1 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast and I wanted to 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. 4 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the 6 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: message you are about to Uh, You're about to be 7 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: I want to say inspired, but sometimes we use that 8 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: word incorrectly. You think it just means to have a 9 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: feel good feeling. You are about to hear an incredible 10 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: word from God from someone who I greatly respect in ministry, 11 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: Pastor Robert Madeu. He's going to come and share with 12 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: us in just a moment. He is one of the Uh, 13 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 1: let me think, I want to say this now, one 14 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,239 Speaker 1: of the one of the Sometimes you get people who 15 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: are good preachers and sometimes you get people who are 16 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 1: nice people, and sometimes you get both in one package. 17 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: He is both, and I thank God for he and 18 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: his wife Taylor. God is using them all around the world. Uh. 19 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 1: Pretty much any given day that you wake up, you 20 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: can guarantee that somewhere he's blessing somebody in a different 21 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 1: time zone than you. God has taken him all over 22 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:13,680 Speaker 1: the world. But he is a good person too. Don't 23 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: you like good people? Yeah, it's good. And he's very 24 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: committed to this thing that we do to preach the 25 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: Gospel of Jesus Christ. What I told him was that 26 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: at eleven thirty the real Christians, the people with extra 27 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 1: Bible depth and sensitivity to the Holy Spirit of God, 28 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: come to church. And I said, if you want to 29 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,839 Speaker 1: just save all the good stuff for eleven thirty, they'll 30 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: be ready for you at eleven thirty. So can we 31 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: make some noise at all of our locations, elevation, let's 32 00:01:47,880 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: welcome to this stage, Pastor Robert made. Wow, Come on, elevation. 33 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: Can we make some noise for Jesus today? Oh, come on, 34 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 1: this is the day that the Lord has made. Come 35 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 1: on across every location. Let us rejoice and be glad 36 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: in it, and he glad. People in the house, whoa hallelujah? Hey, 37 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 1: will you do me a favor before you take your seat, 38 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: would you just look at your neighbor. You're tired of 39 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 1: talking to your neighbor yet? Come on, do you like 40 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: the person you're standing next to? Come on, get in 41 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: their face, getting their personal space. Across every campus, and 42 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 1: just say, neighbor, I've got a feeling that this is 43 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: gonna be a good service. Just in case that neighbor 44 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 1: was stuck up, find another neighbor, Find another neighbor. Come on, 45 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: say other neighbor. You're my second option, but I want 46 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 1: you to know I've got a feeling this is gonna 47 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: be a good service. Come on, if you believe that, 48 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 1: I think, give God one more standing ovation of praise. Hallelujah. 49 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 1: You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. 50 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 1: Don't get comfortable. You might be back up again. Come on, 51 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:16,919 Speaker 1: come on, I'll I'll say what I always say. I'm 52 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,799 Speaker 1: not just excited to be at Elevation Church. I am 53 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: red bull excited, expresso elated. I've been waiting. I've been 54 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: waiting to get my chocolate faced back in the place. 55 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: I absolutely hear me, positively, love love, love this church. 56 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: I'm from the great country of Texas. But the Elevation 57 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: Church will mess you up. Elevation will have you looking 58 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: on Zillo and trying to find a house in Charlotte. 59 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: Come on, how many know you are ridiculously blessed to 60 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: be a part of this church. This is absolutely amazing 61 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: and not only that you're crazy blessed to have Pastor 62 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: Stephen Ferdick and Holly Ferdick as your pastor as your leaders. Oh, 63 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 1: come on, y'all can do better than that. I come 64 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: on across every campus. I want you to make some 65 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 1: noise if you know. God loves you too much. And 66 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: I know preachers always say stuff, and this is not 67 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: a platitude for me. There's so many things I could say. 68 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: He's one of the greatest communicators of the Gospel on 69 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 1: the planet and incredible leader, writes songs that reverberate around 70 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: the nation. But I think I think I love the 71 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 1: most about Pastor Stephen and Holly is that they're amazing 72 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: up close. You know what I mean by that. Some 73 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: people you love from a distance, but man, I'm telling you, 74 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 1: when you get up close, it's amazing to see their 75 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 1: hearts for people. And he can have any body on 76 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: planet Earth in this poolpit. So I'm extremely honored, and 77 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: it ought to be Pastor Appreciation Minute at elevation because 78 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: y'all are crazy blessed. Come on one more time, would 79 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 1: you let them know how much you love them, how 80 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,840 Speaker 1: much you appreciate them. Thank God for y'all. I am 81 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: here with my super dupe. My fine wife, Taylor Madou 82 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: is in the building. I preach better when she's here, 83 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 1: so it's gonna be good. And uh, this is almost 84 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,840 Speaker 1: like a honeymoon for us because our three kids are 85 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 1: at home. Hallelujah. They are with the grandparents. And uh, 86 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:18,559 Speaker 1: I know how some preachers they always put up pictures 87 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: of their kids because they think they got the cutest 88 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:22,280 Speaker 1: kids and they wanted everybody to see how cute their 89 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: kids are. I am not that preacher. It's about me 90 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: preaching Jesus, not you seeing my kids. You ain't got 91 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: to worry about me putting them on the screen. We good, 92 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 1: we good. That's not true if y'all don't put my 93 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: kids on earth screen up in here. Hey, come on, elevation, 94 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: I made that. May that come on? That is my 95 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: four year old daughter ev. That is my two year 96 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: old son, Robert mdou, the third, my manchild and our 97 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: newest and last edition. Hello Remington O Lane. She's just 98 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: one years old. And I put up the picture all 99 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,279 Speaker 1: the time because fatherhood is the best hood. It's not 100 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:02,840 Speaker 1: like being a dad. But hey, I'm excited to share 101 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: the word. I want to jump straight into it. Do 102 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: you have a Bible with you? Come on, you got 103 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: a Bible which you waving in the air like you 104 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 1: just do care across every campus, every location. Also, some 105 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 1: of your bibles are glowing. You're charged to your Bible today. 106 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 1: I want to look at mark chapter five if we can. 107 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: Mark Chapter five, Verses twenty one through forty three. Quite 108 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: a bit of scripture, but I need all of it 109 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: for you to get the context of where we're going. 