1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:10,399 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Well, hello, chirch, 6 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,120 Speaker 1: my name's Seth Pete. I'm the campus pastor at Elevation 7 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: University City and I have the honor of being able 8 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: to preach today. Hey University City. Hey, you see, it's 9 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: such an honor to be able to preach this weekend. 10 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 1: But before we move forward, can we take a moment 11 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: and thank God for our pastor. Pastor Stephen, you can 12 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 1: do better than that. You can do better than that. 13 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:54,279 Speaker 1: We all get to benefit from hearing him preach every 14 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: weekend on this stage, but very few get to see 15 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: how he pastores people personally off the stage. And this week, 16 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: this week he encouraged me. He looked me in my 17 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:06,119 Speaker 1: eyes and said, chat, I believe in you. I'm check 18 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,400 Speaker 1: God has a call on your life, and I believe 19 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:10,199 Speaker 1: that God has given you a word that our church 20 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: needs to hear. That's the type of pastor that we 21 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:19,400 Speaker 1: have and started the year off with Flip the Flow. 22 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:23,759 Speaker 1: Who was here for Flip the Flow? Road right into 23 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: Maybe God. It's been so powerful, so you know it. 24 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: Throughout Maybe God, God was just dealing with me. And 25 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: as we kind of ended the series last week, I 26 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 1: wanted to share a little bit about what God has 27 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: best kind of revealed to me throughout this series of 28 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 1: how do we discern God's voice and recognize the will 29 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: that He has for our lives? And we're gonna be 30 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: in this text. Mark chapter ten, verses forty six through 31 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: fifty two. If you have your Bible and want to 32 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: pull it out, you can do that now. If not, 33 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: the scriptures will be on the screen. Mark chapter ten, 34 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: versus forty six through fifty two. Story about a blind 35 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: man named Bartimaeus. In verse forty six, it says, then 36 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 1: they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together 37 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: with a large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind 38 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: man Bartimaeus which means son of Timaeus, was sitting by 39 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: the roadside, and he was begging. When he heard that 40 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,239 Speaker 1: it was Jesus of Nazrath, he began to shout, Jesus, 41 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 1: son of David, have mercy on me. Many rebuked him 42 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: and told him to be quiet, but he shouted, all 43 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: the more, Son of David, have mercy on me. Jesus 44 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: stopped and said, call him. So they called to the 45 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: blind man, cheer up on your feet, he's calling you. 46 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: Throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet and 47 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 1: came to Jesus. What do you want me to do 48 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: for you? Jesus asked him. The blind man said, Rabbi, 49 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: I want to see go. Jesus said, your faith has 50 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: healed you, and immediately he received a sight and followed 51 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: Jesus along the road. The scriptures that I really want 52 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: to focus on for our time together are forty eight 53 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: and forty nine. It says many rebuked him and told 54 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: him to be quiet, but he shouted, all the more, 55 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 1: son of David, have mercy on me. Jesus stopped. What 56 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 1: could be in your shout that could make Jesus stop? 57 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: What could be on your lips that would make the 58 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: Messiah stop in his tracks? He stopped and said call him. 59 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: So they called to the blind man, Cheer up on 60 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: your feet, he's calling you. The subject of our conversation 61 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:58,119 Speaker 1: today is called blocked calls, blocked calls, block calls. Now, 62 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: before you take your seat, can you look at your 63 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: neighbor and find out if they're a Duke fan or 64 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: a tar Hill fan? Can you find out? Find out 65 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: real quick, find out real quick. Now I understand, I 66 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: understand that the tar Hills won last night, and this morning, 67 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,039 Speaker 1: I'm more concerned about a different devil that needs to 68 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: be up underneath our heel. So can you go ahead 69 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 1: and give them a hug and put your hands together 70 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:30,039 Speaker 1: as we get in to God's word today, Give a 71 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: couple hugs right now, and then you can be seated. 72 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: You can be seated, You can be seated. Understand, you 73 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: lost an hour of sleep last night, but it didn't 74 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: seem like you lost your spirit. It seems like you 75 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 1: came in ready, ready to praise God and ready to 76 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: hear from him. But as I was reading this text, 77 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: the the thing that kind of caught my attention was 78 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:00,679 Speaker 1: this fact that Bartimaus is crying out to Jesuz, Jesus, 79 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: son of David, have mercy on me, Jesus, son of David, 80 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: have mercy on me, and he doesn't hear Christ respond. 