1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 2: podcast and I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving. 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:19,240 Speaker 1: In your life. Enjoy the message. Let's work together today 7 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: on this. 8 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 2: In Mark chapter three, verse one, and the scripture I 9 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:25,159 Speaker 2: want to read kind of sets up a theme that 10 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:26,479 Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about for the next 11 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 2: few weeks. So the Bible says another time Jesus went 12 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,479 Speaker 2: into the synagogue and a man with a shriveled hand 13 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 2: was there. Some of them were looking for a reason 14 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 2: to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see 15 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 2: if he would heal on the Sabbath. 16 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: And Jesus said. 17 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,559 Speaker 2: To the man with the shriveled hand, stand up in 18 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,599 Speaker 2: front of everyone, and then Jesus asked them which is 19 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 2: lawful on the sabbath, to do good or to do evil, 20 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 2: to save life. 21 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: Or to kill? But they remained silent. 22 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 2: So he looked around at them in and deeply distressed 23 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:06,119 Speaker 2: at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, stretch out 24 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,680 Speaker 2: your hand, and he stretched it out and his hand 25 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 2: was completely restored. I want to speak to you today 26 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 2: and possibly over the next few weeks on the subject 27 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 2: of functional faith, functional faith, and so Lord, I pray 28 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 2: that your word would do its work in our hearts 29 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 2: and that we would respond in order in Jesus name. 30 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:30,639 Speaker 1: Amen, and I may be seated. 31 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 2: On your way to your seat, Tell somebody we got some. 32 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: Work to do. Mark's Gospel gives us five. 33 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 2: Different accounts within two chapters of Jesus in confrontational situations. 34 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: Typically we think of jesus. 35 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 2: Ministry as being a ministry of comfort, but it was 36 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 2: also a ministry of co confrontation. Comfort and confrontation are 37 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 2: both functions of the spirit of God. The same spirit 38 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 2: of God that will comfort you and your trials will 39 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 2: also confront you in your dysfunction in order to change 40 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 2: you and conform you to the image of Christ. And 41 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 2: so the earthly ministry of Jesus was no different in 42 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,959 Speaker 2: that he was a reliable source of comfort for those 43 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 2: who mourn and a source of confrontation for those who 44 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 2: had become complacent. We see Jesus here in one of 45 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,839 Speaker 2: five situations with the religious ruling group of his day, 46 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 2: and the central issue around these confrontations is jesus relationship 47 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 2: with and approach to the Sabbath. The Sabbath was a 48 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 2: gift that was given by God to people, but as 49 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 2: people so often. 50 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 1: Do, we pervert a good gift and use it for 51 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 1: the wrong purpose. 52 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 2: And the very thing that was meant to be creative 53 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 2: and restorative in nature becomes destructive when it's abused, that is, 54 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 2: to be used for a purpose different than what it 55 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 2: was designed to accomplish. So, as we teach a little 56 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 2: bit today on the subject of functional faith, and we 57 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 2: look at this one particular story, we see here an 58 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 2: image and an illustration of a system that is not working, 59 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 2: a system that has become dysfunctional, a system that is 60 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 2: no longer fulfilling its intended purpose. Jesus arrives and the 61 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 2: temple system by which the people were approaching God has 62 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 2: become dysfunctional or if you want to say, unfit, it 63 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 2: was unfit for the purpose that it was designed to serve. 64 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 2: How many of you, as summer approaches, are setting some 65 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 2: goals to. 66 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: Maybe get in shape for the summer. 67 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 2: Maybe you're gonna get a little bit fit for the summer, 68 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 2: gonna some crunches, No, some nasty crunches. How many of 69 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 2: you bought a fit bit some Lululemon' you're gonna do 70 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 2: it this summer, Well, go for it. I wish you 71 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 2: all the best. I think fitness is something that is 72 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 2: unique to each individual, because fitness is relative, right, you 73 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 2: can go to certain places and feel very fit in 74 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 2: comparison to other people, then go other places and feel 75 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 2: like you've never exercised a. 76 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: Day in your life. 77 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:21,160 Speaker 2: And me and Holly were on a cruise ship recently 78 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,599 Speaker 2: and I told her, I said, this place makes me 79 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 2: feel better about my body image, you know, just like 80 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 2: all the buffets. 81 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: This is helpful. 82 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 2: And me and Chunks come up here. 83 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: Chunks, we went to Planet Fitness. 84 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 2: A while back to we were on vacation and we 85 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,239 Speaker 2: joined this gym to get a workout for a week. 86 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: And Chunks is, he's a fitness snob. 87 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 2: He likes to make fun of people who don't know 88 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 2: how to work out. He's very judgmental. It's a pharisee 89 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 2: of sorts, a fitness pharisee he is. And he likes 90 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 2: to walk around the gym and tell me how other 91 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 2: people aren't doing the exercises right. So if you ever 92 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 2: see him looking at you in a gym, he is 93 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 2: not admiring your form, Okay, he's making fun of you. 94 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 2: At Planet Fitness, that's a funny gym. 95 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: I liked that place they had. Have you ever been 96 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: to this place? They have the lunk Alarm on. 97 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 2: The wall because they call it a judgment free zone. 98 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: They say, we want you to be able. 99 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 2: To come work out here without guys like this investigating 100 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 2: your movements, and and so they have it's kind of funny. 101 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: They have a lunk alarm on the on the wall. 102 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 2: They call it a lunk somebody who walks in, you know, 103 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 2: the guys that walk in with a gallon jug of 104 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:38,679 Speaker 2: water and the belt and the gloves. You know, guys 105 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 2: like Chunks. They don't want those kind of guys in 106 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 2: Planet Fitness. Also, by the way they offer. When we 107 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 2: were joining, the girl told us she said, come back Monday. 108 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 2: They have on Monday we serve pizza of Monday at 109 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:56,839 Speaker 2: the fitness club, which is are remarkable. I told Chunks 110 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 2: we got to start giving out cocaine at the Sunday 111 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:00,840 Speaker 2: night service at. 112 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 1: Well. 113 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 2: But Chunks is great. He's really helped me understand fitness. 