1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,639 Speaker 1: Hey, thank you for listening to Elevation with Stephen Verdick. 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: Make sure you listen and follow along with Elevation with 3 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: Stephen Ferdick on Amazon Music and don't forget. You can 4 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 1: also just ask Alexa, Hey, Alexa, can you play Elevation 5 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: with Stephen Ferdick on Amazon Music. Also with Amazon Music Unlimited, 6 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: you can now listen to all your favorite music, podcasts 7 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: and audiobooks all on the Amazon Music app. 8 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 2: I want to hit you with a scripture from Acts 9 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 2: chapter three for a moment, and who knows where we'll 10 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 2: go from there, but Acts chapter three would definitely be 11 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 2: our starting place. It's exciting to think about the potential 12 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,200 Speaker 2: that exists in a moment like this, where the God 13 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 2: who knows you by name and knows not only the 14 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,159 Speaker 2: struggles that you have right now, but whatever you're going 15 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 2: to face this week, could give you the instruction to 16 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 2: comfort and the serenity that you need for whatever is 17 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 2: going on in your life, and to prepare you for 18 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 2: opportunities and opposition. Elie just from one word, one word 19 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 2: that he could speak, and I want to share with 20 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 2: you from X chapter three eleven, while he clung to 21 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 2: Peter and John all the people ran together to them 22 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 2: in the portico called Solomon's astounded, and when Peter saw it, 23 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 2: he addressed the people men of Israel, why do you 24 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 2: wonder at this or why do you stare at us? 25 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 2: As though by our own power or piety we have 26 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 2: made him walk? The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, 27 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,680 Speaker 2: and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, 28 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 2: glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied 29 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,040 Speaker 2: in the presence of Pilate when he had decided to 30 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 2: release him. But you denied the Holy and Righteous One 31 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 2: and asked for a murderer to be granted to you. 32 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 2: And you killed the author of life, whom God raised 33 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 2: from the dead. To this we are witnesses and his name, 34 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 2: by faith in his name has made this man strong, 35 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 2: whom you see and know, and the faith that is 36 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 2: through Jesus has given the man this perfect health. In 37 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 2: the presence of you all, I want to speak to 38 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:16,399 Speaker 2: you today for a few moments on this subject. Trapped 39 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 2: in transition, Trapped in transition, and I want to pray 40 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 2: before we get into it one more time. 41 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 3: Let's pray. Father. 42 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 2: Now I call on you to do the thing that 43 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 2: only you can do. I can study, I can prepare, 44 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 2: but I can only preach to a certain level unless 45 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 2: you inhabit this holy moment, Holy Spirit. 46 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 3: There is a. 47 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 2: Design, custom tailored message that each person needs. I ask 48 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 2: now that you would measure that out to each heart. 49 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 2: Help us to get past all of the distractions that 50 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 2: would keep us from understanding the things that you desire 51 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 2: to say. And we give you all the glory in Jesus' name. 52 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:02,519 Speaker 2: Somebody shout Amen on your way to your seat. Touch 53 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:07,919 Speaker 2: somebody and say I am in transition. I was standing 54 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 2: up and now I'm sitting down. You know, it's really 55 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:19,679 Speaker 2: interesting when we travel. Holly likes to do stuff. That's 56 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 2: where we're different. I like to get in and get out. 57 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 2: If I'm preaching somewhere, I don't need to see the sites. 58 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 2: Just show me the stage where I need to do 59 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 2: my job. Get me back home where my refrigerator is 60 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 2: stocked with diet Coke. 61 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:44,119 Speaker 3: I'm not very adventurous. She's the opposite. 62 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 2: She wants to go and see all the touristy stuff. 63 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 2: And God helped that woman in a gift shop. I'm serious. 64 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 2: When we go through the gift shop, I just know 65 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 2: every time that it's going to be a piece of 66 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 2: my kid. It's college education find that's going to be left. 67 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 2: Is this a true story? Those of you who have traveled, 68 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 2: Holly Fredick is a good forty five minutes in any 69 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 2: gift shop, and I understood it until we went to Alcatraz. 70 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 2: I couldn't understand why you want to buy something. 71 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 3: You know, the prison. It's not a prison anymore. 72 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 2: Now it's a national park, but until nineteen sixty two 73 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 2: is a prison, and I honestly enjoyed that one. Now 74 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,919 Speaker 2: she's taken me to some really boring places. I'm not 75 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 2: going to lie to you. One time we learned about 76 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 2: Australian military history and I just don't need to know it, 77 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 2: do you. 78 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 3: Know what I mean? I appreciate their continent, but it 79 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:50,600 Speaker 3: is not a part of my history or my destiny. 80 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 2: So I usually last about thirty minutes, and then I 81 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 2: start feeling trapped. 82 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 3: I mean I really do. 83 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:58,720 Speaker 2: I start feeling like I would do anything to get 84 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 2: out of this situation. But she's taken me all over 85 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 2: and at Alcatraz it was different because not only was 86 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 2: my wife, not only was my wife interested to visit Alcatraz, 87 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 2: but she was interested for me to hear the stories 88 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 2: on the headset that they gave you for the guided tour. 89 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:20,839 Speaker 2: And I don't know it's because I love seaw Shank 90 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 2: Redemption and it's my favorite movie. But something about that 91 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 2: just it connected with me. Okay, maybe it's all the 92 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 2: prison stories in the Bible. I don't know why, but 93 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 2: at Alcatraz it was different, and I wasn't born. I 94 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 2: was actually really fascinated, especially at this one part. I 95 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 2: brought you a picture from when I visited prison as 96 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 2: a tourist. This is me and Chunk standing at the 97 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 2: part of the tour where they would show you how 98 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 2: the prison Alcatraz. Because it's an island, it was directly 99 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 2: positioned where you could see one and one quarter miles 100 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 2: across the ocean. 101 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 3: You could see San Francisco. 