Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church,
Speaker 1: and this is our podcast and I wanted to thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you.
Speaker 2: Hope it builds your faith.
Speaker 1: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving
Speaker 1: in your life.
Speaker 2: Enjoy the message.
Speaker 1: I believe the Lord has spoken to me and I
Speaker 1: want to share a message with you as another installment
Speaker 1: on our series Flip the Flow. And I look at
Speaker 1: each of these like they build on each other. The
Speaker 1: last time that I was speaking with you, I spoke
Speaker 1: about joy and the fullness of joy in the presence
Speaker 1: of the Lord, and now we're going to see not
Speaker 1: a description of that, but a demonstration of it from
Speaker 1: the scriptures. I just want to give you one verse
Speaker 1: and then you can be seated and we'll speak together today.
Speaker 1: But as you stand in reverence and respect for God's word.
Speaker 1: I'm welcome to all the locations. Thank God for all
Speaker 1: of you who are joining e groups today. Tell the
Speaker 1: person next to you you can't go to heaven unless
Speaker 1: you join any group. These are really great people. I
Speaker 1: can vouch for eighty percent of them. There's always a
Speaker 1: twenty percent weirdness factor in anything you do with large groups.
Speaker 2: But we try to screen them, vet them.
Speaker 1: They're not going to sell you pampered chef, essential oils
Speaker 1: or anything like that once they get you in the home,
Speaker 1: So it's not a timeshare presentation. Just want to help
Speaker 1: you grow in your relationship with the Lord. Not selling
Speaker 1: keto drinks, Just trying to help you build a foundation.
Speaker 1: John chapter two, verse eleven. Make sure you take advantage
Speaker 1: of that. It's there for you. It's there for you
Speaker 1: to grow in your faith. John two, verse eleven. What
Speaker 1: Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first
Speaker 1: of the signs through which he revealed his glory, and
Speaker 1: his disciples believed in him. One more time. Turn to
Speaker 1: your neighbor, give them my sermon title. Tell them you
Speaker 1: already know.
Speaker 2: Please be seated.
Speaker 1: Shout out to my brother Matt, who is stationed in
Speaker 1: New Jersey.
Speaker 2: He serves in the United States Force.
Speaker 1: Shout out to him because he put me on this
Speaker 1: documentary that I really enjoyed this week.
Speaker 2: It's called Fire, The Greatest Party that Never Happened.
Speaker 1: It's a documentary about one of the great scandals of
Speaker 1: our day in regards to entertainment and social media. The
Speaker 1: Fire Festival was created by Billy McFarlane and the legend
Speaker 1: Jah Rule. It was to be the ultimate luxury music
Speaker 1: experience on the private island of Ezuma in the Bahamas.
Speaker 1: It was to take place over the course of two weekends,
Speaker 1: one in April and the other in May of twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: Some of the world's top models and social media influencers
Speaker 1: promoted the event simultaneously using the hashtag Fire Festival fire
Speaker 1: with a Y in case you go home and watch it.
Speaker 1: I'm not recommending movies from this pulpit, because I know
Speaker 1: how legalistic some of you are, and you'd be instagram
Speaker 1: messaging me about the bad words and this and that.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you should watch it. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: it was awesome. And they put these orange tiles on
Speaker 1: Instagram all at the same time. And because it was
Speaker 1: people that have such clout, the festival sold out. The
Speaker 1: music festival sold out in forty eight hours. In forty
Speaker 1: eight hours, they sold tickets and day passes ranged from
Speaker 1: five hundred to fifteen hundred dollars, and then the luxury
Speaker 1: experience went up to twelve thousand dollars and some of
Speaker 1: the packages were reported to be two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars for the luxury villas and stuff.
Speaker 2: And they put these beautiful.
Speaker 1: Pictures online of the festival, marketed toward millennials, and they
Speaker 1: showed the island. They said that they and formerly belonged
Speaker 1: to Pablo Escobar, and that you could come party like
Speaker 1: Pablo Escobar with Instagram models in bikinis, white sand, clear
Speaker 1: waters at the Fire Festival, and then you could get
Speaker 1: a luxury.
Speaker 2: Room villa. And they sketched that.
Speaker 1: But when the millennials arrived and descended upon the Bahamas,
Speaker 1: things were a little different than had been advertised. Turns
Speaker 1: out that our boy Billy and Ja a first name
Speaker 1: Bassis sold something that didn't necessarily exist in the same
Speaker 1: form that they advertised it. When the customers arrived to
Speaker 1: the Fire Festival in the Bahamas, they found disaster relief
Speaker 1: tents where the villas were supposed to be in gravel
Speaker 1: parking lots in the parking lot of a Sandals resort.
Speaker 1: Not to mention that instead of gourmet meals cooked by
Speaker 1: five star world class chefs, they found apparently cheese sandwiches
Speaker 1: in styrofoam boxes, and the festival never happened. The festival
Speaker 1: never happened. Many were stranded, according to the documentary, in
Speaker 1: the airport overnight without water. Twenty three year old kids
Speaker 1: who paid twelve thousand dollars to see Blink one E
Speaker 1: two serves them right found themselves stranded in the Bahamas
Speaker 1: with no fire festival. And one case study that I
Speaker 1: read that said, you know, now, Billy McFarland is in
Speaker 1: jail for wire fraud, but it was suggesting that this
Speaker 1: was the ultimate coldultural case study in Fomo that never
Speaker 1: have we seen, because people were so afraid that this
Speaker 1: would happen without them. The fear of missing out, which
Speaker 1: I don't struggle with as much.
Speaker 2: I don't struggle with.
Speaker 1: The fear of missing out more like for me, the
Speaker 1: fear of running out. That's more what I deal with.
Speaker 1: I'm a pretty lazy person. I'm pretty boring. I'm not
Speaker 1: lazy about the things that matter. But somebody's like, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lunar eclipse tonight, and I'm like, eh, somebody
Speaker 1: will take a picture. You know, what time is it
Speaker 1: that ten forty five. I'll check it out tomorrow. You know,
Speaker 1: it's the ones in a lifetime. Think it'll be on YouTube.
Speaker 1: You know, that's kind of my thing. I'm finding miss out.
