1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:10,719 Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,120 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving. 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: In your life. Enjoy the message. 7 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 2: One of my friends was saying to me, I don't 8 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 2: want this series to end, and I was like, man, 9 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 2: it's fine. We haven't even got David to the throne yet. Okay, 10 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 2: we're just getting started. He's not even a king yet, 11 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:35,519 Speaker 2: and we're looking at his life and we're taking our 12 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 2: time so we can understand where he came from and 13 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 2: what he was called to and how God brought him 14 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 2: from where he was to where God ultimately wanted him 15 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 2: to be. 16 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: And it's a model for our lives. 17 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 2: And we're looking at it from two perspectives, and hopefully 18 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 2: the contrast over time will begin to show you some 19 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 2: things about how God works in your own life. Because 20 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 2: I don't read the Bible really like a history lesson 21 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 2: For me, the Bible is at its best in my 22 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 2: life when it's living and active, and so it's more 23 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:18,320 Speaker 2: like heart surgery, not just to learn about a character 24 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 2: that existed long ago, but so that God can shape 25 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 2: his character in my heart. And so I have a 26 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 2: long way to go. Touch somebody and say you've got 27 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 2: a long way to go. I can tell you really 28 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 2: need this series. I want to look at something today 29 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 2: concerning David and the way I want to set it up. 30 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 2: I just want to look at one verse from Psalm 31 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 2: fifty seven to something that David wrote, a declaration that 32 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 2: he made, and then, as we've been doing each week, 33 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 2: give you a little bit of the background behind what 34 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 2: was going on in his life when he wrote it, 35 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 2: and we'll see what God will speak to us today. 36 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,559 Speaker 2: How many expect God to speak to you today? That's 37 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 2: so important? That is so important that that you don't 38 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,079 Speaker 2: come to hear me preach. What am I going to 39 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,799 Speaker 2: tell you? What good can I do you? But if 40 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 2: you come expecting God's Spirit to speak to you, you 41 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 2: will not leave disappointing. 42 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: I'm serious, I'm serious. 43 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 2: Even if my sermon is boring, God can say something 44 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 2: to you through a boring sermon that can change your life. 45 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: So don't depend on me. 46 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:31,679 Speaker 2: I might not get much sleep on Saturday night and 47 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 2: I show up, I'm off but God has never sleep deprived, 48 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 2: and he knows just what you need for your situation. 49 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 2: But I'm excited about this today because David said in 50 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 2: Psalm fifty seven, verse two, something that really. 51 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: Ministers to me. 52 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 2: It might be one of my favorite things that he 53 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 2: ever said. He said, I cry out to God most High, 54 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 2: to God who fulfills his purpose for me. If you 55 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 2: really listened to what I just said and thought about 56 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 2: the content of it, it'll make your blood pressure go down. 57 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: Let me read it again. 58 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 2: I cry out to God most High, to God who 59 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 2: fulfills his purpose for me. If you listen to that 60 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 2: and really get it, let me try one more time. 61 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 2: I cry out to God most High. That means that 62 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 2: he has all authority in my life. And no matter 63 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 2: what people do to me, or no matter what life 64 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 2: has handed me, God is above it, working through it 65 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 2: to accomplish Watch this his purpose for me. And that's 66 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 2: one thing that David shows us. He shows us again 67 00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 2: and again the importance of serving the purpose of God. 68 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 1: He shows us how to serve the purpose. 69 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 2: Go over to First Samuel twenty four, verse one, because 70 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 2: this gives us the context in. 71 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: Which David wrote those words. I cry out to God 72 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: Most High, to. 73 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 2: God who fulfills his purpose for me. David wrote these 74 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 2: words not from a beach or from a hammock, because 75 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 2: it's easy to write, or to talk, or to believe 76 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 2: about God fulfilling his purpose for you. When you are 77 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 2: moving toward what you consider to be your purpose. It 78 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 2: is one thing to pin those words when you are 79 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:45,159 Speaker 2: headed toward what you believe to be your destiny. It's 80 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 2: another thing to say that when everything is headed in 81 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 2: the wrong direction. 82 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: When we catch up with David and first Samuel twenty four, 83 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: verses one through eight, is they're about to see. 84 00:04:53,839 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 2: Everything is moving away from what David is ultimately headed toward. 85 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 2: But he's able to see something in this, and I 86 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 2: want to share it with you today. For Samuel twenty four, 87 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 2: verse one, after Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he 88 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 2: was told David is in the desert of Hingeti. So 89 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 2: Saul took three thousand able young men from all Israel 90 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 2: and set out to look for David and his men 91 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 2: near the crags. 