81 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: And it made me realize that a lot of times 82 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: in my life I'm praying and praying and praying, and 83 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 1: I'm calling out to God and I don't hear him 84 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: call back to me. It could be so frustrating. Ask 85 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: myself the question, has Jesus blocked my call? Like cass 86 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 1: he blocked me? Is he just sitting up there looking 87 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:34,720 Speaker 1: at his phone like, Ugh, that's Susie today, She's always sad. 88 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: I don't got time for that. Why is Anthony so angry? Ugh? 89 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 1: Don got toughing? I know what that feels like, just 90 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: to be calling out to God over and over and 91 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: over again and not hearing anything. We feel like something's 92 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:53,559 Speaker 1: blocking us from hearing it. And makes me think about 93 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 1: you know, on my way home, I drive forty five 94 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: on my way to the house in Charlotte, drive forty 95 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: five and I get off on exit twenty three right here, 96 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: and there's this one spot when I get off on 97 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 1: the exit where every time if I'm on the phone, 98 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: the call will drop. I could be talking the whole time, 99 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: the whole time, and I get to this one spot 100 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,679 Speaker 1: and the call drops. I was talking to them before 101 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 1: I got to that spot. And so what I realize 102 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,039 Speaker 1: is that maybe God is talking. Maybe God is talking. 103 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 1: Maybe there's nothing wrong with the service, but something's blocking 104 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: the signal. What is blocking the signal in this season? 105 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: You know, cause I know what it feels like. It's like, 106 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: does guy have a track phone or something. I just 107 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: it seems like it's not getting through, you know, or 108 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: maybe this is this will make you understand it. Me 109 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,559 Speaker 1: and my wife, we have identical twin boys, Carson and Carter. 110 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: They are seven years old and we just got them, 111 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: just got them an Xbox One for Christmas this past year, 112 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:57,160 Speaker 1: and they don't play Fortnite. I haven't did it. I've 113 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: been trying to figure out what's the appropriate age for 114 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: your kids to play Fortnite? You know, is it ten? 115 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 1: It's eleven? Heard somebody say never never never, never never. 116 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:08,479 Speaker 1: But you know, they love they love it. They play 117 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 1: NBA two K and they're constantly playing this game. And 118 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: I've realized since they've had the game, I could be 119 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: sitting in my room and I call out to them, 120 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 1: Carson Carter, and I hear nothing. Hey boys, Hey hear nothing. 121 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: Carson and Carter hear nothing. I get up out my bed. 122 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 1: They ignoring me. What are they doing? And I walk 123 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: in and they're so fixated on this game that they 124 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 1: didn't even hear my voice. What I'm realizing in our lives, 125 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: there's some things that were so fixated on and it's 126 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 1: blocking us from hearing what God has to say. It's 127 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: not that God isn't calling you, but there's some things 128 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: that are blocking you from hearing His call. And so 129 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: what I want to do today is talk about a 130 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: few things, a few things in this text that I 131 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 1: believe will help us understand what's blocking us from hearing God. 132 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: While I open up this water, can we thank God 133 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: for all of our campuses that are tuning in today? 134 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: Can we thank God for e fam people watching on 135 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: a cell phone right now getting the presence of God? 136 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: But what is blocking you? What is blocking you from 137 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: hearing God? I believe there's a lot that we can 138 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,680 Speaker 1: learn in this sext. The first thing that I want 139 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 1: you to write down that may be blocking you is 140 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: what I hear? What I hear and now you see, 141 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 1: hearing is so important to Bartimaez because he couldn't see. 142 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: It's so so vital to him that he hears well 143 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: and he hears his surroundings. And it starts off saying 144 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: that he heard that Jesus of Nazareth was coming through, 145 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: and that's when he responded and started to shout. But 146 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:54,560 Speaker 1: then at verse forty eight, there's another thing that he heard. 147 00:08:55,520 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 1: It says many rebuked him and told him to be quiet. 148 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: It just made me think that there's some people. There's 149 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: some people. There's some people, some negative people, some condescending people. 150 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 1: There's some people. There's some pessimistic people, some people that 151 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: when I talk to they rip the spirit all the 152 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: way out of me. There's some people. There's some people 153 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: that just you know, I have to do everything about 154 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:32,199 Speaker 1: power to stay sane dealing with them. There's some people. 