WEBVTT - Get Out 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.560 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:06.840 Church and this is our podcast and I wanted to 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:09.760 thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:12.360 Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:14.720 to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:19.200 message you are about to Uh, You're about to be 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.000 I want to say inspired, but sometimes we use that 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:24.200 word incorrectly. You think it just means to have a 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.720 feel good feeling. You are about to hear an incredible 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:31.560 word from God from someone who I greatly respect in ministry, 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:35.080 Pastor Robert Madeu. He's going to come and share with 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:41.360 us in just a moment. He is one of the Uh, 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.199 let me think, I want to say this now, one 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.239 of the one of the Sometimes you get people who 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.320 are good preachers and sometimes you get people who are 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.240 nice people, and sometimes you get both in one package. 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:54.360 He is both, and I thank God for he and 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:58.160 his wife Taylor. God is using them all around the world. Uh. 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:02.760 Pretty much any given day that you wake up, you 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:06.080 can guarantee that somewhere he's blessing somebody in a different 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.040 time zone than you. God has taken him all over 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:13.680 the world. But he is a good person too. Don't 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:18.360 you like good people? Yeah, it's good. And he's very 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.640 committed to this thing that we do to preach the 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:24.720 Gospel of Jesus Christ. What I told him was that 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:33.920 at eleven thirty the real Christians, the people with extra 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.120 Bible depth and sensitivity to the Holy Spirit of God, 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.200 come to church. And I said, if you want to 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.839 just save all the good stuff for eleven thirty, they'll 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:44.640 be ready for you at eleven thirty. So can we 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.880 make some noise at all of our locations, elevation, let's 0:01:47.880 --> 0:02:03.600 welcome to this stage, Pastor Robert made. Wow, Come on, elevation. 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:08.240 Can we make some noise for Jesus today? Oh, come on, 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:11.639 this is the day that the Lord has made. Come 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:15.080 on across every location. Let us rejoice and be glad 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:23.040 in it, and he glad. People in the house, whoa hallelujah? Hey, 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.359 will you do me a favor before you take your seat, 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.200 would you just look at your neighbor. You're tired of 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.640 talking to your neighbor yet? Come on, do you like 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.200 the person you're standing next to? Come on, get in 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.200 their face, getting their personal space. Across every campus, and 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:39.920 just say, neighbor, I've got a feeling that this is 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:44.320 gonna be a good service. Just in case that neighbor 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.840 was stuck up, find another neighbor, Find another neighbor. Come on, 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:52.760 say other neighbor. You're my second option, but I want 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:57.360 you to know I've got a feeling this is gonna 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.000 be a good service. Come on, if you believe that, 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:07.080 I think, give God one more standing ovation of praise. Hallelujah. 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:09.960 You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.919 Don't get comfortable. You might be back up again. Come on, 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.919 come on, I'll I'll say what I always say. I'm 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.799 not just excited to be at Elevation Church. I am 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:24.480 red bull excited, expresso elated. I've been waiting. I've been 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.000 waiting to get my chocolate faced back in the place. 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:34.080 I absolutely hear me, positively, love love, love this church. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:39.160 I'm from the great country of Texas. But the Elevation 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.920 Church will mess you up. Elevation will have you looking 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.240 on Zillo and trying to find a house in Charlotte. 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.720 Come on, how many know you are ridiculously blessed to 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:52.720 be a part of this church. This is absolutely amazing 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:56.440 and not only that you're crazy blessed to have Pastor 0:03:56.560 --> 0:04:01.560 Stephen Ferdick and Holly Ferdick as your pastor as your leaders. Oh, 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:07.120 come on, y'all can do better than that. I come 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.520 on across every campus. I want you to make some 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:18.360 noise if you know. God loves you too much. And 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.560 I know preachers always say stuff, and this is not 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:23.880 a platitude for me. There's so many things I could say. 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.000 He's one of the greatest communicators of the Gospel on 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:31.279 the planet and incredible leader, writes songs that reverberate around 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.000 the nation. But I think I think I love the 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.400 most about Pastor Stephen and Holly is that they're amazing 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.240 up close. You know what I mean by that. Some 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.200 people you love from a distance, but man, I'm telling you, 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.000 when you get up close, it's amazing to see their 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.279 hearts for people. And he can have any body on 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.240 planet Earth in this poolpit. So I'm extremely honored, and 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.360 it ought to be Pastor Appreciation Minute at elevation because 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.240 y'all are crazy blessed. Come on one more time, would 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.320 you let them know how much you love them, how 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.840 much you appreciate them. Thank God for y'all. I am 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.640 here with my super dupe. My fine wife, Taylor Madou 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:03.880 