1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,959 Speaker 2: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope 5 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 2: it gives your perspective to see God is moving. 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 1: In your life. Enjoy the message. 7 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 2: I'm going to continue this series from Matthew chapter six. 8 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,319 Speaker 2: I don't know if I'll preach it all from the 9 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:26,760 Speaker 2: Sermon on the Mouth, but it's a very good place 10 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 2: to start, A very good place to start. 11 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: What's that from? 12 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 2: Let's start at the beginning, A very good place to start. 13 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 2: What's that from? 14 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:35,160 Speaker 1: Okay? 15 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 2: Sound of music? That was unintentional. I don't like sound 16 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 2: of music. But anyway, we're gon. We're gonna look at 17 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 2: Matthew six, which I do like. And these profound, powerful 18 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 2: words from Jesus. And last week's message was intended to 19 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 2: help you evaluate your values. I was thinking that a 20 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 2: lot of times, if we play the game, and even 21 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,280 Speaker 2: if we play the game well, but we win at 22 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:02,279 Speaker 2: things that are not true to our values, eventually we 23 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 2: will get good at winning. But what are we winning at? 24 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:09,039 Speaker 2: And what have we won? And so in order to 25 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 2: try to avoid all of this empty sense of chasing 26 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 2: after victories that are not meaningful. We're getting into God's 27 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 2: definition of success, God's idea of what is worth winning at, 28 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 2: and we're looking at this together. 29 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: And it was cool to me. 30 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 2: When I was in the airport Monday, I got the 31 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:33,960 Speaker 2: opportunity to meet one of our new church members. He said, 32 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:35,399 Speaker 2: I've been coming for a little while. I've been going 33 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 2: to church all my life, been learning a lot. It's 34 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,399 Speaker 2: been helpful. I said, what did you learn yesterday? I 35 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 2: put them on a pop quiz and he said, oh, yeah, 36 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 2: that was good yesterday. When you said shallow values produce 37 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 2: empty victories. I was like, whoa, You got it exactly right. 38 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 2: Usually people when they quote back your sermon to you, 39 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 2: they mess it all up and they don't make it rhyme, 40 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 2: and they switch the words all around. 41 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: Makes you mad. But he got it just right. Then 42 00:01:57,880 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: he started preaching other parts, and he said. 43 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 2: I went home and I told my wife and my kids, 44 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 2: I love y'all, but leave me alone the rest of 45 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 2: the day. And he's a successful person in his field. 46 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: His name is Stephen. I knew he was a great 47 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: man of God from that fact. 48 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 2: And he said I'm really just dealing with emptiness, and 49 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 2: in that emptiness, I realize it's a lot of times 50 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 2: because my values are shallow. So I've been listing, I've 51 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 2: been spending. Just since you preach, he said, I've been 52 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 2: thinking about my values, not what I think they should be, 53 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 2: not what I want them to be, but what are 54 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 2: my values, and then aligning those values with God's values. 55 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 1: So let's continue the process. 56 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 2: Let's go right on to Matthew chapter six, verse twenty five, 57 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 2: A very relevant scripture today that I want us to 58 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 2: look at together Matthew six twenty five. 59 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: Jesus speaking therefore, I tell you do. 60 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 2: Not worry about your life what you will eat or drink, 61 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 2: or about your body what you will wear is not 62 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 2: life more than food, and the body more than clothes. 63 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 2: Look at the birds of the air. They do not 64 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 2: sow or reap or store away in barns. And yet 65 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 2: I love that, somebody say, and yet. 66 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: I don't deserve the grace of God. 67 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 2: And yet I don't have the educational background. And yet 68 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 2: nobody in my family ever broke this barrier. And yet 69 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 2: I made some mistakes in my life, and yet I 70 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 2: just like little stuff like that when I'm reading the Bible, 71 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 2: y'all do what you want to do. I'm stop for 72 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 2: those little phrases and point them out to you. And 73 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 2: yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much 74 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 2: more valuable than they? 75 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: Tell? 76 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 2: Somebody next to you say, I'm better than a bird. 77 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 2: I might not be better than you, but I'm better 78 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 2: than a bird. I'm worth more than a bird. I 79 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 2: know that much. Are you not much more valuable than they? 80 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 2: We're gonna come back to that. Can any one of 81 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:19,600 Speaker 2: you by worrying at a single hour to your life? No, 82 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 2: but you can take some off, or you can wish 83 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,159 Speaker 2: you were dead, because it'd be more peaceful than being 84 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:34,039 Speaker 2: in this living hell called your mind. Sometimes so he 85 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 2: asked a question. Now, I notice how it starts with 86 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 2: a command, and then it turns to a question. He said, 87 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 2: do not worry? And now he says, and why do 88 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 2: you worry? Why do you worry about clothes? See how 89 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 2: the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor 90 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:52,799 Speaker 2: or spend. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon 91 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 2: and all his gucci, was dressed like one of these. 92 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:57,840 Speaker 1: If that is how God closed. 93 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 2: The grass of the field which is here today, tomorrow 94 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 2: starting the fire, we will heat not much more. 95 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: Cloth, you, oh you of little faith, So do not worry. 96 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: Stop telling me that you know. 97 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 2: The worst thing you can tell somebody when they're worrying 98 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 2: is what don't worry unless you know something that they don't. 99 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 2: Because like, I was watching a football game the other day, 100 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 2: but it was recorded because I missed it, but the 101 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 2: person that was watching it with me check the score, 102 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 2: and we were cheering for the same team. So while 103 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 2: I was watching the game, I was also watching them, 104 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 2: and when it got a little scary, I just watched them. 105 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 2: But when they didn't look scared, I didn't get scared. 106 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,839 Speaker 2: So when Jesus says don't worry, I figure he's already 107 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,039 Speaker 2: seen how this thing turns out. 108 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 1: Come on this early to have church. 109 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 2: But if you are grateful that the one who knows 110 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 2: the end from the beginning is already prophesied to this 111 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 2: current moment and declared that God is faithful, come on, 112 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 2: give him. 113 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 1: A shout of praise. 114 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:04,280 Speaker 2: Don't worry saying what shall we eat or what shall 115 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 2: we drink? Yeah, yeah, Hallelujah is right. That's the only 116 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 2: thing you can say when you think about this. 117 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: This is good. 118 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,239 Speaker 2: This preaches itself. I don't need to make a comment. 119 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 2: I could just read this over and over again for 120 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 2: fifty minutes. 121 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 1: We go home. 122 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 2: So do not worry saying what shall we eat, or 123 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 2: what shall we drink? 124 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: Or what shall we weare? 125 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 2: For the pagans run after all these things. These are 126 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 2: shallow values. This is what the world worries about. Want 127 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 2: to worry about something, Worry about something worth worrying about. 128 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,840 Speaker 2: Worry about teen suicide rates, You just gotta worry. Worry 129 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 2: about that, Worry about racism. You want to worry about something, 130 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 2: worry about that. I want to worry about something. Worry 131 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 2: about this crazy cycle of fear that we're all living in. 132 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,280 Speaker 2: If you want to worry about something, but don't worry 133 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:59,280 Speaker 2: about this, for the pagans run after all these things. 134 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: Only Father knows that you need them. 135 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 2: But seek versus Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these 136 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 2: things will be given to you as well. Therefore, do 137 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 2: not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. 138 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: Each day has trouble enough of its own. 139 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 2: The word God gave me to give to you today 140 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 2: is reverse your worry. 141 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 1: Reverse your worry. 142 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 2: We're going to get this thing turned around before lunchtime today. 143 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 2: Reverse your worry came in thinking one way, going to 144 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 2: go home thinking another. 145 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: Reverse your worry. 146 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 2: Turn to somebody and say it's time to turn it around. 147 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 2: So why do you worry? That's the question. The command 148 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 2: is do not worry. And then the question is verse 149 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 2: twenty eight. 150 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: Let's see it again, why do you worry? 151 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 2: And at this point, if it was anybody other than 152 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 2: Jesus asking the question, I would say, down and let 153 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 2: me tell you. You know, Oh, I got a list. 154 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 2: You want to know why I worry? Well, where do 155 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 2: you want me to start? Like, first of all, let's 156 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 2: start with October in the stock market. 157 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: If you want to talk about worry. 158 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 2: You want to talk about the first week in November 159 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 2: you want. 160 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: To talk about if you want? If you want, if 161 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: you want to know why I'll worry? 162 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 2: Okay, I got I got a thirteen year old, and 163 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 2: a eleven year old and a seven year old, and 164 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 2: they have the Internet. That's why I worry, Jesus, because 165 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 2: something tells me that they are not yet of the 166 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 2: emotional and mental health and capacity to have all of 167 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 2: the information in the history of humanity in their pocket 168 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 2: and I'm worried about what they're going to access. 169 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:45,559 Speaker 1: And there's no Bible verse about how much time to. 170 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 2: Give your child on Instagram, if it is, I didn't 171 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 2: find that somebody send me the scripture this week. 172 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 1: That's why I'm worried. 