1 00:00:01,639 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: Hey, we're starting a season today also that I wanted 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: to make you aware of all over the world for 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 1: our year end offering. That is exciting. When someone is 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 1: new to our church, they're often surprised that we don't 5 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: put a lot of pressure on people to give, and 6 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 1: yet God has blessed us so much. The reason for 7 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: that is because we have built into this church people who, 8 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: because of their love for God and because of their 9 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: commitment to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, they give consistently. 10 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: Not to build buildings, we build buildings, not to make videos. 11 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 1: We make videos, but so that people who are far 12 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: from God can be raised to life in Christ, and 13 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: so the Kingdom of God can come on earth as 14 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:51,879 Speaker 1: it is in heaven. It is an exciting time. I 15 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: always get a chance during this year end offering where 16 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: many will begin to tithe give that first ten percent 17 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: to God. And that's not what I'm going to talk 18 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: about in my sermon today yet, So don't make up 19 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: an excuse to leave, all right, I have a very 20 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: important meeting that is so important that ten percent belongs 21 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 1: to God, that tide belongs to God. Thousands of families 22 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,400 Speaker 1: in this church used this time in the year to say, 23 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: you know what, I haven't been honoring God with the 24 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: first fruits of what He gave to me. And I 25 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:22,919 Speaker 1: don't want to spend the rest of my life acting 26 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: like I did this by my own hands. I need 27 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: God and I honor God. And that's been a practice 28 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 1: in my life since age eighteen. And I'll tell you 29 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: the story one of these weeks about how that happened 30 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: for me, not this week, but I'll share it with you. 31 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 1: And then there's the above and beyond, where you say 32 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: God has been good to me out of all that 33 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,400 Speaker 1: He's given me, I want to bring him an offering, 34 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: a gift above and beyond. And we set aside this 35 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: time of the year, on December the eleventh, would do 36 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: a big offering as a church. You like that day? 37 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: Is that your birthday? Happy birthday? So on your birthday 38 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: December eleventh, we're going to be bringing our offering. We're 39 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: going to be bringing it online throughout now in the 40 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: end of the year. But you can go to Elevationchurch 41 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: Dot or a click you're in offer and find out 42 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: about that. It'll be amazing. And we use that offering, 43 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: that expansion offering, that above and beyond in order to 44 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 1: do the outreach ministries that we do in this church. 45 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: This church is incredibly active in all the communities that 46 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 1: we serve. This is not some performance based church. We 47 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: have hundreds and hundreds of outreach partners meeting the needs 48 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: of people who need medical assistance, people who need food, 49 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: people who have never had the Bible translated in their language. 50 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 1: We'll show you some of that over the next few 51 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: weeks so you can see what you're given to. But 52 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: I'm expecting by faith for thousands of you to join 53 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 1: Holly and I in what we've done through the entire 54 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: existence of this church. Give till it hurts a little bit, 55 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: and then expect God to move in your life, because 56 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: I refuse to just let you in this year just 57 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: putting on ten pounds and running up credit card debt 58 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: and not focus on Jesus. We've got to end strong, 59 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: no matter how we started. So we will do that, 60 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: and I know that I can count on you in 61 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: that way to pray and ask God. Now, let's go 62 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: to the Word of God. Remain standing for a moment 63 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: and turn to your favorite book of the Bible, Leviticus, 64 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: the one you have memorized. I have been seeking God 65 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 1: this week, like walking in the woods, praying out loud, 66 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: wondering if the neighbors think I've lost it, Finally seeking God, 67 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: like reading Leviticus and finding a sermon in it. That's 68 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: how crazy I've been seeking God this week. And he 69 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: spoke to me. Everything he teaches me, I want to 70 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: try to teach to you, and he taught me something 71 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: amazing here. Leviticus chapter eleven. Leviticus chapter eleven, Full disclosure. 72 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: I'm reading through the Bible with Elijah, my oldest, and Kelsey, 73 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 1: and we started coming up to Leviticus, and I was like, 74 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: uh oh. Usually when people started by reading plan at 75 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, they get through Genesis, they 76 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: get through Exodus, and then when they get to Leviticus, 77 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: it's a lot of lists and dietary restrictions, which you'll 78 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: see in a moment. So when they get to Leviticus, 79 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: they leave it and cuss Leviticus. I gotta get y'all 80 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: back tuned into my humor frequency. You know, I got 81 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: to bring your expectations now, all right, But I got 82 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: to that. I said, okay, we're going to do this different. 83 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: We're gonna love Leviticus. When we get done with it. 84 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 1: So I got us some different books and things, and 85 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 1: as we were studying, we came upon this, and the 86 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 1: Lord spoke Leviticus, chapter eleven, verse twenty nine. Of the 87 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 1: animals that move along the ground, these are unclean for you. 88 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: The weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, the gecko, 89 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon. Pastor, 90 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: we are sending you back out on the west coast. 91 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: If you're going to come back with scriptures like this, 92 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: this is weird. Trust me, do he'll trust me? Trust me? 93 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 1: Trust me. This is the scripture we need today. Now 94 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: look at verse thirty one. Of all those that move 95 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: along the ground, these are unclean for you. Whoever touches 96 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:30,799 Speaker 1: them when they are dead will become unclean until evening. 97 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean 98 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: till evening. When one of them dies and falls on something, 99 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: that article, whatever its use, will be unclean. Whether it's 100 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,239 Speaker 1: made of wood, cloth, hide, or sackcloth, put it in water. 