1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:02,720 Speaker 1: Before we get to the message, let me know right 2 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: now where are you watching from, where you're joining from 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 1: our EPAM around the world. Welcome. I'm excited to bring 4 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: God's word to you today. Also April eighteenth through twenty seven, 5 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: Elevation Nights dot Com Our Elevation Nights Spring Tour. If 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: me Holly, Elevation Worship a word from God, the Spirit 7 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: of God, your favorite songs. All right, here's where we're coming. Austin, Texas, 8 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Kansas City, Missouri. I'm there, Denver, Colorado. 9 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: That altitude got me. Saint Louis, Missouri, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 10 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: and Toronto, Ontario. We will see you. Elevation Nights dot Com. 11 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:47,599 Speaker 1: Get your tickets right now. Let me know where you're 12 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:49,599 Speaker 1: joining us from. I want to see it in the comments. 13 00:00:49,960 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: Let's go to the word of God. You that there's 14 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: the way they come through. There's so much smart until 15 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:17,680 Speaker 1: the decorory shot said, tell more time. I'll pray there's 16 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: the way they come through. Wherever you are, whatever you 17 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: have the way man, could you can do exity. There's 18 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: so much so de sory got that do come can 19 00:01:46,000 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: give me Thanks to police fay. That's flood glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory. 20 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: I can see you're not done. Is not done with 21 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: me yet, is not done with me. The Lord told 22 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: me to preach this today. There's so much more to 23 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: the story. That's my sermon. There's so much more to 24 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:48,679 Speaker 1: the story. That's it. There's there's so much more to 25 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: the story. There's get this in your spirit. I'm gonna 26 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: be preaching it through Easter. There's so much more. It 27 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: starts today. You can't on the right day. God send 28 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 1: you here all the right say. God puts you on 29 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: side at the lifetime. There's so much more. Yes, yes, 30 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: so much. You're not done. Let's go to the word 31 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: of God. The word of God is powerful. The Word 32 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: of God is eternal. The grass withers in the flower fades, 33 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 1: but the word of the lore, it's the story that 34 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: will forever be told, and it will forever be true, 35 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: and it will forever be real, and it will forever 36 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: be powerful. The Lord gave me seven sermons this week. 37 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: My next seven sermons are going to come from my 38 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 1: personal time with Him. That he gave me, and I 39 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: asked him could I share it publicly? And he gave 40 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: me permission, and I could not be more excited. I 41 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: don't put on a card again for just any occasion. 42 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:18,679 Speaker 1: I'm pumped up about it. And if you were wondering 43 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 1: if God is finished with you today, well this should 44 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: be more than a confirmation. I've never had a sermon 45 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: that the Lord confirmed more than this one ever, and 46 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,280 Speaker 1: I've been doing this since I was sixteen, never had 47 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: one that God showed me so many different ways what 48 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: he wanted me to preach. And what I think is 49 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: there must be something that you've been going through or 50 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: needing from him, and he wants to get it to you. 51 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: So he just put it through my thick skull that 52 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 1: I need to preach it starting today, and I'm gonna 53 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,719 Speaker 1: do it like he gave it to me. Deuteronomy, chapter 54 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: thirty four. Deuteronomy, y'all didn't shout when I said Deuteronomy. 55 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: Y'all wanted he Ephesians, but we got Deuteronomy today. Deuteronomy 56 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: thirty four, verse five. Welcome to our epham around the world. 57 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 1: I want everybody to make this affirmation real quick. Just 58 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 1: make it with your mouth or type it if you're online. 59 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: Say with God, there's always a way. The Lord gave 60 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: me that. Yesterday I was talking to somebody about what 61 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 1: they were going through, and I don't know if she 62 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: thought it was weird, but I was like, repeat after me. 63 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 1: I went into pastor Steve mode real quick. I said, 64 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 1: repeat after me. Now you do it too. With God, 65 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: there's always a way. Now finish this because this is 66 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: the best part of it, and by faith I will 67 00:05:53,080 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 1: find it. You feel that it's my spine tinkle. Say 68 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: it again. With God, There's always a way, and by 69 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: faith I will find it. I hope you're putting that 70 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 1: in the chat. Let the devil know. You might not 71 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: be in the building, but you're in the spirit and 72 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 1: God is here and anything is possible. Who am I 73 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: to deny what the Lord can do. If he wants 74 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 1: to heal you, let him through. If he wants to 75 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:29,160 Speaker 1: redeem what you've given up on, let him through. If 76 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: he wants to give you wisdom for stuff that you 77 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: think you're too stupid to know, let him through. If 78 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 1: he wants to give you a job or a position 79 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,039 Speaker 1: that you're not qualified for on paper, let him through. 80 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: If he wants to make the next ten years of 81 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: your life better than the last ten. Let him through. 82 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 1: Who are you to tell him no? Thank you Jesus 83 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: read the scripture Stephen, verse thirty four, Chapter thirty four, 84 00:06:55,160 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 1: verse five. And Moses, the servant of the Lord, there 85 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: in Moab, as the Lord had said, He buried him 86 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Piure. But to 87 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: this day no one knows where his grave is. Moses 88 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:23,119 Speaker 1: was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. 89 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: I know, I said, old is the goal, but I 90 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: don't want to be here around. I don't care what 91 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: artificial legs they make. Elon Musk might put an artificial 92 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: knees or something like that on me, but I don't 93 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: want it, not that long. But watch what the Bible says. 94 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: And this is kind of sad. He was one hundred 95 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: and twenty when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, 96 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: nor his strength gone. And see, we kind of want 97 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: to shout on that, but think about it. It's really sad. 98 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: It's not something to shout about. It's something to cry 99 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:00,239 Speaker 1: about because it means there was still more in him. 100 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: Somebody say, there's more in me? Tell your neighbor. They 101 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: don't believe it. When they hear themselves say it, maybe 102 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 1: they'll believe you. Say there's more in you. There's yeah, 103 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: there's more in you. There's more in you. There's more 104 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: in you. There's more in you. Now say it again, 105 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: there's more in me. Praise to the Lord. So Moses 106 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: died there and he still could see, and he was 107 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: still strong. But see, he stopped trusting God, so he 108 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: couldn't go into the Promised Land. And the Lord takes 109 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: him up on this high mountain called Nebo, and he says, 110 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: you see all that you see past the Mediterranean. You 111 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 1: see Jericho. Joshua was going to fight that battle, not you. 112 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:45,559 Speaker 1: I could have used you, But because you broke faith 113 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: with me and didn't honor me enough, the Lord said 114 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: you're done. And that's a bad thing, because when God 115 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,199 Speaker 1: says it's done, you can sing you're not done with 116 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: me yet. If the Lord says, oh, yes I am, 117 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: you're done. I was going through criticism one time in 118 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 1: ministry and Joyce Meyer told me, well, Stephen, if Lord's 119 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 1: done with it, you ain't nothing you can do about it. 120 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: Might as well trust him and go forward. I was 121 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: like yes, ma'am. Now watch this. The Israelites grieved for Moses. 