1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,519 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast and I wanted to 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:09,800 Speaker 1: thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective 5 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 6 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 1: Are you excited for the Word of God today? I 7 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,919 Speaker 1: sure am grateful to preach and share this with you. 8 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: Thank you worship team. If you want to look at 9 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: Joshua chapter two today with me for a moment, very 10 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 1: interesting story in scripture. Those of you at our Uptown 11 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:38,959 Speaker 1: location and our Melbourne campus, you heard me share from 12 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:44,520 Speaker 1: this scripture right. You heard me share from the scripture 13 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 1: at our Vision nights over the last few weeks. And 14 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: I want to share this with the church today and 15 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 1: it's a subject that I think will be relevant for 16 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: each of us. And I pray that you'll hear this 17 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: personally for yourself. By the way, what an awesome advantage 18 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: it is when everyone in the church is leaned in 19 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: to hear the word of God. I was telling one 20 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 1: of the people who helps me on the weekend how 21 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:15,199 Speaker 1: exhausting it is when preaching feels like mixed martial arts, 22 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: you know, And I don't want to be like Connor 23 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: McGregor up here. And it's not like that, you know, 24 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: it's not even a performance. When we do this, God speaks. 25 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:34,400 Speaker 1: And when everybody comes with that attitude and that perspective, 26 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: we realize that it is our responsibility to receive the 27 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 1: word of God. And we don't put all this pressure 28 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: on some guy with a microphone as if somehow I 29 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: could fix your life. I can't. My opinion is empty. 30 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: But God's word is powerful. And so when you bring 31 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: that expectation to the Word of God, it really makes 32 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: it dynamic and explosive. So all that just to say, 33 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: look at your neighbor and say, wake up, pay attention. 34 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: I know you're ready. Joshua Chapter two, verse one. Then 35 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 1: Joshua's Son of None secretly sh secretly. You don't have 36 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: to tell everybody everything you're doing secretly. You don't have 37 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,519 Speaker 1: to post every time you pray on Instagram. You don't 38 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: have to put a coffee mug post for every devotion. 39 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 1: You know, I'm talking about the coffee mug. And the 40 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 1: Bible is spread open, and then you highlight a few 41 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:29,920 Speaker 1: extra verses before you take the picture and make it 42 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 1: look like then Joshua's son of none shh, don't tell everybody, 43 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: but just secretly sent two spies from shiite them. And 44 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: that's a long eye when you pronounce shi them. You 45 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: want to be careful when you pronounce shy them if 46 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: you ever preach from Joshua Chapter two, verse one, go 47 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 1: look over the land, he said, especially Jericho. Notice he 48 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 1: didn't tell them to look at every city, because you 49 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: can get overwhelmed if you think about all the battles 50 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:06,839 Speaker 1: you have to fight. This is just the first one, 51 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 1: the next one. And when we get so focused on 52 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: everything that we have to overcome, it SAPs our strength 53 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: and we can't take our next step because we're thinking 54 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: fourteen steps ahead, and you can wreck looking at your 55 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 1: GPS instead of keeping your eyes on the next turn. Okay, 56 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: So they went and entered the house of a prostitute 57 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: ooh named Rahab and stayed there. Why there there was 58 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: nothing else available on Airbnb, so they they stayed in 59 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: the house of a prostitute named Rehab. King of Jericho 60 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: was told, look, some of these relights have come here 61 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: tonight to spy out the land. So the King of 62 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: Jericho sent this message to Rehab. Bring out the men 63 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: who came to you and entered your house, because they 64 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: have come to spy out the whole land. But the 65 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 1: woman had taken the two men and hidden them. Now, 66 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: if there's one thing that Rahab's profession has taught her, 67 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 1: it is discretion. I'm saying she might not have lived 68 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 1: the most holy life. The Bible says she was a prostitute, 69 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 1: but she knew how to hide men. And so I 70 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 1: point that out to let you know. God is going 71 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: to use everything, even the stuff that you're not proud of, 72 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: if you offer it to him. He'll use even the 73 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: things that you want to hide. And Rahab hid the 74 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: men because that's something she knew how to do. I 75 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 1: won't say any more about that, because y'all are looking 76 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 1: at me so angelic. She said, Yeah, the men came 77 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 1: to me, but I did not know where they had 78 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,359 Speaker 1: come from. At dusk, when it was time to close 79 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: the city gate, they left. I don't know which way 80 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: they went. By the way. All of this is a lie. 81 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: All of this so we got a lying prostitute that 82 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 1: God uses to fulfill his purpose and demonstrate his glory 83 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:06,919 Speaker 1: in the earth. Put that in your theological pipe and 84 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: toke that vape. That So she's lying, and she's hiding 85 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:23,280 Speaker 1: the men, and then she uses misdirection. TuS can go 86 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,919 Speaker 1: after them quickly. You may catch up with them parentheses. 