155 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:35,200 Speaker 1: You have to watch what you hear. You have to 156 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: watch what you hear. You have to watch what you 157 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: hear because there's some people around you that could be 158 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:44,199 Speaker 1: blocking you from hearing what God has to say. And 159 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: it just made me think. It's just made me think, 160 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna help you guys out today. I'm gonna help 161 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: you guys out with a little iPhone tutorial. Is that okay? 162 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 1: A little iPhone tutorial today. Let me get this popped 163 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: up on the screen for you really quick. You will 164 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: see my phone mirror there it goes there it goes, 165 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 1: and there's my family. Yeah. Stop, awe at them boys, 166 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: Look at my beautiful wife up top right there. Thank 167 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 1: you Jesus, you've been so good to me. Hallelujah, my God, 168 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: bless your name. Let me help you out. Let me 169 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: help you out. Let me help you out. Let me 170 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: help you out. I'm gonna go into my contacts, and 171 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,439 Speaker 1: you know what I'm I'm gonna click on Jared Osin. Now, 172 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 1: if you don't know Jared Osin, that's because he does 173 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: his job so well. Jared Osin is our Valentine campus producer. 174 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: Can we take a moment and thank God for Jared. 175 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 1: Thank God for Jared. He's the one that leads the 176 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 1: team that makes sure all the lights and all of 177 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: this stuff works. I have no idea how my phone's 178 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 1: on the screen, but it's on there. That's Jared that 179 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 1: makes it happen. So I wouldn't normally, never, ever, ever, 180 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 1: ever ever do this to Jared, because he's amazing. He's amazing, 181 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 1: he's amazing leader, amazing friend. But for the sake of 182 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: this illustration, there's this little button down to here at 183 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 1: the bottom that says block this caller now when you 184 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:13,559 Speaker 1: click on it. It says you will not receive phone calls, messages, 185 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: FaceTime from people on the block list. There are some 186 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 1: people that you need to find this button because when 187 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: you've block them, you're opening up a space so that 188 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: you can hear what God has to say. Some people 189 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: are blocking you from hearing what God has to say 190 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 1: in this season. Everybody can't have access in this season 191 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: because they're keeping you from accessing what God has for you. 192 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:41,960 Speaker 1: There's some people that has to go now. Some of you, 193 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:43,560 Speaker 1: you use this, you know where this is, and you 194 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:48,439 Speaker 1: use it very well. You might be petty, you might 195 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: you might be petty. You might be petty. But there's 196 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 1: some of you. I just save you a lot of headaches. 197 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 1: I just save you a lot of headaches because you 198 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 1: have the ability. You have the ability to block their call. 199 00:11:57,679 --> 00:11:59,959 Speaker 1: You know what you should do tonight when you go home. 200 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 1: You should go sit on your bed and you should 201 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,439 Speaker 1: go through your phone and have a good old fashioned 202 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 1: block party. What would it look like if you took 203 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 1: your time and went through your contacts. It said that 204 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:17,960 Speaker 1: there's some people that's had access in one season that 205 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 1: don't need it in this season because they're blocking me 206 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: from hearing what God has to say. There's some people 207 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: that I cannot let speak into my life because they're 208 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 1: holding me back for what my God has for me. 209 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: There's some people in this season. There's some people like 210 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 1: maybe JJ, maybe I should go ahead and block You're 211 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: a Valentine campus pastor maybe I should block him right now, 212 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:44,319 Speaker 1: block this caller, because maybe right now in this season 213 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 1: I normally wouldn't do it before the sake of illustration, 214 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: Block JJ, bye bye. Or maybe I should go all 215 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 1: the way to Ashville, North Carolina and let's just start 216 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 1: blocking some campus pastors. You know, maybe this morning we 217 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 1: would take some time to block them. Where is Brennan? 218 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 1: Where's Brennan? Goddess at there? She goes, I'm sorry, maybe 219 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 1: in this season you got wo would it look like 220 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:07,960 Speaker 1: if in this season you block some people? Now, this 221 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 1: should be a joyous occasion. Now, when I said block party, 222 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: some of you started to think about red cups and 223 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 1: some of you started to think about some different things. 224 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: Well what I and LB is calling me right now? LB? 225 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: Why are you calling me in the middle of my sermon? 