101 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: It will be unclean till evening, and then it will 102 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 1: be clean. If one of them falls into a clay pot, 103 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,040 Speaker 1: everything in it will be unclean, and you must break 104 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: the pot. Any food you are allowed to eat that 105 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: has come into contact with water from any such pot 106 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 1: is unclean, and any liquid that is drunk from such 107 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:08,360 Speaker 1: a pot is unclean. Anything that one of their carcasses 108 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: falls on becomes unclean. An oven or cooking pot must 109 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,719 Speaker 1: be broken up. They are unclean, and you are to 110 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 1: regard them as unclean. A spring, however, or a cistern 111 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: for collecting water remains clean. But anyone who touches one 112 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: of these carcasses is unclean. Verse thirty seven. If a 113 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: carcass falls on any seeds that are to be planted, 114 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: they remain clean. Good. You got a new favorite passage 115 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: of scripture. Now drop down real quick to verse forty four. 116 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves and be 117 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: holy because I'm holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by 118 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: any creature that moves along the grid. I am the 119 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:05,479 Speaker 1: Lord who brought you up out of Egypt to be 120 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: your God. Therefore be holy because I am holy. This 121 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: message today is called not dead Yet. Shout it out. 122 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 1: Say not dead yet one more time, say not dead yet. 123 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: Now look at somebody next to you and say, God 124 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: is not finished with me. I'm not dead yet. Let's 125 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: clap our hands for the Book of Leviticus, for the 126 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: living Word of God. You may be seated, Be seated, 127 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: Be seated, be seated, be seated. Of all of the 128 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 1: times to preach a text with dietary restrictions, it seems 129 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: strange that the spirit would illuminate for me and for 130 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: your edification a dietary restriction chapter of the Bible at 131 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 1: a time of the year where everybody is starting their 132 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: diet next year. Of course, people are very arrogant about 133 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: their diets at times. You know, I do paleo, I 134 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 1: do keto, i'd do vega, and i'd do macros, I 135 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: do micros. I eat clean. One guy said that to 136 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: me the other day, he said, I eat clean. I said, 137 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: what does that mean, because I hear all kinds of 138 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: people say I'm trying to eat clean, and I don't 139 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: know what that means. Because, you know, one guy told 140 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: me one time, I only eat brown rice when I 141 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:44,319 Speaker 1: go to the Chinese restaurant, I eat clean. But he 142 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: was talking about the fried rice. He heard brown rice 143 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 1: was better for you than white rice. So he ate 144 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:54,319 Speaker 1: the brown rice and thought he was eating clean. Wow, 145 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 1: we need to learn. They brought a nutritionist over to 146 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,560 Speaker 1: me the other day because my cholesterol was and we 147 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 1: got it down so you could take me off your 148 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: prayer list for now. But the lady started fussing at 149 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: me the moment she walked in the door. She was 150 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 1: fussing about my diet cox, she was fussing about my 151 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: quest cookies. And I'm like, hey, lady, this is the 152 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:21,439 Speaker 1: wrong approach for you to take. You need to teach 153 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 1: me what I need to do. Don't just lecture me. 154 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: And how can you start lecturing me? She started dropping 155 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: f bombs in the meeting, cussing at me. Didn't even 156 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:34,199 Speaker 1: take time to think, this is a preacher that I'm 157 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: talking to, and if he says the effort, he certainly 158 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: doesn't say it much or admitted faith. Faith faith. I'm 159 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 1: talking about faith. That word now, Well, we're seeing in 160 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: Leviticus eleven. You got to come at it a little 161 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: bit differently to understand the distinctions that God is making 162 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 1: for his people. He is not really teaching them to 163 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 1: eat clean. He is teaching them to be clean, holy 164 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:11,560 Speaker 1: like he is. He's teaching them to be like he is, 165 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 1: and he has to take them through stages and doing 166 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 1: that because of where they've been. Let me give you 167 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: a quick review of this, because I believe God wants 168 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 1: to teach us to be clean, not perfect, but clean. 169 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 1: Not that we just go around showing off how many 170 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 1: Bible verses we can quote. But to be clean and 171 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:35,320 Speaker 1: to be clean is really not about eating clean. Jesus said, 172 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: it's what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him, 173 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 1: but what comes out. So we're not really here today 174 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 1: to talk about eating clean. We're here to talk about 175 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 1: thinking clean, thinking clean. He's teaching his people. God is 176 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:56,800 Speaker 1: teaching these Israelites to think clean. In other words, he's 177 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: purging them from the past that they've been through so 178 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: that he can bring them into the land that he's 179 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: promised them. He has promised them a place, but they're 180 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: not there yet. And yet they're not in Egypt anymore. 181 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: But they're not there yet. And a part of him 182 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 1: teaching them what to do in the process of their 183 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 1: transformation starts with these laws or regulations about eat this, 184 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 1: don't eat that. You can't eat the animal that moves 185 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 1: along the ground unless it has a divided hoof and 186 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 1: it choose the cud. So no rabbits because they don't 187 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:38,840 Speaker 1: have a divided hoof and chew the cud. You can't 188 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: eat the rabbit. You can't eat the pig. You can't 189 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,840 Speaker 1: eat these birds. You can't eat these birds. You can't 190 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 1: eat these insects. You can't eat these insects. So apparently 191 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 1: there are some insects that were on the menu. Thanks 192 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: a lot, God, I'm really glad about those insects. But 193 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: you can't eat shrimp because you can't eat any animals 194 00:11:55,720 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: that move along the sea that don't have fins and scales. Y'all, 195 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 1: I don't want to live in that world where there 196 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 1: are no shrimp. Lord, why did you save me? If 197 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: you weren't gonna let me eat shrimp? Just take me 198 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: to heaven. Now. Of course, these dietary restrictions change, and 199 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 1: we see in the New Testament that God tells Peter 200 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: Rise killing and it was never really about the food. 201 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 1: It was about their faith. It was about their minds, 202 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: not their menus. It was never about these exact things. 203 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:32,439 Speaker 1: But he needed to use these things. Why because they 204 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 1: are his people walking into his promise. But they are 205 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: in between where. Let me show it to you in 206 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 1: four different stages. I put this together where I think 207 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: we can all get it. How God is guiding his 208 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: people to teach them who they have been all along. 209 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 1: These people that he's speaking to who are in the wilderness, 210 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 1: they are people who have been brought from a place. 