1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,439 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,640 Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 5 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 6 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 2: Enjoy the message. I wanted to mention to you that 7 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 2: Elevation Nights is coming to the coldest part of the 8 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 2: country at the coldest part of the year, February twenty 9 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 2: through twenty ninth. 10 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: We're gonna be in Hershey. 11 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 2: Pennsylvania, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Columbus, Ohio, Chicago, Long Island, Boston, 12 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 2: and Philly. You can go to Elevation not Yeah, you 13 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 2: can go to Elevation Nights dot com. I am currently 14 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 2: purchasing parkas for this tour. It'll be amazing. And today 15 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 2: I am excited to share God's word with you. You 16 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:07,759 Speaker 2: are excited to tell the person next to you, calm down, 17 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 2: you're scaring me. You're so excited, you're vibrating. Your energy 18 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 2: is off the charts. We want to share now with 19 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 2: the prophet Isaiah in Isaiah twenty seven Isaiah twenty seven 20 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 2: one through six some conversations that he was having with 21 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 2: Israel that God wants to continue with us. In Isaiah 22 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 2: chapter twenty seven, Verses one through six, brace yourself for 23 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 2: a bold word from the Almighty God, Isaiah twenty seven. 24 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: You're already they're waiting on me. 25 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 2: Usually I'm waiting on you. In that day, the Lord 26 00:01:52,480 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 2: will punish with his sword, his fears great and powerful sword, Leviathan, 27 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 2: the gliding serpent, Leviathan, the coiling serpent. He will slay 28 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 2: the monster of the sea in that day. Sing about 29 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 2: a fruitful vineyard, I the Lord watch over it. I 30 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 2: water it continually. I guard it day and night, so 31 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 2: that no one may harm me. I am not angry. 32 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 2: If only there were briars and thorns confronting me, I 33 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:35,079 Speaker 2: would march against them in battle. I would set them 34 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 2: all on fire or else. Let them come to me 35 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 2: for refuge. Let them make peace with me. Yes, let 36 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 2: them make peace with me. Verse six. In days to come, 37 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 2: Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and 38 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 2: fill all the world with fruit. And I came with 39 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 2: the message for you today to tell you don't tap out. 40 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 1: Tap in. 41 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 2: Just for you. The Lord sent me don't tap out, 42 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,519 Speaker 2: tap in, and on your way to your seat, touch 43 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 2: three people and say it's not over yet, not by 44 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 2: a long shot. Yes, Lord, it may be seated. Put 45 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 2: my title into comments. Don't tap out, tap in. Abby 46 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 2: asked me an interesting question three days ago, Dad, why 47 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 2: are you so against soccer? I explained to Abby. I'm 48 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 2: not against soccer. 49 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: I respect it. 50 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 2: I just didn't grow up in it, so I don't 51 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 2: particularly love it. See, my roots are wrestling. I was 52 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 2: a seventh grade wrestler. Yeah, impressive, I know. Just need 53 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 2: you to know who you're listening to today. Seventh grade wrestler. 54 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: Huh. 55 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 2: And not so fun Because Graham, our middle child, is wrestling. 56 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 2: It's doing great, way better than I was. He has 57 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:25,239 Speaker 2: exceeded his father's example. The student has has has. 58 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: Become the master. Yeah. 59 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:32,039 Speaker 2: And yeah, it's funny because I think the reason that 60 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 2: he likes wrestling. I can't prove this is because when 61 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 2: he was about five years old. We get a lot 62 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,359 Speaker 2: of interesting messages for people who watch our sermons on 63 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 2: the church. But I got a message from a former 64 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 2: UFC champion, a mixed martial artist, who said he watched 65 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 2: our sermons and that they were a blessing to him 66 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 2: and that he'd like to speak to me. And so 67 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 2: when we talked, his name is Vitor and when we talked, 68 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 2: this has been about ten years ago. He invited me 69 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 2: to come watch him train, and I took Graham with 70 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 2: me to watch him train. And I thought that was 71 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,359 Speaker 2: so amazing. But what was really cool he was so 72 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 2: nice to Graham. He got the first thing he did, 73 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,239 Speaker 2: he got down on the ground and he showed Graham 74 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 2: the armbar and he let Graham put him in an 75 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 2: arm Now let me show you a picture of v 76 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 2: Tour just so you can know. Okay, So when I 77 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 2: say he let Graham put him in an armbar, that's 78 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 2: the only way it's going to happen. All right, you 79 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 2: could take that down. I know that looks like a 80 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 2: picture of me, but that's Vtor. You're confused. So Graham's 81 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 2: got him in the arm bar. Graham's only about five 82 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 2: years old. And v Tour starts tapping and Graham doesn't move, 83 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 2: and Graham just sits there and holds the armbar. Do 84 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 2: you know what arm bar? He's got his arm cranked 85 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 2: back like's about to break it between his legs. And 86 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 2: so Vitor's showing him this is a submission move. So 87 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 2: he's got him like this, and Vtor taps, which in 88 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,039 Speaker 2: Mma means I give up, let me out. 89 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: You win. 90 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 2: Well, Graham just stays right there and Vitor goes tap 91 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 2: tap tap tap tap, and I go, Graham, that means 92 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 2: let go, So Graham, let's go. And Vitor pulls him 93 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 2: to the side. He said, you're so strong, bro, but 94 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 2: always respect the tap. 95 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:22,159 Speaker 1: When when someone taps, respect the tap. Let go. 96 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 2: Have you noticed that the devil doesn't really respect your tap. 97 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: I'm gonna wake you all up. 98 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 2: Today because some of you have been trying to tap. Okay, 99 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 2: that's enough now, okay, okay, quick quit picking on me, devil, 100 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 2: pick on somebody else. I got a few suggestions. I'll 101 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 2: give you a list. 102 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:53,280 Speaker 1: Just just let me alone. 103 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 2: Tap tap uh there there are there are many of 104 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 2: us who have been trying to tap or or surren 105 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 2: not in the good I surrender all to the my 106 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 2: precious Savior kind of way, but the tap that says 107 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 2: I'm really done trying in this area of my life. 108 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 2: I'm really done loving with my heart. It costs too 109 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 2: much and it makes me feel too exposed. Tap in 110 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 2: this relationship, tap in, this quest to overcome this habit, 111 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 2: tap in this really living fully for Christ tap tap. 112 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 2: But the thing about the enemy, if you don't know, 113 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 2: he doesn't rely. And I hate to compare Graham to 114 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 2: the devil, but just for a minute, just like Graham, 115 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 2: the devil does not respect the tap. So when you 116 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 2: give up on freedom to go back to slavery, you 117 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 2: get momentary relief, but greater bondage. In the end, you 118 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 2: think the devil I feel sorry for you because you tap. 119 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 2: You think the devil plays by the rules and leaves 120 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 2: you alone because you're tired. Oh I'm tired, I tap, 121 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 2: I give up. I think that's what a lot of 122 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 2: relapse is, not just in terms of substances, but when 123 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 2: we fall back into something, it's us tapping. 