1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 6 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: in your life. 7 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. I welcome our epam all around the world. 8 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: Would you help me welcome them? Put your hands together. 9 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 2: And when you're a preacher, but you come to church 10 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 2: but you don't preach, you want to. 11 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 3: Make sure that you've got a great preacher. 12 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 1: Somebody you want to listen to. So I do. Today. 13 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 2: My oldest son, Elijah's gonna come tell you who we've 14 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 2: got preaching today. He's not preaching today. 15 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:43,599 Speaker 1: That would be a plot twist. Man, it's us. What 16 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: would you do if. 17 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 4: I said, and our preacher for today, I'm gonna have 18 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 4: to tag in my boy PGF over here, my boy Graham. 19 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 1: I thank you that I love it. Man. 20 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 4: It's a special day today because we've got a very 21 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 4: special guest, Robert Madou in the house. 22 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 3: And yeah, come on, give it up. 23 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 4: And honestly, it's not really accurate. I know we always 24 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:06,960 Speaker 4: say this, but it's not really accurate to call him 25 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 4: a guest because he's family. Mister Chunk's actually told me 26 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,759 Speaker 4: that second to my parents, he's actually preached the second 27 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 4: most times out of anyone in this pull PI. 28 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: Can we give it up for that? Come on, but 29 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:20,679 Speaker 1: come on, y'all, we. 30 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 4: Got one of the best dressed pastors in the game 31 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 4: coming all the way from Dallas, Texas. 32 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 1: He's a father of. 33 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 4: Three, a husbands of Taylor Madou and the pastor of 34 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 4: Social Dallas Elevation. 35 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 3: If y'are not standing up, I need you gonna stand on. 36 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 3: Y'all speed and help me give a warm welcome. 37 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: The doctor Robert. 38 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 3: But do somebody give Jesus just the best shout of praise? 39 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: That's your God fordam. 40 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 3: Oh, come on, don't give a little chue golf clap, 41 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 3: okay location. If you love Jesus and you're not ashamed 42 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 3: about it, come on, would you just take about ten 43 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 3: more seconds and give them the praise that he is 44 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 3: worthy of? Or come on, somebody praise them like you 45 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 3: know dead things can come alive today. Come on, praise 46 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 3: them like you know Chase could pray today. Anything could 47 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:28,079 Speaker 3: happen in this place. How you feeling elevation. Anybody come 48 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 3: with some expectancy for what God's gonna do today. Tell 49 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 3: you what, I didn't wait to get here to get 50 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,839 Speaker 3: ready for church. I got ready before I got here, 51 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 3: got my faith level up, and I says God's gonna 52 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 3: do something incredible in this house today. Just in case 53 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 3: your neighbor didn't have their coffee, would you just elbowed 54 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 3: them across every location, say something's gonna happen today, something, 55 00:02:53,960 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 3: Something's gonna happen today. I remain standing because Elijah took 56 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 3: the words out of my mouth. I don't consider myself 57 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 3: a guest here. I do consider myself family and been 58 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 3: coming here for years. But I don't take it lightly 59 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 3: the honor of the privilege to stand on this stage 60 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 3: in this house. 61 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: This is not ordinary. This is holy. 62 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 3: One of the worst things you can do is to 63 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 3: treat something holy ordinary. 64 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:33,399 Speaker 1: Just get used to it. 65 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 3: Just get used to pass Stephen my past, to abreach, 66 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 3: get used to that. 67 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 1: Oh, that would be crazy. 68 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 3: And every time I walk in here, I'm reminded of 69 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 3: the faithfulness of God and that this did not happen overnight. 70 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: This is decades of faithfulness. 71 00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 3: Decades are saying yes when it was tough, decades of 72 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 3: showing up when you didn't feel like decade two to 73 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 3: be specific, two decades. Anybody can be faithful for a day, 74 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 3: but be faithful for decades. 75 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: That's a big deal. 76 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 3: And so many times we celebrate what God does through people, 77 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 3: but we don't pause to go what did it cost 78 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 3: them to do that? And before I say anything, especially 79 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 3: because he's here, I want to thank God for the 80 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 3: gift that is impastor Stephen Fredick and his wife, howid 81 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:35,159 Speaker 3: for the sacrifice, for what it cost you to do this? 82 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 3: Come on across every location. I need you to clap 83 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 3: so your hands hurt. And I want them to know 84 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 3: how much we loved them, the whole Verdict family, how 85 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 3: much we appreciate him. 86 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: Come on, y'all could do better than that. We are grateful. 87 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 3: We don't take you for granted. And that's the thing. 88 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:01,479 Speaker 3: He can call anybody literally about to preach. And so 89 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 3: I'm so honored to be here. My wife sends her 90 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 3: love again. I bring your gredients for the great country 91 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 3: of Texas. We passed through a church there, a social 92 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 3: Dallas turned five years old this year and. 93 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: Seeing God do awesome things. 94 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 3: But I always get an excused absence to pull up 95 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 3: to elevation, so we're gonna have fun. Are y'all tired 96 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 3: of standing? Well, you word o shoes, that's on you 97 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 3: stay standing. I want to jump straight to the Word 98 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 3: of God because I do have a word to preach today. 99 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: There is a story. 100 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 3: Told by the greatest story teller ever that is stuck 101 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 3: in my head. Since it's stuck in my head, I 102 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:50,679 Speaker 3: want to just preach out what's been in my mind? 103 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:55,039 Speaker 3: Can we thank God for this worship team? Come on, love, 104 00:05:55,120 --> 00:06:00,159 Speaker 3: y'all set in the atmosphere, go with me to the 105 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 3: Gospel of Matthew, chapter number twenty. 106 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: Matthew twenty. 107 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 3: And I want to look at verses one through sixteen 108 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 3: Matthew Chapter twenty. We'll start at verse one and we'll 109 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 3: land at verse sixteen. Now, some of you all like, ooh, 110 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 3: that's a lot of scriptures. We need all of it 111 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 3: for you to really feel this story. Matthew Chapter twenty. 112 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 3: Once your God had say yeah, if you need some 113 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 3: time to find it, say how long I heard you. 114 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:38,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait for you. Thank you so much, declares. 