1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:10,719 Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 2: in your life. 7 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. 8 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 2: I want to share a verse with you from Isaiah 9 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 2: forty three. This verse nineteen, God, see I am doing 10 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 2: a new thing. Well, y'all, that's only the first part 11 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 2: of the verse. Would you let me read the whole 12 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 2: verse before you start acting all excited and enthusiastic. 13 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. Of course, you can shout anytime. 14 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 2: People shout over much stupid or stuff, so you can. 15 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 2: You can get excited here. Sorry, all right, let me 16 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 2: start over. Just let's start over. See, I'm doing a 17 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 2: new thing now, it's up. Do you not perceive it? 18 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 2: I am making away in the wilderness. That's what you are, 19 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 2: just singing and streams in the waste slam. Permit me 20 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 2: to go over to the Book of Hebrews. I want 21 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 2: to put one New Testament verse together with that Old 22 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:24,559 Speaker 2: Testament prophecy. And this is Hebrews Chapter six, Verse one. 23 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 2: The writer says, Therefore, let us move beyond the elementary 24 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 2: teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not 25 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 2: laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead 26 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 2: to death and of faith in God. So what I 27 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 2: want to talk to you for a few moments today, 28 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:44,279 Speaker 2: and I'm so very thrilled to get to stand before 29 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 2: you again and share the word. 30 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 1: Of God with you. 31 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 2: And my subject, my subject is barriers to blessings. And 32 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 2: I want you to pray for me that I would 33 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 2: be able to deliver this word to you, just like 34 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 2: God wants you to hear it. Father, Thanks, thank you 35 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 2: for the time we have together. Now, these are your people, 36 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 2: This is your word. Make the connection so that your 37 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 2: word gets in the hearts of your people and changes 38 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 2: their lives. 39 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: Because if that happens, the world will change. 40 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 2: So we believe we're standing on the brink of something great, 41 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,119 Speaker 2: and we declare it by faith in Jesus name. 42 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: Amen, you may be seated. 43 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 2: Well, not to be unspiritual, but would you help me 44 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 2: wish my wife a happy birthday. 45 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 1: She celebrated her birthday and I didn't ask her if 46 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: I could tell you that she's thirty seven. 47 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 2: We're getting old girl, No are We talk about this 48 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 2: all the time that we know we're getting old, and 49 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 2: we know we're getting old because we listen to Cheryl 50 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 2: Crowe and we yeah, I was in love with Cheryl 51 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 2: Crowe round age fourteen. I think she was like sixty 52 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 2: five at that time, and so but she's still. 53 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 1: Going and. 54 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, we're getting old. It's true because I was 55 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 2: telling Holly the other day, you know, we were even 56 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 2: listening to trying to listen to some new music from 57 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 2: the new Cheryl Crow album, which sounds, you know, like 58 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 2: a paradox, but it's not. It's she's still making music today. 59 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,080 Speaker 2: But I looked at Holly I was like, I just 60 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 2: can't do it. I just can't listen to the new 61 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 2: Cheryl Crow. And so we had this weird discussion about 62 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 2: neural pathways and how your brain starts to like certain 63 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 2: music in certain stages, and we had a very this 64 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 2: was on her birthday. 65 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: We had a very. 66 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 2: Deep discussion about why we don't like the new Cheryl 67 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 2: Crow and why we like the old Cheryl Crow. 68 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: And it's not I don't think it's Cheryl's fault. 69 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 2: I don't think Cheryl's vocals have gotten weaker or songwriting 70 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 2: abilities and sensibilities have gotten any less. Keen, I promise, 71 00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 2: i'mnna get back to the scripture. 72 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: I see a few guests looking nervous. What did you 73 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: bring me to? 74 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 2: I see a few teenagers looking confused. 75 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: Who is Sheryl Crow? 76 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 2: And it all makes me feel old, because like, if 77 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 2: you play a bassline from an old Cheryl Crow song, 78 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 2: just automatically, it puts me in a certain frame of mind, 79 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 2: you know, and music does that to you. They've written 80 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 2: books about it, They've done studies at prestigious universities about 81 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:26,239 Speaker 2: why certain like why if you played leaving Las Vegas 82 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 2: right now by Cheryl Crow, just even the baseline, just 83 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 2: even just a. 84 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:41,280 Speaker 1: If he started playing that, I. 85 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 2: Could remember being at the music Farm when I watched 86 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 2: her open for Blues Traveler. It makes me feel free 87 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 2: and it makes me feel excited. 88 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: And I remember smelling marijuana for the first time. But 89 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: that's not the point of church. Well, I'm saying this. 90 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 2: It's like a it's embedded, it's an attachment, it's an 91 00:04:58,800 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 2: anchor memory. 92 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: And I liked it. 93 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 2: I liked the old stuff, I like the new stuff, 94 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,839 Speaker 2: or any of you like me, like just music is not, 95 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 2: but it it's. 96 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 3: Okay to talk about just not what it used to be. No, no, 97 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 3: what happened to the guitar solos and the Sheryl Crow basslines? 98 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:27,280 Speaker 2: Of course that brings us to Isaiah forty three. No, 99 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 2: it really does, because y'all were shouting, and I thought 100 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,839 Speaker 2: it was odd that you were shouting, because the announcement 101 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 2: went like this. I don't know if you remember, It's 102 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 2: been like five minutes. And then some of us forget 103 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 2: real quickly, and everybody shot knew. I was reading the verse, 104 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 2: and I said, see, I am doing a new thing. 105 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 2: I have no idea what happened in Matthews or Ronoke 106 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 2: or Raleigh or any other location, but here Valentine. When 107 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 2: I was trying to read my scripture and I only 108 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 2: got that far, and I said, see, I am doing. 109 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: A new thing. And they start cheering. But they do 110 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 1: not share for highway construction. 111 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:09,559 Speaker 2: Nor did they listen to the new Sheryl Crow album, 112 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 2: nor did they like their kids choice in music. 