WEBVTT - Source Material 0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:03.400 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:06.439 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.360 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.280 Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:13.440 Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:18.880 in your life. Enjoy the message wherever you are today, 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:22.799 whether the weather is gloomy or not, we bring you 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:27.360 greetings in Jesus' name. Clap your hands. Elevation Church. Let's 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.520 welcome our efam. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:33.760 Around the world, all over the globe. 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.120 The joy of the Lord is our strength. I was 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.559 glad when they sat unto me, let us go to 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:41.640 the House of the Lord. 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:44.800 Well, sometimes you can't get to the house of the Lord. 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.280 The house of the Lord is coming to you today. 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.160 We speak God's peace, protection and favor over your life 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.120 on every location, whether in a prison or whether you 0:00:55.400 --> 0:01:00.080 just slept in God can cover all of that. And 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:01.959 I believe that by the time we're done today, you're 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:05.240 gonna say it was no accident that my path converge. 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:08.000 This word is just for you. Clap your hands if 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.440 you believe God has a word for you today. 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:16.319 Hallelujah. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:22.280 I am continuing in my series called ghost Writer. I 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:25.640 think that you are more excited than your shout just indicated. 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:27.240 I will say that again. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:32.360 I am continuing in my series called Ghost Trouble. Come on, Graham, 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:42.080 clap grama life good. We are in Acts chapter two, 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:46.480 verse one, and I'm gonna read eighteen verses. I know 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:48.360 you didn't read your Bible all week, so I got 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:52.840 to stack a few extra on for you. Take a 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.200 look at this scripture with me, from Acts chapter two, 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.080 verse one through eighteen. 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:00.680 Imagine if you would. 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.240 With me the crushing pressure on the disciples of Jesus 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.560 Christ as they wait for the Holy Spirit to be 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.919 poured out, which Jesus has promised them, but how many 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:14.280 not Just because Jesus promised it doesn't mean the process 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:21.080 of waiting for it gets any easier. In this predicament 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.000 that you find yourself in in this season of your life, 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.160 it's not really that you doubt God, is it. It's 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:31.120 that you doubt you? Can I hold out? Can I 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:35.400 be strong? Can I do what's required? And I guess 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:37.680 in a way that is doubting God because he made us. 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.480 And to doubt the product is to insult the manufacturer. 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:44.800 If God says you can make it. You can make it. 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:46.520 If God says you can do it, you can do it. 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.080 But that doesn't mean it's easy. So then the Lord 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.160 sends a word to confirm in those seasons for us, 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.800 and I believe He's going to do that for you today. 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.480 The Bible says in Acts, chapter two, verse one, when 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:03.720 the day of Pentecosts came, they were all together in 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:09.480 one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.760 violent wind came from heaven and filled. 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:13.600 The whole house. 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.560 Last week I ended on that verse. I talked about 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.400 plot holes in our lives, things we don't understand, can't 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.320 make sense out of, and how God filled the hole. 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:28.119 But I used the word whole, wholi versus whole, and 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.880 how God has everything taken into account for your life. Now, 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:33.800 look at what the Holy Spirit did. He filled the 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:38.280 whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.200 to be tongues of fire that separated and came to 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.200 rest on each of them. All of them were filled 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.160 with the Holy Spirit. That's what we want to We 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:51.320 want to be filled not with the foolish opinions of 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:56.920 this stupid world, but with the Holy Spirit. And not 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.000 only were they filled with the Holy Spirit, But they 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:03.800 began to in other tongues as the spirit enabled them. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.960 Now there were staying in Jerusalem, God fearing Jews from 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.120 every nation under heaven. And when they heard this sound, 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:15.280 a crowd came together in bewilderment because each one heard 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.160 their own language being spoken. 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:23.320 Utterly amazed, they asked, aren't all these who are speaking Galileans? 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.880 Then? How is it that each of us here's them 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:37.680 in our native language? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, residents of Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.760 Phrygia and Pamphilia, Egypt and all the parts of Libya 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:45.600 near Syreene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and converts to Judaism, 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:47.160 Cretans and Arabs. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:48.559 Y'all clap. 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.680 I worked hard on pronouncing those words all week, got 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:54.360 practice ship out loud about ten times. I did it. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:54.840 I did it. 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:56.920 I didn't even have to speak in tongues. 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.479 I did it in English. We hear them decl clearing 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:05.000 the wonders of God in our own tongues. Now watch 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:10.720 this contradiction, Verse twelve. Amazed and perplexed. Amazed and perplexed, 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.880 It's like, God, I believe what you're doing, but I'm 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:20.839 still confused. That's how they felt, amazed and perplexed, really 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.240 blown away, but at the same time kind of you know, 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.920 tossed about, wondering what's going on. Amazed and perplexed. They 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:33.640 asked one another, what does this mean? Somehowever, you always 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:37.479 got some in every crowd. Some however, made fun of 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:42.080 them and said, and they've had too much wine. You 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:42.760 know what I'm saying. 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:44.960 So so. 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:50.960 You know how you do. Hey, anytime God is moving, 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:59.240 someone will be mocking. So if God is moving in 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.359 your life as a teen and your friends aren't inviting 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.240 you to all the parties and they're making fun of you, 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.159 oh you're that little Christian kid, You're that little Bible 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:11.200 tote kid, You're that little virgin girl. Absolutely God is 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.159 moving in my life and I'm getting ready for the 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:18.080 next season He's bringing me into and they're mocking. Will 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.800 never stop your God from moving in your life unless 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:24.640 you let it, because watch this verse fourteen. Then Peter 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:30.720 stood up with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:36.600 the crowd, fellow Jews and all of you who live 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:40.000 in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you. 