1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: see God has moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 2: It's been a minute since I've done one of these 7 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 2: little videos setting up the sermon for you, but I 8 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 2: wanted to let you know that by the time you 9 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 2: see this, we are probably already well underway with Elevation Nights, 10 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 2: and I want to invite you to join us Elevation 11 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 2: Nights dot com in the following cities Seattle, Washington, Vancouver, BC, Sacramento, California, 12 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 2: La Anaheim, Boise, Idaho, Salt Lake City, and Denver. 13 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:45,480 Speaker 1: I have a little cheat sheet over here. 14 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:49,879 Speaker 3: September twenty fourth through October third, it's going to be 15 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 3: an amazing night of worship and the Word and me 16 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 3: and Holly and the team all we want. 17 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 1: To see you there, So go right now if there's 18 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: still time, and get a ticket and meet us there. 19 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 3: But I wanted to set up the message for you 20 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 3: today personally because I believe there is a word for 21 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 3: those of you that have been dealing with the discouragement 22 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 3: or maybe even. 23 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 4: Just the deceit of the devil in your mind. In 24 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:16,680 Speaker 4: your mind, and just put in the comments real quick. 25 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 4: The battle is in your mind. That's where the battle is, 26 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 4: and the truth of God's Word has something for you 27 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 4: for the battle in your mind. 28 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: We're going to be in two scriptures. 29 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 3: Today, Acts chapter fourteen, verses twenty six through twenty eight, 30 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 3: Matthew Chapter four, verses eight through eleven, and some other 31 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 3: ones too. 32 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: But we'll get it as we go. 33 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 4: If you're ready for the word of God, put it 34 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 4: in the comments right now. 35 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: I'm ready. Let's go. From Italia, they sailed back to Antioch, 36 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: where they had been committed to the grace of God 37 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: for the work they had now completed. On arriving there, 38 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: they gathered the church together and reported all that God 39 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: had done through them, and how he had opened a 40 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: door of faith to the Gentiles. And they stayed there 41 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: a long time with the disciples. Now, I know I'm 42 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 1: dropping you in the middle of that passage and just 43 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: not telling you much about it at all. It doesn't 44 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: even say who the characters are. It just says they 45 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: they they I'll come back to that, but let's look 46 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: at one in Matthew chapter four before we officially begin 47 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 1: the sermon. Matthew chapter four, verses eight through eleven. And 48 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 1: this one should be a little bit more familiar to you, 49 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: both in the Bible and in your own life. 50 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 5: Again, the devil, you know him. 51 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: That is a character who needs no introduction. Again, the 52 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: devil took him to a very high mountain, him being Jesus, 53 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and 54 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 1: their splendor. All this I will give you, he said, 55 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: if you will bow down and worship me. And Jesus 56 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 1: said to him, away from me, Satan, for it is written, 57 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:08,799 Speaker 1: worship the Lord your God, and serve him only. And 58 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 1: verse eight and nine is where a lot of us 59 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: have been living lately, where the devil has been talking 60 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: to us and taking us places in our minds. And 61 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 1: verse eleven is where we want to get today by 62 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 1: the time I'm done preaching. 63 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 5: Verse eleven says, then the devil left. 64 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 1: Him, and angels came and attended him. Then the devil, 65 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: how many want to get to verse eleven by the 66 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 1: time I finished today. Then the devil left him and 67 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: angels came and attended him. So I like to give 68 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: my messages fun titles, titles that are fun for me, 69 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: and sometimes I like to have you say them to 70 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 1: your neighbor. And basically, what Jesus told the devil was 71 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: get out of here. And so I'm going to have 72 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: you say to your neighbor what Jesus said to the devil. 73 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: And just tell your neighbor, I know you're not the devil. 74 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: Tell him I love you. But for the purpose of illustration. Now, 75 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: the next thing is my title, and you say it 76 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: to him, real nice, say it, real polite, but say 77 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: it firm. Look at them like they need to leave. Okay, 78 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: like they need to leave, they've overstayed their welcome, and 79 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: tell them this. Let me show you the door. That's 80 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: my message. Let me let me show you the door. 81 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: This is an international ministry, so idioms don't always translate 82 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: across cultures. That is a polite way of saying, you 83 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: gotta go. Let me show you the door. I'm making 84 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 1: a call. You need to go. Now look at your 85 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: other neighbor and say, let me show you the door. Yeah, 86 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 1: in Jesus' name. Put that at the end so it 87 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:05,679 Speaker 1: sounds it's nice and be seated. Be seated, God is good. 88 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 1: Jesus ran that devil off away from me, Satan. In 89 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: the King James version, it says get the hints, Satan. 90 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: That's basically saying, let me show you the door, got 91 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: to go now, I've got something to do. And Jesus 92 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:32,279 Speaker 1: ran the devil off and made him flee because when 93 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: the devil came to him with three different temptations. Each 94 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: time the devil came at him, he had the perfect comeback. 95 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: And that's what we need to develop in our lives 96 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: is a comeback strategy for when Satan comes at us. 97 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: Come on, when accusation comes at you. I want you 98 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: to have a comeback strategy. Have you ever had a 99 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: perfect comeback but you couldn't say it because you calculated 100 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:02,359 Speaker 1: the dam I mentioned that it would do, and you 101 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 1: realized you were not in a position to take the shot. 102 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: Maybe it was your boss, or maybe you just didn't 103 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 1: want to have to mop it up later, or maybe 104 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 1: you knew that if you said what you were going 105 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: to say, maybe they had something they could say. This 106 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 1: is not a marriage seminar, So I'm going to move 107 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 1: quickly through it to where you have the perfect comeback 108 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 1: and you can't use it, or you have the perfect comeback, 109 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: but it's on a delay, and you think of it 110 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: like Thursday, but it happened Monday, So it'd be kind 111 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:38,359 Speaker 1: of awkward to go back and say, Hey, say that 112 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 1: thing again, say that thing again, say it again. I'm 113 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: ready for you now because it was on a delay. 114 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: There's actually like a term for that. They call it 115 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: staircase wit. It's when you have to go all the 116 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,799 Speaker 1: way down the stairs and you're almost out the door 117 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 1: and you remember what you should have said, or you 118 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: think of what you should have said, and you turn 119 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: back around. But I like to share these little stories 120 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: that we share as preachers because they're funny. And forgive 121 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: me if you've heard this one. But there is a 122 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: story of a lady who went to a church and 123 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: she was not used to going to church, and so 124 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 1: she didn't have a lot of church clothes, and it 125 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 1: was a really traditional church, and so she went in 126 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: what she had, and she went in her her clothes, 127 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: but they weren't very modest and they weren't very nice, 128 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: and everybody there was dressed very modestly and very nice, 129 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: and so the lady sat through the service, and she 130 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: was moved by it. And when she was leaving the church, 131 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: the preacher was waiting at the door. It was a 132 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 1: very small church, and he would always shake everyone's hand 133 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: on the way out the door, and when he saw her, 134 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: he took the opportunity to tell her, we're so glad 135 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: to have you as our guest today, and you're welcome 136 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 1: to come back here. But before you come back, I 137 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: want you to pray and ask the Lord what he 138 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: would have you to wear when you come back to 139 00:07:55,280 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: our church. And so she left pretty heiressed by that, 140 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: and she went home, and she came back the next week. 141 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: She came back the next week and she sat through 142 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: the service, and this time people were a little bit 143 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: more offended and annoyed, and especially the pastor, because the 144 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 1: whole sermon he's thinking, woman, I told you, And so 145 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 1: he's waiting for it at the door when the service 146 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: is over and he says, hey, I thought I told 147 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 1: you to pray and ask the Lord what you should 148 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: wear to this church before you came back. And she said, oh, 149 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: I did. And he said, but you're wearing the same 150 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: thing that you wore last week. And she said, uh huh, 151 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: and he said, well, didn't you pray and ask the 152 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: Lord what to wear before you came back to this church? 