87 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: But she had taken them up to the roof and 88 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: hidden them under the stalks of flax she'd laid out 89 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 1: on the roof. This was not her first time hiding 90 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 1: a man in her house. So the men set out 91 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: in pursuit of the spies on the road that leads 92 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as 93 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: the pursuers had gone out, the gate was shut. Before 94 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: the spies laid down for the night, she went up 95 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: on the roof and said to them, I know that 96 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 1: the Lord has given you this land, and that a 97 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: great fear of you has fallen on us, so that 98 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 1: all who live in this country are melting in fear 99 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: because of you. These are the same enemies that the 100 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: Israelites were so afraid of forty years earlier that they 101 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: wouldn't go in. But what they were running from was 102 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: actually afraid of them. You realize sometimes you're running from 103 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 1: a defeated foe. You realize sometimes you're running from stuff 104 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: God has already dealt with, if you would move forward. 105 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: And so she says, we've heard about you versetin. We've 106 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: heard how the Lord dried up the water of the 107 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,919 Speaker 1: Red Sea. That was four decades ago, they're still talking 108 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 1: about it. We heard how the Lord dried up the 109 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: water the Red Sea for you when you came out 110 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:40,239 Speaker 1: of Egypt. And what you did to Sion in Augu, 111 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan, 112 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: whom you completely destroyed. And when we heard of it, 113 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 1: our hearts melted in fear, and everyone's courage failed because 114 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: of you. For the Lord, your God, is God in 115 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: heaven above and on the earth. So turn to the 116 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 1: person next to you and tell them what Rehab told. 117 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:07,599 Speaker 1: The spies say, you got a reputation. The title of 118 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 1: this message is reputation rehab. You didn't just come to 119 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 1: church today. You came to reputation Rehab. How many realized 120 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: that everything people called you is not something you should 121 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: respond to at this stage in your life. You got 122 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: to move past some things and see yourself in a 123 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: new light. At least that's what God told Joshua when 124 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: he stated him as the new leader of Israel. After 125 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: Moses left, he said, it's a new day, and you 126 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: are the leader I have chosen and appointed to lead 127 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: these people into the land that I promised their ancestors. 128 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: And God in Joshua Chapter one reminds Joshua of his reputation, 129 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: not the reputation of Joshua, the reputation of Jehovah. He said, 130 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: I am the God who spoke to the forefathers of 131 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: this faith tradition, which you are a continuation of. But 132 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 1: it didn't start with you. God says, I have a reputation. 133 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: And when you face the resistance, when you go into 134 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: this new land that I've called you to conquer, I 135 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: want you to remember my reputation. God said, I have 136 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: a reputation of picking people out that are obscure and 137 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:22,239 Speaker 1: unknown and using them to accomplish my purpose in the earth. 138 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: I have a reputation. I have a reputation for calling 139 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 1: men like Abraham and taking him from her of the Chaldeans. 140 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: And even though he's too old to have babies and 141 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 1: there's no prescriptions available to help him pro create, I 142 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 1: have a reputation for doing what cannot be done in 143 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:44,320 Speaker 1: the flesh, for it's not by might, nor by power, 144 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 1: but by my spirit, says the Lord. I have a reputation, 145 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: and sometimes we need to be reminded of God's reputation. 146 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 1: You know, we need to be reminded every once in 147 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: a while that the wind and the waves know who 148 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,559 Speaker 1: he is. They know that voice. To you, my sheep, 149 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: know my voice. I'm the one who dried up the 150 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: red sea. I just want you to remember my reputation. 151 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: That's why I mentioned Bible stories in church, like Daniel 152 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: and the Lions den because the lions knew that when 153 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 1: God speaks, their mouths had to stay shut. They knew 154 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: that voice, they knew that voice. I'm encouraged to know 155 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: that God's reputation is the basis of my faith, not mine, 156 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: not mine. I think it's really funny sometimes how much 157 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: time we spend trying to build our reputation with people 158 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 1: whose opinions don't ultimately matter. You know, when I first 159 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 1: started the church, a well meaning minister gave me a 160 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 1: piece of advice. He said, protect your reputation. You only 161 00:09:56,200 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: get one. I wish that were true, you know, I 162 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: wish you could protect your reputation and that if you 163 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: always did the right thing, people would always say the 164 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 1: right things about you. The fact is we live in 165 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: a world that doesn't know the difference between a rumor 166 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: and a reputation anymore, and to spend all of your 167 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:23,079 Speaker 1: energy trying to protect your reputation. The Lord really spoke 168 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 1: to me and dealt with me the first time that 169 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,080 Speaker 1: I would defend myself against people who were critical of 170 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: my ministry. And you know, you can spend so much 171 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: time trying to protect your reputation, which is really ego 172 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: wanting people to have a certain image of you, that 173 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: you start preaching to the people who don't like you, 174 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: and you're angry at people who are smiling at you 175 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 1: because you're not really talking to them. It happened to 176 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 1: me early in ministry, and the Lord spoke to me. 177 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: He spoke to me very specifically. He said, why don't 178 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: you worry about protecting your integrity and let me protect 179 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 1: your reputation. When you stop to think about it, even 180 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:12,439 Speaker 1: the premise that you only have one reputation is faulty. 