WEBVTT - What Comes After 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.040 Hey there. Before we jump into the amazing message today, 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:05.640 we wanted to let you know about our upcoming tour, 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:08.520 the starting end just a few days. We're heading out 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.240 in the month of August with our friends Carry Joe 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.680 and Codycarnes, and we're coming to a city near you. 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.400 We're going to have an amazing time in the presence 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.040 of God. Every single time we gather, he's faithful to 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.080 meet with us and do something new and fresh in 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.440 our hearts. So we hope you'll join us. Yes, we're 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:29.160 going to be in Dallas, San Antonio, Omaha. We're going 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.840 to be in Toledo, Dayton. We're coming to you Knoxville, Huntsville. Yes, 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:36.400 we're also going to be in Louisville, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:40.040 and New York. So come out join us, bring your friends, 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.440 bring your family. Everything you need tickets and information is 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.680 at Elevation Worship dot Com. We'll see you and it's 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:49.040 an honored to minister to you right now wherever you are, 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.400 whether you're in your home or your car. Some people 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.800 listen to me while they work out, so that's good. 0:00:55.880 --> 0:01:00.640 Get another rep. That's your sign. You were praying for 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:02.600 a sign that you should work out today. This is it. 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:06.720 Go work out to say it. The Lord and I 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:08.760 want to share with you today. Let's go to Acts 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.720 chapter three. Stay standing for one moment, Acts chapter three. 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:15.440 As you're turning there, just to give a moment for 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:20.920 everybody to turn. Put in the chat right now. Where 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.640 you're joining us from? All right? YouTube or Facebook or 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:29.600 wherever you're joining us from. Where are you joining us from? 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.040 We want to know, and what's your name? And uh, 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.760 what's your favorite what's your favorite band? And what's your 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.000 favorite flavor ice cream? Or whatever you want to say 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.399 in the chat. Don't let the chat distract you, all right, 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.319 because God has a word for you today. Tell your 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.440 neighbor real quick, say, don't distract me today. God's going 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:49.840 to speak to me today. Look at them and say, 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.480 you look so good. You're distracting me right now, but 0:01:52.600 --> 0:02:01.760 stop distracting me. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah yeah. 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:07.040 God is going to speak to us today. Acts Chapter three, 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:12.360 Verse thirteen, Verse thirteen, And I really want to go 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:18.920 to verse nineteen. So I will. I said that like 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.560 it was something I really wanted. But we can do it. 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.480 We can do it. Let's just do it. The God 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:29.840 of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob starting off strong. The God 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:33.480 of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:39.160 has glorified his servant, Jesus. You handed him over to 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.800 be killed and disowned him before Pilot, though he had 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.920 decided to let him go. You disowned the Holy and 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.400 Righteous when and asked that a murderer be released to you. 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:54.120 You killed the author of life. Wow, but God raised 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:58.600 him from the dead. We are witnesses of this by 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:05.160 faith in name of Jesus. By what faith in the 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:09.520 name of Jesus, Love it, love it, love it. This man, 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:13.600 whom you see and know, was made strong. It is 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.400 Jesus's name and the faith that comes through him that 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.120 has completely healed him. As you can all see now. 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:26.480 Fellow Israelites, I know that you acted in ignorance, as 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:33.400 did your leaders. But this, this, this what you did 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:39.840 in ignorance. This is how God fulfilled what he what 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:43.880 he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:51.280 Messiah would suffer. Repent. Then repent, then change your mind, 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:58.760 change your direction, turn to God, so that your sins 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.760 may be wiped out. The times of refreshing may come 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.840 from the Lord go back to verse fifteen. It's the 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:11.200 nucleus of this message. You killed the author of life, 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:16.120 but God raised them from the dead. We are witnesses 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.960 of this today. I want to talk to you about 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:26.400 what comes after. What comes after, That's what the Lord 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.400 wants me to talk to you about. You know how 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.839 you've been stressing out about stuff that's out there somewhere. