1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,240 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 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 2: in your life. 7 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message, Mark four twenty six. 8 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:22,319 Speaker 2: He also said, this is what the Kingdom of God 9 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 2: is like a man scattered seed on the ground night 10 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 2: and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed 11 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 2: sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 12 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 1: All by itself. 13 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 2: The soil produces grain, first the stalk, then the head, 14 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 2: then the full kernel in the head. God knows the 15 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 2: order in which things need to happen in our lives, 16 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 2: and trusting him is in one sense, just allowing him 17 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 2: to do not only what he wants to do, but 18 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 2: when he wants to do it. Touch somebody say there's 19 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 2: an order to this. That's what we preached about last 20 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 2: week from Mark three, and we said that when you 21 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 2: get things out of. 22 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 1: Order, they stop working. 23 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 2: So that's why spending your money before you tithe is 24 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 2: a bad idea, because it's out of. 25 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: Order too early, too soon. 26 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:26,479 Speaker 2: That's why sex before marriage is a dangerous proposition. Too much, 27 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 2: too soon. Now he doesn't value you. Instead, he objectifies you. 28 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:36,639 Speaker 2: And there's an order to things. There's an order to things. 29 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise. 30 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 2: My time with God goes a lot better if I 31 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 2: start with thank you for what you've already done. I 32 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 2: got some things I need, I've got some unresolved issues 33 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 2: that I. 34 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: Want to bring before you. 35 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 2: But first of all, God, I just want to thank 36 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 2: you because somebody's lying on a ventilator this morning, and 37 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 2: I have breath in my body, and you said, let 38 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 2: everything that has breadth. 39 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: Praise the Lord, and I got breath to praise you with. 40 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 2: So God, right now, in spite of how I feel 41 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 2: on what I'm going through, I just want to give 42 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 2: you about sixteen seconds of praise. There's an order, there's 43 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 2: an order, and then comes the result as soon verse 44 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 2: twenty nine. As the grain is ripe, he puts the 45 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 2: sickle to it, and some of us put the sickle 46 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 2: to stuff too soon before it has the chance to 47 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 2: take root. And we spend money to impress people, and 48 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,919 Speaker 2: because we don't know when to use what God has 49 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 2: given us, we end up ruining the very provision anyway. 50 00:02:59,120 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: That's true. 51 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 2: I'm just reading scriptures, has nothing to do with my sermon. 52 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 2: But I'll be honest with you. When I walked around 53 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 2: the corner, Valentine was singing like they love Jesus, and 54 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 2: I just got excited and the Holy Spirit just kicked 55 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 2: me into gear. So as soon as the grain is right, 56 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 2: he puts the sickle to it because the harvest has come. 57 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 2: But the real focus of this message is going to 58 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 2: be verse twenty seven B and twenty eight A. It 59 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 2: says the seed sprouts and grows night and day, whether 60 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 2: he sleeps or gets up. The seed sprouts and grows, 61 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 2: though he does not know how, and that's the key phrase. 62 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: He does not know how. 63 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 2: And then it says, all by itself, the soil produces grain. 64 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 2: And so to me, that made me think about grace, 65 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 2: and that made me think about God's sovereignty, and that 66 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 2: made me wonder, if I'm staying up stressing about stuff, 67 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 2: if I would get out of my own way and 68 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 2: let God deal with it the way that he knows 69 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 2: how to deal with things, I would be so much 70 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 2: better off, you know. So what I came to tell 71 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 2: you today. This is my sermon. Title is let the 72 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 2: dirt do its work. You may be seated. Let's work 73 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 2: on the scripture for a moment. I did preach from 74 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 2: this passage two years ago, and at. 75 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: That time I was. 76 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 2: Taken by the temporal implications of this text and the 77 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 2: timing of God. I believe the title I gave that 78 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 2: little message was called the Seed is on schedule, and 79 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 2: I was using it to illustrate how things in our 80 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 2: life in some ways show up. Like the wise teacher 81 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 2: said that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. 82 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 2: That's what I was trying to say two years ago. 83 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 2: And in the last two years, either this text has 84 00:04:57,279 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 2: gotten better. 85 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 1: I'm being sarcastic. 86 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 2: The text didn't change, but God has opened my eyes 87 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 2: to see it in a little different way. And since 88 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 2: we been going through Mark's Gospel very slowly at a 89 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 2: leisurely stroll, to talk about savage Jesus, and all I 90 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 2: keep hearing from people as I see you out and 91 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 2: about is don't stop preaching savage Jesus. This series, just 92 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 2: keep keep it going until the rapture. And I don't 93 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 2: know about that, but I thought we should at least 94 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 2: take one parable and Mark gives us so much about 95 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 2: the context of Jesus ministry, but we also want to 96 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:37,359 Speaker 2: take a moment now and pause and look at some 97 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 2: of the content of his ministry, and we see that 98 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 2: his teaching is creating opposition at the same time that 99 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 2: it is making an impact. 100 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: By the way, that's always the case. Everything that makes 101 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 1: impact creates opposition. 