Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it
Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.
Speaker 2: Enjoy the message. Come on, clap those hands. If you're thankful,
Speaker 2: Let's do something real quick.
Speaker 1: Let's fill the place with praise with our testimony.
Speaker 2: We overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the
Speaker 2: word of our testimony. Turn around and tell about three
Speaker 2: people something that God has done for you. Just something
Speaker 2: that you're thankful for today. It can be as simple
Speaker 2: as He woke me up. It can be as deep
Speaker 2: as He gave me peace. Put it in the chat.
Speaker 2: Just about two or three things to be thankful for.
Speaker 2: Two or three things to be thankful for. Two or
Speaker 2: three things.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't be hard breadth in my life. I got two
Speaker 1: or three things to be thankful for.
Speaker 2: Clothed in my right mind, I've got two or three
Speaker 2: things to be thankful.
Speaker 1: For, goodness and mercy.
Speaker 2: I got two or three things He forgave my past,
Speaker 2: and he's already in my future.
Speaker 1: I got two or three things.
Speaker 2: Allelujah.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 2: If there's anything that you want to accomplish during this
Speaker 2: multitasking testimony service and you are single and they are too.
Speaker 2: Just retrying to say I'm thankful that they seated us
Speaker 2: next to one another today. I'm just grateful that I
Speaker 2: get to be in proximity to your anointing.
Speaker 1: How many are grateful to be in the House of
Speaker 1: the Lord?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me see how many of you grew up
Speaker 2: with the King James Bible.
Speaker 1: I was glad when they.
Speaker 2: Said, unto me, let us go to the House of
Speaker 2: the Lord. And you know, it's a beautiful thing when
Speaker 2: you want to be here. And I don't know if
Speaker 2: that's the case for you or not today, but somebody
Speaker 2: wanted to be here and couldn't be here.
Speaker 1: So I think all of us.
Speaker 2: That can be here ought to thank God that he
Speaker 2: kept us another day.
Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. Hey, Dough, it's so good to have you, y'all.
Speaker 1: Thank God for Doe.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 2: Congratulations on your marriage. Hey, listen, this is kind of funny.
Speaker 2: I just thought of this. The last time I saw Doe.
Speaker 2: Me and her and Josh went over in a writing
Speaker 2: room one afternoon. We wrote that song new Thing Coming.
Speaker 2: The next time I heard her name, she was getting married.
Speaker 2: So when she said I've got a new thing coming.
Speaker 1: God, you meant that thing. Hot five your neighbors saying,
Speaker 1: I mean that things. Good to have you, God, bless you.
Speaker 2: I got a new thing coming, I mean that thing.
Speaker 2: Maybe that could be my New Year's sermon. I mean
Speaker 2: that day.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: I see so many beautiful love Wheat T shirts. I
Speaker 2: see a Metallica T shirt. I see a Panther's T shirt.
Speaker 2: I see a Whitney T shirt. Do you even know
Speaker 2: three Whitney songs? Okay, she's shaking her head vociferously. I
Speaker 2: believe you. Then, I personally am so grateful to get
Speaker 2: the pastor church where our generosity is legendary in our city.
Speaker 2: And I know that a lot of people will say
Speaker 2: different things about me and whether my jeans are too
Speaker 2: tight or too baggy or things like that, and that's fine.
Speaker 2: But one thing they can never question about this church
Speaker 2: is your heart for the hurting to help people. And
Speaker 2: that's awesome. And I know a lot of people like
Speaker 2: to argue about who believes the right thing and this
Speaker 2: and that, but when we get out there and show
Speaker 2: the love of Jesus. It kind of silences all of
Speaker 2: that and just puts it in action. So tell your
Speaker 2: name where You're gonna look great in green. That's the
Speaker 2: color of the shirt. It's more green, babe, than yellow.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at it kind of green. It's like completely green.
Speaker 2: It's not even a little yellow. Didn't Holly look pretty
Speaker 2: up here in her custom blue lovely shirt? Hu host shirt? Well,
Speaker 2: you can host me anytime. Y'all did that disgusted laugh thing?
Speaker 2: You're like, get to the scripture. This is gross. I
Speaker 2: bring greetings to all of our locations our Etham around
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 1: Let's welcome our Etham joining us online.
Speaker 2: Let us know where you're joining from. Now I get
Speaker 2: to serve you the Word of God. I'm excited and
Speaker 2: you will be two. I'm only gonna read one verse
Speaker 2: before I seat you this week, so your feet will
Speaker 2: thank me. I didn't say I'm only going to preach
Speaker 2: one verse. I'm going to read one. Sit you down,
Speaker 2: and then we'll talk about two times in the Bible
Speaker 2: that it was illustrated, because I think to see an
Speaker 2: illustration of faith is what we really all want, not
Speaker 2: just to have somebody tell us, hey, you should trust God,
Speaker 2: or hey, it's.
Speaker 1: Going to be all right.
Speaker 2: And you're like, how do you know that you've never
Speaker 2: been through what I've been through? But the Bible gave
Speaker 2: us all these case studies that we can always find
Speaker 2: somebody in the Bible that went through something worse than
Speaker 2: we're going through and God did something amazing for them,
Speaker 2: and we hitch our.
Speaker 1: Faith to this.
Speaker 2: So that's what we want to do today, is hitch
Speaker 2: our faith to two heroes in the Bible. And I'll
Speaker 2: tell about that in the moment, But first let me
Speaker 2: give you a verse in Second Corinthians, chapter five, verse seven.
Speaker 2: I'm using the English Standard Version for a little bit
Speaker 2: more literal translation this week, just for accuracy's sake, where
Speaker 2: Paul says parenthetically, and talking about life and death and
Speaker 2: the tent of our mortal body and the immortality of
Speaker 2: the eternity that is in our hearts, he says, parenthetically,
Speaker 2: just eight words that are very very sale. Listen to this,
Speaker 2: for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Speaker 1: It's only eight words.
Speaker 2: I'll say it again, for we walk by faith, not
Speaker 2: by sight. Now touch your neighbor and give them my title,
Speaker 2: say neighbor.
Speaker 1: It's the motion that matters. Yeah, it's the motion that matters.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, while I got you warmed up, turn
Speaker 2: to your other neighbors, say, other neighbor, it's the motion
Speaker 2: that matters. Do like this when you're telling them with
Speaker 2: your handjuster say it's the motion that matters. Amen, you
Speaker 2: may be seated. It's the motion that matters. It's the
Speaker 2: motion that matters.
Speaker 1: We had a special event at the church Austin where
Speaker 1: pastors were.
Speaker 2: Able to come and bring their teams and there was
Speaker 2: a breakout session just for church planters, people who were
Speaker 2: in the first six to eight months of their church,
Speaker 2: and we opened up the microphone for question and answer,
Speaker 2: which is always risky, but it was a good group.
Speaker 2: And I was feeling annointed and I was feeling a flow.
Speaker 2: I said, ask me anything. Well, one guy asked a
Speaker 2: great question. He said, at this stage, he said, I'm
Speaker 2: four months in And I don't remember where he was from,
Speaker 2: but I remember he said, at four months in, what
Speaker 2: do you think is the most important skill that you
Speaker 2: need at this stage? And again, this was several years
Speaker 2: into our church. I don't remember how many, but it
Speaker 2: was he thought I was like a professional or something
Speaker 2: like that. He said, at this stage, what do you
Speaker 2: think is the most important skill that you need?
Speaker 1: And I said, four months in most important skill.
Speaker 2: And I love these opportunities just to see what the
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit will bring up to help somebody. So I
Speaker 2: try to see who's in front of me and discern
Speaker 2: what God wants me to say.
