1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:10,720 Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving. 6 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: In your life. Enjoy the message. Anybody happy to be 7 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:21,240 Speaker 1: in church today? 8 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 3: When I was growing up, my parents used to always 9 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 3: quote that scripture. I was glad when they said, unto me, 10 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,839 Speaker 3: let us go to the wood, to the house of 11 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:36,559 Speaker 3: the Lord. And I'm just so thankful to be an Elevation. 12 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 3: Do you love your church today? Do you love your 13 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 3: pastors today? I'm a preacher just the moment. But and 14 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 3: again I want to just say I reiterate Pastor JJ 15 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 3: did such a great job. Thank it everybody forgiving. But 16 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 3: just in the aftermath of the hurricane, can we just 17 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 3: own everyone that's being generous and given. 18 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: Let's pray, Let's come. 19 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 3: On, let's really stir off faith to help those that 20 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 3: are in need right now. The devastations overwhelming, and what 21 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 3: an opportunity. I see it as an opportunity for the 22 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 3: church to step up and be what we're called to be. 23 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 3: A men and so I love your church and I 24 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:25,399 Speaker 3: love your pastors, and I got to. 25 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: Be with them. 26 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 3: I live in Los Angeles and the tour Elevation Worship 27 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 3: Nights came through Los Angeles, California. I gotta tell you, 28 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:36,039 Speaker 3: LA wasn't ready for Pastor Steven. They weren't ready for him. 29 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 3: And I have never been to a concert where every 30 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 3: single song that they sang when they started it, I 31 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 3: was like. 32 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: Oh, this is my favorite one. 33 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 3: This is my favorite one, This is my favorite Then 34 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 3: they sing another one. I'm like, Oh, put this one 35 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 3: right here, because I got memories with these songs. I've 36 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 3: been through some things with these songs. I cried in 37 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 3: my part of these songs. Come on, clap and give honor. 38 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: We're honoring to. 39 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 3: Do if you're grateful for the cycle bye of Elevation 40 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 3: Church and Pastor Stephen. 41 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: And Holly. 42 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 3: And we're we're we're called. We're called to give honor 43 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 3: where honor is due. You know how sometimes the rent 44 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 3: is due. Today I feel like the honor is due, 45 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 3: and Pastor Stephen is a gift not just to Charlotte 46 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 3: and the Elevation but to the world. 47 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: To the Body of Christ. 48 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:26,800 Speaker 3: And I say, right, now just as he's resting today, 49 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 3: I say we pray for him right now, just as 50 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,239 Speaker 3: a church, you know, just a hedge of protection over 51 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:34,959 Speaker 3: his family, that the blessing of God would be all 52 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 3: over his home and his life. And Pastor Hawley the same. 53 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 3: Come on, church, let's just pray for Pastor Stephen right now. Father, 54 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,080 Speaker 3: we declare in the name of Jesus, your goodness and 55 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 3: your mercy will follow them all the days of their life. 56 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,959 Speaker 3: We think you that as they've refreshed Poise and Salt 57 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,679 Speaker 3: Lake City and Los Angeles, God, you said that those 58 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 3: the refreshed others, will they themselves be refreshed. So God, 59 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 3: Philip is cup. We thank you God for the pastor 60 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 3: that he is the leader that he is. And we 61 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 3: just thank you for a blessing today in Jesus name. 62 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 3: And everybody said together, come on clap one more time. 63 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,919 Speaker 3: Anybody loved the Bible today. We're gonna jump right in 64 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:17,959 Speaker 3: in just a moment. But before you do, turn and 65 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 3: sayhi to somebody. As you take a seat, turn and 66 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 3: say hi to somebody. Go in your bible to Romans 67 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 3: chapter twelve. Romans chapter twelve. It is good to be 68 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 3: in church today. Any married people in church today. 69 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:33,920 Speaker 1: Yay. 70 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 3: My wife and I just celebrated sixteen years of marriage. 71 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 3: She is blessed. Come on, we have four children. We're 72 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 3: about to be in the odds. I'm about to have thirteen, eleven, 73 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 3: nine and seven. We like a rock band. We put 74 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 3: them out every two years. But I stopped that years ago. 75 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 3: I said, oh no more. I told my wife we 76 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 3: would have been good with two. We would have dominated 77 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 3: two kids, but we had two too many. They're dominating 78 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 3: us now. But God has been so good to us. 79 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 3: My wife and I we planted a church in Los Angeles. 80 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 3: We just celebrated nine years of our church in LA. 81 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 3: And in nine years, in nine years, we've seen thirteen 82 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 3: thousand people say yes to Jesus in LA. Come on, 83 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 3: clap if you believe God is good. But it's an 84 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 3: honor to be here. And I want to jump right 85 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 3: in because Romans chapter twelve, we're gonna go to verse four. 86 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 3: What I love about Jesus is that he has offered 87 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,840 Speaker 3: us the invitation of a lifetime. And the invitation of 88 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 3: a lifetime to me is not just believing in Jesus. 89 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 3: But I think it gets fun when you start following Jesus. 90 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,119 Speaker 1: But just to believe is not that fun. 91 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 3: But the adventure of a lifetime to me is when 92 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 3: you say yes to following Jesus. 93 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:05,039 Speaker 1: You never know where He's going to take your life. 94 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 3: You never know what God's going to do in you, 95 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 3: and you never know what God's going to do through you. 96 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 3: And so I want to talk today as you discover, 97 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 3: as you walk with God, you discover what has He 98 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:18,599 Speaker 3: gifted you to do on this earth? 99 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: What is He placed in your life. The more I 100 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: follow Jesus, the. 101 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 3: More I discover my gifting, my talents, my unique makeup 102 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 3: to go make a difference in the world. Look here Romans, 103 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,679 Speaker 3: Chapter twelve, verse four. I love these scriptures as Paul 104 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 3: He's writing for by the grace given to me. I 105 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 3: say to every one of you, do not think of 106 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 3: yourself more highly than you ought to. That's a word 107 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,280 Speaker 3: for cowboy fans. Come on, somebody, helle lojah. I felt 108 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 3: the Holy Ghost when I said it too. I felt 109 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 3: the Holy Ghost when I said it. I was like, 110 00:05:59,320 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 3: who is it for? 111 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: Bam? Cowboy fans. Cowboy fans are so cute. Y'all are cute. 112 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 1: Y'all are cute because every year. 113 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 3: I let me preest a word, okay, but rather think 114 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:17,280 Speaker 3: of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith 115 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 3: God has distributed to each of you. 116 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 1: For just as each of. 117 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 3: Us has one body with many members, as these members 118 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 3: do not all have the same function. So in Christ, we, 119 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 3: though many, form one body, and each member belongs to 120 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 3: all the others. You know what I love about seeing 121 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,840 Speaker 3: that video about what we're doing to help, is that 122 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 3: we need Samaritans, purse, we need convoy of hope, we 123 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 3: need elevation church. 