211 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 1: Put that up on the screen and maybe write that 212 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 1: down if you would. They are brought from a place. Everybody, 213 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: under the sound of my voice say, I'm brought from 214 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 1: a place. I don't know where God brought you from, 215 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 1: but I know that all of us who have the 216 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: hope of Heaven and the Holy Spirit inside of us, 217 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 1: we have been rescued from the dominion of darkness and sin. 218 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 1: That God reached into the pit of our sin and 219 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 1: the pit of our past and brought us from a place. 220 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: Now you may have prayed a prayer to receive Jesus 221 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: Christ as your Lord and savior when you were seven 222 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 1: months old, but you were still brought from a place. 223 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 1: Because even in sin and iniquity did my mother conceive me. 224 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: Because there is none righteous, no not one. So for 225 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: God to bring me into his kingdom, he had to 226 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: transfer me out of another kingdom. In the text, there's 227 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: this group of millions of people who have been brought 228 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 1: from Egypt where they were slaves under Pharaoh. But we 229 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: have been brought from a place too, not necessarily a 230 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,320 Speaker 1: physical place of slavery, but we were slaves to sin, 231 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 1: we were slaves to shame, and we were brought when 232 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 1: we accepted Christ. If we have accepted Christ from a place, 233 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: say it again, now that you know what it means. 234 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: I'm brought from a place. So if I asked you, 235 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 1: where did you come from? You say Brazil, But it's 236 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: really not Brazil. You came from You came from sin, 237 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: You came from shame, you came from mistakes, You came 238 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: from the ground, you came from the dirt, you came 239 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 1: from a mess, you came from a pit. Where you 240 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 1: came from Today it's not so much of a physical 241 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: issue as it is a spiritual issue. And they are 242 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 1: brought from a place. Say it again, I'm brought from 243 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: a place. And they got out of there quick. They 244 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: had to get out of Egypt quick. Do you remember 245 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: the Red Sea, how they're running through the Red Sea 246 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: and Pharaoh's chariots are coming up close behind them, and 247 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 1: they're running from the chariots in the waters, and God 248 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 1: does this big, huge thing where he parts the waters 249 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: and kills the Egyptians. And he said, the Egyptians that 250 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: you see today, you will see no more. The thing 251 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: that was tormenting you the night before is gonna be 252 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 1: dead tomorrow morning. The thing that cracked its cruel whip 253 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: across your back and said, get back here. I'm bringing 254 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: you out of that. I'm snatching you out of that. 255 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: I'm taking you out of that. I'm delivering you out 256 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: of that. I am rescued because the hand of God, 257 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 1: when he heard my cry, reached into my situation and 258 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: gave me a new heart and a new mind, and 259 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: a new attitude and a new possibility. And He is 260 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 1: making me what He created me to be. I'm not 261 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 1: staying in the image of what I came out of. 262 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 1: I am brought from a place. I've come a mighty 263 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: long way. I'm not what I'm gonna be, but thank God, 264 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: I'm not what I used to be. You should see 265 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: what God delivered me from. You should see what God 266 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: snatched me out of. You should see what the blood 267 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 1: of Jesus covert, which brings me to point number two. 268 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 1: Not only am I brought from a place, but I'm 269 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: bought with the price. It's not the blood of a lamb. 270 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 1: It's the blood of the lamb who was slain from 271 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: the foundation of the world, the pure, spotless lamb of God, 272 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 1: the only one who is able and worthy to open 273 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 1: up the skull. I've bought with the price, not five dollars, 274 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: not ten dollars, not a million dollars. One drop of 275 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: his blood cost him his perfect life. I'm bought, I'm brought. 276 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 1: I'm bought. Let's shout twenty two seconds about that. I'm 277 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: not worthless, not nothing. I'm not prish, I'm not done. 278 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: I'm bought because the lamb that was slain for my sin. 279 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 1: So it's perfect and eternal. Now, these people, they when 280 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 1: they were leaving Egypt, God had to kill every firstborn 281 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 1: in Egypt to get them out. When God wanted to 282 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:14,200 Speaker 1: bring you out, he allowed his firstborn son. You see 283 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: the parallels. So we think, like Leviticus, this has nothing 284 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 1: to do with me. I'm eating shrimp. I don't even 285 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: want to eat insects. Why are you telling me? I 286 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:26,120 Speaker 1: never in my life thought I want to eat a weasel? 287 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 1: Why did you preach me a scripture when I got 288 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 1: real bills and real health issues and real challenges and 289 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:43,119 Speaker 1: real side chicks. I want to bring this text into 290 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:47,439 Speaker 1: our time so we don't see this as a list, 291 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:53,680 Speaker 1: but a lens of the God who brought me from 292 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:58,119 Speaker 1: a place and bought me with the price. Because the 293 00:17:58,200 --> 00:17:59,959 Speaker 1: truth is, as much as I love to shout out 294 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 1: about that I'm brought from a place and bought with 295 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:11,880 Speaker 1: the price, but I am caught in a pattern. Can 296 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 1: you tell I've missed you. I've been studying ever since 297 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 1: the last time I saw you, just to give you 298 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 1: something of value, because I know that sometimes you feel 299 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 1: trapped in that past that you were shouting like you 300 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 1: got out of it, that you know the blood of 301 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: Jesus bought you, but you still feel worthless sometimes that 302 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 1: you know He brought you out of sin and shame, 303 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:37,920 Speaker 1: but you still do things that make you a shame. 304 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 1: I always like to give a moment where even if 305 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:43,880 Speaker 1: you yelled at your kids on the way to church, 306 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 1: God can still speak to you today. Some of you, 307 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:50,399 Speaker 1: something that happened on the way to church is keeping 308 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 1: you from even hearing what I'm saying. Right now, you 309 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:56,239 Speaker 1: see that exit sign. Tell the devil to point his 310 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: big long Pinocchio and Lion knows in the direction of 311 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: that exit and get out of here, because we are 312 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:09,880 Speaker 1: all caught and conflicted in something. Even though we are 313 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:15,400 Speaker 1: in Christ, we are in conflict the patterns of this world. 