226 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:26,559 Speaker 1: You know what, some people I can't block. I can't 227 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: block LB. But some people I can ignore because right now, 228 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: I love LB. LB means a lot to me. But 229 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 1: what's important right now is for me to take a 230 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: moment and tell you what God has laid on my 231 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 1: heart for you and some people in this season I 232 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:46,840 Speaker 1: have to ignore because some of you might have been thinking, 233 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: I'm ready to block my husband right now. No no 234 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 1: no no no no no no no no no no 235 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 1: no no no no no, I'm not. I'm not saying that. 236 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: I'm not saying that because there's some people that you 237 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 1: live with, there's some people that you work with, and 238 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 1: it's not that easy just to block them and cancel 239 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 1: them out your life. But what Bartimaeus does in this 240 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 1: text is when they rebuked him and told him to 241 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 1: be quiet, he shouted. All the more he shouted. He 242 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 1: ignored them so that he can focus on calling out 243 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 1: to his father doing what his father said. What would 244 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 1: it look like in this season if you paid attention 245 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: to what you hear because they're blocking you from hearing 246 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 1: what God has to say. You know, there's this repelling 247 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 1: you can blo for your shoe sneakers. There's a repelling 248 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, that repels things. Why would 249 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: I be so focused and by things that we can 250 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: repel things off my sneakers, that can keep them things. 251 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 1: And I won't repel people away from my spirit. I 252 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: won't repel people away from my heart. There's some things 253 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 1: in this season. There's some people, some people that I 254 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: have to get blocked because they're keeping you from hearing 255 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 1: what God has to say. It's easier, it's easier to 256 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 1: ignore others. But you know, what I found is very 257 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: it's very harder. It's much much much harder, is to 258 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 1: block the thoughts in your head, and so that the 259 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: next point are you know, it's it's it's my thoughts, 260 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 1: it's my thoughts, what you think, what I think, what 261 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 1: I think, what I think. It's it's so harder to 262 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 1: do that. It's so so much harder to do that. 263 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: And as I as I read this sext there's some things. 264 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 1: There's some things that it tells us about Bartimaeus. It says, 265 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 1: when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he 266 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 1: began to shout, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me. 267 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. We find the right verse bring 268 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 1: me up forty six, forty six I apologize what I think. 269 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 1: What I think. It says when they came to Jericho, 270 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: as Jesus and disciples were together a large crowd, we're 271 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: leaving the city. Now, it's going to tell us a 272 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 1: couple of things about Bartimaeus. The first thing that is 273 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 1: says is is that Bardimaez was blind, and then it 274 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: says Bartimaez, which means Senator mass And then it says 275 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: that he was sitting by the roadside begging. So it 276 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: tells us a couple of things about Bartimaus. It says 277 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 1: that he's blind, and then it says that he's begging, 278 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 1: and we tend to just call him blind man Bartimaez. 279 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 1: What makes me realize is that we tend to identify 280 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: people by their condition. We tend to identify people by 281 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: their actions. And what I realize is that Bartimas has 282 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: been sitting here, He's been sitting by the roadside begging 283 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 1: for a long time. And I wonder, and I wonder, 284 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: I wonder what were the thoughts going through his head 285 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 1: all of those years, just sitting there. He's blind, he 286 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 1: can't see, so he has this voice in his head 287 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 1: and it's saying, you're blind, and you're beggar. You're blind 288 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 1: and you're begger. That's all you'll ever be. Just go 289 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: ahead and hold the cup out and y'll for some change. 290 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 1: You're blind and you're a beggar, and that's all you'll 291 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 1: ever be. You're you're an addict, You're a failure, You're 292 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 1: you're a divorce c You're a dropout, and that's all 293 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: you'll ever be. That's that's what that voice sounds like. 294 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 1: And that voice, that voice is loud. That voice is loud, 295 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: It shouts. That voice is piercing. And those thoughts in 296 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 1: your head that you go over and over and over 297 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 1: again on repeat, you know what my voice was telling me, 298 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 1: that voice right here before I came on stages. Nobody 299 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 1: wanted to hear anything you have to say. They wish 300 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 1: pastor Steven was here. Anyway, you're not qualified to preach 301 