92 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: Of the Wild Goats. By the way, when God has 93 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 1: purposed for. 94 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 2: You to do something significant, expect the enemy to send 95 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 2: out his special forces That might be why your life 96 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 2: has been so hard, Not because God is not with you, 97 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,359 Speaker 2: but maybe God is so distinctively with you. Maybe his 98 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 2: plan for your life is so intimidating and threatening to 99 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:44,160 Speaker 2: the devil that there's no way he's going to let 100 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 2: you ascend to your purpose. 101 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:46,679 Speaker 1: Without an attack. 102 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 2: That might be why you're fighting right now. And so 103 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 2: David is on the road to royalty, but it will 104 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 2: not be an easy road. David is on the road 105 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 2: to influence. David is on the road to purpose, but 106 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 2: it will not be It will not be easy for 107 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 2: David or for you. And he's running as a refugee, 108 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 2: although he's anointed as a king, and the circumstance he 109 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 2: finds himself in completely contradicts the calling that he believes 110 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 2: he's walking in. Have you ever been there? Looking verse three, 111 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,479 Speaker 2: He came to the sheep pins along the way, and 112 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 2: a cave was there, and Saul went in. 113 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 1: To relieve himself. 114 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 2: Now, when the Bible says relieve himself, it means relieve himself. 115 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 1: Can we leave it at that? 116 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:48,720 Speaker 2: People of God, you can do the Hebrew and the Greek, 117 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:54,160 Speaker 2: and the Latin and the Spanish. 118 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 1: I'm gonna resist. 119 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 2: There's some things that I want to say right now. 120 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 2: I'm gonna save it. I'm gonna save those things. This 121 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 2: is the spiritual service. This is all the people who 122 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 2: really love God. So if I say what I want 123 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 2: to say about that verse, because anyway, don't do it. 124 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: Don't do it. 125 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 2: If you knew what I was fighting back, watch David 126 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 2: and his men were far back in the cave. 127 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: The men said, holy crap, I told you. 128 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 2: The men said, this is the day the Lord spoke 129 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 2: up when he said to you, I will give your 130 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 2: enemy into your hands for you to deal with as 131 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 2: you wish. And then David crept up, unnoticed and cut 132 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 2: off a corner of Saul's rove. I want to talk 133 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 2: to you today about cutting corners because the scripture promises 134 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 2: that God will fulfill his purpose for you. David said that, 135 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 2: and then he demonstrated that. 136 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: I wonder if you really. 137 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 2: Believe that God will fulfill his purpose for you, or 138 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 2: are you stressed out because you are trying to fulfill 139 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 2: God's purpose for someone else. You know, we live in 140 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 2: a day in time where we're only one click away 141 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 2: from seeing how someone else raises their kids, and before 142 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 2: long you can start to compare your purpose to their purpose. 143 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 2: But touch somebody and say, God didn't call me to. 144 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: Fulfill your purpose. 145 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 2: So please do not judge me according to the standards 146 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 2: of what God gave you, because my stewardship is not 147 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 2: of your purpose. So I don't have to feel bad 148 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 2: about the gifts that God did not give me. If 149 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 2: I am fully maximizing the ones that He did. All 150 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 2: I gotta do this will set you so free. All 151 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 2: I've got to do is completely commit my heart to 152 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 2: god purpose for me. Now it's a funny thing because 153 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 2: what my podium understands and my microphone understands, I, as 154 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 2: a preacher, have a hard time understanding. I've been preaching 155 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 2: at this church for about twelve years, and never once 156 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:22,199 Speaker 2: have I seen my podium try to do my microphone's 157 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 2: job and amplify my voice. Nor have I seen my 158 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 2: microphone try to hold my Bible. But we walk around 159 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 2: all the time, frustrated. 160 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: And fearful, trying to do something. All custom testure, why 161 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 1: isn't this working? 162 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 2: Because you have a purpose, and when you put the 163 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:58,319 Speaker 2: pressure on yourself to fulfill a purpose that God did 164 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 2: not intend for your life, of course you're stressed out 165 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 2: of course you can't sleep. Of course you feel like 166 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 2: a failure. But God said, what I'm putting you is 167 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 2: for you, and you are not responsible for anybody else's results. 168 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 2: I feel Jame's falling off of somebody. Serve the purpose 169 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 2: that God has given you. 170 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:30,560 Speaker 1: That's what David did. 171 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 2: Notice that he never sought the position of king, never once. 172 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 2: We live in a world that talks a lot about 173 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 2: finding your purpose. But I wonder if what we're really 174 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 2: doing is seeking a position and confusing position with purpose. 