114 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 2: He used to be a physical therapist, and that's part 115 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 2: of why so arrogant about the human body. And him 116 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 2: and Buck. You should come to Buck. How many want 117 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,279 Speaker 2: Chunks and Buck on stage at the same time. These 118 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 2: guys are These guys are both strong men, and they're 119 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 2: both very stubborn. So sometimes I like to watch them argue, 120 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 2: and I'll often start an argument. I'll just I'll just 121 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 2: throw the two of them together in the cage and 122 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 2: watch them go. I'll sometimes instigate arguments between them. But 123 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 2: they're both very fit, but there are different philosophies to fitness, 124 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:47,359 Speaker 2: you know. So sometimes I'll be doing a workout with 125 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 2: Chunks and they say, what did Buck have you do yesterday? 126 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 2: And I'll tell him and he kind of roll his eyes. Oh, 127 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 2: that sounds like Buck. Buck's fitness routine. He's more of 128 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 2: a punisher. He has more punishment, a binge and pun 129 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 2: mentality toward fitness, and Chunk says more beach muscles. 130 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: God, do you know what I mean by beach muscles. 131 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 1: He's gonna bench press. 132 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 2: And he's gonna do his triceps and all that, all 133 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 2: the stuff that you can see. Like a lot of 134 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 2: Christians we want to have knowledge to show off when 135 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 2: we pose. 136 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: He's a great god. 137 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 2: And so Buck, bring out those kettlebells. Have you guys 138 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 2: seen some these kettlebells? Do any of you this kettlebelt? 139 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 2: There's a trend in fitness. The term is trendy right now, 140 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 2: called functional fitness. Notice how he gave chunks the smaller 141 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 2: one just by instinct. 142 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 1: Guy was judging you. They said that. 143 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 2: One's fifty three pounds GTA twenty four kilograms, and that 144 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 2: one's thirty five pounds or sixteen for the rest of 145 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 2: the world that uses the metric system. 146 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: So Buck says that functional fitness when you say you 147 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: subscribe mostly to. 148 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 2: Functional fitness, and functional fitness is two things, adaptability and application. 149 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 2: So it's like, is this something that would help you 150 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 2: in real life? You know, like, is this movement that 151 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 2: you're doing in exercising something that's going to translate into 152 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 2: real life because a lot of stuff you do exercising 153 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 2: doesn't really resemble real life. And functional fitness it's a 154 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:36,559 Speaker 2: trendy term, but the essential definition of it in the 155 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 2: spirit that is intended is like, show them a kettlebell swing, Buck, 156 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 2: just a simple kettle bell swing. You can do a 157 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 2: lot of different moves with this one piece of equipment. 158 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 1: You can do a kettlebell swing. 159 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 2: What else can you do with the kettlebelly creases? 160 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 1: That shown the Turkish get up? 161 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 2: Now, by the way, any exercise that starts with the 162 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 2: name of an Eastern European country you should rebel against. 163 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 2: This is a Turkish get up. A Turkish get up. 164 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 2: He's gonna show you how many different things you can 165 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 2: do with this one piece of Equipment's amazing. Well, come on, folks, 166 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:26,559 Speaker 2: us fifty three pounds. That man just lifted a weight 167 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 2: joy over his head and stood up with one arm. 168 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 2: Can you do that the same thing? 169 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: Give a shot, just one time? Turkish get up? No 170 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:42,439 Speaker 1: Turkish get up? 171 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 2: How many believe in chunks the lump? Come on, give 172 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 2: him some love. 173 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:57,839 Speaker 3: And ye. 174 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: Well done. Come on, let's give it up for both 175 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 1: of them. Thank you, guys. 176 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 2: I remember, I remember, I remember when Buck said, yeah, yeah, 177 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:10,319 Speaker 2: you're good for now. I remember when Buck first told 178 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 2: me just leave those right there. I remember when Buck 179 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 2: first told me he said, I can give you a 180 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:14,839 Speaker 2: whole work out. He said, people think you need a 181 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 2: whole gym. All this stands the equipment he said, I 182 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 2: can make you hate your life with this one piece 183 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 2: of equipment. You just got to know what to do 184 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 2: with it. And see, sometimes we think we need all 185 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 2: this fancy special knowledge to grow in our faith, and 186 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 2: we think we need all of this equipment and all 187 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 2: of this training and all of this background. But I 188 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 2: got good news for you one Bible verse. 189 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: If you apply it to your life, I. 190 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 2: Said, if you put it to work, touts or neighbors 191 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 2: say it's time to work, It's time to work the word. 192 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 1: So we want to talk over the next few weeks. 193 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 2: And this is just an introductory seminar unfunctional faith. Functional faith, 194 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:58,679 Speaker 2: the kind of faith that doesn't just give you knowledge 195 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 2: in your head, but gives you strength in your heart. 196 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 2: The kind of faith that resembles real life. That is 197 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 2: the greatest compliment you can ever pay me as a preacher. 198 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 2: By the way, if you ever want to make me 199 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 2: feel good and we run into each other, tell me 200 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 2: that something I said helped you in your life, that 201 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 2: it made a difference. 202 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: In your home. 203 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 2: Business owners occasionally tell me, in an apologetic way, I 204 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,320 Speaker 2: rip your stuff off. I take what you preach, and 205 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 2: I preach it to my employees. You don't ever have 206 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 2: to apologize to me for that. That's what I preach 207 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 2: it for, so you can use it. You don't even 208 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 2: have to cite me. Well, the first time you rip 209 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 2: me off, quote me, say my pastor says, and then 210 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 2: the second time you do it, just say it's been said. 211 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 2: And then the third time you do it, say I've 212 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:56,960 Speaker 2: always said. That's how you do it. Touch somebody say 213 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:02,080 Speaker 2: plagiar eyes. I love it if I can find out 214 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:05,319 Speaker 2: that the sermon I preached on Sunday made it into 215 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 2: your Monday, I love that, or that it visited you 216 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 2: on Tuesday, that it came back to you when you 217 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 2: needed it on Wednesday. 