Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation
Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank
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Speaker 1: many are excited for the word of God? Thank you Jesus. Okay,
Speaker 1: I couldn't stop thinking about last week's message, get to
Speaker 1: the good part. I got home and I felt like
Speaker 1: I didn't even get to give you the best part
Speaker 1: of my sermon. So the Lord said, Part two, Part two.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the good part. V seed it. Relax
Speaker 1: enjoy this time. This is the time that God gave
Speaker 1: you not to worry about stuff that you can't do
Speaker 1: anything about right now. Anyway, whoever's texting you can text
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Speaker 1: the Lord, and listen to this word. In Philippians, Chapter one,
Speaker 1: verse six, actually, let me do this. Let me stare
Speaker 1: step you through three verses. That'll be good. Can I
Speaker 1: have a minute to set up my Let's do Somealm
Speaker 1: twenty seven. First, this is what David said. This is
Speaker 1: what David said, verse thirteen. I remain confident of this.
Speaker 1: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the
Speaker 1: land of the living. Put it in the chat. I
Speaker 1: remain confident. Okay. Now Paul said something similar in Philippians.
Speaker 1: I'll read you that too. This is the verse that
Speaker 1: I ended on last week. He said in Philippians one,
Speaker 1: verse six, being confident of this, that He who began
Speaker 1: a good work in you will carry it on to
Speaker 1: completion until the day of a global pandemic. No, of course,
Speaker 1: he said that God has a plan even beyond our
Speaker 1: human surprises, right until the day of Christ. Jesus till
Speaker 1: us over basically, okay, he said, being confident of this.
Speaker 1: And then if you move down to verse fourteen, he's
Speaker 1: describing his prison sentence, and he said, because of my chains,
Speaker 1: most of the brothers and sisters have become confident in
Speaker 1: the Lord, and they're all the more to proclaim the
Speaker 1: Gospel without fear. So I just noticed a kind of
Speaker 1: a similarity the word confident, But then I noticed a
Speaker 1: little distinction. David said, I will remain confident in this.
Speaker 1: Paul said, being confident in this. Then Paul also says,
Speaker 1: there are some who are becoming confident. And I want
Speaker 1: to teach on the principle today of borrowed confidence, borrowed confidence,
Speaker 1: and I want you to pray for us because our
Speaker 1: family is experiencing something very difficult. My oldest son is
Speaker 1: now the same size as me, and he's in my
Speaker 1: closet all the time. We have beef, and I hate
Speaker 1: to work it out like this on a worldwide global
Speaker 1: ministry platform, nonprofit five oh one C three organization, but
Speaker 1: for the purposes of group therapy, pray for me. I'm
Speaker 1: not mad at him because he comes in my closet
Speaker 1: and steals my clothes. That doesn't make me mad because
Speaker 1: it would be stupid to be mad about that, because
Speaker 1: that's actually cheaper than me having to buy him his own.
Speaker 1: So that's just, you know, to me, that's just good stewardship.
Speaker 1: He's in my closet today, I could tell he's got
Speaker 1: my own what are those called? I don't even know
Speaker 1: what those are. I know they're mine, they used to
Speaker 1: be mine. They were mine at one time, the Turbo greens,
Speaker 1: Yet he wore. I'm not mad at him because he
Speaker 1: wears my stuff. I'm mad because he makes it look
Speaker 1: better than I do. He'll just rock something in the
Speaker 1: back of my closet that I have had back there,
Speaker 1: haven't had the confidence to put on in in years.
Speaker 1: You know, somebody gave me this. I remember somebody gave
Speaker 1: me this jacket one time, and I wouldn't wear it.
Speaker 1: I would put it on every Saturday night before I
Speaker 1: came to preach, and then I take it back off
Speaker 1: and put something else on because it was just to something.
Speaker 1: And he walked out wearing it, just looking like like
Speaker 1: just looking amazing at it. So I'm not mad that
Speaker 1: you borrow my stuff. I'm mad that you make it
Speaker 1: look better than I do. For the record, it's kind
Speaker 1: of cool though, to see him in there trying on
Speaker 1: the old man's shoes. It makes me think, if he
Speaker 1: wants to wear my stuff, I must have some kind
Speaker 1: of swag. And I told him when all this nonsense started,
Speaker 1: I said, you can borrow my shoes, but you can't
Speaker 1: steal my swag because I have a very particular kind
Speaker 1: of swag. It's dad swag. I got dad slag. And
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just trying to get you thinking about
Speaker 1: how there's different kinds of confidence and confidence while being
Speaker 1: a word that we all know is important to get
Speaker 1: a date. If can't be cute, be confident. That's what
Speaker 1: one guy told me. He really did. Harold Staley told
Speaker 1: me that. He said, you're not especially good looking, just
Speaker 1: be confident. He said, it'll put like three points on
Speaker 1: your scale, just to be confident. But there's different kinds
Speaker 1: of confidence. And of course, as you get into the
Speaker 1: Book of Philippians, the letter that I was reading from
Speaker 1: where Paul is writing this church of Christians who have
Speaker 1: apparently lost their confidence I mentioned last week, go back
Speaker 1: and watch it that if he's saying that he is
Speaker 1: confident in what God is doing it suggests that maybe
Speaker 1: they're not anymore. And there's a bunch of reasons for them.
Speaker 1: There's fighting in the church. Yodia and Synekey aren't getting along,
Speaker 1: so he's like begging them to stop fighting. And not
Speaker 1: only that, I mean there's all kinds of there's all
Speaker 1: kinds of reasons for the Philippian Church not to be confident,
Speaker 1: the least of which is not that their leader is
Speaker 1: in prison. Right, But he's giving them just like this
Speaker 1: impartation of faith that is so powerful. He's like, let
Speaker 1: me read you a little bit more of the pastors
Speaker 1: so you can get a sense. He goes verse three,
Speaker 1: I thank my God every time I remember you in
Speaker 1: all my prayers for all of you, look at somebody
Speaker 1: next to you and say, you make me happy. He says,
Speaker 1: I always pray with joy because of your partnership in
Speaker 1: the Gospel from the first day until now. Being confident
Speaker 1: of this that He will begin a good brik in
Speaker 1: you will carry it on to completion until the day
Speaker 1: of Christ Jesus. So there's a sequence here that I
Speaker 1: want to talk about. But there's also a substance. Let
Speaker 1: me talk about the substance of it. He's talking about
Speaker 1: a kind of confidence. Watch this that is not cosmetic,
Speaker 1: the kind of swag that whether you have a Nike
Speaker 1: swoosh on your shoes or whether you know, like I know,
Speaker 1: we teach all kinds of things about confidence these days. Culturally.
