1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdeck. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast and I wanted to 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,880 Speaker 1: thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. 4 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective 5 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 1: to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 6 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: I want you to look at this scripture. In Luke 7 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: chapter six, you share a litt's story from the life 8 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:36,200 Speaker 1: of Jesus. Over the last two weeks, I've been unpacking 9 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:40,560 Speaker 1: what it means to examine your examples and kind of 10 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 1: think about what you're modeling your life after, and what 11 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,919 Speaker 1: mold you are squeezing your mind into, and what determines 12 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 1: the way you think. So just stay standing for one 13 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: more moment while I read the scripture, and then you 14 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: can be seated. You can use that premium seat that 15 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,120 Speaker 1: we put in this campus. And welcome to all of 16 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: our locations and our Ethan around the world. But this 17 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: is a This is the last sermon that I'm going 18 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 1: to preach in this stream of teaching, but I think 19 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: it's going to be a really important one. Luke chapter six, 20 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: verse one says one Sabbath, Jesus was going through the 21 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 1: grain fields, and his disciples began to pick some heads 22 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: of grain, rub them in their hands, and eat the kernels. 23 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: And you know, I just have a theory, but I 24 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 1: think Peter started this little grain picking thing. Verse two. 25 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: Some of the Pharisees asked, why are you doing what 26 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: is unlawful on the Sabbath? And Jesus answered them, have 27 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:38,759 Speaker 1: you never read what David did when he and his 28 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:43,320 Speaker 1: companions were hungry. He entered the house of God. In 29 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: taking the consecrated bread, he ate what is lawful only 30 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: for priests to eat, and he also gave some to 31 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: his companions this key verse. Then Jesus said to them, 32 00:01:55,880 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: the son of Man is lord of the Sabbath. So 33 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about when the 34 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: gift becomes a prison. When the gift becomes a prison, Lord, 35 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: I thank you for what you showed me. There's no 36 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: way I can preach it the way that you showed 37 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: it to me, But help me become as close as 38 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: humanly possible in these moments. I'm excited about it, and God, 39 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: I want you to distribute this food through me. I 40 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 1: pray that we would just block out distractions and receive 41 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: the seed of your word, the incorruptible word of God, 42 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: fall in our hearts now in Jesus' name, Amen, you 43 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: may be seated when the gift becomes a prison. I 44 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: watched this documentary about Olympic athletes the other day. They 45 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: were all the Olympic athletes on camera were depressed in 46 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: the documentary talking about and did you see this? It 47 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: was called the Weight of Gold. And I'm not recommending it. No, 48 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: there's not sponsoring me to say this. If they want to, 49 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: then I'll consider endorsing it formally. I'm not against that. 50 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:10,519 Speaker 1: But the thing that got my attention, regardless of kind 51 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: of the point of view, that I'll never understand is 52 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: watching Michael Phelps, who did a great voice over, by 53 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: the way, for the whole documentary, and he was just 54 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 1: narrating the process of kind of going from the greatest 55 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: human accomplishment that you can imagine and being the most celebrated, 56 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 1: decorated athlete in the history of the Olympics to going 57 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 1: to the fact that then he had moments of even 58 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: wondering do I want to live? And so then I thought, man, 59 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: we need to pray for Michael Phelps. But then there 60 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: was another athlete and another athlete, and they all kind 61 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: of shared the same thing. And I understand it was 62 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: just a documentary and there's a storyline. I get it. 63 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,119 Speaker 1: I get it. But it got me thinking about how 64 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: such a great talent that came from God actually became 65 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: a trap for these individuals. And as they were describing 66 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: what it felt like to wonder who am I when 67 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: I'm not in the pool? Who am I when I'm 68 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: not on the uneven bars? And one of the ironic 69 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: things was watching a gymnast talk about the difficulty of 70 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 1: balance because she was saying, there was no balance in 71 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:24,479 Speaker 1: my life. I just I became this machine and I 72 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 1: lost me. And I thought about how that can happen, 73 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: that a talent that comes directly from God, because there's 74 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 1: no way my body is going to do those things. 75 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 1: It wouldn't matter how much I trained, So it obviously 76 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: came from God, and they worked hard too, But something 77 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: that was God given, like the talent to be the 78 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: greatest athlete, one of the greatest athletes in the world, 79 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: could actually leave you feeling trapped because you don't, even 80 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: after a while, have a concept of self that is 81 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: separate from the skill set that you've developed and honed 82 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: when the gift becomes a prison. Did you know that 83 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: the Sabbath in Luke chapter six was meant to be 84 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:16,840 Speaker 1: a gift to the people. I don't know if you've 85 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: been paying attention, but there are some issues that are 86 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: controversial in our world today, and yet there is no 87 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:34,039 Speaker 1: amount of controversy that we experienced that can compare to 88 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: what Jesus went through with these characters called the Pharisees. 89 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: You may have heard of them before in the Bible. 90 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 1: The Pharisees, they're not as bad as we think they are. 91 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: They're actually people who got caught up in something that 92 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: was meant to be a good thing, which is protecting 93 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:54,039 Speaker 1: and preserving the law of God. But in the process 94 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: of trying to protect the truth, they got it twisted. 