124 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: Come on, anybody, thankful. We're just playing our part in 125 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 1: a really big thing. Verse six. 126 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 3: We have different gifts according to the grace given to. 127 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: Each of us. 128 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 3: If your gift is prophesigned, then prophesie in accordance with 129 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,359 Speaker 3: your faith. If it is serving, then serve. If it 130 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 3: is teaching, then teach. If it is to encourage, then 131 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 3: give encouragement. If it is giving, then give generously. If 132 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 3: it is to lead, do it diligently. If it is 133 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 3: to show mercy, do it cheerfully. Love must be sincere 134 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 3: hate what is evil, cling to what is good. Be 135 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 3: devoted to one another in love, Honor one another above yourselves, 136 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 3: never be lacking in zeal but keep your spiritual fervor 137 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 3: serving the Lord. Oh, come on, clap today. That's just 138 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 3: good reading right there. That's not even preaching, that's reading. 139 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 3: I want to preach a message today right down the title. 140 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 3: Is there anything I can do for you? Is there 141 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 3: anything that I can do for you? 142 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: See? 143 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 3: I know how much God has done for me. I 144 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 3: know what God has done in my life. God pulled 145 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 3: me out of a pit, set my feet upon a rock, 146 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 3: put a new song in my mouth. I don't know 147 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 3: about you, but I was dead, but now I'm alive. 148 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 3: I was blind, but now I see. Come on, anybody 149 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 3: thankful today for what Jesus has done? Has God been 150 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 3: good to anybody here today? Come on, give him a 151 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 3: better praise than that. If you believe God is good, God, 152 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 3: God like to say this way. God has been better 153 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 3: than I deserve. And He has been greater than I 154 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 3: could imagine. He has been better than I could ever deserve. 155 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 3: But I'll tell you he has been better than I 156 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 3: have ever imagined. God has been so good to me. 157 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 3: God gave me his spirit. God gave me salvation. God 158 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 3: gave me my health today. God gave me a beautiful family. 159 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:42,559 Speaker 3: God hooked me up so much and gave me two 160 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 3: extra kids. But when I think about all that God 161 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 3: has done for me, how could I not in return 162 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 3: say Lord, is there anything. 163 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: That I could do for you? 164 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 3: Because I know your faith fulness, I know you're healing power, 165 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 3: I know what you've. 166 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: Done for me. But I just want to just pause 167 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: for a second and say, Lord, is there anything that this? 168 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: Is there anything that. 169 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 3: I could potentially possibly do for you? When we moved 170 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 3: to LA we left Seattle, Washington to move to Los Angeles. 171 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 3: We got we got out of Egypt, y'all, and so 172 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 3: it rained too much up there. So when we moved down, 173 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 3: we had two kids in those days, just two of them, 174 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 3: and we were driving down. We didn't we didn't have 175 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 3: a staff, we didn't have an office, we didn't have 176 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 3: we didn't have a house. 177 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 1: We found our house. 178 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 3: We were on I five in Sacramento and my wife 179 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 3: was looking on Craigelist for a place to live, and 180 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 3: so we found it. But we were in Sacramento, so 181 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 3: we still had a long drive. So we sent a 182 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 3: friend to go check out the house the neighborhood. She 183 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 3: couldn't get in, but she could check out the house. 184 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 3: She said, the neighborhood's fine, So we said yes to 185 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 3: the house. We got the home on Craigslist. We rented 186 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:58,319 Speaker 3: a house to go plant the church while we were there. 187 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 3: While we were driving, my wife mentioned to me that 188 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 3: she has a family friend from New Zealand that was 189 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 3: also moving to LA for a job. And she said, 190 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 3: this home that we just rented has an extra house, 191 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 3: extra room, and she's looking for a place to live. 192 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 3: What do you think about renting out a room to 193 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 3: this to my childhood friend from New Zealand, I was say, well, 194 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 3: we're church planners. 195 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: We need the money. Holley lujah. 196 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 3: Yes. And what I remember about this girl from New 197 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 3: Zealand when we planned a church and she helped us, 198 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 3: there was eleven people that started in our living room. 199 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 3: Started this church is O Way Church in LA. And 200 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 3: what I remember about this girl the most is that 201 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 3: she would go to everybody in the church and she'd 202 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 3: always ask if she could help, like, may. 203 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, can I help you? Mat see anything I could do? Mate? Yeah? 204 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 3: Shock mock blue yeah, Mike, good on you. But I 205 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 3: remember that's what I remember. Is there anything that I 206 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 3: could do to help? This is like me and my 207 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 3: house with my wife. My wife runs our home, she 208 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 3: runs our house. She is the boss at our house. 