102 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 2: And what they said on the headphones and I didn't 103 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 2: forget this is that what made it so agonizing for 104 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:14,719 Speaker 2: a prisoner was that you could see just a little 105 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 2: over a mile everything that you wanted in life. 106 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:20,600 Speaker 3: But you couldn't get to it. 107 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 2: When I heard that, I paused my headphones and then 108 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:31,799 Speaker 2: I started making a sermon illustration about how many people, 109 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 2: how many people today, can see in your mind's eye 110 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 2: the person that you could be if you could ever 111 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 2: be free from an addiction, a habit, depression. 112 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 3: Or panic. 113 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 2: The ability to see it, but I can't swim to it. 114 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 2: The ability to see it, visualize it, and maybe even 115 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 2: taste it, but not experience it. It is a certain 116 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 2: type of torture that is only known in transition. When 117 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 2: we read the scriptures, we would do well to pay 118 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 2: attention to the transitions. 119 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 3: And this is for. 120 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 2: Jason and Tim and Brad and Chad and all of 121 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 2: my campus pastors who preach from time to time. It'll 122 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 2: make you a better preacher if you pay attention to 123 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 2: the transitions. Just when you're reading the Bible, look out 124 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 2: for the transitional phrases and even words like therefore and wherefore, 125 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 2: and whither and hither, and the transitional words that take 126 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 2: you from place to place. Pay attention to the transition. 127 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, it's not only good for 128 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 2: preaching in life. You will be so much more effective 129 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 2: if you learn to pay attention to the transitions. And 130 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 2: the scripture that I read to you today is a 131 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 2: transitional miracle. In the Book of Acts, I call it 132 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 2: a transitional miracle because it gives us a picture of 133 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 2: what the author Luke is already explaining as he chronicles 134 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 2: the birth of the Church. Not only is the Church 135 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 2: in a transitional period, going from being considered a cult 136 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 2: with very little political capital to going into influential spaces 137 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 2: and beginning to turn. 138 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 3: The world upside down. 139 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 2: For Jesus Christ the carpenter who was crucified. But the 140 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 2: Position of Acts chapter three is transitional in that. 141 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 3: It is the first miracle that is recorded. 142 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 2: Other than the Pentecostal miracle of those being filled with 143 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 2: the spirit. It is the first miracle of healing that 144 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 2: is recorded in the Book of Acts. 145 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 3: It will not be the last. It is the first. 146 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 2: And that's why I call it a transitional miracle, because 147 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 2: it is giving us a picture of what Jesus meant 148 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 2: when he said to his followers, don't leave your Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 149 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 2: the city of peace. Don't leave this place of peace, 150 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 2: but wait until you. 151 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 3: Have received the Holy Spirit. 152 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 2: It is difficult to sit still in transition while you 153 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 2: are threatened by opposition from the outside. And they didn't 154 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 2: like Jesus, and that's why they killed him. But Jesus 155 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 2: told him to do something very difficult, to sit still 156 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 2: in transition and wait for him to do it his way. 157 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:33,200 Speaker 3: It's the hardest thing in the world. 158 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 2: And yet every time Holly goes through the gift shop, 159 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 2: they get her every time because they position that gift 160 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 2: shop after she's seen all the history. I mean, I 161 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 2: understand a mug, but this woman, she'll buy a journal, 162 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 2: a mug, a memoir, a baseball cap, a beanie, a sticker. 163 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 3: This woman, she's a sucker. They get her every time. 164 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 2: No, I want you all to pray for the woman 165 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 2: of God that leads this church because she doesn't get it. 166 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:19,680 Speaker 2: You are so vulnerable on your way out. 167 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 3: She doesn't get it. 168 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 2: One time, I was doing an assessment with someone who 169 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 2: was looking at our security in the church, and they said, 170 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 2: the most important place to make sure that there's plenty 171 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:36,439 Speaker 2: of security is anywhere there is transition, because where there 172 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 2: is transition, there is distraction, and where there is distraction, 173 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 2: there is opportunity for someone who means harm to capitalize 174 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 2: on the lap of focus and create instability. 175 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 3: That's what I've been thinking. 176 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,960 Speaker 2: About in regards to Acts Chapter three this week, how 177 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 2: that the enemy will often set up a gift shop 178 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 2: to take your stuff at points of transition on the 179 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 2: way out, on the way in, that's the only two 180 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 2: times it costs me money. 181 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:11,559 Speaker 3: When she takes me to a museum. 182 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 2: They charge me for a ticket to get in, and 183 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 2: then my wife empties our retirement fund. 184 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 3: On the way out. But it is at those points 185 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 3: of transition. 186 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 2: I'm preaching today to somebody who is in a transition 187 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 2: in your life that is significant, and it is the 188 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 2: most significant place of opportunity, and it is the most 189 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 2: vulnerable place of insecurity at those points of transition. 190 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:44,680 Speaker 3: And maybe I should show you in the text. 191 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe, before Holly gets mad at me for this illustration, 192 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:50,559 Speaker 2: I should show you in the text. Go all the 193 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 2: way back up to Acts, chapter three, verse one. Y'all 194 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 2: feel like studying the Bible a little bit today. Let's 195 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 2: look at it now, Peter and John, We're going up 196 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 2: to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour, 197 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 2: and a man who was laying from birth was being 198 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 2: carried whom they laid daily at the gate of the 199 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 2: temple called Beautiful to ask alms from those entering the temple. 200 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 3: Everything I just said is transitional. 201 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 2: Every single component of the verses I just read has 202 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 2: a transitional element. 