153 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: And she said I did. And the preacher said, well, 154 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: what did he tell you? And she said, he told 155 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: me he didn't know, he'd never been to this church before, 156 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 1: and that it is the power of a perfect comeback. 157 00:08:54,880 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: Shut that down. What do you say to that? Three 158 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 1: times Satan tempted Jesus in the wilderness. Three times Jesus 159 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: had the perfect come back. Satan said, if you're hungry, 160 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,680 Speaker 1: because Jesus had been fasting for forty days, turn these 161 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 1: stones into bread. You know, the Bible says that God 162 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,719 Speaker 1: can do anything. And Jesus said, it's also written, do 163 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: not put the Lord your God to the tests the 164 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: perfect come back. Okay, well, let me get you to 165 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 1: prove God's power. If you're really the son of God, 166 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: throw yourself off this high point and the angels will 167 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: catch you. Doesn't the Bible talk about angels? Angels will catch. 168 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 5: You right, prove that you are who you say you are. 169 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 1: And Jesus said, uh, I don't. I don't have to 170 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: do that because I know what the word says. It 171 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:47,679 Speaker 1: is written. Each time the enemy came to Jesus. Each 172 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 1: time Satan spoke, Jesus had the perfect come back. The 173 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: third time is the one we reference just now in 174 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 1: Matthew chapter four. And it's so beautiful because Jesus doesn't 175 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: even bother to argue this time. He just says, let 176 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: me show you the door. Get the hints away from me, Satan, 177 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: and it works and the devil leaves. So there's three 178 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: things that are happening in this passage that may be 179 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: happening in your life, and it's what I want to 180 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,199 Speaker 1: talk about for our lesson today. The first one is 181 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 1: the devil led Jesus. The second one is he lied 182 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:32,839 Speaker 1: to Jesus. The third one is he left Jesus. So 183 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: he led, he lied, and he left. What did he do? 184 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 5: Everybody say, he led, he lied, and he left. 185 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 1: Now it occurs to me that a lot of us 186 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: are stuck in the first two that in your mind, 187 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:53,319 Speaker 1: the devil is telling you stuff, and he is leading you, 188 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: and he is lying to you, but. 189 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 5: You can't figure out how to make him leave. 190 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 1: And thankfully for us, Jesus gives us the perfect comeback. 191 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,839 Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing though, that a lot of people, when 192 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 1: you talk to them about you know, the devil is 193 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: talking to you, or the devil is tempting you. They 194 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:15,680 Speaker 1: kind of have a not me. I don't know what 195 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 1: you're talking about, attitude, and it is possible. Let me 196 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 1: just say this in the very beginning. It is possible 197 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 1: that the devil is not talking to you. It may 198 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 1: be that you are a more advanced Christian than Jesus. 199 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: So maybe Jesus had to fight this, but you don't. 200 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: Maybe you have matured more than Jesus. Or there is 201 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: a second possibility, and I can illustrate the second possibility 202 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: this way. You say, well, the devil doesn't discourage me. 203 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 1: I never think I'm not good enough. I never think 204 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 1: I don't have what it takes. I never think I 205 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 1: can't do it. I never think I should change all 206 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 1: of this. You know how, on your GPS, this is 207 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: just an illustration. You put in a destination and then 208 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 1: you put it. Some people leave the narrator on where 209 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:02,079 Speaker 1: it says out loud where you need to turn in 210 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:06,199 Speaker 1: stuff like that, But the person on the GPS does 211 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 1: not talk unless it wants you to turn in a 212 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 1: different direction. You can run the GPS as much as 213 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: you want, and if the GPS likes the direction you're headed, 214 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 1: it won't say anything. So maybe the devil isn't saying 215 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: anything to you. Yellow Wake Now, maybe he likes the 216 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 1: direction you're headed in. Good golly, miss Molly, help this 217 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: man preach. So if the devil is talking to you, 218 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: that tells me something about where God is taking you. 219 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,680 Speaker 1: If he's not, it shows me that he doesn't want 220 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: to waste any resistance on a Christian that doesn't have 221 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: any forward momentum. If he's not discouraging you, you are 222 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: not being pushed past your comfort zone. He will feed you. 223 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 1: He will comfort you all the way into complacency. But 224 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: if you ever start making progress, everybody say progress. It 225 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: is significant for a lot of us to realize that 226 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: Jesus was tempted by the enemy on the verge of 227 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: his earthly ministry. He was the eternal Word of God. 228 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: He was not new to the scene, and yet this 229 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 1: was the moment that the Word made flesh was about 230 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 1: to begin his mission to the cross. And so the 231 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: devil starts talking, And the fact that the devil is 232 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: talking to Jesus tells us that God is taking him somewhere. 233 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 5: God is taking me somewhere. Tell your neighbor. 234 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: That's why I've been struggling, because God is taking me somewhere. See, 235 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 1: I used to just give in to every sin, but 236 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 1: now I try to resist it. So I'm struggling now. 237 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,720 Speaker 1: But the struggle that I have now is proof of 238 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: the fact that I'm headed somewhere. I wasn't headed before. 239 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: The fact that I'm struggling more now does not mean 240 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: how I need to preach this for somebody. Because the 241 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: devil has been telling you the exact opposite, and the 242 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:10,960 Speaker 1: Lord has been talking to me about the fact that 243 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,119 Speaker 1: the devil has been talking to you. You are worthless. 244 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 1: It is too late, It's over for you. Nobody even cares. 245 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: Nobody would miss you if you're gone. It would be 246 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 1: better for them if you were gone. You are actually 247 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 1: the reason they are that way. You can't recover from that. 248 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 1: You didn't recover from the thing before it, And what 249 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 1: makes you think is going to be any different now. 250 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: It is very instructive for me to realize as a 251 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 1: preacher that I'm not the only one up here talking. 252 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 1: I'm not the only one who's saying words to you 253 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 1: right now, at the very moment, Jesus is about to 254 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: do the most good. 255 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 5: He is the most tempted. Coincidence, I think not. 256 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: And what happens is you get so distracted by the 257 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: conflict that you don't see the progress. You get so 258 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 1: distracted by the conflict that you don't see the potential. 