102 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 2: You know that, right if the devil touch somebody say, 103 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 2: if the devil is in messing with you, he doesn't 104 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 2: consider you a threat. So we've seen now five different 105 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 2: examples of controversy in the ministry of Jesus, which makes 106 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 2: me want to go back and have a conversation again. 107 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 2: One pastor, I said, what's your goal in ministry? 108 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 1: He said, my goal is that on the Wikipedia page. 109 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 2: And he didn't have a Wikipedia page, but he said, 110 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 2: if I have a Wikipedia page, this is already weird 111 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:26,479 Speaker 2: hypothetical Wikipedia page. 112 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: Is your goal for ministry? 113 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 2: He said, I hope there's no controversy section. He said 114 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:36,479 Speaker 2: that was his main goal in ministry. By that standard, 115 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 2: Jesus Christ was the ultimate ministry failure. 116 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: Why are you looking shocked? What do you think the 117 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: cross was? You think it was jewelry. 118 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,480 Speaker 2: You think, you think, you think the cross was a 119 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 2: celebratory moment. The Roman Empire used that tool to torture 120 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 2: people who represented a threat. And everywhere Jesus went people 121 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 2: were threatened. The Pharisees, the teachers of the law, they 122 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 2: were threatened by Jesus. He was upsetting their entire system. 123 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 2: Were you here last week? Their entire system was being 124 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 2: overturned by. 125 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,559 Speaker 1: The things he was speaking and the things he was doing. 126 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 2: Not only that, but the demons were threatened by Jesus 127 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 2: every time he got in the presence of an impure 128 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 2: spirit and started shrieking and convulsing and begging and falling. 129 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: Down at his feet. 130 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 2: Is a funny thing, because the demons knew better who 131 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 2: Jesus was than the teachers of the law did. Isn't 132 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 2: that crazy? The demons saw Jesus and they fell down 133 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 2: at his feet. The teachers of the law saw Jesus 134 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 2: and they crossed their arms to judge him. Sometimes we 135 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 2: should be more like the demons than we should be 136 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 2: like the religious people. At least the demons knew this 137 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 2: guy's in charge. At least the demons knew he has 138 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 2: all power. At least the demons knew. He's not ordinary, 139 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 2: he's not average, he's not common. 140 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: This is the son of God. 141 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 2: I wonder do we really worship him today? I wonder 142 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 2: do we really regard him as the supreme authority in 143 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 2: our lives? 144 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: Or is he just an accessory. This is what we've 145 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: been studying, and. 146 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 2: It all fits within the context all of the controversy 147 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 2: and all of the compassion of Jesus. They were both 148 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 2: growing together. Both grow together, the wheat and the terrorist. 149 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 2: That's when parable Jesus used, it's not our parable today, 150 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 2: but he was talking about the wheat grows and right 151 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:41,960 Speaker 2: beside it all the weeds grow that want to choke 152 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 2: out the wheat. And what we tend to want to 153 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 2: do that is reflected in that parable in Matthew thirteen 154 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 2: is to separate the weeds from the wheat. But Jesus said, 155 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 2: both grow together. They have to. It's an eschatological principle 156 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 2: that he's using to talk about the harvest at the 157 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 2: end of the age, but it also has practical implications 158 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 2: in our lives that both grow together. As God is 159 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 2: drawing you into a deeper relationship and a more consistent 160 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 2: communion with him, there will also be a more consistent 161 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 2: sense of conflict to accompany the communion, because both grow together. 162 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 2: Don't be confused about it, and don't try to separate 163 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 2: what you think is the good stuff from what you 164 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 2: think is the bad stuff, because God uses both in 165 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 2: our life. The tears he uses for our humility so 166 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 2: that we will trust him, and the weed he uses 167 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 2: for our sustenance so that He can sustain us and 168 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 2: bless us, and both grow together. Now, with that context established, 169 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 2: we have a parable Jesus taught in parables. Mark shares 170 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 2: here several of them. Remember he's not compiling these in 171 00:09:54,840 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 2: the order that they happen. He's giving us a He's 172 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,199 Speaker 2: giving us a how would I say it, a curated 173 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:09,199 Speaker 2: account of the ministry of Jesus. And he's building for 174 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 2: us what he believes to be an accurate picture of 175 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 2: the purpose of the ministry of Jesus. 176 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: And now Jesus is teaching us about. 177 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 2: The nature of the Kingdom of God and our faith. 178 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 2: Maybe you've heard the parable of the different types of 179 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 2: soil that he starts with in Mark chapter four. He's 180 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:35,439 Speaker 2: getting into this idea that there is always seed going forth. 181 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:39,719 Speaker 2: God is always speaking to you. Stop asking God to 182 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 2: speak to you and start listening. It's the weirdest thing 183 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 2: we pray. 184 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: God, speak to me, Speak to me, Speak to me, 185 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: Speak to me, Speak to me. If you'd shut up, 186 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: you'd hear that. 187 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 2: I already am. So the seed's always going forth. But 188 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 2: while my Bible calls it the parable of the sower, 189 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 2: it's really the parable of the soils. It's really about 190 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 2: our hearts. The soil is our soul, our mind, our will, 191 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 2: and our emotions. And in this passage he shares with 192 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 2: us how there are some seeds that fall on the path, 193 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 2: and the birds come and snatch them up. How many 194 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:21,319 Speaker 2: of you have some seed snatchers in your life? Joy 195 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:25,079 Speaker 2: Joy thieves, people who want to ruin your day. 196 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: And it's not nine thirty yet, and here they come. 197 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 2: How many you have some seed snatching apps on your phone? 