1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: Hey haul, Yes, let's do it again. Let's do it, 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: let's run it back. I can't wait. Elevation Nights. It's 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,319 Speaker 1: gonna be amazing. Been to the East coast, West coast, 4 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:12,319 Speaker 1: YEP Now I think we need to come to Austin, Texas. Yes, 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. About Minneapolis, Yes, Kansas City, Missouri, Denver, Colorado, 6 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: Saint Louis, Missouri, for Wayne, Indiana, Toronto, Ontario. We got 7 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: to see you there April eighteenth, April eighteen through twenty seven. 8 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: It's gonna be amazing. Yeah, we coordinated that awesome. But 9 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: make sure you go get your tickets right now. Elevation 10 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:38,919 Speaker 1: Nights dot com. These nights are seriously like the best, 11 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: the best. Can't explain it. I wouldn't keep doing it 12 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: if it wasn't amazing. You have to experience it. It'll 13 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 1: be me you Elevation Worship and we'll see at Elevation Nights. 14 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: Elevation Nights dot Com. Get your tickets today, let me 15 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: know if you're going to be there. I want you 16 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: to welcome our EPAM around the world right now, all 17 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: over the world, all over the world. I just stuck 18 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 1: in that melody all day. Stop it stop it because 19 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 1: I'm ready to preach. Oh, y'all aren't ready to listen, 20 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: but I'm ready to preach. I y'all be seated. We're 21 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: going to go right into the word. Can I pick 22 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: up where I left off last week? Do the new you? 23 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: Resist the temptation to go forward into your future on 24 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:46,320 Speaker 1: the old template. Do the new you. It's a little 25 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: series that I'm doing here in the first month of 26 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: the year, and I'll go as long as God leads me. 27 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 1: But I committed to him to at least do it 28 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 1: for this first month because I think this cultural phrase 29 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 1: that we have comes from the pit of hell. Do 30 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: you I mean cool? Yeah, be unique? That's great. However, 31 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: if the you that you are doing is not the 32 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: you that God wants to use, you've got to grow. Amen. Oh, 33 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: this is going to go good. This is going to 34 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: go good today. This word that God gave me last week, 35 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: and I do want to start with where I ended 36 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: last week. Go to Ephesians chapter four briefly as I 37 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 1: read you this scripture, and then kind of remind you. 38 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 1: I don't often like to say this is a review 39 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: because then it'll make you feel like you're jumping into 40 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 1: the middle of a season, and that's not the case, 41 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: especially if you're here for the first time. How many 42 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: of you are in church today really needing God to 43 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: give you some clarity in your life? And then how 44 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: many of you believe put it in the chat as well? 45 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: How many of you believe that that can only come 46 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: from Jesus clarity. Now, we can figure out other things 47 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: other ways, but when it comes to spiritual matters, we 48 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,399 Speaker 1: need Jesus. And that's what Ephesians four is saying, all right, 49 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 1: in this epistle, epistle is not a wife of an apostle. 50 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: It's a letter breaking out all my preacher humor for 51 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 1: the first of the year. Look at verse twenty Ephesians 52 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: Chapter four, Verse twenty. I love y'all. Y'all are a 53 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: little slow to say it back, and I love you 54 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 1: enough to tell you the truth. And that's what we're 55 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 1: going to do today. This message is going to be 56 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: a grown up adult message, all right. Verse twenty. That, however, 57 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: is not the way of life you learned when you 58 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: heard about Christ, and we're taught in Him in accordance 59 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: with the truth that is in Jesus. Well, now that 60 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: messes up my other least favorite cultural saying, live your truth. 61 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: And Paul just said that I need to learn a 62 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: new truth. And the truth that is new is not 63 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: the truth that is new at all. It might be 64 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: new to you, but the truth is in Jesus, not 65 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: in me. I don't trust my own judgment enough to 66 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: figure out what truth is. There was a time in 67 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: my life when I thought there was a tooth fairy 68 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: that brought me money for my teeth. That's how stupid 69 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,239 Speaker 1: I was. So I figured there's probably something i'm still 70 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: that stupid about today that I haven't figured out that 71 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 1: is stupid yet. And baby truth doesn't fall out like 72 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: a baby tooth, so it has to be uprooted. Oh yeah, yeah, 73 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:35,599 Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. God is good. God 74 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 1: is good. God is good. We got to yank it out. 75 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: But he said the way of life. Look verse twenty two. 76 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: This is really really important. You were taught with regard 77 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 1: to your former way of life, baby Truth, to put 78 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: off your old self, which is being shout the next word, corrupted, 79 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:06,479 Speaker 1: corrupt by its deceitful desires, to be made new in 80 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: the attitude of your minds, and to put on the 81 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 1: new self created to be like God in righteousness or 82 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: true righteousness and holiness. And so that's the contrast we 83 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: focused on last week. Corrupted verse twenty two. Put it 84 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: up again, please corrupted, and then verse twenty four created, 85 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: and write them both down if you want to corrupted 86 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: and created. And I'm not saying that there are two yous, 87 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: but I am saying that, according to the scriptural revelation 88 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:46,039 Speaker 1: here from Paul, as well as my own personal experience, 89 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: there is a choosing every day of my life and 90 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: your life about which one of us is going to 91 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: show up for any given situation. And once you realize 92 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: the power that choice, you don't feel so stuck anymore. 93 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 1: And that is a wonderful thing. I get sick of 94 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 1: myself sometimes and I begin to believe that this is 95 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: just the way I am, and then somebody comes along 96 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:18,359 Speaker 1: and says, just do you, And I'm like, great past 97 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:22,479 Speaker 1: the cheese fries. I went out to Gaston County to 98 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 1: watch Graham wrestle yesterday. Those cheese fries look good, and 99 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: there were two mes. And my taste buds know exactly 100 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: about those cheese fries, and my waistline knows what my 101 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: taste buds are trying to make me forget in that 102 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: moment where this leads if I do it long enough. 