259 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 5: Wouldn't it be just like the devil to kill you. 260 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: In the wilderness where Jesus was when he fasted forty 261 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 1: days and forty nights. We know that this devil stands 262 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: no chance against Jesus, but we're not so sure about us. 263 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 1: What I want you to realize today that took me 264 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:34,400 Speaker 1: a while to figure out, is that when I am 265 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 1: coming into the season of my greater impact, when I'm 266 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 1: coming into the season of greater surrender to God, which 267 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: is the goal of a Christian right, the goal of 268 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 1: the Christian is not just our eternal and everlasting preference 269 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: being met at every turn. When I'm coming into that season, 270 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: when God wants to do something new through me, I 271 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 1: should expect the following. Every door that God opens, there 272 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: will be opposition. Listen to me. No door that God 273 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: opens will be unopposed in your life. No door that 274 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 1: He opens to your growth, no door that He opens 275 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 1: to your relational intimacy. No door that He opens for 276 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: you to be a witness for Jesus Christ and your 277 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: sphere of influence. No door that God opens will be 278 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: without opposition. The greatest way that you can deal with 279 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: the opposition is to realize that God opens doors that 280 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: nobody can shut. If he opened it, they can't close it. 281 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: If he opened it, your IQ can't close it. He 282 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: knew the exact number of your IQ and your SAT 283 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: score when He called you into your situation. So if 284 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 1: the statistics can't close it, if the haters can't close it, 285 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: if the sickness can't close it, the only one thing 286 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 1: that can close it is if you get distracted by 287 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 1: the conflict and give up on the progress, which is 288 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 1: why Jesus said, away from me. I'm on the verge 289 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: of something that God sent me to do. I'm on 290 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: the verge of fulfilling my mission to forgive the sin 291 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,399 Speaker 1: of all who would believe in my name. And I 292 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 1: know I'm repped up real early in my sermon, but 293 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: I need to preach to somebody to tell you that 294 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 1: God is not the only one who opens doors. The 295 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: devil does too, doors of discouragement, doors of disappointment, doors 296 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 1: of dysfunctional behavior that were planted in your heart, sometimes 297 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 1: in early developmental stages of your life. And when I 298 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,399 Speaker 1: heard about Jesus saying away from me, Satan, it gave me. 299 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,720 Speaker 1: It gave me hope to realize that he's giving me 300 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 1: an example that every door he opens will be opposed, 301 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:01,719 Speaker 1: but it cannot be closed by anyone other than him. 302 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:05,199 Speaker 1: Clap your hands and give God praise because he's a 303 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 1: door opening God. Jesus had the perfect comeback for the devil. 304 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 1: He said, away from me, Satan. And sometimes we don't 305 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 1: come back at the devil like we need to. In fact, 306 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 1: instead of telling him to go away, we tell him 307 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: keep coming. And we don't even realize we're doing it. Now. 308 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:27,480 Speaker 5: I know this message is not comfortable to hear. 309 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: You think it was comfortable to prepare. I don't preach 310 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:32,640 Speaker 1: what I want to preach. I preach what God gives 311 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 1: me to preach. And the Lord told me that the 312 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 1: devil has been talking to you. Telling you is just 313 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 1: one time. It doesn't matter telling you. Everybody does that. 314 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: It's not abnormal, Yes it is for you. You're a 315 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 1: child of God. Your family has different customs. Uh, huh. 316 00:18:55,640 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 1: You're a citizen of a different kingdom, and I wanted 317 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:04,399 Speaker 1: to share with you an example of how as God 318 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 1: opens doors in your life, and in my life, and 319 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: in the life of our church, that there will often 320 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 1: be opposition. Go with me to Acts chapter fourteen, the 321 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,160 Speaker 1: scripture that I read first, and I want to show 322 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 1: you about two people that God really used. One of 323 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 1: them I know you've heard of. His name is Paul, 324 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: and the other one you don't know as much about. 325 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:32,159 Speaker 1: His name is Barnabas. And when the Bible says in 326 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 1: Acts chapter fourteen, verse twenty six, God, I love your word. 327 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,919 Speaker 1: Thank you for the privilege to preach it. From Atalia, 328 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been committed 329 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 1: to the grace of God for the work they had 330 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 1: now completed. That burst, to me is so rich that 331 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 1: I don't want to skip it. It says that they 332 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:54,159 Speaker 1: went back to the place Antioch where the center of 333 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:58,159 Speaker 1: the church was really beginning to be molded and melded. 334 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 1: Jews and Gentiles all coming out of the church. At 335 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: Antioch the third biggest city in the Roman Empire, and 336 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,720 Speaker 1: so it was positioned in such a way as to 337 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:11,920 Speaker 1: be ascending hub and the first missionaries that were sent 338 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: out from the Church at Antioch were Paul and Barnabas. Now, 339 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,919 Speaker 1: when it says that they had been committed to the grace, 340 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,400 Speaker 1: put the verse back up for me for the work 341 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:26,159 Speaker 1: they had now completed. It really spoke to me because 342 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,639 Speaker 1: sometimes I do the opposite, I try to complete the 343 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 1: work without getting the grace. And so there was a 344 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: period where the Church at Antioch was fasting and praying, 345 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:40,919 Speaker 1: and they wanted to send two believers to the Gentiles, 346 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:43,639 Speaker 1: those who weren't Jews, those who were not included in 347 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 1: the Old Covenant but were being grafted into the New 348 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: Covenant through Jesus Christ. And they knew they wanted to 349 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 1: send Paul because Paul was uniquely gifted and graced for 350 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 1: this assignment. I want you to remember, when the devil 351 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: starts talking to you, God will never let you go 352 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:07,159 Speaker 1: where you are not graced to be. You can go 353 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,640 Speaker 1: there on your own, but he'll bring you back. He'll 354 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:12,919 Speaker 1: bring you to a place where he'll show you you 355 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: are not grace for that. Paul was grace for it. 356 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 1: So every time God says go, he gives grace for 357 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 1: everywhere he says go, and in this season of your life, 358 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:28,399 Speaker 1: you may be trying to grind without grace, and that 359 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: would be a problem because when you try to grind 360 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 1: without grace, you leave yourself wide open to the devil. 361 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 1: And it's possible that life could open a door to you, 362 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: but you don't have the grace to go through it. 363 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 1: And until we get sensitive to the spirit of God, 364 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 1: we will find ourselves going into situations that we don't 365 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: have grace for because we've seen others go there because 366 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: we thought we had to go there to prove something. 367 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 5: Just like the devil was tempting Jesus, you know. 368 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,959 Speaker 1: Throw yourself off the highest clip. You're the son of God, Jesus, 369 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 1: I don't have to prove anything to you. I was 370 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,679 Speaker 1: just baptized into Jordan, where my father said I was 371 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 1: his beloved son and whom he was well pleased, you 372 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 1: know that scripture. So Jesus had the grace to do it, 373 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:17,439 Speaker 1: Paul had the grace to do it. Barnabas had the 374 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: grace to do it. So when the enemy comes to 375 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 1: you and tells you you can't do it, tell him 376 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 1: I got grace for this practice at one time, Say 377 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 1: I got grace for it. I can't explain it. I 378 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: got grace for it. I can't break it down for 379 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,199 Speaker 1: you in a formula. I got grace for it. It 380 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 1: makes no sense on paper. I got grace for it. 381 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,159 Speaker 1: I didn't even think I was that good at. 382 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 5: It, but I've got grace for it. 383 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: I know there are more people that are more qualified, 384 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 1: and more smart, and more educated, and more intelligent, and 385 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,120 Speaker 1: more tall, and more broad and more strong, and more 386 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 1: holy and more righteous, and have better beards. But I'm 387 00:22:55,480 --> 00:23:00,159 Speaker 1: grace for it. I just saw a guy with a 388 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 1: I was feeling envious, so I had to preach through it. 389 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,479 Speaker 1: Tell somebody I got grace for this, and then the 390 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 1: grace that God gave them at Antioch with the confirmation 391 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 1: of the elders of the Church at Antioch, they went out. 392 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 1: And I want you to notice three things that are 393 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 1: gonna help you have the perfect comeback for the devil 394 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:22,399 Speaker 1: when he comes at you this week. You are not 395 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 1: gonna get to the bottom of the stairs and think, 396 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:30,880 Speaker 1: oh wait. You are not gonna wait till next Saturday 397 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: night to say, oh, I gotta go back to church. 