173 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 2: I'm worried. You know, why do you worry? Put the 174 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 2: verse up again? Why do you worry? And I think 175 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:06,719 Speaker 2: that's important that we stop and think about the reasons 176 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 2: that we worry, Okay, the reason that we worry, and 177 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 2: be really honest about it. Because what I worry about 178 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 2: more than anything is not what's happening to me, but 179 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 2: it's whether or not what's within me is enough to handle. 180 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 2: Is whether what's in me is strong enough to handle 181 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:37,839 Speaker 2: what happens to me. 182 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: That's why I worry. 183 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:46,679 Speaker 2: I worry because as a pastor, I am concerned that 184 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:51,439 Speaker 2: maybe the way that I communicate would be more for consumption, 185 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 2: and that people would come and hear the word or 186 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 2: tune in online and hear the word and then. 187 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: Just click off. 188 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 2: But you know, it seems like more and more, or 189 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 2: that people are just coming to church for what to 190 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 2: get out of it, or just you know what, I 191 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 2: like that preacher or I like that song. But that's 192 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 2: a really shallow reason to come to church. And I 193 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 2: worry that if people come from surface motivations, they're gonna 194 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 2: get surface results in their life. And if people come 195 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 2: from selfish motives, then they're gonna. 196 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: Get empty, empty results. So why do you worry? 197 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 2: Let's talk about it. 198 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: Just me and you. Now it's just us. Why do 199 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 1: you worry? What? What do you worry about more than 200 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: anything else. 201 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 2: What's the thing that had you up at three point 202 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 2: thirty this morning and your mind started spinning? 203 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 1: Because this is what happens. Your mind starts spinning. 204 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 2: Some of us get up to use the bathroom, and 205 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 2: then we never quite make it back to a arrested 206 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 2: state because our bladders and our brains are both on 207 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:05,560 Speaker 2: demon possession, and so both of them are too full, 208 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 2: and so we wake up in the middle of the 209 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 2: night and here we are. 210 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: And this is how it happens. For me. My mind 211 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: just starts spin in, spin in. 212 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 2: And the way that it is constructed in the original language. 213 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 2: I've studied this passage quite a bit. I've come back 214 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,079 Speaker 2: to it several times in preaching, is that it says 215 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 2: do not worry. That's the command or take no thought. 216 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 2: That's literal, take no thought. Think about that. He's saying. 217 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:37,680 Speaker 2: A thought that presents itself to you can start you 218 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:42,080 Speaker 2: spinning in a direction if you take it. But it 219 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 2: can't start you spinning if you don't. 220 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: Hold on to it. 221 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:48,439 Speaker 2: I ap preached the whole message one time called hold 222 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:53,199 Speaker 2: that thought. Hold that thought, and you get a hold 223 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 2: of a. 224 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 1: Thought and you let it take you somewhere. 225 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 2: But where you take that thought, eventually you find out 226 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 2: it takes you somewhere. And for me, a lot of 227 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 2: times I end up in this spin cycle. Do you 228 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about? Talk to me the spin 229 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 2: cycle of stress. I've noticed this about worry. Worry is circular. 230 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,960 Speaker 2: Worry is going round and round. It's not being concerned 231 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 2: about something that's That's not what Jesus means. 232 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 1: By don't worry. 233 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 2: This isn't Jesus Bob Marley moment. You know, because I 234 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 2: was reading it, like look at the birds. You know, 235 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 2: it almost sounds it almost sounds like Jesus is telling 236 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 2: me not to not to pay my bills. 237 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 1: Just look at the birds. Look at the birds and 238 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,960 Speaker 1: the flower isn't beautiful? Isn't God good? Isn't He just 239 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 1: the best. 240 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 2: Don't you just love Jesus and his muchness? 241 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 1: You know? So is not what he's saying, you know. 242 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 2: You want me to be like a bird, lord is no. 243 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 2: I want you to observe the birds. I want you 244 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 2: to consider what they know that you don't. And maybe 245 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 2: what they know that you don't is because they live 246 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 2: where you don't at a higher altitude. 247 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 1: Observe the birds. 248 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 2: If I could title this message something other than reverse 249 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 2: your worry, I'd call it look up, because in order 250 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 2: to consider the birds, you got to stuff looking. 251 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 1: All around you to make sense of your life. 252 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 2: You know, because as long as you look around you, 253 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 2: you've spen. 254 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: Around and around and around and around. 255 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 2: But when you break the cycle and consider that there 256 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 2: is a God above you, who has gone before you, 257 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 2: who lives within you, who is always for you, and 258 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 2: that you are spoken for and known and named and 259 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 2: called and chosen and set apart, you see your life 260 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 2: at a different level. 