Speaker 1: Body confidence. That's a good thing. I think that's great.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, I'm not sitting here in the gym
Speaker 1: just so I can have a healthy cardio. I want
Speaker 1: to look good too, all right, So I want to
Speaker 1: look good. I'm not lying to you. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, body confidence, or what's another one that we teach, Oh,
Speaker 1: confidence in your career, Like I'm really good at this.
Speaker 1: I'm good at this, man, I've been doing all my life. Well.
Speaker 1: The thing about the last year is that everything that
Speaker 1: can be shaken is being shaken, and a lot of
Speaker 1: us found what we were good at stripped away, and
Speaker 1: all we were left with is who we are. So
Speaker 1: when we're forced to deal with our core kind of
Speaker 1: like Paula's, he's just in prison. He's lost his pulpit,
Speaker 1: his church building is empty. He can't go on tour
Speaker 1: anything like that. All the things that apostles do, he
Speaker 1: can't do it. And he's still confident. Being confident, it's
Speaker 1: a state of mind for him. It doesn't even seem
Speaker 1: to be something that he's getting from the outside, because
Speaker 1: all he's got with him in prison that can come
Speaker 1: visit him is a paphroditis. A paphroditis. A paphroditis is
Speaker 1: kind of sickly, And the occasion of writing Philippians is
Speaker 1: that he is sending a paphroditis back to the Philippians.
Speaker 1: He's like, he's good, he's going through a lie. He's
Speaker 1: kind of nervous. I'm gonna send him back. So now
Speaker 1: watch this. I told you. I wanted to preach you
Speaker 1: about borrowed confidence. The Philippians that the church that was
Speaker 1: started while Paul was in jail, that church has supported him.
Speaker 1: When he left Macedonia went to Thessalonica, they were the
Speaker 1: only church that sponsored him. And he's writing back to them,
Speaker 1: being confident of this, that he will begin a good
Speaker 1: work and you'll be faithful to complete it to the
Speaker 1: day of Christ. They sent him a gift, they loaned
Speaker 1: him a person. He borrowed a paphroditis for the season
Speaker 1: that he needed him and sent him back and he said,
Speaker 1: I'm still confident. Make this confession by faith if you can.
Speaker 1: I'm still confident. And the principle I want us to
Speaker 1: come around today is that where your confidence comes from
Speaker 1: determines when it runs out. So while body confidence is awesome, newsflash,
Speaker 1: your body goes through different versions states. If my confidence
Speaker 1: is in my body, then I better never get forty.
Speaker 1: If my confidence is in my career, then my employer
Speaker 1: has the ability to strip me of my faith. And
Speaker 1: I know this sounds weird to say, but if your
Speaker 1: confidence is in your pastor what if I what if
Speaker 1: I mess up? God is still with you. I don't
Speaker 1: want to mess up. But the fact is, listen, if
Speaker 1: I drop that in this pulpit right now, I know
Speaker 1: that's kind of Morbidefully, they call an ambulance and try
Speaker 1: to fix me. But by next Sunday God would send
Speaker 1: you somebody else to preach his word. He loves you
Speaker 1: that much. It's weird to imagine that. I mean, and
Speaker 1: that's true of everything in your life. So if you're confidence.
Speaker 1: As the letter progresses, Paul gets heavier. He starts out,
Speaker 1: I thank God for you. Every time I think about you,
Speaker 1: I thank God for you. You're on my prayer list.
Speaker 1: You make me happy. The Philippians were that church for Paul.
Speaker 1: When he saw them on his phone come up on
Speaker 1: the context of contact screen, he wanted to hit him back.
Speaker 1: He liked to hear from him, unlike the other churches,
Speaker 1: like the Corinthian Church. You know, the Corinthian Church. They
Speaker 1: were a different situation. So when the Corinthians came on
Speaker 1: his phone, he knew that was probably drama. It's probably drama.
Speaker 1: They had incest in the church. They were getting drunk
Speaker 1: off the communion wine. With the Philippian Church, He's like,
Speaker 1: y'all make me happy, man, We have this partnership. Y'all
Speaker 1: have been with me for a minute. Yeah, he knew
Speaker 1: the power of partnership. Yeah. And when I preached last week,
Speaker 1: I said that we all have a dark part, a
Speaker 1: dark part of our personality, a dark part of our
Speaker 1: behavioral patterns. Well, where did that come from? We all
Speaker 1: have a dark part. But if you get through the
Speaker 1: dark part and get to the good part. So Paul
Speaker 1: refuses to leave the Philippians in the dark. He wants
Speaker 1: to let them know that God is still working in
Speaker 1: his life and God is still working in their life,
Speaker 1: and God hasn't stopped being God, and God hasn't stopped
Speaker 1: being good, and God hasn't forgotten your name or your address.
Speaker 1: And God sees everything that's going down in your life
Speaker 1: and everything that's going up in your life, like your
Speaker 1: blood pressure is going up, your bank account's going God
Speaker 1: sees all of that. And my confidence is not tied
Speaker 1: to either one of those that are going up or
Speaker 1: because we all hit seasons where it gets dark. I
Speaker 1: don't know how to do this. I don't think I
Speaker 1: can do this. I can't do this. I hit it
Speaker 1: every time before, I preach every time, and I just know,
Speaker 1: I just know this is the dark part. Here it
Speaker 1: comes okay. I don't feel saved. I don't feel sanctified.
Speaker 1: I don't feel filled with the Holy Spirit. I don't
Speaker 1: feel intelligent. I don't feel like I have a triple
Speaker 1: digit IQ. I don't feel any of that. What are
Speaker 1: these words? Oh? This is that part And I've learned
Speaker 1: something that I want to share with you today. I've
Speaker 1: been excited to share it. Some of us can't get
Speaker 1: through the dark part because we don't have the right partners.
