Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
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Speaker 3: I hope you're blessed today.
Speaker 4: Holly said to tell you about my hype track. But
Speaker 4: it's not a hype track. It's a hope track. I'm
Speaker 4: actually gonna use it to get into my sermon today.
Speaker 4: I used to do these videos at the beginning of
Speaker 4: every year. I did it a few years, and it
Speaker 4: was designed to help you when you need motivation from
Speaker 4: God's word and you need to listen to something that
Speaker 4: will fire you up, but also at the same time
Speaker 4: not make you feel like unspiritual. So I started making
Speaker 4: these and then I quit for years, and this year
Speaker 4: my oldest son, Elijah, who just went to college last week.
Speaker 4: He and I had been talking for years about working
Speaker 4: on one together and that he would make the beat
Speaker 4: and that I would do the track, and so I
Speaker 4: was like, I really don't want to do these anymore.
Speaker 4: I'm too old to be doing those. People think I'm
Speaker 4: trying to be a rapper. They start calling me eminem,
Speaker 4: they start making fun of me, and so he's like no, no, no,
Speaker 4: let me just try to make a beat. So he
Speaker 4: and Josh got together made a track and they brought
Speaker 4: it to me. And when I heard the track, I
Speaker 4: was like, I'm on it and I put this together,
Speaker 4: so I want to use it if you want to
Speaker 4: hear it.
Speaker 1: I mean I could play it for you right.
Speaker 4: Now, just to get us into the message. Because last
Speaker 4: week we said He's the God of Away. We were
Speaker 4: singing he will make away, and this track says, with God,
Speaker 4: there's always a way.
Speaker 1: With God, there's always a way.
Speaker 4: Nod your head like this and say always Now, look
Speaker 4: at your neighbors, say by faith, I will find it.
Speaker 1: All right, y'all, take a seat and watch the screen.
Speaker 5: Let's go.
Speaker 1: To the Great. I am No limits exist.
Speaker 3: Therefore my potential to glorify him is endless. I'm moving
Speaker 3: forward in the light of what.
Speaker 6: He's spoken, and every other voice must let go, because
Speaker 6: I know with every step he gives me strength.
Speaker 1: Almighty God is fighting for me.
Speaker 3: His spirit is my guide, his strength is my supply,
Speaker 3: and every need will be provided by his hand at
Speaker 3: just the right time.
Speaker 1: I don't need to.
Speaker 3: See it to believe it. I know the truth, and
Speaker 3: I will do it, and do it, and do it
Speaker 3: until my life becomes the proof. See he hid me
Speaker 3: at his quiver, prepared me in his shadow for such a.
Speaker 1: Time as this.
Speaker 3: I'm a weapon, not a hostage.
Speaker 1: I'm on an assignment. Nothing can stop it his time.
Speaker 7: Take back my mind, take back my life, and break
Speaker 7: every lie with the promise of God gos.
Speaker 6: With God, there's always away. By faith, I will find it.
Speaker 6: With God, there's always away. By faith, I will fight it.
Speaker 1: What is a challenge with a giant waiting to fall?
Speaker 8: What is a mountain to a God who does impossible?
Speaker 7: What is an obstacle to a God whose word turns
Speaker 7: sees to walls?
Speaker 8: What is a set down?
Speaker 1: What a set up for a miracle?
Speaker 7: What is an enemy to a God who shuts the
Speaker 7: lions mouth? What is a fire to a God whose
Speaker 7: hand can sets me out? A thousand angels surround me.
Speaker 7: Now speak to the stronghold and.
Speaker 9: Watch it come down.
Speaker 8: A thousand angels surround me. Now speak to the stronghold,
Speaker 8: and once it come down.
Speaker 7: With God, there's always away.
Speaker 8: By faith, I will find it with God, always away
Speaker 8: away my faith.
Speaker 10: I will fight it.
Speaker 7: If CoP's got power, I've got power.
Speaker 8: If God's got strength. I've got strength.
Speaker 7: If God got victory, I've got victory.
Speaker 8: If it's in him, it's in me.
Speaker 4: Because what's his is mine?
Speaker 8: What's his it's mine. It's time gous. What's this it's mine?
Speaker 1: What's this?
Speaker 9: It's mine?
Speaker 8: What's this?
Speaker 11: It's mine?
Speaker 4: It's going God.
Speaker 8: With God, there's always away.
Speaker 4: My faith. I will fight it.
Speaker 8: With God.
Speaker 7: If there's always away my faith, I will fight it.
Speaker 8: I gotta sleep. I gotta sleep. I got an army.
Speaker 8: I gotta God, the Creator than North, it's already.
Speaker 1: I gotta hoping.
Speaker 9: I gotta call him.
Speaker 4: I got someone to be How about you lose?
Speaker 8: I don't look get behind it.
Speaker 9: With God, there's always a way.
Speaker 4: They will find it.
Speaker 8: With God, there's always a way.
Speaker 4: They will find.
Speaker 11: My pay.
Speaker 1: I will find it.
Speaker 12: There's always pay.
Speaker 1: I will find it. There's always away.
Speaker 8: Iday I will biden God.
Speaker 6: There's my pay.
Speaker 8: I will find it.
Speaker 1: With God. There's always a way.
Speaker 6: By faith.
Speaker 1: I will find it. With God. There's always a way
Speaker 1: by faith. I will find it.
Speaker 11: You like it.
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 8: Oh man, y'all like it real.
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: I hope you can use it. You can go stream
Speaker 1: it or whatever like that.
Speaker 4: Do some push ups, or some burpies, or some kettlebell
Speaker 4: swings or some Bulgarian split squads come more special. Thanks
Speaker 4: to Jalen Ramsey for being in our video. Appreciate that
Speaker 4: praying for you that God will bring you back better
Speaker 4: than ever. David, I think I want.
Speaker 1: You in it. Next year, you do the next one.
Speaker 1: Can we sign a contract?
Speaker 4: I want to preach right from that thought, look at
Speaker 4: your neighbor and say, with God, there's always a way,
Speaker 4: and by faith.
Speaker 1: I will find it.
Speaker 4: The beginning of this year, I was making myself a
Speaker 4: bunch of little statements affirmations that were scriptural, and then
Speaker 4: I started sharing them with people, and that was one
Speaker 4: of them, just to encourage myself past the hurdles and
Speaker 4: discouragements that life offers us, and sometimes the.
Speaker 1: Hurdles in my own head.
