1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,040 Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 5 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:13,399 Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 6 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 2: Enjoy the message. We're focused this week on the word 7 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 2: of salvation. You know, when Jesus was dying on the cross, 8 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 2: he said to a thief that was crucified with him. You, 9 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 2: of course would know that the crucifixion was not an 10 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 2: anomaly in Jesus' time. It was a common form of 11 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 2: capital punishment. And so Jesus died the death of a 12 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 2: common criminal beside two common criminals. 13 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:43,160 Speaker 3: One of them mocked him. 14 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 2: Said, if you were really who you say you are, 15 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 2: you would get down off that cross, and you would 16 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 2: get us down to save us. And while one mocked him, 17 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 2: the other one, who was on his right side, recognized 18 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 2: the distinction of his divinity, or at least his innocence, 19 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:13,320 Speaker 2: and said, we deserve this and you don't. And sir, 20 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure who you are, but when you 21 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 2: come into your kingdom, remember me. And Jesus said today 22 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 2: somebody shout today, I'm going to wake you up. You're 23 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 2: going to talk back to me today, least at Valentine. 24 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 2: I can't do anything about concord. I'm not there. But 25 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 2: somebody at Valentine in the back of the room from Jackson, Mississippi, 26 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 2: or Toronto, Canada, or Charlotte, North Carolina, shout today, today 27 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 2: you will be with me in paradise the word of Salvation. 28 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 2: I had the privilege this weekend to perform my brother's 29 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 2: wedding ceremony. I don't do a lot of weddings, but 30 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 2: I'm good at them. I just typically preach on Saturday nights. 31 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 2: Our campus pastors do such an excellent job with the 32 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,679 Speaker 2: wedding officiating, so I was kind of nervous doing his ceremony. 33 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 2: I don't want to mess up my man's wedding because, 34 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 2: hey man, he's got this girl here at the altar 35 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 2: and he might not get this chance again. 36 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 3: She might change her mind, so we got to get 37 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 3: this done. 38 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 2: It's my little brother, but he's a lot taller than 39 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 2: me and he serves in the United States Air Force. 40 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 1: And they honored me. Yeah, praise the Lord. 41 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, he's cool. 42 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 2: He could beat me up but I got mind game 43 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 2: on him, so he doesn't He doesn't know that. But 44 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 2: he asked me to do his wedding and his fiance 45 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 2: brook and they asked me to come, and I was. 46 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 2: I was privileged to do it. Holly said I did 47 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 2: a good job. In fact, she said exactly this. She said, 48 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 2: you did so good officiating that wedding. She said, I 49 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,920 Speaker 2: kind of wish I could marry somebody else so you could. 50 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: Do the wedding. 51 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 2: Wasn't sure how to receive that compliment. I rebuked her 52 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 2: a twisted compliment. But anyway, I only bring it up 53 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 2: because truth be told. Although I really love the opportunity 54 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 2: to do the wedding, I kind of have a problem 55 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 2: not with weddings. I'm not anti marriage. Do not send 56 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 2: me emails. Send them all to Jonathan Joseph' your Valentine 57 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 2: campus pastor. It's not that I'm against love. I'm nothing 58 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 2: against it. It's just that can we all agree, especially 59 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 2: those of us who have. 60 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 3: Been married for more than ten years. 61 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 2: That marriage has very little to do with the flower 62 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 2: arrangement that you choose, or how many layers of cake. 63 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: That you can roll. 64 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 2: Out that you're not going to eat anyway, because only 65 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 2: the top one is real and all the other stuff. 66 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: Is just decoration. 67 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 2: Come on, it doesn't matter how many shades of magenta 68 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 2: your bridesmaids are standing there dressed it. What happens in 69 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 2: marriage happens in the middle. Somebody shout us in the middle. 70 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 2: That's my sermon today. I want to say, it's in 71 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 2: the middle that a marriage is made. It's in the 72 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 2: middle that a Christian grows. It's in the middle that 73 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 2: you find out what you're made of. This sermon is 74 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 2: like a TUTSI rull pop. 75 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: What you bought it for is in the middle. 76 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,039 Speaker 2: And I admire the thief, and I'm thankful that he 77 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 2: was saved on the cross. But most of us don't 78 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 2: get to be in paradise the day we get saved. 79 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 2: The fact of the matter is we don't get raptured 80 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 2: up to Heaven the moment we make Jesus Christ the Lord. 81 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 1: Of our lives. We are left here on. 82 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 2: This or so that we can bring Heaven into our situation. 83 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 3: It's in the middle. 84 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 2: And the way that we typically focus. 85 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 3: On the moment. 86 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 2: You know, I believe that God can save you in 87 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,600 Speaker 2: a moment. I really do. If you're here today, and 88 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 2: you're thinking that you have to you have to memorize 89 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 2: some Bible verses, or there's some certain habit that you 90 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:02,160 Speaker 2: have to correct in your life, or y'll tired of 91 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:02,720 Speaker 2: hearing me preach. 92 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 3: I've been preaching to. 93 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 2: Y'all for eleven years now, and for eleven years I've 94 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 2: been saying this same message. God can save you in 95 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 2: a moment. If you believe in your heart that God 96 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 2: raised him from the dead, and confess with your mouth Jesus. 