95 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,479 Speaker 1: And this is exactly what's happening in Luke chapter six. 96 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 1: While Jesus's disciples are snacking on the seeds from the 97 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: heads of fully ripe grain in a field, and the 98 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: Pharisees called Jesus to the side, why are you doing 99 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 1: what is unlawful on the Sabbath? Everybody say Sabbath. Sabbath 100 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 1: to us may just be something that Jewish people do 101 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: and yet for many of us, we would have a 102 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: hard time understanding what a great gift it was when 103 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: it was originally given from God. In fact, God said, 104 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 1: I gave you the Sabbath so that you could pattern 105 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: your life after the way that I created the world, 106 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: so that you do your work in six days, and 107 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 1: on the seventh you rest. On the seventh you rest. 108 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: It was a pattern so that God wanted us to 109 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 1: then copy him, to know that we can rest from 110 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: our labor. It ultimately was a shadow of what Jesus 111 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:03,280 Speaker 1: Christ would accomplish, that he is our sabbath rest, and 112 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,039 Speaker 1: that when we trust in Him for our salvation, it 113 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: is complete and we can rest from our labor because 114 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: of what He did for us. And yet, isn't it 115 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: funny how a gift that God gave them so that 116 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: they could reflect on the rhythm of his creative ability 117 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: has become, by the time of Jesus, a trap by 118 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: which they accuse Jesus of blasphemy. There were many things 119 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: that Jesus argued with these teachers about in his day, 120 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 1: but nothing was more controversial than the Sabbath. Nothing was 121 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 1: more controversial to them than catching him. Trying to catch 122 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 1: him break the Sabbath, and I don't know why I 123 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: never studied it before. But as the Pharisees are accusing 124 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: Jesus in Luke chapter six of breaking the Sabbath, in 125 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: Luke chapter five, everything is breaking. Like in Luke chapter 126 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: five one through eleven, the disciples are out fishing and 127 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: they can't catch anything without Jesus. But when they went 128 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: deeper into the water and obeyed Jesus at the point 129 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 1: of their frustration, they had a great catch, so much 130 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: that their nets begin to break. A few verses later, 131 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 1: Jesus is teaching in a house and there are some 132 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: men who need to get their friend to Jesus. Because 133 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: he's a paralyzed man. His body won't work appropriately, so 134 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: since they can't get him through the front door, they 135 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: climb up on the roof break the roof to bring 136 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: their friend to Jesus. And then at the end of 137 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:34,680 Speaker 1: Luke five, if you want to study this later this week, 138 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: this would be an awesome thing for you to pack 139 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: and take out and snack on sometime during this week 140 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: so you can read what I'm saying. Jesus describes that 141 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: when new wine comes into old wine skins, the old 142 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 1: wine skin can't hold the new wine. And if you 143 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: try to pour something new that God has given you 144 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 1: into something old to hold it, it will waste the 145 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: wine and this skin will break. So in that context, 146 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 1: now I want to show you how the nets were breaking, 147 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: the roof was breaking, the wine skins are breaking, And 148 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: here is Jesus breaking the Sabbath on purpose, by the 149 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: Pharisees definition, in order to engage them in a conversation 150 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 1: that will confront the very nature of the corruption of 151 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: their way of seeing and teaching God's word in conformity 152 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: with their culture and not the character of God. Maybe 153 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 1: I should slow down for a minute. I'll see it 154 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 1: all wound up. Because I'm glad that Jesus will break stuff. 155 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: I'm grateful that Jesus will break stuff. Some things I 156 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:53,559 Speaker 1: need him to break. There are some chains that I've 157 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: tried to pull myself free from for years that I 158 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: need Jesus to break. There are some even thought patterns 159 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:07,439 Speaker 1: that I need Jesus to break the pattern of my thought. 160 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: Some of the things that some of the things that 161 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: I maybe grew up thinking that we're normal, that I 162 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 1: need God to break me out of the tradition. Let's 163 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 1: talk about tradition. For a moment, when my tradition and 164 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: the truth contradict one another, one has to break. How 165 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: many of you, if Jesus was doing a casting call 166 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 1: for disciples, you would try to sign up and be 167 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: one of the twelve raise your hand. I was thinking 168 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: it would have been easy to be a disciple of Jesus, 169 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 1: because I have to really when I ask what Jesus, 170 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 1: would you have to use my imagination and read all 171 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 1: these words? All I'd have to do. If I was 172 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:55,959 Speaker 1: a disciple and I had lived two thousand years ago 173 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 1: and been able to see him the flesh, just follow 174 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: him and do what he did. I don't think it 175 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: would have been that easy, really, especially because everything that 176 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:10,679 Speaker 1: he would do would contradict everything that I had seen done. Disciple. 177 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 1: It said Jesus disciples did something, and then Jesus is 178 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:22,319 Speaker 1: defending his disciples, and uh, well, everybody in here is 179 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: a disciple. The word disciple just means learner. So everybody 180 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 1: in here is a disciple. And I want you to 181 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 1: write something down. I don't know if we still give 182 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: out elevation pins in the time of No. Yeah, everything's changed, y'all, 183 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 1: everything's changed. You don't even get elevation pins anymore. What 184 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: does the world come to? All right? Just put it 185 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 1: in your phone or put it in the chat. You 186 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: got yours, you brought your own. Write this in the chat. 187 00:11:50,840 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 1: Discipleship by default or design. See, everybody in here is 188 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: being disciple. I'll never forget when Holly had to bend 189 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 1: the movie Kung Fu Panda from our house because our 190 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: our boys were just kicking everything, run around house, kicking 191 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 1: everything all the time. And she had to put a 192 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 1: temper im moratorium on Kung Fu Panda because they were uh, 193 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 1: they were. They were kicking without mister Miyagi to show 194 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:25,200 Speaker 1: them how to do it. So they're just running around 195 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:29,839 Speaker 1: kicking crap. And I did the same thing watching Karate 196 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 1: Kid when I was little. I've kicked. I put my 197 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: foot through a picture window in my mom's house. I 198 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 1: put my foot through the window, and she was more 199 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 1: worried about the window than my foot. At first. I 200 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: remember her running in the room my window. I'm like, 201 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: my bloody ankle, my achilles. Anyway, I'm going to therapy. 