Speaker 4: You know how many of you have hypothetical hurdles that
Speaker 4: you create, as if the challenges that life gives you
Speaker 4: are not enough.
Speaker 1: You just make some in your spare time. And that
Speaker 1: one came to me one day.
Speaker 4: I was driving somewhere and I was thinking about something
Speaker 4: that I couldn't do, and I said, with God, there's
Speaker 4: always a way, and by faith I will find it,
Speaker 4: and it felt like both parts were important. The first
Speaker 4: part lets me know that even right now in my life,
Speaker 4: God is clearing a path for his purpose to be
Speaker 4: accomplished concerning me and my family and our church and
Speaker 4: our ministry, and your family and your seed and everything
Speaker 4: that God has called you to do.
Speaker 1: He's right now working on your behalf. Give God praise
Speaker 1: if you believe that.
Speaker 4: The harder part for me to get out of my
Speaker 4: mouth is and by faith, I will find it, because
Speaker 4: sometimes I just want Him to make it so obvious
Speaker 4: and so easy.
Speaker 1: And the scripture that I want to share with you
Speaker 1: very familiar story.
Speaker 4: I won't be long today because what I want to
Speaker 4: say is actually very clear to me. God gave me
Speaker 4: a word for this moment for your life. It's in
Speaker 4: Luke chapter five, and you can sit. We don't have
Speaker 4: to stand back up. But let me read you the
Speaker 4: whole story and then show you something. In two verses,
Speaker 4: say it again with God. There's always a way, I say,
Speaker 4: by faith, I will find it. This story in Luke
Speaker 4: chapter five, Verse seventeen was probably the most vivid illustration
Speaker 4: of that confession that I could find. The Bible says
Speaker 4: one day Jesus was teaching, and pharisees and teachers of
Speaker 4: the law were sitting there. They had come from every
Speaker 4: village of Galilee, and from Judea and Jerusalem. And the
Speaker 4: power of the Lord was with Jesus. The power of
Speaker 4: the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick. Some
Speaker 4: men came verse eighteen, carrying a paralyzed man on a
Speaker 4: mat and tried to take him into the house to
Speaker 4: lay him before Jesus, when they could not find a way.
Speaker 4: When they could not find a way to do this
Speaker 4: because of the crowd, they went up on the roof
Speaker 4: and lowered him on his mat, threw the tiles into
Speaker 4: the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
Speaker 4: And when Jesus saw their good intentions, when Jesus saw
Speaker 4: their hearts, when Jesus heard their pretty songs, No, when
Speaker 4: Jesus saw their faith. And incidentally, this is the first
Speaker 4: time that the noun faith is mentioned in Luke's gospel.
Speaker 4: It didn't say faith when Peter put his nets down
Speaker 4: for a catch. It didn't say faith about the man
Speaker 4: who was cured of leprosy just before this. It didn't
Speaker 4: say faith about the man who had a demon driven
Speaker 4: out in the synagogue. But here it says when Jesus
Speaker 4: saw their faith, he said, friend, your sins are forgiven. Now.
Speaker 4: The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking
Speaker 4: to themselves, who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who
Speaker 4: can forgive sins? But God alone. Jesus knew what they
Speaker 4: were thinking and asked, why are you thinking these things
Speaker 4: in your hearts? Which is easier to say your sins
Speaker 4: are forgiven, or to say get up and walk, But
Speaker 4: I want you to know that the Son of Man
Speaker 4: has authority on earth to forgive sins. So he said
Speaker 4: to the paralyzed man, I tell you get up, take
Speaker 4: your mat, and go home. Immediately he stood up in
Speaker 4: front of them, took what he had been lying on,
Speaker 4: and went home, praising God. Oh I just saw a
Speaker 4: preview of somebody's future. He went home praising God. You know,
Speaker 4: you came in kind of slow today, but you're going
Speaker 4: home praising God. Just elbow your neighbor in their rib
Speaker 4: cage and say you're going home praising.
Speaker 1: Wlim reverse.
Speaker 4: Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. They were
Speaker 4: filled with awe and said, we have seen remarkable things today.
Speaker 1: Thank you Lord for your word.
Speaker 4: Now, this encounter between Jesus and the paralyzed man is
Speaker 4: really hiding a deeper encounter between Jesus and the religious system.
Speaker 4: The Pharisees, the teachers of the law, these ruling class
Speaker 4: elites in Judaism had come to not necessarily learn from Jesus,
Speaker 4: but maybe they came to see if he was doing
Speaker 4: things the right way according to the law. And Jesus
Speaker 4: did not come to abolish the law like it was bad.
Speaker 4: He came to fulfill it because we can't. One of
Speaker 4: the scriptures I memorized in college said that what the
Speaker 4: law was powerless to do in that it was weakened
Speaker 4: by the sinful nature. God did by sending his son
Speaker 4: in the likeness of sinful man, to be a sin offering.
Speaker 1: So whenever you read about Jesus doing.
Speaker 4: Something in the Bible where he's healing or feeding or teaching,
Speaker 4: remember his primary purpose for coming to the earth was
Speaker 4: to pay the price for your sin, to establish his
Speaker 4: kingdom so that we could be forgiven and free. In
Speaker 4: the process of this, he taught amazing things, and he
Speaker 4: healed people who were indeed very grateful for their healing,
Speaker 4: but his primary purpose was to demonstrate that he was
Speaker 4: the son of God so that he could die, rise again,
Speaker 4: and be forever glorified and exalted. This passage of Scripture
Speaker 4: always got my attention because I'm a person who's prone
Speaker 4: to extremes, and that's why I don't do many things
Speaker 4: in life, because if I do it, I want to
Speaker 4: really be good at it. I don't want to suck
Speaker 4: at anything, and that's kept me very limited in my life.
Speaker 4: I don't hunt, I don't fish.
Speaker 1: I barely even watch TV because I don't know if
Speaker 1: I can find the best show to watch.
Speaker 4: I'll shop for three hours and not watch anything, just
Speaker 4: because I wanted to be the best one, the right one,
Speaker 4: the good one. I don't think I've ever really been
Speaker 4: short on effort and drive, so that's why I was
Speaker 4: drawn to this particular verse. I don't know what part
Speaker 4: caught your attention in the passage, and I don't know
Speaker 4: if you've ever heard this story before, but the thing
Speaker 4: that really got me this time around eating it was
Speaker 4: in verse eighteen, where it said some men came carrying
Speaker 4: a paralyzed man on a mat.