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.159 The Lord said, let's talk about what comes after. You 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.640 know how you've been stuck in some things that happened 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.200 and you can't quite You keep tripping on stuff that's 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.839 behind you. How to even trip on something that's behind you? 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.159 But the Lord said, let's talk today for just a 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:52.720 few moments about what comes after. Thank you for your word, 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:59.479 God in Jesus, nay Amen. You may be seated while 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.760 you're getting situated. Quick plug. Holly has a book club. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.440 You got two fans, baby, I'm like, you need a 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:12.359 new marketing department. No, it's awesome. She has a book 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:16.120 club and it is called the Holly Verdict book Club. 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.360 Very creative title. I love it because when I asked 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.359 her why she was doing it, she said, because I 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:26.440 want to nothing deep about it. They don't always study 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.520 books about seven ways to pray your way into a 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.720 greater day. But they just study books that she likes, 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:33.039 and they don't really even study. And why am I 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.560 saying study? They just talk about them. And it's cool 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.480 because she'll often get the author on. She's so excited 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.000 when she gets the author. She'll call me into the 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.560 room or come runn an inchick. I got the author. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.000 That's great. And then I pick on her and I'm like, 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:56.200 but you know, I have a book club too, because 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:57.960 she's always trying to get me to read the books. 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.640 I'm like, no, baby, I'm sorry. I have a book 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:07.520 club and the author lives in my heart. You have 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.040 to feel so sorry for my family. They get dad 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:14.280 jokes and preacher jokes, and both of them combined. It's unbearable, 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:18.200 let me tell you right now. But I joke with her, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.560 and so I don't know. It's probably not because I'm 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.839 studying the Bible. I'm probably just lazy. I always intend 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.760 to read the books that she does, and I never 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.800 get around to it. So she'll usually take me to 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:30.520 go see the movie if there is a movie, and 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.479 I will do that, and she took me to see 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.440 one recently. I won't take what the movie is, so 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.640 it won't be like a spoiler alert if you want 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.400 to go see that movie. I hated it. I thought 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:41.880 the movie was terrible. It's kind of a last minute decision. 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.200 We snuck some low carb candy into the movie theater 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.919 and I sat there and watched that movie. Within five minutes, 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.360 she turns to me in and she goes, I'm so sorry, 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:54.920 and then you know what she's gonna say next, I 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:59.480 promise the book was so much better. It was better. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.080 Every five minutes she would turn to me and say, 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.159 I promised the book was better, and I didn't read 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.240 the book. So I'm like, yeah, right, how would I 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.560 know if you're telling me the drums? One day, I'm 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.640 gonna preach a scripture that says you are living epistles 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.680 and talk about how we are actually God wants to 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.440 put his word through our lives living. And then I'm 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:24.400 gonna ask, what's the book better? Are you living out anyway? 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:28.120 So I'm gonna do that one day. But she said 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:32.560 I promised the book was better. After two hours of 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:39.360 me thinking I really love you to sit through this movie. 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:44.920 I didn't like it at all. It did something that 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.080 I didn't expect it to do. The last scene of 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.600 the movie. I was literally getting my keys, getting my wallet, 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:54.800 literally thinking let's just go ahead and go I don't 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:58.520 need this long last scene. And what happened in the 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:03.080 last two minutes. I looked at her and said, that 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:09.960 was a pretty good movie. I was pretty good. I 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:18.000 didn't I did not see that coming. The last two 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:23.600 minutes changed the whole movie from me wanting a refund 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.520 to be wanting to rewatch it. I'm like, maybe we 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.560 should come back and see that again, because I need 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:32.000 to watch everything that I thought was stupid and slow 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:37.320 and corny through the lens of the last thing that happened. 