is in the building. I preach better when she's here, 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:07.920 so it's gonna be good. And uh, this is almost 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.840 like a honeymoon for us because our three kids are 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:16.480 at home. Hallelujah. They are with the grandparents. And uh, 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:18.559 I know how some preachers they always put up pictures 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.240 of their kids because they think they got the cutest 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.280 kids and they wanted everybody to see how cute their 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.440 kids are. I am not that preacher. It's about me 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.680 preaching Jesus, not you seeing my kids. You ain't got 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.560 to worry about me putting them on the screen. We good, 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.719 we good. That's not true if y'all don't put my 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:38.440 kids on earth screen up in here. Hey, come on, elevation, 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:45.760 I made that. May that come on? That is my 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.960 four year old daughter ev. That is my two year 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.000 old son, Robert mdou, the third, my manchild and our 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:56.080 newest and last edition. Hello Remington O Lane. She's just 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:57.560 one years old. And I put up the picture all 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.279 the time because fatherhood is the best hood. It's not 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.840 like being a dad. But hey, I'm excited to share 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:04.800 the word. I want to jump straight into it. Do 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.080 you have a Bible with you? Come on, you got 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:08.480 a Bible which you waving in the air like you 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.839 just do care across every campus, every location. Also, some 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:15.400 of your bibles are glowing. You're charged to your Bible today. 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.480 I want to look at mark chapter five if we can. 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:23.680 Mark Chapter five, Verses twenty one through forty three. Quite 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.240 a bit of scripture, but I need all of it 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.400 for you to get the context of where we're going. 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:32.400 Mark chapter five, starting a verse number twenty one, and 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.880 then we'll land in verse forty three. When you're ready 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:38.240 to read it, say yeah. If you need some time 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:43.160 to find us, say hold up, it's a desperate hold up. 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.640 I'll wait for you. Verse twenty one. It says when 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.960 Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.320 side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.440 while he was by the lake. Then one of the 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:59.000 synagogue leaders named Gyris came, and when he saw Jesus, 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.720 he fell at his feet. He pleaded earnestly with him, 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.920 My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.120 hands on her so that she will be healed and live. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.440 So Jesus went with him. A large crowd followed and 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.560 pressed around him, and a woman was there who had 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.600 been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.240 a great deal under the care of many doctors and 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.360 had spent all she had, Yet instead of getting better, 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:28.520 she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.960 up behind him in the crowd and touched his clothes 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.560 because she thought, if I just touch his clothes, I 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.400 will be healed. Immediately, her bleeding stopped, and she felt 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:40.880 in her body that she was free from her suffering. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.160 At once, Jesus realized that power had gone out from him, 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:48.000 and he turned around in the crowd and asked, who 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.960 touched my clothes? You see the people crowding against you. 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.840 His disciples answered, and yet you can ask who touched me. 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.960 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.400 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.480 and fell at his feet, and, trembling with fear, told 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.120 him the whole truth. And he said to her, daughter, 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.680 your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:13.840 freed from your suffering. While Jesus was still speaking, some 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.360 people came from the house of Gyrus, the synagogue leader, 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:21.400 your daughter is dead, they said, why bother the teacher anymore? 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.440 Overhearing what they said, one version says ignoring what they said, 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.920 Jesus told him, don't be afraid, just believe. He did 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.320 not let anyone follow him except Peter James and John, 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:32.920 the brother of James. And when they came to the 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.760 home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion with 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.439 people crying and well and loudly. He went in and 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.120 said to them, why all the commotion and welling? The 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.840 child's not dead but asleep, But they laughed at him. 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.040 After he put them all out, he took the child's 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:48.720 father and mother and the disciples who were with him, 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:50.679 and went in where the child was. He took her 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.240 by the hand and said to her, talitha coomb, which 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:57.280 means little girl, I say to you, get up. Immediately, 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.240 the girl stood up and began to walk around. She 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.960 was twelve years old. At this they were completely astonished. 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.760 He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:08.640 and then told him don't just stand there and look 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.560 at the girl. Go to Chick fil a and get 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:14.400 us something to eve. Come on, somebody that is good. 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:20.960 All by itself, all by itself in full sermon prep disclosure. 