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Speaker 1: Let's go to the word of God. You that there's
Speaker 1: the way they come through. There's so much smart until
Speaker 1: the decorory shot said, tell more time. I'll pray there's
Speaker 1: the way they come through. Wherever you are, whatever you
Speaker 1: have the way man, could you can do exity. There's
Speaker 1: so much so de sory got that do come can
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.
Speaker 1: I can see you're not done. Is not done with
Speaker 1: me yet, is not done with me. The Lord told
Speaker 1: me to preach this today. There's so much more to
Speaker 1: the story. That's my sermon. There's so much more to
Speaker 1: the story. That's it. There's there's so much more to
Speaker 1: the story. There's get this in your spirit. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be preaching it through Easter. There's so much more. It
Speaker 1: starts today. You can't on the right day. God send
Speaker 1: you here all the right say. God puts you on
Speaker 1: side at the lifetime. There's so much more. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: so much. You're not done. Let's go to the word
Speaker 1: of God. The word of God is powerful. The Word
Speaker 1: of God is eternal. The grass withers in the flower fades,
Speaker 1: but the word of the lore, it's the story that
Speaker 1: will forever be told, and it will forever be true,
Speaker 1: and it will forever be real, and it will forever
Speaker 1: be powerful. The Lord gave me seven sermons this week.
Speaker 1: My next seven sermons are going to come from my
Speaker 1: personal time with Him. That he gave me, and I
Speaker 1: asked him could I share it publicly? And he gave
Speaker 1: me permission, and I could not be more excited. I
Speaker 1: don't put on a card again for just any occasion.
Speaker 1: I'm pumped up about it. And if you were wondering
Speaker 1: if God is finished with you today, well this should
Speaker 1: be more than a confirmation. I've never had a sermon
Speaker 1: that the Lord confirmed more than this one ever, and
Speaker 1: I've been doing this since I was sixteen, never had
Speaker 1: one that God showed me so many different ways what
Speaker 1: he wanted me to preach. And what I think is
Speaker 1: there must be something that you've been going through or
Speaker 1: needing from him, and he wants to get it to you.
Speaker 1: So he just put it through my thick skull that
Speaker 1: I need to preach it starting today, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do it like he gave it to me. Deuteronomy, chapter
Speaker 1: thirty four. Deuteronomy, y'all didn't shout when I said Deuteronomy.
Speaker 1: Y'all wanted he Ephesians, but we got Deuteronomy today. Deuteronomy
Speaker 1: thirty four, verse five. Welcome to our epham around the world.
Speaker 1: I want everybody to make this affirmation real quick. Just
Speaker 1: make it with your mouth or type it if you're online.
Speaker 1: Say with God, there's always a way. The Lord gave
Speaker 1: me that. Yesterday I was talking to somebody about what
Speaker 1: they were going through, and I don't know if she
Speaker 1: thought it was weird, but I was like, repeat after me.
Speaker 1: I went into pastor Steve mode real quick. I said,
Speaker 1: repeat after me. Now you do it too. With God,
Speaker 1: there's always a way. Now finish this because this is
Speaker 1: the best part of it, and by faith I will
Speaker 1: find it. You feel that it's my spine tinkle. Say
Speaker 1: it again. With God, There's always a way, and by
Speaker 1: faith I will find it. I hope you're putting that
Speaker 1: in the chat. Let the devil know. You might not
Speaker 1: be in the building, but you're in the spirit and
Speaker 1: God is here and anything is possible. Who am I
Speaker 1: to deny what the Lord can do. If he wants
Speaker 1: to heal you, let him through. If he wants to
Speaker 1: redeem what you've given up on, let him through. If
Speaker 1: he wants to give you wisdom for stuff that you
Speaker 1: think you're too stupid to know, let him through. If
Speaker 1: he wants to give you a job or a position
Speaker 1: that you're not qualified for on paper, let him through.
Speaker 1: If he wants to make the next ten years of
Speaker 1: your life better than the last ten. Let him through.
Speaker 1: Who are you to tell him no? Thank you Jesus
Speaker 1: read the scripture Stephen, verse thirty four, Chapter thirty four,
Speaker 1: verse five. And Moses, the servant of the Lord, there
Speaker 1: in Moab, as the Lord had said, He buried him
Speaker 1: in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Piure. But to
Speaker 1: this day no one knows where his grave is. Moses
Speaker 1: was one hundred and twenty years old when he died.
Speaker 1: I know, I said, old is the goal, but I
Speaker 1: don't want to be here around. I don't care what
Speaker 1: artificial legs they make. Elon Musk might put an artificial
Speaker 1: knees or something like that on me, but I don't
Speaker 1: want it, not that long. But watch what the Bible says.
Speaker 1: And this is kind of sad. He was one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty when he died, yet his eyes were not weak,
Speaker 1: nor his strength gone. And see, we kind of want
Speaker 1: to shout on that, but think about it. It's really sad.
Speaker 1: It's not something to shout about. It's something to cry
Speaker 1: about because it means there was still more in him.
Speaker 1: Somebody say, there's more in me? Tell your neighbor. They
Speaker 1: don't believe it. When they hear themselves say it, maybe
Speaker 1: they'll believe you. Say there's more in you. There's yeah,
Speaker 1: there's more in you. There's more in you. There's more
Speaker 1: in you. There's more in you. Now say it again,
Speaker 1: there's more in me. Praise to the Lord. So Moses
Speaker 1: died there and he still could see, and he was
Speaker 1: still strong. But see, he stopped trusting God, so he
Speaker 1: couldn't go into the Promised Land. And the Lord takes
Speaker 1: him up on this high mountain called Nebo, and he says,
Speaker 1: you see all that you see past the Mediterranean. You
Speaker 1: see Jericho. Joshua was going to fight that battle, not you.
Speaker 1: I could have used you, But because you broke faith
Speaker 1: with me and didn't honor me enough, the Lord said
Speaker 1: you're done. And that's a bad thing, because when God
Speaker 1: says it's done, you can sing you're not done with
Speaker 1: me yet. If the Lord says, oh, yes I am,
Speaker 1: you're done. I was going through criticism one time in
Speaker 1: ministry and Joyce Meyer told me, well, Stephen, if Lord's
Speaker 1: done with it, you ain't nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 1: Might as well trust him and go forward. I was
Speaker 1: like yes, ma'am. Now watch this. The Israelites grieved for Moses.