110 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: Mark chapter five, starting a verse number twenty one, and 111 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: then we'll land in verse forty three. When you're ready 112 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: to read it, say yeah. If you need some time 113 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 1: to find us, say hold up, it's a desperate hold up. 114 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: I'll wait for you. Verse twenty one. It says when 115 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other 116 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him 117 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: while he was by the lake. Then one of the 118 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 1: synagogue leaders named Gyris came, and when he saw Jesus, 119 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,720 Speaker 1: he fell at his feet. He pleaded earnestly with him, 120 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 1: My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your 121 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 1: hands on her so that she will be healed and live. 122 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: So Jesus went with him. A large crowd followed and 123 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 1: pressed around him, and a woman was there who had 124 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered 125 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: a great deal under the care of many doctors and 126 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: had spent all she had, Yet instead of getting better, 127 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came 128 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: up behind him in the crowd and touched his clothes 129 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 1: because she thought, if I just touch his clothes, I 130 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: will be healed. Immediately, her bleeding stopped, and she felt 131 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: in her body that she was free from her suffering. 132 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: At once, Jesus realized that power had gone out from him, 133 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: and he turned around in the crowd and asked, who 134 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: touched my clothes? You see the people crowding against you. 135 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: His disciples answered, and yet you can ask who touched me. 136 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 1: But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 137 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came 138 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 1: and fell at his feet, and, trembling with fear, told 139 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: him the whole truth. And he said to her, daughter, 140 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 1: your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be 141 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 1: freed from your suffering. While Jesus was still speaking, some 142 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: people came from the house of Gyrus, the synagogue leader, 143 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: your daughter is dead, they said, why bother the teacher anymore? 144 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: Overhearing what they said, one version says ignoring what they said, 145 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: Jesus told him, don't be afraid, just believe. He did 146 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 1: not let anyone follow him except Peter James and John, 147 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: the brother of James. And when they came to the 148 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion with 149 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 1: people crying and well and loudly. He went in and 150 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: said to them, why all the commotion and welling? The 151 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 1: child's not dead but asleep, But they laughed at him. 152 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: After he put them all out, he took the child's 153 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: father and mother and the disciples who were with him, 154 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:50,679 Speaker 1: and went in where the child was. He took her 155 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 1: by the hand and said to her, talitha coomb, which 156 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 1: means little girl, I say to you, get up. Immediately, 157 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 1: the girl stood up and began to walk around. She 158 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 1: was twelve years old. At this they were completely astonished. 159 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, 160 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: and then told him don't just stand there and look 161 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 1: at the girl. Go to Chick fil a and get 162 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: us something to eve. Come on, somebody that is good. 163 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 1: All by itself, all by itself in full sermon prep disclosure. 164 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 1: I almost titled this message. I almost titled this message 165 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 1: get Up, because that's a good sermon title, gets up, 166 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,320 Speaker 1: because I thought that was the culmination and the climax 167 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 1: of the miracle when Jesus told this little girl to 168 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: get up. But upon further reflection, I realized that was 169 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 1: a premature title, premature, and I had to back that 170 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: thing up biblically, so Verses forty and forty one. I 171 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: want us to hone in on Verses forty and forty one, 172 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: because remember, Jesus walks in and says, this girl is 173 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 1: not dead, she's just asleep. The Bible says that they 174 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: laughed at him. Wo who is the they? The negative, doubting, hating, unbelieving, faithless, 175 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: cantankerous people in the world. You know, those people that 176 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: light up a room when they walk out, those people 177 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: that for every solution they're gonna find a problem that's today. Okay. 178 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 1: They laughed at him, and it says after he that's 179 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: Jesus put them all out. The Greek suggests that he 180 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:41,439 Speaker 1: physically put all of them out. I don't want to 181 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,200 Speaker 1: mess up with your theology. Or your christology today, because 182 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: you might think that Jesus is just kind and sweet 183 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:51,559 Speaker 1: and loving and caring and he's a good good father, 184 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: and he is, but this text lets me know, don't 185 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 1: get it twisted. He is so so gay because all 186 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:02,959 Speaker 1: of those negative, doubting, unbelieving, faithless people. He said, Oh, 187 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: y'all got to gets you ain't gotta go home, but 188 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:12,680 Speaker 1: you gotta get out of here, savage Jesus. I love 189 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:17,959 Speaker 1: it so before she got up first, some people had 190 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 1: to get out. Elevation Church. What if the power of 191 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: a miracle is not just in the miracle itself, but 192 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 1: rather in the atmosphere and the environment that surrounds your miracle. 193 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 1: You've been telling some things to get up, but perhaps 194 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: this is the season of your life to check your 195 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: environment and start telling some things to gets Oh. I 196 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 1: feel like preaching in here today. Come on, would you 197 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 1: just look at your neighbor and tell them my title, 198 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 1: just say get out? Oh come on, look at another 199 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 1: neighbor like you got attitude and them saying get out, 200 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: not now, but but later. Come on, let's pray long prayer. 201 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 1: Other thank you for your word. Speak to us today, Amen, 202 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: get out the divine intersection and collision of characters in 203 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: this text today immediately gave me a nostalgic parental fatherhood 204 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 1: flashback to November twenty fourteen. I remember it quite vividly 205 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 1: because I was getting ready to leave our home in 206 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 1: Dallas to go preach at a conference, just in anything unusual. 