Speaker 1: But fear of running out, faux row, fomo, not so
Speaker 1: much faux row. Fear of running out I think about
Speaker 1: all the time. And that's why the documentary was visceral
Speaker 1: to me, because even though the guy was a scam artist,
Speaker 1: I guess because I guess because my fear in life
Speaker 1: is not having what I'm supposed to have and people
Speaker 1: show up expecting something that I can't give. Even in church,
Speaker 1: I'm always so nervous that I won't be able to
Speaker 1: get my energy up to the level that I need
Speaker 1: to get it to to connect with you, because sometimes
Speaker 1: you come in with very low energy. I'm just being honest,
Speaker 1: But I know you need a gourmet meal from the
Speaker 1: word of God, and I don't want to hand you
Speaker 1: a cheese sandwich and a styrofoam box. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't want you to show up with a Fema tint
Speaker 1: when you're expecting a villa and so.
Speaker 2: But I'm scared of this. I'm scared of running out
Speaker 2: all the time.
Speaker 1: I'm constantly scared like my creativity is going to run
Speaker 1: out because I need creativity to do what I do.
Speaker 1: And even in writing sermons, you're kind of saying the
Speaker 1: same things over and over again sometimes, and even though
Speaker 1: the Bible has a lot of interesting stories and letters,
Speaker 1: I'm scared, like, one time, maybe I'm opening my Bible
Speaker 1: and I won't be able to find a sermon, you know,
Speaker 1: And sometimes it gets late in the week, and I'm
Speaker 1: so scared of running out. When we write worship song,
Speaker 1: I'm always like, how many different ways can we say God?
Speaker 2: You're good?
Speaker 1: I trust you, you know, there's different ways. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that God is simple. I'm just saying sometimes I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: can we write another song can be appreciate. I'm scared
Speaker 1: of running out of time. I always feel like I
Speaker 1: don't have enough time. Always feel like like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: run out of time raising my kids. I'm scared to
Speaker 1: dead that I won't get everything instilled in them in
Speaker 1: the time they're in my house, and then they will
Speaker 1: end up on a therapist couch too fifty an hour
Speaker 1: because something I didn't teach them, or Abby is gonna
Speaker 1: marry some jerk because maybe I didn't teach her what
Speaker 1: a man should be like, because I don't know how
Speaker 1: to fix cars, and since she never saw me fix cars,
Speaker 1: she's gonna end up, you know, on the corner. I'm
Speaker 1: scared about this stuff. I'm scared like that they're gonna leave.
Speaker 1: I know it's dark, right, and I'm scared that I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna send my kids out and they're not
Speaker 1: gonna have what they need for the world because I
Speaker 1: ran out of time to give it to them. I'm
Speaker 1: scared then I'm gonna run out of money. I'm more
Speaker 1: scared now then I'm gonna run out of money than
Speaker 1: I was when I was twenty two and we didn't
Speaker 1: have any money. I can't figure out how. The more
Speaker 1: we got of it, the more I started to depend
Speaker 1: on it, and now it consumes more of your time.
Speaker 1: You think you'll get to an amount of money where
Speaker 1: you'll no longer be scared of running out. All money
Speaker 1: is going to do is create more obligations. All more
Speaker 1: money is going to do is create a bigger lifestyle.
Speaker 1: And now you will need more money to create the lifestyle,
Speaker 1: so you really won't lose the fear of running out.
Speaker 1: It will just be on a larger scale and you'll
Speaker 1: have more to lose. I'm so scared of running out.
Speaker 1: Fomo not so much. Fro yo.
Speaker 2: Never liked this stuff, fou roh.
Speaker 1: So when they got there and they didn't have it,
Speaker 1: I was like John chapter two. That's how my mind works,
Speaker 1: the fear of running out. What if I don't have
Speaker 1: what they need? What if I can't be who they need?
Speaker 1: Any new parents? Any new parents? Yeah you don't. You
Speaker 1: don't have what those kids need. It's gonna have to
Speaker 1: come from God. Please believe me. Did you figure this
Speaker 1: out yet? Have you already got the baby or you're
Speaker 1: expecting or what? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Over there?
Speaker 1: Any kids? You just came here to get a break?
Speaker 2: Is this your date?
Speaker 1: This is a good way to do a date, by
Speaker 1: the way, wasn't it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Freak ch out here.
Speaker 1: Now you you gotta understand. This was the first sign.
Speaker 1: Jesus did way more signs than John puts in his gospel.
Speaker 1: And he uses the word sign, not miracle, because he
Speaker 1: believes it's pointing to something deeper. That's what a sign does.
Speaker 1: That's why that says exit because of the door. The
Speaker 1: sign is worthless if that's just a wall. It's pointing
Speaker 1: to something. And when you see things in Scripture a
Speaker 1: lot of times you're going to see it on a
Speaker 1: natural level, but then it's going to point to something
Speaker 1: beneath the surface, like life does. Like there are things
Speaker 1: going on in your life right now that are trying to.
Speaker 2: Point you to something deeper.
Speaker 1: There are things you're experiencing in your life right now,
Speaker 1: but the surface is not the story.
Speaker 2: There is a deeper meaning for it.
Speaker 1: And so John says in his gospel that if he
Speaker 1: were to write down everything that Jesus did, he said,
Speaker 1: the world would not have room for the books that
Speaker 1: would be written.
Speaker 2: This was before Wikipedia.
Speaker 1: Now you could put it all out there, but at
Speaker 1: the time he said, if I wrote it all down,
Speaker 1: I'd run out of room.
Speaker 2: So he chose to number seven.
Speaker 1: It's the number that represents completion in the Bible, and
Speaker 1: it's the days of the week. The world was created
Speaker 1: in seven days. It's a symbolic number in the Bible.
Speaker 1: Seven is all over the Bible. He uses the number seven,
Speaker 1: and he puts in the Bible seven signs that Jesus performed.
Speaker 2: To point to who he was.
Speaker 1: Everything that God does for you is to point to who.
Speaker 2: He wants to be to you.
Speaker 1: And if you only live at the level of what
Speaker 1: he does for you, but miss what he is trying
Speaker 1: to point to that he wants to be to you.
Speaker 1: You can receive resource from the Lord without revelation of
Speaker 1: the Lord who gave the resource. And if your attachment
Speaker 1: is to the resource, then you will always run out
Speaker 1: at some point. If your attachment is to the revelation,
Speaker 1: you will always know who he is. And so whatever
Speaker 1: you need, he can be, because he is the Great.
Speaker 1: I am shout about it for five seconds so I
Speaker 1: can move on. Seven signs he says. He says, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you seven. I'm gonna give you seven. The
Speaker 1: second sign that Jesus did in John's Gospel is when
Speaker 1: he in John chapter four he healed a royal official son.