181 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: I mean, really, you have as many reputations as you 182 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 1: have relationships in that room. What I mean is some 183 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 1: people at work think you're quiet because you are around them, 184 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: because you don't trust them or like them, or have 185 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: anything to say to them. But if we ask your 186 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: family like I will never forget when our middle child, Graham, 187 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: first went to school and the teacher emailed us how 188 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: he talked too much in class, and it was so 189 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 1: funny because we could not get him to talk at home. 190 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: He was so quiet at home. And the teacher said, 191 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: he will not shut up in class. He's a wonderful child, 192 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: but could you just talk to him about talking out 193 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:58,319 Speaker 1: of turn in class? I said, well, could you talk 194 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 1: to him about talking intern at home? Because we can't 195 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: get him to say anything. And now he's eleven and 196 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 1: he talks all the time. But I remember thinking how 197 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 1: strange it was that he could be known as the 198 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: talkative kid in class. But maybe the birth order or 199 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: something at home. Maybe we won't shut up long enough 200 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: to give him a chance at home. And you know, 201 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: it's really true, because sometimes we only get to know 202 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: church you. I wonder how big is the gap between 203 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 1: your reality and your reputation, because it's never been easier 204 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 1: to develop a virtual reputation. You know, where I see 205 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 1: people online and in their profile it says life coach, 206 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:51,319 Speaker 1: and they're thirteen I don't understand how you're going to 207 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: coach me, and you've never been on the field. It 208 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 1: says public figure, and you got a private account with 209 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: twelve followers. I don't understand it, but I do because 210 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 1: we are living in a world that wants watch this 211 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: reputation without repetition, and a true reputation is not built 212 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: by what you occasionally do or wish that you were, 213 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:15,679 Speaker 1: or want people to see you as. It's not something 214 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: that you project or perfect. Your real reputation comes from 215 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:29,439 Speaker 1: relationship and repetition, and relationship and repetition. And I had 216 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 1: to come to the point where I realized it is 217 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: not what people who don't know me think about me, 218 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 1: or what I can convince them of that brings me 219 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: peace in my heart and fulfills my calling. I want 220 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: to focus my life on developing a reputation that is 221 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 1: based on repetition and relationship, that I would do the 222 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 1: right thing over and over and over and over and 223 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: over again, and when I don't, I'll apologize and I'll 224 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 1: get back on and do it over and over and over. 225 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: Isn't that how God built his reputation in your life, 226 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 1: because he helped you over and over and over and 227 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: over again, and he gave you mercy over and over 228 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: and over and over again. And he made ways over 229 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 1: and over and over and over again. And he heard 230 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 1: your cry over and over and over again, and he 231 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: forgave you for that same sin that you committed over 232 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: and over and over again. But when you needed grace, 233 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: you found it over and over and over again. And 234 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 1: he woke you up over and over and over again. 235 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: And he lets you see another day over and over 236 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 1: and over again. So I will braise him over and 237 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: over and over again. Because God has a reputation with me. 238 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: I know him as faithful, and watch this. I don't 239 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: let anybody else build my belief about who God is. 240 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: I don't need to believe somebody else's report about God. 241 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: I have a personal relationship with Him, and God's reputation 242 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 1: with me is based on his faithfulness in my life. 243 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: I don't go off of what I heard about. I 244 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 1: go off what I know. Don't ever let somebody else 245 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 1: misrepresent God and run you away from church. You ought 246 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: to know God for yourself. It's a relational thing. So 247 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: we're losing that, and we're so quick to tear people down. 248 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 1: And God forgive us for all the times where we've 249 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: believed a report about someone that we didn't even know. 250 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: In a day where it is so easy to project 251 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: a false reputation and so easy to destroy a reputation, 252 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: you can destroy your own reputation with two hundred and 253 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: eighty characters. Am I right? I don't call names from 254 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: this pulpit, but you know what I'm talking about. And 255 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: yet we stand between the reality of who we are 256 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: and kind of who we think we need to be. 257 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: And into that gap God speaks and it's the most 258 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: amazing thing. I can't get over this, and it doesn't 259 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 1: seem like a smart strategy, but God chooses over and 260 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: over again. The faithful God entrusts his reputation to faithless people, 261 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 1: and so for forty years the Israelites will wander in 262 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: the wilderness because they believed a bad report, even though 263 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 1: they had a history with God. Now, Joshua does something interesting. 