1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,320 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to 5 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:17,080 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 6 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: You may be seated. Welcome to week one of a 7 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: brand new sermons series called Triggered, and we're going to 8 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,319 Speaker 1: be discussing some things, some different teachings to help you 9 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: take your mind back and not just give territory over 10 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: to the devil in the area of your imagination and 11 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: so that he fills you with all of these hypothetical 12 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 1: scenarios that may or may not ever happen, keeping you 13 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: from enjoying the life God has given you, more importantly, 14 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,559 Speaker 1: stewarding the life that God has given you for His glory. 15 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:49,959 Speaker 1: And we're so excited to get it started today. And 16 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: I want to make the best use of our time possible. 17 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: I know here at Valentine they were saying it was 18 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: kind of difficult to get in, probably not at all 19 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: the campuses, but there was more traffic than usual, and 20 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: so you should thank God for that, because not only 21 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,199 Speaker 1: is that more people hearing the message of Jesus Christ, 22 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 1: but it's also a good preparation for a sermon about anxiety. 23 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 1: And so we're just looking out for you and helping 24 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: you get in the right mind frame. But let's go 25 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: to the word of God now. And obviously I'm no psychologist. 26 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 1: I'm just a Bible preacher from Monks Corner, South Carolina, 27 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:29,119 Speaker 1: And with a little bit of knowledge that I have 28 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: about the scriptures and life experience, I want to show 29 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: you something today that I think will be so helpful 30 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: from on Peter chapter five, verses five through nine. And 31 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:40,559 Speaker 1: I'm going go and tell you there's only one verse 32 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: in this whole passage that I actually like. I believe 33 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 1: all of it, and I know that I'm supposed to 34 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: do all of it. But from the natural standpoint of 35 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: my mind, there's only one verse that appeals to me. 36 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: And you'll see what I'm saying when I read it. 37 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: Of course, we can't talk about triggered without paying a 38 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: visit to Peter. Easily the most triggered to disciple that 39 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: Jesus called cussing and cutting off people's ears and stuff. 40 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: But he's calmed down by the time He writes this 41 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: letter to the Gentiles who are assimilating into the Greco 42 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: Roman world, and he has some great advice for us 43 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: concerning our anxiety and our cares. Not that you have any, 44 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: but someone on your row worries too much. Not that 45 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 1: you do, but they think about stuff. They make little 46 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: movies in their minds, and they edit together things that 47 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: didn't actually happen, and then they tell themselves that that's 48 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 1: how it really is. So that's what I'm helping today. 49 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 1: I'm sorry you had to come here a sermon design 50 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: for someone else, But Peter was actually talking to a 51 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: church that was undergoing a great deal of persecution, and 52 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: he has some experience from wisdom, and I want to 53 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:55,079 Speaker 1: share his words with you today and pray that God 54 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: will speak to you personally. He says, first Peter, Chapter five, 55 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: verse five, Humble yourself. What did I say? Verse five? 56 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: In the same way, you who are younger submit yourselves 57 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 1: to your elders. Almost skip that verse, But it's great 58 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: verse that I like as a parent. All of you 59 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: clothe yourselves with humility toward one another. Because God opposes 60 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 1: the prow but shows favor to the humble. Humble yourselves, therefore, 61 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: under God's mighty hand. I like how he says that. 62 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: He says God lines up on the other side of 63 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 1: human pride. So if you want to be on the 64 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: same side of the ball as God, you gotta make 65 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: sure that you come in at the right level and 66 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 1: realize that you are not him, that you are the creation, 67 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: not the Creator. Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, 68 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: that he may lift you up in due time. Cast 69 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you. 70 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: If ever there was a verse to cross stitch and 71 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: to put on a coffee mug, it's one Peter five seven. 72 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: That's the one I like, in case you're wondering, cast 73 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 74 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 1: Really enjoy that verse feels good. Be alert. Verse eight 75 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: I don't like so much. And of sober mind your enemy, 76 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: the devil brows around like a roaring lion looking for 77 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith 78 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: because you know that the family of believers throughout the 79 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings. And I 80 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: want to stop right there and talk to you for 81 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 1: a few moments today. In this opening, foundational session in 82 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: our study called triggered on this subject, I want to 83 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: talk about lions and lizards and lies. Lions and lizards 84 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,359 Speaker 1: and lies. And before you say, oh my, put you 85 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: in the frame of mind of me five or six 86 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 1: years ago when I called a pastor who is older 87 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: and wiser than me. And I wasn't having like a 88 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 1: nervous breakdown from a clinical standpoint, or a panic attack, 89 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 1: as I understand a panic attack, but just feeling overwhelmed. 90 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: Not in the clinical sense. Was I experiencing anxiety, but 91 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 1: in the everyday sense of adulthood. And I think sometimes 92 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: we say we're suffering anxiety when we're really just suffering adulthood. 93 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: And I called him in my driveway in the house 94 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: we lived in at the time in mint Hill, and 95 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 1: I was doing this thing that I was doing a 96 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 1: lot during that period where I would sit in the 97 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: driveway between work and home because my kids were really small, 98 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 1: and I couldn't figure out which one was more work 99 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: or home because at work I'm the boss, and at 100 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:03,039 Speaker 1: home my kids weren't calling me pastor at that stage. 