Speaker 1: You will never get through the dark part if you
Speaker 1: have partners that drag you down more. Okay, so pretend
Speaker 1: you're a fifteen year old for a minute, like my
Speaker 1: son Elijah, or like many of the YouTube by the way,
Speaker 1: Elevation Youth on YouTube. Go subscribe right now so we
Speaker 1: can help you get through the dark part. How many
Speaker 1: of you your teenage years were kind of a dark
Speaker 1: part of your life, right, So imagine you're there again.
Speaker 1: You're going back in that now when you're young, you
Speaker 1: have a commodity that can help you have more confidence. Ignorance,
Speaker 1: just ignorance, the blessing of dumb. When they were showing
Speaker 1: a video for fifteen years of ministry the other day,
Speaker 1: they had early videos of me preaching, and somebody said,
Speaker 1: you were so bold back then. I'm like, I was
Speaker 1: so dumb back then. And you know what ignorance look
Speaker 1: like confidence from a distance. A lot of the times
Speaker 1: that God can do the most through somebody is when
Speaker 1: they know the least. But let me mess around and
Speaker 1: live for a little while, and I build a file
Speaker 1: of everything that can go wrong. Things I didn't know
Speaker 1: I was supposed to be scared of when I was seventeen.
Speaker 1: Things I didn't know I was supposed to be scared
Speaker 1: of the first two years of church. So the benefits
Speaker 1: of ignorance is that it gives you this kind of confidence.
Speaker 1: Paul is not writing about that kind of confidence. So
Speaker 1: he knows how much it costs to serve Christ. He
Speaker 1: knows how uncertain it is. He knows how hard it
Speaker 1: can be sometimes when you feel completely abandoned by the
Speaker 1: people you help. No other churches, no other partners, nobody's
Speaker 1: gonna stand with me. He knows all of that, but
Speaker 1: he's confident, like David in song twenty seven, I will
Speaker 1: remain confident. That's not a feeling, that's a decision. Do
Speaker 1: you know the difference the feeling of confidence in the decision.
Speaker 1: The feeling can be stripped so quick, but the decision
Speaker 1: can be made any moment excellent. I will remain confident,
Speaker 1: being confident, becoming confident if we build the right kind
Speaker 1: of confidence. Paul calls this the righteousness that comes by faith.
Speaker 1: It's not the confidence in the flesh. It's not anything
Speaker 1: that you can buy. It's not anything that you can achieve.
Speaker 1: It's not anything that a human committee has to give
Speaker 1: to you. It's none of those things. I guess you
Speaker 1: could say it's a kind of confidence that comes from above,
Speaker 1: so it never runs out. If you go back over
Speaker 1: to Psalm twenty seven, and I want to marry these
Speaker 1: two scriptures because they're interesting. They're interesting together. You'll notice
Speaker 1: that David must have been fighting something in Psalm twenty
Speaker 1: seven that threatened his sense of stability. I don't want
Speaker 1: to leave this in the text so long that you
Speaker 1: think this is a history lesson. There are so many
Speaker 1: people I'm talking to these days that life has taken
Speaker 1: on some new dimensions for them, and they no longer
Speaker 1: feel competent for the challenges of this season. And they
Speaker 1: have experienced some things. I'm not talking about you, I'm
Speaker 1: te wut somebody No. That made them bitter, Wow, that
Speaker 1: made them apprehensive, that made them timid about believing God.
Speaker 1: They prayed for somebody, they died, They love somebody, that
Speaker 1: person took advantage of their love. All these things that happen.
Speaker 1: And if your confidence comes from that place, then it
Speaker 1: runs out when that ends. So when David starts on
Speaker 1: twenty seven, I love the whole song. The Lord is
Speaker 1: my Light and my salvation. Whom shall I hear? The
Speaker 1: Lord is strongul in my life? Whom shall I be afraid.
Speaker 1: He gets all the way to verse thirteen, and he says,
Speaker 1: I will remain confident in this. Now, everybody say this.
Speaker 1: Go to First Samuel seventeen. I got to show you something.
Speaker 1: This is amazing. Everybody say this is amazing. In the
Speaker 1: chat say this is amazing. I'll show you what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. So David shows up. Remember that any given day,
Speaker 1: God is doing more in your life than you. You
Speaker 1: can imagine he's delivering cheese and bread, and A said, yeah,
Speaker 1: but he's really going down to meet Golias and kill
Speaker 1: him so the nation can move on. Just like God
Speaker 1: is doing great things in your life. And David didn't
Speaker 1: know what he was going to do, because probably if
Speaker 1: he had known what he was going to do, he
Speaker 1: might have second guessed whether he would go or not.
Speaker 1: So ignorance is sometimes to your advantage in trusting God.
Speaker 1: All right, so let's go to I know you know
Speaker 1: this story pretty well, but I want to show you
Speaker 1: something in First Samuel chapter seventeen, where did I start?
Speaker 1: You all on the screen, go all the way to
Speaker 1: the first one. Oh, this is it, this is it.
Speaker 1: He goes down to the battle lines, take it down
Speaker 1: for a minute. Let me set this up. He goes
Speaker 1: down to the battle lions, he hears Goliath intimidating God's
Speaker 1: people and it freaks him out because how can y'all,
Speaker 1: how can y'all be passive about something that God promised
Speaker 1: to give you victory over? Remember these are the experience,
Speaker 1: and three of them are his own brothers. And I
Speaker 1: want to show you a difference between Paul and David,
Speaker 1: and see which one you feel more like right now?
Speaker 1: In your life, Paul had some partners who believed in
Speaker 1: him enough to support him in his hard time, his
Speaker 1: dark time. WA's what happened to David when he went
Speaker 1: down to help his brothers. When Eliab, David's oldest brother,
Speaker 1: heard him speaking with the men, asking who is this
Speaker 1: giant that defies the armies of the living God, he
Speaker 1: burned with anger at him and asked, why have you
Speaker 1: come down here? And with whom did you leave those
Speaker 1: few sheep in the wilderness. This is the person that
Speaker 1: David came to feed. The person he came to feed
Speaker 1: is fighting him. Have you ever felt that way? If
Speaker 1: they're sitting next to you right now, we can just
Speaker 1: have an unspoken tacit agreement that that way I feel you.