97 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 1: Is Lord, you shall be saved. 98 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 2: I know it because that thief did not have to 99 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 2: enroll in a theological school, he didn't have to go 100 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 2: through a Catechism class, he didn't have to prove the 101 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 2: legitimacy of his faith by giving up certain things. Come 102 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 2: as you are, don't expect to stay that way. And 103 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 2: Jesus said today you will be with me in paradise. 104 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 2: Part of me thinks that would be kind of nice 105 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 2: if I could just be married and stay married without 106 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 2: a process. Well, I'm kind of a process preacher, I 107 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:02,039 Speaker 2: really am, because one of my core is that God 108 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 2: is in the process. 109 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong. 110 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 2: He can move in a moment, something can happen in 111 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 2: your soul. When the word of God goes forth, that 112 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 2: is so strong that the chains are broken and you 113 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 2: are never the same. 114 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 3: Why not today? 115 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 2: The apostle Paul said that today is the day of salvation. 116 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 2: He said that to the Corinthian Church Backxlett, and he said, 117 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 2: now is the time of God's favor. 118 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:32,719 Speaker 3: Somebody shout now, not when you get your. 119 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 2: Act together, not when people approve of you. 120 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 3: Now, now is the hour. 121 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 1: Today is today. 122 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 2: And the privilege of my life is seeing someone in 123 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 2: a moment make a decision to follow Christ in a moment, 124 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 2: for the weight to be lifted, for the change to 125 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 2: be broken in a moment. Yet, what about the middle 126 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 2: Because I know that He can save me in a moment, 127 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 2: and I know that when I die in a moment, 128 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 2: in the twinkling of an eye, to be absent from 129 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 2: the body, he has to be present with the Lord 130 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 2: I'm going to have when I die. 131 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 3: And I'm glad about it. 132 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 2: And I don't have to fry and burn, and I 133 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 2: know all that, and I'm real glad about it. But 134 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 2: one thing the thief and I did not have in common, 135 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 2: because we both deserved the cross that Jesus died on. 136 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 2: But I didn't get to go to Paradise the moment 137 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 2: that I trusted Christ with my life. So this message 138 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 2: is not about paradise. This message is about process. This 139 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 2: message is not about flower girls. This message is about 140 00:07:54,520 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 2: the fight for faith in the middle. And I want 141 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 2: to present it to you in a way today that, 142 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 2: hopefully in the next twenty nine minutes can help you 143 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 2: to understand why it is that sometimes even though you 144 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 2: got saved, you don't feel saved and what to do 145 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 2: in the middle. Touch your neighbors say, I need to 146 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 2: know what to do in the middle, because when I die, 147 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 2: I'm dead, I'm gone, I'm in heaven. I'm there but here, 148 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 2: and now I need God. See the thing about me 149 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 2: is I got saved, but I still need some saving. 150 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 1: Maybe you don't, but I still look. 151 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 2: Look real good at the person next to you, and 152 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 2: see if they look. 153 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: Like they still need saving. 154 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 2: See if they look like there are still some times 155 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 2: in their lives. Come on Blakeney that they still need saving. 156 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 2: It's a seven mile journey, and the miracle. 157 00:08:57,720 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: Is in the middle. 158 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 2: Did you notice that's not from this Amayas road where 159 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:06,439 Speaker 2: Jesus just shows up beside these two disciples held you 160 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 2: don't put too much of this on Instagram stories because 161 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 2: I don't want them to see it. I want them 162 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 2: to have to watch it online later. Those of them 163 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 2: are sitting home in the snow. Don't be putting it 164 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 2: online right now. I want them to catch it later. 165 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 2: And Jesus just shows up right in the middle of 166 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:20,599 Speaker 2: their conversation. 167 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 3: It's a man named Cleopus, and some scholars. 168 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 2: Suggests perhaps his wife, his companion, and he were not 169 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,839 Speaker 2: expecting the presence of Christ to show up. But he 170 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 2: showed up in the middle of their disappointment. He showed 171 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,719 Speaker 2: up in the middle of their disillusionment. He showed up 172 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 2: in the middle of there, we thought, so he showed 173 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:43,079 Speaker 2: up in the middle of the what now he showed 174 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 2: up in the middle. God will meet you in the middle. 175 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 2: It's in the middle. And they walked. They they walked, 176 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:55,440 Speaker 2: the Bible says seven miles from Jerusalem to Amais. And 177 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 2: when they got there checked us out in Luke twenty 178 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 2: four to twenty eight. When they arrived and approached the place, 179 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 2: the village that in their mind was their destination, the 180 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 2: village called Amaeis. When they got to the place they 181 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 2: thought they were going Jesus continued on I love the 182 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:23,199 Speaker 2: next two words as if he were going further. 183 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 3: Like he's a man on a mission. 