1 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:12,639 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message, 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: and I'm excited to share the word of God with 7 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: you today. If y'all feel like hearing it like I 8 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: feel like preaching it, something's going to happen in here. 9 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: Go with me. Go with me to Mark chapter two. 10 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: Mark chapter two. As a matter of fact, could you 11 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: stand to honor the reading of God's word. I know 12 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,839 Speaker 1: you were standing earlier. It feels like spiritual aerobics, but 13 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: it's the only one. I'm asking you to stand up 14 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 1: for every other one that's on you. Mark chapter two 15 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna look at verses twenty three through twenty eight, 16 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 1: and then we'll probably read down into chapter number three 17 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: as well. When you're ready to read it, say yeah. 18 00:00:55,080 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: If you're not ready, say hold up. I heard faint. 19 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: Hold up, And I'm await for you to find the gospel. 20 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 1: According to Mark chapter two, and it says, starting in 21 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: verse twenty three. One sabbath, Jesus was going through the 22 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: grain fields, and as his disciples walked along, they began 23 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: to pick some heads of grain. No Pharisee said to him, look, 24 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 1: why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath? 25 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,119 Speaker 1: And he answered, have you never read what David did 26 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:27,839 Speaker 1: when he and his companions were hungry and in need? 27 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: And in the days of abth are the high priest. 28 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: He entered the House of God and ate the consecrated bread, 29 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he 30 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: also gave some to his companions, and he said to them, 31 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 32 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: So the son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath. 33 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: Another time, Jesus went into the synagogue and a man 34 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: with a shriveled hand another version says withered hand was there, 35 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: and some of them were looking for a reason to 36 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if 37 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: he would heal him on the Sabbath. And Jesus said 38 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: to the man with a shriveled hand, stand up in 39 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:11,959 Speaker 1: front of everyone. And Jesus asked them, which is lawful 40 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: on the sabbath to do good or to do evil, 41 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: to save life, or to kill. But they remained silent 42 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: and looked around at them in anger and deeply distressed 43 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 1: at their stubborn hearts, and said to the man, stretch 44 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: out your hand. He stretched it out and his hand 45 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: was completely restored. Then the Pharisees went out and began 46 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus. Ooo, pauls, 47 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 1: I don't want to preach before I preach, but in 48 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: that interesting how two people can be in the same 49 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: environment but have two totally different experiences. Here's a man's 50 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: hand who has been completely restored. I imagine to your 51 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:11,239 Speaker 1: place erupted giving God praise. But not the Pharisees. They 52 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: saw this man's healing as an opportunity to begin a 53 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:22,239 Speaker 1: plot to kill Jesus. This man's healing was the impetus. 54 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,679 Speaker 1: It was the catalyst for the plot that put Jesus 55 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:29,239 Speaker 1: on the cross. I was playing around with titles before 56 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: I preached this. I almost started to call this message 57 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: when healing you is killing me. That would have been 58 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: a good title. That would have been good a tie. 59 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: That's not my title. And some of y'all ain't been 60 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: saved your whole life, and uh, you've been a vegas. 61 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: So I almost titled this message, almost tied to this 62 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: message how to win with a bad hand. Some of 63 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: you get that tomorrow. You don't like that, you're like that, 64 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 1: but uh, it's not my title today. It's not my 65 00:03:55,240 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: title today. I am amazed the ability of our Savior 66 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: to completely restore his hand, completely restore. Our God is 67 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: a god of restoration. I want to appreciated ay, just 68 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 1: using this as a title, where restoration starts. Where restoration starts, 69 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: would you bow your heads with me, Ephaan, wherever you 70 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: are Some of y'all still in your bathrobe listening to 71 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: this message. Father, thank you for your word. Speak to 72 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 1: us today. Amen. He may be seated in the presence 73 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: of the Lord where restoration starts. Elevation, fam. I'm fully 74 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: aware that we are immersed in a new year in 75 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. If I'm honest with you, there are 76 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: some lessons that I learned in twenty twenty that I 77 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 1: am still walking out today. Twenty twenty. Tell me some 78 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 1: lessons it taught me a myriad of lessons. Matter of fact, 79 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: first lesson I learned in twenty twenty. First lesson I 80 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,799 Speaker 1: learned in twenty twenty as I was sheltered in place 81 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: for several months with our three little humans who are six, four, 82 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: and three. The first lesson that I learned in twenty 83 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: as I was sheltered in place couldn't go nowhere with 84 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:20,840 Speaker 1: our six year old, four year old and three year old. 85 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: First lesson I learned in twenty twenty, who is that 86 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: our teachers are grossly underpaid? Grossly under pay. I'm telling you, 87 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 1: if you got a stimulus check, send it to a teacher. Okay, 88 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: this is hard out here in these streets. That's the 89 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: first lesson I learned in twenty twenty. The second lesson 90 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: I learned in twenty twenty is that sometimes your greatest 91 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: ability is your adaptability, your ability to adapt. How many know, 92 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 1: God can use somebody that knows how to pivot, that 93 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 1: knows how to shift, somebody that's not so married to 94 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: what has been and what was that they don't know 95 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: how to move into what God is doing. Now. I'm 96 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 1: telling you God can use you if you understand the 97 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: power of adaptability. The third thing I got from twenty 98 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: twenty that I didn't really learn, but I was reminded 99 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: of that is that the Church of the Living God 100 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 1: is not optional, it is a necessity. The Church is essential. 101 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: How mean you know we need the church. I know 102 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 1: it looks crazy in the world right now, and it's 103 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: dark days, and that has reminded me of the truth 104 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: and the fact that we need the Church of the 105 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: Living God. We need something that will be light in 106 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: the midst of this darkness. We need people that will 107 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: stand up and declare the good news of the Gospel 108 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ. I'm telling you we need the church. Oh, 109 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,359 Speaker 1: this is essential. It is essential. I can live with 110 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: the bad barber. I'll just have a bad haircut. I 111 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: can live with the bad dentist. I'll just have a 112 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: bad toothache. I can live with the bad plumber. It'll 113 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:00,679 Speaker 1: just mess up my house. But I need a church 114 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 1: that's alive. I can't have a dead church. I need 115 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: a church that's alive, that will stand up for truth 116 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: and speak. God is telling you to speak. Oh, I'm 117 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: telling you, I love the Church of the Living God. 118 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: I was reminded of that. I'm thankful for the church. 