Speaker 1: I feel you. It's hard to raise your hand on
Speaker 1: something like that when they are right next to you
Speaker 1: or in the other room. You're scared them. I hear. No,
Speaker 1: this is crazy, because Paul is saying life, your partnership
Speaker 1: in the Gospel that encourages me. Man. Have you ever
Speaker 1: had just somebody step up and believe in you when
Speaker 1: you didn't believe in yourself? Have you ever had somebody
Speaker 1: just see something in you that had gotten buried and
Speaker 1: they don't even realize they're doing it. They just say
Speaker 1: something in passing and you're like really, and your chest
Speaker 1: sticks out and you walk a little bit different for
Speaker 1: the rest of the day just because they saw something
Speaker 1: in you. I think Paul felt that way about the Philippians.
Speaker 1: I think when he went back he said, I remember
Speaker 1: when we started, I didn't have authority in this province.
Speaker 1: I didn't have the resources you helped me with that.
Speaker 1: I didn't have a big brand or a big ministry.
Speaker 1: You believed in me like that. There is nothing like
Speaker 1: people who believe in you when there is nothing to
Speaker 1: see to prove what they believed. And if God gives
Speaker 1: you somebody like that, do not let them go. Don't
Speaker 1: let him go cheat. Hold on to those day ones
Speaker 1: who had nothing to gain from loving you, people who
Speaker 1: gave you a shot, people who gave you a chance,
Speaker 1: people who said, come on and do this. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: I'll always honor Pastor Mickey because he said God had
Speaker 1: his hand on my life when I was sixteen. I'll
Speaker 1: always honor him, Always honor him. Need people like that
Speaker 1: when you get in one of these passages where you're like,
Speaker 1: I never did this before. I never been a mom before.
Speaker 1: I've never been through a divorce before. I haven't been
Speaker 1: unemployed in my adult life before. I've never been to
Speaker 1: college before. I never tried to quit smoke him before.
Speaker 1: I never tried to get my drinking under control before.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to do this. And God will
Speaker 1: send you a partner, somebody who sees potential in you
Speaker 1: that your pain has blocked from your own visibility. That's
Speaker 1: why I called you over the other day when we
Speaker 1: were in the middle of the project, because I was
Speaker 1: I was dealing with uncertainty. Is this the right thing?
Speaker 1: I was so in the middle of it. I needed
Speaker 1: you to come over because you've been there with me since. Well,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, since we were doing the dumbest stuff
Speaker 1: that two teenagers can do, since riding around in your jeep.
Speaker 1: I needed that first day faith. And when you saw
Speaker 1: what I was creating, you said, this is it. He
Speaker 1: was so excited. You know what I'm talking about it,
Speaker 1: He said, this is it. This is what we were doing,
Speaker 1: this is what you were doing. He helped me connect
Speaker 1: it dots of what God was doing because I couldn't
Speaker 1: in the moment, because I was in the dark. So
Speaker 1: I needed that first dafe like Paul had from the
Speaker 1: Philippians that he mentioned. He's like, oh, man, I don't
Speaker 1: know what God's going to do, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: choose what I remember, right, And instead of calling up
Speaker 1: all the people to mind who didn't support him, he
Speaker 1: remembered the church that did. In that not hard to do,
Speaker 1: he thought. I was going to say, isn't that great? No,
Speaker 1: in't that difficult. A lot of what we call believing
Speaker 1: is really just remembering, right, he said, every time I
Speaker 1: remember you, I get joy in this prison cell. Or
Speaker 1: like the prophet Jeremiah said in Lamentations three twenty one,
Speaker 1: this recall to my mind, this, I recall to my
Speaker 1: mind what the calamity, the ruins, the desolation, the betrayal,
Speaker 1: the feelings of forsagan No, no, no, this I recall
Speaker 1: to my mind. Therefore I have hope it's because of
Speaker 1: the Lord's mercies that we're now consumed, because there's compassion
Speaker 1: still not there new every morning. Great is their faithfulness.
Speaker 1: This say this, this, this, this, this, this, this I
Speaker 1: recall to mine. So so imagine right now, imagine right now,
Speaker 1: like a million things are going through your mind, right
Speaker 1: like should I should I be mad about this? Should
Speaker 1: you up said about that? Should be worried about that?
Speaker 1: Should I hear about that? Shoul i' ever forget about
Speaker 1: that? That That? That that that? And then that one God
Speaker 1: thought comes through when it comes, when it comes by
Speaker 1: in your mind, it comes by fast right and moves along.
Speaker 1: Here comes down, Here comes hatred, Here comes in they,
Speaker 1: Here comes comparison, Here comes jealousey, here comes all of that,
Speaker 1: and then here comes that one thought, that contentment, this crader,
Speaker 1: this gratter, this this right here this somebody say this. Soavid.
Speaker 1: David is actually in the opposite situation that Paul is in.
Speaker 1: Paul is preaching to people who support him, but they
Speaker 1: can only do so much for him because he's in prison,
Speaker 1: and he's saying, I am confident for you in what
Speaker 1: you can't even believe about you right now, because we've
Speaker 1: never been through this before. So he's saying, borrow my confidence.