207 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:33,680 Speaker 1: I often leave to go preach at a conference. Except 208 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: this time everything was different. Everything was different because I 209 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: was not just leaving the house as a husband. Now, 210 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: I was leaving the house as a father. Our firstborn daughter, Evie, 211 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,679 Speaker 1: had just entered the world, and I was in that emotional, 212 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 1: precarious predicament of leaving my firstborn daughter for the first time. 213 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 1: And come on, every parent in here will attest to 214 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: the fact that things are different with your first child. Oh, 215 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: come on, there are things that happen with your first 216 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,680 Speaker 1: child that none of your other children, whatever experience. Okay, 217 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 1: Like now, now, Taylor and I we have three kids 218 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: plus a demonic dog. So when I leave the house, now, 219 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: I leave like I got warrants for my rest and 220 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: I take the long route home. Okay. Often often Taylor 221 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: will call me with chaos in the background. She'd be like, Babe, 222 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: where are you I'll go. I'm in traffic. She's like, no, 223 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 1: you in the driveway. I see you come in the 224 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 1: house and help me with this kid. But when is 225 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: your first, it's different, it's different. Your emotional tears are 226 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 1: going this way, slots going the other way. I'm like 227 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 1: that he loves you. I God put you so much. 228 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 1: You is cold, she is small, she is important. I mean, 229 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: I was a mess. I get to the conference. I 230 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: get to the conference, I think it was in Florida, 231 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:52,319 Speaker 1: and I'm about to get up to preach, and I 232 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: got the name of Eddie James is leading worship and 233 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 1: of all songs, of all songs, he's actually singing, You're 234 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 1: a good good father. I was like, norm not just 235 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 1: the mess, said I don't even think I preached. I 236 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 1: just put up a picture of my daughter's at that 237 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: point one, two and three and got in the green 238 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: room afterwards, and the worst leader, Eddie James, comes up 239 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 1: to me. He says, Robert, congrats on your daughter. She's beautiful. 240 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: I said, thank you. I made her. Then said, hey, Eddie, 241 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: you know, my daughter Evey might not have ever been 242 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: born if it wasn't for you. Eddie looked at me 243 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: like I had lost my mind. I said, Eddie, you 244 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 1: probably don't remember this, but in December two thousand and six, 245 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 1: you were scheduled to lead worship and preach at Christ 246 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: for the Nation's Institute in Dallas, Texas. But en route 247 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 1: to Christ for the Nations, your van broke down on 248 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: the side of the road. Eddie goes, I remember that night, 249 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: I said. You picked up the phone and you called 250 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: a man by the name of Adam McCain, and you 251 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: let him know that by the time your van would 252 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: be fixed, there was no way you would make the service, 253 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 1: so regrettably you had to cancel. Adam McCain got off 254 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 1: the phone with you and looked at a room full 255 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 1: of people and said, Eddie, James just canceled for our 256 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 1: Tuesday night Bible College chapel. Who in the world can 257 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 1: we get last minute to fill? His spy in that 258 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: room was a man by the name of Brian Meng. 259 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: He lifts up his hand and says, I just heard 260 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: this young guy named Robert Madoo preach. He's local, maybe 261 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: he can do it. All of a sudden, my phone 262 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: rings and a voice on the other line says, is 263 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: this pastor Robert Madou? I say yes it is, says Robert. 264 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 1: I know this is last minute, this is crazy, but 265 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: we've just had a cancelation for our Tuesday Night Bible 266 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: College Chapel. Is there any way you could come and 267 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 1: speak to our young people? Now? Keep in mind during 268 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: this time of my life, I myself am a Bible 269 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: college student at Southwestern the Symblers of God University. So 270 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: I said to Adam McCain, you know what it seems 271 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 1: like yesterday I was a Bible college student myself. What 272 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 1: an honor it would be to come in part to 273 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 1: your young people. Drove from sad Good to see if 274 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: and I I'm about to get up and preach. But 275 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: before I get up, they say, it's Tuesday night, So 276 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 1: it's time for our Tuesday night testimony video. We're gonna 277 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 1: show a video of a student in our body whose 278 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: life has been changed by Jesus Christ. And all of 279 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: a sudden, on the screen comes the finest girl with 280 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: the strongest Arkansas accent I have ever heard, and she 281 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 1: starts telling her story of Jesus changing her life. Don't 282 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 1: meet the girl. I'm at my school the next day, 283 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 1: a girl test me in my shoulder. She goes, hey, Robert. 284 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: I said, it's Pastor Robert Madieu. Now. She goes, was 285 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 1: that you that I saw last night at Christ's Nations 286 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: getting up to preach? I said, yeah, they called me 287 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 1: last minute. They had a cancelation. She goes, Oh my goodness, 288 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: Oh my good Did you see the girl on the 289 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: screen telling her testimony before you preach? I said, yes, 290 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: I did. She said, I've known her for years. I've 291 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: known you for years, and I always thought that you 292 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: two would be perfect for each other. But I never 293 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: said anything but the fact that you were there preaching 294 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: and they showed her video. You tube have got to meet, 295 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 1: I said, Addie. The next week, that girl and I 296 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: went on our very first day at the Illustrious International 297 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 1: House of Bandcakes, I said, Addie. To make a long 298 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: story short, that girl's name was Taylor Mitchell is now 299 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: Taylor Mediou. We did what married people do, Evie. Is 300 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: the evidence of that. Eddie. I am so glad your 301 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:07,879 Speaker 1: van broke down on the side of the world, and 302 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: I share that story today, first of all, get some 303 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: hope to the single people, but also to say, who 304 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:26,879 Speaker 1: in the world would have ever thought that Eddie and 305 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:31,160 Speaker 1: my ev were connected because their connection is not one 306 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: that is easily seen on the surface. But once you 307 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 1: begin to peel back the layers and dig down deep 308 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: into the archaeological value of a person's life, it becomes 309 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: so clear that none of us get to live our 310 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: lives in autonomy, which is me, myself and I. But 311 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: how many you know? All of us are connected. We 312 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 1: are deeply connected. Miracles merge with miracles, Testimonies touch each other, 313 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:58,640 Speaker 1: our stories intersect. Whether you like the person sitting next 314 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 1: to you or not, all of us are deeply and 315 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: intrinsically connected. Oh yes, our lives are not straight lines. 