175 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 1: Can I preach a little bit. 176 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 2: When Paul talked about the body of Christ, he said, 177 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 2: sometimes the ushers in the church are more important than 178 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 2: the preacher. He didn't say it just like that, that 179 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 2: we are many members one body, and the parts that 180 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 2: you cannot see are the ones that sustain the life 181 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 2: function of the body. 182 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 1: The parts that you can. 183 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:14,679 Speaker 2: See you can do without your pinky. Sometimes the preacher 184 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 2: is like the pinky. You see it, but if it 185 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 2: wasn't there, it could still happen. But sometimes it is 186 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 2: the stuff that is unseen. David understood how to serve 187 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 2: the purpose of God. 188 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: So if we ever get to hang out and you 189 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:31,319 Speaker 1: ask me. 190 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 2: How will I know what God's purpose for my life 191 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 2: is I won't have an answer to give you because 192 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 2: only you can discover that. 193 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: But I can tell you how to discover it. Serve. 194 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 2: That's all that David ever had to do was to 195 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 2: serve the purpose of his current assignment. And when you 196 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:01,439 Speaker 2: serve the purpose God, we'll give the promotion. 197 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. 198 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 2: You don't want a promotion that God doesn't give you. 199 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:08,839 Speaker 1: You really don't. 200 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,200 Speaker 2: You don't want a husband, that God doesn't give you 201 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 2: a wife, That God doesn't give you a job, that 202 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 2: God doesn't give you a responsibility, that God doesn't give you. 203 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 2: All I want to do is serve the purpose of God. 204 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: That's what David did. There's one song I really love it. 205 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 1: It's kind of got a vibe. 206 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 2: Do you remember that song from like one hundred years 207 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 2: ago that Drake did called Started from the Bottom. It 208 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:40,559 Speaker 2: has that kind of vibe from that song. It's talking 209 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 2: about David. This is Psalm seventy eight. I didn't get 210 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 2: to it last night, but y y'all again, this is 211 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:46,719 Speaker 2: the advanced service, So I'm going to. 212 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:47,079 Speaker 1: Do it with y'all. 213 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 2: But God, the Bible says, shows David his. 214 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: Servant. 215 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 2: God shows did his servant. This is how David came 216 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 2: into the kingship. Not by standing in line for an opportunity, 217 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 2: but God took David, his servant, chose him and took 218 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 2: him from the sheep pins. 219 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 1: What was David doing. 220 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 2: In the sheeppin serving his purpose in a minimum waste job. 221 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 2: David served his purpose. And when you serve purpose, you 222 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 2: don't have to search for purpose. Purpose will find you. 223 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 1: You don't have to seek the position. 224 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 2: When you are in the position where God has placed you. 225 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 2: God knows where to look. God knows where to find you. 226 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 2: God knows when to raise you. God knows when to 227 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 2: promote you. You don't have to worry about the platform. 228 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 1: Serve your purpose. 229 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 2: God took David from the sheep pins and made him 230 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,560 Speaker 2: a king, not because David sought the position, but because 231 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:12,199 Speaker 2: David served the purpose. Serve the purpose. Then you can 232 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 2: have confidence in the promise. God has given you a promise. 233 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 2: But you've got to number two. I only got three points. 234 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 2: We're making excellent time guard the promise. I really want 235 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 2: to minister this deeply. Holy Spirit, help me get this across. 236 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 2: I think sometimes we assume that when God makes us 237 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 2: a promise, that the promise is automatic. 238 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: Because the word of the Lord is sure. 239 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 2: But I've learned that the promises of God often in 240 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 2: our lives get perverted. I noticed another thing sometimes is that, well, 241 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 2: we'll take something and call it a promise, but it 242 00:14:56,400 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 2: is only a partial promise. And so we take things 243 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 2: that we like the way they sound in the Bible. Sometimes, 244 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 2: at least I do this. You probably don't. But every 245 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 2: once in a while I will. I will take something 246 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 2: that I like from the Bible, and I'll cut it 247 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 2: up into slices, and I'll take a certain slice that 248 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 2: I like, a certain verse that I like, a certain 249 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 2: concept that I like, and I'll cling to that and 250 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 2: call it a promise. But it's a partial promise. It's 251 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 2: a partial promise. Okay, a few examples of this. My 252 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 2: God shall supply all of your needs according to his 253 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 2: glorious riches in Christ. I like that helps me know 254 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 2: that God's going to help me whatever situation again and 255 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 2: give me what I need for wherever I am. So 256 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 2: I like that part of the promise. But it's a 257 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 2: partial promise. I don't mean that the promise is partial. 258 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 2: I mean that to really understand that promise, you have 259 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 2: to understand the context. 260 00:15:57,760 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: Of the promise. 261 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 2: Where Paul was right, a church of people who had 262 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 2: learned to be generous, and in their learning to be generous, 263 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 2: it released the abundance of God to their situation. Because 264 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 2: when you learn to live with open hands, you live 265 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 2: under an open heaven. 