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:44.160 So what I saw in the last two minutes made 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:49.160 me rethink the whole last two hours because of what 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.880 I saw at the end that I didn't know in 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.680 the beginning, and I didn't know in the middle. But 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.440 then when I saw the end, it changed the middle, 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:01.120 It changed the beginning, and it made me think, maybe 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:05.800 you are a good book picker. Maybe this movie wasn't 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:10.520 so bad after all. In life, wouldn't it be nice 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.880 if we could see the last two minutes, the last 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:18.440 two months, the last two years, just to know how 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:25.080 to watch everything that is happening in real time. Something 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.520 can happen at the end that makes you go back 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.640 and rethink the entire thing that went before it. You know, 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:36.200 I'm right. You can have experiences in life that make 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.080 you go from thank you, Lord for bringing this person 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.040 into my life, for this relationship, to Lord, why didn't 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:45.640 you protect me from this relationship? Why didn't I listen 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.080 to all the people who told me. You know, I'm right, 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.680 there are things that can happen later and here's what 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.120 it is. Here's what it is. I was thinking, did 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:57.400 the last two minutes change the first two hours? Can 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:03.440 you change the past? Before you say no? Reconsider my 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.280 illustration in light of this book club that we've chosen 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.800 to attend today, because we're in a book club, right 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.400 and we read something that happened now. We read something 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.880 that happened not at the beginning of the Ministry of 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:22.360 Peter and John, not at the end. We read something 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.840 that happened right there in the middle that was so powerful, 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.840 this miracle that was so powerful. I love it because 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.960 I've been studying this all week. I know what comes before, 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.200 I know what comes after, and right in the middle 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.160 of it, Peter is preaching, and he says something and 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.160 there's a word from God, and it actually there's two 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:41.880 words from God. You should I get up to give 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.080 you a word from God. But you picked double portions 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:49.559 Sunday today because there are two words from God in 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.199 this text. Now, before we get there, let's back out 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:56.240 one more time and consider the premise. Can you change 0:10:56.280 --> 0:11:02.000 the past? Certainly, we can't do the events. That's a 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:06.000 waste of time. I think that all regret is a 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:12.280 misappropriation of imagination. Is you taking the wisdom God wants 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.960 you to use for your future and applying it toward 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:21.160 a situation that is already behind you. So can you 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:26.440 change the past? Apparently Peter thinks that you can not 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.040 change the events. And by the way, we're always changing 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:36.640 the past when we tell somebody else what happened. You 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:41.840 are the senior editor of your story, and you make 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:45.920 all GUIDs of changes and alterations. You switch stuff around, 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:50.079 You add dialogue, internal dialogue, external dialogue. You are an 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.560 unreliable narrator. To put it in book terms, because this 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.320 is a book club right now. The Bible is not 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.120 a book like we say. It's a book. The Bible 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.439 it has six these two separate books, different types of literature, 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.400 everything from poetry to historical narrative to letters that were 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.920 written to the church to instruct them how to live. 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.920 And then you got the Gospels, which give the record 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:16.520 of the account of what Jesus did while he was here. 