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: the word of God. Who do you think you are? 302 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,199 Speaker 1: Who do you? Who do you think you are? So 303 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: waste the time? She'd just sit back down, That's what 304 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: That's what that voice is screaming and yelling at me 305 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 1: before I step on this stage. And I want to 306 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 1: take a moment to celebrate my wife, Whitney. We just 307 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 1: celebrated eleven years of marriage this year, and she has 308 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:10,679 Speaker 1: this voice as well, And I asked her if I 309 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: could share this. The voice in my wife's head, that voice, 310 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 1: it's a monster. It's a monster, and it's so loud. 311 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 1: She's so mean, and she's so hateful, and it screams 312 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:25,160 Speaker 1: at my wife, telling her that she's not beautiful, telling 313 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 1: her that she's a horrible wife, telling her that she's 314 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:30,199 Speaker 1: a horrible mother, telling her that she will never be 315 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:33,360 Speaker 1: good enough. This voice is yelling loud, telling her this 316 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 1: over and over and over again. And I've seen her. 317 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:38,919 Speaker 1: I've seen her fight that voice, because that voice has 318 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: tried to take my wife out. If anybody talked to 319 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:44,120 Speaker 1: my wife the way that her voice talks to her, 320 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 1: I'd be in jail right now. I'd be in jail. 321 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:49,840 Speaker 1: I would be locked up. And so I've seen her. 322 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 1: If it wasn't for some of our friends and family, 323 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: if it wasn't for our eGroup, if you're not in 324 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: an egrop and you don't have people around you, I 325 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 1: don't know if we would have been able to push 326 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 1: through this thing, because it's tried to take her out. 327 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 1: But I want to tell you one little thing that 328 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 1: that that that she does, that has been monumental. And 329 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: it might seem small, it might seem really really small, 330 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 1: but it's made a significant difference. And what she did 331 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: is she gave it a name. She gave she gave 332 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,919 Speaker 1: a voice a name. Now, when I tell you what 333 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,919 Speaker 1: this name is, if this is your name, I didn't. 334 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: I didn't know you when we came up with it. 335 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't, So I apologize. But if you 336 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 1: ever seen the movie Matilda, there's this woman named Agatha, 337 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 1: and Agatha is ugly and she's mean. But what I 338 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: realize is that when Agatha shows up, when she shows 339 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: up on the scene, it starts to tell her things 340 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:50,359 Speaker 1: that doesn't line up with what God says. I tell 341 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: Agatha to go back to the pit of hell where 342 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:56,239 Speaker 1: she came from. She has no place. Yet. What I 343 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: want you to know is that you cannot defeat an 344 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,359 Speaker 1: unnamed enemy. And so what you have to do is 345 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:03,120 Speaker 1: put a name on that thing. You have to call 346 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 1: it something. You know, when you get phone calls and 347 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:09,679 Speaker 1: it says unknown caller, and you're talking to people and 348 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 1: you don't have a clue who they are, how can 349 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: you silence them in how can you tell them things 350 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 1: to shut up and go back to where they came 351 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:20,200 Speaker 1: from if you don't know who they are. I tell 352 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: Agatha to get up under my feet. I tell Agatha 353 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,879 Speaker 1: what God says. So maybe what you need to do 354 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:31,520 Speaker 1: is is name that enemy, because that voice is terrorizing 355 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 1: your home, he's terrorizing your life. You know why we 356 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,159 Speaker 1: call them terrorists when we're in a war, we call 357 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 1: them is because we can't identify him. But once we 358 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: identify him, we're able to do something about it. We're 359 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: able to go and we're able to attack it. And 360 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,959 Speaker 1: so in this text, let me show you one interesting 361 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 1: thing that they kind of caught my attention because it 362 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,880 Speaker 1: tells you more about Bartimas, but we never talk about it. 363 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 1: It says in verse forty six, it says more than 364 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 1: just that he was blind because me, it says a 365 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:06,879 Speaker 1: blind man Bartimaeus, which means son of Timaeus. That tells 366 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 1: me that Bartimaeus was a son. That tells me that 367 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 1: Bartimaus is his son. So when that thought comes up, 368 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:17,479 Speaker 1: you gotta remember you're a son and a daughter of 369 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 1: a father in heaven. And Satan does not want you 370 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 1: to remember your lineage. He does not want you to 371 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: remember where you come from. Why don't we call him Bartimaeus, 372 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: son of Timaeus? Why don't we call him son? Why 373 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 1: don't you gotta look in the mirror. I'm a child 374 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:37,920 Speaker 1: of God. I was fearfully and wonderfully made my father 375 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,640 Speaker 1: in heaven. He loves me. So I don't care what 376 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,119 Speaker 1: Agatha says. You can go back to the place you 377 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: came from. But it's these thoughts, see, it's these thoughts. 