101 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: And so I was sitting in the driveway and I thought, 102 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: you know, I'm just gonna call him, and I'm gonna 103 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: ask him, and I don't care what he thinks, because 104 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: you get to a certain point of being overwhelmed, it 105 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 1: just all spills out. And when I started talking to him, 106 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:19,719 Speaker 1: I started, you know how when you're trying to tell 107 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: somebody you're struggling, and you share with them in little slivers, 108 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 1: and you try to see if anything you say shocks them, 109 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: and if it feels like it shocks them, you back 110 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: up and you go, well, I'm not struggling with that, 111 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:33,719 Speaker 1: but I'm saying like some people do, and you kind 112 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 1: of feel your way into a conversation, at least I do. 113 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: And it's like I was telling him I'm kind of overwhelmed, 114 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: and he didn't judge me, and I said, and this 115 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: is how I feel, and he didn't judge me. And 116 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: so every time he didn't judge me and I didn't 117 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: feel like he was surprised, I would share a little more, 118 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: and share a little more, and share a little more. 119 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: And by the end of it, I'm in my driveway 120 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:57,160 Speaker 1: crying on the phone to him, telling him how overwhelmed 121 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:01,559 Speaker 1: I feel being you know, just in my early thirties past, 122 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: during a church that was larger than the town I 123 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 1: grew up in. Imagine that, and then with kids and 124 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 1: he and he actually laughed in the middle of me 125 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: crying to him. He laughed, and I can't explain why, 126 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: but it was the most comforting thing he could have 127 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: done in that moment. And what he said next is 128 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 1: just what I needed to hear, and I know God 129 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: put it in his mouth so I could hear it. 130 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: And he said, I'm not surprised that you called me 131 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: and said this. I'm not surprised that you're melting down. 132 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: I'm surprised you didn't call me sooner. And partially he 133 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: was saying that because, you know, as our church grew, 134 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 1: obviously the pressure's mount with it. And he was also 135 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: saying it from a stage of life standpoint that look, 136 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: every father feels relatively worthless at some point in the 137 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: early stages of their children's visit to pl planet Earth, 138 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: and it takes time to learn how to interact with aliens. 139 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: And by the end of the call, I just felt better, 140 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: just because he said it's supposed to be this way. 141 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: You're supposed to struggle. And when he said I was 142 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: supposed to struggle, the struggle didn't go away, but the 143 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: fact that I was no longer surprised by it made 144 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: me more able to deal with it. And God has 145 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:34,599 Speaker 1: been speaking to me recently that I am too surprised 146 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 1: by my struggles, and part of the reason that I 147 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: struggle so much is because I'm surprised when I do. 148 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: It's as if we've set an expectation of salvation that 149 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: if we come to Jesus and lay all our burdens 150 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: at the foot of the cross, that none of them 151 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 1: will climb back in the car with us and go home. 152 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: But how many have ever laid your burdens down in 153 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: church and found out that they followed you home with 154 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: the few friends you never met before. And it's like 155 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: I came to Jesus to get rid of my struggles, 156 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 1: But my struggle didn't even start until I came to Jesus, 157 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: Because before I came to Jesus, if I wanted to 158 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: cuss you out, I just cussed you out and I 159 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: felt better. Didn't care how you felt or what God thought. 160 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:25,839 Speaker 1: I felt better and that's all that mattered. But now 161 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: I got this Holy ghost on the inside of me, 162 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: and when I cuss he makes me feel bad about it. 163 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 1: Now I can't sleep till I apologize to you. And 164 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: it got harder, So Peter says. Peter says, everybody's struggling. 165 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: Everybody around the world is suffering. You have to take 166 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: the two together. You can't come to a cross for 167 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 1: salvation where the Savior suffered for you and never expect 168 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: to suffer in your desease. Tire to follow him and 169 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 1: be like him. Tell the person next to you, You're 170 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:14,079 Speaker 1: supposed to suffer some that's what Jesus said, That's that's 171 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 1: that's what the CEO said, CEO of the Galaxies, the 172 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 1: Seat the Man said that the Master of the Milky 173 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: Way said that. He said, if they hated me, what 174 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: makes you think you're always going to be popular and 175 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 1: liked and accepted. So I pray that's inspirational for you 176 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: to know that you are supposed to suffer. But it 177 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: helps us. It helps us because the enemy often operates 178 00:10:53,640 --> 00:11:00,200 Speaker 1: in our lives, in the secrecy and in you know, 179 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 1: it's very sneaky. The enemy's sneaky, and so he wants 180 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: to sneak up on you. And you think life is 181 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: supposed to be easy because life looks easy for everyone else, 182 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: but you don't know you have no idea. It is 183 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 1: easy for you. It's easy for you, preacher, when you 184 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 1: get up here and preach. You know you don't know, 185 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: and I don't know your struggle, but I know I 186 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: know that there are some struggles and some sufferings that 187 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: come with the package. And so the call to follow 188 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: Christ comes with a cross. We get that, and especially 189 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 1: in this time, Peter is like, look, you want to 190 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: be a part of this movement, The only way to 191 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: really see the glory of God revealed is to suffer sometimes, 192 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: to suffer, to sit with your suffering and even with 193 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: your sadness. Now we're setting the wrong expected. We're teaching 194 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: people they can get swollen without getting sore. Supposed to hurt, sometimes, 195 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 1: supposed to strain. Sometimes that's the spiritual muscle fibers breaking 196 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: down so they can grow back together stronger, or something 197 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 1: like that. I don't know. And so what surprises me 198 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: is that knowing that we must suffer sometimes because our 199 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: saviors suffered. And let's be honest, some of our suffering 200 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: is not because of our Christian faith, it's because of 201 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 1: our You said it, he said, because we're stupid. I 202 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: didn't say that. I wasn't gonna talk to the guests 203 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: like that. It's a lot of first timers here today. 