198 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 2: You know that one with the bird. What's it called twitter? 199 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 2: Jesus said? Jesus said, the birds of the air will 200 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 2: snatch the seed and grab your attention, so that you 201 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 2: don't act on what you heard, but you forget what 202 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 2: you heard. Because a lot of us have a stash 203 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 2: of seed. 204 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: That we've never put in the ground. 205 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 2: We've gotten to be professional seed collectors who know how 206 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 2: to highlight our Bibles and fill notebooks with information. But 207 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:03,439 Speaker 2: without application, without soili, the seed only represents unused potential. 208 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: And to me, that's a sad thing. 209 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 2: Woldn't be sad for God to show you in heaven 210 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 2: how much seed you sat on while you were here 211 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:19,079 Speaker 2: on earth. Do not merely listen to the word. Instead, 212 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 2: do what it says. You are not blessed by the 213 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 2: word you hear, but the word that you do a 214 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 2: lot of times. If you think we need to know more, 215 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:33,560 Speaker 2: I found out that I already know enough. Let me 216 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 2: give a few examples. I know not to talk bad 217 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 2: about people. If I would just do that, I think 218 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 2: I'd be working seventy hours a week. 219 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:46,199 Speaker 1: Just that that alone. 220 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 2: I know that I'm supposed to consider others as more 221 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 2: important than myself. 222 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 1: I know that, and you know that. 223 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 2: Touch somebody say you know this, and if you know 224 00:12:57,960 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 2: how to say man after it, you could say man 225 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 2: after But if you. 226 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 1: Don't know how, don't try to be embarrassing. You know this. 227 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: You know this. 228 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 2: In fact, look back at him one more time. I 229 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 2: need your help, because everybody looks a little bit resistant 230 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 2: to this point. We always want to know more. You know, 231 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 2: I want to grow spiritually. Look back at him and say, 232 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 2: if you would do what you knew, you would grow 233 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 2: spiritual growth. It's always been a tricky concept to me 234 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 2: because I thought spiritual growth required more knowledge. And I 235 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 2: don't have many regrets in life, but I do have 236 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:50,080 Speaker 2: a few. One thing I regret I wish I would 237 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 2: have written a parenting book before I. 238 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: Had my kids. 239 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 2: It's just something I think about often. How some my 240 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 2: parenting book would have been if I had written it 241 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:10,679 Speaker 2: before parenting, because the time that I knew the most 242 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:12,559 Speaker 2: about parenting. 243 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 1: You know what, I wish the same thing. 244 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 2: Here's another recred I wish I would have written a 245 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 2: book about being a pastor before I started this church. 246 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 2: It would have been so profound. It would have had 247 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 2: diagrams and informational concepts. 248 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: It would have been it would have been seven hundred and. 249 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 2: Seventy three pages of how to be a pastor? And 250 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 2: then you showed up and screwed up all my theories 251 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 2: about how to be a pastor. People messed up my 252 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 2: ideas about how to be a pastor. 253 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: What's up with that? Now? It would just be a pamphlet. 254 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: It wouldn't even it would just be illustrated. 255 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 2: It would only have the whole book would be prayer, 256 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 2: you know, the emoji with the prayer hands. That would 257 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 2: be the whole How to be a parent, how to 258 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 2: be a pastor? 259 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: But I knew so much. 260 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 2: You notice, those are the people who give the most advice, 261 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 2: those with the least experience. When I went down, I 262 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 2: tell you what I would do if it were me. 263 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 2: And I know, I mean, I'm not judging. I'm just saying, now, okay, 264 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 2: so three things. 265 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 1: It's right here in the text. I know you think 266 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 1: that I'm confuser loss. It's as that the farmer, this 267 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 1: is crazy. 268 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 2: The farmer who puts the seed in the ground, not 269 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 2: the seed on the shelf, but the seed in the soil. 270 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: He let's look at the verse on the screen again, he. 271 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 2: Experiences the maturation of that seed, though he does not 272 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 2: know how. 273 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 1: What kind of farmer is this? 274 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 2: If you don't know how the seed grows, you could 275 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 2: at least google it. 276 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: There you would. 277 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 2: Find that the seed needs what light or the correct 278 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 2: temperatures and water. Yeah, and then it needs to be 279 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 2: planted in the right place. I can tell you exactly 280 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 2: how the seed grows. That's exactly how it grows. I 281 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 2: can explain that to you. And so if the scripture 282 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 2: says this parable, which is always used to get us 283 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 2: beneath the surface to the deeper meaning, if the parable 284 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 2: is included in Jesus' illustration of what the Kingdom of 285 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 2: God is like, he said, this is what the Kingdom 286 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 2: is like, and now we're expecting something spectacular. Because the 287 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 2: Kingdom of God is a new concept, Jesus is the 288 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 2: first one to use this term. And since they are 289 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 2: not familiar with this particular concept, Jesus is giving them 290 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:06,960 Speaker 2: an earthly illustration. 291 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:08,639 Speaker 1: Yet he does not talk about the. 292 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 2: Kingdom of God being like Wakanda. He does not talk 293 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 2: about the Kingdom of God being like a spaceship. 