113 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:14,359 Speaker 1: Or clothing. 114 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 2: We don't really how many want God to do a 115 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 2: new thing in your life. I'm setting you up. Be 116 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 2: careful if you raise your hand. I'm just warning you, 117 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 2: because I think that's I think that's a real challenge. 118 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 2: I really do. I think sometimes when God is trying 119 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:40,599 Speaker 2: to bless us, I can use scriptural examples. How you know, 120 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 2: the early Church was so used to the law that 121 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 2: when the writer of Hebrews began to break it down, 122 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 2: and he said that in times past God has spoken 123 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:56,719 Speaker 2: through the prophets, and he gave us the law through Moses, 124 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 2: and now he's speaking through his son. One of the 125 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 2: reasons that the hebrew people had such a difficult time 126 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 2: and they needed to be brought forth or be led 127 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 2: into something new, is because our brains have a way. 128 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 2: They've studied this now in science, not only with Sheryl 129 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 2: Crow songs, but also with any habit that happens in 130 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 2: your life. We know now that your brain actually creates highways. 131 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 2: That's not a technical term. And over the next seven seconds, 132 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you everything that I know about 133 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 2: brain science, but it won't take me long. But I 134 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:38,559 Speaker 2: don't know that your brain forms connections. Yeah, your brain. 135 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 2: Once you've done something a certain number of way a 136 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 2: certain number of times, your brain just locks it in 137 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 2: and anything that doesn't feel familiar like that starts to 138 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 2: feel frustrating. 139 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: And that's why some of the. 140 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 2: Things that you do in your life that you don't 141 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 2: even like the results of are so difficult to undo 142 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 2: because you've established a way of doing things. 143 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: We even say that, we say, well, that's just the 144 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: way he is. What are we saying. 145 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 2: We're talking about his neural pathways. We don't call it 146 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 2: neural pathways because our friends would look at us funny. 147 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 1: So we say that's just the way he is. 148 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 2: Well, that's not just the way he is, it's the 149 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,239 Speaker 2: way his brain has been trained, or it's the way 150 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 2: that her brain has been trained. I don't want to 151 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 2: be sexist about it. Women have issues and habitual addictions to. 152 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 4: Do. 153 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 2: Somebody say, change your ways. No shouting over that. But 154 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 2: yet I'm excuse me for a moment. I'm just trying 155 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 2: to reconcile the fact that when I read my scripture. 156 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:43,679 Speaker 1: See I am doing a new thing. It felt exciting. 157 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 2: But then when we actually begin to discuss what it means, 158 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 2: because God says, now it springs up, do you not 159 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 2: perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness 160 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 2: and streams in the wasteland, and other words, God is 161 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 2: saying to a people who have been exiled into Babylonian captivity. 162 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,319 Speaker 2: He's saying, I'm trying to bless you. I've been trying 163 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 2: to bless you all your life. I've been trying to 164 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 2: bless you all your life. I've been trying to release 165 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 2: what you need all your life. I've been trying to 166 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 2: give you what is in me. I've been trying to 167 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 2: flow through you and flow to you and to't your neighbor. Again, 168 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 2: I won't do this, but maybe about ten more times. 169 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 2: Tell them God is trying to bless you. He is 170 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 2: trying to bless you. 171 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: But Isaiah speaks. 172 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 2: Up because the people of Israel have been, by their behaviors, 173 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 2: blocking the blessing of God. So I called this message 174 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 2: barriers to blessings because just like there are blessings, I 175 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 2: mean real blessings, not just cars and houses. Those are fine, 176 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 2: not just pools and boyfriends, although if you get one 177 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,439 Speaker 2: of those or both of those, I'll celebrate with you. 178 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,679 Speaker 2: But far beyond that, God wants to bless you at 179 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 2: the very state of your being. That's what he said 180 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 2: to Abraham. You will be a blessing. Not just you 181 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:11,439 Speaker 2: will be blessed, but everybody you touch talk to even 182 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 2: look at will be blessed just because they got in 183 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:15,320 Speaker 2: proximity to you. 184 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 1: That's the promise. 185 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 2: That's why God brought his people forth so that they 186 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 2: would be blessed. And the reason that he wanted them 187 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 2: to be blessed is so they could be a blessing. 188 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:31,560 Speaker 2: And that's what we're talking about in this series is 189 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 2: that sometimes we experience. 190 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: Here's the term in business terminology. 191 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 2: Any business owners in the house, I need to know 192 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 2: who to pray for, because it is not easy to 193 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:42,719 Speaker 2: lead an organization, is it. 194 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,679 Speaker 1: And if you started your business, raise your hand. 195 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 2: If you started your business, and I see that takes 196 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 2: a lot of courage, because every business has barriers to entry. 197 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: That's the technical term. 198 00:10:53,280 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 2: It's startup costs, government regulations, knowledge that you may not 199 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 2: have that existing competitors already have. And so even to 200 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 2: think about starting a business is should make you a 201 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 2: little nauseous because there are barriers to entry. One thing 202 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 2: that has changed in our modern age is that in 203 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 2: regards to creativity and content, there are so many different 204 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 2: ways to distribute content that it's no longer like it was. 205 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 2: It's not like the old days. In the old days, 206 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 2: you had to have a record label. To put out 207 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 2: an album, you had to have a lot of money 208 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 2: to book studio time. Well, now if you have the 209 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 2: right software and a SoundCloud, you could just put your 210 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 2: stuff out off as any good. Maybe it'll get somebody's attention. 211 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 2: I mean, if you really consistently. I'm not saying it's easier, 212 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 2: because now there are more than ever, many different people 213 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 2: and many different entities vuying for attention. But what's happened 214 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 2: is the barrier to entry has really been broken down, 215 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 2: and now the barrier to entry is no longer Do 216 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 2: you have enough money to make an album or do 217 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:52,839 Speaker 2: you have somebody who will help you make an album? 