WEBVTT - I Know God Can, I Know God Will, But I Don’t Know How (Jabin Chavez) 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:06.200 Hey, this is Stephen Fernick. 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.320 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.600 Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:19.680 new sermons every week. Hope you're blessed today. 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:24.079 Quickly turning your Bibles while you're standing, We're going to 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:29.160 look at one passage of Scripture, Hebrews chapter eleven. Hebrews 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.040 Chapter eleven and verse eight. I bring greetings from Las 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:37.120 Vegas and Nevada. How many come at least once a 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:38.200 year on your mission trip? 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.080 Amen? Let me see your Amen. Praise the Lord, Praise God. 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:43.000 Thank you. 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.760 So grateful for so many of you that when you 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.120 do come, you come into church and you come to 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:52.640 say hi to us sober at city light. 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:53.680 We're so grateful for that. 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:58.880 While you're turning to Hebrews eleven, I just want to 0:00:58.920 --> 0:00:59.960 honor our pastor. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:12.560 I just want to say, man. 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.360 I don't have really words. I've been I've been preaching 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:15.039 here every year since twenty nineteen. Besides twenty twenty. There 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.400 was a little hiccup that year, but praise the Lord. 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.399 But besides that, and every year I try to think 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.760 of something. You know, I'm just mindful of how grateful 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.280 I am for Pastor Receiving and Pastor Hawley, and I 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:33.080 just aren't you grateful for your pastors? Come on, clap 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.560 your hands. 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:42.240 The words, the songs, the books. 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:44.720 I just go. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.480 I'd go back to twenty twenty and I chunks. I 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:54.440 think about the blessing. That song got me through. It 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.080 just got me through. And I could and I could 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.760 just start naming song after song that just got me through. 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.960 Sermon's that just got me through. You know what I 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:05.600 was maybe so excited about this week. 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:06.360 We were in Miami. 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:11.119 The pastor was preaching there, and the kids were there, 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:20.760 and Graham did a living room in Miami. I'll tell 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:22.840 you what. Let me just let me just talk for 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:26.480 a second. Let me tell you what. I was in 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.200 tears the whole time. Abby's leading worship. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:29.840 What the heck? 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:32.840 I remember when Abby was a year I think I 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:34.720 would have met her at a year or two years old, 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:42.079 now leading worship. Graham's up there preaching, Elijah's doing an 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.680 interview and teaching and preaching, and I'm just like, look 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.480 at the next generation rising up. 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:50.280 I was so start. 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.880 I see this whole youth section over here on fire 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:58.400 for Come on, clap your hands I just tell you. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:04.400 I wrote Pastor re Seven and Pastor Hawley, and I said, 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:09.519 thanks for being great parents. You inspired me tonight as 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.240 they were ministering and I was watching Pastor receiving Holly 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:17.720 just smile and just watch it and again just impacted 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.840 again by their life and by their ministry. I just 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.839 want to say, thank God for our pastors, thank God 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:28.240 for this house. And how many know the best is 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.079 yet to come. Come on, we're just getting started. Twenty 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.560 years in, We're just getting started, and so are you. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:39.680 Can you say, men, everybody, I'm gonna read a passage 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:46.280 of scripture, Hebrews eleven eight, one little verse, and then 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:49.400 we're going to have church today. Will you help me 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:53.760 preach a little bit? All right, I'm gonna yell. If 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:58.960 you don't yell back, it's going to be awkward. It 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.760 was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.680 to leave home and go to another land, that God 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.080 would give him as his inheritance. And let me just 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:13.400 stop real quick. These are all faith phrases. It was 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.120 by faith. Abraham obeyed. That's faith when God called him. 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.800 Hearing God, that's faith. To leave home, that's faith to 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.040 go to another land. That's faith that God would give, 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.080 he receives, and inheritance that's faith. 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:24.680 That's all faith. 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.239 But now I'm going to give you my favorite faith 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:29.520 phrase in the Bible. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:40.000 He went without knowing where he was going, And I 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.880 want to preach about that today for a little bit. 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:49.280 I know God can and I know God will, but. 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.120 I don't know how. 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.120 I know God can and I know God will, but 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:59.080 I don't know how. And I believe today God's going 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.719 to help us walk by fath faith. Father, I thank 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.680 you for the gift of faith that is on this house, 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:08.640 and I thank you today You're going to strengthen our faith. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:14.800 And our response in advance is yes in Jesus's name. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.559 And everybody said Amen, one more time. Every location, clap 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:24.080 your hands and give God praise. Come on, amen and amen. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.599 You can be seated. Look at your neighbor and tell 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:28.800 them I don't know how. Just tell them I don't know. 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:35.200 I don't know how. I don't I don't know how. 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:45.159 God invites his children into a life of faith. This 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:50.120 is the possibility of every believer Tewo Corinthians chapter five, 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:54.120 verse seven, that we can walk by faith and not 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:54.719 by sight. 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:56.040 Let me just say this. 0:05:56.200 --> 0:06:00.000 Before you are a Christian, you've never walked by faith. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.160 If you only walk by sight, you only walk by 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:07.240 the five senses. But now that you are a believer, 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.880 we have an opportunity to do something that we've never 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:15.359 done before, and that is walk by faith. That we 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.039 don't just live by the five senses. We don't just 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.680 live by circumstance. We don't just live by what we 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.039 can see. But we now get to live in an 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.360 unseen realm called the life of faith. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.080 God is inviting us into this. 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.120 And let me just say this, most Christians will never 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:40.680 truly experience the joy, the adventure, the peace of walking 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.520 by faith. But God is inviting us into this walk 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:50.000 see eye. Sight shows me what is. Regret shows me 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:55.279 what could have been, But faith shows me what could be. 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:57.919 And I just want you to know right now we 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.719 are living in one of those three areas. Is as 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:04.440 I speak, eyesight, it just it just shows me the obvious. 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:10.040 It takes no faith to see, It takes no faith 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:14.440 to talk about what I'm already experiencing. A lot of 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.960 times we just walk by regret. We just live in 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.520 what could have been. Oh man, if I would have 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.920 if I could have if I should have ben if 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.680 I'd have bought bitcoin when it was ten cents. Come on, somebody, 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:28.800 I should have done this. I should have done that, 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.239 I should have whatever it could be. And so many 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.400 believers end up living their entire life really not believing. 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.680 They just end up in eyesight and they end up 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.120 in regret. But there is a third place that we 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:43.920 can live. It's called faith. It's called the unseen. It 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.400 is called a place of what could be and what 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.560 should be. And I've never been there before, but I 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:53.280 feel like the Holy Spirit is calling me into something 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:57.880 that I've actually never seen before or experienced before. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.080 I have no reference for it. 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.640 See, when you're walking by eyesight, when you're walking by regret, 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.560 you can always look back and have a reference point 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.280 for what you should expect for tomorrow. So it's been bad, 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.520 it's gonna be bad. It is bad, it is gonna 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.880 be bad. You always have a reference point, a worst 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.800 case scenario of what has been, that is lying to you, 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.680 telling you what could always be. But faith shows me 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:30.240 something and revealed and tells me something that I've never 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:34.839 been in before. The only reference point I have for 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.959 tomorrow is Jesus himself, because he is the God who 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.240 was and is, but he is to come, and he 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:45.160 is inviting me into something that I've never seen before, 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:49.840 I've never lived in before. But something in my spirit says, 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.280 my best days are still in front of me and 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:57.480 God still has a plan for me. Come on, everybody, 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:03.640 say faith. We walk by faith, walk by faith. Oh 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.800 it's one thing to talk faith, and it's another thing 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.880 to believe, but it's it's another thing when your faith 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:14.920 gets in your feet. Ooh, that's where that that's where 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.640 the real joy comes. Do me a favor, everybody, just 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.160 kind of stomp a little bit. Can I can I 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.400 hear your feith? Can I hear your feet? That's when 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.160 you know you're really in faith when it starts getting 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.760 in your feet, when your walk starts changing, and when 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.200 God starts calling you into a place that you've never 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:36.199 been before. But oh, this can be scary. Faith feels risky. 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.480 It's not risky, but it can feel risky. And a 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:41.760 lot of times we end up not taking a step 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:47.240 of faith because we're waiting on clarity. Pastors, just pray 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.480 for me. I'm just really in a season right now 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:53.840 where I'm praying for clarity. I think a lot of 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:55.440 us are praying for clarity, and we need to be 0:09:55.440 --> 0:10:01.480 praying for courage, just. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.880 Really believing for clarity in this next six months. 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:05.640 I would stop praying that and I would just start 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:10.280 doing something that God's calling you to do. There have 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:12.160 been a lot of seasons that I prayed for clarity, 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:13.960 and really what I needed to be praying for was 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.559 the courage to obey the thing God's calling me to do. 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.360 That is terrifying to my flesh, but my spirit is 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:26.920 saying God is calling me into something. Faith requires movement 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:35.360 before manifestation, confidence in God before clarity, and believing before seeing. 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:38.960 Abraham went. 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.600 And I believe that God is calling us into a 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:44.520 life of faith. So here's what I know about faith. 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:48.600 Number one, faith knows. Faith knows. 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.160 The Bible said that God called Abraham. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:57.480 Abraham had a word from God, and all Abraham needed 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.719 was a word from God. Friend, all you need is 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.000 a word word from God, and it could change your 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.520 entire life. By the way, That's why we should always 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.400 come to church with expectation. That's why we should always 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.640 come to church with a Bible. That's why we should 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.520 always come to church leaning in We're not just here 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.280 to check a box, but we're here to have an 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.920 encounter with God because we know that one word from God, 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.880 one little phrase from a song, one little prayer that 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.559 someone might pray for you, something might happen in your 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:24.080 life that. 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.920 Changes your entire life. One word from God. 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.360 Abraham got a word and it changed his life, and 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:34.640 I believe you can get a word that changes your life. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.120 There's an old preacher, F. F. Bosworth. 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.320 He's in heaven now, but he said that faith begins 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.120 where the will of God is known. 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:44.920 That once God can. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.240 Reveal it to me now, faith can begin to be 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.080 birthed in my heart. And that's why the word of 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.560 God is so important to us. That man shall not 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:57.080 live by bread alone, Jesus said, But every word that 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.280 comes from the mouth of God, that means that there 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:03.560 is an an tire way of living that goes beyond 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:07.719 bread alone, goes beyond the natural alone, goes beyond what 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.800 you can see alone. There is a place called faith 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:15.120 that can sustain you and can cause you to go see. 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.680 That's what sustained Jesus for forty days. For forty days, 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:22.400 he didn't neet, but he had the word see anytime. 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:26.200 The enemy can keep us ignorant in a place, he 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.199 can keep us bound in that place. But if I 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.040 can get the word on it, I can get. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.240 Freedom in that area. And this is why the word matters. 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.320 Can I just talk about this in twenty twenty six? 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:41.280 That's why you ought to read the Bible. Come on, somebody, 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.360 That's why whenever you read the Scripture, something supernatural happens 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.920 in your life, something begins to change on the inside. Well, 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:50.320 I read the Bible, and I don't feel like I 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.160 understood it. I promise it's working. Well, I read the 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.360 Bible this morning and I don't remember anything I read. 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.079 I promise it's work. Just keep showing up to the book, 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:06.120 Just keep eating. Promise it is doing something in your life. 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.360 By faith, we understand this is so powerful Hebrews eleven three. 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:13.199 By faith, we understand that the entire universe was formed 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:18.760 at God's command. What's this that what we see did 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.160 not come from anything that can be seen. 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:23.840 Let me just say that one more time. 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:28.440 That what we see you see it now, but didn't 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.959 It didn't come from the scene you see it now, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:31.880 But it didn't start there. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.800 It actually started in the invisible Uh. 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:43.080 Oh, you see elevation now, but you didn't see it 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.679 when it was a dream in the heart of our pastors. 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:52.080 You see all this, but it didn't start here. It 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:56.360 didn't start in the scene. It started in the unseen. 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.680 You see that great marriage now, but it didn't start there. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.199 It started in the unseen. You see that family serving 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.320 the Lord now, but it didn't start there. It started 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.920 in the unseen. You see that person in business now, 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.040 but it didn't start there. It started in the unseen 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.400 that you see that person on fire for God now, 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:16.920 but it didn't start there. Everything that God does always 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:22.120 begins in the unseene. It begins by faith, It begins 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.800 with a vision, it begins with a picture. And I 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.200 just want to declare, God's gonna give you a word. 