294 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: He does not talk about the Kingdom of. 295 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 2: God being like a rocket. Instead, he says, and this 296 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 2: must have been anti climactic for those who gathered to 297 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 2: hear his message on this day, the Kingdom is like 298 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 2: a seed. 299 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 1: And on this alone, we understand that often what. 300 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 2: God does in our life will feel insignificant, and then 301 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 2: it will go into the soil where it will be invisible. 302 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 2: And that a lot of times when God is working 303 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 2: in our lives in the greatest ways. We won't even 304 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 2: know how He's working. We will be ignorant. That's three eyes. 305 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 2: It makes an outline. Write it down. 306 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: Three things about the Kingdom of God. 307 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 2: It often sees, means insignificant, It often appears invisible. 308 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 1: And often you feel ignorant. So the greatest proof that 309 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 1: you are growing in your relationship with. 310 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 2: God is sometimes the fact that you don't feel like you. 311 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,960 Speaker 1: Are growing in your relationship with God. 312 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 2: I'm sorry for everyone who always needs a goose bump 313 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 2: to feel. 314 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: Like God is with you. 315 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 2: But sometimes the greatest growth in your life is not 316 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:34,959 Speaker 2: going to be on the surface of your emotions, your feelings, 317 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:39,440 Speaker 2: or your senses. Sometimes the deeper work that God will 318 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:42,200 Speaker 2: do is much greater than the highest work. 319 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: That God will do. 320 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 2: For what is the building without the foundation? Jesus said, 321 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 2: the Kingdom is like this is. 322 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 1: Something so small, seemingly. 323 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 2: So insignificant, and it goes through stages that are so invisible, 324 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 2: and a lot of the times you will feel so ignorant. 325 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 2: Like the farmer who puts the seed in the ground 326 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 2: and doesn't know when he'll see it again. Sure he 327 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 2: can water it, Sure he can plow the ground. Surely 328 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 2: we have a part to play in our relationship with God. 329 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 2: But there is this other element of faith that I 330 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 2: want to talk about today that I don't hear about enough, 331 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 2: and I'm hungry to hear about it because I see 332 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 2: a lot of Christians listening to cute sermons, and we're 333 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 2: telling you to do things that sound really big, to 334 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:34,479 Speaker 2: forgive people and to be free of addiction. But I 335 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 2: hear the response from the people when the pulpit is 336 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:41,440 Speaker 2: echoing forth these lofty ideals, and the people are sitting 337 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 2: in the peple saying. 338 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: How. 339 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:54,200 Speaker 2: You're telling me what, but you're not telling me how. 340 00:19:56,359 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 2: I don't know how. I don't know how to read 341 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 2: my Bible. 342 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 1: I don't know how to pray for over. 343 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 2: Thirteen seconds without thinking about my need for cereal at 344 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 2: the grocery store. I don't somebody try. 345 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: It, say, I don't know how. 346 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 2: That's the most spiritual thing you've said all week. Who 347 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:32,720 Speaker 2: did God pick to be the disciples of Jesus? Religious 348 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 2: professionals with academic no how he picked the people? Who 349 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 2: did God pick to carry his son? What's the first 350 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,920 Speaker 2: thing Mary said? When the Angel said the one born 351 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 2: of you is the Holy One of God? 352 00:20:56,560 --> 00:21:00,439 Speaker 1: What exactly how? 353 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 2: What's the first thing that the disciple said when Jesus said, 354 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 2: feed these big crowds, even though you didn't pack of lunch. 355 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 2: What's the first thing they said that is the starting 356 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:12,679 Speaker 2: place of spiritual growth? 357 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 1: To admit? I sorry I'm screaming, but. 358 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 2: Sometimes it screams inside of me when God calls. 359 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:31,239 Speaker 1: Me to do something. But I don't know how. I 360 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:36,399 Speaker 1: don't I don't know how. I don't know how to 361 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: raise these kids. 362 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,440 Speaker 2: I don't know how I did before I had them, but. 363 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: Now they're here, and I don't know how. I read 364 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:50,400 Speaker 1: the book, the baby book. It told me that if you. 365 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 2: Swaddle the child, but I found out my firstborn child 366 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 2: was unswaddleable. 367 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: I don't know how. 368 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 2: I hear you preaching these great sermons. 369 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,919 Speaker 1: Keep your eyes on Jesus, and don't look at the wind, 370 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,199 Speaker 1: and don't look at the waves. But how do I 371 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:15,920 Speaker 1: look at something that's invisible. 372 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,160 Speaker 2: I hear what you're saying, and I want what you God, 373 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 2: But I don't know how. 374 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 1: How many don't know how? 375 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 2: Just to see how I'm preaching to and who I 376 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 2: can leave alone? 