266 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 1: The context of the. 267 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 2: Promise is that God will supply all of your needs 268 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 2: if you are living in accordance with His priorities. But 269 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 2: in order for God to release his provision, you have 270 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 2: to submit to his priorities. Yeah, it is good. It's 271 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 2: good because it works. This other stuff doesn't work when 272 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 2: you take a little piece of a promise. If you 273 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 2: ever want to take a little piece of a promise, 274 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 2: a little piece of a promise, like I like that. 275 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 2: I want to pray that God will bless America and 276 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 2: that I love stand beside her and God her. You 277 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 2: know that Bible verse that says he God will bless America. Well, 278 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 2: the Bible does say if my people who are called 279 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:05,160 Speaker 2: by my name, and it tells us a few things 280 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 2: to do. It says we need to be humble and 281 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:11,400 Speaker 2: stop clinging to our own opinions of what is right 282 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:14,680 Speaker 2: and wrong, and be humble and stop going on Facebook 283 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,640 Speaker 2: and spewing our ignorance all over each other. It does 284 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:21,360 Speaker 2: say that if we will turn from our wicked ways 285 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 2: and our crazy ways of interacting with people, then will 286 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 2: I hear from heaven, Then will I heal their land. 287 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 2: But we cannot claim a promise that we. 288 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 1: Don't even understand. 289 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 2: What's just see first the Kingdom of God and his 290 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 2: righteous us, and all these things will be added to you. 291 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:50,199 Speaker 2: But the promise is contingent upon the process that produces it. 292 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: This is why I understand that David had to be 293 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:56,400 Speaker 1: very careful. Let's go back to the scene. 294 00:17:56,440 --> 00:18:01,199 Speaker 2: He said, he will fulfill his purpose for me. 295 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 1: That's what David believed, and he believed that so. 296 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 2: Much that he served his purpose even when his purpose 297 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 2: seemed small, even when his purpose seemed insignificant, even if 298 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:13,919 Speaker 2: it was just leaving the sheep with the keeper of 299 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,239 Speaker 2: sheep and running running to the battle lines with the 300 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:21,120 Speaker 2: supplies for his brothers. David was willing to serve purpose 301 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 2: because he had a promise. Somebody shout, I got a promise. 302 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 2: You need to shout that thing. I got a promise. 303 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,439 Speaker 2: But you've got to guard the promise. You've got to 304 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,200 Speaker 2: grasp it for what it is and not what you 305 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 2: want it to be, and not let the enemy come 306 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,880 Speaker 2: in and try to pervert the promise of God until 307 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 2: you're expecting something from God that is separate from the 308 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:44,920 Speaker 2: process by which God. 309 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 1: Can do it in your life. 310 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 2: So David's hiding Indicave from Saul because Saul is coming 311 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:59,520 Speaker 2: for his life, and Saul represents the promise that God 312 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 2: made to do when David was just a kid, that 313 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 2: he was going to be a king. Saul represents what 314 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 2: David is called to. And in a scene that you 315 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:13,879 Speaker 2: wouldn't put in the Bible if you wanted to make 316 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,400 Speaker 2: the Bible an impressive book, the first King of Israel 317 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 2: is squatting in a cave and somehow he slipped his 318 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 2: secret service and thought he was all by himself. Now 319 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 2: you got to get this picture, because I know how 320 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 2: it is. You came and kind of tired, and you 321 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:36,680 Speaker 2: missed it when I read it. The guy that has 322 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:42,400 Speaker 2: chased them into the cave is now vulnerable to them, 323 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,120 Speaker 2: and David's voice they're kind of rough, so they don't 324 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 2: pray about it. They're like, this is it? Do it now? 325 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 2: If you kill him now we can stop running. If 326 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 2: you kill him now, we can leave this cave and 327 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 2: establish kingdom. After all, isn't that what God told you 328 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 2: when you were a little boy. 329 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:09,679 Speaker 3: And see what they're saying, it's partially true, kind of 330 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:16,159 Speaker 3: like the news that you watch. It's some truth in 331 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:20,280 Speaker 3: it somewhere. Maybe let's look at the verse. 332 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 2: Together and you can decide if this is what God 333 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:22,640 Speaker 2: promised David. 334 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:23,120 Speaker 1: Verse four. 335 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 2: This is the day the Lord spoke of when he 336 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:29,680 Speaker 2: said to you, I will give your enemy into your hands. 337 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 2: So far, so good. That's exactly what God wanted. 338 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 1: To do for David. 339 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 2: But the next part, the next part is the part 340 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 2: that I have searched Old Testament. I searched books about 341 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 2: the Old Testament. I searched history of commentary, all these 342 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 2: boring books that I was supposed to read in seminary, 343 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 2: but I didn't read them. And now I'm having to 344 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,120 Speaker 2: read them because I actually need to know that stuff. 345 00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: And I couldn't fight anywhere in any book. God ever 346 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 1: said this to David. 347 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:08,399 Speaker 2: To deal with as you wish. 348 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 1: Wow, you see what's happening. 349 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 2: Here comes an opportunity for David to get what God 350 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:23,159 Speaker 2: has promised him. For God to make it happen. I 351 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,119 Speaker 2: must squat down like Saul, just so you can get 352 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 2: the picture, just so you can get the picture. 