Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation
Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast and I wanted to
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you.
Speaker 1: Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective
Speaker 1: to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the
Speaker 1: message you are about to Uh, You're about to be
Speaker 1: I want to say inspired, but sometimes we use that
Speaker 1: word incorrectly. You think it just means to have a
Speaker 1: feel good feeling. You are about to hear an incredible
Speaker 1: word from God from someone who I greatly respect in ministry,
Speaker 1: Pastor Robert Madeu. He's going to come and share with
Speaker 1: us in just a moment. He is one of the Uh,
Speaker 1: let me think, I want to say this now, one
Speaker 1: of the one of the Sometimes you get people who
Speaker 1: are good preachers and sometimes you get people who are
Speaker 1: nice people, and sometimes you get both in one package.
Speaker 1: He is both, and I thank God for he and
Speaker 1: his wife Taylor. God is using them all around the world. Uh.
Speaker 1: Pretty much any given day that you wake up, you
Speaker 1: can guarantee that somewhere he's blessing somebody in a different
Speaker 1: time zone than you. God has taken him all over
Speaker 1: the world. But he is a good person too. Don't
Speaker 1: you like good people? Yeah, it's good. And he's very
Speaker 1: committed to this thing that we do to preach the
Speaker 1: Gospel of Jesus Christ. What I told him was that
Speaker 1: at eleven thirty the real Christians, the people with extra
Speaker 1: Bible depth and sensitivity to the Holy Spirit of God,
Speaker 1: come to church. And I said, if you want to
Speaker 1: just save all the good stuff for eleven thirty, they'll
Speaker 1: be ready for you at eleven thirty. So can we
Speaker 1: make some noise at all of our locations, elevation, let's
Speaker 1: welcome to this stage, Pastor Robert made. Wow, Come on, elevation.
Speaker 1: Can we make some noise for Jesus today? Oh, come on,
Speaker 1: this is the day that the Lord has made. Come
Speaker 1: on across every location. Let us rejoice and be glad
Speaker 1: in it, and he glad. People in the house, whoa hallelujah? Hey,
Speaker 1: will you do me a favor before you take your seat,
Speaker 1: would you just look at your neighbor. You're tired of
Speaker 1: talking to your neighbor yet? Come on, do you like
Speaker 1: the person you're standing next to? Come on, get in
Speaker 1: their face, getting their personal space. Across every campus, and
Speaker 1: just say, neighbor, I've got a feeling that this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a good service. Just in case that neighbor
Speaker 1: was stuck up, find another neighbor, Find another neighbor. Come on,
Speaker 1: say other neighbor. You're my second option, but I want
Speaker 1: you to know I've got a feeling this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a good service. Come on, if you believe that,
Speaker 1: I think, give God one more standing ovation of praise. Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: You may be seated in the presence of the Lord.
Speaker 1: Don't get comfortable. You might be back up again. Come on,
Speaker 1: come on, I'll I'll say what I always say. I'm
Speaker 1: not just excited to be at Elevation Church. I am
Speaker 1: red bull excited, expresso elated. I've been waiting. I've been
Speaker 1: waiting to get my chocolate faced back in the place.
Speaker 1: I absolutely hear me, positively, love love, love this church.
Speaker 1: I'm from the great country of Texas. But the Elevation
Speaker 1: Church will mess you up. Elevation will have you looking
Speaker 1: on Zillo and trying to find a house in Charlotte.
Speaker 1: Come on, how many know you are ridiculously blessed to
Speaker 1: be a part of this church. This is absolutely amazing
Speaker 1: and not only that you're crazy blessed to have Pastor
Speaker 1: Stephen Ferdick and Holly Ferdick as your pastor as your leaders. Oh,
Speaker 1: come on, y'all can do better than that. I come
Speaker 1: on across every campus. I want you to make some
Speaker 1: noise if you know. God loves you too much. And
Speaker 1: I know preachers always say stuff, and this is not
Speaker 1: a platitude for me. There's so many things I could say.
Speaker 1: He's one of the greatest communicators of the Gospel on
Speaker 1: the planet and incredible leader, writes songs that reverberate around
Speaker 1: the nation. But I think I think I love the
Speaker 1: most about Pastor Stephen and Holly is that they're amazing
Speaker 1: up close. You know what I mean by that. Some
Speaker 1: people you love from a distance, but man, I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: when you get up close, it's amazing to see their
Speaker 1: hearts for people. And he can have any body on
Speaker 1: planet Earth in this poolpit. So I'm extremely honored, and
Speaker 1: it ought to be Pastor Appreciation Minute at elevation because
Speaker 1: y'all are crazy blessed. Come on one more time, would
Speaker 1: you let them know how much you love them, how
Speaker 1: much you appreciate them. Thank God for y'all. I am
Speaker 1: here with my super dupe. My fine wife, Taylor Madou
Speaker 1: is in the building. I preach better when she's here,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be good. And uh, this is almost
Speaker 1: like a honeymoon for us because our three kids are
Speaker 1: at home. Hallelujah. They are with the grandparents. And uh,
Speaker 1: I know how some preachers they always put up pictures
Speaker 1: of their kids because they think they got the cutest
Speaker 1: kids and they wanted everybody to see how cute their
Speaker 1: kids are. I am not that preacher. It's about me
Speaker 1: preaching Jesus, not you seeing my kids. You ain't got
Speaker 1: to worry about me putting them on the screen. We good,
Speaker 1: we good. That's not true if y'all don't put my
Speaker 1: kids on earth screen up in here. Hey, come on, elevation,
Speaker 1: I made that. May that come on? That is my
Speaker 1: four year old daughter ev. That is my two year
Speaker 1: old son, Robert mdou, the third, my manchild and our
Speaker 1: newest and last edition. Hello Remington O Lane. She's just
Speaker 1: one years old. And I put up the picture all
Speaker 1: the time because fatherhood is the best hood. It's not
Speaker 1: like being a dad. But hey, I'm excited to share
Speaker 1: the word. I want to jump straight into it. Do
Speaker 1: you have a Bible with you? Come on, you got
Speaker 1: a Bible which you waving in the air like you
Speaker 1: just do care across every campus, every location. Also, some
Speaker 1: of your bibles are glowing. You're charged to your Bible today.