377 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,160 Speaker 1: I don't know how. 378 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 2: I don't know how to forgive somebody, but then make 379 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 2: sure that I keep an appropriate distance so that they 380 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:40,399 Speaker 2: don't continue to violate me. 381 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 1: I don't know how. 382 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 2: I don't know. And here's a farmer doesn't know how 383 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 2: to make a seed grow, and Jesus says, is like that. 384 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:08,679 Speaker 2: Growth is like that. There's a part that you will play, 385 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 2: and you will know what to do. 386 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:19,360 Speaker 1: You sow, you water, you plow, but you don't have 387 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 1: to know how. 388 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,119 Speaker 2: This is the dirty little secret of the Kingdom that 389 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:24,119 Speaker 2: they don't want me to tell you. 390 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: They want you to. 391 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 2: Think that God chooses and uses and blesses people who 392 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 2: are experts and who are the epitome of perfection. But 393 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 2: I want to tell you who God's looking for. Fishermen 394 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 2: like Peter, prostitutes like Rahab, people who don't know how. 395 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:47,160 Speaker 2: That's what God is looking for, humble people. Blessed are 396 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 2: those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, not those who 397 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 2: are so full of their own wisdom that they cannot 398 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 2: receive the wisdom of God. 399 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:56,680 Speaker 1: So if you. 400 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 2: Came here today with a I don't know how hard 401 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 2: God can feel what you will empty before him. I 402 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:13,680 Speaker 2: don't have to know how. I don't have to know 403 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 2: how it works. If I did, I'd still be at 404 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 2: the house because I drove my Maxima here and I 405 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 2: have no idea how that that button told my tires 406 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 2: to spend. I have a little bit of a concept, 407 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 2: but not much. I found out something about my car 408 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 2: that I found. 409 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,159 Speaker 1: Out about God. 410 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 2: I found out I don't have to understand it. See 411 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,440 Speaker 2: it got me from here to there, and from there 412 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:55,439 Speaker 2: to here and here. I am preaching, but honestly, I 413 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 2: don't know how. I have an iPad. I put my 414 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,399 Speaker 2: notes on my iPad. I turn on my iPad, the 415 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 2: notes appear on my iPad. 416 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 1: I preach to you. I understand what button to push. 417 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 2: I push it. I know what letters to type. I 418 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,040 Speaker 2: typed them. But as to how the words appeared on 419 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,439 Speaker 2: the iPad, I don't know how. It didn't stop me 420 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 2: from preaching, it didn't stop it from working. 421 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,159 Speaker 1: There may be somebody. 422 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,880 Speaker 2: Here today who is in a situation where you. 423 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 1: Don't know how. God. 424 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 2: I'm not smart enough. God, I wasn't trained for this. God, 425 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 2: I've never been this way before. God, this is new 426 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,640 Speaker 2: to me. God, I feel like a rookie. God I've 427 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,400 Speaker 2: never God said from heaven, you don't have to know 428 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 2: how when you. 429 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 1: Know who, an't twitting? Come on five. 430 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:06,400 Speaker 2: Five seconds, four seconds, yes, three seconds, two seconds. Now, 431 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 2: let's prace him like we know who he is. He's 432 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 2: the lord of the harvest. To see this mind what the. 433 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 3: Harvest this is? And I don't have to know. I 434 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 3: just gotta sew. 435 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 1: Don't let what you don't know keep you from sewing. 436 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 2: The farmer didn't know how it was gonna happen, but 437 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 2: he knew what to do. 438 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 1: I gotta keep sewing. 439 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,640 Speaker 2: I gotta keep praying, I gotta keep believing. 440 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 1: I gotta stay in this house. I gotta be present. 441 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,360 Speaker 1: I gotta show up. All I gotta do is sow. 442 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 2: Find twelve disciples and tell him you don't have to 443 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:56,680 Speaker 2: know how. 444 00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 1: You don't have to know how. You don't have to 445 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:00,639 Speaker 1: know how. 446 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 2: I will make you fishures of men. All I need 447 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 2: is your boked. All I need is your will, All 448 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,639 Speaker 2: I need is your want to. All I need is 449 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 2: your surrender. All I need is your obedience. But you 450 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:22,679 Speaker 2: stop sewing because you didn't know how. You don't have 451 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 2: to know how. Let's get it in our spirits, say 452 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:30,199 Speaker 2: I don't have to know how. I could be like 453 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 2: Abraham who set out from Erth without knowing where he 454 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:41,360 Speaker 2: was going. He didn't have to know how because he knows. 455 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 2: He knows. 456 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 1: Are you getting a lesson? 457 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,119 Speaker 2: It's not just one text, it's the principle of this 458 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 2: parable that is illustrated. 459 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 1: The Kingdom of God is like a man who sowed, 460 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: he did so. 461 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 4: Notice there there there is a part that you play. 462 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,439 Speaker 4: But once you do what you know, there is a 463 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 4: poet that you reach where you can't make it rain, 464 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 4: and you can't control the rate of growth of the sea. 465 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,919 Speaker 4: And there are so many people who will hear this 466 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:29,439 Speaker 4: message online and in our campuses, who are waiting to 467 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 4: know before you. 468 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 1: Sow, and it's out of order. 469 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 2: As much as I want to preach theologically right now, 470 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 2: I just want to minister to you personally. 471 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 1: Let the dirt do its work. 472 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 2: Because the greatest growth happened not when the farmer was 473 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 2: doing his part, but when the dirt was doing its part. 474 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 2: There's a cooperation that happens in each of our lives. 475 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 2: That's between the things we can control. I can plow, 476 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 2: I can water, and. 477 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 1: I can sew. 478 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 2: I can speak words of encouragement, I can speak words 479 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,520 Speaker 2: of life. I can invest my resources into the Kingdom 480 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 2: of God. I can do all of that, but the 481 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 2: part that produces the fruit is not attributed to the 482 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 2: farmer and the passage. And I think we fall into 483 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 2: an extreme where we either think it's all about what 484 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 2: we know or it's all about what God does. In 485 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 2: the passage, the farmer scatters, but the soil produces. And 486 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 2: the dirty little secret, if I can use that phrase 487 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 2: of the Kingdom of God that Jesus is comparing to 488 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:59,720 Speaker 2: a seed, is that your destiny will be revealed in 489 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 2: the What do I mean, the disappointment, the insecurity, the rejection, 490 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:09,640 Speaker 2: and the trouble. 