203 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 3: And when I saw that. 204 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 2: In the text, I was like, this is perfect for 205 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 2: what we're trying to understand in our lives, because our 206 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 2: lives are constantly changing, and they're changing so fast that 207 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 2: by the time we recognize the change, we don't have 208 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 2: time to make the adjustment. 209 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:41,439 Speaker 3: By the time we know how to be a. 210 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 2: Good parent, they are fifty three years old. By the 211 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 2: time we know what we should have saved money for 212 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 2: is too late, and the bill is already overdue. 213 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 3: By the time we get. 214 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 2: The wisdom, we don't have to sprink to implement it 215 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 2: because we're tired from all of our dumb mistakes. 216 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:58,959 Speaker 3: So when I read it and I realized everything. 217 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 2: Is transitional, put it up again, Acts three, verse one. 218 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:05,960 Speaker 2: Now it's a transitional word. Peter and John were going 219 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 2: up to the temple. They were on the way somewhere 220 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:12,079 Speaker 2: at the hour of prayer. It was a transitional time. 221 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 2: So they're going about their day and now it's time 222 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 2: to pray, ding ding ding, everybody to the temple. Peter 223 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 2: and John are transitioning to the temple. They are transitioning 224 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:29,080 Speaker 2: in their ministry because up until this point They've always 225 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 2: had Jesus in human form to supervise their miracle working 226 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 2: attempts and efforts, and sometimes they didn't get it right, 227 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 2: and he was there to correct them. But he's not 228 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 2: here in human form anymore. And they are in transition, 229 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 2: and so now. 230 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 3: Here they're going to church at three in the afternoon. 231 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:55,079 Speaker 3: That's what the ninth hour means. It's a transitional period 232 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 3: where all good Jewish. 233 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 2: Men and women would go to the synagogue for prayer. 234 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 2: Peter and johnnre are moving toward the temple, transitional period 235 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 2: for the church, transitional moment in their day in between 236 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 2: two activities. Then it says that verse two there was 237 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 2: a man who was being carried whom they laid daily 238 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:17,959 Speaker 2: at the gate of the temple that is called the 239 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 2: Beautiful Gate. So now the Church as a whole is 240 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 2: in transition, as the Spirit of God is beginning to 241 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 2: manifest himself through signs, miracles, and wonders through the hands 242 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 2: of the apostles. Peter and John are in transition on 243 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 2: their way to the Temple, which is their daily routine, 244 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 2: and there's a man who the Bible says is being carried. 245 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 3: I don't know how I missed this. For so many years. 246 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 2: I always pictured this miracle with the man already laying 247 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 2: beside the gate. 248 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 3: But he wasn't at the gate yet. The Bible says he. 249 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 2: Was in. 250 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 3: Transition. He wasn't even in the spot yet. 251 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 2: Because see, like if you were gonna make it and 252 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 2: you couldn't walk, you had to have a racket. And 253 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 2: so the best place you could go pick a spot 254 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 2: while people are going to church, and they would do 255 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 2: it different. They wouldn't get you on the way out 256 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 2: because you already gave an offering in church, so they 257 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 2: would get you on the way in, right, And if 258 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 2: you can catch them on the way in, maybe they'll 259 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 2: drop you some change, and maybe they'll you know, it 260 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 2: was considered piety to give alms, and so they're catching 261 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 2: people with a gift shop at the gate by the temple. 262 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 2: He wouldn't have been the only one. This was a 263 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 2: very commonplace to set up. But I was blessed by this, 264 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 2: and I thought you maybe too. He wasn't even in 265 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 2: his spot yet when God decided to give him a miracle. 266 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 2: I think a lot of times that if I could 267 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 2: get here, or if I could, if I could, if 268 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 2: I could lie there, or if I could accomplish this, 269 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 2: or if I could do that, or if I could 270 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 2: fix it, or if I could establish it, or. 271 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 3: If I could move through it. But I want you 272 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 3: to notice. 273 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 2: This is a transitional miracle. It means that Church hasn't 274 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 2: even started yet, but God is already on the scene. 275 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 2: It means that God does not need for your life 276 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 2: to be at a certain point where people say it 277 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 2: should be in order to bless you. So this is 278 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 2: for everybody who is in transition. And I don't know 279 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 2: if you're switching jobs. 280 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 3: I don't know if. 281 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 2: You're switching girlfriends. I don't know if you're switching schools. 282 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 2: I don't know if you're switching ways of living. I 283 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 2: don't know if you're switching from You used to get 284 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 2: high on a substance, but now you're trying to connect 285 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 2: to Christ. 286 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 3: I don't know what the switch is. 287 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 2: But I love the fact that God was waiting to 288 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 2: bless the person before he even got to the spot. 289 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 2: It is a transitional miracle. And here's what I wanted 290 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 2: to say. God is gonna bless you on the way. 291 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:08,479 Speaker 2: God is gonna bless you. He's gonna meet you and 292 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 2: cut you off on your way to your spot and 293 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 2: bless you anyway, how many no God can cut you 294 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 2: off and bless you. So he was about to go 295 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 2: into the gate. And what is a gate. It's a 296 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 2: symbol of transition. Everything in the text is pointing me 297 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 2: to the fact that God is most active in moments 298 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 2: of what I perceive to be instability and transition. 