1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: in your life. 7 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. 8 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 2: So over in the Book of Revelation, Chapter two, verse 9 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 2: two through five, there's a challenge, and I'm going to 10 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 2: try to be disciplined as I preach this one. 11 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: I got a little I got a little bit off my. 12 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:32,560 Speaker 3: Plan at the last one, But this one, I'm gonna 13 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 3: try to just stay right right there and preach it. 14 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:38,559 Speaker 1: And because there's so much there that I believe will 15 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 1: help you. 16 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 2: But let's turn our attention now to the text. The 17 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 2: Angel at the church in emphasis is receiving a message and. 18 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: The word of the Lord comes. 19 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 2: I know your works verse two, your toil and your 20 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 2: patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who 21 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 2: are evil, but have tested those who call themselves upsles 22 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 2: and are not found them to be false. I know 23 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:09,679 Speaker 2: you're enduring patiently and bearing up for my Name's sake, 24 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 2: and you have not grown weary. 25 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: You're doing a lot of things right. 26 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 2: And I see it, and I see you struggling, and 27 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 2: I see you showing up. 28 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: But I have this against you. 29 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 2: There's something that's working against you. There's something that I 30 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 2: need to challenge you on today. I have this against you, 31 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 2: that you have abandoned the love that you had at first. 32 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 2: Remember therefore from where you have fallen. Repent It means 33 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 2: to change your mind. It means to change your direction. 34 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 2: Repent therefore, repent, Remember and repent and do the works 35 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 2: you did it first. If not, I will come to 36 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 2: you and remove your lamp stand from its place unless 37 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 2: you repent. I see you, I love you, But if 38 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 2: you don't remember and repent, you're gonna. 39 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: Lose your place. 40 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 2: So I want to appreciate to you today on the 41 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 2: subject put your passion in its place, and I want 42 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 2: you to pray with me that I could communicate this 43 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 2: message in a powerful and clear way. Father, anoint your 44 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 2: word and open our hearts. May we hear it and 45 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 2: do it never be the same. We declare it, and 46 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 2: thank you in advance for feeding us from your hand. 47 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, Amen, on your way to. 48 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 2: Your seat, touch somebody, say you're gonna get it back today. 49 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: You're gonna get it back. You're gonna get it back. 50 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 2: I'm just telling you right now, you're gonna get it 51 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 2: back today. Hey, So bring up my props and put 52 00:02:57,919 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 2: my little picture up. 53 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: I want to show you something from last summer. 54 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 2: I took my kids back to my hometown and took 55 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 2: them on a tour of Monk's Corner, South Carolina. 56 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: A lot of people want to go to the Holy 57 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: Land and then and. 58 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 2: Some people on their bucket list, they just want to 59 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:18,359 Speaker 2: see Monk's Corner. So I took my kids to all 60 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 2: of the sites that I could think of that were 61 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 2: memorable to me growing up, very proud of my small 62 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 2: town heritage, and very proud of. 63 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 1: The church I grew up in. 64 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 2: I took them by Monk's Corner United Methodist Church. A 65 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 2: lady who recognized me saw us pull up. She said, 66 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 2: little Stevie Verdick, her sister taught my Sunday school class, 67 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 2: and she knew I was pastoring now, proud of me 68 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 2: and all that said, we could walk in and do 69 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 2: whatever we wanted. She was there cleaning, and we went 70 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 2: over to the choir room and I showed the kids 71 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 2: how I used to suit up on Sunday mornings when 72 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 2: I was about what was it, ten, mom eleven, and 73 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 2: I was an acolyte at the Methodist Church, and so 74 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 2: I kind of walked them through. 75 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: I wanted to show. 76 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 2: Him how I did it back in the day, because 77 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 2: you know, not just anybody could be an acolyte. Took 78 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 2: a special talented kid, very spiritually elite children were called 79 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 2: upon it. They didn't let you light your own wick. 80 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 2: They had a committee member for that. But I walked 81 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 2: them through it. And so that's me at the front 82 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 2: of the church. They're showing them how I used to 83 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 2: do it. And you had to do it a certain way. 84 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 2: You know, you come down during the first song and 85 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,679 Speaker 2: you I don't remember it exactly, it's been a while, 86 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 2: but there was a certain way you did the candles. 87 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: And all of that, and then you light it, light 88 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:45,559 Speaker 1: the well. 89 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 2: It's been a while. Abby had a funny line when 90 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 2: I was showing her all this. She said, Daddy, did 91 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 2: you have to practice that? I said, yeah, baby, took 92 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 2: a lot of practice, and do it just right, mess 93 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 2: it up. 94 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 1: And Plus Melissa Hydric was sitting up there in the. 95 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 2: Balcony and I had a crush on her, and I 96 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 2: didn't want to burn down the church in front of 97 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 2: my childhood crush, light my robe on fire in. 98 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 1: Front of my crush. So you had to practice that. 99 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 2: And then at the end, how you put the fire out. 100 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 2: That's important there at the end. And while I'm standing 101 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 2: up there with them, it's memories, you know, because sometimes 102 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 2: you go. 103 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 1: Back and you just you remember things. 104 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 2: That was where I preached my first sermon on youth Sunday. 105 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,160 Speaker 2: Now they only give you twelve minutes to preach in 106 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 2: the Methodist Church, And I know what some of you 107 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:43,600 Speaker 2: are thinking, can we make this a Methodist church? 108 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 1: That sounds awesome. 109 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 2: It takes me twelve minutes to tell you, hello, how 110 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 2: many of you are glad I preached long sermons because 111 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 2: you know you're jacked up. It's gonna take me a 112 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 2: whole lot more than twelve. 