1 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message today. 6 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: We're here together, sharing in God's presence, and I want 7 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 1: you to go with me to John four. Of course, 8 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 1: two weeks ago I preached a sermon about how I'm 9 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: tired on the inside, and then I took a week off. 10 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: I thought it was appropriate to preach I'm tired. And 11 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: our friend Robert Madou preached such an excellent message last week, 12 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: and I'm thankful for it. But God told me that 13 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: we should go back to the well for Father's Day, 14 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 1: and I thought, Lord, that's I don't mean to argue 15 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: with you. You You are the Lord el should I the 16 00:00:55,520 --> 00:01:00,040 Speaker 1: maker of heaven and earth? But it's Father's Day and 17 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: John chapter four is about the woman at the well, 18 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: So this is Lord, maybe an appropriate text for us 19 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: to visit another time. But then he showed me that 20 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 1: he's kind of smarter than me, and he kind of 21 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: wrote the Bible and I I just preach it, and 22 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: it's good to have my daughter, of course, Holly, but 23 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: my daughter Abigail means father's joy. That's exactly exactly what 24 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: you are. And I love you so much, and I 25 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: love how you laugh at all. My dad jokes up 26 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 1: here preaching it just encourages me because there's only I mean, really, 27 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seventy ninety. There's 28 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: eleven people in the room. And so if they start 29 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: getting rowdy, just know that they're trying to overcompensate and 30 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: you'll probably hear LB get loud in a minute. Don't 31 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: put any comments about he's too much, all right, The 32 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: world is too much right now, so excuse us if 33 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: we're too much trying to keep a little bit of joy, 34 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: had a little bit of faith. So if you need 35 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: to clear out a few chairs and do your think, 36 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: because this message today, wow, this is really, this is 37 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 1: really powerful. What God showed me. In John chapter four, 38 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: we see Jesus going through an unexpected place, and the 39 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: Bible says in verse four, now he had to go 40 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,119 Speaker 1: through Samaria. And last week we dealt with that extensively, 41 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 1: or two weeks ago, rather the last time I was preaching, 42 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: I said that Samaria is a geographical term, but you know, 43 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: you could also use wordplay and say that we all 44 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 1: have some area. And for the Jews, you know, they 45 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 1: they kind of divided themselves and Samaria represented a place 46 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: that they didn't want to go through, and they would 47 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: often they would often double the time of their trip 48 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: just so they wouldn't have to go through Samaria because 49 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: it represented division and resentment. And not only was there 50 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 1: ethnic tension in Samaria, but we are about to see 51 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: Jesus break a religious boundary and a Gendrey bounder. So 52 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 1: Jesus is a barrier breaker, and the sooner we realize that, 53 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 1: the less disappointed we are going to be when He 54 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 1: blesses and uses people that we don't even like and 55 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: people that don't look like us. And so, if you 56 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 1: want two points to write down just to get the 57 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: momentum flowing today, you don't get to choose who God uses, 58 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 1: and you don't get to choose what he does. And 59 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: that is on full display in John four. Because he 60 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: had to go through some area, and so do you, 61 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: and so do I. We all have to go through 62 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: some area, some areas the area of our life that 63 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: we kind of want to keep, you know, beneath the 64 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: surface that we kind of want to cover up, that 65 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: we want to work around, walk around. You know, we 66 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: develop all kinds of ways and coping meccan and excuses. 67 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: We don't really have real relationships because to have real 68 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: relationships we would have to go through some area where 69 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: we've been hurt before, where before we've been disappointed, and 70 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:20,280 Speaker 1: so now to avoid being disappointed, we go around, we 71 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: work around. We never really hope for anything, because if 72 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 1: we don't really hope for anything, we can't be hurt 73 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: by anything. We all have some area that we want 74 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 1: to avoid. Jesus went straight through it. But I told 75 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 1: you that two weeks ago, so I know you already 76 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: mastered that class. The next versus may reward further study, 77 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: though in verse five it says, so he came to 78 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: a town in some area called Psychar, near the plot 79 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's 80 00:04:54,320 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 1: well was there, and Jesus tired, Jesus exhausted. Jesus fully God, 81 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: Jesus fully man, Jesus all authority, Jesus, all empathy, Jesus 82 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: the word made flesh. Jesus who came through over forty 83 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:13,599 Speaker 1: generations just to be with us and to pay for 84 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:18,599 Speaker 1: our sin. Sat down by the well. It was about noon, 85 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: and when a Samaritan woman verse seven came to draw water, 86 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: Jesus said to her, will you give me a drink? 87 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 1: And now they say Jesus is the answer, But the 88 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:33,039 Speaker 1: answer just asked a question. My God. This is getting 89 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: this is getting rich. And in the tension of this text, 90 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:42,359 Speaker 1: John parenthetically inserts his disciples had gone into town to 91 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,239 Speaker 1: buy food. That was the biggest thing on their mind 92 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 1: was a meal, but Jesus was looking for a harvest. 93 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,599 Speaker 1: They were thinking about a meal, and Jesus was thinking 94 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 1: about a harvest. They were thinking about a burger, and 95 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 1: Jesus was saying, thinking about a breakthrough. You know, God 96 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: has Ephesians three twenty kinds of ways of exceeding your 97 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 1: expectations and violating them in the process. Because nothing in 98 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: this text was expected. Even the woman was shocked. In 99 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: verse nine, she said to him, you are a Jew 100 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: and I'm a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me 101 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 1: for a drink? For Jews to not associate with Samaritans. 102 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: And Jesus answered her, if you knew the gift of God, 103 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: and who it is to ask you for a drink, 104 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 1: You would have asked him and he would have given 105 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:39,919 Speaker 1: you living water. Now, please skip with me all the 106 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 1: way past the conversation, because it's a good one. It's 107 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:47,239 Speaker 1: a good conversation. This woman is not shy. This woman 108 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 1: does not accept easy answers and cliches and slogans and 109 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:54,720 Speaker 1: bumper stickers and quotes on Pinterest. She just keeps asking questions. 