398 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,880 Speaker 1: I gotta go, I've gotta go to elevation. You are 399 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,480 Speaker 1: not gonna get stuck. Watch me illustrate. Ooh, the Lord 400 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 1: just gave me this. You are not gonna get stuck 401 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 1: at the bottom of the stairs this week, thinking I 402 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: gotta get back to church to get a word for 403 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,640 Speaker 1: the devil. You are gonna have the comeback for him 404 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: at the door the moment he knocks to try to 405 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 1: tell you what you're not And who am I preaching to? 406 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 1: The hasstate for it today? Yeah, a comeback. I thought 407 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 1: it was interesting because Jesus had a comeback for the devil. 408 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:09,920 Speaker 1: It is written. It is written, he knew the word 409 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 1: of God. He had to come back for the devil. Now, 410 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 1: thought was interesting how in the passage we read they 411 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 1: were coming back to the place where they were sent from. 412 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 5: They were coming back to the grace that they started with. 413 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 1: I thought that word comeback was interesting, kind of like 414 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,120 Speaker 1: a double meaning. Right, they're coming back to Antioch. They've 415 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: been gone, twelve hundred miles of travel have passed, and 416 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:39,160 Speaker 1: twelve months of time. Twelve hundred miles of travel, twelve 417 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 1: months of time, and they have seen some amazing things. 418 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,440 Speaker 1: So the Bible says that they came back. And I 419 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 1: kept reading and I was like, I want to talk 420 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 1: about the comeback, but I also want to talk about 421 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: point number two. These all start with. See number one 422 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: is comeback and number two is I want to talk 423 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: about the connection because I noticed, and I want you 424 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,680 Speaker 1: to notice, how many times in this passage Acts chapter fourteen, 425 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:12,360 Speaker 1: the word they appears. It says from Attalia they sailed 426 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 1: to Antioch. They sailed to Antioch, where they had been 427 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 1: committed to the grace of God for the work they 428 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 1: had now completed. On arriving there, they gathered the church 429 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:30,360 Speaker 1: together and reported all that God had done through them. 430 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:34,919 Speaker 1: What God does through you is a lot of times 431 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: determined by the they that you are connected to, Because 432 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 1: if anybody could have done it alone, it would have 433 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 1: been Paul. And for all of you who try to 434 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 1: do it alone in your own strength, maybe you're a 435 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: better Christian than Paul and Jesus, but the rest of 436 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: us need a Theay. 437 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 5: And so imagine they're picking, like, we got to send 438 00:25:59,040 --> 00:25:59,919 Speaker 5: Paul because. 439 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,680 Speaker 1: He's and he's of the tribe of Benjamin, and he 440 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:03,560 Speaker 1: can really speak to the Jews and the Gentiles, and 441 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,199 Speaker 1: he has a Roman citizenship, so he's very able to 442 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 1: be very fluent in both languages, not only the language 443 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 1: of faith in Jesus, but the language of Judaism. And 444 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 1: who should we send with him? Barnabas? You said Silas. 445 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 1: Now Silas went to prison with him in sixteen. Silas 446 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: could sing. But Barnabas had a very special gift. His 447 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:29,879 Speaker 1: name means son of encouragement. Now does this say something 448 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 1: about what Paul struggled with that the one they sent 449 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:41,919 Speaker 1: with him was one of these guys. Now look at 450 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 1: your neighbor, big smile, thumbs up, and say, you need 451 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 1: one of these guys. You need a Barnabas. They looked 452 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 1: at Paul. Paul, You're powerful preacher, You're amazing preacher. You're 453 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 1: a man of God, and you're annoying it. And you're 454 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 1: called and you're chosen. Now, Barnabas was not only an encourager, 455 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:01,920 Speaker 1: but he was the one who brought Paul into the fold. 456 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,439 Speaker 1: To begin with, they were scared of Paul. Paul was 457 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 1: the one who would go and have the Christians executed 458 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: before he became one. Before the Lord smacked him right 459 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,640 Speaker 1: off his beast and told him, I'm Jesus of Nazareth. 460 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 1: Who do you think you're messing with? I'm about to 461 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,400 Speaker 1: show you how much you must suffer for my sake 462 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: because you're my vessel. That's where Paul was. And the 463 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: people were like, you want us to have the guy 464 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 1: that was the terrorist on our team, And Barnabas is like, yeah, 465 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 1: he's changed, Let's give him a chance. Thank God for Barnabas. 466 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:42,679 Speaker 1: Barnabas was hopathetical. Barnabas was optimistic. Barnabas was able to 467 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: see the best in Paul. He was able to see 468 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:49,160 Speaker 1: the Paul in Saul. So I want to talk about 469 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: your connections today because the fact that they made it 470 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 1: through everything they made it through was the fact that 471 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 1: they were they. I believe the reason that the devil 472 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 1: doesn't leave your life a lot of times is because 473 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 1: you try to run him off alone and there comes 474 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 1: a point where you can't fight this in your own head. 475 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 1: There comes a point where you can't fight this with 476 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 1: your own personality. If you could have gotten you out 477 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,920 Speaker 1: of this, you'd be out by now. So what you're 478 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 1: still doing here Maybe you are waiting on the right connection. 479 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,440 Speaker 1: And perhaps the reason that we feed some of our 480 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 1: insecurity sometimes is because we stay in isolation where there 481 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: is nothing to prove anything. Other to us than the 482 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,760 Speaker 1: words that the devil is speaking. And so it's important 483 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 1: and I need to slow down on this a little bit. 484 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: That the Lord told me to tell you that there 485 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 1: may be a Barnabas that you are missing in your 486 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 1: life that is causing you to remain stuck in the 487 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 1: loop that the devil has you in. There may be 488 00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 1: and there may be some people in your life who 489 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 1: are the opposite of Barnabas, some people in your life 490 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 1: who really aren't headed where you're headed. And I would 491 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 1: kind of like to refer you back to my title. 492 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 1: You may need to send them a text right now 493 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 1: and just to send them and listening to a sermon, 494 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 1: let me show you the door, and that will be 495 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 1: code for you to have the conversation that you need 496 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 1: to have because you cannot fulfill a Pall sized mission 497 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: without a Barnabas sized encouragement. And sometimes it will be 498 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 1: a byob situation that stands for be your own Barnabas. 499 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 1: Sometimes the people that you need to encourage you, they're 500 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 1: having a bad week too. Guess what, maybe you need 501 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,080 Speaker 1: to do what David said. David said, I encourage my 502 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 1: self in the Lord. I know what's written in the 503 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 1: psalms because I wrote them. I'll quote my own psalm 504 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 1: back to myself when I'm struggling. And this is so important, 505 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 1: so you don't get stuck stuck at the bottom talking about, 506 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: Oh I need to get the church. 507 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 5: Oh I need to get around the right people. 508 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 1: You do. But there's a lot of time between Sunday 509 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:24,200 Speaker 1: and Sunday, so there will be situations in your life 510 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 1: where you need a connection to something. You need a 511 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: connection to someone, You need a connection to people that 512 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 1: can remind you of the purpose that God put inside 513 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: of you. Come back. Connection. Isn't that good? 514 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,720 Speaker 5: Paul and Barnabas, It says this. 515 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: Abby, go get my notes off the shelf for me, 516 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 1: real quick. Just get the whole folder. The whole folder. Now, 517 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: this will be great. I want to act this out 518 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,440 Speaker 1: because I really want you to get the story in 519 00:30:55,480 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 1: your heart. Abby. They bring me the whole folder, Abby, 520 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: Abigail means Father's joy. So sit down with me, be 521 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:14,600 Speaker 1: my Barnabas for a minute. In the illustration, remember I 522 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,360 Speaker 1: told you Paul and Barnabas. Go back to verse twenty six. 523 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 1: Show them. In the text, it says they went from 524 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 1: Italia to Antioch, which is not like going from Marvin 525 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 1: to Ballentine. This is a three hundred mile trip in itself. 