Speaker 1: And my first thought was to go technical.
Speaker 2: You know, you need good children's ministry and good procedures
Speaker 2: for accountability, and you need to pray. And I thought
Speaker 2: of all the spiritual practical, but then it came to
Speaker 2: me just like this, and it came out of me
Speaker 2: like this. I said, I think the most important skill
Speaker 2: for this stage is learning to step out in faith,
Speaker 2: because there are going to be so many things that
Speaker 2: you are going to have to do. And then I
Speaker 2: started giving him examples. When we cleared out our bank
Speaker 2: account in order to give one time, we gave the
Speaker 2: offering away instead of taking the offering, told people to
Speaker 2: go be a blessing in their community.
Speaker 1: And so I told him about that.
Speaker 2: I told him about the egg drop when we dropped
Speaker 2: all these Easter eggs out of a helicopter two months
Speaker 2: into the church and gave away xboxes and trusted God
Speaker 2: that nobody would end up on the news fighting over
Speaker 2: the xbox, and they did it.
Speaker 1: So I said, you got to step out in faith.
Speaker 2: And I just kept listening like I was going through
Speaker 2: a highlight reil of all the times I stepped out
Speaker 2: in faith. Well, I can't say God stopped me, but
Speaker 2: something stopped me on the inside. And I looked at
Speaker 2: that guy, and something on the inside of me said,
Speaker 2: if you want to keep impressing him, keep going, because
Speaker 2: you have stepped out in faith and more than you,
Speaker 2: your your wife, your teen, this church has stepped out
Speaker 2: in faith over and over again. But if you really
Speaker 2: want to help this guy and not just impressing, I
Speaker 2: want you to stop right now listing how you stepped
Speaker 2: out in faith and tell him what the real most
Speaker 2: important skill is. Tell him how to step out in doubt,
Speaker 2: because you keep telling him what you did and then
Speaker 2: what God did, because you did what you did, but
Speaker 2: he needs to know some of what you felt while
Speaker 2: you did what you did, so that God could do
Speaker 2: when only he could do. So I shifted my answer
Speaker 2: in the middle, I said, and all of that is wonderful.
Speaker 1: He didn't even know that.
Speaker 2: I didn't plan this pivot, but I didn't. I just
Speaker 2: stopped right in the middle, I said. But even more
Speaker 2: importantly than those times where you're going to feel an
Speaker 2: amazing sense of courage and confidence that thus saith the Lord,
Speaker 2: and we're taking this mountain, and we're taking this city,
Speaker 2: and we're we're going to serve one hundred thousand hours
Speaker 2: to our community in love week.
Speaker 1: I want to tell you about some times where I
Speaker 1: had to have.
Speaker 2: Love Week but I felt hateful, and I felt hateful
Speaker 2: because I had.
Speaker 1: Some people saying things about me that weren't true.
Speaker 2: And I had to stand up and preach love when
Speaker 2: I felt hate.
Speaker 1: So maybe the most important.
Speaker 2: Skill isn't just stepping out in faith, but to learn
Speaker 2: to step out in doubt.
Speaker 1: Now I almost called.
Speaker 2: Discermon that step out in doubt?
Speaker 1: How to step out in doubt?
Speaker 2: But I know how religious you are are, and you
Speaker 2: would say unto me. But James one five through seven says,
Speaker 2: let him who asks asking faith nothing wavering. For he
Speaker 2: that wavereth is like a double minded man, unstable in
Speaker 2: all of his ways, like a wave tossed.
Speaker 1: To and fro let.
Speaker 2: Not that man think he should receive anything. Why only talking,
Speaker 2: King James, when you're arguing with preachers. By the way,
Speaker 2: let not that man think he should receive anything from
Speaker 2: the Lord.
Speaker 1: He is a double minded man. I love that scripture,
Speaker 1: I believe that scripture.
Speaker 2: And yet I think that a lot of times when
Speaker 2: we see an example of.
Speaker 1: Great faith, it is just as important for us to.
Speaker 2: Realize that wherever there was the demonstration of great faith,
Speaker 2: it was on the other side of strong doubt. Anybody
Speaker 2: who stepped out in faith, which by the way, is
Speaker 2: not a term in the Bible, is a concept in
Speaker 2: the Bible.
Speaker 1: It just said we walk by faith. I just read
Speaker 1: it to you.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't necessarily negate the flip side of faith
Speaker 2: for you to walk in it. And that is what
Speaker 2: I hope to show you a little bit today, Just
Speaker 2: a skill I want to give you for your life,
Speaker 2: because I know that you're trying to figure out what
Speaker 2: is the most important skill for raising a two year old?
Speaker 2: What is the most important skill at this stage of
Speaker 2: my life? And some of you would even say, and
Speaker 2: you don't even know, because I'm sixty.
Speaker 1: Two and you're not.
Speaker 2: But I would suggest that whether sixty two or sixteen,
Speaker 2: a four month old.
Speaker 1: Church or a forty year old church, that.
Speaker 2: The most important skill you will build in your life
Speaker 2: is the ability to step out not only when the
Speaker 2: feeling of faith makes it convenient, but when the conviction
Speaker 2: of faith makes it necessary even though the convenience.
Speaker 1: Is nowhere to be seen. Now, I am a skeptic.
Speaker 2: So my kids will tell you. When they tell me anything,
Speaker 2: I always say, what's your source? Because they will just
Speaker 2: tell me the craziest stuff at the dinner table, and
Speaker 2: they will tell me the craziest.
Speaker 1: Stuff about politics.
Speaker 2: They will tell me the craziest thing about my own
Speaker 2: staff that they heard. They will tell me the craziest
Speaker 2: thing about what's going on in.
Speaker 1: The larger world of I don't know.
Speaker 2: They've told about everything from eyeliner to steroids at my
Speaker 2: dinner table. Did you know steroids are good for you?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, where did you see that?
Speaker 1: Graham? The other day?
Speaker 2: He said this most outrageous thing, he said, Dad, and
Speaker 2: he said it like a fact, just a flat fat
Speaker 2: he said, boom, And he just dropped it. And I said,
Speaker 2: that is the dumbest thing that I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: That's not true. He said, yes it is. I said, no,
Speaker 1: it's not. And it wasn't really like a disrespectful thing.
Speaker 2: We were kind of playing and he looks back at
Speaker 2: me and he says, yes, it is, it's true. I said,
Speaker 2: it can't be true. He said, yes, it is. I
Speaker 2: saw a thing. Oh oh, you saw a thing. Oh well,
Speaker 2: now it's definitely true because you saw a thing.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor you saw a thing. Yeah, so it
Speaker 1: must be true because you saw a thing. You saw
Speaker 1: a thing. So so, son, I know you saw a thing.
Speaker 2: But before I'm gonna believe a thing, you gotta source
Speaker 2: the thing that you saw if you want me to
Speaker 2: believe it. And I'm gonna give you three points at
Speaker 2: the very beginning of this message.
Speaker 1: And this is not the message.
Speaker 2: This is just the points that will build the message,
Speaker 2: that will get to the point of the message.
Speaker 1: Write them down. They all start with the letter B.
Speaker 2: If you are wavering today and if you are wondering today,
Speaker 2: if you can make it to the other side, there
Speaker 2: are three things happening at all times. Number one, you behold.
Speaker 2: Number two, you believe. Number three you behave. We behold.
Speaker 2: Everybody say we behold. Come on, put these in the chat.