113 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: Minutes to straighten you out. 114 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 2: Weird though, touch somebody say it's going to take more 115 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 2: than twelve You're a mess. 116 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:08,039 Speaker 1: Me too. 117 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 2: Anyway, I was remembering that first sermon. I was preaching 118 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 2: on Peter walking on water, and I didn't even need 119 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:20,359 Speaker 2: the full twelve minutes to be honest with you. Within 120 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 2: five minutes, I had used all my notes and there 121 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 2: was seven minutes left. I had nothing more to say 122 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 2: because I was sixteen. I didn't have content. I was 123 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 2: preaching on the storms of life, sixteen years old, trying 124 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 2: to tell seventy three year old Methodist women about the 125 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,719 Speaker 2: storms of life. I didn't have a lot of life experience. 126 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 2: But I tell you what I had. I had passion. 127 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 2: I had passion. I mean, if I could have walked 128 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,359 Speaker 2: across the pews, I would have walked across the pews 129 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 2: to show them how Peter came out to Jesus on 130 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 2: that boat. And I didn't have much much sense, but 131 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 2: I had passion. In fact, they brought up a group 132 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 2: of people last night when I was preaching. They had 133 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 2: people up who have been in the church ten years, 134 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 2: and it made me remember back to all the things 135 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 2: that we have now as a church that we did 136 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 2: not have ten years ago. 137 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: When we started. 138 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 2: We didn't have all these lights and cameras for video, 139 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 2: and all this money to start campuses. God knows, we 140 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 2: didn't have a building our first capitol campaign, you remember, 141 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 2: Greg Weinberger, I didn't have a building, a blueprint to 142 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 2: show the people. We didn't have any of that but 143 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 2: we had passion. Oh man, we had passion. We had 144 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,239 Speaker 2: the kind of passion that they were calling us a cult. 145 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 2: Until they're calling you a cult, you ain't doing nothing. 146 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 2: We had passion. I had passion preaching in that senior center. 147 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 2: I wish I could tell them, Josh, remember you wrote 148 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 2: me that letter the other day about my first green room. 149 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: It wasn't the green room, it was a closet. It 150 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: was a closet. 151 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 2: We would move the plants out the closet. You would 152 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 2: knock on it with one minute less so I'd come 153 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 2: out and lead the music. We didn't even have that 154 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 2: many people, but we had passion. How many know you 155 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 2: can push through a lot. 156 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 1: When you have passion. When you have passion, passion matters. 157 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 2: And I was standing there with my kids and thinking 158 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 2: about when I started appreciating and having conversations with my 159 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 2: young self and checking my passion because in Revelation chapter 160 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 2: two there is a challenge to passion, and I think 161 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 2: it's good every once in a. 162 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: While to challenge your passion level. 163 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 2: In contrast to the passion that you had, do you 164 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 2: still have passion? You remember the first apartment that we 165 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 2: lived in together, Holly, you remember it well. 166 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: You remember the mouse traps. You remember it well. You 167 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: remember how you cooked all. 168 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 2: That fried rice and pasta and made me fat within 169 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 2: a year and a half of being your husband. I 170 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 2: think you were trying to make sure I stayed with you. 171 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 2: She got me so fat that first year cooking for me. 172 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 2: I found a picture the other day. In fact, she 173 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 2: brought it to me. I don't know if she's trying 174 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 2: to keep me motivated to stay in the gym, but 175 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 2: I was about forty five pounds heavier bro not in 176 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:20,079 Speaker 2: the biceps this picture. I wish you could see this picture. 177 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 2: I thought about putting it on the screen, but some 178 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 2: of y'all are going to lunch after this. I don't 179 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 2: want to mess up your lunch. And I'm standing there 180 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 2: got my eyes closed and my shirt off and my 181 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 2: belly out, looking like an infomercial before picture. That little 182 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 2: apartment a Juniper Terrorists apartment CEE fifteen. It was very 183 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 2: small and the insulation in the walls was very thin. 184 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 2: And the reason I know because Tammy from Juniper Terrists 185 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 2: Apartment C sixteen came over to us after our first 186 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:54,080 Speaker 2: night and the apartment knocked on the door and said 187 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,199 Speaker 2: I'm your neighbor, Tammy, and I just want to let 188 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 2: you know we can hear everything. 189 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: It was a duplex. I just want you to know. 190 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 2: We can hear everything that happens in fifteen and I 191 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 2: mean everything, because we didn't. 192 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 1: Have a lot of space, but we had. 193 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 2: All the passion, which brings us to Revelation chapter two. 194 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 2: This is the connection obvious people. He said, you had 195 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 2: something when you were small that you lost now that 196 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 2: you're significant. Ephesis was not an imaginary place. So when 197 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 2: the Book of Revelation is issuing seven letters to seven churches, 198 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 2: they're real churches with real people, with real histories. And 199 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:51,559 Speaker 2: it's been forty three years since Paul started this church, 200 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 2: traveling inland with a group of compadres that are spreading 201 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:01,079 Speaker 2: the gospel of Jesus Christ. That he spends a couple 202 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 2: of years with these people in Ephesus. And when he 203 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 2: started out he just met some people. There were twelve 204 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 2: guys who were disciples of John the Baptist, and Paul 205 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 2: asked him do you have the Holy Spirit? 206 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: And they said, we. 207 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 2: Don't even know that there is a Holy Spirit. They 208 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 2: didn't have a lot of theological knowledge, but you know what. 209 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:20,680 Speaker 1: They had they had passion. 210 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 2: Paul laid his hands on him, and when he did, 211 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 2: they started to speak in tongues and they received the 212 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, and they didn't just speak in another language. 213 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:33,199 Speaker 2: They started speaking about Jesus. They were speaking in the synagogues, 214 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 2: and their passion was so strong that the crowds started 215 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 2: coming out. And then they didn't like it, because sometimes 216 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 2: when you get passionate, apathetic people get threatened, and the 217 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 2: Jewish religious system was not a fan of the prevalence 218 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,319 Speaker 2: of the Gospel, so they kicked Paul out of the synagogue. 