264 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 1: After he calls the people together and tells them prepare 265 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 1: and consecrate yourselves for what God is going to do, 266 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 1: and reminds them of what God has already done. He 267 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 1: sends back to verse one two spies two spies instead 268 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: of twelve. When Moses got ready to check out Canaan 269 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 1: four decades ago. He sent twelve spies and ten came 270 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 1: back with a fear report. So it's almost as if 271 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:15,399 Speaker 1: Joshua has learned from that exploit, being one of the 272 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: two spies who said, if God is with us, we 273 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 1: can't fail, and he made up his mind this time. 274 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: I only need to, somebody shout, I only need to 275 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 1: look at the person on either side of you and 276 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 1: tell both of them I only need to. I don't 277 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,120 Speaker 1: need too many opinions in this stage of my life. 278 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: I'm out of middle school now, and I can't live 279 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: by what everybody else thinks or does not anymore. I 280 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,719 Speaker 1: only need too, somebody say, I only need to. And 281 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:48,440 Speaker 1: I read in my Bible that surely goodness and mercy 282 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: will follow me all the days of my life. So 283 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 1: I got goodness and I got mercy. I only need 284 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: to say it again. I only need to, and I 285 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: can't afford to consult everybody's opinion and every cable news channel. 286 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 1: I got goodness and I got mercy. I don't need Fox, 287 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: I don't need CNN. I don't need Twitter, I don't 288 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 1: need Facebook, I don't need Instagram. I don't need my 289 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 1: past to consult. I don't need to consult too many people. 290 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,479 Speaker 1: You know, we start calling people and asking them for advice. 291 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 1: You really don't want advice anymore after you've called the 292 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:29,679 Speaker 1: third person. You want affirmation and attention. I have a 293 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 1: shortcut now as a pastor. When people say I'd like 294 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 1: your advice on whatever they say next, I don't respond 295 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 1: to I say what do you want, because I'll just 296 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:49,720 Speaker 1: say what you want to hear and save you the 297 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 1: time from calling the next person and the next person 298 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 1: until somebody will finally tell you what you want to hear. 299 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:02,959 Speaker 1: Because a lot of us, maybe not you, maybe somebody 300 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:07,520 Speaker 1: you know, a lot of us live our whole life 301 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 1: consulting opinions. And when you get too many opinions, it 302 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 1: really crowds out the voice of God. And you know 303 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 1: what's funny about people. You got to be so careful 304 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 1: because people will a lot of times and situations will 305 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 1: a lot of times feel they will categorize stuff. Look, 306 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:32,680 Speaker 1: the Bible says they went into Jericho and entered the 307 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:38,199 Speaker 1: house of a prostitute named Rahab. Why would you go 308 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 1: into the house of a prostitute in order to discern 309 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:45,199 Speaker 1: the promise? Of God. Let me tell you a little secret. 310 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:51,879 Speaker 1: God uses who he wants to use. I'm losing amens 311 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: by the minute. You must be from out of town. 312 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 1: God uses who he wants to use. And so isn't 313 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: it fascinating that the God, who has a spotless reputation, 314 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: when he gets ready to bring his people into the promise, 315 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: uses a woman with a reputation, not a reputation like 316 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 1: we think God can use, not a reputation of perfection. 317 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 1: But God uses someone with a reputation, and furthermore, someone 318 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 1: who the spies would consider an enemy. Technically, Rehab was 319 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 1: an enemy of Israel, and yet God used their enemy 320 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:48,119 Speaker 1: to show them who they were. She said, I know 321 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 1: who you are, and I know that God has given 322 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: you the victory. Is it possible that your enemy knows 323 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 1: more about who you are than you do? And is 324 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 1: that why he's been fighting you like he's been fighting you. 325 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 1: It's just a question, saints. Is it possible, just a 326 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: little bit possible, that the trial that you're going through 327 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 1: is actually a testament to the power that lives within you. 328 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 1: The devil doesn't waste bullets if he's leaving you alone. 329 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:42,200 Speaker 1: He knows you aren't anything worth fighting against. God used 330 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:47,680 Speaker 1: their enemy to show them who they were. God, you, 331 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: God used their struggle to confirm his word. It's crazy, 332 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 1: how I said, Now let me teach you. It's crazy 333 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: how we have set up a false expectation that the 334 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 1: proof of God's favor in our life will always be 335 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:15,920 Speaker 1: that our fights will decrease and our comfort will increase. 336 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: But when God was revealing himself in the Book of Job, 337 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: the devil was going all through the earth trying to 338 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:38,400 Speaker 1: look for somebody he could tamper with. And when the 339 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 1: devil presented himself before the throne with the angels, because 340 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 1: the enemy can't do anything without God's permission, I'm afraid 341 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 1: in a lot of our churches we've given the devil 342 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:53,680 Speaker 1: a reputation that he is an equal power with God. 343 00:22:53,720 --> 00:23:00,439 Speaker 1: He's not. He's not. And God asked a question Satan. 344 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: He said, have you considered my servant job? Have you 345 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: thought about picking on him because he's my guy? Now, 346 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 1: whatever you have to do to get on that list 347 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 1: where God tells the devil he can mess with you, 348 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 1: I don't want to be that holy. I want to 349 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 1: find that mark a slipping men. But God said, have 350 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: at his stuff. You can touch him, his family, you 351 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:34,160 Speaker 1: can't touch him. And when the devil came back and said, 352 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,919 Speaker 1: I tried it and you were right, he didn't curse you. 353 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:41,120 Speaker 1: But if you let me hurt him, it's one thing 354 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 1: for everything around him to be affected. But if you 355 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: let me hurt his body, he'll curse you. And God said, 356 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 1: you can do it, but you can't kill him. And 357 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:56,680 Speaker 1: after that period of testing had been completed, after Job 358 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,119 Speaker 1: survived all of the rounds. Now, this means he lost 359 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:03,680 Speaker 1: not only his not only his business, not only his belongings, 360 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 1: but his children. And the only person who stayed alive 361 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:14,920 Speaker 1: with Job was his wife. And if you read about her, 362 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 1: he'd probably praying God would go ahead and wipe her 363 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:20,920 Speaker 1: out too, because she wasn't a very good wife. She said, 364 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: go ahead and curse God and die. Let's get it 365 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: over with. You're really gonna put up with this and 366 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,439 Speaker 1: still serve God. But Job would not charge God with wrongdoing. 