Speaker 1: They didn't know where his grave was, but they grieved
Speaker 1: for him because God took him and hid the body somewhere.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you the Bible is so much of a
Speaker 1: better story than you think. The Bible is better than
Speaker 1: Breaking Bad and the Walking Dead. The Bible has all
Speaker 1: that stuff in it, dead people walking around and all
Speaker 1: of that hiding bodies. Who needs gus fring when you
Speaker 1: got God. I'm having fun. I'm fired up. This is
Speaker 1: my first sermon of my eighteenth year of pastor in
Speaker 1: this church. I'm ready to fru They grieved for Moses
Speaker 1: in the planes of Moab thirty days month until the
Speaker 1: time of weeping and mourning was over. Somebody say over
Speaker 1: the series I'm starting today is called There's so much
Speaker 1: more to the story. But the message today and the
Speaker 1: word of the Lord for you is forward, not finished.
Speaker 1: I gotta be careful because I'll have y'all hear past kickoff.
Speaker 1: You won't be home till Rihanna's on the stage. If
Speaker 1: I preach it like I'm feeling forward, somebody shot forward?
Speaker 1: Where you going forward? You gotta figure it out. No
Speaker 1: but I'm going Do you know what it's going to
Speaker 1: be like when you get there? No, but I'm going forward,
Speaker 1: not finished. In Jesus' name, Sit down, and I dedicate
Speaker 1: these next seven sermons to my oldest son Elijah. Were
Speaker 1: not for him, I would not be inspired to preach this.
Speaker 1: And I'll explain that to you in a few moments.
Speaker 1: But I've never dedicated a series, but I dedicate this
Speaker 1: to my oldest boy. Thank you. You know what, I
Speaker 1: think that sad scenes sometimes are necessary for the best
Speaker 1: stories to be told and unfold. And I read that chapter.
Speaker 1: It's actually what I read last Sunday before I came
Speaker 1: over to our anniversary. I had a note. I thought, well,
Speaker 1: I preached Ephesians for whoever wanted to leave the church
Speaker 1: because they don't want to be challenged is already gone.
Speaker 1: Because I was saying stuff the last few weeks that
Speaker 1: I was like, they are they going to throw something
Speaker 1: at me telling you come on, man, live like you
Speaker 1: know God, Stop just rolling around in your sin and
Speaker 1: calling that grace, get up and do something with it
Speaker 1: for the Lord. I mean, we all suck sometimes, but
Speaker 1: you know, you've been in a suck season for four years.
Speaker 1: Let's go for where moving into it, walking on with
Speaker 1: what I've got. I have to move on as a pastor,
Speaker 1: with the church that I have after a pandemic. You
Speaker 1: have to move on in the season of your life
Speaker 1: that you're in with the strength that you have, Gideon,
Speaker 1: with the instruments that you have, Moses, Staff, with the
Speaker 1: rock that you have, David, with the disciples you have, Jesus, Judas,
Speaker 1: Can I get another one? Peter? Can I get another one?
Speaker 1: All them might fail you, but you've got to do
Speaker 1: it if the Lord called you to do it. And
Speaker 1: when I read this last Sunday before I came over,
Speaker 1: I had a little note that my next teachings should
Speaker 1: be There's so much more to the story. You know,
Speaker 1: there always is. If I could teach you anything, don't
Speaker 1: believe if anything you hear and only about half of
Speaker 1: what you see. Isn't it true when you when you
Speaker 1: hear stuff about people, especially now, I mean, we used
Speaker 1: to have to say stuff to somebody, but now we
Speaker 1: can just say something about somebody instead of to somebody,
Speaker 1: So it's never been harder. This is not my message
Speaker 1: and this is my soapbox, so I need to be
Speaker 1: very careful that I don't waste time on this, but
Speaker 1: there's more to the story. Well, that little line that
Speaker 1: we were singing from Ephesians three twenty you are more
Speaker 1: than able and just confessing there's so much more to
Speaker 1: the story is certainly true of this Bible. I think
Speaker 1: it's like eleven hundred and eighty nine chapters. I'm not
Speaker 1: exactly sure, but in this Bible that we read as Christians,
Speaker 1: it's got the first five books called the Pentatuke. Penta
Speaker 1: is the five so it's like pentatonic scale in music
Speaker 1: is notes, so penta too. So that's that's what I
Speaker 1: was reading last week when I came to church and
Speaker 1: I had a preacher in. And now remember this is
Speaker 1: my daily Bible reading. And let me just tell you personally,
Speaker 1: I was gonna save it to the end, but I
Speaker 1: think it'll be good to help you see why this
Speaker 1: is important to me. Last year, Elijah, my oldest, says
Speaker 1: to me that the Book of Genesis is really weird.
Speaker 1: He had been reading through a chapter a day with
Speaker 1: Kelsey and they were going through the Bible chapter a
Speaker 1: day and he's like every day he comes to me,
Speaker 1: he's like, it's getting weirder, crazy, stuff is happening. You're like,
Speaker 1: that's a sacrilegious. The Bible isn't weird, it's holy. You
Speaker 1: haven't read it. You just pluck little verses out. I
Speaker 1: can tell what you are. You got a little verse
Speaker 1: of the day app thing. You just read the ones
Speaker 1: you want to read. You really read it in sas frap.
Speaker 1: The Bible's not Pg. Thirteen. I think it's always funny
Speaker 1: when people are like, oh, I don't think that was
Speaker 1: appropriate to put into a sermon that was very adult.
Speaker 1: I need a grown up God because I'm fighting grown
Speaker 1: up challenges in a hell bent world. And the devil's
Speaker 1: been running stuff long enough, because the devil will talk
Speaker 1: about it, but we won't. I feel people pucker up
Speaker 1: every time I say weird stuff in church, like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know the Lord can't accept you and can use you,
Speaker 1: even if you were up till three point thirty last
Speaker 1: night looking at stuff online. And I feel people go, no,
Speaker 1: we can't. Don't say it, but I can feel it anyway.
Speaker 1: Elijah said the Book of Genesis is getting weird, and
Speaker 1: I said, well, what chapter are you on? And he
Speaker 1: said the chapter? And I looked it up that night
Speaker 1: and it was a very difficult chapter. And so I
Speaker 1: sent a text to him and Kelsey. I said, hey,
Speaker 1: so I read that chapter that y'all are on, and
Speaker 1: this is just one thought out of the chapter. And
Speaker 1: I sent him a little sentence and said, here's a
Speaker 1: key verse from that chapter that kind of makes the
Speaker 1: whole rest of it make a little bit of sense,
Speaker 1: something we can practice in our life. And then I
Speaker 1: did it the next day because they texted me back.