219 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 2: But how many know, when you have passion, you'll find 220 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 2: another place. 221 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:55,560 Speaker 1: Nobody can shut you down. 222 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 2: When you have real passion, if they kick you out 223 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:00,120 Speaker 2: the synagogue, you'll go to. 224 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: The lecture hall. 225 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 2: And that's exactly what Paul did, and he preached powerfully 226 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 2: in emphasis. And it wasn't just an accident that he 227 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:15,439 Speaker 2: ended up in emphasis. God strategically placed Paul in emphasis 228 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:17,959 Speaker 2: because there were three hundred thousand people who lived there. 229 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,439 Speaker 1: Fourth largest city in the world. 230 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 2: At that time, known as the Seventh Wonder of the World, 231 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 2: home of the Temple of Artemis, daughter of Zeus, I 232 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 2: mean emphasis was a place where people would come to 233 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 2: get their shipments. It was a port city, it was 234 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:36,599 Speaker 2: well situated, it was an important place. So Paul is passionate, 235 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 2: and Emphasis is an important place, and God says, I've 236 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 2: got to get the guy with the passion in the 237 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 2: right place. When I look back over my life, I'm 238 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 2: grateful that God has directed my past and made sure that. 239 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: My passion had a place to operate. I'm grateful that God. 240 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 2: Found me as a teenager and gave me a place 241 00:12:59,040 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 2: to preach. 242 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 1: God saw I had a passion. Now, as a parent, 243 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: I'm always trying to look. 244 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 2: And make sure that if my kids have a passion, 245 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 2: I encourage it. If you're into a Rubic's cube, I'll 246 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 2: buy you three. If you like mindcraft, I'll tolerate and 247 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 2: pretend to listen to you as you explain it to me. 248 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:25,679 Speaker 1: But I want you to have a passion. Passion matters. 249 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 2: It matters no matter what position you're in. Passion matters. 250 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 2: And if you can't do it with passion in a 251 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:39,320 Speaker 2: small place, why in the world would God promote you 252 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 2: to a bigger one. Paul didn't start an Emphasis, but 253 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 2: he ended up there. Started in Damascus, spending time in isolation, 254 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 2: but the same passion that was developing in his isolation. 255 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 2: Did that make you think of David when I said that, 256 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 2: because that would be a great Old Testament illustration of 257 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 2: this New Testament personality. David is a shepherd killing lions, 258 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 2: killing bears and didn't even know he was preparing for Goliath. 259 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 2: But it was the same passion in the pasture that 260 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 2: got him to the palace, same passion waiting for a 261 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 2: place to happen. And that's one of the frustrating things, 262 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 2: is that you can have the right passion in the 263 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 2: wrong place. You can have more passion than opportunity. 264 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: To express it. It's frustrating. 265 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 2: I know some of you who come to church here, 266 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 2: some of you would express yourself more in church, but 267 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 2: you don't know if it's appropriate. 268 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: I have one friend. 269 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 2: Who grew up in churches where it was more demonstrative. 270 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 2: He said, when he first came to elevation, it was 271 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 2: kind of hard for him. I said, really, He said, yeah, 272 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 2: because I would want to stand up while you were 273 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 2: preaching and shout you down. There's a black guy by 274 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 2: the way. Okay, incidentally, he said, but I was around 275 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 2: a bunch of white people and God bless them, and 276 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 2: we all have different personalities. 277 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 1: But I stood up. 278 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 2: When I was stand up, I was the only one 279 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 2: I was stand up, and I was expecting everybody else 280 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 2: to be standing to he said, because you were preaching 281 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 2: so passionately. The word just got in me and I 282 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 2: couldn't stay seated. And I'm standing up. But I'm the 283 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 2: only one all these people around me. You know, sometimes 284 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 2: you can let other people minimize your passions and downplay 285 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 2: your passion to the level of other people. Don't ever 286 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 2: let another person become the ceiling. 287 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 1: On your passion. 288 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 2: I'd rather change people than lose passion. I'd rather get 289 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 2: some new friends that. 290 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: Want to serve God and want to love God. 291 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 2: I'd rather move seats and stay in my seat when 292 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 2: the spirit of. 293 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: God hid me. 294 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 2: In fact, if you're sitting at a campus and nobody 295 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 2: around you looks excited, raise your hand and ask them 296 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 2: if they'll move your seat eating assignment because I need 297 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 2: some room to praise God, because when I think of 298 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 2: the goodness of Jesus. 299 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 1: Come on, anybody got passion? And see when you have passion. 300 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: Sometimes when you get around. 301 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 2: Complacent people, well, people who have a different personality, you 302 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 2: feel funny touch. Somebody say, keep your passion in this place. 303 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 2: Right place for sex is in the marriage bag. I 304 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 2: know you got passion, but passion needs a place to 305 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 2: operate like a fire. If you're in disagreement with what 306 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 2: I just said, let me prove it using natural elements. 307 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 2: When I started this sermon, I lit this wick and 308 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 2: none of you had a problem. Why because it was 309 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 2: in its proper place. But I bet if I brought 310 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 2: this wick. 311 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: Down to the crowd. 312 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 2: And put this fire in your hair, you say I 313 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:05,159 Speaker 2: got it, preacher, Keep it in its place. 314 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:10,639 Speaker 1: Misplaced passion is very dangerous. 315 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 2: Misplaced passion, you know, it's even more dangerous to let 316 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 2: somebody with Brooklyn passion get around somebody with a South 317 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 2: Charlotte attitude. What I'm trying to say is, I mean, 318 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 2: I love my city. 319 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 3: We're a great city. I'm not saying we owe anything 320 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 3: to those Yankees, but I'm. 321 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 1: Saying that. 322 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 2: Sometimes a new person will come into the church and 323 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:32,879 Speaker 2: they're excited. 