115 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 3: For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a landowner who 116 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,359 Speaker 3: went out early in the morning to hire workers for 117 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 3: his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for 118 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 3: the day and send them into his vineyard. About nine 119 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 3: in the morning, he went out and saw others standing 120 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 3: in the marketplace doing nothing. He told them, you also 121 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 3: go and work in my vineyard and I will pay 122 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 3: you whatever is right, so they win. He went out 123 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 3: again about noon and about three in the afternoon and 124 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 3: did the same thing. About five in the afternoon, he 125 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 3: went out and found still others standing around, and he 126 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 3: asked them, why have you been. 127 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: Standing here all day long doing nothing? Because no one 128 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: has hired us. They answer, He said to them, you 129 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: also go and work in my vinue. 130 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 3: Now that's wild to me, because the workday ends at 131 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 3: six o'clock. How are you hiring people at five o'clock 132 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 3: to go work for one hour? But the landowner felt 133 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 3: that was necessary. When evening came, the owner of the 134 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 3: vineyard said, no, no, no, look go up, go up. 135 00:07:57,240 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 3: No one hired him, says when eding came, the only 136 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,160 Speaker 3: the vinear said, as foreman, call the workers and pay 137 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 3: them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired, and 138 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 3: going on to the first The workers who were hired 139 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 3: about five in the afternoon came and each received a 140 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 3: denarius humm full days pay for an hour of work. 141 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 3: So when those who are hired first, they they see, 142 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 3: what haven't you expected me to say expected? And I 143 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 3: expected you to say expected. Most of the pain and 144 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 3: the frustration in our lives is not from what happened, 145 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 3: it's from what we. 146 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: Expected. 147 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 3: Anybody ever dealt with the pain of unmet, sometimes unexpressed expectation. 148 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,959 Speaker 3: They expected to receive more, but each one of them 149 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 3: also received the denarius. When they received it, they began 150 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 3: to grumble against the landowner. These who were hired last 151 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 3: worked only one hour, they said, and you have made 152 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 3: them equal to us, who have borne the burden of 153 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 3: the work and the heat of the day. 154 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 1: But he answered one of them, I am not being 155 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 1: unfair to you. Friend. Didn't you agree to work for 156 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: a denarius? Take your pay and go. 157 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 3: I want to give to the one who was hired 158 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 3: last the same as I gave you. Don't I have 159 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:33,320 Speaker 3: the right to do what I want with my own money. 160 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 3: What I say to my wife sometimes but I just 161 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 3: don't always work out? Or are you envious? Because I 162 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:51,959 Speaker 3: am generous? So the last will be first and the 163 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 3: first will be last. Can you say, amen, Amen, I 164 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 3: want to pre today just using this as a thought. 165 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 1: It's not fair. It's not fair. 166 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 3: Look at your neighbor one more time, whichever one you 167 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 3: like the best, and just say neighbor. 168 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:17,439 Speaker 1: Don't be afraid to talk to him, say neighbor. 169 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 3: It's not fair. It is not fair. Father, have your 170 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 3: way speak to us today. Amen, you may be seated 171 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 3: in the presence of the Lord. It's not fair. Elevation, fam. 172 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 3: I started preaching before I had kids, started preaching before 173 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 3: I had offspring. And when I was preaching before I 174 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 3: had kids, I would listen to other preachers who would 175 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 3: always use their kids as an illustration in their messages, 176 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 3: and I would secretly and quietly judge them on the inside, 177 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 3: thinking to myself. 178 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:11,319 Speaker 1: Come on, bruh, where is the creativity. 179 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 3: Surely you can find another way to illustrate the text 180 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 3: besides talking about your kids all the time. 181 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: That's what I said. 182 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,720 Speaker 3: Then I had kids, three of them, and I realized 183 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:25,680 Speaker 3: that if you don't talk about your kids while you're preaching, 184 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 3: you ain't doing it right. You ain't doing it right, 185 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 3: because from the moment these little humans are conceived, you 186 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:37,559 Speaker 3: will be inundated with all kinds of illustrations and moments. 187 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 3: It just makes you pause and go, oh, I hear you, Lord, 188 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 3: I hear you Lord. How mean you know God will 189 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 3: use your kids to speak to you. Yes, he will. 190 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 3: He will use your kids to speak to you. As 191 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 3: a matter of fact, he will use your kids to 192 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 3: show you. You that part, I mean that moment where 193 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,559 Speaker 3: they are overreacting the smallest thing and they just go 194 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 3: off and they're having just this crazy reaction. I'm like, 195 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 3: what in the world is wrong with you? And God's like, wrong, question, 196 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 3: what's wrong with you? She's eight, you're forty two. What 197 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 3: is wrong with through? 198 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: Oh, He'll use your kids to speak to you. 199 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 3: So, my wife and I we have three kids, three 200 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 3: kids eleven, ten and eight, two girls and one boy. 201 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 3: They are distinctly different, unique in their personalities, yet they 202 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 3: are unified in their vision for us as parents. 203 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:34,439 Speaker 1: Oh, they got unity in their vision. And here is 204 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 1: their vision. 205 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 3: Here is their vision statement for us. Here it is 206 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 3: keep it fair. That is the vision statement. Not just 207 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 3: to my kids, up every single child around the world. 208 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 3: Keep it fair. Keep it for Hey, that's not fair. 209 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:52,080 Speaker 3: You better keep it fair, y'all. Before there was a 210 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:55,600 Speaker 3: laborer's union before there was an HR department. There were kids. 211 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 3: Tell my, wait a minute, you can't do that. That's 212 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,319 Speaker 3: not fair. I'm not exaggerating. There is not a week 213 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 3: in the Madu household that I don't hear that phrase 214 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 3: right there. That's not fair, dad, That's not fair. He 215 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 3: got to go to Lego Lane. We didn't get to 216 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 3: go to Lulu Living. 217 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: That's not fair, dad. How much she got to stay 218 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,200 Speaker 1: up late? How come I didn't get to stay up late? 219 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 1: That's not fair, dad. He got to stay home from school. 220 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: That's not fair. I'm like he was sick. He had 221 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: the flu. You want the flu? 222 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 3: Yes, come in, let me lay hands on you for 223 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 3: you get the flu. 224 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 1: Fare. That's not fair. 225 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 3: How many know kids are born with this innate sensitivity 226 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 3: to an equity and disparity. 227 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: They are looking forward. 228 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 3: They have fairness detectors on the inside of them. 229 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: It's funny. 