378 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 1: It's these thoughts in your head that can block us 379 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 1: from hearing what God has to say. The last thing 380 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 1: that I want to talk about that could be blocking 381 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: you is what I see, is what I see and 382 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 1: hearing that you may be like Bartimaus didn't see anything. 383 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: He was blind. But what Bartimaeus lacked an eyesight, he 384 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,359 Speaker 1: made up for an insight. There was something in this 385 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 1: text that he saw that nobody around him saw. In 386 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 1: the way that you see someone will determine how you 387 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: respond to them. And so just to just to give 388 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: you an example, you know me and I told you 389 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,879 Speaker 1: my wife is an amazing mother, amazing wife, but me 390 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:34,640 Speaker 1: and her both have vastly different parenting styles. We approach 391 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 1: raising your kids a little bit differently, and I feel 392 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: like most parents fall into one of these two categories. 393 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,159 Speaker 1: One category, which my wife falls in. I like to 394 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 1: call the I'm gone us, the I'm gone us, the 395 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna whoop your butt, the the I'm gonna take 396 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: the xbox, the I'm gonna you know, I'm gone us. 397 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:03,359 Speaker 1: Is there anybody that will identify yourself as I'm gone up? Now? 398 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,119 Speaker 1: The other group, the other group which I fall in, 399 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:11,880 Speaker 1: is the I have and I will. I have bee 400 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 1: your butt and I will do it again. I have 401 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,200 Speaker 1: taken the Xbox and I will do I have any 402 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 1: I have in our wills that knows. What would it 403 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 1: look like if you looked at God? Is I have 404 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: blessed you and I will bless you again. I have 405 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,120 Speaker 1: healed you, and I would heal you again. What if 406 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 1: you walked in and you looked at God as I've 407 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 1: seen you do it before and I believe you'll do 408 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: it again. What if you looked at him? He's the 409 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and Deen. What if 410 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 1: you looked at Him that way? What would it happen? 411 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: How you see God determines how you hear God. And 412 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: I believe in this season it's the way that you 413 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,880 Speaker 1: see God that's blocking you from hearing what he has 414 00:23:54,960 --> 00:24:00,480 Speaker 1: to say. And so how did Bartimaeus see God? How 415 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 1: did he see him? And it's very interesting. In verse 416 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 1: forty seven, it says, when Bartimaeus heard that it was 417 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 1: Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, Jesus, son of David. 418 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 1: He heard Jesus of Nazareth. He shouted Jesus son of David. 419 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,359 Speaker 1: Why would he shout something different than what he heard. 420 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 1: You see, Jesus of Nazareth speaks to this prophet, this priest, 421 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,439 Speaker 1: this holy man, but it doesn't speak to Jesus son 422 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,160 Speaker 1: of David. Now Jesus son of David speaks to the Messiah, 423 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,440 Speaker 1: speak to the prophecy that there would be a king 424 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:37,439 Speaker 1: that would come out of the house of David that 425 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,880 Speaker 1: would reign forever. I'm talking about the one that would 426 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,679 Speaker 1: deliver us from all of our sins. The power and 427 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: authority that's in Jesus son of David is who Bartimaeus saw, 428 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:53,640 Speaker 1: and nobody else saw it. Everybody else was running around 429 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 1: seeing him as common. But Bartimaya said, that son of David, 430 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 1: that's the Messiah. This is my opportunity. How you see 431 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 1: God determines how you hear him. How you walked in today. 432 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 1: Some of you walked in and your perspective of God 433 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 1: was that he was mean, that he was hateful, that 434 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 1: he didn't love you. How you see God? You walked 435 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,399 Speaker 1: in today with a different perspective, and you hear us 436 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 1: say Father, and you look at him in the context 437 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 1: of the father that you didn't have, or the father 438 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 1: that you had that was mean and hateful him. That's 439 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 1: how you see him. What would it look like if 440 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 1: you flip your perspective, you would lean in in church, 441 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 1: You'd be here early, You'd be ready because you're expecting, 442 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 1: because you know when you walk in, something can change. 443 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 1: If I see him as a healer, I can get 444 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,360 Speaker 1: a healing today if he's in the presence. I don't 445 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,160 Speaker 1: know how you see him, but I see him as 446 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 1: a deliverer. I see him as a restorer. I see 447 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,199 Speaker 1: him as a provider. I see him as Jehovah. I 448 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,120 Speaker 1: see him as Jarrah. I see my God as somebody 449 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:59,159 Speaker 1: that could change my life, that could change my situation. 