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.840 Let me break it down. You're talking about it. 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.520 But let me say something about it because I know 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:49.720 something about it. Listen carefully to what I say. These 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:54.599 people are not drunk as you suppose. It's only nine 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:58.880 in the morning. Theeter had jokes. Theeter had a great 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.880 opening line and rapport with this audience. Now if you 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.000 come back at nine o'clock to night, they might be drunk. 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.080 I can't speak, but it's too early for that. 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.120 It's only nine in the morning. 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:12.960 No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.320 in the last days, God says, I will. 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.600 Pour out my spirit on all people. 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:23.440 Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:28.200 see visions, Your old men will dream dreams. Even on 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.760 my servants, both men and women. I will pour out 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:38.080 my spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. Tell 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:44.400 your neighbor you will prophesy. Tell them man I prophesy 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:51.160 over your life. God is going to speak to you today. 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.120 Welcome to Part three of Ghostwriter. The name of our 0:07:55.160 --> 0:08:04.000 sermon this week is called source mais source material. Now 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:05.880 tell your neighbor on your way to the seat, like 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:07.560 the new kids on the block said, I got the 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:15.760 right stuff and be seated. Yeah, source material Week one, 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.679 page turner, Week two, plot hole Week three, Source material, 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:24.280 Bring me my screen. I feel like teaching, preaching, prophescien, 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:32.959 speaking in tongues, whatever it takes. You know, source material 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:34.960 doesn't sound very sexy as a title. 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:36.400 I understand page turner. 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:41.360 That's kind of like, oh yeah, new chapter, new boyfriend, 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:46.440 new neighborhood, new net worth, new zip code, new network. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.920 My new network is my new net Worth. Put another 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.240 zero because it's a page turner. Open another chapter. It's 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:53.920 a page turner. 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:55.320 And then plot hole. 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:57.920 Once you found out what that was last week, you 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.120 were shouting about it because you were Sometimes what you 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:05.679 think is a plot hole is actually God setting up 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.280 a twist to take your life in a different direction. 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.600 This one source material, I need to break it down, 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.760 even though you know what it means basically. But how 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:18.679 about this, First of all, let me just write it. 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:21.679 And I do appreciate all of you who are praying 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.600 for me while I write on this screen, that God 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:29.480 would heal my handwriting. I read in the Bible where 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.599 Jesus healed blind eyes, but I don't know if he 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:37.840 ever healed anybody's handwriting. But I certainly need that. And 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.680 if you're listening on a podcast, I am writing the 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:45.199 word source material, and I spelled them Praise the Lord, 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:51.160 source material just put simply, well, let's read the definition, 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:52.960 and read the definition to you. 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:54.200 It is the. 0:09:56.440 --> 0:10:05.440 Data, the documents, or the information source material. Yeah, let 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:05.920 me start over. 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:07.600 It's the original data. 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.840 Yeah, that's the word I needed. Original, the original data, 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:17.079 documents or records used as the basis for creating new work. 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.079 If you apply it across multiple disciplines, it would look 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:25.760 like this. If you are a journalist, your source material 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:35.640 should be first hand accounts, accurate, quote in context, facts, statistics, 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.840 things like that, so that when I read your report, 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:45.800 I can trust your source. Okay, let me move off that, 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:49.240 because I felt like that was a little bit needlessly edgy. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:54.480 Let's talk about music. If you're a musician, you only 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.640 have so many notes to work with. For every song 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.480 that you would ever create, whether a symphony or whether 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.320 it's just a bop on the radio, you get twelve notes. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:09.199 Bach had twelve notes, Beethoven had twelve notes. What you 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:10.079 do with those. 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.560 Twelve notes, and what you do with meter and rhythm 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:17.040 and melody is largely up to your talent and your 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:21.280 ingenuity and creativity, but you get twelve notes, and from 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:26.240 those twelve notes, millions of songs have been sung and written. 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.640 If you are a screenwriter trying to write a movie, 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.040 you might take a book, or you might take an 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.520 original screenplay, but whatever you built that movie from, that. 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.199 Would be your source material. 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.760 So a musician might take a sample and make a 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:47.800 source material. An author might take a historical account and 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.640 then kind of embellish it and then make a new 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.800 story out of source material. 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.480 I thought about using Barbara Kingsolver. 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.079 She wrote a book called Demon Copperhead, and she based 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:02.680 it on the Charles Dickens book David Copperfield, but she 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:08.560 reset that story in a modern context in Appalachia, and 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.320 so when she did it, it was a fresh story, 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:15.280 but it came from a classic source. This book that 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.240 I brought up here with me today was written in 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.920 two thousand and four, and it was a New York 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:26.560 Times bestseller in two thousand and seven. A twenty seven 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.600 year old young man walked by this book just before 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.839 he went on vacation in Mexico, and he needed something 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.679 to read because he really needed to disengage his mind 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.520 when I'm looking for something to disengage my mind. I 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.240 don't take a book this thick, but this is a 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:43.440 different kind of dude. He walked past it and bought it, 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:46.800 and he read it while he was on vacation. Don't 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:48.880 show him what book it is. I'm hiding that on purpose. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:50.719 They're trying to help me, but I don't want to 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:54.080 reveal it yet because the fact of the matter is, 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:55.800 I'm pretty sure I can't prove it. I don't have 0:12:55.840 --> 0:13:00.320 any records of it. But this particular individual, he's the 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:01.119 same age. 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:07.640 That I am, and I've never met him. I respect him. 