110 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: It's a deep well. It's a deep well. And I'm 111 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,359 Speaker 1: not talking about physically, although this well is one hundred 112 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: and six feet deep. You know it is because it's 113 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 1: still there. You can still go to Jacob's well to 114 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: this day, and you can actually drink from Jacob's well 115 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: to this day. But it's a deep well in her heart. Yeah, 116 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: it's a deep well in her belief. It's a deep well. 117 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 1: And after Jesus kind of spends some time with this 118 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: unlikely woman who was so ridiculed by society that she 119 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: had to sneak to the well during the hottest part 120 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: of the day, but so valuable to the creator that 121 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: he went out of his way to speak with her, 122 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: something pretty interesting happens in verse twenty seven, this is 123 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: what I want to preach about. I thought you were 124 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: already preaching, not at all. Just then, his disciples return 125 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:02,679 Speaker 1: and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. 126 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: But no one asked what do you want or why 127 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 1: are you talking with her? Then you're ready leaving her 128 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: water jar. The woman went back to the town and 129 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 1: said to the people, come see a man who told 130 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 1: me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah? 131 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: And they came out of the town and made their 132 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: way toward him. Just then verse twenty seven, the disciples 133 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. 134 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 1: And I know it's an odd Father's Day text, but 135 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: God told me to talk to you today on the 136 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: topic plot twist, Plot twist. I am officially deeming twenty 137 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: twenty the Year of the plot Twist. This year was 138 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: written by Stephen King and directed by Lucifer the Year 139 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: of the plot Twist. And you know, I was gonna 140 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: ask you because the disciples thought that they were just 141 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: going to get lunch, and they had no idea that 142 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 1: Jesus was going to break cultural barriers and every taboo 143 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: He was just gonna step through it like tick or 144 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 1: tape and not even care about the expectations of the 145 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 1: religious elite and talk to a woman as a Jewish 146 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: man with a Samaritan. They just wanted to get some food. 147 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: Plot twists. You know, just like we thought twenty twenty 148 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 1: we were just gonna do some crunches and lose fifteen pounds. 149 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: You didn't know you were gonna lose fifteen weeks. I 150 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: didn't know I was going to be preaching in an 151 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: empty room. For I don't mean that it's not empty, yell, 152 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: aren't nobody. It's just emptier. I didn't applot twist though, 153 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: plot twists. That's why I wanted to come out and 154 00:09:52,520 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 1: preach the sermon early, because you know, following Jesus, you 155 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 1: had to kind of like surprises to really follow Jesus, 156 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 1: not to worship a religious tradition, but to follow Jesus. Yeah, 157 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 1: there's a difference, big difference everybody put in the chat, 158 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: big difference with extra eyes in the middle of big 159 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:32,079 Speaker 1: big difference between you know, worshiping a tradition and pursuing truth. 160 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 1: And so Jesus is Jesus is Ah. He's constantly keeping 161 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 1: his disciples guessing, you know, constantly keeping God is constantly 162 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 1: keeping us guessing, isn't he? Do you like surprises? You 163 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:54,960 Speaker 1: may have had a different answer if I had asked 164 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: you six months ago do you like surprises? But now 165 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 1: we're like, you know what, No, I'm good. I'm good 166 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:06,959 Speaker 1: on surprises until twenty thirty two. I'm good on surprises. 167 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 1: But you're gonna be surprised about some things when you 168 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: get to heaven. One thing you're gonna be surprised about, 169 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: maybe is who is your neighbor in heaven next door 170 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: in the condominium. And you might be surprised who has 171 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: a bigger house than you in heaven. You know, who 172 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: God really used on Earth will not always be whose 173 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:32,839 Speaker 1: name we knew, And even on earth, Jesus was, he 174 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 1: was full of surprises. I like that the disciples were 175 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 1: surprised because it lets me know that it's okay that 176 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 1: sometimes I get caught off guard because I thought God 177 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 1: was going to do this, and then he does that, 178 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: and I thought my life was going to look like this, 179 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: and then it looks like that, And I thought this 180 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 1: person was always going to be my friend, but I 181 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 1: didn't know they were gonna kind of stab me in 182 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:55,199 Speaker 1: the back and go take what I tried to give 183 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: them and do something else with it. But that's okay 184 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: because his disciples were surprised too, and God is constantly 185 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 1: keeping us guessing. I almost wish I could read John 186 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 1: chapter four again for the first time, because now I 187 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: know how it ends, and it would have been cool 188 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: if I could have kind of, you know, wiped your memory. 189 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 1: Don't you wish you could see shawshank Redemption again for 190 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 1: the first time. It would be amazing just to see 191 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 1: Andy Defray crawl through the sewer to hear Morgan Freeman 192 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 1: narrate the life of Tim Robbins again, just for the 193 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:39,559 Speaker 1: first time. It's still good, but I wish I kind 194 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:41,320 Speaker 1: of wish I could see it because I didn't see 195 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: that coming the first time. Have you ever been watching 196 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,559 Speaker 1: a movie and you just thought you knew exactly where 197 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: it was gonna go, but then you know, out of nowhere. 198 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: I remember the first time I saw a Beautiful Mind? 199 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 1: Did you see that movie? And I remember the first 200 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 1: time I saw it, it messed with my mind. I 201 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 1: did not see that coming. Have you ever been going 202 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: through your life, going through your day, just minding your 203 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 1: own business, like the disciples, trying to go get a burger, 204 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, God disrupts your expectation of 205 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:19,960 Speaker 1: how your day was supposed to go. And sometimes God 206 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: doesn't even let you know it's him doing it. Now, 207 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: every disruption is not recognized as divine because the disciples 208 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: had no idea what he wanted. They still thought he 209 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: wanted Chick fil A closed on Sundays, but they didn't 210 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: know he was doing something much bigger than the number one. 211 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: He was doing something much bigger than a drive through. 212 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: And don't you know that God has scripted a much 213 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 1: bigger art for your life than how you feel this week. See, 214 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: we never know any given day, any given day, we 215 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: never know how any given we wake up, and we 216 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:05,079 Speaker 1: never expect. It's never. It's never the things you expect 217 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:06,719 Speaker 1: that set your life in a different direction. Have you 218 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: noticed this, It's never the things you expect. When you 219 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:12,319 Speaker 1: came to that lunch and you sang me that song, 220 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:14,559 Speaker 1: and then you never knew that we'd be writing songs 221 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 1: for elevation worship. You were just coming to the lunch. 