202 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: But uh, but but but but I I realized that 203 00:12:55,640 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: I am a disciple of somebody or something. Now, what 204 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: I was trying to get across in the last two weeks, 205 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:05,959 Speaker 1: how many of you were following with my messages about 206 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: be careful what you copied. And then I'd preach a 207 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: whole sermon called copy that copy that, don't don't copy, 208 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,959 Speaker 1: the don't copy the dysfunction. Some of us were discipled 209 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: by dysfunction, and now we have dysfunctional norms in our 210 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 1: hearts that have become the default of how we approach life. 211 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: And so we were discipled or taught in dysfunctional ways. 212 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 1: And I'm not even talking about blaming your parents or 213 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 1: your nursery was painted blue and you really like green, 214 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 1: and to this day it really bothers you because green 215 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 1: means go and blue got you thrown off. And so 216 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: now I'm not talking about some blame game that we play. 217 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: I'm talking about understanding that the patterns that were established 218 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 1: in your heart usually started in ways that you weren't 219 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 1: even aware of at the time. Some of us were 220 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: discipled in dysfunction. And I thought about this too. Some 221 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 1: of us had an apprenticeship in anxiety because we were 222 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 1: either in an environment right and again, my mom wrote 223 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 1: me a letter and she was sharing with me some 224 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: of the things that she saw growing up to help 225 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: me understand some of the things that she modeled for me. 226 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: She was showing me this is what I saw. These 227 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: are some things I went through. These are some things 228 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 1: that happened to me that I've never told you about 229 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: because up until now I haven't known if it was 230 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: appropriate to share. But I don't want you to spend 231 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 1: your whole life wondering why certain things happen in your 232 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 1: heart over and over again, when I can expose you 233 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 1: to some of the things that I saw, or some 234 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: of the atmosphere that I was raised in. And the 235 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 1: fact is, you know, we come to church and teach 236 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: you to worship God, but we only get ninety minutes 237 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: a week with you. Okay, let's be honest about most 238 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 1: people's church attendance patterns. Ninety minutes a month. And then 239 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 1: so if you were raised in a home of anxiety, 240 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 1: and we're in here teaching faith and trust God and 241 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: by faith, the world's reform. But if your life was 242 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: framed by worry and what if and scarcity, many of 243 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: us have a full apprenticeship and anxiety. And I thought 244 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: about this. Some of us had an internship and insecurity 245 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: and We were taught not to trust God to be 246 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: enough to meet our needs, but to know everything that 247 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 1: was wrong with us, because it was repeated over us, 248 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 1: and it was insinuated if it wasn't said out loud. 249 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: And so when you come to church you have to 250 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: realize that you have been discipled by default. But following, 251 00:15:57,680 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 1: Jesus gives me the option. This is what I want 252 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: you to know that you don't get to decide how 253 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: you were raised, what you were born into, any of that. 254 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: Those decisions were made for you. But you get to 255 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 1: decide from this point on what time is it right now? 256 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 1: What time is it right now? What time is it 257 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 1: right now? Ten twenty eight Eastern time, August what twenty second, 258 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 1: twenty and twenty one, the year of our Lord and o'domini. 259 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: From this moment forward or whenever you're watching this, from 260 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: this moment forward, you get to decide who do I 261 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 1: want to be discipled by. In the scripture you have 262 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 1: the Pharisees who have been discipled by generation after generation 263 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 1: of scribes and teachers of the law. And the law 264 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 1: was good. God gave the law. It was a gift 265 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 1: from God. God gave them the Sabbath as a gift 266 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: to reflect and remember. One little known thing about the 267 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 1: Sabbath is that God said one time, I gave you 268 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,359 Speaker 1: this as a gift to remember when you were slaves 269 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 1: in Egypt and I brought you out. Isn't it crazy 270 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:19,120 Speaker 1: that a gift God gave them to remember how they 271 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 1: were set free from their slavery, they have now become 272 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 1: slaves of the Sabbath. Mark says it real clear. He 273 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 1: says that Sabbath is made for man, not man for 274 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:39,920 Speaker 1: the Sabbath. But by the time that Jesus is walking 275 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 1: the earth and touching and healing and teaching the power 276 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 1: and preaching the Kingdom of God and inaugurating a new 277 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:50,679 Speaker 1: order of things, by the time the true king has come, 278 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 1: they have turned the gift that God gave into a prison. 279 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 1: Anything can become a prison. Right now, technology is enabling 280 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: me to preach this word to somebody who couldn't hear 281 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:07,879 Speaker 1: it any other way. And I praise God for the 282 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:13,879 Speaker 1: gift of technology. On the other hand, I cursed the 283 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 1: day that our phones ever got smart. And I don't 284 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:21,399 Speaker 1: have the faith yet, but I bought a flip phone 285 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: two years ago. And when I get enough faith I'm 286 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 1: gonna hook it up and I'm gonna be the only person. 287 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:31,640 Speaker 1: They're gonna call me flip phone verdict and yeah, if 288 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 1: you want to talk to me, you're gonna have I 289 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: don't have the faith yet. I'm not there yet because 290 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: I'm tethered to this right now. But I'm praying for 291 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:39,359 Speaker 1: the day where I could have enough faith to be 292 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 1: set free from the curse of this. But it's a gift. 293 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 1: Welcome our Epham around the world. Somebody is gonna get 294 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 1: saved off of this message. And I'm trying to cast 295 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 1: the devil out of your YouTube feed in your algorithm. 