209 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 3: I don't have a clue what's going on. So I 210 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 3: just every day breakfast, lest your dinner. I'm like, can 211 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 3: I do Can I help? Is there any do you need? 212 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:09,959 Speaker 3: Can I do anything to help? She said the other day, 213 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 3: I finally figured out what your gift is. Your gift 214 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 3: in this home what you do is you're good at 215 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 3: dropping off the kids. And I was like, yeah, I'm 216 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 3: really good at dropping I can get rid of them kids. Yes, 217 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 3: I know how to do that. That's about all I 218 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 3: know how to do. But I wonder today if we 219 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 3: could get to the place where we could come to 220 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 3: God and say, Lord, I don't know what I'm exactly 221 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 3: gifted in, but whatever I have, is there anything that 222 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 3: I could do for you? I'm I'm see you got 223 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 3: to get a life with a view, in view of 224 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 3: your mercy, in view of the cross, in view of 225 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 3: your faithfulness. I can survey and see what you've done 226 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 3: for me, and so God, in response of gratitude, I 227 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 3: just want to ask, is there anything that I can 228 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:02,319 Speaker 3: do for you? See the problem is is that a 229 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 3: lot of us we we we we find out our 230 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,199 Speaker 3: gift or our talent, and we fall in love with 231 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 3: our gift more than our God. We we are mesmerized 232 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,440 Speaker 3: with our talents and our capabilities. And I want to 233 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 3: just give you four things to write down today. Write 234 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 3: down number one. Don't fall in love with your gift. 235 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 3: Fall in love with the gift giver. Don't fall in 236 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 3: love with your talent. Don't fall in love with how 237 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 3: gifted you are and how amazing you are. If you 238 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 3: got the gift to teach, don't fall in love with 239 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 3: your teaching gift. If you got the gift to sing, 240 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 3: don't fall in love with your singing gift. If you 241 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,080 Speaker 3: got whatever your gift is, don't fall in love with 242 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 3: your gift. We live in a culture that is obsessed 243 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 3: with their gift. 244 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 1: They are. 245 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 3: They are mesmerized by their talent. They are mesmerized by 246 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 3: their ability. Vanity of vanities. Look at how awesome I am. 247 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 3: Look at how great I am, Look at the business 248 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,599 Speaker 3: I can build, Look at the songs I can write. No, 249 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:00,839 Speaker 3: I want to encourage you today. Don't fall in love 250 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 3: with your gift, fall in love with your God, says 251 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 3: Romans Chapter one. Romans Chapter one says they started to 252 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 3: worship creation rather than worshiping the Creator. And we got 253 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 3: to be careful in this culture to not discover our 254 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,719 Speaker 3: gift and fall in love with it, to monetize it, 255 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,199 Speaker 3: to just make it about us and our kingdom. Know, 256 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 3: as we follow God, he shows us what He's put 257 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:34,080 Speaker 3: inside of us. When you were born, God didn't kind 258 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 3: of come up with a plan like, Wow, what are 259 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 3: we gonna do with this one? No, when you were 260 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 3: in your mother's womb, the Bible says you were fearfully 261 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 3: and wonderfully made. God was stuff in your life with 262 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 3: potential and capability and calling and anointing and future. Jeremiah 263 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 3: said in Jeremiah One, before I was born, you appointed 264 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 3: be a prophet to the nations. God has a plan 265 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 3: for your life. God knows what he wants to do 266 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 3: with your life. God has something for you to do 267 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:12,720 Speaker 3: on this earth. You gotta discover your gift so you 268 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:14,440 Speaker 3: can make a difference in the world. 269 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: Don't fall in love with your gift, fall in love 270 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 1: with your God. 271 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 3: Where are the loud people at Let me just hear 272 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 3: you if you're loud. Hey, they were waiting, weren't they loud? 273 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 3: People can't wait to be loud. They just excited, like 274 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 3: they just wake up loud. I'm half Mexican. Any Latins 275 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 3: in the house, I'm underlies. Hey guess now that's end 276 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 3: the Hons. God does not make quiet Latins. This is impossible. 277 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 3: We come out the womb loud like Labama, Mama. We 278 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 3: just bought us. Look us forever, Hans. That's the way 279 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 3: God made you. Where are the quiet people? 280 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: At? 281 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 3: Quiet people don't even like to raise their hand. That's 282 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 3: the way God made you, and we need you. 283 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: To be you. 284 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 3: Walk confident in your calling, walk confident in your grace. 285 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 1: But don't fall in love with your grace. Don't fall 286 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: in love with your gift. Fall in love with your maker. 287 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:31,440 Speaker 1: Fall in love with your creator. 288 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 3: Fall in love with your savior, fall in love with 289 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 3: his presence. Oh, come on clap today if you want 290 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 3: to love God more than you love yourself. There's a 291 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 3: story in Daniel, chapter four of King nebuk nez King 292 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 3: nebuk Nezzer. One day he walks out on his roof 293 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 3: and he's out on the on the on the rooftop 294 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 3: and he's walking around. 295 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: He's like, dang, you look at me, am I not amazing? 296 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 3: Look at look at what I've look at what I've created. 297 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 3: Around somebody that's so impressed with himself. You ever be 298 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 3: around somebody that's just like, Wow, you're still talking about you. 299 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 1: That's crazy. Wow. 300 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 3: Hold on, let me just you drop that name. Let 301 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 3: me give it back to you. Just real, sorry, you 302 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 3: just there's another one. King Nabucanza's walking on the palace, 303 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 3: so he's like, wow, look at me, look at what 304 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 3: I've done. 305 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 1: Is Danis chapter four. Well, you can't make this up. 306 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: This's in the Bible Dange four, verse twenty nine. 307 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 3: Twelve months later, he was taking a walk on the 308 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 3: flat roof of the World Palace in Babylon. As he 309 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 3: looked out across the city, he said, look at this 310 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 3: great city of Babylon. By my own mighty power, I 311 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 3: have built this beautiful city as my row residence to 312 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 3: display my majestic splendor. So you gotta be careful, because 313 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 3: if you don't give glory to God, You're gonna give 314 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 3: glory to you. I always tell you, But I look 315 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 3: at what I've built, look at what I've accomplished, look 316 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,520 Speaker 3: at how much money I've made, look at how great 317 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 3: I am. He's walking In fact, God humbles King Nebukaneza' 318 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 3: so much that he drives him out to the wilderness 319 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 3: and makes him grow feathers and nails. And finally he 320 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:18,239 Speaker 3: gets so humble that he acknowledges who God is, and 321 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 3: God restored his sanity. In other words, if you become 322 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 3: a me monster, you're gonna go crazy. But the way 323 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:27,679 Speaker 3: to stay in your right place is to give glory 324 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 3: and honor and worship and praise to an almighty God. 325 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 3: Come on, clap if you're thankful today. I don't need 326 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 3: the glory all. Come on, not to us, not to 327 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 3: us be the glory, but to your name. See this 328 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 3: is the problem. This is what happened with the adversary 329 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 3: of your life. That Satan he wants was a worship leader. 330 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,199 Speaker 3: He wants, was the leader of the worship in heaven. 