324 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 1: I mean, they are fired up. 325 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 2: They got a passion, and let them get around Bobby 326 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:39,679 Speaker 2: who's been a Christian for twenty three years. 327 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: And Bobby's looking at him saying, you don't do that 328 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: around here. 329 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 2: See, because people who are new to the faith, people 330 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 2: who have that first love, they don't know that you're 331 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,879 Speaker 2: not supposed to read your Bible yet. They don't know 332 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 2: that we only listen to it on Sundays and we 333 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 2: don't bother with it during the week. 334 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 1: So if you don't watch. 335 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 2: Them, they'll bring that passion into your church. 336 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 1: They don't get around the wrong people. 337 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 2: And something's happening in Ephesus because when they first started, 338 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 2: they didn't have the knowledge, but they had the passion. 339 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: They didn't have the people, but they had the passion. 340 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 1: They didn't have they didn't they didn't. 341 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 2: Have the political support of the government, they didn't have 342 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:31,159 Speaker 2: a five oh one C three nonprofit tax exempt status, 343 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 2: they didn't have a Christian president, but they had passion. 344 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 2: They had false doctrine coming into the church. In fact, 345 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 2: Paul told Timothy one time, he said, Hey, I want 346 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 2: you to look at this in one Timothy one three. 347 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:48,879 Speaker 2: Because Timothy was a young man and he didn't have 348 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 2: much experience, and the Bible gives us reason to believe 349 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 2: that Timothy had a timid personality, Paul had to remind 350 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:57,480 Speaker 2: him over and over again, Hey, God didn't give you 351 00:18:57,520 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 2: a spirit of timidity. 352 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: Timothy timid, Timmy. Timid Timmy is. 353 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:08,199 Speaker 2: Pastor in a big city church, and there's people teaching 354 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 2: false doctrine, and there's people trying to deny the Gospel 355 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 2: of Christ, and Timothy in his twenties with a timid personality. 356 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 2: By the way, passion is not a personality type. Passion 357 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 2: isn't how high you jump. Passion is how straight you 358 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:31,400 Speaker 2: walk when your feet hit the ground. Put this down. 359 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 2: If you're passionate, you take notes in church. The proof 360 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 2: of passion is perseverance. I'll prove it to you in 361 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 2: the scripture. I'll prove it to you from verse Timothy 362 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 2: one to three. Paul says Timothy. I urged you before 363 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 2: when I was on my way through Macedonia, and I'm 364 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:54,359 Speaker 2: telling you again. Remain in ephesis. Now watch this. You 365 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,159 Speaker 2: don't have to tell somebody to stay. 366 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: Somewhere they want to be. 367 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 2: I've never had a massage therapist have to tell me to. 368 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:01,399 Speaker 1: Stay on the table. 369 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 2: I have had a physical trainer have to tell me 370 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 2: to do another rep to urge me to keep going. 371 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 2: You don't urge people to do something they naturally want 372 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,439 Speaker 2: to do. So there must have been an instinct in 373 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 2: Timothy to Ron, you're young, you're inexperienced. There's false doctrine 374 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 2: circulating in the church. Timothy must not have been feeling 375 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:27,199 Speaker 2: it anymore. Timothy's fire might have been going out. So 376 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 2: Paul said, I want you to remain there in Ephesus 377 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:40,399 Speaker 2: and do the hard stuff and persevere, and persevere and 378 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 2: stick it out, and come home to a family that 379 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 2: might not even appreciate you right now, and show up 380 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 2: at a job that might not even recognize your value 381 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 2: right now, and preach in a place where you're persecuted. 382 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:02,120 Speaker 1: And the proof of your passion is your persevere I. 383 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 2: Don't know if I was really passionate when I was 384 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 2: preaching when I was sixteen. I was just excited. There's 385 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 2: a difference. Interest is not passion. Come on, Knowledge is 386 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 2: not passion. Passion is something different. When you watch a 387 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 2: movie and they go home after a night at the 388 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 2: first time they meet at a bar and rip each 389 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:30,679 Speaker 2: other's clothes off, that's not passion. That's attraction. One is 390 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 2: from the heart. One is from the hormones. Passion isn't 391 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,640 Speaker 2: I rip your clothes off after the first time we met. 392 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 1: That's not passion. 393 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,880 Speaker 2: Passion is when I saw my mom taking my dad's 394 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 2: clothes off while he was dying to give him a 395 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,480 Speaker 2: bath because he couldn't move his own body. Now that's 396 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 2: passionate passion, June am I right about passion. Passion is 397 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 2: proven by person appearance. Passion is proven when you kneel 398 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 2: down in the garden of gethsemine like Jesus and say, 399 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:07,639 Speaker 2: I'm under pressure right now. 400 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: I don't want to do it right now. 401 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:13,439 Speaker 2: Nevertheless, not my will, but your will be done. You 402 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,359 Speaker 2: haven't even found your passion until you've passed your feelings. 403 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 2: And I'm concerned about this because we've convoluted it. We've 404 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 2: talked people that if you don't feel it, you don't 405 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 2: have to do it. But if you have real passion, 406 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 2: you'll do it when you're up, do it. 407 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: When you're down. Do it when they pay you, do 408 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 1: it when they go, do it when they thank you, 409 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 1: do it when they look you over, do it when 410 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 1: they hate you, do it when they love you. 411 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 2: I got passion, I got passion to preach, I got 412 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 2: passion to parent. 413 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 1: I got passion to pay down my debt. And if 414 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 1: it doesn't. 415 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:49,119 Speaker 2: Happen all at once, that's all right, I got the 416 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:55,679 Speaker 2: passion to stick it out. I'm like Ruth Naomi. You 417 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 2: can't run me off if you want to. I'm like 418 00:22:58,080 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 2: Elisha Elijah. 419 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,919 Speaker 1: You can tell me to leave, but I won't because 420 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 1: I got a passion. There is your passion. Passion, say it, Passion. 421 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:16,160 Speaker 2: Say like that with the concentration on the vow passion, passion. 422 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 1: You can't say passion sounds ridiculous. Passion. 423 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:24,439 Speaker 2: I mean, can you imagine if I preached how some 424 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 2: of y'all listen, that'd be horrible. 