491 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 1: Check it out. 492 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 2: It spells dirt, the disappointment, the insecurity, the rejection, and 493 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:16,959 Speaker 2: the trouble. 494 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 1: Now, this will be an excellent lesson. 495 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 2: On its own because it illustrates the principles that will 496 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 2: apply to any area of our life. And right here 497 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 2: we could tell you to make lemonade out of limits. 498 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 2: And right here we could tell you it doesn't matter 499 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 2: how many times you fall down, you know, get knocked 500 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 2: down nine, get up ten. We could say anything we 501 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 2: want right here, and the principle would be powerful. 502 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 1: But this is not a principle this is a parable, and. 503 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 2: A parable is a picture that appears simple on the 504 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 2: surface but carries a deeper meaning. When I read the 505 00:30:56,200 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 2: passage two years ago, I thought that the far was 506 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 2: Jesus and the seed was the word of God. 507 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:06,800 Speaker 1: The problem with this interpretation of. 508 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 2: The parable, upon further reflection and study, is that Jesus 509 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,960 Speaker 2: can't be the farmer because the farmer doesn't know how 510 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 2: Jesus is the wisdom of God. So to compare Jesus 511 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:30,479 Speaker 2: to the farmer who scatters the seed is to is 512 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 2: to miss the parable that is beneath the principle. The 513 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,640 Speaker 2: principle is this, don't let what you don't know stop 514 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 2: you from sewing. But the parable, the parable, the picture 515 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 2: that Jesus is painting is of something that hasn't happened yet. 516 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:50,800 Speaker 1: Everyone around him, in his. 517 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 2: Inner circle, which he has just selected in Mark chapter three, 518 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,920 Speaker 2: everyone around him is trying their best to keep him 519 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,520 Speaker 2: from going to the cross. For him to go to 520 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 2: the cross means the death of the movement that he 521 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 2: came to initiate. 522 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,680 Speaker 1: In their eyes. And so when he stood. 523 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 2: Before the judges, both the Jewish Sanhedrin and the Roman 524 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,920 Speaker 2: government prelates, he was silent as a sheep before the sears. 525 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 2: Everything in those disciples wanted to see Jesus come down 526 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 2: from the cross to avoid being buried in the grave. 527 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 2: But Jesus stood before Pilot and he allowed those accusations 528 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 2: to be heaped on him although he was innocent, because. 529 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 1: He knew that the dirt had a purpose to fulfill. 530 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,600 Speaker 2: And so as he stood before those who accused him 531 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:45,520 Speaker 2: condemned him and sentenced him to die. 532 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 1: He could have stopped it, and he could. 533 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 2: Have called for legions of angels to come and rescue 534 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,200 Speaker 2: him from the rejection. 535 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 1: But this is what he came for. 536 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 2: So he said, with his silence something that is illustrated 537 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:02,000 Speaker 2: in the parable. He said, let the dirt do its work, 538 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,480 Speaker 2: because if they accuse me, then my father in Heaven 539 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 2: doesn't have. 540 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 1: To accuse you. 541 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 2: So I'm going to take your accusations and your shame. I, 542 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:19,760 Speaker 2: the innocent, am going to absorb your punishment so that you, 543 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:21,960 Speaker 2: the guilty, can go free. 544 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 1: So when they heaped. 545 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,840 Speaker 2: Their accusations on him, he took it. When he died 546 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 2: on the cross and they took him down and buried 547 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 2: him in the grave, he did not resist the burial. Instead, 548 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,320 Speaker 2: he stayed dead three days to let the dirt do 549 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,760 Speaker 2: its work. Now, we thought we were attending a funeral, 550 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 2: but really what it was was an agricultural lesson. Jesus 551 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:48,320 Speaker 2: was not buried on Friday, he was planted. Now, because 552 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 2: he was planted on Friday, there is the expectation of harvest. 553 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,480 Speaker 2: He is the first born among many brethren. So when 554 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:58,600 Speaker 2: he lay in the grave, it wasn't over. It was 555 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 2: just beginning. I came to declare today to everybody who's 556 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 2: been going through a season of failure or depression, or 557 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:12,240 Speaker 2: uncertainty or rejection or disappointment, let the dirt do its work. 558 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,120 Speaker 2: Don't fight it, don't run from it, and don't pluck. 559 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,799 Speaker 1: Up the sea because you don't like the season. Let 560 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,240 Speaker 1: the dirt do its work. 561 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 2: This is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 562 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 1: This is what the Kingdom of God is life. There's 563 00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:31,439 Speaker 1: nothing man can do to you that God cannot use 564 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:40,680 Speaker 1: for his good. And I believe that. I believe that all. 565 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,120 Speaker 2: Things work together for the good of him that love 566 00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,560 Speaker 2: the Lord and are called according to his purpose. 567 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:49,040 Speaker 5: But I I don't always know how. 568 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,640 Speaker 1: But I don't have to know how, because I know who. 569 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,680 Speaker 2: The emphasis on Romans eight twenty eight isn't on things. 570 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 2: All things work together for the good. The emphasis is 571 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,319 Speaker 2: not on good because it might not feel good, and 572 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,480 Speaker 2: I might not know how it's good while I'm in it. 573 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,279 Speaker 2: The emphasis of Romans eight twenty eight is that I'm 574 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:19,520 Speaker 2: called that I love God, and I'm called according to 575 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:26,360 Speaker 2: his purpose. So his purpose is the promise that lets 576 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:32,640 Speaker 2: me know that it seems insignificant, that to me it's invisible, 577 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,960 Speaker 2: and I don't know how, but I know. 578 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:42,680 Speaker 1: Everybody who wants to praise God for it. 579 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,319 Speaker 2: And I'm gonna give you thirty seconds to do what 580 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:47,960 Speaker 2: you need to do. Maybe your neighbor doesn't want this word. 581 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 2: Maybe they want to let a bird snatch it or 582 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:55,600 Speaker 2: a thorn choker. But there are some people here who 583 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,239 Speaker 2: have been in the ground for a little while. And 584 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,239 Speaker 2: I promise Cyris to every person. 