331 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 3: But he got so enamored with his gift, he got 332 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 3: so intoxicated with his own ability that he stopped leading 333 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,680 Speaker 3: praise to God, and he wanted praise to him. This 334 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 3: is if it could happen to him, it could happen 335 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 3: to us. And watch what it says in Ezekiel about 336 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 3: the enemy. It says in Ezekiel it says, you were 337 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 3: the model of perfection. You were full of wisdom and 338 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,879 Speaker 3: exquisite and beauty. You were in the Eden, in the 339 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 3: garden of God. Your clothing was adorned with every precious stone. 340 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:23,120 Speaker 3: You were beautiful. What happened? See, don't fall in love 341 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:27,439 Speaker 3: with your gift. Fall in love with your God. And 342 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 3: if you today are fall in love with your gift. 343 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 3: What I love about God that if you're prideful today, 344 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:34,680 Speaker 3: God loves you enough like he did with Neba Canezar, 345 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 3: he will humble you. And God says, if you exalt yourself, 346 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 3: he will humble you. But if you humble yourself, he 347 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:47,159 Speaker 3: will exalt you. The reason why elevation is used around 348 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 3: the world is because this church and our pastors walk 349 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 3: humbly before the Lord, not wanting the praise to us 350 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,160 Speaker 3: or to a church. Come on, clap if you believe 351 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 3: it today, Come on, this is our prayer. 352 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:03,160 Speaker 1: See what God can do through you. 353 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 3: And and the thing about pride is the moment you 354 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 3: stopped thinking that you have pride is when you're really 355 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:15,119 Speaker 3: gonna mess up. A couple of years ago, I was 356 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 3: in Atlanta, Georgia, and I was preaching that passion City 357 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 3: church for Pastor Louis Giglio, and I love Pastor Louis. 358 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 1: He is like he is the Steve Jobs of Christianity. 359 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,679 Speaker 3: And so we had this great night at church, and 360 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 3: we went out to dinner afterwards, and and we were 361 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 3: at the valet waiting for the cars to pull up, 362 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 3: and as we're about to leave each other, he passed. 363 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 3: Louis got really close to me, like like up in 364 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 3: my face, and he and he and he says to me, hey, 365 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,199 Speaker 3: I want you to and he's like right here, and 366 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 3: I was like, I want you to. And he starts 367 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 3: telling me about going low. I want you to go low. 368 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,919 Speaker 3: I want you to be a man of humility, a 369 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 3: man of character. Let's for us, me and you. And 370 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 3: he was so close to me. He could have been 371 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 3: like he could have said, let's go rob a bank. 372 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: It didn't matter. I would have been. 373 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 3: Like, like, he's looking into my soul. So he's in 374 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:09,800 Speaker 3: my face and he's like, let's go low, let's let's 375 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,679 Speaker 3: be humble. And I'm like, you know Christians where they 376 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 3: put on the Christian face. I'm just thinking, like, buddy, 377 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 3: you better back up. So he's up in my face. 378 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 1: He's a go lo. 379 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 3: So he gave you know, he five ten minutes and 380 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 3: then you know, and we part our ways. And about 381 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 3: two three months later, I was in Atlanta and I 382 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 3: text Pastor Louis, hey, let's get breakfast tomorrow. So we 383 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 3: met up and we had two three hour long breakfast. 384 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:43,640 Speaker 3: We had the best time. And we're leaving and we're 385 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,919 Speaker 3: waiting for our ubers outside and he gets up in 386 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 3: my grill and he goes, hey, I want to say 387 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 3: something to you, and he goes, I want us And 388 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 3: I almost said, let me guess, go low, but I 389 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 3: did it. I'm respectful. You guys get it. And so 390 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:57,880 Speaker 3: and he gets me. He gets in my face again. 391 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:00,119 Speaker 3: He gives me the same speech, like word for word, 392 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 3: verbade him. And I thought at first maybe he's older 393 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 3: and he's forgetting. He's forgetting conversations these days, isn't there. 394 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 3: So he's like, I want us to go low. I 395 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 3: want us to be humble men I wanted. And he 396 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 3: get in and I was like, yeah, thank you, one 397 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 3: hundred percent. And when I left, I got on the 398 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 3: airplane to fly home and the Lord, the Lord spoke 399 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 3: to me and said, I send him to you a 400 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 3: second time because you didn't hear it the first Now 401 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,880 Speaker 3: the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, 402 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 3: and I said, Lord, I don't deal with pride, and 403 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 3: he said, you needed this, And the Lord began to 404 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 3: deal with ego. The Lord began to deal with agenda, motives, pride, 405 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 3: living on talent, and. 406 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:54,880 Speaker 1: That one messed up. Samson. 407 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:01,440 Speaker 3: Samson just just like, oh, man, long hair, don't care. 408 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 1: You know, I'm good. Come on, man. 409 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 3: Delilah's like, Sammy, sam. 410 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 1: They're here again. 411 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:23,360 Speaker 3: He's like, oh, sugar, you know how I roll, man, 412 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 3: I'll take care of it again. He didn't know what 413 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 3: cost him his life this time. See, my problem is 414 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 3: we fall so much in love with talent, so much 415 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 3: in love with gifts. We're gonna live off gifting, live 416 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,879 Speaker 3: off talent, and we're gonna stop being dependent upon the 417 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 3: grace and the provision. And come on, I don't know 418 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 3: about you, but I'm not too powered to beg for 419 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 3: the mercy and the goodness and the grace of my God. 420 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,639 Speaker 3: I need him. I need his daily bread today. I 421 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 3: need his provision today. I need his power today. I 422 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 3: need his joy today, I need his peace today. Come on, 423 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 3: anybody thankful today I'm. 424 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 4: Not falling in love and living on my gif I'm 425 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:04,359 Speaker 4: living for the glory of the living God, the one 426 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 4: that died for me, the one that rose from me, 427 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 4: the one that called my name. 428 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,120 Speaker 3: Give them a praise today. If you want to live 429 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 3: for God and now yourself, you be careful with that 430 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,719 Speaker 3: prideful spirit. You be careful with that worldly spirit. In 431 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 3: a narcissistic society, narcissism wins, but not in kingdom culture. 432 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 3: Jesus said, the first are gonna be last, and the 433 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 3: last are. 434 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:32,439 Speaker 1: Gonna be first. 435 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 3: He said, the greatest of all of them is the 436 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,360 Speaker 3: servant of all of them. You want to know who 437 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,360 Speaker 3: I use. I don't use rock stars. I don't use 438 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 3: people that puff themselves up. I use people that go low. 439 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 3: I use people that humble themselves and said, I ain't 440 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,880 Speaker 3: nothing without your grace and less you bless me unless 441 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 3: you touch me, unless you raise me. 442 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 1: Give them a praise today. 