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:10.920 The year two thousand and seven, we were both twenty 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.120 seven years old, and I'm pretty sure I went in 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.720 a bookstore when I was twenty seven at some point 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.680 that year, at least once, and this book was such 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:21.800 a big deal that I'm sure I walked by this book. 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:24.760 But I did not look at this book and think 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:29.240 that would make an amazing Broadway musical where I could 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:37.560 recast the Founding Fathers as hip hop artists and take 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:41.120 the entire world by storm. The book, of course, is 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:46.720 the biography of Alexander Hamilton, written by Ron Chernou and 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.120 the person who picked it up is none other than 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:54.959 the great prophet lin Manuel Miranda. And when lin Manuel 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.720 Miranda walked by this book, he thought, huh, I should 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.480 read that on vacation. If I picked up this book 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:06.040 for vacation, the result would be a nap, no offense 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:10.040 to the book. But about page three I'd be out. 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.760 This book would be for me a twenty three dollars ambient. 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:18.880 That's what it would be, thirty dollars in Canada. For him, 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:23.240 it captivated audiences. How many of you have seen Hamilton? 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.160 The rest of you, don't throw away your shot. Go 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:31.640 see Hamilton at least on Disney Plus. Now you can 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:35.520 download it. It grossed on twenty twenty by that point, 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.840 six hundred and fifty million dollars on Broadway alone. I 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:40.760 don't even know what it made on Disney Plus and 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:42.760 all of the merchandise and all that. I couldn't find 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:47.240 it in chat GPT. And then I found out that 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.960 it was nominated for eleven Tony Awards, or at won 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:52.200 eleven Tony Awards. 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:52.600 I believe. 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:54.200 Check it out later when you get home. You can 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.000 go check the source and see if I'm right about it. 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.280 But what I thought was interesting and we're I want 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.720 to bring this into your life. Is because how was 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:05.600 I in the bookstore where this book was. 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:08.640 And maybe even walk by it. 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.280 I mean, it's not typically the section I walked by 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:14.040 in the bookstore, I'll be honest, but possibly I was 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.680 close by. And why did this book call out to him? 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:20.320 And why did he take it? Do you ever see 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.600 somebody on shark Tank And you're like, I could have 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:26.680 thought of that, you know, I picked up this book, 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:27.400 and I did. 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.160 I bought it this week and I didn't read it. 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:30.720 I just flipped through it a little bit, skimmed it 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:32.800 a little bit, and not. 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.600 Once did I think, Huh, this would make an amazing, 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:43.360 amazing presentation. I could probably create something so wonderful of 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.600 this that people would memorize every line of it. And 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:48.160 I was holding the book this week, and I was 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.440 thinking about Hamilton the musical, which I have now seen 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:55.000 eight times, eight times. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.360 Pray for me. I get obsessed. 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:59.880 The first time I saw it, I knew I would 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:02.840 be seeing it again, and I watched it again and 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.360 again and again. But then when I picked up the 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:09.240 book that he said inspired him to write the story 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.920 of the Treasury Secretary in the form of a hip 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:13.680 hop musical. 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:17.600 Here's the question I had, How did he get that 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:19.880 out of this? 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:25.440 Put the picture up, there's lin Manuel, there's the cast. 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:30.320 One of the greatest musicals of all time started with 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:34.120 something that I won't even ever look at again. In fact, 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.560 I will give this away after church today. Put your 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:40.040 name in the offering bucket, and I'll find you because 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:44.880 I'm not reading it. How did he get that from this? 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.520 How was I in the same store walking by the 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:53.440 same book and he turned it into something so appse, 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.360 I mean a cultural phenomenon. 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:57.720 He performed this in the White House. 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.359 And I'll be honest with you, I kind of feel 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:09.600 the same thing about these disciples that we're looking at 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.840 in Acts chapter two, because I'm looking at them right, 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:20.320 and they're sincere, and they are sincere, and they are sincere. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.159 But that's about all they have going for them, because 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:28.080 they're in this small room everybody say small room. And 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:32.280 they have a big task. Everybody say big task. And 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:35.760 if you look at the disciples on the surface, they 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.639 do not have the talent that is equal to the 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:42.240 task that they have been given. They do not have 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.080 the time that is equal to the tasks that they 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:49.480 have been given. They do not have the team. Remember, 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.280 these are the boys that only one of them stood 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.200 up for Jesus when he went to the cross. It's 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:58.199 the same theme when you hear about the eleven. The 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.359 only one that's missing is Judas. He's replaced by a 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:05.040 rookie named Matthias. Peter is the leader of the whole thing, 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:07.439 and he was the one who was cursing while Jesus 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:11.000 was being crucified. So I'm looking at them and see, 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.520 I know where the Book of Acts ends. By the 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:16.320 time you get to the end of the Book of Acts, 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.920 the Gospel has gone from this small room. Everybody say, 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:25.600 small room, this upper room in Jerusalem, this small little corner, 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:31.600 this small little place where the disciples were gathered, and 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.560 it has spread within a period of only a couple 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:38.879 of decades. It spreads the message of Jesus Christ spreads 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:43.840 and not only does it penetrate the lower echelons of 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.880 society so that the poor might be lifted. 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.280 But by the time you'll get to the end. 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:50.840 Of the Book of Acts, if you ever read it 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.600 cover to cover, you will see the Gospel standing before 0:18:54.720 --> 0:19:00.240 kings and princes. You will see the Gospel from this 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:05.240 little small room in Jerusalem all the way to the 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:09.320 heart of the Roman Empire, the most powerful center. 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:09.560 Of the day. 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:13.080 As it journeys through Antioch, where the believers are first 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.840 called Christians, as it makes its way through Ephesus, which 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:20.440 was a center of commerce and trade, as it even 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:24.600 sweeps through Corinth, which was the most decadent Las Vegas city. 