103 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: So I didn't eat the fries. Cheer me on, yeah, Pastor. 104 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,039 Speaker 1: But sometimes I don't do as good of a job 105 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: resisting the fear as I did resisting the fries. Sometimes 106 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: I don't do as good a job about what comes 107 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: out of my mouth as what goes in. Say what 108 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 1: I want to say, do what I want to do. 109 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: And I'm just doing you, and you do you, and 110 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,039 Speaker 1: I'll do me, and together we'll get divorced in seven years, 111 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: just doing each other. This is what Paul is talking 112 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: about to the church at Ephesus, and to the Church 113 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 1: at Valentine, and to the church at University City, into 114 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: the church in Nepal, and into the church in the UK, 115 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: and into the Church of your heart. When he says, 116 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 1: you were taught the truth in Jesus, and so the 117 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: Lord gave me this and it really touched me that 118 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: I need someone to teach me Jesus. He says, you 119 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: were taught a way of life in Jesus. And I 120 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: don't know who taught you about Jesus or who taught 121 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: Jesus to you, but you ought to thank God for them, 122 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: and you ought to thank them, whether that's my mom, 123 00:07:57,240 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: thank you, whether that's pastor Mickey. He will never ask 124 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: me an offering for ministry that I won't help him 125 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: build it. And so even if the church had twenty dollars, 126 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: if he needed five, if he needed ten, I'd have 127 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: to pray in tongues about it. But I will always 128 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: support him because he taught me Jesus, and I'm really 129 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: grateful that he did. And he wasn't the first one. 130 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: I mean, at the Methodist church where I grew up, 131 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: there were Sunday school teachers who taught me Jesus, and 132 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: I appreciate them so much. And you probably can think 133 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: of somebody right now who taught you Jesus or who 134 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 1: brought you to church so that you could learn Jesus, 135 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 1: and you ought to thank God for them. And know 136 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: this is not a selfish and motivated part of my sermon, 137 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: because I'm the one who teaches the Bible. I'm talking 138 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: about those personal people who help lead you to Jesus. 139 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:42,559 Speaker 1: Is amazing, because I need somebody to teach me Jesus 140 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 1: because the world is screaming everything else, So to teach 141 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: me Jesus a way of life that is outside of 142 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 1: this crazy, corrupt, crooked culture, this siloed culture, this panic 143 00:08:54,760 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: attacks society, this judgmental culture, this cancel culture, this hypocritical cure, 144 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: this materialistic culture, this jacked up it might burn down quick. 145 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 1: Let's hurry up and praise God while we've still got 146 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: a planet culture. I need somebody to teach me Jesus. 147 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: But I need Jesus to teach me me because in 148 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,959 Speaker 1: all the things that I've learned about him, there's a 149 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: feeling I get some time that I haven't really met 150 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: me yet, that I haven't quite grown into the me 151 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: that I've seen glimpses of. I think I can be 152 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: more free than I am. I think I can be 153 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 1: more patient than I am. I think I can be 154 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 1: more intentional than I am. I think I can be 155 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 1: a little bit less of a control freak. Why did 156 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: you say yes so loud to that you know me? 157 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,679 Speaker 1: We must have grown up together. Takes one to know one, 158 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,439 Speaker 1: Oh man. The control thing is one of those dumb 159 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: things that you believe that you have. You have no control, 160 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: So really, a control freak is an idiot. And where 161 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:21,959 Speaker 1: we're coming at from the scripture. He says, you were 162 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 1: taught the truth in Jesus, the truth about what the rapture. Sure, 163 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 1: but nobody knows the day or the hour. That's not 164 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 1: something we can figure out. I mean, I can teach 165 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 1: you some charts and all that, that'd be awesome. I 166 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:39,840 Speaker 1: can teach you about prayer, and I will tell you 167 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 1: one thing about prayer real quick as we go, is 168 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: that prayer is your way to get out of that 169 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: default mode that you wake up in in the morning. 170 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 1: Just like you brush your teeth, Just like we hope 171 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 1: you brush your teeth and we admonish you to brush 172 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 1: your teeth. Prayer is that way that you get in 173 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 1: contact with God. I'm talking about God. So any view 174 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:13,840 Speaker 1: of me that doesn't start with God is doomed to 175 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: get stuck in an infinite loop of stupid because the 176 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 1: truth is in Jesus. And that's why I don't want 177 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 1: you just buying into everything that you hear out there. 178 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: Live your truth. What if your truth is a loop 179 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: of doom? What if God, who stands outside of the 180 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: loop of time and comes from a realm called eternity, 181 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: knows you in a way that if you knew you 182 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: like he knew you, you would stop doing self destructive things. 183 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:50,559 Speaker 1: You would stop running to people who are limited, trying 184 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: to get an ocean out of a thimble sized personality 185 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: and thinking something's wrong with you. Help me preach, y'all. 186 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 1: There was somebody who wanted your seat today to use it. 187 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 1: I love the Lord because he knows me. And last 188 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 1: week I was showing you from Ephesians four twenty two. 189 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: I hope this is not too esoteric, but it really 190 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 1: helped me that the new you is not something in 191 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 1: the future. When we talk about new Year, new You, 192 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 1: we all roll our eyes collectively because knew you and 193 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 1: new Year. Yeah, they both start with why. But I've 194 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: done this before, so move on with that all that stuff. 