296 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: The same feed that is making you crazy is putting 297 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:04,159 Speaker 1: the word of God in your spirit right now. But 298 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: the same gift that helps me preach the gospel can 299 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 1: become a prison. It can put you on so many 300 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: stupid headlines and half truths and ten percent truths and 301 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 1: two percent truths and conspiracy theories and all of that 302 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 1: is all of that is contained in the same gift. 303 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:29,200 Speaker 1: Same thing with money, same thing with money. God can 304 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: can bless you with income, but then that income can 305 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 1: cause you to step out a little too far, a 306 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:39,439 Speaker 1: little too fast, And now all of a sudden you 307 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,160 Speaker 1: are imprisoned in something that you prayed for and God 308 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: gave you because you didn't know how to manage it. 309 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 1: I think I ought to teach you about this, that 310 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 1: a gift can become a prison. Intimacy is a gift 311 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 1: from God, all kinds of intimacy, not just sexual intimacy, 312 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: but sexual intimacy is a gift from God. But you 313 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: understand how when we talk about the Sabbath, a gift 314 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: that God gave that became twisted to imprison so that 315 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: the Pharisees are saying you're not allowed to eat on 316 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:16,639 Speaker 1: the Sabbath. They have become locked into the law and 317 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 1: missed the spirit of the very gift that God gave. 318 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 1: And that happens all the time in our life. So 319 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:26,439 Speaker 1: that an Olympic athlete can say, you know, this talent 320 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: that was given to me by God, that was such 321 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,720 Speaker 1: a good thing it almost broke me. So that someone 322 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 1: who starts to be blessed financially, they can say, you 323 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 1: know what, when I started getting more money, I stopped 324 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:40,439 Speaker 1: trusting God as much. I had a man tell me 325 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,120 Speaker 1: one time, I started thinking money was the answer to everything. 326 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: I started just skipping God in the process when I 327 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: didn't need to ask him anymore, and I basically designed 328 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 1: a life for myself that made God unnecessary. So he thought, 329 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: because the gift became a prison, I could give you 330 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 1: more examples. I think you've got your own things that 331 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:09,359 Speaker 1: God gave you, that you became a slave to things 332 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,920 Speaker 1: that God. I'm not talking about the devil. I'm talking 333 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: about a gift. The Sabbath didn't come from the devil. 334 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: It came from God. It's in the book of Genesis. 335 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 1: It's God that gave them that rest. But they turned 336 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:28,880 Speaker 1: the gift of rest into a weapon. They turned the 337 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:32,359 Speaker 1: gift of God into a prison. In fact, just a 338 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 1: few verses later, they go from picking on the disciples 339 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 1: about eating grain and a feeling the sabbath to telling 340 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 1: Jesus he can't heal a man with a withered hand 341 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 1: on the Sabbath. You mean to tell me that Jesus 342 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 1: can't give this man his ability to work on this 343 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 1: day because you've set it aside as a day not 344 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:53,679 Speaker 1: to work. But see how this happens in our lives. 345 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 1: So subtly that a gift that God gives you can 346 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,399 Speaker 1: become twisted to the point that the gift that was 347 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 1: given to serve you begins to enslave you. And I 348 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 1: think what's happening in this passage is really demonstrated in 349 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,159 Speaker 1: what the disciples did that we have to do all 350 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 1: the time. It says that verse one, they took the 351 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,119 Speaker 1: heads of grain, and when they would rub them in 352 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: their hands, they would then eat the kernels. All right, 353 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: So what's wrong with this? What's so bad about it? 354 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: Are they stealing in someone else's field? No, because the 355 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: levitical law says that the edges of the field are 356 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 1: to be left unharvested so the traveler passing through can 357 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 1: eat from it. So I'm not breaking any laws. But 358 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 1: see the Pharisees, they had thirty nine laws or thirty 359 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 1: nine categories of things you couldn't do on the Sabbath 360 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 1: that God never said you couldn't do on the Sabbath. 361 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: Now here's what's going to trip you. And this is 362 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 1: how weird religion can get. You're allowed to pluck grain 363 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 1: on the Sabbath, but you just can't harvest grain on 364 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:13,400 Speaker 1: the Sabbath by the Pharisees rule, not God's rule, by 365 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: the Pharisees rule. So how close do the pharisees have 366 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: to be watching the disciples, like, who's the sick one here? 367 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 1: If you are stalking me to the point that you 368 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 1: are watching me rub the heads of grain between my hands, 369 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: I think you are the one who has a problem 370 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 1: and needs counseling, not me because I'm hungry. Yes, I'm 371 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: talking about the comment section. I have never ever in 372 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:44,439 Speaker 1: my life seem more crazy than in the comment section 373 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: of a Christian YouTube channel, because here I am now 374 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,239 Speaker 1: watching everything. Ah, They're not supposed to do this. Now. 375 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:52,719 Speaker 1: I would have been fine if they would have plucked it, 376 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,200 Speaker 1: but when they rubbed the grain to get the husks 377 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:56,959 Speaker 1: to fall away, now you know what the husk is. 378 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: The husk is the workless part that protects the cur Colonel. 379 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: The kernel is the seed that the grain comes from, 380 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: and the husk is the part that covers the kernel. 381 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,639 Speaker 1: So the disciples are watching walking through and Peter says, 382 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: watch this, and Jesai looking right now, and they picked 383 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,199 Speaker 1: the grain that Jesus knew what was happening behind him, 384 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 1: and he didn't tell him to stop because he wasn't 385 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 1: following the pattern of the pharisees. I'll take it a 386 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: step further, he didn't care what they did with the grain, 387 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:27,719 Speaker 1: because he's the Bread of life. I think that's the 388 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: most anointed verse in the Bible. Jesus was going through 389 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 1: the grain field. Jesus, the Bread of Heaven, the Bread 390 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 1: of life, is walking by grain and irony of irony. 391 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 1: The Pharisees are arguing with the Bread of Life about 392 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: how to pick grain on the Sabbath, which he is. 393 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 1: So they're picking what he is on the day which 394 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 1: he came to fulfill. And they're like, you can't do that. 395 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:01,480 Speaker 1: Watch out for people who tell you what God can't do. No, 396 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 1: God can't bless you like that. It has to be 397 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 1: like this, It has to fit this structure. That's their 398 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:14,239 Speaker 1: wine skin, not your limitation. I was, I was. I 399 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: was talking to somebody one time. They said, you you 400 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: tend to let other people's insecurity become your limitation, and 401 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 1: just because they haven't seen it done before, you let 402 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,679 Speaker 1: them convince you that you can't do it. And I 403 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,719 Speaker 1: realized that what God has given me doesn't have to 404 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 1: conform with what someone else's wine skin can hold. He's like, uh, 405 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:49,120 Speaker 1: Jesus is like, have you never read what David did? Now? 406 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 1: Now the Pharisees here they read a lot of scriptures. 