218 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:16,560 Speaker 1: And that's what I preached for. 219 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 2: And I was thinking, if we had a new mission 220 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 2: statement for our church, I'd probably make it bringing faith 221 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 2: to life, because I hear people tell me so often 222 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,680 Speaker 2: that faith was always a part of my life, but 223 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 2: it wasn't central to my life. And now I'm learning 224 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 2: how God's word actually applies to me. Adaptability and application. 225 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 1: Functional faith. 226 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 2: Jesus is instigating a functional faith in a dysfunctional religious system. 227 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 2: Mark Chapter three is about much more than a man's 228 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 2: hand being healed. It is about the heart of a 229 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 2: sissystem that has become dysfunctional. It's about a it's about 230 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 2: a people who have misappropriated faith. I've heard so many 231 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 2: different definitions of faith. It's come to mean so much 232 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 2: that maybe it's now almost meaningless because when we say faith, 233 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 2: we use. 234 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 1: It to mean everything. You know, blind faith. 235 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,559 Speaker 2: That's almost a way of saying, you're an idiot, just 236 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:29,959 Speaker 2: did it. 237 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:30,960 Speaker 1: With blind faith. 238 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 2: We say that an organization is a faith based organization. 239 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: We might say that someone came to faith. We might 240 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 1: say someone. 241 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,440 Speaker 2: Lost their faith, or we encourage somebody to keep the faith. 242 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 2: We might tell somebody to have faith, or we say 243 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 2: that somebody had. 244 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: Great faith or or little faith. 245 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 2: We we even call someone a person of faith, as 246 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 2: if it's an ethnicity. 247 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:02,959 Speaker 1: Are you are you black? White? Faith? Like? What are 248 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: your Republican Democrat? Faith? 249 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 2: But faith is meant to be more than a formality. 250 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 2: Can I preach this faith? This meant to be more 251 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 2: than a feeling faith, This meant to be more than 252 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 2: a formula. In fact, if you can reduce it to 253 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 2: a formula and make sense out of it, it ain't faith. 254 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 2: If you can explain it, it ain't faith. You don't 255 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 2: need faith for what you can explain. You need faith 256 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 2: for what your eyes can't perceive. You need faith for 257 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 2: what you don't understand. Richard Rore has a definition of faith. 258 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 2: He says that faith is patience with mystery. Faith is 259 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 2: the willingness to abide in a place that you don't 260 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 2: fully understand. The ramifications of faith is patience with mystery. 261 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: What is faith? 262 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 2: Hebrews eleven one says that faith is the substance of 263 00:14:55,560 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 2: things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. Faith 264 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 2: the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things 265 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 2: not seeing. 266 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: Let's play a game. What's the opposite of good? 267 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 2: What's the opposite of light? What's the opposite of faith? 268 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 2: I heard doubt? I heard fear. I want to suggest 269 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 2: a third option. What if faith is not. 270 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 3: What? 271 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: What if faith? You know? 272 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 2: You tend to think sometimes that if you have doubts, 273 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 2: you don't have faith, that the presence of doubt indicates 274 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 2: the absence of faith. But one priest said, the opposite 275 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 2: of faith is not doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty. 276 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 2: Let that sink can that the opposite of faith is 277 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 2: when you've figured every thing out, when you put your 278 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 2: life in such a position that you don't attempt anything 279 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 2: that requires God. You don't stretch yourself into a territory 280 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 2: that enables the faith that you need for the challenges 281 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 2: that you face. So that means you can have a 282 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 2: lot of doubts but still operate in faith. Because faith 283 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 2: is not certainty, and faith is not a feeling. I 284 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 2: don't have to feel faith to have faith. I don't 285 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 2: have to feel a goosebump to believe God. I don't 286 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 2: even have to feel happy to be grateful for what 287 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 2: God is doing in my life. Somebody shout, I got faith. 288 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 2: I got faith in the middle of a storm. My 289 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 2: faith doesn't mean it's not gonna rain. My faith means 290 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 2: I'm gonna make it to the other side through whatever 291 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 2: waves I have to crossover. I got a faith that works. 292 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 2: It works in the face of the wind and the waves. 293 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 2: It works in the face of doubt and disappointment. 294 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 1: My faith is a faith that were So what is faith? 295 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 1: And maybe a better question is what is faith? For? 296 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 2: Faith is the substance of things hoped for? What is 297 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 2: faith for? In other words, what is the objective of faith? 298 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 2: I'll put these in four subheadings so that you can 299 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:21,880 Speaker 2: take notes and remember this and review this. Faith has 300 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 2: an objective. Faith always has an objective. If you're gonna 301 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 2: get fit, the first thing a good trainer will ask 302 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 2: you is what are your goals or what do you 303 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,400 Speaker 2: want to get fit for? Are you just getting fit 304 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 2: for your honeymoon so you can look good for a week, 305 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 2: or are you getting fit so that you can Is 306 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 2: this a lifestyle thing? 307 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: Faith is a lifestyle thing. The objective of faith. 308 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 2: Now, in the passage that we read, there are three 309 00:17:54,960 --> 00:18:00,680 Speaker 2: different groups or characters represented. You've got the Pharisees, the lunks. 310 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 2: Bible says that they came to planet fitness that day 311 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 2: to look at everybody else's form and to see what 312 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 2: Jesus would do. I can't understand people who come to 313 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 2: church just to find fault with the place that they 314 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,920 Speaker 2: invested their time in. Going to stay home for God's sake, 315 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 2: wash your car, run a mile, I'm serious. The Pharisees 316 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 2: that says that Jesus went into the synagogue, he went 317 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:31,360 Speaker 2: to heal, the man went with a withered hand, possibly 318 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 2: to be heal, and the Pharisees went to watch says 319 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 2: that some of. 320 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: Them like how Mark doesn't actually call him out. 321 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 2: He says, some of y'all, some of y'all were looking 322 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 2: for a reason to accuse Jesus. Jesus was looking for 323 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 2: an opportunity to heal. They were looking for an offense. 