184 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 2: He's got people to see and things to do, and 185 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 2: only thirty nine and a half days before he has 186 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 2: ascended to the right hand of God, the Father Almighty, 187 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 2: from whence he shall come to judge the quicken the dead. 188 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 2: And so he acts as if show him again, as 189 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 2: if he were going further. And sometimes it feels as. 190 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 1: If God is leaving you. 191 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 2: I would suggest that some of the moments when it 192 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 2: feels as if he's walking away from you, he is 193 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 2: creating a desire within you so that if you draw 194 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 2: near to him, he will draw near to you. God 195 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 2: is trying to set your faith free from the need 196 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 2: to feel. 197 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 1: It, to have it. 198 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 2: As if somebody say, as if the next time the 199 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 2: devil tries to tell you God has left you, that 200 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,959 Speaker 2: God has abandoned you, look him right in the eye 201 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 2: and say, with your hand on your hip, in your 202 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 2: best white girl teenager voice, say as if, as if 203 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 2: he would leave me, he said he would never leave me, 204 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:50,199 Speaker 2: never forsake me, never abandon me. He will stop what 205 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 2: he's started high his and he is mine. And he's 206 00:11:54,160 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 2: with me in the middle as if he were going further. 207 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 3: And they asked him to come in and stay with them. 208 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 2: Now, professional pointer, be careful when you ask Jesus to 209 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 2: come in, because if he comes in, he's going to 210 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 2: take over. So God is not going to settle for 211 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 2: a shout out. He's not going to make himself a 212 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 2: cot in the foyer of your heart. 213 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 3: He's coming in the kitchen. He's coming in the kitchen. 214 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 2: I feel God on that, and I don't know why 215 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 2: I touch somebody say he's coming. 216 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:40,959 Speaker 3: In your kitchen. He's coming in your kitchen. 217 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 2: He wants to get into the ingredients. Watch what Jesus does. 218 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 2: He walks in this is verse thirty. He sits down 219 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 2: at the table, takes their bread. Remember it's Cleo's house. 220 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 2: But Jesus reaches right across the table, takes Cleo's bread, 221 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 2: and he just starts doing stuff. 222 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 3: See. 223 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 1: I need you to know that God is. 224 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 2: Not going to come into your life and stay on 225 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 2: standby so that when you kind of sort of need 226 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:14,199 Speaker 2: him and maybe can fit him into your schedule. Maybe 227 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 2: I can get a little Jesus juice when my boyfriend 228 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 2: isn't calling me back maybe I'll see Jesus when he 229 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 2: comes into your life. I feel the spirit of God. 230 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 2: It's all up in me right now. 231 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 3: I feel it. 232 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,959 Speaker 1: God said, I'm taking over. Today is the. 233 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 2: Day of salvation. I'm taking over your thoughts. I'm taking 234 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 2: over your magna. Said, I'm taken over your desires. Salvation 235 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 2: is total surrender. This is how I used to preach 236 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 2: when I was twenty three man. 237 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:50,719 Speaker 1: This is how I. 238 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 2: Used to preach to people who thought that God could be. 239 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: A part of their life. 240 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 2: If God gets in your life, he's gonna get all 241 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:00,960 Speaker 2: up in the middle of it. God is gonna change 242 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 2: who you have listed in the contacts of your iPhone. 243 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 1: God, don't hear me. 244 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 2: God is gonna change who you friend on Facebook. 245 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:09,119 Speaker 1: God is gonna. 246 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 2: Change what you're doing eleven thirty on Friday night. God 247 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:13,839 Speaker 2: isn't just gonna wait for you to get to church 248 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 2: on Sunday morning and bless you with a goosebump. God 249 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 2: wants I know where to preach. I know where the 250 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 2: love is. 251 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: It's in the middle. 252 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 4: Somebody shout us in the middle, anyway, Is it okay? 253 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 2: Jesus doesn't ask any permission. He sits down at Cleo's 254 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 2: kitchen table, takes Cleo's bread, blesses CLO's bread, breaks the bread, 255 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 2: and gives the bread. And when he gives the bread 256 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 2: that he broke, which is also the bread that he blessed, 257 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 2: which is also the bread that he took. When he 258 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 2: takes over your life, he blesses your life. But the 259 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 2: same hands that bless your life are the. 260 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: Same hands that must be trusted when your life is broken. 261 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 2: I mean, when your heart is in a million pieces. See. 262 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 2: I need to preach this because sometimes we think when 263 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 2: we get saved that everything is gonna be sanitized and 264 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 2: everything is gonna be safe. And we think that when 265 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 2: we get safe. See, this is the kind of preaching 266 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 2: that will help you when life is doing its best 267 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 2: to tear you apart. You can know, beyond the shadow 268 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 2: of a town, somebody shut up, still saved. 269 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 5: I'm saved when i'm happy. I'm saved when i'm sad. 270 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 5: I'm saved when they're with me. I'm saved when they 271 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 5: walk away. I'm saved when i'm up. I'm saved when 272 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 5: i'm down. I'm saved when i'm blessed. I'm saved when 273 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 5: i'm broken. I'm saved in the palace, I'm saved in 274 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 5: the pit. 275 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 1: God is with me. 276 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 2: In the middle. Three things I don't want to give you. 277 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 2: Three things I want to give you about the middle. 