Speaker 1: And tried to take him into the house to lay
Speaker 1: him before Jesus. So like I have the.
Speaker 4: Benefit of having preached this passage many times, I know
Speaker 4: that it's recorded in Mark's Gospel, Matthew's Gospel, and Luke's Gospel.
Speaker 4: In Matthew's Gospel, it doesn't say anything about the removal
Speaker 4: of the roof, because that wasn't really the whole point
Speaker 4: of the passage. You know, roofs come and go, apparently,
Speaker 4: but the righteousness of God endures forever something like that.
Speaker 4: The passage in Mark is a little bit more exact.
Speaker 4: It talks about how many men there were. There were four, well,
Speaker 4: there were five, well, there were six. There was the
Speaker 4: four men that carried the one man to bring him
Speaker 4: to the other man, who wasn't just a man, but
Speaker 4: he was God in the flesh. His name is Jesus.
Speaker 4: Somebody shout, he's the man. Okay, let's don't get it confused.
Speaker 4: He's the man. Jesus is the man, and he's so
Speaker 4: popular he's preaching and nobody can get in the room.
Speaker 4: And that's what got me, okay, because if you be honest,
Speaker 4: there are certain things in your life right now and
Speaker 4: areas of your life, and I don't know if you're
Speaker 4: gonna look at me with that really confused look like
Speaker 4: you do sometimes where you pretend like everything in your
Speaker 4: life is working and everything in your life is straight
Speaker 4: and organized and together. I don't know if you're gonna
Speaker 4: do that to me on this particular sermon, or if
Speaker 4: you're gonna be honest with me.
Speaker 1: There are some areas of your life where you are blocked.
Speaker 4: There are some areas in your life where you are
Speaker 4: running your head up against the same habit, the same wall,
Speaker 4: the same way of doing it, over and over again.
Speaker 4: And even if you experience short term victory, it seems
Speaker 4: to be just a precursor to a deeper point of
Speaker 4: disappointment when you fall back into the same thing again.
Speaker 1: So y'all are gonna do like that today, that real
Speaker 1: confused thing. Okay.
Speaker 4: So I have areas in my life where at certain
Speaker 4: times before I have been blocked. And that's exactly the
Speaker 4: scene here, right, They're trying to bring this man to
Speaker 4: Jesus and they are blocked outside the door. Now Here,
Speaker 4: I should differentiate what the Bible says here is really
Speaker 4: important because this is.
Speaker 1: A specific word.
Speaker 4: This is not just a generic Bible sermon on you
Speaker 4: can do it. You can make it tin up. You
Speaker 4: know this is not a go get them tiger kind
Speaker 4: of sermon. This is a custom tailored message to a
Speaker 4: certain type of block.
Speaker 1: Because in verse eighteen put that back up there for me.
Speaker 4: It says that some men came, four of them, carrying
Speaker 4: a paralyzed man on a mat, and tried to take
Speaker 4: him into the house to lay him before Jesus. They
Speaker 4: did what they came, carr well back all the way up.
Speaker 4: They came carrying a paralyzed man and.
Speaker 1: Tried. They tried.
Speaker 4: There have been times in my life where I said
Speaker 4: I tried, but I only kind of tried. There have
Speaker 4: been certain things that certain tasks, certain responsibilities, certain.
Speaker 1: Goals that I kind of tried at. And you know
Speaker 1: exactly the kind I'm talking about. You know, Oh, I
Speaker 1: I tried to call them. You didn't want them to
Speaker 1: pick up.
Speaker 4: So when they didn't pick up, it was a sigh
Speaker 4: of relief, just enough to say when your boss asked,
Speaker 4: I tried.
Speaker 1: Or as me as a teenager, I only had one
Speaker 1: or two chores.
Speaker 4: My parents didn't make me work very hard around the house,
Speaker 4: but I didn't need to cut the grass sometimes and
Speaker 4: then guess.
Speaker 1: What I tried to cut the grass down, but there
Speaker 1: was no gas.
Speaker 4: In the lawnmower. And that man showed me. He showed
Speaker 4: me the difference between trying and trimming the grass. You
Speaker 4: like that because he showed me this is where the
Speaker 4: gas is. This is how you put it in. Until
Speaker 4: you put the gas that I bought in the first
Speaker 4: place in the lawnmower that you claim as empty.
Speaker 1: Don't say I tried, but I was only twelve. Now
Speaker 1: now I'm much more responsible.
Speaker 4: I'm much better at this and this passage of scripture.
Speaker 4: It's not about a teenager who said, well, trug do
Speaker 4: the test.
Speaker 1: Put my book at the thing, and then the dog
Speaker 1: and the thing, and the dog ate my dog ate
Speaker 1: my mom, so I couldn't do my homework. These men,
Speaker 1: I just need to give you this. These men carry.
Speaker 4: Another grown man who knows how many miles to.
Speaker 1: Try to get him to Jesus.
Speaker 4: So this is not They said, oh, yeah, I'll pray
Speaker 4: for you about that problem in your life, knowing good
Speaker 4: and well, you're not going to pray. You're just trying
Speaker 4: to wrap up the conversation. You just don't want to
Speaker 4: give them any money. You just don't want to help
Speaker 4: them get in rehab. You just say I'll pray for you.
Speaker 4: This is not that type of situation.
Speaker 1: And I want to point that.
Speaker 4: Out because there are some times in your life where
Speaker 4: you haven't really tried.
Speaker 1: Reading the first.
Speaker 8: Chapter of the book about.
Speaker 1: The diet is not trying the diet.
Speaker 4: Comeing to church three times in twelve months is not
Speaker 4: really trying to build your relationship with God. That's a
Speaker 4: frequent attender right there. She's got the membership guard. And
Speaker 4: I'm not saying it to shame you, because I'm telling
Speaker 4: you there are areas in my life where I say
Speaker 4: I tried did I?
Speaker 1: Where I say I listened?
Speaker 4: Did I. I have this friend who coaches professional athletes CEOs.
Speaker 4: He does all this mental coaching, and he says when
Speaker 4: he hears somebody say this phrase, he loves it because.
Speaker 1: He sets them up. They say I want to do it.
Speaker 4: I've tried everything, And when they say that, he goes, oh, everything,
Speaker 4: you've tried everything.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me see the list and they go what list?
Speaker 4: And he goes, well, I mean if you tried everything,
Speaker 4: certainly you kept a spreadsheet of everything you tried, because
Speaker 4: if you really tried everything, then you had to list.