Speaker 1: In John chapter five, he healed a man at the
Speaker 1: pool of Bethesda who had been lame for thirty eight
Speaker 1: years and was waiting for the angel to stir.
Speaker 2: Up the water.
Speaker 1: But Jesus came on the scene and said, you don't
Speaker 1: have to wait for somebody to stir up the water.
Speaker 2: The living water has come to you.
Speaker 1: And since you can't move and you're sitting by this pool,
Speaker 1: I'm going to bring to you what you could not
Speaker 1: get for yourself.
Speaker 2: He flipped the flow. He flipped the flow.
Speaker 1: I could preciate this series for another year and not
Speaker 1: exhaust all the times that Jesus flipped the flow. In fact,
Speaker 1: in John chapter six, this was the fourth sign that
Speaker 1: Jesus recorded in John's Gospel. Jesus was looking at some
Speaker 1: hungry people, and a little boy had a styrofoam box
Speaker 1: with a cheese sandwich and jeez fish and loaves.
Speaker 2: But I'm modernized here.
Speaker 1: Jesus took it and blessed it, and broke it and
Speaker 1: gave it to them, and they all they went from
Speaker 1: hungry to full. They went from hungry.
Speaker 2: To a kid.
Speaker 1: In another bite, they went from hungry. Would you like
Speaker 1: to see the dessert menu? No, I'm full. That was
Speaker 1: the sign in John chapter six. In John chapter six,
Speaker 1: Jesus also walked out.
Speaker 2: On water to his disciples.
Speaker 1: He had sent them to the other side, but they
Speaker 1: encountered a storm. And what was really most important wasn't
Speaker 1: what was on the other side, but what they went
Speaker 1: through to get there. Because when they went through the storm,
Speaker 1: it gave him an opportunity to reveal who he was
Speaker 1: in a way that they couldn't have seen if they
Speaker 1: didn't go through the storm.
Speaker 2: So he's trying to get us to see you see
Speaker 2: the sign.
Speaker 1: He's trying to get you to see that the storm
Speaker 1: points to something that is deeper than what you can
Speaker 1: see on the surface. To show you that the power
Speaker 1: of God on the inside of you is greater than
Speaker 1: the wind that blows against you. He gives them a sign.
Speaker 1: In John chapter nine, he heals a man born blind.
Speaker 1: The man didn't do anything to be blind, his parents
Speaker 1: didn't do anything to make him blind. Jesus said this
Speaker 1: was to reveal the glory of God. He is using
Speaker 1: something that the man can't see to show the man
Speaker 1: something that physical eyes cannot It's a sign. He's trying
Speaker 1: to show something deeper until John chapter eleven, when he
Speaker 1: shows the ultimate sign that foreshadows the very work that
Speaker 1: he came to do. When he shows up at lazarus
Speaker 1: house late after Lazarus has died, misses his healing appointment
Speaker 1: and tells him come out of the tomb because he
Speaker 1: had to show them. You've seen me as a healer,
Speaker 1: but now it's time for a deeper expression of your
Speaker 1: understanding of me. Because even when I don't show up
Speaker 1: when you want me to show up in your life,
Speaker 1: I already have in mind what I'm going to do.
Speaker 1: And even if they've wrapped you in graveclothes and buried you,
Speaker 1: if you have the faith to come forth, I can
Speaker 1: still speak a word that will bring you out of
Speaker 1: any situation, because I am the resurrection and the life.
Speaker 1: Somebody shot God, give me a sign. Just wanted a sign,
Speaker 1: So Jesus gave him a sign. So what was the
Speaker 1: first one? Those were the six, but the first one
Speaker 1: was And I know some of you, some of you
Speaker 1: already know. Some of you really really really really really
Speaker 1: know your Bible. And when I said John chapter two,
Speaker 1: you were like water into wine, you know, and you're right.
Speaker 1: But if you would have shouted out, I would have
Speaker 1: ruined my setup because you already know. But you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes we have the curse of knowledge and we think
Speaker 1: we know something and we.
Speaker 2: Do know it at the surface.
Speaker 1: But why did Jesus turn water into wine? And I'm
Speaker 1: going to show you, And this is so powerful God,
Speaker 1: I'm excited. I hadn't had this much fun preaching in
Speaker 1: a long time as I'm having today. I think it's
Speaker 1: the dnum. Holly said, I don't wear enough color up here,
Speaker 1: so I like black. It's slimmy. Dark colors. Dark colors.
Speaker 1: Now go back to John chapter two, verse one, somebody
Speaker 1: shall flip it. Jesus shows up on the third day
Speaker 1: at a wedding which took place in Cana in Galilee.
Speaker 1: This is a small place, not necessarily an important place,
Speaker 1: but nevertheless, Jesus's mother was there at a wedding, and
Speaker 1: Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
Speaker 1: When the wine was gone, the miracle started. You missed
Speaker 1: it when they ran out of what they brought, when
Speaker 1: they ran out of what they planned for, which to
Speaker 1: us would not.
Speaker 2: Be the biggest deal.
Speaker 1: You know, you run out of wine at a wedding,
Speaker 1: and it's probably a good thing because you got crazy
Speaker 1: family members and when they drink too much, they start
Speaker 1: fighting any way, and one of them ends up in jail.
Speaker 1: But in this culture, it was the epitome of dishonor
Speaker 1: to invite a guest and to not be able to provide.
Speaker 1: And this wedding was not a you know how we
Speaker 1: do a wedding and it's like forty minutes and then
Speaker 1: in a reception.
Speaker 2: This was more like the fire festival. It was supposed
Speaker 2: to last a week.
Speaker 1: The wedding would last a week, and everybody showed up
Speaker 1: expecting that at whatever point they showed up at the
Speaker 1: wedding there would still be something to drink, that there
Speaker 1: would still you know, to show up at a wedding
Speaker 1: and there to be no wine. It was actually recorded
Speaker 1: that if the groom, who was responsible to make sure
Speaker 1: that the wedding went off right, if he did not
Speaker 1: provide everything that necessity required, he could be sued by
Speaker 1: his mother in law. You thought you had family drama, right,
Speaker 1: but Jesus shows up at the wedding and they run
Speaker 1: out of wine. Now, I don't want to skip over this.
Speaker 1: What have you run out of? What are you running
Speaker 1: out of?
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 1: What are you constantly afraid of running out of? Is
Speaker 1: it wisdom?
Speaker 2: Is it peace? Is it ideas?
Speaker 1: Are you out of ideas for how to fix a relationship?