222 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 1: You were just a new staff member. It's just the 223 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 1: little things. But you came to the lunch and you 224 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 1: were one of the first twelve in there and I 225 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: say who are you? And you say, and I say, 226 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 1: how do you doing? You? I see you seen me 227 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 1: a song, and you had a song. But you didn't 228 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: know when you woke up this morning. You never know. See, 229 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: that's why we have to continue to approach each day 230 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: like it is the day that the Lord has made, 231 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 1: because you never know. You never know. That woman didn't 232 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 1: know she was about to meet her maker. She didn't 233 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 1: know that she was about to meet a man who 234 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: could not only tell her everything that she had done, 235 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 1: but could show her what was within her that others 236 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 1: did not see. Plot twist. You came to get water, 237 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: but you're about to meet the well. Plot twist. Plot twist. 238 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: You accidentally clicked on this YouTube channel, but you're about 239 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: to get a word from God. You accidentally. I'm telling you, 240 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: it never ceases to amaze me the way that God 241 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 1: kind of sets things up. And just about when you think, 242 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: I mean, it's new, it's the hottest part of the day, 243 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: there's nobody around, nobody's expecting it. Jesus isn't supposed to 244 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: even be talking to this woman as a rabbi, And 245 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: just when she expected it, the least she received the 246 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 1: greatest revelation of her life. Now, for me, on Father's Day, 247 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: my dad was crazy in a good way, in a 248 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 1: bad way, It's like. And my relationship with my dad 249 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: was really really great, and it was really complicated. And 250 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 1: when he was diagnosed with als Lugarry disease and he 251 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 1: realized that he would die, but we didn't have an 252 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 1: exact timeframe for it, some really bizarre events transpired in 253 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: our house. And I don't like to talk about all 254 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: of it because it's not completely my story to share. 255 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 1: But even within my mom's decision to forgive him for 256 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 1: some things that he did during that period, there was 257 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 1: a little while and I was just reflecting on this 258 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:31,359 Speaker 1: for Father's Day because me and Graham were throwing the baseball, 259 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: and you know, you connect all of that like to 260 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: when I was twelve and my dad throwing the baseball, 261 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: But then also I connected it to when I was 262 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 1: thirty two and we weren't even on speaking terms, and 263 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 1: how one Father's Day I hadn't spoken to him in months, 264 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 1: and every time we would speak, it would get into 265 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: a shouting match. And I don't think I had the 266 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 1: wisdom to know how to relate to him through his pain, 267 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 1: and he was and he was being a jerk. I mean, 268 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 1: I put that on the record. You know, he's in 269 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: heaven now. He made it in but he was being 270 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: a jerk and I was probably a little immature as well, 271 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: and it put us in a weird spot. And do 272 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 1: you remember where we were coming from? Was it Florida? 273 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,880 Speaker 1: And we were coming on Father's Day? And I asked 274 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:19,920 Speaker 1: you to drive and I made the list and I said, 275 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: I'm going to write a list of you know, thirty 276 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 1: two things that I remember from my dad that are good, 277 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 1: and let's take it by his house. And we stopped by. 278 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 1: And I won't tell the full story now many of 279 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 1: you have heard me tell it before, how I kind 280 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 1: of shove the list at him with a bad attitude 281 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 1: of happy Father's Day, you know, And it opened the door. 282 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:46,640 Speaker 1: And really, through my mom's grace and compassion and forgiveness, 283 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: I was able to be a part of his life 284 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 1: like he was a part of mine as a boy 285 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 1: in the very last days. But but what I wanted 286 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: to tell you about, and I don't know who this 287 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: is for, because I didn't want to preach a messag. 288 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 1: It's just for fathers. But on Father's Day it got 289 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:09,199 Speaker 1: me thinking about the plot twists of our life and 290 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 1: how important it is that we be attuned to what 291 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit is doing in us, because we never know. 292 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:22,879 Speaker 1: Because I was preaching in twenty thirteen on a series 293 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: called the Expectation Gap, I shall probably pull that one 294 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 1: back out, because that's where we're living right now, the 295 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 1: gap between what you expect and what you experience. And 296 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 1: listen to this, Lucius. I don't know if you've heard 297 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 1: this story or not before, but it's the craziest story, 298 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,640 Speaker 1: maybe that I've ever experienced. Because I preached the nine 299 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 1: thirty at Elevation Blatney and I usually preached the eleven thirty, 300 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,439 Speaker 1: and we were about to go on our family vacation 301 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 1: for June, and something told me to just instead of 302 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:01,119 Speaker 1: preaching the eleven thirty, to run the sermon back. You know, 303 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:03,199 Speaker 1: I don't go with every idea that I had and 304 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 1: just call it the Holy Spirit. I'd be in prison 305 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: if I did that, because sometimes I think some really 306 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:10,439 Speaker 1: crazy thoughts and some days I'd never get out of 307 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: bed if I just went with what I felt. Somehow 308 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 1: one of those guys, but I just felt it. It 309 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 1: was like, you need to just play the thing back, 310 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:18,920 Speaker 1: and I thought, you know again, I'm arguing with God, 311 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 1: you know, like you're not supposed to go through some 312 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 1: Maria Jesus, we don't do that. I'm like, well, God, 313 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,399 Speaker 1: I'm going on a vacation for a few weeks. I'm 314 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:28,880 Speaker 1: about to get a break. I don't need a break 315 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: at eleven thirty. So I just preached that and then 316 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: I'll get a break. But something told me to leave. 