1 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 3: Be sure to. 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 2: Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week. 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 3: I hope you're blessed today. 6 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 4: I don't know how. Honestly, I'm flamox myself as to 7 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 4: how I slid in to the dms of Elevation. I 8 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 4: don't know how. I'm shocked. I told Holly in the 9 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 4: very beginning. I thought she got me confused with either 10 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 4: Lisa Turkerst, who sells a lot of books, or Lisa Vivier, 11 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:43,279 Speaker 4: who preaches in leather pants. And I thought, I know, 12 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 4: but I can't, or it sounds like Duxter being killed. 13 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 4: There's a lot of squeaking if I've preached in leather 14 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 4: and so I really don't know how, other than. 15 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: Pure grace, that I get to be here. 16 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 4: But I am absolutely delighted I do. There's not too 17 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 4: many people respect more than Pastor Holly and Pastor Steven. 18 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 4: I love Wade and Amy, Chris, Colleen Tunis. 19 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: There's just so many people at. 20 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 4: Elevation who have taught me, who have modeled for me 21 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 4: what running hard towards Jesus looks like what it looks 22 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 4: like to be enveloped in a family of faith. And 23 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:25,040 Speaker 4: so before we dive into God's word, let me get 24 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:27,119 Speaker 4: you to reach out and touch that saint next to you. 25 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: This is not rhetorical. Go ahead and touch them. 26 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 4: Don't grope them, just touch them. Gentlemen, I know this 27 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 4: is real girly, so y'all don't have to interlock fingers. 28 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: You can just awkwardly pinky grip at this point. Those 29 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:44,639 Speaker 1: of you joining us. 30 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 4: Online, Epham, you don't have to touch anybody. Hope you're 31 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 4: in comfy pants, you can just undo the top button 32 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 4: because this is a safe place to lean into Jesus, 33 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 4: we want you to be comfortable. Would you pray for 34 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 4: those on either side of you. If you're watching by yourself, 35 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 4: pray for yourself and pray then in these next few minutes, 36 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 4: as we dive into this love letter called the Bible, 37 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 4: that God will give us eyes to see, bigger, ears 38 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 4: that hear louder, and hearts that are pliant enough to 39 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 4: actually receive the glorious good news that. 40 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: We have a perfect God who loves us unconditionally. 41 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 4: We're the prize, y'all, We're the prize. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, 42 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 4: thank you for this time and the space that we 43 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 4: get to come together and focus our attention and our 44 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:37,359 Speaker 4: affection on You. 45 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: Lord. 46 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 4: We confess that most of us come with a lot 47 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 4: of distraction. It takes me more more than four or 48 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 4: five songs to actually get my heart into place to 49 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 4: receive from you, and I wish worship had been an. 50 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 1: Hour this morning. 51 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you, thank you for that promise that 52 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 4: when we seek you with all our hearts, you will 53 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 4: be found by us. But Jesus, I praise you even 54 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 4: more so for that promise in Isaiah the beginning of. 55 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: The book, where you say, so great is. 56 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 4: Your love for us that you even reveal yourself to 57 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 4: people who aren't looking for you. Yet, we're undone this morning, 58 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 4: by your kindness, God, just undone, we confess as your 59 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 4: sons and daughters. We can't even understand scripture apart from 60 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 4: Holy Spirit. So Holy Spirit, just have your way in 61 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 4: this place, and our hearts and our minds just plow 62 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 4: up ground that's hard or numb or disappointed. Open our eyes, 63 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 4: lift our view beyond our circumstances, so that we can 64 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 4: remember this miraculous love story you wrote us into. We 65 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 4: love you, Jesus, we need you, Jesus. We pray all 66 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 4: these things and your perfect and holy name, Lord Jesus. 67 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: Men and amen. Speaking of. 68 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 4: Speaking of sliding into elevations DMS, this is called body glide. 69 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 4: It's a it's a stick, it's an anti chafing bomb. 70 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 4: It's all all about getting yourself slippery. And I just 71 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 4: wanted to start with TMI because I had to wear this. 72 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 4: The last time I was in an athletic competition, I 73 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 4: got talked into running a tin k. And even though 74 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:33,279 Speaker 4: I'm wearing spanks this morning, it's probably very apparent that 75 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 4: I'm not gifted at long distance running. But a friend 76 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 4: of mine talked me into it because she said, lisaid, 77 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:40,119 Speaker 4: they have this amazing swag. 78 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: They have really cute T shirts. 79 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 4: This was in Colorado, and I thought, Okay, I'll line 80 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 4: up with all these paleo people and I'll run this 81 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 4: ten k. 82 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: Because the T shirts are really cute. 83 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 4: And so before the race, she whipped out one of 84 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 4: these body glide slides, and she said, I don't want 85 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 4: to hurt your feelings, but you know you have such 86 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 4: it's gifted legs that I think that it might help 87 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 4: you to rub this on your inner thighs. She did 88 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 4: not say or else she will be arrested for arson, 89 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 4: but that was the implication, And so I slathered myself 90 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:17,159 Speaker 4: up with body glide. Gentleman is like, what in the 91 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 4: sam hill? We're getting to the Bible. We're gonna get 92 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 4: there in just a second. So I'm all slathered up 93 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 4: with bodyglides so I won't start a forest fire. And 94 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 4: the starter's pistol goes off to start this race, and 95 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 4: I have Kodak courage, so I am up with the 96 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 4: elite eight like the first two hundred yards of the 97 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 4: race because everybody's cheering. But then it turns up hill 98 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 4: and we start running up those gorgeous, rocky mountains that 99 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 4: were always meant to be skied down, not run up. 100 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: I start running up those mountains and I thought, this 101 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: is horrible. Who would do this as a hobby? 