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:28.040 What happened in Corinth stayed in Corinth, But what happened 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:32.480 in Jerusalem didn't stay in Jerusalem. What happened in Jerusalem 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:37.840 spread all throughout the Roman Empire. It spread across dangerous seas, 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:43.040 It spread past bendits, It spread through persecution, it spread 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:47.160 through government edicts. It spread even though they didn't have technology. 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:51.800 It spread without YouTube, It's spread without Instagram, it spread 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.880 without TikTok. The Truth put its shoes on and made 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:58.080 a lap around the world. And TikTok wasn't even invented, 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.359 and Wi Fi wasn't even available, and Jesus didn't give 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.760 him the password anyway, He just left and sent his 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:11.000 spirit and they did it. And you gotta wonder, how 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:18.800 did this come out of that? How did this? How 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:29.600 did it get all the way from Palestine? To Balentine, Huh. 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:33.919 The truth about it is they did what they did 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:36.080 having less than we have. 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:39.040 They didn't have. 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:41.400 The Book of Acts to preach a series from. 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:42.720 They were living it out. 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.200 They didn't have the Book of Romans to tell them 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:48.480 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:52.520 Because Paul was still in prison, he hadn't picked up 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:56.399 the pin yet. They had none of this at the time, 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:57.400 and yet. 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:00.360 They did all of that. I bring it up not. 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:04.400 To discourage you, but to encourage you because there may 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:06.840 be a place in your life today where you're saying 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:09.240 to yourself, not out loud, but you're saying to yourself, 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:13.399 how am I supposed to do that when all I 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:15.480 have is this? 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:18.800 How am I supposed to do that? 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:23.240 How am I supposed to raise these kids when I 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.480 don't even understand the world that they're living in. How 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:29.160 am I supposed to raise a family when I came 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.720 from a broken family. How am I supposed to move 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:35.320 up in my job so that I can provide for 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:38.600 my future when I don't even have the basic education 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:41.240 that was required to be in the position I'm in now, 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:42.800 let alone the one. 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:47.080 That's ahead of me. How do I do this? 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:50.480 How do I do that? 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:53.920 And all I have is this? 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:58.080 Now, Fortunately, there is a principle that you and I 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:01.320 can lean on should we choose to. And I want 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:04.040 you to take this with you into every situation in 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:08.359 your life where you're saying, how am I supposed to 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:11.720 do that? All right, preacher, you're telling me to forgive 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:14.919 and move forward and move and be healed and be 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:19.040 sanctified and be free and live for Jesus and do 0:22:19.080 --> 0:22:22.520 these things and be patient and be kind and be humble. 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:27.400 And I hear you, how am I supposed to do that? 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:31.359 When all I have is this? Because everything you're up 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:34.040 here talking about I don't have much of a template for. 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:36.560 And every time I try to do it, my old 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:39.760 template inserts itself in the place of my good intentions. 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:42.560 So my template is overwriting my intentions. Every time you 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:45.760 say amen after one of these sermons, how am I 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:48.639 supposed to do that? Sounds good? Praise them in the 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:53.439 midnight hour? How am I supposed to do that? 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:55.840 And here's the principle. 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:22.439 If you're supposed to do it, you will have God's 0:23:22.480 --> 0:23:23.400 support for it. 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:32.480 Past that, it's a lot of me. 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:41.680 If you're supposed to do it, you will have God's 0:23:43.000 --> 0:23:47.960 support for it. Now. I know it doesn't feel like 0:23:48.040 --> 0:23:53.639 that right now, because sometimes when God is beginning to 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:57.640 do something in your life, you do not see his support. 0:23:58.880 --> 0:24:02.000 So when all the way back to the beginning of 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:05.280 the whole Bible in Genesis won one, and I figured, 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:08.679 since we're talking about the source, we should go to 0:24:08.880 --> 0:24:12.919 the source and see what the source did to create 0:24:12.960 --> 0:24:16.240 every situation that we see. And the Bible says in 0:24:16.280 --> 0:24:19.880 Genesis chapter verse one, in the beginning. 0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:24.000 God, that's the source. Uh huh. 0:24:24.200 --> 0:24:26.520 That's why I can move forward into the next season 0:24:26.520 --> 0:24:31.600 of my life because in the beginning, God, what did 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:34.960 he do? Created the heavens and the earth? And I 0:24:35.000 --> 0:24:37.480 love this part. It says, now the earth was formless 0:24:37.480 --> 0:24:40.720 and empty. Darkness was over the surface of the deep, 0:24:41.400 --> 0:24:46.280 and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:50.680 Stay right there, The Spirit of God was hovering over 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:54.359 the waters. There was no light yet, but there was 0:24:54.400 --> 0:25:00.639 still spirit. There was darkness, no light, but there. 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:04.560 Was still spirit. There was no form yet. That means 0:25:04.600 --> 0:25:06.080 it hadn't taken shape yet. 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:10.680 But even before the earth took shape, there was still spirit. 0:25:11.600 --> 0:25:14.720 There are some things in your life that have not 0:25:14.800 --> 0:25:18.159 taken shape. Yet there are some things in your life 0:25:18.600 --> 0:25:24.280 that are formless and empty and dark and dreary. Just 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:29.000 because there's no light yet doesn't mean there's no spirit yet. 0:25:30.119 --> 0:25:34.280 Just because there's no apparent solution yet doesn't mean God 0:25:34.320 --> 0:25:35.600 isn't on the scene yet. 0:25:36.119 --> 0:25:37.360 For the Bible says that. 0:25:37.400 --> 0:25:41.840 God hovered over something that seemed empty. But it's not 0:25:41.960 --> 0:25:44.520 just that the spirit was there. Now put up verse three, 0:25:45.119 --> 0:25:47.560 because it was dark, and because it was formless, and 0:25:47.600 --> 0:25:50.680 because there was no light, and because there was no shape. 0:25:50.760 --> 0:25:56.200 The Bible says that God said, everybody, say, God said, 0:25:57.560 --> 0:26:00.880 if you go all the way back to the very beginning, 0:26:00.920 --> 0:26:03.600 past the founding fathers of the United States of America, 0:26:03.920 --> 0:26:06.920 past Lin, Manuel Miranda, past the time you were born, 0:26:07.000 --> 0:26:09.000 past the time you were addicted, past the time you 0:26:09.080 --> 0:26:10.960 got a divorce, past the time you got the job, 0:26:11.200 --> 0:26:13.399 past the time you lost the child in the custody battle. 0:26:13.520 --> 0:26:15.920 If you go all the way back past that, there 0:26:15.960 --> 0:26:19.960 are two things that were always there, the spirit of 0:26:20.000 --> 0:26:28.520 God and the Word of God. God hovered and he spoke, 0:26:29.359 --> 0:26:31.600 and God said verse three, put it back up. 0:26:31.920 --> 0:26:34.720 Let there be light. And there was light. 0:26:35.359 --> 0:26:40.560 Because God said it, everything we see started here with 0:26:40.680 --> 0:26:46.280 the Spirit and the word, the spirit and the spoken 0:26:46.800 --> 0:26:48.200 word of God. 0:26:49.200 --> 0:26:51.120 And now you understand. 0:26:51.119 --> 0:26:54.480 What I mean when I say that if you're supposed 0:26:54.520 --> 0:26:58.640 to do it, you will have God's support for it. 0:26:59.720 --> 0:27:03.720 Are our disciples sitting in a small room with a 0:27:03.760 --> 0:27:04.399 big task. 0:27:05.240 --> 0:27:07.760 How are we supposed to take the Gospel. 0:27:07.320 --> 0:27:09.840 To the ends of the earth. For one thing, we 0:27:09.920 --> 0:27:14.160 don't have a car, let alone a plane. How are 0:27:14.200 --> 0:27:16.640 we supposed to speak their language when we get there? 