317 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 1: As I was leaving, something told me to stop by 318 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 1: and see my dad and my mom. And when I 319 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:47,919 Speaker 1: walked in, my dad was so surprised. In fact, he 320 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 1: was just completely confused because his disease had progressed to 321 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 1: the point where he had very little movement, and my 322 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: mom was kind of doing everything for him, and hospice 323 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: was involved. But his mind was still very sharp. But 324 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: he had his iPad out and he was watching he 325 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:08,880 Speaker 1: was about to watch the eleven thirty service of Elevation Church, 326 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 1: sorry worship experience we call it. And just as on 327 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,159 Speaker 1: the iPad, I was coming on stage, I was walking 328 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 1: in his house. Anyway, you know, he couldn't move his 329 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:25,399 Speaker 1: head around too much, but he looked back at the 330 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,159 Speaker 1: iPad and looked at me and looked at the iPad, 331 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 1: and he said, how are you here? You're here, but 332 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:32,639 Speaker 1: you're there, But you're here. How are you who's preaching? 333 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 1: If you're there? I said, Dad, I said, I decided. 334 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:39,200 Speaker 1: I just decided to come over and see you, and 335 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 1: they're going to run back the nine thirty and I'm 336 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:44,159 Speaker 1: going to watch myself preach with you. Because one of 337 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:47,640 Speaker 1: the things that he had asked me for when we 338 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 1: were not speaking to one another, just just before we 339 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:53,880 Speaker 1: stopped speaking to one another, he had asked me if 340 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,359 Speaker 1: I could show him how much he meant to me 341 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,679 Speaker 1: by canceling something that was important, to show him that 342 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: he was more important. And I thought, well, that's childish. 343 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:06,199 Speaker 1: Of course I care for you. I mean, look at 344 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 1: all I try to do for you, and I'm a 345 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 1: good son and this and that I'm a good good son. 346 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 1: This is who I am. He went having it, and 347 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 1: when I walked in, I realized, this is that moment 348 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 1: for me to be with him. And I sat on 349 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 1: the edge of the bed and he watched the sermon. 350 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:28,159 Speaker 1: And it's really awkward watching yourself preach. It's painful. I 351 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: don't like to do it, but I did it. And 352 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 1: when I finished and walked off the stage, I promise 353 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 1: you I'm going to go back to John four in 354 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,919 Speaker 1: a minute. But when I walked off the stage, my 355 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:43,120 Speaker 1: dad said, preach your man. Gone out the back door. 356 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: Time for Hubacca because Larry Hubatka would come out and 357 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 1: do the clothes and I'd go this way and Larrybaka 358 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:51,640 Speaker 1: would go that way. And I hugged him. I said, 359 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: I love you. I'll see you when we get back 360 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: from vacation. And my mom called me at one am 361 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:04,359 Speaker 1: and said, your dad only has hours to live. He's 362 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 1: not speaking. You need to get here quick. And we 363 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 1: got there in the middle of the night, and we 364 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 1: sang his favorite hymns and then I ran out of 365 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: hymns and I started singing CCR and I ran out 366 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 1: of classic rock songs, and we sang and we sat 367 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,679 Speaker 1: with him and and we sat with him, and I 368 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: was with him when he breathed his lass bread. But 369 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 1: I told you that because you never know. That's why 370 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 1: I told you that, Because you never know. You must 371 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 1: go through some area and this woman who's just coming 372 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: to get water finds out that while she's trying to 373 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: fill her are God is trying to fill her, and 374 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:09,919 Speaker 1: she becomes the first evangelist to the Samaritans in the 375 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: time of the ministry of Jesus. Plot twist, plot twist. 376 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: But that's not really what I wanted to preach to 377 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: you about today. What really got my attention for Father's 378 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 1: Day was in verse five, because verse five says, so 379 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: he came to a town in Samaria called Psychar, near 380 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 1: the plot near the plot of ground Jacob had given 381 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 1: to his son Joseph near the plot near the see. 382 00:23:55,720 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: When I read that verse, I realized this is national. 383 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 1: I mean, of all the sermons that I have heard 384 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: preached about this woman who had five husbands and she's 385 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 1: living with the six, and you know, she's loose and 386 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 1: she's thirsty. And I realized that this did not start 387 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 1: with her. I realized that the conflict between the Samaritans 388 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:25,160 Speaker 1: and the Jews did not start in John chapter four, 389 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,119 Speaker 1: and even the phrase it said on the plot of ground. 390 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: And why would John, who only had so many chapters 391 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: to tell, only twenty one chapters to tell us who 392 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 1: Jesus was, his glory full of grace and truth. He 393 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: only has so much room, and he stops to tell 394 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:47,399 Speaker 1: us that it happened. I mean, I know about the woman. 395 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,400 Speaker 1: I know about her past, I know about her history. 396 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,679 Speaker 1: I know that Jesus taught her that they that worship 397 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: the Father must worship in spirit and truth. And I 398 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:56,680 Speaker 1: know it's not about whether you're worship on this mountain 399 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,919 Speaker 1: or that mountain. I've read all of that, but I 400 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 1: never took the time to realize that it was near 401 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 1: the plot of ground that Jacob had given his son Joseph. 402 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:11,639 Speaker 1: Now do you see why I called you together early, 403 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: because it took me all the way back to remember 404 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 1: that he called a man named Abram out of ear 405 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 1: of the Chaldeens. Abram was too old to have children. 406 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 1: Plot twist, You're about to have a baby. His wife's 407 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,640 Speaker 1: womb was as good as dad. Plot twist. God can 408 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:40,400 Speaker 1: bring forth a fruitful situation from a barren womb. And 409 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:44,959 Speaker 1: then there's the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It 410 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 1: wasn't even supposed to be the God of Abraham, Isaac 411 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:53,400 Speaker 1: and Jacob. It was supposed to be the God of Abraham, 412 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 1: Isaac and Esau. But plot twist. Just about the time 413 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 1: you think you know, oh what God is going to do? 414 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:06,400 Speaker 1: I love the story because Jacob got blessed out of order. 415 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 1: And some of you are in a season of your 416 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 1: life where you have told yourself that the story is 417 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,120 Speaker 1: never going to be any different. You are like this 418 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: woman who came out to the well in the heat 419 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: of the day to avoid the attention and the accusations 420 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: and the condemnation of other people. And they have made 421 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,160 Speaker 1: up their mind about you, and they have limited you, 422 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,879 Speaker 1: and they have put you in a box, and they've said, oh, 423 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 1: you're just this, or you're just that. But the barrier 424 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:37,880 Speaker 1: breaking God who stepped through forty one generations, the God 425 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 1: of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, not Esau. Esau was supposed 426 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: to get the blessing. But God has a way of 427 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 1: putting his right hand instead of his left hand. The 428 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 1: right hand is the hand of blessing. The right hand 429 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: is the hand of authority. It's called a plot twist. 