278 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 2: I was saved, it happened, I will be saved. I'm 279 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 2: going to be with him forever. But I need him 280 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 2: to be with me in the middle. This is not 281 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 2: a moment to moment contractual arrangement with God, because we 282 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 2: kind of think like his grace will save you, and 283 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 2: his grace will get you to Heaven. You're on your 284 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 2: own in between. I want to declare that the same 285 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 2: grace that will get you there wherever you're there is 286 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 2: is with you here. If you will believe the words 287 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 2: coming out of this country preacher's mouth today that God 288 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 2: is in the process, and number one, the gift is 289 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 2: in the middle. They sat down to eat with Jesus, 290 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 2: but they didn't even do what they sat down to do, 291 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 2: because while he was breaking the bread, the process of 292 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 2: the way that he broke the bread revealed his presence 293 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 2: to them. God is in the process. 294 00:17:55,680 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 3: And the gift is in the middle. 295 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 2: Today, you will be with me in Paradise. What an 296 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:11,400 Speaker 2: awesome promise to that thief but I got a better 297 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 2: one for you, because that's pretty good, right. I mean, 298 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 2: come on, you're a dying thief and you're trying to 299 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 2: slip in before the door closes. You're trying to get 300 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 2: on Noah's ark and it's already halfway out in the water, 301 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 2: and with your drowning, dying breath, you half heartedly make 302 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 2: a request just in case it works and that guy 303 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 2: got in. Okay, today you will be with me in paradise. 304 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,439 Speaker 2: But God has made you a better promise for he 305 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 2: says to each one of us. 306 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 1: Today, help me. 307 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 2: Say God, not today you will be with me in paradise, 308 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:03,680 Speaker 2: but today I will be with you in the process. 309 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:09,360 Speaker 2: You see, to me, that's even better. That I have 310 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:16,679 Speaker 2: not only his statement, but I have his spirit. I 311 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:22,199 Speaker 2: am sealed with a guarantee that He is with me, 312 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 2: not just when I raised my hand, not just when 313 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 2: I went down in the baptismal waters. 314 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: That was awesome. Your wedding was beautiful, and. 315 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,400 Speaker 2: We all appreciate so much the catering service. 316 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 1: But we're not waiting, please, like God. 317 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 2: Left you on earth to wait to go to heaven. 318 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 1: Have you noticed that so much of what. 319 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:46,199 Speaker 2: We talk about in terms of salvation has to do 320 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:51,360 Speaker 2: with us getting out of here, like Christianity is God's. 321 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 1: Cosmic evacuation plan. 322 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 3: But what out. 323 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 2: The middle? See the gift is in the middle. Can 324 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 2: I show you something Peter said one time? Peter knew 325 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 2: something about the middle because one time he was in 326 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 2: the middle of the sea, in the middle of the storm. 327 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:18,159 Speaker 2: All of a sudden, in the middle of the sea, 328 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 2: in the middle of the storm, here comes somebody walking 329 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 2: toward him. And he's not quite sure, but he thinks 330 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 2: it might just be Jesus. So he cries out in 331 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:33,160 Speaker 2: the middle of the sea, in the middle of the storm, 332 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 2: if it's. 333 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: You, tell me to come. 334 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 2: And he gets out the boat and he does pretty good, 335 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,160 Speaker 2: and by the time he gets where he's going, God 336 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 2: reaches down and grabs him. That's a picture of the 337 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 2: grace to get started and the grace that will be 338 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 2: there in the end. 339 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:50,399 Speaker 1: But what about the middle. 340 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 2: He was walking on water above what could have killed him, 341 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,879 Speaker 2: and all of a sudden in the wind and the 342 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 2: waves on the right and the left caused him to 343 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:06,959 Speaker 2: lose his focus. 344 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 3: On the man in the middle, and he sinks. 345 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 2: And so Peter says, sometimes you are so focused on 346 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 2: what's behind you. I'm preaching to somebody, and you are 347 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:22,879 Speaker 2: so focused and concerned and anxious about what's ahead of you, 348 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 2: you are missing the presence of God. He is not 349 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,919 Speaker 2: the great I was, and he is not the great. 350 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:30,639 Speaker 1: I will be. He is the. 351 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 2: Great I am, and his presence is not just what 352 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 2: heaven one day. The Kingdom of God is that hand. 353 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:39,680 Speaker 6: He's here. 354 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 3: In the middle. 355 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:47,719 Speaker 2: And a little later in his life, Peter was writing 356 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,359 Speaker 2: to a persecuted church who was going through a fiery trial, 357 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,439 Speaker 2: and they were in the middle of it, and he 358 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 2: said to them, this is like one Peter one, verse nine. 359 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:03,639 Speaker 2: He said, you are receiving I've been studying this all week. 360 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 2: I hope you'll like this as much as I did. 361 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,120 Speaker 2: Sometimes it's tough because I've been thinking about it all week, 362 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 2: and you have a real job and real bills, and 363 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 2: I'll just get up here trying to tell you this stuff. 364 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 3: And I don't know if. 365 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 2: You see it, But he said, you are receiving the 366 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:25,879 Speaker 2: end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 367 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 3: What was he saying? 368 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 2: One day it will be complete and there will be 369 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:35,880 Speaker 2: no need. But you don't have to wait until one 370 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 2: day when children show us how to do this better 371 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 2: than because adults are so goal focused, and we think 372 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,639 Speaker 2: that things have to be a certain way before we 373 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 2: can enjoy God's presence, before we can enjoy what God's 374 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 2: given us. So we set certain destinations in our mind. 375 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 2: When it gets like that, then I'll be complete. 