230 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 3: Researchers even did some research and found out that even 231 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 3: as early as infants, they're already able to recognize inequity, 232 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 3: as early as twelve months old, before they can even have. 233 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 1: The words to articulate it. 234 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:00,839 Speaker 3: There's something in them that's going m m ah, this this, 235 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 3: this hain't right. If you don't believe me, do the 236 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 3: test out the service. Just pass out some cake to 237 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,079 Speaker 3: some kids and not one of them will just take 238 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:08,959 Speaker 3: the cake like this. No, they're gonna take it and 239 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 3: go and look, that's not fair. And I share that 240 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 3: with you today. Who can I be honest because I 241 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 3: don't think we outgrow that. I just think we get 242 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 3: more subtle and sophisticated in the way we express it. 243 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 3: Were little statements like must be nice, It gets it 244 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 3: gets more problematic when you feel like the person who's 245 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 3: not being fair is God. 246 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: Elevation family, What do you do when you feel like 247 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: God is not being fair? Oh? 248 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 3: I know you can't say anything because you want to 249 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 3: make everybody think that you walked in here very spiritual 250 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 3: and you just you know, pray all the time and 251 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 3: just lift up your hands. 252 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 1: But what do you do when you feel like God, 253 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 1: this is not fair? 254 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 3: God, I've been coming to church faithfully, like I've been 255 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 3: doing good this year, Like I've showed up faithfully, and 256 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 3: I've been serving any chance that I get. And God, 257 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 3: I've been tithing. I've been tithing this year, and I've 258 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 3: been doing good Lord, I gave him the year in offering. 259 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 3: My word of the year was promotion, and I lost 260 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 3: my job. 261 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 1: That's not fair. God. I've been doing my best. 262 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 3: I'm single, and I've been trusting you for my spouse, 263 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 3: and I've been doing it right, and I've been living holy, 264 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 3: and I've been being pure, and I've been. 265 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: I've been doing the best I can. 266 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 3: And I've been really believing that you would blessed me 267 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 3: with somebody to spend the rest of my life with. 268 00:15:53,000 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: And it's not happening. Meanwhile, my coworker ain't living holy. 269 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: Who'll been with Ronnie? 270 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 3: Donnie and everybody she gonna walk in talk about Guess what, God. 271 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 1: That's not fair. God. My mom. 272 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 3: All she does is pray, All she does is read 273 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 3: the Word. All she does is help people. And she's 274 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 3: gonna get breast cancer. And I'm gonna pray and fast 275 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 3: and cry out to you and she doesn't get healed. 276 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: God, that's not fair. 277 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 3: If you've ever felt like God hasn't been fair, come 278 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 3: with me to this story in Matthew Chapter twenty, This 279 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 3: story that you will only find in Matthew's Gospel. Oh yes, 280 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 3: marky Mark, don't talk about this doctor Luke, don't talk 281 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 3: about this, love John. Don't talk about this, only Matthew. 282 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 3: Leave it to the tax collector to find the one 283 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:09,439 Speaker 3: story where he said, hold on the Matthew. Matthew in 284 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 3: this story right here, only Matthew gives us this story 285 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:17,120 Speaker 3: in Matthew Chapter twenty, where Jesus begins to teach, as 286 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 3: he often did by giving parables. Jesus would often tell 287 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 3: parable stories. It was one of his greatest mediums for 288 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:29,160 Speaker 3: articulating how his kingdom works. He would tell these stories, 289 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 3: these parables. In fact, he would lock in the parable 290 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:36,719 Speaker 3: the logic of how his kingdom works. Because you understand 291 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 3: that your God is a king, and he has a kingdom, 292 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:43,439 Speaker 3: and there's a system the way his kingdom works. He 293 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 3: didn't get voted in, he didn't get elected in. Your 294 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 3: God is sovereign and he's a king, and often his 295 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,400 Speaker 3: kingdom is completely antithetical to how the system of this 296 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:56,399 Speaker 3: world works. So he would hide the logic of his 297 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 3: kingdom in the language of these parables. I love per 298 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 3: because one of the principles of the parables is you 299 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:07,119 Speaker 3: hold on to truth that you discover better than the 300 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:10,919 Speaker 3: truth that's just delivered. So often he would give you 301 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 3: the parable and wouldn't even give you the explanation. He 302 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:17,159 Speaker 3: tell the story and then walk on the stage. He 303 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 3: who has an ear let him hear. He just give 304 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:23,119 Speaker 3: you the story because he wanted you to meditate on 305 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 3: that story. He wanted you to savor the story. He 306 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 3: wanted to hit you later. He wanted it to hit 307 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 3: you later. He wants you to be eating hummus and 308 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 3: peda one day and go. 309 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 1: Oh, I'm the lost sheep. He let the knighted out 310 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: the bay. 311 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:44,399 Speaker 3: He would do that on purpose. That that's the power 312 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:47,159 Speaker 3: of the story. And so he tells the story in 313 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:50,119 Speaker 3: Matthew chapter twenty. But anytime you're looking at a Jesus story, 314 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,159 Speaker 3: you got to ask yourself what made him tell the story. 315 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:55,679 Speaker 3: In order to find out what made him tell this story, 316 00:18:55,840 --> 00:19:01,439 Speaker 3: we got to back that thing up biblically to Matthew 317 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 3: Chapter nineteen. Matthew Chapter nineteen, something interesting happens. Jesus is 318 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:10,959 Speaker 3: Chilaxon and this rich young ruler, this rich young ruler 319 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 3: comes up to Jesus. He's a baller, he's a shock callar. 320 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 3: He's doing a well. He's an influencer. He's got money 321 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 3: and He walks up to Jesus and he says, hey, 322 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:23,719 Speaker 3: good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? 323 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,120 Speaker 1: What must AH do? See this is a business. 324 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,919 Speaker 3: Dude, so he thinks transactionally, that's his logic. He's hey, 325 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:33,440 Speaker 3: I got to do something to get something. So what 326 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,959 Speaker 3: must I do to inherit eternal life? 327 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: And I love it? 328 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 3: Because Jesus goes, all right, you want to play this game? 329 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 3: What must I do to get it? 330 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 1: Never? 331 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:44,679 Speaker 3: Mind has to be given, It's just grace you. But 332 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:46,160 Speaker 3: never okay, you want to play this game? He goes, 333 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 3: all right, Well, just keep all keep all the commandments. 