261 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: Can I freeze a little bit? Because I've been doing 262 00:13:59,559 --> 00:13:59,959 Speaker 1: this a lot. 263 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 2: It's funny that I just finished a whole series about 264 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 2: anxiety called Triggered, and here we are back in this 265 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 2: same idea, still spinning. 266 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 1: It's still spinning. Worri is is like this. It's around 267 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: and around and around. 268 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 2: But notice one thing about all my spinning, other than 269 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 2: the fact that some of y'all are getting dizzy just 270 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 2: watching me do this, imagine how it feels to actually 271 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 2: do it. Imagine how it feels for me actually doing it. Well, 272 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 2: this is what it feels like when you're spinning, spinning, spinning, 273 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 2: lots of motion, but I keep ending up right. 274 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: Where I started. 275 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 2: I'm right back here, only now I can't see straight. 276 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: Now. 277 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 2: That's what it's like to toss and turn over. 278 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: Stuff you can't control. 279 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 2: Because after you've spent all night spinning, all day spinning 280 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 2: in your head, and what if they and you know, 281 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 2: it starts with the most innocent thought. 282 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: It's not the devil. The devil's been at this a 283 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: long time, sweetie. He's not gonna give you a bad thought. 284 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 2: He's gonna try to give you an innocent thought and 285 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 2: get you to take it in the wrong direction. A 286 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 2: scenario that on the surface doesn't seem that bad, but 287 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 2: it's the way you spin it. It's like, you know, 288 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 2: Fox News and CNN, it's just it's one story they're telling, 289 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:40,880 Speaker 2: but it's spinning different ways, and it's how you spin it. 290 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 1: That determines how you see it. 291 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 2: I am preaching Matthew chapter six like it's my last 292 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 2: time today, because when you get in that spin cycle, it's. 293 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 1: Just around and around and around and. 294 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 2: Around, and it doesn't make any difference. I'm not kidding anywhere. 295 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 2: I'm not working on it. I'm not making progress anywhere. 296 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 2: And the devil gets me so dizzy that now by 297 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 2: the time that I'm facing my real life challenges, I 298 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 2: don't have the equilibrium to apply the effort in the 299 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 2: direction that would create a result. Because I'm so dissy, 300 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 2: I can't find my balance, and now I don't know 301 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 2: who to trust. 302 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. 303 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 2: WHOA hang on, I need a minute. I need a minute. 304 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 2: I've been spinning, by the way. That's why it takes 305 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 2: you a few minutes when you get to church to 306 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 2: get your heart in the right place for the caffeine 307 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 2: to kick in and for you to stop spinning. Yeah, 308 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 2: Jesus said, look up at the birds, and then look 309 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 2: at the flowers. The flowers, So when we look up, 310 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 2: you want me look down. I want you to look 311 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 2: both and notice something that the flowers don't do that 312 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 2: your mind has been doing lately. 313 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 1: He said, When. 314 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 2: You look at the flowers, notice how they do not 315 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 2: labor or give me the verse please twenty eight. 316 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 1: They do not labor or. 317 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 2: And yet, your father, they don't spin, they don't sew, 318 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 2: The birds don't store away, the flowers don't spend. 319 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:36,879 Speaker 1: Yet, look how God does that on that level? 320 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 2: And if he made you in his image, what makes 321 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 2: you think that you have to spin out in these cycles? 322 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 2: You know, these tormenting cycles, these confusing cycles where you 323 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 2: start thinking, you know, all, oh my god, my kid 324 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:00,080 Speaker 2: needs bracists and you know it's the littlest things, isn't it. 325 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:01,879 Speaker 1: It's the littlest things that get you spenting. 326 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 2: My kid needs Now, your kid's only two years old, 327 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 2: but my kid's gonna need bracest because the first tooth 328 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 2: grew in kind of crooked. And now you're looking at 329 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:10,919 Speaker 2: one crooked tooth and your two year old's got one 330 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 2: little crooked tooth grown in. Oh my god, they're gonna 331 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 2: need braces. Embraces with inflation is gonna cost four hundred 332 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:19,640 Speaker 2: and seventy three thousand dollars, and I won't have any 333 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 2: money to send them in college so they're only gonna 334 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 2: have to resort to gang violence. And then my child's 335 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 2: gonna wind up in prison, and I'm gonna visit. Now 336 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 2: you're in prison, your kid is too, and your kid's 337 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 2: still too and you didn't keep them out of prison, 338 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:40,680 Speaker 2: and they're still gonna need bracests. 339 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:42,679 Speaker 1: So you've been. 340 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 2: Going around and around and around in circles. But God said, 341 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 2: today is your day to stop spinning. If your mind 342 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 2: has been doing this, I came to preach to you, 343 00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 2: and the presence of the Lord is in this flag, 344 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 2: and your. 345 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: Father knows what you need. 346 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 2: So stop spinning, stop worrying about what God is already 347 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 2: working on, and just worship him. 348 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:13,399 Speaker 1: Come on, take fifteen seconds. 