218 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 2: It's are you any good? And are you consistent enough 219 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 2: that you will put out enough stuff until you connect. 220 00:11:58,840 --> 00:11:59,560 Speaker 1: With your audience. 221 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 2: So I kind of feel like that that's what we're 222 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 2: trying to understand here in Isaiah forty three and Hebrews 223 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 2: chapter six. Although these scriptures are separated by about seven 224 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:16,079 Speaker 2: centuries of time. I think God is trying to get 225 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:21,319 Speaker 2: us to see that the barriers that were before us 226 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 2: to keep us from experiencing His blessing are no longer there. 227 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 2: So I'm talking about shame that was dealt with at 228 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 2: the cross. I'm talking about your weakness that can actually 229 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 2: become strength. I'm talking about the mistakes of your past 230 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 2: that you relive in your mind over and over again. 231 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 2: I'm saying God has dealt with that, defeated death, defeated the. 232 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: Grave, taken your shame. 233 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 2: How many want to thank God that the barrier has 234 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 2: already been broken. 235 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 1: Just receive it right now. 236 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,560 Speaker 2: Because since you couldn't get to God, God came down 237 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 2: to you, wrapped himself up, looking like a little infant, 238 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 2: but really he was infinite, coming through the eons, coming 239 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 2: through the Axis, coming through Eternity. Cannot preach like the 240 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:19,960 Speaker 2: barrier is broken. As a matter of fact, when I 241 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,679 Speaker 2: even look out over our church, I see lots of 242 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 2: barriers broken. I see people who shouldn't even be in 243 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,079 Speaker 2: church together praising God right beside each other, like we 244 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:34,080 Speaker 2: have the same baptism, the same faith, the same birth, 245 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:36,080 Speaker 2: the same hope. 246 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: It gets me excited. 247 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 2: Now if the essence of the Gospel is that God 248 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:48,319 Speaker 2: breaks barriers, and that he broke every barrier, even the 249 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 2: righteous requirements of the law, which were fully met in him, 250 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:53,840 Speaker 2: so that you might be fully found in Him, so 251 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 2: that nothing could separate you from the love of God 252 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 2: that is in Christ, Jesus your Lord, neither height, nor death, 253 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 2: nor anything else in all creation. When Paul wanted to 254 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:04,560 Speaker 2: say it, he said it like that, etc. None of 255 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 2: it can keep me from the love and the blessing 256 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 2: of God except my unbelief, because all of that can 257 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 2: be true. But if you don't believe it's true, it 258 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 2: won't be true for you, even if you're shout about it. 259 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 2: But when you go home, you really don't think that 260 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 2: God is doing a new thing, you will stay stuck. 261 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: In what was. And I don't envy Isaiah. 262 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 2: He was a much better preacher than I will ever be, 263 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 2: to say the least. Even the fact that I would 264 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 2: say that feels arrogant to say that. You know that Isaiah, 265 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 2: let me tell you how good he was at his job. Okay, 266 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 2: he's called the egle eyed prophet because he was prophesying 267 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 2: stuff that he he wouldn't even live to see. So 268 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 2: he was preaching the sermons that the people would need 269 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 2: for something that they weren't even going through yet, that 270 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 2: he would never even go through. And so God would 271 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 2: download what they would need. And God knew that his 272 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 2: people would worship these other gods, even though that the 273 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 2: God of Heaven had promised to a man called Abraham, 274 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 2: who was the father of their faith, that I will 275 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 2: bless you, and you will be a blessing, and there 276 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 2: will never be a time that you will not be blessed. 277 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 2: And not only will you be blessed, but all peoples 278 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 2: of the earth will be blessed through you, all of them. 279 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 1: Not I'm not just doing this for one nation, one people. 280 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 2: Grow The heart of God has always been that all 281 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 2: of us would be blessed, that every barrier would be 282 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 2: broken down, not just in one zip code, not just 283 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 2: one ethnicity, not just one denomination, but that all people 284 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 2: would be blessed through those who are called by His name. 285 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: That's the promise. Here's the problem. 286 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 2: You notice that they always like hang out together. The 287 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 2: problem is that the people of God blocked not only 288 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 2: their own blessing, but the blessing. 289 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: That they were created to distribute to the earth through. 290 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 2: Their unbelief in the true and living God. So Isaiah 291 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 2: knows this and knows that there will be a time 292 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 2: when they will live in captivity, in bondage. That blessed 293 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 2: people can still live in bondage mentally emotionally blessed people 294 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 2: can still live in bondage, and they weren't imprisoned in 295 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 2: physical cells. They were taken away into a Babylonian land 296 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 2: where a lot of their life really wasn't that bad. 297 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: It wasn't that they lacked physically. It was just that they. 298 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 2: Were in an unfamiliar, strange place, away from the place 299 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 2: God had called them. Usually when we think of the 300 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 2: opposite of blessing, we think that the situation would be 301 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 2: really bad. It wasn't really the situation that got bad 302 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 2: for these people that Isaiah is writing to. 303 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: Their soul, and so. 304 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:06,440 Speaker 2: The situation wasn't that terrible, but the state of their 305 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 2: soul very dry, very destitute, and very desperate. And into 306 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 2: that situation Isaiah speaks forth a promise from God, and 307 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 2: he says to the people. 308 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 1: Who are not yet in captivity, but they will be. 309 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 2: So he's giving them what they need for what they're 310 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:26,880 Speaker 2: going to go through that they don't. 311 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:27,360 Speaker 1: Know about yet. 312 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 2: That's why you need to take notes in church, even 313 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:32,879 Speaker 2: if you don't think it's for you right now. Oh, 314 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,239 Speaker 2: I'm not a parent, but you never know when you 315 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 2: might get one of those little puppies you. 316 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 1: Might need the manual. What did he say four years ago? 317 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 2: Well, he has a difficult task because he's speaking to 318 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 2: a future that they don't experience yet, and so maybe 319 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 2: they're not listening. So what's what he does? I want 320 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 2: to back up a few verses. Go to verse fifteen. 