450 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,800 Speaker 1: Has your neighbor, how do you see God today? How 451 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:08,120 Speaker 1: do you see him today? How you see. God determines 452 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 1: how you hear him. I wonder what's blocking you this morning? 453 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: What's blocking you this morning from hearing what God has 454 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 1: to say? What's blocking you? Is it the influences in 455 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 1: your life? Is it what you hear? Is it what 456 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 1: you hear? And there's some of you, there's some of you, 457 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 1: there's some of you. You're in school, you're studying, you're 458 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 1: trying to do everything you can to graduate, and you're 459 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,200 Speaker 1: letting the influences around you talk you out of it. 460 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 1: They're trying to call you talking about let's go to 461 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,199 Speaker 1: a party, let's go hang out, and you're like, I'm 462 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:51,640 Speaker 1: trying to do something. What I hear is very important. 463 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:55,159 Speaker 1: That maybe blocking you today. So if you're in here today, 464 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,480 Speaker 1: you're trying to restore your marriage, You're trying to work 465 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 1: on your marriage, and you're letting people around you talk 466 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,439 Speaker 1: about your spouse while I'm trying to do everything I 467 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 1: can for God to restore my marriage. What you hear? 468 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,920 Speaker 1: What you hear? What you hear, and then what you think. 469 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: There's these thoughts some of you've been in Chaine because 470 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:19,120 Speaker 1: of the thoughts in your mind. The word says, take 471 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: every thought captive there's some things in this season that 472 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 1: we have to take a hold of. You got to 473 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 1: get some people around you. You got to name that thing, 474 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,200 Speaker 1: and then some of you. It's the perspective. It's how 475 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:34,919 Speaker 1: you see God, It's how you see him. But here's 476 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 1: the thing that really really caught my attention. If you 477 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 1: don't take anything else away from this sermon, this this 478 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,879 Speaker 1: piece right here, I started to think about the setting. 479 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 1: You see, there was a crowd of people. There was 480 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,399 Speaker 1: a lot of people around. And remember earlier in the sermon, 481 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,880 Speaker 1: I said, what could be on your shout that could 482 00:27:54,960 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: make Jesus stop? How could Jesus identify brought a Maais 483 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,919 Speaker 1: in the middle of a crowd like this, How in 484 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 1: the world could he hear him? And it made me 485 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:11,080 Speaker 1: realize that in this season, some things could be blocking 486 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: me from hearing God's voice. But nothing can block God 487 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: from hearing yours. Nothing can block God from hearing your voice. 488 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 1: When you call out to him, he hears you. I 489 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: don't care what's around. He stopped in his tracks, looked 490 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 1: around and saw his son and said, I see you 491 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 1: in the middle of a crowd call out to me. 492 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,120 Speaker 1: Some of you stop calling because you hadn't heard anything back. 493 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 1: He hears you nothing you've done. I don't care what 494 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 1: you did last night. God hears you call out to him, 495 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 1: call out to him, call out to him. And I 496 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: want to take a moment. I want to take a 497 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 1: moment to pray for you today because I believe that 498 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,400 Speaker 1: we could have a moment of ministry. There's some things 499 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 1: that have been blocking you, and today we need to 500 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 1: remove those blocks so that we could hear what God 501 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 1: has to say. Everybody, stand on your feet. Stand on 502 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 1: your feet. Want to take a moment and pause, secreate 503 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: a moment for God to minister to you. He's here, 504 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 1: He's here. Everyone, stretch your hands towards Heaven. God, we're here, 505 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:31,920 Speaker 1: and your servants are listening. We remove all distractions. God, 506 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,280 Speaker 1: we remove all distractions, all blocks right now in this moment. 507 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 1: Speak to your people. Bartimae is called out to you. 508 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,840 Speaker 1: Right now. Begin to open up your mouth and call 509 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 1: out to Jesus. Tell them you need them, tell them 510 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 1: you love them. He hears you. Tell him what you need, 511 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 1: Tell him what you need, Tell him what you need. 512 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 1: He's listening right now. Nothing can from hearing your voice. 513 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 1: He loves to hear your voice. Jeremiah thirty three to 514 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,600 Speaker 1: three says, calling to me, and I will answer you. 515 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 1: Not I might answer you, not a maybe. I will 516 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:20,720 Speaker 1: answer you. So God, your people need you. You're here. Listen, 517 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:25,640 Speaker 1: Speak God, Thank you for joining us. 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