119 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: I'm thankful for the Word of God. In fact, it 120 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: was awesome today just being able to worship with you today. 121 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: I'm telling you should have heard y'all singing I'm gonna 122 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: see your victory. Some of I were off key, but 123 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: it was cool. I loved it because there's something about 124 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: when the church comes together in worships. I'm be honest 125 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: with you, I'm I'm lonely on this stage. I am lonely. 126 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: Ain't nobody but me and you, bro We're the only ones, 127 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: only ones up here. It's lonely on the stage, but 128 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 1: it is not as lonely as it was during the 129 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: pandemic last year, when I was preaching to empty sanctuary, 130 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: just looking to the lens of a camera, speaking into 131 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 1: the abyss of darkness, hoping that what I was saying 132 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 1: was resonating on the other sea side of the screen. 133 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: I'm just so glad that there are people in here. 134 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: I'm glad I can see your right now. Actually kind 135 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: of got me thinking, because I have an interesting vantage 136 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 1: point right here on the stage because I can see you, 137 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: you can see me. If I look at these incredible screens, 138 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: I can see myself. What's interesting to me is that 139 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: you can't see you. Just think about that for a moment, 140 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: Like you don't have a clue what you look like 141 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: right now. Even those of your epam like, don't go 142 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 1: to the bathroom in your house. And no, you don't 143 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 1: know what you look like right now, but I do. 144 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: I can see you. You don't have a clue what 145 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: you look like. You know what you looked like before 146 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: you came to church. You know what you look like 147 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: if you stopped in the bathroom before. But you don't 148 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: know what you look like right now. And I can 149 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: see you. You can't see you, but I can see you. 150 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 1: To think that you would have the nerve, the audacity 151 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: to say, Ooh, I'm gonna change some things in my life. 152 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: I'm telling you this is gonna be a new me. 153 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 1: You can't even see you. Hey, you don't talk about 154 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 1: there's a new year because you can't see your self. 155 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 1: And how many you know? You cannot change what you 156 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: cannot see see. All change in your life must be 157 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 1: preceded by recognition. You have to see something before you 158 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 1: can actually change it. Many of us want God to 159 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 1: restore some things, but perhaps before the restoration, we actually 160 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: need recognition of the things in our life that are 161 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: broken that we are unaware of. That He wants to 162 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: restore because you can't see yourself. You don't know what 163 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 1: you look like. Come on, not the only one ever 164 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: experienced this phenomenon where you had a kill salad. You know, 165 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: you're trying to do better summer, you're trying to do better. 166 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: You have your kill salad at twelve o'clock in the afternoon. 167 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 1: You get to your house about six o'clock in the evening. Okay, 168 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 1: you look in your mirror in your bathroom and see 169 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 1: the biggest piece of kill in between your teeth, and 170 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:53,320 Speaker 1: you think to yourself, wait a minute, I had that 171 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 1: kill salad at twelve o'clock. I talked to sixty three 172 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: people right after that list did nobody want to tell me? 173 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: Then I had a big old piece of cant help 174 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:06,319 Speaker 1: him my mouth. Oh I need new friends, because you 175 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: would have got it out if you could see it. 176 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: But you cannot change. But you cannot see. I'll never 177 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: forget talking to a leader, a very influential leader, and 178 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 1: I was just asking them all these questions about leadership, 179 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 1: and he said, Robert, there's actually a question that I 180 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:26,479 Speaker 1: asked other people as a leader that's formed my leadership. 181 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: I said, man, give me the question. He said, I 182 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: asked this question of my wife, he said. I asked 183 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 1: this question of the people that I lead, he said. 184 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: I even asked this question of close friends. I asked them, 185 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: what is it like to be on the other side 186 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: of me? What is it like to be on the 187 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: other side of me? That's a good question, he said. 188 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 1: I asked that question because I have blind spots. I 189 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: don't know what it's like to be on the other 190 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 1: side of me. That is the only thing I don't 191 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 1: have perspective on. I don't know what it's like to 192 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 1: be on the other side me, he says. So I 193 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: have to ask people that I love, and then I 194 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: have to sit back and listen to what they say 195 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: and not get defensive when they say something that they 196 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,199 Speaker 1: know this. I have to hear what they say because 197 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 1: I can't see myself see some of y'all listen to 198 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: dis message like, Oh, I don't need this message. I'm good. 199 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 1: I'm good. You know my marriage is good. I know this, 200 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: I know this, I'm a good husband. And I would 201 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: say to you, how do you know you've never been 202 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 1: married to yourself? This some parents you ever seen parents like, 203 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: I don't know what's wrong with these kids? These kids 204 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: have lost their mind. I know one thing. I'm a 205 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: good parent. Right, y'all got electricity, don't you. I'm a 206 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: good parent. I know that. How do you know you've 207 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 1: never parented yourself. I'm just saying, you don't know what 208 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 1: it's like to be on the other side of you 209 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: because you can't see yourself. So when God wants to 210 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: restore something, the first thing you need to ask of 211 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 1: God is God, help me to see what I cannot see. 212 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: Show me the things that are broken in me. Don't 213 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 1: let me spend my entire life looking at what's wrong 214 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: with everybody else that I never take the time to 215 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: address the things that are wrong with me. Oh God, 216 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: help me see me. Don't let me live my life 217 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: like the Pharisees, who were real good at seeing what 218 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: was wrong with everybody else, that they could never see 219 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: what was wrong with them. This is the problem of 220 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 1: the Pharisees. The Pharisees were real good at microscopes. You know, 221 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 1: microscopes you look with detail at the specimen was wrong 222 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 1: with everybody else, But they were horrible with mirrors. They 223 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:34,839 Speaker 1: could not look