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.760 I almost titled this message. I almost titled this message 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:29.960 get Up, because that's a good sermon title, gets up, 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.320 because I thought that was the culmination and the climax 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.360 of the miracle when Jesus told this little girl to 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.280 get up. But upon further reflection, I realized that was 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.640 a premature title, premature, and I had to back that 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:47.520 thing up biblically, so Verses forty and forty one. I 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.400 want us to hone in on Verses forty and forty one, 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.120 because remember, Jesus walks in and says, this girl is 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:56.320 not dead, she's just asleep. The Bible says that they 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:10.040 laughed at him. Wo who is the they? The negative, doubting, hating, unbelieving, faithless, 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:14.800 cantankerous people in the world. You know, those people that 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:21.040 light up a room when they walk out, those people 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:27.520 that for every solution they're gonna find a problem that's today. Okay. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.080 They laughed at him, and it says after he that's 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:37.800 Jesus put them all out. The Greek suggests that he 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.439 physically put all of them out. I don't want to 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.200 mess up with your theology. Or your christology today, because 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.280 you might think that Jesus is just kind and sweet 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:51.559 and loving and caring and he's a good good father, 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.400 and he is, but this text lets me know, don't 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:58.120 get it twisted. He is so so gay because all 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:02.959 of those negative, doubting, unbelieving, faithless people. He said, Oh, 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:07.280 y'all got to gets you ain't gotta go home, but 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:12.680 you gotta get out of here, savage Jesus. I love 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:17.959 it so before she got up first, some people had 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:22.600 to get out. Elevation Church. What if the power of 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:26.920 a miracle is not just in the miracle itself, but 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:31.800 rather in the atmosphere and the environment that surrounds your miracle. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.240 You've been telling some things to get up, but perhaps 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.880 this is the season of your life to check your 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:45.760 environment and start telling some things to gets Oh. I 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.960 feel like preaching in here today. Come on, would you 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:49.720 just look at your neighbor and tell them my title, 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.480 just say get out? Oh come on, look at another 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.560 neighbor like you got attitude and them saying get out, 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.760 not now, but but later. Come on, let's pray long prayer. 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:04.600 Other thank you for your word. Speak to us today, Amen, 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:14.800 get out the divine intersection and collision of characters in 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:21.400 this text today immediately gave me a nostalgic parental fatherhood 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:26.040 flashback to November twenty fourteen. I remember it quite vividly 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:27.520 because I was getting ready to leave our home in 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.760 Dallas to go preach at a conference, just in anything unusual. 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.680 I often leave to go preach at a conference. Except 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.880 this time everything was different. Everything was different because I 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.400 was not just leaving the house as a husband. Now, 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.000 I was leaving the house as a father. Our firstborn daughter, Evie, 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.679 had just entered the world, and I was in that emotional, 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:51.320 precarious predicament of leaving my firstborn daughter for the first time. 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:53.360 And come on, every parent in here will attest to 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.800 the fact that things are different with your first child. Oh, 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:58.480 come on, there are things that happen with your first 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.680 child that none of your other children, whatever experience. Okay, 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.560 Like now, now, Taylor and I we have three kids 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:09.760 plus a demonic dog. So when I leave the house, now, 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.120 I leave like I got warrants for my rest and 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.520 I take the long route home. Okay. Often often Taylor 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.800 will call me with chaos in the background. She'd be like, Babe, 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.000 where are you I'll go. I'm in traffic. She's like, no, 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.360 you in the driveway. I see you come in the 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:28.040 house and help me with this kid. But when is 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:31.520 your first, it's different, it's different. Your emotional tears are 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.000 going this way, slots going the other way. I'm like 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.960 that he loves you. I God put you so much. 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:44.040 You is cold, she is small, she is important. I mean, 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.800 I was a mess. I get to the conference. I 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:49.520 get to the conference, I think it was in Florida, 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.319 and I'm about to get up to preach, and I 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.360 got the name of Eddie James is leading worship and 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.120 of all songs, of all songs, he's actually singing, You're 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:03.520 a good good father. I was like, norm not just 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:04.960 the mess, said I don't even think I preached. I 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:06.240 just put up a picture of my daughter's at that 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.160 point one, two and three and got in the green 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.280 room afterwards, and the worst leader, Eddie James, comes up 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.840 to me. He says, Robert, congrats on your daughter. She's beautiful. 