314 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: Romans will call it the New Testament, Scripture will say, 315 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 1: or first Peter's even better one. He calls it the 316 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: empty way of life that was handed to you. Wow, 317 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 1: we have hand me down habits, we have hand me 318 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 1: down hang ups things that we learned. And God is 319 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: teaching his people in Leviticus eleven, They're in the wilderness, 320 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 1: not the promised land, not Egypt, the wilderness. And God 321 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 1: works in your wilderness. He does. God works in your weakness, 322 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: God works in your waiting. It's not the promise, it's 323 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 1: not the past. It's the wilderness. The Lord sent me 324 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:07,400 Speaker 1: to somebody today who has been in a wilderness, not physical, 325 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: because he brought me from a place Egypt. But I'm 326 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: not already all the way to the place heaven, and 327 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 1: I'm still here. And I think this might be the 328 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:23,919 Speaker 1: best way to say it. I'm out of Egypt, but 329 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:32,399 Speaker 1: I'm not sure Egypt is out of me. I'm in 330 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:36,679 Speaker 1: the world, I'm not of it. But there are some 331 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,960 Speaker 1: patterns because one day I'm gonna be with Jesus said 332 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:42,639 Speaker 1: I'm gonna sing around his throne and said to his 333 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: feet forevermore, and I'm gonna play harp. But I'm not 334 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:51,160 Speaker 1: there yet, because I'm not dead yet. And the only 335 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 1: time I'm gonna be free from this conflict is for 336 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,920 Speaker 1: me to be free from this body. But as long 337 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:02,679 Speaker 1: as I'm in this body, yeah, I'm brought from a place. 338 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 1: I'm rescued, I'm bought with a price, I'm redeemed. But 339 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 1: I'm caught in a pattern. I'm wrestling. I'm wrestling between 340 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: this is where I came from, this is where I'm going, 341 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 1: this is what I've done, this is what he's doing, 342 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,919 Speaker 1: and I'm caught in a pattern. So this is what 343 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 1: I needed to tell the nutritionist. Okay, stop cussing at me, 344 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: stop criticizing me, Stop acting like I don't exercise six 345 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 1: days a week. I work really hard at this. I 346 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: need to be taught through a process. Flap your hands 347 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:49,359 Speaker 1: and brace God for his process. That God doesn't drop 348 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: an F bomb on you just because you messed up again. 349 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: That he could, but he didn't. He is taking his 350 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 1: people through, and he is taking you through a wildern, 351 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 1: this experience where there's not much water and there's same 352 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 1: old scenery and it's not exactly my home. And here 353 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:12,200 Speaker 1: I am living this life and he's teaching me. He 354 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 1: brings them, Okay, the book Leviticus is actually amazing, y'all. 355 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:19,640 Speaker 1: That's why it's love Itacus. I love it. I love 356 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,639 Speaker 1: it now. I love this book of the Bible. He 357 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,200 Speaker 1: gives them the offerings that they need to make. Whether 358 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 1: it's a thanks offering, whether it's a fellowship offering, whether 359 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,399 Speaker 1: it's a peace offering, whether it's a sin offering, whether 360 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 1: it's a guilt offering, any of those five offerings. He 361 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,719 Speaker 1: shows them how to do it. Hey, here's how you 362 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 1: do it. Hey, here's how you cut it up. Hey, 363 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 1: here's where you offer it. Here's how you offer it. 364 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: Here's who offers it. Here's the priest. Here's what they wear, 365 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: Here's what they do, here's when they do it. All 366 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:53,199 Speaker 1: of this is not to limit them, but to liberate them. 367 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:57,440 Speaker 1: He's a liberator. He brings me into places, he brings 368 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:00,919 Speaker 1: me into spaces, he brings me into challenge, he brings 369 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:05,640 Speaker 1: me into dilemmas to set me free from my flesh, 370 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 1: to set me free from my feelings, to show me 371 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 1: this is how you do it. And I need him 372 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 1: to teach me. I need God to teach me a 373 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:22,639 Speaker 1: different way to do it, because honestly, the ways that 374 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: I tried without him do not work for very long. 375 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,879 Speaker 1: Oh they can get me what I want right now, 376 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 1: but they actually leave me in greater bondage than I 377 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:39,920 Speaker 1: was before. And I love the Lord because he's a teacher. 378 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: He's been teaching me lately. Not about shellfish, definitely, not 379 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:53,719 Speaker 1: about monitor lizards and wall lizards. And what did it say? 380 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,199 Speaker 1: You can't eat the skink? What is a skink? I 381 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: heard of the Get Go. I see his commercial during 382 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: football every single Saturday while I'm studying, And uh, but 383 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,200 Speaker 1: the skink he said, Nah, don't eat that? And what 384 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: if you see it now? Not about eating clean because 385 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:17,439 Speaker 1: we know those dietary restrictions were for that time. But 386 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 1: the way that you think about you, the way that 387 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 1: you think about God, and the way that you think 388 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 1: about your life, isn't this What God is always teaching 389 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: me is how to think like He thinks about what 390 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: I'm going through, about how to think like He thinks 391 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 1: about what is best for me? One of my favorite 392 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 1: scriptures says, my thoughts are not your thoughts, says the Lord. 393 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 1: That means there's a big gap between great, big God 394 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: and little bitty Stevie. That means what he thinks and 395 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,399 Speaker 1: what I think are not automatically aligned. Every morning, I 396 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: got to get in sync with God so I can 397 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 1: think like he thinks. And he says, don't eat the skink. 398 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 1: Don't eat the skink. Why because I want to teach 399 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: you to discern, so that when you go into these 400 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: neighboring nations in Canaan, you won't do what they do. 401 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 1: You won't think like they think. You won't try to 402 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: win like they win. You won't fight like they fight. 403 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: You won't worry like they worry. You won't respond like 404 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 1: they respond. You won't react like they react. God is 405 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 1: teaching me to think. And if I don't, let him 406 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 1: teach me how to think. But I just quote the 407 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 1: promises of the Bible verse watch this. To have confidence 408 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: in God's promises but not commitment to his process is delusional. 409 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it to the safe side of the room. 410 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 1: If I got caught confidence in God's promise, oh he 411 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 1: can do it. But I don't have a commitment to 412 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 1: his process that is not depending on God. That's called 413 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 1: denial because we just want to believe over top of 414 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: all of our behaviors that don't line up with the 415 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,360 Speaker 1: word of God. But yet he loves me and he's 416 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 1: not waiting on me to act better for him to 417 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:25,120 Speaker 1: love me. But I don't love him like I should 418 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:30,640 Speaker 1: if I don't get taught the process of figuring out 419 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: is this what God wants for me? I don't have 420 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,719 Speaker 1: to do that with fish anymore, but I do have 421 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 1: to do it with feelings. I don't have to do 422 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,479 Speaker 1: this with shrimp, but I do have to do it 423 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:49,919 Speaker 1: with contacts in my cell phone. Is this good for me? 424 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,640 Speaker 1: When is the last time that we really let God speak? 