122 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: They didn't know where his grave was, but they grieved 123 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: for him because God took him and hid the body somewhere. 124 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: I'm telling you the Bible is so much of a 125 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: better story than you think. The Bible is better than 126 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: Breaking Bad and the Walking Dead. The Bible has all 127 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: that stuff in it, dead people walking around and all 128 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:42,079 Speaker 1: of that hiding bodies. Who needs gus fring when you 129 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: got God. I'm having fun. I'm fired up. This is 130 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: my first sermon of my eighteenth year of pastor in 131 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: this church. I'm ready to fru They grieved for Moses 132 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 1: in the planes of Moab thirty days month until the 133 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: time of weeping and mourning was over. Somebody say over 134 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 1: the series I'm starting today is called There's so much 135 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: more to the story. But the message today and the 136 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 1: word of the Lord for you is forward, not finished. 137 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 1: I gotta be careful because I'll have y'all hear past kickoff. 138 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:31,679 Speaker 1: You won't be home till Rihanna's on the stage. If 139 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: I preach it like I'm feeling forward, somebody shot forward? 140 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:41,679 Speaker 1: Where you going forward? You gotta figure it out. No 141 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,959 Speaker 1: but I'm going Do you know what it's going to 142 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: be like when you get there? No, but I'm going forward, 143 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:56,439 Speaker 1: not finished. In Jesus' name, Sit down, and I dedicate 144 00:10:56,520 --> 00:11:00,199 Speaker 1: these next seven sermons to my oldest son Elijah. Were 145 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: not for him, I would not be inspired to preach this. 146 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: And I'll explain that to you in a few moments. 147 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:07,839 Speaker 1: But I've never dedicated a series, but I dedicate this 148 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: to my oldest boy. Thank you. You know what, I 149 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 1: think that sad scenes sometimes are necessary for the best 150 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: stories to be told and unfold. And I read that chapter. 151 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 1: It's actually what I read last Sunday before I came 152 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: over to our anniversary. I had a note. I thought, well, 153 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: I preached Ephesians for whoever wanted to leave the church 154 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: because they don't want to be challenged is already gone. 155 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,199 Speaker 1: Because I was saying stuff the last few weeks that 156 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 1: I was like, they are they going to throw something 157 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:46,719 Speaker 1: at me telling you come on, man, live like you 158 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 1: know God, Stop just rolling around in your sin and 159 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,199 Speaker 1: calling that grace, get up and do something with it 160 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: for the Lord. I mean, we all suck sometimes, but 161 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: you know, you've been in a suck season for four years. 162 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 1: Let's go for where moving into it, walking on with 163 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 1: what I've got. I have to move on as a pastor, 164 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: with the church that I have after a pandemic. You 165 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,080 Speaker 1: have to move on in the season of your life 166 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: that you're in with the strength that you have, Gideon, 167 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 1: with the instruments that you have, Moses, Staff, with the 168 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: rock that you have, David, with the disciples you have, Jesus, Judas, 169 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: Can I get another one? Peter? Can I get another one? 170 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 1: All them might fail you, but you've got to do 171 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: it if the Lord called you to do it. And 172 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,959 Speaker 1: when I read this last Sunday before I came over, 173 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:47,559 Speaker 1: I had a little note that my next teachings should 174 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:52,839 Speaker 1: be There's so much more to the story. You know, 175 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: there always is. If I could teach you anything, don't 176 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 1: believe if anything you hear and only about half of 177 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: what you see. Isn't it true when you when you 178 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:13,439 Speaker 1: hear stuff about people, especially now, I mean, we used 179 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:15,679 Speaker 1: to have to say stuff to somebody, but now we 180 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: can just say something about somebody instead of to somebody, 181 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: So it's never been harder. This is not my message 182 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: and this is my soapbox, so I need to be 183 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,439 Speaker 1: very careful that I don't waste time on this, but 184 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 1: there's more to the story. Well, that little line that 185 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: we were singing from Ephesians three twenty you are more 186 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: than able and just confessing there's so much more to 187 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 1: the story is certainly true of this Bible. I think 188 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 1: it's like eleven hundred and eighty nine chapters. I'm not 189 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:52,440 Speaker 1: exactly sure, but in this Bible that we read as Christians, 190 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 1: it's got the first five books called the Pentatuke. Penta 191 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: is the five so it's like pentatonic scale in music 192 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,559 Speaker 1: is notes, so penta too. So that's that's what I 193 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:08,199 Speaker 1: was reading last week when I came to church and 194 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,439 Speaker 1: I had a preacher in. And now remember this is 195 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,439 Speaker 1: my daily Bible reading. And let me just tell you personally, 196 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:16,599 Speaker 1: I was gonna save it to the end, but I 197 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:18,679 Speaker 1: think it'll be good to help you see why this 198 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 1: is important to me. Last year, Elijah, my oldest, says 199 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 1: to me that the Book of Genesis is really weird. 200 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: He had been reading through a chapter a day with 201 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: Kelsey and they were going through the Bible chapter a 202 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: day and he's like every day he comes to me, 203 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 1: he's like, it's getting weirder, crazy, stuff is happening. You're like, 204 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: that's a sacrilegious. The Bible isn't weird, it's holy. You 205 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 1: haven't read it. You just pluck little verses out. I 206 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: can tell what you are. You got a little verse 207 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 1: of the day app thing. You just read the ones 208 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: you want to read. You really read it in sas frap. 209 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: The Bible's not Pg. Thirteen. I think it's always funny 210 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: when people are like, oh, I don't think that was 211 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: appropriate to put into a sermon that was very adult. 212 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: I need a grown up God because I'm fighting grown 213 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 1: up challenges in a hell bent world. And the devil's 214 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 1: been running stuff long enough, because the devil will talk 215 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 1: about it, but we won't. I feel people pucker up 216 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: every time I say weird stuff in church, like, hey, 217 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: you know the Lord can't accept you and can use you, 218 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 1: even if you were up till three point thirty last 219 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 1: night looking at stuff online. And I feel people go, no, 220 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: we can't. Don't say it, but I can feel it anyway. 