367 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:32,159 Speaker 1: And yes, at the end of God's at the end 368 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 1: of Job's life, he was doubly blessed. But I don't 369 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 1: think the point of the book of Job is that 370 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,119 Speaker 1: Job got double for his trouble. That's nice for a 371 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 1: bumper sticker, but he still lost his children. What's the point. 372 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 1: The point is that the devil didn't mention Job's name. 373 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:54,679 Speaker 1: God did. Job had a reputation with Heaven, and Heaven 374 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 1: knew about Job. He can be trusted with trouble, he 375 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 1: won't break beneath the weight of a burden. Heaven knows 376 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 1: about you. You can raise those ADHD kids, those abcd 377 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:12,919 Speaker 1: fghijk elemento pea kids. God knew he could give you 378 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: the whole alphabet and you wouldn't kill him. God knew 379 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 1: he could trust you with sorrow. God knew he could 380 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: trust you with trial and with tribulation. He knew that 381 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 1: about you. And if the devil isn't messing with you, 382 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't even know you're here. Like one time 383 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,679 Speaker 1: in the Book of Acts, these seven sons of a 384 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:42,639 Speaker 1: Jewish priest, they saw Paul laying hands on people, and 385 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 1: they were like, oh, that's cool. Huh. Maybe we say 386 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 1: what he says, we can do what he does, and 387 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: maybe we can make money off of it. All right, 388 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:57,159 Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus. Come out. And when they 389 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: said it, the demons folk and said, I heard you 390 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 1: say Jesus, and we know him. I heard you say Paul, 391 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 1: and we know him. We hate him. We're an assignment 392 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:21,400 Speaker 1: against him. We send snakes to bite him. We put 393 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:25,400 Speaker 1: Paul through shipwrecks. We stir up people and create contentions 394 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 1: so that stones are thrown at Paul. We've heard of Jesus, 395 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:36,120 Speaker 1: We've heard of Paul. But who are you? Look at 396 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 1: somebody next to you and say it in that falsetto 397 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,359 Speaker 1: voice like I said it, like prince, say who are you? 398 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: Who are you? Who are you? I'm concerned. I'm concerned 399 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:57,640 Speaker 1: that a lot of times we are convinced that our 400 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:02,640 Speaker 1: trouble is an indication of the absence of God's resence, 401 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 1: when more times than not, in the scripture you can 402 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 1: find that trouble accompanies God's presence. He is an ever 403 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,880 Speaker 1: present help in the time of trouble. So if you're 404 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:31,879 Speaker 1: in trouble, you're in God. Who are you? Who are you? 405 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,679 Speaker 1: The Devil's looking at some of y'all, Who are you? 406 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,359 Speaker 1: I don't even have to I don't even have to 407 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,479 Speaker 1: mess with your life. You're doing a good job by yourself. 408 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 1: Who are you? Who are you? I'll get paid to argue, 409 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 1: would you No? So they go to the house of Rehab, 410 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 1: the prostitute. And y'all our problem. Would not preach about 411 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: a prostitute if she were only mentioned in Joshua chapter two, 412 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,919 Speaker 1: because I would figure that's the Old Testament. But a 413 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:18,879 Speaker 1: funny thing happened in the Book of Matthew when the 414 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: writer started listening the genealogy of Jesus and all of 415 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 1: the generations that he came through. It's like fourteen generations, 416 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:32,880 Speaker 1: and then fourteen more, and then fourteen more. And this 417 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: is the stuff that we skip over sometimes when we're 418 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: reading the Christmas story because it's all these names that 419 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 1: we don't recognize, and so and so begot so, and 420 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 1: so begot so, and so begot so and so, And really, 421 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: all I want to do is get to verse eighteen. 422 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 1: Then came Jesus. But some of the stuff you skip 423 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 1: is some of the places where God speaks. I said, 424 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 1: some of the stuff you skip is some of the 425 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: stuff God speaks through. And Matthew said, Matthew one verse five, 426 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 1: I feel like preach him Salmon the father of Boas, 427 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 1: whose mother was Rayhab, whose mother was Rehab. Now to 428 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 1: get to Jesus in the genealogy, you gotta go through Rehab, 429 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 1: the prostitute. God works through who he wants to work through, 430 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 1: and all things work together for the good of him 431 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,960 Speaker 1: and loved the Lord whose mother was Rayhab. Stop being 432 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 1: so stuck up. Stop categorizing people and casting them out 433 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:41,480 Speaker 1: like you don't have issues. You gotta be glad to 434 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 1: see Rehab's name in there. Hope for me too. If 435 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: Rahab made it, maybe I can by faith shout it 436 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,160 Speaker 1: out by faith by faith. So then you get to 437 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: Hebrews eleven, and not just once, but for the second 438 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 1: time in the New Testament, gets an honorable mention in 439 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: the Hall of Faith where they're inducting all of the 440 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: Sunday School heroes. All of the classic events on which 441 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 1: redemptive history hinged are mentioned in Hebrews chapter eleven. By 442 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:21,040 Speaker 1: faith twenty nine. The people passed through the Red Sea 443 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 1: on dry land, but when the Egyptians tried to do so, 444 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 1: they were drowned. Side note. God doesn't bring you into 445 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,400 Speaker 1: deep waters to kill you. He brings you into deep 446 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: water to drown your enemies. He knows they can't swim, 447 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 1: And in deep waters that's where you deal with your dallas. 