299 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 3: Now feel the Holy Spirit just all up in your. 300 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 2: Stuff because there's something you're trying to get through. But 301 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 2: you don't have to wait to get through it. You 302 00:17:56,080 --> 00:18:01,160 Speaker 2: can believe God right smack dab in the of it. 303 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:16,160 Speaker 3: It sounds good, preach is good, doesn't feel good. I mean, 304 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 3: it's so weird how we. 305 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 2: Ask God to change our lives and when he really does. 306 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 2: Because now he changed your life. Now it's going to 307 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 2: change your friends. Now he changed your life. Now it's 308 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 2: gonna affect how you spend your time. Now he changed 309 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 2: your life, and now it's gonna it's gonna destabilize everything 310 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:44,439 Speaker 2: that you've come to depend on. It's a transitional text. 311 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,160 Speaker 2: It's a transitional moment for the author Luke as he's 312 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,360 Speaker 2: compiling a history of the church. He's going from an 313 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 2: explanation to a demonstration. That's when it gets good, when 314 00:18:56,359 --> 00:19:01,119 Speaker 2: you go from theoretically believing something to pray acting it 315 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:05,399 Speaker 2: out in your life. The miracle is in the transition. 316 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 2: That's how we walk, right, I transition the weight of 317 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 2: my body. And until I transition the weight, I cannot move. 318 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 2: The center of gravity must change in the same way. 319 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 2: Every time God is moving you forward in your life, 320 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 2: there will be a period of transitional instability. In this passage, 321 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 2: the man has never walked before in his life. 322 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 3: He's being carried to the gate. 323 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 2: Peter and John are going to church, and in transition 324 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:39,199 Speaker 2: God sets up a moment for transformation. And when it 325 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 2: happens is so shocking, not only to the onlookers and 326 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 2: not only to Peter and John who are just trying 327 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:51,719 Speaker 2: to get to Sunday school. Now this is important too. 328 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 2: Can I throw this in? This is for free. I 329 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 2: won't say it in the next service. I will just 330 00:19:56,320 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 2: say it for you, all right, the trough, you know, 331 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:05,399 Speaker 2: the early bird, in the worm and all that. It 332 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 2: all applies right now, now look at me. The first 333 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:14,359 Speaker 2: miracle that is recorded in the Book of Acts was 334 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 2: waiting in something that everybody else was stepping over to 335 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 2: get to something they deemed more important. That's just for y'all. 336 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 2: Now let's look at it. And Peter. Now they saw 337 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:28,359 Speaker 2: Peter and John. 338 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:29,199 Speaker 3: This man is. 339 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:32,879 Speaker 2: On his way to a spot. Peter and John are 340 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 2: on the way to church. Study in the Bible. How 341 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 2: many things that happen on the way. How active God. 342 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 3: Is in the journey in transition. 343 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 2: How many things that God uses to change our life 344 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,480 Speaker 2: happen in between two fixed points that we deem important. 345 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 2: Just all the little places Jesus would stop and do 346 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,439 Speaker 2: a miracle, because you know that the feeding of the 347 00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:00,679 Speaker 2: five thousand was not on jesus itinerary. He was just 348 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 2: trying to get somewhere else, and there happened to be 349 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 2: twenty thousand people that wanted to hear him teach. Some 350 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 2: of the greatest stuff that God will do in your 351 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 2: day will not be on your calendar. 352 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 3: Some of the greatest stuff that God will do in 353 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 3: your life will not be in your five year plan. 354 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 2: Come on, some of the greatest stuff that God will 355 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 2: reveal in your life will not be on your dream board. 356 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 2: And they're just trying to get the church, and the 357 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 2: man is just trying to get something to eat. And 358 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:36,159 Speaker 2: they meet in transition, and God is in position, and 359 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 2: the man is in transition, and Peter and John are 360 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 2: in transition, and God is positioning all of it, just 361 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 2: like he is in your life today, just like he 362 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 2: is in your family, just like he is in your situation, 363 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 2: just like he is in our church. 364 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 3: And he's arranging a meeting. 365 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 2: And the man sees Peter and John and he asked 366 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 2: to receive alms. Verse four directed his gaze at him, 367 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 2: as did John, and said, look at us. And he 368 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 2: fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them. 369 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 2: I always like to say that he was expecting the 370 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 2: wrong kind of change. He wanted to know, do you 371 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,919 Speaker 2: have a few quarters? Do you have a few dimes? 372 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,440 Speaker 2: And Jesus like the one thing I've learned about him 373 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 2: is sometimes he doesn't meet your expectation because he wants 374 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 2: to exceed it. Don't be too disappointed if God didn't 375 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 2: give you what you wanted. This man, in this moment 376 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 2: is about to receive a change that he didn't even 377 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 2: have the faith to ask for. And God sets up 378 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 2: at his spot, you know, the spot where he was 379 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:03,879 Speaker 2: just going to beg and get through another day and 380 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:09,399 Speaker 2: some change, some spare change, and Peter's like, oh, I 381 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 2: got change for you. 382 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 3: See, this is a transitional moment. 383 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 2: Remember that Jesus said that if you ask anything in 384 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 2: my name, I'll give it to you. His name represents 385 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 2: his authority and his power, and so when Peter said 386 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 2: what he said next in the next verse, I have 387 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,639 Speaker 2: no silver in gold, but what I do have I 388 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:40,200 Speaker 2: give to you. At first, this man is thinking, oh, 389 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 2: another one of those Christians. 390 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 3: That leaves you a track and doesn't leave you a 391 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 3: tip at the restaurant. That'll send you straight to hell. 392 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 2: By the way, if you don't tip your server twenty percent, 393 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 2: don't come to elevation church twenty percent, if they spit 394 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 2: in your drink twenty percent. But Peter is saying, now, look, 395 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 2: let's get past what you expected. Let's get past this 396 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:16,639 Speaker 2: temporary change that you desire. I have no silver and gold, 397 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 2: but what I do have I have a name. It's 398 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 2: not my name because in my name you get nothing. 399 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 2: In my ability, there is limited strength, power and resource. 400 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 2: But I know a name, and the one who has 401 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 2: this name gave it to me. So I'm not operating in. 402 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 3: My own authority. But watch, this is the transition of power. 