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