124 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: Going tap tap. 125 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 2: I'm done feeling this way, tap tap. I don't want 126 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 2: to feel lonely. I'd rather be high, tap tap. I 127 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 2: don't want to feel like this. I'd rather be with 128 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 2: the wrong influence system, be in isolation. Tap tap. I 129 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 2: get into the thing. 130 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: Hey, it's got a hold of me. 131 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 2: But the devil doesn't respect your tap. And that's why 132 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 2: giving in too self pity never produces progress. I'm preaching 133 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 2: like a motivational speaker today just to let you know that, 134 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 2: just because you know, this picture in the scripture is 135 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 2: a picture of a name that is ready to tap. Now, 136 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 2: Isaiah's preaching to the entire nation of Israel deer in 137 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 2: the reign of Hezekiah and the Assyrians are coming to 138 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 2: take them, and in the process of preaching to them 139 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 2: to encourage them, the prophetic words speaks directly to their pain. 140 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 2: He says, in that day the Lord will punish with 141 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:22,079 Speaker 2: his sword, his fierce, great and powerful sword. What kind 142 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 2: of sword? Fierce, great and powerful touch? Somebody say, I've 143 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 2: got a big God tell them the next part, and 144 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 2: he likes me. So before you mess with me, you 145 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 2: might want to know who my friend is. 146 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 147 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 2: You might want to know who my tag team partner 148 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:49,680 Speaker 2: is before you start beating me up. That's a whole 149 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 2: message in the text that I read you. There are 150 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 2: a few things, and we'll go through them like this 151 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,079 Speaker 2: in order. And I believe this is going to help 152 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 2: you in your life for those areas where you've been 153 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 2: trying to tap. I will admit that it isn't always 154 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 2: that you want to give up completely and tap. It's 155 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 2: just that a part of you in your life is 156 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:12,559 Speaker 2: exhausted of trying to extend yourself and expand yourself, so 157 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 2: you go into shrinking mode. Look at me confused if 158 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 2: you want. But everybody in here has these four things 159 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 2: in their life. I'd like you to write them down 160 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 2: if you have a pin or something like that. One 161 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 2: there is a fight. Secondly there is fruit. Third there 162 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 2: is a fence. And fourth there is a future. A fight, fruit, fence, 163 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,559 Speaker 2: and a future. In that day, the Lord will punish 164 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 2: with his sword, his fierce, great and powerful sword. If 165 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 2: God has his sword out, there's a fight going on, 166 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 2: just like the Assyrian were invading Israel. God is very 167 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 2: aware of what is messing with you. In this scripture. 168 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 2: It's interesting because Isaiah draws on a mythological figure called Leviathan. 169 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 2: Everyone say Leviathan. Leviathan was known as the chaos monster 170 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 2: in the ancient world, and so drawing on a secular 171 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 2: example of a chaos monster. The legend went that in creation, 172 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 2: a higher power defeated the sea monster in order to 173 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 2: create the world. Well, Isaiah doesn't believe this as a myth, 174 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 2: but he uses it as an example, to bring a message. 175 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 2: He says, in that day, the Lord will punish with 176 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 2: his sword Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent. 177 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:52,439 Speaker 2: He will slay the monster of the Sea. Now, scholars 178 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 2: suggest that perhaps these different mentions of Leviathan represent the 179 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 2: three major threats to the Israelites. One, there was Leviathan 180 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 2: the Assyrians, who were impending right now with an attack 181 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 2: that would be unsurvivable for God's nation. This is represented 182 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 2: by Leviathan the gliding serpent because it represents the Tigris River, 183 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 2: which was a smooth, fast river. Then you've got Leviathan 184 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 2: the coiling Serpent, which represents the rivers of Babylon, which 185 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:30,199 Speaker 2: was Israel's other enemy, Babylon the Euphrates River, which would 186 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 2: snake and slow as it curved and twisted. This is 187 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 2: the river of Babylon, representing the second enemy. But the 188 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 2: third enemy is the monster of the sea, and that's Egypt. 189 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 2: That's the nation that originally sheltered God's people during famine 190 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 2: and oppressed them after the famine was over. Because many times, 191 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 2: the things that you run to in one season of 192 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 2: your life, you will need to be released from in 193 00:12:57,520 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 2: another season. 194 00:12:58,320 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: Of your life. 195 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:03,560 Speaker 2: And God says, in that day, I've got my sword drawn. 196 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 2: I see what's being done to you. I am fighting 197 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 2: for you. I'm in it with you. I'm working through you. 198 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,559 Speaker 2: I've got your back. No weapon formed against you will prosper. 199 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 2: It will be produced, it will be forged in the flame, 200 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 2: but it will die in the air, because when the 201 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,719 Speaker 2: wind of God's spirit takes the arrow off the trajectory 202 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:30,319 Speaker 2: of your life, even what the enemy means for evil. 203 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 1: Will be used for good. 204 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 2: And so we use in preaching all of these different 205 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:40,560 Speaker 2: characters like Pharaoh, who was the Egyptian god, where Moses 206 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 2: goes to Pharaoh and says, let my people go. Or 207 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 2: you might think about Goliath when David was trying to 208 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 2: save the nation from Goliath, the Philistine warrior, and he 209 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 2: stands up in front of Goliath and he says, you 210 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 2: defy the armies of the Living God. Today I defy you, 211 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 2: and God will give you into mind hands. And we 212 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 2: use throughout scripture all of these metaphors because we know 213 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 2: that we have a Goliath, and we know that we 214 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 2: have a Pharaoh. And yet what I was studying y'all 215 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 2: about Leviathan, I realized that while it represented maybe a Syria, 216 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 2: Babylon and Egypt in its original context, it represents something 217 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 2: different to each and every one of us in the room. Leviathan, 218 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 2: for most of us, is not necessarily like Pharaoh, who 219 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 2: you can see, or Goliath, who is big. What I 220 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 2: noticed about the passage, and I've been waiting all week 221 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 2: to teach you this, is that Leviathan's strength is in 222 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 2: his ability to hide. 223 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 1: So while there are giants that we face that we. 224 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 2: Can see, and while there are economic conditions that cause 225 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 2: us to be afraid, and while there are events in 226 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 2: our life that cause us to be stressed out, Leviathan 227 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 2: is a little different. Leviathan is not an ancient monster 228 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 2: at all. In fact, Leviathan is waiting for you for 229 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 2: when you get back home. For you see, the strength 230 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 2: of this sea monster is in its ability to hide. 231 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 2: Leviathan hides behind nice smiles, suppressing buried rage until it 232 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 2: explodes at the wrong time. And you wonder where the 233 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 2: hell did that come from. It came from Hell, but 234 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 2: it hid. Did you know that hell knows where to 235 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 2: hide in your life? When we say all Hell broke loose, 236 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 2: it didn't just break loose. 