334 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 3: He can keep the keep the commandments. He says, what 335 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,960 Speaker 3: well I've done that? Oh wow, okay, you've done all that. 336 00:19:56,160 --> 00:20:00,160 Speaker 3: He goes, all right, one thing you lack, sell every 337 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:05,160 Speaker 3: you got, give it to the poor, and then you'll 338 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:07,360 Speaker 3: have treasure in heaven. And I want you to come 339 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 3: follow me. Can you imagine that that's a big invitation 340 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 3: right there? The fact that Jesus even gave him the 341 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 3: opportunity to follow him. This rich young ruler, y'all could 342 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 3: have been the thirteenth disciple. Ooh, Jesus didn't give everybody 343 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,640 Speaker 3: the opportunity he did not remember. One dude was possessed 344 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 3: by a demon. Jesus cast it out and the guy 345 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:30,439 Speaker 3: was like, can I go with y'all? And Jesus like, notham, no, 346 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 3: we goodness, just go back and tell everybody what I 347 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:36,640 Speaker 3: did for you. 348 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 1: But this rich young ruler, he gets. 349 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 3: The invitation of a lifetime. You're gonna get the greatest apprenticeship. 350 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 1: Of a lifetime. You'll get to roll with Jesus. Just 351 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:47,399 Speaker 1: sell everything you have. 352 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 3: And the Bible says that he walked away bitterly because 353 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 3: he had a lot of positions. But the real thing 354 00:20:56,160 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 3: is his possessions had him. I don't want to go 355 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:04,120 Speaker 3: there because it's not my sermon. But it's scary when 356 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 3: idol's form in your heart because sometimes you don't even 357 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 3: know it's an idol until God goes, can I have it. 358 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,440 Speaker 3: This man didn't know that his possessions had him until 359 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:22,639 Speaker 3: God said can I have it? And he walked away. Meanwhile, 360 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 3: Peter is watching the whole thing. Oh, you need a Peter. 361 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,199 Speaker 3: You need a Peter to say the thing that nobody 362 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 3: else will say. They thinking that, and Peter walks this 363 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:36,400 Speaker 3: watches this guy walk away and Peter goes, hold on, 364 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:41,879 Speaker 3: it is it we gave, We left everything to follow you. Jesus, 365 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:47,200 Speaker 3: hold on, we did what this brother could not do. 366 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:56,919 Speaker 3: So since we left everything, what do we get? And 367 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 3: Jesus goes, oh, Peter, you get a story. 368 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 1: You get a story. 369 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 3: There was a landowner that had a vineyard and had 370 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 3: workers in his vinyard. And this landowner started looking for workers. 371 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 1: In his vinyard. I like this landowner. 372 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 3: He's got a big vineyard and he's looking for workers 373 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 3: in his vineyard. In that time period, you would not 374 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,920 Speaker 3: have people that were on your payroll working in your vineyard. 375 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 1: That was not the culture of the day. 376 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 3: You often would go to the marketplace and you would 377 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 3: hire people for the day. So the very fact that 378 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 3: this landowner is going out and is looking for workers 379 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 3: is letting. 380 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,879 Speaker 1: Us know what season it is. Yeah, it's letting us 381 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:42,439 Speaker 1: know the season. 382 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,679 Speaker 3: Because you didn't need a lot of workers for the 383 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 3: planting season. You certainly didn't need no workers for the 384 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 3: waiting season. But when the harvest hit, you needed all 385 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 3: the help you could get, y'all, When the harvest hit, 386 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 3: you needed as many hands as you could get, because 387 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,120 Speaker 3: how many know you didn't have all day to get 388 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,360 Speaker 3: the harvest. There was a season, there was a window 389 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 3: that you had to get the harvest. So I'm talking 390 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 3: about landowners would be like, hey, come on, you can work. 391 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,399 Speaker 3: You can work what you got two hands? Come oh 392 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:13,959 Speaker 3: you go only got one, But that's cool. Come on, 393 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 3: you can work too, because when the harvest hit, you 394 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 3: needed as many workers, as many hands as you could get. 395 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 3: The landowner was not looking for spectators. He was looking 396 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,360 Speaker 3: for workers. He was looking for somebody that would roll 397 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 3: up their sleeves and say, I realized that there's a 398 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 3: harvest that is rife, and we got to get this 399 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 3: harvest in. And how many know, the bigger the harvest, 400 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 3: the more hands you need to pull in the harvest. 401 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 3: Let me tell you why some of y'all ain't shouted 402 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 3: because you think God called you to just come to 403 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,399 Speaker 3: church and sit on your blessed assurance and hear a 404 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:46,120 Speaker 3: cute little. 405 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 1: Message and go home. 406 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, we need workers in the Kingdom 407 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:54,639 Speaker 3: of God because there is a harvest that is plentiful. 408 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 1: There is a harvest that is. 409 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,640 Speaker 3: Already and we need people to say, I'll do whatever 410 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:01,160 Speaker 3: it to get. 411 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:01,879 Speaker 1: The harvest in. 412 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,639 Speaker 3: Can I just stop right here and thank God for 413 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 3: the workers at Elevation Church that help bring in the 414 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 3: harvest and eat kids right now, saying I gotta be 415 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 3: here because the harvest is here in the parking lot, 416 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:17,720 Speaker 3: saying come on this way. You know what some of 417 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,400 Speaker 3: y'all are like in the parking lot, Come on this way. 418 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:21,119 Speaker 1: It's okay. 419 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 3: Why because the harvest, when the harvest hits, you need 420 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 3: all the help you can get. Asked me how I 421 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 3: know our church has been in fourteen different venues since 422 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 3: we started sitting up and tearing down God blessed us 423 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 3: with a building or believing God to raise the money 424 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,359 Speaker 3: to renovate the building. Ooh, but let me tell you 425 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 3: we still setting up pipe and trade every single Sunday. 426 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 3: And why are we doing it? Because the harvest hit. 427 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,879 Speaker 3: And when the harvest hits, you need all the help 428 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 3: you can get. 429 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,159 Speaker 1: I wonder if God is waiting. 430 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 3: For you to put your hand to the plow, or 431 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,680 Speaker 3: have you gotten so you to just come to church 432 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 3: and receive Him like us a buffet, Say that was 433 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,160 Speaker 3: good this week, bless God, come back next. 434 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 1: Week for some more. 435 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, he wasn't looking for spectators. He 436 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:17,479 Speaker 3: was looking for workers. It's interesting because I like this 437 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 3: landowner because later we will find out in the text 438 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 3: that he has somebody that can pay these workers. He's 439 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 3: got a forman that can pay them. And I'm thinking, 440 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 3: if you got somebody that can pay him, surely you 441 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 3: got somebody that can pick them. But the landowner doesn't 442 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 3: like that. The landowner is so obsessed with going out 443 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 3: and picking them. He wants to because I can't get 444 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 3: anybody to pay you. You can get reward from other people, 445 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:53,199 Speaker 3: but when it comes to calling, when it comes to picking, 446 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 3: I want to do that because you will never forget 447 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:01,120 Speaker 3: the day that you were standing in the marketplace desperate, 448 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 3: knowing that you wouldn't be able to eat that day 449 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 3: if you didn't find work. And I don't want you 450 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,439 Speaker 3: to forget the moment when I came out to the 451 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 3: marketplace and said you you, oh, right here you. I 452 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,360 Speaker 3: want you to feel the joy of being chosen, of 453 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 3: being picked. Oh. I like this land owner because he 454 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,239 Speaker 3: likes to pick his people. Help other person next to you, 455 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 3: just in case they're falling asleep, and say, he chose me, 456 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:34,399 Speaker 3: he chose me, he chose me. He goes out and 457 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 3: he picks each and every one of them. Tex says, 458 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,440 Speaker 3: he goes out at six am, He goes out again 459 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,920 Speaker 3: at nine, He goes out again at noon, He goes 460 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,639 Speaker 3: out again at three, and goes out again at five. 461 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,399 Speaker 3: Five times he goes out to pick. Now that confused me, 462 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 3: because I'm like landold a, are you confused? 