204 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 1: I was gonna say, sometimes we suffer because of poor 205 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: decisions and we were ill equipped to fit. But you 206 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: said stupid, so I'll go with that. Sometimes we suffer 207 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: because we're stupid. And it surprises me that with all 208 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: the suffering that we already have to deal with, that 209 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: we somehow as a species, will invent new ways for 210 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:19,839 Speaker 1: ourselves to suffer and experience pain and call it progress. 211 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: As if it's not enough to worry about in the world, 212 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 1: we invent, you know, torture device. I mean communication devices 213 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 1: that keep us constantly connected to everyone's opinion, everyone's offenses, 214 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: and we feed on stuff. The enemy's looking for someone 215 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: to devour. We feed on stuff, and we feed our 216 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: minds with things that eat our peace alive. And then 217 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 1: we pray for God to give us peace after we 218 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: open the front door and let the enemy show us 219 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:06,839 Speaker 1: things and stood right there. So I'm really praying. I'm 220 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 1: really praying that God would show us a strategy for this, 221 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:14,079 Speaker 1: because it seems to me that some suffering is inevitable, 222 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: but certain suffering, like the suffering of our shame and 223 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 1: the suffering of our sin that Jesus already paid for 224 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: is dealt with, And so wouldn't it be unthinkable for us, 225 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: as God's children to suffer under pressure that He never 226 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: intended for us. We live in a culture of performance. 227 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: The interesting thing about First Peter five point seven is 228 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 1: that it preaches so well as a singular verse. Even 229 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 1: when I was a little boy, my mom used to 230 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: play me this tape of Salty the Singing Songbook, salty 231 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 1: like psalms ps salty like your teenageer salty, but like salt. Yeah, 232 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: not like that girl work, but salty the Singing Songbook. 233 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 1: And he had one song on there, and I used 234 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: to fall asleep to this song. If I can remember, 235 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 1: I will cast it was on this verse all my 236 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: cares upon you, I ley all of my burdens down 237 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 1: at your feet. And any time I don't know what 238 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 1: to do, salty falsetto uh, I will cast all my 239 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: cares upon you. Boom boom, walk down. I will cast 240 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 1: all my cares upon you. Could you play it? I 241 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: lay all of my burdens down at your feet. In 242 00:15:54,240 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 1: any time I don't know what to do, I will 243 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 1: cast oh my cares so I start saying that this 244 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 1: is so sweet. I like verse seven. I like verse seven. 245 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: I wish I didn't have to be bothered with six 246 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 1: and eight. You know, these Bible verses were not in 247 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: there when Peter wrote the letter. It was just a letter. 248 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 1: It was one thing. In fact, let me show you something, 249 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: and I showed this a few years ago to the church, 250 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: but you weren't here yet when I was teaching this, 251 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 1: and we need to catch up because this is one 252 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 1: of the craziest, most mind blowing things God ever showed me. 253 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: And I actually I brought two Bibles to church today. Yeah, 254 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: that's right. I'm gonna preach twice as long. No, I'm 255 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 1: gonna get you out on time. But this is a 256 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: double barrel revelation that God gave me, and one translation 257 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 1: of it, it breaks it up the one that we 258 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: read from. Put that one up there again from the 259 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: new International version. He says, cast all your anxiety on 260 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: him because He cares for you. And it's a capital C, 261 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 1: and it's a new sentence and a new thought, and 262 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: it's a promise that we can claim, or rather it's 263 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: the command that we can obey. And I like it. 264 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:10,160 Speaker 1: I like casting all this stuff. I like casting all 265 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 1: these cares, like Salty said in the King James version, 266 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:16,639 Speaker 1: I like casting all of that on him, all the 267 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 1: stuff that I don't want to deal with, and all 268 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 1: the stuff that I can't control anyway. I like to 269 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 1: just give that over to the Lord. I like to 270 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: just lay it all at his feet. But in the 271 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: original language of the Bible, and this is what God 272 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 1: showed me a few years ago, is that verse seven 273 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: was not a new sentence. It was a continuation of 274 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: verse six. And when you read it as a continuation, 275 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 1: it helps you to understand why sometimes we're trying to 276 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:50,439 Speaker 1: cast our anxiety on God and they keep coming back 277 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 1: like a boomerang with extra velocity, because we are trying 278 00:17:55,560 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 1: to skip to seven, which we want, without six, which 279 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 1: we resist. Now, Verse six starts by saying, humble yourselves. See, 280 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 1: I don't like that. I want to be the star 281 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,719 Speaker 1: of the production. I want to be the MVP of 282 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 1: the game. I want everybody to accommodate my preferences. I 283 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:19,679 Speaker 1: want people to read my mind. I want to be 284 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 1: the center of other people's affection. I don't want to 285 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: humble myself. I'm not even sure I really know what 286 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: it means because all I ever see humble is a 287 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:31,919 Speaker 1: hashtag where people are bragging about something and then hashtagging 288 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:34,919 Speaker 1: it humbled, like that makes it humble when you follow 289 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 1: your bragging with a hashtag. But for Peter, humble was 290 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: not a hashtag. Peter said, humble is a way of 291 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: seeing the hand of God in history that knows, I'm 292 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:48,920 Speaker 1: just a small part of this. I'm just a little dot, 293 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:51,679 Speaker 1: I'm just a little I'm a little tiny, I'm a 294 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:57,159 Speaker 1: little bitty, little bitty, little bitty, little bitty child of 295 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 1: God in his big strong hand. So humble yourselves, therefore 296 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: under the mighty hand of God, so that at the 297 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: proper time He may exalt you. What a relevant verse. 