Speaker 2: I need participation. We behold, we believe, we behave. I
Speaker 2: thought you'd like this LJ because it's B three like
Speaker 2: that organ. Yeah, we behold, we see a thing, Graham said,
Speaker 2: I saw a thing. We have never lived in a
Speaker 2: time where you see more stuff. And I wouldn't have
Speaker 2: warned my same gray hoodie if I'd have known we
Speaker 2: were going to preach to each other like this.
Speaker 1: I'm it's all right. I'm happy to match you.
Speaker 2: I see a thing, and I believe a thing, and
Speaker 2: I behave away.
Speaker 1: I see a thing, which.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if right now, anything I see
Speaker 2: I used to say I have to see it to
Speaker 2: believe it.
Speaker 1: Now I have to see it and verify.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if the trees that were in
Speaker 2: my backyard this morning are AI right.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't know. They look pretty real.
Speaker 2: Put my hand through the tree to see if it's real.
Speaker 2: Is this a simulation? I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 2: if they really said that. I get these clips. People
Speaker 2: want to show me stuff all the time. Look at
Speaker 2: what this political candidate said, and I google one time
Speaker 2: and find out they didn't say any of that.
Speaker 1: They made the voice sound just like the lips move.
Speaker 1: It's a weird. I'll just be honest with y'all. It's
Speaker 1: a weird.
Speaker 2: Time to do this, to talk to y'all, because they
Speaker 2: can show you stuff that I said that I didn't say,
Speaker 2: or slice what I do say to.
Speaker 1: Listen, not what I said. And so people will want
Speaker 1: to come up to me, oh, did you hear what
Speaker 1: they said? Did you see what they did? Did you
Speaker 1: hear it? Did you see it?
Speaker 2: And I've learned to tell my kids that I don't
Speaker 2: want to see it unless you can source it. Now,
Speaker 2: this is the kind of preaching that I notice nobody
Speaker 2: shouts about. Because we want God to set us free
Speaker 2: of everything but our gossip, everything but our slander. We
Speaker 2: want God to give us peace, but we don't want
Speaker 2: him to meddle with any of the processes that are
Speaker 2: making us anxious. And I am trying to say that
Speaker 2: sometimes you see a thing.
Speaker 1: Graham said, I saw a thing.
Speaker 2: I'm not doubting that you saw a thing, But for
Speaker 2: you to just see a thing and believe a thing
Speaker 2: is immature. For you to just see a thing and
Speaker 2: believe it is to put too much confidence in your senses,
Speaker 2: because your senses are not your sin.
Speaker 1: Sy When it comes to this fight of faith, the
Speaker 1: spirit is.
Speaker 2: There is coming a time in your life where you
Speaker 2: are going to have to get to the root in
Speaker 2: this season of your life, for the challenges that you face,
Speaker 2: for the responsibilities.
Speaker 1: That you carry.
Speaker 2: I gotta calm down because I get excited because I
Speaker 2: see how it all works now, because I realized that
Speaker 2: some of the things that are a problem in my
Speaker 2: behavior are a problem in my belief. But before I
Speaker 2: believe the thing, I had to see a thing. If
Speaker 2: I behold a thing and believe a thing, I will
Speaker 2: behave away. Some of us hate the way we behave,
Speaker 2: but we will not change what we behold. We'll be three.
Speaker 2: Lit'll be three. We'll be three, We'll be three. Okay,
Speaker 2: So what I behold, I saw a thing. I believe
Speaker 2: the thing, didn't even check it out, seef it's real.
Speaker 1: And then I behave away.
Speaker 2: And so now I have seen so many things making
Speaker 2: me think that that person is my enemy because they're
Speaker 2: of a different political persuasion. And I have beheld enough
Speaker 2: of that information and data in my phone that now
Speaker 2: I behave in a way that is completely contrary to
Speaker 2: the character of Christ, who is bigger than either political party.
Speaker 1: But I can't believe that because I don't behold that
Speaker 1: y'all know this preaching is much better than this response.
Speaker 1: There's an imbalance in the room today.
Speaker 2: All right, do you really believe this that we walk
Speaker 2: by faith not by sight, because because because that means
Speaker 2: faith is not primarily a feeling. That means that faith,
Speaker 2: biblical faith. I'm not talking about manifesting.
Speaker 1: Your dream job, dream card, dream house, dream beach.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna manifest my island. Well, I don't want to
Speaker 2: have to staff an island, so I'm not manifesting that. Okay,
Speaker 2: I can barely keep my bed made in my house.
Speaker 2: But biblical faith, whose object is Jesus in the finished
Speaker 2: work that he did on across of his resurrection from
Speaker 2: the deck, kind of faith faith in Jesus and what
Speaker 2: He's done. We walk by faith, the kind of Paul's
Speaker 2: talking about and secret the in chapter five, I'm about
Speaker 2: to show you Moses and Peter, two leaders who both
Speaker 2: needed to step out.
Speaker 1: In doubt with no feeling of faith. Can you do that?
Speaker 1: Can I do that? Do I still do it? Or
Speaker 1: did I just do.
Speaker 2: It when the church was young and I was twenty
Speaker 2: six with nothing to lose? These are the things that
Speaker 2: have been challenging me.
Speaker 1: Faith is not a feeling, it's a behavior.
Speaker 2: This is the best news I've ever given you, because
Speaker 2: what it means watch this is you can be at
Speaker 2: an emotional low and a faith high. So what it
Speaker 2: means is all the people who say, well, you shouldn't
Speaker 2: doubt or think that, or ever deal with that or
Speaker 2: struggle with that, if you really knew Jesus, it means
Speaker 2: that from now on you get to take them to
Speaker 2: Second Corinthians chapter five, verse seven and say, my faith
Speaker 2: is not about what I feel. It is about the
Speaker 2: way I behave. And I do not mean that if
Speaker 2: you don't behave correctly, you don't have faith.
Speaker 1: What I mean is it's the motion that matters. Let
Speaker 1: me show you what I'm talking about. In Exodus chapter fourteen.
Speaker 2: There is a Bible story that I have come to really,
Speaker 2: really love. It is called the Parting of the Red Sea.
Speaker 2: Of course, that's only what you call it if you
Speaker 2: fast forward to the part where it parted. We love
Speaker 2: the part where it parted. Just a side note, don't
Speaker 2: you love.
Speaker 1: The part where it parts, the part where God did it?
Speaker 2: I told a songwriting room the other day, I said, y'all,
Speaker 2: I don't know if we could put ocean splitting or
Speaker 2: mountains moving in any more songs. I think we found
Speaker 2: every way to say that we can. But you know
Speaker 2: is powerful for a reason, because everybody has.
Speaker 1: One of those.
Speaker 2: All right, well, this is the part in Exodus chapter
Speaker 2: fourteen that I think is kind of funny. And I'm
Speaker 2: going to use Exodus fourteen and Matthew fourteen to remind
Speaker 2: you today that it's the motion that matters. You did
Speaker 2: the exact right thing by getting in your car, spending
Speaker 2: your expensive gas money to get to this church on
Speaker 2: this day at this location, because it's the motion that matters.
Speaker 1: And listen to me.
Speaker 2: I don't care if y'all fought all the way here
Speaker 2: and you cuss them out in biblical coin a Greek.
Speaker 2: You did the right thing to drag your cuss and
Speaker 2: tongue in this room so you can have these ears
Speaker 2: sanctified by the word of God, so you can cut
Speaker 2: your cussing in half by the time.
Speaker 1: You get back next week.
Speaker 2: Because it's the motion that matters.
Speaker 1: Don't judge where I am.
Speaker 2: If you don't know where I started from, you don't
Speaker 2: have a frame of reference for how hard this is
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 1: It's the motion that matters. They've come a long way.
