WEBVTT - Borrowed Confidence 0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:04.680 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.160 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:10.520 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:12.559 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.400 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:20.079 You never want to miss a Sunday at Elevation because 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.560 you never know what God is going to do. He's 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:26.520 just amazing, and I think you picked a good Sunday 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:28.880 to join us too, or if you're watching this on 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.319 a Tuesday or listening to this on the treadmill. A 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.559 lot of people tell me that they listen to a 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.520 sermon that I preach while they run or something like that. 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:40.360 So that's good. You do my cardio, I build your faith. 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:47.640 This is a great arrangement. But seriously, though, y'all go 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.080 get some rest. It's my turn to work now. How 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:57.360 many are excited for the word of God? Thank you Jesus. Okay, 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:03.560 I couldn't stop thinking about last week's message, get to 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:09.080 the good part. I got home and I felt like 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:11.319 I didn't even get to give you the best part 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:18.600 of my sermon. So the Lord said, Part two, Part two. 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.399 Let's get to the good part. V seed it. Relax 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.360 enjoy this time. This is the time that God gave 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.319 you not to worry about stuff that you can't do 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.800 anything about right now. Anyway, whoever's texting you can text 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:34.800 you back. Leave them on red in the name of 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:39.800 the Lord, and listen to this word. In Philippians, Chapter one, 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.199 verse six, actually, let me do this. Let me stare 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:47.000 step you through three verses. That'll be good. Can I 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:55.360 have a minute to set up my Let's do Somealm 0:01:55.440 --> 0:02:00.520 twenty seven. First, this is what David said. This is 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:09.040 what David said, verse thirteen. I remain confident of this. 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:15.040 I will see the goodness of the Lord in the 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.360 land of the living. Put it in the chat. I 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:24.919 remain confident. Okay. Now Paul said something similar in Philippians. 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.200 I'll read you that too. This is the verse that 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:31.639 I ended on last week. He said in Philippians one, 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:36.360 verse six, being confident of this, that He who began 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.600 a good work in you will carry it on to 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:46.280 completion until the day of a global pandemic. No, of course, 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.200 he said that God has a plan even beyond our 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.880 human surprises, right until the day of Christ. Jesus till 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.560 us over basically, okay, he said, being confident of this. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.399 And then if you move down to verse fourteen, he's 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:05.280 describing his prison sentence, and he said, because of my chains, 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.880 most of the brothers and sisters have become confident in 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.640 the Lord, and they're all the more to proclaim the 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:15.560 Gospel without fear. So I just noticed a kind of 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:20.520 a similarity the word confident, But then I noticed a 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:25.799 little distinction. David said, I will remain confident in this. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:32.160 Paul said, being confident in this. Then Paul also says, 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:36.400 there are some who are becoming confident. And I want 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:42.920 to teach on the principle today of borrowed confidence, borrowed confidence, 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:46.920 and I want you to pray for us because our 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.880 family is experiencing something very difficult. My oldest son is 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:53.720 now the same size as me, and he's in my 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:58.640 closet all the time. We have beef, and I hate 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.240 to work it out like this on a worldwide global 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:06.800 ministry platform, nonprofit five oh one C three organization, but 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.320 for the purposes of group therapy, pray for me. I'm 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.280 not mad at him because he comes in my closet 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.720 and steals my clothes. That doesn't make me mad because 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:16.719 it would be stupid to be mad about that, because 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:21.200 that's actually cheaper than me having to buy him his own. 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.040 So that's just, you know, to me, that's just good stewardship. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:28.840 He's in my closet today, I could tell he's got 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:30.680 my own what are those called? I don't even know 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.000 what those are. I know they're mine, they used to 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.800 be mine. They were mine at one time, the Turbo greens, 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.400 Yet he wore. I'm not mad at him because he 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:44.960 wears my stuff. I'm mad because he makes it look 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:54.040 better than I do. He'll just rock something in the 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.360 back of my closet that I have had back there, 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.960 haven't had the confidence to put on in in years. 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:05.279 You know, somebody gave me this. I remember somebody gave 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.360 me this jacket one time, and I wouldn't wear it. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.920 I would put it on every Saturday night before I 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:11.960 came to preach, and then I take it back off 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.280 and put something else on because it was just to something. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.880 And he walked out wearing it, just looking like like 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.520 just looking amazing at it. So I'm not mad that 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:25.040 you borrow my stuff. I'm mad that you make it 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:30.200 look better than I do. For the record, it's kind 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.520 of cool though, to see him in there trying on 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.599 the old man's shoes. It makes me think, if he 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.240 wants to wear my stuff, I must have some kind 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:45.480 of swag. And I told him when all this nonsense started, 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.760 I said, you can borrow my shoes, but you can't 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:54.440 steal my swag because I have a very particular kind 0:05:54.440 --> 0:06:03.400 of swag. It's dad swag. I got dad slag. And 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.320 you know, I'm just trying to get you thinking about 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:12.440 how there's different kinds of confidence and confidence while being 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.800 a word that we all know is important to get 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.520 a date. If can't be cute, be confident. That's what 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:22.920 one guy told me. He really did. Harold Staley told 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.880 me that. He said, you're not especially good looking, just 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:30.760 be confident. He said, it'll put like three points on 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:38.360 your scale, just to be confident. But there's different kinds 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.840 of confidence. And of course, as you get into the 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.320 Book of Philippians, the letter that I was reading from 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:48.440 where Paul is writing this church of Christians who have 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:53.840 apparently lost their confidence I mentioned last week, go back 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.000 and watch it that if he's saying that he is 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:00.400 confident in what God is doing it suggests that maybe 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.360 they're not anymore. And there's a bunch of reasons for them. 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:07.400 There's fighting in the church. Yodia and Synekey aren't getting along, 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:11.040 so he's like begging them to stop fighting. And not 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.040 only that, I mean there's all kinds of there's all 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.800 kinds of reasons for the Philippian Church not to be confident, 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:20.680 the least of which is not that their leader is 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:25.080 in prison. Right, But he's giving them just like this 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.880 impartation of faith that is so powerful. He's like, let 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:30.160 me read you a little bit more of the pastors 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.240 so you can get a sense. He goes verse three, 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.640 I thank my God every time I remember you in 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.400 all my prayers for all of you, look at somebody 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.600 next to you and say, you make me happy. He says, 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:46.480 I always pray with joy because of your partnership in 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:53.560 the Gospel from the first day until now. Being confident 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.040 of this that He will begin a good brik in 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.880 you will carry it on to completion until the day 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.880 of Christ Jesus. So there's a sequence here that I 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:04.680 want to talk about. But there's also a substance. Let 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:08.559 me talk about the substance of it. He's talking about 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.280 a kind of confidence. Watch this that is not cosmetic, 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:20.160 the kind of swag that whether you have a Nike 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.200 swoosh on your shoes or whether you know, like I know, 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.080 we teach all kinds of things about confidence these days. Culturally. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.200 Body confidence. That's a good thing. I think that's great. 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:30.880 Come on, man, I'm not sitting here in the gym 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:32.720 just so I can have a healthy cardio. I want 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:34.480 to look good too, all right, So I want to 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.240 look good. I'm not lying to you. But at the 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:41.080 same time, body confidence, or what's another one that we teach, Oh, 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:45.080 confidence in your career, Like I'm really good at this. 