102 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:51,280 Speaker 4: Who would I mean, I can understand if you were 103 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 4: being disciplined or this was some kind of parole thing, 104 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 4: but people do this on purpose. 105 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: And so about halfway through the race, I was like, 106 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: I can't do this. I cannot do this anymore. This 107 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 1: friction is too much. 108 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 4: I have what they call hotspots for runners, and so 109 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 4: I thought, I'm an old athlete. 110 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 1: I played volleyball and. 111 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 4: Tennis in college, and I thought, I just can't bring 112 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 4: myself to quit. 113 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: That just seems sissy ish, and I can't do that. 114 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:20,600 Speaker 4: But maybe I could find a hole, and I could 115 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 4: step in a hole and break my ankle, and then 116 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:27,599 Speaker 4: I could step off this course with some measure of 117 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 4: dignity left. And so I'm searching for a hole on 118 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 4: the race course, and all of a sudden, I hear 119 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 4: this really loud swishing sound behind me, and so I 120 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 4: look over my shoulder and y'all, there's a six foot bacon, 121 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 4: lettuce and tomato sandwich beside me. You know how some 122 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,359 Speaker 4: people have so much energy when they run races that 123 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 4: they actually wear costumes, which I'm like, really, I'm like 124 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 4: about to crawl and cry and knock somebody over the 125 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 4: head who has a donut who's watching, so I can 126 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 4: take their carb, But instead these people have enough energy 127 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 4: to have a costume. The first guy had this massive 128 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 4: foam cut out that was like wonderbread. 129 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: Just his face is poking through run and cheese. 130 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 4: Just his face behind him is like this green tart 131 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 4: piece of lettuce. It was very lifelike. I want to 132 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 4: eat it badly. And then he's rope to a middle runner. 133 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 4: The middle runner, just his little face is poking out 134 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 4: from a piece of lifelike American cheese. And then attached 135 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 4: to that is three pieces of very wiggly bacon. I 136 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 4: don't know what they made that out of. Then there's 137 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 4: two other ropes pulling up the caboose. He's another giant 138 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 4: piece of wonderbread. And then he's slathered with all kinds 139 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 4: of condiments and a life size tomato, well more than 140 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 4: life sized tomato. 141 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: And I mean it was really incredible, so creative, this giant. 142 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 4: Six foot blt and it was passing me. 143 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: And that is a lot of wind resistance. And so 144 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: that was. 145 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 4: The lowest point of my competition. I decided, never ever 146 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 4: again would I compete in anything where I had to 147 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 4: wear bodyglide. So I no longer compete in ten ks. 148 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 4: I don't rollerblade, I don't go to Myrtle Beach because 149 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 4: because of that particular vacation mecca, there's a lot of 150 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 4: people there who need bodyglide. 151 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 1: It's pull a. 152 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 4: Lot of rubbing going on up at Myrtle Beach. And 153 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 4: I haven't offended you, Myrtle Beachers, but I was there 154 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 4: recently and I just mentally I couldn't handle that corporate 155 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 4: need for something to stop the chafing. 156 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: Now. I don't know if running. 157 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 4: Is your nemesis or if chafing is real for you, 158 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:00,200 Speaker 4: but I do know all of us can identify with 159 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 4: feeling like we're not quite good enough for whatever activity 160 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 4: we've stepped into, that we don't quite meet the minimum 161 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 4: requirement for some club, some community that we'd hoped to 162 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 4: belong to. Feeling like we're not quite good enough. That's 163 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:22,959 Speaker 4: not just an athletic competition thing. 164 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 1: That's a human thing. 165 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 4: Part of the human condition is to feel like we 166 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 4: were just a little bit less than acceptable. Maybe it's 167 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 4: that your mother in law always treated you like her 168 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 4: boy could have done better. Or maybe you're the only 169 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:43,839 Speaker 4: one who doesn't know how to pronounce sobaccac in your 170 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 4: e fam, Or maybe it's that you're in a double 171 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 4: Spans kind of season and you hang out with a 172 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 4: lot of quto girls. I don't know what it is, 173 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 4: but there's just something about the human experience that presses 174 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 4: on the bruise in our human psyche and causes us 175 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 4: at some level to doubt, am I actually good enough 176 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 4: for that? 177 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: And the real the real danger is. 178 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:12,559 Speaker 4: When we superimpose that wondering if we're good enough onto 179 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 4: the character of our creator, redeemer. It's the human experience 180 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 4: to think we don't quite measure up. It is actually 181 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 4: not biblically defensible. It's not in this divine love story 182 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,559 Speaker 4: we call a Bible. If you brought yours, turn to 183 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 4: Genesis forty eight and I'll prove it. Genesis forty eight. 184 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 4: It's about a quarter of an inch from the beginning. 185 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 4: Unless you have a Schofield Bible. We'll have it up 186 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 4: on the screens. Genesis forty eight, verse eight. And this 187 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,439 Speaker 4: is a long one, so don't play angry birds yet. 188 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: I'll read fast. 189 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 4: When Israel saw Joseph's sons, he said. 190 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: Who are these? 191 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 4: And let me qualify this just a minute, because when 192 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 4: you hear the word Israel, we forget that Israel is 193 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 4: synonymous for Jacob. So this is one of the patriarchs 194 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 4: in in scripture, Jacob. So when I read Israel, I 195 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 4: might just start changing it. I love you, I might 196 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 4: just start changing it to Jacob because same name and Joseph. 