Speaker 1: I want to look at mark chapter five if we can.
Speaker 1: Mark Chapter five, Verses twenty one through forty three. Quite
Speaker 1: a bit of scripture, but I need all of it
Speaker 1: for you to get the context of where we're going.
Speaker 1: Mark chapter five, starting a verse number twenty one, and
Speaker 1: then we'll land in verse forty three. When you're ready
Speaker 1: to read it, say yeah. If you need some time
Speaker 1: to find us, say hold up, it's a desperate hold up.
Speaker 1: I'll wait for you. Verse twenty one. It says when
Speaker 1: Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other
Speaker 1: side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him
Speaker 1: while he was by the lake. Then one of the
Speaker 1: synagogue leaders named Gyris came, and when he saw Jesus,
Speaker 1: he fell at his feet. He pleaded earnestly with him,
Speaker 1: My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your
Speaker 1: hands on her so that she will be healed and live.
Speaker 1: So Jesus went with him. A large crowd followed and
Speaker 1: pressed around him, and a woman was there who had
Speaker 1: been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered
Speaker 1: a great deal under the care of many doctors and
Speaker 1: had spent all she had, Yet instead of getting better,
Speaker 1: she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came
Speaker 1: up behind him in the crowd and touched his clothes
Speaker 1: because she thought, if I just touch his clothes, I
Speaker 1: will be healed. Immediately, her bleeding stopped, and she felt
Speaker 1: in her body that she was free from her suffering.
Speaker 1: At once, Jesus realized that power had gone out from him,
Speaker 1: and he turned around in the crowd and asked, who
Speaker 1: touched my clothes? You see the people crowding against you.
Speaker 1: His disciples answered, and yet you can ask who touched me.
Speaker 1: But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it.
Speaker 1: Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came
Speaker 1: and fell at his feet, and, trembling with fear, told
Speaker 1: him the whole truth. And he said to her, daughter,
Speaker 1: your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be
Speaker 1: freed from your suffering. While Jesus was still speaking, some
Speaker 1: people came from the house of Gyrus, the synagogue leader,
Speaker 1: your daughter is dead, they said, why bother the teacher anymore?
Speaker 1: Overhearing what they said, one version says ignoring what they said,
Speaker 1: Jesus told him, don't be afraid, just believe. He did
Speaker 1: not let anyone follow him except Peter James and John,
Speaker 1: the brother of James. And when they came to the
Speaker 1: home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion with
Speaker 1: people crying and well and loudly. He went in and
Speaker 1: said to them, why all the commotion and welling? The
Speaker 1: child's not dead but asleep, But they laughed at him.
Speaker 1: After he put them all out, he took the child's
Speaker 1: father and mother and the disciples who were with him,
Speaker 1: and went in where the child was. He took her
Speaker 1: by the hand and said to her, talitha coomb, which
Speaker 1: means little girl, I say to you, get up. Immediately,
Speaker 1: the girl stood up and began to walk around. She
Speaker 1: was twelve years old. At this they were completely astonished.
Speaker 1: He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this,
Speaker 1: and then told him don't just stand there and look
Speaker 1: at the girl. Go to Chick fil a and get
Speaker 1: us something to eve. Come on, somebody that is good.
Speaker 1: All by itself, all by itself in full sermon prep disclosure.
Speaker 1: I almost titled this message. I almost titled this message
Speaker 1: get Up, because that's a good sermon title, gets up,
Speaker 1: because I thought that was the culmination and the climax
Speaker 1: of the miracle when Jesus told this little girl to
Speaker 1: get up. But upon further reflection, I realized that was
Speaker 1: a premature title, premature, and I had to back that
Speaker 1: thing up biblically, so Verses forty and forty one. I
Speaker 1: want us to hone in on Verses forty and forty one,
Speaker 1: because remember, Jesus walks in and says, this girl is
Speaker 1: not dead, she's just asleep. The Bible says that they
Speaker 1: laughed at him. Wo who is the they? The negative, doubting, hating, unbelieving, faithless,
Speaker 1: cantankerous people in the world. You know, those people that
Speaker 1: light up a room when they walk out, those people
Speaker 1: that for every solution they're gonna find a problem that's today. Okay.
Speaker 1: They laughed at him, and it says after he that's
Speaker 1: Jesus put them all out. The Greek suggests that he
Speaker 1: physically put all of them out. I don't want to
Speaker 1: mess up with your theology. Or your christology today, because
Speaker 1: you might think that Jesus is just kind and sweet
Speaker 1: and loving and caring and he's a good good father,
Speaker 1: and he is, but this text lets me know, don't
Speaker 1: get it twisted. He is so so gay because all
Speaker 1: of those negative, doubting, unbelieving, faithless people. He said, Oh,
Speaker 1: y'all got to gets you ain't gotta go home, but
Speaker 1: you gotta get out of here, savage Jesus. I love
Speaker 1: it so before she got up first, some people had
Speaker 1: to get out. Elevation Church. What if the power of
Speaker 1: a miracle is not just in the miracle itself, but
Speaker 1: rather in the atmosphere and the environment that surrounds your miracle.
Speaker 1: You've been telling some things to get up, but perhaps
Speaker 1: this is the season of your life to check your
Speaker 1: environment and start telling some things to gets Oh. I
Speaker 1: feel like preaching in here today. Come on, would you
Speaker 1: just look at your neighbor and tell them my title,
Speaker 1: just say get out? Oh come on, look at another
Speaker 1: neighbor like you got attitude and them saying get out,
Speaker 1: not now, but but later. Come on, let's pray long prayer.
Speaker 1: Other thank you for your word. Speak to us today, Amen,
Speaker 1: get out the divine intersection and collision of characters in
Speaker 1: this text today immediately gave me a nostalgic parental fatherhood
Speaker 1: flashback to November twenty fourteen. I remember it quite vividly
Speaker 1: because I was getting ready to leave our home in
Speaker 1: Dallas to go preach at a conference, just in anything unusual.