Speaker 1: Everything so you could evaluate what worked and what didn't.
Speaker 4: So if you tried everything, bring me the list, because
Speaker 4: if you tried everything, then you had to combine certain
Speaker 4: things in certain sequences to say I tried everything. So
Speaker 4: you tried this and that and that didn't work. So
Speaker 4: then you tried this, then that, so then you tried
Speaker 4: this and that. Let me see the list where you
Speaker 4: tried everything, and he said. At this point, they crumble, Okay,
Speaker 4: not everything. Not everything.
Speaker 1: There are some things in our lives where we have
Speaker 1: a desire. I like to call it a cycle.
Speaker 4: It's a cycle where I get inspired, I try, I
Speaker 4: get tired, and now, well I tried. Let me walk
Speaker 4: you back through that real slow. Y'all can do this
Speaker 4: on digging deeper and you can break this down. I'm inspired,
Speaker 4: I'm trying. I'm tired.
Speaker 1: I tried.
Speaker 4: I talked to a lady. I said, you should to church.
Speaker 4: She said, oh, I tried. I said, you tried. She said, yeah,
Speaker 4: I can't. They made men go in a different room.
Speaker 4: It was like the room was full. I said, what
Speaker 4: time did you get there? She said ninety three. I said,
Speaker 4: you know it starts at nine thirty, so you know
Speaker 4: if you had tried, like even ten minutes earlier, you
Speaker 4: probably could have snuck in the top.
Speaker 1: But she tried.
Speaker 4: Do you do you have an area of your life
Speaker 4: right now where you have said I tried, or you're
Speaker 4: telling yourself. I tried everything to get through to my kid.
Speaker 4: I tried everything to make that better. I tried everything everything.
Speaker 8: Show me the list, and yet for those.
Speaker 1: Of you who are like God, I should have skipped today.
Speaker 1: He's making me feel terrible. The message that I came.
Speaker 4: To bring you today is not that I don't think
Speaker 4: you're actually trying, or that you just need to try harder,
Speaker 4: because that's where we take this a lot of times,
Speaker 4: right Like, all right, I'm gonna work out eight days
Speaker 4: a week, nine days a week with God. There's always
Speaker 4: a way by faith, I will find it. I'll make
Speaker 4: another day in the week. I'll put another star in
Speaker 4: the sky. I'll do another one, y'all. I don't think
Speaker 4: you can try much harder than these men try.
Speaker 8: They carried a grown man all.
Speaker 4: The way to see this wonder working rebel priest named Jesus,
Speaker 4: who was healing people and teaching the kingdom and laying
Speaker 4: down the authority of the word of God in an
Speaker 4: incarnate way that amazed everybody that hurt him. And they
Speaker 4: bring this man on a mat and he can't do
Speaker 4: anything for himself, and there were only four of them,
Speaker 4: and I don't care what you bench. Four people carrying
Speaker 4: one grown man who can't move for any distance.
Speaker 1: Counts as trying.
Speaker 8: So they tried to.
Speaker 4: Get in, and the Bible says something very interesting. It
Speaker 4: says because of the crowd, they couldn't find a way.
Speaker 4: And so I don't think this is a passage talking about.
Speaker 1: How more effort will bring greater results.
Speaker 4: And I think a lot of times the reason we
Speaker 4: go from inspired to trying, to tired to tried is
Speaker 4: because we try harder, harder, harder, harder. What happens is
Speaker 4: you try harder and harder and harder and harder, it
Speaker 4: gets heavier and heavier and heavier and heavier. And some
Speaker 4: of you are here today and you're going, well, I
Speaker 4: did try, or I would try, But every time I
Speaker 4: try to try, I can't even try to try because
Speaker 4: I trip on the things that I tried for in
Speaker 4: the past, and I'm trying now, But it's what happened
Speaker 4: then that makes me unable to try. You don't see
Speaker 4: the injuries that I've been through to know that I'm trying,
Speaker 4: say trying. Look, I'm not preaching to a person today
Speaker 4: who's not trying. Because you chose to bring your heart
Speaker 4: into an environment where you could hear the word of God,
Speaker 4: even if you did skip church and watch it later sometime,
Speaker 4: you're hearing this because you are trying. They tried to
Speaker 4: bring him to Jesus. They tried, honestly, they tried, valiantly.
Speaker 1: I didn't see.
Speaker 4: Anybody else in the passage carrying a paralyzed man. I
Speaker 4: didn't see the Pharisees carrying anybody on a mat. I
Speaker 4: didn't see the religious teachers trying to help anybody. You know,
Speaker 4: the truth of it is, you haven't really struggled. You
Speaker 4: haven't really experienced struggle until you stepped in to try
Speaker 4: to bring somebody else.
Speaker 1: With you along the journey. So they tried. And I
Speaker 1: want to do something right now that may seem sacrilegious,
Speaker 1: but I need to do it to get the point across.
Speaker 4: Because there's somebody I'm preaching to you and you are blocked,
Speaker 4: but you've tried. You blocked, You've been blocked, but you
Speaker 4: have tried it's very different. Then I just didn't even
Speaker 4: try it. I just didn't even do it. I just
Speaker 4: didn't It's very different. It's a different kind of tired
Speaker 4: when you've really tried. That's why I like to preach
Speaker 4: to youth sometimes, because they haven't even really tried yet.
Speaker 4: They haven't even got tired of themselves yet. They're not
Speaker 4: even sick of themselves yet.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't even have to do.
Speaker 4: It, have the work I have to do with you
Speaker 4: when I preach to you all, y'all, over thirty people,
Speaker 4: over forty people, over fifty people. I'm tired of this.
Speaker 4: I tried everything you're up there talking about. I tried
Speaker 4: all of that. And now look, they tried, and Verse
Speaker 4: eighteen says that they couldn't get in, but they tried
Speaker 4: to take him into the house, lay him before Jesus.
Speaker 4: And here's what I want to show you in verse
Speaker 4: nineteen is what they did and what they could have
Speaker 4: done when they could not find a way to do this,
Speaker 4: what to bring this man to Jesus because of the crowd.
Speaker 4: They went up on the roof and lowered him on
Speaker 4: his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd,
Speaker 4: right in front of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Now, I love that.