at themselves, but they could see what 224 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 1: was wrong with everybody else. I see h I say 225 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 1: what you need to fix. I see what's wrong with you. 226 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: That's the problem with the pharisees. You know you a 227 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: pharisee when you're talking about what I see, I see 228 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: what's wrong with you. That's why they have pharisees. P 229 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: H A R. I see, I see, I see what 230 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: you need to fix. And you got a lot of 231 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: things that are on. It's horrible. When you're really good 232 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 1: at microscopes, you're terrible and pulling on Michael Jackson and saying, 233 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 1: I'm looking at the man in the mirror. I'm asking 234 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 1: him to change his ways. The Pharisees couldn't see themselves, 235 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: so Jesus had this incredible, uncanny ability to help them 236 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 1: see themselves, and they hated it. They couldn't stand that 237 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: Jesus would show themselves to themselves. That's what made them 238 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 1: angry and mad. And that is what is in my 239 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,679 Speaker 1: text today. Are y'all good? I feel like preaching this 240 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 1: message before before I even start talking about the pharisees 241 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 1: who cause detension in our text today. I also find 242 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: it intriguing that nobody ever type cast themselves as a 243 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 1: pharisee in the Bible. Have you noticed that, like you 244 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 1: ain't never in your life while reading the Bible said 245 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:51,199 Speaker 1: that's me, that's me. I'm a pharisee. And't that funny? 246 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: And it's funny that the people that regularly attended church, 247 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 1: people who today regularly attend church, never think they're like 248 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:01,200 Speaker 1: the pharisee. Come on, you always the person with the 249 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:03,679 Speaker 1: withered had. Come on, You're the woman with the issue 250 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 1: of blood. You're the one that just got issues that 251 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 1: if you could just get to Jesus, he would fix it. 252 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 1: You're never you never say I'm the pharisee. Come on, 253 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: the Pharisees are like your caters who don't agree with you, 254 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:16,560 Speaker 1: But you never say I'm the Pharisee. But I'm gonna 255 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 1: remind you you can't see yourself. So perhaps another question 256 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: you should ask, besides what's it like to be on 257 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 1: the other side of me, is could the pharisee be me? 258 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 1: Nobody type casts themselves at the Pharisees, and the Pharisees 259 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: couldn't see themselves, and Jesus would show them to themselves 260 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: and Jesus is interesting their problem with Jesus. They had 261 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 1: a lot of problems with Jesus. But you don'ts that 262 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: at the root of their problem they were jealous. They 263 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 1: were jealous of Jesus. Ooh, jealousy is something else. How 264 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: many you know, when you are effective at doing what 265 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 1: God has called you to do, people are gonna be jealous. 266 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: I don't know who this is for today, but somebody 267 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: is stepping into the effulgence of your purpose and you're 268 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: getting a lot of negativity, and you're getting a lot 269 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: of haters and get a lot of critics, and they 270 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: blogging about you, texting about you and tweeting about you. 271 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: And you're about to shrink back from the call of 272 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: God on your life because you got some resistance, because 273 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: you got some jealousy. But God told me to tell 274 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: you you need to walk in the totality of what 275 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 1: He's called you to be. When you are doing what 276 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 1: God has called you to do, people are gonna hate. 277 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 1: People are gonna be jealous, people are gonna talk about you. 278 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: Learn to live with the criticism. The only people that 279 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: don't get criticized are the people that never say anything, 280 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 1: never do anything, and never become anything. But if you'll 281 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: start stepping in your call, people are going to be jealous. 282 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 1: Just learn to live with it. Get you some tough 283 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 1: skin and keep a soft heart. I'm telling you people 284 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: will be jealous. One writer said that jealousy is the 285 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: trophy that mediocrity gives to excellence. Woo, I'm saying it again, 286 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: so maybe you could tweet it later. Jealousy is the 287 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 1: trophy that mediocrity gives to excellence, because when you are 288 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: excellent and flowing in your call, people get jealous. They 289 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: were jealous of Jesus. Not only that they didn't like 290 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: the claims of Jesus, because Jesus was claiming to be 291 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: the Messiah, the son of the living God. They're like, 292 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: hold on, Jesus, nothing good comes out of Nazareth. We 293 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: know where you came from. You ever met those people, 294 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 1: then anytime you start stepping in your call, they remind 295 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: you of where you came from and remind you of 296 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: who you were. Oh, didn't like the claims of Jesus. 297 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: They also didn't like who Jesus hung out with. Do 298 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 1: you know Jesus had a reputation. He had a reputation 299 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: for hanging out with people that had bad reputations. And 300 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 1: Pharisees was like, huh, if he was really holy? He 301 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 1: was really a man of God, he would know how 302 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: terrible and deplorable and despicable those people are, and he 303 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: wouldn't hang with him. Oh, they had so many issues, 304 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: but none of those aforementioned issues or what God, Jesus 305 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: on the cross. You know what, God, I'm on the cross. 306 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: You know what their hot button issue with Jesus was. 307 00:16:55,160 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 1: They couldn't stand that he kept doing stuff on the Sabbath. 308 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,679 Speaker 1: That's it. That's what got him crucified, is that he 309 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:09,159 Speaker 1: kept doing stuff on the Sabbath. Read your Bible. The 310 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 1: only time they got all hot headed and all madsten 311 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:16,479 Speaker 1: Jesus kept doing miracles on the Sabbath. They got so 312 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,439 Speaker 1: frustrated all throughout his ministry. They're like, what can't you 313 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:23,440 Speaker 1: just heal people on another day and leave our Sabbath alone. 314 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 1: That was the issue that got him on the cross, 315 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 1: is that he kept doing stuff on It's almost like 316 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: he did it on purpose, Like, yeah, I remember store 317 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 1: stuff on the Sabbath because I know it's gonna make 318 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: you mad. They didn't like it. How many know the 319 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,679 Speaker 1: Pharisees took the Sabbath serious. They had been given a 320 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:40,479 Speaker 1: mandate by Moses on the Sabbath, which means to cease 321 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 1: from work to rest. Promise. Moses didn't say what did 322 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 1: that look like? So they started adding rules, adding rules 323 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,920 Speaker 1: because that's what religion will always do. It adds rules 324 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:56,440 Speaker 1: because religion needs a mark that says if I do this, this, 325 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: and this, then God will accept me. But Grace doesn't 326 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:02,639 Speaker 1: say that. Grace says, you are the recipient of something 327 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 1: that you don't discern. You are the recipient of somebody 328 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 1: that paid a price for your life, that lived the 329 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 1: life you were supposed to live, and died the death 330 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:13,879 Speaker 1: you were supposed to die, and you don't have to 331 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 1: deal with karma. That's what Grace says. Grace says, even 332 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:19,680 Speaker 1: though I'm messed up, because of the blood of Jesus, 333 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 1: I can receive. Oh they didn't like it. They were 334 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: mad because they have added all kinds of rules and 335 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: regulations to the Sabbath. They're like, Jesus, if you gonna 336 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 1: heal somebody, do it on another day beside the Sabbath. 