Speaker 1: I often leave to go preach at a conference. Except
Speaker 1: this time everything was different. Everything was different because I
Speaker 1: was not just leaving the house as a husband. Now,
Speaker 1: I was leaving the house as a father. Our firstborn daughter, Evie,
Speaker 1: had just entered the world, and I was in that emotional,
Speaker 1: precarious predicament of leaving my firstborn daughter for the first time.
Speaker 1: And come on, every parent in here will attest to
Speaker 1: the fact that things are different with your first child. Oh,
Speaker 1: come on, there are things that happen with your first
Speaker 1: child that none of your other children, whatever experience. Okay,
Speaker 1: Like now, now, Taylor and I we have three kids
Speaker 1: plus a demonic dog. So when I leave the house, now,
Speaker 1: I leave like I got warrants for my rest and
Speaker 1: I take the long route home. Okay. Often often Taylor
Speaker 1: will call me with chaos in the background. She'd be like, Babe,
Speaker 1: where are you I'll go. I'm in traffic. She's like, no,
Speaker 1: you in the driveway. I see you come in the
Speaker 1: house and help me with this kid. But when is
Speaker 1: your first, it's different, it's different. Your emotional tears are
Speaker 1: going this way, slots going the other way. I'm like
Speaker 1: that he loves you. I God put you so much.
Speaker 1: You is cold, she is small, she is important. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was a mess. I get to the conference. I
Speaker 1: get to the conference, I think it was in Florida,
Speaker 1: and I'm about to get up to preach, and I
Speaker 1: got the name of Eddie James is leading worship and
Speaker 1: of all songs, of all songs, he's actually singing, You're
Speaker 1: a good good father. I was like, norm not just
Speaker 1: the mess, said I don't even think I preached. I
Speaker 1: just put up a picture of my daughter's at that
Speaker 1: point one, two and three and got in the green
Speaker 1: room afterwards, and the worst leader, Eddie James, comes up
Speaker 1: to me. He says, Robert, congrats on your daughter. She's beautiful.
Speaker 1: I said, thank you. I made her. Then said, hey, Eddie,
Speaker 1: you know, my daughter Evey might not have ever been
Speaker 1: born if it wasn't for you. Eddie looked at me
Speaker 1: like I had lost my mind. I said, Eddie, you
Speaker 1: probably don't remember this, but in December two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: you were scheduled to lead worship and preach at Christ
Speaker 1: for the Nation's Institute in Dallas, Texas. But en route
Speaker 1: to Christ for the Nations, your van broke down on
Speaker 1: the side of the road. Eddie goes, I remember that night,
Speaker 1: I said. You picked up the phone and you called
Speaker 1: a man by the name of Adam McCain, and you
Speaker 1: let him know that by the time your van would
Speaker 1: be fixed, there was no way you would make the service,
Speaker 1: so regrettably you had to cancel. Adam McCain got off
Speaker 1: the phone with you and looked at a room full
Speaker 1: of people and said, Eddie, James just canceled for our
Speaker 1: Tuesday night Bible College chapel. Who in the world can
Speaker 1: we get last minute to fill? His spy in that
Speaker 1: room was a man by the name of Brian Meng.
Speaker 1: He lifts up his hand and says, I just heard
Speaker 1: this young guy named Robert Madoo preach. He's local, maybe
Speaker 1: he can do it. All of a sudden, my phone
Speaker 1: rings and a voice on the other line says, is
Speaker 1: this pastor Robert Madou? I say yes it is, says Robert.
Speaker 1: I know this is last minute, this is crazy, but
Speaker 1: we've just had a cancelation for our Tuesday Night Bible
Speaker 1: College Chapel. Is there any way you could come and
Speaker 1: speak to our young people? Now? Keep in mind during
Speaker 1: this time of my life, I myself am a Bible
Speaker 1: college student at Southwestern the Symblers of God University. So
Speaker 1: I said to Adam McCain, you know what it seems
Speaker 1: like yesterday I was a Bible college student myself. What
Speaker 1: an honor it would be to come in part to
Speaker 1: your young people. Drove from sad Good to see if
Speaker 1: and I I'm about to get up and preach. But
Speaker 1: before I get up, they say, it's Tuesday night, So
Speaker 1: it's time for our Tuesday night testimony video. We're gonna
Speaker 1: show a video of a student in our body whose
Speaker 1: life has been changed by Jesus Christ. And all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, on the screen comes the finest girl with
Speaker 1: the strongest Arkansas accent I have ever heard, and she
Speaker 1: starts telling her story of Jesus changing her life. Don't
Speaker 1: meet the girl. I'm at my school the next day,
Speaker 1: a girl test me in my shoulder. She goes, hey, Robert.
Speaker 1: I said, it's Pastor Robert Madieu. Now. She goes, was
Speaker 1: that you that I saw last night at Christ's Nations
Speaker 1: getting up to preach? I said, yeah, they called me
Speaker 1: last minute. They had a cancelation. She goes, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: Oh my good Did you see the girl on the
Speaker 1: screen telling her testimony before you preach? I said, yes,
Speaker 1: I did. She said, I've known her for years. I've
Speaker 1: known you for years, and I always thought that you
Speaker 1: two would be perfect for each other. But I never
Speaker 1: said anything but the fact that you were there preaching
Speaker 1: and they showed her video. You tube have got to meet,
Speaker 1: I said, Addie. The next week, that girl and I
Speaker 1: went on our very first day at the Illustrious International
Speaker 1: House of Bandcakes, I said, Addie. To make a long
Speaker 1: story short, that girl's name was Taylor Mitchell is now
Speaker 1: Taylor Mediou. We did what married people do, Evie. Is
Speaker 1: the evidence of that. Eddie. I am so glad your
Speaker 1: van broke down on the side of the world, and
Speaker 1: I share that story today, first of all, get some
Speaker 1: hope to the single people, but also to say, who
Speaker 1: in the world would have ever thought that Eddie and
Speaker 1: my ev were connected because their connection is not one
Speaker 1: that is easily seen on the surface. But once you
Speaker 1: begin to peel back the layers and dig down deep
Speaker 1: into the archaeological value of a person's life, it becomes
Speaker 1: so clear that none of us get to live our
Speaker 1: lives in autonomy, which is me, myself and I. But
Speaker 1: how many you know? All of us are connected. We
Speaker 1: are deeply connected. Miracles merge with miracles, Testimonies touch each other,
Speaker 1: our stories intersect. Whether you like the person sitting next
Speaker 1: to you or not, all of us are deeply and
Speaker 1: intrinsically connected. Oh yes, our lives are not straight lines.