Speaker 4: What I love about it, though, is it says when
Speaker 4: they could not find a way to do this what
Speaker 4: they originally intended to do because of the crowd, and
Speaker 4: then there's a comma. It doesn't say that they started
Speaker 4: a fight in the parking lot so their friend could
Speaker 4: get in. I love that because do something for me
Speaker 4: real quick. This might disturb you, but I want y'all
Speaker 4: to take away the second part of that verse. So
Speaker 4: they could not find a way to do this because
Speaker 4: of the crowd, comma, Now take away the rest.
Speaker 1: What would you do next in that situation? What are
Speaker 1: you doing in that situation?
Speaker 4: Because if we make a few substitutions here, we're not
Speaker 4: talking about four men that lived two thousand years ago anymore.
Speaker 1: We're talking about you. When they could not find a way.
Speaker 4: Because of the crowd, comma, they looked at each other
Speaker 4: and said, well, we tried and turned around and went home.
Speaker 4: This story would probably not be in the Bible. If
Speaker 4: the men brought the man all the way to Jesus,
Speaker 4: encountered resistance at the door, tried, begged, bribed, I'll do anything,
Speaker 4: don't you see this man needs help now? See you're
Speaker 4: wondering the same thing I wondered. Why wouldn't somebody else
Speaker 4: give him their spot? But paralyzed people were not given
Speaker 4: special access in this time. There were no handicapped spots
Speaker 4: in this time for people in this condition. In fact,
Speaker 4: it was often seen as a sign of God's divine
Speaker 4: displeasure on your life if you had something physically wrong.
Speaker 4: So they assumed there's something that you are not doing
Speaker 4: right that has caused your legs to not be able
Speaker 4: to work, So they would actually ostracize you.
Speaker 1: Rather than including you, they would exclude you.
Speaker 4: So the man on the mat didn't get a special
Speaker 4: spot for having no ability to walk. In fact, he
Speaker 4: had more obstacles. The one who needed it the most
Speaker 4: had the least access to it. And might I just
Speaker 4: ask a question, Church, why do we make it so
Speaker 4: hard for people to come to God sometimes? Why do
Speaker 4: we put up so many restrictions for people to come
Speaker 4: into the presence of God?
Speaker 8: Why do we judge.
Speaker 4: Others for struggling with stuff that if we were in
Speaker 4: a situation, we might have the same struggle or truth
Speaker 4: be told, why do we judge people for stuff that
Speaker 4: we haven't been even free from ourselves for five years.
Speaker 8: Why do we judge people for stuff that.
Speaker 4: If they showed everything we thought about on a movie screen,
Speaker 4: we would be embarrassed.
Speaker 1: About it too. So I'm glad these men didn't start
Speaker 1: a fight.
Speaker 4: Because if they start a fight, they go to prison
Speaker 4: and their friend doesn't.
Speaker 1: Have a ride home. How do you deal with it?
Speaker 1: Put the half verse up again, because I want you
Speaker 1: to think about how you're going to finish this sentence
Speaker 1: in your life right now.
Speaker 4: When they could not find a way because of the crowd,
Speaker 4: When they could not find a way because of the debt,
Speaker 4: when they could not find a way because of the genetics,
Speaker 4: when they could not find a way because of the addiction,
Speaker 4: When they could not find a way because of the
Speaker 4: broken heart, when they could not find a way because
Speaker 4: of the divorce, when they could not find a way
Speaker 4: because of the betrayal, when they could not find a
Speaker 4: way because of their boss. I'm coming all through this crowd.
Speaker 4: I'm coming all through this crowd. I'm coming all through
Speaker 4: this crowd until I find that place where you've been
Speaker 4: blocked because I came with a word from God today.
Speaker 4: There's always a way.
Speaker 9: With God.
Speaker 4: Somebody shout with God. There's always a way, And just
Speaker 4: because I don't see it when I first show up,
Speaker 4: and just because I can't point to it yet, and
Speaker 4: just because it's not obvious, and just because I can't
Speaker 4: really get my truck through there, and just because I
Speaker 4: can't get there dancing, and just because I can't get
Speaker 4: there in style, and just because of m be a
Speaker 4: few years late, and just because somebody told me you
Speaker 4: can't go this way, and people like you can't do that,
Speaker 4: and people from our background can't rise there. With God,
Speaker 4: there's always a way. Yeah, high five your neighbors say,
Speaker 4: always means always. And if the first way didn't work,
Speaker 4: there must be another one, because with God, there's always. Now,
Speaker 4: imagine you show up and you're like, okay, well, I mean,
Speaker 4: this is the way we're supposed to go through, and
Speaker 4: this is the way you're supposed to work, and the
Speaker 4: fair season.
Speaker 1: The teachers in the law are more important.
Speaker 4: Than us anyway, and so if they've got the good seats,
Speaker 4: we might as well go away.
Speaker 11: This is you.
Speaker 4: Stopping your miracle, your maturity, your ministry, your legacy, your
Speaker 4: freedom because you stop mid sentence. How does this sentence end?
Speaker 4: Give me the half sentence again. When they could not
Speaker 4: find a way to do this because of the crowd,
Speaker 4: they turned around and went home, which they had every
Speaker 4: right to do, because they already did more than anybody
Speaker 4: else in the whole passage except Jesus. They already did
Speaker 4: more than the Pharisees. What were the Pharisees doing again?
Speaker 4: Let me look at verse seventeen, Verse seventeen. Up there,
Speaker 4: I just won't see what the Phiseeas are doing. The
Speaker 4: ones who filed sid an example, the one the'suplicy teaching
Speaker 4: a law. One of the Pharisee teachers of the law were.
Speaker 1: Sitting there.
Speaker 5: Like they're about to judge Jesus. Yeah, like they're about
Speaker 5: to judge Jesus, like they're.
Speaker 4: About to catch him doing something wrong. I don't know
Speaker 4: whether to say this or to say that. You think
Speaker 4: I should say it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you could handle it. I don't
Speaker 1: know you can hand all right. It's in the same verse.
Speaker 1: They were sitting there, they were teaching the law.
Speaker 4: They had come from our village of Gali and Judea
Speaker 4: and Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was with Jesus.
Speaker 1: Told you you weren't ready the power of the Lord.
Speaker 4: Wasn't with them. The power of the Lord was with
Speaker 4: I think you need to take your power back from people, yeah,
Speaker 4: and bring that thing to Jesus, because the power is
Speaker 4: not with them. The power is not with them. I'm
Speaker 4: not saying God can't use people. I just told you
Speaker 4: to join any group. But what I am saying is
Speaker 4: that there have been times in your life where you
Speaker 4: have thought that people needed to give you permission, people
Speaker 4: needed to cheer you on, people needed to understand you.