237 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 1: It built up and then it broke loose. And as 238 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:04,240 Speaker 1: long as. 239 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 2: The enemy can keep you thinking you're fighting Pharaoh Goliath, 240 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 2: he can hide in the form of Leviathan and pull 241 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 2: you down every time you try to rise higher, and 242 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 2: leave you wondering where did that come from? It came 243 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 2: from hell. But the devil doesn't wear horns. The devil 244 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 2: doesn't own a red cape. The devil doesn't carry a pitchfork. 245 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 2: The devil just hides until the time that he knows 246 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 2: you're susceptible. But I feel like what Paul said is 247 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 2: relevant to us today and relevant to you and torrelevant 248 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 2: to me. We are not ignorant of the devil's schemes. 249 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 2: We you and I have the light of the Gospel 250 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ to shine on Leviathan. And I thought today, 251 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 2: since you're already fighting with it, since you're already dealing 252 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 2: with it, since you already have to put up with it, 253 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 2: since you're already wondering, how long. 254 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 1: Is it going to be like this? 255 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 2: Since you can't really tell any of your friends about it, 256 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 2: because you can't even describe it. Me and you ought 257 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 2: to call a viathin out in the light of God's 258 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 2: presence today and talk about your leviatin and I'll start 259 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 2: the party. So here's mine. 260 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 1: Okay. 261 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:35,119 Speaker 2: It comes in the form of insecurity. The insecurity manifests 262 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 2: itself in my irritability, and I'm usually irritated at something 263 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 2: that isn't even the cause of a problem, but it 264 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 2: usually locates a deeper insecurity than me. If I put 265 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 2: the mic down and walked off the stage, I did 266 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:55,399 Speaker 2: enough for your gas money today by telling you that 267 00:17:55,520 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 2: many of us our biggest enemy is our insecurity. Okay, 268 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:09,360 Speaker 2: here's the example I was. I was really really passionate 269 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 2: about music from a very young age. When I became 270 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 2: a pastor, I decided probably I wouldn't do music anymore. 271 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:18,159 Speaker 2: And then I ended up being the worship leader for 272 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 2: the first part of the church. But then when I 273 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 2: quit playing music, I felt like I was done writing songs. 274 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:28,480 Speaker 2: This has been about a decade ago, but some starts 275 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:30,440 Speaker 2: stirring at me, and I would start sending Chris a 276 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 2: little song ideas every once in a while, but I 277 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 2: just I would hum them into my phone, but I 278 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:36,719 Speaker 2: was too embarrassed to really sing them. So I walk 279 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:39,959 Speaker 2: around the house mumbling stuff into my phone. And one 280 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 2: day I'd try to get away from people. When I 281 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 2: did it, because it was kind of embarrassing, because I 282 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:45,440 Speaker 2: really felt like this probably very good. But I would 283 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 2: mumble in my phone. One day, Holly walks in when 284 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:50,719 Speaker 2: I mumbling in the phone, and she goes, what are 285 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 2: you doing? And she laughs? And when she laughed, I 286 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 2: lashed out. I said, I'm trying to write a song. 287 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 2: I guess I'm not allowed to write a song in 288 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 2: my own house. I'll never write another song in front 289 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 2: of you again. I'm sorry, we're the. 290 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:23,840 Speaker 1: All she did. All she said was what are you doing? 291 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:27,199 Speaker 2: And if I had really been singing, she wouldn't have 292 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,640 Speaker 2: had to ask, because she would. 293 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:33,440 Speaker 1: Have seen your singing. But I was too scared to really. 294 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:38,119 Speaker 2: Sing because there was something I had stuffed and suppressed 295 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:42,160 Speaker 2: that I dreamed of doing. Now, when she walks by 296 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 2: and asks me about the thing that I'm trying to stuff, 297 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 2: I lash out because I think that her laughter is 298 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:59,199 Speaker 2: aimed against me. Now I realized about myself that in 299 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 2: this specificace instance, I would rather make Holly my foe 300 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:12,120 Speaker 2: than to deal with my fear. I'm trying to break 301 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 2: this Leviathan thing down, because you know, I preach about Leviathan. 302 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 1: You picture a fly and dragon. Uh. 303 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 2: Leviathan is your temper tantrums. Leviathan is your sharp cutting words. 304 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:28,439 Speaker 2: Leviathan is that pushing away that you do of people 305 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 2: the moment that they try to love you for real. 306 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 2: Leviathan is that thing that grabs you and it's pulling 307 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 2: you down, but it kind of comforts you because it 308 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 2: feels like warmth. 309 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:43,119 Speaker 1: Leviathan. I'm not talking about the devil. 310 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 2: I'm talking about the way that Leviathan manifests in your 311 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:52,439 Speaker 2: life and in my life. I had to admit that 312 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,640 Speaker 2: my wife, who God sent to be my greatest partner, 313 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 2: was being treated like my opponent because of my own immaturity. 314 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 2: And the Lord spoke something to me. He said, you 315 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 2: would rather invent an enemy than deal with your insecurity. 316 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:20,919 Speaker 2: You would rather fight against the one who's trying to 317 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,919 Speaker 2: fight for you than to fight against the insecurity that 318 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,200 Speaker 2: keeps you from seeing things as they really are. 319 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:33,159 Speaker 1: I'm talking about my Leviathan. It's a fight. It is 320 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:34,199 Speaker 1: a fight for me. 321 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 2: It's not happening on an external level. I can't point 322 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:41,440 Speaker 2: to Vitour, I can't point to Graham, I can't point 323 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 2: to Holly. I can't point to haters. I can't point 324 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 2: to people. I can't point to critics. I could try, 325 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 2: I did try, But all of my life is like 326 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 2: I've been fighting the same guy, and I'm starting to wonder, 327 00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 2: is it possible that it's not another guy I'm fighting 328 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 2: it all? Is it possible that all of your life 329 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,719 Speaker 2: you have been fighting with something that you didn't know 330 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 2: how to name. And I love Isaiah because he says, 331 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 2: let's give this thing a name. So I know you're 332 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 2: fighting today, and I know it's a struggle today, and 333 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:23,119 Speaker 2: I know you're frustrated today. So let's take a moment 334 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:28,439 Speaker 2: and let's name what you're fighting. I want you to 335 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 2: name what you're fighting, what you're really wrestling with, not 336 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 2: what you want to blame it on, not what you 337 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:39,159 Speaker 2: explain it by, not by what other people call it 338 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:44,160 Speaker 2: or justify it as. But what are you really fighting? 