321 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 2: He reminds them who he is. I am the Lord, 322 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 2: your Holy One, because Isaiah is only a mouthpiece. He 323 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,640 Speaker 2: is not the message. He is the mouthpiece of the message. 324 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 2: I am the Lord, your Holy One. That's a cool 325 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:19,919 Speaker 2: thing that unholy people could claim a personal relationship with 326 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 2: a holy God because the barrier has been broken. If 327 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 2: Isaiah could talk like that, and Jesus hasn't even lived yet, 328 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 2: how can we talk about our relationship with God. 329 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: Living on this side of the cross. 330 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:36,719 Speaker 2: I'm broken, but I belong to one whose name is exalted, 331 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 2: whose name is holy, and in the center of unbroken praise, 332 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 2: I am the Lord. 333 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:53,120 Speaker 1: You belong to me. I am Israel's creator, your King. 334 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 2: This is what the Lord says, he who made away 335 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 2: through the See that's what we were just singing. We 336 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:07,199 Speaker 2: didn't really write that song. It was written in a 337 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 2: long time. We plagiarized it. But there's no copyright on it, 338 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:12,879 Speaker 2: so we just up there singing it like us ours. 339 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 1: Man oh tongs. 340 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 2: And you gotta understand, this was Israel's jam. 341 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: No, I'm serious, this was their song. So this was 342 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:23,120 Speaker 1: the one. 343 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 2: You know, how you have your song, whether Sheryl Crow 344 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 2: or Metallica. I see you out there, I see you. 345 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 2: I love it too. I love it too. I saw 346 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 2: damage incorporated. I even know what Metallica short it is. 347 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 2: And you got jarms, Yeah, I saw I saw all 348 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 2: of it, whatever your jam is. And I know it's 349 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:40,159 Speaker 2: not just white people in the church. And at this 350 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 2: point I've only mentioned a few bands in certain genres, 351 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 2: so it's a lot of different songs. But when Israel 352 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 2: heard that, their collective consciousness as. 353 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: A nation would remember the core story. 354 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 2: That is referenced, because it's not just some generic thing. 355 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: You know. 356 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 2: The Bible's not like a fortune cookie where you just 357 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 2: kind of open it, look at the numbers, look at 358 00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 2: the thing. 359 00:19:58,080 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 1: Pass it around. 360 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 2: It was written to a Pacific people, So Isaiah is 361 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 2: going back to the past to remind the people of 362 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 2: the faithfulness of God. And he goes, he goes all 363 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 2: the way back to when they were slaves in Egypt, 364 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 2: and they were in bondage and they didn't see a 365 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:16,119 Speaker 2: way out, and God sent them a deliverer, and his 366 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 2: name was Moses. 367 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:20,360 Speaker 1: And Moses stood before Pharaoh and said, let my people go. 368 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 1: And he had to say it a. 369 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,679 Speaker 2: Bunch of times, because sometimes Pharaoh is stubborn, and freedom 370 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:27,919 Speaker 2: doesn't always come easy, and sometimes it takes persistence, And 371 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:31,360 Speaker 2: sometimes God has to let your situation look humanly impossible 372 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 2: so that he can reveal himself as to God of 373 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 2: all possibility. Sometimes Lazarus has to stay in the grave 374 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 2: a little while longer so when he gets up, you 375 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 2: won't just think it was the prayers of the church. 376 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:43,679 Speaker 2: You'll know it was the power of God that raised him. 377 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:49,159 Speaker 2: Like so he says, this is what the Lord says, 378 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,880 Speaker 2: he who made away, raise your hand. If God ever 379 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:54,880 Speaker 2: made a way for you, just even a little way, 380 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:57,159 Speaker 2: just even if he ever healed a headache, or just 381 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 2: if he ever helped you get a job, or even 382 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:00,120 Speaker 2: if somebody slipped your two. 383 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: When you didn't have a job and you got the gas, 384 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 1: or maybe it. 385 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 2: Was one time when you were so depressed, crying your 386 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 2: eyes out, and you woke up one morning and you 387 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:08,399 Speaker 2: realize you know, I feel a little better today, and 388 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 2: maybe I can get out of the bed today and 389 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 2: maybe I'll wash a few dishes today. And before you 390 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 2: knew it, you were back to normal. God made away? 391 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 2: Has he ever made away for you? Has he ever 392 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 2: made away? If he made if he made a way 393 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:21,639 Speaker 2: for you, just wave your hand. If he made away, 394 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 2: just wave it. I don't know what you're talking about. 395 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 1: Don Don John Jun Don don Donjon. 396 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 2: When they started, when Isaiah said, dak the people that 397 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:40,159 Speaker 2: that was remembered, that was their soundtrack to remind him 398 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 2: that they were no longer slaves. 399 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: He who made away? Because this is a scene. 400 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 2: This, This is not an abstract, theoretical, metaphorical out of 401 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:57,120 Speaker 2: words to say this. This is this is not what 402 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 2: God kind of like does in a picture for him. 403 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:03,439 Speaker 2: This this is an actual, practical memory from the past 404 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 2: of what God did for his people. 405 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 1: He didn't do it for these people. 406 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 2: They're in a different situation, but he did it for the. 407 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,919 Speaker 1: People that they're a part of. So it's part of 408 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 1: their legacy. It's part of their core story. 409 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 2: Their core story is that we were slaves. God brought 410 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:25,640 Speaker 2: us out of Egypt. We were there for over four 411 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,400 Speaker 2: hundred years. He brought us out into a promised land, 412 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 2: and now they need to go back to their core 413 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 2: story so that they can survive their captivity. 414 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: Are you with me so far? So he brings them 415 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: back ton toun to ton toun, toun to toun, tou 416 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 1: tou tou toun tun tun tou toon tun. 417 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 3: He made away Tondundun through the see tondund a path 418 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,880 Speaker 3: through tantandun mighty. 419 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 5: Waers who threw out turn ton ton the cherry, Yes, 420 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,880 Speaker 5: tongue tun tunt and horses, hand army and reinforcements together, 421 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,159 Speaker 5: they're never to rize, like extingge something that was going. 