443 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 3: If you're thankful for the love of Jesus in your life, 444 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 3: you be careful. You be careful about pride. Watch this, 445 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 3: put it on the screen. Watch what pride does. Pride 446 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 3: is a sinful, arrogant, haughty, self reliant attitude. Or spirit 447 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 3: that causes a person to have an inflated. 448 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,400 Speaker 1: Or puffed up view of themselves. 449 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,399 Speaker 3: Those who are proud think of themselves as better than 450 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 3: others and look down on others with contempt. 451 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: See the problem with pride is pride is. 452 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 3: The only disease that makes everybody else sick besides the 453 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 3: person that has it. Pride can be recognized in others 454 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 3: and cannot be seen in yourself. 455 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:41,480 Speaker 1: I got on that plant, Say who are you talking to? 456 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:45,720 Speaker 1: Going low? Who are you talking to? 457 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 3: Going low? Lord said, I'm talking to you, Homi. It's 458 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 3: a sinful, arrogant, conceited, puffed up Am I not awesome? 459 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 3: Am I not amazing? I don't know how to tell 460 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 3: you this. Yeah, man, we saw you. But we're not 461 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 3: impressed with gifting. We're impressed with the one that told 462 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:14,439 Speaker 3: the sun to get up this morning. I'm impressed with 463 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 3: the one that owns a cattle on a thousand hills. 464 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 3: I'm impressed with the one that the earth is the 465 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:21,400 Speaker 3: Lord's and the fullness thereof. 466 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 1: Don't you fall in love with gift? Look at the contrast. 467 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,360 Speaker 1: Watch humility. Humility is so beautiful. 468 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,199 Speaker 3: Humility is seeing ourselves as we truly are fallen in 469 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 3: sin and helpless without God. Humility is often characterized as 470 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:40,920 Speaker 3: genuine gratitude, a lack of arrogance, and a modest view 471 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 3: of oneself. I like to think of it as an 472 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:48,640 Speaker 3: accurate view of self. Humility is not thinking less of myself. 473 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 3: It's thinking less about myself. Humility has that see pride. 474 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,240 Speaker 3: Pride walks into a room and goes here, I am. 475 00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 3: Humility walks into the room and goes there, you are. 476 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 3: Humility walks in the room and says, I got something 477 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 3: to give. I've got something to bless, I've got love, 478 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 3: I've got encouragement. I'm not looking to take. Don't I'm 479 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 3: not using you as my agenda for my ego. No. 480 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 3: I came as the servant of the Most High God 481 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 3: to help somebody find freedom and help somebody find salvation. 482 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 3: And I just want to tell you, God, because you 483 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 3: have done so much for me, is there anything I can. 484 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 1: Do for you? Don't fall in love with your gift. 485 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 3: I'd rather fall in love with God, the one that 486 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:32,360 Speaker 3: gave me these gifts. 487 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:34,439 Speaker 1: Right down number two. I love this. 488 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:39,679 Speaker 3: Your gift and God's mission go hand in hand. Your gift, 489 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,920 Speaker 3: whatever God has gifted you to do whatever, whatever it is, 490 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 3: whatever God has gifted you to do. And by the way, 491 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 3: I'm not concerned whether you have one, two, or five, 492 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 3: because all of us are trying to turn our two 493 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 3: into four and our five into ten, or are one 494 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,480 Speaker 3: into two. It doesn't matter how many gifts you God 495 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 3: are your talents. None are better than each other. I'm 496 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,719 Speaker 3: just telling you, though, When you take your gift and 497 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,159 Speaker 3: you put it into God's mission, they go. It's like 498 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:10,680 Speaker 3: peanut butter and jelly. It goes hand in hand. When 499 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:14,679 Speaker 3: you put your gifting your grace, you partner it with 500 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,120 Speaker 3: God's mission and God's work. One of my favorite scriptures 501 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 3: Ephesians chapter two, verse ten, put it on the screen 502 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 3: for we are Christ workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for 503 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,160 Speaker 3: good works, which He prepared beforehand. 504 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: God has something for you to do on this earth. 505 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: I think this is right. 506 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 3: Why Pastor Rick Warren's book The Purpose Driven Life did 507 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,439 Speaker 3: so well because all of us want to wake up 508 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 3: with meaning. We want to wake up with purpose. We 509 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 3: want to discover God. Why do I exist on this earth? 510 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 3: You were created in Christ Jesus for good works. God 511 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,359 Speaker 3: prepared something for you to do to help the Body 512 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 3: of Christ to help the Church of the Living God. 513 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 3: You want created to sit on the sideline. God has 514 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 3: called you to get into the game. You got to 515 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 3: fight the good fight. You got to finish the race. 516 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 1: You got to. 517 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,640 Speaker 3: Become who God has called you to become. And when 518 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 3: you put your gift back in God's hands. It's an old, 519 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,159 Speaker 3: cheesy saying. I found this one because I heard it 520 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 3: when I was a kid. This this one is called 521 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,400 Speaker 3: it depends on whose hands it's in. 522 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,640 Speaker 1: I love this one. It depends on whose hands it's in. 523 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 3: A basketball in my hands is worth about twenty five dollars. 524 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 3: When I read that, I thought, you don't shop at 525 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 3: Dick Sporting good and you don't know inflation. Let's go 526 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 3: forty five dollars. But a basketball in Lebron James hands 527 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 3: is worth about seventy five million dollars. It depends on 528 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 3: whose hands it's in. A baseball in my hands is 529 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 3: worth about eight dollars. Again, let's go back to Dick 530 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 3: Sporting good inflation twenty five dollars. A baseball and show 531 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 3: hey o Tani's hands is worth about two hundred million dollars. 532 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,120 Speaker 3: If his bookie doesn't touch it, it depends on whose 533 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 3: hands it's in. A tennis racket in my hands is 534 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,120 Speaker 3: worth about seventy five dollars, but a tennis racket in 535 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 3: Serena Williams hands is worth about fifty million dollars. 536 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: It depends on whose hands it is in. 537 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 3: A rod in my hands will keep away a wild animal, 538 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 3: but a rod in Moses's hands will part of a 539 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 3: mighty red sea. 540 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 1: It depends on whose hands is in. 541 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 3: A slingshot in my hands is a kid's toy, but 542 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 3: a sling shot in David's hands is a mighty weapon. 