337 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 1: Ooh they took the sabbath serious. Oh you'll sit down. 338 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: We're just talking home. You know. Juice today still keep 339 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:49,920 Speaker 1: the Sabbath very serious. I learned this the hard way. 340 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 1: I learned this hard way elevation fam I went to 341 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: I went to Israel. I went to Holy Land, and 342 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: I'm perusing the Holy Land, having a good time. And 343 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 1: I'm walking around and I wanted to see everything, walking 344 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:01,680 Speaker 1: around the wole land and drinking a lot of water. 345 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,239 Speaker 1: It was hot, and I missed the bathroom break. Can 346 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: I missed the bathroom break? That's on me. I was 347 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 1: having a moment in Bethlehem and I missed the bathroom break. 348 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 1: And get back to the hotel and I got to go. 349 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,120 Speaker 1: I got to go. And I run into the hotel 350 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,400 Speaker 1: and go to the elevator. The elevator opens and I'm 351 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:19,399 Speaker 1: like on the ninth floor, on the ninth floor. I 352 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 1: walk into the elevator. This elevator, I kid you not 353 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,159 Speaker 1: stopped on the first floor, stopped on the second floor, 354 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 1: stopped on the third floor, stopped on the fourth floor, 355 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:30,919 Speaker 1: stopped on the fifth floor, on the sixth floor, I 356 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: passed out. Stop on the seventh floor. Afol. It finally 357 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:37,360 Speaker 1: gets to the ninth floor. I get off an exasperation, 358 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: go into my hotel, come back out, catch the same 359 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: elevator all the way back down. Stop on every single floor. 360 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: By the time I got to the lobby, I had 361 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 1: an attitude. Okay, there was no fruit of the spirits 362 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: in my life. I was mad. I said, where is 363 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 1: the manager? I paid a whole lot of money to 364 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: walk where Jesus walked, and they can't fix the elevator 365 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:59,880 Speaker 1: in this hotel. It's stopping on every single floor. Got 366 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 1: talk to the manager immediately, and so I'm walking to 367 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 1: talk to the manager. And somebody from our tour was like, Robert, 368 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: where are you going? I said, I'm going to talk 369 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,479 Speaker 1: to the manager because that elevator stopped on every single one. 370 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 1: You don't want to know what happened to me on 371 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 1: that seventh floor by the elevator and it stopped on 372 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 1: every single one. They said, Robert, it's the Sabbath. I said, 373 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:17,439 Speaker 1: I don't care what day it is. They need to 374 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,919 Speaker 1: get a technician to fix that elevator. They said, no, Robert, Robert, 375 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 1: that's the Shabbat elevator. I said, I don't care if 376 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:29,639 Speaker 1: it's the Shazam elevator. Somebody needs to do something and 377 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 1: fix it. It stopped for a single floor. They said, Robert, no, 378 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: bro it's the Sabbath, and and and the reason is 379 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 1: stopped on every floor is because to push a button 380 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: would be worked, and you have to cease from work 381 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:51,360 Speaker 1: on the sabbath. Oh, you think that's crazy. You need 382 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,159 Speaker 1: to see all the rules the Pharisees added in the 383 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: day of Jesus. Oh my, they had all constable people. 384 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: You could only take one nine hundred and ninety nine 385 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 1: steps on the Sabbath. You took that two thousand step, 386 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,159 Speaker 1: that was work. You couldn't carry anything that weighed more 387 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 1: than a fig on the Sabbath. If you do something 388 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 1: in the air, you better catch you with the other hand, 389 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:10,919 Speaker 1: because if you caught it with the same hand, that 390 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 1: was work on the Sabbath. You couldn't light a candle 391 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:16,400 Speaker 1: on the Sabbath. You couldn't write a letter on the Sabbath. 392 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 1: You couldn't take a bath because you might spill water 393 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: and try to clean it up. You walking around musty 394 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 1: because you're trying to keep the Sabbath holy. They had 395 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,639 Speaker 1: all kinds of rules and regulations they have added to 396 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 1: the Sabbath. And how mean you know you sure couldn't 397 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: heal anybody on the Sabbath. You sure couldn't restore anybody 398 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: on the Sabbath. You sure couldn't open up blind eyes 399 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: on the Sabbath. And here comes Jesus in the midst 400 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: of all of their rules and all their regulations, and says, 401 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,720 Speaker 1: I am God. I'll heal who I want to heal. 402 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:47,439 Speaker 1: I restore who I want to restore. I know you 403 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:50,160 Speaker 1: got your rules, but I came to seek and save 404 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 1: that which is lost. And anytime I see something broken, 405 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring restoration in spite of whether you think 406 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:01,960 Speaker 1: it's right or wrong. Has ever had God restore something 407 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,639 Speaker 1: in your life? I tell you to take ten seconds 408 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: and give him some praise, like you know he restores? Oh? 409 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: Come on, you know your marriage wasn't always like that. 410 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 1: You know your kids weren't always saved. You know you 411 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 1: didn't always have the money. But how many are thankful 412 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:29,399 Speaker 1: that God step damn and restores. I feel like preaching 413 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:36,359 Speaker 1: he restores. He can't help himself. That's what he does. 414 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 1: If something is broken, he has to bring restoration. He's 415 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 1: attracted to the brokenness. How dare you hide your brokenness 416 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 1: in the presence of our God? How dare you walk 417 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: in with shame thinking God can't restore or redeem your life? 418 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: That's what he specializes in. He specializes in taking broken things. 419 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 1: It brings restoration. So the Pharisees couldn't understand why does 420 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: he keep breaking the rules on the Sabbath. Some you 421 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,880 Speaker 1: need to change your perspective of God because you think 422 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 1: that God is in heaven waiting to hit you upside 423 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 1: the head when you break a rule. It's not the 424 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: Jesus of the Bible. He broke rules to restore you. 425 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 1: He broke rules to redeem you. He restores, He restores. 426 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 1: Its interesting you peruse the pages of your Bible, you 427 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: see that he does it on the Sabbath on purpose. 