353 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 1: Of how vulnerable he was. And Saul was a sitting duck. 354 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:43,679 Speaker 2: You remember week one, I was talking about duck David 355 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 2: when Saul was throwing spears at David. 356 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 1: Now now Saul is the duck. 357 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 4: And David can do whatever he wants to do. He 358 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,160 Speaker 4: got something strange, and. 359 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:59,120 Speaker 1: It's strange because number one, he doesn't kill him. 360 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:04,959 Speaker 2: Number Two, we've never seen him do this before. David 361 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 2: did something that he's never done before. 362 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 1: He cut a corner. 363 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 2: And I see to understand why this is so strange, 364 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 2: you got to remember that whatever David did, he did. 365 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 4: It with his whole heart. 366 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:32,159 Speaker 5: David was not one to cut corners. David was not 367 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:36,160 Speaker 5: one to skip stages. David was not one. 368 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 2: David was not the kind David was not the kind 369 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:45,199 Speaker 2: of person who would try to do God's thing his 370 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 2: own way. 371 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 1: But now the. 372 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,400 Speaker 2: Bible says, in the face of this opportunity, this unexpected opportunity, 373 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 2: Because you don't know what's in your heart. 374 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 1: Until you have an opportunity, you. 375 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 2: Can theorize a lot about what you would do if 376 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,879 Speaker 2: but now is the moment where David has to prove 377 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:10,160 Speaker 2: do I really believe the promise of God? Or am 378 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 2: I going to take this into my own hands and 379 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 2: do it my way? And so he sneaks up and 380 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 2: he has a sword with him. It's the same sword 381 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,680 Speaker 2: he killed Goliath with, probably because he took it from 382 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,399 Speaker 2: the temple at Knob, and he took it from the priest, 383 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 2: and he took it and killed some Philistines with it. 384 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,679 Speaker 2: But now he's got that sword in the cave, and 385 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 2: the same sword that he cut off Goliath's head with. 386 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:39,639 Speaker 2: He now cuts off a corner of Saul's robe. He 387 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 2: doesn't kill him, but he cuts a corner. He doesn't 388 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 2: kill him. 389 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,120 Speaker 1: But the Bible says in verse five. 390 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 2: That when he did it, when he cut the corner, 391 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:50,120 Speaker 2: when he. 392 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 1: Took matters into his own. 393 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 2: Hands, the Bible says afterward, David was conscience stricken. 394 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 1: For cutting off a corner of his role. 395 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 2: Why Why would David feel bad about killing somebody who 396 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 2: was trying to kill him. Why would David in his 397 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:21,880 Speaker 2: conscience feel bad about avenging himself from a king. 398 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 1: Who was dangerous to the entire nation. 399 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:29,560 Speaker 2: You know what I believe, I believe that what was 400 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 2: happening inside the cave can only be understood by remembering 401 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 2: what was outside the cave. If you noticed when I 402 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:46,440 Speaker 2: was reading in verse three, it described the exact physical 403 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 2: location of this cave. It says that the cave was 404 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,879 Speaker 2: situated just behind put the verse up the sheep pens. 405 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 4: That's where David came from. 406 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 2: Follow me, please, Now inside the cave. Here's Saul with 407 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 2: a robe that represents what David is called to. David 408 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 2: is in between where he came from and what he's 409 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,680 Speaker 2: called too. Now, how many know that what you are 410 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 2: called to is more important than where you came from? 411 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:27,680 Speaker 1: Do you believe God. 412 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 2: Can raise you up, call your name. 413 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 1: Call you out, clean you up, turn you around, and 414 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:37,880 Speaker 1: use you for his glory. God need somebody in rock 415 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 1: Hill to shout. 416 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,879 Speaker 2: If you believe, it doesn't matter where you started from. 417 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,880 Speaker 2: When God calls you, he can pick you up from 418 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,159 Speaker 2: the sheep pins, still smell like Tom and bring you 419 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,399 Speaker 2: into a destiny. 420 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: But your eyes have not seen, in your ears have 421 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:54,399 Speaker 1: not heard. 422 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,919 Speaker 2: What you are called to matters more than where you 423 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 2: came from. Turn to the verses next to you and 424 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 2: tell him where you came from. 425 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 1: What did you tell him? 426 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 2: You didn't tell him the whole thing. You told him 427 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 2: the name of a town. I came from the corner 428 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 2: Monk's Corner, to be exact. You want to mess with 429 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 2: me Monk's Corner mafia. But you don't know about that, 430 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,280 Speaker 2: and we don't have time to discuss it, because I 431 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 2: gotta get the next service in here. 432 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 1: David came from the sheep pen. 433 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 2: Now the sheep pin is outside, and Saul is inside, 434 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 2: and Saul is what he's gonna be, and the sheeppin 435 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,159 Speaker 2: is what he was. And he cuts the corner of 436 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,120 Speaker 2: the row, and his conscience is stricken because. 