Speaker 2: Moses and the children of Israel, they've been through so
Speaker 2: much unimaginable, a four hundred and thirty year cry to
Speaker 2: God that seemed unanswered but not now is not known.
Speaker 2: And at the appointed time God sent a deliverer named Moses,
Speaker 2: who himself was pretty old, and he taught the most
Speaker 2: important skill for this stage of life in old age.
Speaker 2: Because Moses said, I can't speak good and I can't.
Speaker 1: Do it, and I killed an.
Speaker 2: Egyptian, and how will I go to Pharaoh's an Egyptian
Speaker 2: and say, let the people go?
Speaker 1: And what they don't believe me?
Speaker 2: And I'm not a motivational speaker. And Moses, the non
Speaker 2: motivational speaker, ends up with the most important message of
Speaker 2: all time.
Speaker 1: Because he stepped out in doubt. Prove me otherwise. Quote
Speaker 1: every scripture you wanted me.
Speaker 2: One of the greatest leaders God used, told God he
Speaker 2: couldn't do it, and then did it.
Speaker 1: And then did it, and then did it. Well. He
Speaker 1: did all he could do.
Speaker 2: He put some plagues on the people, and he even
Speaker 2: got the Egyptians to give plunder to the Israelites so
Speaker 2: they would not leave empty handed.
Speaker 1: Now with the wealth of an entire nation on their back.
Speaker 1: The children of Israel, two millions strong, are marching boldly.
Speaker 1: The Bible says, out of Egypt.
Speaker 2: Now Here comes the part that I think is kind
Speaker 2: of funny, and I think this happens in our life.
Speaker 2: Verse ten, when Pharaoh drew near. Pharaoh's the enemy that
Speaker 2: they just left, that they thought they were free from.
Speaker 2: But they weren't quite yet, but they thought they were.
Speaker 2: And they're in motion, right, And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: Pharaoh the Bible gives exact numbers as six hundred chariots
Speaker 2: and his best fighting men is now chasing them down
Speaker 2: because not only.
Speaker 1: Have they lost their labor, but they've given up their wealth.
Speaker 2: And so Pharaoh drew near, and the people of Israel
Speaker 2: lifted up their eyes. Is the scripture on the screen,
Speaker 2: shout the next word, and they saw something. They saw
Speaker 2: a thing. They saw a thing that they thought they
Speaker 2: had just left. Touch your neighbors, say, I saw a thing.
Speaker 2: I was doing pretty good with my eating plan, but
Speaker 2: I was trying to make it practical.
Speaker 1: I was doing pretty good.
Speaker 2: I wasn't texting any girls because I was gonna get
Speaker 2: this season of my life straight.
Speaker 5: But us.
Speaker 1: Okay, y'all don't like that. David was on the roof
Speaker 1: one day and he.
Speaker 2: So now look at me all hypocritical and holy sanctimonials,
Speaker 2: like you never saw a thing and beheld something and
Speaker 2: believed something and behaved away. But in order to really
Speaker 2: understand why you're behaving that way, don't you understand why
Speaker 2: you're believing that way?
Speaker 1: And to understand why you're believing that way.
Speaker 2: Don't you have to really think back to what you
Speaker 2: beheld that made you believe that. So I completely understand
Speaker 2: what comes next for us to judge the Israelites because
Speaker 2: spoiler alert, they get scared, they see Pharaoh and they
Speaker 2: feel fear.
Speaker 1: Well, how could they do that? God turned seas into highways.
Speaker 1: They didn't know that song.
Speaker 2: They were living it. I'm living this, I'm walking by it.
Speaker 2: I'm having to take uncertain steps. I thought God would
Speaker 2: fix me just right before he made me preach to you.
Speaker 2: But the truth is, sometimes I will preach to you
Speaker 2: a lesson that I have limped to.
Speaker 1: And you can do the same.
Speaker 2: Now in this particular instance, it's like you judging an
Speaker 2: Olympic athlete, thinking to yourself.
Speaker 1: Well, I could probably do that. No, you probably couldn't
Speaker 1: Pharaoh drew near you ever watched this?
Speaker 2: For it?
Speaker 1: You're like, I think I probably could you. No, I
Speaker 1: probably couldn't do that. Not like that.
Speaker 2: I could do a version of that, but not exactly that.
Speaker 1: They lifted up their eyes.
Speaker 2: Now, I want you to really get in this text
Speaker 2: with me today, because I told you we put too.
Speaker 1: Much confidence in our senses.
Speaker 2: And I know we have to use our senses to
Speaker 2: keep ourselves from getting our fingers burned on stoves and
Speaker 2: walking across crowded highways and things like that. But we
Speaker 2: cannot make decisions with our senses when it comes to
Speaker 2: this next step of faith in this season of our
Speaker 2: life and the way we see ourself and the way
Speaker 2: we see the people that God has given us, the
Speaker 2: impact your senses will get you killed. Here's why they
Speaker 2: looked up and behold the Egyptians were marching after them,
Speaker 2: and they feared greatly. Is this a sin, No, it's
Speaker 2: a feeling. The sin is the decision after the feeling. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and God forgives that sin too. But if you really
Speaker 2: want to be free from it, you got to ask
Speaker 2: the question, what did I lift my eyes up and
Speaker 2: see that is dragging me back into a past that
Speaker 2: I said I would leave behind. What is making me
Speaker 2: so afraid that I keep running back to stuff that.
Speaker 1: I know I'm done with.
Speaker 2: What do I keep seeing that makes me fight off
Speaker 2: people that love me?
Speaker 1: What do I keep remembering?
Speaker 6: Is the the devil controlling your whole future with an
Speaker 6: old movie? An old movie I'm talking nineteen eighty eight
Speaker 6: block Buster b.
Speaker 2: Kin Rewind, Karate kids stuff, the devil kids showing you
Speaker 2: stuff you got kicked in nineteen eighty eight, and he
Speaker 2: doesn't even have to resist you anymore. All he has
Speaker 2: to do is get you to rewind. I came to
Speaker 2: find out what are you beholding? Because if you keep
Speaker 2: beholding what they want to feed you. Yes, I'm talking
Speaker 2: about everything that's on our news right now. Yes, I'm
Speaker 2: talking about everybody that's vying for your attention. Your attention
Speaker 2: is too expensive to keep giving it to things that
Speaker 2: do not have your best interest at heart. I know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. God said this to me. God said
Speaker 2: this to me. Your attention is too expensive. It is
Speaker 2: costing you your freedom.
Speaker 1: That pornography isn't really free if you could see how
Speaker 1: expensive it was as it affects your intimacy.
Speaker 2: You would run from it, not welcome it. But we
Speaker 2: don't see that part. The enemy always hides the expense
Speaker 2: illuminates the benefits, the feeling of relief. Now the Israelites,
Speaker 2: of course, they're in a physical moment. And I told
Speaker 2: you this was funny, and there's probably nothing funny about
Speaker 2: what I'm saying right now, here's the funny part. Watch
Speaker 2: how Moses wants to deal with this in faith, and
Speaker 2: how God tells Moses to deal with it by faith,
Speaker 2: because this will speak directly to that thing that you
Speaker 2: are overthinking in your mind right now. Just for complete honesty,
Speaker 2: so I'm not up here total by myself naked. How
Speaker 2: many of you are dealing with uncertainty right now in
Speaker 2: an area of your life where you are trying to
Speaker 2: figure out whether the doubt that you have is something
Speaker 2: that you should pay attention to as caution or step
Speaker 2: forward because God is calling you to have faith.
Speaker 1: This will help you.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you exactly right or wrong in this,
Speaker 2: but I can give you a picture. And here's the picture.