425 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: Is this best for me? And if he tells you 426 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,520 Speaker 1: that's not best for you, I don't want that for you. 427 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 1: I didn't bring you out of Egypt for you to 428 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: bring Egypt into your future. I want that out of 429 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,919 Speaker 1: your life. I want that out of your heart. I 430 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: want that out of your mouth. Now. God keeps telling 431 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: me I'm too negative, and I keep telling him no, 432 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:26,399 Speaker 1: I'm just realistic. And God keeps saying stuff like, okay, 433 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: that'd be great, since you want to do my job 434 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: and tell me what's good and what's bad. And I'm like, well, God, 435 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:36,399 Speaker 1: you know, this is kind of the way I think. 436 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 1: And He's like, but it's not the way that I think, 437 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 1: because I can face the facts but speaking faith. So 438 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: the Lord has been interrupting me a lot lately, telling 439 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:54,159 Speaker 1: me this is unclean for you. This is hurting you. 440 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,360 Speaker 1: This is hurting you. And you're not getting to heaven 441 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 1: because you're holy. You're getting to heaven because I'm holy, 442 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:01,679 Speaker 1: and because of what I did for you, because I 443 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: brought you, bought you. But the devil has caught you. 444 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: So now it's time that somebody taught you. I feel 445 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 1: bad for Moses. He's the one who had to teach 446 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:23,879 Speaker 1: these people these things, y'all. I find it hard to 447 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 1: stick to my diet for myself. Now, you got to 448 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 1: get two million people to study insects in order to 449 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 1: eat in a place where there's already not much water. 450 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 1: It's harder than we make it sound, isn't it. You know, 451 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: it's not hard to say certain things, okay, the Lord said, 452 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 1: don't commit adultery. It's harder to discern sometimes in your Actune. 453 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 1: Is this really how God wants me to think about this? 454 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: Is this really what God wants me to say about this? 455 00:28:55,600 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 1: Is this clean or unclean? Is this God's will for me? 456 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 1: Or is this the way that I've known that feels 457 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 1: familiar to me? So am I going back to Egypt 458 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 1: instead of following Jesus forward? They were out of Egypt. 459 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 1: The Egyptians were dead, but guess what the things they 460 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:22,960 Speaker 1: learned in Egypt were still alive. Yeah, yeah, I'm dead 461 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 1: to say I'm alive to Christ. Great, but we still 462 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: have to deal with these little things. I love the 463 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: contrast because God did a big thing for him. He 464 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: parted the Red Sea. That's a big thing. How many 465 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 1: agree that watching a major body of water part is 466 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:46,320 Speaker 1: a miracle? How many agree that's big? Oh? Come on, 467 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,680 Speaker 1: you clap better than that over your parking space this 468 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 1: week at the gym? Oh the Lord de me a 469 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 1: parking space. He parted the waters. That's big. Somebody say 470 00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 1: it's big. God has done big things for me. If 471 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 1: there are three people that God did something big for 472 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 1: you since last Sunday, give him a big praise right 473 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 1: now on the level he blessed you on I mean 474 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: he did a big thing for me. He did a 475 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 1: big thing for me. Just what it was. He woke 476 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: me up. That's not big if you didn't, and it is. 477 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 1: He woke me up. He started me on my way, 478 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 1: and he watched so from me so I could be 479 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 1: in the number one more time raising. He did it big. 480 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 1: He did it big. He put it in the set. 481 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: He did it big. He didn't do as small. He 482 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 1: did it big so that everybody would know it was 483 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 1: the Lord. He made away high five like we won something, 484 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 1: and tell your neighbor. He did it big. He did 485 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 1: it big. He did it big. God is a show off. 486 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 1: He doesn't give you a boat. He parts the water. 487 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,640 Speaker 1: He said, I want you to know this one's on me, 488 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: so you'll give me the glory. So you'll give me 489 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: the praise. Pharaoh's not gonna let you go unless a 490 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 1: mighty hand compels him. So guess who has a mighty hand. 491 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 1: My God's got a great, big hand and a long arm, 492 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 1: and he can do big things. Big things. Don't ever 493 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,840 Speaker 1: let people make you feel bad. If you're an exuberant praiser. 494 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 1: A big God gets a big praise on the level 495 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 1: that he did it. That's how loud. I want to 496 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 1: let him know. I apprecid big things, big things. He 497 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 1: opened a living way. You understand how much I survive. 498 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 1: You understand how many times I almost gave up. You 499 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,920 Speaker 1: understand what I went through. It's a miracle. I'm sober. 500 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 1: It's a miracle. I'm safe. It's a miracle. I'm preaching. 501 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:10,680 Speaker 1: It's a miracle. You're crazing. It's a miracle. We survived 502 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:17,480 Speaker 1: here because he brought me, and he bought me with 503 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 1: his redeeming blood. Go Ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, 504 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. Big things, big things. 505 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 1: Big things might not be big to you. Maybe you 506 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 1: grew up in a different household. Maybe it's no big 507 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,000 Speaker 1: deal to you. But it's a big thing to me. 508 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,720 Speaker 1: It's a big thing. The breath is a big thing 509 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:51,320 Speaker 1: to me. It's a big thing to me. Don't you 510 00:32:51,360 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 1: love him? Don't you love him? Don't you love him? 511 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 1: That after he did a big thing and kept them alive, 512 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 1: he has to teach them about the little things so 513 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 1: that they can live. Now, let's praise him for the 514 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:31,959 Speaker 1: little things, the little levitical things like geckos, chameleons, little things. 