526 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 1: Remember I told you they've already been twelve hundred miles 527 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 1: twelve months, and now they have a decision to make 528 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 1: on the way back because they have to give a 529 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 1: report to the church how it went. And the part 530 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 1: that I didn't read you was everything that happened before 531 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 1: Acts fourteen, twenty six, and twenty eight, kind of like 532 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 1: I didn't read you how Jesus fasted forty days before 533 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 1: the devil left. 534 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 5: I just got straight to the park the devil left, 535 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 5: and I was. 536 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,360 Speaker 1: Hoping you would shout, but you didn't even shout about that, 537 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:56,959 Speaker 1: so I know you're not going to shout about this. 538 00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 1: And the angels came, and that's exciting, and we all 539 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,200 Speaker 1: want to get there. But realize, if we put ourselves 540 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 1: in the historical context of this passage, that Paul and 541 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 1: Barnabas have three hundred miles to travel and they have 542 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 1: to figure out what are we going to tell them 543 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 1: when we get back. And you know, Barnabas was probably 544 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,360 Speaker 1: keeping good notes and stuff like that, because Paul was 545 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 1: the one who was mostly talking, and so they have 546 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 1: three hundred miles to figure out together when we stand 547 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 1: in front of the church that send us, when we 548 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 1: get back to Antioch, what will we report? And I'm 549 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 1: not saying that Paul was a pessimist, because I don't 550 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,360 Speaker 1: believe he was. He wrote amazing verses like I can 551 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,760 Speaker 1: do all things through Christ. His strengthens me, and now 552 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,440 Speaker 1: unto him who is able to do him measurably more So, 553 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 1: I am not throwing Paul under the bus, but Barnabas. 554 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 1: Barnabas had the gift of encouragement, and so I think 555 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,560 Speaker 1: while they were going back, they were probably going through 556 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 1: their log of everything that happened over the next twelve months. Okay, 557 00:32:58,480 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 1: what are we going to tell them when we get there? 558 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 1: Barnabus and they're going through their notes, because how do 559 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 1: you condense twelve months into one talk? Because it said 560 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 1: they gathered the church together and told them. I imagine 561 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 1: the first place they realized they had to talk about 562 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 1: was Cyprus. When they got to Cyprus, the island called 563 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 1: Cyprus that's in Acts chapter thirteen. And while they were there, 564 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:27,240 Speaker 1: God was using them, and Paul's like, you remember that guy, 565 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:33,280 Speaker 1: that sorcerer in Cyprus? And Barnabas like, yeah, yeah, what 566 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 1: was his name again? And Paul's like, oh, I'll never 567 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 1: forget his name, Elimis Elimas. His name literally means sorcerer. 568 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,360 Speaker 1: Barnabas like, oh, yeah, I remember now, Elimas. 569 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 3: Yeah. 570 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 1: Even Barnabas couldn't see much good in Elimis. He's like, yeah, 571 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,880 Speaker 1: he was a bad dude, because right when we were 572 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 1: going to have an audience with the governor of that city, 573 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,360 Speaker 1: Elimas started trying to interrupt us and distract from g Jesus. 574 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 1: And just when it looked like we were going to 575 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,720 Speaker 1: make progress with a very important governor, Elimas stood up 576 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,879 Speaker 1: and distracted. And Paul's like, yeah, that guy, he got 577 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,640 Speaker 1: on my nerves. I hate Alimis. If I ever see 578 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,160 Speaker 1: a Limis again, I'm gonna tell him. And Barnabas is like, 579 00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,880 Speaker 1: well wait, wait, not, Paul, do you remember what you 580 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 1: said to him? And Paul's like kind of and Barnabas goes, 581 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:23,839 Speaker 1: I got it. I got it written right here. Now 582 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,200 Speaker 1: put up acts chapter thirteen, verse eight. Look what happened. 583 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:30,399 Speaker 1: But Elimas, the Sorcerer, for that is what his name means, 584 00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:34,960 Speaker 1: opposed them and tried to turn the governor from the 585 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 1: faith he was about to receive Jesus, which would have 586 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,480 Speaker 1: been a major open door for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 587 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,640 Speaker 1: He was a gentile and he was a governor. And remember, 588 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,560 Speaker 1: right on the verge of God doing something amazing in 589 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,479 Speaker 1: your life, right when you are. 590 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,920 Speaker 5: At the threshold of it, right when. 591 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,240 Speaker 1: You are at the doorframe of it, anybody there right now, 592 00:34:55,640 --> 00:35:00,040 Speaker 1: there will be a devil. The devil doesn't mean the 593 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:04,319 Speaker 1: door wasn't real. The devil doesn't mean God wasn't in it. 594 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,920 Speaker 1: The devil at the door might mean you are headed 595 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,400 Speaker 1: in the right direction and he's trying to get you 596 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:18,279 Speaker 1: to turn around. And Barnabas says Paul. You looked at 597 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:23,040 Speaker 1: Elimas and I quote verse nine and told him, well, 598 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:28,440 Speaker 1: verset in, you aren't chid of the devil and an 599 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,799 Speaker 1: enemy of everything that is right. You are full of 600 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: all kinds of deceit. Will you never stop perverting the 601 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:36,880 Speaker 1: ways of the Lord. And Paul's like, I said all that. 602 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,480 Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, you said all that. You called him 603 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,800 Speaker 1: a child of the devil. It is kind of mean, Paul, 604 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,200 Speaker 1: but it was the perfect comeback for the situation. Because 605 00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,560 Speaker 1: watch what God did in verse eleven. Then suddenly after 606 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,840 Speaker 1: Paul spoke up, Suddenly after Paul confronted the opposition, suddenly 607 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,200 Speaker 1: after Paul refused to let the devil block his door, 608 00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,319 Speaker 1: I'm looking for somebody today who refuses to let the 609 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:03,320 Speaker 1: devil have he said. The hand of the Lord is 610 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,880 Speaker 1: against you. You're gonna be blind for a time, not 611 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:07,960 Speaker 1: even able to see the light of the sun, and 612 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,760 Speaker 1: immediately missed in darkness came over him, and he groped 613 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,480 Speaker 1: about seeking someone to lead him by the hand. And 614 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,279 Speaker 1: look what happened in verse twelve, Barnabas said, and when 615 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,920 Speaker 1: the pro consul saw what had happened, he believed, for 616 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,840 Speaker 1: he was amazed at the teaching about the Lord. So 617 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,760 Speaker 1: maybe when we get to Antioch in a few days, 618 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:32,520 Speaker 1: we'll tell him about the sorcerer at Cyprus, and we'll 619 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,839 Speaker 1: tell him how we faced resistance. But we'll tell him 620 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:43,480 Speaker 1: that after the resistance came a revelation, after the resistance 621 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:48,880 Speaker 1: came a revelation. Yeah, Paul said, we're going to tell 622 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,279 Speaker 1: him about the sorcerer, and Barnabas said, yeah, but we 623 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,239 Speaker 1: got to make sure to tell him that if the 624 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,680 Speaker 1: Sorcerer wouldn't have been struck blind, the governor wouldn't have 625 00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:05,279 Speaker 1: seen Jesus. Let me show you the door the resistance. 626 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:10,879 Speaker 1: What's the starting place of the revelation? Now? What resistance? 