324 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 2: What are you looking for when you come to church? 325 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 2: I will never understand people who come on my Instagram 326 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:03,399 Speaker 2: feed just to tell me how much they hate me. 327 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 1: Why are you on my feed? 328 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,439 Speaker 2: I'm serious, you know you're a false teacher. They'll come 329 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 2: on there and say, I don't understand anything you say. 330 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 1: It's algibbraius. 331 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:21,359 Speaker 2: I got a simple solution that's going to make all 332 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,159 Speaker 2: of our lives a little better from here on. Now 333 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 2: get off my feed and you won't have to deal 334 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 2: with my teaching. 335 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:34,640 Speaker 1: Nobody made you come on my Facebook tout. 336 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 2: Your neighbors say, get off my feed. Pharisees are all 337 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 2: up in Jesus' feed. 338 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 1: I don't understand it. 339 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:45,199 Speaker 2: Why would you come if the only thing if the 340 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 2: only thing you wanted to find was fault? But see, 341 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 2: some people have a false objective for their faith. 342 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:54,720 Speaker 1: It is the objective of faith. 343 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:58,919 Speaker 2: That is exclusive rather than inclusional. It is when the 344 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 2: church becomes or about judging how God should do it 345 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 2: than being a part of what he's doing. It is 346 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 2: a misappropriation of faith in the highest form. When a 347 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 2: church isn't working. You can tell when a church isn't 348 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 2: working because instead of reaching out, there's a man with 349 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:20,280 Speaker 2: a shriveled hand. He can't reach out. But he's in 350 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 2: a synagogue full of people. 351 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:22,640 Speaker 1: Who won't reach out. 352 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 2: And I don't know which one's worse, the ones who 353 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 2: won't reach out or the one who can't. 354 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: And Jesus walks in and says, this isn't working. 355 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 2: He confronts the system by identifying the objective. What's your objective? 356 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 2: What is your reason for wanting to have faith? Some 357 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,920 Speaker 2: of us only have faith for the things that directly 358 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 2: benefit us. 359 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:45,920 Speaker 1: We only pray for our. 360 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 2: Job, We only pray for our healing, We only pray 361 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:52,400 Speaker 2: for our kids, We only pray for our promotion. 362 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 1: When's the last. 363 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 2: Time that you came before God and asked him for 364 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 2: something that would actually make your life less convenient if 365 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 2: he did it, I'll never forget at cheesecake factory one 366 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:16,440 Speaker 2: night when God struck me with conviction, God will confront 367 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:17,120 Speaker 2: your dysfunction. 368 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: I was complaining to Holly. 369 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 2: That we were on a date and people kept coming. 370 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 1: Up to the table. And this was years. 371 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,360 Speaker 2: Ago, because I have really improved my attitude since then, 372 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 2: But at the time, I was immature in my faith, 373 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 2: and the Lord spoke to my heart. If you've ever 374 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 2: had God speak to you, it's not a voice out loud. 375 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 2: It's louder than that. It's louder than that. And it 376 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:42,640 Speaker 2: was as if the Lord said to me, I can 377 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 2: fix this. You don't like people coming up to you 378 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,360 Speaker 2: and telling you that they enjoy your church. I can 379 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 2: empty your church so fast. You can eat a cheesecake 380 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 2: factory naked if you want to, and nobody will come. 381 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 1: Up to you. 382 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 2: I'll make you so unknown and so irrelevant, so fast 383 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 2: you can go in where you want. 384 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 1: Nobody will bother you. I said, no, thank you, Lord. 385 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 2: I think I'll eat my cheesecake and shake some hands. 386 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 1: And you don't really change my perspective. 387 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 2: And now I enjoy meaning people unless they're crazy. I mean, 388 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:12,120 Speaker 2: good God, how long you understand her? 389 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 1: But it's you know, you know, you know what I'm saying. 390 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:19,680 Speaker 1: It Just let me see. 391 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,160 Speaker 2: Are you praying that your church would grow for your 392 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 2: ego or do you really want to help people verdict. 393 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 2: What is your objective? What is your faith for? What 394 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:30,479 Speaker 2: did you come to church for? Where are you at 395 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 2: the synagogue? So you can judge the way that Jesus 396 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 2: healed the hand and wasn't his best sermon. 397 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I was kind of 398 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: hoping the other guy would be leading worship. Tall guy, 399 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:49,119 Speaker 1: what you come for? What is your objective of faith? 400 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 2: Your objective matters a lot. Your objective and all of 401 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 2: this controversy was around the occasion, if you write that 402 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 2: down a case of the Sabbath, which was Saturday for 403 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:07,360 Speaker 2: the Jewish people, which was to be set aside as 404 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 2: a day of rest, a day where you were to 405 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 2: do no work. 406 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 1: The intention of the Sabbath was to be a blessing. 407 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 2: But since they had objectified the Sabbath and depersonalized the 408 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 2: nature of God, Jesus had to remind them that any 409 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 2: occasion is a fitting occasion to be a blessing and 410 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:36,879 Speaker 2: to bring healing. Jesus asked them verse four, which is 411 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 2: lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, 412 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 2: to save life or to kill? 413 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: But they remain silent. You know that. 414 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 2: Jesus is picking a fight because he could have waited 415 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 2: until the next day to perform this miracle. 416 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 1: This was not a critical situation. 417 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:57,439 Speaker 2: A missing hand isn't a life threatening event, and the 418 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 2: man had been in this condition for a long time. 419 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,679 Speaker 2: Jesus did it on this day, the day where they 420 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 2: were supposed to do no work, because he wanted to 421 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 2: show them that what they. 422 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,159 Speaker 1: Were doing wasn't working. 423 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 2: Jesus is using this situation to confront a system. Jesus 424 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 2: is using the isolated incident to show them a deeper 425 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:26,160 Speaker 2: issue of the heart. Since we have such a situational 426 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:30,120 Speaker 2: view of God, most of our life is spent trying 427 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:31,439 Speaker 2: to fix situations. 428 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:33,920 Speaker 1: And that's how I used to lead our church. 