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.000 I'm good at this, man, I've been doing all my life. Well. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.880 The thing about the last year is that everything that 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:55.240 can be shaken is being shaken, and a lot of 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.760 us found what we were good at stripped away, and 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:03.160 all we were left with is who we are. So 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.160 when we're forced to deal with our core kind of 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:09.560 like Paula's, he's just in prison. He's lost his pulpit, 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.520 his church building is empty. He can't go on tour 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:19.200 anything like that. All the things that apostles do, he 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:24.199 can't do it. And he's still confident. Being confident, it's 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:28.120 a state of mind for him. It doesn't even seem 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.839 to be something that he's getting from the outside, because 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.640 all he's got with him in prison that can come 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:41.640 visit him is a paphroditis. A paphroditis. A paphroditis is 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:46.280 kind of sickly, And the occasion of writing Philippians is 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:50.000 that he is sending a paphroditis back to the Philippians. 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.160 He's like, he's good, he's going through a lie. He's 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:57.199 kind of nervous. I'm gonna send him back. So now 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:58.880 watch this. I told you. I wanted to preach you 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:03.160 about borrowed confidence. The Philippians that the church that was 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:08.920 started while Paul was in jail, that church has supported him. 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:12.360 When he left Macedonia went to Thessalonica, they were the 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:17.200 only church that sponsored him. And he's writing back to them, 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.200 being confident of this, that he will begin a good 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.520 work and you'll be faithful to complete it to the 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:28.040 day of Christ. They sent him a gift, they loaned 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.720 him a person. He borrowed a paphroditis for the season 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.560 that he needed him and sent him back and he said, 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:40.000 I'm still confident. Make this confession by faith if you can. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:44.320 I'm still confident. And the principle I want us to 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:50.079 come around today is that where your confidence comes from 0:10:50.320 --> 0:11:02.319 determines when it runs out. So while body confidence is awesome, newsflash, 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:14.240 your body goes through different versions states. If my confidence 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:23.679 is in my body, then I better never get forty. 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:29.400 If my confidence is in my career, then my employer 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:36.920 has the ability to strip me of my faith. And 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:38.920 I know this sounds weird to say, but if your 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:46.880 confidence is in your pastor what if I what if 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.720 I mess up? God is still with you. I don't 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:56.520 want to mess up. But the fact is, listen, if 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:58.960 I drop that in this pulpit right now, I know 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.360 that's kind of Morbidefully, they call an ambulance and try 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.920 to fix me. But by next Sunday God would send 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:05.760 you somebody else to preach his word. He loves you 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:12.760 that much. It's weird to imagine that. I mean, and 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.720 that's true of everything in your life. So if you're confidence. 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.600 As the letter progresses, Paul gets heavier. He starts out, 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:21.280 I thank God for you. Every time I think about you, 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.160 I thank God for you. You're on my prayer list. 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.720 You make me happy. The Philippians were that church for Paul. 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:27.720 When he saw them on his phone come up on 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:31.480 the context of contact screen, he wanted to hit him back. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.920 He liked to hear from him, unlike the other churches, 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.880 like the Corinthian Church. You know, the Corinthian Church. They 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.760 were a different situation. So when the Corinthians came on 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:46.640 his phone, he knew that was probably drama. It's probably drama. 