Speaker 4: Do you know what I would say in this pulpit
Speaker 4: If I needed every person to vote before I said it,
Speaker 4: the sermon would be so short we wouldn't even need
Speaker 4: to come. So there has to come a point in
Speaker 4: your life where you decide that I'm not going to
Speaker 4: spend another minute trying to convince people.
Speaker 1: Of what I need to believe.
Speaker 8: Jesus for.
Speaker 4: I don't mean don't be nice. I don't mean don't
Speaker 4: make friends. I don't mean don't be congenial. I'm just
Speaker 4: saying that there's nothing that these teachers of the law
Speaker 4: can do to stop God from doing what God has
Speaker 4: made up his mind to do. The Power of the
Speaker 4: Lord is with Jesus. Jesus is the.
Speaker 8: Son of God.
Speaker 13: If Jesus is in the house, healing is in the house.
Speaker 13: If Jesus is in the house, freedom is in the house.
Speaker 13: If Jesus gives the command and faith makes.
Speaker 4: The move, then the glory of God will be the result.
Speaker 4: How many are glad that the power is with Jesus,
Speaker 4: all right? So they try to get in, they can't
Speaker 4: get in. This is me every time I try, I'm inspired,
Speaker 4: I'm trying. I try harder, I try harder. It gets heavier,
Speaker 4: it gets heavier. This is what keeping the laws like.
Speaker 4: This is what trying to be right with God through
Speaker 4: your works is right. This is what discipline without actual
Speaker 4: grace in your life. This is what not accepting your
Speaker 4: current lot in life and being grateful for it while
Speaker 4: aspiring to what you do. This is trying harder, harder, harder, harder, harder, heavier, heavier,
Speaker 4: heavier inspired. Let's take our friend to Jesus tired, he
Speaker 4: was heavy. Well, we tried give me my half sentence again.
Speaker 1: Watch what.
Speaker 6: They did.
Speaker 1: Oh, I loved the Bible. When they could not find
Speaker 1: a way to do this because of the crowd.
Speaker 4: That's what's right in front of you, and you can't
Speaker 4: push through it, and you can't go over it, can't
Speaker 4: go on.
Speaker 1: When they could not find a way to do this
Speaker 1: because of the row, now finish the verse. They went.
Speaker 4: Up.
Speaker 1: The spirit of the Lord says, don't try harder, try higher.
Speaker 1: Oh Holly, Ferdie, come preaching this thing. If it's just
Speaker 1: for me and you.
Speaker 4: I hear God saying, try higher, try higher, try higher,
Speaker 4: try higher, because see there's plenty of room on the roof.
Speaker 4: See there's plenty of room on the roof. I said,
Speaker 4: there's plenty of room on the roof. It's not that
Speaker 4: you hadn't tried hard enough. You've been trying. You got
Speaker 4: dirt under your fingernails, you came a long way, you
Speaker 4: did a lot of stuff. It's not that you haven't
Speaker 4: tried harder. It's that you haven't tried higher. And I
Speaker 4: know a man, I said, I know a man. Give
Speaker 4: me my camera so I can preach it. I want
Speaker 4: to preach it from Milwaukee to Mosambique. I'm no a
Speaker 4: name that is above every name.
Speaker 10: For God has given Jesus the name that is above.
Speaker 4: Every day that the name of Jesus, every name had
Speaker 4: Scott him.
Speaker 8: The house and Henry to them has Scott him the best.
Speaker 1: Hat five three people say I'm going higher.
Speaker 9: Higher, higher, fire, not harder, higher, not harder, hire, not harder, fire.
Speaker 8: Not harder fire. Look by my flesh, y my face,
Speaker 8: whose whip? My God? There's alway soway. Then I try
Speaker 8: not fun mine.
Speaker 12: They don't fuck brower, but find the spirit. I hear
Speaker 12: John the Revelator saying, come up higher, come up higher,
Speaker 12: come up higher, high, now.
Speaker 8: High five everybody you can reach and say.
Speaker 4: I'm going up, whether you come or not, higher, higher, higher. Oh,
Speaker 4: now I get it. It's not that I wasn't doing enough.
Speaker 4: It's not that I wasn't trying enough. It said I
Speaker 4: wasn't trusting enough, because I kept thinking if I couldn't
Speaker 4: get in the way I wanted to get in, it
Speaker 4: wasn't it to be.
Speaker 1: No, it's not trying harder. I don't have to force it.
Speaker 8: I can make it.
Speaker 10: Why fake trusting him who was and is and is
Speaker 10: to come. So that means I don't go by what
Speaker 10: I see. I don't try harder.
Speaker 4: If I just had to try harder than Christ died
Speaker 4: for nothing. The gospel isn't try harder, it's try because
Speaker 4: if you ever call his name, He will reach down
Speaker 4: and get you up.
Speaker 1: Do I have three witnesses in the.
Speaker 8: Whole church that if you ever humble yourself and say,
Speaker 8: Almighty Father, I need.
Speaker 4: To right now, He'll look upon you with mercy and
Speaker 4: grace and compassion and.
Speaker 8: Help for your time of me.
Speaker 4: That's the word I needed, man, because sometimes it gets
Speaker 4: heavy because I try harderhiher. But God said, try higher.
Speaker 1: Be like these dudes who said, can't get in, can't
Speaker 1: get in, can't get in, gotta go up. We'll get
Speaker 1: you a picture again. Can't get in, can't get in,
Speaker 1: can't get in, gotta go up.
Speaker 4: And you are saying to me, pastor Stephen, what exactly
Speaker 4: does that mean?
Speaker 1: Sit down? I'll tell you.
Speaker 4: Somebody say, try higher, because I know there's a way.
Speaker 4: Because with God there's always a way. By faith, I
Speaker 4: will find it. What is faith? Faith is when I
Speaker 4: get my eyes above the waves and put it on
Speaker 4: the one who can sneak one word to the waves
Speaker 4: and make them be still. You think God can't bring
Speaker 4: your kid back, You think God can't fix this thing.
Speaker 4: If you think God can't turn an industry around, you
Speaker 4: think God can't raise you up. In a famine, I said.
Speaker 1: Try higher, Try higher, try higher. Maybe ought to close
Speaker 1: a news app in a Bible app every once in
Speaker 1: a while.
Speaker 4: So hire, what does God say? What does his words say?