428 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 1: Who remember Luke Chapter thirteen, there's a woman who has 429 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 1: a spirit of infirmity. Don't miss that. It's a spirit 430 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: of infirmity that is affecting her physical body, which means 431 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 1: there are some things that manifest in your body that's 432 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 1: starting the spirit. Oh, I'm thankful for doctors. I'm thankful 433 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 1: for all of it. I go to doctors, I got 434 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 1: a counselor, I got a therapist. I love it all. 435 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 1: But there's some stuff you don't need a doctor for. 436 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 1: You need deliverance. There's some things that gotta be cast 437 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:16,439 Speaker 1: out Can I preach this like I feel it? The 438 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 1: Bible says she had a spirit of infirmity, and that 439 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 1: spirit was affecting her physical body to the point that 440 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:28,360 Speaker 1: for eighteen years she's crippled, bowed over. Can you imagine 441 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 1: for eighteen years not being able to pull yourself up, 442 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,239 Speaker 1: not being able to stand up straight. I think it's 443 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 1: a picture of humanity because how many know you can't 444 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 1: pull yourself up, you can't get yourself together. Have you 445 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 1: not figured this out yet? How many New Years' resolutions 446 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 1: you gotta break? Diget you can't fix you. You want 447 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:52,399 Speaker 1: to hashtag jack up to fix yourself. That's why you 448 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:58,119 Speaker 1: need a savior. Eighteen years spirit of infirmity affecting her 449 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:03,480 Speaker 1: physical body until Jesus says, daughter, be freed from your suffering, 450 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 1: and this woman stands up straight for the first time 451 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 1: in eighteen years. Only problem was he healed her. On 452 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 1: the seven John, chapter five, there is a man who 453 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 1: sits by a pool, A layman who sits by a 454 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,880 Speaker 1: pool called Bethesda, And every so often the waters would 455 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 1: be stirred, and whoever God in first would get their healing. 456 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: And for thirty eighty years this man missed his moment. 457 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 1: I don't know who this is fortyday, but some of 458 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: you right now have that feeling, that weight of I've 459 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:42,440 Speaker 1: missed my moment. The enemy is loud in your ear, saying, oh, 460 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 1: God could have done a miracle last year, maybe the 461 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:47,399 Speaker 1: year before last, but now now sorry, you've missed your moment. 462 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 1: Thirty eight years, this man sat by the pool and 463 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: never got his healing, never got his breakthrough. Now I'm 464 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: gonna keep one hundred with you and tell you a 465 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 1: little story. I preached this text before, like when I 466 00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 1: was young, and I think God Discernon is not on 467 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:03,440 Speaker 1: YouTube because I preach his tics with the attitude, with attitude, 468 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,680 Speaker 1: because I didn't have no empathy for this dude. I'm like, homie, 469 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: thirty eight years, like you couldn't get close to the 470 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,159 Speaker 1: pool for thirty eight I'm like, thirty a year, you 471 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,440 Speaker 1: could at least shimmied your way close to the pool. Oh. 472 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 1: I had no compassion for homeboy. I was like, come on, 473 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: And I even preach that Jesus talked to him with 474 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:24,120 Speaker 1: an attitude. Oh, because you know, we don't get vocal 475 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 1: intonation in the Bible, so I preach Jesus comes to 476 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 1: him and says, do you want to get well? So 477 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 1: I preach it like Jesus had attitude and came up 478 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 1: to him like, do you want to get well? Do 479 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 1: you even want to get well? Like Jesus was annoyed 480 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,880 Speaker 1: with the people that he was about to heal. Oh, 481 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 1: I preached that when I was young. But now I'm 482 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,159 Speaker 1: coming up on thirty eight, and I know what it's like, 483 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: So you're not gonna be real to have some issues 484 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 1: that you're like, yeah, it's me again. Lord, you know 485 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,679 Speaker 1: I'm still trying to figure this out. I got grace, 486 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: I got compassion now because I'm getting close to thirty eight, 487 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:56,440 Speaker 1: I know what it's like to have some stuff you're 488 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 1: still working out. So I'm so thankful that God didn't 489 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 1: look at that man. Jesus didn't look at that man 490 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 1: with the vocal intonation of annoyance, telling out do you 491 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 1: want to get well? He spoke to him in the 492 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 1: vocal intonation of expectation, saying do you want to get well? 493 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,919 Speaker 1: Because I know you think you missed your moment, but 494 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,119 Speaker 1: when it comes to me, you can never miss your 495 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 1: moment because I'm the god that can restore the years 496 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,880 Speaker 1: that the enemy took from you because I bring restoration. 497 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 1: Somebody ought to praise him if you're thankful that he 498 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:34,119 Speaker 1: can restore even the years that you wasted. God's the 499 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 1: only one that can redeem time. He thought he missed 500 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 1: his moment. So Jesus says, do you want to get well? 501 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,120 Speaker 1: Get up and take your man. He gets up, takes 502 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 1: his man, He starts walking. The problem was he was 503 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: walking on the seven you boy, ye John chapter nine, 504 00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: there's another man. The Bible says, it's born. He's born blind. 505 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 1: And who Jesus and the disciples roll up on this man? 506 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:16,479 Speaker 1: And the disciples, Oh, the church staff members asked the 507 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 1: most asinine question of this man. Who is born blin 508 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: the dumbest question to ask. They say, Jesus, who's sinned? 509 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,159 Speaker 1: Who sin him? Or his parents for him to be 510 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 1: born blind? Jeez? Which one? You see how narrow that question? 511 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:37,880 Speaker 1: It had to be one of those two. You see 512 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 1: how narrow that question is. And Jesus looking at him 513 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 1: like dummies neither. It has nothing to do with his 514 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 1: sin or his parents sin. See. This is why you 515 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 1: have to be careful when you're going through suffering, because 516 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 1: when you go through suffering, the trick of the enemy 517 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: will make you think that your suffering is a direct 518 00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 1: result of something that you did, so you'll expe countless 519 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 1: nights thinking the reason I'm facing this is because I 520 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: didn't do that. And the reason I'm facing this is 521 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,719 Speaker 1: because I'm messed up over here. Your suffering is not 522 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 1: always the direct result of your personal sin. That is 523 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 1: not true. Oh, don't believe that lie of the enemy. Now, 524 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:20,719 Speaker 1: Sometimes it is amen. Yeah, sometimes your suffering is a 525 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: direct result of your sin. Sometimes you blame the devil, 526 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 1: and the devil's looking at you like, no, that wasn't me, 527 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 1: that was you. Now, you replied to that, DM, I 528 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 1: didn't do that. You typed it. You typed. Remember it 529 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 1: was Saturday night, you was lonely, you did that. So 530 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 1: there's some things that's you. Jesus says, that's not the case. Here. 531 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,080 Speaker 1: We live in a broken world. He said, mean, guess what, 532 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 1: even though this happened, this happens so the glory of 533 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: God can be revealed in this that. Yes, he's going 534 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,040 Speaker 1: through it. He didn't do anything to cause it, but 535 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 1: I'm still gonna use it. I'm still gonna get the 536 