543 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 3: It depends on whose hands it's in. A two fish 544 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 3: and five loaves of bread in my hands is a 545 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 3: couple of fish sandwiches, But two fish and five loaves 546 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 3: of bread in Jesus' hands will feed five thousand people. 547 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 3: It depends on whose hands is in. Come on, clap elevation. 548 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 3: I'm putting my life back into his hands. Whoever wants 549 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 3: to save his life must lose his life, totain your soul. 550 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 1: You gotta lose the world. Come on, give your gift. 551 00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:00,120 Speaker 3: GIF, you're calling, GIF, you're anointing, Give your talent and 552 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 3: put it back into his hands. So many of us 553 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 3: are frustrated because it's in our hands. It's in our hands. 554 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,719 Speaker 3: My Bible says, it's not by power, and it's not 555 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,240 Speaker 3: by might, but it's by my spirit, says the Lord. 556 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 3: I'm not living off my talent or my gifting or 557 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 3: my own intellect. I'm telling you, in your own strength, 558 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 3: you can build a business, but you put your talent 559 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 3: in God's hand. 560 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 1: You could build the Kingdom of God. In your own hands. 561 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,960 Speaker 3: You might be able to build a family, but you 562 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 3: put your life into God's hands, and you can build 563 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 3: a legacy for a thousand generations. And your own strength, 564 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:35,719 Speaker 3: you might be able to make some money. But in 565 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 3: God's strength you depend on him. He'll be able to 566 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 3: bless people in North Carolina. He'll be able to bless 567 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 3: people all over America and all over the world. It 568 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 3: depends on whose hands it's in. Some of us are like, uh, well, 569 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 3: you know, I don't know. I don't know if I 570 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,479 Speaker 3: have that much. And I just you know, I'm not 571 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 3: like Pastor steven Man. Pastor Stephen was in la at 572 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:06,280 Speaker 3: the Intuit Arena and he was preaching and teaching, and 573 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,840 Speaker 3: I'm telling you his forearms were so big on that screen. 574 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 3: Help me God, I said, Man, that's wild. I'm considering 575 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 3: working out after seeing that people would make fun of me, 576 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 3: like you skip leg day. I'm like, fam, I skip 577 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 3: leg life. Okay, you just you chill out, you chill out, 578 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 3: you chill out. But I'm I'm just encouraged today because 579 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 3: I know that in my own power, I can only 580 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 3: be and do so much. But when I surrender and 581 00:31:55,880 --> 00:32:00,959 Speaker 3: I live for something bigger than myself, stop living for 582 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:06,960 Speaker 3: your name and start living for His name. So many 583 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 3: of us are secretly in our heart we're praying my 584 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 3: kingdom come and my will be done. But when you 585 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 3: partner with God and you say yes to his mission, 586 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 3: you say your kingdom come and your will be done 587 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 3: on this earth, even as. 588 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 1: It is in heaven. Do you understand the difference. 589 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 3: It's pivoting, and instead of asking what God can do 590 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 3: for me today, I start to ask, Lord, is there 591 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,160 Speaker 3: anything I can do for you today? 592 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 1: Hey? Write that down number three? Is that? Ask not 593 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 1: what God can do for you? 594 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 3: Ask what you can do for God? Anybody today? Come on, 595 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,360 Speaker 3: be honest, anybody today. You need a miracle today. Let 596 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 3: me just see your hand. You need a miracle? I 597 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 3: got both my hands up. But you know the Bible 598 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 3: says that before you ever say a prayer, God already knows. 599 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 1: What you need. 600 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,760 Speaker 3: And if he could take care of grass and he 601 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:08,760 Speaker 3: can take care of birds, how much more can he 602 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:09,560 Speaker 3: take care of you? 603 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 1: So one thing about God, we know. 604 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,080 Speaker 3: He's gonna be faithful, he's gonna be consistent, he's gonna 605 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 3: be true. And so instead of I don't need to 606 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 3: ask God for anything today because I know He's gonna 607 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 3: take care of me my whole life. You ever sing 608 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,840 Speaker 3: that song I love the C. C. Wins version? You 609 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,480 Speaker 3: ever sing that song? All my life? You have been faithful? 610 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,040 Speaker 3: Don't you love that one? 611 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:33,680 Speaker 1: I love you? 612 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:41,640 Speaker 3: Never see anybody sing that song deadpan? All my life? 613 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 3: You have been faithful all my life. You have been 614 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,360 Speaker 3: so so good. 615 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,960 Speaker 1: You see people sing this song. Oh they sing this 616 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 1: song because you're like this. 617 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,719 Speaker 3: If I could sing right now like pastor Steven, I 618 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:12,359 Speaker 3: will be hitting those notes right now. 619 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:14,520 Speaker 1: But he didn't give me that talent. 620 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 3: When you think about all my life, you have been 621 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:22,640 Speaker 3: so so. 622 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:23,239 Speaker 1: Good to me. 623 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:30,040 Speaker 3: Your goodness is running after it's running after me, and 624 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,880 Speaker 3: I know you're going to continue to be faithful. So 625 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,400 Speaker 3: I don't even need to ask today what Because my 626 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,200 Speaker 3: whole life you've shocked me and surprised me with your blessing. 627 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:42,040 Speaker 1: Come on, let's be honest. 628 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 3: You didn't even get this far in your prayers, did you. 629 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,440 Speaker 3: You didn't even get this far in your dreams because 630 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:52,640 Speaker 3: God had a better plan. So I don't need to 631 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 3: ask God what he could do for me today. I'm 632 00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:57,080 Speaker 3: asking God, is there anything I could do for you? 633 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,080 Speaker 3: Is there anything I could for you? Is there anything? 634 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,520 Speaker 1: Lord? I just want to say, Lord, is there? It 635 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 1: reminds me of this lady. 636 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:09,200 Speaker 3: She sneaks up on Jesus at a dinner party, and 637 00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:11,960 Speaker 3: she is so grateful for her sins to be forgiven 638 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,439 Speaker 3: that she sneaks up and she starts to pour out 639 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 3: her worship. 640 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:16,800 Speaker 1: Look here at Luke seven. 641 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,000 Speaker 3: I love this scripture right here put on the screen 642 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,040 Speaker 3: verse thirty seven. A woman in that town who lived 643 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,719 Speaker 3: a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the 644 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:24,560 Speaker 3: Pharisees house. 645 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,680 Speaker 1: So she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. 646 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,840 Speaker 3: As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she 647 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,719 Speaker 3: began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she 648 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:37,240 Speaker 3: wiped them with her hair and kissed them and poured 649 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:38,600 Speaker 3: perfume on them. 650 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,680 Speaker 1: She's not asking Jesus for anything. 