Speaker 2: They cried out to the Lord. Verse number ten.
Speaker 1: They cried out to the Lord. This sounds good.
Speaker 2: That's what's supposed to do right very emotional, and they
Speaker 2: should be. Now I'm not minimizing their situation here, but
Speaker 2: watch how quickly they forget what God just did in
Speaker 2: delivering them.
Speaker 1: And watch how quickly fear.
Speaker 2: Can cancel out and make you forget how bad it
Speaker 2: really was where you were. In an attempt to go back,
Speaker 2: they said to Moses, it's because or excuse me, is
Speaker 2: it because there are no graves in Egypt that you've
Speaker 2: taken us away to die in the wilderness. What have
Speaker 2: you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt?
Speaker 2: Is this not what we said to you in Egypt?
Speaker 2: Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians, For
Speaker 2: it would have been better to serve the Egyptians than
Speaker 2: to die in the wilderness, would it. Fear will make
Speaker 2: you think that, depression will make you think that, pressure
Speaker 2: will make you think that.
Speaker 1: And all three of those things are present. So I
Speaker 1: get it. And now Moses, the great.
Speaker 2: Motivational speaker, he's going to give the question an answer
Speaker 2: at the seminar.
Speaker 1: What do we do now? Moses stands up.
Speaker 7: He says he's not a very good speaker, but he's
Speaker 7: given it his best right now, and Moses said to
Speaker 7: the people, fear not, try that again.
Speaker 1: Fear not. Yeah, let's just morek a messy fear not.
Speaker 2: Stand firm and see the salvation of the Lord, which
Speaker 2: he will.
Speaker 1: Work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you.
Speaker 2: See today you shall never see again. And if y'all
Speaker 2: don't shout over verse fourteen, I'm gonna get a new church.
Speaker 1: The Lord will fight for you.
Speaker 2: And you have only two Be silent, Oh, be silent.
Speaker 2: Don't shout because he's wrong. Sounds good, but he's wrong
Speaker 2: with shit. We're always that way because sometimes it is.
Speaker 2: But in this case it's wrong. Because there is a
Speaker 2: body of water called the Red Sea in front of you.
Speaker 1: You can't cross it.
Speaker 2: There are chariots from Egypt behind you. You can outrun them.
Speaker 2: So Moses's advice right here, one translation says, you need
Speaker 2: only be still. We've all heard before. Be still and
Speaker 2: know that he is God. And sometimes this will be
Speaker 2: the instruction. But for this moment, for this Moses, for
Speaker 2: this nation, for this situation, being still will get you killed.
Speaker 1: So watch God. I love God. Then the Lord said
Speaker 1: to Moses, why do you cry to me?
Speaker 2: Well, that's not very nice. Jehovah Jirah. He's supposed to
Speaker 2: be my provider. I'm crying to you because you're Jehovah
Speaker 2: Nissi my banner. I'm crying to you because you're Jehovah
Speaker 2: Shalom my peace. I'm crying to you because I can't
Speaker 2: do this, and I'm emotional, and I'm afraid, and Moses
Speaker 2: is old, and the people are angry, and the peace
Speaker 2: is very slow.
Speaker 1: Look.
Speaker 2: Look, look, if you travel with five kids a lot
Speaker 2: and extra to two hours to get across town, if
Speaker 2: you travel with two million, this isn't going to happen
Speaker 2: very fast.
Speaker 1: And the Lord said to Moses, I know.
Speaker 2: I got a lot on you, and I know it
Speaker 2: seems impossible, but why do you cry to me? Tell
Speaker 2: the people of Israel to go forward? You are not
Speaker 2: going to fix this with emotions. So, Moses, Mozetta, I
Speaker 2: want to appreciate to all genders and people and all that,
Speaker 2: whatever it is that you're looking at right now, I
Speaker 2: want you to know something about emotions. They can be
Speaker 2: helpful guides to get us to a certain place, but
Speaker 2: sometimes sitting with the emotion endlessly just creates more of
Speaker 2: what you are asking God to take you out of
Speaker 2: and the only way to deal with it is to
Speaker 2: go through it.
Speaker 1: Is to go through it.
Speaker 2: And that's what God told Moses. He said, you can
Speaker 2: cry about this all day. We could pray about it.
Speaker 2: You can study a verse about it, you can quote
Speaker 2: about it, you can do all of that.
Speaker 1: But the only way.
Speaker 2: For us to deal with this is for you to
Speaker 2: tell the people to go forward.
Speaker 1: And then there's one more instruction that he.
Speaker 2: Gives Moses, and I thought was significant and really kind
Speaker 2: of silly in the face of the challenge at hand.
Speaker 1: He said, verse sixteen, lift up.
Speaker 2: Your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea
Speaker 2: and divide it that the people of Israel may go
Speaker 2: through the sea on dry ground.
Speaker 1: Oh well, that will totally work. How we read the
Speaker 1: Bible with these cotton candy eyes, I'll never even know.
Speaker 2: We got this fake filter we put on all the
Speaker 2: stories like, yeah, that's the way it works.
Speaker 1: Put the staff and.
Speaker 2: Let them go.
Speaker 1: I saw the thing he did it.
Speaker 2: I saw a thing. I saw a movie about it.
Speaker 2: Moses just put up his staff. It's the difference to
Speaker 2: read the thing.
Speaker 1: And do the thing.
Speaker 2: I guarantee you all of my scholarly confidence, low as.
Speaker 1: It may be that Moses's hand was shaking because he's all.
Speaker 2: And because he's scared, but the fact that his hand
Speaker 2: was shaken.
Speaker 1: Did not stop to see from splitting. And what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Is, you can do it with a shaky hand. You
Speaker 2: can do it with knocking knees. You can do it
Speaker 2: with a lump in your throat. Oh yeah, Taylor, I
Speaker 2: can do it with a broken heart.
Speaker 1: I can prace him with a painful situation.
Speaker 2: I can make progress in a cloudy condition.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like that. Give God praise, just like that, Cause.
Speaker 2: Some of you today you just lifted your hands freely,
Speaker 2: but some of y'all.
Speaker 1: Your hands felt heavy.
Speaker 2: And I keep meeting people and they say, well, when
Speaker 2: I really feel like it, then I'll praise God, because
Speaker 2: sometimes I don't want to fake it and come to
Speaker 2: church and sing God, You've been so good to me,
Speaker 2: because I don't really feel like He's been good to me.
Speaker 2: But I realized something in the spirit that praise is
Speaker 2: a pushback. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, praise is a pushback.
Speaker 1: Praises.
Speaker 2: How I tell the red sea, you stand here, you
Speaker 2: stand there, praises, How I tell my doubt, you stand here,
Speaker 2: you stand there, and even if I stretch my.
Speaker 1: Hand shaky, it's the motion that matters.
Speaker 2: Do you think you need a better staff. The best
Speaker 2: staff can't split a c Stop thinking you need an
Speaker 2: external upgrade. All you need is an internal commitment to
Speaker 2: God that I will step out, not just when I
Speaker 2: feel something, not just when something good happens to me,
Speaker 2: not just.
Speaker 1: When I have a good idea. I'll step out with
Speaker 1: a bad idea and buffet till it shies.
Speaker 2: Telling you the most important skill is right here. Because
Speaker 2: I don't see anywhere in the text.
Speaker 1: Maybe you do.
Speaker 2: You can go study and write me an email about it.
Speaker 2: If their feelings changed, whether their feelings change, they're still
Speaker 2: mad at Moses.
Speaker 1: Moses is certainly.
Speaker 2: Mad at them because everything I do for my kids
Speaker 2: that they don't think me for, I get mad at
Speaker 2: And this is a pretty big thing he did for.