425 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 3: Well, y'all you know something say today, I'm just gonna 426 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:36,119 Speaker 3: get around to its Bible there. The relationship to the 427 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 3: Book of Ephesian gives us a picture of the Church 428 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,639 Speaker 3: of Officis from a doctrinal standpoint. But now it's been 429 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,120 Speaker 3: a couple of decades and then lives in the Passion 430 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:48,880 Speaker 3: lost their first love and love first love, love, passions, love, passions. 431 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:55,399 Speaker 2: By got me about the Church of Otasism is that 432 00:23:55,480 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 2: he commends their labor, but they've lost their love. See 433 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,399 Speaker 2: it isn't like they weren't making progress, but in the 434 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 2: process of making progress, of keeping the false doctrine out, 435 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 2: in the process of eliminating things from their life and 436 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,639 Speaker 2: their church that didn't need to be there in the 437 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 2: last forty three years. Because now John is writing from 438 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 2: a place called the Island of Patmas, sending a messenger 439 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 2: to the church in emphasis, and he says, I see 440 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,639 Speaker 2: your progress. You got a job, now, you got a 441 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 2: wife now. But the question is the question is do 442 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:39,640 Speaker 2: you still laugh passion. You've got the apparatus, but you've 443 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 2: lost your passion. All this is kind of pointless. If 444 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 2: nothing's burning passion, you lost it. You lost your passion. 445 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,679 Speaker 2: One thing I always ask our worship team is that 446 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 2: they lead you with passion, because I don't know what 447 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 2: kind of hell you went through this week or what 448 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 2: kind of hell you're going home to. 449 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 1: So let's make it heaven on earth in here. 450 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 2: And I think they do a really good job at 451 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 2: every campus. Kelly Summers and Jane Williams and John sal 452 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:23,880 Speaker 2: Barrion tests. 453 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 1: You let me roll that out. 454 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 2: Barri intest, Barrient test, what bar in tests? This is 455 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:38,639 Speaker 2: a place for passion. This is a place. Hey, hey, hey, 456 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 2: you want to cry in this church, you can cry. 457 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 1: Here's a hanky. 458 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:49,640 Speaker 2: You want to shout, you can shout. You want to run, 459 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 2: just don't run towards the stage. It makes me frighten, 460 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 2: you distracting me. 461 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 1: Run in place? What kind of running motion was that? 462 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 2: And sometimes your passion is waiting on a place to happen. 463 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,879 Speaker 2: Sometimes your passion is waiting on a place to happen. 464 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 2: Graham's teacher told us the other day in the parent 465 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 2: teacher conference. She said, Graham just loves life. She said, 466 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 2: but sometimes I got to work with him on where 467 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 2: it is appropriate to express that love for life. I said, example, please, 468 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,960 Speaker 2: She's a great teacher, Kimberly Springs, teaching my third grader. 469 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 1: She said, though, that sometimes. 470 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 2: Graham will just jump up in the middle of class 471 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,920 Speaker 2: and dab on a math problem and just dance. 472 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 1: Across the room. 473 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 2: Just jump up, and there's the time to dab. But 474 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 2: sometimes sometimes that flame becomes an ember. And I felt 475 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 2: like the Lord wanted somebody today to get your passion back, and. 476 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: He tells you how to do it. He doesn't just 477 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 1: challenge that you've lost your passion. 478 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know your reaction to the scripture, 479 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 2: but I take it as parental guidance that God is 480 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 2: warning me if you lose your. 481 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 1: Passion, you're going to lose your place. Can I break 482 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: that down? 483 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,920 Speaker 2: If you don't love that woman now that you're married 484 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 2: to her the same way and in increasing ways that 485 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,120 Speaker 2: you did when you dated her, somebody else might. 486 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,119 Speaker 1: Now that's not a threat, that's just reality. 487 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 2: If I don't want to preach with passion, you think 488 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 2: God can't raise up another preacher who's smarter than me. 489 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no no no. 490 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 2: I don't operate out of the assumption that I'm entitled 491 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:00,920 Speaker 2: to any that God gave me. 492 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,440 Speaker 1: I got to keep my passion. How can you have 493 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:09,480 Speaker 1: so much passion before you have the position? How do 494 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 1: you get it back? He said, you've abandoned it. You didn't. 495 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:19,359 Speaker 1: You didn't lose your passion. You left it. You didn't 496 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:24,160 Speaker 1: lose it. You left it. You abandon your first love. 497 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 1: You stopped doing the things look at it. He said, 498 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: you've abandoned your first love. Remember therefore, from where you 499 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 1: have fallen. 500 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,880 Speaker 2: I love God because he doesn't say that we should 501 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:39,959 Speaker 2: regret where we are. 502 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 1: He says, we should. 503 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 2: Remember where we were and get your eyes back to 504 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 2: the hills where. 505 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: Your help comes. 506 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 2: Come on, I'm preaching with passion, but I could use 507 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 2: a little participation I'm not staying where I am. 508 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,440 Speaker 1: I want my passion back so much, shout, I want 509 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: it back, I want it back, I want it back. 510 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 1: I don't just want to look like a Christian. I 511 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 1: want a fire in my heart. I want to grow 512 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 1: through the emotions. Here's what you do. Remember from where 513 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 1: you were falling. Remember from where you're fallen. Repent. Let's 514 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 1: look at the scripture together. 515 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:37,480 Speaker 2: Repent, and let's read the next part together and feel 516 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 2: the feelings you felt at first. 517 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 1: Well, isn't that. 518 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 2: How we treat passion like it's a sensation. But yeah, 519 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 2: when he challenges their passion, he calls them to action. 520 00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:02,320 Speaker 2: Do the things you did it first. It's a decision, 521 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:04,280 Speaker 2: not a sensation. 522 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 1: Said. Let me tell you something else. 523 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:11,440 Speaker 2: Do it? 524 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: Do it? 525 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 2: Do it? Do it? 526 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:19,720 Speaker 1: How do I get it back? 527 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna pray, Lord, I want my passing back, and. 528 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 1: It ain't coming now. Like that. 529 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 2: You don't pray to get it back, you practice. Do 530 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 2: the things you did at first. I don't feel grateful anymore. 