627 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:12,759 Speaker 1: You ok? Being up here with me like that, I 628 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:14,480 Speaker 1: didn't check. Let you tell me. Tell you didn't get 629 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:15,800 Speaker 1: to choose what to wear to be on stage and 630 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:21,480 Speaker 1: nothing like that. But you're doing great. Imagine this that 631 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,239 Speaker 1: the resistance that you're facing in your life right now 632 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,399 Speaker 1: might be the door to a revelation of how great 633 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:34,160 Speaker 1: God is. Maybe, maybe let me show you the door. 634 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,120 Speaker 1: You want God to take the resistance away while you're 635 00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:41,200 Speaker 1: simultaneously praying for him to make you strong. How will 636 00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:45,680 Speaker 1: he make you strong with no resistance? How will he 637 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:47,360 Speaker 1: show you who he is if he doesn't let you 638 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:54,120 Speaker 1: find out who you're not without him? Remember that, Paul, 639 00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:56,120 Speaker 1: when you looked at him and said you child of 640 00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:00,680 Speaker 1: the devil? That was the perfect comeback. So when we 641 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:04,440 Speaker 1: get back and we get to Antioch and we're in 642 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,000 Speaker 1: front of the church council, let's make sure that we 643 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,360 Speaker 1: tell them that there was resistance, but it led to revelation, 644 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,640 Speaker 1: and then and then we should tell them about the 645 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:20,080 Speaker 1: pettiness in Pasidia. I like to alliterate it because I 646 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,000 Speaker 1: believe Paul would have done that, don't you. And Paul said, 647 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,040 Speaker 1: we got to tell them how when we got to 648 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:29,480 Speaker 1: Pasidia there was so much pettiness that these Jews who 649 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,440 Speaker 1: were jealous started trying to stir up trouble. And Barnabas 650 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,480 Speaker 1: is like, yeah, but Paul, you handled it, great man. 651 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:42,279 Speaker 1: You handled that so good when they were trying to 652 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,000 Speaker 1: stir up trouble against you and they rejected you. Do 653 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,839 Speaker 1: you remember what you said, Paul? And Paul's like, well, yeah, 654 00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,560 Speaker 1: kind of, but tell me about it. And Barnabus goes, oh, yeah, 655 00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:53,960 Speaker 1: well I wrote it down. Look at Acts chapter thirteen, 656 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,880 Speaker 1: verse forty four in this good bed, because I'm trying 657 00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,319 Speaker 1: to get you to see that what the devil is 658 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,239 Speaker 1: telling you tells me something about where God is taking you. 659 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,719 Speaker 1: And I want you to get your stack back in 660 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,720 Speaker 1: your hands, and I want you on your three hundred 661 00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:13,600 Speaker 1: mile journey with your Barnabas. Whether the Barnabas is a friend, 662 00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,279 Speaker 1: whether the Barnabas is this sermon because you're watching it 663 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,600 Speaker 1: alone on YouTube, Whether the Barnabas is your own spirit 664 00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,719 Speaker 1: because you've been consulting. Your flesh too long, and your 665 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:26,160 Speaker 1: feelings too long, and your past too long. But greater 666 00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:27,920 Speaker 1: is he that is in you than he that is 667 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:33,279 Speaker 1: in the world. I want you to remember the pettiness 668 00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,480 Speaker 1: in Pasidia. We got to Pisidia. We were preaching, man, 669 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,480 Speaker 1: it was amazing. We left the island of Cyprus. We 670 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,399 Speaker 1: got the Pasidia. People were listening Acts Chapter thirteen, verse 671 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,240 Speaker 1: forty four. Please, on the next Sabbath, the whole city 672 00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,200 Speaker 1: gathered to hear the word of the Lord. And Paul, 673 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,480 Speaker 1: you were preaching, man, And the Jews saw the crowds, 674 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,400 Speaker 1: and they were filled with jealousy, and they began to 675 00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,280 Speaker 1: contradict what you were saying, and they heat the piece 676 00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:59,200 Speaker 1: on you. They said things about you that weren't true. Man, 677 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:04,439 Speaker 1: this is Barnabas talking. Word to the wives. Let Barnabas talk. 678 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:10,280 Speaker 1: Let Barnabas talk. Quit listening to the accuser all the time. 679 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:14,160 Speaker 1: Let Barnabas talk. Let the God who believes in you speak. 680 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,680 Speaker 1: And Paul was having abuse heaped on him, and Paul 681 00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,160 Speaker 1: and Barnabas answered him boldly. Now Barnabas got in on 682 00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:20,600 Speaker 1: this too. 683 00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,160 Speaker 5: He said, we had to speak the word of God 684 00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:24,080 Speaker 5: to you first. 685 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:27,280 Speaker 1: Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy 686 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,719 Speaker 1: of eternal life. We now turn to the gentiles. Let 687 00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:32,799 Speaker 1: me ask a question. How many of you are not 688 00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:36,799 Speaker 1: Jewish by birth? Raise your hand. This is how you 689 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:44,880 Speaker 1: got here. Think about it. They rejected Paul, and because 690 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:51,480 Speaker 1: they rejected Paul, Paul reached you. So maybe Paul and 691 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,759 Speaker 1: Barnabas decided on that three hundred mile trip back to Antioch. 692 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,239 Speaker 1: When we get there, let's make sure to tell them 693 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:04,960 Speaker 1: that rejection can become redirection. I thought your neighbor and say, 694 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,640 Speaker 1: they didn't reject me, they redirected me. That was my 695 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:12,080 Speaker 1: GPS talking. That was God using that to get me 696 00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,120 Speaker 1: on a different path, because I would have always stayed 697 00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:20,440 Speaker 1: in that place if I didn't feel a rejection. Paul 698 00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,400 Speaker 1: actually turned to the crowd and said, we were preaching 699 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,440 Speaker 1: to you, but now we are turning to the gentiles 700 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:32,080 Speaker 1: because rejection can be redirection. So let's make sure we 701 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:36,440 Speaker 1: tell them about the pettiness in Pasidia and the sorcerer, 702 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:42,840 Speaker 1: the sorcerer in Cyprus. But Paul, I also think we 703 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:49,319 Speaker 1: need to tell him about the lynching. I think we 704 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,160 Speaker 1: need to tell them about the lynching. That you went 705 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:57,160 Speaker 1: through in Litta, because when they got the little Paul 706 00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:59,840 Speaker 1: was doing miracles. Man, you'll mind if I tell you 707 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:03,439 Speaker 1: these Bible stories real quick. My barber told me, don't forget. 708 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,479 Speaker 1: The people you're preach into hadn't opened their Bible all week. 709 00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,359 Speaker 1: I was like, they open it some. He's like, maybe 710 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,279 Speaker 1: the app but you really need to dig into these 711 00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:16,279 Speaker 1: stories for us now. Yeah, I want you to get 712 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:19,359 Speaker 1: it because if you don't get this part of it. 713 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,480 Speaker 1: When I read you a verse that says the Devil 714 00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,760 Speaker 1: left Jesus or Paul and Barnabas stood up and reported 715 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,319 Speaker 1: how the Lord opened the door, you'll think that the 716 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:32,480 Speaker 1: door opened without difficulty, and you will be surprised when 717 00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,520 Speaker 1: you struggle, and you will think that you are not 718 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:39,080 Speaker 1: a saint because you struggle, and you may even begin 719 00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,200 Speaker 1: to believe the devil that you are not who God 720 00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:45,040 Speaker 1: says you are. And when they got to lit A, 721 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:50,400 Speaker 1: Paul performed miracles to the extent that one who was 722 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:54,400 Speaker 1: crippled from birth got up. Now, when he got up, 723 00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,880 Speaker 1: the crowd went crazy, as crowds do when people who 724 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:03,439 Speaker 1: have never walked before start to walk. And they took 725 00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,200 Speaker 1: it a little too far. In fact, they started saying, 726 00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:14,880 Speaker 1: Paul and Barnabas are gods. Barnabas is Zeus, Paul is Hermes. 727 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,920 Speaker 1: And Paul's like, no, no, no, no, no, no no no, 728 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:21,680 Speaker 1: we're servants like you. And they're like, oh, yeah, we 729 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:25,400 Speaker 1: know who you are. You are Zeus and Hermes. But see, 730 00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:27,719 Speaker 1: other people can't tell you who you are. When you 731 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:32,160 Speaker 1: know who you are, and when you know who you are, 732 00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,080 Speaker 1: you don't get too high and you don't get too 733 00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,359 Speaker 1: low because your hope is built on what Jesus says 734 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:42,160 Speaker 1: about you. So Paul wasn't too swayed by the lows, 735 00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,600 Speaker 1: he wasn't too swayed by the highs. He said, we 736 00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,440 Speaker 1: are just men. We are servants who have come to 737 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:53,000 Speaker 1: tell you about Jesus. That's all we are. We are 738 00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,160 Speaker 1: just the ones who opened the door. We're not the door. 739 00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,080 Speaker 1: And so they started preaching that, and the people were 740 00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:02,400 Speaker 1: going crazy. And then what's what happened? In Acts, chapter fourteen, 741 00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:07,520 Speaker 1: verse nineteen, it says that they stoned Paul. What happened 742 00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,640 Speaker 1: Some people came in who were jealous, some people came 743 00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:14,040 Speaker 1: in who were mixed up, and they stoned him and 744 00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:19,440 Speaker 1: dragged him outside the city, thinking he was dead and maybe. 745 00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,680 Speaker 1: Paul says, we've got to tell them about the lynching 746 00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:25,919 Speaker 1: in Lita, and then Barnabas says, yeah, but we gotta 747 00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:29,160 Speaker 1: make sure we tell them what happened next, Paul, because 748 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:32,480 Speaker 1: it was amazing, because they stoned you and left you 749 00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,520 Speaker 1: for dead, and they turned on you and they condemned you, 750 00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,600 Speaker 1: and they accused you, and they buried you, and they 751 00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:41,680 Speaker 1: maligned you, and they hurt you, and it looked like 752 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,360 Speaker 1: it was over. But give me verse twenty. It is written, 753 00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:49,680 Speaker 1: It is written, but after the disciples had gathered around him, 754 00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:53,920 Speaker 1: but after the help came, but after the connection came, 755 00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:58,440 Speaker 1: Paul got up and went back. Now, I don't know 756 00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,279 Speaker 1: who needs this in your section. Be a Barnabas for 757 00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:06,440 Speaker 1: five seconds, tell them get up and go back. Come on, 758 00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:10,040 Speaker 1: be my Barnabas for fifteen seconds. Reach three people, say 759 00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:13,680 Speaker 1: get up and go back, Get up and go back, 760 00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:19,000 Speaker 1: Get up and go back. Because the report isn't in 761 00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:22,400 Speaker 1: the rocks they threw at you? Is that who rows 762 00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:26,320 Speaker 1: up after the rock? Ah? God, you see what I'm saying. 