429 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 2: When something would go wrong, I would address the situation 430 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 2: because you can do that when the church is small. 431 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 1: If the sound guy makes. 432 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,879 Speaker 2: An error and forgets to turn a microphone on at 433 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 2: one location and you only have one location, you can 434 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 2: walk up to the sound guy and say, hey, why 435 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 2: didn't you change the battery. From now on, you need 436 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,119 Speaker 2: to change the batteries. So you could just fix it 437 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,440 Speaker 2: at the level of the situation when it was one location, 438 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 2: but then when it became two and three and four, 439 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:06,360 Speaker 2: I had to stop addressing situations and start addressing systems. 440 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,720 Speaker 2: God is bringing you into the place in your life 441 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,160 Speaker 2: right now where he doesn't want you to just play 442 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,359 Speaker 2: whack the mole with situations anymore, where by the time 443 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 2: you can get this situation under control, here comes another one, 444 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 2: and here comes another one. 445 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 1: No, he wants to fix the dysfunction. 446 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:26,879 Speaker 2: That is breaking the system that is creating the situation. 447 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 2: So Jesus, Jesus shows up on the Sabbath and he said, 448 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,160 Speaker 2: I'm gonna work on the day where you're not supposed 449 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 2: to work, so the people can see that what they're 450 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 2: doing isn't working. And I'm gonna fix this man's hand 451 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,160 Speaker 2: that isn't working on the day that you're not supposed 452 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 2: to do any work, so we can fix the system. 453 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 2: Special occasion, this is this is not the day for healing. 454 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 2: This is not that they had it figured out. They 455 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 2: had their faith compartmentalized. Do you know what I mean 456 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 2: a compartmentalized faith. 457 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 1: Well, my faith is a private matter. My faith is private. 458 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:05,919 Speaker 1: I'm not so sure it is. 459 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 2: I think your faith affects everything about how you treat people, even. 460 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: If you don't speak of it. Your life is a 461 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 1: reflection of it my faith. I have faith. I have faith. 462 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:21,880 Speaker 1: I have faith. I grew up in church. 463 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 2: I'm not so sure that faith is supposed to be 464 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 2: an heirloom, functional, functional faith. 465 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 1: What has your faith done for you lately? 466 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 2: Because like in our house, we have all kinds of 467 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 2: silverware and all kinds of plates, and we had these 468 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 2: special plates that go up in the hot in the 469 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 2: cabinet and they're expensive china that we got. 470 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:49,200 Speaker 1: When we got married. 471 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 2: And we've been married, We've been married almost fourteen years, 472 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 2: and I think I've seen that those china that those 473 00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 2: china plates four times in fourteen years. They're pretty. They're 474 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:08,560 Speaker 2: in storage and we break them out for special occasions. 475 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:14,159 Speaker 2: Is your faith like that? Faith is not meant to 476 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 2: function like find china where you break it out on 477 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 2: Eastern Christmas. And faith is not meant only to be 478 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 2: accessed in a crisis. Faith is in only for the 479 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,800 Speaker 2: time when you get a report from the doctor that 480 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 2: we need to do more tests. I don't want that 481 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 2: kind of faith, you know, kind of faith I want. 482 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 2: I want a paper plate faith, do you know what 483 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,160 Speaker 2: I'm saying. I want a faith that has everyday use. 484 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 2: I want a faith that makes it to Monday. I 485 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 2: want a faith that can stand the test of Tuesday. 486 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 2: I want to faith that goes to work with me 487 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 2: on Wednesday. I want to faith that can get me 488 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 2: through Thursday. I want a faith that can fight on Friday. 489 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,199 Speaker 2: I want a faith that can stand on Saturday. I 490 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,879 Speaker 2: want I want a durable faith. I want a faith 491 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 2: I can eat off of it when when nothing's going right. 492 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,919 Speaker 1: A faith I can use in traffic, A faith I 493 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: can use in the every day ups and downs of life. 494 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 2: I want a faith that functions. I don't want faith 495 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 2: to be my special occasion. I want faith to be 496 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 2: my full time job. It's my job to believe God. 497 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:31,680 Speaker 2: It's my job to trust them. 498 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 1: Faith that functions, a functional faith, a. 499 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 2: Faith, a faith that you can access in the in 500 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 2: the small things of life, and a faith that has 501 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 2: not held hostage. 502 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: To the outcome. 503 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 2: Can we talk about the outcome, because in this story 504 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 2: there are two outcomes. One outcome is that the man's 505 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 2: hand got healed. The other outcome is in verse six 506 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 2: of the passage. It says that after Jesus healed the 507 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 2: man on the Sabbath, the pharisees went out and began 508 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 2: to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus. Now, 509 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 2: there was one event, a healing, and there were two outcomes, 510 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 2: one for the man, one for the Pharisees. And you know, 511 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 2: if your faith is dependent upon an outcome, it's just 512 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 2: a matter of time before you lose it, right. 513 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 1: Lance, If you need a certain. 514 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 2: Outcome to validate your faith, it's just a matter of time. 515 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 2: When you have to go back to the hospital after 516 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 2: you've only been home for a week, it's only a 517 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 2: matter of time before you. 518 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 1: Give up on your faith. Let me ask you a question, Lance. 519 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 2: As much as you've been hurting, and as much uncertainty 520 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 2: as you've got in your life right now, and as 521 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,640 Speaker 2: much as you don't know whether you're gonna get on 522 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 2: the liver transplant list or not, and you're waiting to 523 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 2: find out what's next for your. 524 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 1: Life, I want to ask you a question. Why are 525 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 1: you in church? 526 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 2: Why would you come here when the outcome is still uncertain? 527 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 2: Why would you have the audacity to praise God in 528 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 2: a wheelchair and your faith hasn't given you the ability 529 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 2: to walk. You must have a different kind of faith. 530 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 2: You must have a functional faith, a faith that works 531 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 2: even when your body doesn't work. A faith that works 532 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 2: even when your situation is a cooperator. A faith that 533 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,320 Speaker 2: works even when you don't know what's next. That's the 534 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 2: kind of faith Jesus is looking for. 535 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: That's the kind of faith that stretched his arms on 536 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:46,760 Speaker 1: the cross. 