407 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: So for Jesus to challenge them about a Bible story, 408 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 1: how may you heard of David before? By the way, 409 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:05,880 Speaker 1: they what did David do? I'm not talking about when 410 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 1: he killed Goliath, which is a great story. By the way, 411 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:16,639 Speaker 1: I love that one. I'm talking about when David was 412 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 1: running from Saul. Can I teach you something real quick? 413 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 1: Israel wanted a king because all the other nations had 414 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,399 Speaker 1: a king. God wanted to be their king. He didn't 415 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,360 Speaker 1: want them to have to rely on a human king 416 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 1: because God knew the hearts of men. And when it 417 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: came time for them to choose a king, they chose 418 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:45,400 Speaker 1: the tallest king they could find, named Saul. When Saul 419 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 1: became king, all of his insecurities and limitations showed up 420 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:53,360 Speaker 1: with him in the palace, to the point that when 421 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: David was enlisted in his service and subdued the Philistine 422 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,879 Speaker 1: champion from God that you've heard of, called Goliath, it 423 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:06,959 Speaker 1: didn't make Saul happy. It made his heart harder. So 424 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 1: we find David now in a position where God has 425 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,400 Speaker 1: called him to be a future king, but he's having 426 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 1: to deal with the crazy king now David has a 427 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:23,119 Speaker 1: heart like God's, but he has a king named Saul, 428 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 1: and now he has to make a decision whether he's 429 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 1: going to copy the king that he sees or become 430 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 1: the king that he is. David is not only a 431 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:42,120 Speaker 1: good fighter, he's also a skilled musician, and Saul recruits 432 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,720 Speaker 1: him into his service to play the harp for him. 433 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: The Bible says that Saul was starting to lose his 434 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 1: mind to the point that the only thing would soothe 435 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: him was the sound of the music, and so David 436 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,120 Speaker 1: would play for Saul. And he played the song one 437 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:58,160 Speaker 1: day that Saul must not like very much, because Saul 438 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:02,880 Speaker 1: threw a big spirit David. But David eluded it twice 439 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 1: and started to think, maybe I'm not too safe with Saul. 440 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 1: David asked Jonathan, Sauw's son, who should have rightfully been 441 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 1: the next king, but wasn't going to be because God 442 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:21,439 Speaker 1: chose David. Everybody say that God chose David. Say that again, 443 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:26,399 Speaker 1: God chose David. So when David duck not once but 444 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 1: twice and asked, Jonathan, is something wrong with your dad? 445 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 1: Did somebody switches pills in the cabinet? Should I get 446 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,360 Speaker 1: out of here? Eventually he realized that the only recourse 447 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: that he had was to run, which puts him in 448 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 1: quite a conflict because he is anointed to be king 449 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,480 Speaker 1: by Samuel the Prophet, but his life is under threat 450 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 1: from Saul, the crazy king, the one that the people chose, 451 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,320 Speaker 1: And now David, the one that God chose, is running 452 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: from Saul. And Jesus said, have you never read what 453 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 1: David did when he was hungry? And he takes him 454 00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 1: all the way back the first Samuel twenty one. Because 455 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: David and his men are running from Saul. He's crowned 456 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: to be king. Buddy's about to be killed first Samuel 457 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 1: twenty one. I told them to give you this story 458 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 1: so you could see the original. This is so powerful 459 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 1: what David did. Put it on the screen. Please. David 460 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 1: went to knob to a Hemelect the priest, and a 461 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:27,959 Speaker 1: Hemelect trembled when he met him and asked, why are 462 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 1: you alone? Why is no one with you? And David answered, 463 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 1: a Hemelect the priest, The King sent me on a mission. 464 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 1: That's a lie. Saul didn't send him on a mission. 465 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: Saul was trying to kill him. The king sent me 466 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: on a mission and said to me, No one is 467 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 1: to know anything about the mission I'm sending you on. 468 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 1: I just want to study the Bible with you. Go 469 00:29:55,640 --> 00:30:01,560 Speaker 1: back to Luke six. Jesus answered them, three, have you 470 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 1: never read what David did? And then he mentions this incident, 471 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 1: You mean when he lied, you mean when he lied 472 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: to the priest. And it gets even worse. It gets 473 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,600 Speaker 1: even worse. Now go back to First Samuel twenty one. 474 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,560 Speaker 1: This is crazy, y'all. This is who Jesus uses to 475 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 1: justify his disciples, picking heads of grain and run around 476 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 1: rubbing heads of grain on the Sabbath, just trying to 477 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 1: get in trouble, just trying to get Jesus in a fight, 478 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,280 Speaker 1: just trying to get him to the cross quicker, just 479 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 1: doing dumb stuff on the Sabbath, you know, like all 480 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 1: of us, as jesus disciples do all the time, just 481 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 1: the dumbest stuff possible. And Jesus is like, have you 482 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: never read what David did when he went in the 483 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 1: house of God? Go back to First Samuel twenty one, 484 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:42,920 Speaker 1: and I told them to meet me in a certain 485 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:46,600 Speaker 1: place verse three. Now, then what do you have on hand? 486 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:48,960 Speaker 1: This is what David did. He asked the priest, what 487 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 1: do you have on hand? Give me five, almost called 488 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: the sermon, give me five, Give me five loaves of 489 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 1: bread or whatever you have on hand. Now, the priest answered, David, 490 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: I don't have any ordinary bread on hand. However, there's 491 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 1: some consecrated bread here, but you're not supposed to eat 492 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:11,720 Speaker 1: it because it's consecrated. Because every week on the Sabbath 493 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: they would bring the bread back to the table in 494 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,960 Speaker 1: the Holy of Holies and replace the twelve loaves that 495 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,719 Speaker 1: were fresh, that had been fresh, with twelve fresh loaves, 496 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,479 Speaker 1: and then the loaves they took away only the priests 497 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,720 Speaker 1: can eat. And so the priest is like, I have 498 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 1: some bread, but you're not supposed to eat it, and 499 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 1: David's like, but my men are hungry. And so Jesus 500 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 1: now is using the example of what David did to 501 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: let the Pharisees know that they have completely missed the 502 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 1: heart of the gift God gave, that they had become 503 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:50,280 Speaker 1: so consumed with principles that they have lost sight of 504 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 1: the people that the