422 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:21,919 Speaker 1: So they're like, yeah, yes, Jesus, won'tie do it? Wonie 423 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 1: do it? Won't he make away? 424 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 2: So then I'm surprised when he says verse eighteen, coming 425 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 2: messes up the flow. 426 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,640 Speaker 1: He got the people remembering how strong and mighty God 427 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 1: was it the Red Sea made away. We did it 428 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 1: with no way. 429 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 2: And then he says, forget the this is the next verse. 430 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 2: I promise you, I'm not moving these all around. Forget 431 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:09,679 Speaker 2: the former things. I understand that because if you live 432 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 2: in a state of regret over I mean if you 433 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 2: relive over and over again every dumb thing you said, 434 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 2: or everything that every decision that you made, every purchase 435 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 2: that you mean. 436 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,639 Speaker 1: It is paralyzing to live in the past. 437 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,399 Speaker 2: And you really do have to understand that one thing 438 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 2: that the Cross of Jesus does is it gives me the. 439 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 1: Freedom to move past my mistakes. I am so grateful 440 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 1: for that. And here's what I mean. 441 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,639 Speaker 2: I feel change breaking while I preach today because I 442 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 2: always always preach that a certain way, and then one 443 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 2: day I realize that most people are not living enslaved 444 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,960 Speaker 2: to the mistakes that they made, like twenty three years ago. 445 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 1: It's that I keep making mistakes. 446 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,680 Speaker 2: So really, when I say moving on past your mistakes, 447 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 2: that might not be very difficult if it was three 448 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 2: years ago. But what if those three minutes ago and 449 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,159 Speaker 2: here you are in church and God is trying to 450 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 2: bless you. Do you remember I said he's trying to 451 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 2: bless you. 452 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 1: He was blessing. 453 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,480 Speaker 2: Abraham to be a blessing. He wanted to bless his 454 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,120 Speaker 2: people so they could bless the earth. 455 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 1: He's always blessing. 456 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 2: It's not just an activity, it is an attribute of 457 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 2: his character. He is the God who blesses it's what 458 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,880 Speaker 2: he does, it's who he is. It's what he does 459 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:40,399 Speaker 2: that flows from who he is, and he's always trying 460 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 2: to bless you. But sometimes I've got to be honest 461 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,879 Speaker 2: about it. My unbelief, not only my unbelief, but my 462 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 2: stubborn refusal to really accept the fact that whatever I did, 463 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 2: he's already done something about it. It keeps me from 464 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 2: entering into the present moment. 465 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 1: So now I'm stuck. 466 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:07,440 Speaker 2: And he gives me permission to move on, pass my mistakes, 467 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 2: and he says, see, I'm doing a new thing. Forget 468 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:14,800 Speaker 2: the past, which makes sense when we're talking about the 469 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 2: mistakes of my past. But remember Isaiah did not just 470 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:25,639 Speaker 2: list the mistakes of their past. He just mentioned a 471 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 2: miracle from their past. And right after he mentions the miracle, 472 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 2: he tells them to forget it. Oh, I got you 473 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 2: curious now, because that first thing I said, that's. 474 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,399 Speaker 4: Just normal preaching. Forget it and move on. That's bumper 475 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 4: sticker stuff, Fidoh you know, forget it, drive on. I mean, 476 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:58,359 Speaker 4: that's not even really preaching. So you're clapping for it right. 477 00:26:58,440 --> 00:26:58,879 Speaker 1: Moving on. 478 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 2: If only the credit card companies would get the same 479 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 2: spirit of forgiveness that God has right. 480 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 1: They didn't get the memo though he male. 481 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 2: Where there was no way through the Red Sea, brought 482 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 2: us out of Egypt. And that God, the same God 483 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 2: who did that, wants you to do this. Forget it, 484 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 2: do not dwell on the past. Put my verse back. 485 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,440 Speaker 2: I don't want to think I'm making this up because 486 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,680 Speaker 2: I'm strange. I know forget. 487 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 1: Well I did. 488 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 2: I always assumed that the greatest barrier that keeps me 489 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 2: from being blessed by God is what the devil did 490 00:27:51,640 --> 00:28:02,920 Speaker 2: to me. Sometimes it is barrier to the blessing of 491 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 2: God in your future. You got it is not what 492 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 2: the devil did to you. It's what God did for 493 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 2: you in one season that you expect him to repeat 494 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:26,400 Speaker 2: in the next season. So I've heard one hundred sermons, 495 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,880 Speaker 2: I probably preached a hundred sermons on move on from 496 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 2: the mistake. But what about when God wants you to 497 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 2: move on from the miracle? And this is the weirdest thing. 498 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 2: I don't know how to explain it to you, but 499 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 2: we have all these course stories at our church. In 500 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 2: business terminology, your core story is the crux of your 501 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 2: central value proposition, where you describe what you do as 502 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 2: a company that differentiates you from all the other ones. 503 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 2: Well as a church, we have a course story what 504 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 2: makes us unique, the faith of the early days. You know, 505 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,520 Speaker 2: may some of the stuff y'all are talking about it 506 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 2: backstage past weekend on a history tour. 507 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 1: You know those stories are good. Can I be honest 508 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 1: with you. 509 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 2: The reason I'm not going to give you it the 510 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 2: tour is because I don't remember the stuff that a 511 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 2: lot of the stuff, And I used to think it 512 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 2: was because I wasn't grateful, because I felt. 513 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,800 Speaker 1: Like, you know, if I was really grateful for what 514 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:20,239 Speaker 1: God did. 515 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 2: I mean, there are things that Hollywood remind me of 516 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 2: a lot of the times, and she'll be like, remember 517 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 2: when God did this, And she'll mention something that had 518 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 2: me all up in knots when it happened. 519 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: But I don't even remember about it anymore. 520 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 2: And I used to think that there was something wrong 521 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 2: with me, or maybe I'm starting to lose my memory 522 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 2: or something, because I already told you we're getting old, 523 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 2: and maybe it's starting to deteriorate. 