463 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 1: Why you keep going out to pick people? 464 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 3: Seems like to me, if you know your land, you 465 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 3: should just go out once at. 466 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 1: Six am and say, hey, I'm hiring y'all. 467 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 3: Come on, Why does the landowner keep going out five 468 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 3: times he goes out to pick people? First of all, 469 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 3: lets us know he's got land big enough that he 470 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,479 Speaker 3: needs a lot of workers. But he keeps going out 471 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 3: because maybe the Texas letting us know. That's exactly what 472 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,720 Speaker 3: Grace does. How many are thankful for God's grace that'll 473 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,440 Speaker 3: keep going out and keep reaching out for you. 474 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 1: Come on, even when you think that Grace should have 475 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: just said that's enough. I already went out once. 476 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 3: No, I'm gonna go out again, and I'm gonna pick you, 477 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 3: and I'm gonna choose you. I don't know about you, 478 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,200 Speaker 3: but I'm thankful for the grace of God that keeps 479 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,880 Speaker 3: pursuing me that keeps chasing after me. He says, I'm 480 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 3: will keep going out and he goes out five times, 481 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 3: which made me think. 482 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:48,880 Speaker 1: She say he went out five times? Do we have 483 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: five categories of workers? 484 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 3: He went out of six nine, now three and five, 485 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 3: So we got five categories of workers? Right? 486 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 1: Wrong, We don't have five categories of workers. 487 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 3: Because you'll notice that there's something distinctly different about the 488 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 3: six am crew. The people that got picked first, they 489 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 3: had a different arrangement than the rest of the workers. 490 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,880 Speaker 3: So really we got different times. But it's really only 491 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 3: two categories of workers. The six am crew is distinctly 492 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 3: different from the rest. 493 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 1: For I tell you how the different. 494 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 3: Let's just talk about these six am thief They got 495 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,640 Speaker 3: picked first. Doesn't it feel good to get picked first? 496 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,440 Speaker 3: Six am people? You know they weren't there at six o'clock. 497 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 3: You know they were there at like five forty. Those 498 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 3: six am people, they're like, you know, to be on 499 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 3: time is to be late. To be earli is to 500 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 3: be on time, and to be late is unacceptable. I'm 501 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 3: going to be here at five forty five and I've 502 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 3: already got my resume. Yes, how many vineyards I've worked 503 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,719 Speaker 3: a Yes? I'm very good, I'm very talented. And they 504 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 3: were there and they were prepared, they had their resumes. 505 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,320 Speaker 3: Can you see them, you know those six amps people, 506 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 3: they're here in the room today. The six are people 507 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 3: of the people back in school when you wanted to 508 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 3: cheat on their test and they see you trying to cheat, 509 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 3: and they'll be like, six am people, six am people, 510 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,720 Speaker 3: Oh you got it together. You got your resume. So 511 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 3: you know, the six am people were there and they 512 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 3: were looking to get hired. They're like, oh, we got it, 513 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 3: we got it. We know we gonna get picked. Oh, 514 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 3: here comes the landowner And in my mind, the landolder 515 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 3: pulls up in this one fifteen and he says, hey, 516 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 3: y'all looking for some work. They're like, of course, been 517 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 3: here early. You saw a resume on LinkedIn, right, Yeah, okay, so. 518 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 1: Landolds I I'm hiring. Getting the truck. They're like, yeah, okay, 519 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 1: well we will, but put put one second, one second, Hey, 520 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 1: come on, get in the truck. No, no, we want to, 521 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 1: but just we you discussed compensation. Compensation, Now come on, man, 522 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 1: don't you want to work that? 523 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 5: Look, look, I'll pay you whatever's right, whatever is right, Yeah, right, 524 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 5: what we need to know what are we going to 525 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 5: get before we go to work? 526 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 3: And then I was like, all right, how about a denarius? 527 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 3: Full day's word, full day's pay, denarious bed. Now let's 528 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:20,640 Speaker 3: get in the trucks. Somebody are like, I didn't see that. 529 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 3: In the text, it's in verse number two. In verse 530 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 3: number two, it says on Matthew, Chapter twenty, it says 531 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 3: that he agreed to pay them a denarius for the 532 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 3: day and sent them into his vineyard. 533 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: He agreed that That word agreed in the. 534 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 3: Original language is the word SYMPHONYO is where we get 535 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 3: this word symphony. It means that they had to go 536 00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 3: back and forth between until they got to an agreement, 537 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 3: that there was a bargaining, and then finally they said 538 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 3: they said, good, all right, we'll go now that we 539 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 3: know what we're gonna get. The rest of the crew 540 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 3: had a different sup let me show you this set up. 541 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:06,720 Speaker 3: Is in verse four and five. It says he told 542 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 3: them that's the rest of the workers. You also go 543 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 3: work in my vineyard and I will pay you whatever's right. 544 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 3: So they went, no going back and forth, no negotiation, 545 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 3: whatever you think is right, cool, we just want to work. 546 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:27,040 Speaker 1: Do you see the difference. 547 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:32,520 Speaker 3: So one group has a contract, the other group has trust. 