Speaker 1: Are you out of ideas for how to reach a
Speaker 1: level of success that you thought you would have been
Speaker 1: at four years ago? What are you running out of?
Speaker 1: What have you run out of? The worst thing is
Speaker 1: the run out of gas when you're the one driving.
Speaker 1: The worst thing is for people to show up to
Speaker 1: your kitchen and all you have is cheese and brand.
Speaker 1: The worst thing is when you know that people expect
Speaker 1: something of you because some of you you're the life
Speaker 1: of the party, some of you you're the strong one.
Speaker 1: Some of you you are the one that people come
Speaker 1: to with their problems, and they don't know you are
Speaker 1: sick of being the place where they dump their crap.
Speaker 1: You got your own sewage, and I keep backing up
Speaker 1: and dumping more on you, and they don't even know
Speaker 1: how close you are to quitting. And you're running out.
Speaker 1: And that's why I like this, because you don't have
Speaker 1: to say it out loud. I'll say it for you.
Speaker 1: Everybody in here is running out of something not wine.
Speaker 1: How about joy? How about how? How about how you
Speaker 1: haven't been happy in a long time? How about that
Speaker 1: the last time I was up here, I preached on joy.
Speaker 1: Did you hear that sermon? It sounds like it meant
Speaker 1: a lot to you. Praise the Lord? Why do I
Speaker 1: do this? Were you here when I preached on joy? Well,
Speaker 1: since since wine represents joy, I thought it'd be good
Speaker 1: to stay in this flow. But Jesus comes to the
Speaker 1: wedding and he's a guest. But he's about to provide
Speaker 1: what the host could not provide. Why he did not
Speaker 1: come to demand righteousness. He came to provide righteousness. He
Speaker 1: flipped the flow. The first thing Jesus did was to
Speaker 1: take away the shame of a couple who had run
Speaker 1: out of what they were unable to provide. That's the
Speaker 1: first thing he does when he comes in your life.
Speaker 1: He doesn't just expose your shame. He doesn't just come
Speaker 1: to condemn you. He doesn't just come to point out
Speaker 1: everything that's wrong with you. He says, I didn't come
Speaker 1: just to show you your shame. I came to take
Speaker 1: it away. Look the lamb of God who takes away
Speaker 1: the sin of the world. Oh I'm happy about it.
Speaker 1: I need the Lord in my life because because I'm
Speaker 1: so I'm so scared I'm gonna run out. And yet
Speaker 1: the Bible says that Jesus didn't do anything about it.
Speaker 1: He let it run out. He let it run out,
Speaker 1: He let it happen like he often will do. Until
Speaker 1: watsh this. When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said
Speaker 1: to him, they gotta imagine the wine's really important at
Speaker 1: the wedding. This is not the first person who has
Speaker 1: discovered that it's gone. They probably had many discussions and
Speaker 1: there's probably been a lot of finger pointing. That's one
Speaker 1: thing on that documentary I watch, everybody was saying it
Speaker 1: was everybody's fault. Everybody was pointing. Everybody was pointing at
Speaker 1: somebody else. Well, we didn't know what, we didn't know,
Speaker 1: what we didn't know? How did you not know? That's
Speaker 1: what we wanted to know, is how did you not know?
Speaker 1: But Jesus's mother knew something. Rather, she knew someone, and
Speaker 1: she did something interesting. She didn't go to the wedding planner.
Speaker 1: She didn't go to the couple Jesus's mother when the
Speaker 1: wine was gone, Jesus's mother married. Did you know? Yes,
Speaker 1: she knew, she knew, She didn't know what to do,
Speaker 1: but she knew who to go to.
Speaker 2: I'm gona preach this message today.
Speaker 1: I'm coming for it today because you don't know what
Speaker 1: to do right now, right but if you know who
Speaker 1: to go to and see a lot of the reason
Speaker 1: you've been running out is because you've been running around
Speaker 1: to people who don't have what you need. They don't
Speaker 1: have it, they can't give it, They got their own stuff.
Speaker 1: They're running dry too. But if you go to the
Speaker 1: man from Galilee, if you go to the one whose
Speaker 1: name is life. She came to Jesus and said they
Speaker 1: have no more wine. She didn't tell him about the solution.
Speaker 1: She just told him the need. She just told him
Speaker 1: what he already knew. I promise you he already knew.
Speaker 1: How do I know he already knew because he was
Speaker 1: the word from the beginning. If he spoke the grapes
Speaker 1: onto the vine, he certainly knew that they didn't bring enough.
Speaker 1: I know he knew because in John chapter six, when
Speaker 1: he turned the Little Boy's value pack Chick fil a
Speaker 1: value pack, when he turned it into a buffet all
Speaker 1: you can eat buffet, he asked Philip, what are we
Speaker 1: gonna do about this? And Philip was an accountant, so
Speaker 1: Philip was like, if we did, the Times doesn't carry
Speaker 1: the one ton can't do it. But the Bible says,
Speaker 1: give me John sixty six. I know I didn't use
Speaker 1: it in the last one, but I want to use
Speaker 1: it because these people want it. They really really wanted.
Speaker 1: These people are hungry, These people want the word of God.
Speaker 1: He asked this only to test him, for he already knew.
Speaker 1: He already knew what he was gonna do. How cool
Speaker 1: is that? You mean? I'm coming before God praying a
Speaker 1: lot of times, and I'm like, like, I'm God's administrative assistant,
Speaker 1: you know, Like, Lord, just reminding you about that appointment
Speaker 1: you missed last week when I asked you to help
Speaker 1: me with the thing and I told you to fix them.
Speaker 1: You didn't fix them, So just putting it back on
Speaker 1: your calendar if you get around to it. Lord, he's
Speaker 1: you know, if you get because you know, and then
Speaker 1: this other thing over here blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And lately I've been praying like this. You already know.
Speaker 1: I know, you know, I know you know. That's why
Speaker 1: Mary went to Jesus, even though it wasn't his job.
Speaker 1: He was just a guest at the wedding, but she
Speaker 1: knew what was in him because he had been in her.
Speaker 1: And when Christ is in you and you are in Christ,
Speaker 1: you already know how many of you you already know
Speaker 1: that God will do it, You just don't know how. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's all Mary knew. Mary, did you know? Mary be like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I knew he would, but I didn't know how he would.
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't know how.