339 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 2: When you numb with alcohol? What are you really fighting 340 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 2: when you numb with gossip? 341 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,200 Speaker 1: What are you really fighting? Y'all? 342 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 2: If I keep preciating like this, we'll have plenty of 343 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 2: empty seats next week. So come on back. What are 344 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 2: you really fighting? Because I came to fight your Leviathan, 345 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 2: So you don't get high in church and go back 346 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 2: home to hell and get dragged down into the same 347 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 2: disease that ain't through your family generations before you. What 348 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 2: are you really fighting inside? It's a fight. I know 349 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,880 Speaker 2: you got faith, but I know you're fighting too. 350 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 1: It's a fight. 351 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,920 Speaker 2: Tell your neighbor I'm in a fight. 352 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 1: Tell him. 353 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,880 Speaker 2: I'm sorry I don't look rested, but I'm in a fight. 354 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,439 Speaker 2: I'm sorry I didn't sound too good singing earlier, but 355 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 2: I'm in a fight. 356 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,119 Speaker 1: I've been losing my voice. 357 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,119 Speaker 2: I'm in a fight. I'm sorry, I'm not perfect, but 358 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:48,399 Speaker 2: I'm in a fight. I'm sorry I don't have as 359 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,199 Speaker 2: much patience as I wish I had, but I'm in 360 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 2: a fight. I've been fighting all my life. Some of 361 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,679 Speaker 2: the stuff I've been fighting, I don't even know what 362 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 2: to call it, and I hadn't done therapy, and I'm 363 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:58,960 Speaker 2: afraid to take me thirty years to get to the 364 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 2: bottom of it. I'm in a fight. That's what Leviathan 365 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 2: will do to you. Leviathan will coil, Leviathan will glide, 366 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,640 Speaker 2: Leviathan will get by so quiet you won't even see 367 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,920 Speaker 2: that it's there, and then you'll jump out the boat 368 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 2: over something that was swimming underneath the waters. The Bible says, 369 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 2: we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against spiritual 370 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 2: wickedness in heavenly places. And I want you to know 371 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 2: that you're in a fight, but it's not your fight. 372 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,919 Speaker 2: I know, sound like I didn't study enough. Like you 373 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:37,439 Speaker 2: sound confused. You said I'm in a fight, but it's 374 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 2: not my fight. 375 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 1: Right. 376 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 2: The Bible says, in that day, the Lord will punish 377 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 2: with his sword, his fierce, great and powerful sword, Leviathan 378 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 2: the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent. He will slay 379 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 2: the monster of the sea. So what I notice reading 380 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:06,479 Speaker 2: that passage? The enemy is after me, but God doesn't 381 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 2: tell me to defeat the enemy. I'll read it again 382 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:15,160 Speaker 2: until at least one person shouts about that. In that day, 383 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:22,919 Speaker 2: God says, I will punish with my sword, my fears great, 384 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:27,639 Speaker 2: powerful sword. Notice what the Lord didn't say in that day? 385 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 2: I want you to fight a little harder, and do 386 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 2: a little more, and try a little harder. God says, 387 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 2: I see what's going on in your life. I know 388 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 2: what's dragging you down in your spirit. I hear the 389 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 2: cries of your depression, I see the trembling hands that 390 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:49,600 Speaker 2: your anxiety are causing. I see the trauma that you 391 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 2: bury deep enough to get it past people. But man 392 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:57,159 Speaker 2: looks on the outward appearance, and God looks on the heart. 393 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:01,679 Speaker 2: And God sees past the struggle, and God sees the source, 394 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 2: and God looks past your weakness, and God gives more strength. 395 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 2: What shall we say than in response to these things? 396 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 2: If God is for us, who can be against us? 397 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 2: Shall not He. 398 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:20,159 Speaker 3: Who delivered his son freely give us all these things? 399 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 4: I came to announce it's his fight. Five five three. 400 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:37,880 Speaker 4: People say, it's his fight. Okay, you don't get it yet, 401 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 4: let me help you get it. 402 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 2: God is not like God is not like Graham in 403 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 2: the story I told, and the devil is not vitor. 404 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,879 Speaker 2: God is not at the mercy of anything or anyone 405 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 2: or anywhere to do what you're asking him to do 406 00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 2: in your life. His sword is fierce, his sword is great. 407 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 2: His sword is powerful. His sword is fierce, his sword 408 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 2: is great, his sword is powerful. I know three things. 409 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:15,399 Speaker 2: His sword is fierce, his sword is great, his sword 410 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 2: is powerful. And guess what that means for me? It 411 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 2: means that I don't have to focus on what I'm 412 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,400 Speaker 2: fighting with. I can focus on the one who is 413 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 2: fighting with me in the battle anytime I choose. So, 414 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 2: if I could break it down for you, I'd say, 415 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,360 Speaker 2: there is a fight, and there is a sword, but 416 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 2: the sword is in God's hand, not yours. This is 417 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 2: why all of our efforts to try to fight in 418 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 2: our flesh fail eventually, because. 419 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:53,879 Speaker 1: You're not bigger than it. 420 00:27:55,600 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 2: You're like Graham trying to arm bar Vitour And wonder 421 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 2: and why does this keep happening to me? It's because 422 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:09,160 Speaker 2: you haven't really understood your responsibility in this relationship with God. 423 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:15,919 Speaker 2: He said, the fight is mine, the sword is his. 424 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:22,479 Speaker 2: But watch this verse two in that day sing about 425 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 2: a fruitful vineyard. The sword is his, the song is mine. 426 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 2: And I will help you with this in any way 427 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 2: that I can, because I believe that your song is 428 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 2: God's sword. I believe that our worship of Jesus Christ 429 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 2: is a powerful weapon against whatever has wrapped itself around 430 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 2: your life. And when I say worship, I am not 431 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 2: confined to the first twenty minutes of church. When I 432 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 2: think about worship, worship for me is a way of 433 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 2: looking at my life. When I praise His name, something 434 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 2: miraculous happens. My problems get smaller. I can't explain it. 435 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 2: But when I praise his name, stuff starts shrinking and 436 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 2: strength starts growing. So my question is have you been 437 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 2: more focused lately on your fight or your fruit? I 438 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 2: want you to focus more on your fruit and less 439 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,880 Speaker 2: on your fight. I want you to focus more on 440 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,440 Speaker 2: where God is growing you and less on how the 441 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 2: enemy is grabbing you. 442 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 1: You know that's happening right now. 443 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,680 Speaker 2: The enemy is grabbing for your soul, grabbing for your peace, 444 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 2: grabbing for your family, grabbing for your right mind, grabbing 445 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 2: for your destiny, grapping for your advance, grabbing for your maturity, 446 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 2: grabbing for your discipleship, grabbing for your prayer life, grabbing 447 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 2: for your worship. But while he's grabbing, watch, God is 448 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:23,480 Speaker 2: growing very practically. Let's let's let's. 449 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 1: Run it back real quick and walk it out. 450 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 2: There's a fight and there's fruit, And my question is 451 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 2: which one are you focused on more? Because the one 452 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,920 Speaker 2: that you look at more and the one that you 453 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 2: speak about more will have the leverage in your life. 454 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,600 Speaker 2: Understand this, God is telling them to sing about a 455 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:52,000 Speaker 2: vineyard that isn't even there yet. Sometimes you sing over 456 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 2: the fruit. Sometimes you sing over the seed. That's when 457 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 2: God has given you the potential for something. All this 458 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,080 Speaker 2: is so prophetic, I'm gonna get an email about it 459 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 2: from somebody. 