0:27:17.600 --> 0:27:18.600 But as he. 0:27:18.480 --> 0:27:21.960 Does so many times in our life, God had the 0:27:22.080 --> 0:27:24.560 answer on the way before they even formed. 0:27:24.240 --> 0:27:27.159 The question to ask who is this? 0:27:27.280 --> 0:27:30.080 For God has already dispatched the answer. 0:27:31.880 --> 0:27:34.240 And there's no light yet, but. 0:27:34.280 --> 0:27:38.240 He's already on the scene. And here's where it gets confusing. 0:27:38.680 --> 0:27:41.600 When we go to our scripture. At first it looks 0:27:41.640 --> 0:27:45.200 like maybe God isn't there. Look at this in Acts 0:27:45.280 --> 0:27:48.840 chapter two. I don't always know why people shout about 0:27:48.880 --> 0:27:50.960 stuff in the Bible that they shout about. When you 0:27:50.960 --> 0:27:53.760 say the day of Pentecost came, that was a Jewish festival. 0:27:53.840 --> 0:27:56.000 It was called the Festival of Weeks. 0:27:56.040 --> 0:27:58.600 It was the end of the barley harvest and the 0:27:58.600 --> 0:28:00.840 beginning of the wheat harvest, and so you had to 0:28:00.840 --> 0:28:03.800 make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and they would usually see 0:28:03.800 --> 0:28:06.320 about triple the population in the city, so every street 0:28:06.440 --> 0:28:09.240 was crowded, and everybody's there. They're coming from all over 0:28:09.280 --> 0:28:11.640 the world, those who honor and fear God, and they're 0:28:11.640 --> 0:28:14.240 bringing their first fruits, offering to say, thank you, Lord 0:28:14.520 --> 0:28:16.960 for this harvest. We believe you for the next. Everything 0:28:17.040 --> 0:28:19.919 we have comes from your hand. And while they're celebrating 0:28:20.000 --> 0:28:24.000 the harvest, they're waiting on one. They are waiting for 0:28:24.080 --> 0:28:27.080 the Holy Spirit to be given so that they can 0:28:27.720 --> 0:28:30.359 receive the harvest of souls that would reach to the 0:28:30.440 --> 0:28:31.840 ends of the earth. And the Bible says when the 0:28:31.920 --> 0:28:34.320 day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place, 0:28:34.600 --> 0:28:37.640 and suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent 0:28:37.680 --> 0:28:38.240 wind came. 0:28:39.000 --> 0:28:42.400 And everybody, when you read that, they always like if 0:28:42.400 --> 0:28:45.320 you read it in a church, everybody will always shout. 0:28:45.120 --> 0:28:51.520 When you say suddenly, and they will shout about the 0:28:51.600 --> 0:28:56.160 sound of a violent win. But let's take ourselves out 0:28:56.200 --> 0:28:59.400 of just the fact that this sounds exciting. What is 0:28:59.400 --> 0:29:05.840 a violent win when this is called a storm? If 0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:10.040 you subtract all of the nice, oh, the sound suddenly 0:29:10.080 --> 0:29:14.080 the sound of violent the sound of a violent wind. 0:29:15.400 --> 0:29:17.280 That's not something that we usually shout about. 0:29:17.320 --> 0:29:20.920 That's something that we usually close the shutters and try 0:29:20.920 --> 0:29:24.280 to survive. And then look at the next thing that happened. 0:29:24.840 --> 0:29:26.840 It said that the violent wind came from heaven and 0:29:26.840 --> 0:29:28.240 filled the whole house where they were sitting. 0:29:28.560 --> 0:29:31.880 And they saw verse three what seemed to be tongues 0:29:31.920 --> 0:29:32.440 of fire. 0:29:33.120 --> 0:29:36.400 And you say tongues of fire, and everybody will shout and. 0:29:36.400 --> 0:29:39.320 Tongues of fire? Can you ever put your tongue on 0:29:39.320 --> 0:29:42.560 the stove? Have you ever even eaten the halapeno pepper? 0:29:42.880 --> 0:29:45.920 Why would you shout about that? A fire will burn you. 0:29:47.520 --> 0:29:52.000 So now we shout about the storm, and we shout 0:29:52.040 --> 0:29:52.760 about the fire. 0:29:52.840 --> 0:29:56.960 But let's be honest. If a wind is un controlled. 0:29:56.480 --> 0:30:00.200 It can kill you. A wind is a blessing if 0:30:00.200 --> 0:30:01.960 it's in the right amount and you have a sail. 0:30:03.840 --> 0:30:06.400 But a wind can also take you off course. A 0:30:06.480 --> 0:30:09.600 wind can also create a hurricane. A wind can also 0:30:09.720 --> 0:30:12.920 knock you on your back. A wind can destroy, so 0:30:13.080 --> 0:30:16.880 can a fire. A fire can sweep through everything that 0:30:16.920 --> 0:30:21.080 you love. A fire can reduce to ruppish an entire village, 0:30:21.080 --> 0:30:24.120 an entire city. We've seen this happen in our time. 0:30:24.640 --> 0:30:28.120 So why are we shouting about a storm? Why are 0:30:28.160 --> 0:30:31.560 we shouting about a fire? I'll show you why. This 0:30:31.600 --> 0:30:34.680 is why you came to church. We're not shouting about 0:30:34.920 --> 0:30:42.560 what the wind was, We're shouting about where it came from, 0:30:42.560 --> 0:30:49.160 because the Bible says that it came from heaven. So 0:30:49.280 --> 0:30:52.560 one thing I know about my life, it's not what 0:30:52.720 --> 0:30:57.560 I go through, it's where it came from that determines 0:30:57.640 --> 0:31:00.720 the result it will have in my life. I'm trying 0:31:00.760 --> 0:31:03.200 to say that the devil is not the source of 0:31:03.240 --> 0:31:07.360 every storm we go through. I'm trying to say that 0:31:07.440 --> 0:31:10.560 some fires that we walk through were not sent by 0:31:10.560 --> 0:31:13.640 the enemy to destroy us. They were sent by the 0:31:13.720 --> 0:31:17.080 Lord to refine us. So now I need to know 0:31:17.120 --> 0:31:20.959 a question. The storm in your emotions, the storm in 0:31:21.000 --> 0:31:24.240 your household, the storm that you're going through in your industry, 0:31:24.520 --> 0:31:26.840 the storm that you're going through as you sort these 0:31:26.880 --> 0:31:29.160 things out that are happening at this age. 0:31:28.880 --> 0:31:31.160 Of your life, where did it come from? 0:31:32.160 --> 0:31:35.200 Did it come from the enemy to destroy you or 0:31:35.240 --> 0:31:38.800 did it come from the Lord to develop you? Better question, 0:31:39.400 --> 0:31:43.320 does it really even matter? Because if God is the source, 0:31:44.200 --> 0:31:47.400 by the time the storm has to pass through his hand, 0:31:48.320 --> 0:31:51.440 the storm that was sent to destroy you. I'll know 0:31:51.480 --> 0:31:54.720 why I'm screaming the whole sermon. I'm just passionate about 0:31:54.720 --> 0:31:58.000 what I say because I hear the sound and it 0:31:58.160 --> 0:32:01.520 sounds like a storm. But it came from the Lord, 0:32:01.960 --> 0:32:03.520 and it will not destroy me. 0:32:04.080 --> 0:32:05.640 It will only develop me. 0:32:11.400 --> 0:32:16.080 You feel that it came from heaven. Say that out loud, 0:32:16.120 --> 0:32:19.400 it came from heaven. I just want us to read 0:32:19.400 --> 0:32:23.640 the Bible like it's real. Here comes a violent win. 0:32:24.280 --> 0:32:29.920 You're not shouting, you're ducking under stuff. Here come tongues 0:32:29.960 --> 0:32:32.400 of fire, And the Bible doesn't say that it was 0:32:32.640 --> 0:32:33.520 actual fire. 0:32:33.800 --> 0:32:35.240 Watch this. Read it real slow. 0:32:35.440 --> 0:32:39.840 It says it was to sound like the blowing of 0:32:39.880 --> 0:32:46.680 a violent wind. It seemed to be tongues of fire. 0:32:47.720 --> 0:32:51.240 It wasn't what it looked like. It wasn't what it 0:32:51.280 --> 0:32:55.560 looked like. It wasn't what it looked like. I know 0:32:55.680 --> 0:32:58.160 it looked like it was the end for you last year, 0:32:58.200 --> 0:33:01.080 but it wasn't what it looked like. I know it 0:33:01.120 --> 0:33:03.480 looked like the reason they pushed you away is because 0:33:03.560 --> 0:33:07.040 you're no good, But it wasn't what it looked like. Ah, 0:33:07.280 --> 0:33:10.640 tell your neighbor it wasn't what it looked like. It 0:33:10.760 --> 0:33:14.200 wasn't what it looked like. It looked like a dead end, 0:33:14.240 --> 0:33:17.000 but it was really a doorway because it wasn't what 0:33:17.120 --> 0:33:21.120 it looked like. How many have a testimony it came 0:33:21.160 --> 0:33:25.680 from heaven. It hurt like hell, but it came from heaven. 0:33:26.400 --> 0:33:30.640 I hear the Holy Spirit blowing in my spirit today 0:33:31.360 --> 0:33:34.720 telling me to tell you it wasn't what it looked like. 0:33:35.480 --> 0:33:38.760 Looked like it would be the last time. But Doc's 0:33:38.800 --> 0:33:40.040 got new wine. 0:33:40.520 --> 0:33:45.680 Well for your mouse had well this atmosphere with Ray, 0:33:46.640 --> 0:33:47.960 it wasn't what it looked like. 0:33:49.600 --> 0:33:52.520 Never thought they had him, put him in the brave. 0:33:53.160 --> 0:33:56.720 Looked like he was a criminal, they're to stay. But 0:33:56.920 --> 0:33:58.280 it wasn't what it looked like. 0:33:58.840 --> 0:33:59.640 Three days. 0:34:05.000 --> 0:34:10.080 Don't let me preach on the holy ghosts. I'm telling 0:34:10.080 --> 0:34:14.840 you right now, it wasn't what it looked like. Yeah, 0:34:15.640 --> 0:34:22.840 all right, sit down. Interesting the Bible said that it 0:34:22.960 --> 0:34:30.080 filled the house where they were sitting, sitting sitting. Are 0:34:30.120 --> 0:34:34.839 you sitting where you're supposed to be sitting? I don't 0:34:34.840 --> 0:34:38.680 mean like right now in the church? Is usher told 0:34:38.680 --> 0:34:44.040 me it's not my fault. Is he sitting where you're 0:34:44.040 --> 0:34:47.399 supposed to be sitting. See, I think some of you, 0:34:48.080 --> 0:34:52.200 m I don't mean, I don't mean to be confrontational theral, 0:34:53.719 --> 0:34:56.160 I think some of you aren't getting what you should 0:34:56.160 --> 0:34:59.160 be getting because you're not sitting. 0:35:03.239 --> 0:35:04.840 Where you should be sitting. 0:35:07.239 --> 0:35:11.160 Okay, if the disciples try to go in their own 0:35:11.160 --> 0:35:13.480 strength and take the Gospel all through the Roman Empire, 0:35:14.120 --> 0:35:17.160 what are the chances that it makes it to Valentine today? 0:35:17.400 --> 0:35:19.480 What are the chances that it makes it to Winston Salem. 0:35:19.600 --> 0:35:21.440 What are the chances it makes it to Gaston County? 0:35:21.560 --> 0:35:23.400 What are the chances that it makes it to Zimbabwe? 0:35:23.480 --> 0:35:25.279 What are the chances that it makes it to your room, 0:35:25.320 --> 0:35:27.480 your hospital room right there? What are the chances that 0:35:27.520 --> 0:35:30.440 we're still preaching about Jesus today if they tried. 0:35:30.280 --> 0:35:32.400 To do it in their own strength. 0:35:34.800 --> 0:35:39.920 Recently, in preaching, I had to adjust some things about 0:35:39.920 --> 0:35:43.840 my style of preaching to sustain my ability to preach. 