763 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,480 Speaker 1: Come on, you might have to be yob for a second, 764 00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:34,520 Speaker 1: but take twenty four sect five seconds and praise. 765 00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:39,360 Speaker 6: God, get your gut up, and you went back. 766 00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:46,320 Speaker 1: I'm going through my list. I'm going through my list. 767 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:50,680 Speaker 1: High five. Your neighbors said, we got up and we're 768 00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:55,000 Speaker 1: going back. I'm not staying in this place. I'm not 769 00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:58,680 Speaker 1: staying in this place. I'm not staying under these rocks. 770 00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:00,840 Speaker 1: I'm not staying on this debt. 771 00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:02,320 Speaker 6: I'm not staying. 772 00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:06,240 Speaker 1: Under this crippling anxiety. I'm not staying under this bad report. 773 00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,640 Speaker 1: I'm not staying under this weight of depression. I'm not 774 00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:13,360 Speaker 1: staying under the same of my past. I'm not staying 775 00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:20,680 Speaker 1: under the written record that was held against me. Y'all, 776 00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:26,880 Speaker 1: Thank God for Abigail Barnabas verdict, and thank God for Jesus, 777 00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:33,960 Speaker 1: who is my Barnabas. Thank God for the Greater Wise, 778 00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:41,400 Speaker 1: thank God for the Holy Wife, thank God for the Annointment. 779 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:47,360 Speaker 6: Thank God said they threw their rocks by you, Rosa 780 00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:59,120 Speaker 6: al Rosa, How rose up? Who feel like breaking today? 781 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:06,600 Speaker 1: Yeah? How five? Your neighbors say you'll be balmed, I'll 782 00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:10,040 Speaker 1: be barnabus Now encourage. 783 00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:10,799 Speaker 6: Him, saying you can make it. 784 00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:16,600 Speaker 1: You got this. God's with you, you got a grace 785 00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:20,760 Speaker 1: for it, you were made for it, you were porn 786 00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:24,000 Speaker 1: for it. You were falling for it, you were filled 787 00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:29,120 Speaker 1: for it. You'll got the holly ghost. I'm trying to 788 00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:30,240 Speaker 1: get to the sea. 789 00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:32,640 Speaker 6: Your door is off us. 790 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:34,880 Speaker 7: Go through. 791 00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:45,960 Speaker 1: Your door. Fill a Barnabas spear in the house today. 792 00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:51,440 Speaker 1: And verse twenty six, so that's chapter fourteen says that 793 00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:55,480 Speaker 1: on the way from Italia to Antioch, where it all started, 794 00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:58,240 Speaker 1: God said, let's go back to where it all started. 795 00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:01,480 Speaker 1: He who will be a good work in you, will 796 00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:07,280 Speaker 1: be faithful to perform it. If God opened the door, 797 00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,560 Speaker 1: he will fill the room when you get in it. 798 00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:19,640 Speaker 1: That's how I know I'm so full of this word. 799 00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:23,839 Speaker 1: I'm so full of this word to help somebody who 800 00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:28,680 Speaker 1: has been hungry in the wilderness for forty days, who 801 00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:32,920 Speaker 1: has been lynched in Lita, who has been stirred up 802 00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:37,319 Speaker 1: in a place called Pasidia, or who has even had 803 00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:41,360 Speaker 1: to deal with a sorcerer in Cyprus. To remind you 804 00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:44,759 Speaker 1: of everything that you went through was the door to 805 00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:49,560 Speaker 1: who God knows you can be and who you can help. 806 00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:54,279 Speaker 1: And by the way, verse twenty seven says something so 807 00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:58,800 Speaker 1: fascinating to me. For our narcissistic culture that always wants 808 00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:01,759 Speaker 1: to know why is the devil doing this to me? 809 00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:05,840 Speaker 1: Or when are people going to do something for me? 810 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,360 Speaker 1: The Bible says Paul and Barnabas got up verse twenty seven, 811 00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:14,239 Speaker 1: and they gathered the church together. That's connection, and they 812 00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,600 Speaker 1: reported all that God had done through them. That's credit. 813 00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:25,040 Speaker 1: God did it through you. Given the credit. There's the comeback, 814 00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:31,880 Speaker 1: there's the connection, and there's the credit. Stop giving the 815 00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:40,560 Speaker 1: devil God's credit. What the devil did to us to 816 00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:43,239 Speaker 1: try to destroy us, God turned into a door to 817 00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:48,799 Speaker 1: develop us. Even some of the little things in your 818 00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:53,400 Speaker 1: life that you call coincidence, some of the things that 819 00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:57,719 Speaker 1: you call coincidence, are just things that God did that 820 00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:02,440 Speaker 1: you haven't given him credit for. Yet. The odds that 821 00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:05,040 Speaker 1: you would be here, the odds that you would be you, 822 00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:08,600 Speaker 1: the odds, the odds were against you, But God was 823 00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:15,880 Speaker 1: for you. Give him his credit. He said. God was 824 00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:20,000 Speaker 1: working in the rejection. God was working in the resistance. 825 00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:23,000 Speaker 1: If the sorcerer wouldn't have spoken against us, he wouldn't 826 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:23,680 Speaker 1: have been blinded. 827 00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,400 Speaker 5: If he wouldn't have been blinded, the governor wouldn't have seen. 828 00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,200 Speaker 1: If they hadn't rejected us, we would not have redirected 829 00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:33,799 Speaker 1: to the gentiles and this church wouldn't have been here today. 830 00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:36,680 Speaker 1: I'm trying to get you to show the devil the door. 831 00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:41,400 Speaker 1: How do you get him to leave your life? Begin 832 00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:43,879 Speaker 1: to list all the things that God did that you've 833 00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:49,120 Speaker 1: been forgetting about. So when I lift my hands like this, 834 00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:54,719 Speaker 1: I'm not just lifting. I'm listing. One he brought me 835 00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:57,839 Speaker 1: out of bondage. Two he brought me out of sin. 836 00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:01,719 Speaker 1: Three he broke my shame and set me free. For 837 00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:04,360 Speaker 1: he cut my feet on a rock and gave me 838 00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,880 Speaker 1: a firm place to stamp. Five he's fuck piece to 839 00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:11,200 Speaker 1: my storm. Now it's your turn. You got a hand. 840 00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,800 Speaker 1: What did he do for you? Begin to lift your hands, 841 00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:20,120 Speaker 1: Begin to lift your victories. Begin to report the open door, 842 00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:28,240 Speaker 1: the door he opened, the way he made, the time 843 00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:40,800 Speaker 1: he came through. When the devil shows you your deficiency. 844 00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:50,680 Speaker 8: Showing the door, showing the door, you have the perfect 845 00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:52,040 Speaker 8: come back. 846 00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:57,120 Speaker 1: Jesus said to the devil, away from me. 847 00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:02,040 Speaker 7: He was showing you what to do, and he could 848 00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:08,840 Speaker 7: do this because of who he is, and he's in you. 849 00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:10,000 Speaker 1: He's in you. 850 00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:15,480 Speaker 5: Greater is he that is in me, then he that is. 851 00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:19,520 Speaker 1: In the world. So resistance is a door. Rejection is 852 00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:22,680 Speaker 1: a door. Rocks are a door. I just gotta stop 853 00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:26,080 Speaker 1: and remember who he is. 854 00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:29,840 Speaker 5: Jesus said to Satan away from me. 855 00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,640 Speaker 1: You ever wonder why he waited till the third time 856 00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:37,560 Speaker 1: the devil tempted him to send him away. I thought 857 00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:41,120 Speaker 1: about that a lot this week. One, I think he 858 00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:43,280 Speaker 1: was setting an example for us to know that temptation 859 00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:49,359 Speaker 1: isn't something you resist once and you're done with it. Two, 860 00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:51,160 Speaker 1: I think he was doing it to show us the 861 00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:53,440 Speaker 1: three types of temptation we all face. The lust of 862 00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:56,080 Speaker 1: the flesh turned these stones into bread, the lust of 863 00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:58,799 Speaker 1: the eyes throw yourself off, and the pride of life. 864 00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:00,239 Speaker 1: A bow down and worship me and I'll get all 865 00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:03,839 Speaker 1: the kingdoms of the world. But another reason, I think 866 00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:05,799 Speaker 1: is because of what the devil said the third time. 867 00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:11,279 Speaker 1: He said, Jesus, you see all this, and he took 868 00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:12,759 Speaker 1: him to a high place. It says he can see 869 00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:14,440 Speaker 1: all the kingdoms of the world, which lets us know 870 00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:17,560 Speaker 1: that this was not a physical transportation, it was a 871 00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:20,360 Speaker 1: mental one. There's no mountain high enough to show you 872 00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:22,359 Speaker 1: all the kingdoms of the world. So this was all 873 00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:26,560 Speaker 1: happening in Jesus's mind, just like it's all happening in