460 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 1: It's gonna be like Pastor Stephen. 461 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 2: I was that guy onto eighth row in the second seat, 462 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:10,440 Speaker 2: and you remember me, and no I don't. 463 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:11,640 Speaker 1: But I'm glad God's given. 464 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 2: It to you, because God will cause you sometime to 465 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 2: sing over. 466 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 1: A seed. 467 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 2: Remember the nation of Israel was facing captivity, and yet 468 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 2: in the chaos of captivity. 469 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 1: Comes forth the beauty of creation. 470 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 2: I see it happen in your life, as I appreciate 471 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 2: it to you that out of the chaos Leviathan, the 472 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 2: chaos monster, out of the chaos of this season, out 473 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,640 Speaker 2: of the chaos of the mistake that you made, out 474 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:49,840 Speaker 2: of the chaos of what was passed down to you 475 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 2: that you've been dealing with, out of the chaos of 476 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 2: a failed business, out of the chaos of a failed relationship, 477 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 2: out of the chaos of the distraction that you've been 478 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 2: dealing with, comes a new creation. And the Lord says, 479 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 2: I want you to start singing. One thing I realized 480 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 2: when we're worshiping together is that there are things that 481 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:20,520 Speaker 2: I'm dealing with back home that God is doing because 482 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 2: of what's happening in here. When I look around and 483 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,400 Speaker 2: I see you at church, I know that your decision 484 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 2: to be here doing this is waging war against whatever 485 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 2: is waiting for you when you leave this place. 486 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:41,200 Speaker 1: You believe that. 487 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,680 Speaker 2: One time somebody wanted healing from Jesus, and Jesus said, 488 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 2: go they're already healed, And at the exact time he 489 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 2: spoke the word, the child was healed. 490 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:50,200 Speaker 1: Back home. 491 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:55,760 Speaker 2: You want God to fight your battles. Start focusing more 492 00:32:55,840 --> 00:33:00,760 Speaker 2: on your fruit. Then you focus on the fight when 493 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,200 Speaker 2: you call people. It's all right to vent, but don't 494 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 2: vent so much that you ruin your vineyard. The Bible 495 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 2: says in Song of Solomon, chapter two, verse fifteen, you 496 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:19,600 Speaker 2: gotta catch the little foxes that spoil the vine Isn't 497 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:23,440 Speaker 2: it the little foxes? Isn't it the little thoughts that 498 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:25,840 Speaker 2: you allow to repeat in your head? Isn't it the 499 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:31,080 Speaker 2: little things that build up till you go with them? 500 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 2: Because Leviathan is what, He's a gliding serpent. He don't 501 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 2: make a lot of noise. He's a coiling serpent. He 502 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,800 Speaker 2: doesn't say, hey, I'm the devil want to ruin your life. 503 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,600 Speaker 1: Come along with me. We'll get it done together. It'll 504 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. 505 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,120 Speaker 2: You'll end up in rehab, you'll have deep debt. 506 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:49,520 Speaker 1: You'll be crippled in debt. 507 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 2: You'll never be able to afford to send your kids 508 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 2: to college. 509 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 1: Come on over here. 510 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:59,040 Speaker 2: It's a gliding serpent. He's a coiling serpent. He is 511 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:06,080 Speaker 2: a silent strategist. I'm real glad that my dad talked 512 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:10,400 Speaker 2: to me about our family's genetic predisposition to alcoholism when 513 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:14,000 Speaker 2: I was young. I think it's a brilliant thing that 514 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 2: he did for me now, because he took me aside 515 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,600 Speaker 2: and talked to me. He kind of got in my 516 00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,840 Speaker 2: head and he convinced me, if you ever start drinking, 517 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:27,440 Speaker 2: you will love it. He's like, trust me, I do it. 518 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,480 Speaker 2: I'm being honest with you, son, I'm telling you this 519 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,360 Speaker 2: will be hard for you to beat. He's like, what 520 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,319 Speaker 2: I think would be cool is if you just ever 521 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:42,280 Speaker 2: do it. I'm like, dang man, that's all my friends, 522 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 2: you know. But he started this when I was like five, 523 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,280 Speaker 2: and then about every year because my friends weren't drinking 524 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,840 Speaker 2: when I was five and then every year he would 525 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,600 Speaker 2: like renew the conversation. You know, if you ever start 526 00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,120 Speaker 2: doing it, you're gonna be homeless and probably end up 527 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,279 Speaker 2: on heroin if you start dren an alcohol. He had 528 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 2: me so scared because he had seen what it did, 529 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,680 Speaker 2: because it was all in his family. Now, yes, this 530 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,759 Speaker 2: is an example, but we could substitute a lot of 531 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:09,040 Speaker 2: things here. 532 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:10,440 Speaker 1: But I'm going to tell you about my journey with this. 533 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:15,000 Speaker 2: For years of my life, when I was an adult, 534 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,759 Speaker 2: I would explain to people. Sometimes they'd go, want a glass? 535 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,160 Speaker 2: Why are you on drink? You want this? I'd be like, no, 536 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,040 Speaker 2: I don't drink. I don't drink, and I'm telling y'all. 537 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:23,839 Speaker 2: They would look at me like I said, I don't 538 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:32,920 Speaker 2: brush my teeth, I don't shower, I don't pray. They 539 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:34,760 Speaker 2: look at me so crazy, like I was an alien 540 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:36,560 Speaker 2: and me and Holly we would be around a lot 541 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,120 Speaker 2: of people and no judgment on any of it. I 542 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,239 Speaker 2: don't think it's sin to drink, but it was just 543 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:45,600 Speaker 2: my dad had told me. Just so you know, this 544 00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,720 Speaker 2: Leviathan has ruined a lot of my life. He didn't 545 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:50,560 Speaker 2: call it Leviathan, but that's what he was telling me 546 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:54,520 Speaker 2: about He didn't give me Isaiah twenty seven to one. 547 00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:58,400 Speaker 2: He just said, if you ever start drinking, it's a 548 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:02,840 Speaker 2: bad boy. So we're twenty five years old, now, thirty 549 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,520 Speaker 2: years old, now sitting around Sometimes we'd be sitting around 550 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:09,560 Speaker 2: with preachers. Hey, you want something to drink? No, we 551 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:13,719 Speaker 2: didn't not school you go ahead, you don't drink. Why 552 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:17,680 Speaker 2: don't you drink? Would you like a high sea? Would 553 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:22,080 