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:19.400 I said, thank you. I made her. Then said, hey, Eddie, 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.480 you know, my daughter Evey might not have ever been 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:26.240 born if it wasn't for you. Eddie looked at me 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.960 like I had lost my mind. I said, Eddie, you 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.200 probably don't remember this, but in December two thousand and six, 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.320 you were scheduled to lead worship and preach at Christ 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.800 for the Nation's Institute in Dallas, Texas. But en route 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.280 to Christ for the Nations, your van broke down on 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.280 the side of the road. Eddie goes, I remember that night, 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:45.960 I said. You picked up the phone and you called 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.080 a man by the name of Adam McCain, and you 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:49.960 let him know that by the time your van would 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.280 be fixed, there was no way you would make the service, 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.920 so regrettably you had to cancel. Adam McCain got off 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:57.480 the phone with you and looked at a room full 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:00.160 of people and said, Eddie, James just canceled for our 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.040 Tuesday night Bible College chapel. Who in the world can 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:06.080 we get last minute to fill? His spy in that 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:07.920 room was a man by the name of Brian Meng. 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.160 He lifts up his hand and says, I just heard 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.480 this young guy named Robert Madoo preach. He's local, maybe 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.280 he can do it. All of a sudden, my phone 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:16.760 rings and a voice on the other line says, is 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:21.480 this pastor Robert Madou? I say yes it is, says Robert. 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:23.200 I know this is last minute, this is crazy, but 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.960 we've just had a cancelation for our Tuesday Night Bible 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.120 College Chapel. Is there any way you could come and 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.520 speak to our young people? Now? Keep in mind during 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.720 this time of my life, I myself am a Bible 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.160 college student at Southwestern the Symblers of God University. So 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.800 I said to Adam McCain, you know what it seems 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.160 like yesterday I was a Bible college student myself. What 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.280 an honor it would be to come in part to 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:48.080 your young people. Drove from sad Good to see if 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.200 and I I'm about to get up and preach. But 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.720 before I get up, they say, it's Tuesday night, So 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.960 it's time for our Tuesday night testimony video. We're gonna 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.120 show a video of a student in our body whose 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.120 life has been changed by Jesus Christ. And all of 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.160 a sudden, on the screen comes the finest girl with 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:08.040 the strongest Arkansas accent I have ever heard, and she 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.200 starts telling her story of Jesus changing her life. Don't 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:12.800 meet the girl. I'm at my school the next day, 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.120 a girl test me in my shoulder. She goes, hey, Robert. 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.520 I said, it's Pastor Robert Madieu. Now. She goes, was 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.760 that you that I saw last night at Christ's Nations 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:22.600 getting up to preach? I said, yeah, they called me 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.200 last minute. They had a cancelation. She goes, Oh my goodness, 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.400 Oh my good Did you see the girl on the 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:30.480 screen telling her testimony before you preach? I said, yes, 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.280 I did. She said, I've known her for years. I've 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.000 known you for years, and I always thought that you 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.280 two would be perfect for each other. But I never 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.680 said anything but the fact that you were there preaching 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.240 and they showed her video. You tube have got to meet, 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.160 I said, Addie. The next week, that girl and I 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:48.200 went on our very first day at the Illustrious International 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:52.520 House of Bandcakes, I said, Addie. To make a long 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.480 story short, that girl's name was Taylor Mitchell is now 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:00.960 Taylor Mediou. We did what married people do, Evie. Is 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.960 the evidence of that. Eddie. I am so glad your 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.879 van broke down on the side of the world, and 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:16.560 I share that story today, first of all, get some 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:22.520 hope to the single people, but also to say, who 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.879 in the world would have ever thought that Eddie and 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:31.160 my ev were connected because their connection is not one 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.720 that is easily seen on the surface. But once you 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.960 begin to peel back the layers and dig down deep 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.600 into the archaeological value of a person's life, it becomes 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:42.600 so clear that none of us get to live our 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.840 lives in autonomy, which is me, myself and I. But 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:49.040 how many you know? All of us are connected. We 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:55.120 are deeply connected. Miracles merge with miracles, Testimonies touch each other, 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.640 our stories intersect. Whether you like the person sitting next 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.600 to you or not, all of us are deeply and 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:06.040 intrinsically connected. Oh yes, our lives are not straight lines. 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:10.760 Our lives are actually links. We are all connected. And 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:12.920 then it frustrates you when people you love don't understand 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:14.600 this premise, and they got the nerve to tell you, 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:17.280 don't worry about me, don't worry about me. You do you. 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:19.840 I'm gonna do me. You do you, I'm gonna do me. 