Speaker 1: Them to get them out.
Speaker 2: And I think sometimes we stay stuck in resentment, and
Speaker 2: then we let us called the root of bitterness, keep
Speaker 2: us anchored to situations that we can move through. And
Speaker 2: everything you feel God knows about, and everything you feel
Speaker 2: God cares about, everything.
Speaker 1: You feel God is comfortable in the presence of But
Speaker 1: you have to let it move through you. By moving
Speaker 1: through it.
Speaker 2: If you always surrender to it, you never gain strength
Speaker 2: or freedom, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: But God, what do you mean? Look at the verse?
Speaker 2: One whole word God gave me here that I think
Speaker 2: is going to be so powerful for somebody. I don't
Speaker 2: want to forget to say it. He said, if you
Speaker 2: be still, you get killed. But that wasn't the word.
Speaker 1: This is the word.
Speaker 2: Why you tell me about this problem? Tell the people
Speaker 2: of Israel to go forward? And I thought to myself,
Speaker 2: wait a minute. They're on foot, the chariots have wheels,
Speaker 2: they have children. All of the people chasing them are
Speaker 2: fighting it. You ever feel like there's nothing you can
Speaker 2: do to catch up now, like you are so far
Speaker 2: behind in your life that even if I run as
Speaker 2: fast as I can, all this I have to drag
Speaker 2: behind me.
Speaker 1: And the Lord said, go forward, watch this, not fast?
Speaker 1: Just forward. Isn't that good? Not fast? He said, it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be fast.
Speaker 2: I know you're loaded down by a lot of things,
Speaker 2: and I know you're on foot, and I know you
Speaker 2: didn't get that kind of training, and I know that
Speaker 2: you've lost some years, and I know that you've wasted
Speaker 2: away some opportunities. And I know you killed a few
Speaker 2: brain cells, and I know you closed a few doors,
Speaker 2: and some people that won't call you back. And I
Speaker 2: know there's gonna be some things you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: navigate through. And you feel like what's in front of
Speaker 2: you is too big and what's behind.
Speaker 8: You is too fast. But you don't have to go fast.
Speaker 8: You just have to go forward. Why because after the
Speaker 8: water parts for you, it's gonna close back over your enemies.
Speaker 2: And you're on foot, and Pharaoh has wheels, so it
Speaker 2: would seem like there's no way you can outrun him.
Speaker 2: But there's one thing your enemy didn't count on when
Speaker 2: he was chasing you with this. Chariots wheels don't work
Speaker 2: in water. If Pharaoh was gonna chase you, he should
Speaker 2: have brought a boat. Because what he didn't count on
Speaker 2: is that when you do help me.
Speaker 1: Preach before I have a cardiac arrest in front.
Speaker 2: Of two thousand people, God said, I'm not looking for
Speaker 2: you to be fast enough. I'm not looking for you
Speaker 2: to make up for time that you lost. I don't
Speaker 2: make up the time you lost. How redeem the years
Speaker 2: that the kicker.
Speaker 5: Worm has He I'll deal with your past. I'll deal
Speaker 5: with your credit, I deal with your boss, I'll deal
Speaker 5: with the market, I'll deal with the.
Speaker 2: Hot five seven people say, will still working water, will
Speaker 2: still work in water when you get out here in faith,
Speaker 2: there's not a thing.
Speaker 1: The devil can do to drag your back.
Speaker 5: God's wheels don't work in water.
Speaker 1: You hear what I'm saying. I don't have to be fast.
Speaker 2: I just gotta move forward because your stuck wheel can't
Speaker 2: catch my slow feet. You will journey with me now
Speaker 2: over twelve hundred miles to another sea. In scripture, over,
Speaker 2: excuse me, two hundred miles in twelve hundred years.
Speaker 1: So we're covering a great distance. I understand that.
Speaker 2: And if I may fast forward for a moment to
Speaker 2: one of your favorite Bible stories, because you want to
Speaker 2: be like this guy so much.
Speaker 1: Old Peter, old.
Speaker 2: Fish and empty net, foulmouth gospel preaching, Peter, Oh, you're
Speaker 2: hacking Peter Old Pentecost Sunday, Peter, Oh, Simon, Peter, Oh,
Speaker 2: crazy Peter.
Speaker 1: Old Peter took.
Speaker 2: His boat, let Jesus preach in it, and then took
Speaker 2: his boat and did whatever Jesus told him all around
Speaker 2: the Sea of Galilee, Matthew chapter fourteen says that Jesus
Speaker 2: performed a great miracle fed fi thousand men, women and children.
Speaker 2: I told you last week, don't let the math distract you.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter how many there are, matters how much
Speaker 2: he is. Oh, it doesn't matter how many they are.
Speaker 2: It matters how much he is, greater as he that
Speaker 2: is in. I gotta teach you all the Bible, so
Speaker 2: y'all know this stuff so you can step out in
Speaker 2: doubt and change.
Speaker 4: It to faith. The step is what makes it faith,
Speaker 4: not the feeling. The step is what makes it faith.
Speaker 4: The behavior. You gotta switch this thing. You keep beholding,
Speaker 4: believing and then behaving. But if we can switch it,
Speaker 4: if we can switch it, if you.
Speaker 2: Could believe and behave according to what you believe, you
Speaker 2: would behold things that you don't even know where possible.
Speaker 2: Then you'll see a thing. Then you'll see a thing.
Speaker 2: You'll see a thing, and you'll speak a thing. God says,
Speaker 2: I'm not forsaken. You'll see a thing, you'll feel a thing,
Speaker 2: and you'll speak a thing. God says, no weapon formed
Speaker 2: against me will prosper. You'll see a thing and you'll
Speaker 2: speak a thing. It is for his glory, not my
Speaker 2: self righteousness. That I have been saved.
Speaker 1: It is the gift of God, not of works, so
Speaker 1: that no one can both.
Speaker 2: You'll see a thing, and you will speak a thing,
Speaker 2: and the devil will show you things all the time
Speaker 2: in your mind. Oh yeah, he doesn't even have to
Speaker 2: do it physically. He showed Jesus all the kingdoms of
Speaker 2: this world right in his own mind during the forty
Speaker 2: day fast. But Jesus saw another thing. I want to
Speaker 2: teach you how to see another thing. Matthew Chapter fourteen.
Speaker 2: The Bible says that the disciples got in the boat
Speaker 2: why because Jesus told them to go to the other side.
Speaker 2: Tell your neighbor, I want you to see once on
Speaker 2: your other side, so you cannot die in this storm.
Speaker 1: Tell him you can cry.
Speaker 2: You can complain, you can rest, but you can't quit, because.
Speaker 1: It's the motion that matters. Clap your hands if.
Speaker 2: You know it's the motion that matters, now, Matthew fourteen.
Speaker 1: Matthew fourteen. After feeding five.
Speaker 2: Thousand, immediately Jesus verse twenty two made the disciples get
Speaker 2: into the boat and go before him to the other side.
Speaker 2: While he dismissed the crowd Notice what he didn't give
Speaker 2: them an agenda. Notice what he didn't give them information.
Speaker 2: Notice what he didn't give them a timetable. I thought
Speaker 2: about my.
Speaker 1: Dog Bo here. I thought about how I don't know
Speaker 1: if y'all know, we have a Boston terior.
Speaker 2: It was kind of a big deal in the church
Speaker 2: because for years I told the family that they were
Speaker 2: not responsible enough to have a dog. Was right, but
Speaker 2: I bought him on anyway, Holly and Abbey, of course,
Speaker 2: have done wonderfully with Bo. Graham has fulfilled every prophecy
Speaker 2: I had of his irresponsibility.