376 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 3: But God wants to teach you how to. 377 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 2: Get it in the middle. I believe this is life changing. 378 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:19,440 Speaker 2: I believe this is life changing. I was riding my bike. 379 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 2: We don't do this much, just on vacation. I'm scared 380 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 2: to ride my bike on the road the way some 381 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 2: of y'all drive with elevation church stickers on your car. 382 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 2: Scare me to death. But we were riding through. 383 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 3: We were riding. We were riding. 384 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:36,879 Speaker 2: We were on family vacation and we had rented bicycles, 385 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 2: and we were riding to a restaurant and it started 386 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,120 Speaker 2: raining outside, and I started going through all this negative 387 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 2: cycle of emotions about the rain, and I knew it 388 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 2: was going to rain, and I told Holly was going 389 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:49,680 Speaker 2: to rain, and she. 390 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 3: Said it wasn't going to rain. 391 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 2: And I was raining, and we're too far to turn 392 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:54,119 Speaker 2: around and go back home. 393 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: And so now we got to ride in the rain. 394 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 3: All of a sudden, I see Elijah. 395 00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,959 Speaker 2: He pulls around me, and he shouts at the top 396 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 2: of his lungs, epic because he saw a mud puddle. 397 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:12,400 Speaker 2: And for him, the mud puddle looked like the perfect 398 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:19,399 Speaker 2: thing to aim at riding in the rain. Now to 399 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 2: me it was annoying. To him, it was epic. I 400 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 2: was already steering to go around it, and he was 401 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 2: going right. When I thought about that picture, I thought 402 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:36,639 Speaker 2: about some of you going to work this week, and 403 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:46,200 Speaker 2: I saw you not aiming around the thing that you see. 404 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,159 Speaker 2: They don't want me to preach like this, because we 405 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 2: just want to talk about heaven and the streets of gold. 406 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 2: And when we get there one day, when I'm flying 407 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 2: around with wings and me and Anthelm are drinking hot. 408 00:24:58,240 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 1: Tea and the southphires. 409 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:04,399 Speaker 2: No, it's here, and now it's in the Monday and 410 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:08,959 Speaker 2: the mundane. It's in the mud, It's in the dirtiest 411 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,119 Speaker 2: in the See. God is a gardener. He likes to 412 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 2: get down in the mud, down in the dirt, down 413 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 2: in the disappointment. God is in the middle. The gift 414 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:19,919 Speaker 2: is in the middle. 415 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,160 Speaker 1: I see you riding your bike. I see you puddling 416 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: through the puddle this week. 417 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,919 Speaker 2: I'm not going around it, Grace, look at me, Thirling. 418 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:29,359 Speaker 5: It's in the middle. 419 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 1: Shout somebody. 420 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 2: Colors so sleepy. All right, let me illustrate this. Come here, Jonathan, 421 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:40,960 Speaker 2: and I'm coming coming, Come and come and come and 422 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,880 Speaker 2: come here, Jonathan, Come here. Do you remember write this down? 423 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 2: This is point number two. I'm closing real quick because 424 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 2: I know y'all got to go and I don't want 425 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,160 Speaker 2: to stop. But if this is number two in my message, 426 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,880 Speaker 2: So if you need to leave, if you've got something 427 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:53,720 Speaker 2: to do, leave right now, because I'm in the middle, 428 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:55,680 Speaker 2: and when I get to the end, it's gonna be 429 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 2: worth it. But this is the middle of my message. Now. 430 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,399 Speaker 2: I was thinking about an ill stration. Some of you 431 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 2: will remember it that I preached this illustration. I was 432 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,159 Speaker 2: trying to illustrate, can you'll help me? I was you 433 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 2: be cleo, you be cleat, and I. 434 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:21,880 Speaker 3: Was preaching on confidence, and I talked about how far 435 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:22,640 Speaker 3: I feel like. 436 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:28,439 Speaker 2: I have to go, and then I exactly sit down, 437 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,199 Speaker 2: sit down, he says, sit out, He's got me. 438 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 1: Come here, come here, he's got me. 439 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 2: You got somebody else still in this road that can 440 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 2: help to okay, okay, come on, come on, because he 441 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 2: said he said, he said my point before I could 442 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 2: say it, So I figured he should help me. 443 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:41,640 Speaker 3: With this illustration. 444 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 1: And this guy, this is perfect. 445 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:48,399 Speaker 2: You know how perfect this is because not only is 446 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 2: the gift in the middle, but watch my second point. 447 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 2: You won't believe this. The goal is in the middle. 448 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 2: And see, man, God knew you needed to help me 449 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 2: with this. Com So come come, come here, come all 450 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 2: the way, stay right there, stay right there, stay right there. 451 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 2: So we were talking about in that sermon illustration about 452 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 2: how sometimes you have to look back and see how 453 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:22,880 Speaker 2: far God has already brought you. So salvation means I 454 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 2: am not what. 455 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 1: I once was. 456 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 2: How many can say that I am not what I 457 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,920 Speaker 2: once was. But the same time you raise your right hand, 458 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 2: how many of you could lift your left hand and say, 459 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:38,440 Speaker 2: but I'm not what I want to be. 460 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: That's you. 461 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 3: That's you. 462 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 1: You are what I want to be. 463 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,120 Speaker 2: Okay, And I chose you because you're much better looking 464 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 2: than him, to. 465 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: Be what I want to be. And so we talked 466 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 1: about living in the. 467 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:59,920 Speaker 2: Gap and so what I expect when I hear about saltha, 468 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,400 Speaker 2: you know, like in a wedding ceremony, they say, and 469 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:10,640 Speaker 2: the two will be calm, one flesh. Notice they will become. 