Speaker 2: you like a caprice sun? I'm telling you we have 554 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,680 Speaker 2: been mocked over this more. And we've been mocked over 555 00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:26,759 Speaker 2: a lot of stuff. This one ranks up there with 556 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,719 Speaker 2: all of them. And I would never say and you 557 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,120 Speaker 2: shouldn't and I don't think that. I don't even believe that. 558 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,040 Speaker 2: But what I would say is, this is something in 559 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:39,320 Speaker 2: my life that I feel very predisposed. In fact, most 560 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,440 Speaker 2: of my disciplines are a result of my weakness, not 561 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:49,200 Speaker 2: my strength. If you saw how many diet cokes I 562 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:52,440 Speaker 2: drink a day, you would be glad. I don't drink 563 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:56,840 Speaker 2: alcohol because it could get ugly. And don't email me 564 00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,719 Speaker 2: about cancer and diet cokes. Everybody needs something in their 565 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,040 Speaker 2: life look forward to. Do not take my asp tame away. 566 00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:06,480 Speaker 2: I fight you like that, get you an arm bar 567 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:12,560 Speaker 2: and watch me, watch me, watch me, I said, I said, 568 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:13,480 Speaker 2: we don't drink. We don't. 569 00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:15,239 Speaker 1: And I realized one day. 570 00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:19,919 Speaker 2: I realized that if I had lost my family to alcoholism, 571 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:25,000 Speaker 2: and I told him, hey, I don't drink. I'm in recovery. 572 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,160 Speaker 2: I lost my family, they'd go, that's great. 573 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,759 Speaker 1: Good for you. You should write a book about that. 574 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,320 Speaker 2: So I spoke to our youth at youth X in 575 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:43,000 Speaker 2: Orlando this summer, and I told him about Leviathan. 576 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,319 Speaker 1: And I said, everybody in here has a Leviathan. 577 00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:51,239 Speaker 2: Your parents have one, your preacher has one. Some of 578 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,360 Speaker 2: them we know the name, and some of them we don't. 579 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,359 Speaker 2: But one thing I do know right now is that 580 00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:04,440 Speaker 2: you have permission from God to become very intentional about 581 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:09,200 Speaker 2: living your life in a way that protects you from 582 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:16,160 Speaker 2: whatever threatens your destiny. So I told the youth, I'm 583 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:21,239 Speaker 2: not in recovery. I'm in precovery. I made that up. 584 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:21,799 Speaker 1: You like it. 585 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:26,439 Speaker 2: I'm gonna trademark that precovery. I know I am such 586 00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:30,200 Speaker 2: a mess. I know I am such a goofball. I 587 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,080 Speaker 2: know I am such a dork. There are certain things 588 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,879 Speaker 2: I can't handle or play with. So why not make 589 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,480 Speaker 2: a decision today that I'm not gonna play with something 590 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,319 Speaker 2: that I'm gonna have to pray for. 591 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,000 Speaker 1: God to take away ten years from now. 592 00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:55,640 Speaker 3: Who the sun set's free is free of thee Now. 593 00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:57,680 Speaker 2: I got other stuff. I got road range, but I 594 00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:07,040 Speaker 2: can't stop driving. I got to eat food issues, but. 595 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:10,160 Speaker 1: I can't go on them ten thousand day fast. 596 00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:15,879 Speaker 2: What I'm trying to get you to say is this 597 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:22,200 Speaker 2: fruit in my life is valuable. And where there is fruit, 598 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:32,120 Speaker 2: there needs to be a fence. And I got good 599 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,520 Speaker 2: news for you. You know how you got a fence 600 00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:39,360 Speaker 2: for your dog, but it's buried under the ground, and 601 00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:43,000 Speaker 2: so the dog knows us there, but nobody else necessarily 602 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:43,640 Speaker 2: knows this there. 603 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,080 Speaker 1: And it's not a big fence because it. 604 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,319 Speaker 2: Would be ugly, and wouldn't your hoa would kick you 605 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:49,840 Speaker 2: out and find you and all of that. So you 606 00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:51,640 Speaker 2: can't put a fence. So you have to get one 607 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,480 Speaker 2: of those fences that goes underground. This is what the 608 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:58,720 Speaker 2: Lord says. He says, I'm your underground fence. Thank you Jesus. 609 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:04,640 Speaker 2: I'll received this revelation, he said. I the Lord watch 610 00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:09,960 Speaker 2: over it. I water it continually and watch what God 611 00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:13,520 Speaker 2: does I know you've been fighting. I know it feels 612 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,000 Speaker 2: stronger than you. I know you don't see how to 613 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,719 Speaker 2: defeat it. I know it runs in your family. I 614 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:20,960 Speaker 2: know you've been dealing with it a long time. I 615 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,960 Speaker 2: know you want to tap out. I know it seems pointless. 616 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,919 Speaker 2: I know it seems fruitless. Ah, But in that day 617 00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:30,400 Speaker 2: sing about a fruitful vineyard, and I announce over. 618 00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:31,560 Speaker 1: Your life, child of God. 619 00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:40,080 Speaker 2: You are God's garden, and God guards his guarden. And 620 00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,640 Speaker 2: God will not just allow anything to come into your life. 621 00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:46,759 Speaker 2: And God will not allow just anything to stay in 622 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,960 Speaker 2: your life. And God will not just allow the enemy 623 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:53,600 Speaker 2: to run ransack in your life anytime he wants to, 624 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,880 Speaker 2: not forever, For the Lord says in that day, I 625 00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,759 Speaker 2: the Lord will water it, and I the Lord will 626 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,600 Speaker 2: watch over it, and I guard it day and night, 627 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:07,440 Speaker 2: so that no one. 628 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:08,520 Speaker 1: May harm it. 629 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,480 Speaker 2: Don't you see that you have a promise in the 630 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:15,160 Speaker 2: scripture that you have a fight, But you also have 631 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:19,040 Speaker 2: a fence. And you are not in this fight by yourself. 632 00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:21,960 Speaker 1: But there is a fence around your life. 633 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,680 Speaker 2: And no, you can't always see the proof of it, 634 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,000 Speaker 2: but it is an underground fence. 635 00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:27,680 Speaker 1: See. 636 00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:31,080 Speaker 2: I believe all your life God has had you fenced in. 637 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,160 Speaker 2: There were times where you tried to go farther, you 638 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,200 Speaker 2: couldn't go farther because you got a fence. There were 639 00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:39,880 Speaker 2: times where you tried to run away, but you couldn't 640 00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:41,080 Speaker 2: run away because you. 641 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:41,720 Speaker 1: Had a fence. 642 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,120 Speaker 2: And I need you to know today that you walked 643 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:47,680 Speaker 2: in here with an invisible fence around you. And it 644 00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:49,920 Speaker 2: doesn't mean that nothing bad is ever going to happen 645 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,799 Speaker 2: to you, but it means that whatever comes against you 646 00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,799 Speaker 2: has to go through God. And by the time he 647 00:41:55,840 --> 00:42:00,279 Speaker 2: gets stun using this in your life, I declare that 648 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,640 Speaker 2: Goliath's sword will cut off his own head. 649 00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:04,239 Speaker 1: Baby. 650 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:08,440 Speaker 2: Plus, I got a fence. Somebody throw your hands up 651 00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:13,080 Speaker 2: saying I got a fence. I'm himmed in, I'm locked down, 652 00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:17,719 Speaker 2: I'm spoken for, I'm so loud, I'm ripped up, I'm 653 00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,320 Speaker 2: tied up. I'm tangled up by. 654 00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:21,280 Speaker 1: The word of God. 655 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,400 Speaker 2: I got a fence, A fence to keep me in 656 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:29,400 Speaker 2: his love, a fence to keep me in his grace. 