Speaker 1: Our lives are actually links. We are all connected. And
Speaker 1: then it frustrates you when people you love don't understand
Speaker 1: this premise, and they got the nerve to tell you,
Speaker 1: don't worry about me, don't worry about me. You do you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do me. You do you, I'm gonna do me.
Speaker 1: And you want to look at them and say, well,
Speaker 1: you doing you is affecting me because all of us
Speaker 1: are deeply Oh we're connected. We're connected, So don't find
Speaker 1: it strange and Mark chapter five. Mark begins by talking
Speaker 1: about the synagogue leader by the name of Gyros but
Speaker 1: in the middle of Gyros's story, we're abruptly interrupted with
Speaker 1: the story of a woman with the issue of blood.
Speaker 1: And the reason Mark Hat strategically sandwiched these two story
Speaker 1: together is because the two of them are connected, deeply connected.
Speaker 1: In fact, to talk about Gyros the synagogue leader and
Speaker 1: never discuss the woman with the issue of blood is
Speaker 1: really to do an injustice to the integrity of this text.
Speaker 1: Because the two of them are connected. It so connected. Now,
Speaker 1: not on the surface, not on the surface. If you
Speaker 1: just look at the surface of their lives, they cannot
Speaker 1: be more opposite. Come on, if you look at the surface,
Speaker 1: one of these things is not like the other. Come on,
Speaker 1: let's just start with biology, one on one. Gyros is
Speaker 1: a man. She is a woman. Hello hoo. Gyros is
Speaker 1: named in the text. The Bible doesn't even give us
Speaker 1: this woman's name. Gyros was honored and respected. This woman
Speaker 1: has been shamed and rejected. Gyros is a ruler in
Speaker 1: the synagogue. This woman can't even come near the synagogue
Speaker 1: because her sickness has made her ceremonially unclean. Gyrus is
Speaker 1: actually affluent. He's got some money in the bank. This
Speaker 1: woman is broke. Busted and disgusted and has spent all
Speaker 1: she had on worthless physicians who have made her worse
Speaker 1: instead of better. Let me bring the text to the
Speaker 1: twenty first century. Gyrous is driving the bands, this woman
Speaker 1: is riding the bus. They have nothing in common on
Speaker 1: the peripheral, but yet life has put them in the
Speaker 1: exact same place, posture, and position because they both have
Speaker 1: been hit with something that they cannot handle. How many no?
Speaker 1: Life will do that. Life has a way of evening
Speaker 1: the playing field. Life is an equal opportunity employer. Life
Speaker 1: will hit you upside the head with some stuff that'll
Speaker 1: make you scratch your hand, that'll take your breath away.
Speaker 1: Life will hit you with stuff come on that your
Speaker 1: money can't fix, Your degrees, can't fix your Instagram followers
Speaker 1: can't fix. Life will hit an atheist with some stuff
Speaker 1: that'll make him throw up his hands and say, the
Speaker 1: Lord is in this place. Life will hit you with
Speaker 1: some stuff you cannot handle. And might I suggest that
Speaker 1: if life is hit you with something that you cannot handle,
Speaker 1: how many no? That thing is a job for Jesus.
Speaker 1: That's time for you to throw up your hands and say, God,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do about this, But surely
Speaker 1: you know what to do. Oh look at Gyrus in
Speaker 1: this woman. Nothing in common on the surface. Both ended
Speaker 1: up in the same place, having to push people out
Speaker 1: the way to get an appointment with Jesus. I love
Speaker 1: it because now one of them had a pretty pathway
Speaker 1: with rose pedals to Jesus. They both had to physically
Speaker 1: push people out the way to get an appointment with Jesus.
Speaker 1: Just push. You know, Jivers is a pastor. You're not
Speaker 1: supposed to push people. I can see people coming to
Speaker 1: the Givers saying, hey, I really loved your Shamon the
Speaker 1: other day. He's like, you did good move. I'm like
Speaker 1: jes A pushing people out the way. This woman is
Speaker 1: ceremonially unclean. She's not supposed to be touching people. She
Speaker 1: touched everybody. That's no, not pushing people out the way.
Speaker 1: Oh you know why they're pushing. I'll tell you why
Speaker 1: they're pushing. They're pushing because desperate people do desperate things.
Speaker 1: Oh come on, how many know when you are really
Speaker 1: desperate for God to do something in your life, you
Speaker 1: come to church differently, you approach God differently. When you
Speaker 1: are desperate for God to show up, you don't care
Speaker 1: what the traffic is. You'll be in here before the
Speaker 1: countdown video. When you are desperate for God to show
Speaker 1: up in your life, you will lift up your hands
Speaker 1: if you will sing the songs, laugh, You don't care
Speaker 1: whose nerves you getting up. When you are desperate for
Speaker 1: God to show up, tears will come down your faith.
Speaker 1: You mess up out that Mary Kay and Mac makeup
Speaker 1: because there's something you need God to do in your life.
Speaker 1: And I'm wondering, are there any desperate people in this
Speaker 1: place that said there is something I need God to
Speaker 1: do in my life that only he convin Oh, come on,
Speaker 1: if you ain't desperate, you can be quiet. But if
Speaker 1: you're actually desperate, across every campus, I tell you to
Speaker 1: give God some praise like this something I'm desperate. Oh
Speaker 1: there's something about desperation, hear me. God will often use
Speaker 1: desperation to push you into your purpose. God will often
Speaker 1: use desperation to push you into your destiny. In fact,
Speaker 1: watch this. Desperation is the door that breakthrough walks through.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that again. Desperation is the door that
Speaker 1: breakthrough walks through. Some people wonder how come I hadn't
Speaker 1: got my breakthrough you. Sometimes it's because you hadn't got
Speaker 1: downright desperate enough for God to do it in your life,
Speaker 1: because desperation will open up doors that complacency will keep shut.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm travel and people will often ask me, Robert,
Speaker 1: where's your favorite place to preach? Your favorite place to preach?