437 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 4: He realized, I'm not that kind of king. 438 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 2: What I'm called to is more important than where I 439 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 2: came from. But you know what, there's something more important 440 00:26:55,840 --> 00:27:00,399 Speaker 2: than where you started, and there's something more important then 441 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 2: where you're going, and it's how you get there. I 442 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,680 Speaker 2: found out that how you make money means more than 443 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 2: how much you have and the priority that it has 444 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 2: in your life. If it becomes your god while you're 445 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 2: getting it, it will. 446 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 1: Not serve you. 447 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 2: You will serve it, and you will wonder why am I. 448 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: Rich and miserable? Oh there's miserable. Rich people in the house. 449 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 1: They feel bad about it too, because they thought if 450 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 1: they got it, if they got it. 451 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:44,440 Speaker 2: There's a certain expectation attached if I if I get it, 452 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,199 Speaker 2: if I get it, if I get it, I'll be 453 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,120 Speaker 2: But when you get it in a way that is empty, 454 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 2: when you get it in a when you cut corners 455 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 2: to get it. If you miss your kids growing up 456 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 2: to be successful at your job, you will have the 457 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 2: success that you sacrificed for, But what you will have 458 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 2: sacrificed to get it will make you wonder if any 459 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 2: of it was worth it. David had a moment. It 460 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 2: says that he was conscience stricken and he remembered who 461 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 2: he was. He remembered, this is not the way I'd 462 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 2: do it. Sorry, montell Jordan, this is not. 463 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:33,640 Speaker 1: He picked up. 464 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,679 Speaker 2: He picked up with a motivational speech to his men. 465 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 2: Now remember these men are an army information. But he 466 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:46,520 Speaker 2: turns to his men and says verse six, the Lord 467 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 2: forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, 468 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 2: the Lord's anointed, or lay my hand on him, for 469 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 2: he is the anointed of the Lord. 470 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 4: And I don't cut corners. 471 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: That's not who I am. That's not how I do it. 472 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 2: I will not become something that I'm not in the 473 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 2: pursuit of what I want. And yes, I'm called to 474 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 2: be a king, but not like this. I didn't get 475 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 2: here cutting corners. I started as a shepherd. I did 476 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,720 Speaker 2: start at the bottom. But I will not climb to 477 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 2: the top on the back of my principles and my morals. 478 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 2: If I do this myself, I'm going to be responsible 479 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 2: for the outcome. But if I leave it up to God, 480 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 2: if I don't cut corners, David said, I'm. 481 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 1: I'm better than this, not like this, Not like this. 482 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 2: Sometimes what you want isn't the problem. 483 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:55,880 Speaker 1: It's the way you go about getting it. 484 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 2: There was nothing wrong with David's desire to be king. 485 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 2: God gave him that promise, but David knew that God 486 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 2: can't honor the promise if I don't honor the process. 487 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 1: My applause is dying out. Boy. When I was preaching. 488 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 2: About promises, we were about to take off, we were 489 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 2: going somewhere, and I just shut the whole thing down 490 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 2: because we had to go back to the sheep pin 491 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,680 Speaker 2: and remind ourselves of who called us to begin with, 492 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,200 Speaker 2: and if he called me and if he made the promise. 493 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:37,200 Speaker 1: That means that it's not. 494 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 2: Just important where I end up, but how I get there. 495 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 1: It's not just important if. 496 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 2: I get it, it's how I get it, because the 497 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,040 Speaker 2: way that I get it will determine who I am 498 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 2: when I get there. I'm not this kind of king. 499 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 2: I can't do it like this. I want it, but 500 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 2: there are certain things I won't do to get what 501 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 2: I want. Those of you who are single need to 502 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:06,000 Speaker 2: make this a part of your pre dating relationship speech. Okay, 503 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 2: tell the next guy that you enter into a relationship with, 504 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,520 Speaker 2: Tell him right off the jump, before anything gets too serious, 505 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 2: before you get lost in love, before you start naming 506 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 2: babies together at Ruby Tuesday or. 507 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 1: Any of that. Tell him this. 508 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,240 Speaker 2: I just need you to know because I think you're cute, 509 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,960 Speaker 2: and I need you to know because you might be special. 510 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 2: I need you to know. I enjoy spending time with you. 511 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 2: But I don't cut corners. So we're gonna do this 512 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 2: God's way because I tried some other ways. 513 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: And I watch what happens when I do God's will 514 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 1: my way. 515 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 2: Oh, I'm preaching this thing. Tell somebody say I don't 516 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 2: cut corners. I don't cut corners. It's not just important 517 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 2: to me that I get there. I want to get there. 518 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 1: The right way. 519 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 2: I suck at this sometimes I try to get the 520 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:05,080 Speaker 2: right thing the wrong way. I want to fight with 521 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:06,960 Speaker 2: people on Facebook. 522 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 1: And I'm right and they're wrong. 523 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 2: I've got this thing in me to where there. 