548 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 3: One group is trusting the compensation. The other group says, 549 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 3: I just trust the consistent character of the landowner and 550 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 3: whatever the landowner thinks says right. I'm cool with that. 551 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 3: Right there, one group is walking by agreement. The other 552 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 3: gup said, I'm walking by faith. I just trust that 553 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 3: the landowner is gonna do whatever is right and he 554 00:31:55,400 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 3: will determine what the pay is. Do you see the 555 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 3: difference between the six AM people and the rest. 556 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 1: One said I want to make sure I get what I. 557 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 3: Deserve, and the other group said, I'm just gonna trust 558 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 3: the consistent character of the landowner and whatever you think 559 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:26,040 Speaker 3: is right, I'll go with that. I love this five 560 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,160 Speaker 3: PM crew. When I get to Heaven, I want to 561 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 3: talk to them. I do because I want to ask 562 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:39,200 Speaker 3: them what made you stay at the marketplace all day 563 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 3: when you weren't picked. What made you sit there watching 564 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 3: people pass you by, watching other people get noticed before you. 565 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:55,040 Speaker 1: Why would you. 566 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 3: Stay there till five o'clock when you know there was 567 00:32:58,440 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 3: only going to be an hour left? 568 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,800 Speaker 1: What would make you say? 569 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,120 Speaker 3: That's my question for them, And then I want to 570 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 3: thank God for the land owner who says that even 571 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 3: at five o'clock, I'll still go out just in case 572 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 3: there's some people who have been overlooked. 573 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,480 Speaker 1: Just in case there's some people that didn't look like 574 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,080 Speaker 1: they were gonna be the best, I'm gonna keep going 575 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 1: out for them. I don't know about you. 576 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 3: Maybe you had the best resume, maybe you were one 577 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 3: of the ones that were picked first. But I want 578 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,840 Speaker 3: to thank God that he still goes out for the 579 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,920 Speaker 3: five pm people. I want to thank God that, even 580 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,719 Speaker 3: when I've been overlooked, that even when nobody said, oh, 581 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,320 Speaker 3: you know, it looked like he got what it takes. 582 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 3: There's a god who says, no, you don't know what 583 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 3: I can do with him. You don't know how it 584 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 3: can change her life. 585 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,520 Speaker 1: Give me her. 586 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:47,600 Speaker 3: He went out and he picked the five pm people. Now, 587 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,800 Speaker 3: these five pm people, we got to talk about him, 588 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,520 Speaker 3: because that's why the text wants us to talk about them. 589 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 3: The ones in the middle are just feeling in the story. 590 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,000 Speaker 3: He wants us to look at the six am and 591 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 3: the five pm. How you know, because he says the 592 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 3: last shall be first and the first. He's pulling us 593 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,680 Speaker 3: to the extremes. That's why he had them go. So 594 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:16,440 Speaker 3: these five PM people, they're funny because if there's only 595 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,400 Speaker 3: a work day that ends at six o'clock and I 596 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,280 Speaker 3: got hired at five. 597 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:27,080 Speaker 1: Okay, here's my question. How far is the vineyard from 598 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,040 Speaker 1: the market blaze? Fifteen minutes? 599 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,880 Speaker 3: Okay, you get to work at five fifteen, work day 600 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,719 Speaker 3: ends at six. You got orientation. 601 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,840 Speaker 1: Now we have five thirty five. 602 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:46,000 Speaker 3: You gotta get your badge, take your picture, get your bag, 603 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:48,680 Speaker 3: and go down to the vineyard. By the time you 604 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,920 Speaker 3: get down to the vineyard, y'all, it's five point fifty. 605 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 3: How many grapes you picking up in ten minutes? Can 606 00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,520 Speaker 3: you imagine you picked up three grape? 607 00:34:59,560 --> 00:34:59,840 Speaker 6: Third? 608 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 1: The whistles blow. 609 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,400 Speaker 3: And your shift is over, and now it's time for 610 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:10,879 Speaker 3: everybody to get paid. And the landowner calls this form 611 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,160 Speaker 3: an open and says, ain't coming real quick? Like what's up? 612 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:15,600 Speaker 3: He said, Hey man, I know you're about to pay them, 613 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:17,520 Speaker 3: but I want to do something different this time. 614 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,240 Speaker 1: It's like something different. You always want to do something. 615 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:29,000 Speaker 6: Different, oh lord, And and he goes, Okay, here's what 616 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:33,880 Speaker 6: I want to do. Let's pay the five PM workers first, 617 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:39,120 Speaker 6: and then let's plan pay the six am workers last, 618 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:41,640 Speaker 6: and pay them all the same. 619 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 3: The four Foreman's like, you're trying to get me a shot. Okay, 620 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:49,840 Speaker 3: So can you see him? You got to see it. 621 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:54,080 Speaker 3: Can you see them lined up? Can you see the 622 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,319 Speaker 3: five pm people? They're down here? Can you see the 623 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:01,880 Speaker 3: six am people, y'ad. They've been working since six a m. 624 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:06,160 Speaker 3: Their hands have blood and callouses on it, they're sweaty, 625 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:07,520 Speaker 3: they're bent over. 626 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,600 Speaker 1: God, I can't believe it was this hot. It always 627 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,279 Speaker 1: gets hot during this time. And they can you see them? 628 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,520 Speaker 1: They smell like outside. 629 00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:22,399 Speaker 3: Meanwhile, the five pm people smell like lelabo and look 630 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:27,000 Speaker 3: so fresh and so clean. And here comes the foreman 631 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:29,640 Speaker 3: to the five pm people. 632 00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:38,680 Speaker 7: First, Denarius, No, no, no, you're you serious about four 633 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:39,720 Speaker 7: days path? 634 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:40,760 Speaker 1: I didn't do anything. 635 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,120 Speaker 3: Look I got three grapes in my bag and I 636 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:44,040 Speaker 3: didn't No, no, no, no. 637 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,640 Speaker 1: I can't take this. I can't take this. No, I 638 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,720 Speaker 1: didn't do anything. Let me go pick some more grapes. No, 639 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:56,640 Speaker 1: this is the will of the landowner. Take it. This 640 00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:58,120 Speaker 1: is too much. I can't take it. Let me let 641 00:36:58,120 --> 00:36:59,919 Speaker 1: me go try to earn it and do something. No, 642 00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:05,720 Speaker 1: this is what he wants. And all of a sudden they. 643 00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:10,799 Speaker 3: Are standing there with gratitude, knowing they shouldn't even been 644 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:15,160 Speaker 3: picked in the first place. They only got five grapes, 645 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:20,239 Speaker 3: and yet they got paid. 646 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:26,120 Speaker 1: A full day's work. Meanwhile, the six am people are watching. 647 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:36,160 Speaker 1: The whole thing must be nice, are you, Siriah? Did? 648 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,160 Speaker 3: Did you see what I see? They just paid them 649 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,880 Speaker 3: for a whole day's work. Think they picked five grapes 650 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,440 Speaker 3: or I cannot believe. But then it hits them. Oh, 651 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:50,080 Speaker 3: wait a minute, if they got if they got a 652 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:51,799 Speaker 3: full days paid for only an hour. 653 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:58,719 Speaker 1: We Oh, can you see him getting excited? 654 00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,160 Speaker 3: Let's just imagine that. It's is like two hundred dollars. 655 00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:02,520 Speaker 3: You know how you start doing you start doing that, 656 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:03,200 Speaker 3: They're gone. 657 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:10,680 Speaker 1: Damn two hundred hundred dollars. The Amazon cart is full. 658 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,719 Speaker 1: Oh they're planning a trip to the Bahamas. They are 659 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:18,239 Speaker 1: so excited. And then the four men comes home and 660 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:25,520 Speaker 1: goes Denarius what and all hell breaks loose. 661 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:34,799 Speaker 3: And they can't stand it and they crumbled against the landowner. 