Speaker 1: About the dog, because he saw a thing.
Speaker 4: All right, now, love your body.
Speaker 2: Bo is an anxiety dog. Not that he helps us
Speaker 2: with our anxiety. He has so much anxiety, and incrementally
Speaker 2: it's getting worse.
Speaker 1: I'll show you a picture of Bow real quick, put
Speaker 1: on screen.
Speaker 2: And that picture was sent to us while we were
Speaker 2: away on a trip for elevation nights preaching and ministering,
Speaker 2: and one of our wonderful people that are on the
Speaker 2: team was send us a picture to show us Bo.
Speaker 2: And we all said to each other, we can't tell
Speaker 2: from that picture whether he's freaking out, losing his mind,
Speaker 2: or having the time of his life because they both
Speaker 2: make the same face. That's how he looks when he's horrified,
Speaker 2: that's how he looks when he's happy. And so you
Speaker 2: can't really tell what's going on from that picture. Now
Speaker 2: you can take it down. But there are two things
Speaker 2: that bo will be scared of, and both of these.
Speaker 1: Fears are acquired. Acquired. I don't think he had them
Speaker 1: when we first got him. We got him very little.
Speaker 1: And please don't send any emails for how to remedy
Speaker 1: any of this.
Speaker 2: He's already under the supervision of a wonderful veterinarian and
Speaker 2: Holly's working on all of that. But anytime that he
Speaker 2: sees everybody say sees these two things a suitcase, or anytime.
Speaker 1: He hears a storm.
Speaker 2: So he's afraid of two things, a suitcase and a
Speaker 2: storm because the first one a suitcase. He's seen those before,
Speaker 2: and sometimes when he sees one of those, we're back
Speaker 2: twenty four hours later. He didn't even have time to
Speaker 2: miss us. But we've been gone from him two weeks before,
Speaker 2: and I think he likes us because when the suitcase
Speaker 2: comes out, he starts following us everywhere. How many of
Speaker 2: y'all your dog does the same thing, because not because
Speaker 2: you're leaving, but because I don't know how long it's
Speaker 2: gonna be.
Speaker 1: Because you don't have a way to communicate this to me.
Speaker 2: Jesus said, I'll see on the other side, here's your suitcase.
Speaker 1: And the disciples are like, yeah, but like we're gonna
Speaker 1: be there a while.
Speaker 2: You come in to night, you come in on, how
Speaker 2: much time you need alone, I know you're tired. None
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 1: Just this is not good. I call it transition.
Speaker 2: With no timestamp, I can't fast forward to know how
Speaker 2: this ends or how we get back. And Jesus certainly
Speaker 2: didn't tell them what happened next, because not only did
Speaker 2: they have a suitcase, but they had a storm. That's
Speaker 2: the second thing both afraid of. And as you know,
Speaker 2: he doesn't have to see anything or even really hear anything.
Speaker 2: This worrisome dog, this prayerless dog, who does not trust
Speaker 2: God at all.
Speaker 1: If I tell.
Speaker 2: You he can smell a storm three weeks before it happens,
Speaker 2: he'll know his Thursday two pm, I need to have
Speaker 2: a panic attack, and he will prep for the panic attack.
Speaker 1: Tell you is true? Is it true? Is it true?
Speaker 1: The dog is?
Speaker 2: The dog is losing his mind, and we're working on that.
Speaker 2: But I bring it to you as an illustration to
Speaker 2: say that we all deal with suitcases and storms, and
Speaker 2: we're really not much different than the dog. Because I
Speaker 2: don't know how long I'm gonna have to be in
Speaker 2: this transitional place, I'll know how long they're gonna like me.
Speaker 2: I don't know how long till they decide to leave me,
Speaker 2: like the last.
Speaker 1: Person did too.
Speaker 2: I've seen this before, and I'm not okay with it,
Speaker 2: not because of the transition, but because.
Speaker 1: I don't know the time.
Speaker 2: Dable imagine now you are not only a disciple in
Speaker 2: transition suitcase, but as you are transitioning verse twenty three.
Speaker 2: After he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on
Speaker 2: the mountain side by himself to pray, and when evening came,
Speaker 2: he was there alone. But the boat by this time
Speaker 2: was a long way from the land, beaten by the waves,
Speaker 2: for the wind was against them. Now I've got a
Speaker 2: suitcase and a storm. I would never pull out a
Speaker 2: suitcase during a storm in front of boat. I think
Speaker 2: it might be his last puppy moment memory, and it's
Speaker 2: happening at the same time in your life.
Speaker 1: And it's a transition, and it's trouble, and I'm.
Speaker 2: Stepping out in doubt, and I've got things validating that
Speaker 2: this may not be the best time. And so what
Speaker 2: do I do?
Speaker 1: Well? Watch this as they are rowing.
Speaker 2: Visibility is low, timetable, uncertain, their life in the balance,
Speaker 2: their future very very questionable. The Bible says, now you
Speaker 2: believe the Bible, right, come on, you believe the Bible.
Speaker 2: I want you to see something in the Bible today.
Speaker 2: The Bible says the wind was against them, and in
Speaker 2: the fourth watch of the Night, verse twenty five, he
Speaker 2: came to them walking on the sea. But when the
Speaker 2: disciples saw a thing walking on the sea, they were terrified.
Speaker 2: But it's Jesus. But they don't know that. They just
Speaker 2: see a thing. They don't know the thing they're looking at.
Speaker 2: And the thing that they're afraid of is the thing
Speaker 2: that they were praying for. Touch somebody, say help is
Speaker 2: on the way. He came out to them walking on
Speaker 2: the sea, and they were terrified and said it's a ghost.
Speaker 2: And they cried out like the Israelites in fear. But
Speaker 2: immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, take.
Speaker 1: Heart, it is I do not be afraid.
Speaker 2: Now I need to ask a question, because I am
Speaker 2: not surprised that Jesus can walk on water.
Speaker 1: He can do whatever he want with what he's spoke
Speaker 1: into existence.
Speaker 2: Colossian says, all things were created by him, for him,
Speaker 2: through him, and not anything that was made was made,
Speaker 2: but that it was made in him, by him and
Speaker 2: for him. I am not surprised that he can transcend
Speaker 2: what he spoke. I am not surprised that he can
Speaker 2: suspend the laws of buoyancy. I am not surprised that
Speaker 2: he is on water. Look at verse twenty five. I'm surprised.
Speaker 2: Why are you walking? If they're in trouble, shouldn't you run?
Speaker 2: Shouldn't you hurry up to get there?
Speaker 1: Why are you walking? Why are you walking? God?
Speaker 2: Why you tell me not know?
Speaker 1: When my brother Lazarus is sick? Why are you walking?
Speaker 2: Come on?
Speaker 1: Why are you walking? Jesus? And the question is why
Speaker 1: don't you? Because that's what matters in this moment he said,
Speaker 1: it is, I do not be afraid. Next verse.
Speaker 2: This is the guy you want to be like. Right
Speaker 2: next verse, please on my screen. Next verse, the next one,
Speaker 2: the next, next one, now that one, that one, the
Speaker 2: one before that twenty eight twenty eight, Hey, there we go,
Speaker 2: and Peter answered him.
Speaker 1: Lord, if it is you, if watch him get delivered
Speaker 1: on an if, well, you.
Speaker 2: Gotta step out on what is pete is the substance
Speaker 2: of things helped for? But I can't see it right now,
Speaker 2: so I gotta step out on.