524 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 1: Are times where I just want to. 525 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 2: Say some things, some things that you would say too. 526 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,000 Speaker 1: But I can say I'm real good because I do 527 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 1: words professionally. It's my job. It's my job. So what 528 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:40,080 Speaker 1: I do. 529 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:45,760 Speaker 2: I go on and write comments back to people. I 530 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaker 2: cut corners, and then while I'm writing it, I know 531 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 2: I got to delete it, but I still complete it, and. 532 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 1: Then I delete it. 533 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 2: And then I realize, you know, you can't respond to 534 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 2: critics with the same hate that you despise in them 535 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 2: and expect to change anything. Not like this, not like 536 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 2: this to somebody saying not like this. Yeah, God wants 537 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,720 Speaker 2: you to have it, but not like this. That's why 538 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 2: we need to be so careful church. There's a lot 539 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 2: of hatred in the world. There's a lot of bigotry. 540 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:20,560 Speaker 1: In the world. 541 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,040 Speaker 2: There's a lot of ignorance in the world. But we 542 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:27,120 Speaker 2: can't fight ignorance with ignorance. We can't fight hate with hate. 543 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,520 Speaker 2: There has to be a higher law called love. I 544 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 2: want justice, but if I have to sink to the 545 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 2: same level of the people I'm trying to change. 546 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:41,720 Speaker 1: Not like this, Not like this, I feel God on that. 547 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 2: Not like this, I honor process. I put my sword 548 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,480 Speaker 2: away because the kingdom will not be established by me 549 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:02,360 Speaker 2: cutting off Malcus's ear is established with a cross. 550 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,440 Speaker 1: When Jesus went to. 551 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,320 Speaker 2: Die, all his disciples could say, is not like this. 552 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,560 Speaker 2: We got to take over, We got to make it happen. 553 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:17,799 Speaker 1: And Jesus said, not like that. I did. 554 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 2: You got the right robe, but the wrong way. You 555 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,200 Speaker 2: got the right desire. Is nothing wrong with your desire. 556 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,920 Speaker 2: There is nothing wrong with your desire. What you want 557 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 2: is from God. But it is what you will do 558 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:43,200 Speaker 2: to get it that will determine whether or not you 559 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:45,200 Speaker 2: can keep it and walk in it. When you do, 560 00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:54,160 Speaker 2: I cry out to God Most High. 561 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,360 Speaker 1: He fulfills his purpose for me. You know what that means. 562 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:56,320 Speaker 1: I don't. 563 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,960 Speaker 2: I'm not saying that I don't plan, that I don't strategize, 564 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:10,880 Speaker 2: but I recognize that every opportunity is not God, and 565 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,919 Speaker 2: I want what God wants me to have when God 566 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,680 Speaker 2: wants me to have it how God wants me to 567 00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:17,080 Speaker 2: get it. 568 00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:25,799 Speaker 1: That's it. Not like this. I don't cut corners. I 569 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 1: don't do it my way. I don't retaliate, not like this. 570 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:34,799 Speaker 2: Sometimes I find myself parenting my kids and I'm trying 571 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,040 Speaker 2: to get the right behavior by demonstrating the exact behavior 572 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,560 Speaker 2: I'm trying to correct. 573 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:42,360 Speaker 1: Shut up, elige it, I'll say him into that. 574 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,440 Speaker 2: I'm screaming at my kids to get their emotions under control. 575 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,360 Speaker 2: Figure that one out at the top of my voice, 576 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:58,759 Speaker 2: contry yours out. Not like this, because now the very 577 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:02,440 Speaker 2: behavior that I'm trying to is the spirit I'm exemplifying. 578 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,799 Speaker 1: And I found out something. I found out you can 579 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:07,160 Speaker 1: do it. 580 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,560 Speaker 2: You can actually control an environment with anger. 581 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:14,960 Speaker 1: You can actually shut an. 582 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,120 Speaker 2: Argument down just by being the loudest one. You can 583 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,160 Speaker 2: actually manipulate people into going where you want to go 584 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,759 Speaker 2: by pouting. But what will you have when you get 585 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,200 Speaker 2: your way. 586 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:31,960 Speaker 1: You'll be lonely. 587 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,920 Speaker 2: And you feel guilty, and you'll have a corner of 588 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:38,719 Speaker 2: a robe when God wanted to give you the whole thing. 589 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,399 Speaker 1: Come on, come on, not like this. 590 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,600 Speaker 2: I honor the process. 591 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:52,200 Speaker 1: And here's the promise. If I honor the process. God 592 00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:52,920 Speaker 1: will honor me. 593 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,160 Speaker 2: If I honor the process, God will. 594 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:56,960 Speaker 1: Honor the promise. 595 00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,840 Speaker 2: If I honor the process, he will be again a 596 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,640 Speaker 2: good work in you will be faithful to performing. 597 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,680 Speaker 1: I do cut corners. 598 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:20,400 Speaker 2: I want God's will, God's way. I want God's will, 599 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:25,440 Speaker 2: God's way, and if I try to make it happen, 600 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:30,440 Speaker 2: I'm responsible for it. But the scripture didn't say I 601 00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,640 Speaker 2: have to fulfill my purpose for God. It said he 602 00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:43,240 Speaker 2: fulfills his purpose for me. Switch the position. Switch the position. 603 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,040 Speaker 2: You've been trying to do it for God. Let him 604 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,919 Speaker 2: do it for you. You've been trying to work it out 605 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:53,160 Speaker 2: in your own strength, in your own power, with your 606 00:37:53,160 --> 00:38:00,919 Speaker 2: own mind. He wants to fulfill this purpose. 