448 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 1: And in deep waters that's where you come face to 449 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,920 Speaker 1: face with your dysfunction and have to lean and rely 450 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,720 Speaker 1: on the grace of God. So the Egyptians drowned by faith. 451 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:51,080 Speaker 1: The walls of Jericho fell not because they fought so well, 452 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 1: but because the faith that they had enabled them to 453 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 1: do what made no sense naturally. And by faith, the 454 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 1: walls of Jericho fell after the army had marched around 455 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 1: them for seven days. And here comes Rehab by faith 456 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,479 Speaker 1: the prostitute Rayhab, because she welcomed the spies, was not 457 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 1: killed with those who are disobedient. And what more shall 458 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 1: I say? I don't have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jefta, 459 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 1: David Samuel, the prophets. You mean you don't have time 460 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 1: to talk about David, the greatest king that Israel ever knew, 461 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: a man after God's own heart, But you had time 462 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 1: to mention Rayhab. God says, I don't look at people 463 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: based on your standard of importance. I don't look at 464 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: people based on your standard of significance. God doesn't check 465 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 1: your followers to see how much favor he gives you. 466 00:31:52,680 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 1: God is looking at your faith. And then James jumps 467 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 1: in and for the third time, this Harlot is mentioned 468 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 1: alongside the heroes of scripture. Hero Harlot, Harlot hero, And 469 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 1: now I can't tell the difference because God calls someone 470 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 1: that I call a Harlot a hero, and I know 471 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,800 Speaker 1: you don't like it, and I know it doesn't go 472 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 1: down easy, and I know we can't eat it with 473 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 1: vanilla wafers and put it on a flannel graph because 474 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,959 Speaker 1: the story of Rayhab is r rated and it doesn't 475 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 1: teach very well in e kids. But James said in 476 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 1: the same way till twenty five, in the same way, 477 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 1: was not even Rayhab the prostitute considered righteous for what 478 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:45,480 Speaker 1: she did when she gave lodgend to the spies and 479 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:49,480 Speaker 1: sent them off in a different direction. And keep calling 480 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:58,000 Speaker 1: her that Rahab the prostitute, keep labeling her. It's crazy. 481 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 1: God didn't change her before he used her. You know 482 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,440 Speaker 1: how we think God can't use me because I currently 483 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 1: struggle with It's not like she was a prostitute and 484 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,400 Speaker 1: then she became a prophet. She was still a prostitute. 485 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,280 Speaker 1: This doesn't excuse bad behavior, but it helps me to 486 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,760 Speaker 1: see that the love of God is not the reward 487 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,240 Speaker 1: for change. It is the resource by which I am changed. 488 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:37,480 Speaker 1: That revelation of the love of God is so powerful. 489 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 1: And you know, I was telling you my son Graham, 490 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 1: he talks a lot more now and he actually says 491 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,640 Speaker 1: some really funny stuff. I'm praying that he will not 492 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 1: become a stand up comic. I'm praying that, you know, 493 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 1: he'll well, I'm not praying that he'll be a preacher either. 494 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,560 Speaker 1: I really don't. I really don't care if my kids 495 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,400 Speaker 1: take on this profession or not. Like that might even 496 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,520 Speaker 1: tell him, you know, do something else if you can, 497 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,520 Speaker 1: because you got to be called to do this. But 498 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,719 Speaker 1: all my kids have heard so many sermons. They come 499 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,600 Speaker 1: up with funny little questions about the Bible that I 500 00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:13,200 Speaker 1: never thought of before, but just from a child's mind 501 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,839 Speaker 1: is so funny. And Graham asked me the other day, 502 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 1: he said, I hear people say all the time when 503 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 1: I get to Heaven, I want to see Jesus. And 504 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 1: he said, but have you ever thought about how long 505 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:30,040 Speaker 1: the line is going to be? And we had just 506 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,200 Speaker 1: been to Disneyland, so he had that in his mind, 507 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:36,600 Speaker 1: like the you know, and he said, it's going to 508 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: be a long line to see Jesus. I wonder if 509 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,680 Speaker 1: you could get somebody to hold your place in line 510 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,360 Speaker 1: to see Jesus and then go see some of the 511 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:50,640 Speaker 1: other characters in the Bible. So I kind of played 512 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,879 Speaker 1: it out, and I was thinking, you know, you probably could. 513 00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,680 Speaker 1: There are probably some characters in the Bible that no 514 00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,640 Speaker 1: one will want a selfie with, and you could probably 515 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:02,000 Speaker 1: just walk right up to him. Like joone Uh, who 516 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:06,440 Speaker 1: wants to meet Jonah. He's the most dysfunctional, discouraging prophet 517 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,000 Speaker 1: in the Bible. He preached and God sent a revival, 518 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,080 Speaker 1: and he went outside and wanted to die. So Jonah's available. 519 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:14,799 Speaker 1: You could go see Jonah for a few minutes, a 520 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,920 Speaker 1: few hundred years while you wait to see Jesus, you know, 521 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,000 Speaker 1: turn it as long and then you could probably go 522 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 1: see You could probably go see Bartholomew. Apostle Paul might 523 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,680 Speaker 1: be unavailable, and John the disciple who Jesus loved. He 524 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,960 Speaker 1: might he might have a little wait list, but you 525 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:42,560 Speaker 1: can probably see Bartholomew. Jewish legend says that Rahab was 526 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,080 Speaker 1: one of the most four beautiful women who ever lived. 527 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,920 Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true, but maybe you want 528 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:53,120 Speaker 1: to see for yourself, you know, get to heaven. There's 529 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:59,680 Speaker 1: Samson walk over to the front desk. There's Peter got 530 00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:05,600 Speaker 1: his eye pad and you say, hey, I'm in line 531 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,120 Speaker 1: to see Jesus. I'm number fifteen million, nine hundred and 532 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:11,600 Speaker 1: seventy three, two hundred and twenty three. While I'm waiting. 