0:35:45.080 --> 0:35:47.120 And one of the things that I decided I would do, 0:35:47.840 --> 0:35:49.879 in addition to the way that I prepare and plan 0:35:49.960 --> 0:35:54.239 and try to lean more into God and less into 0:35:54.360 --> 0:35:57.719 this idea that I have to change someone's life when 0:35:57.760 --> 0:36:03.120 I preach, and more that He is source, that he 0:36:03.280 --> 0:36:08.080 is the source, and I am just a sail and 0:36:08.160 --> 0:36:13.640 his is the wind. Even in raising your kids, you know, 0:36:14.760 --> 0:36:17.839 sometimes you have to realize that the reason you are 0:36:17.880 --> 0:36:21.359 so stressed out as a parent is because you are 0:36:21.360 --> 0:36:23.360 trying to fill a role in their life that you 0:36:23.400 --> 0:36:30.200 are not supposed to fill. Yeah, and all the teenagers like, 0:36:30.280 --> 0:36:33.960 thank you Jesus, preach Pastor Stephen, see thirteen year olds 0:36:33.960 --> 0:36:37.080 waking up all around the church, tell them lea me alone. No, no, no. 0:36:37.600 --> 0:36:43.000 You are supposed to be their guide, not their God. 0:36:46.800 --> 0:36:52.160 And sometimes we get confused about what we're supposed to do. 0:36:53.920 --> 0:36:56.800 So I want to ask you, are you Are you weary? 0:36:56.880 --> 0:36:58.960 Are you out of stamina? Are you out of strength? 0:36:59.600 --> 0:37:04.680 Because you are asking God to support something that you're 0:37:04.680 --> 0:37:08.960 not even supposed to be doing, of trying to make 0:37:09.000 --> 0:37:12.200 them what you think they need to be. Are you 0:37:12.280 --> 0:37:18.400 minding your own business? Or do you keep borrowing drama 0:37:19.040 --> 0:37:23.799 from social media trying to pray away stress that you 0:37:24.120 --> 0:37:28.360 ingested in your own system by mindless scrolling. You weren't 0:37:28.400 --> 0:37:31.040 supposed to be scrolling at eleven thirty pm. 0:37:31.120 --> 0:37:32.720 You were supposed to be sleeping. 0:37:33.080 --> 0:37:35.760 Then you saw something you weren't supposed to be seeing. 0:37:35.800 --> 0:37:38.040 Because you were scrolling on something when you should have 0:37:38.120 --> 0:37:40.840 been sleeping, and you were sitting somewhere that you shouldn't 0:37:40.880 --> 0:37:43.040 have been sitting, and now you're not getting what you 0:37:43.120 --> 0:37:48.359 could be getting because you're sitting where Anyway, it's half 0:37:48.400 --> 0:37:50.120 holygoes half doctor SEUs. Today. 0:37:52.440 --> 0:37:53.759 But I went to see a guy. 0:37:53.800 --> 0:37:55.719 I said, one thing I need to work on is 0:37:55.880 --> 0:37:58.200 my voice, because I would preach a lot of times 0:37:58.200 --> 0:38:00.840 and I would feel very horse after I preached. And 0:38:00.880 --> 0:38:02.759 I thought the guy he was a voice coach. His 0:38:02.800 --> 0:38:04.960 name is Roger Love. I thought he would say stop 0:38:05.040 --> 0:38:07.680 screaming so much. So I came to him and I said, 0:38:07.680 --> 0:38:09.000 I know you're gonna tell me two things to do, 0:38:09.040 --> 0:38:10.120 and I'm not going to do either one of them. 0:38:10.160 --> 0:38:12.080 You're gonna say, stop drinking diet coke. 0:38:12.160 --> 0:38:14.480 That's off the table. The Lord. The Lord and I 0:38:14.520 --> 0:38:17.600 have an arrangement that is not my Isaac. 0:38:18.120 --> 0:38:26.120 And number two, number two, you're gonna tell me to 0:38:26.120 --> 0:38:28.480 stop screaming and I'm not doing either. And he said, 0:38:28.480 --> 0:38:30.160 I don't need to drink diet coke. It's gonna kill you. 0:38:30.200 --> 0:38:32.080 But it's not what's messing up your voice. I said, 0:38:32.080 --> 0:38:34.200 it's not. I thought you were gonna tell me the 0:38:34.239 --> 0:38:39.640 chemicals came from a conspiracy in China. They're trying to 0:38:39.760 --> 0:38:42.160 He said, no, no, no, He said, you can drink 0:38:42.160 --> 0:38:45.120 that coke and you can scream all you want. He said, 0:38:45.120 --> 0:38:48.000 I don't want you to stop screaming. I want you 0:38:48.040 --> 0:38:56.239 to start breathing. Now. This guy's expensive. I said, I 0:38:57.680 --> 0:39:03.279 paid you how much for you to tell me to breathe? 0:39:03.880 --> 0:39:05.759 He said, yeah, no, wonder your voice hurts. I had 0:39:05.760 --> 0:39:07.840 had a thing in my throat for about six months 0:39:08.719 --> 0:39:11.560 and I couldn't make it go away. And I said, 0:39:12.040 --> 0:39:13.920 I know that when you screamed is supposed to her. 0:39:13.920 --> 0:39:17.800 He said, it's not supposed to hurt. Tell your neighbor, 0:39:18.320 --> 0:39:23.240 it's not supposed to hurt. Yeah, we go through things, 0:39:24.200 --> 0:39:28.319 but I was sustaining damage that I didn't need to 0:39:28.360 --> 0:39:35.080 sustain because of something as simple as I wasn't breathing. 0:39:36.480 --> 0:39:38.680 Did you hear how much I just screamed at you? 0:39:39.880 --> 0:39:41.000 And my voice. 0:39:40.760 --> 0:39:46.640 Still feels strong because he taught me, I can scream 0:39:47.120 --> 0:39:53.160 if I breathe. If I breathe, if I breathe, I 0:39:53.160 --> 0:39:54.799 can make the sound I need to make. 0:39:55.320 --> 0:39:57.480 Whether I should scream or not, that's your business. 0:39:57.880 --> 0:40:01.640 But I do have a scripture, Acts Chapter two, verse fourteen. 0:40:02.760 --> 0:40:06.560 Then Peter put the scripture up, stood. 0:40:06.360 --> 0:40:07.680 Up with the eleven. 0:40:09.040 --> 0:40:12.799 Raised his voice of a scripture. 0:40:12.880 --> 0:40:14.040 I can screen bar. 0:40:16.200 --> 0:40:19.640 He didn't say a soft He said it from a 0:40:19.680 --> 0:40:20.320 deep place. 0:40:21.560 --> 0:40:24.319 And it says he stood up, and it says he 0:40:24.400 --> 0:40:25.320 raised his voice. 0:40:25.520 --> 0:40:27.960 But I have been learning that the only way you 0:40:28.000 --> 0:40:31.480 can really make a volume is if you take a breath. 0:40:33.120 --> 0:40:36.720 The Bible says he raised his voice. What the Bible 0:40:36.760 --> 0:40:41.280 does not say is that he took a deep breath. However, 0:40:41.320 --> 0:40:43.600 we have evidence that he took a deep breath before 0:40:43.600 --> 0:40:47.640 he raised his voice, because that day, off of one sermon, 0:40:48.000 --> 0:40:51.560 he preached about the crucifixion of Jesus, he preached about 0:40:51.560 --> 0:40:55.640 the resurrection of Jesus, he preached about the judgment of Jesus. 0:40:55.920 --> 0:40:57.200 He preached about the need. 0:40:57.080 --> 0:41:01.920 For repentance and baptism and confection of sin. And he 0:41:02.080 --> 0:41:05.719 pierced their heart and three thousand of them became believers 0:41:05.719 --> 0:41:10.400 that day. There were no microphones, there was no public 0:41:10.440 --> 0:41:14.080 address system. How did his voice get all the way 0:41:14.120 --> 0:41:17.040 from here to three thousand people. 0:41:18.760 --> 0:41:23.160 He had to breathe. He had to breathe, And. 0:41:23.200 --> 0:41:25.560 I want to give you a Holy ghost voice lesson 0:41:25.600 --> 0:41:27.200 today for your life. 0:41:27.800 --> 0:41:30.760 You got to breathe. You're not breathing. 0:41:32.040 --> 0:41:34.680 Is some things that are hurting in your life that 0:41:34.760 --> 0:41:38.000 aren't supposed to be hurting, but you're not breathing. 0:41:39.200 --> 0:41:43.000 If you would get a breath from Heaven before you. 0:41:43.000 --> 0:41:46.120 Would take that next step, you would feel the wind 0:41:46.120 --> 0:41:46.799 of God in. 0:41:46.760 --> 0:41:50.200 Your sel and you wouldn't have to row your boat alone. 0:41:50.840 --> 0:41:52.399 You would have something blow in. 0:41:52.320 --> 0:41:55.720 Your sales that would help you get where you're trying 0:41:55.760 --> 0:41:59.680 to go. But you hadn't been breathing. You've been running 0:41:59.680 --> 0:42:03.080 from one appointment to another. You've been running from one 0:42:03.120 --> 0:42:07.640 stressful situation to another. You've been running from one hypothetical 0:42:07.719 --> 0:42:12.080 scenario to another, and you haven't been breathing. You haven't 0:42:12.120 --> 0:42:16.200 stopped lately and said, God, I need you for this. God, 0:42:16.400 --> 0:42:19.520 show me what you have called me to do. And 0:42:19.640 --> 0:42:22.160 if you are trying to do something in your strength 0:42:22.360 --> 0:42:25.440 that you are not supposed to do in God's sovereignty, 0:42:25.800 --> 0:42:31.040 he will not support it. The Holy Spirit will only 0:42:31.120 --> 0:42:36.040 support what the voice of the Lord orders. That means 0:42:36.120 --> 0:42:38.520 God will not help you be more like the person 0:42:38.560 --> 0:42:44.600 you're comparing yourself to. God will not help you reach 0:42:44.680 --> 0:42:46.880 the goal of somebody who has different gifts than you. 0:42:50.080 --> 0:42:52.520 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire, They 0:42:52.600 --> 0:42:56.960 heard what sounded like a rushing wind. Part of my 0:42:57.080 --> 0:43:01.040 wisdom is knowing what I'm not supposed to do, so 0:43:01.120 --> 0:43:04.000 that i am not expecting God to support me in 0:43:04.120 --> 0:43:06.120 something I'm not even supposed to be doing. 0:43:07.719 --> 0:43:08.839 You're not supposed to be. 0:43:08.800 --> 0:43:12.040 Hanging around them, so you will not have the strength 0:43:12.080 --> 0:43:14.800 to avoid the temptation if you keep spending the majority 0:43:14.880 --> 0:43:17.200 of your time with them, because you are not supposed 0:43:17.200 --> 0:43:19.680 to have them as your inner circle. I am going 0:43:19.719 --> 0:43:22.479 to preach this word to help somebody so you don't 0:43:22.520 --> 0:43:28.080 hurt where you're not supposed to hurt, because you are 0:43:28.120 --> 0:43:32.279 sitting where you are not supposed to sit. This is 0:43:32.320 --> 0:43:35.960 an amazing revelation for us that the way that the 0:43:36.000 --> 0:43:38.960 Spirit of God moved into disciples, the way that the 0:43:39.000 --> 0:43:42.520 Gospel of Jesus Christ reached the end of the world, 0:43:42.560 --> 0:43:45.040 the end of the earth, is all through this one 0:43:45.320 --> 0:43:51.440 little phrase. It says the Spirit enabled them. That means 0:43:51.480 --> 0:43:57.920 they reason the same spirit that was hovering over the 0:43:57.960 --> 0:44:02.240 waters in Genesis One, that they breathe in the same 0:44:02.360 --> 0:44:06.000 spirit that was hovering over the creation when it was 0:44:06.040 --> 0:44:11.040 still chaos, and that same spirit does not hover over 0:44:11.120 --> 0:44:19.120 your life today. It lives within your very soul. Breathe 0:44:19.120 --> 0:44:25.680 it in. Breathe it in. Stop arguing with people, and 0:44:25.800 --> 0:44:29.120 breathe God in. You know, I feel like our whole 0:44:29.160 --> 0:44:32.600 problem is sometimes we try to ask the right question, 0:44:33.160 --> 0:44:36.520 but we ask to the wrong crowd. The Bible says 0:44:36.600 --> 0:44:39.359 there were people staying under heaven from every nation. If 0:44:39.360 --> 0:44:41.920 you think I'm pronouncing all of those names again, you're crazy. 0:44:43.120 --> 0:44:45.759 But the Bible says that they were amazed and perplexed 0:44:46.280 --> 0:44:47.280 and all of the people. 0:44:47.320 --> 0:44:49.920 Now imagine this. They are hearing the Gospel in their 0:44:49.920 --> 0:44:50.600 own language. 