298 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: I feel like Peter must have been able to see 299 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: into the year twenty eighteen and see that we would 300 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:27,399 Speaker 1: be living in an age of self promotion, See that 301 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 1: we'd be living in an age where, rather than praying 302 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 1: for opportunities, we would post before we prayed, Rather than 303 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 1: sitting back and listening and learning from people who have 304 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: something to teach us, we would be so intoxicated on 305 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:48,159 Speaker 1: our own opinions and our own point of view, and 306 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: we would be so sucked into algorithms and echo chambers 307 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 1: of people who think just like us and speak just 308 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: like us, and before long we would be inebriated by 309 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: our own vantage point, inebriated by images. He says, humble 310 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 1: yourself under the mighty hand of God, so that at 311 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:13,919 Speaker 1: the proper time he may exalt you. And then if 312 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:16,919 Speaker 1: you're willing to go through six, you get to seven. 313 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 1: And they're not separated by a period, just a comma lowercase. See, 314 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:28,360 Speaker 1: if you will humble yourself, this is the foundational message 315 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 1: for this series. To take back your mind. You got 316 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: to humble your heart. And when you do that, when 317 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: you humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, what 318 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:50,399 Speaker 1: does that mean? What kind of image is Peter trying 319 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:54,679 Speaker 1: to vote well for a Jewish person? The hand of 320 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: God recalls the sovereign act of God when he rescued 321 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 1: his children from Egyptian slavery. And there when God spoke 322 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,359 Speaker 1: to Moses, he said, you know, Pharaoh is not going 323 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 1: to let the people go unless a mighty hand compels him. 324 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 1: This is Exodus chapter three, unless a mighty hand, there's 325 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 1: the phrase, compels him. And so the hand of God 326 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: for us is mostly a comforting image sentimental but symbolically. 327 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 1: For the people reading this who had a little bit 328 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,959 Speaker 1: of background, they would know that the hand of God 329 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: is confrontational, that God opposes the proud but gives grace 330 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 1: to the humble, and they come from the same hand. See, 331 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: God will use the same hand to oppose the proud 332 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:50,200 Speaker 1: that he will use to distribute grace to the humble. 333 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 1: And my question is what do you want to be 334 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: on the receiving end of the posture of your heart 335 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:02,680 Speaker 1: determines that. And yet there's a little bit of confusion 336 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,400 Speaker 1: because you know, it seems like we want God's hand 337 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: to do certain things for us, Like I like the 338 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 1: hand of God when it is filled with his provision, 339 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 1: you know, like I want what is in God's hand 340 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: that I can't give myself. Just a show of hands 341 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 1: while we're talking, my hands, how many have seen God 342 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 1: provide for you in a special way and you were 343 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: suspecting this had to be God, This could not be me, 344 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 1: This could not be people. Wave your hand if you've 345 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 1: ever seen God provide for you, And I don't just 346 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,879 Speaker 1: mean money to make a car payment or to you know, 347 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 1: make the deposit on the apartment when you first got married. 348 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 1: It could be God gave you energy when you were 349 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 1: so exhausted and you didn't even know how you were 350 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 1: still going and people would ask you how, and you 351 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: would make something up. But deep down you knew if 352 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: I really told him how, they wouldn't understand it, because 353 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: there's an invisible hand of God that is making things 354 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: happen that I can't even explain. So I like the provision. 355 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,679 Speaker 1: You know how he broke the bread in his hands, 356 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: and Peter was there when Jesus broke the bread and 357 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 1: with his hands, So he might have been flashing back 358 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 1: to that incident when he said, the mighty hand of 359 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 1: God that can provide for you, or maybe he was 360 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 1: thinking about the hand of God in terms of God's protection. 361 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 1: How God drove back the sea with his hand so 362 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 1: as people could cross through till they got safely through. Now, 363 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: if you've ever had God protect you from you, you're 364 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:47,159 Speaker 1: grateful for the hand of God. If you've ever had 365 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 1: God protect you from people that were in your life. 366 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: In fact, sometimes the way that God will protect you 367 00:23:54,960 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 1: is to reach down and remove you from situations that 368 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: you like that you are actually praying for God to 369 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 1: leave you in, and God will sometimes reach down and 370 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 1: say I know more than you. I'm big, you're little, 371 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 1: I'm wise, you're limited, I'm infinite, your finite, So come 372 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: with me. I'm gonna put you over here because I 373 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 1: know if you stay with them, I know where it's 374 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: gonna lead. And Peter says, you can either fight that 375 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,400 Speaker 1: or you can go with it because it's the hand 376 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,439 Speaker 1: of God. It's the hand how many have ever had 377 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 1: God protect you? And I want him to provide for me, 378 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,639 Speaker 1: and I want him to protect, protection and provision. But 379 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:56,239 Speaker 1: there's a third dimension of God's hand and that is 380 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:01,399 Speaker 