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.400 They had incest in the church. They were getting drunk 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:53.200 off the communion wine. With the Philippian Church, He's like, 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:57.600 y'all make me happy, man, We have this partnership. Y'all 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:03.480 have been with me for a minute. Yeah, he knew 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:09.800 the power of partnership. Yeah. And when I preached last week, 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:13.400 I said that we all have a dark part, a 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.880 dark part of our personality, a dark part of our 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.760 behavioral patterns. Well, where did that come from? We all 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:26.199 have a dark part. But if you get through the 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:32.000 dark part and get to the good part. So Paul 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:37.040 refuses to leave the Philippians in the dark. He wants 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.480 to let them know that God is still working in 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.040 his life and God is still working in their life, 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.760 and God hasn't stopped being God, and God hasn't stopped 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.839 being good, and God hasn't forgotten your name or your address. 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.360 And God sees everything that's going down in your life 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.520 and everything that's going up in your life, like your 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.160 blood pressure is going up, your bank account's going God 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.360 sees all of that. And my confidence is not tied 0:13:58.400 --> 0:13:59.839 to either one of those that are going up or 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:09.679 because we all hit seasons where it gets dark. I 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:14.160 don't know how to do this. I don't think I 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.880 can do this. I can't do this. I hit it 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.280 every time before, I preach every time, and I just know, 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.600 I just know this is the dark part. Here it 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:26.280 comes okay. I don't feel saved. I don't feel sanctified. 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.680 I don't feel filled with the Holy Spirit. I don't 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:30.840 feel intelligent. I don't feel like I have a triple 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.320 digit IQ. I don't feel any of that. What are 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:38.040 these words? Oh? This is that part And I've learned 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:39.720 something that I want to share with you today. I've 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.800 been excited to share it. Some of us can't get 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:51.320 through the dark part because we don't have the right partners. 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.720 You will never get through the dark part if you 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:03.440 have partners that drag you down more. Okay, so pretend 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.520 you're a fifteen year old for a minute, like my 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.160 son Elijah, or like many of the YouTube by the way, 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:15.120 Elevation Youth on YouTube. Go subscribe right now so we 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.200 can help you get through the dark part. How many 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.200 of you your teenage years were kind of a dark 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.200 part of your life, right, So imagine you're there again. 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.960 You're going back in that now when you're young, you 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:31.320 have a commodity that can help you have more confidence. Ignorance, 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:46.240 just ignorance, the blessing of dumb. When they were showing 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.000 a video for fifteen years of ministry the other day, 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.120 they had early videos of me preaching, and somebody said, 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.200 you were so bold back then. I'm like, I was 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:59.920 so dumb back then. And you know what ignorance look 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:08.680 like confidence from a distance. A lot of the times 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:10.680 that God can do the most through somebody is when 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:15.960 they know the least. But let me mess around and 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.440 live for a little while, and I build a file 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.760 of everything that can go wrong. Things I didn't know 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.280 I was supposed to be scared of when I was seventeen. 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:28.080 Things I didn't know I was supposed to be scared 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:33.800 of the first two years of church. So the benefits 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.960 of ignorance is that it gives you this kind of confidence. 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.800 Paul is not writing about that kind of confidence. So 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.440 he knows how much it costs to serve Christ. He 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.280 knows how uncertain it is. He knows how hard it 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:54.200 can be sometimes when you feel completely abandoned by the 0:16:54.240 --> 0:17:00.680 people you help. No other churches, no other partners, nobody's 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.240 gonna stand with me. He knows all of that, but 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:11.639 he's confident, like David in song twenty seven, I will 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:21.720 remain confident. That's not a feeling, that's a decision. Do 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.600 you know the difference the feeling of confidence in the decision. 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:33.720 The feeling can be stripped so quick, but the decision 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:40.160 can be made any moment excellent. I will remain confident, 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:48.240 being confident, becoming confident if we build the right kind 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:52.560 of confidence. Paul calls this the righteousness that comes by faith. 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.080 It's not the confidence in the flesh. It's not anything 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.119 that you can buy. It's not anything that you can achieve. 