Speaker 1: But see, every need in your life is pointing you
Speaker 1: to a deeper source. Every sign that John recorded was
Speaker 1: pointing to something deeper. Every need that you experience in
Speaker 1: your life is pointing you to a deeper place in
Speaker 1: God that you can access, a deeper place of strength,
Speaker 1: a deeper place of confidence, a deeper place of health,
Speaker 1: a deeper place of relationship, a deeper place of dependence.
Speaker 1: Everything is pointing to something deeper. So when she said
Speaker 1: they have no more wine, Jesus responded, and I don't
Speaker 1: recommend this as like something to say to your mom
Speaker 1: or your wife Verse four, Woman, why do you involve me?
Speaker 1: That's not like a great marriage seminar Love Languages verse.
Speaker 1: But she didn't tell Jesus the need to inform him
Speaker 1: like we do. She didn't pray like a ritual in God,
Speaker 1: bless me today as I go to the thing and
Speaker 1: after the thing, and God just let me go through
Speaker 1: my list and worry about it and say that I'm praying,
Speaker 1: But really all I'm doing is worrying out loud with
Speaker 1: my eyes closed. She wasn't. She wasn't doing it to
Speaker 1: inform him. She was doing it to involve him because
Speaker 1: she knew if he gets involved, I don't know what
Speaker 1: he'll do, but I know who he is. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna need you to shout right now if you know
Speaker 1: who he is. Come on, Blakeney, don't be quiet. I
Speaker 1: know you love the Lord. I need you to shout
Speaker 1: right now. If you know who he is, I know
Speaker 1: who to go to. I lift my eyes to the
Speaker 1: hill and his mother watched this. His mother goes to him.
Speaker 1: He says to his mother, my woman, I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: talking to Holliday woman, you know, help them with their homework. Woman,
Speaker 1: you involve me. That's my favorite verse this year. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna use that luck this year. Well, I'm in why
Speaker 1: you involve me? Jesus My hour is not yet come.
Speaker 1: He's talking about the cross, but she needs him to
Speaker 1: do something right now. Some of us have things that
Speaker 1: we need God to do. Now. We really do we
Speaker 1: need him now? Yeah, I'm going to heaven when I die.
Speaker 1: And yeah, there's a white horse that I read about
Speaker 1: in the Book of Revelation, the Book of Revelations, and
Speaker 1: people put an ass on it. Book of Revelations, Walmarts Revelations. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great, But how about now? And so watch what
Speaker 1: she does. She doesn't argue, she doesn't convince, she doesn't
Speaker 1: beg In fact, she doesn't talk to Jesus anymore. She
Speaker 1: turns away from Jesus, points to the people who are
Speaker 1: working at the wedding, and verse five, she said to
Speaker 1: the servants, do whatever he tells you, because if you
Speaker 1: start moving in faith, he's gonna do something. I don't
Speaker 1: know why he didn't tell me. I don't know the details,
Speaker 1: I don't know the plan. I went to a wedding planner.
Speaker 1: This isn't even my party. But if you'll start moving,
Speaker 1: if you'll start obeying, if you'll take a step, you're
Speaker 1: gonna see something. I say, sign and and she said,
Speaker 1: do whatever he tells you.
Speaker 2: Now, I know what you're thinking. I already know. I
Speaker 2: already know. I already know what you're thinking.
Speaker 1: I would if I knew what do.
Speaker 2: You wanted me to do?
Speaker 1: I would? I would, you know, do whatever he tells
Speaker 1: you to do. That's such a great thing to say
Speaker 1: on Sunday morning. How about about this this this apartment
Speaker 1: that I'm living in right now, and I don't know
Speaker 1: whether I should move out of this apartment and you know,
Speaker 1: we get really weird sometimes too. Write like people do
Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff and say that God told them
Speaker 1: to do it.
Speaker 2: Okay, a couple of yard new to church.
Speaker 1: There's probably one of these weird people within like three
Speaker 1: rows of you that God has to tell them what
Speaker 1: color to wear in the morning. It's it's it's paralyzing,
Speaker 1: you know. And and they'll make stuff up. It's like
Speaker 1: a cognitive bias thing as well. It's like, well, I
Speaker 1: was praying about, you know, whether I should date him,
Speaker 1: and then I went and and uh, I went to
Speaker 1: elevation and Pastor Steve he was preaching on a best
Speaker 1: Steve he's preaching on he's preaching on John and his name.
Speaker 1: The guy's name is James, and it's close. They both
Speaker 1: start with Jay. So I'm gonna dat him right. It's
Speaker 1: a sign. And but sometimes the way God speaks, it's
Speaker 1: like the Lord was saying to me the other day
Speaker 1: because I was praying about, you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: whether to do this or that, and and I know
Speaker 1: you have situations that are nuanced, and I really don't
Speaker 1: like preaching that doesn't respect nuance. I really think it's
Speaker 1: in some ways it's misleading for people to say, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just simple, do whatever he tells.
Speaker 2: You to do, because sometimes I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1: And sometimes I don't know if I should take the
Speaker 1: job and make a little more money, but it's gonna
Speaker 1: take me away from my family more.
Speaker 2: But I need to be here for my kids.
Speaker 1: But I also need to be able to send them
Speaker 1: to college in four years, and I need to be
Speaker 1: able to provide for him.
Speaker 2: So I'm kind of caught between.
Speaker 1: I don't really know what he wants me to do
Speaker 1: because I can't find a Bible verse about whether I
Speaker 1: should live in Atlanta or Charlotte.
Speaker 2: You know, but let me just say something.
Speaker 1: There's traffic in both cities, and there's problems in both cities,
Speaker 1: and there's ups and downs to both cities. You know,
Speaker 1: where am I going to go to college? I see
Speaker 1: a wing Get shirt over there. Where am I going
Speaker 1: to go to college? You know, you can live for
Speaker 1: the lord at Wingott or at Wafford. You could live
Speaker 1: for the lord either place. It's not as important. I mean,
Speaker 1: go where the scholarship money is. Or if there's no
Speaker 1: scholarship money, you know, go but it's more important what
Speaker 1: kind of friends you make the first week of college
Speaker 1: than it is, whether it's Winget or Wafford. Can I
Speaker 1: preach a little bit civil Lord was speaking to me.
Speaker 1: I was like, if I knew what to do, I
Speaker 1: would do it. And God said, if you would do
Speaker 1: what you knew, you see the flip. You see the
Speaker 1: flip because I'm waiting for new information from God. And
Speaker 1: God is like, all right, what do you already know?