524 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:43,040 Speaker 1: My brain isn't functioning the same way. Or maybe God 525 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,520 Speaker 1: doesn't want me to rely on. 526 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:54,719 Speaker 2: A memory of a miracle that he has already performed 527 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 2: and miss the miracle that is in progress. I'm trying 528 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 2: to preach a progressive message today, and here's the message. 529 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 1: Remember the ways he made, but forget the way he 530 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: made it. This a run in place message. I gotta 531 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: get some energy, so i'll holler jut too bad. 532 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 2: Remember what he did for you, Remember how he kept you, 533 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 2: how he blessed you, how he sustained you, how he 534 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,280 Speaker 2: opened doors, how he made opportunities, how he made a 535 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:38,840 Speaker 2: way out. 536 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 1: Of no way. But then you gotta forget exactly how 537 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 1: he did it. 538 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 2: Remember how much fun your marriage was before you had children, 539 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 2: But then forget the freedom that you had before you. 540 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:04,680 Speaker 1: Brought human beings and to exist. 541 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 2: This no, I'm serious, because sometimes we get stuck in 542 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 2: a season and. 543 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 1: We miss God's supply. He said, I want you to 544 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 1: remember what I did. 545 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 2: And then forget how I did it, because I'm not 546 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 2: going to do it the same way every time. And 547 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 2: here's why I'm not going to do it the same 548 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 2: way every time. I'm not gonna do it like I 549 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 2: used to do it. Because you got imagine the people 550 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 2: in captivity. They're hearing this message. Dun dua du duh 551 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 2: and they're remembering Moses. Now by this time, Moses isn't 552 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 2: somebody they know. 553 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 1: He's like, no offense. 554 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 2: Most if you're listening to me preach, I don't imagine 555 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 2: he's tuning into my sermons, of all the sermons that 556 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:52,680 Speaker 2: he has available, if you know. 557 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 1: But however that works with heaven and live streaming and 558 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 1: stuff like that. But just for the record, no offense Moses. 559 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 2: But I gotta believe that they were waiting for Moses 560 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,960 Speaker 2: to get them out of this captivity because Moses was 561 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 2: kind of like a mascot. So they're looking, they're in 562 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:16,200 Speaker 2: Babylonian captivity, and they're going, Okay, who's God going to 563 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 2: send to get us out of this? 564 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 1: And so then Isaiah says, thus say it, the Lord, 565 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 1: your King, your creator. 566 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 2: Thus say it the Lord, the one who spoke to 567 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,360 Speaker 2: Abraham and called him out of ear of the Chaldeans, 568 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,520 Speaker 2: and made many out of one, and made you a nation, 569 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 2: and brought you out of slavery. 570 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 1: And brought you through the one who made away. This 571 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:41,400 Speaker 1: is what he says. Don't look for it to look 572 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:46,120 Speaker 1: like what it used to look like, or feel like 573 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:48,680 Speaker 1: what it used to feel like. 574 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:55,400 Speaker 2: Please do not misapply my message today to leave your 575 00:32:55,480 --> 00:33:02,040 Speaker 2: husband and try to tell him that Preacher Stephens said 576 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,960 Speaker 2: that Moses is dead, or any of this weird stuff 577 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:06,959 Speaker 2: that Christian people do to try to make a message 578 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 2: mean whatever they wanted to be. What I'm saying to 579 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 2: you is when Jesus walked the earth, he did miracles, 580 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:15,920 Speaker 2: he opened blinded eyes, but he didn't do it the 581 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:17,040 Speaker 2: same way every time he did it. 582 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 1: And here's why. This is what I believe. You believe 583 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:20,120 Speaker 1: whatever you want to believe. 584 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 2: I believe God doesn't want us to be more committed 585 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:31,480 Speaker 2: to a system than we are to a source. So 586 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,440 Speaker 2: this is what the Lord says. I'm gonna make away 587 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,320 Speaker 2: because that's what I do. How many believe he's a 588 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 2: way maker? Yeah, yeah, he's a waymaker. 589 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna make away, but not the way I made 590 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:49,880 Speaker 1: it before. This is so strong and so powerful that 591 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 1: if you really received. 592 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:55,880 Speaker 2: This in your spirit today, you will realize that the 593 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 2: barrier to the blessing of God in your life is 594 00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,200 Speaker 2: not no longer who is who is no longer in 595 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:05,280 Speaker 2: your life, or what age you are, or the money 596 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:06,240 Speaker 2: that somebody was. 597 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:07,320 Speaker 1: Owed you and didn't give you. 598 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:11,520 Speaker 2: Because we always externalize it it's always somebody else. And 599 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:17,440 Speaker 2: God says, I'm doing a new thing, and he asks 600 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:23,120 Speaker 2: a question, do you not see it or perceive it? 601 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,640 Speaker 2: What would keep me from perceiving what God is doing? 602 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,839 Speaker 2: Maybe it's expecting it to look just like what he's done. 603 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:37,440 Speaker 2: So here I am looking for God to park the 604 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,719 Speaker 2: Red Sea again, because that's what he did last time. 605 00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,520 Speaker 1: Sometimes the greatest barrier to what God is doing. 606 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:49,000 Speaker 2: Is what he used to do. So when you first 607 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,359 Speaker 2: became a Christian, you just open your Bible and you're like, oh, 608 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,600 Speaker 2: you just open it anywhere, and God spoke to you 609 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,920 Speaker 2: and it had the verse of your street address from 610 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:58,759 Speaker 2: when you were eight, and you just opened it and 611 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,320 Speaker 2: you felt like a care and love shot out of 612 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:08,040 Speaker 2: your chest all across the And now men, your Bible 613 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,600 Speaker 2: flips up into all the depressing psalms and the Judas. 614 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,720 Speaker 2: And God speak to me like you used to speak 615 00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,239 Speaker 2: to me. And God said, I'm still speaking, but not 616 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:18,640 Speaker 2: on the same frequency. 617 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 1: I need you to go deeper. I need you to 618 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:34,160 Speaker 1: deep for something. Now forget forget not his faithfulness, but 619 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:40,759 Speaker 1: forget the form that it came in. They couldn't get this. 620 00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:44,200 Speaker 2: So in Hebrews chapter six, verse one, the writer says, 621 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:46,160 Speaker 2: you keep looking for God. 622 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,480 Speaker 1: To look like the law because that's what you were 623 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:49,480 Speaker 1: addicted to see. 624 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:53,560 Speaker 2: We get addicted to one form of deliverance and then 625 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:55,200 Speaker 2: grace comes along and we don't even know what to 626 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 2: do with it because it's not what God used to do. 627 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:00,880 Speaker 1: You got to move on. 628 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,520 Speaker 2: Some of you grew up in really religious environments where 629 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,640 Speaker 2: you know, God wasn't happy unless you were depressed. You know, 630 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,480 Speaker 2: it didn't even count as church unless you had to 631 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,000 Speaker 2: endure it. You need to move on past that. God 632 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,960 Speaker 2: is doing a new thing. I mean, lift your hands, 633 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,120 Speaker 2: lift your heart, be free in his presence. 