531 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 2: Be grateful. I don't feel excited anymore. 532 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 1: Be excited. I don't feel love anymore, be loving? 533 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 2: Do it? 534 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 1: Do it? Do it? What's it what you did it? First? 535 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 2: Do it? 536 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 1: Practice? Got show you something you got a second? Is 537 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,600 Speaker 1: this word good? I sure enjoyed preparing it. 538 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,160 Speaker 2: I think I like cooking this better than you could 539 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 2: ever like eating it. While I was preparing it, watch 540 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 2: this Latany, the Lord gave me an illustration of it. 541 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 2: You guys may not know the names of these musicians. 542 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 2: I mentioned them already on the platform. One of our 543 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 2: musicians here, LJ. He's a little newer to the team, 544 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 2: but he's got passion, and he's not some young buck. 545 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 1: Who always wanted to be on the stage. 546 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:48,200 Speaker 2: He's done some things, he's. 547 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:51,720 Speaker 1: Wasted some seasons, and I didn't know about him. 548 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,960 Speaker 2: I was looking for somebody in this particular position, and 549 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 2: I wanted somebody who would have not just the technical 550 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 2: skills or proficiency to be back here by someone who 551 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 2: would have the passion for it. You know how I 552 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 2: knew he was the guy. He said that when I 553 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 2: send in my scriptures for them to put on the screen, 554 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 2: he begs the people that get the email with the 555 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 2: scriptures if he can see them so he can figure 556 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 2: out what I'm going to preach on, so he can 557 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 2: start thinking through what song he might start playing when 558 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:33,560 Speaker 2: I start closing. See that's passion, that's passion. And I 559 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 2: brought him up because I love all of our team. 560 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,000 Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong, You're not my favorite or anything 561 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 2: like that. But just something I heard that when he 562 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,720 Speaker 2: was he was living in Canada, which is known for 563 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:52,720 Speaker 2: its passion. 564 00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 1: Of you, Wayne Finch, Stephen Finch. 565 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 2: God bless you guys. But he was he was going 566 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,440 Speaker 2: through season. I'm not going to tell all of his details. 567 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,960 Speaker 2: Maybe maybe you can ask him one day, but he 568 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 2: would sit when his wife would go to bed at night. 569 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,520 Speaker 2: He would put on his headphones and he would practice 570 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 2: playing with preachers online. 571 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 1: Now he didn't have a position, but he had a 572 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,160 Speaker 1: what a what a. 573 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 2: Passion and he would put his headphones on so as 574 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 2: not to disturb his wife's sleep, I assume, and sure 575 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,120 Speaker 2: she appreciated that, and he would play along. 576 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 1: With the preaching. 577 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,240 Speaker 2: I heard that there was a season where you would 578 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 2: play along with me online. 579 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,480 Speaker 1: And I didn't know who he was. Never heard of him, 580 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,800 Speaker 1: never heard never even heard his name. They didn't even 581 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 1: call David's name when he was out in the field. 582 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,160 Speaker 1: Tendin she come on, I'm. 583 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 2: About to preach right section, L I circle use your passion. 584 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 2: I sure could use it. I see he didn't have 585 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:10,200 Speaker 2: a position. But when you have a passion, you practice. 586 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 2: You don't wait for a position. You don't do it 587 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,239 Speaker 2: because somebody's watching. You don't do it because it's a performance. 588 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,320 Speaker 2: You do it because it's a passion. And he didn't 589 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,120 Speaker 2: know he was just killing lions. He didn't know he 590 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 2: was just killing bears. But when Goliath came stepping forward 591 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,759 Speaker 2: to the battle line, he had been practicing. And now 592 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,239 Speaker 2: he's back there and I'm up here because he had 593 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:35,880 Speaker 2: a passion. 594 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:40,000 Speaker 1: Passion will bring you from the pastor to the palace. 595 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:42,440 Speaker 1: Pastor will bring. 596 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 2: You from the lowest to the highest. Repent again, your 597 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:57,279 Speaker 2: passion back. Come on, take fifteen seconds and praise him. Passionate, passion, passionate, 598 00:34:58,280 --> 00:34:59,800 Speaker 2: Come on, Rondell. 599 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,399 Speaker 4: Bada on, Late Norman, blame on. You'll see, get your 600 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,440 Speaker 4: passion back. God's not there, He's not done. Let you 601 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,240 Speaker 4: get your passion passion place. 602 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:20,319 Speaker 1: David said, oh yeah, I've been practicing for this. I've 603 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:26,440 Speaker 1: been waiting for an opportunity. 604 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:32,680 Speaker 2: I've been waiting for a giant said, I can princh 605 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:38,839 Speaker 2: anyway I want to, and practicing. 606 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:45,160 Speaker 5: You gotta practice your passion practice. I was riding home 607 00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:50,319 Speaker 5: with Elijah just on Friday, and we were filling up 608 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,880 Speaker 5: the little gas cans with gas to put gas in 609 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:54,720 Speaker 5: the four wheeler. 610 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,239 Speaker 1: Very spiritual activity. 611 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,600 Speaker 2: And we filled them up and put them in holly 612 00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:06,319 Speaker 2: suburban and I said, Elijah, we gotta put them just right, 613 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,239 Speaker 2: because if the gas slushes around the back of the car, 614 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:14,080 Speaker 2: your mom isn't going to be happy about our outing. 615 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,960 Speaker 2: And he said, Dad, I'm worried because all the way 616 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:23,600 Speaker 2: here they were sliding around in the back. But I said, 617 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:28,000 Speaker 2: don't worry, boy. They might have been sliding on the way, 618 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:36,560 Speaker 2: but they were empty. Now that they're full, they're not 619 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:43,240 Speaker 2: going anywhere. I started preaching to Aliza while I'm driving. 620 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:49,960 Speaker 2: I'm practicing preaching. It's not just my profession, it's my passion. 621 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:54,560 Speaker 2: If you got passion, you are preaching the car, You 622 00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:58,000 Speaker 2: are a preaching the kitchen. You are to worship Dom 623 00:36:58,160 --> 00:36:59,759 Speaker 2: Monday Tuesday. 624 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,919 Speaker 1: It's my passion, my passion. 625 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:09,920 Speaker 2: A practice, my passion, a practice, my passion. Practice practice practice, practice, 626 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:15,640 Speaker 2: practice practice. Five to seven people tell them practice practice, practice, practice, 627 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:19,919 Speaker 2: practice practice. You never know. You never know what God 628 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,520 Speaker 2: might want to do through you. You got to practice. 