537 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 2: That's the kind of faith that turns the darkness of 538 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 2: Friday into the resurrection of Sunday. That kind of faith, 539 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 2: that kind of faith, A faith that works, a faith 540 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 2: that wages war, a faith that won't, a faith that 541 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 2: just won't quit, a faith that presses on. A faith 542 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 2: in prison that will not be confined. Does anybody have faith? 543 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:15,719 Speaker 2: Real faith, silent faith, stable faith, unshakable faith. 544 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,640 Speaker 1: The outcome is in faith. 545 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 2: My faith doesn't wait on an outcome. My faith is 546 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 2: not based in outcome. My faith is an outlook. Watch 547 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 2: me preach. My faith can look at a situation a 548 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 2: different way than I would look at it without my faith. Now, 549 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 2: my faith doesn't guarantee the outcome. Sometimes I have faith 550 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 2: and I still stay sick. Sometimes I have faith and 551 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:46,520 Speaker 2: the job. 552 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 1: Still doesn't go. My way doesn't come to me. 553 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 2: Sometimes I have faith and my daughter still doesn't. 554 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:53,640 Speaker 1: Act more respectful. 555 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 2: Sometimes I have faith and my marriage still looks the 556 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,160 Speaker 2: same as it did before I exercise my faith. But 557 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:04,000 Speaker 2: my faith is not hostage to the outcome. My faith 558 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 2: enables me to see any outcome, whatever it is, come 559 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 2: hell or high water. 560 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 1: I'm convinced that neither tent nor life, nor angels, nor demons, 561 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 1: nor principalities, nor any other thing because. 562 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:24,440 Speaker 2: I got faith. Because I got faith, my faith is 563 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 2: an outlook. My faith enables me to see an opportunity 564 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:32,440 Speaker 2: for forgiveness where others only see offense. Because my faith 565 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,560 Speaker 2: is a way of seeing the world, so I can 566 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,040 Speaker 2: look at what I was looking at, but look at 567 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:39,240 Speaker 2: it differently. 568 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 1: Because I don't walk by sight. I walk by faith. 569 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,720 Speaker 2: And no matter how this turns out, I just want 570 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 2: to make an announcement in advance. 571 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 1: God, I praise you, no matter what the outcome is. 572 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 2: God, I give you glory. No matter how it turns out. 573 00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,560 Speaker 2: I lift my eyes to the hills. 574 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 1: My health comes from the Lord. 575 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 2: When you touch seven people and tell them look out, 576 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 2: look out, look out, look out, Get out your tent, Abraham, 577 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:13,480 Speaker 2: and count the stars. If indeeds are able to number them. 578 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,560 Speaker 2: You've been so busy looking at this tent, you've. 579 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 1: Missed the stars. You've missed the potential. 580 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,040 Speaker 2: You've been so busy looking at your pain. You've been 581 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 2: so busy looking at your problem. But faith is going 582 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 2: to enable you to see. 583 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,120 Speaker 1: There's a cloud the size of a man's hand. 584 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:33,320 Speaker 2: And it's rising and it's heavy with rain. Come on, 585 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:41,760 Speaker 2: get God a south, getther the phrase by faith faith, 586 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,240 Speaker 2: I got faith. Some of your neighbors say, where's your faith? 587 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 2: Where's your faith? Because faith is the substance. Faith isn't 588 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:53,240 Speaker 2: a frame of mind. 589 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,440 Speaker 1: Frame is faith? Faith. 590 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,680 Speaker 2: There's a course of action that changes your frame of mind. 591 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,800 Speaker 2: Finished preaching, I want to talk about the order. Because 592 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,400 Speaker 2: Jesus gives the man a command. It seems strange, It 593 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,239 Speaker 2: seems bizarre in some senses, it even sounds cruel. Touch 594 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 2: somebody say faith, faith, faith functional faith, Faith that works, 595 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,680 Speaker 2: Faith that works, Faith that affects my life. Not just 596 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:16,720 Speaker 2: fate that I think about and gives me a cozy feeling. 597 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:17,279 Speaker 1: Not faith. 598 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,160 Speaker 2: Its like a warm glass of milk, not faith. This 599 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:20,440 Speaker 2: like a chocolate chip cookie. 600 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:20,959 Speaker 1: Not faith. 601 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,400 Speaker 2: It's like too tail and all I can take to 602 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,640 Speaker 2: make the pain go away. Know the kind of faith 603 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,319 Speaker 2: that will enable me to do the impossible and to 604 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:31,440 Speaker 2: believe God in ways that are irrational. The Bible says 605 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,120 Speaker 2: that the man got up in front of the people. 606 00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,560 Speaker 2: That was his first step. His first step was to 607 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,520 Speaker 2: take a stand in front of the people who were 608 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 2: judging him. He had to be willing to stand out 609 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,960 Speaker 2: in the midst of a synagogue of people who didn't 610 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,920 Speaker 2: get it. He had to be willing to stand up 611 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 2: in front of people that misunderstood him. 612 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,360 Speaker 1: Do you have enough faith to take a stand? 613 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:51,360 Speaker 2: Do you have enough faith to come out in the 614 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,120 Speaker 2: open and say, I'm a person of faith. I'm not 615 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,279 Speaker 2: ashamed to be identified with God. I'm not ashamed to 616 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,279 Speaker 2: be optimistic. I'm not ashamed to have an outlook. It's 617 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,200 Speaker 2: not ruled and regulated by the affairs of this life. 618 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,760 Speaker 2: Were the systems of this world. I got the faith 619 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,080 Speaker 2: to stand up. I think it's time for the people 620 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,719 Speaker 2: of God in America to take the stand and say 621 00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,080 Speaker 2: our faith is really don't relegate. 622 00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,560 Speaker 1: Us, draw a voting book. We are the people of faith. 623 00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:21,920 Speaker 2: Faith. So he stood up in front of him and 624 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,279 Speaker 2: then watched Jesus. Jesus was looking around, tell somebody, say 625 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,640 Speaker 2: look around, look around, look around, And Jesus found this 626 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:30,880 Speaker 2: one man, and he stood this one man up, and 627 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,600 Speaker 2: the Bible says that there were two conditions in the synagogue. 628 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,200 Speaker 2: There was one condition. It said that the man had 629 00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:37,040 Speaker 2: a shriveled hand. 630 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:37,800 Speaker 1: But watch this. 631 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,040 Speaker 2: It says that when he stood up the man, he 632 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:44,200 Speaker 2: was deeply distressed verse five at their stubborn hearts. Which 633 00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:48,279 Speaker 2: one is worse, a shriveled hand or a stubborn heart. 634 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,120 Speaker 2: The condition of the man's hand was an image of 635 00:35:56,120 --> 00:36:06,200 Speaker 2: the people's heart. The symptom was reflective of the system. 