403 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 2: Jesus said, if you wait for my spirit, you can 404 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 2: receive my power. So if you don't get out and 405 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 2: move the way that you think you ought to move, 406 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 2: but wait for me to direct your path. If you 407 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:56,479 Speaker 2: will be in position, you can receive my power. Who 408 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 2: in the name of g Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise 409 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 2: up and walk? 410 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 3: And he took him by the right hand. Why the 411 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 3: right hand. That's the hand of authority. 412 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 2: Why the right hand, because all power and authority was 413 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,199 Speaker 2: given to Jesus. Come on, get happy with me. I 414 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 2: don't care if it's fifty of y'all. But God said, 415 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:33,400 Speaker 2: I'm standing over your situation, presiding and prevailing. Oh yeah, 416 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 2: I forgot something, said macdon. In psychology, they make a 417 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 2: distinction between change and transition. Okay, the two are not 418 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 2: the same, and we'll see it in this man's life 419 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 2: because in this transitional miracle, what. 420 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,400 Speaker 3: Is often unstated. 421 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 2: Is that just because the man received a miracle, it 422 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 2: didn't immediately fix his mindset. Okay, And I want to 423 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 2: spend a moment here because I believe many people are 424 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 2: frustrated in their inability to change, and I think in 425 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 2: the text is a clue as to why but we're 426 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,919 Speaker 2: going to have to pay attention to the transitions in 427 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,200 Speaker 2: this text. And if you will lean into this text 428 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 2: for just a moment, it's going to show you something 429 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 2: about why some of. 430 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 3: The changes in your life don't stick. 431 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 2: Why some of the changes in your life as soon 432 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 2: as they are introduced. It seems like, you know, everybody 433 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 2: wants change in a certain area. And it's often been 434 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 2: said that change is the only constant in life, and 435 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 2: I agree with that. 436 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 3: But change is traumatic, even if it's positive. 437 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:06,640 Speaker 2: Right, So there's desirable changes, there's undesirable changes. And while 438 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 2: we're running around thinking that we control our lives, you know, 439 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,120 Speaker 2: the thing that really changes everything is the text message that. 440 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 3: You never expected. 441 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I I used to think that our 442 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,679 Speaker 2: church could avoid criticism, right because I would think, well, 443 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 2: if we do this right, and we do that right, 444 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,399 Speaker 2: and we have integrity over here, It's never going to 445 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,880 Speaker 2: be the things that you expect that people are going 446 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 2: to attack you about. It's going to be something that 447 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 2: you never even thought possible. It's just going to be 448 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:44,720 Speaker 2: something that you didn't you didn't have the foreknowledge to expect. 449 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,919 Speaker 2: Like this man, Okay, he never knew that he was 450 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 2: about to get healed. But healing creates a new set 451 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:56,199 Speaker 2: of problems that if you don't understand this dimension, and 452 00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 2: it is a distinction. Change and trend position are two 453 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 2: different things. So the man says, I want some change. 454 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 2: Peter's like, cool, I'm about to change your life. He's like, ah, man, 455 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 2: three dollars is fine. I mean, I'm just looking for 456 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,639 Speaker 2: a burger right now. But Peter's like, no, no, I 457 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:15,119 Speaker 2: don't want to give you. I don't want you to 458 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,200 Speaker 2: buy a whopper. I want you to walk. Take my hand. 459 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,400 Speaker 2: This authority boom and like a current, it shoots through 460 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 2: his body. 461 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 3: And what's what happens to him? 462 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:23,879 Speaker 2: This is a beautiful thing when God blesses you in 463 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,200 Speaker 2: a moment. And immediately he took him by the right 464 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 2: hand verse seven and raised him up. And immediately there 465 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 2: is no duration, there is no progression. Immediately the man's 466 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 2: feet and ankles were made strong, and leaping up, he 467 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 2: stood and began to walk. Before you shout about that verse, 468 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 2: pay attention to the transitional words because it says that 469 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 2: he began to walk, and all he knew how to. 470 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 3: Do was beg because he was born unable to walk. 471 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 2: This is part two of last week when I told 472 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 2: you that sometimes better feels backwards. And it's wonderful that 473 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 2: he could walk, But where's he gonna go? Every day? 474 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 2: He was carried to this spot? 475 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 3: Now? 476 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 2: What cool man? You? You didn't want to buy me 477 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 2: a sandwich? I would have took pop Eyes or Chick 478 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 2: fil A. 479 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 3: But now. 480 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 2: Now I'm standing here and I'm leaping, and I'm happy 481 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 2: and I'm changed. 482 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 3: But it represents a transition. Now change. 483 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 2: Let me read this to you so I don't mess 484 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,680 Speaker 2: it up. This is outside of my realm. I do 485 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 2: the the psychology part. I want to read it and 486 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 2: make sure I get it right. I don't want to 487 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 2: get sued for malpractice up here. Change is external is 488 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 2: something that happens to you. Okay, the man didn't do 489 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 2: physical therapy and learn to walk. It was an unexpected change, 490 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 2: good or bad. Change is external. Change could be traffic. 491 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,719 Speaker 2: Change can be weather. Change can be something that happens 492 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 2: in your body. Change can be something that happens globally. 493 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 2: Change happens externally, and it is a situation that is 494 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 2: imposed by outside circumstances or unforeseen conditions. 495 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 3: That's change. Follow me. 496 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 2: Transition is always an internal or a psychological event. You 497 00:30:55,040 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 2: see the contrast. He jumped up immediately. That's changed. He 498 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 2: began to walk. That's transition. Some of us are frustrated 499 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:11,360 Speaker 2: by change because we are unwilling to endure the process 500 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 2: of transition. I need God's help to preach this now. 501 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 2: So we jump up, and we jump up happy. You 502 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,360 Speaker 2: know how you get happy when God does something awesome 503 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 2: in your life. 504 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:25,400 Speaker 3: That's a change. 