316 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: Our lives are actually links. We are all connected. And 317 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 1: then it frustrates you when people you love don't understand 318 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 1: this premise, and they got the nerve to tell you, 319 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 1: don't worry about me, don't worry about me. You do you. 320 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do me. You do you, I'm gonna do me. 321 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: And you want to look at them and say, well, 322 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:25,640 Speaker 1: you doing you is affecting me because all of us 323 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 1: are deeply Oh we're connected. We're connected, So don't find 324 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 1: it strange and Mark chapter five. Mark begins by talking 325 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 1: about the synagogue leader by the name of Gyros but 326 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 1: in the middle of Gyros's story, we're abruptly interrupted with 327 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: the story of a woman with the issue of blood. 328 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:45,640 Speaker 1: And the reason Mark Hat strategically sandwiched these two story 329 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:50,200 Speaker 1: together is because the two of them are connected, deeply connected. 330 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 1: In fact, to talk about Gyros the synagogue leader and 331 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 1: never discuss the woman with the issue of blood is 332 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: really to do an injustice to the integrity of this text. 333 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 1: Because the two of them are connected. It so connected. Now, 334 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:03,679 Speaker 1: not on the surface, not on the surface. If you 335 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:05,640 Speaker 1: just look at the surface of their lives, they cannot 336 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 1: be more opposite. Come on, if you look at the surface, 337 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: one of these things is not like the other. Come on, 338 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 1: let's just start with biology, one on one. Gyros is 339 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 1: a man. She is a woman. Hello hoo. Gyros is 340 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:18,119 Speaker 1: named in the text. The Bible doesn't even give us 341 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: this woman's name. Gyros was honored and respected. This woman 342 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:26,879 Speaker 1: has been shamed and rejected. Gyros is a ruler in 343 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: the synagogue. This woman can't even come near the synagogue 344 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: because her sickness has made her ceremonially unclean. Gyrus is 345 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,640 Speaker 1: actually affluent. He's got some money in the bank. This 346 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 1: woman is broke. Busted and disgusted and has spent all 347 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 1: she had on worthless physicians who have made her worse 348 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:44,679 Speaker 1: instead of better. Let me bring the text to the 349 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: twenty first century. Gyrous is driving the bands, this woman 350 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,719 Speaker 1: is riding the bus. They have nothing in common on 351 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: the peripheral, but yet life has put them in the 352 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: exact same place, posture, and position because they both have 353 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:02,399 Speaker 1: been hit with something that they cannot handle. How many no? 354 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,360 Speaker 1: Life will do that. Life has a way of evening 355 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 1: the playing field. Life is an equal opportunity employer. Life 356 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:12,719 Speaker 1: will hit you upside the head with some stuff that'll 357 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 1: make you scratch your hand, that'll take your breath away. 358 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:18,400 Speaker 1: Life will hit you with stuff come on that your 359 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 1: money can't fix, Your degrees, can't fix your Instagram followers 360 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,479 Speaker 1: can't fix. Life will hit an atheist with some stuff 361 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: that'll make him throw up his hands and say, the 362 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:31,120 Speaker 1: Lord is in this place. Life will hit you with 363 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 1: some stuff you cannot handle. And might I suggest that 364 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 1: if life is hit you with something that you cannot handle, 365 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: how many no? That thing is a job for Jesus. 366 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 1: That's time for you to throw up your hands and say, God, 367 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 1: I don't know what to do about this, But surely 368 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 1: you know what to do. Oh look at Gyrus in 369 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 1: this woman. Nothing in common on the surface. Both ended 370 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 1: up in the same place, having to push people out 371 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 1: the way to get an appointment with Jesus. I love 372 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:05,959 Speaker 1: it because now one of them had a pretty pathway 373 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 1: with rose pedals to Jesus. They both had to physically 374 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:13,400 Speaker 1: push people out the way to get an appointment with Jesus. 375 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,240 Speaker 1: Just push. You know, Jivers is a pastor. You're not 376 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,159 Speaker 1: supposed to push people. I can see people coming to 377 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: the Givers saying, hey, I really loved your Shamon the 378 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 1: other day. He's like, you did good move. I'm like 379 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 1: jes A pushing people out the way. This woman is 380 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:29,399 Speaker 1: ceremonially unclean. She's not supposed to be touching people. She 381 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 1: touched everybody. That's no, not pushing people out the way. 382 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: Oh you know why they're pushing. I'll tell you why 383 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: they're pushing. They're pushing because desperate people do desperate things. 384 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 1: Oh come on, how many know when you are really 385 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:46,159 Speaker 1: desperate for God to do something in your life, you 386 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 1: come to church differently, you approach God differently. When you 387 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,440 Speaker 1: are desperate for God to show up, you don't care 388 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,720 Speaker 1: what the traffic is. You'll be in here before the 389 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 1: countdown video. When you are desperate for God to show 390 00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,880 Speaker 1: up in your life, you will lift up your hands 391 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 1: if you will sing the songs, laugh, You don't care 392 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: whose nerves you getting up. When you are desperate for 393 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 1: God to show up, tears will come down your faith. 394 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,360 Speaker 1: You mess up out that Mary Kay and Mac makeup 395 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 1: because there's something you need God to do in your life. 396 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 1: And I'm wondering, are there any desperate people in this 397 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: place that said there is something I need God to 398 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: do in my life that only he convin Oh, come on, 399 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 1: if you ain't desperate, you can be quiet. But if 400 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 1: you're actually desperate, across every campus, I tell you to 401 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 1: give God some praise like this something I'm desperate. Oh 402 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: there's something about desperation, hear me. God will often use 403 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:47,920 Speaker 1: desperation to push you into your purpose. God will often 404 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: use desperation to push you into your destiny. In fact, 405 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: watch this. Desperation is the door that breakthrough walks through. 406 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that again. Desperation is the door that 407 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: breakthrough walks through. Some people wonder how come I hadn't 408 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 1: got my breakthrough you. Sometimes it's because you hadn't got 409 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,880 Speaker 1: downright desperate enough for God to do it in your life, 410 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 1: because desperation will open up doors that complacency will keep shut. 411 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm travel and people will often ask me, Robert, 412 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,920 Speaker 1: where's your favorite place to preach? Your favorite place to preach? 