Speaker 1: They made me feel like I was saying Augustine. They
Speaker 1: made me feel like Billy Graham. They were like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, there were like seven mind blow emodes he's
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, I'm gonna do that again. I
Speaker 1: feel affirmed by this. Send it back the next night
Speaker 1: another one. Oh my god, this is even better, this
Speaker 1: is incredible. This helps us so much. Thank you. And
Speaker 1: so the next night I actually officialized it and I
Speaker 1: changed the name of the group thread text thing. And
Speaker 1: it took me an hour to figure out how to
Speaker 1: do that, because I'm old. Old is the goal. That's
Speaker 1: my whole goal in life. I want to be old
Speaker 1: enough where I don't know how to work this text
Speaker 1: message machine like Moses. And so I changed the name
Speaker 1: and I called it. I called our text to read
Speaker 1: the Bible in four years club. I did a little
Speaker 1: bit of the math, and if we only read a
Speaker 1: chapter a day, it'd be like four years to read
Speaker 1: the whole Bible that way. And I Totalijah, I'm like,
Speaker 1: we got to go faster, man, I got to get
Speaker 1: to Matthew. I cannot be stuck over here in Leviticus
Speaker 1: for this long. It's too long. He's like, no, Dad,
Speaker 1: I really want to see what the Bible's all about.
Speaker 1: That's why I started the club. I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: you're the president. I'm just a secretary treasurer. You do
Speaker 1: the key Verse this week. So he did the one
Speaker 1: the next night and it was good. Not as good
Speaker 1: as mine. I've been doing this a long time, but
Speaker 1: he did pretty good. And then Kelsey did one pretty good,
Speaker 1: and then I was back to me him Kelsey boom
Speaker 1: boom boom. So we're moving. We're moving through Exodus, we're
Speaker 1: moving through Leviticus. About halfway through Leviticus, Elijah goes, this
Speaker 1: is crazy. The Bible is so much better when you
Speaker 1: actually read it as a story instead of just selections
Speaker 1: that you take like a little shot, like a be
Speaker 1: twelve shot to get you through the day. I got
Speaker 1: to be three shot. They gets you through the week
Speaker 1: if you need it. If I preach good, that's what
Speaker 1: that organ is called, the B three Show them how
Speaker 1: sounds lja. Yeah, we could do it. We can do
Speaker 1: it in a minute. We can do it in a minute.
Speaker 1: We could do it in a minute. We could do
Speaker 1: it in a minute. Stop. So he said, it's so
Speaker 1: much better. And there's he said, I've got so much
Speaker 1: invested in the Israelites. Now I want to see what happens.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, uh, oh, this is not the winning
Speaker 1: team that you want to cheer for because I know
Speaker 1: they screw it up at every turn. At every turn,
Speaker 1: even when they get in the Promised Land, they just
Speaker 1: gotta be like the Canaanites. They just gotta Intermary. They
Speaker 1: just gotta go worship these other gods. So now they
Speaker 1: go go and get to captivity two different times, even
Speaker 1: when Jesus came. So I'm like, oh, oh, there's this
Speaker 1: is a roller coaster, man, hang in there. But we've
Speaker 1: been doing it. And guess what. This year, at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the year, we accepted our first new member
Speaker 1: on a trial basis to the Book of Deuteronomy. Holly
Speaker 1: is now a part of the Read the Bible in
Speaker 1: four Years club, and last Sunday we finished Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy
Speaker 1: chapter thirty four was the last one, and I read
Speaker 1: it and I'm like, this is so sad. Dude. Moses
Speaker 1: is up on a mountain. He had a horrible thing
Speaker 1: that you can see, something that God wants to give you,
Speaker 1: but you can't bring it into reality. I'd rather not
Speaker 1: even know that God promised it to me than to
Speaker 1: hear people talk about it and to see people walk
Speaker 1: in it. And man, their marriage seems happy, and their
Speaker 1: kids are in church with them, and I can't get
Speaker 1: my kid to come to church. And there's old Pastor
Speaker 1: Steve up there telling about the Bible club with his boy,
Speaker 1: and that must be nice. You know, you can see things,
Speaker 1: but you only see scenes. You don't know stories. You
Speaker 1: don't know the story. There's so much more to the story.
Speaker 1: Elijah says. Somebody told him the other day Justin Bieber
Speaker 1: was at our house for the weekend. I said, it
Speaker 1: would have been nice to know. I'd have made him
Speaker 1: sing on Sunday how to put him up on Gyra
Speaker 1: talk to Justin Bieber. I don't know Justin Bieber, who
Speaker 1: makes this stuff up? Where's this stuff come from? God
Speaker 1: really say you must not eat of any tree in
Speaker 1: the garden. Matter of fact, he didn't serpent devil. He
Speaker 1: said we can eat any tree, just not one. But
Speaker 1: you see how the spin gets you in a story,
Speaker 1: and there's so much more to the story. I always
Speaker 1: listen to people these days, kind of imagining what the
Speaker 1: other person might say if they were there to defend themselves.