Speaker 1: I'm speaking to somebody today who has run out and
Speaker 1: you don't know what to do, and you don't have
Speaker 1: the wisdom, you don't have the experience, you don't have that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't. You know, it's really hard
Speaker 1: to do something you don't have a context for. But
Speaker 1: if you would do what you knew, what do you
Speaker 1: already know? I mean, I know for one that gratitude
Speaker 1: is the gateway to joy, so much so that I
Speaker 1: bought a I bought a journal and put it by
Speaker 1: my bed. It's a gratitude journal. It's orange like everything
Speaker 1: else in this church, and like God's favorite team, the
Speaker 1: Clemson Tigers, who he has anointed with the fresh oil
Speaker 1: of yet another national championship for the glory of his
Speaker 1: name his kingdom.
Speaker 2: Come.
Speaker 1: Some of y'all look like you hate me right now.
Speaker 1: But I find out the Gratitude Journal doesn't bless me
Speaker 1: if I don't open it and write in it. And
Speaker 1: I already know that, but I hadn't touched it in
Speaker 1: seven months, and it's got dust on it. And then
Speaker 1: I'm going to go to God at some point, praying
Speaker 1: that he'll help me to feel joy. But I already
Speaker 1: knew what to do. I didn't do it. I got
Speaker 1: seventeen books on my kindle that I bought last year
Speaker 1: that I read one chapter of. I probably don't need
Speaker 1: to buy another book this year, and you might not either.
Speaker 1: I'm serious. I'm a preach till us so quiet that
Speaker 1: you think we is elevation press material and Episcopalian cemetery service.
Speaker 1: Look at me. You know enough right now? I promise
Speaker 1: you do. I promise you do. You know enough right
Speaker 1: now to be physically fit. I'm just saying you might
Speaker 1: not need Men's Fitness with Hugh Jackman's workout to do
Speaker 1: some push ups and to take less calor. But but
Speaker 1: we're addicted to knowledge. We're addicted to you know, Ah,
Speaker 1: if I knew what to do, if I knew, if
Speaker 1: I knew, if I could do this diet over here,
Speaker 1: and I heard about this and this celebrity diet, and
Speaker 1: I gotta do this thing. I heard about this uh kombucha.
Speaker 2: If I drink that, then my gut will be held.
Speaker 1: You know you already know. Touch somebody and say you
Speaker 1: already know. You know push ups, you know sit ups,
Speaker 1: you already know. Get a trainer if you want, But
Speaker 1: the trainer will not transform you. If you if you
Speaker 1: know what to do and you do what you know,
Speaker 1: you will know what to do. Come on, God, I
Speaker 1: don't need you to clarify. I need you to give
Speaker 1: me courage to do what I knew that I didn't
Speaker 1: do last time. I knew I needed to humble myself.
Speaker 1: I knew I needed. Some of us know exactly what
Speaker 1: we need to do, but we don't want to do it.
Speaker 1: So we want to pile more knowledge on top of
Speaker 1: the last thing we didn't do that he gave us
Speaker 1: to do. Wow, I'm preaching, mom.
Speaker 2: They might not come back next week, but I'm preaching.
Speaker 1: I'm preaching because there's three things that Jesus points to.
Speaker 2: And I want to give.
Speaker 1: This to you because I believe that God already knows.
Speaker 1: Somebody say, he already knows. I know the plans I
Speaker 1: have for you, plans to prosper you, not to harm you.
Speaker 1: But there's something that you don't know that you can't know.
Speaker 1: It is not in the knowing, but in the doing
Speaker 1: that the miracle happens. Praise God. Did you feel this word? Man?
Speaker 2: It might be just for you. God might have gave
Speaker 2: me this message just for you. I don't doubt it.
Speaker 2: He's that good.
Speaker 1: Do you believe that he would put this in me
Speaker 1: just for you?
Speaker 2: I do so.
Speaker 1: I was noticing the details because his mother said, do
Speaker 1: whatever he tells you to do, and don't do what
Speaker 1: everybody else tells you to do, because you spend all
Speaker 1: your energy doing what everybody else tells you to do,
Speaker 1: and then not have the strength to do the thing
Speaker 1: God called you to do, saying yes to everything else.
Speaker 1: But what God gave you to do, do whatever he
Speaker 1: tells you to do, and so listen. So Jesus, he
Speaker 1: wasn't reluctant to get involved. He just needed their involvement,
Speaker 1: and he tells him to do something.
Speaker 2: Look at it.
Speaker 1: In verse six, it says nearby stood six stone water jars.
Speaker 2: What kind of jars?
Speaker 1: Stonewater jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing.
Speaker 1: They were common, They were there for a common purpose,
Speaker 1: each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.
Speaker 2: They were big. That's a big goal. In fact, by.
Speaker 1: The time they did what he said in verse seven,
Speaker 1: Jesus said, the servants filled the jars with water. So
Speaker 1: they filled them to the brim, which would have made
Speaker 1: one thousand bottles of wine, more than they needed. Because
Speaker 1: he's a god of more than enough. He is a
Speaker 1: god of more than enough. It's not that he doesn't
Speaker 1: have it. It's that we're so busy pointing to what's
Speaker 1: not there that we miss what is.
Speaker 2: And that's why we got to flip the flow.
Speaker 1: And the Bible says that not even knowing what would
Speaker 1: happen when they did it, because they needed wine. But
Speaker 1: he points to water. He doesn't point to what they need.
Speaker 1: He points to what they have. And then he told them,
Speaker 1: now draw some out and take it to the master
Speaker 1: of the banquet.
Speaker 2: They did so. They did it. They just bid it.
Speaker 2: They had a nike uh mentality.
Speaker 1: They just did it. Swoosh, I'm looking for a sponsorship
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to work this in, trying to get
Speaker 1: us some money for the expansion program. They did so,
Speaker 1: and the master of the banquet tasted the one that
Speaker 1: had been turned the water that had been turned into one.
Speaker 1: Now he tasted the product, but he did not understand
Speaker 1: the process. He didn't know. He did not realize where
Speaker 1: it had come from, though the servants knew. Touch somebody
Speaker 1: who say, you already know. You know who knows what
Speaker 1: God is doing in the earth today, those who serve him,
Speaker 1: not just those who come and sip, but those who
Speaker 1: serve those who involved. I want to thank God for
Speaker 1: every volunteer in this church, for everybody who served something today,
Speaker 1: for every e group leader in this church. I thank
Speaker 1: God for you, because you already know that it's more
Speaker 1: blessed to give than receive. Not those who sit, but
Speaker 1: those who serve.