195 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,199 Speaker 1: I'm just out here surviving. I'm just doing me. I'm 196 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: just getting by. And as long as we think of 197 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 1: who we can be in Christ as some future event 198 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:46,440 Speaker 1: contingent on our human abilities, we will always be limited 199 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 1: to our moods, our emotions, and our background. Because I 200 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 1: need somebody to teach me Jesus. But I need Jesus 201 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 1: to teach me me. Here's why. When I talk about 202 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,560 Speaker 1: you changing, you, think of that in terms of a 203 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: destination at a later date. God doesn't think that way. 204 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: Here's what I showed last week that a lot of 205 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 1: people reached out to me and said, oh, I love that. 206 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: So in case you missed it, when I say the 207 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 1: new you, I'm not only talking about you that is 208 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 1: going to be for your future. I'm talking about the 209 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 1: youth that God is already very familiar with. And I 210 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: take this not from my own mind, but from Jeremiah 211 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: one verse five. Do y'all know this scripture. This is 212 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:45,439 Speaker 1: a top ten scripture where the Lord says to Jeremiah, 213 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: I've got a calling for you. I've got an assignment 214 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 1: for you. You've never done it before. You don't even 215 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:52,559 Speaker 1: see yourself in this way. You don't imagine that you 216 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:54,959 Speaker 1: have the capacity to do it. I'm going to put 217 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 1: you as a prophet to the nations. And Jeremiah is 218 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: about to give God some excuses. But watch what God 219 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 1: said to Jeremiah before the excuses begin. He said, before 220 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 1: I formed you in the womb, I knew you now 221 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 1: for you, the new is out here in the future, 222 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: when I get married, when my kids get out of 223 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: the house, when we're able to get pregnant, when the 224 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 1: economy bounces back when I get out of this job, 225 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: when they leave this job and I stay when when 226 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: this happens, I will be It's out there. That's one 227 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: way to look at it. You can find plenty of 228 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 1: people on Instagram that will preach that to you. That 229 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 1: you know, get on your grind and buy my course 230 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: and then the future you will get girls. The future 231 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: you will have washboard ass a superior intellect and be 232 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 1: able to understand Jordan Peterson perfectly. The future you is 233 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: going to be amazing. And that's what we normally hear, right, 234 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: is all this height that we pass off as hope. 235 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, I'm gonna do a new this year, 236 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: and then after three weeks we can't. But God does 237 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: it different. Watch this. Jeremiah is insecure. Jeremiah is inexperienced. 238 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 1: Jeremiah is surprised. If you're any of those three things, 239 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 1: this is for you, touch somebody say this is for you, 240 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: This is for you. Now. God doesn't tell Jeremiah, no, 241 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 1: You're going to be something in the future that I'm 242 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: telling you about right now if you just do it 243 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 1: long enough. He says this, before I formed you in 244 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: the womb, I knew you so take that knew you 245 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: and put a key on the top of it. Not 246 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 1: just the new you that people haven't seen yet, that 247 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: you haven't even met yet, not just to you that 248 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 1: you imagine when you get a real good church high 249 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 1: a real good church buzz, where's off about twelve minutes 250 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 1: after you sit in traffic in a church parking lot 251 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: And instead of seeing this as I'm going forward towards 252 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: something that I'm really not seeing how God says it, 253 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: because what's in the future to you is what's familiar 254 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: to God. Well, what's in the future you call it new. Okay, 255 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: That's who I'm gonna be one day when and God's like, 256 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 1: that's who you already are. That's who you always were, 257 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: That's what I created you to be before SID corrupted 258 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: what I created. Oh God, God got this thing started 259 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: in my life. God set this thing in motion in 260 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,960 Speaker 1: my life. God is the one who set me in families. 261 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: God is the one who set me in time. God 262 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: is the one who set me in a generation. And 263 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 1: I didn't get to say it to the staff Wednesday 264 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: because I forgot, but I wanted to tell you He 265 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 1: is also the lord of your limitations, just as God 266 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 1: is the God of my potential. He is the lord 267 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 1: of my limitations. It is true that we cannot put 268 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:32,199 Speaker 1: in what God left out. It is also true that 269 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 1: most of us have no clue what God has put 270 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: in the new you, the one God talks with, the 271 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: one that makes you want to Sometimes you just kind 272 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: of go. I want to change some things for the better, 273 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 1: and I think I can. I want some relationships that 274 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:54,399 Speaker 1: encourage me this year, and I think I have the 275 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:57,119 Speaker 1: right to ask God for that. Yeah. I want to 276 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: get around some people this year who don't just describe 277 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: bones on the valley floor all the time. I want 278 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 1: to get around some people this year that speak breath 279 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: into the bones and know how to call out something 280 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:18,399 Speaker 1: that's on the inside of me. That me is the 281 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 1: true you, it's the new you. Well that's what we 282 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: said last week. This week I got a title, and 283 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: I'm almost done preaching. Kind of maybe we'll see called. 284 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:46,440 Speaker 1: I didn't get this title. I got it from the scripture, 285 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:51,880 Speaker 1: but I also got it from a cereal box where 286 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,160 Speaker 1: you may remember this. If you're a child of the nineties, 287 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: you definitely remember this. If you remember that Jeremy spoke 288 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:02,120 Speaker 1: in class today, you definitely remember this. If you remember 289 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:06,480 Speaker 1: Zach Morris's phone and Kelly Kopowski's temptation as a young 290 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 1: man for you to lust and she was the first 291 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:11,639 Speaker 1: girl that you ever fell in love with, was Kelly Kapowski, 292 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 1: you will definitely recognize this. I'll start it, you finish it, 293 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:24,439 Speaker 1: silly rabbit. I want to preach for fifteen minutes on 294 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:33,959 Speaker 1: tricks are for kids, because there is no shortcut to this. 295 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 1: There is no magical worship button you're gonna press this 296 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 1: morning that's gonna take the wind in the waves away 297 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 1: in your life this week. That's how immature people think. 298 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: One of my buddies texted and said, thank you for 299 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 1: sharing that immaturity leads to instability because I needed to 300 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:58,439 Speaker 1: hear that because it is in my selfishness and my 301 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:02,120 Speaker 1: own desires. That's what Paul uses that phrase in the scripture. 