Speaker 1: And to be honest, I struggle to name a place
Speaker 1: because I want to articulate to them that the effectiveness
Speaker 1: of preaching and ministry has little to do with an
Speaker 1: address or a destination of a place, but everything to
Speaker 1: do with the attitude and the disposition of the people
Speaker 1: that are in the place. Come on, I would rather
Speaker 1: ap preach in a basement with three desperate people than
Speaker 1: to preach on the Bahamas with thousands of bougies, suck
Speaker 1: up people who act like they don't need God to
Speaker 1: do anything in their life. But if you give me
Speaker 1: some desperate people, miracles will break forward. If you'll give
Speaker 1: me desperate people, signs and wonders will shut. If you'll
Speaker 1: give me desperate people, the atmosphere will shift and change,
Speaker 1: and God sell himself strong and mighty when you're desperate,
Speaker 1: When you're desperate, and it was the Rolling tides of
Speaker 1: desperation that brought Gyrus and this woman watched this both
Speaker 1: at the feet of Jesus. They both ended up at
Speaker 1: his feet. I love it. Nothing in common on the surface.
Speaker 1: Both ended up at the same place, at the feet
Speaker 1: of Jesus. This is a picture of the Gospel and
Speaker 1: the power of the Church that we can come in
Speaker 1: here today across every location, with all of our differences
Speaker 1: of the surface, but we all end up at the
Speaker 1: same place, at the feet of Jesus, saying there's something
Speaker 1: I need you to do in my life. Are you
Speaker 1: bored yet? Because I would love to delve into the
Speaker 1: details of their desperation. Gyros gets to Jesus first, and
Speaker 1: boy is he desperate. He's desperate because his baby girl,
Speaker 1: his little daughter, is dying. She is dying. So when
Speaker 1: he gets to Jesus, he is talking to Jesus with
Speaker 1: the vocal intonation of a nine to one to one caller.
Speaker 1: He's saying, jeez, I don't just need you to come
Speaker 1: to the house. I need you to hurry up and
Speaker 1: get to the house. This woman is just as desperate.
Speaker 1: But a situation has been going on for a while now.
Speaker 1: It's chronic. This bleeding, this hemorrhaging in her body. And
Speaker 1: watch how much Mark the gospel writer wants us to
Speaker 1: know that the two of them are connected, because it
Speaker 1: just so happens that Gyrus's little girl who is dying
Speaker 1: is twelve years old, and this woman with the issue
Speaker 1: of blood has been dealing with it now for twelve years.
Speaker 1: They're connected. So you got a twelve year old dying
Speaker 1: daughter and a twelve year old disease. A twelve year
Speaker 1: old dying daughter and a twelve year old disease. So
Speaker 1: that means, chronologically speaking, the same year that this little
Speaker 1: girl was born was the exact same year that this
Speaker 1: woman was diagnosed with her disease. That means, cinematically speaking,
Speaker 1: if Mark Chapter five was a movie and the producers
Speaker 1: of This Is Us were making the movie, this is
Speaker 1: the scene in the movie where it would flip from
Speaker 1: the feet of Jesus and say twelve years earlier, and
Speaker 1: it would go to a hospital, and coming out in
Speaker 1: the hospital would be Gyrous his wife and them holding
Speaker 1: a brand new baby girl, smiling ear to ear with
Speaker 1: the full elation of parenthood, and then perhaps walking out
Speaker 1: of that same hospital, here's a woman tears coming down
Speaker 1: her face because she's just been diagnosed with a disease
Speaker 1: and the doctors don't even know what to do about it.
Speaker 1: And maybe they were in the same hospital that day
Speaker 1: but didn't even see each other. Come on, Church, isn't
Speaker 1: it just like life? Sometimes in life you can be
Speaker 1: so preoccupied with your promise or so preoccupied with your
Speaker 1: personal pain that you don't even see other people around you.
Speaker 1: You can be so excited about what God has done
Speaker 1: in your life, are so disappointed about what hadn't come
Speaker 1: to pass yet, that you are oblivious to other people
Speaker 1: around you. And can I suggest in this narcissistic, individualistic,
Speaker 1: self resaturated society in which we live, we had forgotten
Speaker 1: rowan to twelve that says you've got to rejoice within
Speaker 1: that rejoice, but also weep with those that weep, and
Speaker 1: don't be so concerned about you that you miss other
Speaker 1: people around you. Oh, come on, Thank God for Jesus,
Speaker 1: because the two people that didn't see each other at
Speaker 1: the hospital were forced to see each other at the
Speaker 1: hem of his garment, And now the two twelves are touching.
Speaker 1: Who somebody say twelve, I'll say it like I had
Speaker 1: your coffee, Say twelve how many. You know. You don't
Speaker 1: need a Bible calluge degree. You don't have to be
Speaker 1: a student biblical numerology to know there are some numbers
Speaker 1: in the Bible that God has given you biblical blues
Speaker 1: clues that these numbers are a big deal. Okay, twelve
Speaker 1: is one of those numbers. Twelve is a big number
Speaker 1: to God. You remember that when God began his covenant
Speaker 1: with his people, a covenant that commenced with the call
Speaker 1: of Abraham, continue with Isaac, but culminated in Jacob. You
Speaker 1: remember that Jacob had not one, not ten, twelve sons,
Speaker 1: representing the power and the authority of God's covenant with
Speaker 1: his people. Those twelve sons became the twelve tribes of Israel,
Speaker 1: representing the power and the authority and the strength of
Speaker 1: that nation. You remember in the Old Testament, whenever the
Speaker 1: high priests were going to the Holy of Holies on
Speaker 1: behalf of the people of God, he would stand there
Speaker 1: with a breastplate that had twelve precious stones, representing those
Speaker 1: twelve tribes of Israel, and he would stand there in
Speaker 1: power and in authority. Come on, you know, our New
Speaker 1: Testament high priest, who is Jesus the first time we
Speaker 1: see him teaching in the temple is at the tender
Speaker 1: age of twelve, and they marveled at the wisdom and
Speaker 1: the power and the authority that came out of a
Speaker 1: twelve year old. You remember when that twelve year old
Speaker 1: turned thirty and he got ready to pick his crew,
Speaker 1: his road dolls, his disciples. If it was me, I
Speaker 1: would have stopped at eleven. But not Jesus. He said,
Speaker 1: I need the hater to come on Judas, and he
Speaker 1: picked twelve dudes to roam the earth, and he gave
Speaker 1: him power and authority to heal the sick and the
Speaker 1: cast out. Name of twelve is the number of God's power.
