WEBVTT - Everything Must Go 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:04.480 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:06.920 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:10.280 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:12.360 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:17.360 see God has moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:20.880 I have the honor today of introducing one of my 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:27.560 favorite people to you, my friend, Sarah Jakes Roberts Elevation Church. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:32.319 We are so spoiled. Sarah and her husband Terrey are 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.600 pastors at the Potter's House at One LA and the 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:38.040 Potter's House in Denver. I don't know how they get 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.720 all of that done, but they do. And she wears 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.920 so many other hats. She's a pastor, she's a writer, 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:49.120 she's a mother of six yes, I said six children, 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.960 and she is daughter to the great Bishop TD Jakes 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.080 that we all know and love, just to name a 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.080 few of the things that she is. But she's also 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.640 my friend. She is someone who makes me laugh. She 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.840 sends me text messages all the time. I love her 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.080 so much, and you're gonna love her too, because one 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:09.480 of my favorite things about her is that she is 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:13.280 a woman who can preach. A lot of women speak, 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.240 a lot of women teach, a lot of women share, 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.240 But this girl, she preaches. And I know that this 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:23.600 message is going to challenge you and grow your faith 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.000 in a new way. So will you help me give 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:45.479 an elevation? Welcome to my friend, Sarah Jakes Roberts Elevation. 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:51.200 Can you make some noise? That was okay for me? 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:55.800 Can you make some noise for Jesus? Now? Is anyone 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.840 glad to be in the tours of the Living God? 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.600 You could be anywhere else, but you have decided to 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:07.240 be in the presence. Make some noise so heaven touches earth. 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:13.400 Make some noise until demons start trembling and change, sun breaking. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.320 Make some noise like you're gonna slay your giants so 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:27.920 your children don't have to. Yeah, Elevation is one of 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:34.760 the most amazing churches in the world, in the world, 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.280 and I consider it an honor to be here before 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.520 you guys today, I've been studying, I've been praying. I 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.480 want to get right into the word, if that's all 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.360 right with you. And I know you've been standing a 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.800 long time, but I'm gonna be standing a longer time. 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:57.080 Someone stretched your hands towards my feet. Amen, I'm gonna 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:06.120 be in Matthew twenty six, verse sixty nine, I'm reading 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:11.200 God of the New King James version. Yesterday I was 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.000 reading the Word, and I told people to sit down 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.080 and get comfortable if they would like. But then I 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.560 learned that you all actually stand for the reading of 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.240 the Word. So I'm gonna ask that you honor the 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:25.120 custom of this house. Verse sixty nine begins and it says, 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:29.320 now Peter sat outside in the courtyard, and a servant 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:33.480 girl came to him, saying, you also were with Jesus 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:37.520 of Galilee. But he denied it before them all, saying 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:41.440 I do not know what you are saying. And verse 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.280 seventy one continues. It says, and when he had gone 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.080 out to the gateway, another girl saw him and said 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.400 to those who were there, this fellow also was with 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:56.720 Jesus of Nazareth. But again he denied it with an oath, 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.720 I do not know the man. Verse seventy three says 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.080 in a little later, those who stood by came up 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.000 and said to Peter, surely you are also one of them, 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:11.000 for your speech betrays you. Then he began to curse 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:16.280 and swear I love Peter, I do not know the man. 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:20.760 Immediately a rooster crowed, and Peter remembered the word of Jesus, 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.240 who had said to him before the rooster crows, you 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.919 will deny me three times. So he went out and 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.960 wept bitterly. My subject, for those of you who take notes, 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:37.360 are everything must go, Everything must go. So God, we 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:43.200 welcome you to continue to feel this atmosphere with your 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.479 word and your truth. You are the only one who 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.240 can take one message and allow it to hit everyone 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.200 in different ways. You are the only one who knows 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.680 every need, every burden, every issue that came into this room, 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:59.400 and you, and you alone can speak breakthrough and power 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:03.039 and victim and healing. And so Father, we welcome you 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.320 to inhabit every part of this room, every soul that 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.800 came in here, because we recognize that when you do that, 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:13.320 we are forever changed. And so we're asking that this 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.360 would be one of those moments where we walk out 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.520 of there and say, God, you heard me, you see me, 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:22.360 and you know the plans that you have from me. God, 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.560 I'm asking to be your vessel that there will be 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.359 no nerves, no anxiety, just your spirit standing tall on me. 