1: his plan. And that's the part that I have a 381 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:07,239 Speaker 1: harder time with because I like my plan. Why are 382 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: you looking at me like you totally trust God that 383 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 1: his way is better than yours. You know, half of 384 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,360 Speaker 1: our prayer life is trying to convince God to get 385 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,119 Speaker 1: on the same page we're on so he can do 386 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: what we want him to do that he should have 387 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: already done, and he's running a little behind schedule. But 388 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 1: we'll forgive you for that. Lord, if you just come 389 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 1: on and do it right now, it's okay. You got 390 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 1: a lot you're taken care of. I get confused, honestly, 391 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,880 Speaker 1: I get confused because sometimes I don't know what part 392 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: is God's job and what part is my job. And 393 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 1: it's not always so simple humble yourself under the mighty 394 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 1: hand of God. But then you know, God told Moses, 395 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 1: I'm going to bring you out with a mighty hand. 396 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: It's going to be my hand that brings you out. 397 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 1: And then he asks him, what's that in your hand? 398 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 1: And so it seems to be like two hands at 399 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: work here. And the issue is the issue is always 400 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: who is in control. A lot of my anxiety comes 401 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 1: because I get confused about who is in control, and 402 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: I get responsibility confused with sovereignty. So I start thinking 403 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:25,400 Speaker 1: that because God has given me responsibility, that God has 404 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:29,640 Speaker 1: also given me control. And that's where I get stressed out. 405 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,359 Speaker 1: And a lot of my anxiety comes from making it 406 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:36,440 Speaker 1: about me when it's not about me, making it about 407 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 1: my strength, when it's not about my strength. It's not 408 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 1: by Mike nor by power, but by his spirit. But 409 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 1: I know God's given me a job, like I know 410 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,480 Speaker 1: that when I stand before you like this and people 411 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: in the room are suicidal, and people in the room 412 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:58,120 Speaker 1: are addicted not only to illegal drugs, but some are 413 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 1: dependent on drugs that at first they were taking the 414 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,120 Speaker 1: recommended dosage, but now it's gone far beyond that. And 415 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:05,919 Speaker 1: when I know that there are some of you who 416 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 1: have not slept in three nights except for a few 417 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: minutes here and they're hearing this message, I know that 418 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 1: I can't say the words that you need. I need 419 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: God to speak through me to you. And I always 420 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,239 Speaker 1: pray for that because I know how disappointing it's going 421 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 1: to be if I speak. I know that I need 422 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,360 Speaker 1: to move my mouth, and I know that I need 423 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,199 Speaker 1: my vocal cords need to rub together, and I know 424 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 1: that I need to produce a sound. But I know 425 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: that I need the substance of God behind the sound 426 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:40,919 Speaker 1: that I make. I need God to speak. I know 427 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:45,400 Speaker 1: you did not load up those demons. I mean, precious children, blessings, 428 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 1: quiver full of arrows from the Lord, and get to 429 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: this house of worship today in Gaston or you see, 430 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: or Lake Norman. You did not log on to hear 431 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 1: me speak. You need God to speak. And I believe 432 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,919 Speaker 1: that God will speak. Believe he is speaking. I believe 433 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 1: he wants to speak. I believe he still speaks. I 434 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 1: don't believe he spoke one time in the past, and 435 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 1: now we got this dusty book full of principles that 436 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 1: applied at one time but don't make sense in a 437 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,240 Speaker 1: modern age. I don't believe God is outdated or irrelevant. 438 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 1: I don't believe I need BuzzFeed to tell me what's 439 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,199 Speaker 1: going on in the world. I got my Bible and 440 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:27,120 Speaker 1: it's living and it's active and it can penetrate through 441 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 1: all the noise. So I know we need God to 442 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 1: speak in his word doesn't return boy, and God will speak, 443 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: but God won't study. I got to study. God won't 444 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 1: show me whether the sentence was one sentence or two sentences. 445 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: He gave me books for that and he inspired me, 446 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 1: so I can't figure it out sometimes and sometimes I 447 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 1: feel like I'm a control free and sometimes feel like 448 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 1: gets in a way I really do. I feel gets 449 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 1: in a way. I feel like I want to control things. 450 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 1: I want to control people. I'm manipulative and I see 451 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 1: it and I hate it, but I do. It is 452 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 1: a habit. And I know that God's hand is the 453 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 1: hand that has the is really moving things around, But 454 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 1: you know, I want to put my hand on God's 455 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 1: hand and just kind of nuts. I'm so holy. Sometimes 456 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: you know, sometimes God needs a little help because he's 457 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: just Peter is writing from experience. He didn't come by 458 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,480 Speaker 1: humility easy. That's why I like to listen to him, 459 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 1: because he didn't always think this way. Like when Jesus 460 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 1: was getting ready to go to the cross, he told 461 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: his disciples, He's like, hey, come here, this is Matthew 462 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 1: sixteen twenty one. Give it to us on the screen. 463 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 1: Jesus said, I have to go to Jerusalem and suffer 464 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 1: many things at the hands of the elders. At this point, 465 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 1: Peter didn't think that the Savior was supposed to suffer. 466 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 1: It did not jesus mission did not fit his mindset. 467 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 1: He was still confused about whose hand was writing the schedule, 468 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 1: and so Peter, in a younger version of himself, did 469 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 1: not know how to humble himself under the hand of 470 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 1: God or the plan of God. He liked the provision. Hey, Jesus, 471 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 1: don't go die, Let's go feed some more people. That 472 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: was awesome when you did it. That little boy, he 473 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 1: was so happy, Jesus, it was amazing, And we got 474 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,960 Speaker 1: his stare. Everybody got it in the bag of leftover. 