Speaker 1: Did you know you can do that? I don't know
Speaker 1: what your philosophies are on borrowing money. This fine. I
Speaker 1: don't care us. We all think different things. Oh you're
Speaker 1: Dave Ramsey. You don't borrow, or you do or whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't care. Rich dad, poor dad, Dave Ramsey. I'm
Speaker 1: not a money man. I'm a preacher, all right. So
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about borrowing money, talking about a different
Speaker 1: currency called confidence and what you believe about what you
Speaker 1: can be, and what you believe about what you have
Speaker 1: inside of you, and what you believe about what God
Speaker 1: called you to do, and what you believe about what
Speaker 1: you're going through. That's what I'm talking about the currency
Speaker 1: of confidence. So when you're young, you start borrowing confidence
Speaker 1: from the wrong places. You borrow confidence from sexual attractiveness. Ooh,
Speaker 1: did you hear the decibel levels sink down beneath the floor.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh my god, he's preaching like it's twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one. It's like people really run around to different
Speaker 1: sexual partners, partner after partner after partner after partner after partner,
Speaker 1: and rather than ever being in a real relationship, the
Speaker 1: good part where you have to love somebody for who
Speaker 1: they are, not what they look like. You take this
Speaker 1: feeling of oh, I have somebody, and you borrow the
Speaker 1: confidence of having somebody. But when you borrow confidence from
Speaker 1: the wrong places, the interest rate is ridiculous. That hit
Speaker 1: me right there. I'm talking about when you get in
Speaker 1: a relationship where you have to compromise your values to
Speaker 1: get your needs met, y'all, that's worse than the check
Speaker 1: cash in place. It's an interest rate. And let me
Speaker 1: tell you another thing. While I got you fired up
Speaker 1: about all the people that you kept going to because
Speaker 1: you wanted them to validate you. But they cant because
Speaker 1: they're not gone. They didn't make you, they don't know
Speaker 1: you like that, and they have they're all these securities.
Speaker 1: So leave them alone and get it from God. Hey,
Speaker 1: you keep trying to borrow confidence from people who have
Speaker 1: insufficient funds. They can't do it. They can't. They want to,
Speaker 1: they just can't. They're flesh and bone and blood and
Speaker 1: dirt and snot and spit and human and stuff like you.
Speaker 1: So that's why Paul wouldn't go into self pity. Nobody
Speaker 1: nobody pre for me. He's like, no, I got a partner.
Speaker 1: I got a partner. I've got a partner. I got
Speaker 1: a partner. I got a partner. I got a partner.
Speaker 1: I got a partner. Say it right now, I've got
Speaker 1: a partner. Wow. Wow, Wow. God gave me some people
Speaker 1: that were with me at first. God gave me some
Speaker 1: people who have been where I've never been before. You know,
Speaker 1: when you go through something challenging, you can read a book.
Speaker 1: You are not the first one in history who went
Speaker 1: through that. You know how many times I borrow Tom
Speaker 1: Layman's knowledge, confidence, wisdom, Lisa every nine thirties that y'all
Speaker 1: would be at he would text me before the eleven thirties.
Speaker 1: I would be back there in the back trying to
Speaker 1: rewrite my message because I would think that was horrible,
Speaker 1: that's awful. He would text me my pastor pretch it
Speaker 1: just like that again. At eleven thirty, I'd be like, huh,
Speaker 1: that was good. How many times Carrie is a little
Speaker 1: melody and a songwriting session right, and it it'd be
Speaker 1: like and stuffing. He goes, Oh, that's good, and you're like,
Speaker 1: it is, that's why you need partners. Are you always
Speaker 1: the needy one? Or can somebody else hold a little
Speaker 1: bit of your faith for a while? Are you always
Speaker 1: a Paphroditis or can you be Paul sometimes too good?
Speaker 1: I hope more than Elijah borrows my my boosts. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get on that Instagram page with this sermon. I
Speaker 1: can feel it, all right, God, I think that guy does.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be on the that's all right. But if
Speaker 1: he borrows my shoes, I hope more than he borrows
Speaker 1: what's in my closet. I hope God will help me
Speaker 1: get to a point kind of where Paul was in
Speaker 1: my life where it's like becoming confident. That's great. To
Speaker 1: borrow confidence, you have to sometimes, But then there's being confident.
Speaker 1: It's where this is what God has called me to do,
Speaker 1: This is how God made me to do it, This
Speaker 1: is what He's given me to get the job done.
Speaker 1: This I keep hearing that this, this, this all the
Speaker 1: clothes in the world, all the money in the world.
Speaker 1: I know that sounds I know that sounds really like
Speaker 1: abstract and spiritual. But I promise you all of that
Speaker 1: cannot compare with one word from this. From this, you
Speaker 1: forgot about David Pastor. No, no, no, I didn't because
Speaker 1: the people that should have been his partners, the people
Speaker 1: that should have been his comrades, the people that should
Speaker 1: have believed in him. Isn't that awful when the people
Speaker 1: who should should have said you got something? Man? Keep going, Hey,
Speaker 1: I know that's all right. You don't fit in, but
Speaker 1: that's for a reason. You're too big for that small place.
Speaker 1: Just keep growing, you dont have to fit in. That's
Speaker 1: all right. Right now, David, the future King of Israel,
Speaker 1: comes down to Britain, bread to his brothers, and his
Speaker 1: brother go back to the verse. Now I'm really ready
Speaker 1: for it, burned with anger and said why have you
Speaker 1: come down here? And now I'm gonna tell you something.
Speaker 1: David didn't exactly know that yet. He thought he came
Speaker 1: to feed his brothers. He really came to fight for
Speaker 1: his nation. So his confidence is not in what he's doing.
Speaker 1: His confidence is something different. I will remain confident in this.
Speaker 1: That's what he said in some twenty seven. Now look
Speaker 1: at this incident it's not necessarily connected, but maybe this
Speaker 1: is where he started becoming confident. Becoming confident, becoming confident,
Speaker 1: building that confidence, building the skill to walk into a
Speaker 1: room and have enough confidence that you don't need to
Speaker 1: be the center of attention, building enough confidence to have
Speaker 1: people who criticized the way you choose to live your
Speaker 1: life and just keep on being true to what God
Speaker 1: has put in your heart. And yeah, I'm gonna adjust
Speaker 1: and change, but that's a process. And this event in
Speaker 1: his life is really indicative of the integrity of what
Speaker 1: God was creating in David. Because when Eliab said you
Speaker 1: left this few sheep in the wilderness, he's the meaning, David,
Speaker 1: you see it. You're a shepherd, You're not a soldier.
Speaker 1: You're too young for this, you're too small for this,
Speaker 1: you're too little for this. You have bad motives, all
Speaker 1: the things that people may say. Okay, he's saying all
Speaker 1: of that, and he accuses him and belittles him. He says,
Speaker 1: you're done. They're keeping a few sheep. You don't belong here.
Speaker 1: I know how conceited you are and how wicked your
Speaker 1: heart is. You came down only to watch the battle.