Speaker 1: Twelve is the number of God's authority. Do you know
Speaker 1: what Jesus is trying to teach us with the twelves.
Speaker 1: He's trying to teach us what he's been trying to
Speaker 1: say this the moment he landed on planet Earth. God says,
Speaker 1: I don't care whether it's a blind eye, a death ear,
Speaker 1: a withered hand, an issue of blood, a disease, demon,
Speaker 1: possession of storm, or even death itself. There is absolutely
Speaker 1: nothing that you're facing that is not under the jurisdiction
Speaker 1: of my power and my authority. I got the power
Speaker 1: and the authority to handle whatever your faci. Oh, somebody
Speaker 1: ought to give God some praise today. If you're faithful,
Speaker 1: then no matter what comes against you, He's got the
Speaker 1: power and the authority to fix it. How far your
Speaker 1: neighbors say, he's got the power, he's got the authority.
Speaker 1: Why is that important to hear me today? That's so
Speaker 1: important because your awareness of his authority, his authority will
Speaker 1: determine how much you receive from him. Your awareness of
Speaker 1: God's authority will determine how much you receive from him.
Speaker 1: See often we reduce this text just to faith because
Speaker 1: he said, Dodd of your faith has healed you. So
Speaker 1: we tell you you gotta get more faith. Give more faith.
Speaker 1: And faith is important. Come on, this is the substance
Speaker 1: of things, hope for it's the evidence of things not seeing.
Speaker 1: You need faith. Faith is our anchor. But nobody takes
Speaker 1: an anchor and just throws it in the water. You're
Speaker 1: gonna lose that anchor. You better connect that anchor to something.
Speaker 1: And my faith is connected to his authority, the authority
Speaker 1: of his word, the authority of his power. That's what
Speaker 1: my faith has got to be connected to. If you
Speaker 1: don't believe he's the ultimate authority, how many, No, your
Speaker 1: faith is gonna struggle. Some of you think you got
Speaker 1: a faith problem. Now your faith is good. You just
Speaker 1: need an awareness of his authority. Because if you don't
Speaker 1: believe he's the ultimate authority, your faith is gonna struggle.
Speaker 1: Give us some scripture for that, Robert, I give you
Speaker 1: some scripture. You remember the disciples, remember when not on
Speaker 1: the boat and the hurricane is going crazy, and Jesus
Speaker 1: is chilling accent in the boat, just just sound asleep
Speaker 1: on the boat, and the disciples are having a panic,
Speaker 1: And they said, oh, Jesus, don't you call me not
Speaker 1: to die? And I love Jesus. He gets up in
Speaker 1: a hurricane, cool, calm and collected with sovereign swags and
Speaker 1: gets up to the edge of the boat in a hurricane,
Speaker 1: just peace, be still, and the winds and the waves
Speaker 1: are still in a moment, and all the disciples jaws
Speaker 1: were on the floor. They go, who is this man
Speaker 1: that even the winds and the waves obey him? They
Speaker 1: marveled at his authority. And what did Jesus say to them, Oh,
Speaker 1: you of the little faith, your faith is little because
Speaker 1: you didn't have an awareness of my authority. If you
Speaker 1: knew who I really was, who I really was, you
Speaker 1: should have looked at me when I was asleep on
Speaker 1: the boat and said, who is this man that is
Speaker 1: sleeping in a hurricane. If this storm ain't bothering him,
Speaker 1: it ain't gonna bother me. Stood over the jeesus, Let
Speaker 1: me just cuddle with you, because if you ain't stressed
Speaker 1: about this, you must know that in the end, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna with Oh, come on, somebody, God is not stressing
Speaker 1: about what you're stressing about. He's got power and authority. Oh, somebody,
Speaker 1: give God some praise. If you know the power the
Speaker 1: authority that is in his hand. I'm telling you you
Speaker 1: don't got a faith problem. You got an awareness of
Speaker 1: his authority problem. When you know he's the ultimate authority,
Speaker 1: your faith can go to a whole another level. You
Speaker 1: think the doctor is the ultimate authority, You think your
Speaker 1: friend is the ultimate you think your cousin and him, oh,
Speaker 1: the ultimate authority. Ah, But once you know he's the
Speaker 1: ultimate authority, your faith can go to a whole nothing level. Oh,
Speaker 1: I gotta hurry, what's it is? Gyrus got a house call?
Speaker 1: Because that was his awareness of his authority. Remember, he
Speaker 1: works in the synagogue, he's a pastor. He approaches Jesus
Speaker 1: as a classic pastor. He said, Jesus, please, my daughter's dying.
Speaker 1: You gotta come to the house. Hallelujah. Here below is
Speaker 1: already playing in the background, and you gotta come. You
Speaker 1: gotta lay hands on He's Pentecostal too. He said, you
Speaker 1: gotta lay hands on her because that's the way it works.
Speaker 1: That's my awareness of your authority. So Jesus goes, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll go. Because that was his awareness of his authority.
Speaker 1: This woman had a whole nother awareness of his authority.
Speaker 1: She hadn't been in the synagogue, so she said, Jesz no,
Speaker 1: you ain't got to come to my house. I ain't
Speaker 1: got time for that. All I gotta do is touch
Speaker 1: to him of your guard man. If I just touched him,
Speaker 1: of your car man, I know I'm gonna be made
Speaker 1: whole if I just touched to him. That was her awareness.
Speaker 1: That what she got. Oh but how man, you know
Speaker 1: a centurion Matthew chapter eight that had a whole nother
Speaker 1: awareness of his authority. That soldier went up to Jesus
Speaker 1: and said, I'm a man in authority and under authority.