349 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 3: I know you can't do it all the time, but 350 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:19,200 Speaker 3: you're in the right place today. Let's give him praise 351 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:24,119 Speaker 3: and honor and glory that our needs are met for 352 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 3: his name. 353 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: It's great. 354 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:42,640 Speaker 2: That's all worship is. You know, worship is worry in reverse. 355 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: See, worry is. 356 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 2: When I start with my situation and then I spin 357 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:51,480 Speaker 2: round and round and round and round and round and 358 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 2: round and round and round. But God said, stop spinning, 359 00:19:55,400 --> 00:20:00,360 Speaker 2: and instead of starting your meditation with your situation, art 360 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:01,360 Speaker 2: with your source. 361 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 1: When you know who your father is it since. 362 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 2: You spinning in a different direction. 363 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,879 Speaker 1: Come on, I know who he is, I know what 364 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 1: he's done, and I know what he's gonna do. And 365 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 1: stop spinning. 366 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 2: Find seven people, tell him stop spinning. It's not working 367 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 2: round and running circles like the Israelites. 368 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: For forty three years. Why are you worried? 369 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:45,160 Speaker 2: I would understand it if it was working. I wrote 370 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,120 Speaker 2: a country song one time. Well, not a whole song, 371 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 2: just a chorus. Okay, well that's never happened before. Yeah, 372 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 2: I know it's ambreller Father, bless them in the name 373 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 2: of Jesus. 374 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:15,439 Speaker 1: Well, it's like that, you know, like worry is like that. 375 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 1: It's like the. 376 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 2: And sometimes it's going off, but you can't you can't 377 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 2: do anything about it. 378 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 1: Sometimes it's like that. 379 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 2: It's like think think about think about the day we 380 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:33,719 Speaker 2: live in where we're constantly being hit with breaking news, 381 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:44,720 Speaker 2: breaking news. Trump had lunch, breaking breaking news, and so 382 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:48,880 Speaker 2: it's almost impossible for us to have priorities because we're 383 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 2: being fed so much fear. When your father feeds you, 384 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 2: it builds your faith. 385 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,239 Speaker 1: When you start with who God is. 386 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 2: You know, when you start with that when you start 387 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 2: with your source, you end up where you started. And 388 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 2: if you start with God, you end with God. If 389 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 2: you start with theater, you end with fear. If you 390 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:26,119 Speaker 2: start with shortage, you end with shortage. If you start 391 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 2: with your situation, you'll be like Elisha's servant in Second 392 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 2: King sixth. This is a great Old Testament story to 393 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 2: illustrate what I'm talking about, because the servant woke up 394 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,960 Speaker 2: one day and found that the camp was surrounded with 395 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 2: the Arabians, who were the enemies, and he woke Elisha. 396 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:48,120 Speaker 1: He's like, oh, my lord, what shall we do? 397 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 2: That's exactly what the Bible says, and that's exactly. 398 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,679 Speaker 1: What you've been saying. Oh my lord. 399 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 2: You know, like I'm surrounded, and now this preacher is 400 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:02,719 Speaker 2: talking about birds and lily's and petunias and chrysanthemums, and 401 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,400 Speaker 2: here I am trying to pay bills and my mom 402 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 2: has Alzheimer's and this dude's up here talking about birds. 403 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 2: All right, Well, Elisha could have prayed that God would 404 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 2: destroy the enemies that were surrounding the camp, but he didn't. 405 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:18,399 Speaker 1: He didn't. 406 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:24,639 Speaker 2: He prayed something more powerful. And what he said is 407 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 2: what I'm praying for. Us in this game Changer series, 408 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,119 Speaker 2: because this is the game changer, not that God takes 409 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 2: your enemies away, but that he enables. 410 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 1: You to see beyond. 411 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 2: Them, not that he takes your problems away, but that 412 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 2: he enables your faith to see beyond them. Now, the 413 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,399 Speaker 2: first circle is the enemies, and they were real. But 414 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 2: Elisha prayed Lord open his eyes that he may see, 415 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 2: that he may see what that there are more with 416 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 2: us than with them. So the first circle says, I'm overwhelmed. 417 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,120 Speaker 2: The first circle says I'm outnumbered. The first circle says 418 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 2: there's nothing I can do. And on the surface this 419 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,919 Speaker 2: is the truth. But the second circle, when the servant 420 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,359 Speaker 2: opened his eyes, he saw what had been there all along. 421 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: There was a host of angel armies. 