197 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 4: You all remember who Joseph is. Young, talkback, I'm not 198 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 4: your pastor. He's the guy who got this really cool 199 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 4: colored coat from H and M and his brothers got 200 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 4: all jealous and through him in a hole. 201 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 1: Remember that. 202 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 4: And then they dragged him off as a slave. He 203 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:28,559 Speaker 4: was in Egypt, and then Pharaoh's wife was a total 204 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 4: Houchi mama, and she accused him of sexual misconduct and 205 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 4: he didn't do it, but he got thrown in jail away. 206 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 4: Y'all remember this guy, and then he ends up being 207 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 4: this great leader and God uses him to actually help 208 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 4: his people not die of starvation. 209 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 1: Jaron Famine. Are you with me on the story? 210 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 4: Okay, so we're the part where he's done all that. 211 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 4: He's a grown man, he has children of his own, 212 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 4: and he goes back to Jacob the patriarch with two 213 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 4: little boys, his two little boys, Ephraim and Manassa, who 214 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 4: were born in each not in Israel. And so his dad, Jacob, 215 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 4: the granddaddy of these little boys, Joe says to him, 216 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 4: these are my sons whom God has given me here, 217 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 4: and he said, bring them to me, please, that I 218 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 4: may bless them. Now the eyes of Jacob were dim 219 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:17,199 Speaker 4: with age so that he could not see, so he 220 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 4: had cataracts. And Jacob so Joe brought them near him 221 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 4: and he kissed them and embraced them. And Jacob said 222 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 4: to Joe, I never expect to see your face, because 223 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 4: remember they've been separated since his hay for brothers Thum 224 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,959 Speaker 4: and the Pitmoll. He says, I never expected to see 225 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,680 Speaker 4: your face. I never expected this reconciliation and never expected 226 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 4: you to come back to me. 227 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: But God has let. 228 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 4: Me see your offspring also. Then Joseph removed them from 229 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 4: his knees and he bowed himself with his face to 230 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 4: the earth. He's so delighted to bring his boys to 231 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 4: his father. And Joe took them both Ephraim and his 232 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 4: right hand toward Israel's left hand, a Manassa in his 233 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 4: left hand toward Israel's right. 234 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: Hand, and brought them near him. 235 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 4: And Jacob stretched out his right hand and laid it 236 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 4: on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and 237 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 4: his left hand on the head of Manassa, crossing his hands. 238 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 4: If you've got a brick and mortar Bible and your 239 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 4: comfortable writing in it, underscore that hugely significant even for us. 240 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: As modern day christ followers. 241 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:16,679 Speaker 4: We'll get there in just a second, crossing his hands, 242 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 4: for Manassa was the firstborn, and he blessed Joe and said, 243 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 4: the God before whom my father's Abraham and Isaac walked 244 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 4: to God who has been my shepherd all my life 245 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 4: long to this day, the Angel who has redeemed me 246 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 4: from all evil, bless these boys, and in them, let 247 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 4: my name be carried on in the name of my 248 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 4: father's Abe and Isaac can let them grow into a multitude. 249 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:38,199 Speaker 1: In the midst of. 250 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,719 Speaker 4: Years, when Joe saw that his dad laid his right 251 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:43,680 Speaker 4: hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and 252 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:45,959 Speaker 4: he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's 253 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,680 Speaker 4: head to Manassa's head. And Joe said to his daddy, 254 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 4: not this way, Dad, since this one is the firstborn, 255 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 4: and put your right hand on his head. But his 256 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 4: father refused and said, I know, my son, I know, 257 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 4: I might have cataract, but I'm not stupid. That's not 258 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 4: literal Hebrew, it's more message point two. Nevertheless, his younger 259 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 4: brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall 260 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:13,680 Speaker 4: become a multitude of nations. So Jacob bless them that day, 261 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 4: saying bless you. Israel will pronounce blessing, saying God make 262 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 4: you as Ephraim and Asmanassa does he put Ephraim before Manassa. 263 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 4: Then Israel said to Joe, behold, I'm about to die, 264 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 4: but God will be with you, and we'll bring you 265 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 4: again to the land of your fathers. Moreover, I've given 266 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 4: to you rather than to your brother's one mountain slope 267 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 4: that I took from the hand of the Amorites with 268 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 4: my sword and with my bow. So what does that 269 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 4: Old Testament history mean to us today? Why is it 270 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 4: significant for us, especially for those of us who wonder, 271 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 4: how in the world could a perfect God like that 272 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 4: fully except fully love. 273 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: A damaged woman, a damaged man like me. 274 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 4: First of all, in this ancient culture, they practice the 275 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 4: law of primogeniture, and that just means the firstborn got everything. 276 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 4: Firstborn un goot everything. The law of inheritance was the 277 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 4: firstborn son was it? 278 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: Second? Really was just a spare? First is the heir 279 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: second as a spare. 280 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 4: And so what would happen is the patriarch of any 281 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 4: family community would bless the firstborn with this right hand, 282 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 4: because in submitted culture, the right hand is the blessed hand. 283 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 4: The right right hand is the holy hand. The right 284 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 4: hand is the hand that you want to bless with. 285 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 4: Left hand is considered subservient. I was just in Israel 286 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 4: again in marsh and none of my Jewish friends will 287 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 4: greet me with their left hand. That's considered disrespectful. The 288 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 4: right hand is the hand of blessing. That's why you 289 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 4: will never read in scripture that Jesus sat at the 290 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 4: left hand of God, the Father. 291 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: Always the right, always the right. 292 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 4: So when when Joe multicolored coat guy brings his two 293 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 4: little boys to their granddaddy and he says, I want 294 00:15:55,760 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 4: you to bless them, dad, and then Jacob crosses his arms, y'all, 295 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 4: this is the only time that happens in all of scripture. 296 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: That's called a hay pax legomanon. Isn't that cool? Share 297 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: that with your efamgroup. 