634 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,239 Speaker 1: He's doing a new thing. Do you not see it? 635 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,000 Speaker 1: It will spring forth out of the ground. Do you 636 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,120 Speaker 1: not perceive it? And what got me about it, JJ. 637 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,879 Speaker 2: Is that when he did it at the Red Sea, 638 00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,680 Speaker 2: he made a way through the waters. 639 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:39,120 Speaker 1: Is that what he did? 640 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,840 Speaker 2: Not setting you up this time? That's how the Bible 641 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,080 Speaker 2: story goes right, Don don don don. He made a 642 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:49,759 Speaker 2: way don dun dahntah through the waters, and the water 643 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:53,279 Speaker 2: stood up that the water that separated them from their 644 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 2: freedom stood in attention like walls on either side until 645 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,359 Speaker 2: they got through and drowned the Egyptians, and they loved 646 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:04,480 Speaker 2: that story because that story reminded them of their deliverance. 647 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:11,160 Speaker 2: And he made a way through the waters. Isaiah says, 648 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:15,200 Speaker 2: this time God is going to make away. But he's 649 00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:18,319 Speaker 2: not going to make a way through the waters. He's 650 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:25,080 Speaker 2: going to make away in the wilderness. Let me ask 651 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:31,840 Speaker 2: a question. What did they need in the wilderness? What 652 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:36,759 Speaker 2: was it they needed water? So what used to be 653 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:44,919 Speaker 2: the barrier is about to be the blessing. Y'all better 654 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:52,520 Speaker 2: help me preach. I feel the faithfulness of God to 655 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:56,960 Speaker 2: see what I'm saying. The barrier is now the blessing. 656 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,040 Speaker 2: What did threaten to kill you is now what God 657 00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,279 Speaker 2: is bringing forth to bless your life. 658 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:08,120 Speaker 1: Sell about it. So God said, I. 659 00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:11,320 Speaker 2: Am your creator, I am your King, And this is 660 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:16,799 Speaker 2: what I do. I turn barriers to blessings. I turn 661 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:22,680 Speaker 2: water in dry ground into sustenance for your survival. I 662 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:28,040 Speaker 2: turn pain into power. I turn same into grace, I 663 00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:32,600 Speaker 2: turn abuse into straight I'm make away. I'm a waymaker. 664 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:37,120 Speaker 2: I'm worthy of worship. I'm worthy of grace. I'm doing 665 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:51,359 Speaker 2: a new thing in your life. Whatever's next is better, 666 00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:58,920 Speaker 2: Whatever's next is better. That's what my faith believes when 667 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,360 Speaker 2: I find myself in a way see, A wilderness is 668 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,799 Speaker 2: not a situation where you feel like you're about to die. 669 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,680 Speaker 2: A wilderness is a situation like these exiles in Babylon, 670 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:09,399 Speaker 2: wondering how long the Lord? 671 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:11,200 Speaker 1: How long am I going to feel like? 672 00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:14,360 Speaker 2: I'm in a place emotionally that I don't understand. It 673 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,440 Speaker 2: wasn't the physical surrounding of Babylon that made them weep 674 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,759 Speaker 2: as they sat by the rivers. It wasn't the lack 675 00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:23,000 Speaker 2: of prosperity. It was a loss of purpose. How long 676 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:30,160 Speaker 2: am I going to wander in this place? But this time, 677 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:35,879 Speaker 2: I'm not sending Moses to get you out. This time, 678 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:37,600 Speaker 2: I'm going to send the water to where you are, 679 00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:42,160 Speaker 2: and I am going to bless you in that place 680 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:56,319 Speaker 2: because I'm a waymaker. Boom bom, bombon. I believe, Dun dun, dun, dun. 681 00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:01,759 Speaker 2: I'll see you do it again. But how you do 682 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:11,239 Speaker 2: it is up to you. I don't know if this 683 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:15,080 Speaker 2: will help you. But sometimes I get in situations and 684 00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,160 Speaker 2: I just don't see a way. 685 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:20,560 Speaker 1: I don't know if you're there right now. 686 00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:22,600 Speaker 2: I don't know if you're going into that if you 687 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:24,640 Speaker 2: just came out of it. One thing I know is 688 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:30,840 Speaker 2: you will find yourself. It feels terrible because you feel trapped, 689 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:37,760 Speaker 2: you feel uncertain, you feel landlocked. And here comes water 690 00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:43,880 Speaker 2: springing forth from the ground where you are. And I 691 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:45,279 Speaker 2: learned something. I learned something. 692 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,040 Speaker 1: I hope this helps you. Really want to want this 693 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:53,720 Speaker 1: to help you. When I get into that internal. 694 00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:57,880 Speaker 2: Wilderness where I can't feel God like I used to 695 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:03,040 Speaker 2: feel God, and it used to be don don don don, 696 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:16,719 Speaker 2: and now it's just MM. When I get into that 697 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:21,600 Speaker 2: place and I don't know how, and I don't know who, 698 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:28,160 Speaker 2: and I don't know when. When I get into that place, 699 00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:33,200 Speaker 2: I realize that it's not my job. 700 00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:44,279 Speaker 1: To predict the way that God is going to make, 701 00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:47,879 Speaker 1: So I don't have to know how. 702 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:56,960 Speaker 2: If I know who, you got me, I am alpha 703 00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:04,120 Speaker 2: and omega beginning and the end. A lot of us 704 00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:09,080 Speaker 2: get stuck in a beta blessing and we cannot receive 705 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:13,239 Speaker 2: the upgrade because we are so stuck in the way 706 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:14,600 Speaker 2: God used to move. 707 00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:20,799 Speaker 1: But he says, today I am doing a new thing. 708 00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:23,320 Speaker 2: I know it doesn't feel like it used to feel, 709 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,440 Speaker 2: but I'm still faithful. I know it doesn't look like 710 00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:28,920 Speaker 2: it used to look, but I'm still faithful. 711 00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:31,680 Speaker 1: I know some things have changed in our country, but 712 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:35,759 Speaker 1: I'm still faithful because I am the Lord. I was 713 00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:40,040 Speaker 1: the Lord, I will I am, I was, I will be. 714 00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:45,759 Speaker 1: I make away. It's what I do, it's who I am, 715 00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,320 Speaker 1: and I'm making a way for you right now. Do 716 00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:55,719 Speaker 1: you not see it? And so often the answer is no, 717 00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:01,200 Speaker 1: I don't see it because I'm looking backwards. 