422 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 2: Surrounding the first circle, and what was on the outside 423 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:24,119 Speaker 2: was greater than what was on the inside. Whatever is 424 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 2: surrounding you, God is already surrounding it. And so much 425 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:35,360 Speaker 2: of our peace is depending on whether we can perceive 426 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 2: the second circle. When you live in the first circle, 427 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:45,640 Speaker 2: it's always it's always never enough. If you start with 428 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 2: not enough, you end with not enough. If you start 429 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 2: with el Shadai, who is more than enough, you end with. 430 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: More than enough, So reverse your worry. My Father knows 431 00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 1: what I need. 432 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 2: I had needs, and I don't start with the need, 433 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 2: because if I start with the need, I'm. 434 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: Gonna end with the need. 435 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,880 Speaker 2: But if I start with a God who knows. 436 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,720 Speaker 1: What I need, I will end with a. 437 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 2: God who knows what I need. He is Alpha and Omega, 438 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 2: the beginning in the end, the first in the last. 439 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:26,119 Speaker 2: So reverse your worry, Jesus says, Look at the birds, 440 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,919 Speaker 2: look at the flowers. You are more valuable than them, 441 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 2: and yet your father cares for the lesser. 442 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 1: Will he not much more? Take care of you? Means this. 443 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 2: If God is doing this level of detail, don't you 444 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 2: think that he has already determined your expected end. 445 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 1: If he can do that, surely he can do this. 446 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,200 Speaker 1: If he did that, he can do this. 447 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 2: So there are some things in my life that God did, 448 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 2: and if he did that, he can do this. This 449 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 2: is the second circle, and this is where we've got 450 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,399 Speaker 2: to live. But in order to do it, we'll have 451 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 2: to reverse it, because when we start with shortage, we 452 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 2: end with shortage, time, energy, money, any of it. 453 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 1: Jesus says, here's the game changer. 454 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 2: One of the most famous verses in scripture, by the way, 455 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:31,640 Speaker 2: But now that you've got it in context, I hope 456 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 2: it comes a life for you in. 457 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: A new way. 458 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 2: He said, if God cares for the lesser, he will 459 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 2: take care of the greater. If he takes care of 460 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 2: the little, he'll take care of the lot. You're the lot. 461 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:49,680 Speaker 1: You're valuable to him. But you. 462 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 2: Verse thirty three seek first the Kingdom and his righteousness, 463 00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 2: not your own, your own. 464 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 1: Ideas and appearances. What shall we eat? What shall we drink? 465 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: What shall we eat? What shall we drink? 466 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 2: Isn't it funny that we're still posting today, two thousand 467 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:15,919 Speaker 2: years later about the same stuff that Jesus said not 468 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 2: to worry about in Palestine, what we ate and what 469 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 2: we wore? It is so circular, you know, like we're 470 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 2: still worried about the same things. 471 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 1: How am I gonna make it? How am I gonna pay? 472 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: How am I going to this and that and the other? 473 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 1: And you know, and I've got my income taxes now 474 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 1: went up in a bracket, and God blessed me. 475 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 2: But now I got more taxes or I'm waiting on 476 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,400 Speaker 2: God to bless me. What shall we eat? That survival? 477 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 2: What shall we wear? That status? And we go round 478 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:42,680 Speaker 2: in these circles over. 479 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 1: And over and over and over and over and over 480 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 1: and over again. 481 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:52,160 Speaker 2: But if I start with the kingdom, God will give 482 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:56,960 Speaker 2: me the things seek first His kingdom give them the 483 00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:57,680 Speaker 2: scripture verse. 484 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 1: I want you to see this. More than see it, 485 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 1: I want you to believe it. 486 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 2: If you seek first His Kingdom and his righteousness, all 487 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 2: these things will be given to you as well. See, 488 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:16,439 Speaker 2: you protect what you prize, and your peace ought to 489 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:17,920 Speaker 2: be important to you. 490 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 1: But the only way to. 491 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 2: Live in God's peace is to have God's priorities. Now, 492 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 2: in my life, every time that I have had a 493 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,159 Speaker 2: lack of peace, it was because something was wrong with 494 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 2: my priorities. 495 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:35,680 Speaker 1: And the reason that I can prove. 496 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 2: That now is because it wasn't the presence of problems 497 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 2: that created the absence of peace. Sometimes in the midst 498 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 2: of my greatest problems, I had the greatest peace. 499 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 1: That makes no sense, I understand, but it's true. 500 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 2: Nonetheless, in some of the seasons of my greatest problems, I. 501 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 1: Experienced my deepest peace. 502 00:28:55,800 --> 00:29:00,160 Speaker 2: I think that's because sometimes problems help us to clarify priorities. Yes, 503 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 2: if my priorities, if I don't seek first the kingdom, 504 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 2: and I'm seeking the things. I will run after all 505 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 2: the same things that the pagans run after, and it 506 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 2: will be like I don't even have a god. 507 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 1: In my real life. Thanks Mom. 508 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 2: I was like this, somebody give me your phone, Give 509 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 2: me your phone. 510 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 1: Somebody with an iPhone? What is it? Now? 511 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,960 Speaker 2: Ten? Super another way for Apple to get my money 512 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,240 Speaker 2: by changing the way I charge the stupid device. 