413 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: And to be honest, I struggle to name a place 414 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: because I want to articulate to them that the effectiveness 415 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 1: of preaching and ministry has little to do with an 416 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:32,159 Speaker 1: address or a destination of a place, but everything to 417 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,439 Speaker 1: do with the attitude and the disposition of the people 418 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,439 Speaker 1: that are in the place. Come on, I would rather 419 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,919 Speaker 1: ap preach in a basement with three desperate people than 420 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: to preach on the Bahamas with thousands of bougies, suck 421 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,679 Speaker 1: up people who act like they don't need God to 422 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 1: do anything in their life. But if you give me 423 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 1: some desperate people, miracles will break forward. If you'll give 424 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,680 Speaker 1: me desperate people, signs and wonders will shut. If you'll 425 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:59,160 Speaker 1: give me desperate people, the atmosphere will shift and change, 426 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 1: and God sell himself strong and mighty when you're desperate, 427 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:08,159 Speaker 1: When you're desperate, and it was the Rolling tides of 428 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: desperation that brought Gyrus and this woman watched this both 429 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,639 Speaker 1: at the feet of Jesus. They both ended up at 430 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 1: his feet. I love it. Nothing in common on the surface. 431 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 1: Both ended up at the same place, at the feet 432 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 1: of Jesus. This is a picture of the Gospel and 433 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,399 Speaker 1: the power of the Church that we can come in 434 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: here today across every location, with all of our differences 435 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: of the surface, but we all end up at the 436 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: same place, at the feet of Jesus, saying there's something 437 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: I need you to do in my life. Are you 438 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: bored yet? Because I would love to delve into the 439 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 1: details of their desperation. Gyros gets to Jesus first, and 440 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:50,160 Speaker 1: boy is he desperate. He's desperate because his baby girl, 441 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 1: his little daughter, is dying. She is dying. So when 442 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: he gets to Jesus, he is talking to Jesus with 443 00:24:57,800 --> 00:24:59,880 Speaker 1: the vocal intonation of a nine to one to one caller. 444 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 1: He's saying, jeez, I don't just need you to come 445 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,359 Speaker 1: to the house. I need you to hurry up and 446 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,120 Speaker 1: get to the house. This woman is just as desperate. 447 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 1: But a situation has been going on for a while now. 448 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 1: It's chronic. This bleeding, this hemorrhaging in her body. And 449 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,439 Speaker 1: watch how much Mark the gospel writer wants us to 450 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 1: know that the two of them are connected, because it 451 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 1: just so happens that Gyrus's little girl who is dying 452 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: is twelve years old, and this woman with the issue 453 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 1: of blood has been dealing with it now for twelve years. 454 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:32,359 Speaker 1: They're connected. So you got a twelve year old dying 455 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,919 Speaker 1: daughter and a twelve year old disease. A twelve year 456 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: old dying daughter and a twelve year old disease. So 457 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 1: that means, chronologically speaking, the same year that this little 458 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,719 Speaker 1: girl was born was the exact same year that this 459 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 1: woman was diagnosed with her disease. That means, cinematically speaking, 460 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 1: if Mark Chapter five was a movie and the producers 461 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: of This Is Us were making the movie, this is 462 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 1: the scene in the movie where it would flip from 463 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 1: the feet of Jesus and say twelve years earlier, and 464 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: it would go to a hospital, and coming out in 465 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 1: the hospital would be Gyrous his wife and them holding 466 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,439 Speaker 1: a brand new baby girl, smiling ear to ear with 467 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 1: the full elation of parenthood, and then perhaps walking out 468 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 1: of that same hospital, here's a woman tears coming down 469 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: her face because she's just been diagnosed with a disease 470 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: and the doctors don't even know what to do about it. 471 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 1: And maybe they were in the same hospital that day 472 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 1: but didn't even see each other. Come on, Church, isn't 473 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,960 Speaker 1: it just like life? Sometimes in life you can be 474 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,680 Speaker 1: so preoccupied with your promise or so preoccupied with your 475 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 1: personal pain that you don't even see other people around you. 476 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 1: You can be so excited about what God has done 477 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: in your life, are so disappointed about what hadn't come 478 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,119 Speaker 1: to pass yet, that you are oblivious to other people 479 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 1: around you. And can I suggest in this narcissistic, individualistic, 480 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 1: self resaturated society in which we live, we had forgotten 481 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,399 Speaker 1: rowan to twelve that says you've got to rejoice within 482 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 1: that rejoice, but also weep with those that weep, and 483 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: don't be so concerned about you that you miss other 484 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: people around you. Oh, come on, Thank God for Jesus, 485 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,160 Speaker 1: because the two people that didn't see each other at 486 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 1: the hospital were forced to see each other at the 487 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 1: hem of his garment, And now the two twelves are touching. 488 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,120 Speaker 1: Who somebody say twelve, I'll say it like I had 489 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 1: your coffee, Say twelve how many. You know. You don't 490 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: need a Bible calluge degree. You don't have to be 491 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: a student biblical numerology to know there are some numbers 492 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,879 Speaker 1: in the Bible that God has given you biblical blues 493 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 1: clues that these numbers are a big deal. Okay, twelve 494 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 1: is one of those numbers. Twelve is a big number 495 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: to God. You remember that when God began his covenant 496 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: with his people, a covenant that commenced with the call 497 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 1: of Abraham, continue with Isaac, but culminated in Jacob. You 498 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 1: remember that Jacob had not one, not ten, twelve sons, 499 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 1: representing the power and the authority of God's covenant with 500 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:03,400 Speaker 1: his people. Those twelve sons became the twelve tribes of Israel, 501 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,879 Speaker 1: representing the power and the authority and the strength of 502 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: that nation. You remember in the Old Testament, whenever the 503 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,159 Speaker 1: high priests were going to the Holy of Holies on 504 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: behalf of the people of God, he would stand there 505 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: with a breastplate that had twelve precious stones, representing those 506 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 1: twelve tribes of Israel, and he would stand there in 507 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 1: power and in authority. Come on, you know, our New 508 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 1: Testament high priest, who is Jesus the first time we 509 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,119 Speaker 1: see him teaching in the temple is at the tender 510 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,399 Speaker 1: age of twelve, and they marveled at the wisdom and 511 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,679 Speaker 1: the power and the authority that came out of a 512 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 1: twelve year old. You remember when that twelve year old 513 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 1: turned thirty and he got ready to pick his crew, 514 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 1: his road dolls, his disciples. If it was me, I 515 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 1: would have stopped at eleven. But not Jesus. He said, 516 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 1: I need the hater to come on Judas, and he 517 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 1: picked twelve dudes to roam the earth, and he gave 518 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: him power and authority to heal the sick and the 519 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,720 Speaker 1: cast out. Name of twelve is the number of God's power. 