629 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,480 Speaker 2: You gotta practice well. I would pray, but I just 630 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,200 Speaker 2: don't feel anything when I pray. 631 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:30,000 Speaker 1: You hadn't practiced enough. 632 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,120 Speaker 2: If you would pray two minutes, you would see the 633 00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:34,680 Speaker 2: peace that two minutes. 634 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:38,680 Speaker 1: Brings, and tomorrow you want to pray five. If you practice, 635 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,120 Speaker 1: if you'd open your Bible and read a verse, you'd 636 00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,400 Speaker 1: want to read two. You might read four, you might 637 00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,120 Speaker 1: read a You might. 638 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,160 Speaker 2: Finish the Book of Galatians before the. 639 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:55,080 Speaker 1: Week is over. If you would practice practice. I'm practicing. 640 00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,040 Speaker 2: So if you ever see me in the grocery store 641 00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:00,840 Speaker 2: and I'm mumbling, I'm not crazy. 642 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:08,759 Speaker 1: I'm practicing. I'm practicing. I'm practicing. I'm practicing. What are 643 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:10,759 Speaker 1: you doing throwing that stick on the ground, Moses. I'm 644 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,439 Speaker 1: practicing because I got to use this stick to park 645 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:18,200 Speaker 1: the waters. But until I practice, I can't perform it. 646 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:26,160 Speaker 2: And you've lost your passion because you stopped practicing. 647 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,320 Speaker 1: Even the best. 648 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:40,600 Speaker 2: Lose their passion without practice, even the best, even David, 649 00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:45,799 Speaker 2: even David, the kid who ran to the battle line 650 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:48,160 Speaker 2: and said, I don't need a position. 651 00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:48,880 Speaker 1: I got passion. 652 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:52,320 Speaker 2: I don't need the endorsement of Saul. I've got passion. 653 00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:54,719 Speaker 2: I don't even need my brothers to like me. 654 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:56,120 Speaker 1: I got passion. 655 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,279 Speaker 2: That kid who ran to the battle line, a kid 656 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:09,000 Speaker 2: who practiced, found himself decades later. He was in the palace, 657 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:15,560 Speaker 2: but he had lost his fashion. He sat down and 658 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:21,440 Speaker 2: wrote a psalm, and he cried out to God and 659 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,920 Speaker 2: asked the Lord to recreate and restore his passion, create 660 00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,640 Speaker 2: a clean heart in me, O God, I had a 661 00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:33,759 Speaker 2: pure passion when I started. And I've allowed some things 662 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,800 Speaker 2: to come into my life, and I've allowed some people, 663 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:40,320 Speaker 2: and I've allowed some memories, and I've allowed some decisions 664 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,480 Speaker 2: and some distractions and even some good things. I've been 665 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:46,600 Speaker 2: trying to keep the false stuff out. I've left my 666 00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:53,920 Speaker 2: first love, and I want my passion back. He was 667 00:39:54,440 --> 00:40:01,759 Speaker 2: home one day, walking around on his roof. That who 668 00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:09,000 Speaker 2: was willing to run to the battle lines. He's seen 669 00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,440 Speaker 2: a lot of years now, maybe not forty three like 670 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:15,200 Speaker 2: the Church of Ephesus, but it's been quite a few 671 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:20,160 Speaker 2: years since that time, and he's not running towards the 672 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:20,880 Speaker 2: battle anymore. 673 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:21,520 Speaker 1: He's avoiding it. 674 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,320 Speaker 2: And the Bible says that in the springtime, when the kings. 675 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:34,120 Speaker 1: Go off to war, David stayed home. The king in 676 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:35,160 Speaker 1: the palace. 677 00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:40,520 Speaker 2: Had lost that passion of the kid and the pastor, 678 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:43,000 Speaker 2: and he got out of place. 679 00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:46,920 Speaker 1: And so he saw a beautiful. 680 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:49,440 Speaker 2: Woman bathing on the roof, and he called for her, 681 00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,160 Speaker 2: and she had no choice but to come, and when 682 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,240 Speaker 2: he slept with her, they conceived a child that resulted 683 00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:58,279 Speaker 2: in a national scandal. Her husband was murdered at the 684 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:03,400 Speaker 2: behest of David's henchman, and David received word that the 685 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:07,120 Speaker 2: child born to his wife would die, and he cried 686 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:12,799 Speaker 2: out from that place. I want my passion back. I've 687 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:19,640 Speaker 2: lost my baby. I've compromised my integrity. But if it 688 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,000 Speaker 2: took me losing some things to realize that I had 689 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:29,920 Speaker 2: lost my passion. God, all I can do now. I 690 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:34,200 Speaker 2: can't get back the baby, but I can get back 691 00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:40,239 Speaker 2: my passion. I can't get back last week, last month, 692 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:45,320 Speaker 2: last year. Would you redeem the time I've wasted? Go? 693 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,480 Speaker 2: I want my passion back. I want my passion back. 694 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,600 Speaker 2: I just know somebody's heart is crying out, maybe even 695 00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:57,359 Speaker 2: watching online. You couldn't even get to church, didn't even 696 00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:01,080 Speaker 2: come today, and your heart is ryan out as I preach. 697 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,120 Speaker 2: Stand to your feet, it's a holy moment in the sanctuary. 698 00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:07,960 Speaker 2: Stand to your feet. I want my passion back. I 699 00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:11,640 Speaker 2: want my passion back. I want my passion back. And 700 00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:15,960 Speaker 2: I'd be asking me a question, she said, Daddy, Daddy, 701 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:22,200 Speaker 2: did you have to practice that? And I just I 702 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,799 Speaker 2: was standing there thinking about my kids. Maybe one day 703 00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:29,800 Speaker 2: they'll take their kids to the church they grew up in, 704 00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:34,600 Speaker 2: and I wonder what they'll be telling them about our church. 705 00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:37,520 Speaker 1: Will they be telling them what God used to do? 706 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:40,640 Speaker 1: Will they be telling them about. 707 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:44,520 Speaker 2: The people who used to give sacrificially, who didn't have 708 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:48,080 Speaker 2: a building but had passion. Will this be the place 709 00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:51,880 Speaker 2: where they had revival one time? Or will it be 710 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:52,600 Speaker 2: a place where the. 711 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:59,640 Speaker 1: Revival fire never die because of the people with a passion. 712 00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,560 Speaker 2: And I want to pray for you, because when David 713 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:13,560 Speaker 2: got done lamenting what he had lost, and he prayed out, God, 714 00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:17,320 Speaker 2: don't take your spirit from me. I can lose anything, 715 00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:20,120 Speaker 2: but I don't want to lose my place. 716 00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:22,960 Speaker 1: To the Angel of the. 717 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:28,400 Speaker 2: Church at Ephesus, to the husband of for at Valentine, 718 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:38,080 Speaker 2: to the teenage girl in Rockhill, write these words, if 719 00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:44,160 Speaker 2: you will find your purpose, you will recover your passion. 720 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:51,040 Speaker 1: I think the worst. 721 00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:55,640 Speaker 2: Advice that we could give a young person is to 722 00:43:55,719 --> 00:44:05,080 Speaker 2: follow your passion. That might sound exciting, but it's self destructive. 723 00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:07,320 Speaker 1: You don't follow your passion. 