470 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 2: They will become. But it's not going to happen there 471 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 2: at the ceremony. It's going to happen in the kitchen 472 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 2: when we're trying to decide who does the dishes. 473 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:24,920 Speaker 3: They won't help me preach. 474 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 1: They just want to go to. 475 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 2: Heaven when we all get to her the awesome. But 476 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 2: in the meantime, here I am, and I'm not living 477 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 2: in paradise. 478 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: I'm living in process. 479 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 2: Help me preach, please, or I will leave this stage 480 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 2: right now. 481 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 1: I don't need to know the third point. I know 482 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: it already. 483 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 3: And here I am in the middle and I. 484 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 2: Look back and it's awesome because I'm not what I was. 485 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 2: If anyone is in Christ, he has a new creation. 486 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 2: The old has gone, the newest come. I am not 487 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 2: what I was, And I found out that if I 488 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 2: will walk with God, he will change me and conform 489 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 2: me to the image of Christ. Now my expectation is 490 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 2: watch this, that as I move toward God's purpose for 491 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 2: my life, as I get closer and closer to God, 492 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 2: that this guy will shrink. 493 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 3: Guess what, Let me show you something. 494 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 2: The Bible says that when they recognize Jesus in the 495 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 2: process when he broke the bread and gave the bread, 496 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 2: watch what happened next. Can we go back to Luke 497 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 2: twenty four thirty one, The moment they recognized him, he 498 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 2: disappeared from their sight. 499 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 1: So this is what happens. 500 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 2: And this is going to explain a lot of why 501 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 2: you don't feel like a good Christian, why you don't 502 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 2: feel like you're growing. 503 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. 504 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 2: Salvation is a gift, but it is a gift that 505 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:19,480 Speaker 2: you must grow into. My expectation is that as I 506 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:23,440 Speaker 2: walk with God, and as I make decisions to follow him, 507 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 2: and I make decisions to eliminate certain things from my 508 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 2: life that are causing me to drain energy and focus 509 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 2: that could be applied towards my purpose, that this gap 510 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 2: behind me will get bigger and the gap in front 511 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,480 Speaker 2: of me will get smaller. But guess what God does 512 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,440 Speaker 2: when you take a step, when you make a move, 513 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 2: when I step, you step, watch this God moves too. 514 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 1: You're going to love this gold digger. 515 00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 2: See, in my mind, the goal was stay right there 516 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 2: that this gap goes away. 517 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 1: Here's what God knows. 518 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 2: If you think that you have arrived, arrogance is sure 519 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 2: to follow. 520 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: So what God is gonna do? I need to do this. 521 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: This is version two point zero. 522 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 2: God is gonna make sure that as you grow, when 523 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:28,400 Speaker 2: I step, you step, the gap stays. So you look 524 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 2: back and you say, oh, look, I'm moving forward. But 525 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 2: you look forward and it doesn't feel like you've gone anywhere. 526 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,560 Speaker 2: But I want to let you know you're right where 527 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 2: you need to be. 528 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: See, you need grace for both gaps. 529 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 2: Here. It is the same grace that created this gap 530 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 2: between where I was and. 531 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 1: Where I am. It's the grace I need. 532 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 2: I step you step to keep moving forward. So God 533 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 2: says to everyone who's in the middle of something right now, 534 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 2: in the middle of change, in the middle of process, 535 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 2: in the middle of the coming, in the middle of 536 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 2: a storm, in the middle of the fire, you step less, 537 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:16,920 Speaker 2: step gets stepping, step, stay in the middle, stem, stay 538 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 2: in fame, step, stay in courage, step, stay least, stay. 539 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 1: In my hand, stay in the storm. 540 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 2: I wh you in the time. 541 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:29,680 Speaker 1: God is in the middle. 542 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 3: I'm in the middle. 543 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 2: I need I need both both gaps. I need a 544 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:49,400 Speaker 2: gap that makes me grateful and a gap that makes 545 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 2: me grow. So ye'll better sit down. I gotta start closing, 546 00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:00,480 Speaker 2: and I'm I want to preach about these gaps. I 547 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 2: don't know why it is that we think that the 548 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,080 Speaker 2: first gap is the grace of God and the second 549 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 2: gap is anything but the same grace that did that. 550 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 3: Will do this. 551 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:14,560 Speaker 2: He who began a good work and you will be 552 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:21,600 Speaker 2: faithful to complete it. So the disciples get where they're 553 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 2: going to Amais and God says, oh, you thought that 554 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 2: was the final stop. No, it's just the middle. Oh man, 555 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 2: if you could see your life like God sees your life, 556 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:42,600 Speaker 2: you wouldn't give up in the middle. The good stuff 557 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:49,920 Speaker 2: happens in the middle. I love Netflix because I can 558 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 2: just pause it. And sometimes if the tension is real 559 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,080 Speaker 2: high in a show, I'll pause it not to stop it, 560 00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 2: but I want to see where we're at on the timeline. 