yours, 874 00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:30,680 Speaker 1: And the real challenge is not to get back to 875 00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:34,759 Speaker 1: Antioch physically, it's to get back to your grace. Yes, 876 00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:43,719 Speaker 1: So the devil took him. The devil took him to 877 00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:49,440 Speaker 1: a high place, and he said, all this I'll give you. Now, 878 00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:53,160 Speaker 1: Remember the devil did three things. He led Jesus. I 879 00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:55,360 Speaker 1: don't mean that Jesus was following him. I mean that 880 00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:59,520 Speaker 1: he took him there when translation says he led, and 881 00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:02,919 Speaker 1: then he Now, the first two times the devil quoted 882 00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:06,520 Speaker 1: a scripture at Jesus, but the third time was an 883 00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:10,799 Speaker 1: outright lie. He said, all this I will give you 884 00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:13,800 Speaker 1: verse nine, if you will bow down and worship me. 885 00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:19,080 Speaker 1: And then the devil said leave. He led, he lied, 886 00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:23,800 Speaker 1: and he left. And you say, what was the lie 887 00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:29,920 Speaker 1: in verse nine? The lie is that anybody was worthy 888 00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:34,160 Speaker 1: of worship other than Jesus. So when the devil said 889 00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:39,160 Speaker 1: worship me, Jesus said, get out of here. I'm not 890 00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:53,080 Speaker 1: the worshiper, I'm the worshiped. To said now let me 891 00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:56,600 Speaker 1: show you the door. For those of you who really 892 00:54:56,640 --> 00:55:00,319 Speaker 1: know your Bibles, you will be familiar with John chapter ten, 893 00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:04,000 Speaker 1: Verse ten. The thief comes to kill, still and destroy, 894 00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:08,120 Speaker 1: But I have come that you might have life and 895 00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:12,080 Speaker 1: have it to the full, or King James have it 896 00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:18,200 Speaker 1: more abundantly. Tell the devil get the hints. I have life. 897 00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:21,480 Speaker 1: I have life. This is my life. God gave it 898 00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:25,440 Speaker 1: to me, and I'm gonna live it for him. But 899 00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:28,959 Speaker 1: there's another thing that Jesus said just before he said, 900 00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:31,080 Speaker 1: the thief comes to kill, still and destroy, but I 901 00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:35,280 Speaker 1: have come that you might have life in verse nine 902 00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:38,720 Speaker 1: that I want to show you today where Jesus said, 903 00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:52,520 Speaker 1: I am the door. When the devil shows you your 904 00:55:52,560 --> 00:56:01,040 Speaker 1: failure this week, show him your door. And when oh yeah, 905 00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:02,880 Speaker 1: I'm gonna help you for I get off the stage. 906 00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:07,320 Speaker 1: When he tells you you don't have a right to pray, 907 00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:12,680 Speaker 1: you know how unworthy you are, show him your door. 908 00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:16,319 Speaker 1: Just don't even argue with the devil. Don't tell him 909 00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:19,080 Speaker 1: you're worthy, you're great, you're awesome, because you and I both. 910 00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:20,640 Speaker 5: Know that isn't true. 911 00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:23,319 Speaker 1: You and I both know that at your highest you're 912 00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,400 Speaker 1: not God, and at your lowest you're not the devil. 913 00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:29,160 Speaker 1: So when the devil comes to try to rock you 914 00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:30,960 Speaker 1: with that stuff this week and try to get you 915 00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:34,480 Speaker 1: to give up on what God gave you, show him 916 00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:39,399 Speaker 1: your door. Let me show you the door devil. Let 917 00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:42,960 Speaker 1: me remind you what Jesus did for me. Let me 918 00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,839 Speaker 1: tell you how he bled for me. Let me tell 919 00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:48,960 Speaker 1: you how he suffered on God at this hill. Let 920 00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:51,479 Speaker 1: me tell you how he sweat with drops of great 921 00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:55,480 Speaker 1: blood until the point where he was in agony, saying, nevertheless, 922 00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:58,680 Speaker 1: not my will, but yours be done. When the devil 923 00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:02,680 Speaker 1: shows you what you're up, I guess show him your door. 924 00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:09,200 Speaker 1: Your door is Jesus. He is the way, the truth, 925 00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:14,760 Speaker 1: and the life. When the devil shows you your disease, 926 00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:19,360 Speaker 1: show in your door, say by his friends, I am here. 927 00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:29,560 Speaker 1: I got a door, And walk the enemy right to 928 00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:33,640 Speaker 1: the cross of Christ in your mind and remind him 929 00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:38,760 Speaker 1: that Jesus is your way to God. Right now in 930 00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:41,360 Speaker 1: his presence. There are at least fifty people in this room, 931 00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:44,280 Speaker 1: and probably hundreds all over the world watching online, who 932 00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:47,000 Speaker 1: need to give your life to Jesus right now, right 933 00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:49,960 Speaker 1: in this moment. Not tomorrow, not when you get your 934 00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,760 Speaker 1: stuff together, not when you get your credit score up, 935 00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:55,200 Speaker 1: none of that. Right now you need to come to 936 00:57:55,240 --> 00:58:01,080 Speaker 1: the cross. He is your door. Not by words of 937 00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:04,080 Speaker 1: righteousness so that we can boast, but by grace through faith, 938 00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:07,200 Speaker 1: we are saved. And I want everybody to stand on 939 00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:10,440 Speaker 1: your feet right now as I offer you this invitation 940 00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:13,919 Speaker 1: to come to Jesus, to come to him and live, 941 00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:18,720 Speaker 1: to come to him. All of the accusations, all of 942 00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:21,280 Speaker 1: the sins that you've committed, all of these can be 943 00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:24,760 Speaker 1: forgiven if you place your faith in Jesus. He is 944 00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:28,640 Speaker 1: your door. And right now, in the name of Jesus 945 00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:32,040 Speaker 1: who Paul and Barnabas preached, in the name of Jesus 946 00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:34,640 Speaker 1: who defeated the devil and sin and death and hell 947 00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:39,080 Speaker 1: and the grave, I offer you this abundant life, this 948 00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:44,080 Speaker 1: eternal life, this life that cannot be taken away. 949 00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:46,600 Speaker 5: With your heads bowed and your eyes closed. 950 00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:49,200 Speaker 1: Those of you who are here today and you've been 951 00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:52,320 Speaker 1: captive to the devil to do his will, today is 952 00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:56,840 Speaker 1: your day of liberation. There is therefore now no condemnation 953 00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:00,240 Speaker 1: for those who are in Christ Jesus. And now I'm 954 00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:02,600 Speaker 1: going to lead you in a prayer. This prayer is 955 00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:05,440 Speaker 1: for those who are coming to Jesus. Enough of what 956 00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:08,720 Speaker 1: your past says, enough of what your flesh says, enough 957 00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:10,840 Speaker 1: of what your good works can do. None of that 958 00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:14,120 Speaker 1: can say. If you come to Jesus, he will pardon. 959 00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:17,800 Speaker 1: Come to Jesus, he is merciful. Come to Jesus, he 960 00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:21,479 Speaker 1: is flowing with forgiveness. And right now, if you pray 961 00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:23,320 Speaker 1: this prayer in your heart, the Bible says that if 962 00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:25,720 Speaker 1: you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and 963 00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:27,880 Speaker 1: believe in your heart God raised him from the dead, 964 00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:32,280 Speaker 1: you will be saved. With head's bowed and eyes closed. 965 00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:35,600 Speaker 1: At every location, we're praying out loud together as a 966 00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:38,400 Speaker 1: church family for the benefit of those who are coming 967 00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:42,320 Speaker 1: to God or coming back to God. This is your 968 00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:47,960 Speaker 1: comeback moment. This is your comeback Sunday. Now repeat after me. 969 00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:50,920 Speaker 1: If God is speaking to you out loud, heavenly fathered. 970 00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:55,200 Speaker 5: Today is my day of salvation. 971 00:59:56,280 --> 01:00:02,440 Speaker 1: I believe that Jesus Christ is your son, and today 972 01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:07,680 Speaker 1: I make Jesus the Lord and savior of my life. 973 01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:12,760 Speaker 1: I believe he died that I would be forgiven and 974 01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:16,000 Speaker 1: rose again to give me life. 975 01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:19,240 Speaker 5: I receive this new life. 976 01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:21,560 Speaker 1: This is my new beginning. 977 01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:24,360 Speaker 5: I am a child of God. 978 01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:26,600 Speaker 1: On the counter of three shoots your hand up. If 979 01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:29,080 Speaker 1: you prayed that one, two, three, shoot him up, shoot 980 01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:34,800 Speaker 1: him up. I knew it. I knew it. God bless him. Amazing. 981 01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:38,640 Speaker 1: Come on, let's put a party atmosphere in the place 982 01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:42,080 Speaker 1: for him. Come on, let's put an angels in heaven. 983 01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:47,880 Speaker 1: Rejoice over one sinner party atmosphere in the place. Glory 984 01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:56,880 Speaker 1: to God. Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to 985 01:00:56,920 --> 01:00:59,720 Speaker 1: those of you who give generously to this ministry. Is 986 01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:02,840 Speaker 1: because of you that this ministry is possible. You can 987 01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:05,720 Speaker 1: click the link in the description to give now, or 988 01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:10,120 Speaker 1: visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more information and 989 01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:13,360 Speaker 1: if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 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