475 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 1: So it's crazy. You don't have to die. Watch what 476 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 1: Peter did. Jesus said, I gotta go. I gotta suffer. 477 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: It's a part of the plan. I gotta fulfill the plan. 478 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 1: I can't get caught up in my preferences. I can't 479 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: get caught up in my ideas, my expectations, or the 480 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,720 Speaker 1: expectations of others. I didn't come to be an earthly king. 481 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,960 Speaker 1: I came to inaugurate a reign and a rule that 482 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 1: is not the result of human hands. And Peter verse 483 00:30:55,320 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 1: twenty two took Jesus aside, put Jesus in time out. 484 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: The same dude that was saying, you know, humble yourself. 485 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 1: This is like you telling your kids not to do 486 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 1: exactly what you did when you were their age. Peter 487 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 1: said to Jesus younger Peter, first half of life. Peter says, Lord, never, 488 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 1: this shall never happen to you. I won't let it 489 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 1: if they try. I got a sword, and they got 490 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 1: an ear. And watch what I can do. I got 491 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 1: a plan. Let's go work my plan. And verse twenty 492 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 1: three says Jesus turned and said to Peter, get behind me. Satan, Oh, 493 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,240 Speaker 1: that's a downgrade. He went from Simon to Peter that 494 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 1: was his first name. Simon is kind of like shifty, 495 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 1: and Peter is the rock. So he goes from Dwayne 496 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 1: Johnson in one verse to Satan in the next verse, 497 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: and he says, you are a stumbling block to me. 498 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 1: You do not have in mind in mind the concerns 499 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:22,760 Speaker 1: of God, but merely human concerns. You still think you're 500 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 1: in control, and that's why your mind is a mess, 501 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:31,480 Speaker 1: because you are still trying to control things that are 502 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:37,960 Speaker 1: beyond your pay grade. Peter, You're confused. We get confused. 503 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't know when to let go. I don't 504 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,720 Speaker 1: when Sometimes I don't do this very much because I've 505 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:51,320 Speaker 1: seen some really, really really horrific things happen on church stages. 506 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,920 Speaker 1: But sometimes I'll call somebody up on stage and have 507 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 1: them share, and I don't know them, and I feel 508 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 1: kind of like my response ability is to control whatever 509 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:06,959 Speaker 1: happens on the stage as the pastor. And so when 510 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,920 Speaker 1: they come up, uh, usually I'll call them up and 511 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,080 Speaker 1: I'll ask them to share something. And I do this 512 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 1: even with our staff. I'll call them and ask them 513 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 1: to share. But one thing I learned to do, I 514 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 1: always keep keep the mic in my hands when they 515 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,360 Speaker 1: come up they think they're gonna take the mic, and 516 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:30,280 Speaker 1: but they're not. I'm the MIC's stand and I'm gonna 517 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:34,360 Speaker 1: hold this mic. In case you decide that now would 518 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:38,880 Speaker 1: be a good time to say something weird, I can 519 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,640 Speaker 1: snatch a bat and I just like the feeling that 520 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 1: it gives me of being in control. In case you decided, 521 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 1: you know, I might ask you something. You say, well, 522 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,200 Speaker 1: when I was three, we don't have time for when 523 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 1: you were three, and ask you all that, And I 524 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:56,920 Speaker 1: got the mic, give it back now. So gives me 525 00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:00,200 Speaker 1: a good feeling. But the interesting thing is because there's 526 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 1: Christians and sometimes when I call them up, I can't 527 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 1: see their eyes, and when they get closer, I'm like, 528 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,799 Speaker 1: oh god, I picked one of those and you don't 529 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:13,560 Speaker 1: see it from a distance. So I like to keep 530 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,919 Speaker 1: the mic and hold I like to hold the mic. 531 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:21,879 Speaker 1: And but now the interesting thing is I'm holding the mic. 532 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:26,000 Speaker 1: But there's a guy that you don't see named Neil, 533 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,480 Speaker 1: and Neil this week, among many others that are different locations, 534 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,280 Speaker 1: happens to be in the back of the room, sitting 535 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:37,040 Speaker 1: behind a console. And you know what's interesting, I'm up 536 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,319 Speaker 1: here talking and I'm I'm I'm holding the mic. But 537 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:50,000 Speaker 1: at any moment, Neil can decide. At any moment, he 538 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,040 Speaker 1: can decide, you know, maybe I fuss at him or 539 00:34:53,080 --> 00:35:02,240 Speaker 1: something like that. He doesn't like it any moment. Here's 540 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:06,440 Speaker 1: the principle. I'm holding it, but I'm not controlling it. 541 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 1: They got it last night. That's what I know about 542 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,800 Speaker 1: in my life. That's what I know about my time. 543 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,719 Speaker 1: That's what I'm learning about my money. That's what I'm 544 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:29,160 Speaker 1: learning about my children, my responsibility. I'm holding it, but 545 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:39,719 Speaker 1: somebody I can't see is controlling it. He's in control. 546 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:45,440 Speaker 1: He speaks in win's obeyed, he speaks in waves, tie down, 547 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:51,440 Speaker 1: he speaks in see split because what I can see 548 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:56,200 Speaker 1: is controlled by that hand that I can't see. And 549 00:35:56,280 --> 00:36:00,000 Speaker 1: now I want to humble myself under that mighty hand. 550 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,240 Speaker 1: And I'm coming to the place in my life where 551 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:07,640 Speaker 1: I say, God, I don't even know what I need anymore. 552 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,800 Speaker 1: So I trust you and your timing, and I trust 553 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,280 Speaker 1: you and your heart, and I trust you and your wisdom. 554 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:19,080 Speaker 1: And I humble myself. And as I humble myself, my 555 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:24,400 Speaker 1: anxiety goes out the door with my pride and my 556 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:32,319 Speaker 1: arrogance and my plan, and I become what Peter says 557 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:36,560 Speaker 1: is the goal of the Christian life in verse eight, 558 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,160 Speaker 1: which I don't like any more than I like verse six. 559 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,719 Speaker 1: But it's on the other side of seven, and I 560 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,319 Speaker 1: want the result of seven because I don't want to 561 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 1: live with the weight of the world on my scrawny shoulders. 562 00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:56,760 Speaker 1: So I got to be what Peter says strange phrase. 