Speaker 1: I know there's more to the story now in defense
Speaker 1: of Moses, come on, I did good. I led these rebellious,
Speaker 1: stiff necked people for forty years. You think you would
Speaker 1: have done better. You're only forty days into the new year,
Speaker 1: and you've broken every New Year's resolution that you've got,
Speaker 1: and three from your neighbors. There's more to the story,
Speaker 1: you know, just to read it as hey. Moses died
Speaker 1: because he struck the rock instead of speaking to it,
Speaker 1: and he couldn't go into the Promised Land because he
Speaker 1: didn't have faith. That is a summary, but it's not
Speaker 1: the story. That's a summary. That's not the story. Little
Speaker 1: side note, don't trust the summary. Parenting note when your
Speaker 1: kid comes home and says that teacher just told me
Speaker 1: to sit down and shut up, and I didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: You believe that from your kid. You believe that that's
Speaker 1: my baby. Yeah, that's your baby, and your baby is
Speaker 1: full of Your baby is got some bs blanket statements. Now,
Speaker 1: So to say that Moses still died with more in
Speaker 1: him is a little bit of a blanket statement, because
Speaker 1: he did a lot. In fact, the writer of Deuteronomy,
Speaker 1: who some belief was Moses, said and nobody ever did
Speaker 1: more for God than Moses. And it also says that
Speaker 1: he was the humblest man who ever lived. So if
Speaker 1: he wrote that, then that's very paradoxical, ironic and funny
Speaker 1: to me. And so the Lord takes him up on
Speaker 1: a mountain and he spent the whole book of Deuteronomy
Speaker 1: giving a speech. You know, make sure that when God
Speaker 1: brings you into the land, that you are the kind
Speaker 1: of person that can sustain the blessing that He wants
Speaker 1: to give you, so that you don't receive the blessing
Speaker 1: and sabotage it because of selfishness, because of a lack
Speaker 1: of focus, and because of a lack of gratitude. And
Speaker 1: the Lord takes Moses up on a mountain. We've seen
Speaker 1: Moses go on mountains before, you know, and when he
Speaker 1: went up, he always came down with something important. God
Speaker 1: calls him up on a mountain. He's up there forty
Speaker 1: days and comes down with the Ten Commandments to find
Speaker 1: the children of Israel dancing around a golden calf. And
Speaker 1: when he confronted them about it, the leader said, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I threw some stuff in the fire and the cow
Speaker 1: came out. I think there's probably more to the story.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm saying, Aaron, Come on, man,
Speaker 1: I was born on the day, but it wasn't yesterday.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, this is crazy. Breaks the tablets, has
Speaker 1: to go back and get him. When Moses goes on
Speaker 1: the mountain, he always comes back down. So Moses goes
Speaker 1: up on the mountain this time. He already knows that
Speaker 1: God is not going to let him go into the
Speaker 1: next level of leadership. That's going to be Joshua's job.
Speaker 1: Joshuall be In one of the twelve spies, one of
Speaker 1: the only two spies of the twelve who believed that
Speaker 1: God could do what he said he could do. So
Speaker 1: that's why he gets to go in, and that's why
Speaker 1: he gets to lead. And the people are all waiting,
Speaker 1: no doubt, for Moses to come down, even though he's
Speaker 1: told them, I'm not coming back because God's not going
Speaker 1: to let me do it. Don't you think they probably
Speaker 1: had a hard time believing that. Don't you think that
Speaker 1: when he didn't come down at first, they've experienced so
Speaker 1: much grace from God that they think, surely, if anybody
Speaker 1: can get God to change his mind, it's Moses. He
Speaker 1: did that one time. God told Moses, I'm gonna kill
Speaker 1: all of them and give you a new nation. We'll
Speaker 1: start all over me and you and do it better
Speaker 1: this time. Moses said, but then you won't get the
Speaker 1: glory if you destroy your people. What will happen to
Speaker 1: your name? Everybody will hear about that. And God said,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, I'll forgive them because you asked
Speaker 1: this time. Listen to me, He's not coming back down.
Speaker 1: How long would it take to accept that if you
Speaker 1: were one of them? How long does it take us,
Speaker 1: in seasons of transition in our own life to accept
Speaker 1: it's not going to be like it was. I can
Speaker 1: keep trying to make it like it was. I can
Speaker 1: keep wishing that it had gone different than it did.
Speaker 1: I can keep on talking about when I was in
Speaker 1: high school. You should have seen me on Friday Night. Man,
Speaker 1: I was the man back then. You can buy the
Speaker 1: same car that you had back then, but some of
Speaker 1: the stuff won't work under the hood. I'm gonna stop
Speaker 1: right there, because this is one of those pucker up
Speaker 1: moments that y'all give me. There is a moment in
Speaker 1: your life where you must realize Moses is not coming
Speaker 1: back down this time. And have you been there? Because
Speaker 1: I have. In the last few years, I have been
Speaker 1: reckoning with some realities in my own life that I
Speaker 1: have to change because things are changing and God is
Speaker 1: moving and the world is changing. And if I stay
Speaker 1: where I am, I will miss what God wants to
Speaker 1: do in the place that He's already prepared for me.
Speaker 1: It's not so much about changing situations, you know, I
Speaker 1: haven't really thought about you want a new job. I
Speaker 1: don't want to start a new church. I love this one.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you could ever have a better
Speaker 1: church to pastor than Elevation Church. I mean, come home, man,
Speaker 1: where in the world would I go after this? When
Speaker 1: I finish this, I want God to do for me
Speaker 1: what he did for Moses, and just kill me and
Speaker 1: hide me somewhere whenever he wants me to be done
Speaker 1: with this, because this is amazing. But sometimes in order
Speaker 1: to change your story, God has to change your point
Speaker 1: of view. Now, have you ever had something that happened
Speaker 1: in your life, let's get real practical, where you saw
Speaker 1: it one way while it was going down, and you
Speaker 1: saw it a completely different way when you look back
Speaker 1: on it. Raise your hand. I need to make sure
Speaker 1: y'all are awake. I'm doing some heavy Old Testament teaching today.
Speaker 1: You ever had that happen before where you look back
Speaker 1: on it later and said, oh, that was actually not
Speaker 1: a blessing, that was a trap. Or could go the
Speaker 1: other way too, Oh that wasn't actually a tragedy, that
Speaker 1: was a blessing. And it can happen both ways. And
Speaker 1: two things change the story, and one is time. Time
Speaker 1: changes the way you see the story. That's why I
Speaker 1: always like to encourage you don't give your testimony too soon.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can tell people Jesus died for me
Speaker 1: and I accepted him in my heart, that part of it.
Speaker 1: But don't tell your testimony too soon because you might
Speaker 1: leave out the part that God is getting to that
Speaker 1: you don't know about yet. He's the author and the
Speaker 1: finisher of your faith. Don't close the Bible in Leviticus
Speaker 1: and say this book is weird. Ah ah, There's so
Speaker 1: much more to the story. Don't close your heart, don't
Speaker 1: close your mind. Don't come out of the prayer closet,
Speaker 1: don't come out of faith, don't come out of the waters.
Speaker 1: Have changed because God is writing your story. Say it.
Speaker 1: God is still writing my story. You got it. God
Speaker 1: is still writing my story. But Moses is gone. Some
Speaker 1: of the characters are gonna exit, some of the realities
Speaker 1: are going to change. And that's why I'm thankful that
Speaker 1: we serve a generational God. We tend to have situational faith.
Speaker 1: When everything feels a certain way, we can really move
Speaker 1: in it. Oh, when everything's just like this. How many
Speaker 1: people have I heard I'm gonna start being more generous
Speaker 1: when I get a better job with better pay. That
Speaker 1: is situational faith. How many people have I heard say, well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be nice to her when she starts respecting
Speaker 1: me more. That is situational faith. That is not the
Speaker 1: love of God. That is not the spirit of God.