221 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: Elijah said the Book of Genesis is getting weird, and 222 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: I said, well, what chapter are you on? And he 223 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: said the chapter? And I looked it up that night 224 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: and it was a very difficult chapter. And so I 225 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 1: sent a text to him and Kelsey. I said, hey, 226 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 1: so I read that chapter that y'all are on, and 227 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: this is just one thought out of the chapter. And 228 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 1: I sent him a little sentence and said, here's a 229 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: key verse from that chapter that kind of makes the 230 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 1: whole rest of it make a little bit of sense, 231 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 1: something we can practice in our life. And then I 232 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 1: did it the next day because they texted me back. 233 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 1: They made me feel like I was saying Augustine. They 234 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: made me feel like Billy Graham. They were like, oh 235 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 1: my god, there were like seven mind blow emodes he's 236 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, I'm gonna do that again. I 237 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: feel affirmed by this. Send it back the next night 238 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 1: another one. Oh my god, this is even better, this 239 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: is incredible. This helps us so much. Thank you. And 240 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 1: so the next night I actually officialized it and I 241 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: changed the name of the group thread text thing. And 242 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 1: it took me an hour to figure out how to 243 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 1: do that, because I'm old. Old is the goal. That's 244 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: my whole goal in life. I want to be old 245 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 1: enough where I don't know how to work this text 246 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: message machine like Moses. And so I changed the name 247 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: and I called it. I called our text to read 248 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 1: the Bible in four years club. I did a little 249 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 1: bit of the math, and if we only read a 250 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: chapter a day, it'd be like four years to read 251 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: the whole Bible that way. And I Totalijah, I'm like, 252 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 1: we got to go faster, man, I got to get 253 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: to Matthew. I cannot be stuck over here in Leviticus 254 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:19,479 Speaker 1: for this long. It's too long. He's like, no, Dad, 255 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: I really want to see what the Bible's all about. 256 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:22,119 Speaker 1: That's why I started the club. I'm like, all right, 257 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 1: you're the president. I'm just a secretary treasurer. You do 258 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:27,359 Speaker 1: the key Verse this week. So he did the one 259 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:30,640 Speaker 1: the next night and it was good. Not as good 260 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: as mine. I've been doing this a long time, but 261 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 1: he did pretty good. And then Kelsey did one pretty good, 262 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 1: and then I was back to me him Kelsey boom 263 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:43,360 Speaker 1: boom boom. So we're moving. We're moving through Exodus, we're 264 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 1: moving through Leviticus. About halfway through Leviticus, Elijah goes, this 265 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: is crazy. The Bible is so much better when you 266 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 1: actually read it as a story instead of just selections 267 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,119 Speaker 1: that you take like a little shot, like a be 268 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:04,159 Speaker 1: twelve shot to get you through the day. I got 269 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 1: to be three shot. They gets you through the week 270 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 1: if you need it. If I preach good, that's what 271 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:12,439 Speaker 1: that organ is called, the B three Show them how 272 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 1: sounds lja. Yeah, we could do it. We can do 273 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,160 Speaker 1: it in a minute. We can do it in a minute. 274 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:21,440 Speaker 1: We could do it in a minute. We could do 275 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 1: it in a minute. Stop. So he said, it's so 276 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,159 Speaker 1: much better. And there's he said, I've got so much 277 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: invested in the Israelites. Now I want to see what happens. 278 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 1: And I'm like, uh, oh, this is not the winning 279 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 1: team that you want to cheer for because I know 280 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:43,880 Speaker 1: they screw it up at every turn. At every turn, 281 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: even when they get in the Promised Land, they just 282 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:50,199 Speaker 1: gotta be like the Canaanites. They just gotta Intermary. They 283 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:53,439 Speaker 1: just gotta go worship these other gods. So now they 284 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:56,640 Speaker 1: go go and get to captivity two different times, even 285 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 1: when Jesus came. So I'm like, oh, oh, there's this 286 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,120 Speaker 1: is a roller coaster, man, hang in there. But we've 287 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: been doing it. And guess what. This year, at the 288 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:10,919 Speaker 1: beginning of the year, we accepted our first new member 289 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,199 Speaker 1: on a trial basis to the Book of Deuteronomy. Holly 290 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 1: is now a part of the Read the Bible in 291 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 1: four Years club, and last Sunday we finished Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy 292 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 1: chapter thirty four was the last one, and I read 293 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,640 Speaker 1: it and I'm like, this is so sad. Dude. Moses 294 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 1: is up on a mountain. He had a horrible thing 295 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: that you can see, something that God wants to give you, 296 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 1: but you can't bring it into reality. I'd rather not 297 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: even know that God promised it to me than to 298 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 1: hear people talk about it and to see people walk 299 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: in it. And man, their marriage seems happy, and their 300 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: kids are in church with them, and I can't get 301 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 1: my kid to come to church. And there's old Pastor 302 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 1: Steve up there telling about the Bible club with his boy, 303 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:06,640 Speaker 1: and that must be nice. You know, you can see things, 304 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 1: but you only see scenes. You don't know stories. You 305 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 1: don't know the story. There's so much more to the story. 306 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 1: Elijah says. Somebody told him the other day Justin Bieber 307 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:27,639 Speaker 1: was at our house for the weekend. I said, it 308 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: would have been nice to know. I'd have made him 309 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:32,439 Speaker 1: sing on Sunday how to put him up on Gyra 310 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,640 Speaker 1: talk to Justin Bieber. I don't know Justin Bieber, who 311 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 1: makes this stuff up? Where's this stuff come from? God 312 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 1: really say you must not eat of any tree in 313 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 1: the garden. Matter of fact, he didn't serpent devil. He 314 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 1: said we can eat any tree, just not one. But 315 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:55,360 Speaker 1: you see how the spin gets you in a story, 316 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 1: and there's so much more to the story. I always 317 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 1: listen to people these days, kind of imagining what the 318 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 1: other person might say if they were there to defend themselves. 319 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:14,119 Speaker 1: I know there's more to the story now in defense 320 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 1: of Moses, come on, I did good. I led these rebellious, 321 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 1: stiff necked people for forty years. You think you would 322 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:28,400 Speaker 1: have done better. You're only forty days into the new year, 323 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: and you've broken every New Year's resolution that you've got, 324 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:36,879 Speaker 1: and three from your neighbors. There's more to the story, 325 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,880 Speaker 1: you know, just to read it as hey. Moses died 326 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 1: because he struck the rock instead of speaking to it, 327 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 1: and he couldn't go into the Promised Land because he 328 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: didn't have faith. That is a summary, but it's not 329 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:51,920 Speaker 1: the story. That's a summary. That's not the story. Little 330 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:57,399 Speaker 1: side note, don't trust the summary. Parenting note when your 331 00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:59,879 Speaker 1: kid comes home and says that teacher just told me 332 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 1: to sit down and shut up, and I didn't do anything. 333 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,200 Speaker 1: You believe that from your kid. You believe that that's 334 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: my baby. Yeah, that's your baby, and your baby is 335 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 1: full of Your baby is got some bs blanket statements. Now, 336 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:26,119 Speaker 1: So to say that Moses still died with more in 337 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: him is a little bit of a blanket statement, because 338 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 1: he did a lot. In fact, the writer of Deuteronomy, 339 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 1: who some belief was Moses, said and nobody ever did 340 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: more for God than Moses. And it also says that 341 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,919 Speaker 1: he was the humblest man who ever lived. So if 342 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 1: he wrote that, then that's very paradoxical, ironic and funny 343 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 1: to me. And so the Lord takes him up on 344 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:57,119 Speaker 1: a mountain and he spent the whole book of Deuteronomy 345 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 1: giving a speech. You know, make sure that when God 346 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 1: brings you into the land, that you are the kind 347 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: of person that can sustain the blessing that He wants 348 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 1: to give you, so that you don't receive the blessing 349 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:16,120 Speaker 1: and sabotage it because of selfishness, because of a lack 350 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,399 Speaker 1: of focus, and because of a lack of gratitude. And 351 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 1: the Lord takes Moses up on a mountain. We've seen 352 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: Moses go on mountains before, you know, and when he 353 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 1: went up, he always came down with something important. God 354 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 1: calls him up on a mountain. He's up there forty 355 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 1: days and comes down with the Ten Commandments to find 356 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 1: the children of Israel dancing around a golden calf. And 357 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: when he confronted them about it, the leader said, oh, yeah, 358 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 1: I threw some stuff in the fire and the cow 359 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 1: came out. I think there's probably more to the story. 