657 00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,560 Speaker 2: Nothing can separate me from the love of God that 658 00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:37,680 Speaker 2: is in Christ. Jesus shall death, shall life, shall angels, 659 00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:42,239 Speaker 2: shall demons, shall principalities, Shall any power be able to 660 00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,240 Speaker 2: separate us from the love of God. No, because God 661 00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,920 Speaker 2: will not allow you to be separated from what you 662 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,320 Speaker 2: are spoken for, and He has put his word inside 663 00:42:52,360 --> 00:43:00,799 Speaker 2: of you. There's a fence around you, fence around you. 664 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:05,280 Speaker 2: There's a fence around you. You have got to start 665 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:09,160 Speaker 2: recognizing in your life the tremendous value of the fruit 666 00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:15,239 Speaker 2: that you have been given. After all, y'all, that's what 667 00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:20,600 Speaker 2: the fight is about. It's about the fruit, and not 668 00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:24,319 Speaker 2: just the fruit that you already have, the fruit that's 669 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:32,320 Speaker 2: coming forth in your future. Oh it's coming, it's coming. 670 00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:34,960 Speaker 1: Is my mic not on? I feel like they don't 671 00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:35,239 Speaker 1: hear this. 672 00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:37,560 Speaker 2: It's coming. They tell your neighbor. I don't think my 673 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,120 Speaker 2: mic is working properly. Come, it's coming. 674 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:41,400 Speaker 1: It's coming. It's coming. 675 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:42,560 Speaker 2: It's coming. 676 00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:43,600 Speaker 1: It's coming. 677 00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:44,600 Speaker 2: It's coming. 678 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:45,440 Speaker 1: It's coming. 679 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:46,120 Speaker 2: It's coming. 680 00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:46,760 Speaker 1: It's coming. 681 00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:47,440 Speaker 2: It's coming. 682 00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:49,600 Speaker 1: That's why I'm getting this fence filed. It's coming. 683 00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,320 Speaker 2: That's why I'm getting TikTok off my phone. It's coming. 684 00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,719 Speaker 1: That's why I'm getting out of this. It's coming. That's 685 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:55,240 Speaker 1: why I'm. 686 00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,960 Speaker 2: Protecting and guarding my heart for from it flow the 687 00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:09,040 Speaker 2: issues of life is coming. It's common. It's common. When 688 00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,440 Speaker 2: the fight is going down. That means the fruit is 689 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:17,200 Speaker 2: coming forth. I speak not by cliche, but by the 690 00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:21,320 Speaker 2: spirit of God. Did he not say in the text 691 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:28,040 Speaker 2: in Days to Come? Jacob will take root? You know? 692 00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,319 Speaker 2: I think a lot of times we assume that if 693 00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:37,640 Speaker 2: it's not seen, it's not happening. But my Bible says 694 00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:43,440 Speaker 2: that just like the enemy hides, so does God. Sometimes 695 00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:53,520 Speaker 2: it isn't always a feeling. It isn't always provable or verifiable. Yeah, 696 00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:57,560 Speaker 2: sometimes it's roots. And you know what you can't do 697 00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:05,000 Speaker 2: with roots, You can't rush them. The more I thought 698 00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:11,760 Speaker 2: about it, I realized that just like my roots are wrestling, 699 00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:19,120 Speaker 2: so are yours. I mean, maybe I'm taking it a 700 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:23,680 Speaker 2: little too far sometimes I do, But I think it's 701 00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:29,920 Speaker 2: significant that the Lord is fighting Leviathan, and he mentions Jacob, 702 00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:32,040 Speaker 2: who was the father of the whole nation of Israel. 703 00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:39,840 Speaker 2: And while God is wrestling Leviathan, Jacob is wrestling with himself. 704 00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:45,960 Speaker 2: You must understand and bring into visibility that Jacob was 705 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:52,160 Speaker 2: wrestling inside of his mother's womb in the dark. That 706 00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:54,719 Speaker 2: one night Jacob was going to meet his brother Esau, 707 00:45:54,760 --> 00:46:01,200 Speaker 2: and he wrestled with an angel all night long in 708 00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:04,799 Speaker 2: the dark and now here. He is again mentioned in 709 00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:10,000 Speaker 2: scripture verse six in Days to Come, Jacob will take root. 710 00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:16,480 Speaker 2: One thing I know about roots is that they don't 711 00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:29,839 Speaker 2: do anything significant until they are unseen. Because I keep 712 00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,640 Speaker 2: hearing you say I can't feel God right now. I 713 00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:34,319 Speaker 2: keep hearing you say, I don't know where God is. 714 00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:35,680 Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I 715 00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:37,600 Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know what to do. I keep 716 00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:41,320 Speaker 2: hearing you pretend like he went away, but he didn't 717 00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:49,640 Speaker 2: go away. You're taking root. You're taking root, and your 718 00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:54,360 Speaker 2: roots are wrestling. See in mm A, they have something 719 00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:58,560 Speaker 2: called tap out, But in agriculture there's something called a 720 00:46:58,680 --> 00:46:59,440 Speaker 2: tap root. 721 00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:02,080 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, okay. 722 00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:06,400 Speaker 2: What does an oak tree and a walnut tree, and 723 00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:10,280 Speaker 2: a carrot and a beat and you have in common? 724 00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:16,120 Speaker 1: They all have a tap root, not just any root. 725 00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,839 Speaker 2: The taproot is the first root that comes from the sea. 726 00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:25,319 Speaker 2: It goes directly down, and it goes down deep. It 727 00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:28,840 Speaker 2: goes down deep enough that it can reach water that 728 00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:31,040 Speaker 2: a surface root cannot reach. 729 00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:32,840 Speaker 1: It goes down. 730 00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:36,400 Speaker 2: Deep enough that should this plant encounter a drought at 731 00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,520 Speaker 2: any point in the future, it will hold the water 732 00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,880 Speaker 2: that it has because it went to the depth that 733 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:47,040 Speaker 2: it needed to go to receive the nutrient and even 734 00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:49,479 Speaker 2: store it in its own root. 735 00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,160 Speaker 1: What does that have to do with you. 736 00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:55,680 Speaker 2: That's fine for a carrot, that's fine for a beat, 737 00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:57,480 Speaker 2: that's fine for a tree. 738 00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:00,080 Speaker 1: What does that have to do with me? You you 739 00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:03,719 Speaker 1: have a tap root named Jesus. Now, I'm not. 740 00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:07,960 Speaker 5: Preaching about Jacob. I'm not preaching about monsters. I'm not 741 00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:12,880 Speaker 5: preaching about Mma. I'm talking about Jesus. I'm talking about 742 00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:17,040 Speaker 5: my tap root. I'm talking about my inner witness. I'm 743 00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:20,080 Speaker 5: talking about Greater is he that is. 744 00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:29,840 Speaker 2: In me than he that is in the world. And 745 00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,920 Speaker 2: any time you decide to you can tap into it, 746 00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,719 Speaker 2: or you can tap out. But if you tap out, 747 00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:41,240 Speaker 2: and know this, the enemy's not going to leave you alone. 748 00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:43,040 Speaker 2: He doesn't respect that tap. 749 00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:50,120 Speaker 1: But if you tap in, if you get bold enough today. 750 00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:55,239 Speaker 2: To say, my savior bled and died for me, how 751 00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:58,239 Speaker 2: shall I live any longer in sin? If you get 752 00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,680 Speaker 2: bold enough to say, today, I know a name that 753 00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:05,600 Speaker 2: is greater than Leviathan. I know a name that is 754 00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:09,160 Speaker 2: greater than disease. I know a name that is greater 755 00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:15,279 Speaker 2: than depression. His name is Jesus, come on. 756 00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:16,279 Speaker 4: I'm looking for a. 757 00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:23,879 Speaker 2: Rooted church, a stable praise, a faithful, grateful rooting in him. 758 00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:29,400 Speaker 4: Frenches out, french is out, hands. 