, here, that's all I had. That's all I 704 00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:37,839 Speaker 1: had because I'm forgiving him, but I'm frustrated. But God 705 00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,600 Speaker 1: doesn't judge you based on what you feel. You can 706 00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:44,439 Speaker 1: feel it even when you don't feel it. I said, here, 707 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:48,840 Speaker 1: here's a list, and it's got bunting and baseball and 708 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:53,080 Speaker 1: guitars and punk rock and hogs and everything. And he said, well, 709 00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,040 Speaker 1: you come in for a minute. I said maybe five minutes. 710 00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:56,839 Speaker 1: And I made at ten and I had to leave. 711 00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:01,319 Speaker 1: But it started something. It's guard is something that never 712 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:05,800 Speaker 1: would have started if I had waited until I felt 713 00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:11,280 Speaker 1: it to feel it. And you keep waiting for a feeling, 714 00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:16,279 Speaker 1: but God is waiting for a feeling. See, God's just 715 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,080 Speaker 1: asking you. Do what I told you to do. Do 716 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,920 Speaker 1: the next thing that you can discern, move through the 717 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,799 Speaker 1: fall the best that you can. That's all you can do. 718 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:32,319 Speaker 1: And every time you feel it, when you don't feel it, 719 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:37,320 Speaker 1: faith is born. And I want to tell you something 720 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:41,360 Speaker 1: about the empty seat in your life. Whether it's relational, 721 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:45,319 Speaker 1: whether it's a resource, whether it's provisional, whether it's a person, 722 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:47,040 Speaker 1: whether it's a purpose. Some of you are saying, in 723 00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,000 Speaker 1: this season of my life, I don't know what I'm 724 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,520 Speaker 1: supposed to be doing. I'm not doing what I used 725 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,399 Speaker 1: to do. Yes, this message is for empty nesters. It's 726 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:57,919 Speaker 1: for the grace. Yes, this message is for the middle 727 00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:00,720 Speaker 1: school students, is for the greens. It's it's a message 728 00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:04,280 Speaker 1: about God, who is greater than any empty seat. Because 729 00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,160 Speaker 1: I came to declare in the name of the Lord, 730 00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:11,000 Speaker 1: God will fill this seat. God will fill this God 731 00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:15,360 Speaker 1: knows what he's doing. God knows what he's planned. God 732 00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,760 Speaker 1: knows what he's purpose. God knows who to bring into 733 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:22,160 Speaker 1: your life. God knows who to delay, God knows who 734 00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,960 Speaker 1: to deliver. God knows who to delay. God knows how 735 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:33,880 Speaker 1: to do it. And so when you fill your horn, 736 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:44,560 Speaker 1: God fels this, this is not your job, this is 737 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:55,400 Speaker 1: this is this is. And I was by that man's 738 00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:59,160 Speaker 1: bedside when he died, reading him a Patroles Spurgeon sermon 739 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,279 Speaker 1: called the Peaceful Sleep the Beloved, and my mom was 740 00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:04,840 Speaker 1: caring for him. 741 00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:08,960 Speaker 4: Even though I didn't feel it. God filled it, and 742 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:10,879 Speaker 4: I didn't know how he would, but he did it. 743 00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:17,640 Speaker 4: The most amazing thing to me about God is that 744 00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:21,400 Speaker 4: he had chosen someone to fill sal seed. 745 00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:29,840 Speaker 1: Who wasn't even in the house. After all, seven sons 746 00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,840 Speaker 1: that Jesse thought would be a good king passed by Samuel. 747 00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:40,000 Speaker 1: Samuel said, is that all you've got? Well, he said, 748 00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:47,839 Speaker 1: there's still one. But he's not in the house. He's 749 00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:52,920 Speaker 1: in the field. Put my title back up again. I 750 00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:58,600 Speaker 1: want to talk to somebody today who's in the zoom 751 00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:14,040 Speaker 1: out please field by faith. And you think God has 752 00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:16,960 Speaker 1: forgotten me, That's why I'm not in the house. And 753 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,680 Speaker 1: God has forgotten me. That's why they didn't call, and 754 00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:22,520 Speaker 1: God has forgotten me. That's why they forsook me. Not 755 00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:28,040 Speaker 1: God will find you in the field. I said, God 756 00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:32,960 Speaker 1: will find you in it because he's a seat filler, see, 757 00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:38,400 Speaker 1: because he's sovereigncy because he knows what he's doing in 758 00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:42,400 Speaker 1: your life. You keep feeling this, You keep feeling this, 759 00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:45,359 Speaker 1: whether you feel it or not. You keep bringing your 760 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:49,000 Speaker 1: butt back to this church and put that butt in 761 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:53,560 Speaker 1: this seat, and God will fill this seat. You keep 762 00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:58,440 Speaker 1: showing up in his presence. I speak to the spirit 763 00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:02,400 Speaker 1: of insecurity in your life, the one that makes you 764 00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,760 Speaker 1: think that there's something wrong with you. Look what Samuel 765 00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,319 Speaker 1: will say about David. Look what Samuel said about the 766 00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,680 Speaker 1: one that his dad didn't even think was worth bringing in. 767 00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:15,560 Speaker 1: It's in verse eleven. He said, send for him. No, 768 00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:21,879 Speaker 1: we will not sit down until he arrives. God said, 769 00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:26,000 Speaker 1: I'm saving your seat. I'm saving your seat. I'm saving 770 00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:29,640 Speaker 1: your seat. I know what I'm doing, and I'm saving 771 00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:34,120 Speaker 1: your seat. And all you gotta do is keep slinging 772 00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:38,239 Speaker 1: your sling. And all you gotta do is keep trusting 773 00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:43,040 Speaker 1: your God. And all you gotta do is still your 774 00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:50,520 Speaker 1: horn with ale and move move. So tho He's costs 775 00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:55,239 Speaker 1: you move. No, he's slay you move the pair all 776 00:47:55,280 --> 00:48:02,560 Speaker 1: around you move and worst of him. Come on, stand 777 00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,200 Speaker 1: up on your feet and worship him. Fill your horn 778 00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,920 Speaker 1: with oil. He hears the prayers you've answered. He knows 779 00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:14,839 Speaker 1: the needs you cannot name. He does not lack, He 780 00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:23,520 Speaker 1: does not slumber, and neither does he sleep, And he 781 00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:30,760 Speaker 1: sits down and in habits the praises of his people. 782 00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:37,520 Speaker 1: With your hands lifted, ask your father, feel. 783 00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:43,319 Speaker 3: Me, feel me, feel me to obey you when I 784 00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:47,360 Speaker 3: feel it, Feel me to obey you when my emotions 785 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,920 Speaker 3: say don't, feel me to obey you. When I get 786 00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:57,960 Speaker 3: a goose bump, feel me to obey it when I'm grumpy. 787 00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:03,560 Speaker 1: Fill me. Say it again. Jesus didn't say, feel me 788 00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,800 Speaker 1: and I'll make you fishers them, and he said follow 789 00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:08,600 Speaker 1: me and I'll make you fishers them in. That's all 790 00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,480 Speaker 1: you've got to do, baby, That's all you got to do. Dude. 791 00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:16,560 Speaker 1: Quit stressing about stuff that God has already selected, and 792 00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:19,759 Speaker 1: quit grieving about things that God has rejected. This is 793 00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:25,440 Speaker 1: the word of the Lord for you today. Andy. 794 00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:27,880 Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 795 00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:31,000 Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe. 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