724 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:10,800 Speaker 2: If you follow your passion, you're gonna get your passion 725 00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,719 Speaker 2: confused with your feelings, and the first time the wind 726 00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,360 Speaker 2: blows real good, your flame will go out. Don't follow 727 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,520 Speaker 2: your passion because sometimes you can't tell your passion apart 728 00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:26,120 Speaker 2: from your preference. Sometimes you can't tell your faith apart 729 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,640 Speaker 2: from your feelings. So you don't stay in ephesis. You 730 00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:34,520 Speaker 2: don't stay in the hard places. Don't follow your passion. 731 00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:36,960 Speaker 2: Follow your purpose. 732 00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:43,560 Speaker 1: Remember the reason God saved you. Get your lamp stand back. 733 00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:48,280 Speaker 1: Every candle needs a stand. The passion is the flame, 734 00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:50,520 Speaker 1: and the purpose is the stand. 735 00:44:50,960 --> 00:45:00,760 Speaker 2: Put your passion on your purpose. My passion follows my purpose. 736 00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:05,200 Speaker 2: My passion follows my purpose. So when I feel it 737 00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:07,279 Speaker 2: when I don't, same. 738 00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:09,840 Speaker 1: Purpose, same purpose. 739 00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:15,479 Speaker 2: And you've been here and there and everywhere, losing time, 740 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,520 Speaker 2: losing joy, losing. 741 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:24,040 Speaker 6: Passion following your passion. That's ridiculous. Follow your passion. How 742 00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:27,520 Speaker 6: ridiculous is that? Follow your passion? You know you would 743 00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:30,040 Speaker 6: have married that crazy girl. Follow your passion. 744 00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:37,759 Speaker 2: No, no, no, m Find your passion and teach your 745 00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:42,719 Speaker 2: passion to follow your purpose, tell your passion where to 746 00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:46,239 Speaker 2: show up in the place of your purpose. I mean, 747 00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:50,319 Speaker 2: imagine church. Imagine if the people running the cameras at 748 00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:54,840 Speaker 2: this church got it, got it flipped. Imagine if the 749 00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:59,160 Speaker 2: people running the cameras while I'm preaching, Imagine if they 750 00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:01,960 Speaker 2: all of a sudden thought that it was my job 751 00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:07,120 Speaker 2: to follow the camera. How ridiculous would that be? How 752 00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:10,640 Speaker 2: ridiculous would it be if they In fact, I'm gonna 753 00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:13,680 Speaker 2: illustrate it. I'm gonna show you how ridiculous it is 754 00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:17,360 Speaker 2: when you follow your passion, show them real quick on 755 00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:24,279 Speaker 2: the camera. So I gotta preach now. And while I'm preaching. 756 00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:32,280 Speaker 1: The camera so now I gotta follow the camera. 757 00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:36,000 Speaker 2: How ridiculous is it when you run around in life 758 00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,880 Speaker 2: letting your feelings tell you what job to. 759 00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:43,720 Speaker 1: Take and what job to quit, and what relationship. 760 00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:43,480 Speaker 2: To be in. 761 00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,480 Speaker 1: No, no, no, I don't follow the camera. The camera 762 00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:51,800 Speaker 1: follows me. You gotta stay with me. I don't follow passion. 763 00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:55,560 Speaker 1: My passion follows my purpose. 764 00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:57,680 Speaker 4: Does anybody have purpose? 765 00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:04,879 Speaker 1: Looking on? Jes be after come better? So top not back? 766 00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:07,560 Speaker 1: Oh brother John sat before. 767 00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:13,840 Speaker 2: It endured the cross, despising as shame. I want my 768 00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:17,839 Speaker 2: passion back, and my passion is waiting in the place 769 00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,560 Speaker 2: of my purpose. I want to pray for you if 770 00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:22,680 Speaker 2: this message hit your heart today, if it was for you, 771 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,120 Speaker 2: I want you to know that after David laid down 772 00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,239 Speaker 2: and prayed and asked God to give him the baby back, 773 00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:34,400 Speaker 2: the Bible says that he made a decision to get up, 774 00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:40,480 Speaker 2: to get up, to repent, to get up. After he 775 00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:44,960 Speaker 2: had been there long enough. He got up, and he 776 00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:49,080 Speaker 2: went in, and he had another baby. He got his 777 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:55,040 Speaker 2: passion back. Could this be the day there you get 778 00:47:55,080 --> 00:48:03,080 Speaker 2: your passion back, not just goosebu not just a comfortable feeling, 779 00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:08,759 Speaker 2: but an inner determination and resolve that says, I will, 780 00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:14,319 Speaker 2: I will, I will. 781 00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:16,879 Speaker 1: I don't feel it, but I will. 782 00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:22,400 Speaker 2: I don't even want to sometimes, but I will, because my. 783 00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:30,640 Speaker 1: Passion serves my purpose. Bow your head. Created me a 784 00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,040 Speaker 1: clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. 785 00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,560 Speaker 2: Cast me not away from your presence, and do not 786 00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:38,759 Speaker 2: take your holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the 787 00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:42,880 Speaker 2: joy of your salvation, and renew a right spirit, and 788 00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:47,560 Speaker 2: grant me a willing spirit. Somebody say I will, I will, 789 00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:52,879 Speaker 2: say I will, I will, I will, I will even 790 00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:56,680 Speaker 2: when I don't feel I will because I have a passion. 791 00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:02,160 Speaker 1: I will, I will. I'm not waiting on the position. 792 00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:11,680 Speaker 1: I have a passion. Father, we thank you today for 793 00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:15,160 Speaker 1: returning us to our first love. We don't want to 794 00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:18,360 Speaker 1: labor without love, and we don't want to serve you 795 00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,840 Speaker 1: without passion. We don't want to lose our place. We 796 00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:26,279 Speaker 1: don't want to miss our chance. So while the. 797 00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,160 Speaker 2: While the lamps stand is still in place, while we 798 00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:33,279 Speaker 2: still have breadth in our bodies, while we still have 799 00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:38,400 Speaker 2: an opportunity, we call out to you God, and we 800 00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:41,080 Speaker 2: don't ask you to restore our passion, because the fact 801 00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:45,640 Speaker 2: is you didn't take it away. It's still in us. 802 00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,800 Speaker 2: It was just waiting for this word, for this moment 803 00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:54,080 Speaker 2: to be awakened. So God, we call our passion to 804 00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:58,000 Speaker 2: the surface. Like Elysha called the iron of the accent 805 00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:00,760 Speaker 2: to float to the top of the water. We're calling 806 00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:04,880 Speaker 2: our passion forth today. We're calling our victory forth today. 807 00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:09,680 Speaker 2: Like David got up, We're getting up. We want our 808 00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:13,240 Speaker 2: passion bath. We command our passion. 809 00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:17,560 Speaker 1: To serve your purpose in our lives. We will by 810 00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:21,560 Speaker 1: your spirit, we will by your power. We will. We're 811 00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,879 Speaker 1: getting up today. We're getting up today, not staying down, 812 00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:29,319 Speaker 1: not saying lost, not staying lonely. We're getting up. I'm 813 00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:32,440 Speaker 1: getting up. I'm getting up. I'm getting up. I'm getting 814 00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:37,080 Speaker 1: up right now, right here, right now, right here, right now. 815 00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:44,279 Speaker 1: How about my passion about that? 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