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:34.200 So that lives may be changed in Jesus's name. Amen. Amen, 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:40.800 Now you can get seated and be comfortable. There are 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.120 very few words that bless my soul as a believer, 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:53.920 like the following three Everything must go. Those words bless 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.479 me not just because of the reason that I found 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.159 one studying, but when I see them on a store, 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:05.520 it speaks to me that God is really looking out 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:11.200 for my finances in this season, said God, I prayed 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.880 for savings, and you put my favorite store on sale. 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:18.960 How great is your mercy towards me? Everything must go? 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.280 And that used to make me so excited because I 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.480 knew that when I walked into the store that they 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:28.000 would be willing to discount even further items that I 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.800 had been waiting to get for a very long time. 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:32.960 And so when I went home and I told my 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.840 husband that I finally got something that I'd been looking for, 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.400 I could tell him, but honey, it was on sale, 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:43.160 and so we saved money. I didn't spend money. Now 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.960 that I am a business owner, though, I realized that 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.240 when they put those words outside of the store, it's 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:53.760 not just because they want to bless my spirit. Just 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:58.760 fascinating they actually do that because they have new inventory 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:03.120 coming in. And because they have new inventory coming in, 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.839 they have to get rid of everything that is no 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.520 longer profitable so that that which is profitable can take 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:16.760 its place. What if we as believers started to treat 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:21.520 our life with that same level of philosophy, that we 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:25.560 looked within ourselves and said everything must go that is 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:30.120 no longer profitable so that that which is profitable can 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:34.080 come in. How much powerful would we be if we 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.119 looked at our bitterness and said, no, you can't stay 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.520 because you're taking a place where my joy could be. 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.120 What if we looked at our misery and said, no, 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.800 you can't stay because you're taking up space where my 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.760 purpose could be. What if we started to say, depression, 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.360 you can't stay here. Joy is in your place. You 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.200 got to make room, and everything must go. This is 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:58.960 a mindset that we should have. But because we don't 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:03.360 always have this mind and said, God creates these situations, 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:07.640 these scenarios that force us to put that which is 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:11.520 no longer profitable on sale so that it can be 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:15.600 stripped away to make room for what is profitable. When 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.440 we find my friend Peter in this text, he is 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:22.720 going through that exact process Now, because we've heard this 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.640 story so many times, it can be easy for us 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.280 to believe that he's going to be all right in 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.560 the end. But that's because we know the end from 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:34.440 the beginning. But imagine with me being Peter in this moment. 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.679 This is not the same Peter who's walking on water 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.280 in front of Jesus. This is not the same Peter 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:47.440 who is watching Jesus perform miracle after miracle. This is 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:54.280 a defeated Peter. This Peter left everything he knew and 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.840 he began to follow Jesus. He was connected to hope, 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.240 he was connected to faith. He would see signs and 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.440 wonders all of the time. And now all of a sudden, 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.760 that which he knew so well he is disconnected from. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.760 And in the process of being disconnected from that faith, 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.520 his change begins to occur, and he's no longer the 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:20.680 person he used to be. I know we'd like to 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.800 say that that is exclusive to Peter's experience, but if 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.560 we are honest, we look back over our lives and 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.000 we recognize that there are moments where I used to 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:34.200 be so full of faith. I used to be so 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.680 connected to my faith. There was nothing off limits. I 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.920 had faith for my marriage. I had faith for my children. 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.800 I had faith that that dream, that purpose was going 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.000 to be manifest and that it was going to change 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.160 the world. And now I'm just lucky if I get 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.520 from day to day. I used to have faith. I 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.480 used to believe that I could do absolutely anything. But 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.720 for some reason, now I'm connected from my faith. What 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.200 I love about this is that for Peter, his faith 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.960 was taken from him. His hope was taken from him. 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:08.800 Have you ever had hope just stripped out of your hands. 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.120 I thought that things would be one way, but one 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.800 phone call, one incident, and now all of a sudden, 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:22.320 all of my faith has been stripped away. I never 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.480 thought that I would be the one going through a divorce. 