585 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:03,279 Speaker 1: Who's been in a depression. 586 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,600 Speaker 2: You've been in a funk, You've been in a failure. 587 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,360 Speaker 1: The devil sent it was in. 588 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:10,120 Speaker 3: But surday came. 589 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:30,400 Speaker 2: Where you at Matthews, where you at Valentine, where you 590 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:35,160 Speaker 2: at you see. 591 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:34,120 Speaker 1: You know what's crazy. 592 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:37,640 Speaker 2: I'm calling out all these campuses, and somehow they see 593 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,840 Speaker 2: me on their screens and I don't. 594 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:45,400 Speaker 1: Know how, but I don't have to know how. And 595 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,279 Speaker 1: you know what. Somehow I'm preaching this word and. 596 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,799 Speaker 2: It's getting in your heart, and God's gonna use it, 597 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,239 Speaker 2: and it won't return forid, but it will accomplish what 598 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:55,239 Speaker 2: God sent it to do. 599 00:36:55,880 --> 00:37:00,200 Speaker 1: But His ways are higher than my ways, and his 600 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:04,520 Speaker 1: thoughts been my thoughts. I don't have to know. I 601 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,799 Speaker 1: just have to sew. I just have to go. I 602 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:08,600 Speaker 1: don't have to know. 603 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,160 Speaker 5: I don't know how I'm gonna make it, but I 604 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,320 Speaker 5: don't have to know how. I don't know who God's 605 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:36,319 Speaker 5: gonna use to get me through this, but I don't 606 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:37,840 Speaker 5: have to know how. 607 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,600 Speaker 2: It might be manna that falls from the sky. It 608 00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:45,400 Speaker 2: might be a widow at Zaraphat that God uses to femie. 609 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,520 Speaker 2: It might be a little boy's lunch that I didn't 610 00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,000 Speaker 2: even count in the official total because I thought he 611 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:52,120 Speaker 2: was insignificant. 612 00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:57,640 Speaker 1: But the seed always looks small. God might use a 613 00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:02,200 Speaker 1: little boy, a little thing that's a littless thing. I 614 00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,640 Speaker 1: don't have to know how. And some of you are 615 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,520 Speaker 1: stuck because you need to know too much. 616 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:22,920 Speaker 2: You need to be perceived as someone who knows, and 617 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:28,120 Speaker 2: so you remain in darkness. You want to be perceived 618 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:34,040 Speaker 2: as someone who understands things that the soil represents uncertainty. 619 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,520 Speaker 2: And I think it's good every once in a while 620 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:41,520 Speaker 2: for us to hear a sermon where the farmer admits. 621 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:43,200 Speaker 1: I don't even know how. 622 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,560 Speaker 2: Come on, because if you had to call somebody who 623 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,440 Speaker 2: just lost their child in a car wreck, like I 624 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:55,279 Speaker 2: have to do off it, and you were telling them 625 00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:59,600 Speaker 2: that God is going to get you through this, you 626 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:00,120 Speaker 2: wouldn't be. 627 00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:02,640 Speaker 1: So quick to tell them how. 628 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,360 Speaker 2: I don't know how, but I pray right now in 629 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,560 Speaker 2: the name of Jesus that the God of all comfort, 630 00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:10,400 Speaker 2: that's who. 631 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,160 Speaker 1: Would surround you with his angels. That's who. 632 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:19,120 Speaker 2: I don't know how, but I know whom I have believed. 633 00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:24,760 Speaker 2: So I pray, I sew, I scatter, some seed gets snatched, 634 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:28,080 Speaker 2: some seed gets scorched, some seed gets strangled. 635 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,479 Speaker 1: I'd make a good sermon, wouldn't it. They all start 636 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:32,200 Speaker 1: with the letter. 637 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:39,680 Speaker 2: S and the temptation is when the seed is scattered 638 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:45,280 Speaker 2: but it does not produce. You never want to sew again. 639 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:53,000 Speaker 2: So then you prayed and the cancer still ate their body. 640 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:54,439 Speaker 2: What's to make you ever want to pray? 641 00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:54,760 Speaker 1: Again? 642 00:39:55,760 --> 00:40:02,080 Speaker 2: So you stopped sewing, you stopped expecting, you had a funeral, 643 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,160 Speaker 2: and stopped expecting a harvest. 644 00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:08,040 Speaker 1: The business failed. 645 00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:13,399 Speaker 2: That one child is on drugs, and you got very 646 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:17,040 Speaker 2: confused about the difference between God's job and your job. 647 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:34,759 Speaker 2: Obedience is the job of the farmer. Jesus is not 648 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:39,400 Speaker 2: the farmer in this parable. He's the seed. He's the seed. 649 00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:43,920 Speaker 2: He is the seed of God, and he was planted 650 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:46,480 Speaker 2: in the soil of the earth for three days, and 651 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:50,239 Speaker 2: his resurrection gives us an expectation that we don't have 652 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,239 Speaker 2: to understand the events of our life. 653 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:56,280 Speaker 1: To walk in a posture. 654 00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:02,640 Speaker 2: I think it's better sometimes that we don't know. I 655 00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:04,959 Speaker 2: think it's better sometimes that we stay in a state 656 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,319 Speaker 2: of uncertainty so that we don't get confused and think 657 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:08,840 Speaker 2: that we're. 658 00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,400 Speaker 1: The seed, that we're the source. 659 00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,720 Speaker 2: And I pray that this message has been practical today 660 00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:20,319 Speaker 2: and you'll be able to take something from it for 661 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:32,560 Speaker 2: your life. But really, I think it's supposed to be prophetic. 662 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,360 Speaker 2: That doesn't mean a crystal ball or a nine hundred number. 663 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,920 Speaker 2: To me, that means that you receive this seed personally. 