505 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 2: But transition is where transformation happens, not by something external, 506 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 2: but by something internal. I'll prove it to you, David said, 507 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 2: create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew 508 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 2: a right spirit in me. 509 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:41,600 Speaker 3: What does that mean? 510 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 2: David wasn't praying about his situation. He was praying about 511 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:50,120 Speaker 2: his spirit because he understood that if God changes your 512 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 2: situation but the spiritual process is left underdeveloped, it will 513 00:31:55,480 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 2: cause an implosion. Now the change happened, it was not illegitimate. 514 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 2: He jumped up, he walked. His feet and ankles could 515 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 2: do it. But it wasn't his feet at this park 516 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 2: point that was the problem. Just because your feet are strong, 517 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,280 Speaker 2: and just because your legs were and just because you 518 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 2: now have the strength to stand, doesn't mean you have 519 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 2: the understanding to walk, and you're in transition, and it 520 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 2: doesn't make much sense to you when you're in transition, 521 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 2: and it's unstable when you're in transition. In fact, when 522 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 2: you're in transition, you can feel trapped. Here's why I 523 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 2: left Egypt. 524 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:57,200 Speaker 3: I'm not in Canaan. I'm trapped in transition. 525 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 2: Saved enough not to go to Hell, but I'm not 526 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 2: saved enough to not want to go to the club. 527 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:15,600 Speaker 3: I'm trying. We got the Angel choir over here in 528 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:19,760 Speaker 3: this section. The reality of it is this. 529 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 2: Transition takes time, and change happens suddenly, and to be 530 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 2: trapped in transition is to be waiting for your mind 531 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 2: to catch up with the transformation that has already happened 532 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:42,560 Speaker 2: in your life. So I was praying about it, and 533 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,280 Speaker 2: I was asking God to give me a picture of 534 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,720 Speaker 2: what this looks like. I went back over to Hebrews 535 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:55,000 Speaker 2: chapter five, and I looked for background on that particular 536 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 2: situation where you see a Christian community struggling to come into. 537 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,520 Speaker 3: The fullness of what God has for them. 538 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:06,080 Speaker 2: And in one of the most middle school teacher passages 539 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 2: of Scripture of all time, because he's really really frustrated 540 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:14,719 Speaker 2: with his pupils. This anonymous author begins to rant in 541 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:15,920 Speaker 2: Hebrews chapter five. 542 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,719 Speaker 3: Verse eleven, because he's trying to get something out. 543 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,560 Speaker 2: And it's frustrating when you have something valuable but you 544 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:27,359 Speaker 2: have nowhere to put it. Is frustrating when you feel 545 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,319 Speaker 2: like you have something to give but nobody to receive it, 546 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,959 Speaker 2: especially in a relationship, when you want to give more, 547 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,640 Speaker 2: but when you look to give what you have in you, 548 00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:38,480 Speaker 2: you don't find anywhere to pour it into. 549 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,640 Speaker 3: That's frustrating. And as he's building up and building up. 550 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 2: And he's describing maturity, he's describing not just the miraculous 551 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:52,800 Speaker 2: salvation event, but the maturity of following Christ into deeper 552 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:56,720 Speaker 2: things and better motivations and new ways of doing things 553 00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,479 Speaker 2: that rely on grace rather than legalism or the law. 554 00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:03,080 Speaker 3: As as he teaches them to switch, he becomes. 555 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,759 Speaker 2: Frustrated, and somewhere in his letter he senses that he's 556 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:06,680 Speaker 2: losing their attention. 557 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,680 Speaker 3: So he goes about this, we have much to say eleven. 558 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,880 Speaker 2: And it is hard to explain since you have become 559 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,120 Speaker 2: dull of hearing I love this. This means it's your 560 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,360 Speaker 2: fault for not getting it. It's not the preacher's fault 561 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,480 Speaker 2: for not saying it right. I'm gonna put this verse 562 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:25,120 Speaker 2: on my pulpit. You have become dull of hearing. It's 563 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,760 Speaker 2: not that I'm confusing, it's just that you're slow. 564 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:28,200 Speaker 3: Okay. 565 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 2: Verse twelve for though by this time, that's what he said, 566 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 2: for though, by this time. 567 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,160 Speaker 3: You ought to be teachers. 568 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:38,960 Speaker 2: You hear, you ought to be teaching somebody, but you 569 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:39,760 Speaker 2: didn't transition. 570 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:43,000 Speaker 3: You didn't transition. 571 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,000 Speaker 2: You got up and learned to walk, but you didn't 572 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:50,759 Speaker 2: reach back your hand to anybody else. You've been a 573 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:55,839 Speaker 2: Christian for fourteen years and you're still not asking any 574 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:57,120 Speaker 2: better questions of life. 575 00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:58,399 Speaker 3: You're still simplifying it. 576 00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:02,880 Speaker 2: You've been walking with God this long and you should 577 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:03,400 Speaker 2: be further. 578 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,640 Speaker 3: But I'm frustrated because you're not farther along. 579 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,640 Speaker 2: And as he's I don't know, he's frustrated. As a 580 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:15,480 Speaker 2: halftime talk to you know, he's in the locker room. 581 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:21,080 Speaker 2: We're better than this team. We're better than this, Yeah, 582 00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,080 Speaker 2: cried tone. You're better than this, that's what he's saying. 583 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,880 Speaker 2: He said, you have need of someone to teach you 584 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,959 Speaker 2: again the basic principles of the oracles of God. 585 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,280 Speaker 3: You need milk, not solid food. For everyone who lives 586 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:38,520 Speaker 3: on milk is unskilled in the Word of righteousness since 587 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:42,360 Speaker 3: he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, 588 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:47,360 Speaker 3: for those who have their powers of discernment trained. 589 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:57,080 Speaker 2: Oh, it is a skill. Transition is a skill. Change 590 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:03,280 Speaker 2: is a gift. Transition is a skill. And he said 591 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:10,000 Speaker 2: this skill requires use and practice to distinguish good from evil. 592 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,640 Speaker 2: The only way to know the difference between God's will 593 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:18,520 Speaker 2: for your life and your will for your life is you've. 594 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,719 Speaker 3: Got to go to gainst Semone. You've got to go to. 595 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,640 Speaker 2: The place that Jesus went to where he learned the 596 00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:30,239 Speaker 2: separation between what I want based on comfort and convenience 597 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:35,560 Speaker 2: and human preference and feelings, and what God wants based 598 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,600 Speaker 2: on the position that He has put me in. 599 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,400 Speaker 3: Now understand this. When Jesus finally. 