430 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: Are you all ready for me? Did you get your 431 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:13,199 Speaker 1: Starbucks Vinti Grande extra Carmel fro Pacino? I hope you, 432 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: I hope you're ready for me? Because it said this happened, 433 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:22,919 Speaker 1: this amazing event where this woman that nobody expected to 434 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:29,160 Speaker 1: be used, Oh, they used her they used her, they 435 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:33,440 Speaker 1: used her. But God says, I see people use in you, 436 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 1: but they don't know what's in you. And I'm gonna 437 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: bless you in this season, even though you have told 438 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,639 Speaker 1: yourself this is all it can ever be. I mean, 439 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: do you know how powerful that is? That this is 440 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: the plot of ground that Jacob gave Joseph. It wasn't 441 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,359 Speaker 1: even supposed to be Jacob that the nation of Israel 442 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 1: came through the plot twist you He didn't even get 443 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 1: a high school degree plot twist. God doesn't need you 444 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,399 Speaker 1: to be educated, just available, just open, just humble, just 445 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:12,399 Speaker 1: a disciple, just committed plot twist, put it in the 446 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,919 Speaker 1: chat right now. He's the God of the plot twist. 447 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 1: And I'm going to tell you how I know that 448 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:22,919 Speaker 1: he is. Not only does God bless the wrong people 449 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 1: from an earthly perspective, like a woman at a will, 450 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 1: or like a trickster named Jacob. Not only does he 451 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 1: bring forth nations from people whose names carry baggage, or, 452 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: in the case of the woman at the Well, people 453 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: whose names we don't even know you ever thought about that? 454 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: That wasn't on her birth certificate Woman at the Well, 455 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: But God said, I'm going to take characters that other 456 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 1: people think are just props, and I Am going to 457 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 1: use them for a purpose that nobody can understand. You 458 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 1: better get excited about this word, because God is using 459 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:06,120 Speaker 1: people in this season that we walk past. Now. I 460 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:07,840 Speaker 1: don't know if you want to hear this message or not, 461 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 1: because we get pretty settled into our story, don't we, 462 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:15,440 Speaker 1: And we get pretty settled into our situation in our system, 463 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 1: and we just want a burger, and we just want 464 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: to drink, and we just want to survive it. And 465 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 1: here we are in a year where most of us 466 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: just want to go back to how it was, and 467 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 1: how it is is not how it's supposed to be. 468 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 1: And yet Jacob gave Joseph this plot of ground in 469 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 1: psychcar near Samaria. Let me stop here for a minute. 470 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 1: This is the area that everyone else avoided. It is 471 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 1: the area that Jesus intended to go through. Jacob was 472 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 1: the second born, Esau was the first born. God blessed 473 00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 1: the second before the first, and the last shall be first, 474 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 1: and the first shall be last. You killed him by 475 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 1: hanging him on the cross, but God raised him from 476 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 1: the dead. Blood twist. That's all the gospel is. Let 477 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: the weeks say I am straw blood twist. I love 478 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:29,479 Speaker 1: it. It It may be helpful for me to remind you 479 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,600 Speaker 1: at this point that the reason I look like I'm 480 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:36,480 Speaker 1: about to bust out of this suit with excitement, not 481 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: with fat cells, not with cellulite, with excitement and enthusiasm. 482 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 1: The reason I'm about to come unglued off this stage 483 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:50,560 Speaker 1: is because for twenty two years, Jacob thought Joseph was dead. 484 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:58,040 Speaker 1: So do you realize that the miracle happened through somebody 485 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:04,480 Speaker 1: that was as good as dead for twenty two years. 486 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 1: I mean, you got to get in this mindset, not 487 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 1: for twenty two hours, not for twenty two days, not 488 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,320 Speaker 1: for twenty two weeks, not for twenty two months. For 489 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 1: twenty two years, Jacob thought I've lost Joseph. And Joseph 490 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 1: was his favorite. Oh yeah, every parent has their favorite. 491 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,760 Speaker 1: It might change from moment to moment, but you have 492 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:30,840 Speaker 1: a favorite. You have a favorite, You have a favorite. 493 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,360 Speaker 1: My favorite is whichever one I'm talking to at that moment, 494 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,720 Speaker 1: telling them that they're my favorite. But Joseph had a coat. 495 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 1: Joseph was the favorite. Joseph was betrayed by his brothers 496 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 1: and left for dead, and when they went back and 497 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 1: told Jacob that Joseph was dead, who was the first 498 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 1: child of Rachel, who he really loved Joseph. Joseph is gone, 499 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 1: meant to Jacob, I may as well die too, He said, 500 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 1: you will bring my gray head down to the grave. 501 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 1: So now do you understand that the plot twist in 502 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,960 Speaker 1: John chapter four wasn't just about a woman who came 503 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 1: for a dream. It's about a god who takes things 504 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,640 Speaker 1: that you thought were dead, and things that you thought 505 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 1: were over and things that you thought didn't matter, and 506 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,200 Speaker 1: things that you thought people people betrayed you, and people 507 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 1: forgot about you, and people left you, and people ignored you, 508 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 1: and people abandoned you. They betrayed Joseph. And so when 509 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 1: it said that it was Jacob's well and that it 510 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:43,640 Speaker 1: was the well, the plot of ground that Jacob gave 511 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:48,320 Speaker 1: his son Joseph after twenty two years, can we visit 512 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,280 Speaker 1: the scene for a moment. It's in Genesis forty eight. 513 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 1: It's really beautiful, man, because you got to think, like 514 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 1: God sent Joseph to Egypt, and on one hand, his 515 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 1: brothers betrayed him and they sold him. But on the 516 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 1: other hand, Joseph saw after thirteen years of what seemed 517 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 1: to be like a setback. And the reason I'm preaching 518 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 1: it is because I think a lot of people are 519 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 1: feeling like life is just one giant setback right now, 520 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 1: and things have stalled out for you and it's not 521 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:25,360 Speaker 1: moving forward and it's not happening, and the plans that 522 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 1: you made all got canceled and all got interrupted. God 523 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 1: said to tell you that he's the god of a 524 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:37,600 Speaker 1: plot twist that just about the time you are ready 525 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:41,120 Speaker 1: to turn the movie off, don't turn it off. Just 526 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 1: about the time that you are ready to stop believing 527 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:49,160 Speaker 1: in God. Don't stop believing in God. Yeah, just about 528 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 1: the time you're ready to say, I will never see 529 