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 1: glory out of it. Come on, say anybody that can 537 00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 1: testify that you're going through something right now that you 538 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,400 Speaker 1: you know, when it's all set in time, God is 539 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 1: going to get the glory out of it. So you 540 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: know what Jesus does. This dude spits in some mud, 541 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 1: breaks all kinds of COVID nineteen rules, and just splits 542 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: it all in the man's eyes, tells him to go 543 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 1: wash off, And that man washed off and got his 544 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:28,240 Speaker 1: sight for the first time in his life. Only problem 545 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 1: was he got a site on the So the Pharisees 546 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 1: are noticing a trend. He keeps doing stuff on the 547 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 1: seventh obviously doesn't care about our rules. So they took 548 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: it upon themselves. They said, well, we're just gonna watch them. 549 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 1: We're gonna follow them and make sure he doesn't do 550 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: any more healings on the Sabbath. Now I'm to my text. 551 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 1: Oh that was my intro. So in my text, you 552 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: gotta see this. They're in a grain field, in a greenfield, 553 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:10,600 Speaker 1: following Jesus and his disciples in a grainfield. They're stalking 554 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 1: Jesus and his disciple integrate stalks. They are literally stalking. 555 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 1: It's trying to wake somebody. Hell, they're stalking him in 556 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:27,440 Speaker 1: a grainfield? Can you say him in a grainfield? Stalking Jesus, 557 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 1: following him and his disciples. But this one made me 558 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:33,920 Speaker 1: laugh is that they don't like him. They don't like him, 559 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:39,600 Speaker 1: but they're following him. They don't like him, but they're 560 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 1: following him. You know, there's nothing new under the sun. 561 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,040 Speaker 1: And it's funny how today, how people won't like you, 562 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:48,200 Speaker 1: but yet they still following you, like you pushed the 563 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,800 Speaker 1: follow button. I didn't ask you to follow me, but 564 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 1: you're following me and you don't like that I'm follow boo, 565 00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:00,160 Speaker 1: Why are you following me if you don't like me? 566 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 1: When that funny, Oh, people won't like you, they still 567 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 1: follow you. They speak quiet face looking frustrated, constepated, like 568 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 1: they've been sucking on lemons all day. And I'm being 569 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 1: extra cause I'm trying to paint a picture because I 570 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 1: want you to see. Don't miss this religion versus relationship. 571 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: They're speak quiet, stalking Jesus and disciples. Meanwhile Jesus disciples 572 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:35,280 Speaker 1: are having the time of their lives. They're just chilling Jesus. Hey, hey, Jesus, 573 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 1: you are preaching today on that mount. Oh you can preach, 574 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,000 Speaker 1: you can preach now you long within it, you long 575 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,840 Speaker 1: within it, but man, you'll get pressed. Jesus, we don't 576 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 1: even get no food. You're preachings hello. And she's like, 577 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:49,560 Speaker 1: when we're in a gray field, if you're hungry, get 578 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 1: some food. Like, okay, there's your own ladies eating gray 579 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 1: having a good time. Do you see relationship? You understand 580 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,840 Speaker 1: that the Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy. 581 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 1: Some of y'all need to get your joy back. You 582 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 1: cry too many tears last year. God wants to restore 583 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 1: your joy. They're having a good tongue eating grain. Right 584 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 1: when they eat that grain, the pharisees pop up. Ah, 585 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,200 Speaker 1: I see and this and something like have y'all been 586 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:28,200 Speaker 1: here the whole time? Like, yes, we have, and we 587 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:32,280 Speaker 1: see and I can literally see the disciples they still 588 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 1: got food in the matter. Like and she's like, don't 589 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 1: worry about them. I got them yet, Chip, Peter, calm down, 590 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,720 Speaker 1: Let me get them, let me get them back up, 591 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,520 Speaker 1: back up, I got them. See. I mean, know, this 592 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,440 Speaker 1: is the season to know what to respond to and 593 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,920 Speaker 1: what not to respond to. This is season know what 594 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:51,760 Speaker 1: to type back into an email and what not to 595 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,040 Speaker 1: say back to an email. You gotta let the Lord 596 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,760 Speaker 1: fight your battles. If you keep stepping in to fight 597 00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 1: the battle, you're leaving God out of the equation. Sometimes 598 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:05,640 Speaker 1: you got to sit back and let him fight for you. See, y'all, 599 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,360 Speaker 1: y'all back up. I got this, I got this and 600 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 1: Jesu gos Have you not read? Have you not read 601 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:14,399 Speaker 1: in the days of anbf are the High Priest when 602 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,160 Speaker 1: David and his companions were hungry and the aid of 603 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,560 Speaker 1: the consecrated bread that was set apart for the high Priest? 604 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,520 Speaker 1: Have you not read that I love Jesus because he 605 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:26,640 Speaker 1: is throwing shape? Because of course they read it. They 606 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,360 Speaker 1: got it memorized, the whole first five books of the 607 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:33,480 Speaker 1: Old Testament memorized. You still skip Leviticus and your one 608 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:39,000 Speaker 1: you're reading Bible play. They got this thing memorized. Of 609 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,399 Speaker 1: course they know it. What is he calling out? He's 610 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:47,399 Speaker 1: calling out their interpretation of the word. He's calling out 611 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,719 Speaker 1: the fact that you know the letter of the law, 612 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: but you've forgotten the spirit of the law. He's calling 613 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,840 Speaker 1: out the fact that you know the word, but you 614 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,919 Speaker 1: don't know the author. And because you know the word 615 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:02,360 Speaker 1: and not the author, you have elevated your human tradition 616 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:06,680 Speaker 1: over people. You're more concerned with people keeping a code 617 00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:11,840 Speaker 1: of conduct than you are with having compassion and human 618 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:17,600 Speaker 1: need transcends human tradition. I came to seek and save 619 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,759 Speaker 1: that which is lost, not for people to keep a 620 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 1: conduct coate. You're so busy keeping the code of conduct 621 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:31,799 Speaker 1: you don't even have a heart for people. He leaves 622 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,760 Speaker 1: them with it and then goes into the synagogue to preach, 623 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,800 Speaker 1: and they're standing there like, well, well, still a Sabbath. 