533 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:14,759 Speaker 1: That was kind of stranger class. Could I see? Ah, 534 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:22,520 Speaker 1: I see Rahab the prostitute. You know feeders loud, Rayab 535 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:35,359 Speaker 1: the prostitute. Let me check sounds bad man, Keep it down. Oh, 536 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:42,880 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. We do have a rehab up here, But 537 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:48,719 Speaker 1: you said Rehab the prostitute. There's nobody here by that 538 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:59,799 Speaker 1: name because up here we don't call people what they were. 539 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:08,200 Speaker 1: We don't call people what they did. We don't call 540 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:13,360 Speaker 1: people what they were labeled. Up here, she doesn't go 541 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,840 Speaker 1: by that name. So you can see ray Have, but 542 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,080 Speaker 1: make sure you call her by her new name. Up here, 543 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:25,320 Speaker 1: we call her Rayhaf the righteous. There is a righteousness 544 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:30,279 Speaker 1: that comes from God by faith. I said, there is 545 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:34,399 Speaker 1: a righteousness that is not of works, so that no 546 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,880 Speaker 1: one can boast. And I don't know about Zoo, but 547 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:42,120 Speaker 1: I'm grateful for the blood of Jesus that covered my pants. 548 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,799 Speaker 1: I'm not what I did, and I'm not what I was, 549 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,040 Speaker 1: and I'm not what I think, and I'm not where 550 00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,439 Speaker 1: I'm broken, and I'm not what they said. I got 551 00:37:53,480 --> 00:38:03,879 Speaker 1: a new name. I got a new name, I got 552 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:08,759 Speaker 1: a new reputation. I am a child of God. I 553 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:14,399 Speaker 1: am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, look at somebody, say, 554 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,959 Speaker 1: don't call me that you don't know me like that. 555 00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:21,000 Speaker 1: Don't call me according to how you memorized me in 556 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:28,040 Speaker 1: my past. God is doing a new thing in my life. 557 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,360 Speaker 1: And when condemnation comes in, you know, to remind you 558 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,920 Speaker 1: of all of those reasons that God can't use you. 559 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:45,080 Speaker 1: Remember Rehab. Remember Rehab who had nothing to offer except faith, 560 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:58,919 Speaker 1: And God said, even she was considered righteous. Because that's 561 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,399 Speaker 1: what church is. It's a place for you to come 562 00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:07,759 Speaker 1: and leave all of the labels that you've accumulated in 563 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:11,799 Speaker 1: your life because of your behaviors. Oh yeah, some of 564 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:16,200 Speaker 1: the stuff people said about you is facts. It's not 565 00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,640 Speaker 1: always that they were lying. It's just that there is 566 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:25,480 Speaker 1: a greater truth that supersedes whatever they can say about you. 567 00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:32,080 Speaker 1: And every weakness is potential strength. But when I was 568 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:36,319 Speaker 1: writing this message, I made a critical mistake. I was 569 00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:40,239 Speaker 1: typing so fast in my phone I kept misspelling rehab's name, 570 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:46,759 Speaker 1: and I kept spelling it our eh ab because I 571 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:53,000 Speaker 1: was writing fast, not because my IQ is low. And 572 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,400 Speaker 1: after writing it down ten times, I noticed I keep 573 00:39:55,480 --> 00:40:01,239 Speaker 1: spelling it rehab. And God said, you got to right, 574 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,399 Speaker 1: because what I want you to tell the people when 575 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,920 Speaker 1: you preach it is that I am in the business 576 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:14,759 Speaker 1: of rehabilitating. In my title again on the screen, you 577 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:19,439 Speaker 1: did not come to a religious service today. You came 578 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:25,520 Speaker 1: to rehab. And the place it starts is not with 579 00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:28,120 Speaker 1: what others think of you. We spend so much time 580 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:32,560 Speaker 1: on that and we fail to realize that really the 581 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:38,200 Speaker 1: issue is how you see you. The greatest place my 582 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,960 Speaker 1: reputation needs repair is within myself because I've let myself 583 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,600 Speaker 1: down so many times, and I've made promises to myself 584 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,080 Speaker 1: and others over and over again. And I'm really going 585 00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,440 Speaker 1: to have a better attitude this time, and I'm really 586 00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:52,760 Speaker 1: good at this time, and I'm really good at this time. 587 00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,800 Speaker 1: And some of you have developed a reputation with yourself 588 00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:01,000 Speaker 1: that does not reflect your reputation with Heaven. God doesn't 589 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:07,160 Speaker 1: see you like that and see you like that, and 590 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:10,760 Speaker 1: the gap between your reality and your reputation with yourself 591 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:15,600 Speaker 1: could cost you the opportunity to see God use you 592 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,960 Speaker 1: in the future. If if you don't deal with that, 593 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:22,319 Speaker 1: it costs the spies. Ten of the twelve said we 594 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,920 Speaker 1: can't go in. That's eighty three points sixty sixty six 595 00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:29,000 Speaker 1: sixty six percent of the people that went into the 596 00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,120 Speaker 1: land came back with the wrong report. And I think 597 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:34,920 Speaker 1: eighty three point sixty sixty sixty sixty six percent of 598 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:39,759 Speaker 1: stuff I tell myself is probably wrong at least at 599 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:43,600 Speaker 1: least And if I don't deal with that, I can 600 00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:47,360 Speaker 1: have a new reality, a new nature. I could be 601 00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:51,319 Speaker 1: chosen by God, loved by God, accepted by God, and 602 00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:53,880 Speaker 1: He can even have an assignment for me. He can 603 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,000 Speaker 1: even want to use my house to bring forth a promise. 604 00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:03,400 Speaker 1: If I don't see myself that I'll be like those spies. 