Speaker 1: Doubt. But Hugh does just like a wave of the sea,
Speaker 1: tossed and driven Your quote and diverse wrong. That's about
Speaker 1: your confidence in God, not your confidence in you.
Speaker 2: Peter doesn't question what Jesus can do. He just questions,
Speaker 2: is a you? That's the thing nobody tells us. If
Speaker 2: it's you, how many of you are walking on an if?
Speaker 1: Right now? Just if? Just if? If it's you, command
Speaker 1: me to come to you on the water.
Speaker 2: Next verse, Jesus talks to Peter like he's bo come.
Speaker 1: Huh. That's like how you talk to a dog.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you need to simplify what you do next in
Speaker 2: your life. Sometimes you are so complicated that you can't
Speaker 2: be saved because you over complicated. Sometimes it is as
Speaker 2: simple as one four letter word, come, come, come.
Speaker 1: If it is you, tell me to come, she said, well,
Speaker 1: let me give you seventeen proofs to this me. No no, no, no. Come.
Speaker 1: I'll show you who I am while you walk toward me.
Speaker 2: You meet me tomorrow morning with your Bible. I'll show
Speaker 2: you who I am while you walk toward me. You
Speaker 2: say you're sorry for what you did and own that
Speaker 2: thing and move forward in it, and set up an
Speaker 2: appointment to work through the root issues so it doesn't
Speaker 2: happen again.
Speaker 1: And I'll show you who I am while you walk
Speaker 1: toward me.
Speaker 2: For we walk by faith, not by sight. He told Peter, come,
Speaker 2: and so Peter verse twenty nine, got out the boat
Speaker 2: and walked on the water. Wouldn't you run? Maybe that's
Speaker 2: all he could do in that moment, was just walk.
Speaker 2: I don't know how it makes it any safer to
Speaker 2: walk on water than.
Speaker 1: To run on it.
Speaker 2: Or maybe there's a lesson the day that wait on
Speaker 2: the Lord will re knew their strength.
Speaker 1: They will walk and not be weary. They will walk.
Speaker 1: That's what it is is. Walking.
Speaker 2: My faith is stepping out on doubt and finding out
Speaker 2: He's good. You have got to do this thing doubting
Speaker 2: so that God can give you faith when your foot hits.
Speaker 1: The next step. That is how I see you.
Speaker 2: I do not see you as a horrible person who
Speaker 2: doesn't really trust God because you're struggling right now to
Speaker 2: even think he hears your prayers.
Speaker 1: I don't see you that way. I see it kind
Speaker 1: of like Peter, like if if if, if.
Speaker 2: And Jesus does not rebuke you for your feelings, because
Speaker 2: it's the motion.
Speaker 1: That matters.
Speaker 2: Stop punishing yourself for having the wrong emotions.
Speaker 1: Keep showing up and see what God does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, keep showing up and keep saying, Okay, God, what
Speaker 2: can I learn from that? This is the discipline of discipleshift.
Speaker 2: It's the motion that matters. Is not how fast you
Speaker 2: can get to him. Peter steps out of the boat,
Speaker 2: and it's not about how fast he gets to Jesus,
Speaker 2: because he's walking, and he's walking, and you will notice
Speaker 2: that the Bible says in verse thirty, when he saw
Speaker 2: the wind, he was afraid. He what he saw a thing,
Speaker 2: And when he saw a thing, he lost sight of
Speaker 2: someone that was greater than the thing that he saw.
Speaker 2: I'm almost there. It's the motion that matters. The wind
Speaker 2: was blowing the whole time. That's not what knocked you down.
Speaker 2: It was when your eyes shifted to the thing and
Speaker 2: not the one who is greater than all fans. That's
Speaker 2: what happened. And when he saw the wind, he was
Speaker 2: afraid and beginning to sink. He cried out, please let
Speaker 2: me minister this to you today, Lord save me.
Speaker 1: And Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold
Speaker 1: of him. Say unto him, you have little faith. Why'd
Speaker 1: you doubt you'd be like? See what he doubted? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he didn't drown, did he? You won't drown stepping out.
Speaker 2: You drown if you have a pity party and plan
Speaker 2: your funeral in the place of your last disappointment.
Speaker 1: That's how you drown. But if you move forward, God's
Speaker 1: got something for you. God's got someone for you. God's
Speaker 1: got a fresh word for you. God's got manna everywhere
Speaker 1: in your wilderness. God's got fruit in Canaan waiting the
Speaker 1: right time to come up out of the ground. Why
Speaker 1: did you die? See, it's not how fast Peter could
Speaker 1: get to Jesus. Give me Verse thirty one. Immediately Jesus reached.
Speaker 2: It's not how fast you can get to Jesus, is
Speaker 2: how fast he can get to you. Because it's the
Speaker 2: motion that matters. So let's wage Warren push back on
Speaker 2: anxiety today. It's not how quick the panic attack comes
Speaker 2: on you. It's how quickly God can come in the
Speaker 2: middle of the attack and deliver you from the fowler's snare.
Speaker 2: It's the motion that matters. It has never hinged on
Speaker 2: your gift. It has never hinged on your goodness. It
Speaker 2: is never hinged on your right stepping.
Speaker 1: It's on his right reaching. This is not the step
Speaker 1: that counts. This has God got.
Speaker 2: You in a season right now that He is teaching
Speaker 2: you to reach for him Because God, I have my doubts.
Speaker 2: If I could tell you one skill that you need
Speaker 2: to learn in your life, it's to reach for.
Speaker 1: Him when you sink like a rock, reach for him.
Speaker 1: Don't run from him.
Speaker 2: You keep getting taught that you can't come to God
Speaker 2: unless you perfectly have faith. Tell Peter he got back
Speaker 2: in the boat and set an Olympic.
Speaker 1: World record for water walking. I don't care if it
Speaker 1: was two seconds.
Speaker 2: He beat John, he beat James, he beat barked all
Speaker 2: of you. All they got was a boat ride. Peter
Speaker 2: got a world record. You can have bronze, you can
Speaker 2: have silver. Give me my gold medal because I stepped
Speaker 2: out and I slipped, but he reached out, had I
Speaker 2: sun hand. I'm here today worship big help. Does I
Speaker 2: got tho shit? I got bushit, I got a mirror
Speaker 2: a goal because I got moulship.
Speaker 1: It's the motion that matters.
Speaker 2: Just about the time Peter sees a thing the wind,
Speaker 2: he sees another thing, the hand of Jesus.
Speaker 1: I want you to see another thing. I want you
Speaker 1: to see another thing.
Speaker 2: I want you to see another thing, maybe, just maybe,
Speaker 2: if you could walk by faith, if you can believe,
Speaker 2: you will behold.
Speaker 1: If you can believe. I'm trying to say, you don't
Speaker 1: have to see it to believe it. You have to
Speaker 1: believe it to see it.
Speaker 2: One prophet said, I hear the sound of the abundance
Speaker 2: of rain, and the man said, there's nothing there.
Speaker 1: Six times he said go back wide, because it's the
Speaker 1: motion that matters. And the seventh time, the servants say,
Speaker 1: I can see a cloud.
Speaker 2: Heavy with rain, and it looks like it's tiny, but
Speaker 2: it's headed our way.
Speaker 1: I can see a cloud heavy with rain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see the wind, but I see something else.
Speaker 1: It looks like revival head and miles. Yeah, I see
Speaker 1: the bills, but I see something else. I can see
Speaker 1: a cloud heavy with rain. What's it looked like? And
Speaker 1: it looks like freedom?
Speaker 2: Tell pharoh, it's headed.
Speaker 1: All the way. I get see it heavy? Hey up?
Speaker 1: What he's heavy?
Speaker 2: It looks like.
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