513 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 1: You're a note taker, Oh thank God for this guy. 514 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 1: Will you send me these when the sermon's over. 515 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 2: My notes are terrible. I don't even look at them. 516 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 2: They're horrible. Your notes are good. Oh I'm gonna ask 517 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 2: you something. If you left your phone at church, would 518 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 2: you come back and get it? How about if you 519 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 2: left your phone an hour away, would you drive an 520 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 2: hour to get in? 521 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: Two hours? Three hours? This phone is important. 522 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 2: I'm starting to wonder what you got on this phone, 523 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 2: some kind of business transactions. 524 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:27,120 Speaker 1: You trust me a lot, Hand me this phone and 525 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:28,240 Speaker 1: you come back and get it. 526 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,240 Speaker 2: But I noticed people will leave their peace just anywhere, 527 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,120 Speaker 2: and we would run back. I see some of you 528 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:42,160 Speaker 2: while I'm preaching. You can't even sit through a fifty 529 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 2: minute message without reaching for your phone. You breaking out 530 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 2: rashes coming all up on. You can't check your phone, 531 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 2: the phone's buzzing in front. But but you leave your 532 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:04,680 Speaker 2: piece just anywhere, and we would put more importance on 533 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,520 Speaker 2: a possession and we'll go back and get it. 534 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: Oh, I lost my phone. My phone, like you're not 535 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 1: wearing pants out the house or something like that. 536 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 2: But you won't even apologize to get your peace back 537 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 2: and seek the kingdom. 538 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:24,360 Speaker 1: Come get this phone. 539 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,240 Speaker 2: You got a snap coming through us from AA Steph. 540 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 1: I don't know who she is, if she's que. 541 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 2: So somebody shout, I want my peace back, And the 542 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:41,240 Speaker 2: only way. 543 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,800 Speaker 1: For that to happen is for you to get your priority. 544 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 2: Straight, friends and family. This is why I teach tithing. Woo, 545 00:31:53,400 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 2: A wave of silence visited the church, because when I 546 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 2: put God first and I prioritize His purpose in my life. 547 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 2: Don't you see that in any area of my life? 548 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 2: When I start with God, I end with God. So look, 549 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,840 Speaker 2: it's not some Old Testament principle. It is a principle 550 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:26,040 Speaker 2: that when you trust God, you invest your treasure in 551 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:30,960 Speaker 2: the one that you trust. So when I say God, 552 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 2: this portion has set aside for you. Guess what I 553 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 2: start My resources spinning in the direction of God's kingdom, 554 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 2: and then I can trust him to take care of 555 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 2: my needs. That's why we bring the offering at the 556 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:53,920 Speaker 2: end of the year. It's about trust. It's about training 557 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,840 Speaker 2: my heart to trust God. Aren't you sick of spinning 558 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 2: like this? Just like the world's spin? I mean, really, really, 559 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 2: people of God, if we are if we're gonna worry 560 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:07,760 Speaker 2: like the world worries, how are we gonna win the 561 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 2: world that we worry? 562 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:09,080 Speaker 1: Just like. 563 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,760 Speaker 2: I think the distinguishing mark of the people of God 564 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 2: and the day that we live in is a supernatural 565 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,840 Speaker 2: peace that will become so attractive to people in the 566 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 2: world that we won't even have to preach to them. 567 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 2: They will see our peace and they will want to 568 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,960 Speaker 2: meet the author of the giver of peace, the Prince 569 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,280 Speaker 2: of Peace, whose name is Jesus. 570 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:41,440 Speaker 1: And so. 571 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:46,400 Speaker 2: In this season, I've been asking God to start me 572 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 2: spinning in the right direction, even the way I start 573 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 2: my day. 574 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 1: I need to start my day spinning in the right direction. 575 00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,680 Speaker 2: You know, I really don't need to read the news 576 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 2: within the first thirty minutes that I'm awake. 577 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 1: And by the. 578 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 2: Way, there are certain people that I don't need to 579 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:12,840 Speaker 2: talk to for the first hour I'm at work because 580 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:20,800 Speaker 2: they might start me spinning. Ah, tell somebody stop spinning 581 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,400 Speaker 2: and learn what the flower learned. If I stay planted, 582 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,759 Speaker 2: learn what the bird learned. If I stay above it, 583 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,919 Speaker 2: then my guy will supply. 584 00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,840 Speaker 1: All my needs. Let's give him praise for it today. 585 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,839 Speaker 2: Come on, give him a good praise like you think 586 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,839 Speaker 2: he deserves, Matthews, give him the praise you think he's 587 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:50,440 Speaker 2: worthy of. 588 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:03,120 Speaker 1: A proved himer Hanger. 589 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:12,120 Speaker 2: Oh Jesus, Jesus, prassious. 590 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:19,520 Speaker 1: Jesus, Oh for grace. Now listen. 591 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,799 Speaker 2: How many of you would say, everyone's standing now, no 592 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:23,320 Speaker 2: one's leaving. 593 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:23,720 Speaker 1: Please? 594 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,560 Speaker 2: How many would say I am a world class warrior 595 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,000 Speaker 2: like I am an Olympic level warrior. Those of you here, 596 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,080 Speaker 2: if you could stand, I'm about to pray for people. 