561 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:02,880 Speaker 1: Now here's what I know. 562 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:09,520 Speaker 2: If there's unresolved conflict in the show, I want to know, 563 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,839 Speaker 2: Wait a minute, how much time is left? Because if 564 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,719 Speaker 2: we're still in the middle, come on, somebody. 565 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,120 Speaker 1: Your dream is. 566 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,040 Speaker 2: Not over, your purpose is not finished. 567 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 3: This is not the end. 568 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:25,200 Speaker 6: It's just a mass. 569 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 1: We know what the disciples didn't know. We know the 570 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,640 Speaker 1: crosses at the end, we know the grave. 571 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:42,399 Speaker 3: Is it his final destination. It's just a mantle. It's 572 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:43,120 Speaker 3: just the middle. 573 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:52,120 Speaker 2: The gifts is in the middle, The goal is in 574 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:52,680 Speaker 2: the middle. 575 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,600 Speaker 1: I press toward the mark. 576 00:34:55,800 --> 00:35:02,800 Speaker 2: Forgetting what is behind. I will not quit in the middle. 577 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,120 Speaker 2: Encourage somebody next to you. It's just the middle. It's 578 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,400 Speaker 2: just the middle. This is just the middle. This is 579 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:16,600 Speaker 2: not the end. It is just the middle. And I 580 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:23,600 Speaker 2: think it is significant that when they reached Amais and Jesus. 581 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,280 Speaker 3: Revealed his presence. 582 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:32,080 Speaker 2: Through the scars that he suffered for their salvation, he 583 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,480 Speaker 2: disappeared so. 584 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:35,520 Speaker 3: That they would turn around. 585 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,400 Speaker 2: And when they got to the place they thought they 586 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,719 Speaker 2: were going, they found out surprise. 587 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:42,960 Speaker 3: Look at verse thirty two. 588 00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,160 Speaker 2: They got up and they start talking to each other, 589 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,480 Speaker 2: and they said to each other, we're not our hearts 590 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 2: burning within us while he talked with us in the 591 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:02,480 Speaker 2: middle on the road as we went. 592 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:08,479 Speaker 3: In the mill. That's where you get it, that's where 593 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,719 Speaker 3: you grow. That's where he shows. 594 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:17,000 Speaker 2: Up in the middle, in the middle of the night, 595 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:25,319 Speaker 2: when it's just you and pastor pillow and nobody left 596 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:32,200 Speaker 2: the text, you will hear his voice. 597 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:31,640 Speaker 3: In the middle. 598 00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:38,080 Speaker 2: Whoever this is for, and whatever you're in the middle of, 599 00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,919 Speaker 2: I want you to look at the cross again, because 600 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,560 Speaker 2: the Bible says that what they thought was the end 601 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:50,279 Speaker 2: emaeis where they intended to stay in disappointment and eat 602 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,719 Speaker 2: some bread and go to bed. Once they saw who 603 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,839 Speaker 2: was with them all along and realized what had been 604 00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,600 Speaker 2: happening along the road that seemed to them trivial in 605 00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:04,920 Speaker 2: something as mundane as a seven mile walk, they turned around, 606 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,440 Speaker 2: they got up, and they returned at once to Jerusalem. 607 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,040 Speaker 2: And you thought this series seven mile miracle was about 608 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:14,960 Speaker 2: the first seven miles, and you thought salvation was just 609 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:20,240 Speaker 2: about God getting you out. But the second seven miles 610 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:27,720 Speaker 2: is when you turn back around and stop running from. 611 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:29,640 Speaker 3: What God saved you out of. 612 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:36,600 Speaker 2: And start running toward what God saved you for. 613 00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:44,120 Speaker 6: And they got up at once in a moment and 614 00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:48,880 Speaker 6: returned to Jerusalem. 615 00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,680 Speaker 2: This may be the strongest message on salvation that God 616 00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:56,200 Speaker 2: has ever given me, because when I looked at the 617 00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:00,319 Speaker 2: cross where he died, and I realized. 618 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,760 Speaker 3: That he died on a hill called Galgatha. 619 00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:09,480 Speaker 2: Which is the place of the skull in Hermaic, and 620 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:13,120 Speaker 2: on one side of him was one thief, and on 621 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:17,359 Speaker 2: one side of him was another and the cross that 622 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,400 Speaker 2: brought our salvation was right. 623 00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:27,440 Speaker 3: There in the middle. I realized. 624 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,560 Speaker 2: That the way that he died is symbolic of the 625 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:37,280 Speaker 2: way that I now live. I am crucified with Christ. 626 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:44,319 Speaker 2: Nevertheless I live yet not I, but Christ lives in me. 627 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:49,120 Speaker 2: And the life that I now live, I now live. 628 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,240 Speaker 1: It is here now. 629 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,000 Speaker 2: If you're looking for the grace of God, don't look 630 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:58,480 Speaker 2: to your deathbed, and don't look to your past. 631 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:02,480 Speaker 1: He is the great I am. 632 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,239 Speaker 2: If you're looking for the grace of God, put your 633 00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:11,399 Speaker 2: eyes on that middle cross between two thieves. On your left, 634 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:15,640 Speaker 2: you'll see your past. On your right, you'll see your future. 635 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,479 Speaker 2: But don't look at your past. You're not going that way, 636 00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,399 Speaker 2: And don't even worry about your future. God is already there. 637 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,480 Speaker 2: If you're looking for the grace of God, it's in 638 00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:32,280 Speaker 2: the middle. How need somebody to praise God right here, 639 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:37,000 Speaker 2: right now for his grace in the middle. 640 00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,600 Speaker 1: He is with me in the middle. He is with 641 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:47,440 Speaker 1: in the middle. 642 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,800 Speaker 2: And maybe stand please, Maybe it's not about God getting 643 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:58,480 Speaker 2: me out. Maybe the reason he died is because he 644 00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,719 Speaker 2: wanted to get in. 645 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,480 Speaker 3: Your faith is hanging between two thieves. 