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,080 Speaker 1: Joseph again. Because see, it was a famine that hit 530 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,920 Speaker 1: Canaan that made Jacob's sons go and find Joseph. Do 531 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,120 Speaker 1: you remember this. And when they went and saw Joseph, 532 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,960 Speaker 1: they didn't even know was him at first, but then 533 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,640 Speaker 1: eventually Joseph revealed himself to his brothers and said, is me. 534 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:12,960 Speaker 1: It's me, the one that you left for dead. I'm 535 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,120 Speaker 1: the one that God is going to use to provide 536 00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 1: for you plot twist. You remember his most famous verse 537 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:25,160 Speaker 1: in Genesis fifty twenty. You meant it for evil, God 538 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,600 Speaker 1: miant it for good. What does that mean? That means 539 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,840 Speaker 1: he's the god of a plot twist. That means he 540 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:36,160 Speaker 1: takes what the enemy meant for evil and uses it 541 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:40,400 Speaker 1: for good in your life, in your bloodline, in your generation, 542 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,560 Speaker 1: in our church, in our families, in our nation, in 543 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,960 Speaker 1: our world on this continent. God is a generational God. 544 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:54,399 Speaker 1: And he goes through some area, and he takes us 545 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,880 Speaker 1: through some areas, and he does some things in our 546 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,920 Speaker 1: lives in disappointed places. And when Jacob was getting ready 547 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:07,759 Speaker 1: to die, he called Joseph to his bedside. It's a 548 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,440 Speaker 1: really beautiful scene. This is great for Father's Day, okay. 549 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:16,200 Speaker 1: Genesis chapter forty eight. He said, uh, He said, Joseph, 550 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,400 Speaker 1: come in the room. I want to give a blessing 551 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:24,719 Speaker 1: to my grandchildren. Now. Genesis forty eight eleven is the 552 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,560 Speaker 1: one I want to focus your heart on for a moment. 553 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,600 Speaker 1: Israel said to Joseph, You're like, wait a minute, I 554 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:37,240 Speaker 1: thought you were talking about Jacob. I am the one 555 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:43,400 Speaker 1: named Jacob was also called Israel. Jacob means heel grabber, 556 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:54,399 Speaker 1: plot twist. Israel means prince with God. I'm telling you, man, 557 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,040 Speaker 1: Jesus looked at that woman, and he didn't see a whore, 558 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:04,280 Speaker 1: that's all worshiper. He looked at Jacob, and he didn't 559 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:08,279 Speaker 1: see a heel grabber. He saw a prince. I love 560 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,520 Speaker 1: him for that. I love him for all the times 561 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,000 Speaker 1: that he could have just given up on me. I 562 00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,880 Speaker 1: love him for all the ways. You know, I'm screwing 563 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,600 Speaker 1: up things left and right as a pastor, as a parent, 564 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,200 Speaker 1: as a husband. I know I get it so wrong. 565 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,239 Speaker 1: But go ahead and clap your hands and praise hand emoji. 566 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,400 Speaker 1: If you know you serve the god of the plot twist, 567 00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:32,359 Speaker 1: if you know that he knows your real name, your 568 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:41,880 Speaker 1: real righteousness is in Christ. Wow, so Israel also called. 569 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,080 Speaker 1: Jacob said to Joseph, the one he never thought he'd 570 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:49,000 Speaker 1: see again, the dream that he thought had died, the 571 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:54,439 Speaker 1: thing that he thought was over. What is your Joseph, 572 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:55,880 Speaker 1: what is the thing that you have given up on 573 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:57,360 Speaker 1: in your life? And you've said the stories over and 574 00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:58,480 Speaker 1: this is the way it's going to be. And I'm 575 00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,719 Speaker 1: just always going to struggle this, deal with this. I'm 576 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,480 Speaker 1: never gonna get over this, and I'm never gonna get victory. 577 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:04,000 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna sing the words to the song, but 578 00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:05,560 Speaker 1: I don't really mean them or believe him anymore, because 579 00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,359 Speaker 1: I'm just going through the motions and I'm just going 580 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,600 Speaker 1: through this. What is your Joseph? Now watch this Israel 581 00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:17,800 Speaker 1: said to Joseph. I never expected to see your face again, 582 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:28,480 Speaker 1: and now God has allowed me to see your children too. 583 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:33,520 Speaker 1: He's the god of the blot twist. Not only did 584 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:37,359 Speaker 1: he let him see Joseph, but he used everything that 585 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:42,480 Speaker 1: Joseph had been through to save the whole family because 586 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:49,680 Speaker 1: he's the God of the blot twist. Not only did 587 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,920 Speaker 1: he minister to the woman, he sent the woman to 588 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:57,960 Speaker 1: go get the whole towel blot twist. He skipped the meal, 589 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:03,560 Speaker 1: but he reaped the harvest. God is the god of 590 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,839 Speaker 1: the plot twist. Now who is this for? If this 591 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,239 Speaker 1: is for you, just tell me right now, say this 592 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,799 Speaker 1: is for me. This is for me, This is for me, 593 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:15,920 Speaker 1: This is bred from heaven for me. God said to 594 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,879 Speaker 1: tell you that there's a plot twist happening in your 595 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,920 Speaker 1: life right now. He said to tell you that the 596 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:27,480 Speaker 1: things about you that you don't like, He's going to 597 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:31,720 Speaker 1: leverage them for greater grace to be released in your life. 598 00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,640 Speaker 1: And I speak by the spirit of the Lord into 599 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:39,640 Speaker 1: your life. He is turning things around right now. And 600 00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:43,440 Speaker 1: you will see Joseph again, and you will see provision again, 601 00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:47,200 Speaker 1: and you will have joy again, and you will dance again, 602 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,080 Speaker 1: and you will shout again, and you will go to 603 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,440 Speaker 1: the House of God again, and you will rise again, 604 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,200 Speaker 1: and you will breathe again, and you will sing again. 605 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:05,000 Speaker 1: Thought I'd never see you again, Israel said to Joseph. 606 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,640 Speaker 1: It was the plot of ground that Jacob gave to Joseph. 607 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,239 Speaker 1: Never thought it would happen, but it did. God said, 608 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:18,360 Speaker 1: get ready for unexpected blessings in unlikely places. Through weakness. 609 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:25,520 Speaker 1: He is strong in your crushing oil comes forth. I 610 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,040 Speaker 1: know this is from God because he gave it to 611 00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:33,360 Speaker 1: me so heavy I had to preach it early. I 612 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,399 Speaker 1: didn't want to forget how I felt when I read 613 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:41,319 Speaker 1: Jacob say to Joseph, I never expected to even see 614 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:45,080 Speaker 1: you again, and now I get to see your children too. 615 00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,840 Speaker 1: God said, get ready for exceeding abundantly above all that 616 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:52,839 Speaker 1: you ever asked or imagine. And y'all, just in case 617 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,600 Speaker 1: you're new hero, I'm not necessarily talking about cars or 618 00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:59,719 Speaker 1: raises or bonuses. God as much bigger than any of that. 619 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:05,040 Speaker 1: I'm talking about how God is renovating your heart in 620 00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:14,120 Speaker 1: this season. It's a plot twist. God is setting me 621 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,520 Speaker 1: free from being so selfish. It's a plot twist. I 622 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:25,160 Speaker 1: thought it was about me, But Joseph was Joseph was 623 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:36,920 Speaker 1: still alive. Joseph is still alive. Yes, crazy thing, Jacob said. 624 00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,879 Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't think i'd ever see you again. 