Speaker 1: The spirit of God calls things that be not as
Speaker 1: though they were, because he's a generational God. He was
Speaker 1: God of a nation when he only had one man
Speaker 1: named Abraham, and I promise you everything under Abraham's hood
Speaker 1: was not working right. And even if it was, Sarah's
Speaker 1: womb was dead, so he had no chance. But God
Speaker 1: did it because he's a generational God. He's a generational
Speaker 1: god in the sense that what he started in the
Speaker 1: beginning with Adam, he recreated in Christ, who is the
Speaker 1: second Adam. Because we could not do it by the
Speaker 1: works of the law. So God took that book that
Speaker 1: stood against us, put it on Jesus, who knew no sin.
Speaker 1: Can I preach the gospel for ten seconds? And he
Speaker 1: made him who knew no sin to be sin that
Speaker 1: we might become the righteousness of God. So don't ever
Speaker 1: say this little church phrase, I'm just a sinner saved
Speaker 1: by grace. You ain't just nothing but somebody that Jesus
Speaker 1: thought was worth dying for. You ain't just nothing but
Speaker 1: a new creation, a masterpiece. He's still writing your story.
Speaker 1: Moses died, but God didn't. They walked out, but God didn't.
Speaker 1: You got fired, but God didn't. He's still got the
Speaker 1: same job he had before you ever got to Earth.
Speaker 1: He runs stuff. I need us to praise God that
Speaker 1: he runs stuff. Hey man, I promise. I tried to
Speaker 1: run stuff, and I ran out of strength to do it.
Speaker 1: So then I had to lift my eyes kills, and
Speaker 1: remember where my help comes from. I got a God
Speaker 1: who runs stuff. God doesn't check forecast to see if
Speaker 1: it's a good time for him to do it or
Speaker 1: to move. God runs stuff. God doesn't consult human agendas
Speaker 1: or political offices to see if it would be a
Speaker 1: good time to demonstrate his power. He doesn't check your age,
Speaker 1: or your height, or your weight or your experience. God
Speaker 1: runs stuff. He is God. He's generational in the sense
Speaker 1: that his faithfulness continues through generations, and in the sense
Speaker 1: that he generates he starts. He's the source of your life.
Speaker 1: And Moses, my servant is dead. I'm almost ready to preach. Now.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that a good introduction? Y'all? Clap for my introduction?
Speaker 1: In a book they have in a book, they have
Speaker 1: the foreword. The foreword, but it's not spelled like going
Speaker 1: forward is spelled with wo r D. Because it's the
Speaker 1: word that comes before the book in the beginning was
Speaker 1: the word y'all need to read y'all's Bible more because
Speaker 1: y'all should be preaching this with me. And the word
Speaker 1: was with God. And the word was God. And what
Speaker 1: does he do? He runs stuff. So the Lord said,
Speaker 1: I'm closing down Moses Incorporated, and I'm establishing a new
Speaker 1: enterprise called Joshua Incorporated. I thought something would come. You
Speaker 1: have no idea how many things I start to say
Speaker 1: and hope something comes to me while I'm in the
Speaker 1: middle of saying it. Usually it does, but that time
Speaker 1: it didn't. And you know what, I'm actually gonna use
Speaker 1: that to preach this. What I'm telling you is that
Speaker 1: I have to go forward not finished. After I have
Speaker 1: studied everything I can study, after I have written everything
Speaker 1: that I can write, I have to stand up here. Now.
Speaker 1: I'm not preaching about preaching. I'm preaching about life and purpose.
Speaker 1: After I have done all that I can, I have
Speaker 1: to stand there for and trust that God is enough.
Speaker 1: And so do you, Oh man, When I get my
Speaker 1: act together, I wonder how many of y'all were thinking
Speaker 1: about leading an e group this last semester, and you thought, well, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm going to lead an e group.
Speaker 1: It's not like I really know the Bible that good. Well,
Speaker 1: that's how you're going to learn it. You need something
Speaker 1: to study for and if people are coming over to
Speaker 1: your house Tuesday a six point thirty, have to pick
Speaker 1: it up. I don't like to admit this, but I
Speaker 1: don't even know if i'd live right if I didn't
Speaker 1: have to preach every Sunday. That's a horrible thing to admit.
Speaker 1: I want to do it just because I love Jesus
Speaker 1: and he loves me, and great is his love and
Speaker 1: his mercy and all the little children of the world.
Speaker 1: But there's a part of me that knows, like I
Speaker 1: got to look at y'all, and it's a lot of y'all.
Speaker 1: Every seven days, I gotta say something, and it keeps
Speaker 1: me close to God or keeps me from going too
Speaker 1: far before He yanks me back. And I think you
Speaker 1: need the same thing in your life, something that you're
Speaker 1: moving toward forward. I know you got a lot of money, now,
Speaker 1: aren't you cute? You got four oh one k's and
Speaker 1: all of that stuff and two houses and you think
Speaker 1: you're done. How dumb are you? Dude? You need to
Speaker 1: read Luke twelve. The man had so much grain. It's like,
Speaker 1: what do I do now? Well, let me help you
Speaker 1: figure it out. You got too much money. I can
Speaker 1: help you with that money. I can help you. I
Speaker 1: can alleviate that problem. He said, I think I'll build
Speaker 1: bigger Barnes store more up for myself. And he was
Speaker 1: never conscious of God. And the Lord said, you fool.
Speaker 1: You think you're done just because you have stuff. If
Speaker 1: your goal is to be done, you need to die.
Speaker 1: You know, we do goal setting in the new year.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run a goal setting workshop. I just want
Speaker 1: to be done. I want to be finished. I just
Speaker 1: want to be done with all of this. Okay, here
Speaker 1: is your task list. Die, you be done. But until then,
Speaker 1: there's more, there's more to your story. I like to
Speaker 1: listen to these motivational speakers because motivation preachers need motivation too.
Speaker 1: And one guy was saying, you know, the most defensive
Speaker 1: piece of real estate. Have you ever heard this before?
Speaker 1: The most valuable piece of real estate in the world
Speaker 1: is not in Manhattan, not in Singapore, not in Dubai.
Speaker 1: The most valuable piece of real estate in the world
Speaker 1: is the cemetery. Because there you will find buried symphonies
Speaker 1: that were unfinished works, that were undone cures that were undiscovered.
Speaker 1: Because Moses died still seeing, still strong, and God said,
Speaker 1: if you don't trust me enough to go forward, I
Speaker 1: can't bring you into what you won't believe me for.