563 00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:01,759 Speaker 1: He says, be alert and of sober mind. I didn't 564 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:06,480 Speaker 1: even know I was drunk, but I am. Peter didn't 565 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:12,600 Speaker 1: know he was stumbling telling Jesus what Jesus needed to do. 566 00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,200 Speaker 1: He was drunk on his own. You see how we 567 00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,880 Speaker 1: get intoxicated in the age we live in. Is so 568 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,799 Speaker 1: much information coming at us. We're drunk and we don't 569 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:27,480 Speaker 1: even know it, and we can't defend ourselves, and we're 570 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:33,520 Speaker 1: getting eaten alive. God gives us peace, and the enemy 571 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:37,160 Speaker 1: eats right through it. Because he's a lion. At least 572 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,600 Speaker 1: that's what I always thought. I thought I thought he 573 00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:43,960 Speaker 1: was a lion. And this week I slowed down and 574 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,080 Speaker 1: read the verse, and I realized that the Bible never 575 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:50,719 Speaker 1: says the devil is a lion. He's a liar. I 576 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:52,520 Speaker 1: know he's a liar. Yeah, you can know when the 577 00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:59,759 Speaker 1: devil's lion when he's talking. He's a liar, but he's 578 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:04,120 Speaker 1: not a lion. Give me the verse. Peter says watch out. 579 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,600 Speaker 1: One translation says pay attention, wake up, or be alert 580 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:12,400 Speaker 1: and of sober mind. Here's why your enemy, the devil 581 00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:21,160 Speaker 1: your enemy. God's enemy is pride. Your enemy is the 582 00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:25,640 Speaker 1: devil who wants to fill your mind, as if we 583 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:29,279 Speaker 1: don't already suffer enough, as if we don't already have 584 00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:33,080 Speaker 1: enough to deal with today. He wants to put you 585 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:38,800 Speaker 1: in a hypothetical tomorrow where things may or may not happen, 586 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:43,920 Speaker 1: or put you in a past replaying what you wish 587 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,040 Speaker 1: you would have said to the person who offended you, 588 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,600 Speaker 1: and how many come up with great comebacks about three 589 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:55,760 Speaker 1: weeks too late. God, let me see them again. Please 590 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:57,640 Speaker 1: let me see them again, and let them say it 591 00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,640 Speaker 1: just like they said it. I'm ready now. A devil's 592 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:06,360 Speaker 1: a lion, But he does not say watch out for 593 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,600 Speaker 1: the lion. The devil is not a lion. Was to say, 594 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:15,280 Speaker 1: your enemy prows around like he's not a lion. He's 595 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:20,319 Speaker 1: loud like a lion, but he's not as powerful as 596 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:24,319 Speaker 1: a lion unless you let him be and this is 597 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,000 Speaker 1: what I'm going to teach you in the series. Are 598 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,719 Speaker 1: you coming back after this week? Because I really want 599 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,799 Speaker 1: to get into this and I want to look at 600 00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,719 Speaker 1: some of the lies that we have believed in the 601 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:38,319 Speaker 1: realm of our mind. That's where the attack happens. We've 602 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,520 Speaker 1: been looking for a lion, but it's not a lion 603 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:45,360 Speaker 1: coming to attack us. It's our minds. It's in our minds, 604 00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,759 Speaker 1: and we've been calling the wrong stuff the devil. I 605 00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,240 Speaker 1: got a flat tire as the devil. It was a nail. 606 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:56,000 Speaker 1: There was a construction site. They're building houses across the street. 607 00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,920 Speaker 1: I hate a donut. It was the devil. No, it 608 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:05,840 Speaker 1: was delicious. It's a temple. It's the Devil's a devil. 609 00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:09,400 Speaker 1: I'm under attack, a spiritual warfare. I need some devil's 610 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,839 Speaker 1: attacking me. We mean devil's attacking you. Well, my mother 611 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,919 Speaker 1: in law is coming to visit. That's not the devil. 612 00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:19,080 Speaker 1: That's your prayer request. Remember when you ask those women 613 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:22,440 Speaker 1: to pray that you would have more patience. Well, God 614 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,839 Speaker 1: wrap patience in a package that looked like your mother 615 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,160 Speaker 1: in law, and she's about to get FedEx to your door. 616 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:42,280 Speaker 1: Stewn God, delivers. That's not the devil. So now he's loud, 617 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:49,640 Speaker 1: but he's not a lion. What is he? I remember 618 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:54,879 Speaker 1: hearing years ago about the part of our brain. Again, 619 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,440 Speaker 1: bear with me. I know there's like neurologists in the crowd. 620 00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,319 Speaker 1: You don't make me feel bad about that. I won't 621 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:03,360 Speaker 1: make you feel bad about the Bible. We just agree 622 00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:07,920 Speaker 1: together that everybody's stay in their own lane. But I 623 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,680 Speaker 1: did hear something about in the phrase got my attention, 624 00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:15,880 Speaker 1: called the lizard brain. And I wrote a book one 625 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:17,919 Speaker 1: time about the chatterbox, and I think I was trying 626 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,280 Speaker 1: to talk about what they call the lizard brain. And 627 00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:26,800 Speaker 1: I just remembered it the other day because Abby wanted 628 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:32,400 Speaker 1: to show her brothers. She's our youngest child and our 629 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:39,080 Speaker 1: only daughter, our smartest child. I'm just getting my sons 630 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:42,879 Speaker 1: in here. But she does have a little avantage over 631 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:46,040 Speaker 1: the boys because she's always had to stuff it up 632 00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,920 Speaker 1: to keep up, you know, And she's superior by virtue 633 00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:57,279 Speaker 1: of being female. So she work in my pulpit when 634 00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:02,040 Speaker 1: in some points she wanted to go all the way 635 00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:03,799 Speaker 1: across the pool and hold her breath, which your brothers 636 00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:07,080 Speaker 1: couldn't do till they were ten she's seven. So she's like, 637 00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:08,239 Speaker 1: I could do it, I could do it. I do it, 638 00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:10,840 Speaker 1: all right, let's do it. And she wanted everybody to 639 00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:12,840 Speaker 1: see her. And I said, you could do it, but 640 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,839 Speaker 1: just know that the lizard, the lizard brain, is going 641 00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,239 Speaker 1: to be telling you that you can't do it. But 642 00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:24,359 Speaker 1: the lizard is lying. She said, there's a lizard in 643 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,200 Speaker 1: my brain. I said, no, baby, and I you know 644 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,920 Speaker 1: she's seven. So I just pretended to be an expert. 