759 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:38,759 Speaker 2: Lifted, fart open, grateful praise. So you start singing about 760 00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:47,840 Speaker 2: a fruitful vineyard. Because while you're singing, he's slaying. While 761 00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:52,840 Speaker 2: you're singing, while you're reaching, he's rooting. 762 00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:57,480 Speaker 1: He's rooting you. He's rooting you. He's for you, not 763 00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:01,880 Speaker 1: against you. He's with you, he hasn't forsaken. 764 00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:07,399 Speaker 2: You, and he's got you going down. So you can 765 00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:13,520 Speaker 2: drink and never run dry in days to come. 766 00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:25,560 Speaker 1: It's a question, dude, tap out or tap in? 767 00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:29,759 Speaker 2: Because Paul said, finally, my brothers, be strong in the 768 00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:34,160 Speaker 2: Lord and his mighty power. I want you to tap 769 00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:38,160 Speaker 2: into gratitude right now. I want you to sing about 770 00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:41,439 Speaker 2: fruit right now. I want you to sing about fruit, 771 00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:43,399 Speaker 2: even if it looks like a little bitty c put 772 00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:44,200 Speaker 2: it in the ground. 773 00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:48,920 Speaker 1: And watch it grow. I want you to start noticing. 774 00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:49,480 Speaker 1: Listen to me. 775 00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:55,080 Speaker 2: I want you to start noticing where you're growing. All 776 00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:57,319 Speaker 2: I ever see you doing is putting yourself on a 777 00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:01,360 Speaker 2: guilt trip about where you're struggling. I want you to 778 00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:05,800 Speaker 2: start noticing where you're growing. I had to tell myself 779 00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,080 Speaker 2: one time. At least it only took me three days 780 00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:10,640 Speaker 2: to bounce back. This time, it used to take me 781 00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:15,960 Speaker 2: three weeks. I came back from something. I was so 782 00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:18,759 Speaker 2: down about it, and I was beating myself up. See 783 00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:20,960 Speaker 2: you're still just a little baby. You preach this stuff, 784 00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,520 Speaker 2: you don't live it. But then I thought, wait a minute, 785 00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:27,120 Speaker 2: I got a fruitful vineyard, I got a fence. 786 00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:32,080 Speaker 1: It's coming up in my life. It's taking root right now. 787 00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:34,600 Speaker 2: And that's why I think it'd be so sad for 788 00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:36,640 Speaker 2: you to click off my message and think it wasn't 789 00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:38,400 Speaker 2: for you because you don't feel like you're growing or 790 00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:43,440 Speaker 2: it's happening in your life. Just like that enemy hides, 791 00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:50,480 Speaker 2: so does God Sometimes. What if you saw the struggle 792 00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:55,720 Speaker 2: as soil? What if you thought it was really producing patience. 793 00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:11,480 Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you a secret. Praise is protection. The 794 00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:15,480 Speaker 2: bigger you get your view of God, the bigger you 795 00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:18,800 Speaker 2: get your understanding of his sword, which is his word. 796 00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:23,080 Speaker 1: It's his word. The sword of the Spirit is the 797 00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:23,760 Speaker 1: word of God. 798 00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,040 Speaker 2: The more you begin to worship and put his word 799 00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:31,040 Speaker 2: to work in your life. I believe not only are 800 00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:36,120 Speaker 2: you going to see the fruit, But you are going 801 00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:39,239 Speaker 2: to see a future that you wouldn't even believe if 802 00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:41,960 Speaker 2: I told you right now. I never know if God 803 00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:43,799 Speaker 2: gave me this message for a lot of people or 804 00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:46,120 Speaker 2: for a few. That's not my job to know that. 805 00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:50,799 Speaker 2: I'm just putting the seed in your heart. I talked 806 00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,680 Speaker 2: about a lot of stuff today. I talked about addiction. 807 00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:58,439 Speaker 2: I talked about depression. I talked about struggle. I talked 808 00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:02,920 Speaker 2: about sovereignty. I talked about biblical characters. I talked about 809 00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:06,160 Speaker 2: your character. But one thing I want you to hear 810 00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:11,240 Speaker 2: at the heart of this message, your tap root is Jesus. 811 00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:21,640 Speaker 2: Hold on, I'm a prove it to you. Didn't he 812 00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:27,919 Speaker 2: go down in the ground. Didn't he go down deep 813 00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:32,880 Speaker 2: enough that you would never have to die again? Didn't 814 00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:34,799 Speaker 2: he pay a great enough price that there is no 815 00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:40,759 Speaker 2: condemnation for us. Let's fill the world with fruit. Let's 816 00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:44,680 Speaker 2: fill the world with fruit. Let's fill the world with fruit. 817 00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:51,760 Speaker 2: Let's tap in to find out what's in you. Tired 818 00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:55,200 Speaker 2: of you tapping out? It doesn't even work anyway. It 819 00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:56,000 Speaker 2: doesn't even work. 820 00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:58,080 Speaker 1: Anyway, not for long. 821 00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:01,520 Speaker 2: But if you tap in, you got a well that 822 00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:08,000 Speaker 2: never runs dry. Father, God, I give you glory because 823 00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:09,520 Speaker 2: you gave me this word, and I thank you for 824 00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:12,160 Speaker 2: it before I appreachied it to them because I need it. 825 00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:13,879 Speaker 1: Right now. 826 00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:19,200 Speaker 2: We tap in. We tap in like we've got a 827 00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:23,160 Speaker 2: tag team partner, fresh, rested and ready in the corner, 828 00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:30,360 Speaker 2: like it's not our fight, like you have all power. 829 00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:33,600 Speaker 2: Come on, Church, you got to praise Him for yourself. 830 00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:37,480 Speaker 2: Your praise is your protection. Your praise is your not 831 00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:43,560 Speaker 2: my praise, not my preaching, your praise. Come on, if 832 00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:47,400 Speaker 2: you praise him, you'll see that whatever is surrounding you, 833 00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:48,839 Speaker 2: God is surrounding it. 834 00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:49,920 Speaker 1: You got a fix. 835 00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:56,880 Speaker 2: Oh Jesus, be a fish right here right now. 836 00:54:57,640 --> 00:54:58,920 Speaker 1: I will bless. 837 00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:01,600 Speaker 6: Hell time. 838 00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:09,279 Speaker 1: Come on, this is not my fight. You are my defense. 839 00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:11,920 Speaker 1: You hold my life. 840 00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:17,000 Speaker 2: This is my loo is on my side? 841 00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:20,399 Speaker 6: Think you are You would call me fitz, Thank you 842 00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:22,480 Speaker 6: go She hold my life. 843 00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:24,840 Speaker 2: This is my love. 844 00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:27,239 Speaker 1: Is this is not my fire? 845 00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:30,760 Speaker 4: Come on, go ahead and tapping his mouthy fence, go ahead. 846 00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:33,360 Speaker 1: And tapping this Fred God, you got it. 847 00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,440 Speaker 2: This is my is. 848 00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:40,040 Speaker 1: You will found my side and you would call me fred. 849 00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:47,480 Speaker 2: Come on, this is this is not my fire? 850 00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:50,200 Speaker 5: She my de face? 851 00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:55,400 Speaker 6: Do you hold my life? This is my come on 852 00:55:55,600 --> 00:56:02,239 Speaker 6: like in my side, she would come me pray my 853 00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:10,879 Speaker 6: say Laura, com me you real with me, working. 854 00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:13,719 Speaker 1: Through me, Faddy for me. 855 00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:15,600 Speaker 4: Guy, he's not a cat. 856 00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:18,520 Speaker 2: You meal with me. 857 00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:21,080 Speaker 1: You're working to me. 858 00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:25,920 Speaker 6: You're Fridy for me. Guys, he's not a case me. 859 00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:31,239 Speaker 2: Oh you reading with me, You're working through me. 860 00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:33,880 Speaker 1: You're Friday for me. 861 00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:35,920 Speaker 2: God, he's not a cat. Me. 862 00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:40,480 Speaker 1: You hel with me, You're. 863 00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:49,359 Speaker 2: Working through me, fridy me. 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