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.320 God's gonna give you a vision. God's gonna give you 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:31.360 a picture that. 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.040 Right now it would make no sense. 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.440 But if you don't give up on the word, eventually 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:39.720 you will see. 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:43.040 What you could and see. 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:50.080 Everything we can see began in the unseen. Let me 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.800 go a little bit further here Colossians, chapter one, verse sixteen. 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.960 For by him all things were created. All things were created. 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.520 Now he's gonna explain what things are in heaven and 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:05.000 on earth? Watches visible and invisible? What are things? Some 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:10.240 things are visible, some things are invisible, and to God 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:16.960 they're both things. So we only appreciate the things we 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:21.480 can see, but God is more into the things that 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:26.160 cannot be seen, that are going to eventually do something 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:30.760 in our life that eventually we will see if you 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.040 can see it today, It began in the unseen. I'm 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.920 talking about faith knows. I'm talking about getting a word 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.520 from God. I'm talking about I am going after God. 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.600 I am believing for a move of God in my life. 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.920 I've gotten a word from God, but I don't see 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.840 it yet. That's okay, because that thing that God spoke 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.760 to you that you don't see is as real to 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:57.080 God as the things that you can see. And it 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:01.240 has to get that real in your spirit before you 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.160 ever see it with your eyes. 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:05.479 And we only. 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.960 Appreciate what can be seen, but God appreciates the unseen. 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:19.720 In nineteen seventy one, Walt Disney World open in Orlando, Florida, Well, 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:24.880 Walt Disney World open in Orlando, Florida, Lilyan, Disney's best friend, 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.760 leaned over to her, Walt's widow, leaned over and said, 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:29.920 it's such a shame. Won't never got to see this, 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.800 And Lilian looked back at her and said, he did 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:34.160 see it. 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:37.560 That's why we're here. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.080 Wal been dead for five years, but he saw it. 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.400 He saw it before we saw it. He dreamed it 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.520 before we saw it. He was walking in it before 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.880 we were walking in it. And may that be the 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.320 testimony of your family, and may that be the testimony 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:02.520 to your children that Mama saw something, that he saw something. 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.760 They got something from heaven, and because they saw it, 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.840 and because they believed it though it was invisible. Now 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:15.159 we are walking in something that our parents believe for 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:21.040 he did see it. Don't give up on the word 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.760 God spoke to you. Don't give up on the dream 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.720 God put in your spirit. Don't give up on the 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:31.240 thing that God promised you. Though it is taking longer 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:37.359 than you expected, and it always well, God's doing something 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:41.560 in your life. In One Peter, Chapter one, verse twenty three, 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.040 Peter talks about the scripture and he says this, we've 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.960 been born again, not of corruptible seed, but watch this 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:52.040 incorruptible through the word of God, which lives in the bides. 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:56.359 Here's what Peter's saying. He's saying, the word is incorruptible seed. 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.520 That means, every time the word goes in, you is 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:04.520 doing something in your life. I don't see it today, 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.880 but it's working. I don't feel it today, but it's working. 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:13.159 I haven't seen a breakthrough yet, but it's working. Even 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.520 when I can't see it. You're working. And that's so 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:18.880 much easier to sing than to live. Come on, somebody, 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:23.080 even when I don't feel it, you're working. You you 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:26.679 never stop working. You you never man. That is that 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.280 is so good to sing on a Sunday morning. It 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.120 is so hard to live on a Monday morning. Come on, somebody. 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:36.320 But God's but God's word is working. I want to 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.800 show you a place right by where I live in Vegas. 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.720 It's called Death Valley. This is the hottest and the 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.520 lowest point in America, and it's the hottest place in 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:48.399 the world. That's where I live. Y, that's my backyard. Actually, 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:49.959 that's a picture of my backyard. I don't know if 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:51.240 you ever want to see where I live, that's where 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.080 I live. And so like right now, it's like a 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:58.800 squillion degrees and I don't know, it's hot and it's brutal. 