0:44:50.640 --> 0:44:53.040 When you talk about tongues in church, there's different things 0:44:53.040 --> 0:44:55.520 that can mean. One is a prayer language that is 0:44:56.080 --> 0:44:59.480 known to God but unknown by others, and spoken by 0:44:59.480 --> 0:45:02.719 the person that speaking, And that is real. This is 0:45:02.760 --> 0:45:06.880 not that they were speaking in one language and the 0:45:06.880 --> 0:45:09.880 people were hearing in another. It was known to the 0:45:09.960 --> 0:45:13.600 listeners even though it was not previously known to the speakers, 0:45:14.040 --> 0:45:17.279 So it was a miracle. How are we going to 0:45:17.320 --> 0:45:18.759 get the Gospel to the ends of the earth and 0:45:18.800 --> 0:45:20.120 we don't even speak the language? 0:45:20.640 --> 0:45:21.880 The spirit will enable you. 0:45:23.040 --> 0:45:25.080 How am I going to show up in that situation 0:45:25.600 --> 0:45:27.520 and know what to do? 0:45:28.040 --> 0:45:29.279 The Spirit will enable you. 0:45:30.080 --> 0:45:32.120 How am I going to be a witness to Jesus 0:45:32.239 --> 0:45:35.560 Christ when my life is such a mess. The Spirit 0:45:35.600 --> 0:45:40.279 will enable you. God hovers over darkness. God feels emptiness. 0:45:40.760 --> 0:45:43.239 God comes to people who are open and waiting and 0:45:43.280 --> 0:45:47.680 ready and breathing and needing. The Spirit enabled them, And 0:45:47.719 --> 0:45:50.160 the Bible says that as all of these different crowds 0:45:50.200 --> 0:45:56.120 gathered around, amazed and perplexed, they asked, here's the mistake 0:45:57.040 --> 0:46:04.080 one another that will always get you in trouble trying 0:46:04.120 --> 0:46:08.480 to process your life with somebody that's at your same level. 0:46:12.160 --> 0:46:14.080 That's why God gives you the gift. 0:46:14.520 --> 0:46:19.400 Of his spirit. That's what Peter said. He stood up, 0:46:20.640 --> 0:46:23.200 raised his voice. Let me circle that because I like that, 0:46:25.040 --> 0:46:30.400 raised his voice and addressed the crowd. The answer was 0:46:30.440 --> 0:46:33.800 not coming from the crowd. It had to be given 0:46:34.760 --> 0:46:39.520 to the crowd. Peter raised his voice and said to 0:46:39.600 --> 0:46:41.200 the crowd, fellow. 0:46:40.880 --> 0:46:44.040 Juice, let me do it loud, fellow juice, let me 0:46:44.080 --> 0:46:46.719 get deep breath, fellow juice, in all of you who 0:46:46.800 --> 0:46:49.960 live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you Listen 0:46:50.560 --> 0:46:52.800 carefully to what I say. 0:46:53.480 --> 0:46:55.160 Stop asking one another. 0:46:56.160 --> 0:46:59.759 Stop looking for solutions from people who don't know any 0:46:59.800 --> 0:47:05.000 more more than you do about it. He raised his 0:47:05.160 --> 0:47:08.239 voice addressed the crowd, said, all of you, listen to me. 0:47:08.760 --> 0:47:12.279 These people are not drunk as you suppose. Oh I 0:47:12.320 --> 0:47:18.879 love that phrase. As you suppose. Everybody say as you supposed, 0:47:18.920 --> 0:47:21.960 Say it again, as you supposed. 0:47:21.960 --> 0:47:22.720 Here's what happened. 0:47:22.760 --> 0:47:25.120 The crowd saw this crazy thing happening, and they thought 0:47:25.160 --> 0:47:26.960 they must be crazy, they must be drunk. 0:47:27.040 --> 0:47:29.239 This is ridiculous, This makes no sense. What do you 0:47:29.239 --> 0:47:30.720 think they're doing. I think they're drunk. 0:47:30.719 --> 0:47:31.600 What do you think they're doing? 0:47:31.680 --> 0:47:33.520 I think they're crazy. What do you think they're doing? 0:47:33.640 --> 0:47:35.800 And as they're passing this around all through the crowd, 0:47:36.040 --> 0:47:41.840 they begin to support what they have already supposed. Have 0:47:41.960 --> 0:47:48.960 you noticed this in your life that you support whatever 0:47:49.000 --> 0:47:56.200 you've supposed. So if you supposed today that you came 0:47:56.239 --> 0:47:58.000 to Elevation and you're like I heard as a call 0:48:02.040 --> 0:48:06.359 because somebody told you it was a cult, and you 0:48:06.400 --> 0:48:09.760 come in here looking for a cult. 0:48:10.719 --> 0:48:13.880 You know what, you will find evidence. 0:48:16.000 --> 0:48:21.719 For the verdict that you already created because you thought 0:48:21.760 --> 0:48:23.640 you were supposed to be the judge, and you're really 0:48:23.680 --> 0:48:34.480 supposed to be a witness. Even if you suppose somebody 0:48:34.520 --> 0:48:37.200 doesn't like you. I don't think they like me. You 0:48:37.280 --> 0:48:41.200 will find every reason they don't. Did you see how 0:48:41.239 --> 0:48:43.479 they just looked at me? They smiled at you. Yeah, 0:48:43.520 --> 0:48:45.040 but it wasn't a full smile. It was like a 0:48:45.040 --> 0:48:46.960 three four smile. Do you see that three quarter smile? 0:48:48.600 --> 0:48:50.960 Eighty percent at the most was I didn't see any teeth. 0:48:51.000 --> 0:48:52.360 Did you see any teeth? They don't like me. I 0:48:52.360 --> 0:48:55.759 told you they don't like me. I mean, we do 0:48:55.800 --> 0:48:59.520 this all the time. We suppose and then we support. 0:49:00.800 --> 0:49:03.840 I suppose that it's my destiny to be an addict. 0:49:04.920 --> 0:49:07.200 So then I find the friends. 0:49:06.800 --> 0:49:13.960 That will support what I suppose. I suppose that I'm 0:49:14.000 --> 0:49:17.080 never going to get out of this cage. I'm never 0:49:17.120 --> 0:49:20.440 going to break free, I suppose, and then. 0:49:20.320 --> 0:49:23.960 So I don't see anything. What happens in your life 0:49:24.040 --> 0:49:25.680 is you see. 0:49:25.440 --> 0:49:29.880 Something, you think something, you think something, you think something, 0:49:29.960 --> 0:49:34.000 you think something, and then you believe something, You believe something, 0:49:34.760 --> 0:49:35.680 you become something. 0:49:36.600 --> 0:49:40.240 I'll do it again. You see something, so then. 0:49:40.120 --> 0:49:43.400 You think something, you think something, you think something, you 0:49:43.480 --> 0:49:46.840 think something, so you believe something. And then you become 0:49:46.920 --> 0:49:50.920 something and then you say see no, no, no, you 0:49:50.960 --> 0:49:56.799 saw something, you thought something, you believe something, and then 0:49:56.840 --> 0:49:59.640 you became something and then you said, see, I told 0:49:59.680 --> 0:50:02.080 you that's how it was. No, no, no, You just 0:50:02.200 --> 0:50:06.839 supposed and then support it. You supposed that nothing ever 0:50:06.880 --> 0:50:10.120 goes your way. You supposed that God can't use someone 0:50:10.280 --> 0:50:11.040 like you. 0:50:11.040 --> 0:50:14.920 You suppose that it's too late. You supposed that you're 0:50:14.960 --> 0:50:15.439 too young. 0:50:15.800 --> 0:50:18.640 Meanwhile, somebody else that's half your age already did it. 0:50:19.600 --> 0:50:22.319 Somebody else that's twice your age is still doing it. 0:50:22.960 --> 0:50:28.080 But you support what you suppose, and sometimes you. 0:50:28.000 --> 0:50:29.359 Don't realize that. 0:50:29.640 --> 0:50:33.080 Help me, Holy Spirit, that what you have supposed is 0:50:33.120 --> 0:50:34.640 not coming from the right place. 0:50:36.160 --> 0:50:37.600 It's not coming from God. 0:50:38.760 --> 0:50:41.040 I studied it in the Greek because I really wanted 0:50:41.040 --> 0:50:42.000 to understand. 0:50:41.600 --> 0:50:42.239 What Peter said. 0:50:42.280 --> 0:50:45.520 He said, these people are not drunk as you suppose. 0:50:47.000 --> 0:50:49.279 The Greek word for suppose you ready for this? 0:50:51.400 --> 0:50:53.560 Hoopolambano. 0:50:54.880 --> 0:50:58.200 Yeah, it's a Greek kind of week in elevation church. 0:51:00.040 --> 0:51:04.080 H limbano. What does it mean? It means to take 0:51:04.160 --> 0:51:09.600 up from below? Hoopo lombano. Everybody say hoopo lombano. 0:51:10.280 --> 0:51:11.719 Put it in the comments I want to see who 0:51:11.719 --> 0:51:12.239 spells at. 0:51:12.120 --> 0:51:14.360 The worst hoopo limbono. I'm not writing that on the board. 0:51:14.560 --> 0:51:15.520 Hoopo lombano. 0:51:15.800 --> 0:51:16.439 It means to. 0:51:16.400 --> 0:51:17.320 Take from below. 0:51:18.160 --> 0:51:21.319 You might recognize this verse because it is also in 0:51:21.480 --> 0:51:22.480 Acts one nine. 0:51:22.560 --> 0:51:24.879 Put Acts one nine on the screen. Can I teach 0:51:24.880 --> 0:51:27.000 you a little while today? I'm almost done, but I 0:51:27.000 --> 0:51:27.279 want to. 0:51:27.239 --> 0:51:30.440 Give you this. He he's speaking to his disciples. He's 0:51:30.480 --> 0:51:33.000 getting ready to leave the earth. He's getting ready to 0:51:33.080 --> 0:51:36.400 send the spirit. And Jesus said to them that you 0:51:36.400 --> 0:51:39.480 will be my witnesses. And he was taken up before 0:51:39.520 --> 0:51:47.680 their very eyes. The word taken up hoopo limbano. The 0:51:47.719 --> 0:51:54.839 word suppose, hoopo limbano, taken up. He was taken up 0:51:55.440 --> 0:51:59.600 from below? Where did they get their opinions? Where did 0:51:59.600 --> 0:52:03.080 they get the conclusions? Hoopo limbono? They took it up 0:52:03.080 --> 0:52:08.480 from below? And Peter said, no, this is not a 0:52:08.520 --> 0:52:12.319 hoopo limbano situation. This is not something that you can 0:52:12.360 --> 0:52:18.759 take up from the bottom. No, this is what was spoken. 0:52:19.840 --> 0:52:24.480 So here's the contradiction. I got what you suppose and 0:52:24.520 --> 0:52:27.719 what was spoken. And what I want to know is 0:52:28.200 --> 0:52:29.879 which one are you going to go with? In your 0:52:29.920 --> 0:52:33.160 life for this season, what you took up from the 0:52:33.200 --> 0:52:38.000 bottom or what came down from above. Some of the 0:52:38.040 --> 0:52:41.480 stuff that you've been believing it does not have its 0:52:41.520 --> 0:52:42.920 source in God. 0:52:43.680 --> 0:52:45.479 And if its source is not in. 0:52:45.440 --> 0:52:49.200 God, it will sabotage you and it will lead you 0:52:49.239 --> 0:52:52.160 to a conclusion that is absolutely unsustainable. 0:52:52.880 --> 0:52:55.560 But this is not a take up from below moment 0:52:55.640 --> 0:52:56.760 in your life. 0:52:56.880 --> 0:52:57.560 This is a. 0:52:57.760 --> 0:52:59.440 Come down from above moment. 0:53:00.320 --> 0:53:02.400 Peter said, this is not a moment for you to 0:53:02.440 --> 0:53:06.880 take up an assumption from below. This is a moment 0:53:06.920 --> 0:53:11.239 for you to receive an assignment from on high. I 0:53:11.280 --> 0:53:13.879 feel God saying you are looking up at the wrong thing. 0:53:14.800 --> 0:53:17.880 You are looking around at the wrong thing for in 0:53:17.920 --> 0:53:23.080 this season of your life. You cannot get it from below. 0:53:24.000 --> 0:53:38.120 It must be given from above. Now, there were two 0:53:38.239 --> 0:53:42.720 things present at the creation of the cosmos, the spirit 0:53:42.760 --> 0:53:48.240 of God and the Word of God. That's the source material. 0:53:51.000 --> 0:53:55.920 You have both of those things too. What will you 0:53:55.960 --> 0:54:00.719 do with it? What will you do with it? One 0:54:00.760 --> 0:54:04.919 person will take this word today that was given and say, God, 0:54:04.960 --> 0:54:07.040 where have I been looking around? Where I need to 0:54:07.040 --> 0:54:09.359 be looking up? What have I been looking up at? 0:54:09.520 --> 0:54:12.120 And given my attention to that. Actually I should cast 0:54:12.200 --> 0:54:14.000 under my feet and walk on over the top of 0:54:15.800 --> 0:54:19.080 one person will take this word, put it on the shelf. 