360 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm saying, Aaron, Come on, man, 361 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 1: I was born on the day, but it wasn't yesterday. 362 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 1: Come on, man, this is crazy. Breaks the tablets, has 363 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 1: to go back and get him. When Moses goes on 364 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 1: the mountain, he always comes back down. So Moses goes 365 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: up on the mountain this time. He already knows that 366 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 1: God is not going to let him go into the 367 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 1: next level of leadership. That's going to be Joshua's job. 368 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 1: Joshuall be In one of the twelve spies, one of 369 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 1: the only two spies of the twelve who believed that 370 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 1: God could do what he said he could do. So 371 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 1: that's why he gets to go in, and that's why 372 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 1: he gets to lead. And the people are all waiting, 373 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 1: no doubt, for Moses to come down, even though he's 374 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,239 Speaker 1: told them, I'm not coming back because God's not going 375 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,160 Speaker 1: to let me do it. Don't you think they probably 376 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 1: had a hard time believing that. Don't you think that 377 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:53,159 Speaker 1: when he didn't come down at first, they've experienced so 378 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: much grace from God that they think, surely, if anybody 379 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 1: can get God to change his mind, it's Moses. He 380 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: did that one time. God told Moses, I'm gonna kill 381 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 1: all of them and give you a new nation. We'll 382 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 1: start all over me and you and do it better 383 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: this time. Moses said, but then you won't get the 384 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:15,639 Speaker 1: glory if you destroy your people. What will happen to 385 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 1: your name? Everybody will hear about that. And God said, 386 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,679 Speaker 1: all right, all right, I'll forgive them because you asked 387 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:29,400 Speaker 1: this time. Listen to me, He's not coming back down. 388 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 1: How long would it take to accept that if you 389 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 1: were one of them? How long does it take us, 390 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: in seasons of transition in our own life to accept 391 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 1: it's not going to be like it was. I can 392 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,399 Speaker 1: keep trying to make it like it was. I can 393 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,640 Speaker 1: keep wishing that it had gone different than it did. 394 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,680 Speaker 1: I can keep on talking about when I was in 395 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 1: high school. You should have seen me on Friday Night. Man, 396 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,920 Speaker 1: I was the man back then. You can buy the 397 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 1: same car that you had back then, but some of 398 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: the stuff won't work under the hood. I'm gonna stop 399 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 1: right there, because this is one of those pucker up 400 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 1: moments that y'all give me. There is a moment in 401 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:20,920 Speaker 1: your life where you must realize Moses is not coming 402 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:25,119 Speaker 1: back down this time. And have you been there? Because 403 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:29,160 Speaker 1: I have. In the last few years, I have been 404 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:33,960 Speaker 1: reckoning with some realities in my own life that I 405 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 1: have to change because things are changing and God is 406 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 1: moving and the world is changing. And if I stay 407 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 1: where I am, I will miss what God wants to 408 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 1: do in the place that He's already prepared for me. 409 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 1: It's not so much about changing situations, you know, I 410 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:00,879 Speaker 1: haven't really thought about you want a new job. I 411 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 1: don't want to start a new church. I love this one. 412 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,880 Speaker 1: I don't know how you could ever have a better 413 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 1: church to pastor than Elevation Church. I mean, come home, man, 414 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 1: where in the world would I go after this? When 415 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: I finish this, I want God to do for me 416 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 1: what he did for Moses, and just kill me and 417 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 1: hide me somewhere whenever he wants me to be done 418 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: with this, because this is amazing. But sometimes in order 419 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,160 Speaker 1: to change your story, God has to change your point 420 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:30,879 Speaker 1: of view. Now, have you ever had something that happened 421 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 1: in your life, let's get real practical, where you saw 422 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 1: it one way while it was going down, and you 423 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 1: saw it a completely different way when you look back 424 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 1: on it. Raise your hand. I need to make sure 425 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 1: y'all are awake. I'm doing some heavy Old Testament teaching today. 426 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,880 Speaker 1: You ever had that happen before where you look back 427 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,920 Speaker 1: on it later and said, oh, that was actually not 428 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 1: a blessing, that was a trap. Or could go the 429 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 1: other way too, Oh that wasn't actually a tragedy, that 430 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 1: was a blessing. And it can happen both ways. And 431 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 1: two things change the story, and one is time. Time 432 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 1: changes the way you see the story. That's why I 433 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 1: always like to encourage you don't give your testimony too soon. 434 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,119 Speaker 1: I mean, you can tell people Jesus died for me 435 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 1: and I accepted him in my heart, that part of it. 436 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 1: But don't tell your testimony too soon because you might 437 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,680 Speaker 1: leave out the part that God is getting to that 438 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,920 Speaker 1: you don't know about yet. He's the author and the 439 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 1: finisher of your faith. Don't close the Bible in Leviticus 440 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: and say this book is weird. Ah ah, There's so 441 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 1: much more to the story. Don't close your heart, don't 442 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 1: close your mind. Don't come out of the prayer closet, 443 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 1: don't come out of faith, don't come out of the waters. 444 00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 1: Have changed because God is writing your story. Say it. 445 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: God is still writing my story. You got it. God 446 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 1: is still writing my story. But Moses is gone. Some 447 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 1: of the characters are gonna exit, some of the realities 448 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 1: are going to change. And that's why I'm thankful that 449 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 1: we serve a generational God. We tend to have situational faith. 450 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 1: When everything feels a certain way, we can really move 451 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,360 Speaker 1: in it. Oh, when everything's just like this. How many 452 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 1: people have I heard I'm gonna start being more generous 453 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 1: when I get a better job with better pay. That 454 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: is situational faith. How many people have I heard say, well, 455 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be nice to her when she starts respecting 456 00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 1: me more. That is situational faith. That is not the 457 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 1: love of God. That is not the spirit of God. 458 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 1: The spirit of God calls things that be not as 459 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: though they were, because he's a generational God. He was 460 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 1: God of a nation when he only had one man 461 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 1: named Abraham, and I promise you everything under Abraham's hood 462 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 1: was not working right. And even if it was, Sarah's 463 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,600 Speaker 1: womb was dead, so he had no chance. But God 464 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,680 Speaker 1: did it because he's a generational God. He's a generational 465 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 1: god in the sense that what he started in the 466 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 1: beginning with Adam, he recreated in Christ, who is the 467 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 1: second Adam. Because we could not do it by the 468 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 1: works of the law. So God took that book that 469 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: stood against us, put it on Jesus, who knew no sin. 470 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: Can I preach the gospel for ten seconds? And he 471 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,160 Speaker 1: made him who knew no sin to be sin that 472 00:30:56,280 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 1: we might become the righteousness of God. So don't ever 473 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 1: say this little church phrase, I'm just a sinner saved 474 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 1: by grace. You ain't just nothing but somebody that Jesus 475 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 1: thought was worth dying for. You ain't just nothing but 476 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 1: a new creation, a masterpiece. He's still writing your story. 