principles were meant to serve in 505 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 1: the first place. That you have twisted the gift of 506 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 1: God that God gave and made it in to prison 507 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,680 Speaker 1: instead of the gift of the Sabbath bringing you into rest. 508 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 1: You've put thirty nine categories on top of something that 509 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 1: God gave, and you have covered the colonel in a husk. 510 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:21,520 Speaker 1: You have covered the colonel in a husk. What David did. 511 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:27,080 Speaker 1: What David did. Remember how nobody else would fight Goliath, 512 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 1: but David did. Remember how David took off Saul's armor 513 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,840 Speaker 1: because it didn't fit him. What David did. And now 514 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: Jesus uses David as an example to say, I'm not 515 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:45,760 Speaker 1: copying you, I'm the original. I believe God wants to 516 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 1: give somebody permission to copy the original, permission to do 517 00:32:55,360 --> 00:33:00,520 Speaker 1: it different. God is sick of your excuses. He is. 518 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 1: He told me to tell you. He didn't say it 519 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 1: mean like that. He said, tell them that they have. 520 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 1: Is your guy talking to British accent? Or is that 521 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 1: just to God? In the Bible app God said, I 522 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 1: am trying to give you permission to break the pattern 523 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:30,040 Speaker 1: of the Pharisees, to separate the chaff from the wee. See, 524 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,760 Speaker 1: the chaff is the tradition. The colonel is the truth. 525 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 1: The colonel that's the seed that the grain comes from. 526 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 1: And we sometimes the husk. You know what the husk 527 00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 1: is around the colonel. I didn't grow up on a 528 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,239 Speaker 1: farm either. Well, I just said, just studied. Does this 529 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,800 Speaker 1: mean the husk is the part you have to the 530 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 1: reason they were harvesting by hand. And this is why 531 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 1: the Pharisees were accusing them, because they said, that's threshing. Technically, 532 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 1: that's threshing. You're separating the husk from the colonel. And 533 00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 1: you're not allowed to do that on the sabbath because 534 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:01,920 Speaker 1: you're doing work. Now. You can pick the grain with 535 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,240 Speaker 1: your hand, but you can't thresh it, not on the Sabbath. 536 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,960 Speaker 1: But God has been trying to thresh them the entire 537 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:12,400 Speaker 1: time since they started putting layers of husk of humanity 538 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,440 Speaker 1: on the law that was given by God and some 539 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 1: of us. God has been threshing our life lately to 540 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 1: try to separate the kernel of the word that he 541 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:27,160 Speaker 1: spoke over us and the character that he implanted on us, 542 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,839 Speaker 1: from the husk of what people have said about us. 543 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,359 Speaker 1: And God has been rubbing his hands lately. God has 544 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,080 Speaker 1: been rubbing his hands lately because he's trying to get 545 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,360 Speaker 1: the husk to fall off your life. He's trying to 546 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:43,359 Speaker 1: get the chaff to fall off your life, all the 547 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,200 Speaker 1: worthless stuff, all the worthless things you've been spending your 548 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 1: energy on, all the worthless things you've been telling your mind, 549 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,640 Speaker 1: all the worthless things you've been worrying about, all the 550 00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:55,239 Speaker 1: worthless things. That's why the disciples are giving a demonstration 551 00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:57,960 Speaker 1: of what Jesus is doing on the earth. He is 552 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,880 Speaker 1: rubbing away the husk of what is not working. He 553 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,799 Speaker 1: is rubbing away the husk of everything that did not 554 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,480 Speaker 1: come from his heart. And for some of you, he 555 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:11,120 Speaker 1: is rubbing away the husk of the house you grew 556 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,120 Speaker 1: up in, of the habits that you have developed, of 557 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:22,680 Speaker 1: everything that is keeping you from discovering the kernel. Yo. 558 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:28,520 Speaker 1: I started studying about Colonel's not like the Kentucky Fried chicken, 559 00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:32,040 Speaker 1: but the kernel of wheat, and I found out something. 560 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:36,440 Speaker 1: I found out that kernel also means in computer programming, 561 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:41,399 Speaker 1: what is at the core of a computer's operating system 562 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:48,600 Speaker 1: and has complete control over everything in the system. So 563 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,640 Speaker 1: when it says that they rubbed away the husk and 564 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,480 Speaker 1: kept the colonel, the Lord said for me to tell 565 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:59,840 Speaker 1: you keep the colonel, keep the Colonel. I'm a comprecist 566 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:05,000 Speaker 1: transformation church. I'm a compory Sistan in Tulsa. Because see, 567 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,520 Speaker 1: some things have to fall away for you to get 568 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:11,239 Speaker 1: to what's true. And sometimes that doesn't happen in a 569 00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,600 Speaker 1: harvest field. Sometimes that happens in your mind, in your habits, 570 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:25,279 Speaker 1: in your prayer life, in your devotion. In a computer program, 571 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,640 Speaker 1: the kernel is the operating system and it has control 572 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,799 Speaker 1: over everything in the system. So Jesus said, there's a 573 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:41,480 Speaker 1: new kernel in town. This system is broken. So Christ, 574 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,319 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Now we talk about Jesus, and we sing 575 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,279 Speaker 1: about Jesus, But I wonder do we really understand what 576 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:51,160 Speaker 1: we have inside of us? To say, Christ, in you 577 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:56,800 Speaker 1: the hope of glory. It means that no amount of husk, 578 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,160 Speaker 1: no amount of habits, nothing that has been covering you. 579 00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,600 Speaker 1: Because when God does this, you know what I love 580 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:08,880 Speaker 1: about God. He threshes by hand. I love God because 581 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,319 Speaker 1: he threshes by hand. He knows exactly what needs to 582 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,400 Speaker 1: fall off my life. He knows exactly who needs to 583 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,760 Speaker 1: fall out of my life. Somebody, thank God for the breakup. Somebody, 584 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,759 Speaker 1: thank God for the pig slip. Somebody, thank God for 585 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,840 Speaker 1: the relocation. That's God getting ready to bless you and 586 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,360 Speaker 1: everything that doesn't come from him. It's God fall off. 587 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:42,840 Speaker 1: It's got to fall off. Work the colonel, work the colonel. 588 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 1: Even on the sabventh, even if you've been in a 589 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,840 Speaker 1: bad situation, there is a kernel of the goodness of God. 590 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,879 Speaker 1: The colonel doesn't look like much, but everything that is 591 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,920 Speaker 1: going to be in the grain is in the kernel. 