607 00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:02,640 Speaker 1: For you. 608 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,040 Speaker 2: I want you to stand because I believe that many 609 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,560 Speaker 2: of us are at a point of decision like David was. 610 00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:21,520 Speaker 2: And the decision is, am I going to trust God 611 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:27,040 Speaker 2: for the outcome with obedience. Am I going to let 612 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:30,680 Speaker 2: God do his job? Am I going to let God 613 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:34,640 Speaker 2: decide when the time is right? Or Am I going 614 00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:39,360 Speaker 2: to manipulate my situation to resemble something that looks like 615 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,279 Speaker 2: God's will but it's really not. 616 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,960 Speaker 1: Oh, I prayed about this message. I pray about all 617 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:48,640 Speaker 1: my messages. 618 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,719 Speaker 2: One of my friends told me one time, he said, 619 00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:53,439 Speaker 2: you do realize you don't have to work so hard 620 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,840 Speaker 2: on your sermons. He said, nobody would know the difference, 621 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:04,839 Speaker 2: but I would. That's not the kind of preacher I. 622 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:05,360 Speaker 1: Want to be. 623 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:08,759 Speaker 2: That's not the kind of preacher I want to be. 624 00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:10,920 Speaker 2: That's not the kind of person I want to be. 625 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:15,680 Speaker 5: I don't cut corners. 626 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,839 Speaker 1: I want to do it with all my heart. I mean, 627 00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,000 Speaker 1: I've got to when I remember where. 628 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,800 Speaker 2: He brought me from. I didn't get here cutting corners. 629 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,959 Speaker 2: I didn't get here being fake. I didn't get here 630 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,840 Speaker 2: trying to control situations. 631 00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:38,680 Speaker 1: He will fulfill his purpose for me. 632 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:44,160 Speaker 2: The only way he won't is if I don't let him. 633 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:45,160 Speaker 1: If I cut corners. 634 00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,120 Speaker 2: And God has got you in the process right now 635 00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,880 Speaker 2: of something that he's bringing to pass in your life. 636 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,359 Speaker 2: I want you to make a commitment right now. If 637 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:54,799 Speaker 2: you want to lift your hands, you can, you don't 638 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:56,160 Speaker 2: have to. But if you want to lift your hands, 639 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,479 Speaker 2: it's a sign of surrender. And that's what David did 640 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,960 Speaker 2: in a situation where he could have made something happen, 641 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,719 Speaker 2: in a situation where he could have rushed the process 642 00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,680 Speaker 2: in a situation where he could have claimed that he 643 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,440 Speaker 2: was doing the right thing and done it the wrong. 644 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:16,160 Speaker 4: Way, he positioned himself with surrender. 645 00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:25,320 Speaker 2: If I honor the process, God will honor the promise. 646 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:28,640 Speaker 2: Have you got a promise today? 647 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:30,360 Speaker 1: Have you got a promise today? 648 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,560 Speaker 2: Have you got a promise from him who said I 649 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,200 Speaker 2: will never leave you nor forsake you. Have you got 650 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:39,560 Speaker 2: a promise today? 651 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:41,400 Speaker 1: Stay in the process. 652 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,360 Speaker 2: It took five more years before Saul died and David 653 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,880 Speaker 2: became king. But you know what, when Saul died, David 654 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:56,840 Speaker 2: was ready. When you honor the process, God will schedule 655 00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:57,920 Speaker 2: the promise. 656 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:00,400 Speaker 1: Father. 657 00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:04,280 Speaker 2: We thank you today for your exceeding, great and precious promises. 658 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,719 Speaker 2: That's what your word calls them. We thank you for 659 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,080 Speaker 2: your incorruptible word. We thank you for everything that you 660 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:15,480 Speaker 2: have spoken over our lives. And we confess before you 661 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,240 Speaker 2: today that there have been times where we have taken 662 00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:22,840 Speaker 2: shortcuts and cut corners. But we have our hands lifted 663 00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,040 Speaker 2: in your presence to surrender our lives and our will 664 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:29,920 Speaker 2: to you, and we declare no more shortcuts. Whatever you 665 00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:31,799 Speaker 2: want to do in our lives, whatever you need to 666 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:33,320 Speaker 2: do in our lives, whatever junk. 667 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:34,080 Speaker 1: You need to move out. 668 00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,600 Speaker 2: We're gonna stop moving the pieces around and getting all 669 00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:38,680 Speaker 2: up in your way. We're gonna stop trying to do 670 00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,319 Speaker 2: it in our own strength. We're gonna stop responding in 671 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:45,719 Speaker 2: the flesh to spiritual principalities. Here before you today, God, 672 00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,680 Speaker 2: we don't even want the shortcut. Have your way in 673 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,320 Speaker 2: our lives. We want to get there in your timing. 674 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,359 Speaker 2: We want what you want us to have. Do your thing, 675 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,759 Speaker 2: have your way. You are God, and we are not. 676 00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:01,000 Speaker 2: As we look to the guilture, we look with great faith. 677 00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:09,720 Speaker 1: Come on, Brace is not your fast. Brace your last 678 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:18,040 Speaker 1: phrase fase. Thank you for joining us. 679 00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,799 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 680 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:24,360 Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 681 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,319 Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give now, 682 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,239 Speaker 2: or visit Elevation Church dot org slash podcast for more 683 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,880 Speaker 2: information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 684 00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:36,680 Speaker 1: You can share it with your friends. 685 00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,239 Speaker 2: You can click the share button, take a screenshot and 686 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,439 Speaker 2: share it on your social stories and tag us at 687 00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:42,279 Speaker 2: Elevation Church. 688 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:43,360 Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening. 689 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:44,000 Speaker 2: God bless you