651 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,120 Speaker 3: Jesus, Lord, is there anything I could do for you? 652 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,560 Speaker 3: You've blessed me, You forgave me my debt, you healed 653 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,960 Speaker 3: my body, You've been good to my family. She's pouring 654 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,960 Speaker 3: out her worship. I'd rather be in that place than 655 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,520 Speaker 3: the one that's saying I need you to hook me 656 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:01,440 Speaker 3: up today. We should just turned the tables. God has 657 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,000 Speaker 3: been so good. Why don't we just say? 658 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,360 Speaker 1: Lord? Is there anything? God? Is there? Is there anything 659 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 1: I can do for you? 660 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,920 Speaker 3: One of my favorite stories about Jesus is he sends 661 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,720 Speaker 3: these two guys into the town right before he dies 662 00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,719 Speaker 3: on the cross. He says, go into the town and 663 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,200 Speaker 3: there's gonna be a guy in town that has a donkey, 664 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,640 Speaker 3: and just tell the man the Lord has need of 665 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,479 Speaker 3: it and he'll know and and and bring it back. 666 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,640 Speaker 1: And so two of the disciples going to town. 667 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,360 Speaker 3: Could you imagine having the job of these two disciples 668 00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,160 Speaker 3: they go, they're just going in town. They're just knocking 669 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 3: on doors, you know, they finally see the God and 670 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,880 Speaker 3: they're like, hey, yeah. 671 00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:44,839 Speaker 1: We're team Jesus, and uh, hey, bro, don't get mad 672 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:46,760 Speaker 1: at us. We just you know, we just messengers. 673 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:55,520 Speaker 3: Uh yeah, the the Lord needs your donkey, bro, don't 674 00:36:55,560 --> 00:37:02,080 Speaker 3: be mad at us. The Lord needs your donkey. And 675 00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,000 Speaker 3: and sure enough the guy has a donkey and he 676 00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:06,440 Speaker 3: gladly offers it up. Whenever I read that story, my 677 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,319 Speaker 3: imagination goes, I wonder if that morning that man got 678 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,600 Speaker 3: up this morning and that morning I just said, Lord, 679 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:13,719 Speaker 3: is there anything in my stable? Is there anything in 680 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,000 Speaker 3: my home? Is there anything in my life that you 681 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:17,160 Speaker 3: could you could use? 682 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,000 Speaker 1: See? The Lord knew go to that guy. 683 00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,120 Speaker 3: Maybe maybe other people will say no, Maybe other people 684 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,200 Speaker 3: will turn your way. May maybe other people are too selfish, 685 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,759 Speaker 3: maybe other people are too self centered. But this guy, 686 00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,319 Speaker 3: I know, he'll give it up. Let's just get some 687 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,960 Speaker 3: cultural context. That was not a donkey in his day. 688 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:42,280 Speaker 3: That was like asking for a cybertruck. This was his best. 689 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,920 Speaker 3: And they said, the Lord has need of it. The 690 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,799 Speaker 3: Lord hath needed need of your donkey, And he said, oh, 691 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:49,320 Speaker 3: it's yours. 692 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:49,600 Speaker 1: See. 693 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:51,960 Speaker 3: I wonder today what God could tap into in your 694 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,160 Speaker 3: life because he needs it. Here's somebody in your neighborhood, 695 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,640 Speaker 3: there's somebody in your family, there's somebody in your life. 696 00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:58,680 Speaker 1: They need your gift. 697 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:02,040 Speaker 3: They need your talent, they need your anointing, they need 698 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,400 Speaker 3: your grace, they need your voice, they need your testimony. 699 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,520 Speaker 3: They need what you've gone through, and it will. The 700 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,440 Speaker 3: Lord has need of it. The Lord has need of 701 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,680 Speaker 3: your time. The Lord has need of your treasure. The 702 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:13,680 Speaker 3: Lord has need of your talent. And what can we 703 00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:15,560 Speaker 3: do for the glory of the Living God? Have we 704 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:16,720 Speaker 3: just asked the Lord today? 705 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,080 Speaker 1: Lord? Is there anything that I can do for you? Hey? 706 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,040 Speaker 3: Man, last thing today, Worship team, you can come join me. 707 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:28,880 Speaker 3: Number four write is down. Free yourself from comparison and jealousy. 708 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:34,319 Speaker 3: Free yourself, Give free today. What do they say about comparison? 709 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:41,239 Speaker 3: Comparison is the thief of joy. By the way, when 710 00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,319 Speaker 3: you get to heaven, you will not be held accountable 711 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,000 Speaker 3: for what other people do. You'll be held accountable for you. 712 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,120 Speaker 3: And when I stand before my Maker, That's why I 713 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,520 Speaker 3: love proverbs for proverbs for says, do not look to 714 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,240 Speaker 3: the right or to the left. Keep your eyelids straight 715 00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,959 Speaker 3: before you, because when I get to heaven, God's gonna 716 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,840 Speaker 3: hold me accountable for the gifts and the talents and 717 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,360 Speaker 3: the anointing and the calling that He gave my life 718 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,000 Speaker 3: and when I show up in heaven, I don't know 719 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,680 Speaker 3: about you, I want to hear those words, well done, 720 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,520 Speaker 3: my good and my faithful servant, with whom I am 721 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:14,880 Speaker 3: well pleased. 722 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,160 Speaker 1: Enter into the joy, and enter into the rest of 723 00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:17,760 Speaker 1: your Master. 724 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,600 Speaker 3: You did fight the good fight, and you did finish 725 00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,600 Speaker 3: your race. And you were faithful, and you were humble. 726 00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,880 Speaker 3: And we're thankful for what we put in you. You 727 00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,120 Speaker 3: have the gift of prophesie, and you prophesied with faithfulness. 728 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,919 Speaker 3: You had the gift to give, and you gave with faithfulness. 729 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,160 Speaker 3: You have the gift of serving, and you serve with 730 00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,840 Speaker 3: all humility. I don't know about you, but this world 731 00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,960 Speaker 3: is not my home. I'm a citizen of a greater place. 732 00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,920 Speaker 3: And when I die, I'm gonna die empty. I'm gonna 733 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,160 Speaker 3: die leaving it all out on the table. I'm gonna 734 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,760 Speaker 3: die say Lord, I did not live for this world. 735 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,680 Speaker 1: I did not live for the lust to the flesh. 736 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,760 Speaker 3: And the pride of life and the lust of the eyes. 737 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:58,000 Speaker 5: I live for the glory of the Living God. Oh, 738 00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:04,680 Speaker 5: come on, give them a place. Is there anything that. 739 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,120 Speaker 4: I can do for you? 740 00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,160 Speaker 1: Stay standing? Stay standing? Is there anything I can do 741 00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,440 Speaker 1: for you? God? I know I'm not I know I'm 742 00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,640 Speaker 1: not a Bible expert. I know i'm not the smartest. 743 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:16,839 Speaker 3: I know i'm not the most talented, and they look 744 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,880 Speaker 3: more talented than me. But I'll tell you, God, I 745 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,480 Speaker 3: came into this world with nothing. That I'm leaving with nothing. 746 00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:24,640 Speaker 3: As for me. In my house, we will serve the 747 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,120 Speaker 3: Lord blessed to be the name of my God. I 748 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,839 Speaker 3: got nothing without you, Jesus. You're all I've ever had. 749 00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:30,760 Speaker 1: Come on, clap today. 