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.600 I thought that we would make it to the long hold, 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:32.040 but my faith got stripped away. I never thought that 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.240 I would be the one who didn't know how I 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.560 was going to make ends meet. But for some reason, 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.640 my faith got stripped away. When we find Peter in 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:44.520 this text, his faith has been stripped away. And when 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.560 your faith is stripped away, it changes how you see 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.880 the world. It changes how you engage and how you interact. 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.400 There are people in this room who haven't really felt 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.360 like themselves in such a very long time. And if 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.760 we retraced your steps and retraced your history, we would 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.360 find that it was all because of one incident that 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:07.840 changed the way you saw everything. I witnessed something, and 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:10.880 I saw the worst of people. And when I saw 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.360 the worst of people, it made me stop believing in 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:17.800 the best of them. And so now I've become a 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:23.840 cynic disconnected from hope, and every time I close my 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.120 eyes at night, I remember that person I used to be. 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:30.839 But as I was praying and I was pressing in, 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:35.000 I felt like God was saying that everything must go, 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.840 That everything that is not profitable, that everything that has 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.800 no value for what he wants to do in our 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.960 life has to go. That maybe, just maybe, as we 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.360 filter through our lives, and we filter through our memories 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.440 and our emotions, we will recognize that we picked up 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.600 some habits and some patterns and some thoughts that we 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.080 shouldn't have. And we're at a season right now where 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.760 I can't go to next unless I lean out back there. 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.560 Peter is in between the cusp of walking with Jesus 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.640 and becoming the rock in which Jesus would build his church, 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.880 so it's not actually that he's disconnected from his faith. 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.160 It's not that he's disconnected from Jesus. It's just that 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:25.240 Jesus is shifting, and as Jesus is shifting, then Peter 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:29.760 is having to elevate who he is as well. Sometimes 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:34.680 God just moves on you, and it's not that he's lost. 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.079 It's not that you did anything wrong. It's him saying 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.600 everything must go so that everything can grow. If I 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.959 don't move from where you're used to seeing me, then 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:46.319 you'll become one of those complacent church goers. And I 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.160 called you to be a kingdom agent in this world, 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.800 so I'm constantly expanding your capacity. I'm trying to see 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.200 how hungry you are to hear from me. I'm trying 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.280 to see how desperate you are to get a word 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.880 from me. So I'm not staying within reach. I'm trying 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:03.000 to stretched you into the next dimension. Peter. I know 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.280 you're used to walking with me, but can you press 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:09.040 in and show me that you have taken in what 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:13.320 you used to once take for granted. I hear God 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.400 saying it's in you. I hear God saying that you 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.400 are depending on faith in one arena that you thought 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:22.600 your help came from a job, not recognizing that he's 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.320 going to be your provider. So I stripped the job 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.480 away so that you can see man didn't have to 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.800 write you a check that I would make a way 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.480 for you to make it anyway. I hear God saying 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.840 I had to move some people out of your life 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.560 because you were beginning to worship them. And I need 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:39.040 you to know that at the end of the day, 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.160 if all you have is me, that that's more than enough. 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.760 There's a greater is He mentality that is coming back 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:49.240 into your situation. And I had to strip some things 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.200 away so that I could grow an increase inside of you. 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:58.080 Everything must go, Everything must go. I won't be satisfied 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.280 with this message until you leave here desperate to clear 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:05.360 out anything that's taking up unprofitable space down on the 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:09.040 inside of you. Anytime a negative thought starts rising up, 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:12.679 until you say everything must go. God, renew my mind 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.200 and give me a mind like Christ. I can't afford 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.840 to have this sinking thinking any longer. I'm trying to 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.960 press towards the mark, and I can't do with thinking 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.720 like the same girl I used to be. Everything's gotta go, 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:31.960 Everything's gotta go. Every hater, every doubt, every fear, every insecurity, depression, 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.920 loose my mind. Did you know that you have authority 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.880 to roll up on your own depression? Can I get 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.400 a little hood at elevation for a minute that you 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.760 can roll up on your own issues and say, devil, 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:49.760 I've had enough. You can't have me any longer. For 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.840 the sun is set free by God. I take authority 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:57.920 over my mind, I take authority over my situation. Loose 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:02.040 my child and let them go. Let go of my husband. 