662 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:45,040 Speaker 1: That's not fair. What's wild is the landowner kept his word. 663 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,399 Speaker 3: You negotiated, He didn't cheat you. 664 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,520 Speaker 1: You said you wanted the Narius. That's what you got. 665 00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:59,840 Speaker 3: Why would the landowner do the why would the land 666 00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:02,880 Speaker 3: to make them watch everybody. 667 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:03,240 Speaker 1: Else get paid? 668 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,319 Speaker 3: Because there's something God will always do in you. 669 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:07,399 Speaker 1: He wants you. 670 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,719 Speaker 3: To see other people get blessed. He wants you to 671 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,280 Speaker 3: see other people that you don't think deserve the grace 672 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,279 Speaker 3: of God. He will bless them right in front of you, 673 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:16,920 Speaker 3: because that's actually. 674 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,040 Speaker 1: Good for your little soul. 675 00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,880 Speaker 3: He wants to say, O, can you still trust me 676 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:26,520 Speaker 3: when you see somebody get something that you don't think 677 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:27,320 Speaker 3: they deserve. 678 00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:29,719 Speaker 1: This is their issue. 679 00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:34,480 Speaker 3: It's not what they got paid, it's what somebody they 680 00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,000 Speaker 3: thought didn't deserve it. 681 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:44,480 Speaker 1: God paid and they grumbled against them. Okay, Hold that 682 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:50,759 Speaker 1: was my intro to get you to this point. 683 00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,200 Speaker 3: In every Jesus parable, you got to ask yourself this, 684 00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:57,239 Speaker 3: who are you. 685 00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:03,600 Speaker 1: In the story? Who are you. 686 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:08,440 Speaker 3: In this story? Why are you thinking about it? The 687 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:12,560 Speaker 3: landowner is taken? I know, I know, because you're like, well, 688 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:17,560 Speaker 3: I do have some properties, and I just say landowner's taken. 689 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:20,799 Speaker 3: That's landowner's God. 690 00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:24,839 Speaker 1: So are you. 691 00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:32,799 Speaker 3: The five PM worker just grateful and he called you 692 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:38,600 Speaker 3: just thankful to be in the vineyard? Or you the 693 00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:45,680 Speaker 3: six a m worker always got your hand down? Is 694 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:46,080 Speaker 3: that in. 695 00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:49,560 Speaker 1: Who are you now? 696 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:53,200 Speaker 3: Before you say you're a five PM person, Let's be honest. 697 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:59,239 Speaker 3: We all got some six am and us as I 698 00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,600 Speaker 3: land the plane, I want to give you some blues 699 00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:06,120 Speaker 3: clues of how you can know you got some six 700 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,200 Speaker 3: a M in you. 701 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,799 Speaker 1: You know you're a six a M worker. Hear me? 702 00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:15,480 Speaker 1: You know you're a six am worker when you always. 703 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:20,359 Speaker 3: Have a grumble, a grumble They grumbled against the land 704 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:20,640 Speaker 3: on the. 705 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:22,560 Speaker 1: Grumble. 706 00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:24,920 Speaker 3: See that that word grumble is interesting because it's not 707 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,600 Speaker 3: like a loud, defiant fist saying I can't believe this. 708 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:31,960 Speaker 1: It's actually just under your breath. It's bitterness under your breath. 709 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,799 Speaker 1: Believe I'm coming to this church. 710 00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,759 Speaker 3: For a long time, I have been doing anything to 711 00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,719 Speaker 3: bless me always all the other people I've her twenty 712 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:45,880 Speaker 3: years doing nothing. It's it's it's a it's a grumble. 713 00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:53,640 Speaker 3: Are your complaints louder than your praise? You do know 714 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:56,080 Speaker 3: that God does not inhabit the complaints of his people. 715 00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,160 Speaker 3: He inhabits the praises of his people. And one of 716 00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,920 Speaker 3: the ways you know you got some six AM in you, 717 00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:08,600 Speaker 3: because when you always got a grumble, always complaining, you said, 718 00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,600 Speaker 3: the average person complains fifteen to twenty times a day. 719 00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:14,880 Speaker 3: Let's be honest. There's rookie numbers for some of us. 720 00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:18,799 Speaker 3: You always have a grumble Number two. You know you 721 00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:22,040 Speaker 3: got some six AM in your system when you expect 722 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:27,800 Speaker 3: what was never promised? Why do you have an expectation 723 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:32,440 Speaker 3: for more? You negotiated the contract. Many of us are 724 00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:36,520 Speaker 3: mad at God because we're expecting something from him that 725 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:40,360 Speaker 3: he actually never promised you at all. That was something 726 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,480 Speaker 3: that you came up with, That was something that was 727 00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:47,200 Speaker 3: in your own mind. Are you mad at God because 728 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:52,440 Speaker 3: you're expecting something from him that he never promised you? 729 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,480 Speaker 3: You know you got some six AM in your system. 730 00:42:55,920 --> 00:43:03,480 Speaker 3: When you struggle to celebrate other people, when God blesses 731 00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:09,279 Speaker 3: somebody else, your immediate reaction is them. 732 00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:10,960 Speaker 1: Are you for real? They don't deserve that. 733 00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:17,200 Speaker 3: I've been saved way longer than them. 734 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,000 Speaker 1: Do you celebrate other people that? 735 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,080 Speaker 3: That's one of the signs you got some six AM 736 00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:27,040 Speaker 3: in you last one, You know you got some six 737 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:28,120 Speaker 3: AM in your system. 738 00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:34,480 Speaker 1: When you think God owes you hear me? 739 00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:42,839 Speaker 3: This is often one of the casualties of faithfulness. It's entitlements. 740 00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,160 Speaker 3: You think, well, because I have been serving it, because 741 00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:49,120 Speaker 3: I have been doing this God, you must perform this way. God, 742 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,000 Speaker 3: because I did show up, you must heal And God, 743 00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:53,319 Speaker 3: because I did get in the. 744 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,960 Speaker 1: Offering, you better open up the window of heaven. What 745 00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:57,360 Speaker 1: is going on? God? 746 00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,960 Speaker 3: Have you been shaking your fist at God God thinking 747 00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,080 Speaker 3: that he owes you something. 748 00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,040 Speaker 1: This text is a warning. 749 00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:08,040 Speaker 3: To all of us that don't let your faithfulness become 750 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,160 Speaker 3: entitlement to where you start looking up to God. 751 00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:14,600 Speaker 1: Thinking he owes you something. Can I tell you something? 752 00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:19,160 Speaker 3: God doesn't owe you anything because He already gave you everything. 753 00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:20,680 Speaker 1: If he never gave you. 754 00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:24,120 Speaker 3: Another dollar, if he never opened up another door, if 755 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:27,320 Speaker 3: he didn't do anything but sin, his only son to 756 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:29,200 Speaker 3: die on a cross for your. 757 00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:30,960 Speaker 1: Sins, wouldn't that be enough? 758 00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:34,640 Speaker 3: And I'm looking for some five PM people who say 759 00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,799 Speaker 3: I'm not gonna have my hands out going. 760 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,280 Speaker 1: God, you owe me more. I'm gonna have my hands 761 00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:39,959 Speaker 1: out going. 762 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:40,200 Speaker 3: God. 763 00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,080 Speaker 1: I thank you for what you've done. 764 00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,200 Speaker 3: God, Thank you for saving me. 765 00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,440 Speaker 1: God, Thank you. I could have been stuck in my sins. 766 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:51,919 Speaker 3: But thanks be unto God for your faithfulness, for your kindness, 767 00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:53,239 Speaker 3: for your goodness. 