646 00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:16,000 Speaker 2: What was is gone what will be is unknown. If 647 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,120 Speaker 2: you're looking for the grace of God, if you're looking 648 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:24,240 Speaker 2: for the glory of God, the glory is in the middle. 649 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:28,080 Speaker 1: I know it's in the. 650 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:34,719 Speaker 2: Middle because when Shadrak, mishak can a Beenda Gole got 651 00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:36,880 Speaker 2: thrown in the fire, God didn't get them out of 652 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:41,319 Speaker 2: the fire, but lated not when the flames were at 653 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:42,880 Speaker 2: their highest, seven times. 654 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:43,920 Speaker 3: Hotter than they normally. 655 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:47,560 Speaker 2: Were, because they would not bow before the Babylonian king. 656 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,759 Speaker 2: The scripture says that a fourth man went in the 657 00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:52,560 Speaker 2: furnace with the three who were thrown in. 658 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:54,239 Speaker 3: God didn't get them out. 659 00:40:56,400 --> 00:41:05,640 Speaker 2: He got in the middle with them. Now, if you 660 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,960 Speaker 2: know this message is for your soul, just raise your 661 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:09,319 Speaker 2: hand if you know it's for your soul. 662 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:11,440 Speaker 3: I want. 663 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,960 Speaker 2: I want the same grace that got me out of 664 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:22,440 Speaker 2: my sin to lead me into everything that God saved 665 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:26,920 Speaker 2: me for. I want to learn to see His power, 666 00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:31,839 Speaker 2: not just in my perfection. I mean even the thought 667 00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:34,839 Speaker 2: that I'm going to reach that on this earth is ridiculous. 668 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,960 Speaker 3: I want God's presence in the process. 669 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:44,439 Speaker 2: When he took it, he blessed it, he broke it, 670 00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:49,680 Speaker 2: and gave it. And that's where they in the middle 671 00:41:51,280 --> 00:42:00,000 Speaker 2: common middle, mundane middle. The miracle is in the middle, 672 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,120 Speaker 2: not when you get out, but while you are in it. 673 00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:07,960 Speaker 2: I know you're still struggling with the addiction man, And 674 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,560 Speaker 2: I know even your wife doesn't. 675 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,000 Speaker 3: Know because you're scared to tell her. 676 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:14,359 Speaker 2: God is with you in the middle, not just when 677 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:15,800 Speaker 2: you've been five years clean. 678 00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:18,880 Speaker 1: God is with you in the pig pen. He is 679 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:20,480 Speaker 1: with you in the middle. 680 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,920 Speaker 3: And the same grace that stayed. 681 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,480 Speaker 2: With you in the pig pen is going to bring 682 00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:26,919 Speaker 2: you out. 683 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,279 Speaker 1: Don't you dare quit. This is just the middle. This 684 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:31,280 Speaker 1: is just the middle. 685 00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:38,480 Speaker 3: This is just the middle. God is with you in 686 00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:39,000 Speaker 3: the middle. 687 00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:46,520 Speaker 2: Well, his presence is here. John said, I looked and 688 00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:50,960 Speaker 2: saw a throne in This is a beautiful picture because 689 00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:54,920 Speaker 2: he said that the throne was sitting in the middle 690 00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:56,960 Speaker 2: of praise. 691 00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:58,920 Speaker 3: I want us to do something right now. 692 00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:04,360 Speaker 2: This may be a little uncomfortable for you, but the 693 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:08,400 Speaker 2: reason you've been feeling stressed out and worn out, and 694 00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,839 Speaker 2: the reason you've been trying to do what Jesus did 695 00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,520 Speaker 2: not do on the cross, which is save himself. The 696 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,800 Speaker 2: reason you've been trying, the reason you've been so strained, 697 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,360 Speaker 2: and the reason that you've been so drained is because 698 00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,920 Speaker 2: you've been trying to save yourself and you've been at 699 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:26,880 Speaker 2: the center. If you are looking for the peace of God, 700 00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,759 Speaker 2: if you are looking for the power of God, if 701 00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:33,080 Speaker 2: you are looking for the presence of God, it's in 702 00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:33,640 Speaker 2: the middle. 703 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:36,399 Speaker 3: And for him to be in the middle, you can't 704 00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:36,879 Speaker 3: stay there. 705 00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:51,280 Speaker 2: So lift your hands, say glory and praise, power and strength. 706 00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:55,480 Speaker 2: This is what they're singing in heaven around the throne. 707 00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:59,680 Speaker 3: Worthy is the Lamb of God. We're singing it now. 708 00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:06,160 Speaker 2: Salvation belongs to our God, to the Lamb who sits 709 00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:15,719 Speaker 2: on the throne, the power to Minion, majesty forever and ever. 710 00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:27,160 Speaker 2: Put him at the center for it despite grace. You 711 00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:32,920 Speaker 2: have been said through faith, not of yourselves. It is 712 00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:36,759 Speaker 2: the gift of God. Come on, if you're in the 713 00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:38,840 Speaker 2: middle of a storm right now, I need you to 714 00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:42,840 Speaker 2: lift your hands and call on in Glory'll show up 715 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:46,319 Speaker 2: in the middle of your storm, in the middle of 716 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:51,440 Speaker 2: your struggle. Come on, he's in the midst of his people. 717 00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:56,520 Speaker 1: Here have it the graces of this people and thrown 718 00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:57,000 Speaker 1: him out. 719 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:05,520 Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us. 720 00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:08,279 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 721 00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:09,080 Speaker 2: this ministry. 722 00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,840 Speaker 3: Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 723 00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,480 Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give 724 00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:18,719 Speaker 2: now or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more 725 00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:22,560 Speaker 2: information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 726 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:24,160 Speaker 3: You can share it with your friends. 727 00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:26,719 Speaker 2: You can click the share button, take a screenshot and 728 00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:28,879 Speaker 2: share it on your social stories and tag us at 729 00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:29,759 Speaker 2: Elevation Church. 730 00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:36,440 Speaker 3: Thanks again for listening. 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