520 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 1: Twelve is the number of God's authority. Do you know 521 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 1: what Jesus is trying to teach us with the twelves. 522 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: He's trying to teach us what he's been trying to 523 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 1: say this the moment he landed on planet Earth. God says, 524 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: I don't care whether it's a blind eye, a death ear, 525 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 1: a withered hand, an issue of blood, a disease, demon, 526 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: possession of storm, or even death itself. There is absolutely 527 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: nothing that you're facing that is not under the jurisdiction 528 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:25,280 Speaker 1: of my power and my authority. I got the power 529 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: and the authority to handle whatever your faci. Oh, somebody 530 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 1: ought to give God some praise today. If you're faithful, 531 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 1: then no matter what comes against you, He's got the 532 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 1: power and the authority to fix it. How far your 533 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 1: neighbors say, he's got the power, he's got the authority. 534 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 1: Why is that important to hear me today? That's so 535 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: important because your awareness of his authority, his authority will 536 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:02,680 Speaker 1: determine how much you receive from him. Your awareness of 537 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 1: God's authority will determine how much you receive from him. 538 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 1: See often we reduce this text just to faith because 539 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,160 Speaker 1: he said, Dodd of your faith has healed you. So 540 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 1: we tell you you gotta get more faith. Give more faith. 541 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: And faith is important. Come on, this is the substance 542 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 1: of things, hope for it's the evidence of things not seeing. 543 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 1: You need faith. Faith is our anchor. But nobody takes 544 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: an anchor and just throws it in the water. You're 545 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 1: gonna lose that anchor. You better connect that anchor to something. 546 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 1: And my faith is connected to his authority, the authority 547 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 1: of his word, the authority of his power. That's what 548 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 1: my faith has got to be connected to. If you 549 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 1: don't believe he's the ultimate authority, how many, No, your 550 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: faith is gonna struggle. Some of you think you got 551 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 1: a faith problem. Now your faith is good. You just 552 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 1: need an awareness of his authority. Because if you don't 553 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 1: believe he's the ultimate authority, your faith is gonna struggle. 554 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 1: Give us some scripture for that, Robert, I give you 555 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 1: some scripture. You remember the disciples, remember when not on 556 00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 1: the boat and the hurricane is going crazy, and Jesus 557 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 1: is chilling accent in the boat, just just sound asleep 558 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 1: on the boat, and the disciples are having a panic, 559 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,640 Speaker 1: And they said, oh, Jesus, don't you call me not 560 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,040 Speaker 1: to die? And I love Jesus. He gets up in 561 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 1: a hurricane, cool, calm and collected with sovereign swags and 562 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,959 Speaker 1: gets up to the edge of the boat in a hurricane, 563 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:25,720 Speaker 1: just peace, be still, and the winds and the waves 564 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: are still in a moment, and all the disciples jaws 565 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 1: were on the floor. They go, who is this man 566 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 1: that even the winds and the waves obey him? They 567 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 1: marveled at his authority. And what did Jesus say to them, Oh, 568 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 1: you of the little faith, your faith is little because 569 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 1: you didn't have an awareness of my authority. If you 570 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,680 Speaker 1: knew who I really was, who I really was, you 571 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 1: should have looked at me when I was asleep on 572 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: the boat and said, who is this man that is 573 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 1: sleeping in a hurricane. If this storm ain't bothering him, 574 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 1: it ain't gonna bother me. Stood over the jeesus, Let 575 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 1: me just cuddle with you, because if you ain't stressed 576 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 1: about this, you must know that in the end, I'm 577 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 1: gonna with Oh, come on, somebody, God is not stressing 578 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 1: about what you're stressing about. He's got power and authority. Oh, somebody, 579 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 1: give God some praise. If you know the power the 580 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:24,719 Speaker 1: authority that is in his hand. I'm telling you you 581 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 1: don't got a faith problem. You got an awareness of 582 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: his authority problem. When you know he's the ultimate authority, 583 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 1: your faith can go to a whole another level. You 584 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 1: think the doctor is the ultimate authority, You think your 585 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,120 Speaker 1: friend is the ultimate you think your cousin and him, oh, 586 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 1: the ultimate authority. Ah, But once you know he's the 587 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 1: ultimate authority, your faith can go to a whole nothing level. Oh, 588 00:32:55,120 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: I gotta hurry, what's it is? Gyrus got a house call? 589 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 1: Because that was his awareness of his authority. Remember, he 590 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,240 Speaker 1: works in the synagogue, he's a pastor. He approaches Jesus 591 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,160 Speaker 1: as a classic pastor. He said, Jesus, please, my daughter's dying. 592 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 1: You gotta come to the house. Hallelujah. Here below is 593 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,760 Speaker 1: already playing in the background, and you gotta come. You 594 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 1: gotta lay hands on He's Pentecostal too. He said, you 595 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 1: gotta lay hands on her because that's the way it works. 596 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,040 Speaker 1: That's my awareness of your authority. So Jesus goes, okay, 597 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 1: I'll go. Because that was his awareness of his authority. 598 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 1: This woman had a whole nother awareness of his authority. 599 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 1: She hadn't been in the synagogue, so she said, Jesz no, 600 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:32,320 Speaker 1: you ain't got to come to my house. I ain't 601 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 1: got time for that. All I gotta do is touch 602 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: to him of your guard man. If I just touched him, 603 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,880 Speaker 1: of your car man, I know I'm gonna be made 604 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 1: whole if I just touched to him. That was her awareness. 605 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 1: That what she got. Oh but how man, you know 606 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,440 Speaker 1: a centurion Matthew chapter eight that had a whole nother 607 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 1: awareness of his authority. That soldier went up to Jesus 608 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 1: and said, I'm a man in authority and under authority. 609 00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,800 Speaker 1: He says, my servant is sick at the house, but 610 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: I'm not worthy for you to come to my house. 611 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: If you'll just speak the word, Jesus, just send a 612 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,800 Speaker 1: voice memo. I believe he'll be healed by you just 613 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:10,640 Speaker 1: speaking the word. And somebody got healed without Jesus laying 614 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 1: hands hold them because somebody understood affording. Oh and what 615 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,839 Speaker 1: did Jesus say to that centurion? Never have I seen 616 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,440 Speaker 1: a faith like this in all of Israel. He marveled 617 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:24,920 Speaker 1: at his say, Jesus, why are you marveling that his faith? 