477 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: Moses died, but God didn't. They walked out, but God didn't. 478 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 1: You got fired, but God didn't. He's still got the 479 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 1: same job he had before you ever got to Earth. 480 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 1: He runs stuff. I need us to praise God that 481 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:53,920 Speaker 1: he runs stuff. Hey man, I promise. I tried to 482 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 1: run stuff, and I ran out of strength to do it. 483 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:01,160 Speaker 1: So then I had to lift my eyes kills, and 484 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 1: remember where my help comes from. I got a God 485 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 1: who runs stuff. God doesn't check forecast to see if 486 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,080 Speaker 1: it's a good time for him to do it or 487 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 1: to move. God runs stuff. God doesn't consult human agendas 488 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 1: or political offices to see if it would be a 489 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 1: good time to demonstrate his power. He doesn't check your age, 490 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,840 Speaker 1: or your height, or your weight or your experience. God 491 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:35,560 Speaker 1: runs stuff. He is God. He's generational in the sense 492 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 1: that his faithfulness continues through generations, and in the sense 493 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:47,880 Speaker 1: that he generates he starts. He's the source of your life. 494 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:56,760 Speaker 1: And Moses, my servant is dead. I'm almost ready to preach. Now. 495 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,040 Speaker 1: Wasn't that a good introduction? Y'all? Clap for my introduction? 496 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:04,920 Speaker 1: In a book they have in a book, they have 497 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:08,960 Speaker 1: the foreword. The foreword, but it's not spelled like going 498 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:12,480 Speaker 1: forward is spelled with wo r D. Because it's the 499 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: word that comes before the book in the beginning was 500 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 1: the word y'all need to read y'all's Bible more because 501 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 1: y'all should be preaching this with me. And the word 502 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 1: was with God. And the word was God. And what 503 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:36,400 Speaker 1: does he do? He runs stuff. So the Lord said, 504 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 1: I'm closing down Moses Incorporated, and I'm establishing a new 505 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 1: enterprise called Joshua Incorporated. I thought something would come. You 506 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 1: have no idea how many things I start to say 507 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,000 Speaker 1: and hope something comes to me while I'm in the 508 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 1: middle of saying it. Usually it does, but that time 509 00:33:55,720 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: it didn't. And you know what, I'm actually gonna use 510 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: that to preach this. What I'm telling you is that 511 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:12,719 Speaker 1: I have to go forward not finished. After I have 512 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:18,800 Speaker 1: studied everything I can study, after I have written everything 513 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,520 Speaker 1: that I can write, I have to stand up here. Now. 514 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,280 Speaker 1: I'm not preaching about preaching. I'm preaching about life and purpose. 515 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:27,719 Speaker 1: After I have done all that I can, I have 516 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:32,480 Speaker 1: to stand there for and trust that God is enough. 517 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:38,279 Speaker 1: And so do you, Oh man, When I get my 518 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:42,240 Speaker 1: act together, I wonder how many of y'all were thinking 519 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:47,799 Speaker 1: about leading an e group this last semester, and you thought, well, man, 520 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:49,480 Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm going to lead an e group. 521 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,960 Speaker 1: It's not like I really know the Bible that good. Well, 522 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:56,680 Speaker 1: that's how you're going to learn it. You need something 523 00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,279 Speaker 1: to study for and if people are coming over to 524 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:00,480 Speaker 1: your house Tuesday a six point thirty, have to pick 525 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,719 Speaker 1: it up. I don't like to admit this, but I 526 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:06,439 Speaker 1: don't even know if i'd live right if I didn't 527 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:10,719 Speaker 1: have to preach every Sunday. That's a horrible thing to admit. 528 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,440 Speaker 1: I want to do it just because I love Jesus 529 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,239 Speaker 1: and he loves me, and great is his love and 530 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,200 Speaker 1: his mercy and all the little children of the world. 531 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,360 Speaker 1: But there's a part of me that knows, like I 532 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,120 Speaker 1: got to look at y'all, and it's a lot of y'all. 533 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:27,839 Speaker 1: Every seven days, I gotta say something, and it keeps 534 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,359 Speaker 1: me close to God or keeps me from going too 535 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:35,880 Speaker 1: far before He yanks me back. And I think you 536 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,839 Speaker 1: need the same thing in your life, something that you're 537 00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:46,120 Speaker 1: moving toward forward. I know you got a lot of money, now, 538 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,239 Speaker 1: aren't you cute? You got four oh one k's and 539 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,040 Speaker 1: all of that stuff and two houses and you think 540 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:56,759 Speaker 1: you're done. How dumb are you? Dude? You need to 541 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,200 Speaker 1: read Luke twelve. The man had so much grain. It's like, 542 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,000 Speaker 1: what do I do now? Well, let me help you 543 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,359 Speaker 1: figure it out. You got too much money. I can 544 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,680 Speaker 1: help you with that money. I can help you. I 545 00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,200 Speaker 1: can alleviate that problem. He said, I think I'll build 546 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,480 Speaker 1: bigger Barnes store more up for myself. And he was 547 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:16,160 Speaker 1: never conscious of God. And the Lord said, you fool. 548 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:25,279 Speaker 1: You think you're done just because you have stuff. If 549 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,319 Speaker 1: your goal is to be done, you need to die. 550 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:33,680 Speaker 1: You know, we do goal setting in the new year. 551 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,799 Speaker 1: I'm gonna run a goal setting workshop. I just want 552 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 1: to be done. I want to be finished. I just 553 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:39,719 Speaker 1: want to be done with all of this. Okay, here 554 00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:45,040 Speaker 1: is your task list. Die, you be done. But until then, 555 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:52,680 Speaker 1: there's more, there's more to your story. I like to 556 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:57,719 Speaker 1: listen to these motivational speakers because motivation preachers need motivation too. 557 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,360 Speaker 1: And one guy was saying, you know, the most defensive 558 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,240 Speaker 1: piece of real estate. Have you ever heard this before? 559 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,760 Speaker 1: The most valuable piece of real estate in the world 560 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:10,360 Speaker 1: is not in Manhattan, not in Singapore, not in Dubai. 561 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:13,919 Speaker 1: The most valuable piece of real estate in the world 562 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:19,440 Speaker 1: is the cemetery. Because there you will find buried symphonies 563 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:28,399 Speaker 1: that were unfinished works, that were undone cures that were undiscovered. 