515 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,800 Speaker 1: He said, I'm gonna do a big thing the Red Sea. 516 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a big thing, bring you out of Egypt, 517 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,560 Speaker 1: big things, and then I'm gonna get you in the 518 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:46,040 Speaker 1: wilderness because I'm bringing you into something even bigger. Don't 519 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 1: just think about money, don't just think about houses, don't 520 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,760 Speaker 1: just think about cars. That's great. I'm gonna use you 521 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,800 Speaker 1: to be a blessing to the whole world. That's what 522 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 1: he's preparing. These are the people of God. These are 523 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,280 Speaker 1: the people of God. We are the people of God. 524 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,360 Speaker 1: We are brought out of the kingdom of darkness and 525 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:08,719 Speaker 1: into the marvelous light. That's who you are. So he said, 526 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:12,800 Speaker 1: I gotta teach you what to do with the little 527 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:16,359 Speaker 1: things so you can know as you go in your 528 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:20,640 Speaker 1: life who you really are and what I called you to. Yeah, 529 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,319 Speaker 1: you're gonna get to heaven one day and you're gonna 530 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:27,640 Speaker 1: be perfectly awesomely perfect or perfect and perfect ful. But 531 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,279 Speaker 1: here I need to be taught in a process because 532 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,560 Speaker 1: I'm not dead yet, and neither are the things I 533 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:39,520 Speaker 1: struggle with, and neither is the devil. Now one day. 534 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:44,840 Speaker 1: Spoiler alert that Weasel is gonna be cast down into 535 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:49,000 Speaker 1: the Lake of Fire. No, no, I saw it. You 536 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,640 Speaker 1: were like, wait, no, the devil isn't a weasel. The 537 00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,960 Speaker 1: devil is a lion. He's a roaring lion. He is 538 00:34:55,480 --> 00:35:01,280 Speaker 1: like a roaring lion. He's loud, but compare to the 539 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:07,080 Speaker 1: God that I serve, he's little. He's loud. You're not 540 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,799 Speaker 1: gonna make it, but he's little. If God drowns him 541 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 1: in the Red Sea, I bet you will make it. 542 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,560 Speaker 1: I bet I can make it. I bet I'm gonna 543 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:23,279 Speaker 1: do it. I'm not dead yet. So now we are 544 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,960 Speaker 1: in this mortal playing dealing with little miracles and mechanics 545 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 1: of trying to figure out should my kids go here? 546 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,960 Speaker 1: And should my parents do that? And could I put 547 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,000 Speaker 1: them in a nursing home or should they come live 548 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,600 Speaker 1: with me? And I need God to teach me in 549 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:41,480 Speaker 1: the process of my life, just like you taught them. 550 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:45,680 Speaker 1: I was comforted that the god of the dramatic Red 551 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:50,600 Speaker 1: Sea ten plagues is also the god of the details. 552 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:58,240 Speaker 1: The god of the dramatic is the god of the details. 553 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,640 Speaker 1: Say it out loud, teach me, Laura, teach me what 554 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:11,080 Speaker 1: to do with the weasels. I can't pick on all 555 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:14,160 Speaker 1: of these animals. I'm not trying to turn this into 556 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:19,960 Speaker 1: a science class. I hate science. Delete that out of 557 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,160 Speaker 1: the tape. That's gonna skill viral somehow. Look at all 558 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,480 Speaker 1: these little vermin in the text those verse twenty nine, 559 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:30,040 Speaker 1: back where I started. Of the animals that move along 560 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:34,640 Speaker 1: the ground. Now this word is sarros. It means they 561 00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,759 Speaker 1: move and they multiply. These animals that he lists, he 562 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,759 Speaker 1: already talked about the hoofs. He already talked about the 563 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:41,799 Speaker 1: cut He already talked about the fish, He already talked 564 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,279 Speaker 1: about the insects, He already talked about the birds. Now 565 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:48,080 Speaker 1: he says about these sorrows, the animals that move along 566 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,120 Speaker 1: the ground. Now, listen what this means. This is awesome. 567 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:54,160 Speaker 1: This is awesome. Leviticus is so good. It means that 568 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:59,959 Speaker 1: they're commonly found, and they multiply rapidly. If not, don't 569 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:07,279 Speaker 1: with my hand to heaven. While I was trying to decide, God, 570 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:12,000 Speaker 1: is this sermon stupid or should I appreciate it? A 571 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:16,160 Speaker 1: little frog started hopping across the room I was studying it. 572 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,359 Speaker 1: I said, all right, God, I appreciate I got you. 573 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,479 Speaker 1: I don't need a whole plague of frogs. I saw 574 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,880 Speaker 1: that happen in Exodus. Nah, God, you don't have to 575 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,600 Speaker 1: send anymore. It was a confirmation. It was a confirming 576 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:32,320 Speaker 1: word for me that like that, like that little frog, 577 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,880 Speaker 1: it's true, right, Abby, it's true. The frog jump. I 578 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,120 Speaker 1: called her down and I said, I just need a 579 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:40,279 Speaker 1: witness to this that I got a Littleviticus eleven. It's saying, 580 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:41,919 Speaker 1: don't eat the get go and don't eat the comming. 581 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 1: And here comes a little frog and we got him 582 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,120 Speaker 1: out safely, and we didn't eat him, and we didn't 583 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:52,840 Speaker 1: kill him, and he's off somewhere repopulating and replenishing my backyard. 584 00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,600 Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no no, no. What's the point. 585 00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:01,680 Speaker 1: What's the point. It's the little things. It's the little things. 586 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:07,000 Speaker 1: It's the little things in your life that you remember 587 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,959 Speaker 1: as great moments. It's the little things in your life 588 00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:15,080 Speaker 1: that lead you down dark paths. It's the little things. 589 00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:22,400 Speaker 1: God does big things and little things, and the little 590 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:30,200 Speaker 1: things you can do all things. You can do small 591 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:39,560 Speaker 1: things as well. What about it of the animals that 592 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,520 Speaker 1: move along the ground, you know, the ones that multiply, 593 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:44,200 Speaker 1: the ones that run around, reproduce. There's little animals on 594 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:45,440 Speaker 1: the ground. God said, I'm gonna show you what to 595 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,839 Speaker 1: do with these? Don't these are unclean for you? Verse 596 00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:52,200 Speaker 1: twenty nine. Verse twenty nine. The weasel, that's the one 597 00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:56,879 Speaker 1: I want to use. That weasel. God said, don't eat 598 00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:00,640 Speaker 1: the weasel. You can't eat the weasel. It's like, okay, 599 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,560 Speaker 1: I'm good God. I mean, look at this guy. I 600 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,680 Speaker 1: don't want to eat this. You got him. We picked 601 00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:11,480 Speaker 1: out a picture of the weasel. Yeah, man, I'm not 602 00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:17,840 Speaker 1: trying to eat him. Is that awful? I put that 603 00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:19,279 Speaker 1: up because I thought you might be gett hungry, and 604 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:20,680 Speaker 1: I wanted to spoil your appetise, so you listen to 605 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:25,759 Speaker 1: the rest of the sermon. Look at that weasel. Lit sneaky. 606 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,239 Speaker 1: That guy is a serial killer. I just looked him up. 607 00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:35,360 Speaker 1: He could get in a small place and then, oh, 608 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,960 Speaker 1: look at it. He's got those eggs. Look what he's 609 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:40,680 Speaker 1: trying to do to those eggs. Look what he's trying 610 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,440 Speaker 1: to do to that thing that hasn't been born yet. 611 00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:51,120 Speaker 1: Look at that weasel. Y'all are on board with Leviticus, now, 612 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,279 Speaker 1: are you? Because you do need to know how to 613 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,800 Speaker 1: deal with the weasel, don't you. You do need to 614 00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,640 Speaker 1: learn how to deal with the weasel, because you got 615 00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:09,400 Speaker 1: a weasel called worry that while God is speaking his 616 00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:12,480 Speaker 1: word to you, say amen in Portuguese when it gets 617 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:15,360 Speaker 1: through on this interpretation, because I need to hear an amen. 618 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:18,280 Speaker 1: I need to hear an amen. That weasel, that weasel, 619 00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:22,000 Speaker 1: that weasel. No, he's not just leaving you alone. He's 620 00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:26,520 Speaker 1: trying to steal what God spoke. Now I know you 621 00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,440 Speaker 1: think I'm out of context. It's not talking about that 622 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:33,200 Speaker 1: kind of weasel. It's talking about everything in your life 623 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:36,600 Speaker 1: to try to distinguish, like the enemy will plant a 624 00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,560 Speaker 1: seed in your mind. Right you say, okay, well this 625 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,400 Speaker 1: is gonna go wrong. And have you thought about this? 626 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,040 Speaker 1: And did you hear what they said about that? And 627 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,000 Speaker 1: it's a recession of recession of recession or recession of 628 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,200 Speaker 1: recession of recession of recession of recession. You have thought 629 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,319 Speaker 1: about resurrection in about three months because all you've been 630 00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:54,399 Speaker 1: reading about is recession. So now that weasel got right 631 00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:59,120 Speaker 1: in there in your space, your little space where God 632 00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:03,120 Speaker 1: does great things, and he eats through the potential of 633 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,600 Speaker 1: what God speaks. So what do you do with the weasel? 