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.760 The Book of Acts is awesome because it tells us 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:26.840 what happened after Jesus left. Now we know that this 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:30.720 movement that was beginning here in Acts chapter three is 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.760 something that will still occupy a space in time in 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.800 twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three if you watch it later, 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.880 or twenty twenty five if you watch it later. But 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.480 God knows all of that. God knows when you're going 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:46.400 to watch this message. And what Peter didn't know is 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.400 that I was going to be bringing his words that 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.680 he had to say on the spot to you today 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.440 for your situation, and that you would be in a 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:58.560 situation today where you don't know us next and you 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:03.080 can't figure out what's happening. And the challenge of it is, see, 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.079 we don't get to see the last scene. The disciples 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.480 didn't get to see the last scene. They didn't get 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.360 to see that this would work, that the Gospel would 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.920 indeed go from Jerusalem that's where they started, to Judea 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:21.280 the surrounding area, to Samaria, where they tended to avoid, 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:28.520 and to the ends of the earth. Valentine Gaston, Riverwalk, Columbia, 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.280 all the ends of the earth, Kentucky. Peter didn't know 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.160 about Kentucky when he reaches for I guarantee there's somebody 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.160 right now who's watching this from Kentucky, and they weren't 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:38.360 paying attention, and all of a sudden they just got 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.160 their attention because I said Kentucky. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:41.920 Lord want me say Kentucky because he knew you'd need 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:48.679 this word right now. God is like that. My challenge 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:54.560 is how do I live through this story when I 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.360 don't know the last scene that may make it all 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.240 make sense. That's why I have to live. Say these 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.320 two words by faith, say it again by faith, put 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:09.120 it in the chat by faith, by faith, by faith, 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:13.319 Come on elon by faith, by faith, by faith, by faith, 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:17.680 by faith, by faith, by faith. We walk by faith, 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:21.680 not by sight. So it means that even though I 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.520 haven't seen the last scene, is my kid gonna come 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.480 back home? I haven't seen the last scene? Is my 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.520 marriage gonna make it. I haven't seen the last scene. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.120 Am I ever gonna get through this? I haven't seen 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.840 the last scene. Am I gonna get another job while 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:37.560 I keep getting all these other bills? Because I keep 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.600 getting other bills, but I haven't got another job. And 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.160 even know if I get the other job, Am I 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:42.880 gonna make enough in the other job to pay all 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:44.720 the other bills because all the other bills didn't stop 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.680 coming while I'm waiting on the other job. Even though 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:52.200 I haven't seen that scene. By faith, I can believe 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.480 that if God said that he was with me, You're ready, 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:03.880 You're ready. He knows what's next, and I can trust him. 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.000 Say lah, pause and think about it that in this 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:11.000 scene of your life, you can believe that what God 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.560 is working in your life, in your family, in your career, 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:19.320 in my ministry, in my heart, in my character. Even 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:23.240 though I don't get to see the last scene, I 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:26.160 could turn to Holly and say, this is gonna be 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:38.160 good because I trust who wrote the screenplay. Yeah, beautiful, 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.920 Peter's coming on kind of strong in this sermon, you 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:46.160 gotta admit, but he's fired up. You know how you 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.800 get fired up, You get on a spiritual high. Have 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:53.680 you ever been on a spiritual high. No, certainly, it's 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:56.200 a lot different than what you just demonstrated. If you have, 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:01.000 maybe today is not the day. But Peter had just 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:05.640 he had done something pretty amazing because Jesus used to 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.000 help them do miracles, but now he's no longer here 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.800 in human form, and he sent his spirit. He was 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.200 always telling them while he walked the earth, I'm going 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:17.840 to leave. After I do, I'll send something that will 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.240 give you a power I can't give you while I'm here. 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:24.960 So wait for that. Don't get discouraged. I'm going to die. 