718 00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:03,840 Speaker 2: I found out for a lot of people, the greatest 719 00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:08,480 Speaker 2: barrier to their blessing is not what's before them, is 720 00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:09,480 Speaker 2: what's behind them. 721 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:13,719 Speaker 1: That God has already dealt with. 722 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:21,279 Speaker 2: So, whoever God sent me to preach to today, you 723 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,480 Speaker 2: might be like seventy two years old and feel like 724 00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,000 Speaker 2: you know what my best is behind me. 725 00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:27,400 Speaker 1: The devil is a liar, I. 726 00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,560 Speaker 2: Said the devil, I said, if he's talking. 727 00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,719 Speaker 1: He's lying. Your best is not behind you. 728 00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,680 Speaker 2: God has already been to your future, and he said, 729 00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:38,360 Speaker 2: hurry up and. 730 00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:40,359 Speaker 5: Back. 731 00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:46,200 Speaker 1: I want to bless you where you are. I want 732 00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:49,000 Speaker 1: to bless you with the strength you have left empty nesters. 733 00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,400 Speaker 2: Just because your kids are gone does not mean your 734 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:52,160 Speaker 2: calling is over. 735 00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:58,279 Speaker 1: I'm doing a new thing. I'm doing a new thing 736 00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:02,760 Speaker 1: in your life. I'm doing a new thing in this church. 737 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,359 Speaker 1: You saw how I moved that water when you needed 738 00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,120 Speaker 1: to go through it. Now I'm gonna make the water 739 00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:14,399 Speaker 1: come up where you need it the most. I would 740 00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:15,279 Speaker 1: love to pray for you. 741 00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,279 Speaker 2: Because I know this is the kind of message that 742 00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:24,360 Speaker 2: it's kind of easy to get excited about, but a 743 00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:30,120 Speaker 2: little harder to live out. It's one thing to sing 744 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:37,480 Speaker 2: it in a worship center like this, talented musicians, beautiful lights, 745 00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:40,000 Speaker 2: to declare. 746 00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:41,680 Speaker 1: Your faith in a place like this. But God said, 747 00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:46,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna make the water come up in the desert. 748 00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:51,239 Speaker 1: I'm going to make a way in the wilderness. 749 00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:56,000 Speaker 2: I'm going to be faithful to you in the places 750 00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,960 Speaker 2: where nobody else can provide for you. 751 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:13,320 Speaker 6: I am your source, sense your feet at every location. 752 00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,279 Speaker 2: Put down your notes. This is not the part you 753 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,080 Speaker 2: need to write down. This is the part you need 754 00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:25,560 Speaker 2: to receive by faith. That's the lie. The devil always 755 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:29,520 Speaker 2: tells me. Your best is behind you. I believe that 756 00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:33,080 Speaker 2: since I was in college. I graduated college, married Holly. 757 00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:36,719 Speaker 2: I thought, well, you know from here, I honestly thought this. 758 00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:38,920 Speaker 2: I told one of my friends this. I said, this 759 00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,480 Speaker 2: is probably the most ministry I will ever do, Because 760 00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:45,480 Speaker 2: in college I had traveled to churches and done revivals 761 00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,520 Speaker 2: and backyard Bible clubs. 762 00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:47,840 Speaker 1: And things like that. 763 00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:50,360 Speaker 2: I said, that's probably the most ministry I'll ever do. 764 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:53,919 Speaker 2: My friend was talking to me on the phone. He said, 765 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:57,680 Speaker 2: you're crazy. God's only going to use you more. You 766 00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:06,600 Speaker 2: stay focused, they imaginative, stay creative. He's only gonna use 767 00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:12,040 Speaker 2: you more. The only barrier is your willingness to believe 768 00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,480 Speaker 2: by faith that what I. 769 00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:17,600 Speaker 1: Just said is true. But I'm telling you is true. 770 00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,920 Speaker 2: If it was true for the Babylonian captives, if it 771 00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,160 Speaker 2: was true for the children of Israel who needed the 772 00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:26,360 Speaker 2: waters to part, why could it not be true for you? 773 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:32,040 Speaker 1: Why not you? So I want you to remember. 774 00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:37,440 Speaker 2: The ways He's made, the demonstrations of his faithfulness that 775 00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:38,600 Speaker 2: it brought you to this point. 776 00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:40,799 Speaker 1: It's too many to count, right. 777 00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,960 Speaker 2: Some of y'all got some stories, man, some core stories 778 00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,439 Speaker 2: of the moments where you knew that God was real 779 00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,360 Speaker 2: and he was with you, that. 780 00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,640 Speaker 1: He would never leave you nor forsake you. You know 781 00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,120 Speaker 1: those stories? Yeah? 782 00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:05,960 Speaker 2: Remember Now I need you to forget them, because your 783 00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:08,040 Speaker 2: core story is not that you were a slave and 784 00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:10,720 Speaker 2: now you're not a slave, or you went to jail, 785 00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,160 Speaker 2: or that you got a divorce or that you had 786 00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:13,680 Speaker 2: an abortion. 787 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,040 Speaker 1: God says, I am doing now. 788 00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,800 Speaker 2: I don't want your core story to be about the 789 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:25,560 Speaker 2: blessings that I'm giving to you. I want your story 790 00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,840 Speaker 2: to be about the blessing that I want to release 791 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:33,560 Speaker 2: through you. You have camped at this red sea long enough. 792 00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:42,160 Speaker 2: I got more miracles. I got more miracles. No, it's 793 00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:43,719 Speaker 2: not going to feel like it used to feel, and 794 00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:45,160 Speaker 2: it's not going to give you chills like. 795 00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:45,600 Speaker 1: It used to. 796 00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,240 Speaker 2: And it might not be your favorite song from nineteen 797 00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:51,160 Speaker 2: ninety four, and Ryl Crow might have a new baseline. 798 00:47:53,239 --> 00:48:00,239 Speaker 1: I'm doing a new thing. I believe. 799 00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:04,399 Speaker 2: I'll see you do it again. Now I won't see 800 00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:08,200 Speaker 2: you do it how you did it. The holl's gonna change. 801 00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:14,440 Speaker 2: But Jesus Christ, it's the same yesterday, today and forever. 802 00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,800 Speaker 1: I don't have to know how. Come on, tell your neighbor. 803 00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:22,000 Speaker 1: I don't know how. But I know who. I got 804 00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:26,320 Speaker 1: a mighty car, I got a waymaker, I got a 805 00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:27,320 Speaker 1: strong delivery. 806 00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:29,239 Speaker 3: I know who. 807 00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:34,359 Speaker 1: I know whom. I have believe and I am leslated 808 00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:40,960 Speaker 1: that he is able. I said he's amo. He's able. 809 00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:48,680 Speaker 2: He's able, no matter save the song, He's able. 810 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:58,640 Speaker 1: He's able receive. Move come on funeral mood. This is 811 00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:12,799 Speaker 1: our jo listeners to this. This is on God, not. 812 00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:17,839 Speaker 2: See to see God. 813 00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:25,680 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. 814 00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:28,440 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 815 00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:32,000 Speaker 2: this ministry. 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