Speaker 2: That's who God blesses the most. Amen.
Speaker 1: He did not realize where it did come from, though
Speaker 1: the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he
Speaker 1: called the bridegroom aside and said, you flipped the flow,
Speaker 1: because everybody brings out the choice wine first, and then
Speaker 1: the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much
Speaker 1: to drink. That's the way the world works. It's good
Speaker 1: for a little while and then it runs out. He said,
Speaker 1: you did it different. It got better and better and
Speaker 1: sweeter and sweeter. I've come to tell you your best
Speaker 1: days are not behind you. God is not like that.
Speaker 1: He didn't let you run out because he left you.
Speaker 1: He let it run out so he could give you
Speaker 1: something better than what you brought to the party to
Speaker 1: begin with. Yeah, you flipped the flow. You have saved
Speaker 1: first ten, the best till now. But how did he
Speaker 1: do it? How did he? How did he do it?
Speaker 1: Because everything you're running out of in your life today
Speaker 1: is in Jesus, It's in him. But there's three things
Speaker 1: I want to show you, and we'll go quickly, quickly, quickly.
Speaker 1: Number One, it's not going to be in the places
Speaker 1: you expect it's going to be.
Speaker 2: It's going to be Number one, nearby.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be by you moving to a
Speaker 1: new situation or thinking that your solution is out there somewhere.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be distant. It's going to be nearby.
Speaker 1: Verse six, Where were the stone water jars? Pay attention
Speaker 1: to the details.
Speaker 2: Nearby?
Speaker 1: Where is the help that God has given you for
Speaker 1: the shortage in your life. It's nearby. It's nearby. The
Speaker 1: reason we don't see what's nearby is because when something
Speaker 1: is close, we see it as common. These were stone
Speaker 1: jars made of earth. They were leak proof so that
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be ceremonially unclean. But there was nothing gold
Speaker 1: plated about them. These were not iced out jars. That's
Speaker 1: not what made them special. What was special was what
Speaker 1: was inside. But they didn't have to go, you know,
Speaker 1: Jesus right here could have been like the disciples go
Speaker 1: to town.
Speaker 2: You got to get some one.
Speaker 1: But the thing about Cana is in the middle of nowhere,
Speaker 1: so they can't go get anything. So they have to
Speaker 1: use something nearby. I wonder what's nearby that if you
Speaker 1: pour yourself into it, God can flow again through your life.
Speaker 1: It's nearby. It's so close. Like remember they all came
Speaker 1: in the party and wash their hands. So the miracle
Speaker 1: was in something that they had already walked by to
Speaker 1: get to the party. The miracle is in something that
Speaker 1: you're walking by every day. It's in a Bible reading
Speaker 1: plan that you already started, but you just quit it and.
Speaker 2: You can pick it back up.
Speaker 1: The wisdom that you need might be in the wife
Speaker 1: that you chose to do life with six years ago,
Speaker 1: but you don't want to listen to her because she's nearby.
Speaker 1: So I will see men go to conferences to learn
Speaker 1: how to be a better man, but they won't even
Speaker 1: listen to their own wife because they don't want to
Speaker 1: be humble. I'm telling you it's nearby. It's not out there.
Speaker 1: That's not where the provision is. It's not somewhere out there.
Speaker 1: It's nearby. It's gonna be so close you'll miss it
Speaker 1: if you're not careful. It's gonna be so close you
Speaker 1: walk in. I'll tell you it's something that you're walking
Speaker 1: by right now. You've been praying for it. It's an
Speaker 1: orange gratitude journal, this right there on your bed. It's
Speaker 1: an exercise plan that you already know to do. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be nearby, and it's gonna be normal. That's the
Speaker 1: second thing. It's gonna be normal. It's not gonna feel
Speaker 1: so supernatural. It's gonna feel natural, and then it's gonna
Speaker 1: be super But you can't wait for something special. You've
Speaker 1: got to embrace something normal. We have this treasure in
Speaker 1: earth and vessels, that the excellency of the power might
Speaker 1: be from God and not from us, is coming through
Speaker 1: something normal. It's gonna be normal. It's gonna be habits,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be discipline. It's gonna be normal. God, use
Speaker 1: me go home and have dinner with your family. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be normal. It's not gonna be exciting. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna be sexy. It's not gonna be Instagram models in
Speaker 1: bikinis on the beach. It's gonna be normal. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be normal. Tell somebody's gonna be normal. Tell them it's
Speaker 1: gonna be natural. But it's gonna be super. When God
Speaker 1: gets done with normal what happens on the inside of
Speaker 1: what looks normal on the outside, God is doing something
Speaker 1: in me. And I wonder what you've been walking by
Speaker 1: because it looks normal. You don't even notice it because
Speaker 1: it's nearby and it's normal, and it's now Jesus said, now,
Speaker 1: verse ay, now, everybody say now, not after I've explained
Speaker 1: it to you. Now he didn't tell them. Now, when
Speaker 1: you draw it out, it's gonna start to turn purple
Speaker 1: like when you stir the kool aid, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a fermentation process and we're gonna molecular
Speaker 1: structure is going Let me draw it up for you, guys.
Speaker 1: This is okay, everybody, Come on in, Come on in, guys. Now,
Speaker 1: I know you don't know what I'm gonna do, but
Speaker 1: I already know. I know you don't know why I'm
Speaker 1: telling you to do this. But I know I know
Speaker 1: you don't know why I'm telling you to forgive. But
Speaker 1: I know what I want to do that I can't
Speaker 1: do in your life if you have a clogged heart.
Speaker 1: So do it now now now. Faith is a substance
Speaker 1: of things hoped for, and Jesus never points to what's
Speaker 1: next without dealing with what's now. Now, draw it out now.
Speaker 1: I could imagine he could. He could have gone around
Speaker 1: the whole party. You should have planned better and you
Speaker 1: should have known better. But he didn't do any of that.
Speaker 1: Because he didn't point to what they should have done.
Speaker 1: It doesn't do any good. He points to what it
Speaker 1: is now. Now, even though you've run, even though even
Speaker 1: though you could have done better, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: could have done better.
Speaker 2: Job. You need to fire your wedding planner.
Speaker 1: I hope you didn't give her too much of a deposit,
Speaker 1: because she really screwed this up. But now that's actually
Speaker 1: what Mary and Martha said to Jesus when he showed
Speaker 1: up for Lazarus. If you would have been here, our
Speaker 1: brother would not have died. But even now, I feel
Speaker 1: the power of now on this word today, now, now, now, now,
Speaker 1: now now, because the truth is, you might be running
Speaker 1: out of time, and Jesus only had three years on earth.