600 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,040 Speaker 2: Got to the cross, he had no trouble giving up 601 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:49,160 Speaker 2: his life. It was only in gatht Semite transition where 602 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,560 Speaker 2: he had to pray God if there's any other way. 603 00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:56,000 Speaker 2: The greatest test is in transition, So get ready for this. 604 00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,840 Speaker 2: If you are being tested, you are in transition. And 605 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:04,560 Speaker 2: what that means is the greatest oil of anointing comes 606 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:09,200 Speaker 2: in the place of greatest transition. So God is growing 607 00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:16,560 Speaker 2: you up. That's what he's doing. He's growing you up. 608 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,239 Speaker 2: He's teaching you to stand. 609 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:24,920 Speaker 3: Therefore, to stand when it's uncertain, to stand when it 610 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:29,080 Speaker 3: doesn't feel good, to stand when it's controversial, to stand 611 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,880 Speaker 3: when it doesn't seem to be happening, to stand on 612 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,440 Speaker 3: what you know when you can't trust what you see 613 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:36,080 Speaker 3: or what you feel. 614 00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:44,479 Speaker 2: And you're in transition, and transition takes a little time. 615 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:50,880 Speaker 2: And now the decision is this, do I hold on 616 00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:57,759 Speaker 2: to the old or do I lean into the new? 617 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,400 Speaker 2: That's what the man had to decide, and so do you, 618 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:06,040 Speaker 2: and so do I. Because I had my spot, I 619 00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:12,040 Speaker 2: had my system, I had my support. But now I'm 620 00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:16,360 Speaker 2: in transition and I can't do what I used to 621 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:23,520 Speaker 2: do anymore. So I had this I had this cup 622 00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:28,160 Speaker 2: where people would come by and they would drop change 623 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,319 Speaker 2: in my cup, and I had to drop my cup 624 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,160 Speaker 2: to grab hold of Peter's hand. 625 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,880 Speaker 3: So I could stand up and begin to walk. 626 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:45,600 Speaker 2: But that's not the part of the text that got 627 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:52,080 Speaker 2: my attention, because after the man stands up, everybody is 628 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:57,240 Speaker 2: shocked to see this man who they were used to ignoring, 629 00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:00,240 Speaker 2: who used to be kept on the outfie. 630 00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:05,320 Speaker 3: And they were like, that's Joe. I gave him a 631 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:06,600 Speaker 3: name because the scripture didn't. 632 00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:08,400 Speaker 2: And it doesn't seem right that I would spend fifty 633 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:09,960 Speaker 2: minutes talking about him and not even. 634 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:15,759 Speaker 3: Give him the courtesy of a name. That's Joe. No, 635 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,480 Speaker 3: it can't be dudes walk in, jump in, dancing. 636 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:24,320 Speaker 2: No, it's time telling you that's him. How you know 637 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,680 Speaker 2: it's him? Cause I know I walked by him every day. 638 00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,320 Speaker 2: I used to walk by him every day. I walked 639 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,640 Speaker 2: by him every day. I walked by I walked by 640 00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:33,680 Speaker 2: him every day, and he'd come in and we would 641 00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:35,879 Speaker 2: transition past each other every day, and. 642 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:39,360 Speaker 3: Then we would say and see when he started to change. 643 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:45,080 Speaker 3: They couldn't understand it and they didn't like it. Transition 644 00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:46,160 Speaker 3: is traumatic, you know. 645 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:52,160 Speaker 2: And the way I know it's traumatic is because he dances, 646 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,840 Speaker 2: he walks, He goes past the gate and goes into 647 00:40:59,040 --> 00:40:59,960 Speaker 2: Solomon's portico. 648 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,160 Speaker 3: This was a big, long porch, man. 649 00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,799 Speaker 2: It would take that whole side of the temple was 650 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:05,880 Speaker 2: one big porch. 651 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:09,120 Speaker 3: And I never. 652 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,279 Speaker 2: Forgot this verse when I read it, because it said 653 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:17,600 Speaker 2: that in verse eleven that the man clung to Peter 654 00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:18,120 Speaker 2: and John. 655 00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:24,280 Speaker 3: I never forgot that. That just gripped me when I read. 656 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:28,520 Speaker 2: It, because I realized that it matters in these moments 657 00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:34,880 Speaker 2: of transition what you cling to. And I hear the 658 00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:38,640 Speaker 2: Spirit saying to somebody today that you are going to 659 00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:42,160 Speaker 2: have to choose to cling to something that is new 660 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:46,759 Speaker 2: and uncomfortable to you to move forward in this transitional 661 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,960 Speaker 2: season of your life. For many of us, this means 662 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,160 Speaker 2: that we are having to let go of something old 663 00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,879 Speaker 2: that exists in the paradigm of our mind in order 664 00:41:57,960 --> 00:41:59,200 Speaker 2: to embrace something new. 665 00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:00,600 Speaker 3: I mean, just. 666 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:03,360 Speaker 2: Because the man can walk doesn't mean. 667 00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:04,600 Speaker 3: That he can stand by himself. 668 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,560 Speaker 2: So now when we met him in the text, he's 669 00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:12,040 Speaker 2: being carried, and when we say goodbye to him in 670 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:16,719 Speaker 2: the text, he's clinging. What makes that significant for our 671 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:21,760 Speaker 2: lives is you cannot take hold of what's new while 672 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,439 Speaker 2: you have a death grip on what's old, and God 673 00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,879 Speaker 2: is saying you have gone as far as you can 674 00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:33,040 Speaker 2: go holding on to what you used to be. This 675 00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:37,719 Speaker 2: requires that the excuses that have become so embedded in 676 00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:41,240 Speaker 2: your life have to be left behind at the spot 677 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:46,279 Speaker 2: of your transformation. Because you're in transition now, God is 678 00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:47,879 Speaker 2: giving birth to a new thing. 679 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:49,000 Speaker 3: In your life. 680 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:52,440 Speaker 2: It is going to require letting go of old habits. 681 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,040 Speaker 3: Look, man, if you are a. 682 00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:59,320 Speaker 2: Husband now, you can't be single in your mindset anymore. 683 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,360 Speaker 2: We got to consider a new responsibility. What happens a 684 00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:06,840 Speaker 2: lot of times is we go into new situations holding 685 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:11,279 Speaker 2: on to old habits. You can't have a husband situation 686 00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:15,239 Speaker 2: and have bachelor habits before long. It will tear you 687 00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,719 Speaker 2: apart trying to hold on to two things. So I 688 00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,920 Speaker 2: hear God saying today, let it go. It is not 689 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:25,440 Speaker 2: serving you in this season anymore. Why would you hold 690 00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,920 Speaker 2: on to something that taught you how to beg that 691 00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:29,120 Speaker 2: taught you how to blame. 