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:21.600 And you want to look at them and say, well, 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:25.640 you doing you is affecting me because all of us 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:32.600 are deeply Oh we're connected. We're connected, So don't find 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.240 it strange and Mark chapter five. Mark begins by talking 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.720 about the synagogue leader by the name of Gyros but 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.480 in the middle of Gyros's story, we're abruptly interrupted with 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:42.560 the story of a woman with the issue of blood. 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.640 And the reason Mark Hat strategically sandwiched these two story 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:50.200 together is because the two of them are connected, deeply connected. 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.760 In fact, to talk about Gyros the synagogue leader and 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.119 never discuss the woman with the issue of blood is 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.800 really to do an injustice to the integrity of this text. 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:01.359 Because the two of them are connected. It so connected. Now, 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:03.679 not on the surface, not on the surface. If you 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:05.640 just look at the surface of their lives, they cannot 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.119 be more opposite. Come on, if you look at the surface, 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.280 one of these things is not like the other. Come on, 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:12.520 let's just start with biology, one on one. Gyros is 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.720 a man. She is a woman. Hello hoo. Gyros is 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.119 named in the text. The Bible doesn't even give us 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:22.840 this woman's name. Gyros was honored and respected. This woman 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:26.879 has been shamed and rejected. Gyros is a ruler in 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.080 the synagogue. This woman can't even come near the synagogue 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:34.240 because her sickness has made her ceremonially unclean. Gyrus is 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:36.640 actually affluent. He's got some money in the bank. This 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.840 woman is broke. Busted and disgusted and has spent all 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.800 she had on worthless physicians who have made her worse 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:44.679 instead of better. Let me bring the text to the 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.760 twenty first century. Gyrous is driving the bands, this woman 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.719 is riding the bus. They have nothing in common on 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.840 the peripheral, but yet life has put them in the 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:57.760 exact same place, posture, and position because they both have 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:02.399 been hit with something that they cannot handle. How many no? 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:05.360 Life will do that. Life has a way of evening 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:10.240 the playing field. Life is an equal opportunity employer. Life 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:12.719 will hit you upside the head with some stuff that'll 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.800 make you scratch your hand, that'll take your breath away. 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:18.400 Life will hit you with stuff come on that your 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:22.359 money can't fix, Your degrees, can't fix your Instagram followers 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:25.479 can't fix. Life will hit an atheist with some stuff 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:27.600 that'll make him throw up his hands and say, the 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:31.120 Lord is in this place. Life will hit you with 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:34.600 some stuff you cannot handle. And might I suggest that 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:37.520 if life is hit you with something that you cannot handle, 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:40.639 how many no? That thing is a job for Jesus. 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:43.520 That's time for you to throw up your hands and say, God, 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.560 I don't know what to do about this, But surely 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:53.560 you know what to do. Oh look at Gyrus in 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:57.280 this woman. Nothing in common on the surface. Both ended 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:00.720 up in the same place, having to push people out 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:04.040 the way to get an appointment with Jesus. I love 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:05.959 it because now one of them had a pretty pathway 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:09.080 with rose pedals to Jesus. They both had to physically 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:13.400 push people out the way to get an appointment with Jesus. 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:15.240 Just push. You know, Jivers is a pastor. You're not 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:17.159 supposed to push people. I can see people coming to 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:18.960 the Givers saying, hey, I really loved your Shamon the 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:21.800 other day. He's like, you did good move. I'm like 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:25.919 jes A pushing people out the way. This woman is 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:29.399 ceremonially unclean. She's not supposed to be touching people. She 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:34.359 touched everybody. That's no, not pushing people out the way. 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:36.600 Oh you know why they're pushing. I'll tell you why 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:41.600 they're pushing. They're pushing because desperate people do desperate things. 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:43.760 Oh come on, how many know when you are really 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.159 desperate for God to do something in your life, you 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:49.879 come to church differently, you approach God differently. When you 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:52.440 are desperate for God to show up, you don't care 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:54.720 what the traffic is. You'll be in here before the 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:57.680 countdown video. When you are desperate for God to show 0:21:57.760 --> 0:21:59.880 up in your life, you will lift up your hands 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:02.200 if you will sing the songs, laugh, You don't care 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:05.040 whose nerves you getting up. When you are desperate for 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:07.879 God to show up, tears will come down your faith. 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:10.360 You mess up out that Mary Kay and Mac makeup 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:13.560 because there's something you need God to do in your life. 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:16.480 And I'm wondering, are there any desperate people in this 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:19.760 place that said there is something I need God to 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:24.240 do in my life that only he convin Oh, come on, 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:26.560 if you ain't desperate, you can be quiet. But if 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:30.080 you're actually desperate, across every campus, I tell you to 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:38.200