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:01.960 So that's the death Valley. Every once in a while, 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:03.200 little rain and death Valley. 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:04.360 It's very rare. 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.320 But when it does, death Valley turns into this. I 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:08.919 want I want you to see the next picture. That's 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:17.240 death Valley. That's Death Valley, because what you couldn't see 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:19.920 in picture number one is that there was seed in 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:26.600 the ground. I'm about to start preaching. Are you all ready? 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.199 Can we can we? I say, y' all ready? Can 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:30.200 we turn up a little bit? 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:35.400 That seed's been working, that incorruptible seed. 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:36.760 Has been working. 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:40.280 I don't see it yet, but when the rain of 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.679 the spirit of God touches my life, all of the 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:49.960 setting something begins to work, and I declare, the rain 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.240 is falling on your life. I declare, you will see 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.600 what you've been praying for. You will see what you've 0:19:56.640 --> 0:20:02.080 been believing. Don't give up yet, God, God is working. 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:04.320 Come on, give God a big shot of praise. 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:07.880 If you believe that the Word works. 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:15.200 I haven't seen it yet, but I'm standing on a word. 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.960 My life don't look like right now what God told me, 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:24.960 but I'm standing on a word. God puts something in 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:28.800 my spirit and my circumstances do not agree. But I'm 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.399 standing on a word, and my life might look like 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:34.560 death Valley right now, but it's actually not dead. 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.520 It's just a dormant But I believe the rain's gonna 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:38.879 fall in my life. 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:42.840 Y'all. 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:48.760 Faith will make you look like a genius eventually, but 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:50.360 at first it makes. 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:51.320 You look like a fool. 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:57.720 You get a word, your believe in God, and nothing agrees, 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:05.200 and then one day you see it, and then we 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:13.359 call those people overnight successes. But we didn't see the 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:16.639 years and the years and the years of believing God. 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:20.119 I've just come today to tell somebody, do not quit yet. 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.360 The word is working. 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:26.040 Faith No. 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:29.320 Number two. 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:30.800 Faith doesn't know. 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:37.119 Dang. 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:42.400 I wish that wasn't true, but it's true. Oh, faith knows. 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:43.600 Faith gets a word from God. 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:43.960 Faith. 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:47.840 Faith stands on the authority of scripture. Faith does not 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:54.399 know the details. I know God can and I know 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:55.640 God will, but I don't. 0:21:56.480 --> 0:22:04.119 I don't know how he went without knowing where he 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:04.800 was going. 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:10.600 Can you imagine that moment Abraham comes into the tent, Hey, baby, 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:15.199 pack up, We on the move. God spoke to me. 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:19.520 Sarah goes, Why that's great? Where are we going a rah. 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:25.920 Is that the same God that told you we're gonna 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:26.200 have kids? 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:26.480 Yeah? 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:30.520 Yeah, yeah, yeah him, come on, let's go, come on. 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:36.920 Somebody felt like a fool, felt like where is God? 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:41.840 But faith goes without knowing. I don't need to know. 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:46.120 God knows, and anything God is not telling me right now, 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:48.200 I guess I don't need to know. The Bible said 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:50.760 it like this that the secret things belong to God. 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:53.919 So anything God is keeping a secret from me is 0:22:54.000 --> 0:23:00.560 obviously to protect me. He went without knowing, and we 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:04.320 want God to show us everything. I just want to 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:07.680 submit this to you. If God showed you everything, you. 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:15.720 Wouldn't do anything because it would freak you the freak out. 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:22.480 So thy word is a lamb un to my feet. 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:26.439 This little word lamp right there. 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:29.040 I don't want to bore you, but it's a little 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:30.800 hand lamp that they would hold like this, like a 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:34.400 little candle. They say it was like four to six lumens. 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:37.680 So your iPhone is like one hundred lumens. Two hundred lumens. 0:23:37.720 --> 0:23:42.000 We're talking about step by step, God, show me more. 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:45.360 You can't handle it. I can't even show you five 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:47.280 feet in front of you, let alone five years in 0:23:47.280 --> 0:23:49.719 front of you. So I have to just I have 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:53.879 to give you enough to take a step go left, okay, 0:23:54.119 --> 0:23:57.280 all right, go forward, Okay, take a step back, relax, okay, 0:23:57.600 --> 0:23:58.040 go right. 0:23:58.119 --> 0:23:59.040 Okay. Here we go. 0:24:00.880 --> 0:24:08.000 And it feels slow, but God's actually protecting me. It 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:11.439 feels longer than I expected, but God is actually covering me. 0:24:12.760 --> 0:24:14.879 The Bible would say it like this in King James, 0:24:14.880 --> 0:24:17.560 so it sounds really pretty though the vision taries. 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:21.720