302 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:07,119 Speaker 1: He says deceitful desires. I almost called the message that, 303 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 1: but I thought it would sound too depressing. Today I 304 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:15,159 Speaker 1: want to talk about deceitful desires. I thought, though, we 305 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 1: need to talk about these deceitful desires for a moment, 306 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 1: because if the me that God sees is not the 307 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 1: me that I'm stuck in right now? Then what's happening 308 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: in the darkness. He describes to the Ephesian Church that 309 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: we are children of the light, but he also says 310 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 1: that the darkness keeps the gentiles from living the ways 311 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,120 Speaker 1: of God, and when we copy the patterns of the gentiles, 312 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: we are forfeiting the promise of God. Do you understand 313 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 1: what I'm saying? So every time you're scrolling through stuff, 314 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,159 Speaker 1: trying to figure out stuff of what other people are doing, 315 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:48,199 Speaker 1: you are forfeiting the self that God knows in the 316 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,600 Speaker 1: spirit and copying a pattern of the flesh that puts 317 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:57,679 Speaker 1: you in that doom loop of stupid. So now we 318 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 1: have to deal with or desires, which are real. A 319 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 1: lot of Christian teaching will almost put faith as the 320 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: opposite of feelings. You know, we don't walk by feelings. 321 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,160 Speaker 1: We walk by faith. Bible doesn't say that. It says 322 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:18,679 Speaker 1: we walk by faith, not by sight. So we have 323 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,919 Speaker 1: feelings like even how would you know that there was 324 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 1: faith if you felt nothing. That's the stupidest thing in 325 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: the world. Preach is good. We don't walk by feelings, 326 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 1: we walk by faith. But feelings have a place even 327 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: in faith. You know, how do I know what God 328 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 1: wants me to preach, Well, a certain amount of me 329 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: has to feel I'm not saying that that that's solely 330 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,879 Speaker 1: dependent on It has to be true. It has to 331 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,359 Speaker 1: be from God's word. But there's a lot of stuff 332 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,360 Speaker 1: in God's word. How do I know this is what 333 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,879 Speaker 1: God wants me to preach for now? Well, there's a 334 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 1: certain amount of that. I just have to know it 335 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 1: on the inside, because God knows I'm not going to 336 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:01,439 Speaker 1: be one of these preachers that just reads whatever is 337 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: on the headlines of the news and comes in the 338 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 1: pulpit and just gives you another dose of the same 339 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,919 Speaker 1: crap that's already making you nauseous in the pulpit. You 340 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: don't come here for that. So I'm not going to 341 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:16,120 Speaker 1: do that. I'm not up here to do that. And yet, 342 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 1: what is the word that God has given us for 343 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 1: this moment, for this year? What is the word that 344 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 1: God has given your life for this point in time? 345 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 1: What is it? How do you know if God's calling 346 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:27,399 Speaker 1: you to go here or there? How you going to 347 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,120 Speaker 1: know if God's calling you to do this or that? 348 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,120 Speaker 1: How do you even know what you're good at? I mean, 349 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 1: part of this has to be feelings right, they have 350 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: their place. But now here is how the enemy pickpockets you. 351 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 1: Here is how the devil gets you to give up. 352 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 1: Watch this the new self that God knows, the you 353 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 1: that you kind of suspect us. There, the you that 354 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,160 Speaker 1: you can be for about three days at a time, 355 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: and then you give in. How does he get you 356 00:22:56,119 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: to give up on that? So easily? Deception? And in 357 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:12,879 Speaker 1: order to deceive, you have to diminish. Quick story I 358 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: mentioned my mom taught me about Jesus. She also confronted 359 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: this person one time for me and I never will forget. 360 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 1: Being nine years old going to the trading card shop 361 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 1: in Monk's Corner at the railroad track, right over the 362 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 1: railroad track. I bought a pack of basketball cards. I 363 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 1: didn't know anything about basketball cards. This is my first 364 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: pack of basketball cards. I had baseball cards. And I 365 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: open it and there's a Michael Jordan card in the pack. 366 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: The guy's watching me. I'm in there by myself. She's 367 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 1: waiting in the car, and he goes, hey, I'll give 368 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:49,160 Speaker 1: you a whole other pack for that one car. I'm 369 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:55,359 Speaker 1: like a whole pack for a car. Sure, mister. They 370 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,399 Speaker 1: called him mister so like the Andy Griffiths show. In 371 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 1: here you were mister gee Whiz Gollie hold back for 372 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 1: a single card? Wow? Because I'm just a kid, just 373 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: a kid. So I opened the next pack. I don't 374 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 1: recognize any names I knew. Michael Jordan went out to 375 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 1: the car. My mom said, how'd it go? I said, 376 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: I got two packs? She said, how'd you get two? 377 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,239 Speaker 1: And gave money from one? I said, you never believe it. 378 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: He gave me a whole other pack for one card. Mom, 379 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: she said what was the card? Because she knew this 380 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:38,879 Speaker 1: man has a book. He knows how much that card 381 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:47,439 Speaker 1: was worth. And he's grown and my kid doesn't know 382 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:54,639 Speaker 1: the value of a car, so so so, so she said, 383 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: what was the card? I said, Michael Jordan. She said, 384 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 1: a Michael Ordon car. How much was it worth? I said, 385 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,440 Speaker 1: I don't know what it was worth, But I got 386 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: a whole pack. My mom went back in that store 387 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 1: with my Michael Jordan car and the third pack because 388 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 1: she knew what was it up? Foot? Do you have 389 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 1: a book? Have you read it? Hawn met Jesus? Did 390 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 1: you know he's the perfect slockless laugh of God? Did 391 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: you know they marched it up a hill to Calfrey, 392 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 1: and they died for you, and bled for you, and 393 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 1: suffered for you, and put the stripe for you, and 394 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 1: put the mocking for you. And he stretched his arms 395 00:25:51,280 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: and said, you're worth this once. Did you know that 396 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 1: when he left to go to heaven, he sent his spirit, 397 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: and that spirit lives in you. No, we don't know that. 398 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,120 Speaker 1: We don't know that. We're so busy copy in other 399 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 1: people's style that we don't even know the spirit that 400 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:18,200 Speaker 1: came from God because we got so much stuff from culture. 