625 00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:51,759 Speaker 1: But bring me my grandchildren, Manassa and Ephraim. Bring me 626 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,879 Speaker 1: those voice and bring them over here so I can 627 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:59,560 Speaker 1: bless them. Bring them here so I can bless them. 628 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,640 Speaker 1: You know that's what God likes to do. Right, Come 629 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,040 Speaker 1: here so I can bless you. Come here so I 630 00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:09,000 Speaker 1: can bless you. Come here so I can bless you. 631 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:11,920 Speaker 1: That woman at the well, come here so I can 632 00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,080 Speaker 1: bless you. He asked her for a drink, but he 633 00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:17,040 Speaker 1: really just wanted to give her one. Come here so 634 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:18,960 Speaker 1: I can bless you. If you knew who you were 635 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,759 Speaker 1: talking to, you would ask me, and I would give 636 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:22,959 Speaker 1: you the water that never runs dry, and it would 637 00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:27,880 Speaker 1: become within you a source, a spring of living water. 638 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:33,880 Speaker 1: Bring them here so I can bless him. And then 639 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:39,680 Speaker 1: Joseph removed them from Israel's niece bowed down with his 640 00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,719 Speaker 1: face to the ground, and Joseph took both of them, 641 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,799 Speaker 1: Ephraim on his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and 642 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:51,560 Speaker 1: Manassa on his left toward Israel's right hand, and brought 643 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:55,160 Speaker 1: them close to him. All of this I saw when 644 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,600 Speaker 1: I saw it happened on the plot of ground that 645 00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:02,160 Speaker 1: Jacob gave his son Joseph, and I thought about on 646 00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:06,480 Speaker 1: Father's Day and every day, what am I giving to 647 00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:11,120 Speaker 1: my children? What am I giving to the others in 648 00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:17,000 Speaker 1: my life? I wonder what you're carrying. I wonder what 649 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:20,000 Speaker 1: the enemy is trying to convince you to give up on, 650 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:25,640 Speaker 1: because what you carry is so significant. I wonder. I 651 00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:29,279 Speaker 1: wonder what's in your will. I wonder what wells you're 652 00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,879 Speaker 1: digging in your life right now, through your worship, through 653 00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:35,440 Speaker 1: your praise, through your prayers, through your study, through your commitment, 654 00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,560 Speaker 1: through your openness, through the change that God is doing 655 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:43,080 Speaker 1: in your life. Now, watch this, he said, bring them here. 656 00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:48,799 Speaker 1: I want to bless them. Joseph lining them up so 657 00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:53,480 Speaker 1: that the oldest would get the right hand, Manassa the 658 00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,320 Speaker 1: younger would get the left hand. They're both going to 659 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:59,680 Speaker 1: get blessed, but the oldest gets the bigger blessing? And 660 00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:08,560 Speaker 1: what what Israel does? Verse fourteen, But Israel, but Israel, 661 00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:17,600 Speaker 1: but God, but Israel. But God reached out his right 662 00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:23,799 Speaker 1: hand and put his right hand on Ephraim's head, though 663 00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:28,560 Speaker 1: he was the younger, though he didn't deserve it, though 664 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:32,360 Speaker 1: he wasn't supposed to be blessed first, though he wasn't 665 00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:36,360 Speaker 1: expecting it, though it didn't make any sense, though it 666 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:41,359 Speaker 1: defied logic and customs and traditions. He had to go 667 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:45,160 Speaker 1: through Samaria. He had to keep you alive. You have 668 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,840 Speaker 1: to survive, you have to make it. You had to 669 00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:54,560 Speaker 1: rise up. And he put his right hand on Ephraim's head, 670 00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:59,359 Speaker 1: and he put his left hand on Manessa's head, even 671 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:03,360 Speaker 1: though mante what's the firstborn? And then he blessed Joseph 672 00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:07,759 Speaker 1: and said, may the God before whom my father's Abraham 673 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:12,600 Speaker 1: and Isaac. Somebody shout, is generational, it's generational. It's generational. 674 00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,719 Speaker 1: There's a bigger picture. I will not die here. I 675 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,799 Speaker 1: will not quit here. I will not become arrogant or 676 00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:23,400 Speaker 1: discouraged or dismayed. I will not stop here. I gotta 677 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:27,760 Speaker 1: go through Samaria because the God of Abraham and Isaac, 678 00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,680 Speaker 1: the God who has been my shepherd all my life 679 00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:33,960 Speaker 1: to this day, the Angel who has delivered me from 680 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:38,719 Speaker 1: all harm. May he bless these boys. You want your 681 00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:42,160 Speaker 1: Father's Day message, here's your Father's Day message. Get ready 682 00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:46,080 Speaker 1: for a plot twist. You didn't have a dad, You're 683 00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:49,360 Speaker 1: gonna be an amazing dad. Get ready for a plot twist. 684 00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,080 Speaker 1: You gotta hurt in your heart that feels unhealed. God's 685 00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,480 Speaker 1: gonna turn you into a healer. Get ready for a 686 00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:59,759 Speaker 1: plot twist. You got some reasons why you don't feel 687 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,880 Speaker 1: like a very good person. Get ready for a plot twist. 688 00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:07,400 Speaker 1: God loves Jacob. God loves Jacob. God loves Jacob. Jesus 689 00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:11,839 Speaker 1: love that woman. God loves people just like you. And 690 00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:15,120 Speaker 1: I know he's the God of the plot twist because 691 00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:22,680 Speaker 1: his hands looked like this. Because his hands look like this. 692 00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:27,759 Speaker 1: And when Joseph verse seventeen saw his father placing his 693 00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:33,919 Speaker 1: right hand on Ephraim's head, he was displeased. I don't 694 00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:37,520 Speaker 1: like this. You're not supposed to be doing this God. 695 00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,840 Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be still half my job. I'm supposed 696 00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,480 Speaker 1: to steal God. This is not But look what his 697 00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:49,040 Speaker 1: father said verse nineteen, I know my son. I know 698 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:53,560 Speaker 1: he too will become a people, He too will become great. 699 00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:59,839 Speaker 1: God's gonna use it all. God's gonna use it all. Nevertheless, 700 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:05,719 Speaker 1: his younger brother will be greater than he, and his 701 00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,160 Speaker 1: descendants will become a group of nations. And he blessed 702 00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:12,960 Speaker 1: them that day, And he blessed them that day. I 703 00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:17,400 Speaker 1: pray that today would be a day of unexpected blessing 704 00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:22,960 Speaker 1: in your soul, because you never know, man, you never know. 705 00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,000 Speaker 1: Some of y'all are breaking curses and you don't even 706 00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:32,960 Speaker 1: know it. You never know. You can't die, Joseph, you 707 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,319 Speaker 1: can't die. They're supposed to be a well with your 708 00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:43,440 Speaker 1: name on it for a future generation. Yeah. I want 709 00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:47,759 Speaker 1: to quit sometimes, but I can't. Yeah, I want to 710 00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:51,520 Speaker 1: quit sometimes, but I can't. Yeah. Sometimes I hide under 711 00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:53,360 Speaker 1: the covers, but I got to get out at some point, 712 00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,840 Speaker 1: because this is bigger than me. This is bigger than me. 713 00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:06,560 Speaker 1: It's bigger than air. It's about a harvest. Joseph was betrayed, abandoned. 714 00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:11,600 Speaker 1: He said, you intended it for evil, It's all right. 