636 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:11,640 Speaker 2: And Jesus came to confront both. So he tells the man. 637 00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,960 Speaker 2: He tells the man stand up, and then he tells 638 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:24,040 Speaker 2: him to stretch out his hand. Imaginatively speaking, perhaps the 639 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,839 Speaker 2: man kept his bad hand in his pocket. See, because 640 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:31,040 Speaker 2: the Bible says he had a shriveled hand. That means 641 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,879 Speaker 2: the other one was working just fine. And Jesus didn't 642 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,239 Speaker 2: specify which hand. So you know how we like to do. 643 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,200 Speaker 2: We always like to stick out our good hand. 644 00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:45,239 Speaker 1: First. Hi, nice to meet you. I made cookies. 645 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:50,120 Speaker 2: The good hand, And Jesus said, no, not that one, 646 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,800 Speaker 2: not the one that's working, the one that wasn't working. 647 00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,439 Speaker 2: God didn't bring you here today so you could show 648 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,200 Speaker 2: off the parts of your life that are working. 649 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:05,680 Speaker 1: He brought you here today to heal the parts of 650 00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,560 Speaker 1: your life that aren't. 651 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,280 Speaker 2: So Look at five, Look at five, he says. He says, 652 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:23,280 Speaker 2: he was deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, their shriveled 653 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:26,120 Speaker 2: hearts that had lost the ability to feel compassion, so 654 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,480 Speaker 2: that their only thought was not of this man. Their 655 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,719 Speaker 2: only thought was of their man made laws. Their only 656 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:36,960 Speaker 2: thought was of the religious requirements. Their only thought was 657 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,759 Speaker 2: of what was wrong. Their only thought of was what 658 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,080 Speaker 2: they would could correct. And he looked around at all 659 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,839 Speaker 2: of that, and the Bible says he was deeply distressed, 660 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:50,279 Speaker 2: And so he restored the man's hand, and then the 661 00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:57,080 Speaker 2: man stretched it out. Would be the logical reading of 662 00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:04,080 Speaker 2: the text. That's not how faith works. Faith has a 663 00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:10,920 Speaker 2: different order. Notice how Jesus, first of all, commands him 664 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:15,480 Speaker 2: to do what he cannot do. Faith will command you 665 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:16,960 Speaker 2: to do what you've never been. 666 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:17,400 Speaker 1: Able to do. 667 00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:23,040 Speaker 2: Faith will command you to do what you've convinced yourself 668 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:24,360 Speaker 2: that you're unable to do. 669 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,880 Speaker 1: Faith will Faith will fly counter to the narrative that 670 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,080 Speaker 1: has guided your entire life up to this point. 671 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,040 Speaker 2: Faith will call you a conqueror when all you've ever 672 00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,560 Speaker 2: known is to feed and then see what you're going 673 00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:38,279 Speaker 2: to do about it. 674 00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,600 Speaker 1: Faith will tell you to stretch out a hand. 675 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:45,880 Speaker 2: That you had hidden in your pocket, hoping nobody would notice. 676 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:46,240 Speaker 1: See. 677 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,840 Speaker 2: It's significant that he healed a man with a shriveled hand, 678 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,839 Speaker 2: because if the man's feet had been lame, everybody would 679 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,120 Speaker 2: have been able to see that from the moment that 680 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:55,760 Speaker 2: they carried him in the door on a mat. 681 00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:59,239 Speaker 1: If the man had been blind, he. 682 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:03,560 Speaker 2: Would have had to feel his way into the room. 683 00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:07,000 Speaker 2: But the thing about some dysfunctions is that they're easy 684 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:12,000 Speaker 2: to hide, and you can get by with one hand. 685 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,640 Speaker 2: And nobody even knows that. Nobody even knows. Nobody even 686 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:23,520 Speaker 2: knows about your temper except your wife. Nobody even knows 687 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,840 Speaker 2: about your spending habits except your husband, and is tearing 688 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:31,040 Speaker 2: your marriage apart. Nobody even knows about your eating disorder. 689 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:35,239 Speaker 2: Nobody even knows. It's fine, it's fine. And Jesus says, 690 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:41,560 Speaker 2: that hand, that hand, that hand. No, No, not your 691 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:42,680 Speaker 2: good hand, not your good hand. 692 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:49,160 Speaker 1: I saw your good hand, your other hand. I want 693 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:49,600 Speaker 1: to heal you. 694 00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:59,840 Speaker 2: On the other hand, So he he had his hand hidden, 695 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,200 Speaker 2: and then he took a stand before the people, and 696 00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:03,520 Speaker 2: when he. 697 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:07,440 Speaker 1: When he stretched, see. 698 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:14,080 Speaker 2: I always want God to restore before I respond. But 699 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,359 Speaker 2: the Order of Faith says that it's only when you 700 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:19,480 Speaker 2: respond that. 701 00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:20,600 Speaker 1: You can be restored. 702 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:27,040 Speaker 2: It said, when the man stretched his hand, his hand 703 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:32,280 Speaker 2: got stronger. As he's stretched. God is stretching somebody today. 704 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,000 Speaker 2: He's stretching your faith. He's trying to get you to 705 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,560 Speaker 2: see that it's only when you reach out. 706 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,880 Speaker 1: It's only when you make the effort. It's only when. 707 00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:44,200 Speaker 2: You'll do what you thought you couldn't do. It's only 708 00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:46,760 Speaker 2: when you're willing to stand and even look like a fool. 709 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,239 Speaker 2: Come on, is there anybody who wants God in your 710 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,840 Speaker 2: life bad enough to stretch forward today? 711 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,800 Speaker 1: If that's you'll do it, The man said, stand on your. 712 00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:59,000 Speaker 2: Feet and stretch your hand. Come on, stretch your hand. 713 00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,920 Speaker 2: Stretch that hand that you weren't able to stretch before. 714 00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,520 Speaker 2: Stretch that part of you that wasn't able to believe before. 715 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:16,000 Speaker 2: And I see respond he was restored. God wants to 716 00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:18,440 Speaker 2: restore some things in your life. 717 00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,520 Speaker 1: One gospel writer said, when he stretched. 718 00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,759 Speaker 2: His hand, it was just as good as the other one. 719 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,560 Speaker 2: In other words, God took the part of his life 720 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,680 Speaker 2: that was dysfunctional. That was affecting all the other parts 721 00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,360 Speaker 2: of his life that were functional. And there are certain 722 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,600 Speaker 2: ways in which you can have one part of. 723 00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:36,680 Speaker 1: Your life a hand can. 724 00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:40,520 Speaker 2: Affect everything, your ability to produce, your ability to get 725 00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,160 Speaker 2: a good job, your ability to. 726 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:43,200 Speaker 1: Get along with people. 727 00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:45,800 Speaker 2: But God said, I didn't bring you here to partially 728 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:46,399 Speaker 2: heal you. 729 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:50,800 Speaker 1: I want you to stretch out to me today by faith. 