298 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 4: If they're thinking you're sliding, just go well, I was 299 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 4: reading a hay packs legomanon. It's a fancy word that 300 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 4: means it only happens once in a corpus or in 301 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 4: a text. You will never read this again in scripture. 302 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 4: This is the only time, you've got a patriarch crossing 303 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 4: his arms intentionally to bless the second son instead of 304 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 4: the first, as was their custom, as was their tradition. 305 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 4: Joseph is so flustered by it, and he's like, Dad, 306 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 4: you messed up. 307 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 1: You bless the wrong kid. And he goes, no, I 308 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: knew exactly what I was doing. 309 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 4: He says, here's the deal, Joseph, I want both of 310 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 4: them blessed. What this leads to scholars critical scholars call 311 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 4: this etology fancy word that means, this is the foundation 312 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 4: that explains what happens later on. This is the cause 313 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:05,920 Speaker 4: of something. This explains why Ephraim, who was the second son, 314 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 4: becomes prominent in Israel's history. 315 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: From then on. 316 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:13,640 Speaker 4: From Genesis forty eight, when you hear about Manassa, he's 317 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 4: first born, it says Manassa and Ephraim. You would think 318 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 4: they were twins by the way you read them in 319 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 4: biblical narrative. And then Ephraim actually kind of gets bigger 320 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 4: than Manassa. 321 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: Ephram is the one. 322 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 4: Where we get a lot of the leaders from in 323 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 4: the Old Testament. Ephraim is the one when Israel splits 324 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 4: into two nations. Y'all remember when that happened, because we 325 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 4: had Solomon third Keen of Israel, and he was a 326 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,199 Speaker 4: player and had way too many wives and concubines, and 327 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:39,720 Speaker 4: they fought and they couldn't decide for an air. 328 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: Do y'all remember this? And so it was real Jerry Springer. 329 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 4: And so instead of Israel being one one united nation 330 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 4: under Yahweh, they split and there was Northern Israel and 331 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 4: there were Southern Israel. There were twelve tribes, y'all remember 332 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 4: who the twelve tribes came from? 333 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 1: Y'a talk back? 334 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 4: Jacob's Jacob's twelve sons who make up the twelve tribes 335 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 4: of Israel. Those are the tribes that step over the 336 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 4: Jordan and they go into Canaan. They're the ones who 337 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 4: occupy promised land. There are great great great great great 338 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 4: great great great great great. 339 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:15,159 Speaker 1: And then some spiritual grandmama's and granddaddies. 340 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 4: Well, Ephraim and Manassa are sons of Joseph, which means 341 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 4: technically they aren't one of the twelve tribes. They're half tribe. 342 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 4: But do you know that after this they're called a tribe. 343 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,879 Speaker 4: Technically they're not a tribe, but they're called a full 344 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 4: on tribe. And when Israel splits, ten tribes go to 345 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 4: the north. Two tribes, Judah and Benjamin, go to the south, 346 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 4: where Jerusalem is. Do you know what they begin calling 347 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:48,119 Speaker 4: the north Ephraim. The name Ephram becomes a metonym for 348 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 4: all the Israelites in the North. So he just gets 349 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 4: bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and more prominent 350 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:57,640 Speaker 4: in Israel's history. 351 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: But he's the second son, He's the spare. 352 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 4: It's so cool, y'all. What this means for us as 353 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:10,360 Speaker 4: christ followers. It means there's no second best. It means 354 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 4: there's no jv. It means there's no lesser than. It 355 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 4: means if you put. 356 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 5: Your hope in Jesus, we're all favorites, every single one 357 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 5: of us. He doesn't go, Oh, you know what's it's 358 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:25,880 Speaker 5: thanksgiving up here in glory. 359 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 1: You got to sit at the kiddie table. 360 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 4: Only the mature believers said here that is not biblically defensible. 361 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 4: He goes, there is now no more hierarchy. You humans 362 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 4: have hierarchy. You humans elevate certain ethnicities, certain sociodemographic groups, 363 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 4: certain wayte sizes, certain hair colors. You establish criteria for 364 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 4: value I don't. If you have put your hope in me, 365 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 4: you're all favorite sons. 366 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: Paul continues this theme. I just love this theme. He 367 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:01,160 Speaker 1: can te you use it in Romans eight. 368 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,919 Speaker 4: Romans eight is basically the hub of our theological wheel. 369 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 4: As believers, you know this Romans eight. Some of y'all 370 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:11,239 Speaker 4: have instagrammed it, but you might not know it. Know 371 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 4: it Romans eight, verse fourteen. For all who are led 372 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 4: by the spirit of God are sons of God. 373 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:20,359 Speaker 1: That's not a gender exclusive term, by the way. 374 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 4: Paul goes on to explain later in Galatians three. 375 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 1: He says, if. 376 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,439 Speaker 4: You are in Christ, there is now no more Greek 377 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:34,159 Speaker 4: nor Jew, male, nor female, slave nor master. So this 378 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 4: is actually not a gender exclusive term. It's just in language. 379 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 4: At this time it was a patriarchal society, so inheritance 380 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 4: language was masculine. 381 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 1: But that's not just talking about boys there for all. 382 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 4: That's the operative word for all who are led by 383 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 4: the spirit of God or sons of God. For you 384 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 4: did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back 385 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 4: into fear, but you receive this received the spirit of adoption. 386 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,040 Speaker 1: As sons by whom we cry. 387 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 4: Abba, Father, Do you know Jesus is the first one, 388 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,919 Speaker 4: and Luke eleven when he's teaching us how to pray. 389 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 4: Prior to Jesus, the rabbis had really formal prayers and 390 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:13,360 Speaker 4: they would approach yahweh God. 391 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 1: The Father with a title. 