715 00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:18,040 Speaker 1: God used it for good. How did he know about 716 00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:22,480 Speaker 1: the cross so much? Thousands of years before it happened. 717 00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:26,759 Speaker 1: How did Jacob know Romans eight twenty eight all things 718 00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:28,920 Speaker 1: work together for the good when it hadn't even been 719 00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:32,120 Speaker 1: written yet, he knew that God is the god of 720 00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:35,800 Speaker 1: a plot twist. And Jacob looked at Joseph and said, 721 00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:41,360 Speaker 1: in your name, will Israel pronounce this blessing. May God 722 00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:46,279 Speaker 1: make you like Ephraim and Manassa. And he put he 723 00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,480 Speaker 1: from ahead of Manassa. And then Israel said to Joseph, 724 00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:56,799 Speaker 1: I'm about to die, but God will be with you. 725 00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:00,000 Speaker 1: I'm speaking to somebody. Tears are running down your face 726 00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:03,440 Speaker 1: because that's God saying that to you. It's not a 727 00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:06,160 Speaker 1: preacher saying that to you. A preacher can't say that 728 00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,640 Speaker 1: to you. I'm not with you. God said, I will 729 00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:13,280 Speaker 1: be with you and take you back to the land 730 00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:18,640 Speaker 1: of your fathers. And to you I give one more 731 00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:23,319 Speaker 1: ridge of land than to your brothers. The one who 732 00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:35,560 Speaker 1: almost died got blessed double. This happened in Sidcar, near Samaria, 733 00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:43,320 Speaker 1: on the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. 734 00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:48,120 Speaker 1: I want to pray for you today. What I want 735 00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:51,800 Speaker 1: to pray about is the fact that when Jacob spoke 736 00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:55,080 Speaker 1: that blessing over Joseph. They weren't in Canaan, they were 737 00:48:55,080 --> 00:49:00,400 Speaker 1: in Egypt. He was telling him about a land that 738 00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,440 Speaker 1: he wasn't living in yet. And when we get up 739 00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,279 Speaker 1: here and when we preach and when we say, God 740 00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,759 Speaker 1: takes what the enemy means for evil and turns it 741 00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:11,319 Speaker 1: for good. You know, that's really hard to receive when 742 00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,319 Speaker 1: you look all around you and everything that you see 743 00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:17,400 Speaker 1: is saying otherwise. But God said, I'm gonna bless you. 744 00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:22,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna bless you better than anybody else can curse you. 745 00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:25,480 Speaker 1: I'm gonna bless you. When I make up my mind 746 00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:27,360 Speaker 1: to bless you, when I make up my mind to 747 00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:31,239 Speaker 1: use you, I will go through Samaria and send all 748 00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:37,960 Speaker 1: the disciples to McDonald's just to meet with you, to 749 00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:42,240 Speaker 1: show you what is within you. They call you Jacob, 750 00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:49,200 Speaker 1: I call you Israel on the plot of ground that 751 00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:53,160 Speaker 1: Jacob gave to Joseph. God, I thank you that there 752 00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:58,920 Speaker 1: is an anointing on this word today to break generational 753 00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:04,719 Speaker 1: bondage off of mindsets. I thank you that today new 754 00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:10,400 Speaker 1: wells are being dug in this moment, not three months 755 00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:14,000 Speaker 1: from now, when the country is in better shape or not. 756 00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:16,640 Speaker 1: At some point in the future when we know what's 757 00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:20,200 Speaker 1: gonna happen with our career or our industry. Right now, 758 00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:24,719 Speaker 1: I am blessed. Right now. The hand of the Lord 759 00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:28,319 Speaker 1: is on me, the younger before the older. You are 760 00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:32,080 Speaker 1: doing it in your time. It's gonna be beautiful in 761 00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:37,279 Speaker 1: your time. God. And I thank you right now that 762 00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:44,320 Speaker 1: from Sweden to Zimbabwe, right down to your county, South Carolina, 763 00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:48,279 Speaker 1: your people are blessed, not just the fathers, but the 764 00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:52,839 Speaker 1: sons and the daughters and the mothers, single baron woman. Ah, 765 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,120 Speaker 1: thank you that a well, it's springing up in the desert. 766 00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:59,719 Speaker 1: And I bless your name today because your people are 767 00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:03,840 Speaker 1: bless us. And when you bless us and when you stigure, 768 00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:09,040 Speaker 1: it is established. It is done on earth as it 769 00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:13,840 Speaker 1: is in heaven. Your kingdom. Come, your will be not 770 00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:17,360 Speaker 1: fuck hollow. It be your day. You churn, bless the 771 00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:23,560 Speaker 1: be gold h turny for yes, listen, say your name, 772 00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:31,920 Speaker 1: fuckingay you turny, fucking day you turney. Fuck come on 773 00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:37,840 Speaker 1: and you're not sweary fucker say your journal turnary evil. 774 00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:42,600 Speaker 1: It's a port twisted fuck. It's not over you journey 775 00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:48,800 Speaker 1: is not over. It's a pot twist shotinue your marry 776 00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:53,120 Speaker 1: me for your ministry. Can you tell me in your life? 777 00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:59,400 Speaker 1: Said she just a port twist. My hey, you jes 778 00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:09,160 Speaker 1: do you take what you concernty fuck you thurny fuck 779 00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:18,040 Speaker 1: on the plot of ground that Jacob gave his son Joseph, 780 00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:24,520 Speaker 1: that woman discovered living water. Today. I pray over every household, 781 00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,840 Speaker 1: Oh God, cover them, Oh God, bless them. Indeed, Oh God, 782 00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:34,279 Speaker 1: enlarge their hearts. Some things don't make any sense. Some 783 00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:40,040 Speaker 1: things in our lives seem so hopelessly, hopelessly, ridiculously painful. 784 00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:45,279 Speaker 1: I speak purpose over your people today. God, you sent 785 00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:48,120 Speaker 1: me here with this water, You sent me here with 786 00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:51,520 Speaker 1: this word. You are the water, You are the word. 787 00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:56,719 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you one more thing. I was gonna leave, 788 00:52:56,719 --> 00:53:00,239 Speaker 1: but I gotta tell you this. She came to get water, 789 00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:08,400 Speaker 1: but she left her jar plot twist. She was already 790 00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:13,600 Speaker 1: carrying what she came for. I'm trying to say, you've 791 00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:17,960 Speaker 1: already got it, You've already got it, You've already got it. 792 00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:21,879 Speaker 1: You already are enough. You already are enough. You already are. 793 00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:24,360 Speaker 1: I don't care what they said, I don't care what 794 00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:30,800 Speaker 1: the devil's been telling you. You already got it. So Lord, 795 00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:38,320 Speaker 1: confirm your word today with signs and miracles and wonders. 796 00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:43,080 Speaker 1: We thank you that your cross and your blood speaks 797 00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:46,759 Speaker 1: a better word in Jesus' name. Come on and give 798 00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:50,279 Speaker 1: God the greatest shout of braves and say, I receive it. 799 00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:55,440 Speaker 1: I received the living water. Singing a few more times 800 00:53:55,440 --> 00:54:00,880 Speaker 1: you sing, couldn't you? God? It's turning it on? Fuck, 801 00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:13,200 Speaker 1: get ready, turn get ready. Thank you for joining us. 802 00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:15,960 Speaker 1: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 803 00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:19,520 Speaker 1: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 804 00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,160 Speaker 1: You can click the link in the description to give 805 00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:26,200 Speaker 1: now or visit Elevation Church dot org slash podcast for 806 00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:30,040 Speaker 1: more information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 807 00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:32,600 Speaker 1: You can share it with your friends. 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