624 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,440 Speaker 1: He gets in the synagogue and he's preaching, and I 625 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:48,560 Speaker 1: see the Pharisees following him into the synagogue, and I 626 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,080 Speaker 1: see them scanning the synagogue the day, perhaps to see 627 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:55,319 Speaker 1: broken people, because they know if there's broken people, he's 628 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:59,400 Speaker 1: gonna heal them. I can see them scanning, looking through 629 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:03,040 Speaker 1: the sanctuary for people that are broken. Oh no, she 630 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:07,560 Speaker 1: got both her eyes good, he got both his legs, 631 00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,520 Speaker 1: he got yeah, how man, you know, they're supposed to 632 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,960 Speaker 1: be broken people in the church. They're supposed I don't 633 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,200 Speaker 1: know when the church became a place of a museum 634 00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:17,560 Speaker 1: of perfection. No, you're supposed to have some people that 635 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,680 Speaker 1: are still working some stuff out. You're supposed to have 636 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,960 Speaker 1: some people that you're like, did I just catch secondhand 637 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,280 Speaker 1: high from hugging hand you're supposed to have? Some people 638 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:26,319 Speaker 1: got some stuff on their breath that you're wondering what 639 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:31,200 Speaker 1: it is. This is what the church is for. It's 640 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,200 Speaker 1: a hospital for broken people. This ain't a museum for 641 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,040 Speaker 1: perfect people. This is a place where people who are 642 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,040 Speaker 1: broken and hurting know where the bread of life is, 643 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:43,920 Speaker 1: not because we got it all figured out, because we 644 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:49,839 Speaker 1: know we need him. I can see him scanning the 645 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,600 Speaker 1: crowd all of a sudden, in the back he walks in. 646 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,960 Speaker 1: They go, oh, got one wether phise. He's like, who 647 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,359 Speaker 1: right there? Third girl from the back. He always comes 648 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:05,000 Speaker 1: in lane like who is that? You know who that is? 649 00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:12,120 Speaker 1: That's Willy. Willy, Yeah, WILLI with the withered hand, that's him. 650 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,680 Speaker 1: He always come back like it's like, oh, that is 651 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:18,840 Speaker 1: with me. I'm like that you laughed at that, because 652 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:27,919 Speaker 1: isn't that what we do? We identify people by their issue, which, 653 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:29,759 Speaker 1: by the way, his name is not really Willing. For 654 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:31,600 Speaker 1: those who knew the church e fan around the world, 655 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,120 Speaker 1: I want you to leave here saying passtory. I preaid 656 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:34,920 Speaker 1: that message on Mark chapter two about Willy and the 657 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,560 Speaker 1: Bible I just I made that up. His name is 658 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:42,600 Speaker 1: I read Will. Some want to clarify. It's funny how 659 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,839 Speaker 1: people will define you by your dysfunction to the point 660 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:51,080 Speaker 1: that you think you are what you did. And I 661 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,800 Speaker 1: came to tell you more than your mistake. Stop defining 662 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,200 Speaker 1: yourself by your dysfunction. Some of you have let other 663 00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,959 Speaker 1: people define you by your mistake said what you did. 664 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,319 Speaker 1: Willy with the withered hand. They don't call him the 665 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:09,239 Speaker 1: man with one good hand or a man with two 666 00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,640 Speaker 1: good legs. No, it's the man with the withered hand, 667 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:18,640 Speaker 1: because people will define you by your dysfunction. And really 668 00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 1: walks in late because he doesn't want anybody to see. 669 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,080 Speaker 1: And I don't think Willy was expecting a miracle that day, 670 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:28,920 Speaker 1: just like some of you. You're not expecting a miracle. 671 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:30,600 Speaker 1: He said, I'm just gonna tune in the elevation. I 672 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,680 Speaker 1: ain't expecting I'll see some of you came in and 673 00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:34,000 Speaker 1: there you want to expect. I don't think he was 674 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:38,120 Speaker 1: expecting a miracle, because read your Bible. Every person that 675 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,799 Speaker 1: got in the presence of Jesus, they knew he's ten 676 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,520 Speaker 1: for ten. He didn't miss miracles. They said something whether 677 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:46,400 Speaker 1: it's a woman in an issue of blood. She pressed 678 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,200 Speaker 1: her way through. Remember ghetto Bartimaeus, who was all loud, 679 00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,799 Speaker 1: saying Lord son of David. He was blind, Lord Son 680 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,319 Speaker 1: of David, had mercy on me, and people around here 681 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,040 Speaker 1: were like, calm down, be quiet. He's like, oh, y'all 682 00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:59,680 Speaker 1: can see Lord son of Dave and have mussy. He 683 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:04,520 Speaker 1: was loud because he knew Jesus would do something about it. 684 00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,840 Speaker 1: He didn't say anything. You know why. He wasn't expecting 685 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:15,160 Speaker 1: the miracle. Withered hand is different. It's not a lame leg. 686 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,920 Speaker 1: It's not a blond eye. Your withered hand represents the 687 00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:24,160 Speaker 1: thing that you've learned to live with, the thing that 688 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:27,759 Speaker 1: you've lost hope. You just saying, God, you can't restore that. 689 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:30,840 Speaker 1: And God sent me on a sign of delevation to 690 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:37,080 Speaker 1: tell somebody today he wants to restore that thing. The 691 00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:41,600 Speaker 1: marriage you think is hopeless, the business that you think 692 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:45,799 Speaker 1: the pandemic has completely shut down, and God can't use 693 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,560 Speaker 1: you in the business world ever known. He wants to 694 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:54,600 Speaker 1: restore the thing that you've learned to live with. And 695 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:59,959 Speaker 1: Jesus notices Willy and I can see the Pharisees noticing Jesus, 696 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,920 Speaker 1: notice Willy and I can say Jesus noticing the Pharisees 697 00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:07,759 Speaker 1: noticing him, noticing. Really, I can see this conversation with 698 00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,840 Speaker 1: their eyes. I can see the Pharisees looking like, you 699 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,200 Speaker 1: better not heal him. You see Jesus looking like, oh, 700 00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:22,080 Speaker 1: you don't think I'll heal he really? Huh? Stand up, 701 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,600 Speaker 1: calls them in front of everybody, and then he turns 702 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:31,799 Speaker 1: to the Pharisees and ask them a question, what are 703 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:35,160 Speaker 1: you doing Jesus? Where he's about to do a miracle? 704 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,080 Speaker 1: And you need to understand when you're a god that 705 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:42,880 Speaker 1: can heal all kinds of diseases any kind of way. 706 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,279 Speaker 1: If you heal a unique way, that means you are 707 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,640 Speaker 1: teaching us something with the way you are doing that. Healing. 708 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,719 Speaker 1: Every miracle is a parable. When you can heal all 709 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,800 Speaker 1: kinds of ways, the specific way in which you heal, 710 00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:03,040 Speaker 1: it's teaching something. What are you teaching Jesus? What does 711 00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,440 Speaker 1: he do? Tells him to stand up and looks at 712 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:11,600 Speaker 1: the Pharisees and ask them a question. I love it. 713 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,279 Speaker 1: They came to trap Jesus. Jesus flips the script and 714 00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:19,319 Speaker 1: traps through says, is it lawful? To do good or 715 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,439 Speaker 1: evil on the Sabbath, to save the life or the kill. 716 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:28,439 Speaker 1: Simple question that demands a simple answer. This is what 717 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,960 Speaker 1: God does. See, the Pharisees were real good at religion. 718 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:36,759 Speaker 1: Religion always takes that which is simple and makes it complex. 719 00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:40,759 Speaker 1: It adds rules, it adds regulations. Religion will always take 720 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,439 Speaker 1: that which is simple and make it complex. But look 721 00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,440 Speaker 1: at what Grace does. Grace takes that which is complex 722 00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,760 Speaker 1: and it makes it so simple. He asks a simple 723 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,520 Speaker 1: question because he is the personification of grace, and Grace 724 00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:56,440 Speaker 1: takes that which is complex and it makes it simple. 725 00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,719 Speaker 1: Come on, That's what he did with the ten commandments. 