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:09.400 In the name of Jesus. He gave me power. He 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.800 gave me authority, and I'm tired of acting like I 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:16.760 don't have it any longer. It's gotta go, get off 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:24.720 of me. It's gotta go. It's gotta go. Because I'm 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.800 ready to grow. It's gotta go. It's gotta go. It's 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.960 gotta go. It's gotta go. It's gotta go. It's gotta go. 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.600 I'm gonna move on, but I'm speaking to your demons. 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.320 You gotta go, you gotta go, you gotta go, you 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.080 gotta go. I didn't just come to church to crap 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.960 my hands and walk out feeling good. I came here 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:45.480 to wage war on Hell. You gotta let me go, 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:49.200 you gotta let my country go, you gotta let my 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:56.560 finances go. And anything that's keeping me from recognizing what 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:02.400 He can do through me has got to clear the way. Everything. 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:14.160 Everything's gotta go. Everything. So my friend Peter is in 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:19.600 between walking with Jesus and becoming the rock in which 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:25.640 Christ will build his church. But in this moment, he's 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:30.480 lost and he doesn't know what to think because he's 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:35.720 been disconnected. And so Peter, I love this because before 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:39.000 any of this happened, they're at the Last Supper and 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:43.320 Jesus says to Peter, before the rooster crows three times, 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:47.680 you're gonna deny me. And Peter was like child, I 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:53.200 would never ever you, my boy, we've been rolling, man. 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.720 But he says, I see something in you that's got 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.720 to come out of you, and it's got to come 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:03.800 out of you in order for you to access the 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:07.800 next dimension of who you are. And so I have 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:11.359 to move myself out of the way, because if I 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.520 don't move myself out of the way, then you won't 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.280 deny me, and then that issue won't rise to the surface. 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.639 And if that issue doesn't rise to the surface, I 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:24.960 can't build my church on you. So God moves things 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.720 out of the way so that our issues can rise 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:34.040 to the surface. And I just want you to know, 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.080 because some of you got so many issues rising to 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.720 the surface right now that you're ready to give up, 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:51.199 so many memories and thoughts rising to the surface. But 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.240 what I love about this is if Peter gets this 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.040 out of his system, this denial out of the way 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.520 one time, he never has to be the person who 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:06.720 denied Jesus again. That if I confront what's in me, 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:12.640 then it makes space for what's on me to reach 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:18.080 its fullest potential. And I know that some of our 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.280 families and some of us are more comfortable when we 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.000 don't let those issues rise to the surface because we 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:28.880 want to avoid conflict. But as long as it exists 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:34.240 within you, then you are conflicted and divided. And we 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.720 have to be united if we want to be powerful 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:40.679 in the kingdom, because there's enough outside that's willing to 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:44.440 divide us that we can't go into it already divided 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:48.919 within ourselves. And so Jesus says, I see potential in 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:51.320 you where I can build my church on you, But 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:55.000 first you have to deny me so that you know 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:58.720 what's in you. There are some things that you won't 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:02.119 even realize are in you until you're placed in situations 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:03.800 that bring it out of you. I didn't know I 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:07.520 was crazy. I did, and I would have never thought 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:11.879 it was possible for me until someone says something to me, 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:14.240 and I was like, Wow, I'm about to be crazy 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:20.800 because it's in me. But once it got out of me, 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:24.600 it taught me something about myself that I can't afford 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.399 to be connected with people who bring out that side 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.960 of me. And so all it took was one time 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.760 for me to see what was capable for me to 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.199 make a decision moving forward to make sure that that 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:40.600 never sprung out of me again. And so when I 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:43.800 find Peter in this text, he's in between and he's 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:51.639 got this spirit of disconnect between him and Jesus. And 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.399 it's funny because at this moment he's sitting outside in 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:57.160 the courtyard and like so many of us do, he's 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:02.439 thinking about what's wrong and what's not working. And this 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.040 servant girl she comes up to him and she says 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:09.840 to him, you were also with Jesus of Galilee, And 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.720 it was interesting that he responded and says, I don't 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.840 even know what you're saying. For me, this was a 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:19.280 testament of how disconnected we can become from what we 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:24.600 once knew, because the worst thing that anyone wants to 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:29.040 be reminded of when things are not working is a 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:33.359 time when they once were working. I know you guys 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:36.399 don't get angry with people because you are safe, sanctified, 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:40.520 and filled with the holy ghosts. But have you ever 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:42.600 been having a little bit of a disconnect with your 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.080 husband and then Facebook brought you a memory of when 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.639 you wrote that love note on Valentine's Day and you 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:55.679 scrolled super fast past it, like not today, not today. 