Speaker 1: Let me say that again. That was annointed. God can't
Speaker 1: bring you into what you won't believe him for. If
Speaker 1: he did, what good would it do you? You wouldn't
Speaker 1: believe him for it, so you'd give it up, so
Speaker 1: you'd mess it up, so you'd walk away. And Moses
Speaker 1: is dead and he's not He always comes back. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he'll come back. He'll come back, and he'll be
Speaker 1: wearing the veil over his face, but he'll come back.
Speaker 1: He always comes back. It's gonna turn around any day now.
Speaker 1: And they wait and they wait and they wait. The
Speaker 1: Bible says thirty days they waited for Moses. The typical
Speaker 1: waiting period was one week. But this is Moses. Moses
Speaker 1: gets at least a month. Right. How many agreed? Let's
Speaker 1: put it to a church vote. How many think that Moses,
Speaker 1: the one who led the nation forty years, should get
Speaker 1: at least a month of morning before they move on,
Speaker 1: and they greed thirty days. Now, I'm gonna speculate that
Speaker 1: while they were crying over Moses, they were also looking
Speaker 1: for him. Don't you think reason with me, Reason with me.
Speaker 1: Millions of people in the wilderness. Only one person that's
Speaker 1: ever been able to call on food and feed them,
Speaker 1: Only one person that's ever been able to show them
Speaker 1: how to atone for their sin. There's only one Moses,
Speaker 1: one Moses one month, one Moses one month. And I
Speaker 1: think they probably send out search parties. I do use
Speaker 1: my sanctified imagination to break this Bible verse down real quick.
Speaker 1: I think they were like, all right, you go look
Speaker 1: for him over there, and you go look for him
Speaker 1: over there. Because see, we don't typically have as much
Speaker 1: of a ritualistic culture about these these these moments of transition.
Speaker 1: But to these people, the burial ceremony was tightly prescribed.
Speaker 1: I mean the way that they did it was central
Speaker 1: to their need for closure and their processing of grief.
Speaker 1: How do you grieve a body that you can't find
Speaker 1: the grave for? How do you gree the loss of
Speaker 1: a hope that you can't really articulate. I just feel
Speaker 1: like something's missing. How do you grieve the fact that
Speaker 1: I don't know where the grave is. But somewhere along
Speaker 1: the way, I start talking myself out of seeing miracles
Speaker 1: and I can't find the grave. I don't know what
Speaker 1: day had happened. I can't tell you it was nine
Speaker 1: thirty seven, Am. I can't tell you any of that,
Speaker 1: and I'm grieving over something that I can't find the
Speaker 1: grave for. I don't know why I don't trust people anymore,
Speaker 1: but I just don't. I don't know why I won't
Speaker 1: let anybody new in my life, but I just won't.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I don't even talk back to
Speaker 1: the devil when he starts telling me I'm workless, But
Speaker 1: now I just agree with him to get him to quit.
Speaker 1: I don't know when I stopped thinking. You know, at
Speaker 1: some point I am going to get through this, because
Speaker 1: maybe it was the third time or the fourth time
Speaker 1: I went to rehab. But there's something I'm grieving and
Speaker 1: I can't show you the grave. I want to tell
Speaker 1: you God knows where the grave is, and only God
Speaker 1: knows where the grave is. And that's why in this season,
Speaker 1: people can only help you so much. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: in this season, you can read books, but books can
Speaker 1: only do so much. This is a season where you
Speaker 1: need the author. This is a season where you need
Speaker 1: the generator. This is a season where you need the
Speaker 1: God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. Who knows where
Speaker 1: you laid your hope? Who knows where you lost your faith?
Speaker 1: Who knows where you gave up your edge, Who knows
Speaker 1: where you surrendered to the addiction? Who knows where you
Speaker 1: gave up the glory because of the grief. It's over now.
Speaker 1: He's not coming back. We've looked everywhere for him. It's
Speaker 1: over now. We got to move on. It's over now.
Speaker 1: What will we do without him? I don't know, but
Speaker 1: it's over now. We send everybody everywhere we could. Apparently
Speaker 1: God is just as good at hiding as he is seeking,
Speaker 1: because we got millions of people in one Moses, and
Speaker 1: we've been looking one month. Now know this as for
Speaker 1: but the Lord said, it's been a month. It's been
Speaker 1: a month. And the oh, the architecture of this verse
Speaker 1: is just as important as the application. So please bear
Speaker 1: with me as I try to get it to you
Speaker 1: like God gave it to me, because it was so important.
Speaker 1: How they said it. It said in verse eight. The
Speaker 1: Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab. Moses
Speaker 1: Moab month, Moses Moab month to leave Moab and to
Speaker 1: go forward into Canaan. They had to accept the death
Speaker 1: of Moses, and they mourned him one month until watch this.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they got it up there. I'm so glad
Speaker 1: they got it up there. Yeah. I don't bring y'all's Bibles.
Speaker 1: And I don't want you on your phone while I'm preaching.
Speaker 1: I don't want you having that distraction factory right there
Speaker 1: in front of your face while I'm preaching, because somebody's
Speaker 1: gonna text you that's gonna tear you out of this message,
Speaker 1: and the Lord's trying to preach, and it's going to
Speaker 1: distract you. And you can't multitask as good as you
Speaker 1: think you can. I don't care if you are a woman,
Speaker 1: So put your eyes on the screen. They grieved in
Speaker 1: the planes of Moab one month, one Moses, one month
Speaker 1: until the time who of we've been and mourning is over.
Speaker 1: He didn't say the feeling of mourning was over, but
Speaker 1: he said his time to move forward. But I don't
Speaker 1: feel like moving forward. I'm not preaching about feelings. Today,
Speaker 1: I'm preaching about faith, to move forward when you're not finished,
Speaker 1: to move forward when it still doesn't make sense, to
Speaker 1: move forward when you still have questions and the questions
Speaker 1: are now not only unanswered, but the questions have had
Speaker 1: baby questions, and you can't thinkure any of it out.
Speaker 1: And the Lord says, the feeling wasn't over, but the
Speaker 1: period of mourning was over. You've got to move now.