392 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 4: Jesus says, no, you get to approach him as Dad, 393 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:22,920 Speaker 4: your sons, you're first born. You get to approach him 394 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 4: has dad aha father Dad. The spirit himself bears witness 395 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 4: with our spirit that we are children of God. And 396 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 4: if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs. 397 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 1: Underscore that, y'all fellow heirs. 398 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 4: Your translation might say co heirs with Christ, provided we 399 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 4: suffer with Him in order that we may also be 400 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 4: glorified in him. Colossians one tells us that Jesus is 401 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 4: the firstborn of all creation. He blows William, the Prince 402 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 4: of Wales away. He's not the firstborn in UK royalty. 403 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 4: He is the firstborn of all creation. He is the 404 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 4: definitive heir, the definitive first born. 405 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: And here Paul says, you're his co heirs. 406 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 6: You raggedy, broke down, prone to schaef prone to wander people, 407 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 6: You are co heirs. The Greek term there is soon 408 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 6: Clay Ranamos soon Clay Ramanas. It means we are properly 409 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:46,200 Speaker 6: entitled to inherit every single thing. Jesus inherits, properly entitled 410 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 6: to inherit everything. 411 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: Jesus, y'all that should blow your doors. Properly entitled to inherit. 412 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 1: So Jesus doesn't say, hey, Dad. 413 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 4: I've got a friend. I mean no, they're kind of 414 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 4: broke down, another kind of rat. But I got to 415 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,440 Speaker 4: know him in Charlotte, and can we just invite him in? 416 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,920 Speaker 1: And then they stay like they can stay in the basement. 417 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:09,160 Speaker 1: That's not it. 418 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 4: We sit right next to Jesus at the bank winning 419 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 4: table of God the Father. 420 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: It's stunning. Our access is stunning. We're not less than 421 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: adopted children. We're co heirs. 422 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 4: Missy and I were at a Christmas event last year 423 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,439 Speaker 4: and a man who has since become a friend, a 424 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 4: Messianic rabbi from Israel, was at this event in Nashville. 425 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: We were teaching him how to talk, write, and eat biscuits. 426 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 4: And he watched Missy and I for a long time, 427 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 4: and then he called me over and he said, Lisa, 428 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 4: do you understand the distinction between adoption in America and 429 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 4: adoption in a Jewish culture, especially a biblical Jewish culture. 430 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,439 Speaker 4: And I said, I don't think so. And he said, well, 431 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 4: in my culture, and especially in the context of biblical narrative, 432 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 4: a parent could disinherit a biological child, could disinherit a 433 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 4: biological child. But it is illegal if you're an Orthodox 434 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:24,440 Speaker 4: Jew to disinherit and adopted child. He said, we don't 435 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,639 Speaker 4: even realize how significant it was when Joseph went with 436 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 4: Mary to have the first born sacrifice made a week 437 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:34,400 Speaker 4: after baby Jesus was born. 438 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: You read this in Looke too. That's where Simeon sings over. 439 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 4: Jesus and says, this is the Savior, this is the 440 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:41,360 Speaker 4: man you have been waiting for all this time. That's 441 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 4: where Anna remember she was waiting there for almost one 442 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 4: hundred years. 443 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: Simeon's old. 444 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 4: I always imagine her back in the bathroom, like filling 445 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:49,879 Speaker 4: the paper towel dispensers. 446 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: And she knows Simeon. 447 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 4: They're really close friends from the Jewish retirement home across 448 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 4: the street from the temple. They're both big volunteers and 449 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 4: temple been there for decades. And she hears me in 450 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 4: warbling and she's back for filling the tape paper towel dispenser, 451 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 4: and she thinks, al' know, aw, he's broken his hip again. 452 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 4: And she goes running or kind of wobbling into temple 453 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 4: and she looks up and. 454 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 1: She see these sees, these. 455 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 4: Teenagers and the boy has a pigeon squawking in his backpack. 456 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 1: Mary and Joe were poor. 457 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 4: They couldn't afford a normal sacrifice, so they brought a 458 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 4: pigeon and they've got a baby boy. And Simeon is 459 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:30,479 Speaker 4: holding this baby boy, and Simeon's face is lit up 460 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 4: like a Christmas tree, and he says, this is the one, 461 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 4: and this is the one we've been waiting for. 462 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 1: All these are this, this is the Christ. This is 463 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:40,680 Speaker 1: a man. 464 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 3: You how. 465 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 4: My friend Samuel said, Lisa when that happened, when Joseph 466 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,719 Speaker 4: voluntarily went to temple and said, this is my first born. 467 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,360 Speaker 4: What he was saying is this one gets my full inheritance. 468 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,159 Speaker 4: Even though i'm technically the step dad. I did and 469 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 4: get Mary pregnant technically on the step dad, this is 470 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 4: my son, and every single thing I have I'm given 471 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 4: to this boy. He said, that's what we have. It 472 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:21,560 Speaker 4: says we're co eers with Christ. We're co eers with Christ. 473 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 4: We get everything he gets. That is so hard for 474 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 4: me to understand. It's become a little more tangible now 475 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 4: that I'm a mom myself. I became a mom through 476 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 4: the miracle of adoption. The year I turned fifty. I 477 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 4: was really broke down, probably all the chafing in my 478 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,680 Speaker 4: twenties and thirties, and I was really afraid of intimacy. 479 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 4: I didn't get married in my twenties and thirties. I 480 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 4: was really drawn to abusers. God protected me from the 481 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 4: men I was most drawn to you. And this is 482 00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 4: of course pre online dating, which that's been to train 483 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:01,680 Speaker 4: wreck for me too. 484 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 1: I won't go there. 485 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 4: But the few good godly guys I dated, God protected 486 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,680 Speaker 4: them from me because I was just crippled with shame. 487 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 4: Even though I knew Jesus, I knew him as my savior, 488 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 4: I didn't know him as my liberator in my twenties 489 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,200 Speaker 4: and thirties and so to. And by the way, when 490 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 4: I hear babies, I love the sound of babies in church. 