726 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:00,960 Speaker 1: He said, if you're struggling with all ten and you 727 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,319 Speaker 1: can't even memorize them, then just take it to two. 728 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,120 Speaker 1: And love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, 729 00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:09,399 Speaker 1: mind and strained. And love your neighbor as yourself. If 730 00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,799 Speaker 1: you take care of those two, those two will take 731 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,160 Speaker 1: care of the ten. Because Grace always takes that witch 732 00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:22,759 Speaker 1: is complex and it makes it simple. Hallelujah. He's this, 733 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:28,160 Speaker 1: Which one is it? Do good or evil? Save a 734 00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:37,719 Speaker 1: life or destroy life? Simple question. They remain silent. Really, Pharisees, 735 00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,560 Speaker 1: you ain't got nothing to say. You were real loud 736 00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:46,759 Speaker 1: about them picking grain, but you don't have anything to 737 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:51,920 Speaker 1: say about brokenness. You know you're a pharisee. We're you're 738 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,920 Speaker 1: loud about certain issues, but you're quiet on other issues. 739 00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:00,920 Speaker 1: When people are hurting and broken. Oh, God, give us 740 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:05,080 Speaker 1: a church that'll be loud about every issue that faces humanity, 741 00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:08,800 Speaker 1: not just the issues that we want to be loud about, 742 00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:13,439 Speaker 1: but anytime they're hurting and broken and suffering and lost people. God, 743 00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,200 Speaker 1: give us a church that will stand up and say, 744 00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:20,360 Speaker 1: we're gonna be loud about everything. Because everybody was created 745 00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,560 Speaker 1: and the image of God that carries me among o 746 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:27,359 Speaker 1: day and you are valuable to him. God, help must 747 00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:34,600 Speaker 1: be loud about what you're loved about. It remains silent. 748 00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:41,520 Speaker 1: You had nothing to say. And he marveled that they're 749 00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:53,200 Speaker 1: stubborn hearts. They're stubborn hearts. They're stubborn hearts. Oh, I 750 00:43:53,280 --> 00:44:03,279 Speaker 1: see what you're doing, Jesus. They've got withered hearts, and 751 00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:09,919 Speaker 1: he's got a withered hand. Their hearts have become hard 752 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:18,240 Speaker 1: as his hand. That man's hand was injured to an accident. 753 00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:22,600 Speaker 1: The Greek tells us this wasn't born this way. Something 754 00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:26,840 Speaker 1: happened in his past that now carries residue in his present. 755 00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,160 Speaker 1: And in the same way. They started with good intentions 756 00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,560 Speaker 1: to uphold the long and keep it holy. Their hearts 757 00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:41,319 Speaker 1: have become so hard now that they've lost compassion, no 758 00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:45,080 Speaker 1: wonder he looked at them first. He wanted to do 759 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:52,640 Speaker 1: two miracles that day. He wanted to heal and restore 760 00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:58,440 Speaker 1: their heart and hearts, and restore that man's hand. Oh no, 761 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:02,680 Speaker 1: miss the message. He loves them too. He loves the 762 00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:08,440 Speaker 1: Pharisees too. He wanted to heal their heart in that 763 00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:10,680 Speaker 1: man's hand. You know why because your heart in your 764 00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:15,440 Speaker 1: hand are connected. Anything you reach for with your hand 765 00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:22,960 Speaker 1: first started in your heart. Your heart in your hand 766 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:30,359 Speaker 1: are connected. But since they refused, he asked the man 767 00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:35,360 Speaker 1: to do what he wanted their hearts to do. Stretch 768 00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:40,319 Speaker 1: forth your hand, reach out again. I can see the 769 00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:42,600 Speaker 1: man going, Jesus. If I could reach out, I would 770 00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:46,720 Speaker 1: have done it by now. Stretch forth your hand, Jesus. 771 00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:49,319 Speaker 1: You don't know how long I'm good, Jesus, I can 772 00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:54,520 Speaker 1: get around. Stretch forth your hand, Jesus, I can't. If 773 00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,040 Speaker 1: I would have stretched it, I would have done it. 774 00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:58,000 Speaker 1: Five years ago. If you've been healed this marriage, you 775 00:45:58,000 --> 00:45:59,840 Speaker 1: would have done it years ago. If you could have 776 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:03,240 Speaker 1: he doing this child, you would have done Stretch forth 777 00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:06,560 Speaker 1: your hand. But I tried before. I know you tried before. 778 00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,600 Speaker 1: But it's different now because I'm commanding you to do it. 779 00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:12,600 Speaker 1: And anytime God commands you to do something, how many 780 00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,840 Speaker 1: you know within the commandment will come the empowerment for 781 00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:19,080 Speaker 1: you to do it. So, if he's telling you to stretch, stretch, 782 00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,160 Speaker 1: If he's telling you to take a step of faith, 783 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:29,400 Speaker 1: take a step of faith. As he stretched, restoration came 784 00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:36,520 Speaker 1: to his hand. And what happened to that man's hand 785 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:42,640 Speaker 1: could have happened to their hearts. They would have stretched. 786 00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,840 Speaker 1: Your heart and your hand are connected. Where does the 787 00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:56,239 Speaker 1: restoration start? Starts in your heart? Some of you, this 788 00:46:56,280 --> 00:47:01,840 Speaker 1: has been a difficult season to believe again, to dream again. 789 00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,080 Speaker 1: And I'm wondering if you've been complaining about the thing 790 00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:11,360 Speaker 1: in your hand. But God actually wants to restore your heart. 791 00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,880 Speaker 1: He wants to give you a new heart. Heart. They 792 00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:21,759 Speaker 1: can believe again, heart, they can hope again, heart, they 793 00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,120 Speaker 1: can trust again. I know you lost some things last year. 794 00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,839 Speaker 1: I'm not belittling what you've been through, but God saying, 795 00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:32,000 Speaker 1: can you stretch your heart to believe? A kid? H 796 00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,840 Speaker 1: you walk away just like the Pharisees and miss the 797 00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:39,279 Speaker 1: miracle that was right in front of you. How many 798 00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:44,400 Speaker 1: has heads be bound and os be closed? Father, Today 799 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:50,880 Speaker 1: I'm asking you to restore hearts. God give us new hearts, 800 00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:58,680 Speaker 1: hearts that believe again, hearts that trust again. Jesus, restore 801 00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:03,120 Speaker 1: our hearts because God, I know if you restore our hearts, 802 00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:09,480 Speaker 1: then healing will come to our hands. If you restore 803 00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:12,400 Speaker 1: what's on the inside, it will affect everything on the outside. 804 00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:16,279 Speaker 1: This is what you do, Jesus, You heal us from 805 00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:20,120 Speaker 1: the inside out. God. I pray for my brother and 806 00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:24,600 Speaker 1: my sister. I was having trouble believing again or hoping again. 807 00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:31,839 Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, bring life back into their hearts. Matter of fact, 808 00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:33,600 Speaker 1: just right where you are, just lift up your hands. 809 00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,879 Speaker 1: I sense the presence of God in this place. He's 810 00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:43,800 Speaker 1: restoring your heart to trust him again, to believe again. 811 00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:47,319 Speaker 1: If He heals your heart, it will take care of 812 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,759 Speaker 1: your hand whither our hands are lifted because we want 813 00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:56,239 Speaker 1: you to do and inner work. Heal us from the 814 00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:01,000 Speaker 1: inside out. Where does restoration start? And it starts in 815 00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:07,160 Speaker 1: our hearts, so we receive it today. God, I pray 816 00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:09,200 Speaker 1: for the person who's never surrendered their heart to you 817 00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:12,879 Speaker 1: today and the enemy is lied to them and made 818 00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,239 Speaker 1: them think that their issue is their identity. Father, thank 819 00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:19,840 Speaker 1: you that because of your finished work on the Cross, 820 00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:24,640 Speaker 1: all things are made. Now we can always come home. 821 00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:30,640 Speaker 1: I thank you for it today, Thank you for joining us. 822 00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,400 Speaker 1: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 823 00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,960 Speaker 1: this ministry. 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