Speaker 1: And David is a little bit confused, frustrated for sure,
Speaker 1: Now what have I done? Can't I even speak? And
Speaker 1: then he turned away to someone else and brought up
Speaker 1: the same matter, and the men answered him as before,
Speaker 1: watch this. His confidence didn't come from his big brother,
Speaker 1: so his big brother can't take it away. There needs
Speaker 1: to be a part in you that knows I appreciate
Speaker 1: everybody and everything that God sends me. But if they
Speaker 1: walk away, he won't. If they fall short, he won't.
Speaker 1: If this brook dries up, there will be a bird
Speaker 1: in the sky an hour from now. And David is young,
Speaker 1: but he's confident. It's not about the shoes, it's not
Speaker 1: about the swag. It's not about the beliefs of other people.
Speaker 1: When will you stop borrowing other people's bad beliefs? One
Speaker 1: that Alive didn't believe in David Alive didn't believe in himself.
Speaker 1: I don't have to carry things that others believe. I
Speaker 1: don't have to carry I don't have to carry things
Speaker 1: that culture beliefs. I don't have to feel how culture
Speaker 1: feels about things. I don't have to pay the interest
Speaker 1: rate on a broken world system of thought. I don't
Speaker 1: have to pay a generational tax on what happened in
Speaker 1: my great breath. I can break it in my bloodline
Speaker 1: if I can believe it in my spirit. Y'all, calm down.
Speaker 1: You're pushing me. But God says some of you are
Speaker 1: built to break it. You're built to break it. What
Speaker 1: they said is not your limitation. Don't let their limitation
Speaker 1: become your insecurity. Because they can't see it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: you can't see it. Just because they can't believe it
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you can't believe it. And you're like, you
Speaker 1: sound kind of cocky up here right now, Pastor. I
Speaker 1: thought we were supposed to be humblest Christians. Imagine what
Speaker 1: he took for Jesus, for the choicet before him, to
Speaker 1: endure the cross, despising his shame, with everybody telling him,
Speaker 1: come down and prove that you're God, called the angels,
Speaker 1: call your father, and he stayed up there, confident on
Speaker 1: that cross. Paul said, I learned from the Master. I
Speaker 1: want to be in the fellowship of his sufferings, to
Speaker 1: participate in his resurrection power. It's a partnership. It's a partnership.
Speaker 1: And David said, I don't need to be partners with
Speaker 1: the lib I'm partners with God, partners with God. I
Speaker 1: have the name of the Lord. And things start getting
Speaker 1: really weird after that, because Saul, who is the king
Speaker 1: that God is replacing, here's that David wants to go
Speaker 1: fight Goliath. And he calls him over in verse thirty
Speaker 1: three and said, you're not able to go out against
Speaker 1: this philistin, this philistine, this philistine. What's the philistine's name? Goliath?
Speaker 1: This philistine, this philistine. You're only a young man. He's
Speaker 1: been a warrior from his youth. His inexperience was his
Speaker 1: greatest benefit. Everybody else knew too much. David was dumb
Speaker 1: enough to defeat the enemy that they were running from.
Speaker 1: So stop saying, oh, I can't do this, I don't
Speaker 1: know enough. I gotta show you something. David said to
Speaker 1: Saul verse thirty four. Your servant has been keeping his
Speaker 1: father's sheep. He starts reading his resume to the insecure king,
Speaker 1: and isn't it funny David put the same thing on
Speaker 1: his resume that his brother used to insult him, The
Speaker 1: things that the things that you used to disqualify you.
Speaker 1: God's like, that's exactly what it is. That's exactly what
Speaker 1: what is you that crazy. I've been keeping sheep, didn't
Speaker 1: you hear? My brother and watched the slutch this. When
Speaker 1: a lion or a bear came and carried off a
Speaker 1: sheep from the flock, I went after it and struck
Speaker 1: it and rescued the sheep from his mouth. And when
Speaker 1: it turned on me, I seized it by it here,
Speaker 1: instruck it and chill confident your servant has killed both
Speaker 1: the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised philistine will be
Speaker 1: like one of them because I got a partner. So
Speaker 1: what do you do when your big brother doesn't believe
Speaker 1: in you, and neither does your leader when you go
Speaker 1: to when you go to get help and encouragement and
Speaker 1: love and support, because some of you are there, Man,
Speaker 1: you're like, I don't have anybody my life, Paul, I
Speaker 1: don't have the Philippins. I'm not a pustle this, Chris Paster, Steven,
Speaker 1: I don't have Holley on the front row. Shes to
Speaker 1: encourage Angel and she loves you, and she does and
Speaker 1: that's great. But since David couldn't get it from Eliah,
Speaker 1: and he couldn't get it from Saul, he borrowed it
Speaker 1: from a bear. He said, no, wait, a minute. I
Speaker 1: never did this before, but one time, somebody say, one time,
Speaker 1: one time I was out doing my job and there
Speaker 1: was an attack that came against what I was responsible for.
Speaker 1: And no, it wasn't some big giant, some philistine army. No.
Speaker 1: I never been on this level before. No, I've never
Speaker 1: been in this season before. No, I never dealt with
Speaker 1: this challenge before. I never passed her through a pandemic before.
Speaker 1: But one time, one time, I'm talking about first statement.
Speaker 1: One time, one time, come on, bring it all the
Speaker 1: way back. I know you never did this before, but
Speaker 1: you did that. You did that, put it in the chat.
Speaker 1: I did that. I did that. I did that. I
Speaker 1: held on to God when I had no job, held
Speaker 1: on to God when I had This is for somebody.
Speaker 1: This is for somebody who's up under a thread of
Speaker 1: intimidation right now for something that You've never traveled this
Speaker 1: way before. But you did that. And the most annoying
Speaker 1: thing I read in a long time is verse thirty six.
Speaker 1: This will be like one of them, this this this, this.
Speaker 1: God has given you a this for every them, every enemy,
Speaker 1: every insecurity, every question. God has given you a this. Now,
Speaker 1: if you start getting distracted by them, what they're doing,
Speaker 1: where their life is, they're progressing, what they've accomplished. Your
Speaker 1: power is not in them, it's in this and your confidence.