491 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:22,479 Speaker 1: Don't worry about a baby. 492 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 4: When I see people in church give dirty looks to 493 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 4: parents or grandparents or aunties or uncles with babies. I 494 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 4: always pray the people give them the dirty looks would 495 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 4: get hives because I'm like, Lord, have mercy, if ever 496 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,159 Speaker 4: we should celebrate babies. But to get to have my 497 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,159 Speaker 4: story redeemed, to get to become a mom at the 498 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 4: age of fifty through the miracle of adoption after my 499 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 4: little girl's first mama died in Haiti, I just I 500 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,120 Speaker 4: feel like I'm still in the honeymoon season of how 501 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 4: God restored that part of my story and getting to 502 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 4: be Missy's mom. Getting to be Missy's mom has helped 503 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 4: me understand more about being a child of God. Head 504 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 4: backwards to Luke's Gospel. I love Luke's Gospel. Luke is 505 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:22,040 Speaker 4: the only known non gentile author of Scripture. He wrote 506 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 4: the Gospel according to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, 507 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 4: and he was an outlier. 508 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: He was not a Jew. 509 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,160 Speaker 4: All of the other authors of Holy writ are Jews. 510 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 4: Got a few books that are formally classified as anonymous, 511 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 4: but most of them were written by Jews, and so 512 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 4: Luke is a gentile knew what it was to wonder 513 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 4: if he fit that he actually didn't meet the minimum 514 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 4: requirement for an author of a euon Gelon, a gospel, 515 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 4: and so his stories are just riddled with compassion and 516 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 4: with the idea of what it means to be close 517 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 4: to this God who calls us his children. And this story, 518 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 4: this story that Jesus tells in Luke chapter eleven, you 519 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 4: half of his sermon material was parabolic. It was story. 520 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 4: This story he tells just slays me. Begins in verse five. 521 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 4: He's taught them how to pray. And then Jesus said 522 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 4: to them, he's talking to disciples. Which of you has 523 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 4: a friend, will go to him at midnight and say 524 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 4: to him, friend, lend me three lows. 525 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: This is Luke eleven, verse six. 526 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 4: For a friend of mine has arrived in a journey, 527 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 4: and I have nothing to set before him, and he 528 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 4: will answer from within, do not bother me. 529 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 1: The doors now shut. My children are with me in bed. 530 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 4: I cannot get up and give you anything I tell you, 531 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,160 Speaker 4: though he will not get up and give him anything 532 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 4: because he is his friend. Yet because of his impudence. Again, 533 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,080 Speaker 4: if y'all comfort writing in your Bible's underscore that one 534 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 4: that is such an interesting word, this too is a 535 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:58,080 Speaker 4: heypax legomenon. This is the only time this particular word 536 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 4: is used anywhere in the Bible. The Greek of that 537 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 4: English word is nadea, and it's this audaciousness anytime you 538 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 4: read about this in history. 539 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 1: Josephis talks about it a lot. 540 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 4: He was first century historian, and he always uses it 541 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 4: in the pejorative sense. So he says, because the neighbor 542 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 4: is so audacious in his banging, the dad eventually rises 543 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 4: and gives him what he needs verse nine. And I 544 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 4: tell you, asking, it will be given to you. Seek, 545 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 4: and you will find, knock, and it will be open 546 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 4: to you for everyone who receives, and the one who 547 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 4: seeks finds, And to the one who knocks it will 548 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:36,920 Speaker 4: be opened. 549 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 1: What father among you. 550 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 4: If his son asks for a fish, will instead of 551 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 4: a fish, give him a serpent. Or if he asked 552 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 4: for an egg, will give him a scorpion. And if you, then, 553 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 4: who are evil, know how to give good gifts to 554 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:50,719 Speaker 4: your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give 555 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 4: the Holy Spirit to those who ask him. I grew 556 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 4: up half Baptist. My mom's a Baptist at the bone. 557 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 4: My dad's Pentecostal. So I'm Bapticostle, which means I want 558 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,680 Speaker 4: to dance, but I have no rhythm, and I've seen 559 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 4: almost all of these stories, Flannel graft, I've heard that 560 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 4: story in luke Levin. I bet I've heard that preach. 561 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 4: I don't know, Holly a thousand times. 562 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:12,440 Speaker 1: You have too. 563 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 4: I'm sure you've preached it before, seen it, Flannel graphed. 564 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,479 Speaker 4: I mean, I thought I knew every nuance to that story, 565 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 4: as horrifically arrogant as that sounds. And then in a 566 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,959 Speaker 4: seminary class I'm finishing up a doctorate at den sim 567 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 4: I heard one of the he's considered the foremost authority 568 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:31,720 Speaker 4: on the parables, doctor Craig Blomberg, preach on this particular passage, 569 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 4: and I was just undone by his application. One of 570 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,360 Speaker 4: my other favorite theologians living one anyway, I love all 571 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 4: the dead guys, but doctor Craig Keener is alive and 572 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,160 Speaker 4: kicking at Asbury Seminary in Kentucky, and doctor Craig Keener 573 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 4: says this, if you get out of the Bible what 574 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 4: you're expecting to get out of the Bible, you need 575 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 4: to change your expectations. It's always bigger, it's all ways better. 576 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 4: I thought that story in luke Levin was about prayer. 577 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,960 Speaker 4: I thought it was about persistence in prayer because the 578 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:06,520 Speaker 4: takeaway is always asked seek knock, and doctor Blomberg said, well, 579 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 4: that's one of the applications. But you actually have to 580 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 4: dig a little deeper and look at the parabolic semblance 581 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 4: in this story. So any time you have a dad 582 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,200 Speaker 4: in one of Jesus' stories, or a master, a vineyard owner, 583 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 4: who does that represent always always young, talk back God always. 584 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 4: If it's a father in the story, Jesus always represents God. 585 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 4: The father, master always represents the kingball King's always alway always. 