618 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:29,320 Speaker 1: Because he's got an awareness of my authority. This woman 619 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:34,640 Speaker 1: goes for twelve years. Twelve years, I've been approaching people 620 00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,480 Speaker 1: with no authority. I mean no, this is so important 621 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:41,840 Speaker 1: because if you don't believe somebody's the ultimate authority, you'll 622 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:47,080 Speaker 1: doubt the validity of their words. If I don't believe 623 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,799 Speaker 1: you the real authority, I will doubt the validity of 624 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,120 Speaker 1: your words. Come on, think practically been on there. You've 625 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,040 Speaker 1: been on the phone with somebody that you knew was 626 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 1: a mid level employee and they're telling you something that's 627 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: contradictory to exemplary customer service after you get frustrated, if 628 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,759 Speaker 1: you're like, can I please speak to your manager? Can 629 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,600 Speaker 1: I speak to your super advisor? H y'all don't do that. 630 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,360 Speaker 1: Y'all super saved here. Okay, I do that. I speak 631 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,200 Speaker 1: to managers. Okay. This happened to me not too long ago. 632 00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,000 Speaker 1: I had I had a reservation at a hotel that 633 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:15,960 Speaker 1: had been booked for a while, and the girl behind 634 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,400 Speaker 1: the desk was like, I'm sorry, mister mcdode. We're fully committed. 635 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,439 Speaker 1: We're sold out. I try to stay safe. I said, 636 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,120 Speaker 1: hold and I said, this has been booked for several months. 637 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,080 Speaker 1: He's like, no, I'm sorry, We're fully committed. That was 638 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,200 Speaker 1: nice about I said, can I just speak to your manager? 639 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,839 Speaker 1: Can I speak to your supervisor? The manager comes behind 640 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,800 Speaker 1: the door, she goes, girl move, I'm so sorry, mister mcdoud. 641 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,839 Speaker 1: She's new. Here. It is right here. Here's your reservation. 642 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,560 Speaker 1: I'm so sorry for all your trouble. We're gonna upgrade 643 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,399 Speaker 1: you to an executive suite. How did I go from 644 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,840 Speaker 1: about to be on the street to an executive suite 645 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,400 Speaker 1: Because somebody with some power and some authority new with 646 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:52,680 Speaker 1: button to push hope you'll get so annoyed. But I'm 647 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,359 Speaker 1: what they inter me doing to your family, to your 648 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,120 Speaker 1: mind that you threw up your hands and say, I 649 00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,880 Speaker 1: need to speak to us. So I need to speak 650 00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 1: to the dog that fawned me, the aupa, and they 651 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:12,000 Speaker 1: are made the first andthelast. Somebody give him praise. If 652 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:20,920 Speaker 1: you know who is hallelujah. He's got the power, he's 653 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:26,040 Speaker 1: got the authority, he's got the final say. This woman goes. 654 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,160 Speaker 1: For twelve years, I've been speaking to mid level employees. 655 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:36,279 Speaker 1: I demand an appointment with the supervisor. She touched the 656 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:40,919 Speaker 1: hem of his garment. Immediately, She's made whole. Somebody plays 657 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:42,520 Speaker 1: softly behind me. I'll make this sound a whole lot 658 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:52,359 Speaker 1: more spiritual. Watch this her her healing. As awesome as 659 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:56,640 Speaker 1: it was, Don't forget it was actually an interruption to 660 00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:00,400 Speaker 1: Jesus's journey to Jyrus's house. Don't forget who got to 661 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,439 Speaker 1: Jesus first. Gyrous did? He said, Jesus. I can see 662 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,600 Speaker 1: exactly how it went down. He's like, Jesus, please, please, 663 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,480 Speaker 1: can you come to my house? My baby girl is dying. 664 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:11,839 Speaker 1: Jesus says, yes, I'll go. Can you imagine the joy 665 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,480 Speaker 1: that filled Gyrus's heart. When Jesus said, I'll go the 666 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,480 Speaker 1: text is cleared. There's a crowd of people there that day, 667 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,680 Speaker 1: a huge crowd, and time is of the essence, So 668 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,480 Speaker 1: Gyrous's challenges to get Jesus through the crowd to his 669 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,600 Speaker 1: house so his daughter can be healed. I see how 670 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:29,600 Speaker 1: it went down. You know how this is when it's 671 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,040 Speaker 1: a crowd of people in your and hurry, excuse me, 672 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:32,960 Speaker 1: excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. 673 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,279 Speaker 1: And he checks back to make sure Jesus you said okay, good. 674 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,920 Speaker 1: Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. No, 675 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,360 Speaker 1: I got to h first. Move excuse me, excuse me, 676 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,520 Speaker 1: excuse me. Checks me. You're still okay, good, excuse me, 677 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,120 Speaker 1: excuse me, move, excuse me. You're still there, Jesus, okay, good, 678 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:46,480 Speaker 1: excuse me, excuse me. And all of a sudden, the 679 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:50,760 Speaker 1: text will suggests that he loses Jesus in the crowd. 680 00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,759 Speaker 1: Wait a minute, what is he? I told him? I 681 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,360 Speaker 1: taught him this is an emergency. Excuse me, what did 682 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,040 Speaker 1: you know? And he finally finds him in a crowd 683 00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:04,560 Speaker 1: of people talking about who touched me and Joseph, are 684 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:08,440 Speaker 1: you seriously now, I've just told you this is the 685 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:12,200 Speaker 1: emergency you're playing? Twenty one questions what you mean? Who touches? 686 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,799 Speaker 1: Everybody touch her? Oh, don't act like you ain't never 687 00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,680 Speaker 1: been there before. Don't act like you never told Jesus 688 00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,799 Speaker 1: this is an emergency. You need a hurry. They about 689 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,960 Speaker 1: to take my car. You a better hurry, And he 690 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:34,680 Speaker 1: just taken who touched me? We'll wait? Wait? Wild Gyrous 691 00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,920 Speaker 1: is standing there. Who knows how long it takes for 692 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:42,319 Speaker 1: this woman to finally, sheepishly come through the crowd and 693 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:48,160 Speaker 1: says it was me and Jesus The compassionate Savior takes 694 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:53,080 Speaker 1: his time to talk to her, who wild Gyrous is waiting. 695 00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:57,040 Speaker 1: The Bible says that she told him the whole truth. 696 00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:02,440 Speaker 1: Another version says she told him her whole story. She 697 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,400 Speaker 1: told him she ladies, I love you, but have you 698 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,719 Speaker 1: ever had to let me tell you her host? Oh, 699 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,800 Speaker 1: don't be in a hurry, get to a comfortable seat. 700 00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,239 Speaker 1: How lah was this guy get a dude to tell 701 00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:22,080 Speaker 1: you his whole story? He'd be like, I'm good? How 702 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:26,200 Speaker 1: long is this conversation? And I can see the Steve 703 00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:30,160 Speaker 1: coming off of gyruses forehead. Look are you serious? Girl? 704 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,960 Speaker 1: Get your healing in go? Oh, peter yourways running your 705 00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,000 Speaker 1: Mouth's be a good time to tell your boy to 706 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:41,439 Speaker 1: hurry out. Oh, ain't that frustrating? God makes you wait? 707 00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:48,280 Speaker 1: Not only that he had to watch her get her miracle. 