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.840 I'll be there three days, but don't give up in 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.480 three days, don't give up in don't give up in 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.400 ten days, twenty days, thirty days, fifty days. When they're 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:38.000 persecuting you know that they persecuted me. And I'm giving 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:42.520 you a spirit, the spirit of God. On the day 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.200 of Pentecost, the spirit came. They were all together in 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.760 one place and the spirit came. And that's where your 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.520 strength comes from. From the spirit of God. That doesn't 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:57.120 come from you, that doesn't come from situations, that doesn't 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.560 come from earthly things, that doesn't come from creatine. I 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:04.720 got some strength that comes from Jesus Christ, who set 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.439 the spirit in his name, from the Father and lives 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:14.080 forever to make intercession. I got his spirit seeing, so 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.040 this is Peter. Watch I divide Peter's life into two 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.919 separate things. Okay, I call him before Spirit Peter or 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:27.440 BS Peter, and then after spirit Peter. All right, this 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:31.320 is as Peter, not BS Peter, BS Peter. Before the 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.399 spirit came in and he was saying all kind of 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.000 stuff he couldn't back up. I got you, Jesus, I 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.280 don't care about anything. Give me that sword, give me 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.560 that ear. Ay I do, mister potato head preaching before 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:45.840 he got filled with the spirit. But now Jesus is gone. 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.159 But the spirit came and he's bold. This must be 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:50.240 a different dude. This can't be the same dude that 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:52.040 sat down at the fire and when a little servant 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:53.760 girl asked where you, one of them said, I don't 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:57.920 know him and started cussing. Because now he's preaching. That's 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.080 who spoke these words. I didn't tell you that. I 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.640 wanted to save it because I wanted you to see 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:05.440 the words, and then I wanted you to think about 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:09.080 who said them, and when he said them, and why 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.600 he said them, look at it again. He goes all 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:16.240 the way back the God of Abraham. He hits rewind 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.240 all the way back to the beginning of the book, 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:24.119 to the beginning of the movie, because something happened in 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:28.440 this moment that made him rethink the whole thing. He's 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.560 speaking to the Jewish people. They're familiar with this God. 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:36.000 But as he rewinds to that first frame it says 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:40.800 the God of Abraham. He reminds you and me that 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:48.960 it starts with God. That it starts with God. It 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:53.600 didn't start when your mom and dad decided it's time 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:58.400 to try and succeeded. It didn't start when the fastest 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:02.560 swimmer made it all the way. It's like waking y'all up. 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:08.840 It didn't start with any of that. It starts with God. 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.720 Because everybody's running because here's what happened. Here's what happening. 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:15.040 I cannot preach this whole text. Just read it this week. 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.040 Just promise me you'll try to read it this week. 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.520 Where they're going to the temple at the hour of prayer, 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.160 there's three times of prayer there at this particular time 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.919 of prayer, the hour. The word hour literally means the 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:29.000 divine appointment. They didn't know that they're going to the temple. 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.000 This man is at the gate and he can't walk, 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.480 and he asks for money, and Peter's like, don't have 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:39.359 what you asked for, But I got what you need 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:43.600 that you wouldn't even know to ask for, because it's 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:48.680 a name. Silver and gold have I none, But such 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:51.160 as I have I give you. This is what Peter 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:55.560 said to the man, in the name of Jesus, get 0:19:55.680 --> 0:20:00.760 up and walk, reaches down his hand becomes a jumper cable. 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:04.320 The man jumps up to his feet starts going to church, 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:07.639 but not like everybody else. He's high stepping to church. 