586 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 4: So you've got a dad, he's in bed, he's asleep 587 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 4: in his house. If you know anything about first century 588 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:46,360 Speaker 4: Jewish or Semitic architecture, you'll know they had one bedroom. 589 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:50,120 Speaker 4: So if you're asleep as a dad, or as a mom, 590 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,960 Speaker 4: or as a granddad or an uncle or foster parent, 591 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,680 Speaker 4: your kids are with you, and I don't have separate 592 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:01,720 Speaker 4: bedrooms where they're playing PlayStation or texting naughty things. 593 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 1: They don't have that. 594 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,720 Speaker 4: They're with you in that one sleeping room. So you've 595 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 4: got the dad, and then you've got the neighbor. And 596 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,720 Speaker 4: so the neighbor comes over because the neighbor wasn't prepared 597 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,160 Speaker 4: for a guest who comes to his house and didn't 598 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 4: takest ahead of time, and so he pantics because he's 599 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,520 Speaker 4: got nothing in the pantry. He comes to the sleeping dad, 600 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 4: bangs on the door and says, I need something, tortillas, 601 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 4: you know, just anything, even though reduced fat trisk gets anything. 602 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,520 Speaker 4: I've got to have something because I don't have anything 603 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,520 Speaker 4: to put before this guy. That is unheard of in 604 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 4: their culture. It's hospitable culture. You always had bread. So 605 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 4: the thing I love about the Bible because carbs are 606 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,080 Speaker 4: elevated in the Bible, which I think. 607 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 1: Is a good thing. 608 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:48,360 Speaker 4: I think Cayle is just about from the devil. But anyway, anyway, 609 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,120 Speaker 4: you always had bread. This guy's run out of bread, 610 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,440 Speaker 4: so he pantics. Comes next door. He starts banging on 611 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 4: the door. And when he's banging on the door, the 612 00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:01,480 Speaker 4: dad goes, go away. I've already read the bedtime story. 613 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,240 Speaker 4: We've already had the water, we've already done everything. We 614 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 4: are asleep, go away. This is so rude an idea. 615 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:13,680 Speaker 4: He's audacious. The guy's persistent because he's painicked. He just 616 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,680 Speaker 4: keeps banging on the door because he's like, I need 617 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:20,479 Speaker 4: something e linguising anything, I need something to give my guest, 618 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 4: And it says because of his impudence, the dad eventually 619 00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:31,680 Speaker 4: gets up and gives them a snack for his guest. 620 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,440 Speaker 4: And then usually the application is if you bang a 621 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:38,520 Speaker 4: little harder, God will answer. Now, that's not biblically defensible. 622 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:42,840 Speaker 4: It doesn't even go with a story. The stranger, doctor 623 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 4: Blomberg says, likely represents an unbeliever. 624 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:55,160 Speaker 1: Dad represents God. Where are we? Where are we? 625 00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:02,000 Speaker 4: Are we outside banging or are we in side reclining right 626 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,760 Speaker 4: next to our dad? Yeah, this is less about prayer 627 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,840 Speaker 4: and it's more about proximity. 628 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,279 Speaker 1: It's less about us banging on the door. 629 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 4: That doesn't bear out with theological logic. We don't have 630 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,560 Speaker 4: to beg God to act on our behalf. 631 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,600 Speaker 1: We're favorite sons and daughters. He loves us. 632 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,160 Speaker 4: On our worst day, we'll get disciplined from our dad, 633 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,680 Speaker 4: But not disciplined because he's a unibrad library and who's 634 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:30,279 Speaker 4: mad at us. 635 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:34,200 Speaker 1: We get disciplined because he loves us, He's for us. 636 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:39,799 Speaker 4: Three years ago, Missy and I went from Nashville to Kalispell, Montana. 637 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,600 Speaker 1: It was kind of toward the end of COVID. 638 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,400 Speaker 4: We were so excited to actually be leaving the house 639 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,600 Speaker 4: because you know during COVID how you're not traveling much, 640 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,040 Speaker 4: and I travel a lot for work, and I got 641 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,200 Speaker 4: so bored at home and I accidentally cut through my 642 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,080 Speaker 4: propane line with a chainsaw. 643 00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 1: It's actually not hyperbolic. I did almost killed us. 644 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,160 Speaker 4: Single and old, and my dad was a contractor, so 645 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:03,680 Speaker 4: I know my way around a power tool. 646 00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:07,000 Speaker 1: And I was buzzing this this bush and I thought, 647 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:08,440 Speaker 1: I just will do some landscaping. 648 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,760 Speaker 4: And I'm kind of a slow reactor, and I smelled 649 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:14,399 Speaker 4: propane and realized, oh, I just cut a propane line. 650 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:15,960 Speaker 1: Almost killed us. So I thought it's good for us 651 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:16,719 Speaker 1: to get out of the house. 652 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:21,240 Speaker 4: And so I was thrilled when Levi and Jenny said 653 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,040 Speaker 4: come up to Kalispell. They have a church called Fresh Life, 654 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,080 Speaker 4: and he said, come up, we'd love to love to 655 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,439 Speaker 4: host you at Kalispell. And it took us a while 656 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,280 Speaker 4: to get there because you know that tail into COVID, 657 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,279 Speaker 4: there weren't as many flights, and so we flew from 658 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:36,880 Speaker 4: Nashville to Chicago, long lay from Chicago, finally got to Kaalaispell, Montana. 659 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:38,800 Speaker 4: It was late in the afternoon, but I didn't have 660 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,880 Speaker 4: anything to do until the next morning. So I said, hey, baby, 661 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,440 Speaker 4: you know, since we've been sitting forever, you want to go. 662 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,400 Speaker 4: You want to go stretch your legs. There's some great 663 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:51,799 Speaker 4: hiking trails around here. Miss He said, no, ma'am. I 664 00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,880 Speaker 4: was like, okay. I said, well, honey, they've got a 665 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,960 Speaker 4: lake right by the hotel and there's some canoes there. 666 00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:58,160 Speaker 4: You want to get in the canoe and go for 667 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:03,040 Speaker 4: a canoe ride. No, man, it's like, okay, Well, we 668 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,439 Speaker 4: came through this darling little mountain village on the way 669 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,120 Speaker 4: to the hotel, and there is a candy shop there 670 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:10,920 Speaker 4: and they have got ice cream and chocolate and all 671 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,560 Speaker 4: kind of stuff. You want to walk up and get 672 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:16,000 Speaker 4: some candy at the candy shop, No, ma'am. 673 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,600 Speaker 1: And then I pulled out my piece to resistance. 