708 00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,520 Speaker 1: If it's not frustrating enough to wait on your miracle, 709 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:56,080 Speaker 1: what do you do when you're waiting on your miracle 710 00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:01,000 Speaker 1: and God makes you watch somebody else get theirs? You 711 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:06,840 Speaker 1: got that fake smiling your face like, oh you got here, hallelujah? 712 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:15,600 Speaker 1: Have we Gonnah? It's funny. Tell us you waiting to 713 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:20,560 Speaker 1: be healed, watching other people get healed, waiting to have 714 00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:24,040 Speaker 1: a baby, watching other people post pictures of their baby 715 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:27,359 Speaker 1: on Instagram? What do you do? You've got to wait 716 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,680 Speaker 1: on your miracle and watch somebody else get theirs and 717 00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:33,239 Speaker 1: I found. God will often often make you watch a 718 00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,880 Speaker 1: miracle while you're waiting on a miracle. Not to discourage you, no, 719 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,680 Speaker 1: he's a good, good father, but to encourage you to 720 00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,200 Speaker 1: let you know that if God did it for them, 721 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,279 Speaker 1: oh come on, he can do it for you too. 722 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,160 Speaker 1: He is not a respectable person's If God bless him, 723 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,920 Speaker 1: he can bless you too. That's why you want not 724 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:55,560 Speaker 1: hate on anybody. Don't be jealous of anybody. The same 725 00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,840 Speaker 1: God that did it for them is faithful to do 726 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:07,360 Speaker 1: it for you too. That's good news. I'm glad you 727 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,160 Speaker 1: clapped at that. I'm a preacher. I set you up 728 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,279 Speaker 1: for that clap. I'm sorry because we say that a 729 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:13,799 Speaker 1: lot of God did it for me, he'll do it 730 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,480 Speaker 1: for you too, And it's true. But I think there's 731 00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:20,120 Speaker 1: an erroneous ideology attached to that, because often when we 732 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:21,520 Speaker 1: say if God did it for me, he'll do it 733 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:23,319 Speaker 1: for you too, we think that means he'll do it 734 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:26,600 Speaker 1: in the same way. So if God blessed you with 735 00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,759 Speaker 1: a house, he gonna bless me with a house in 736 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,000 Speaker 1: the same neighborhood and with the same square footage. And 737 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:35,799 Speaker 1: I'm a measure Jesus, so keep it even and do 738 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:37,319 Speaker 1: it for you toobe. But often it won't be in 739 00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,719 Speaker 1: the same way. Because Gyros and this woman hear me 740 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:45,280 Speaker 1: both wanted the same thing. They both wanted healing. Gyros 741 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:51,640 Speaker 1: didn't get a healing, he got a resurrection, which sounds awesome. 742 00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,919 Speaker 1: Don't clap too soon till you remember that the prerequisite 743 00:41:55,960 --> 00:42:01,439 Speaker 1: for resurrection, it's death. Can you imagine how Gyrous's heart 744 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,560 Speaker 1: sunk in his chest? And while he was waiting and watching, 745 00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,400 Speaker 1: they tap him on the shoulder and says, Gyrus, don't 746 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:12,160 Speaker 1: bother the teacher anymore. Your daughter is dead. Oh I 747 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,240 Speaker 1: feel Gyrus's pain, But I realized Girous has horrible friends, 748 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:21,000 Speaker 1: terrible friends hashtag the worst friends ever. Not because they 749 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:22,880 Speaker 1: told him his daughter was dead. That was the facts. 750 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:27,400 Speaker 1: It was the commentary. They added to the facts. They said, Gyrus, 751 00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,440 Speaker 1: why bother I have to use his voice. They annoy me, Gyros, 752 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,759 Speaker 1: Why bother the teacher anymore? Your daughter's dead, Gyrous, Your 753 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,239 Speaker 1: daughter's already dead, and essays Gyrus, This is the time 754 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,600 Speaker 1: to give up, Gyrus, This is the time to throw 755 00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:41,680 Speaker 1: in the towel. Watch out for people in your life 756 00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:43,359 Speaker 1: that are so quick to tell you to give up. 757 00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,360 Speaker 1: Oh what God spoke in your spirit on the promise 758 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:48,799 Speaker 1: he gave you. How you're gonna tell me to give up? 759 00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,440 Speaker 1: This is not your daughter? And how you're gonna tell 760 00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:54,480 Speaker 1: me don't bother the teacher You don't have an awareness 761 00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,359 Speaker 1: of there's annoyed it. He's more than the teacher. He's 762 00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:02,400 Speaker 1: a healer. He's a wam maker's worder. He's no reelection 763 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:08,319 Speaker 1: and the life, no even death itself. He'd stop him. 764 00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:16,719 Speaker 1: Come on, somebody, did God play? He lifted passid No. 765 00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:22,240 Speaker 1: I rather because I think when Gyros got the news, 766 00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,520 Speaker 1: he was so dazed he didn't even want to move anymore. 767 00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,399 Speaker 1: And finally Jesus speaks to him. He says, Gyrus, don't 768 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:32,960 Speaker 1: be afraid, just believe. Don't be afraid, just believing. I 769 00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,439 Speaker 1: think that's when the journey switched. I think that's when 770 00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,560 Speaker 1: Jesus started leading Gyros, saying Jonas, come on, I know 771 00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:40,680 Speaker 1: you think it's so for but family, come on, givers, 772 00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:42,880 Speaker 1: I need you to walk with the same enthusiasm that 773 00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:44,880 Speaker 1: you're happy for. It's not gonna come on, jobs, I 774 00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:46,880 Speaker 1: know where you live, Come on, follow me. This is 775 00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:49,160 Speaker 1: the way it's supposed to be. You're never supposed to 776 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,600 Speaker 1: be leading Jesus. He's supposed to be leading you, and 777 00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:59,480 Speaker 1: you gotta file with your heartbroken walks in the house. 778 00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:03,440 Speaker 1: He started the funeral. He said, while y'all crying, the 779 00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:08,560 Speaker 1: girl's not dead, she's just asleep. And they laughed. So 780 00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,840 Speaker 1: you think that's funny? Ever single one of y'all they 781 00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:18,000 Speaker 1: laughed yet Oh no, I saw your laughing gets Oh, 782 00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:22,359 Speaker 1: unbelief will always laugh at the language of faith. Yes, Oh, 783 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:24,920 Speaker 1: somebody needs to serve an addiction notice on the enemy 784 00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:28,919 Speaker 1: today and start telling us some things take get out. Oh, 785 00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:36,160 Speaker 1: come on, fear, get out, anxiety, get out, depression, get out. 786 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:44,239 Speaker 1: Some things won't get up till some things first get out. God, 787 00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:48,480 Speaker 1: just send somebody today to check your environment so that 788 00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,319 Speaker 1: the dead things can come to life. I'm gonna ask 789 00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:53,440 Speaker 1: every head be bowed, every I'll be closed across every campus. 790 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:57,600 Speaker 1: Can I pray for you Father, thank you for your word. Lord. 791 00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:00,800 Speaker 1: I thank you that you have power, you have authority, 792 00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:03,840 Speaker 1: and I also thank you that you've given us power 793 00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:10,880 Speaker 1: and authority. So today we check our atmosphere. Lord. We 794 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:14,759 Speaker 1: speak to ideas, we speak to mindsets, we speak to 795 00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:17,959 Speaker 1: people in our lives. Well, they need to get out 796 00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:22,080 Speaker 1: so that dead things can get up. And I thank 797 00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:25,200 Speaker 1: you that you are the resurrection and the life. You 798 00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:28,560 Speaker 1: can do it today. And Jesus's mighty name, we pray. 799 00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:34,560 Speaker 1: Everybody said Amen, Hey man, God, bless you innovation. 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