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:12.280 He's walking, jumping, praising God. Everybody, how many of y'all 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:17.720 came in this morning jumping and praising God? You know 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.720 you're lying. You came in dragging and fighting and cussing 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.240 and fussing, and then when you saw the greets, he said, 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:31.600 raise the Lord. How are you unblessed and highly favored? Anyway, 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:34.440 there's so much we can say about this miracle, as 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:36.600 that he didn't leave the way he came and all 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:40.480 of that. Today, I want to do what Peter did, 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:44.240 and I want to go back because this man gets healed, 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.360 and all the people don't know what to think about it, 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:49.560 and so Peter takes the opportunity. You know, a lot 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:51.600 of times God does something in our life on a 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:54.480 physical level, but we don't stop to reflect on it 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:56.840 and break it down on a spiritual level, so we 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:00.600 don't get the full benefit of what he did. Peter 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.800 sees this man who gets healed, and he sees this 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:08.720 would make an excellent opportunity to preach. There's a man 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:13.400 whose name is not known or mentioned, who is healed 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:18.199 by a name that is above every name, and the 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:21.800 vessel for it is a man who really was an 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:24.959 unlikely candidate. I would call the Book of Acts. If 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:27.280 I gave it a subtitle, I would call it the 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:34.480 unfolding Plan of an unstoppable God through unlikely people like Peter, 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:39.840 like me, like you. The unfolding plan. They didn't know 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:41.800 it when they were in it. You don't know it 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:44.080 when you're in it. You can't see it. When you're 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:46.520 in it. You'll be grabbing your keys and grabbing your 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:49.560 wallet and getting up to leave and starting to give up, 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.800 and thinking about quitting and thinking about walking away, and 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:54.600 turning to the person next to you and saying this 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:57.639 is ridiculous. I wasted my money, I wasted my time, 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:00.520 I wasted my prayers, I wasted my faith. I'm wasting 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:03.280 my life. What was it all for? It keeps hurting 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:05.399 and it won't go away. I keep trying and I 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:09.199 can't get up. But in this moment, see Peter is 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:16.320 taking the opportunity to remind you of Jesus, who is 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:23.159 Hebrews twelve, who says the author and the finisher of 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:27.320 my faith. Everybody say faith. So here's the challenge. Philip 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:33.120 Yancy said that faith is believing in advance what will 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:38.040 only make sense and reverse. Faith for what you can't 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:42.199 figure out. Faith for what frustrates you. Faith for what 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:45.399 has you tied up in knots. Faith for what wakes 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:47.560 you up in the middle of the night. Faith for 0:22:47.640 --> 0:22:50.200 what makes you think you're losing your mind. Faith for 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:53.000 what makes you wonder, am I going crazy? Faith for 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:55.520 what you've given up on the possibility of change. For 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:59.240 that kind of faith, he says, we've got to go 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:03.520 all the way back. So watch this, this man who 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:07.640 has just been healed, and Peter starts talking about history. 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:11.960 What does this man's healing have to do with the 0:23:12.040 --> 0:23:19.359 Jewish people's history. What does healing have to do with history? Everything? 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:26.800 Everything you understand, because if you are in the history only, 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:31.679 then you want to experience your destiny. But if you 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:36.280 are only focused on your destiny and have no frame 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:41.320 of your history, you will give up too soon and 0:23:41.359 --> 0:23:44.840 miss the point of what God is doing in your life. 0:23:45.920 --> 0:23:48.680 The God of Abraham. We're going all the way back 0:23:48.680 --> 0:23:51.840 to Abraham, Peter. Peter's like, yeah, I'm going all the 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:54.040 way back. This is like when you ask somebody how 0:23:54.080 --> 0:24:00.280 you're doing, and they're like, when I was three, You're like, whaa, 0:24:00.560 --> 0:24:02.520 how you doing? Right now? All they want to see 0:24:02.600 --> 0:24:06.320 is is this for you? Did that mean? That's let's 0:24:06.320 --> 0:24:10.879 give him a name. That's Rob. Rob not supposed to 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:14.040 be walking. Rob's not Let's call him Jimmy. Jimmy's not 0:24:14.080 --> 0:24:18.000 supposed to be jumping. It's Jimmy jumping. Jimmy was out 0:24:18.000 --> 0:24:20.640 here jumping. Jimmy. We can't be jumping. We walked right 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:22.639 over him. Now now, no, no, this is Some'm awesome. 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:25.800 God can shifting so quick. The one that everybody stepped 0:24:25.840 --> 0:24:30.160 over is now the center of the story. He's God 0:24:30.160 --> 0:24:33.639 can shift it like that. So don't worry when people 0:24:33.720 --> 0:24:36.760 say something about you, or don't worry when people don't 0:24:36.800 --> 0:24:39.440 give you an opportunity, or don't worry when they don't 0:24:39.440 --> 0:24:42.960 text you back. You needed that space on your phone 0:24:43.160 --> 0:24:56.040 for what's coming. The man. I love the Word of God. 0:24:56.400 --> 0:24:58.800 The man is heel, and Peter's like the God of 0:24:58.840 --> 0:25:07.000 Abraham because it starts with God. Your story, whatever scene 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:11.600 you're in right now, divorice, heartbreak, victory, success, promotion, termination, 0:25:11.760 --> 0:25:17.960 any of it. Your story is a story in a story, 0:25:19.080 --> 0:25:25.000