Speaker 1: If it's for three people, God sent me to preach
Speaker 1: this too. I'm preaching to you right now. If you're
Speaker 1: not even in the room with me, I'm preaching it
Speaker 1: to you right now. It's over. No, no, no, you
Speaker 1: heard that like cruel. I don't mean it cruel. You
Speaker 1: heard it like stop crying, or don't go to therapy
Speaker 1: or don't tell anybody, or just act like it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: I did not say any of that. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: that the time for you staying in Moab looking for
Speaker 1: a Moses who isn't coming back, looking for a season
Speaker 1: of your life that was awesome, but it's over. Looking
Speaker 1: for somebody to apologize, say, already moved to Cancun. It's over.
Speaker 1: Scrolling through Facebook wondering what are they up to? Now
Speaker 1: it's over, Delete the app and live your life. You
Speaker 1: did what too? You waited a month. You've been down
Speaker 1: there thinking, Oh, I'm so holy, I'm mourning over this.
Speaker 1: You are going to stand? Oh? I love the Bible
Speaker 1: verse It says that weeping may endure for a night,
Speaker 1: but I came with an announcement that joy comes in
Speaker 1: the morning. Is over. We're going forward, forward with our
Speaker 1: shirt tails out, forward with our tear state faces, forward
Speaker 1: with our unanswered questions, Forward with our own finish thing. Follower, Forward, Forward, Forward.
Speaker 1: I find at people say forward, that's where I'm going forward.
Speaker 1: Don't know how. I don't know who's gonna be there. Forward.
Speaker 1: I'll send you a blup scar Forward. I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: something up this next season. I'm forward this year. I'm
Speaker 1: growing thahs missed over. We been by this full thirty
Speaker 1: eight years. I rickt up, ready to get up here.
Speaker 1: Who I got somebody to help me? Now y'all are like,
Speaker 1: that's not in the text. Oh, I left one thing
Speaker 1: out verse nine. Now, Joshua, I need that be three
Speaker 1: shots now, Joshua, no more Moses. Did you look for
Speaker 1: him up there? Yeah? I looked him in no Mo.
Speaker 1: I looked for him over here. No more. I went back.
Speaker 1: I texted him, no more. I went back. I tried
Speaker 1: to ask him to have me back. No mo. But
Speaker 1: for every no moment in your life, there is a
Speaker 1: now Joshua, the coass developing. Why y y hey? I
Speaker 1: took my Doudoronomy pill this morning, y'all? Whoa now, Joshua,
Speaker 1: look at this versus is annoyted. Now, Joshuvah, son of none,
Speaker 1: I gotta do what I gotta do. Where you see none,
Speaker 1: God says, Now, I'm gonna give you five seconds, because
Speaker 1: when it hits you, you're not gonna be looking at
Speaker 1: me like that. Where you see no way, God says, now,
Speaker 1: watch me make away, let me through, fake some space,
Speaker 1: some room. Lifts up your head. Well, ye guys, where's
Speaker 1: some praisers and let the way ain't go? Do no Moses,
Speaker 1: what there is more? No Moses, what there is more?
Speaker 1: Neville told you no more, no more, no more. He
Speaker 1: was wrong, because you're moving forward. You're not finished. You're
Speaker 1: moving forward, You're not finished. It's not a midlife crisis.
Speaker 1: It's a midlife cuckoo. You're changing in there you're transforming
Speaker 1: in there. You're coming out with wooms, You're coming out
Speaker 1: with wisdom, You're coming out with the room of God.
Speaker 1: I'm coming forward with the whip. Its a praise and
Speaker 1: a double edgen stored in my mouth, letting my kilter
Speaker 1: gold devil now says so what I'm almost ready to preach.
Speaker 1: I saw this one time before. I saw one time
Speaker 1: before where they thought it was over. I saw this
Speaker 1: one time before. You you heard it like this when
Speaker 1: I said it it's over. Now you heard it like this.
Speaker 1: It's over now. It's all it's been telling you. It's
Speaker 1: over now. You're not gonna change. If you change your
Speaker 1: seed by now. If you'renna what you do by now.
Speaker 1: If there everything, you don't have anyone to have my now,
Speaker 1: everybody does over now. But the Lord said it, but
Speaker 1: he said it different. He said it's over. Period. Now
Speaker 1: it's over. The period of morning is over now. Joshua, hey, hey, Sis,
Speaker 1: Send for Jesus, Send for Jesus. Lazarus sick. Lazarus is sick.
Speaker 1: Jesus loves Lazarus. Jesus will come for us. We hosted
Speaker 1: him in our home. He'll come for us. I cook
Speaker 1: chicken for Jesus. He'll come help Lazarus. Send for Jesus,
Speaker 1: Send for Jesus. And the Bible says something really crazy.
Speaker 1: And John chapter eleven, verse four. It says that when
Speaker 1: Mary and Martha sent for Jesus, watched this, he said,
Speaker 1: this sickness will not end in death. It is for
Speaker 1: you want to know the plot of your story, I
Speaker 1: just gave it to you right there. God's glory. He's
Speaker 1: getting ready to get some glory out of this so
Speaker 1: he can show its generations. What a shapebreaker is that? Lord? Oh,
Speaker 1: some sermons you just want to stay in them all day.
Speaker 1: I just want to stay in this one for a moment.
Speaker 1: They said, go get Jesus. We need Jesus. We tried
Speaker 1: the doctors. The doctors can't do it. We prayed about it.
Speaker 1: Prayer didn't fix it. We met him. Medication wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1: Sin for Jesus. And the Bible says something that's kind
Speaker 1: of like what is said in Deuteronomy thirty four, verse nine,
Speaker 1: Now Joshua, But look at verse five of John and Lendon,
Speaker 1: for what is said in Joshua is that going in John?
Speaker 1: He said, now Jesus, now Jesus, fist bumps somebody in
Speaker 1: case they're a German folks, say, now Jesus. Now, Jesus
Speaker 1: loved Lazarus and her sisters. He loved Mary even though
Speaker 1: she was lazy, and Martha even though she was falsy,
Speaker 1: And Lazarus even though he was sick. Now, Jesus, you
Speaker 1: think you did something he can't fix. You think you
Speaker 1: have something he hadn't seen. You think you're going through
Speaker 1: something he doesn't know the way through. Do you think
Speaker 1: you're working through something that God can't heal that he
Speaker 1: hasn't already worked out? Now, Jesus loved Lazarus even to
Speaker 1: the point of death, even when his body was thinking,
Speaker 1: even when the maggots made their home and his eye sockets.
Speaker 1: I know it's gross. That's how God is. That's how
Speaker 1: far his love reaches. That's how far he'll dip down
Speaker 1: to get you. Now, Jesus loved them very much. Sober
Speaker 1: six when he heard about lazarus sickness, he stayed where
Speaker 1: he was. I tell it a been four days is over.