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.000 It's not anything that a human committee has to give 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.520 to you. It's none of those things. I guess you 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:09.080 could say it's a kind of confidence that comes from above, 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:18.400 so it never runs out. If you go back over 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.560 to Psalm twenty seven, and I want to marry these 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:27.360 two scriptures because they're interesting. They're interesting together. You'll notice 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:30.919 that David must have been fighting something in Psalm twenty 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:35.760 seven that threatened his sense of stability. I don't want 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:37.439 to leave this in the text so long that you 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:41.000 think this is a history lesson. There are so many 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:46.639 people I'm talking to these days that life has taken 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:50.240 on some new dimensions for them, and they no longer 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:56.760 feel competent for the challenges of this season. And they 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.399 have experienced some things. I'm not talking about you, I'm 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:04.320 te wut somebody No. That made them bitter, Wow, that 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:08.480 made them apprehensive, that made them timid about believing God. 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.399 They prayed for somebody, they died, They love somebody, that 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:16.200 person took advantage of their love. All these things that happen. 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:21.480 And if your confidence comes from that place, then it 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.960 runs out when that ends. So when David starts on 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:27.159 twenty seven, I love the whole song. The Lord is 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:28.800 my Light and my salvation. Whom shall I hear? The 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:30.639 Lord is strongul in my life? Whom shall I be afraid. 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.000 He gets all the way to verse thirteen, and he says, 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:41.760 I will remain confident in this. Now, everybody say this. 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.800 Go to First Samuel seventeen. I got to show you something. 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:51.320 This is amazing. Everybody say this is amazing. In the 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:53.880 chat say this is amazing. I'll show you what I'm 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:58.320 talking about. So David shows up. Remember that any given day, 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:00.040 God is doing more in your life than you. You 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.800 can imagine he's delivering cheese and bread, and A said, yeah, 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:06.400 but he's really going down to meet Golias and kill 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:08.280 him so the nation can move on. Just like God 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:10.640 is doing great things in your life. And David didn't 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:12.159 know what he was going to do, because probably if 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:13.280 he had known what he was going to do, he 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:14.879 might have second guessed whether he would go or not. 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:22.000 So ignorance is sometimes to your advantage in trusting God. 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.040 All right, so let's go to I know you know 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.000 this story pretty well, but I want to show you 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:33.000 something in First Samuel chapter seventeen, where did I start? 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:34.439 You all on the screen, go all the way to 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:36.360 the first one. Oh, this is it, this is it. 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:38.840 He goes down to the battle lines, take it down 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:40.720 for a minute. Let me set this up. He goes 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:45.880 down to the battle lions, he hears Goliath intimidating God's 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:50.640 people and it freaks him out because how can y'all, 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:55.440 how can y'all be passive about something that God promised 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:59.679 to give you victory over? Remember these are the experience, 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:05.159 and three of them are his own brothers. And I 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:07.200 want to show you a difference between Paul and David, 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:09.160 and see which one you feel more like right now? 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:13.359 In your life, Paul had some partners who believed in 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:15.960 him enough to support him in his hard time, his 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:19.280 dark time. WA's what happened to David when he went 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:24.080 down to help his brothers. When Eliab, David's oldest brother, 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:27.520 heard him speaking with the men, asking who is this 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.679 giant that defies the armies of the living God, he 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:34.879 burned with anger at him and asked, why have you 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:38.120 come down here? And with whom did you leave those 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:46.800 few sheep in the wilderness. This is the person that 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:53.600 David came to feed. The person he came to feed 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:59.080 is fighting him. Have you ever felt that way? If 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:00.879 they're sitting next to you right now, we can just 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:04.280 have an unspoken tacit agreement that that way I feel you. 