Speaker 1: Your confidence will follow your focus. Your confidence will follow
Speaker 1: your focus, so you will start believing the fear report,
Speaker 1: like the spies who kept the whole nation from going
Speaker 1: into the Promised Land because they had a good land,
Speaker 1: but they had a bad report. This it's an amazing
Speaker 1: thing to realize the power of your this. I never
Speaker 1: did this before. I begged my kids one day. They
Speaker 1: were all fighting and I was mad. I was like,
Speaker 1: y'all stop. I never did this before as a dad. Mercy, Mercy, mercy.
Speaker 1: I'm a real good dad, I promise. But let's just
Speaker 1: have murments of weakness. Now you've been saying that to God,
Speaker 1: Lily this before. This is new to me. I never
Speaker 1: been on monster dot com. Do they still have that website.
Speaker 1: I've never been doing a resume. I've never been on
Speaker 1: LinkedIn looking for a job. I'm fifty two. I never
Speaker 1: did this before. I never had to impart wisdom to
Speaker 1: somebody else. I don't feel very wise myself. David said,
Speaker 1: this will be like one of them. But the key
Speaker 1: to all of this will be where does your confidence
Speaker 1: come from? Because if it comes from a paphroditis, he
Speaker 1: gets sick. If it comes from alive, he has his
Speaker 1: own issues. If it comes from Saul, do you remember
Speaker 1: what Saul did to try to help David? He said, here,
Speaker 1: take my armor. David's like I could, But you've been
Speaker 1: wearing it for forty days and it's not really working
Speaker 1: for you. So why do you keep wearing what's not
Speaker 1: even working for the people that you're copying. Why do
Speaker 1: we keep doing what the world's doing. Why do we
Speaker 1: keep why do we keep participating in the same stuff?
Speaker 1: David said, I can't wear your armor. I got my
Speaker 1: own swag. Now, in David's case, his swag was a sling.
Speaker 1: It was what he killed the bear with. It was
Speaker 1: what he killed the lion with. So, when you're standing
Speaker 1: in front of something you've never seen before, never seen
Speaker 1: this age, never seen this stage, never seen these challenges,
Speaker 1: never seen this environment, never seen this uncertainty, never seen
Speaker 1: this instability. Borrow it from what's already in your bag.
Speaker 1: There is a this for every that. There is a
Speaker 1: this for everything, And all you need to believe is
Speaker 1: to remember I call you to remembrance today of what
Speaker 1: God gave you, who He's been to you, what he
Speaker 1: did for you. I declare prophetically over your life, whatever
Speaker 1: Goliath you're standing in front of, because we all have one,
Speaker 1: this philistine will be like one of them. You see
Speaker 1: those dead lions behind you, You see those dead bears
Speaker 1: behind you, You see those seasons you survived and you
Speaker 1: didn't feel like you had enough, but God stretched it out.
Speaker 1: I don't have it right now, God said, you can
Speaker 1: borrow mine. You can come up in my closet. Why
Speaker 1: would you wear Saul's armor when you have the shield
Speaker 1: of faith? Why would you wear Saul's armor when you
Speaker 1: have the shoes of the Gospel. Why would you wear
Speaker 1: Saul's armor when you have the sword of the spirit.
Speaker 1: David said, why would I borrow the armor of somebody
Speaker 1: whose faith is smaller than mine. You have your own slave,
Speaker 1: you have your own personality, you have your own gift.
Speaker 1: Some of the most confident people are the most quiet people.
Speaker 1: Because I know what I have, I'll have to broadcast it.
Speaker 1: I don't have to compare mind to yours. This the
Speaker 1: power of this for every insecurity in your life, God
Speaker 1: has given you a this wow. So when it comes
Speaker 1: to your faith, remain confident. Before you can remain confident,
Speaker 1: you got to be confident. And before you can be confident,
Speaker 1: you got to become confident. Paul said, I think you
Speaker 1: feel very confident right now. I don't think you see
Speaker 1: how it's going to work out. So just remember certainty
Speaker 1: is knowing how. Confidence is knowing who. I am confident
Speaker 1: of this give me Philippians one six. I think it'll
Speaker 1: hit different now. Confident of this, this this Paul knows
Speaker 1: the Philippian Church has limited faith. God knows you have
Speaker 1: limited resource. God knows you have limited experience. He didn't
Speaker 1: say I'm confident about you. He said I'm confident in this.
Speaker 1: He who began a good work in you will bring
Speaker 1: it to completion to the day of Christ. This I
Speaker 1: will remain confident in this. So I can't think ten
Speaker 1: years ahead right now. I can't even think ten minutes ahead.
Speaker 1: I got to reach back to the last bear. I killed,
Speaker 1: the last challenge. I overcame the last way. God. May
Speaker 1: and stay confident in this because you might be like
Speaker 1: Moses standing there at a burning bush, asking God, what
Speaker 1: do I do if they don't believe me? Exodus. For one,
Speaker 1: what do I do if they they they don't believe me.
Speaker 1: Remember God has given you a this for every day.
Speaker 1: For whoever doesn't like you, or whoever doesn't support you,
Speaker 1: they may not believe you. But watch what God did
Speaker 1: with Moses. Next verse the Lord said, what's in your hand?
Speaker 1: And Moses said, a staff. So like David has a slaying,
Speaker 1: Moses has a staff. You have something to just put
Speaker 1: it in the chat right now? I have this, all right?
Speaker 1: And Moses is like, I have a shepherd's instrument. I
Speaker 1: have something that's very common and very ordinary and very
Speaker 1: How can confidence come from a shepherd's staff? He doesn't
Speaker 1: know what this staff is capable of, yet neither do you.
Speaker 1: He doesn't know that it's going to split waters, neither
Speaker 1: do you. He doesn't know that it's going to produce
Speaker 1: water from rocks, hydration from impossibilities, and neither do you.
Speaker 1: But in his hand was a staff, and the Lord
Speaker 1: said verse three, throw it on the ground. And he
Speaker 1: threw it on the ground, and it became a snake,
Speaker 1: and he ran from it. He's running from the thing
Speaker 1: that God is going to use. But that's not the point.