Speaker 4: I didn't come here to debate about it. I came
Speaker 4: here to declare it. God says, I'm going over, not under.
Speaker 4: God says, I'm the heading off the tail. God said,
Speaker 4: I'm a puffing, not beneath. He said, I'm sitting.
Speaker 8: See that.
Speaker 1: Now, high five your neighbor again, because I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you five things. I need some too. Come on, I
Speaker 1: need some to don't leave me out. Don't leave me out.
Speaker 1: Don't let me out, don't let me out. I got
Speaker 1: five you want to write them down? God said, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you how to try hid Hi.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you try higher, now, harder, so you
Speaker 4: don't just go and go. That was pretty good. And
Speaker 4: I think he blew out his vocal cords trying to
Speaker 4: tell me something and all that. I don't know what
Speaker 4: I think about preacher rapping or nothing like.
Speaker 1: That on the thing on the video. And I don't
Speaker 1: even know if he had much flow or.
Speaker 4: Anything like that. I really don't know about that Cardigan.
Speaker 4: What was that thing you're wearing. I don't know about that,
Speaker 4: So you don't leave here, just some so stupid stuff.
Speaker 4: I wrote down five thanks. I thought I had them
Speaker 4: in my pocket, but they're back there in the pulpit.
Speaker 4: Let's see if I can remember them. Once said, God
Speaker 4: said it's gonna take prayer. Now you know why I
Speaker 4: came over here. They put on my sheet. They said,
Speaker 4: the online prayer team is coming today. I said, I
Speaker 4: know I got the right word. I know I've got
Speaker 4: the right word. Forty two of y'all while we're having
Speaker 4: church y'all their online praying for.
Speaker 1: The people in the comments section.
Speaker 4: Every time I tell somebody, every time I tell somebody,
Speaker 4: put your thing in the chat and.
Speaker 1: We'll pray for you. I know they go, all right,
Speaker 1: tried to pray?
Speaker 4: Did you did you pray about it? Or did you
Speaker 4: hold on hondah? Did you worry about it and label
Speaker 4: it prayer? Because those are different. I had to sit
Speaker 4: down on the side of the bed the other day.
Speaker 4: I was having shortness of breath about some things that
Speaker 4: I was worried about, and I put my feet down
Speaker 4: and I said, they're not moving until I say out
Speaker 4: loud to my father, who I remember that he is,
Speaker 4: and begin to get myself into a condition because I
Speaker 4: don't feel that right now. And I felt blocked. You
Speaker 4: ever feel blocked, anybody let me. Sometimes you get so
Speaker 4: blocked you can't even breathe right, Yeah, yeah, So I
Speaker 4: had to put my feet on the ground. And if
Speaker 4: you had asked me, I would have said, yeah, yeah, No,
Speaker 4: I prayed about this, but I didn't pray about it today.
Speaker 4: You gotta keep praying. But you're gonna pray once and
Speaker 4: say I tried, it didn't work. You do that with restaurants. No,
Speaker 4: I ate back there in nineteen ninety seven. I'm good,
Speaker 4: And so sometimes it's heavy because I remember what they did.
Speaker 4: They brought the man before Jesus God, don't won't you
Speaker 4: just come out here and hear me preach and yell
Speaker 4: and scream and sing and all this stuff that we
Speaker 4: try to do and then go home and wonder while
Speaker 4: you're blocked.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take prayer for you to try higher. You
Speaker 1: need God.
Speaker 4: You need God in your situation. You need angels in
Speaker 4: your situation. You need the spirit of God to make
Speaker 4: it through some of the things we're going through today.
Speaker 1: You need prayer. I mean not just pray louder, because
Speaker 1: that's try harder, pray louder. Oh God, Oh.
Speaker 8: God, Oh God, God.
Speaker 1: I call on you now for peace.
Speaker 8: Peace.
Speaker 4: And it's not praying longer because all your people say, well,
Speaker 4: I try to pray, I'll fall asleep. Did you try
Speaker 4: it walking? That'll be real hard to do, to fall
Speaker 4: if you fall asleep prayer walking. Come see me, because
Speaker 4: you are a modern day Lazarus coming out like a
Speaker 4: zombie in prayer. But I'm serious. I'm talking about praying
Speaker 4: larger because number two, it's going to take. There's only
Speaker 4: five of these. I can get them quick to try
Speaker 4: higher means that God might need to deal with your priorities. Remember,
Speaker 4: it wasn't so significant who these men were, because they
Speaker 4: weren't even named in the passage. It was what they
Speaker 4: were carrying. They were carrying somebody that Jesus wanted to use.
Speaker 4: And notice something I don't know if you caught this.
Speaker 4: When they laid the sick man down, thinking Jesus would
Speaker 4: heal him like he was known to be able to do.
Speaker 4: The first thing Jesus did was say, you're forgiven. But
Speaker 4: they weren't looking for forgiveness, were they. But Sometimes God
Speaker 4: doesn't give us what we want the first time, does he?
Speaker 4: Sometimes he wants to do something deeper before he raises
Speaker 4: us higher, doesn't he.
Speaker 1: If y'all clap, I can move on to number three.
Speaker 4: Or say out or something, Because a lot of times
Speaker 4: in my life I've been more consumed with what it
Speaker 4: was costing me than what I was carrying. There was
Speaker 4: something significant about this man, and it was beyond any
Speaker 4: of their inkling of understanding what it would be.
Speaker 1: They thought, maybe our friend will get a miracle.
Speaker 4: They didn't know that he would be a sermon illustration
Speaker 4: that we'd be preaching about two thousand years later.
Speaker 1: Now, is it possible that try and.
Speaker 4: Hire is just about you saying God, I know what
Speaker 4: I think needs to happen, I know where I think
Speaker 4: is supposed to be.
Speaker 1: I know what I think was supposed to be the outcome.
Speaker 4: Is it possible that the word of God for you
Speaker 4: today might be let go of the outcome and surrender
Speaker 4: to God in the process, Because that's how you try higher,
Speaker 4: trying harder as just you're going to force it, force it,
Speaker 4: and sometimes you can even force something through the flesh
Speaker 4: that you'll be praying for God to take away later.
Speaker 1: You hear me, I'm annoying for somebody right now, and
Speaker 1: I don't know who it is.
Speaker 4: I hear God saying, you don't have to pray louder, longer,
Speaker 4: pray larger, priority, priority. Who are you fighting for? They
Speaker 4: were fighting for their friend. So if you're not fighting
Speaker 4: for anybody, give me the hat firs again.