401 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, y'all. I'm Baptist in my heart. I went 402 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 1: to a Baptist school. Comes out sometimes I'm sick of this. 403 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,199 Speaker 1: They're like walking up in the Devil's card shop and 404 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 1: helping you get your peace back, your toy back, your 405 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 1: dream back, your sweet self back, your creative self back. 406 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 1: I got the book. I looked you up. In the book. 407 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: I found out that you are precious in the sight 408 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: of God. I found out that you are more than 409 00:26:54,280 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 1: a conqueror. I looked you up in the book. You 410 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 1: don't know me, pastor neither to you. That's what I'm 411 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 1: trying to introduce you to. Jesus. So Jesus can introduce 412 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 1: you to you the new you knew with a K 413 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:26,160 Speaker 1: or new with the N both. That's what I want 414 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 1: you to get this yere, and I will preach through 415 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:34,120 Speaker 1: every battery they sell in radio shack until you get this. 416 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,200 Speaker 1: Do they still have radio shack? I need to update 417 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 1: the reference? All right? What order money Amazon? It'll be fine, 418 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 1: We'll get the batteries. Y'all get distracted by the dumbest stuff. 419 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 1: How about that when you think of the enemy's tricks 420 00:27:56,080 --> 00:28:00,160 Speaker 1: in God's truth, what comes to your mind in your life? 421 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: The first step if we're going to do the new 422 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 1: spell it out. Notice evaluate and then the w's are 423 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:20,399 Speaker 1: not quite as good. But walk in okay, notice evaluate 424 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:24,199 Speaker 1: walking psychology for all of you who are too stubborn 425 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 1: to go to therapy. You can't deal with feelings until 426 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 1: you know they're there. So now one habit I've incorporated 427 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 1: my life the last five years. Instead of going I'm scared, 428 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 1: I try to back up and go I'm having a 429 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 1: feeling of fear, because if I say I am scared, 430 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 1: that becomes an identity. I'm feeling fear, that's an event. 431 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 1: The truth is in Jesus. Jesus isn't scare Jesus is 432 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 1: in me? So I'm feeling fear. But that's the old thing. 433 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 1: That's the old thing. So I notice it. I evaluate 434 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 1: it like how I mean you would you would probably, 435 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: I would think, spend time shopping for a pair of shoes. 436 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 1: If you're gonna spend money on them, you probably would 437 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 1: spend time figuring out do they fit? And we will 438 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 1: spend more time evaluating what we put on our feet 439 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:39,960 Speaker 1: than what we put in our mind, our heart, who 440 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 1: we let in our phone. So is this from God? 441 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 1: Is this what God gave me? Or is this a trick? Now? 442 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 1: How you know if it's a trick, Well, you got 443 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 1: to have the book value and then you have to 444 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 1: well you have to actually spend time. You have to 445 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: actually spend time around people who love God. They had 446 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,120 Speaker 1: a thousand E Group leaders. I think that online and 447 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 1: physical that they encouraged this week. Let's thank God for 448 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:14,800 Speaker 1: our E Group leaders. Amazing Holly came out and preached, 449 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,560 Speaker 1: we've just been going this week. Man, we've been going. 450 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,479 Speaker 1: We're getting ready. We're getting ready. I don't even know 451 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 1: what it is that God wants to do, but I 452 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 1: figure since they're saying the world is going to fall apart. 453 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 1: A falling apart world needs a built up church, and 454 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,160 Speaker 1: I want to be that. I want to be that 455 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: church ready for all over the world. Praise the Lord, 456 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. I'm gonna do it with whoever God 457 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 1: gives me around me to do it. We're gonna build 458 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,800 Speaker 1: something significant for this season of our life in Jesus' name. 459 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 1: And then, you know, if you think about when somebody 460 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:57,880 Speaker 1: uses a counterfeit ticket, because Elijah shops all the time 461 00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 1: for these shoes, I'm like, how do you know if 462 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 1: they're real or not? If you get it off this 463 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 1: side or that side, how is it all verified? And 464 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,720 Speaker 1: all of that. And when when me and my father 465 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 1: in law and my brother in law Jody, they all 466 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,400 Speaker 1: go to our Greenville campus. Holly's family is all at 467 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 1: Elevation in Greenville. They better all be there right now, 468 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 1: because embarrassing if they're not. We went to a New 469 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,080 Speaker 1: York Knicks game and we want We were just spur 470 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 1: of the moment wanting to go. This is when I 471 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 1: was dating Holly and her dad. You have to know 472 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 1: this guy, he's real. He's kind of like he's a 473 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:31,479 Speaker 1: bull in the China shop. So I said, how how 474 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,920 Speaker 1: are we going to get tickets? And we and he said, well, 475 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 1: they're too expensive. We'll just buy them off a scalper. 476 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 1: Ain't that dangerous? It's like no, no no, no, not, you 477 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: know what you're doing. So we buy these tickets and 478 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 1: we're walking up and it's kind of dark, and so 479 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 1: we're walking up to the game and I'm like, merle, 480 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,120 Speaker 1: these tickets don't look are they supposed to be printed 481 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:56,040 Speaker 1: diagonal on? There? Doesn't nicks have a CEA in it somewhere. 482 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,080 Speaker 1: It wasn't that bad, but look kind of fake. We 483 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 1: get to the thing and we hand him to the 484 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 1: guy and he laughs. He doesn't hardly even look. He 485 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 1: laughs he and he goes, guy, you got ripped off. Man, 486 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 1: Go do what you gotta do at the box office 487 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 1: or go back to the hotel. This in real. And 488 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,440 Speaker 1: my father in law goes, how do you know you 489 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 1: didn't even hardly look at that pal And he goes, 490 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 1: he goes, this is what I do all day when 491 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 1: you've handled as many real ones as I have. I 492 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 1: saw the fake ticket in your eyes. You walk like 493 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,600 Speaker 1: you have a fake ticket, You country bumpkin, This is 494 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: New York City. Anyway, cannot be myself in the pulpit. 495 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: Sometimes it feels good, do you, pastor? I promise I'll 496 00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 1: do the holy, the good one, the anointed one. I 497 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,040 Speaker 1: won't do the other one. But now we decide what 498 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: to walk in. And so when he says deceitful desires, 499 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 1: when Paul says deceitful desires, the key is for you 500 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 1: to be handling the real thing enough that your feelings 501 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:24,360 Speaker 1: begin to align with your faith. And when they don't, 502 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:28,080 Speaker 1: you notice it and you bring it back. Feelings have 503 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:32,560 Speaker 1: their place. Feelings have their place. How many of you 504 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 1: agree with me. Feelings have their place. But it's not 505 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 1: on the throne. Jesus sits there, The book sits there. 