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:59.120 When this girl comes up to Peter, she reminds him 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:01.159 of a time when he used to have more faith. 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:06.760 Weren't you with Jesus? I know everything is falling apart 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:10.840 right now. I feel that for somebody. Do you remember 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:15.960 the time when you were really with Jesus? I mean, 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:19.119 like when you really would go into your prayer closet 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:21.600 and you would wake up thanking God that you just 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:24.600 had another chance to lift your hands and worship. This 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:28.200 girl reminds him, in the midst of his most broken moment, 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:30.840 remember when you used to have faith? Remember when you 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:33.880 were walking with Jesus, and Peter says, I don't even 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:37.399 know what you're saying. My mind can't even comprehend in 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:40.000 its current state a time when I used to be 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:42.879 walking with Jesus. I am denying that part of me. 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:46.920 And when you deny that part of you, you push 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:52.560 away your very own breakthrough. I can't afford to think 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:54.639 about that time, he says, I don't even know what 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:58.199 you're saying. And then it continues. He moves outside of 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:01.119 the courtyard because what happened to so many of us 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:03.240 as we try to move out of the way of 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:07.480 people who remind us of who we used to be, 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.320 because I can't afford to have anyone calling me higher 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:12.600 when all I want to do is be broken down 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:17.240 where I am right now. And so he moves out 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:20.240 of the courtyard, and then he runs into another girl. 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:22.160 And it was at this point in the text when 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:25.280 I realized that it wasn't just Peter running away, that 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:30.040 it was God chasing him down. Because you want to 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:33.520 talk about triggered. If I could trigger a time in 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:37.400 Peter's mind when he used to walk with me, then 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:39.679 maybe I could get him back in the mindset of 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:42.600 what it was like to hear from me, even if 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:44.600 I was telling him what he didn't want to hear. 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:47.359 Because if I can get him to remember when he 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:50.040 was connected to me, perhaps he could reach even further 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:52.760 back and remember that I plan on building my church 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:55.880 on him. So even in the middle of this brokenness 0:22:55.880 --> 0:22:58.320 and what seems like the end, I still have a plan. 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:01.520 Even in the midst of this breakdown. Somebody's been in 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:04.240 a breakdown, and I came all the way from Los 0:23:04.240 --> 0:23:06.480 Angeles to tell you that God has been trying to 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:09.080 get you to reach back to the promise and to 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:12.040 let you know that the bet is still on. I know, 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:15.760 nothing in the circle right now looks like it's still happening. 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:18.359 But I'm telling you I know that. I know that, 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:20.919 I know that the bet is still on. How do 0:23:21.040 --> 0:23:24.040 I know? Because you're still here and because he is 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:26.480 not a man that he shall live. I don't care 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:29.400 what the sets say. I don't care what your account says, 0:23:29.560 --> 0:23:31.520 I don't care what your mind is saying. If he 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:34.560 said it and spoke it over your life, there is 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:38.200 nothing that can wage war against his word. He set 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:41.639 the ocean in motion, and it's still rocking at the 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:44.359 same beaf. He put the sun in the sky and 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:47.600 it hasn't fallen out yet. All he did was speak 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:52.760 a word, and it was true. And if I can 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:57.280 get back into the position where I received the word, 0:23:57.320 --> 0:24:00.119 where I used to hear from him, then maybe he 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:03.520 can help me navigate through this season that I'm in 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:09.240 before it's all said and done. And Matthew twenty six, 0:24:09.359 --> 0:24:12.520 He's tried to run outside of the courtyard to avoid 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:16.520 anyone who would remind him of who he used to be. 0:24:17.560 --> 0:24:19.199 This is the part that got good to me. In 0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:22.520 verse seventy three, he says a little later, those who 0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:25.320 stood by came up and said to Peter, surely you 0:24:25.400 --> 0:24:31.679 are one of them, for your speech betrays you. That 0:24:31.720 --> 0:24:34.960 thing was good to me. Child, Listen trying to say 0:24:35.000 --> 0:24:36.880 it the way I thought it, because I'm at elevation 0:24:37.000 --> 0:24:39.159 and I can't afford to be confused on this stage, 0:24:39.200 --> 0:24:44.399 so y'all bear with me. They said that there's something 0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:48.280 about the way you're speaking that lets me know that 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:53.479 you were once with Jesus of Golilee. They're talking about 0:24:53.480 --> 0:24:56.760 his accent. They're talking about the way the cadence that 0:24:56.800 --> 0:25:00.240 he begins to speak, that even though he was he 0:25:00.440 --> 0:25:03.200 was departed from him, even though he was no longer 0:25:03.320 --> 0:25:06.800 connected to him, that what was around him ended up 0:25:06.840 --> 0:25:09.840