605 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,640 Speaker 1: The reason they didn't go into the land wasn't how 606 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:13,719 Speaker 1: they saw God, was how they saw themselves. And the 607 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,640 Speaker 1: reason they saw themselves as small is because they had 608 00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:21,040 Speaker 1: spent four hundred and thirty years enslaved, and sometimes you 609 00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:24,800 Speaker 1: carry that with you. The Bible actually says that before 610 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,200 Speaker 1: they could go into the land, God had to roll 611 00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:33,960 Speaker 1: away the reproach of Egypt, their past, their shackles their 612 00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:38,160 Speaker 1: former condition. And when you carry forward with you the 613 00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:41,720 Speaker 1: reproach of different things that you struggled with or currently 614 00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,359 Speaker 1: struggle with, it will always keep you from realizing your 615 00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:50,359 Speaker 1: righteousness in Christ, always always, and you see your life 616 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,879 Speaker 1: through the lens of self. It's very small. That's what 617 00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:54,919 Speaker 1: the spies came back and said they had totally lost 618 00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,479 Speaker 1: sight of God's reputation because they were so concerned about 619 00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:03,600 Speaker 1: their own numbers. Thirteen thirty three says that they gave 620 00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:05,759 Speaker 1: the men of God Moses this report. They said, we 621 00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:12,200 Speaker 1: saw the Nephilim there. The nephilom were giants. It might 622 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:14,799 Speaker 1: represent anything in your life that's too powerful for you 623 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:19,840 Speaker 1: and your own strain. It might represent your fear, your insecurity, 624 00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:26,320 Speaker 1: that chronic thing keeps creeping into your life, taking you down. Thought. 625 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,799 Speaker 1: Pattern doesn't have to be a physical giant or a 626 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:32,799 Speaker 1: physical enemy. In fact, the Bible says we wrestle not 627 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,080 Speaker 1: against flesh and blood. There's a good chance that your 628 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:40,520 Speaker 1: Nephilim has a different name. And we saw the giants, 629 00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:47,160 Speaker 1: and we seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes. Why 630 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:51,000 Speaker 1: were you comparing yourself to the giants You were supposed 631 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,560 Speaker 1: to be comparing your giants to your God. But you 632 00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:59,880 Speaker 1: lost sight of that, didn't you, And you start thinking, 633 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,799 Speaker 1: what's wrong with me is more powerful than what's right 634 00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:09,720 Speaker 1: with God. We look like grasshoppers in our own eyes, 635 00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:14,040 Speaker 1: and we look the same to them. Because when you 636 00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,600 Speaker 1: don't know who you are, you depend on the rest 637 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,600 Speaker 1: of the world to tell you. And now you're empty, 638 00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:24,480 Speaker 1: and now you're projecting, and now you're trying to perfect 639 00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:29,040 Speaker 1: this reputation. But God brought you here for rehabit. God 640 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,120 Speaker 1: brought you here for a reminder of who he is. 641 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,600 Speaker 1: The Lord, the Lord, slow to anger, abounding in love, 642 00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:40,839 Speaker 1: maintaining faithfulness to a thousand generations. That's who he is. 643 00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:44,960 Speaker 1: He has a reputation. He's picked up people like you 644 00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:49,880 Speaker 1: and like me at our lowest point. He's picked up 645 00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,560 Speaker 1: people like you and me on our highest mountaintop. He 646 00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:57,520 Speaker 1: specializes in imperfection. But you stand to your feet, no 647 00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:01,360 Speaker 1: one leaving, no one moving. I'd like to pray for you, please. 648 00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:09,239 Speaker 1: If this word has ministered to you today, and there 649 00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:12,560 Speaker 1: is a reproach that you have been carrying forward into 650 00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:17,840 Speaker 1: your future that needs to be rolled into your past, 651 00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:21,680 Speaker 1: I would like to pray for you today. That God 652 00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:27,320 Speaker 1: would remind you of his reputation. He's never lost a battle, 653 00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:36,040 Speaker 1: He's never met a need that he couldn't meet. He 654 00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,319 Speaker 1: never created a life he did not intend to use. 655 00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:45,200 Speaker 1: And so we find hope today in this story of Rahab, 656 00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:53,040 Speaker 1: that God is rehabilitating our eyes, that we could see 657 00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:57,239 Speaker 1: him as he really is. Father. I pray that not 658 00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:03,560 Speaker 1: one of your children would brush this message off. I 659 00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:05,320 Speaker 1: pray that it would not fall on death fears, and 660 00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,399 Speaker 1: I pray that our pride would not keep us from 661 00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,239 Speaker 1: receiving it, because probably we could think, well, I'm not 662 00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:16,000 Speaker 1: that bad, I'm not some prostitute. We all have broken places, 663 00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:22,840 Speaker 1: we all have many reasons why we feel useless, so unworthy, 664 00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:30,000 Speaker 1: and yet you call us righteous by faith. Speak over 665 00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:35,759 Speaker 1: your people today, Lord, in direct contradiction to every lie 666 00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,520 Speaker 1: that the enemy has planted in their mind, it is 667 00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:41,920 Speaker 1: not so, and it will not prevail. Whatever has been 668 00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,880 Speaker 1: spoken over their life by others or by themselves that 669 00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:47,920 Speaker 1: does not align with your word. We come against it 670 00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:49,480 Speaker 1: now in the name that is above every name, the 671 00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:53,400 Speaker 1: name of Jesus, the name that is able to heal, saved, deliver, 672 00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,239 Speaker 1: and set free. In the name of Jesus, the name 673 00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:58,319 Speaker 1: that is above every name, the name that is above 674 00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,040 Speaker 1: every nephilum, the name that is above every dysfunction, the 675 00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,080 Speaker 1: name that is above all shame and sin. And we 676 00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:08,320 Speaker 1: ask you that in this moment of worship, we would 677 00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:18,080 Speaker 1: remember who you say. We already are chosen, not forsaken. 678 00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:23,480 Speaker 1: I am who you say I am. You are for me, 679 00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:28,160 Speaker 1: not against me. I am who you say I am, 680 00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:32,239 Speaker 1: saying I am who you say I am. Lift your 681 00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:35,640 Speaker 1: hands to your father, say I am who you say 682 00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:41,000 Speaker 1: I am. Well, I hope you enjoyed the podcast today, 683 00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,000 Speaker 1: and if you did, there are just a couple things 684 00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:46,200 Speaker 1: I'd love for you to do. Number one, subscribe to 685 00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,400 Speaker 1: our show. That way, the most recent episode will always 686 00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,560 Speaker 1: be in your feed, waiting for you ready when you are. 687 00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:56,200 Speaker 1: And secondly, if this ministry has impacted you and you'd 688 00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:58,520 Speaker 1: like to help us continue to reach others, you can 689 00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:00,759 Speaker 1: click the link in the description and you can give 690 00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:04,200 Speaker 1: now and I'll see you next time on the Elevation 691 00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:11,200 Speaker 1: podcast m