692 00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,839 Speaker 3: It can't heal you anymore. Something greater is here. 693 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,839 Speaker 2: There is a name that is greater than any other name, 694 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,720 Speaker 2: higher than any other name, stronger than any other name. 695 00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:47,000 Speaker 3: But you got to cling to it. 696 00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,080 Speaker 2: And cling doesn't mean that you kind of swat at it. 697 00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:58,080 Speaker 2: Cling means that you grab for Jesus with all you've got, 698 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:02,520 Speaker 2: because you know life, Jacob that if he doesn't bless you, 699 00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:10,040 Speaker 2: you won't be blessed. Said he clung to Peter and John. 700 00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:15,719 Speaker 2: And what you cling to in this season of transition 701 00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:22,120 Speaker 2: in your life will determine whether you go forward or 702 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:27,640 Speaker 2: stay at the gate. You know what, the first thing 703 00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,719 Speaker 2: that Peter did when he saw the man grabbing on 704 00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:33,719 Speaker 2: to him was he used him for a sermon illustration. 705 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:39,279 Speaker 2: God wants to use you. God wants to use you. 706 00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:42,920 Speaker 2: God set it up so that he could use you. 707 00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,719 Speaker 3: God set it up just so he could use you 708 00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:51,680 Speaker 3: for his purpose and his glory. But you're in transition 709 00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:57,239 Speaker 3: right now, and by holding on to the old, you 710 00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:58,520 Speaker 3: forfeit the future. 711 00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,799 Speaker 2: I came to say, let go of that thing that 712 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,919 Speaker 2: keeps you paralyzed, let go of that thing that keeps 713 00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:07,759 Speaker 2: you fearful, and let go of. 714 00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:11,040 Speaker 3: That thing that keeps you stuck. This is a. 715 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:18,960 Speaker 2: Metamorphosis, and to be stuck at one stage of your 716 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:24,120 Speaker 2: spiritual growth when opportunity, power, and authority is standing in 717 00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:29,280 Speaker 2: front of you is a terrible thing. With everyone standing 718 00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,200 Speaker 2: at every location, I would like to pray for you 719 00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:40,279 Speaker 2: concerning this transitional moment in your life. It would be 720 00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:43,520 Speaker 2: awesome if I knew all the details, but I don't 721 00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:43,840 Speaker 2: have to. 722 00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:45,960 Speaker 3: God does. 723 00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:54,760 Speaker 2: And you've been on the way somewhere and frustrated because 724 00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:58,080 Speaker 2: change is taking longer than you thought it would. Now 725 00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:00,720 Speaker 2: what I'm speaking to right now. Is not you waited 726 00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,480 Speaker 2: three days on something. I mean when you have been 727 00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,839 Speaker 2: frustrated that you are not changing. Now, here's what God 728 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,360 Speaker 2: is saying. What do you need to let go of 729 00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:15,840 Speaker 2: and what do you need to take hold of the 730 00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:20,120 Speaker 2: word that he uses that they translate cling is also 731 00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:25,279 Speaker 2: used to mean put under arrest. In that cool this 732 00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:27,960 Speaker 2: man was like, oh no, y'all, ain't leaving me here. 733 00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:34,120 Speaker 2: He grabbed Peter and John and refused. 734 00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:34,560 Speaker 3: To let go. 735 00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:39,320 Speaker 2: I think that's what it takes to see change in 736 00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:43,000 Speaker 2: our life, to grab hold of it and say, oh no, no, no, 737 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,759 Speaker 2: no no, You're not going to leave me like you 738 00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:46,200 Speaker 2: found me. 739 00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,439 Speaker 3: No no no, no, no no no. I'm not gonna try 740 00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:51,400 Speaker 3: this once and then go back to misery. 741 00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,480 Speaker 2: I'm not going to suffocate in despair when hope is 742 00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,640 Speaker 2: in front of me in the form of the spirit 743 00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:57,080 Speaker 2: of God. 744 00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:02,719 Speaker 3: No, it's the Lord. 745 00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:06,000 Speaker 2: I ask you now because I know that somebody has 746 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:07,640 Speaker 2: been trapped in between. 747 00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:15,320 Speaker 3: Old and new, trapped in between a past and a future. 748 00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:19,120 Speaker 2: I ask you right now to give them the grace 749 00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:22,200 Speaker 2: not only to stand up, but give them the direction 750 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:27,640 Speaker 2: to walk. I pray right now in Jesus' name, that 751 00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:33,319 Speaker 2: nobody would leave this place holding on to something that 752 00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:37,360 Speaker 2: is keeping them stuck. In the name of the Lord, 753 00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:42,480 Speaker 2: I command you to rise up and walk, not just 754 00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:45,799 Speaker 2: to jump up and shout, but to walk in a 755 00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:50,000 Speaker 2: new direction, To walk toward what God has called you, 756 00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:54,960 Speaker 2: To walk toward what He sees in you, to walk 757 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:58,600 Speaker 2: toward what He created you to be spirit of the 758 00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:04,560 Speaker 2: Living God in this moment of transition. Whether it's circumstantial 759 00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:09,120 Speaker 2: or whether it's emotional, doesn't matter. I pray that you, 760 00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:15,040 Speaker 2: being the constant God who never changes, the constant God 761 00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:18,920 Speaker 2: who does not move, who is not bound by time, 762 00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:23,239 Speaker 2: that you would touch every situation by your grace and 763 00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:27,440 Speaker 2: glory today and enable feet that we're never able to 764 00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:32,000 Speaker 2: stand before, to jump upright and to walk in a 765 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:37,480 Speaker 2: new direction. Home, Lord, you know what they're dealing with, 766 00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:40,719 Speaker 2: and you know what is beneath what they're dealing with 767 00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:46,719 Speaker 2: on the surface. I pray for patience. Sometimes it takes that. 768 00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:51,400 Speaker 2: I pray for new partnerships. Give every person in this 769 00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:53,640 Speaker 2: room a Peter and John that they can walk with 770 00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:56,319 Speaker 2: on the way to where you're leading them. 771 00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:57,560 Speaker 3: It is so uncertain. 772 00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,160 Speaker 2: We don't know what one to the next holds We 773 00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:06,960 Speaker 2: just know that change is inevitable, but we choose transformation 774 00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:10,640 Speaker 2: through every change in our life, good or bad. 775 00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:13,200 Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us. 776 00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:15,960 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 777 00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:19,520 Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 778 00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,160 Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give 779 00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:26,399 Speaker 2: now or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more 780 00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:30,240 Speaker 2: information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 781 00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:31,840 Speaker 3: You can share it with your friends. 782 00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:34,400 Speaker 2: You can click the share button, take a screenshot and 783 00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:36,560 Speaker 2: share it on your social stories and tag us at 784 00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:37,439 Speaker 2: Elevation Church. 785 00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:44,080 Speaker 3: Thanks again for listening. God bless you.