768 00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:58,320 Speaker 1: Oh God, you don't owe me anything. I owe you everything. 769 00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:03,160 Speaker 3: You want to know if you are six am person 770 00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:07,840 Speaker 3: or a five PM person. Watch this, Check your hands, 771 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:15,239 Speaker 3: Check your hands. Six am people always have their hands out, 772 00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:17,720 Speaker 3: looking to the right and the left. 773 00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,280 Speaker 1: I can't believe I didn't get that. I can't believe 774 00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:24,040 Speaker 1: they God blessed. I can't believe they got more opportunity. 775 00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:27,440 Speaker 3: They always have their hands out looking to the left 776 00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:28,000 Speaker 3: and the right. 777 00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:32,200 Speaker 1: But five pm people always have their hands up. 778 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:36,400 Speaker 3: They just can't believe that God called them. They just 779 00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:39,919 Speaker 3: can't believe that God chose them. I don't know about you, 780 00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:42,480 Speaker 3: but I'm gonna spend all of my life being a. 781 00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:43,480 Speaker 1: Five PM person. 782 00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:45,840 Speaker 3: I know where I could be, I know where I 783 00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:48,160 Speaker 3: should be if it had not been for the grace 784 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,600 Speaker 3: of God. I'm gonna lift here it is both of 785 00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,840 Speaker 3: my hands. Who am I that you would think about me? 786 00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:56,239 Speaker 3: Who am I that you would choose me? Come on, 787 00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,120 Speaker 3: I want all the five PM people. Would you open 788 00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,719 Speaker 3: up your mouth and give God some praise and just 789 00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:05,279 Speaker 3: thank him. Thank him for his salvation, thank him for 790 00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:08,520 Speaker 3: his mercy, thank him for his goodness, Thank Him for 791 00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,120 Speaker 3: blessing you when you didn't deserve it. Not of fact, 792 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:16,520 Speaker 3: I don't deserve anything. I'm lifting both on my hands. 793 00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:21,600 Speaker 1: I'm telling you. 794 00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:30,000 Speaker 3: The casualty of faithfulness sometimes is entitlement. Thinking that because 795 00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,479 Speaker 3: I've been showing up, because I've been doing this, God 796 00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:34,000 Speaker 3: you owe me. 797 00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:38,360 Speaker 1: When God doesn't owe you anything. 798 00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:44,360 Speaker 3: Look at his grace even to the six Am people. 799 00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:52,720 Speaker 3: I'm not being unfair to you, friend, Friend, I kept 800 00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:58,280 Speaker 3: my word. You wanted a contract instead of just trusting 801 00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:05,239 Speaker 3: my character. But it's not fair. Yeah, thank God, it's 802 00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,320 Speaker 3: not fair because grace is not fair. 803 00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:15,240 Speaker 1: Fair because I spend an eternity in hell. Fair because 804 00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,399 Speaker 1: this should have been me on the cross. That's fair. 805 00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:24,680 Speaker 1: Thank God, he Ah, fair grace. It's not fair. 806 00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,880 Speaker 3: I'm gonna ask every head be bowed and I'll be 807 00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:36,879 Speaker 3: closed today. I really felt like this message was for today, 808 00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:42,880 Speaker 3: somebody who's been maybe shaking your fist at God, and 809 00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:49,080 Speaker 3: I'm begging you to turn your entitlement into gratitude. Gratitude 810 00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:55,840 Speaker 3: is the antidote for complaining, for bitterness, for being stuck, 811 00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:57,600 Speaker 3: just to say God, I thank. 812 00:47:57,360 --> 00:47:59,160 Speaker 1: You, thank you. 813 00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:02,600 Speaker 3: If you're here today, and you'd be so honest to say, 814 00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,400 Speaker 3: you know what, there's a lot of six Am. 815 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:07,000 Speaker 1: It's been creeping in. 816 00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:13,840 Speaker 3: My complaints have outweighed my outweighed my praise and my thanksgivings. 817 00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:14,600 Speaker 1: Today you need to. 818 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:18,439 Speaker 3: Turn from being a five pm person to a six 819 00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:20,359 Speaker 3: am person. If that's you and you know this word 820 00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:21,960 Speaker 3: was for you, would you just lift up your hand 821 00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:22,920 Speaker 3: just as the sign and. 822 00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:24,760 Speaker 1: Saying, Lord, I hear you, I hear you. 823 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:28,080 Speaker 3: You don't know me anything. I'm gonna start with gratitude. 824 00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,640 Speaker 3: I see those hands anybody else. Cross every location, Thank 825 00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:31,200 Speaker 3: you God. 826 00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:31,799 Speaker 1: Thank you. 827 00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:32,240 Speaker 6: Jesus. 828 00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:36,239 Speaker 1: Christ is not there, Thank God. 829 00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,000 Speaker 3: We don't get what did we deserve heads to about. 830 00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:42,279 Speaker 3: I'll still closed across every location in this room. If 831 00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:46,160 Speaker 3: you've never taken that first step is just to say, Jesus. 832 00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:47,640 Speaker 1: My life is yours. 833 00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,440 Speaker 3: Some of you, maybe you've been trying to earn salvation, 834 00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:53,160 Speaker 3: thinking well, I'll come to God when I get my 835 00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,359 Speaker 3: life together. I'll come to God when I do more. 836 00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:59,560 Speaker 3: It's not about doing, it's about receiving. 837 00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:05,120 Speaker 1: Was already done for you. He's a good landowner. He 838 00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:09,080 Speaker 1: loves you. He's a landowner that keeps going out. He'll 839 00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:11,839 Speaker 1: wait till five o'clock if he has to. 840 00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:16,560 Speaker 3: Looking for you. So if you're here today, I don't care. 841 00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:19,920 Speaker 3: If it's one person, you're worth it. Say today's day. 842 00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:21,560 Speaker 3: I need to give Jesus my life. Would you just 843 00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:23,719 Speaker 3: lift up your hand as a sign to say, I'm 844 00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:26,560 Speaker 3: coming home. I'm giving him my heart today. Thank you Jesus, 845 00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:27,960 Speaker 3: Thank you God, Thank you God. 846 00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:29,720 Speaker 1: Yeah. See those hands. 847 00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:37,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody lifting up both of their hands. Absolutely, that's 848 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:38,160 Speaker 3: what five PM people do. 849 00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:41,080 Speaker 1: They lift up both of their hands. 850 00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:44,440 Speaker 3: Anybody else, come on, I want to lead you in 851 00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,960 Speaker 3: this prayer just before pastor comes. I'm going to give 852 00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:49,440 Speaker 3: you the words, but you just say it from your heart. 853 00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:55,520 Speaker 3: Say Jesus, I believe that you are the son of God. Jesus, 854 00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:59,719 Speaker 3: I believe that you live the life that I was 855 00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:04,120 Speaker 3: app to live. You died the death that I was 856 00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:05,799 Speaker 3: supposed to die. 857 00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:10,520 Speaker 1: You took my place. So my response is to give 858 00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:11,160 Speaker 1: you everything. 859 00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:16,959 Speaker 3: Come into my life, forgive me of my sins, make 860 00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:21,680 Speaker 3: me brand new. From this moment forward, I'm walking with 861 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:26,600 Speaker 3: you in Jesus' name. A man, a man, Amen, Amen, 862 00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:28,600 Speaker 3: Come on, give God and one more handclapp a phrase 863 00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:29,439 Speaker 3: elevation things. 864 00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:35,440 Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of 865 00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:38,480 Speaker 2: you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of 866 00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:41,440 Speaker 2: you that this ministry is possible. 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