506 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 1: The spirit of God is the seat of my decisions, 507 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:01,800 Speaker 1: not what I feel, because if I do, I'll end 508 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:08,800 Speaker 1: up with a pack of crap and trade the goat. 509 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:14,839 Speaker 1: So if the enemy is diminishing it, he's deceiving you, Well, 510 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,400 Speaker 1: you're not that gifted. And I think it comes in 511 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 1: this way like, well you don't really matter that much. 512 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,799 Speaker 1: This doesn't really matter that much. I mean, there's one 513 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:29,080 Speaker 1: time you get who cares. That's how deceitful desires were. 514 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,920 Speaker 1: The desire isn't bad. The way the enemy tries to 515 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 1: get you to fulfill it is. That's what a deceitful 516 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:43,080 Speaker 1: desire is. Whether it's a sexual desire, whether it's a 517 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:47,880 Speaker 1: financial desire, whether it's a desire for success. You can't 518 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:52,000 Speaker 1: attack the desire and demonize the desire. The first question 519 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,280 Speaker 1: Jesus asked in the New Testament was what do you want? 520 00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,239 Speaker 1: So apparently desires are not something to be bypassed in 521 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:04,319 Speaker 1: our life. The deceit is not in the desire. The 522 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:06,520 Speaker 1: deceit is what the enemy tries to get you to 523 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:10,279 Speaker 1: do to get the desire. That's where the deceit is. 524 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,480 Speaker 1: Oh no, you just settle for that, You just scavenged 525 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 1: for that. All you're ever gonna be is that. All 526 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,279 Speaker 1: you're ever gonna get is that. All you really can 527 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,239 Speaker 1: do is that all you ever have done, is that 528 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:24,479 Speaker 1: all you ever have been is that you're trash. That's 529 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:28,960 Speaker 1: why they walked out. You're trash. That's why it hasn't 530 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:33,640 Speaker 1: happened yet. You're stupid. That's why you haven't built it yet. 531 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,000 Speaker 1: You're an idiot. That's why all your friends make that 532 00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:47,480 Speaker 1: you make this. You sup. But if you are growing 533 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:55,279 Speaker 1: in Christ. The more you grow in him, you get 534 00:35:55,320 --> 00:36:02,560 Speaker 1: the ability from the inside to notice it, evaluated and 535 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:06,600 Speaker 1: look him right in his eyes and say, silly devil, 536 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:20,279 Speaker 1: tricks you should have you should have tried this on 537 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:25,160 Speaker 1: me before I got back to church this year because 538 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:32,480 Speaker 1: I'm growing this year. Tricks are for kids, but I 539 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:37,680 Speaker 1: am a new creation. Hey, Christ, I did the bom 540 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:51,040 Speaker 1: silly devil. That's for kids. That's kids. There's child's play. 541 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,160 Speaker 1: That's how I thought when I didn't know God. That's 542 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,080 Speaker 1: how I spoke when I didn't know God. That's how 543 00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,000 Speaker 1: I came running when I didn't have a liberator named 544 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,680 Speaker 1: sees Us. That's how I struggled in my sin before 545 00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:08,839 Speaker 1: I had his name to call on. I got help. 546 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:13,600 Speaker 1: Now I got a new self and a new self. 547 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,400 Speaker 1: And the me that God saw an eternity is the 548 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,600 Speaker 1: me that I'm say in the future, and I'm throwing 549 00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,080 Speaker 1: into it. Hey, I'm throwing into it. Hey, I'm gonna 550 00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:32,319 Speaker 1: be it because I have it. Yes, Lord, let somebody says, 551 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:37,040 Speaker 1: silly rabbit, trying to eat kid's food, trying to do 552 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,200 Speaker 1: kids stuff, trying to get people to notice you. What 553 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,520 Speaker 1: are you fifth grade saying I can't change. What is 554 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,280 Speaker 1: this seventh grade? Somebody wrote in your notebook, never changed, 555 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,440 Speaker 1: and you took their advice and raise hell over the summer. 556 00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:53,319 Speaker 1: And here you are still hard, pitching a fin over 557 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,400 Speaker 1: what you didn't get when God has skinned you the 558 00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:00,360 Speaker 1: riches of Christ and the spirit of God and that 559 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,800 Speaker 1: came down. I want to say a pinacoff this ferdid 560 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:16,160 Speaker 1: these your pelly. I'm growing now. I'm growing out of this. 561 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,600 Speaker 1: Somebody say, I'm growing out of this. I'm growing out 562 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,600 Speaker 1: of this. I'm growing out of this. This addiction will 563 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,040 Speaker 1: not be able to hold me another ten years. I'm 564 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,560 Speaker 1: growing out of this. It might take me some time, 565 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,400 Speaker 1: it might take me some tears, it might take me 566 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,799 Speaker 1: some tough decisions, but I'm growing out of this. I 567 00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:39,280 Speaker 1: will not stay in this prison, not one more dang 568 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:54,640 Speaker 1: put it forward. Somebody should have told Esau the stew 569 00:38:54,800 --> 00:39:00,439 Speaker 1: is not that good. Do y'all know about Jacob and Esau? 570 00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:05,280 Speaker 1: You do you know about Jacob the god of Jacob. 571 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,320 Speaker 1: It wasn't supposed to be the god of Abraham, Isaac 572 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,680 Speaker 1: and Jacob. It was supposed to be the god of Abraham, 573 00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:17,200 Speaker 1: Isaac and Esau. He was the oldest brother. He had 574 00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,719 Speaker 1: the right to the inheritance, just like you have an 575 00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:23,360 Speaker 1: inheritance in Christ. What is it every spiritual blessing in 576 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:27,600 Speaker 1: heavenly places, reconciliation with God, the ability to be at 577 00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,319 Speaker 1: peace with Him and others, the love of God she'd 578 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,640 Speaker 1: have brought into hearts through the holy spheres. You have that. 579 00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,840 Speaker 1: So why do we not sing I'm calling on the 580 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:44,400 Speaker 1: God of e Sau apart from the fact that it 581 00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,560 Speaker 1: doesn't rhyme with generations, which is the next line in 582 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:59,839 Speaker 1: U saw why because he got hungry because he saw 583 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:14,440 Speaker 1: bull of Was it cereal or stu stu stu? Jacob 584 00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:19,799 Speaker 1: was cooking stew. And it's interesting because all the way 585 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:24,080 Speaker 1: from Rebecca's womb they've been wrestling each other. Jacob's name 586 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:32,080 Speaker 1: means deceiver, trickster exactly exactly. And the funniest book in 587 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:33,600 Speaker 1: the Bible if you know how to look for it. 588 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:36,600 Speaker 1: And if the Bible is boring to you, you're boring. 