592 00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:02,640 Speaker 1: It just hasn't come to maturity yet. From the Kingdom 593 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:07,680 Speaker 1: of God is like that colonel. Right. So God is 594 00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,919 Speaker 1: in the business of removing some things. And he said, 595 00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:17,160 Speaker 1: did you never read what David did? How hard would 596 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:20,759 Speaker 1: it be to be David? And the only king you've 597 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:25,239 Speaker 1: ever seen is bipolar? I mean, he really was. They 598 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,520 Speaker 1: didn't diagnose it like that at the time. They said 599 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:29,920 Speaker 1: an evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul. But 600 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:31,840 Speaker 1: not only was it a mental disorder, it was a 601 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:36,160 Speaker 1: spiritual warfare. And that's what David grew up seeing as king. 602 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:38,719 Speaker 1: So he had make a decision. And so do you 603 00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:45,480 Speaker 1: am I going to copy Saul or copy God? He 604 00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:50,200 Speaker 1: had opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to get revenge on Saul. 605 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,080 Speaker 1: One time Saul was this is really gross. She elbst 606 00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:58,200 Speaker 1: in the Bible, relieving himself in the cave, and David 607 00:38:58,200 --> 00:38:59,920 Speaker 1: got so close to him he cut off a corner 608 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,360 Speaker 1: of his robe he could have killed it. And the 609 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:07,880 Speaker 1: decision to me, am I gonna copy Saul and continue 610 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:11,120 Speaker 1: to sow the same kernels of conflict that made him crazy. 611 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:19,120 Speaker 1: But see, God chose David because he said, I want 612 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:26,000 Speaker 1: a man after my own heart. I want a woman 613 00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:31,600 Speaker 1: who will copy me, who will learn from me. To 614 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,920 Speaker 1: be discipled by Jesus means more than wearing a bracelet 615 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:44,040 Speaker 1: of WWJD. It really means that you have to allow 616 00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:47,520 Speaker 1: him to do what he didn't stop the disciples from doing, 617 00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:58,960 Speaker 1: to separate the husk from the heart. There were certain 618 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,600 Speaker 1: seasons in my life where I owe the devil an 619 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:11,560 Speaker 1: apology for giving him credit for something that Jesus Christ 620 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:19,000 Speaker 1: was actually doing, because all I felt was this. All 621 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,640 Speaker 1: I felt was threshing, and I'm like, oh God, I'm 622 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,160 Speaker 1: losing this person and I'm losing this thing, and I'm 623 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:32,040 Speaker 1: losing this opportunity. And that was God threshing my life 624 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:37,200 Speaker 1: by hand. That was God. Aren't you glad he doesn't 625 00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:42,000 Speaker 1: just use a sickle and thresh you like he threshes 626 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,000 Speaker 1: everybody else. Just come on, through and make a row. 627 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:52,360 Speaker 1: God loves you enough to thresh you by hand so 628 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,520 Speaker 1: he can get to the colonel, the colonel of the 629 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:57,799 Speaker 1: prophetic word he's spoken over your life, the colonel of 630 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,879 Speaker 1: your true beauty unadorned, the colonel of who you really 631 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:02,919 Speaker 1: were all along before all of the layers of thirty 632 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,239 Speaker 1: nine categories of what God can't do got on top 633 00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:07,680 Speaker 1: of you. God is threshing all that away now in 634 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,480 Speaker 1: Luke chapter six. And the nets are breaking, and the 635 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,319 Speaker 1: roof is breaking, and the wine skins are breaking, and 636 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,000 Speaker 1: the Sabbath is being broken because it has become a 637 00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:19,200 Speaker 1: prison when it was meant to be a gift. And 638 00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,319 Speaker 1: God is breaking you out. That's what all this has 639 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,800 Speaker 1: been about. Quit giving a praise service to the devil 640 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:32,640 Speaker 1: by telling everybody you're under attack. You're not under attack. 641 00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:37,200 Speaker 1: It's not a threat. It's a threshing. It's a threshing. 642 00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:41,800 Speaker 1: It's a threshing. And what happens after the threshing depends 643 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:47,319 Speaker 1: on whose hands you're in. So when God does this, 644 00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:55,480 Speaker 1: you do this. Ah. I'm excited. I'm getting ready to 645 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:59,400 Speaker 1: see God reveal something in me that I forgot was 646 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:03,759 Speaker 1: even there. I'm getting ready to see God doing Sesians 647 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:07,520 Speaker 1: three twenty. I wish you participate in this sermon and 648 00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,680 Speaker 1: just do what God's been doing. Just do this. Oh, 649 00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:14,240 Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what God has in mind. 650 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:18,480 Speaker 1: I'm filling my horn with oil, I mean freshoil. I'm 651 00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,880 Speaker 1: feeling it to the top, running over. I'm getting my 652 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:26,000 Speaker 1: joy back. It's reaping time now, it's reaping time. Now. 653 00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,920 Speaker 1: God's been taking the husk off my heart and the 654 00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:31,720 Speaker 1: husk off of my mind. And God has been shetting 655 00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:35,280 Speaker 1: me a wrong thinking. Now I'm getting ready to see 656 00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:46,040 Speaker 1: what God put inside of me. He's harvesting you by hand. 657 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:50,680 Speaker 1: He knows when the fields are ripe. He knows when 658 00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:54,400 Speaker 1: the time is right. He doesn't need permission from a 659 00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,959 Speaker 1: pharisee to do it on the right day. He's been 660 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:11,400 Speaker 1: doing it all Alongat blessing was a blessing, So I 661 00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:16,640 Speaker 1: don't know who needed to know. That's God's hands. You 662 00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:24,680 Speaker 1: feel That's God's hand, And He's going to keep the colonel. 663 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:29,680 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you something else that we need 664 00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,960 Speaker 1: to teach theologically. God forgive me for not teaching this enough. 665 00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:38,279 Speaker 1: Christ in you is the operating system of your life, 666 00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:48,840 Speaker 1: not the condemnation in you because I was thinking about David. 667 00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:53,600 Speaker 1: Y'all stand up because it pressures me to close. Then 668 00:43:53,600 --> 00:44:00,799 Speaker 1: we get the next service in. But when Jesus said 669 00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:04,839 Speaker 1: what David did, did you never read what David did? 670 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,239 Speaker 1: He could have talked about a lot of things. You know. 671 00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:14,399 Speaker 1: He could have talked about Bathsheba, because David did that too. 672 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,480 Speaker 1: He could have talked about Amnon, David's son that he 673 00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,120 Speaker 1: wouldn't deal with. He could have talked about Absalom, David's 674 00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:23,040 Speaker 1: son that he was passive aggressive with and wouldn't let 675 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,120 Speaker 1: him come past a certain distance. He could have talked 676 00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:29,480 Speaker 1: about all of that, but he didn't. By the time. 677 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:32,600 Speaker 1: It says in Acts thirteen that David was a man 678 00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:35,960 Speaker 1: after God's own heart. It doesn't mean that all of 679 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:42,239 Speaker 1: his decisions were perfect. It means that he kept the 680 00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:49,560 Speaker 1: colonel of God's heart. But so the enemy wants to 681 00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:53,000 Speaker 1: wrap you in so much condemnation that you can't see 682 00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:59,200 Speaker 1: the colonel. That's why God brought you here today. That's 683 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,759 Speaker 1: why he's been allowed you to go through. I don't 684 00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:05,799 Speaker 1: think it probably felt good for the grain, but it 685 00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:11,239 Speaker 1: was good because he is removing everything that does not 686 00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:18,200 Speaker 1: belong and breaking everything that is holding back the purpose 687 00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:22,200 Speaker 1: that He created you for to get you out of 688 00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:27,400 Speaker 1: that prison, to get you out of that prison, to 689 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:32,399 Speaker 1: uncover the kernel of your true character. He will even 690 00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:37,120 Speaker 1: allow life sometimes to do this to you. And sometimes 691 00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:39,799 Speaker 1: it doesn't feel so gentle, and sometimes we don't know 692 00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,920 Speaker 1: how to praise God for this. But I want you 693 00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:46,879 Speaker 1: to rub your hands together real quick. This is just 694 00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,279 Speaker 1: You can still do this on COVID protocol, isn't it. 695 00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:51,520 Speaker 1: You don't have to rub somebody else's palm. You just rub. 696 00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:57,120 Speaker 1: And I want you to hear the Lord saying the 697 00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:01,319 Speaker 1: fields are ripe. Now I'm bringing you into a moment. 