564 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:36,680 Speaker 1: Because Moses died still seeing, still strong, and God said, 565 00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,360 Speaker 1: if you don't trust me enough to go forward, I 566 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,960 Speaker 1: can't bring you into what you won't believe me for. 567 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,640 Speaker 1: Let me say that again. That was annointed. God can't 568 00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,600 Speaker 1: bring you into what you won't believe him for. If 569 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,640 Speaker 1: he did, what good would it do you? You wouldn't 570 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,239 Speaker 1: believe him for it, so you'd give it up, so 571 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,720 Speaker 1: you'd mess it up, so you'd walk away. And Moses 572 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:04,080 Speaker 1: is dead and he's not He always comes back. I'm 573 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,840 Speaker 1: sure he'll come back. He'll come back, and he'll be 574 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,120 Speaker 1: wearing the veil over his face, but he'll come back. 575 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,799 Speaker 1: He always comes back. It's gonna turn around any day now. 576 00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:18,640 Speaker 1: And they wait and they wait and they wait. The 577 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:22,720 Speaker 1: Bible says thirty days they waited for Moses. The typical 578 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:28,200 Speaker 1: waiting period was one week. But this is Moses. Moses 579 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,520 Speaker 1: gets at least a month. Right. How many agreed? Let's 580 00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,080 Speaker 1: put it to a church vote. How many think that Moses, 581 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,400 Speaker 1: the one who led the nation forty years, should get 582 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,560 Speaker 1: at least a month of morning before they move on, 583 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:46,400 Speaker 1: and they greed thirty days. Now, I'm gonna speculate that 584 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:51,239 Speaker 1: while they were crying over Moses, they were also looking 585 00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:55,960 Speaker 1: for him. Don't you think reason with me, Reason with me. 586 00:38:56,560 --> 00:39:00,160 Speaker 1: Millions of people in the wilderness. Only one person that's 587 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,160 Speaker 1: ever been able to call on food and feed them, 588 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,000 Speaker 1: Only one person that's ever been able to show them 589 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,520 Speaker 1: how to atone for their sin. There's only one Moses, 590 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:16,560 Speaker 1: one Moses one month, one Moses one month. And I 591 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:20,000 Speaker 1: think they probably send out search parties. I do use 592 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,879 Speaker 1: my sanctified imagination to break this Bible verse down real quick. 593 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,879 Speaker 1: I think they were like, all right, you go look 594 00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:28,359 Speaker 1: for him over there, and you go look for him 595 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:32,080 Speaker 1: over there. Because see, we don't typically have as much 596 00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:36,720 Speaker 1: of a ritualistic culture about these these these moments of transition. 597 00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:41,799 Speaker 1: But to these people, the burial ceremony was tightly prescribed. 598 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,480 Speaker 1: I mean the way that they did it was central 599 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:48,520 Speaker 1: to their need for closure and their processing of grief. 600 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:53,439 Speaker 1: How do you grieve a body that you can't find 601 00:39:53,480 --> 00:40:02,040 Speaker 1: the grave for? How do you gree the loss of 602 00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:06,120 Speaker 1: a hope that you can't really articulate. I just feel 603 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:13,800 Speaker 1: like something's missing. How do you grieve the fact that 604 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:17,319 Speaker 1: I don't know where the grave is. But somewhere along 605 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,880 Speaker 1: the way, I start talking myself out of seeing miracles 606 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:25,279 Speaker 1: and I can't find the grave. I don't know what 607 00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,279 Speaker 1: day had happened. I can't tell you it was nine 608 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,680 Speaker 1: thirty seven, Am. I can't tell you any of that, 609 00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:37,279 Speaker 1: and I'm grieving over something that I can't find the 610 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:41,160 Speaker 1: grave for. I don't know why I don't trust people anymore, 611 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,279 Speaker 1: but I just don't. I don't know why I won't 612 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,319 Speaker 1: let anybody new in my life, but I just won't. 613 00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,880 Speaker 1: I don't know why I don't even talk back to 614 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:51,960 Speaker 1: the devil when he starts telling me I'm workless, But 615 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,040 Speaker 1: now I just agree with him to get him to quit. 616 00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:58,480 Speaker 1: I don't know when I stopped thinking. You know, at 617 00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,480 Speaker 1: some point I am going to get through this, because 618 00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:03,279 Speaker 1: maybe it was the third time or the fourth time 619 00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:07,080 Speaker 1: I went to rehab. But there's something I'm grieving and 620 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:14,359 Speaker 1: I can't show you the grave. I want to tell 621 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:19,560 Speaker 1: you God knows where the grave is, and only God 622 00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:23,320 Speaker 1: knows where the grave is. And that's why in this season, 623 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:27,200 Speaker 1: people can only help you so much. I'm telling you, 624 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,359 Speaker 1: in this season, you can read books, but books can 625 00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,920 Speaker 1: only do so much. This is a season where you 626 00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:38,680 Speaker 1: need the author. This is a season where you need 627 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:42,759 Speaker 1: the generator. This is a season where you need the 628 00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:49,279 Speaker 1: God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. Who knows where 629 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:53,400 Speaker 1: you laid your hope? Who knows where you lost your faith? 630 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:57,160 Speaker 1: Who knows where you gave up your edge, Who knows 631 00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:01,000 Speaker 1: where you surrendered to the addiction? Who knows where you 632 00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:08,759 Speaker 1: gave up the glory because of the grief. It's over now. 633 00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:12,160 Speaker 1: He's not coming back. We've looked everywhere for him. It's 634 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,120 Speaker 1: over now. We got to move on. It's over now. 635 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,080 Speaker 1: What will we do without him? I don't know, but 636 00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:23,040 Speaker 1: it's over now. We send everybody everywhere we could. Apparently 637 00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,320 Speaker 1: God is just as good at hiding as he is seeking, 638 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,560 Speaker 1: because we got millions of people in one Moses, and 639 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:34,840 Speaker 1: we've been looking one month. Now know this as for 640 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:39,239 Speaker 1: but the Lord said, it's been a month. It's been 641 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:43,520 Speaker 1: a month. And the oh, the architecture of this verse 642 00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,680 Speaker 1: is just as important as the application. So please bear 643 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:48,640 Speaker 1: with me as I try to get it to you 644 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,840 Speaker 1: like God gave it to me, because it was so important. 645 00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:54,239 Speaker 1: How they said it. It said in verse eight. The 646 00:42:54,400 --> 00:43:01,440 Speaker 1: Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab. Moses 647 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:08,719 Speaker 1: Moab month, Moses Moab month to leave Moab and to 648 00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:13,400 Speaker 1: go forward into Canaan. They had to accept the death 649 00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:21,960 Speaker 1: of Moses, and they mourned him one month until watch this. 650 00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:24,439 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they got it up there. I'm so glad 651 00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,000 Speaker 1: they got it up there. Yeah. I don't bring y'all's Bibles. 652 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,760 Speaker 1: And I don't want you on your phone while I'm preaching. 653 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,440 Speaker 1: I don't want you having that distraction factory right there 654 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,760 Speaker 1: in front of your face while I'm preaching, because somebody's 655 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:37,840 Speaker 1: gonna text you that's gonna tear you out of this message, 656 00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:39,719 Speaker 1: and the Lord's trying to preach, and it's going to 657 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,120 Speaker 1: distract you. And you can't multitask as good as you 658 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,000 Speaker 1: think you can. I don't care if you are a woman, 659 00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:51,600 Speaker 1: So put your eyes on the screen. They grieved in 660 00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:56,520 Speaker 1: the planes of Moab one month, one Moses, one month 661 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:08,480 Speaker 1: until the time who of we've been and mourning is over. 662 00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:16,800 Speaker 1: He didn't say the feeling of mourning was over, but 663 00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:25,719 Speaker 1: he said his time to move forward. But I don't 664 00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:30,440 Speaker 1: feel like moving forward. I'm not preaching about feelings. Today, 665 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:36,520 Speaker 1: I'm preaching about faith, to move forward when you're not finished, 666 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,719 Speaker 1: to move forward when it still doesn't make sense, to 667 00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,360 Speaker 1: move forward when you still have questions and the questions 668 00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,560 Speaker 1: are now not only unanswered, but the questions have had 669 00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,359 Speaker 1: baby questions, and you can't thinkure any of it out. 670 00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:54,759 Speaker 1: And the Lord says, the feeling wasn't over, but the 671 00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:58,040 Speaker 1: period of mourning was over. You've got to move now. 672 00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:02,479 Speaker 1: If it's for three people, God sent me to preach 673 00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:05,040 Speaker 1: this too. I'm preaching to you right now. If you're 674 00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:07,239 Speaker 1: not even in the room with me, I'm preaching it 675 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:12,279 Speaker 1: to you right now. It's over. No, no, no, you 676 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:14,680 Speaker 1: heard that like cruel. I don't mean it cruel. You 677 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,200 Speaker 1: heard it like stop crying, or don't go to therapy 678 00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:19,839 Speaker 1: or don't tell anybody, or just act like it didn't happen. 