589 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:43,080 Speaker 1: The Bible's not God is interesting, you're basic because that's 590 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,200 Speaker 1: the funniest book. What is the one I gave you? 591 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,680 Speaker 1: In Genesis twenty five where it said about the nations 592 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,840 Speaker 1: wrestling in her womb, the Lord said the nations are 593 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:55,400 Speaker 1: wrestling in your womb. Two nations, two nature's to you 594 00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:59,600 Speaker 1: to use, wrestling in the womb of what God is 595 00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,520 Speaker 1: doing in your life. The old one that was put 596 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,400 Speaker 1: on that is being corrupted, the new one that's the 597 00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,520 Speaker 1: real one that was created in the image of God, 598 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,799 Speaker 1: that he sent his son to bring you back to. 599 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,240 Speaker 1: And he said, two nations are in you, two people's. 600 00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,760 Speaker 1: One will be stronger than the other, the other will older, 601 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:24,160 Speaker 1: will serve the younger, give me some more. When the 602 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:25,959 Speaker 1: time came Verd to give birth. There are twin boys 603 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,360 Speaker 1: in a womb right now. There are twins in the 604 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:36,160 Speaker 1: womb of your mind, your heart, your desires. I'm not 605 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,160 Speaker 1: preaching this in an allegorical way. It's said in Anythesians. 606 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:43,920 Speaker 1: I'm illustrating it. I'm illustrating it to you. That's exactly 607 00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:46,239 Speaker 1: what Paul said. And I want you to notice. This 608 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:47,799 Speaker 1: might be the best part of my sermon. And I 609 00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:49,839 Speaker 1: saved it too late, so you probably won't even hear it. 610 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,279 Speaker 1: But it didn't say make sure you don't take off 611 00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,279 Speaker 1: the new nature and put the old one back on. 612 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:04,760 Speaker 1: The old one was the first one that is mentioned, 613 00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:11,560 Speaker 1: which means that your natural state of mind is not 614 00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:15,960 Speaker 1: your true nature. In order to put on what God 615 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:17,640 Speaker 1: gave you, you you have to take off what he didn't 616 00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:24,000 Speaker 1: and stop accepting any old attitude as being you, because 617 00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:26,640 Speaker 1: that's not you. Oh I notice it. There I am 618 00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:30,640 Speaker 1: again blaming people. I notice it. There I am again catastrophizing. 619 00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:32,880 Speaker 1: I notice it. There I am again, But I'm not it. 620 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:40,480 Speaker 1: I notice it, but I'm not it because I have 621 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,040 Speaker 1: learned the truth in Jesus in a new way of life. 622 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:47,600 Speaker 1: So I'm taking that off and putting this on. I'm 623 00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:50,560 Speaker 1: growing out of that old one, and I'm growing into 624 00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:55,319 Speaker 1: my new one. The future me is God's familiar men. 625 00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,560 Speaker 1: That's what I'm becoming. And since my life had its 626 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,879 Speaker 1: origins in the mind and heart of God, nothing can 627 00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:09,719 Speaker 1: stop it. Just ask the stone, what can stop God? Therefore, 628 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:12,520 Speaker 1: when we look at Jacob and Esau, we see a 629 00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:15,440 Speaker 1: picture of us. We see that they were wrestling from 630 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:16,800 Speaker 1: the womb. And I told you I'd give you the 631 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,560 Speaker 1: funny verse, and I didn't yet give me next verse. 632 00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:21,439 Speaker 1: The first one to come out with red his whole body. 633 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:22,920 Speaker 1: It's like a Harry garment. So they named the Misau. 634 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:26,799 Speaker 1: That's not the funny one. Sounds funny. Who's a Harry. 635 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,960 Speaker 1: They named him Esau, which means red because he was red, 636 00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:34,640 Speaker 1: real creative Isaac. After this brother came out, it is 637 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:38,000 Speaker 1: hand grabbing Esau's heel. That's Jacob grabbing Esauce heel. That's 638 00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:42,040 Speaker 1: been you a lot of your life too, that's been 639 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:47,080 Speaker 1: you trying to by. I want to be first. I 640 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,000 Speaker 1: need to be that. Oh no, I need to be that. 641 00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,600 Speaker 1: Now watch what happens. He was named Jacob Trickster. Isaac 642 00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,640 Speaker 1: was sixty years old when Rebecca gave birth to them. 643 00:43:56,080 --> 00:44:05,800 Speaker 1: The boys grew up. That's the funny verse because they didn't. 644 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:10,839 Speaker 1: Physically they did. Esau became a skillful hunter. And you've 645 00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,480 Speaker 1: accomplished a lot too. No, no, no, you have. I'm 646 00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:17,359 Speaker 1: not saying that sarcastically. You've learned a lot, You've become 647 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,960 Speaker 1: a lot, You've overcome a lot, and I want to 648 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:27,000 Speaker 1: pause and celebrate your progress to this point. I'm not 649 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,560 Speaker 1: setting you up. You got that hesitant clap, like is 650 00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,520 Speaker 1: he about to tell us what were really filthy rags? Not? 651 00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,040 Speaker 1: But I'm saying it's possible for you to grow in 652 00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:45,920 Speaker 1: your skillfulness and be deficient in your spirit. So es 653 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,520 Speaker 1: he's a good hunter. He's growing up. They're both grown up, 654 00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:52,839 Speaker 1: but they're doing the same crap they did when they 655 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:57,520 Speaker 1: were little boys. They're still fighting and Jacob is still tricking, 656 00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:02,400 Speaker 1: and Esau is still stupid. I mean, he's good at hunting. 657 00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:05,120 Speaker 1: Man of the open country. Jacob is content to stay 658 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:09,480 Speaker 1: home among the tenths. Isaac had a taste for a 659 00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:11,880 Speaker 1: wild game, but loved Esau. Rebecca loved Jacob. And I 660 00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:18,560 Speaker 1: watched this once when Jacob was cooking some STU. I 661 00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:23,440 Speaker 1: think it's no coincidence that STU is the beginning of stupid, 662 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:27,600 Speaker 1: because this is worse than a pack of cards. This 663 00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:30,000 Speaker 1: is worse than any house you ever bought. This is 664 00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:33,880 Speaker 1: the worst deal in human history. Jacob is cooking some stu. 665 00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,719 Speaker 1: Esau came in from the open country. Famish. Now, the 666 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,760 Speaker 1: first thing Esau need to do is notice, I'm hungry. 667 00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:45,160 Speaker 1: Right now. I am in no position to make decisions 668 00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:48,279 Speaker 1: right now. I am in no position to respond to 669 00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,799 Speaker 1: this email right now. I am in no position to 670 00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:54,240 Speaker 1: have this conversation right now. I'm hungry. I need a minute, 671 00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:56,080 Speaker 1: even if I have to fake like I'm going to 672 00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:58,959 Speaker 1: the bathroom. That's what I'm gonna do. And I'm gonna 673 00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,239 Speaker 1: stand in the bathroom and call on the God of 674 00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:04,719 Speaker 1: the bathroom, and he'll meet me in the bathroom. He's 675 00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,440 Speaker 1: the God of the mountain, He's the god of the 676 00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:11,560 Speaker 1: bathroom too. I'm gonna shut this stall and pray before 677 00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:17,080 Speaker 1: I sell my soul for some stew. She's not that pretty, 678 00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,239 Speaker 1: she's not that gorgeous. Not to throw away what God 679 00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:23,640 Speaker 1: gave me. I need a moment to notice. I'm hungry 680 00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:27,439 Speaker 1: right now, trying to make this reel where it can live, 681 00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:32,520 Speaker 1: where you live, Praise God, he said. He said, I'm famished. 