634 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,239 Speaker 1: God said, don't eat it? What do you do with 635 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,239 Speaker 1: the weasel God said, put it off limits? What do 636 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,400 Speaker 1: you do with those little thoughts that come up a 637 00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:20,640 Speaker 1: million miles an hour? And you know that's a good 638 00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:25,080 Speaker 1: question to be asking. Enemy will weasel his way into 639 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:34,799 Speaker 1: your marriage. He'll weasel his way into your business, gets 640 00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,960 Speaker 1: you to start cutting corners and stuff like that. Yeah, 641 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:43,600 Speaker 1: I know how he works. I'm a I'm a weasel expert. 642 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:53,280 Speaker 1: Weasel'll try and keep you from worshiping God. No weasel. 643 00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:56,279 Speaker 1: The Lord some a list a lot of things that 644 00:41:56,320 --> 00:42:00,800 Speaker 1: will multiply rapidly in your life, small things, moving sorrows, 645 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,120 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna show you what to do with them 646 00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:08,960 Speaker 1: so I can keep doing big things. God still has 647 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:13,320 Speaker 1: big things for me. I felt chills on my body 648 00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:19,440 Speaker 1: when I said it. God still has big things for me, 649 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,000 Speaker 1: Things that are bigger than my intellect, things that are 650 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:29,080 Speaker 1: bigger than my imagination, exceedingly abundantly above all I ask, 651 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:35,319 Speaker 1: or imagine, the seed of God's potential lives inside of me. 652 00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,440 Speaker 1: I say it again for the people who who really 653 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,520 Speaker 1: believe what the Word of God says. The seed of 654 00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:46,560 Speaker 1: God's potential lives in me. I mean, think about it. 655 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,240 Speaker 1: Here are people in Leviticus who have been through Egypt, 656 00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,359 Speaker 1: have been through the Red sea, who started with a 657 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:57,680 Speaker 1: man named Abraham. All out of one man came millions 658 00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,960 Speaker 1: of people because God said, I will bless you and 659 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,399 Speaker 1: multiply you. And Abram was waiting. We preached about him 660 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,719 Speaker 1: for two weeks a while back. We preached about him 661 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,879 Speaker 1: for two weeks. How he was ninety nine, and God 662 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,120 Speaker 1: gave him the promise when he was a hundred. And 663 00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,400 Speaker 1: I preached on keep it a hundred. But can I 664 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,400 Speaker 1: keep it a hundred with you? Abraham said, my wife's 665 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:21,000 Speaker 1: womb is as good as dead, and so is my body. 666 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:23,600 Speaker 1: And my body is as good as dead, because I'm 667 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:27,080 Speaker 1: ninety nine. But then something got inside of Abraham and 668 00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,239 Speaker 1: kicked inside of Abraham, because see the seed that was 669 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:33,360 Speaker 1: inside of him was greater than the limitation that was 670 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,920 Speaker 1: on him. So something got inside of Abraham, and he 671 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,759 Speaker 1: looked in the mirror. But then he looked at the stars, 672 00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,279 Speaker 1: and he talked to himself and his situation. But then 673 00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,480 Speaker 1: he talked to God, and God reminded him of the promise. 674 00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,720 Speaker 1: And Apram said, I'm old, but I'm not dead yet. 675 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,239 Speaker 1: I think he said it with no teeth all right 676 00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,920 Speaker 1: there yet I'm not tedy yet, I'm not dead yet. 677 00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,600 Speaker 1: I'm not done yet. I'm not tedy yet. It's not 678 00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:04,719 Speaker 1: over yet. I'm not dead. God's not done. If I'm 679 00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:09,320 Speaker 1: not dead, God's not done. Greater things are still a 680 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:18,520 Speaker 1: come dealing it. Thank you God, Thank you God. Think 681 00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:22,360 Speaker 1: about everything that the seed survived. That's what he said. 682 00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:26,239 Speaker 1: The Seed of Abraham became the nation of Israel. I 683 00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:29,080 Speaker 1: feel like preaching. We've been through the Red Sea, we've 684 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,040 Speaker 1: been through the wilderness. We're going to the Promised Land. 685 00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:34,919 Speaker 1: But watch this whistle, he said, he said, he said 686 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,120 Speaker 1: verse now, now, I'm ready form a key verse. Ready 687 00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:41,840 Speaker 1: for the key verse, verse thirty seven. If you see 688 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:51,880 Speaker 1: a carcass a dead thing. Now, the rule of thumb 689 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,120 Speaker 1: is don't touch dead stuff. And that's a good idea 690 00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:57,880 Speaker 1: just in general. Why do you seek the living amongst 691 00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:01,920 Speaker 1: the dead? And you go to send that text to 692 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,440 Speaker 1: that relationship that you know God has brought you out of. 693 00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:11,680 Speaker 1: Don't touch dead stuff. Because I worked for a pet 694 00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:15,120 Speaker 1: cemetery when I was sixteen, A lady called and said, 695 00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,080 Speaker 1: can you come get my cat? My cat is dead. 696 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,759 Speaker 1: We said we'll be there in thirty minutes. She said, no, 697 00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:21,839 Speaker 1: I want you to get him tomorrow morning. I want 698 00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,720 Speaker 1: to spend one more night with my cat in the bed. 699 00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:33,560 Speaker 1: Why y'all acting shock? You're in the bed with some 700 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:41,080 Speaker 1: dead stuff too. Don't make me pull up your search history. 701 00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,399 Speaker 1: Don't make me do it. Don't make me do it. 702 00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:49,600 Speaker 1: I'll come down there and setch a phone. What do 703 00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,239 Speaker 1: I do with the dead thing? Now? Watch this? I'm 704 00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,640 Speaker 1: almost done. I'm almost done. I'm almost done. I'm almost done. 705 00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:57,239 Speaker 1: I'm almost done. But I'm not done yet. I'm not 706 00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:58,640 Speaker 1: done yet. I'm not done yet. I'm not done yet. 707 00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:00,640 Speaker 1: I'm not done yet. I'm not done yet yet. I'm 708 00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:05,239 Speaker 1: not done yet. If a dead thing's a carcass, a 709 00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:09,160 Speaker 1: carcass of a saurus, a thing that moves and multiplies. 710 00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:14,239 Speaker 1: If a dead thing, if it falls, well I don't 711 00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:17,880 Speaker 1: have it memorized. Y'll put it back up. If it 712 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:32,160 Speaker 1: falls on any seeds that are to be planted, they 713 00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:42,600 Speaker 1: the seeds are still clean. So God said, have you 714 00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:46,560 Speaker 1: ever had something die on you? Have you ever had 715 00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,440 Speaker 1: a dream die on you? Have you ever had an 716 00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:52,160 Speaker 1: idea to die on you? Have you ever had an 717 00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:55,320 Speaker 1: opportunity die on you? Have you ever had your body 718 00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:58,000 Speaker 1: start to fail on you? Have you ever had your 719 00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:00,399 Speaker 1: hopes start to die on you. Have have you ever 720 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,600 Speaker 1: had something you idealized for your future die on you? 721 00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:06,959 Speaker 1: Have you ever had a plan die on you? If 722 00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:10,839 Speaker 1: something has died on you, God wants you to know 723 00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:15,520 Speaker 1: that what dies on you is nothing compared to what 724 00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:19,440 Speaker 1: God put in you. So the seed, you'll help meself. 