Speaker 1: Verse eighteen. When they could not find a way to
Speaker 1: do this because of the crowd, they gave up and
Speaker 1: went home.
Speaker 4: There was something after the comma that they cared about,
Speaker 4: and it was something they were carrying.
Speaker 1: It was somebody.
Speaker 4: There has to come a time in your life where
Speaker 4: you say, I don't even want to do it for
Speaker 4: me right now, But maybe God wants to do something
Speaker 4: through me that's bigger than me.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not always about me. That's how you try higher.
Speaker 4: And I should come back over here because the third
Speaker 4: one I wrote down if you're going to try.
Speaker 1: Higher is partners. I said, partners. That's y'all's cue to shout.
Speaker 1: I said, partners.
Speaker 4: Put in the chat right now what you need prayer for,
Speaker 4: and they will pray for you before the next time
Speaker 4: you see it.
Speaker 1: Will you do that?
Speaker 4: I don't care how strong you are. One man doesn't
Speaker 4: get another man up on the roof like that. It's
Speaker 4: not going to happen without partners trying.
Speaker 1: And higher in this season.
Speaker 4: Isn't just you going into isolation and gritting your teeth
Speaker 4: and getting it done alone. That's why I want you
Speaker 4: in this church as much as you can get here,
Speaker 4: so we can get around each other, so you can
Speaker 4: pretend like you know how to sing because the person.
Speaker 1: Next to you can. I want that for you. I
Speaker 1: don't want you to just try harder by.
Speaker 4: Yourself and the devil just beats you half to death
Speaker 4: because you just think you can do it all in
Speaker 4: isolation and you don't ask anybody, and you don't join anything,
Speaker 4: and you don't listen to anybody that's.
Speaker 1: Not trying higher, that's trying harder.
Speaker 4: Some men came carrying a man who is your crew
Speaker 4: to help you get it done, to carry it with you.
Speaker 4: You need to find somebody in your life who has
Speaker 4: figured out something that you are frustrated with and tell
Speaker 4: them I'm coming up there. I'm coming up there with you.
Speaker 4: I'm coming up there because you know something. You know
Speaker 4: something I don't, and I'm not gonna stay down here
Speaker 4: saying I tried everything when I didn't even ask anybody
Speaker 4: to help me. I'm not doing this one more day
Speaker 4: by myself. I need some real partners. And some of
Speaker 4: the people I thought were my partners, those people were
Speaker 4: actually the problem.
Speaker 14: So I need some new friends. Sorry, I do need
Speaker 14: some new friends. Every once in a while, co Am,
Speaker 14: I gonna get down.
Speaker 1: Pray for me. I love it.
Speaker 4: And the Lord says something very interesting to me. He said,
Speaker 4: the fourth one is permission. Permission. Permission isn't going to
Speaker 4: come from the Pharisees. Permission to live the way of
Speaker 4: Christ is not going to come from the culture. They
Speaker 4: will always call you crazy. But some of the things
Speaker 4: that you're praying about right now you could make decisions
Speaker 4: about before the day is over. When Jesus told this man,
Speaker 4: take up your mat and walk, if he gave him
Speaker 4: the command but did not give him the power, it
Speaker 4: would have been cruel of Jesus. So when Jesus told
Speaker 4: the man take up your mat and walk, he was
Speaker 4: acknowledging the man's problem, but giving him the permission to
Speaker 4: live above it. I declare to you in the mighty
Speaker 4: name of Jesus that he has defeated death, sin.
Speaker 1: And the grave.
Speaker 4: Come on that sin no longer is your master, that
Speaker 4: it no longer has dominion for you. How do you
Speaker 4: know that, Pastor Stephen, Because when the man came in,
Speaker 4: he was lying on the mat. When he left, he
Speaker 4: was carrying it, and he didn't need anybody to carry him.
Speaker 4: If you're ready to get over some stuff that the
Speaker 4: enemy said you couldn't move past, give God a praise,
Speaker 4: because that's my fifth p is praise. And God said,
Speaker 4: if we're gonna do it in this season, like we
Speaker 4: need to do it in this season. If you want
Speaker 4: to see me make a way, give.
Speaker 8: Me a praise for who I am, for what I've done,
Speaker 8: for what I've brought you through.
Speaker 4: Everybody that owes God the praise, give it to him
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna give you thirty seconds. So open your mouth
Speaker 8: and bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that
Speaker 8: is within me. Higher, try higher, give him the greatest
Speaker 8: phrase you ever gave him.
Speaker 6: Why not.
Speaker 8: He's high and lifting up and get it right.
Speaker 4: And because I gotta tell you this, because they went higher,
Speaker 4: he got healed, and everybody praised God, and everybody praised God,
Speaker 4: and everybody praised God, and everybody from the brokest to
Speaker 4: the richest, from the shortest to the tallest, from the
Speaker 4: newest to the oldest, and everybody praised God. Because with
Speaker 4: God there's always a way, and by faith, I'll find it.
Speaker 4: You're gonna find it. You just hadn't looked high enough yet.
Speaker 4: There it's there. I see a cloud the size of
Speaker 4: a man's hand.
Speaker 1: You just gotta look off and keep looking out. Father.
Speaker 4: I thank you for what I feel in this moment.
Speaker 4: I don't know who is for, but somebody's going home
Speaker 4: a different way than they came. I establish that right
Speaker 4: now by faith, I anticipate the testimony that I'm gonna
Speaker 4: receive of people who came in lying on a mat
Speaker 4: and went home praising God, holding what used to hold them.
Speaker 4: I thank you right now that you're making ways for
Speaker 4: your children as we praise.
Speaker 1: You are making ways.
Speaker 4: Worship and worship and worship. Oh O, Jesus said, all
Speaker 4: authority has been given to me. That means the devil
Speaker 4: can't hold you. Yeah, open your mouth. Come on, this
Speaker 4: is the highway when you worship and get your mind
Speaker 4: on him.
Speaker 1: That's the highway. Isaiah said. For his thoughts are higher
Speaker 1: than your thoughts, and His ways are higher than your ways.
Speaker 1: On praise makes a highway.
Speaker 8: Praise makes a highway for y'all way, Come on listening,
Speaker 8: highway for y'all wait your waitiness, let's go. We say away.
Speaker 11: We say y'all way in the pass when it was
Speaker 11: pe way, we say allway. Well, we say y'allways at me. Hey.
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