679 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:23,560 Speaker 1: I did not say any of that. I'm just saying 680 00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:32,200 Speaker 1: that the time for you staying in Moab looking for 681 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:38,000 Speaker 1: a Moses who isn't coming back, looking for a season 682 00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,720 Speaker 1: of your life that was awesome, but it's over. Looking 683 00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:45,480 Speaker 1: for somebody to apologize, say, already moved to Cancun. It's over. 684 00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,680 Speaker 1: Scrolling through Facebook wondering what are they up to? Now 685 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:59,080 Speaker 1: it's over, Delete the app and live your life. You 686 00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:05,839 Speaker 1: did what too? You waited a month. You've been down 687 00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,719 Speaker 1: there thinking, Oh, I'm so holy, I'm mourning over this. 688 00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:11,360 Speaker 1: You are going to stand? Oh? I love the Bible 689 00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:17,200 Speaker 1: verse It says that weeping may endure for a night, 690 00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:24,279 Speaker 1: but I came with an announcement that joy comes in 691 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:33,200 Speaker 1: the morning. Is over. We're going forward, forward with our 692 00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:38,280 Speaker 1: shirt tails out, forward with our tear state faces, forward 693 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:52,760 Speaker 1: with our unanswered questions, Forward with our own finish thing. Follower, Forward, Forward, Forward. 694 00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:58,520 Speaker 1: I find at people say forward, that's where I'm going forward. 695 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:02,400 Speaker 1: Don't know how. I don't know who's gonna be there. Forward. 696 00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,520 Speaker 1: I'll send you a blup scar Forward. I'm gonna make 697 00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:09,000 Speaker 1: something up this next season. I'm forward this year. I'm 698 00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:21,080 Speaker 1: growing thahs missed over. We been by this full thirty 699 00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:24,799 Speaker 1: eight years. I rickt up, ready to get up here. 700 00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:32,960 Speaker 1: Who I got somebody to help me? Now y'all are like, 701 00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,719 Speaker 1: that's not in the text. Oh, I left one thing 702 00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:43,359 Speaker 1: out verse nine. Now, Joshua, I need that be three 703 00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:49,000 Speaker 1: shots now, Joshua, no more Moses. Did you look for 704 00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:50,520 Speaker 1: him up there? Yeah? I looked him in no Mo. 705 00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:55,200 Speaker 1: I looked for him over here. No more. I went back. 706 00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,720 Speaker 1: I texted him, no more. I went back. I tried 707 00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,880 Speaker 1: to ask him to have me back. No mo. But 708 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,960 Speaker 1: for every no moment in your life, there is a 709 00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:21,239 Speaker 1: now Joshua, the coass developing. Why y y hey? I 710 00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:28,680 Speaker 1: took my Doudoronomy pill this morning, y'all? Whoa now, Joshua, 711 00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:34,160 Speaker 1: look at this versus is annoyted. Now, Joshuvah, son of none, 712 00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:41,359 Speaker 1: I gotta do what I gotta do. Where you see none, 713 00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:48,200 Speaker 1: God says, Now, I'm gonna give you five seconds, because 714 00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:50,319 Speaker 1: when it hits you, you're not gonna be looking at 715 00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:54,560 Speaker 1: me like that. Where you see no way, God says, now, 716 00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:59,360 Speaker 1: watch me make away, let me through, fake some space, 717 00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:06,160 Speaker 1: some room. Lifts up your head. Well, ye guys, where's 718 00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:17,440 Speaker 1: some praisers and let the way ain't go? Do no Moses, 719 00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:21,239 Speaker 1: what there is more? No Moses, what there is more? 720 00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:24,040 Speaker 1: Neville told you no more, no more, no more. He 721 00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:29,839 Speaker 1: was wrong, because you're moving forward. You're not finished. You're 722 00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:34,520 Speaker 1: moving forward, You're not finished. It's not a midlife crisis. 723 00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:40,040 Speaker 1: It's a midlife cuckoo. You're changing in there you're transforming 724 00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:43,399 Speaker 1: in there. You're coming out with wooms, You're coming out 725 00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:46,440 Speaker 1: with wisdom, You're coming out with the room of God. 726 00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:53,719 Speaker 1: I'm coming forward with the whip. Its a praise and 727 00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:59,040 Speaker 1: a double edgen stored in my mouth, letting my kilter 728 00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:12,360 Speaker 1: gold devil now says so what I'm almost ready to preach. 729 00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:17,080 Speaker 1: I saw this one time before. I saw one time 730 00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,400 Speaker 1: before where they thought it was over. I saw this 731 00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,319 Speaker 1: one time before. You you heard it like this when 732 00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:26,120 Speaker 1: I said it it's over. Now you heard it like this. 733 00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:29,000 Speaker 1: It's over now. It's all it's been telling you. It's 734 00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:31,000 Speaker 1: over now. You're not gonna change. If you change your 735 00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:32,440 Speaker 1: seed by now. If you'renna what you do by now. 736 00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:34,759 Speaker 1: If there everything, you don't have anyone to have my now, 737 00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,080 Speaker 1: everybody does over now. But the Lord said it, but 738 00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:42,680 Speaker 1: he said it different. He said it's over. Period. Now 739 00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:57,560 Speaker 1: it's over. The period of morning is over now. Joshua, hey, hey, Sis, 740 00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:01,560 Speaker 1: Send for Jesus, Send for Jesus. Lazarus sick. Lazarus is sick. 741 00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:05,400 Speaker 1: Jesus loves Lazarus. Jesus will come for us. We hosted 742 00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:07,640 Speaker 1: him in our home. He'll come for us. I cook 743 00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:10,840 Speaker 1: chicken for Jesus. He'll come help Lazarus. Send for Jesus, 744 00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:13,520 Speaker 1: Send for Jesus. And the Bible says something really crazy. 745 00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:16,040 Speaker 1: And John chapter eleven, verse four. It says that when 746 00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:18,600 Speaker 1: Mary and Martha sent for Jesus, watched this, he said, 747 00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:23,320 Speaker 1: this sickness will not end in death. It is for 748 00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:27,880 Speaker 1: you want to know the plot of your story, I 749 00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:31,960 Speaker 1: just gave it to you right there. God's glory. He's 750 00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:35,719 Speaker 1: getting ready to get some glory out of this so 751 00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:43,879 Speaker 1: he can show its generations. What a shapebreaker is that? Lord? Oh, 752 00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:46,759 Speaker 1: some sermons you just want to stay in them all day. 753 00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:49,520 Speaker 1: I just want to stay in this one for a moment. 754 00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:53,640 Speaker 1: They said, go get Jesus. We need Jesus. We tried 755 00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:57,520 Speaker 1: the doctors. The doctors can't do it. We prayed about it. 756 00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:02,000 Speaker 1: Prayer didn't fix it. We met him. Medication wouldn't do it. 757 00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:05,520 Speaker 1: Sin for Jesus. And the Bible says something that's kind 758 00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,680 Speaker 1: of like what is said in Deuteronomy thirty four, verse nine, 759 00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:11,960 Speaker 1: Now Joshua, But look at verse five of John and Lendon, 760 00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:15,160 Speaker 1: for what is said in Joshua is that going in John? 761 00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:23,360 Speaker 1: He said, now Jesus, now Jesus, fist bumps somebody in 762 00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:27,400 Speaker 1: case they're a German folks, say, now Jesus. Now, Jesus 763 00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:32,560 Speaker 1: loved Lazarus and her sisters. He loved Mary even though 764 00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:36,040 Speaker 1: she was lazy, and Martha even though she was falsy, 765 00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:39,719 Speaker 1: And Lazarus even though he was sick. Now, Jesus, you 766 00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:42,120 Speaker 1: think you did something he can't fix. You think you 767 00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:44,680 Speaker 1: have something he hadn't seen. You think you're going through 768 00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:47,040 Speaker 1: something he doesn't know the way through. Do you think 769 00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:49,920 Speaker 1: you're working through something that God can't heal that he 770 00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:57,440 Speaker 1: hasn't already worked out? Now, Jesus loved Lazarus even to 771 00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:01,080 Speaker 1: the point of death, even when his body was thinking, 772 00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:04,760 Speaker 1: even when the maggots made their home and his eye sockets. 