Speaker 1: He says, my servant is sick at the house, but
Speaker 1: I'm not worthy for you to come to my house.
Speaker 1: If you'll just speak the word, Jesus, just send a
Speaker 1: voice memo. I believe he'll be healed by you just
Speaker 1: speaking the word. And somebody got healed without Jesus laying
Speaker 1: hands hold them because somebody understood affording. Oh and what
Speaker 1: did Jesus say to that centurion? Never have I seen
Speaker 1: a faith like this in all of Israel. He marveled
Speaker 1: at his say, Jesus, why are you marveling that his faith?
Speaker 1: Because he's got an awareness of my authority. This woman
Speaker 1: goes for twelve years. Twelve years, I've been approaching people
Speaker 1: with no authority. I mean no, this is so important
Speaker 1: because if you don't believe somebody's the ultimate authority, you'll
Speaker 1: doubt the validity of their words. If I don't believe
Speaker 1: you the real authority, I will doubt the validity of
Speaker 1: your words. Come on, think practically been on there. You've
Speaker 1: been on the phone with somebody that you knew was
Speaker 1: a mid level employee and they're telling you something that's
Speaker 1: contradictory to exemplary customer service after you get frustrated, if
Speaker 1: you're like, can I please speak to your manager? Can
Speaker 1: I speak to your super advisor? H y'all don't do that.
Speaker 1: Y'all super saved here. Okay, I do that. I speak
Speaker 1: to managers. Okay. This happened to me not too long ago.
Speaker 1: I had I had a reservation at a hotel that
Speaker 1: had been booked for a while, and the girl behind
Speaker 1: the desk was like, I'm sorry, mister mcdode. We're fully committed.
Speaker 1: We're sold out. I try to stay safe. I said,
Speaker 1: hold and I said, this has been booked for several months.
Speaker 1: He's like, no, I'm sorry, We're fully committed. That was
Speaker 1: nice about I said, can I just speak to your manager?
Speaker 1: Can I speak to your supervisor? The manager comes behind
Speaker 1: the door, she goes, girl move, I'm so sorry, mister mcdoud.
Speaker 1: She's new. Here. It is right here. Here's your reservation.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry for all your trouble. We're gonna upgrade
Speaker 1: you to an executive suite. How did I go from
Speaker 1: about to be on the street to an executive suite
Speaker 1: Because somebody with some power and some authority new with
Speaker 1: button to push hope you'll get so annoyed. But I'm
Speaker 1: what they inter me doing to your family, to your
Speaker 1: mind that you threw up your hands and say, I
Speaker 1: need to speak to us. So I need to speak
Speaker 1: to the dog that fawned me, the aupa, and they
Speaker 1: are made the first andthelast. Somebody give him praise. If
Speaker 1: you know who is hallelujah. He's got the power, he's
Speaker 1: got the authority, he's got the final say. This woman goes.
Speaker 1: For twelve years, I've been speaking to mid level employees.
Speaker 1: I demand an appointment with the supervisor. She touched the
Speaker 1: hem of his garment. Immediately, She's made whole. Somebody plays
Speaker 1: softly behind me. I'll make this sound a whole lot
Speaker 1: more spiritual. Watch this her her healing. As awesome as
Speaker 1: it was, Don't forget it was actually an interruption to
Speaker 1: Jesus's journey to Jyrus's house. Don't forget who got to
Speaker 1: Jesus first. Gyrous did? He said, Jesus. I can see
Speaker 1: exactly how it went down. He's like, Jesus, please, please,
Speaker 1: can you come to my house? My baby girl is dying.
Speaker 1: Jesus says, yes, I'll go. Can you imagine the joy
Speaker 1: that filled Gyrus's heart. When Jesus said, I'll go the
Speaker 1: text is cleared. There's a crowd of people there that day,
Speaker 1: a huge crowd, and time is of the essence, So
Speaker 1: Gyrous's challenges to get Jesus through the crowd to his
Speaker 1: house so his daughter can be healed. I see how
Speaker 1: it went down. You know how this is when it's
Speaker 1: a crowd of people in your and hurry, excuse me,
Speaker 1: excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me.
Speaker 1: And he checks back to make sure Jesus you said okay, good.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. No,
Speaker 1: I got to h first. Move excuse me, excuse me,
Speaker 1: excuse me. Checks me. You're still okay, good, excuse me,
Speaker 1: excuse me, move, excuse me. You're still there, Jesus, okay, good,
Speaker 1: excuse me, excuse me. And all of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: text will suggests that he loses Jesus in the crowd.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, what is he? I told him? I
Speaker 1: taught him this is an emergency. Excuse me, what did
Speaker 1: you know? And he finally finds him in a crowd
Speaker 1: of people talking about who touched me and Joseph, are
Speaker 1: you seriously now, I've just told you this is the
Speaker 1: emergency you're playing? Twenty one questions what you mean? Who touches?
Speaker 1: Everybody touch her? Oh, don't act like you ain't never
Speaker 1: been there before. Don't act like you never told Jesus
Speaker 1: this is an emergency. You need a hurry. They about
Speaker 1: to take my car. You a better hurry, And he
Speaker 1: just taken who touched me? We'll wait? Wait? Wild Gyrous
Speaker 1: is standing there. Who knows how long it takes for
Speaker 1: this woman to finally, sheepishly come through the crowd and
Speaker 1: says it was me and Jesus The compassionate Savior takes
Speaker 1: his time to talk to her, who wild Gyrous is waiting.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that she told him the whole truth.
Speaker 1: Another version says she told him her whole story. She
Speaker 1: told him she ladies, I love you, but have you
Speaker 1: ever had to let me tell you her host? Oh,
Speaker 1: don't be in a hurry, get to a comfortable seat.
Speaker 1: How lah was this guy get a dude to tell
Speaker 1: you his whole story? He'd be like, I'm good? How
Speaker 1: long is this conversation? And I can see the Steve
Speaker 1: coming off of gyruses forehead. Look are you serious? Girl?