597 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,239 Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm a wor wave at me. 598 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 2: If you're a world class warrior like they need to 599 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,160 Speaker 2: write a front page Sports illustrated about. 600 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:44,000 Speaker 1: Good news. Good news. 601 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:49,000 Speaker 2: If you are a world class warrior, you have the 602 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,640 Speaker 2: potential to become a world class worshiper. 603 00:35:54,840 --> 00:36:02,680 Speaker 4: Because worship is worry in reverse. Come on, spin around 604 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,480 Speaker 4: one good time. If you know God's got this. 605 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:10,560 Speaker 2: I'm not looking at tomorrow worried about it. I will 606 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,800 Speaker 2: be confident in this, but I will see the goodness 607 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:14,400 Speaker 2: of the Lord. 608 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:23,959 Speaker 1: Come on, take a good spin, man. 609 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,439 Speaker 2: If you can stay, please stay. I want to pray 610 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:31,239 Speaker 2: a blessing over you. When you start with God, you 611 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:37,240 Speaker 2: end with God. And the situation that you're facing today 612 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,640 Speaker 2: is not necessarily going to lift or remove. But the 613 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:47,759 Speaker 2: second circle is what God is already doing. And I 614 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,480 Speaker 2: just thought it'd be good to join our faith together today. 615 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,240 Speaker 2: You know, I really want to treasure these moments to minister, 616 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,640 Speaker 2: and that's why I've been asking, Hey, if you don't 617 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,560 Speaker 2: have to leave, if nothing is like going to burn 618 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,680 Speaker 2: your house or anything like that, while. 619 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,560 Speaker 1: We're in here, please stay with us. 620 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:06,239 Speaker 2: Because sometimes you hear the word, but you don't seal it, 621 00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,640 Speaker 2: and you just let the devil take it, just take it, 622 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,600 Speaker 2: just take it. You just let him take your word 623 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,200 Speaker 2: and snatch it and snatch it. But snatch it back, 624 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:20,360 Speaker 2: snatch it back. This is a moment for you to 625 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,680 Speaker 2: take your peace back. This is a moment for you 626 00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:28,719 Speaker 2: to take your focus back. And I want to pray 627 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:33,600 Speaker 2: for that. But peace only comes through correct priorities. It's 628 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:37,120 Speaker 2: not a feeling. It's a sense of ordering your life. 629 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,719 Speaker 2: Jesus said, if you build your life on the right foundation, 630 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:44,080 Speaker 2: you can withstand any storm. And I just feel today 631 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,160 Speaker 2: that as I've been ministering, the Spirit of the Lord 632 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:51,640 Speaker 2: has been translating my feeble attempts to get this message preached, 633 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,520 Speaker 2: putting it in the exact frame where you need to see. 634 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,919 Speaker 1: What God is doing in your life. And I want 635 00:37:57,920 --> 00:37:59,279 Speaker 1: to ask you today if you have. 636 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:04,160 Speaker 2: Been spinning around trying to solve things in your own strength, 637 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,720 Speaker 2: and you want to steal your heart in the presence 638 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,840 Speaker 2: of God. One thing I love to do is lift 639 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,040 Speaker 2: my hands to my Father in heaven. Would you do 640 00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:19,239 Speaker 2: that right now and close your eyes, Oh you of 641 00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:19,920 Speaker 2: little faith. 642 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:24,799 Speaker 1: When you have a father. 643 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:30,360 Speaker 2: Who knows how to feed you, you don't have to 644 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:34,600 Speaker 2: run to the world for scraps, and you have a 645 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:39,759 Speaker 2: father who knows what you need, you can trust your 646 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,640 Speaker 2: deepest desires are being met in each moment. 647 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:45,640 Speaker 1: Greater than the breath that we. 648 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:51,160 Speaker 2: Breathe, greater than the song that we sing. The grace 649 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:55,359 Speaker 2: of God is in this moment, Holy Spirit, I thank 650 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,640 Speaker 2: you for this ministry that. 651 00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,760 Speaker 1: Has gone forth. Today. 652 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,760 Speaker 2: I asked that you would now enable it to become 653 00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:05,520 Speaker 2: active in our lives. 654 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:08,040 Speaker 1: Then not only would we. 655 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:11,160 Speaker 2: Be hearers of the word, but doers also, and that 656 00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,719 Speaker 2: this week you would show us how to. 657 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:15,840 Speaker 1: Reverse. 658 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:18,960 Speaker 2: Instead of starting with what's wrong, what's missing, what's not, 659 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:23,840 Speaker 2: what's gone, we would start with who you are, and 660 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,640 Speaker 2: that the peace of God that trenscends all understanding would 661 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:27,880 Speaker 2: guard our hearts and minds. 662 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:32,879 Speaker 1: In Christ Jesus, thank you for joining us. 663 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,640 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 664 00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:39,200 Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 665 00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,200 Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give now, 666 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,600 Speaker 2: or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more information 667 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,920 Speaker 2: and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 668 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:51,520 Speaker 1: You can share it with your friends. 669 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,080 Speaker 2: You can click the share button, take a screenshot and 670 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,239 Speaker 2: share it on your social stories and tag us at 671 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:57,120 Speaker 2: Elevation Church. 672 00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,000 Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening. God bless you