Speaker 1: It's over. He's dead. Now, Tell Jesus, don't bother about
Speaker 1: the time they told Jesus Lasarus was dead, He told Peter,
Speaker 1: all right, now I'm going. Peter was the one who
Speaker 1: would get in Jesus's face and contradict his logic as God.
Speaker 1: Peter said, now, Jesus, Now, Jesus, you know it's not
Speaker 1: good for you to go back there. They're trying to
Speaker 1: kill you in the region, and Martha might kill you
Speaker 1: if the scribes don't because you're late. Now, Jesus, Martha
Speaker 1: comes running out to meet Jesus, doesn't even let him
Speaker 1: get inside the town. She got there real quick. She said,
Speaker 1: if you've been here, my brother wouldn't have died. God.
Speaker 1: If you would have done it. Maybe I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: lost my son if you would have done it. Maybe
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have turned to the pills if you would
Speaker 1: have done it. Maybe I wouldn't have if you had
Speaker 1: rescued me from that abuse. Maybe I wouldn't struggle with this. No,
Speaker 1: if you've done it. But through her tears of grieving,
Speaker 1: she says something powerful. Even now, I know that God
Speaker 1: will give you whatever you askap. But but there's more
Speaker 1: to the story. There's more to the store. There's more
Speaker 1: to the story. There's somebody said, there's more to the store.
Speaker 1: There's more to the store. There's more to the store.
Speaker 1: Look at verse twenty twenty. What is it twenty twenty nine,
Speaker 1: twenty nine. I think it's twenty nine. I think he's
Speaker 1: ting I junch apter number twenty nine. When Mary heard
Speaker 1: that Jesus was there, When she heard that he was asking,
Speaker 1: she got up quickly. You don't have time to figure
Speaker 1: everything out before you walk in faith. You need to
Speaker 1: put the appointment on the calendar for this week, you
Speaker 1: hear me. You need to take a step toward it
Speaker 1: this week. You need to flush it before the halftime
Speaker 1: show today. You don't have time to be in your
Speaker 1: tears talking about what God can't transform because he's out
Speaker 1: of time. He is fashionably late, he is faithfully late.
Speaker 1: He may not have come when you wanted him, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean it's over. Somebody shall now, So she
Speaker 1: gets up quick and get ready for this. Verse thirty
Speaker 1: lit me up, He said, now, Jesus, somebody shall now. Jesus.
Speaker 1: I need you now, Jesus. I need you in this moment.
Speaker 1: I need you in this moment. I need you in
Speaker 1: this moment. I need you in this moment. Now, Jesus,
Speaker 1: you got a dead situation. But you gotta now, Jesus.
Speaker 1: You've got a sick heart, but you've got to now, Jesus,
Speaker 1: you've got a weary soul. But you've got to now Jesus,
Speaker 1: say not loud. I got an now, Jesus. I want
Speaker 1: everybody in the chat to put it in. I gotta
Speaker 1: now Jesus, and now Jesus, and now Jesus. I got
Speaker 1: a third day Jesus, a fourth day Jesus, a generational Jesus,
Speaker 1: a Jesus who's the word in the beginning, and he
Speaker 1: won't fail me. Now, I gotta now, Jesus. And when
Speaker 1: he says, take me to the place where you laid
Speaker 1: the body, he already knows where the grave is. He's
Speaker 1: just been waiting on you to take him there. He knows,
Speaker 1: he knows you don't. But I'm going forward not knowing.
Speaker 1: He said, if you believe, you see God's glory. And
Speaker 1: then he said, Lestra's come out and they all sing
Speaker 1: rattle in my version, I don't have that version. And
Speaker 1: you know what church I was reading, Oh God, I
Speaker 1: was reading the last chapter of Deuteronomy before I came
Speaker 1: over here to do our anniversary service. Seventeen years and
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about it. But the guy I
Speaker 1: had to come preach was seventeen years older than me,
Speaker 1: and my oldest son, who I'm dedicating the series, it's seventeen.
Speaker 1: When I want to understand why y'all is a church
Speaker 1: are acting wild, I just look at him and remember,
Speaker 1: and that's the stage we're at, and I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: not to kill you. I love him so much, man,
Speaker 1: because he started me in this club. And if he
Speaker 1: started on any other day, I wouldn't have read Deuteronomy
Speaker 1: thirty four. And I read it and I closed it
Speaker 1: because I thought, that's sad. I want to have an
Speaker 1: anniversary and I'm reading about Moses looking on the mountain
Speaker 1: and dieing, and God, are you telling me I'm not
Speaker 1: going to see the things that you promised me? Because
Speaker 1: I want faith. I came to church. I was back
Speaker 1: there talking to my guest and they came over, and
Speaker 1: I would felt bad because they were bugging him. They said,
Speaker 1: you send us a bunch of different titles. Which one
Speaker 1: are you going to do? And he said, I think
Speaker 1: I'm leaning toward the one who says this is not
Speaker 1: your final chapter. And y'all, look what the next book
Speaker 1: of my Bible was when I hold on is coming
Speaker 1: into focus, just like your purpose is right now seventeen
Speaker 1: and seventeen and his Deuteronomy thirty four. And I wrote
Speaker 1: a song that says there's so much more to the
Speaker 1: story with Chandler and Ben and Naomi, and we sang
Speaker 1: it and called it more than able, and did an
Speaker 1: Ephesian's Bible study called immeasurably more. And you think God
Speaker 1: has done with you because Moses is gone now Joshua now,
Speaker 1: Jesus now, Jesus now unto him who is able to do? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope y'all like this song. There is so much
Speaker 1: more to the song because I'm gonna be preaching Joshua.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be singing this with me. You say it,
Speaker 1: you're not done. Close your eyes for a moment and
Speaker 1: receive it. You're not done with me. I declare a
Speaker 1: chapter one in your life today, God of new beginnings,
Speaker 1: the God of new endings. It's a god a second chances. Yes,
Speaker 1: with God, there's always a way. See the way, and
Speaker 1: by faith, we're gonna find him. Deal with me. We
Speaker 1: got a missing Moses. Come on you. We's a living
Speaker 1: move We have a living home. We have a living God.
Speaker 1: So much fun. Jesus dreams for now, Jesus my all
Speaker 1: freedom for now. Jesus's clearing conress far now. Jesus, I
Speaker 1: got healing with me. You are for It's as now.
Speaker 1: Jesus story is a funny. The Masts Survey and all
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