Speaker 1: The point is this verse four, the Lord said, reach
Speaker 1: out your hand, take it by the tail. So Moses
Speaker 1: reached out to cold of the snake, and it turned
Speaker 1: back into a staff in his hand. Now you have
Speaker 1: it in your hand, and watch what the Lord says.
Speaker 1: Verse five. This this you mean my staff? Yeah, this,
Speaker 1: you mean the symbol of my mistake. I wouldn't even
Speaker 1: be a shepherd if I hadn't killed the Egyptian. God said, yeah, this, this,
Speaker 1: this is so that they may believe this. God gave
Speaker 1: you a this, this moment. Give us this day our
Speaker 1: daily bread. Give us this day, this this, this, this, this, yeah,
Speaker 1: this this, this is the day the Lord is made.
Speaker 1: I will remain confident in this. No, I can't do
Speaker 1: what you can do. I don't have to, but I
Speaker 1: can do this. No, I can't do next Wednesday's work
Speaker 1: in my head, but I can do this. I can
Speaker 1: do this. Wow, Father, we release our staff. We release
Speaker 1: the thing that was good for us in one season,
Speaker 1: but it needs to become something else in this season.
Speaker 1: I thank you, Lord that you showed me while I
Speaker 1: was studying the power of this, not them, not that,
Speaker 1: but this all across the world right now. I believe
Speaker 1: in your ability to interpret this word, and it will
Speaker 1: be custom made for the exact situation that each person
Speaker 1: is hearing it. They will hear this message when they
Speaker 1: need to hear it. They will receive it when they're
Speaker 1: ready to take it in. Our confidence has been shaken.
Speaker 1: The entire world has been rocking and reeling nearly for
Speaker 1: a year now. What we used to absolutely assume now
Speaker 1: we can hardly predict. We thank you for that, because
Speaker 1: in a lot of cases, our confidence was coming from
Speaker 1: a bad bank that was charging us too much interest.
Speaker 1: So we're coming back to you today. We confess that
Speaker 1: sometimes we've trusted in the wrong things. I have. I
Speaker 1: trusted in my own wisdom. I didn't ask you. I
Speaker 1: trusted in my hustle. I didn't know I could rest
Speaker 1: and be strong. Sometimes, Lord, I assumed that when something
Speaker 1: left my hand had left my life, but it didn't.
Speaker 1: You were just changing it. We thank you for this,
Speaker 1: and when the next thing comes, we thank you for
Speaker 1: that too. We're looking back over slain lions, dead bears,
Speaker 1: and we're walking right past Eliah, and we're shaking off
Speaker 1: Saul's armor today, and we've got our sling, we've got
Speaker 1: our swag. It comes from coming in the name of
Speaker 1: the Lord, particularly Lord, for those who don't have a
Speaker 1: partner Right now, I want to stand in the gop
Speaker 1: and believe with them. You know my faith fails. You
Speaker 1: know that so well, Lord, But in this moment, you've
Speaker 1: given me great faith to this message. So from the
Speaker 1: overflow of your word that you put inside of me,
Speaker 1: the ingrafted word that produces faith. Faith comes by hearing
Speaker 1: the word of God. So as we step into this word,
Speaker 1: we borrow confidence. We borrow confidence not in what we see,
Speaker 1: but in what you say, not in what we've experienced,
Speaker 1: but in what you predestined. We're coming into this moment,
Speaker 1: in this season, with uncertainty, but we're coming in with confidence.
Speaker 1: I stand with every brother and every sister who has
Speaker 1: been wondering can I do this? And I agree with
Speaker 1: Heaven that what you've put in their hand is more
Speaker 1: than enough. Be it a slang, be it a staff,
Speaker 1: be it five loaves into fish. I will remain confident
Speaker 1: that I will see the goodness of the Lord. Help
Speaker 1: them see it, God, help them see it to walk
Speaker 1: right past every other thing and to see the power
Speaker 1: of this. We believe you for breakthroughs because this word
Speaker 1: was preached we believe you that people who have been
Speaker 1: unable to sleep are going to find rest in your
Speaker 1: presence this week. I thank you, Lord, that there is
Speaker 1: nothing that the enemy can put in front of us
Speaker 1: that is greater than what you put inside of us.
Speaker 1: I believe that, I believe that, I believe that I
Speaker 1: decided to believe that I choose to believe it. And
Speaker 1: this philisty will be like one of them, and this
Speaker 1: battle will be like one of those past victories. And God,
Speaker 1: we're not reaching into tomorrow to borrow worry. We're reaching
Speaker 1: into our past tomorrow. Fan And now we touch heaven,
Speaker 1: and we agree that whatever we do in your name,
Speaker 1: it shall be established, it shall be. We come into
Speaker 1: covenant with your work. We come into covenant with your
Speaker 1: son Jesus, and we declare yes, and a man, your
Speaker 1: promise is true in Jesus, Nay, lift up a great
Speaker 1: shout of praise, you sci a killer, you bear slayer,
Speaker 1: you lion killer. Thank you Lord. Just catching my breath
Speaker 1: after preaching, I like to always just come on and
Speaker 1: tell you, thank you, thank you for being a part
Speaker 1: of this ministry. Paul talked about the partnership in the
Speaker 1: gospel that's the way I feel about you. There are
Speaker 1: thousands around the globe. We may never meet face to face,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean God didn't connect us. And I
Speaker 1: want you to remember you're not alone. Sometimes you'll feel lonely.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you won't find anybody who has the answers that
Speaker 1: you need. But not only is God with you, but
Speaker 1: as your church family, we're standing with you, and Holly
Speaker 1: and I are believing for you that God's going to
Speaker 1: continue to build your faith, increase your confidence. And if
Speaker 1: you're in one of those seasons where you don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of faith right now, that it can get better.
Speaker 1: Borrow mind. We believe good things concerning you. He who
Speaker 1: began a good work, he will be faithful. We love you.
Speaker 1: Thank you to all of you who give faithfully. It
Speaker 1: touches my heart so much to know that you believe
Speaker 1: in this ministry, that you believe in Jesus, that you
Speaker 1: believe in His word. I'll see you next time. Pray
Speaker 1: for you.