Speaker 1: Get your healing in go? Oh, peter yourways running your
Speaker 1: Mouth's be a good time to tell your boy to
Speaker 1: hurry out. Oh, ain't that frustrating? God makes you wait?
Speaker 1: Not only that he had to watch her get her miracle.
Speaker 1: If it's not frustrating enough to wait on your miracle,
Speaker 1: what do you do when you're waiting on your miracle
Speaker 1: and God makes you watch somebody else get theirs? You
Speaker 1: got that fake smiling your face like, oh you got here, hallelujah?
Speaker 1: Have we Gonnah? It's funny. Tell us you waiting to
Speaker 1: be healed, watching other people get healed, waiting to have
Speaker 1: a baby, watching other people post pictures of their baby
Speaker 1: on Instagram? What do you do? You've got to wait
Speaker 1: on your miracle and watch somebody else get theirs and
Speaker 1: I found. God will often often make you watch a
Speaker 1: miracle while you're waiting on a miracle. Not to discourage you, no,
Speaker 1: he's a good, good father, but to encourage you to
Speaker 1: let you know that if God did it for them,
Speaker 1: oh come on, he can do it for you too.
Speaker 1: He is not a respectable person's If God bless him,
Speaker 1: he can bless you too. That's why you want not
Speaker 1: hate on anybody. Don't be jealous of anybody. The same
Speaker 1: God that did it for them is faithful to do
Speaker 1: it for you too. That's good news. I'm glad you
Speaker 1: clapped at that. I'm a preacher. I set you up
Speaker 1: for that clap. I'm sorry because we say that a
Speaker 1: lot of God did it for me, he'll do it
Speaker 1: for you too, And it's true. But I think there's
Speaker 1: an erroneous ideology attached to that, because often when we
Speaker 1: say if God did it for me, he'll do it
Speaker 1: for you too, we think that means he'll do it
Speaker 1: in the same way. So if God blessed you with
Speaker 1: a house, he gonna bless me with a house in
Speaker 1: the same neighborhood and with the same square footage. And
Speaker 1: I'm a measure Jesus, so keep it even and do
Speaker 1: it for you toobe. But often it won't be in
Speaker 1: the same way. Because Gyros and this woman hear me
Speaker 1: both wanted the same thing. They both wanted healing. Gyros
Speaker 1: didn't get a healing, he got a resurrection, which sounds awesome.
Speaker 1: Don't clap too soon till you remember that the prerequisite
Speaker 1: for resurrection, it's death. Can you imagine how Gyrous's heart
Speaker 1: sunk in his chest? And while he was waiting and watching,
Speaker 1: they tap him on the shoulder and says, Gyrus, don't
Speaker 1: bother the teacher anymore. Your daughter is dead. Oh I
Speaker 1: feel Gyrus's pain, But I realized Girous has horrible friends,
Speaker 1: terrible friends hashtag the worst friends ever. Not because they
Speaker 1: told him his daughter was dead. That was the facts.
Speaker 1: It was the commentary. They added to the facts. They said, Gyrus,
Speaker 1: why bother I have to use his voice. They annoy me, Gyros,
Speaker 1: Why bother the teacher anymore? Your daughter's dead, Gyrous, Your
Speaker 1: daughter's already dead, and essays Gyrus, This is the time
Speaker 1: to give up, Gyrus, This is the time to throw
Speaker 1: in the towel. Watch out for people in your life
Speaker 1: that are so quick to tell you to give up.
Speaker 1: Oh what God spoke in your spirit on the promise
Speaker 1: he gave you. How you're gonna tell me to give up?
Speaker 1: This is not your daughter? And how you're gonna tell
Speaker 1: me don't bother the teacher You don't have an awareness
Speaker 1: of there's annoyed it. He's more than the teacher. He's
Speaker 1: a healer. He's a wam maker's worder. He's no reelection
Speaker 1: and the life, no even death itself. He'd stop him.
Speaker 1: Come on, somebody, did God play? He lifted passid No.
Speaker 1: I rather because I think when Gyros got the news,
Speaker 1: he was so dazed he didn't even want to move anymore.
Speaker 1: And finally Jesus speaks to him. He says, Gyrus, don't
Speaker 1: be afraid, just believe. Don't be afraid, just believing. I
Speaker 1: think that's when the journey switched. I think that's when
Speaker 1: Jesus started leading Gyros, saying Jonas, come on, I know
Speaker 1: you think it's so for but family, come on, givers,
Speaker 1: I need you to walk with the same enthusiasm that
Speaker 1: you're happy for. It's not gonna come on, jobs, I
Speaker 1: know where you live, Come on, follow me. This is
Speaker 1: the way it's supposed to be. You're never supposed to
Speaker 1: be leading Jesus. He's supposed to be leading you, and
Speaker 1: you gotta file with your heartbroken walks in the house.
Speaker 1: He started the funeral. He said, while y'all crying, the
Speaker 1: girl's not dead, she's just asleep. And they laughed. So
Speaker 1: you think that's funny? Ever single one of y'all they
Speaker 1: laughed yet Oh no, I saw your laughing gets Oh,
Speaker 1: unbelief will always laugh at the language of faith. Yes, Oh,
Speaker 1: somebody needs to serve an addiction notice on the enemy
Speaker 1: today and start telling us some things take get out. Oh,
Speaker 1: come on, fear, get out, anxiety, get out, depression, get out.
Speaker 1: Some things won't get up till some things first get out. God,
Speaker 1: just send somebody today to check your environment so that
Speaker 1: the dead things can come to life. I'm gonna ask
Speaker 1: every head be bowed, every I'll be closed across every campus.
Speaker 1: Can I pray for you Father, thank you for your word. Lord.
Speaker 1: I thank you that you have power, you have authority,
Speaker 1: and I also thank you that you've given us power
Speaker 1: and authority. So today we check our atmosphere. Lord. We
Speaker 1: speak to ideas, we speak to mindsets, we speak to
Speaker 1: people in our lives. Well, they need to get out
Speaker 1: so that dead things can get up. And I thank
Speaker 1: you that you are the resurrection and the life. You
Speaker 1: can do it today. And Jesus's mighty name, we pray.
Speaker 1: Everybody said Amen, Hey man, God, bless you innovation. Well,
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