Speaker 1: It didn't crazy think about this. I'm almost done, y'all
Speaker 1: got like five more minutes? Or am I out of time?
Speaker 1: I don't know how to receive that tepid encouragement. I
Speaker 1: guess go if you need to go. I'm gonna talk
Speaker 1: to who wants to hear this last part. I just
Speaker 1: study too much to get up here and let a
Speaker 1: clock tell me when to quit, because I because I
Speaker 1: I know what it feels like to be empty. I've
Speaker 1: been there in my own life, you know, just dry
Speaker 1: and empty, and ah can if another person asked me
Speaker 1: if I don't even want to do it. But but
Speaker 1: but there's something significant, not only about what Jesus did
Speaker 1: water interwine the law into the spirit.
Speaker 2: We could preach about that. We will one day that
Speaker 2: he did.
Speaker 1: It in a ceremonial jar and it was an idea,
Speaker 1: the fact that the ceremonial washings of Moses were now
Speaker 1: being replaced by the blood that would be shed. That's
Speaker 1: all in there. It's a sign. Its pointing to a lock.
Speaker 1: But why did he do it in Cana? Why did
Speaker 1: he show his glory in Cana? And to understand this,
Speaker 1: we need to meet Nathaniel. Because Nathaniel was a disciple
Speaker 1: who came to Jesus. Guess who brought him by the way, Philip,
Speaker 1: the one who Jesus said, where are we gonna get
Speaker 1: the bread from?
Speaker 2: But he already knew, I promise you he.
Speaker 1: Already knows, but he's just trying to make sure that
Speaker 1: you know where it comes from.
Speaker 2: And Philip brought Nathaniel to Jesus pick it up.
Speaker 1: In forty five, Philip found Nathaniel and told him, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can start playing.
Speaker 2: It'll hurry me along.
Speaker 1: He found Nathaniel and told him, we have found the
Speaker 1: one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom
Speaker 1: the prophets also wrote Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
Speaker 1: There were four hundred and fifty six different expectations of
Speaker 1: the Jewish Messiah, and Philip was doing the math, you know,
Speaker 1: carry the one.
Speaker 2: It's like it was, and he said, I think this
Speaker 2: is him. I think so. I'm not sure, but I think.
Speaker 2: Come see.
Speaker 1: And Nathaniel starts trying to figure it out based on
Speaker 1: what he can understand. He's like, did you say Nazareth
Speaker 1: that hick town? Said nazare Monk's corner. See, I'm used
Speaker 1: to being from a place that people don't respect. When
Speaker 1: you say the name of it, Nazareth, can anything good
Speaker 1: come from there? And Nathaniel asked the question, and Philip said,
Speaker 1: I can't answer that, but you can come see now
Speaker 1: watch this.
Speaker 2: That's where it gets good.
Speaker 1: When Jesus saw Nathaniel, I always preach John chapter two,
Speaker 1: thinking that verse one is where it started on the
Speaker 1: third day Jesus went to Cana, But it started before that.
Speaker 2: When Jesus saw Nathaniel approaching.
Speaker 1: He said of him, here truly is an Israelite in
Speaker 1: whom there is no deceit. Now Nathaniel was kind of
Speaker 1: creeped out Verse forty eight. He said, how do you
Speaker 1: know me? We have met? How do you how do
Speaker 1: you know?
Speaker 2: He said?
Speaker 1: I know what's in you, he said. But you don't
Speaker 1: know me, he said, but I know what's in you.
Speaker 1: One time, when Elijah was little, he would walk around
Speaker 1: the house.
Speaker 2: How old was he? Two three?
Speaker 1: He'd walk around the house going, how do you know
Speaker 1: my name? How do you know my name? How do
Speaker 1: you know my name? I think he heard it on
Speaker 1: a TV show and I thought that was so bizarre.
Speaker 1: You know, he'd walk up, walk up to me and Holly,
Speaker 1: how do you know my name? How do you know
Speaker 1: my name? I said, Because I made you, because I
Speaker 1: gave you your name. I know who you are. I
Speaker 1: know what's in you. Jesus looks at Nathaniel len he
Speaker 1: knows what's in him because Nathaniel came from him.
Speaker 2: Now watch this.
Speaker 1: This is so important for everybody who spends a lot
Speaker 1: of time feeling like that what's against you is greater
Speaker 1: than what's in you. I want you to know that
Speaker 1: God already knows what's against you, and he already knows
Speaker 1: what's in you.
Speaker 2: I said.
Speaker 1: He already knows what's against you, and he already knows
Speaker 1: what's in you.
Speaker 2: He said, I.
Speaker 1: I saw you while you were still under the fig
Speaker 1: tree before Philip called you, and Nathaniel said, you saw me, Rabbi.
Speaker 1: You are the son of God, you are the King
Speaker 1: of Israel. You hadn't even met me yet, and you
Speaker 1: saw me before I was called. You mean you saw
Speaker 1: me in this situation before I was even in it.
Speaker 1: You saw me in this dry place before it even
Speaker 1: stopped raining. You saw me in this dumb decision. You
Speaker 1: saw me in this divorce, You saw me in this
Speaker 1: low place.
Speaker 2: Said yeah, I saw you.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have put you in it if I didn't
Speaker 1: put it in you. You've got it in you, and
Speaker 1: you will not run out, and will not run out,
Speaker 1: and it will not run out. You will accomplish your purpose.
Speaker 1: You will fulfill you will complete your assignment. It is
Speaker 1: in you.
Speaker 2: I love Jesus.
Speaker 1: He said, you believe because I told you that I
Speaker 1: saw you under the fig tree.
Speaker 2: You will see greater things than that.
Speaker 1: And then they went to Cana so Jesus could show
Speaker 1: Nathaniel what he just told him. I am the one
Speaker 1: who flips the floor. I am the one come on,
Speaker 1: get happy, who gets grace for same. I am the
Speaker 1: one who turns rejection into blessing. I am the resurrection.
Speaker 1: I am the life. Your struggle is a sign, your
Speaker 1: setback is a sign. Your secrets are a sign. God
Speaker 1: is with you. It is in you. Come on, release
Speaker 1: a sound of raise in the plane. I set releases
Speaker 1: out of rays in the place, and you will not
Speaker 1: run out. You will not run out. You might not
Speaker 1: have any wine, but if you have the one who
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