645 00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:35,560 Speaker 1: I said, the human brain, the human brain, and I 646 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,120 Speaker 1: gave her some outdated theory on the tryune brain that 647 00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,320 Speaker 1: probably isn't even accepted anymore. But I was talking about 648 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:45,320 Speaker 1: that thing that is real in our brain that doesn't 649 00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:49,960 Speaker 1: process at the level of wisdom, and doesn't process at 650 00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:52,680 Speaker 1: the level even of emotion, but processes at the level 651 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:55,839 Speaker 1: of fear. And they call it lizard brain, or they 652 00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:59,719 Speaker 1: called it lizard brain because it's no different than a 653 00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:06,359 Speaker 1: rep a snake or lizard. And so when I told her, 654 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,200 Speaker 1: don't listen to the lizard, I was explaining, you're gonna 655 00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,640 Speaker 1: go down, and you're gonna think that you're gonna die, 656 00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:16,520 Speaker 1: but you're not gonna die. Just don't listen to the lizard, 657 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,960 Speaker 1: and she went down under that water and she swam 658 00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,400 Speaker 1: clear to the other end. And she came up. She 659 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:29,640 Speaker 1: took the biggest gasp, the biggest gulp of air, and 660 00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:35,160 Speaker 1: she was so proud, and she said, man, that lizard 661 00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:44,560 Speaker 1: is loud. I said, well, what did you say back 662 00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:48,320 Speaker 1: to him? She said, I told him, shut up, lizard. 663 00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:54,000 Speaker 1: I'm doing this now. Hold on. I know the enemy 664 00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:57,160 Speaker 1: has been telling you some stuff. I know he has 665 00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:01,160 Speaker 1: because that lizard has been talking to me. But I 666 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,920 Speaker 1: came to tell you today that lizard has no power 667 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,759 Speaker 1: over you. He might bruise sore heel, but you're gonna 668 00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:12,839 Speaker 1: crush his head. In the name of Jesus, I am 669 00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:17,240 Speaker 1: gonna make it hot shall living not time. I'm gonna 670 00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:21,120 Speaker 1: raise my kids. I'm gonna make a difference in the world. 671 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:31,920 Speaker 1: Taking my mind back and over the next seven weeks, 672 00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:38,520 Speaker 1: we're gonna learn how to do what Abby did. What 673 00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:43,440 Speaker 1: Peter said, be of a sober mind. Tell that lizard. 674 00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:48,800 Speaker 1: You can talk, you can scream, but I'm swimming to 675 00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:53,680 Speaker 1: the other side. Now, everything in you has been telling 676 00:44:53,719 --> 00:45:01,160 Speaker 1: you you're drowning, you're going down. But the lizard is 677 00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:06,319 Speaker 1: a liar. Your own mind is lying to you. And 678 00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,279 Speaker 1: that's why God put it on my heart to do 679 00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:15,960 Speaker 1: a whole series on triggered the things, the trauma that 680 00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,720 Speaker 1: you went through that transports you back to a lesser 681 00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,600 Speaker 1: version of yourself, and then you start reacting and responding 682 00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:24,799 Speaker 1: out of anger because of rejection at the hands of 683 00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,200 Speaker 1: people who aren't even in your life anymore. I want 684 00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:33,360 Speaker 1: to talk about that, and I respectfully request your presence 685 00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,440 Speaker 1: and as many of these sessions as possible, But right 686 00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,080 Speaker 1: now I want you to stand and no one leaving, 687 00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:40,680 Speaker 1: because I just want to pray for open and humble hearts. 688 00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:46,759 Speaker 1: We can't receive what God has in his hands when 689 00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:53,160 Speaker 1: we're holding too tightly to what's in our hands. And 690 00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,960 Speaker 1: when you're drunk on your own opinions and inebriated on 691 00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,000 Speaker 1: your own ideas and ways of seeing the world, you 692 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,120 Speaker 1: are not open to the wisdom of God. And you're stumbling. 693 00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:09,320 Speaker 1: Jesus said, get that behind me. You're stumbling, you're tripping. 694 00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:15,240 Speaker 1: Be of a sober mind because your enemy is trying 695 00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:18,080 Speaker 1: to steal your attention. That's where the fight is, that's 696 00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:21,960 Speaker 1: where the attack is. This is not out here. The 697 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,239 Speaker 1: attacks in our life are actually used by God. The 698 00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:29,520 Speaker 1: trials are used to make us stronger. It's here and 699 00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:33,439 Speaker 1: that's what we want to pray over. And for too 700 00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,319 Speaker 1: long the people of God have been equipped with a 701 00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:39,080 Speaker 1: few cliches to make it until about Sunday at four, 702 00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:45,279 Speaker 1: and we're being eaten alive in our minds and now 703 00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:47,400 Speaker 1: we can't focus anymore. We live in the age of 704 00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:54,640 Speaker 1: what one psychologist called constant partial attention, and we can't 705 00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:57,399 Speaker 1: give ourselves holy to anything. But God has a word 706 00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,600 Speaker 1: for us. And through this series we will meet several 707 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,160 Speaker 1: Bible characters who struggled with the same things we struggle 708 00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,600 Speaker 1: with today and suffered in many ways like us. And 709 00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:09,440 Speaker 1: I know this is no substitute for doctors and counseling. 710 00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:13,719 Speaker 1: That's not my goal in this series, but I think 711 00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:16,000 Speaker 1: it would be good for us to begin this journey 712 00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:21,200 Speaker 1: together just in a posture of surrender. And I want 713 00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:23,800 Speaker 1: to ask you to do something that Christians have done historically, 714 00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:28,120 Speaker 1: worshippers have done through the millennia, and just lift your 715 00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,920 Speaker 1: hands to God in his presence, because it's too much 716 00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:37,040 Speaker 1: for you to carry, it really is, and you humble 717 00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:40,640 Speaker 1: yourself under His hand and release what you're holding too 718 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,400 Speaker 1: tightly to then he is able to release his peace. 719 00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:48,719 Speaker 1: And so we just speak peace over your life today. 720 00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:52,719 Speaker 1: More than speaking it, father, I pray that we would 721 00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:57,440 Speaker 1: position ourselves so that we can receive your peace. And 722 00:47:57,480 --> 00:47:59,439 Speaker 1: we repent of all the ways that we think things 723 00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:04,359 Speaker 1: are supposed to be and exhausting ourselves endlessly trying to 724 00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:11,399 Speaker 1: align our agendas with the reality of our lives rather 725 00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:15,480 Speaker 1: than submitting to yours. So we stand here before you today, 726 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:20,520 Speaker 1: as humble as we know how rescue to fill our 727 00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:26,279 Speaker 1: hearts with your peace. Well, I hope you enjoyed the 728 00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:28,760 Speaker 1: podcast today. If you did, there are just a couple 729 00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:32,239 Speaker 1: things I'd love for you to do. Number one, subscribe 730 00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:35,160 Speaker 1: to our show. 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