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:06.399 I feel you. It's hard to raise your hand on 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:08.560 something like that when they are right next to you 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:10.920 or in the other room. You're scared them. I hear. No, 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:14.920 this is crazy, because Paul is saying life, your partnership 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:17.760 in the Gospel that encourages me. Man. Have you ever 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:19.760 had just somebody step up and believe in you when 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:22.879 you didn't believe in yourself? Have you ever had somebody 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:25.720 just see something in you that had gotten buried and 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:28.960 they don't even realize they're doing it. They just say 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:32.720 something in passing and you're like really, and your chest 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:34.840 sticks out and you walk a little bit different for 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:37.520 the rest of the day just because they saw something 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:41.560 in you. I think Paul felt that way about the Philippians. 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:45.080 I think when he went back he said, I remember 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:48.320 when we started, I didn't have authority in this province. 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:51.000 I didn't have the resources you helped me with that. 0:22:51.280 --> 0:22:53.760 I didn't have a big brand or a big ministry. 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:57.040 You believed in me like that. There is nothing like 0:22:57.160 --> 0:22:59.720 people who believe in you when there is nothing to 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:07.960 see to prove what they believed. And if God gives 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:12.360 you somebody like that, do not let them go. Don't 0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:16.080 let him go cheat. Hold on to those day ones 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:20.160 who had nothing to gain from loving you, people who 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:22.120 gave you a shot, people who gave you a chance, 0:23:22.240 --> 0:23:24.360 people who said, come on and do this. That's awesome. 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:28.679 I'll always honor Pastor Mickey because he said God had 0:23:28.720 --> 0:23:31.920 his hand on my life when I was sixteen. I'll 0:23:31.960 --> 0:23:36.600 always honor him, Always honor him. Need people like that 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:39.000 when you get in one of these passages where you're like, 0:23:39.280 --> 0:23:43.159 I never did this before. I never been a mom before. 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:47.400 I've never been through a divorce before. I haven't been 0:23:47.440 --> 0:23:50.040 unemployed in my adult life before. I've never been to 0:23:50.119 --> 0:23:53.520 college before. I never tried to quit smoke him before. 0:23:53.640 --> 0:23:56.480 I never tried to get my drinking under control before. 0:23:56.600 --> 0:23:58.360 I don't know how to do this. And God will 0:23:58.400 --> 0:24:07.720 send you a partner, somebody who sees potential in you 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:13.480 that your pain has blocked from your own visibility. That's 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:16.600 why I called you over the other day when we 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:20.200 were in the middle of the project, because I was 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:23.840 I was dealing with uncertainty. Is this the right thing? 0:24:25.400 --> 0:24:26.960 I was so in the middle of it. I needed 0:24:26.960 --> 0:24:31.679 you to come over because you've been there with me since. Well, 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:34.240 let's be honest, since we were doing the dumbest stuff 0:24:34.280 --> 0:24:38.960 that two teenagers can do, since riding around in your jeep. 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:49.720 I needed that first day faith. And when you saw 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:53.359 what I was creating, you said, this is it. He 0:24:53.440 --> 0:24:54.920 was so excited. You know what I'm talking about it, 0:24:54.960 --> 0:24:57.640 He said, this is it. This is what we were doing, 0:24:57.640 --> 0:24:59.840 this is what you were doing. He helped me connect 0:24:59.840 --> 0:25:02.720 it dots of what God was doing because I couldn't 0:25:02.760 --> 0:25:07.800 in the moment, because I was in the dark. So 0:25:07.880 --> 0:25:13.080 I needed that first dafe like Paul had from the 0:25:13.080 --> 0:25:17.440 Philippians that he mentioned. He's like, oh, man, I don't 0:25:17.480 --> 0:25:21.320 know what God's going to do, but I'm going to 0:25:21.400 --> 0:25:27.159 choose what I remember, right, And instead of calling up 0:25:27.200 --> 0:25:29.200 all the people to mind who didn't support him, he 0:25:29.280 --> 0:25:34.520 remembered the church that did. In that not hard to do, 0:25:35.920 --> 0:25:37.560 he thought. I was going to say, isn't that great? No, 0:25:37.680 --> 0:25:43.360 in't that difficult. A lot of what we call believing 0:25:44.119 --> 0:25:50.639 is really just remembering, right, he said, every time I 0:25:50.720 --> 0:25:54.520 remember you, I get joy in this prison cell. Or 0:25:54.600 --> 0:25:58.440 like the prophet Jeremiah said in Lamentations three twenty one, 0:25:59.080 --> 0:26:04.520 this recall to my mind, this, I recall to my 0:26:04.560 --> 0:26:11.000 mind what the calamity, the ruins, the desolation, the betrayal, 0:26:11.480 --> 0:26:14.919 the feelings of forsagan No, no, no, this I recall 0:26:15.000 --> 0:26:17.520 to my mind. Therefore I have hope it's because of 0:26:17.560 --> 0:26:20.120 the Lord's mercies that we're now consumed, because there's compassion 0:26:20.119 --> 0:26:22.119 still not there new every morning. Great is their faithfulness. 0:26:22.200 --> 0:26:27.000 This say this, this, this, this, this, this, this I 0:26:27.040 --> 0:26:29.840 recall to mine. So so imagine right now, imagine right now, 0:26:29.960 --> 0:26:31.680 like a million things are going through your mind, right 0:26:31.840 --> 0:26:33.560 like should I should I be mad about this? Should 0:26:33.560 --> 0:26:34.800 you up said about that? Should be worried about that? 0:26:34.800 --> 0:26:36.400