730 00:41:55,040 --> 00:42:00,560 Speaker 2: The presence of the Lord is in this place. Restorative 731 00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:02,759 Speaker 2: presence of the Lord is in this place. This is 732 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:08,680 Speaker 2: a restorative atmosphere. This is a restorative environment. There's no 733 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:12,120 Speaker 2: Pharisees around here looking to see what you came in with. 734 00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,560 Speaker 2: We're not that kind of church. We got a lunk 735 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,560 Speaker 2: alarm in this church. Those people don't make it very law. 736 00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,000 Speaker 1: This is a place where you can stretch it out. 737 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,319 Speaker 1: Come on, you can stretch it out here. You can 738 00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:24,239 Speaker 1: stretch it out. 739 00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:24,800 Speaker 3: Listen. 740 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:31,799 Speaker 2: I preach this word with all of my heart. But 741 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:38,120 Speaker 2: this word cannot change you without your response. This word 742 00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:41,839 Speaker 2: cannot heal your hand if you don't stretch your hand out. 743 00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:46,799 Speaker 2: So the application to what I'm preaching today, and I 744 00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:48,759 Speaker 2: hope that next week you'll come back because I want 745 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:52,160 Speaker 2: to pick up right here and move forward with this thought. 746 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:55,960 Speaker 2: And I hope you'll join me for it. And I'm 747 00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:57,879 Speaker 2: waiting for you to applaud as a sign that you're 748 00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:01,040 Speaker 2: excited about that I want you to do while we're 749 00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,960 Speaker 2: while we're waiting to get back together, Lusch, you don't 750 00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,120 Speaker 2: need a special occasion for faiths. You don't have to 751 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,799 Speaker 2: wait till next week to build your faith more. What 752 00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:13,120 Speaker 2: I want you to do this week is do something 753 00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:19,560 Speaker 2: that you couldn't do without faith. Do something that you've 754 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,440 Speaker 2: been putting on. And it could be very small. Jesus 755 00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,160 Speaker 2: didn't tell the man to do a cart will. Jesus 756 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,880 Speaker 2: didn't tell the man to do an ice sculpture with 757 00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,640 Speaker 2: his bad hand. He told him to do something simple. 758 00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,600 Speaker 2: I wonder what simple thing you could do this week 759 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:38,759 Speaker 2: that would have great significance in your life. Some of 760 00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:40,759 Speaker 2: you need to take your bad hand and call your 761 00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:44,520 Speaker 2: father and seek his forgiveness and reconciliation in a relationship. 762 00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:49,600 Speaker 2: One simple act like that. Some of you just need 763 00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:50,799 Speaker 2: to get to work on. 764 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:55,239 Speaker 1: Time this week. Just a simple thing. 765 00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:57,920 Speaker 2: Stretch your hand, touch somebody, say stretch it, stretch it, 766 00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:00,880 Speaker 2: stretch it. Just get to if you would get to 767 00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:02,720 Speaker 2: work on time every day this week. 768 00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:04,400 Speaker 1: It would send a signal. 769 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:07,560 Speaker 2: To yourself that I'm not limited by what I always 770 00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:08,279 Speaker 2: thought I could do. 771 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,200 Speaker 1: Some of you just need to take every. 772 00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:12,120 Speaker 2: Day this week and say, you know, every day this week, 773 00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,200 Speaker 2: I'm going to start my day in God's word because 774 00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:17,600 Speaker 2: that's something that I wasn't doing before. And if you 775 00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:21,040 Speaker 2: do something you've never done before, you'll experience something you've 776 00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:22,360 Speaker 2: never experienced before. 777 00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:26,400 Speaker 1: Stretch your hand. Stretch your hand. 778 00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:31,840 Speaker 2: Simple things, just the simplest thing can make a huge difference. 779 00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:35,759 Speaker 2: Stretch your hand this week, stretch it out and see 780 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:36,800 Speaker 2: what God will do. 781 00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:43,760 Speaker 1: A faith that functions. It's time to make my faith 782 00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:45,400 Speaker 1: go to work. 783 00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,560 Speaker 2: God didn't give me this faith just so I could 784 00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,719 Speaker 2: be complacent and comfortable with my dysfunction. 785 00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:57,200 Speaker 1: If you've got a shriveled hand. 786 00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,960 Speaker 2: Today, but you feel faith rising up in your heart 787 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:03,160 Speaker 2: and you would like for me to pray with you 788 00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:08,160 Speaker 2: about something that's in your life, to shrivel something that 789 00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:12,040 Speaker 2: you've been previously unable to do. But you're willing to 790 00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:15,719 Speaker 2: stretch a little bit and say this week, I'm gonna 791 00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:19,880 Speaker 2: make the move that I couldn't make. I'm gonna stretch 792 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:21,560 Speaker 2: my faith in a specific way. 793 00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,160 Speaker 1: And if you want me to pray for you, would you. 794 00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,840 Speaker 2: Just stretch your hand up right now as a sign 795 00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:28,719 Speaker 2: of your faith, just as a sign of your. 796 00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:29,520 Speaker 1: Faith, and keep it up. 797 00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:33,240 Speaker 2: I'm gonna pray with everybody who's got their hands stretched. Father, 798 00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:36,520 Speaker 2: We're not waiting for Restoration to give a response. We 799 00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:40,000 Speaker 2: declare right now in Jesus' name that this week our 800 00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:43,040 Speaker 2: faith is gonna work. We're going to have an active 801 00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:46,880 Speaker 2: faith this week. We're not waiting on outcomes to judge 802 00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,680 Speaker 2: the validity of our faith this week. We got a 803 00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:53,120 Speaker 2: new outlook this week. And so we're going into Monday, 804 00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:56,600 Speaker 2: and we're moving into Tuesday, and we're going into Wednesday 805 00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:02,000 Speaker 2: with a faith that works, gonna work because we're gonna 806 00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,239 Speaker 2: work it. We declare this day wonder working God in 807 00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:08,600 Speaker 2: your presence. There's nothing you can't do, there's nothing you 808 00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:10,400 Speaker 2: can't heal, there's nothing. 809 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:11,160 Speaker 1: You can for a storm. 810 00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:16,160 Speaker 2: So touch our hands, touch our hearts, touch our minds, 811 00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:17,320 Speaker 2: change our habits. 812 00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:21,000 Speaker 1: We wanna be the people of faith. And we give 813 00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:22,400 Speaker 1: you praise in advance. 814 00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,600 Speaker 2: Somebody clap your hands and give God pray. 815 00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:29,759 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. 816 00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:32,520 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 817 00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:36,080 Speaker 2: this ministry is because of you that this ministry is possible. 818 00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:38,719 Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give 819 00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:42,719 Speaker 2: now or visit Elevation Church dot org slash podcast for 820 00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:46,800 Speaker 2: more information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 821 00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:48,360 Speaker 1: You can share it with your friends. 822 00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:50,960 Speaker 2: You can click the share button, take a screenshot and 823 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,120 Speaker 2: share it on your social stories and tag us at 824 00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:54,000 Speaker 2: Elevation Church. 825 00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:55,719 Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening. 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