0:54:20.360 --> 0:54:24.879 How did he create that from this? 0:54:26.400 --> 0:54:33.359 He worked? He worked, he worked, he worked. This will 0:54:33.400 --> 0:54:38.239 work in your life if you work it. How did 0:54:38.239 --> 0:54:43.279 the gospel go from a small room and spread all 0:54:43.320 --> 0:54:45.480 over the globe to you and I today? 0:54:46.640 --> 0:54:50.600 The source material, the spirit of God, the source material, 0:54:50.640 --> 0:54:52.160 the word of the God. Do you not realize we 0:54:52.200 --> 0:54:55.640 have the same gospel. Do you not realize you have 0:54:55.680 --> 0:54:59.399 been given the same gospel that broke chains off Paul 0:54:59.400 --> 0:55:00.640 and Silas see. 0:55:02.120 --> 0:55:04.040 The same gospel that the. 0:55:04.080 --> 0:55:06.800 Ethiopian eunuch pulled over and stopped this chariot. 0:55:06.920 --> 0:55:07.920 What are you doing with me? 0:55:09.520 --> 0:55:14.000 Ah? I believe there is so much more inside of you. 0:55:15.000 --> 0:55:18.360 And I hear a sound sounds like a violent wind. 0:55:19.560 --> 0:55:22.520 I see what seems to be tongues of fire. I 0:55:22.560 --> 0:55:25.200 hear the voice of the Lord speaking over your life today. 0:55:25.680 --> 0:55:30.560 And God said, everyone standing, we will pray and seal 0:55:30.640 --> 0:55:33.000 this word. Stop right where you are. Nobody moving out 0:55:33.000 --> 0:55:40.200 of this room. Stay where you are. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. 0:55:40.400 --> 0:55:44.399 You hadn't been breathing. Baby, you can't run if you. 0:55:44.320 --> 0:55:47.920 Don't breathe, you can't lead if you don't breathe. 0:55:48.800 --> 0:55:53.560 You can't think if you don't breathe. Breathe, breathe. 0:55:53.840 --> 0:55:57.640 Peter raised his voice. He breathed, the sound of the 0:55:57.680 --> 0:56:00.560 Holy Spirit. That's the breadth of Almighty God coming to 0:56:00.640 --> 0:56:02.720 fill your lungs, fill your life. 0:56:02.760 --> 0:56:06.320 Breathe, baby, breed, breed, breathe, breathe. 0:56:06.920 --> 0:56:08.400 That's the sound of the wind. 0:56:08.440 --> 0:56:10.000 It's the spirit of God. 0:56:10.080 --> 0:56:13.520 It's not a violent wind, it's a creative breath, and 0:56:13.560 --> 0:56:16.880 it's coming to you right now. Lift your hands like 0:56:16.920 --> 0:56:19.760 their sails and receive it. I receive the Holy Spirit. 0:56:19.960 --> 0:56:22.239 I receive a fresh filling of the Holy Spirit for 0:56:22.360 --> 0:56:29.160 my life. I receive it. Tap into it. Speak to me, Lord, 0:56:31.120 --> 0:56:35.680 I'm breathing. Oh, I'm breathing this week for me to 0:56:35.760 --> 0:56:37.879 have the Holy Spirit, for me to have the same 0:56:37.960 --> 0:56:42.439 stuff that created the world, and not worship God. I'm 0:56:42.480 --> 0:56:47.879 breathing this thing in. I'm walking in this word. Peter 0:56:48.080 --> 0:56:50.040 was able to walk on one word on the top 0:56:50.080 --> 0:56:52.960 of a stormy sea. I can walk through the situation 0:56:53.120 --> 0:56:55.719 in my life this week with one word from you, 0:56:56.080 --> 0:56:56.839 Almighty God. 0:56:56.880 --> 0:57:00.840 I worship you. Open your mind and tell him. I 0:57:00.880 --> 0:57:05.920 worship you God. I worship you Lord. I worship the 0:57:05.920 --> 0:57:08.000 one who is and was and is to come. 0:57:09.400 --> 0:57:10.640 His name is Jesus. 0:57:11.520 --> 0:57:13.000 He is the Almighty God. 0:57:13.840 --> 0:57:16.400 He is the Ancient of days. I worship you, Lord. 0:57:17.360 --> 0:57:20.640 I'm not drunk, I'm not crazy. I just need you, Lord. 0:57:20.680 --> 0:57:25.000 I worship you, Lord. I worship you Lord. 0:57:27.360 --> 0:57:33.200 And Lord, Now is your wind, your fire? Come and 0:57:33.320 --> 0:57:35.760 light us up again and fill our lungs with your praise. 0:57:37.440 --> 0:57:40.200 We intend to accomplish every assignment that you've given us 0:57:40.280 --> 0:57:41.280 for our lives this week. 0:57:43.040 --> 0:57:43.960 No, we're not one of. 0:57:43.880 --> 0:57:49.200 The twelve Disciples, but we are your children. I commission 0:57:49.280 --> 0:57:52.640 these your children, by your grace, God, that from the 0:57:52.720 --> 0:57:55.720 upper room of their waiting, they will see manifestations of 0:57:55.720 --> 0:57:58.640 your glory in every area of their life. I believe 0:57:58.680 --> 0:58:04.480 it because you've spoken it. We didn't come to church 0:58:04.560 --> 0:58:08.960 to look around today. We came to look up and 0:58:09.080 --> 0:58:13.960 look in and to praise you for who you are. Now, 0:58:13.960 --> 0:58:16.280 every person who receives this word, clap your hands and 0:58:16.360 --> 0:58:17.720 let the Lord know you're great. 0:58:29.600 --> 0:58:32.080 It's about eyes closed. 0:58:32.960 --> 0:58:34.520 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together 0:58:34.560 --> 0:58:38.440 in one place, and suddenly your life can change suddenly, 0:58:40.040 --> 0:58:41.840 right now, there is someone in this room who needs 0:58:41.880 --> 0:58:46.280 to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior. It 0:58:46.400 --> 0:58:49.040 is an amazing moment when you finally stop trying to 0:58:49.040 --> 0:58:50.919 do in your own strength what can only be done 0:58:50.920 --> 0:58:54.200 by the spirit of God. And I want to invite 0:58:54.240 --> 0:58:56.680 you right now to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord 0:58:56.720 --> 0:59:01.080 and savior. Everybody in here needs to saying. We need 0:59:01.080 --> 0:59:04.640 the grace of God. We need the forgiveness of our sin. 0:59:05.440 --> 0:59:07.280 And today, if you will repent of your sin and 0:59:07.280 --> 0:59:11.160 believe in Jesus, you will be saved. Everybody who wants 0:59:11.160 --> 0:59:12.840 to give your life to Jesus today, I want you 0:59:12.880 --> 0:59:15.439 to repeat this prayer after me, and we'll all say 0:59:15.440 --> 0:59:17.680 it out loud together for the benefit of those who 0:59:17.680 --> 0:59:22.960 are coming to God. Repeat after me, Heavenly Father, Today 0:59:23.960 --> 0:59:30.040 is my day of salvation. I believe that Jesus Christ 0:59:30.920 --> 0:59:34.680 is the Son of God and the Savior of the world. 0:59:35.360 --> 0:59:40.640 And today I make Jesus the Lord of my life. 0:59:40.720 --> 0:59:44.840 I believe he died that I would be forgiven and 0:59:45.000 --> 0:59:48.240 rose again to give me life. 0:59:48.360 --> 0:59:53.760 I receive this new life. This is my new beginning. 0:59:54.520 --> 0:59:57.480 I am a child of God on the. 0:59:57.520 --> 0:59:59.440 Count of three shoots your hand up if you prayed 0:59:59.440 --> 1:00:02.360 that one, two three. We celebrate you. 1:00:03.120 --> 1:00:06.760 A new beginning upon you. We believe God for greater 1:00:06.880 --> 1:00:08.160 things in your life. 1:00:08.880 --> 1:00:13.960 New beginnings, new mercies, a fresh foundation. 1:00:15.360 --> 1:00:19.800 Let's praise God for what he did for every so 1:00:20.000 --> 1:00:26.320 many said in Jesus' name. Clap those hands and give 1:00:26.360 --> 1:00:27.600 God praise in the name. 1:00:27.480 --> 1:00:33.480 Of Jesus camphis fasters. You can take it right here, church. 1:00:33.560 --> 1:00:37.200 Let's celebrate the Lord who brought us together today. Clap 1:00:37.320 --> 1:00:39.600 both of those hands. If you know who gave you breath. 1:00:41.640 --> 1:00:47.160 Let everything that has bread praise the Lord. 1:00:48.760 --> 1:00:52.040 Holly is gonna come close us in prayer at Valentine. 1:00:52.680 --> 1:01:02.200 You'll welcome her as she comes today. I saw her 1:01:02.200 --> 1:01:05.040 at nine am and I said, that's a stage outfit. 1:01:06.160 --> 1:01:09.200 I need to get you up on that stage, Holly. 1:01:09.240 --> 1:01:11.520 I want you to pray for everybody today who feels like, 1:01:12.640 --> 1:01:16.000 how am I supposed to do this? How am I 1:01:16.120 --> 1:01:18.600 supposed to do this? We saw a woman this week 1:01:18.720 --> 1:01:21.880 give a testimony who's been in a wheelchair for fifty years, 1:01:22.760 --> 1:01:25.320 and she wakes up every day with chronic pain. And 1:01:25.360 --> 1:01:27.800 she said, there's days where I just think, how am 1:01:27.800 --> 1:01:31.280 I supposed to do this well, if you're supposed to 1:01:31.320 --> 1:01:35.520 do it, God will support you for it moment by moment. 1:01:36.280 --> 1:01:38.040 And I want you to pray, Holly, that God would 1:01:38.080 --> 1:01:41.680 show us sometimes to support that we walk past, That 1:01:41.720 --> 1:01:44.240 God would show us what we're walking past. 1:01:44.040 --> 1:01:45.200 That He has put in our life. 1:01:45.280 --> 1:01:47.800 How many of you received that today, that God wants 1:01:47.840 --> 1:01:52.160 to show you the source of your strength. 1:01:53.880 --> 1:01:55.400 So Holly sealed this work for prayer. 1:01:55.440 --> 1:01:57.320 Would you join hands with the person on either side 1:01:57.320 --> 1:01:59.680 of you, Please, let's join together. 1:02:01.480 --> 1:02:04.800 Father, we come to you now, and we are Our 1:02:04.880 --> 1:02:06.200 hearts are so full. 1:02:06.400 --> 1:02:09.520 We're so grateful for the word that has been spoken 1:02:09.560 --> 1:02:10.800 over our hearts today. 1:02:10.920 --> 1:02:12.480 Thank you Jesus, Holy Spirit. 1:02:12.560 --> 1:02:16.240 Your presence has been welcomed in this place. God, Thank 1:02:16.360 --> 1:02:19.960 you Holy Spirit that every time the word of God 1:02:20.000 --> 1:02:20.840 has spoken on this. 1:02:20.960 --> 1:02:23.520 Stage, that you show up. Thank you Jesus. 1:02:23.880 --> 1:02:27.280 Thank you seal this word on our hearts today, God, 1:02:27.360 --> 1:02:31.400 that we are supported. Lord, open up our eyes to 1:02:31.520 --> 1:02:35.760 see the support that is all around us this week. God, God, 1:02:36.160 --> 1:02:39.200 help us to see that you are with us, and 1:02:39.240 --> 1:02:41.840 that you were working for us, and that you were 1:02:41.880 --> 1:02:45.640 working through us. Lord, give us the courage to move 1:02:45.720 --> 1:02:48.880 forward and the callings that you have given each and 1:02:48.960 --> 1:02:52.000 every one of us. Lord, Thank you for our pastor, Lord, 1:02:52.040 --> 1:02:54.880 for the word that you have spoken through him. 1:02:55.200 --> 1:02:56.720 Today we receive it. 1:02:56.840 --> 1:02:59.680 God, we receive what you are speaking to us. 1:03:00.200 --> 1:03:01.320 Thank you that we get. 1:03:01.160 --> 1:03:05.080 To move forward in the strength that you have given us. 1:03:04.960 --> 1:03:06.600 In the strength for our calling. 1:03:06.720 --> 1:03:07.000 Lord. 1:03:07.280 --> 1:03:09.120 And it's in Jesus the same we pray. 1:03:10.080 --> 1:03:14.040 Amen. I five three people who say you got the stuff, 1:03:15.320 --> 1:03:16.640 you got the stuff. 1:03:17.320 --> 1:03:19.800 I dismiss you in the name of Jesus. Have an 1:03:19.800 --> 1:03:26.960 amazing week. You got it, you got the stuff, you 1:03:27.120 --> 1:03:27.840 got the stump. 1:03:31.520 --> 1:03:34.080 Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of 1:03:34.120 --> 1:03:37.120 you who give generously to this ministry. 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