698 00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:03,840 Speaker 1: I'm bringing you into a moment where you can grow 699 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:09,040 Speaker 1: up past what you grew up around, to establish a 700 00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:13,160 Speaker 1: different pattern, to break tradition with the things that are 701 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,120 Speaker 1: not true about you. You don't have to keep doing this. 702 00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:20,000 Speaker 1: I know it'll hurt after a minute, But Lord, we 703 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:23,120 Speaker 1: pray for release for the captives today. Some people are 704 00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:28,560 Speaker 1: captive by the customs of their life, and some people 705 00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,640 Speaker 1: are captives in a certain area of their character. But 706 00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,520 Speaker 1: I see something coming forth today by faith, I really do, 707 00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:39,839 Speaker 1: and I believe that you have been unlocking as I've 708 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:44,680 Speaker 1: preached this word today, you literally have been walking through 709 00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:50,120 Speaker 1: the grainfield. I thank you, Lord that when you walk 710 00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:54,160 Speaker 1: through the grain field of my life, that you know 711 00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:58,440 Speaker 1: how to take the husk off. I thank you, Lord 712 00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,120 Speaker 1: for everything that you have spoken over her life, over 713 00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,040 Speaker 1: his life. Thank you for everything you've planted in them. 714 00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,239 Speaker 1: The experience is the wisdom, the gift that you've given. 715 00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:12,239 Speaker 1: We will not allow the lies of the enemy or 716 00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:16,040 Speaker 1: the patterns of Saul to keep the king in them 717 00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:20,799 Speaker 1: from being born. So, Father, I thank you now in Jesus' name, 718 00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:25,640 Speaker 1: not David's name, in Jesus' name, the Lord of the Sabbath, 719 00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:29,040 Speaker 1: the Lord of the gift, the God of the brain field. 720 00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:37,640 Speaker 1: I commit you into their hands. It's not the spear 721 00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:41,800 Speaker 1: that was in Saul's hand, God, it is the grain 722 00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:46,480 Speaker 1: in your hand that gives me confidence and faith today 723 00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:50,799 Speaker 1: to know that we'll make it. This may be a 724 00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,200 Speaker 1: word God that needs to go down deep for somebody. 725 00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:55,000 Speaker 1: They may need to hear it another time or two 726 00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:58,840 Speaker 1: to really get it down deep. But I thank you 727 00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:02,120 Speaker 1: that your hand has been there, keeping the kernel of 728 00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:07,800 Speaker 1: their purpose, keeping the kernel of their life, that nothing 729 00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:13,720 Speaker 1: anyone does can change it. Father, our hands are open, 730 00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:24,040 Speaker 1: our lives are yours. In this place today, there's somebody 731 00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:29,600 Speaker 1: who needs to give your life over to God. You 732 00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:33,520 Speaker 1: have been running from him. He has been walking through 733 00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:39,320 Speaker 1: the grainfield trying to get your attention. He wanted you 734 00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:43,000 Speaker 1: to hear this message today so that you could know 735 00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:48,279 Speaker 1: that salvation is a gift from Him. It's not of 736 00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:53,840 Speaker 1: works or behavior, or keeping thirty nine Sabbath laws or 737 00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:57,840 Speaker 1: getting your life together. It's to believe in Jesus Christ, 738 00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:00,960 Speaker 1: his Son, the Savior of the world, the Lord of 739 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:05,799 Speaker 1: the Sabbath, the God of all creation. So right now 740 00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,879 Speaker 1: I want to give you an invitation, wherever you are 741 00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,120 Speaker 1: in the world, if you're right here in this room, 742 00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:16,799 Speaker 1: I'm going to pray a prayer. It's not magical. It's 743 00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,240 Speaker 1: not about the words or the order of the words. 744 00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:23,480 Speaker 1: It's about your heart. Because the Bible says that if 745 00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:25,759 Speaker 1: you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and 746 00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,000 Speaker 1: believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, 747 00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,920 Speaker 1: you will be saved. That's a promise, not a probability. 748 00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:35,320 Speaker 1: You will be saved. So I want to give you 749 00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:39,160 Speaker 1: that opportunity right now to place your faith in Jesus Christ. 750 00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,799 Speaker 1: What he did for you, how he died for you, 751 00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:44,560 Speaker 1: how he took your sin on him, how he rose 752 00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:47,200 Speaker 1: from the grave so that you could have a new life. 753 00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:49,280 Speaker 1: We're going to pray that prayer right now for everyone 754 00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:51,480 Speaker 1: who wants to put your faith in Jesus. You've been 755 00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:53,520 Speaker 1: running from God, and he called you to this moment, 756 00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:55,360 Speaker 1: and he's speaking to you. I want to give you 757 00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,120 Speaker 1: this moment to put your life in his hands. Repeat 758 00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:04,520 Speaker 1: after me, Heavenly Father, Today is my day of salvation. 759 00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:10,400 Speaker 1: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, 760 00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:16,480 Speaker 1: and today I make Jesus the lord of my life. 761 00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:20,279 Speaker 1: I believe he died that I would be forgiven and 762 00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:26,400 Speaker 1: rose again to give me life. I receive your new life. 763 00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:31,560 Speaker 1: This is my new beginning. I am a child of God. 764 00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:34,359 Speaker 1: Shoot your hand up on three if you prayed that prayer, one, 765 00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:36,839 Speaker 1: two three, shoot him up, shoot him off. Shoot m mom. 766 00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:44,919 Speaker 1: Celebrate you, I celebrate you. Celebrate you. Come on, let's 767 00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:50,839 Speaker 1: join the angels and rejoice. Thank you for joining us. 768 00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:53,600 Speaker 1: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 769 00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:57,160 Speaker 1: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 770 00:50:57,600 --> 00:50:59,719 Speaker 1: You can click the link in the description to give 771 00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:04,040 Speaker 1: now or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more 772 00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:07,880 Speaker 1: information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 773 00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:10,200 Speaker 1: You can share it with your friends. You can click 774 00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:12,440 Speaker 1: the share button, take a screenshot and share it on 775 00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:15,359 Speaker 1: your social stories and tag us at Elevation Church. Thanks 776 00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:16,759 Speaker 1: again for listening. God bless you