750 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,400 Speaker 3: You're all I've ever had. You're all i've ever needed. 751 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,200 Speaker 3: You're all I've ever wanted. As a deer paying it 752 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,640 Speaker 3: for the water brooks, So my soul. 753 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:39,080 Speaker 1: Longs for you. 754 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:39,839 Speaker 3: God. 755 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:41,319 Speaker 1: I'm just telling you. 756 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,840 Speaker 3: I'm telling you you ain't living till you start giving. 757 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,359 Speaker 3: You ain't living till you start dying. Come on, I'm dead. 758 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:53,239 Speaker 3: I'm dead to this world. Baba, says Glatians too. I 759 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:56,600 Speaker 3: have been crucified with Christ. I have been crucified with Christ. 760 00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,319 Speaker 3: It is no longer I that live, but it's Christ 761 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,480 Speaker 3: that lives through me and the life that I come on, 762 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:06,520 Speaker 3: somebody now live. I live by faith in the Son 763 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,840 Speaker 3: of God, who gave his life as a ransom for 764 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,719 Speaker 3: me and I can't believe. I can't believe he called 765 00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:13,160 Speaker 3: my name. Do you remember where you were when he 766 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,360 Speaker 3: called your name? Do you remember? Do you remember the 767 00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,520 Speaker 3: metallic taste of sin in your mouth? Do you remember 768 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,640 Speaker 3: what he pulled you out of? Do you remember? Do 769 00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,279 Speaker 3: you remember what he when he set your feet on 770 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,560 Speaker 3: that rock and put a new song. 771 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:25,960 Speaker 1: In your mouth? 772 00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:29,319 Speaker 3: He didn't give you all that grace and all that 773 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:33,879 Speaker 3: talent so you can make money, so you can make 774 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:40,160 Speaker 3: a platform, so you could live for the glory of you. 775 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:46,839 Speaker 3: See what God could do through you? Ask not what 776 00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,839 Speaker 3: God can do for you today? Why don't you just say, Lord, 777 00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:51,320 Speaker 3: is there anything I could do for you today? 778 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,719 Speaker 1: Because you've done so much? Has God done a lot 779 00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:57,800 Speaker 1: for you? Are you thankful today? 780 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:10,719 Speaker 3: Come on? Anybody got the attitude of gratitude today? All 781 00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:14,000 Speaker 3: my life? You have been faithful my whole life, You've 782 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:17,080 Speaker 3: been so good? And can you believe that He uses 783 00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:23,680 Speaker 3: broke desperate, not all the way putting together people like 784 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:27,120 Speaker 3: us to tell people about the glory of the living God. 785 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:29,480 Speaker 1: I like to say this way. 786 00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:33,640 Speaker 3: We're just nobody's trying to tell the world about somebody. 787 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,200 Speaker 1: Come on, clap if you believe that today I'm a nobody. 788 00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:42,440 Speaker 1: I'm a servant. Come on, clap, I'm a servant today. 789 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,839 Speaker 1: I'm a servant. I'm gonna die to myself. I'm gonna 790 00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:47,439 Speaker 1: make much of his name, not my name. 791 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,160 Speaker 3: We don't live for something bigger than ourselves. You know, 792 00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:57,080 Speaker 3: everybody that God used in the Bible had problems. Everybody 793 00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,480 Speaker 3: that God used in the scriptures had issues. Use no 794 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,759 Speaker 3: perfect people, because there are no perfect people. So if 795 00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:05,839 Speaker 3: you're already coming up with excuses all past you yet 796 00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:07,840 Speaker 3: I can't be used. You know, I gotta I gotta pass, 797 00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:08,839 Speaker 3: I got I got, I. 798 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,080 Speaker 1: Got pain, I got you know, issues in my life. 799 00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,120 Speaker 1: You know I used to be by the way. Can 800 00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:13,960 Speaker 1: we just stop. 801 00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,359 Speaker 3: Making more much of our past and make a lot 802 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:23,520 Speaker 3: more about our future. We got so many believers today 803 00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:25,840 Speaker 3: that can tell me more about what you're coming from 804 00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:27,920 Speaker 3: and can't hardly tell me what you're going for. 805 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,120 Speaker 1: Come on, your future as greater than your past. Come on, 806 00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:34,240 Speaker 1: what's in front of you. 807 00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:36,200 Speaker 3: And what God's got in store for you is greater 808 00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:41,959 Speaker 3: than what you came out of. Everybody that God used 809 00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:45,400 Speaker 3: in the Bible was just like us, not perfect people 810 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,319 Speaker 3: that had problems, people that had stories, people that were 811 00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:52,000 Speaker 3: in process, under construction, everybody that God used, but He 812 00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:52,680 Speaker 3: still used them. 813 00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:54,759 Speaker 1: Amen, And so God can use you. It's an old, 814 00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:56,360 Speaker 1: cheesy list, but put on the screen. 815 00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,200 Speaker 3: I love this just to just to kind of teach 816 00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,279 Speaker 3: you today that God can use people like us. 817 00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:00,640 Speaker 1: Look at this. 818 00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:06,120 Speaker 3: Noah was a drunk, Abraham was too old, Isaac was 819 00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:13,319 Speaker 3: a daydreamer. Jacob was a liar. Leah was ugly. How 820 00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,640 Speaker 3: ugly you got to be? Did the Bible call you ugly? 821 00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,719 Speaker 3: You forever ugly? You asked an eternity? 822 00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:24,839 Speaker 1: Ugly? Joseph was abused. 823 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:29,759 Speaker 3: Moses had a stuttering problem. Gideon was afraid, Samson had 824 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:33,200 Speaker 3: long hair and was a womanizer. Rayhab was a prostitute. 825 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:36,400 Speaker 3: Jeremiah and Timothy were too young. David was an adulter 826 00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:40,839 Speaker 3: and a murderer. Elijah was suicidal. Isaiah preached nicked. May 827 00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:42,960 Speaker 3: that never happen in this church in the name of Jesus. 828 00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,200 Speaker 3: That's a word for pastor tim today. 829 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:51,200 Speaker 1: Jonah ran from God. Naomi was a widow, Job went bankrupt. 830 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,240 Speaker 3: John the Baptist Ate, Bugs, and Peter did not Christ. 831 00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:57,600 Speaker 1: But they were all used for the glory of the 832 00:44:57,680 --> 00:44:58,440 Speaker 1: Living God. 833 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,560 Speaker 3: Come on, let's just ask him today, Lord, is there 834 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:03,479 Speaker 3: anything that I. 835 00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:06,239 Speaker 1: Can do for you? Come on, Elevation lift the hand 836 00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:06,879 Speaker 1: of heaven. Father. 837 00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,920 Speaker 3: We thank you today that you are good and greatly 838 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,839 Speaker 3: to be praised. And so we just asked today Lord, 839 00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:14,799 Speaker 3: we humble ourselves. Lord, we go low. 840 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:18,840 Speaker 1: Lord. Here's my gifting, here's my calling, here's my talent, 841 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:22,319 Speaker 1: here's my time. If you can use anything, Lord, you 842 00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:23,200 Speaker 1: can use me. 843 00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:27,279 Speaker 3: I live for your name and not my name, in Jesus' name. 844 00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,400 Speaker 3: And everybody said, together, come on, let's clap and worship 845 00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:31,000 Speaker 3: God today. 846 00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:35,719 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. 847 00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,480 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 848 00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,040 Speaker 2: this ministry. 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