773 00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:08,200 Speaker 1: I know it's gross. That's how God is. That's how 774 00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:11,480 Speaker 1: far his love reaches. That's how far he'll dip down 775 00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:15,880 Speaker 1: to get you. Now, Jesus loved them very much. Sober 776 00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:23,279 Speaker 1: six when he heard about lazarus sickness, he stayed where 777 00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:28,919 Speaker 1: he was. I tell it a been four days is over. 778 00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:36,080 Speaker 1: It's over. He's dead. Now, Tell Jesus, don't bother about 779 00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:39,120 Speaker 1: the time they told Jesus Lasarus was dead, He told Peter, 780 00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:44,200 Speaker 1: all right, now I'm going. Peter was the one who 781 00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:47,239 Speaker 1: would get in Jesus's face and contradict his logic as God. 782 00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:54,800 Speaker 1: Peter said, now, Jesus, Now, Jesus, you know it's not 783 00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:56,520 Speaker 1: good for you to go back there. They're trying to 784 00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:58,880 Speaker 1: kill you in the region, and Martha might kill you 785 00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:05,600 Speaker 1: if the scribes don't because you're late. Now, Jesus, Martha 786 00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:09,200 Speaker 1: comes running out to meet Jesus, doesn't even let him 787 00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:13,799 Speaker 1: get inside the town. She got there real quick. She said, 788 00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:16,520 Speaker 1: if you've been here, my brother wouldn't have died. God. 789 00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:19,440 Speaker 1: If you would have done it. Maybe I wouldn't have 790 00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:22,399 Speaker 1: lost my son if you would have done it. Maybe 791 00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:24,239 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have turned to the pills if you would 792 00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:27,520 Speaker 1: have done it. Maybe I wouldn't have if you had 793 00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:30,440 Speaker 1: rescued me from that abuse. Maybe I wouldn't struggle with this. No, 794 00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:34,560 Speaker 1: if you've done it. But through her tears of grieving, 795 00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:43,399 Speaker 1: she says something powerful. Even now, I know that God 796 00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:49,399 Speaker 1: will give you whatever you askap. But but there's more 797 00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:51,279 Speaker 1: to the story. There's more to the store. There's more 798 00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:53,080 Speaker 1: to the story. There's somebody said, there's more to the store. 799 00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:55,280 Speaker 1: There's more to the store. There's more to the store. 800 00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,600 Speaker 1: Look at verse twenty twenty. What is it twenty twenty nine, 801 00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:00,560 Speaker 1: twenty nine. I think it's twenty nine. I think he's 802 00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:03,000 Speaker 1: ting I junch apter number twenty nine. When Mary heard 803 00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:06,080 Speaker 1: that Jesus was there, When she heard that he was asking, 804 00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:12,280 Speaker 1: she got up quickly. You don't have time to figure 805 00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:15,960 Speaker 1: everything out before you walk in faith. You need to 806 00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:19,200 Speaker 1: put the appointment on the calendar for this week, you 807 00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:21,719 Speaker 1: hear me. You need to take a step toward it 808 00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:25,360 Speaker 1: this week. You need to flush it before the halftime 809 00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:29,319 Speaker 1: show today. You don't have time to be in your 810 00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:33,680 Speaker 1: tears talking about what God can't transform because he's out 811 00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:38,000 Speaker 1: of time. He is fashionably late, he is faithfully late. 812 00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:40,840 Speaker 1: He may not have come when you wanted him, but 813 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:46,320 Speaker 1: that doesn't mean it's over. Somebody shall now, So she 814 00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:49,400 Speaker 1: gets up quick and get ready for this. Verse thirty 815 00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:54,640 Speaker 1: lit me up, He said, now, Jesus, somebody shall now. Jesus. 816 00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:59,480 Speaker 1: I need you now, Jesus. I need you in this moment. 817 00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:02,200 Speaker 1: I need you in this moment. I need you in 818 00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:07,880 Speaker 1: this moment. I need you in this moment. Now, Jesus, 819 00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:13,800 Speaker 1: you got a dead situation. But you gotta now, Jesus. 820 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:20,880 Speaker 1: You've got a sick heart, but you've got to now, Jesus, 821 00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:26,280 Speaker 1: you've got a weary soul. But you've got to now Jesus, 822 00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:30,919 Speaker 1: say not loud. I got an now, Jesus. I want 823 00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:33,280 Speaker 1: everybody in the chat to put it in. I gotta 824 00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:38,200 Speaker 1: now Jesus, and now Jesus, and now Jesus. I got 825 00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:43,440 Speaker 1: a third day Jesus, a fourth day Jesus, a generational Jesus, 826 00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:46,960 Speaker 1: a Jesus who's the word in the beginning, and he 827 00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:51,200 Speaker 1: won't fail me. Now, I gotta now, Jesus. And when 828 00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:56,040 Speaker 1: he says, take me to the place where you laid 829 00:56:56,120 --> 00:57:06,839 Speaker 1: the body, he already knows where the grave is. He's 830 00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:12,000 Speaker 1: just been waiting on you to take him there. He knows, 831 00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:23,120 Speaker 1: he knows you don't. But I'm going forward not knowing. 832 00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:27,920 Speaker 1: He said, if you believe, you see God's glory. And 833 00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:29,600 Speaker 1: then he said, Lestra's come out and they all sing 834 00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:37,560 Speaker 1: rattle in my version, I don't have that version. And 835 00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:46,880 Speaker 1: you know what church I was reading, Oh God, I 836 00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:50,280 Speaker 1: was reading the last chapter of Deuteronomy before I came 837 00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:58,480 Speaker 1: over here to do our anniversary service. Seventeen years and 838 00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:00,040 Speaker 1: I didn't even think about it. But the guy I 839 00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:02,800 Speaker 1: had to come preach was seventeen years older than me, 840 00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:10,120 Speaker 1: and my oldest son, who I'm dedicating the series, it's seventeen. 841 00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:13,440 Speaker 1: When I want to understand why y'all is a church 842 00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:15,440 Speaker 1: are acting wild, I just look at him and remember, 843 00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:18,800 Speaker 1: and that's the stage we're at, and I'm gonna try 844 00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:22,680 Speaker 1: not to kill you. I love him so much, man, 845 00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:27,080 Speaker 1: because he started me in this club. And if he 846 00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:30,520 Speaker 1: started on any other day, I wouldn't have read Deuteronomy 847 00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:34,600 Speaker 1: thirty four. And I read it and I closed it 848 00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:38,040 Speaker 1: because I thought, that's sad. I want to have an 849 00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:41,160 Speaker 1: anniversary and I'm reading about Moses looking on the mountain 850 00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,480 Speaker 1: and dieing, and God, are you telling me I'm not 851 00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:46,280 Speaker 1: going to see the things that you promised me? Because 852 00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:51,680 Speaker 1: I want faith. I came to church. I was back 853 00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:56,080 Speaker 1: there talking to my guest and they came over, and 854 00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:58,120 Speaker 1: I would felt bad because they were bugging him. They said, 855 00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:00,920 Speaker 1: you send us a bunch of different titles. Which one 856 00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:04,720 Speaker 1: are you going to do? And he said, I think 857 00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:06,520 Speaker 1: I'm leaning toward the one who says this is not 858 00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:13,880 Speaker 1: your final chapter. And y'all, look what the next book 859 00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:23,720 Speaker 1: of my Bible was when I hold on is coming 860 00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:32,640 Speaker 1: into focus, just like your purpose is right now seventeen 861 00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:38,680 Speaker 1: and seventeen and his Deuteronomy thirty four. And I wrote 862 00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:40,680 Speaker 1: a song that says there's so much more to the 863 00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:43,480 Speaker 1: story with Chandler and Ben and Naomi, and we sang 864 00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:45,120 Speaker 1: it and called it more than able, and did an 865 00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:49,919 Speaker 1: Ephesian's Bible study called immeasurably more. And you think God 866 00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:55,840 Speaker 1: has done with you because Moses is gone now Joshua now, 867 00:59:56,000 --> 01:00:19,600 Speaker 1: Jesus now, Jesus now unto him who is able to do? Yeah, 868 01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:23,439 Speaker 1: I hope y'all like this song. There is so much 869 01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:27,080 Speaker 1: more to the song because I'm gonna be preaching Joshua. 870 01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:32,440 Speaker 1: We're gonna be singing this with me. You say it, 871 01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:36,800 Speaker 1: you're not done. Close your eyes for a moment and 872 01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:47,280 Speaker 1: receive it. You're not done with me. I declare a 873 01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:53,840 Speaker 1: chapter one in your life today, God of new beginnings, 874 01:00:57,040 --> 01:01:04,480 Speaker 1: the God of new endings. It's a god a second chances. Yes, 875 01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:11,200 Speaker 1: with God, there's always a way. See the way, and 876 01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:16,560 Speaker 1: by faith, we're gonna find him. Deal with me. We 877 01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:20,320 Speaker 1: got a missing Moses. Come on you. We's a living 878 01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:24,959 Speaker 1: move We have a living home. We have a living God. 879 01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:31,480 Speaker 1: So much fun. Jesus dreams for now, Jesus my all 880 01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:39,200 Speaker 1: freedom for now. Jesus's clearing conress far now. Jesus, I 881 01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:46,160 Speaker 1: got healing with me. You are for It's as now. 882 01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:52,200 Speaker 1: Jesus story is a funny. The Masts Survey and all 883 01:01:52,480 --> 01:02:18,880 Speaker 1: please you by outside well. If you enjoyed today's podcast, 884 01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:20,640 Speaker 1: there are a couple of things I'd love for you 885 01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:25,040 Speaker 1: to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast. 886 01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:27,800 Speaker 1: You can also help us reach others by investing today 887 01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:31,439 Speaker 1: at Elevation Church dot org, slash give and thanks again 888 01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:33,600 Speaker 1: for joining us on the Elevation Podcast