674 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,680 Speaker 4: I and my apologies if you build these are like these, 675 00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:27,080 Speaker 4: But I just abhor hotel pools because I think they're 676 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:32,120 Speaker 4: just like big basins of bacteria. And so I love pools, 677 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,880 Speaker 4: but just not you know, pools with that much strange 678 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,520 Speaker 4: flesh in it, And so I don't usually swim in 679 00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:39,320 Speaker 4: the hotel pools. 680 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:43,200 Speaker 1: Missy loves hotel pools. So I kind of pulled. 681 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,160 Speaker 4: The last trick out of my bag and I said, baby, 682 00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:47,600 Speaker 4: you want to go swim in the hotel pool. There's 683 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:52,560 Speaker 4: like a big slide in everything. And she said, no, ma'am. 684 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,960 Speaker 4: It takes me a long time. I am not the 685 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,120 Speaker 4: sharpest tool in the shed. But I finally, after four 686 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,560 Speaker 4: flat refusal, realized I am getting on my child's nerves. 687 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,960 Speaker 1: You know, she's she was eleven at the time. 688 00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:09,240 Speaker 4: She's just stepping into pubrey and I thought, oh my goodness, 689 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,640 Speaker 4: I'm not her hero anymore. I'm getting on your nerves. 690 00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,560 Speaker 4: And so I said, honey, am I getting on your nerves? 691 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:21,959 Speaker 4: And she said yes, ma'am. She said, is that disrespectful? 692 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,240 Speaker 4: I said, no, baby, that's not disrespectful. That's so normal. 693 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,200 Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, over the next few years, 694 00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,160 Speaker 4: I'm going to get on your last nerve. 695 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,279 Speaker 1: That's part of what growing up is. 696 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,680 Speaker 4: I said, that's not disrespectful, honey, that's just normal. 697 00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,919 Speaker 1: So here's the deal. I'm going to draw an imaginary 698 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:38,400 Speaker 1: line down. 699 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,960 Speaker 4: This hotel room, and you get to stay on this 700 00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:42,839 Speaker 4: side of the hotel room, and you've got a little 701 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,840 Speaker 4: bit of homework. She can do the homework on your iPad, 702 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,040 Speaker 4: and then after that you watch whatever you want to watch. 703 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,160 Speaker 4: And then I'll stay on this side because I've got 704 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,400 Speaker 4: a little bit of homework too, and we can just 705 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:55,080 Speaker 4: stay on our separate size of the hotel room. And 706 00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,439 Speaker 4: if you need me, just call me, but I'll stay 707 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,920 Speaker 4: over here and I won't bug you anymore. 708 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:02,480 Speaker 1: And she said, yes, ma'am. 709 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:06,360 Speaker 4: And a couple of hours went by in that companionable silence, 710 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:08,560 Speaker 4: and then the sun went down. It was time for 711 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,040 Speaker 4: us to get ready for bed, and so we brushed 712 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,640 Speaker 4: our teeth. They had two sinks, and then we went 713 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,000 Speaker 4: to bed. They had two beds. Missy got in her 714 00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,600 Speaker 4: little hotel bed and I got my little hotel bed. 715 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:20,600 Speaker 1: I turned out the light. 716 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:26,120 Speaker 4: Maybe thirty seconds passed, and then I heard my little 717 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:28,759 Speaker 4: girl and she said. 718 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:33,680 Speaker 7: Mama, will you come over here and goud on me, 719 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,600 Speaker 7: because I don't think of the hills are going to 720 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,960 Speaker 7: sleep if you don't come over here. 721 00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:40,000 Speaker 3: And cut on me. 722 00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,680 Speaker 1: And I said, I'll tell you what you can do. 723 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:48,520 Speaker 1: You can climb out of the window, and you can 724 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,399 Speaker 1: get in the snow and you walk through the snow, 725 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,200 Speaker 1: and you can go to the concierge, and you can 726 00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:54,879 Speaker 1: ask the concierge if he'll bring you up to this floor, and. 727 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:56,239 Speaker 4: Then you can knock on the door of your bang 728 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:57,640 Speaker 4: really loud that I might answer the door. 729 00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,920 Speaker 1: But I'm not sure. Do y'all think that's what I did? 730 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,840 Speaker 4: When she said, I just need to get pentecostal for 731 00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:05,560 Speaker 4: a minute, like. 732 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,320 Speaker 1: I don't feel like I really preach unless the veins 733 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,880 Speaker 1: start poking out. And I did spit a little bit. 734 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,680 Speaker 1: I'll be just a little bit as fit. We call 735 00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:16,840 Speaker 1: that annoying. I didn't yell. 736 00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:18,920 Speaker 4: I didn't tell her she had to go outside and 737 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,200 Speaker 4: bang on the door. When she said, Mama, will you 738 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:23,600 Speaker 4: come over here and cuddle me? 739 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:24,240 Speaker 1: Y'all? 740 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:28,560 Speaker 4: I leapt from my bed to hers, and I brought snacks. 741 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:34,200 Speaker 4: I mean, this is my kid, this is my daughter. 742 00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:39,200 Speaker 4: I will give her anything I have. And my love 743 00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:45,120 Speaker 4: for my kid pals next to God's love for us. 744 00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:49,960 Speaker 4: We forget that we're co eers, we forget that we're 745 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:51,160 Speaker 4: right next to him. 746 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:58,000 Speaker 1: We don't have to bang. He's for us, not against us. 747 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:01,440 Speaker 1: One glance of your eyes, you've captured his heart. 748 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,239 Speaker 4: You don't have to put on matching T shirts and 749 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,520 Speaker 4: drive a long way to be in the presence. 750 00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:14,399 Speaker 1: Of your creator, redeemer. He loves you. He loves you. 751 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,280 Speaker 1: He is a perfect holy God. 752 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:25,640 Speaker 4: That means he's transcendent, but he condescends. 753 00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:29,160 Speaker 1: To be close to us. He's a relational god. He's 754 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:35,560 Speaker 1: a father, and he says, you are my favorite. You're 755 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:40,239 Speaker 1: my favorite. You're my favorite. You're my favorite. You're my favorite. 756 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:41,480 Speaker 1: You're my favorite. 757 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,080 Speaker 2: Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 758 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,200 Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 759 00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:50,839 Speaker 2: get you all of these new messages as soon as 760 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,640 Speaker 2: they're available. I also want to take a moment and 761 00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:55,520 Speaker 2: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation. 762 00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:59,360 Speaker 2: Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or 763 00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:02,719 Speaker 2: just these messages, it's because of you that we're able 764 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:05,520 Speaker 2: to reach people all around the world. 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