664 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,799 Speaker 2: It's all about the soil. And if this seed gets 665 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:54,440 Speaker 2: snatched or scorched by the trials of life, or choked 666 00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,640 Speaker 2: out by the deceitfulness of riches, the cares of this life, 667 00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:01,160 Speaker 2: or the desire for other things. It will be as 668 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:05,600 Speaker 2: if it was never sown, and it'll be just another seed, 669 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:10,680 Speaker 2: just another pep talk, just another Bible lesson. 670 00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:16,319 Speaker 1: If you receive this seed, though, I'm trying. 671 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:20,839 Speaker 6: To tell you that God has set you free of 672 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:27,160 Speaker 6: the expectation to understand obedience is your job. 673 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:40,320 Speaker 7: Outcome is God's. Let him do his job. Let him 674 00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,040 Speaker 7: do his job. 675 00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:45,319 Speaker 1: Let the dirt do its work. 676 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,920 Speaker 2: Let the sufferings of this present time producing you a 677 00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:51,799 Speaker 2: glory that is not worthy to be. 678 00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:56,760 Speaker 1: Compared in comparison. Is so much bigger than that dirt. 679 00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:03,080 Speaker 2: Some of you are a dirt stage right now of 680 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,680 Speaker 2: your dream. The first thing that happened to Joseph when 681 00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:08,720 Speaker 2: God gave him a dream. 682 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:15,719 Speaker 1: Do you remember, they held a parade in his honor. Huh? 683 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,439 Speaker 2: He printed up his business cards and started handing them out. 684 00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,239 Speaker 2: He got four million followers on Instagram. 685 00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:27,040 Speaker 1: Huh. They threw him in a pit. 686 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:33,200 Speaker 2: Every promise needs a pit, every dream needs dirt. 687 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:37,319 Speaker 1: Your faith needs fertilizer. 688 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:45,360 Speaker 2: All by hisself, the ground produces grain, water it, plow it. 689 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:50,320 Speaker 2: Get your heart right, and let the dirt the rejection, 690 00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:53,880 Speaker 2: the insecurity, the confusion. 691 00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:56,759 Speaker 1: God is not the author of confusion. 692 00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:01,440 Speaker 2: God did not reject you, but he will use Genesis 693 00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:06,399 Speaker 2: fifty twenty. What you meant for evil, God intended it 694 00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,120 Speaker 2: for good and the saving of many lives. 695 00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,000 Speaker 1: Let the dirt do its work. 696 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,760 Speaker 2: Praying for people right now in this moment, everyone's standing. 697 00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:23,319 Speaker 2: Who needed this word today? Because you've got something in 698 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,279 Speaker 2: the ground in your life. If it's you and you're 699 00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,440 Speaker 2: not ashamed to respond to the word of God, and 700 00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:30,520 Speaker 2: you don't need to appear to have it all together. 701 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,520 Speaker 2: If you are in a situation in your life where 702 00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:36,880 Speaker 2: you don't know how, you don't know how it's going 703 00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:38,759 Speaker 2: to come together, you don't know how to do what 704 00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:40,120 Speaker 2: you've been positioned to do. 705 00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,040 Speaker 1: Your responsibility exceeds your experience. 706 00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,040 Speaker 2: If that's you today, at every location, lift your hands 707 00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:50,000 Speaker 2: to your Father, Lord. Whoever's lifting their hands right now, 708 00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:55,759 Speaker 2: they're saying to you without words, I don't know how, and. 709 00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,000 Speaker 1: I believe this is a posture that you can honor. Father. 710 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,919 Speaker 2: You said, if we would umble ourselves in your sight, 711 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:05,320 Speaker 2: you would lift us out. But that when we're proud 712 00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:09,040 Speaker 2: and that we're haughty, that you have to oppose us. 713 00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,399 Speaker 2: And God, we want to line up on the right 714 00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:17,040 Speaker 2: side today and understand that there's a part of this 715 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,880 Speaker 2: process of our growth and our faith and our families. 716 00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,200 Speaker 1: And our psychology. 717 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:29,200 Speaker 2: And our life experiences and our goals, our visions, our 718 00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:35,000 Speaker 2: ideas that we just don't know how. Some of us 719 00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:38,240 Speaker 2: are standing at the crossroads of multimillion dollar business deals 720 00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:41,800 Speaker 2: and we don't know how. Some of us are trying 721 00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:43,960 Speaker 2: to buy a next meal, and we don't know how. 722 00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:46,520 Speaker 1: Some of us are. 723 00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:48,920 Speaker 2: Trying to figure out how to get married, and we 724 00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:49,480 Speaker 2: don't know how. 725 00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:51,799 Speaker 1: Some of us are trying to figure out how to 726 00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:52,319 Speaker 1: stay Mary. 727 00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,880 Speaker 2: Then we don't know how. Pray the prayer say, I 728 00:45:55,880 --> 00:46:01,640 Speaker 2: don't know how, God, but I know who. I believe 729 00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:07,319 Speaker 2: that you are with me, and I declare that by 730 00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:13,480 Speaker 2: your spirit I will rise like a seed planted in 731 00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,040 Speaker 2: the earth, I will rise. 732 00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:22,960 Speaker 1: I believe in resurrection. I don't know how, but I 733 00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:23,520 Speaker 1: know who. 734 00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,600 Speaker 2: Now, let me tell you something about resurrection. With your 735 00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:30,440 Speaker 2: hands still lifted, Resurrection is not an event. Resurrection is 736 00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:33,799 Speaker 2: a person. Jesus said, I am the resurrection and the 737 00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,640 Speaker 2: life so if you've got a situation in your life 738 00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:40,200 Speaker 2: that needs to be resurrected, you don't have to know how. 739 00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,640 Speaker 2: I don't have to understand that I know who is 740 00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,640 Speaker 2: with me. I got the seed of the Word of God. 741 00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,880 Speaker 2: I got the seed of faith. If I got faith 742 00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:52,840 Speaker 2: the size of a mustard seed, I can say to 743 00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:57,080 Speaker 2: this mountain, be removed and be cast into the sea, 744 00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:03,719 Speaker 2: and it shall be done. Get God a great price today. 745 00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:06,200 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. 746 00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:08,960 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 747 00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:12,520 Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 748 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,480 Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give now, 749 00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,920 Speaker 2: or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more information 750 00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:23,240 Speaker 2: and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 751 00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,560 Speaker 1: You can share it with your friends. 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