725 00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:24,480 Speaker 1: So the seed still has what it needs to go 726 00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:28,799 Speaker 1: into the ground and come up better. God said, you're 727 00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:32,359 Speaker 1: coming up better. I know what you've been through. But 728 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:37,080 Speaker 1: you're not done cause you're not dead yet. It's still 729 00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:41,000 Speaker 1: a seed, is still a gift, is still a breath, 730 00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:48,040 Speaker 1: is still a praise is still gonna happen. Just the 731 00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:56,919 Speaker 1: seed is bigger then the way sol is not dead yet. 732 00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:03,080 Speaker 1: Shout it that dead. Yeah, my dream not dead yet. 733 00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:09,439 Speaker 1: My vision not dead yet. The church not dead dead. 734 00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:21,120 Speaker 1: Your children not said good, get the praise. You are 735 00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:26,800 Speaker 1: a thousand people. You are a royal Pray soon God 736 00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:32,080 Speaker 1: to declare the praises of him who brought me from 737 00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:38,200 Speaker 1: a place, bought me with a price. Oh, I was 738 00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:44,120 Speaker 1: seeking Deepen said, I was caught in a pattern. Buddy 739 00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:53,799 Speaker 1: taught me, said the same will, sir, He's gonna do it. 740 00:48:54,880 --> 00:49:01,800 Speaker 1: He's gonna do it. He's gonna do it. Seven people 741 00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:03,919 Speaker 1: say he's gonna do it. He's gonna do it. He's 742 00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,680 Speaker 1: gonna do it. He's gonna do it. He's gonna do it. 743 00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,680 Speaker 1: He's gonna do it. He's gonna do it. He's God, 744 00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:16,800 Speaker 1: He's God. He's been gone a long time. He's been 745 00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:21,160 Speaker 1: gone since Abraham started wobbling. He's been gone before you 746 00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:29,880 Speaker 1: started walking. Man, you're not said, yeah, let everything that 747 00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:36,960 Speaker 1: has brown. You know what to do. And he brought you, 748 00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:43,480 Speaker 1: and he brought you, and he let you, and he 749 00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:52,840 Speaker 1: ven you. The best me is yet to be because 750 00:49:52,920 --> 00:50:08,600 Speaker 1: the seed is incorruptible. Thank you, Jesus. You couldn't die 751 00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:18,560 Speaker 1: because God's not dying. COVID couldn't kill this church because 752 00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:25,960 Speaker 1: we're still called to be His people. And no weasel, 753 00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:32,759 Speaker 1: no devil, no rejection, no anxiety shall be able to 754 00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:42,680 Speaker 1: stop what God starting. So tell that weasel, tell that weasel, 755 00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:48,840 Speaker 1: tell that weasel, get off my word. The seed, Jesus 756 00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:54,200 Speaker 1: said in Luke chapter eight. The seed is the word 757 00:50:54,520 --> 00:51:01,200 Speaker 1: of God. So if the weasel touches the seed, it 758 00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:06,640 Speaker 1: doesn't spoil the seed. No dead thing. We've all had 759 00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:10,640 Speaker 1: something die on us, all of us We've all had 760 00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:14,399 Speaker 1: something die on us. But will you let what died 761 00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:17,960 Speaker 1: on you keep you from believing and moving forward of 762 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:22,680 Speaker 1: what God put in you. If the weasel touches the seed, 763 00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:27,600 Speaker 1: get the seed, Snatch that seed back from that dead weasel, 764 00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:30,600 Speaker 1: and go forward and sew it, and go forward and 765 00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:33,080 Speaker 1: build it, and go forward and believe it, and go 766 00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,680 Speaker 1: forward and achieve it, and go forward and do it 767 00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:43,640 Speaker 1: in My name. Not dead yet, The weasel's dead, not 768 00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,600 Speaker 1: the seed. As a matter of fact, the seed hasn't 769 00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:50,040 Speaker 1: even been planted yet. That's why it's still clean. Because 770 00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:54,880 Speaker 1: God has been saving you. That's why he brought you, 771 00:51:56,200 --> 00:52:02,480 Speaker 1: brought you, and I don't care what what little thing 772 00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,959 Speaker 1: in your life. As a matter of fact, I don't 773 00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:08,600 Speaker 1: mean this to be corny. I want to wage war 774 00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:12,279 Speaker 1: against whatever it is, that dead thing, that weasel, that 775 00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:17,960 Speaker 1: dead thing. The living word of God is greater than 776 00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:28,839 Speaker 1: that dead thing. You don't believe me. Ask Glazarus. When 777 00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:32,919 Speaker 1: Jesus said the word come forth, the dead thing got 778 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:38,440 Speaker 1: up again. Ask Ezekiel. Can these bones live you alone? Lord? 779 00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:42,719 Speaker 1: No drive alls hear the word of the Lord. You're 780 00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:47,360 Speaker 1: not dead yet. God is raising an army. Dude, God 781 00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:52,239 Speaker 1: is building up believers. God is breaking generational curtsys. God 782 00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:55,960 Speaker 1: is moving his covenant forward in the ark. We are 783 00:52:56,040 --> 00:53:03,480 Speaker 1: the church and the James of Hell will not prevailing. Singing, singing, singing, 784 00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:22,880 Speaker 1: go I said yeah, But I said, yeah, We're not. 785 00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:39,920 Speaker 1: Say let's know it, this is funny, said drop drops 786 00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:50,680 Speaker 1: here the word now, drop as here the word there. Listen. Well, 787 00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:53,120 Speaker 1: thanks for joining us today for the message, and we 788 00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:55,759 Speaker 1: trust that God spoke to you right where you are 789 00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:58,800 Speaker 1: as we're in this year end season. If God is 790 00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,480 Speaker 1: speaking to your life and you'd like to begin tithing 791 00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:04,279 Speaker 1: or give above and beyond, we would invite you to 792 00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:07,680 Speaker 1: head over to Elevationchurch dot org. There you'll find all 793 00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:10,440 Speaker 1: of the information available for you to take part in 794 00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:13,200 Speaker 1: the year end Offering. If you haven't begun tithing, we 795 00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:16,480 Speaker 1: would always encourage you to start there. Place God first 796 00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:19,239 Speaker 1: in the air of your finances and begin tithing and 797 00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:22,640 Speaker 1: make that a part of your every day life. If 798 00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:24,759 Speaker 1: you already tithe, then would like to go above and 799 00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:27,759 Speaker 1: beyond and help expand the ministry here at Elevation Church, 800 00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,320 Speaker 1: you can also do that through the Year End Offering. 801 00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:31,960 Speaker 1: All you have to do is click the banner at 802 00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:35,480 Speaker 1: Elevationchurch dot org. You can select the campus that you're 803 00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:37,640 Speaker 1: a part of. If you're a part of our online community, 804 00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:39,839 Speaker 1: select online, and if you're part of one of our 805 00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:43,480 Speaker 1: physical locations, make sure that you select one of those campuses. 806 00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:45,520 Speaker 1: Then you can select how much you'd like to give 807 00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:47,800 Speaker 1: and be a part of all that God is doing 808 00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,920 Speaker 1: right here at Elevation Church. Again, we thank you for 809 00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:52,840 Speaker 1: being a part of the family here and we can't 810 00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:55,440 Speaker 1: wait to see how God works in and through your 811 00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:58,040 Speaker 1: life as you open up your hands and ask God 812 00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:00,520 Speaker 1: to use you right where you are. Thanks for being 813 00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:01,600 Speaker 1: a part of God bless