682 00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:34,680 Speaker 1: And then watch what he did because he did not 683 00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:40,520 Speaker 1: notice it. Because he did not notice it, he responded 684 00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:44,719 Speaker 1: to it. And he responded to his hunger now in 685 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:49,080 Speaker 1: a way that he would hate later. And I've done 686 00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:54,840 Speaker 1: it many times quick, he said to Jacob. Let me 687 00:46:54,880 --> 00:47:05,680 Speaker 1: have some of that red stew. I'm famished. I'm famished. 688 00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,919 Speaker 1: I'm I'm feeling hunger right now. But let me deal 689 00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:14,360 Speaker 1: with it the right way. I am what I feel. 690 00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,240 Speaker 1: Are y'all getting as much out of this as I am? 691 00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:24,120 Speaker 1: This is a good sermon, Stew right here, look at me, Church, 692 00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:28,480 Speaker 1: give me the verse again. I'm famished, I'm exhausted. That's 693 00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:32,200 Speaker 1: why he was called eat them red Verse thirty one, 694 00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:37,520 Speaker 1: Jacob replied, for some of your birthright. Look, I'm about 695 00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:39,759 Speaker 1: to die you. Sau said, what good is the birthright 696 00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:44,200 Speaker 1: to me? But Jacob said, swear to me first. So 697 00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:51,000 Speaker 1: he swore and oathed them, selling his birthright to Jacob. 698 00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,200 Speaker 1: And that's why we're calling on the God of Jacob 699 00:47:56,120 --> 00:48:01,959 Speaker 1: for a single meal. Next verse and final, so Esau 700 00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:08,800 Speaker 1: despised his birthright for some bread and lentil stew. He ate, drank, 701 00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:15,759 Speaker 1: got up left and despised his birthright. I thought that 702 00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:19,600 Speaker 1: strong language. It doesn't say he hated his birthright. But 703 00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:24,759 Speaker 1: when you are hungry, When you are hungry, you will 704 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:28,520 Speaker 1: make decisions now that will create a life that you hate. 705 00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:38,279 Speaker 1: Later this year, God brought you to Elevation Church and 706 00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:42,000 Speaker 1: our ethanm online to tell you it's not too late 707 00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:48,960 Speaker 1: for you to change. If you're still breathing, you still 708 00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:56,200 Speaker 1: got a birthright. If the blood is still running warm 709 00:48:56,719 --> 00:49:01,480 Speaker 1: in your veins, you have a birthright. And the blood 710 00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:06,720 Speaker 1: that Jesus shed for you purchased it back from the devil. 711 00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:12,920 Speaker 1: So we've got the book and we've got the blood, 712 00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:19,040 Speaker 1: and we have an opportunity this year, this moment, forget 713 00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:24,319 Speaker 1: about it, this very moment. You have the opportunity to 714 00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:33,560 Speaker 1: make an exchange your unrighteousness for his righteousness, your sin 715 00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:42,760 Speaker 1: for his salvation, your no for his yes, your filthiness 716 00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:48,239 Speaker 1: for his purity. You don't see it, your ashes for 717 00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:53,080 Speaker 1: his beauty. This is the greatest exchange that has ever 718 00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:57,520 Speaker 1: been made. Not with Jacob, I'm talking about Jesus, the 719 00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:02,239 Speaker 1: great exchange of love and grace. You don't get it 720 00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:05,640 Speaker 1: through grinding. Tricks are for kids. You don't get it 721 00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:08,840 Speaker 1: through effort. That's for the perfect people. But for the 722 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:13,320 Speaker 1: children of God. There is a grace for this moment, 723 00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,600 Speaker 1: a grace to change you, a grace to call you forward. 724 00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:19,560 Speaker 1: Is pulling on you now, that's why you feel it. 725 00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:24,880 Speaker 1: It's not me speaking as him speaking. I'm teaching you Jesus, 726 00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:33,719 Speaker 1: and Jesus is showing you you how many times are 727 00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:39,239 Speaker 1: you gonna give the enemy your desires and let him 728 00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:44,960 Speaker 1: tell you how to fulfill them? The new you, I'm 729 00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:48,560 Speaker 1: walking in a new way. Ah, it's gonna be step 730 00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:52,359 Speaker 1: by step. Baby, what you thought I could just put 731 00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:55,759 Speaker 1: this new attitude on you like it's my jacket. I 732 00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,800 Speaker 1: would if I could. I could sell this jacket for 733 00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,880 Speaker 1: a lot of money if it worked like that. No, no, no, 734 00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:07,719 Speaker 1: This wardrobe is only received through your daily walk and worship. 735 00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:15,279 Speaker 1: So I keep hearing the Lord say it. It's an 736 00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:18,400 Speaker 1: old line, but I just got to say it. Beans 737 00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:26,040 Speaker 1: for a birthright, Beans for a birthright. Uh huh. You're 738 00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:34,560 Speaker 1: making trades every day, stew pid trades, y'all laugh at Esau. 739 00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:38,479 Speaker 1: Me and Esau have a lot in common. I've given 740 00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:40,600 Speaker 1: up a lot of stuff too, because I felt it. 741 00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:45,440 Speaker 1: I defied my feelings this week. Everything in me told me, 742 00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,319 Speaker 1: you don't have enough songs to record this Friday something 743 00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,319 Speaker 1: he said, put it on the calendar and let God 744 00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,160 Speaker 1: give you the songs that he wants you to have 745 00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:58,799 Speaker 1: and do what he told you to do. I got 746 00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:01,239 Speaker 1: a question, answer me in the cha Do y'all think 747 00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:07,080 Speaker 1: God knew about those songs before I? Did you think 748 00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:09,520 Speaker 1: God knew about the season you're in before you did? 749 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,239 Speaker 1: Do you think that he knew that you were going 750 00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:18,799 Speaker 1: to need a job before you did? Do you think 751 00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:21,239 Speaker 1: he knew that we would be in a time of 752 00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:27,160 Speaker 1: political how we say this weirdness? Before we did right 753 00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:32,000 Speaker 1: before we were born. He knew what we were born into. 754 00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:38,160 Speaker 1: What I love about the Lord is that there are 755 00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:49,680 Speaker 1: no tricks with him, only a trade. Oh, come to 756 00:52:51,440 --> 00:53:03,400 Speaker 1: the Otar, the fatherest sor this is the trade Spondy 757 00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:14,359 Speaker 1: the fish spa. Oh came wo come to he answer 758 00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:31,640 Speaker 1: the Father? Psalms A fucking n It's folly, Jesus Christ. 759 00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:34,160 Speaker 1: No one moving. In just a moment, our pastors are 760 00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:36,480 Speaker 1: going to give an invitation for people to receive Christ. 761 00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:40,120 Speaker 1: Be ready. I just want to tell you this before 762 00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:42,960 Speaker 1: I give the service to them. Heads bout ice closed? 763 00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:51,360 Speaker 1: Are you hurting and broken with it? Overwhelmed by the 764 00:53:51,400 --> 00:54:01,120 Speaker 1: way of your sin? Jesus is calling? Have you come 765 00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:11,160 Speaker 1: to the end of yourself to their forgery? From Jesus 766 00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:15,640 Speaker 1: is calling? Well, if you enjoyed today's podcast, there are 767 00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:17,520 Speaker 1: a couple of things I'd love for you to do. 768 00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:22,000 Speaker 1: Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast. You 769 00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:24,440 Speaker 1: can also help us reach others by investing today at 770 00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:28,440 Speaker 1: Elevationchurch dot org, slash gift and thanks again for joining 771 00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:30,120 Speaker 1: us on the Elevation Podcast.