1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:02,840 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 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 5 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 6 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 2: Enjoy the message. Well, thank you, worship team. I want 7 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 2: to go into the Word of God today. I spoke 8 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 2: to you last week on the subject of confidence, and 9 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 2: I'm going to continue along those thoughts. From what I 10 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 2: could tell, the sermon help some people. I'm not saying 11 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 2: it helped everybody. 12 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: Some of y'all are beyond help. 13 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 2: No, I don't really believe that, but it resonated with 14 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 2: some people. So in a similar vein today, I want 15 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 2: to bring a message of encouragement. Let's look together at 16 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,919 Speaker 2: Joshua chapter one. Normally I have you stand for the scripture, 17 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 2: but I kind of have a few scriptures today, so 18 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:51,520 Speaker 2: I thought you could just sit there and I read 19 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 2: it for you and Joshua chapter one, verse six through nine. 20 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 2: And this message that God gave me is a little 21 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 2: bit of a practical thing and something that's been helpful 22 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 2: in my life. And so I hope that it'll be 23 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 2: helpful to you. Very simple message. This is an epic text. 24 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 2: I can't speak for the sermon. The sermon may be good, 25 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:19,559 Speaker 2: it may not be, but this text is legendary. 26 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: And we're going into the locker room where. 27 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 2: God is giving Joshua a halftime talk, and he's telling 28 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 2: him what he must do and how he's going to 29 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 2: do it, because Joshua has big shoes to fill, and 30 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 2: Joshua has a job to do, and Joshua has a 31 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:40,479 Speaker 2: purpose to accomplish. And so God is getting his men 32 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 2: ready because how many know that God will never give 33 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 2: you a purpose, that he will not prepare you for 34 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 2: all of your life up until this point, the parts 35 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 2: that you like, the parts that you didn't like, the 36 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 2: parts that you understood, in the parts that you're still 37 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 2: trying to understand, you can know this that they were 38 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 2: all preparing you for God's purpose. The moment that you 39 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 2: believe that you can really embrace whatever comes into your life, 40 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 2: knowing that if God didn't send it, he'll still use it. 41 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 2: Anything that comes against you can become a weapon in 42 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 2: the hands of God fighting for you. 43 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: So God is telling. 44 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 2: Joshua in a period of transition for the nation of Israel, 45 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,080 Speaker 2: that the job is too big for him, but the 46 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 2: God who is with him is bigger than the giants 47 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 2: that stand before him. In convincing him of this, he 48 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 2: tells him in verse six of Joshua chapter one, be 49 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 2: strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to 50 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 2: inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them. You. 51 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 1: Notice how good my eyesight is. 52 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 2: I can read my Bible from all the way back here. 53 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:53,360 Speaker 2: How many of you over forty five verse extremely jealous? 54 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:53,919 Speaker 1: Right now? 55 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 2: I'm going to employ my good eyesight while I've got it. 56 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 2: He said it again, be strong and courageous. This we 57 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 2: already said that God, remember in verse six. Yeah, but 58 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,639 Speaker 2: I'm saying it again because I know how you are, 59 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 2: and I know how quickly your courage evaporates. I wish 60 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 2: rad Straup were here. He's on staff with our students, 61 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,919 Speaker 2: and he asked me a profound question the other day. 62 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 2: He said, why is it that no matter how much 63 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 2: people encourage me, I can't keep myself encouraged. I'll find 64 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:27,519 Speaker 2: some way if somebody compliments me, to disqualify the compliment 65 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 2: or to cancel it out. I'll tell myself. Well, they're 66 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 2: just being nice. They're saying that because they have to 67 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 2: say that. They're just saying that to make me feel good. 68 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 2: And so maybe there's something to the repetition factor here. 69 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 2: That God knows that between verse six and verse seven 70 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 2: something happened to make you discouraged, and so he encourages 71 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 2: you again, be strong and courageous, Be careful to obey 72 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 2: all the law my servant Moses gave you. 73 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 1: Don't turn from it to the right or to the left. 74 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of things trying to get 75 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 2: you off track and get you off course, but. 76 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 1: Don't beat this. You got a job to do. 77 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 2: I want you to be successful wherever you go. This 78 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 2: is God's heart for you, and in order to do it, 79 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 2: you got to keep this book of the Law always 80 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 2: on your lips. Meditate on it day and night, so 81 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 2: that you may be careful to. 82 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 1: Do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous 83 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 1: and successful. 84 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 2: Have I not commanded you be strong and courageous, Do 85 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:38,799 Speaker 2: not be afraid, do not be discouraged, For the Lord 86 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 2: your God will be with you wherever you go. 87 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 1: You're looking for something to write down, Write this down. 88 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:52,600 Speaker 2: God's presence is guaranteed, but his promises are optional. I 89 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 2: will be with you wherever you go, But how far 90 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 2: you want to go is up to you. Even if 91 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 2: you don't go into the things that I have prepared 92 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 2: for you in your life, I'll be with you. 93 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 1: You make your bed in hell, I'll be with you. 94 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 2: Belly of the fish, I'll be with you. Hide out 95 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 2: from Jezebel in a cave. I'll be with you. Murder 96 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 2: an Egyptian and run to the desert. 97 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: I'll be with you in Midian. 98 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 2: So the fact that God will be with you, his 99 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 2: presence is guaranteed, it is not conditional. 100 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: But the way that you. 101 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:33,840 Speaker 2: Experience his promises, well, a lot of that is up 102 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 2: to you. And so God mentions to Joshua with two things. 103 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 2: Can I teach you a little bit today? He says, 104 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 2: don't be afraid, don't be discouraged. Don't be afraid, don't 105 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 2: be discouraged. I'll talk to a friend the other day, 106 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 2: and we were laughing at each other about how we 107 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 2: insert ourselves into biblical stories and shrink down the magnitude 108 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 2: of the stories to fit our situations, which are sometimes 109 00:05:58,880 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 2: not that big of a deal. 110 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:00,840 Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean. 111 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 2: It's like David killed Goliath and. 112 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: You can lose fifteen pounds too, do you know what 113 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: I mean? 114 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 2: Like Goliath just becomes whatever you need him to be. Right, 115 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 2: Goliath can be your student loan. He's no longer this 116 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 2: life threatening nation defying giant. Now we've got Goliath representing 117 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 2: your car payment. You can take him down in the 118 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:26,720 Speaker 2: name of the Lord. That's what we do in the 119 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 2: case of I don't know. I could use a lot 120 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 2: of examples and't I was talking to a friend the 121 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 2: other day and he was negotiating a real estate contract 122 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 2: and he was comparing himself to Moses and the guy 123 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 2: who owned the land to Pharaoh, and he said, I 124 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 2: feel like Moses going before Pharaoh and it's just a 125 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 2: little thirty thousand square foot building, you know. But he's 126 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 2: now got this contonstruct where in his mind he's kind 127 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 2: of like put himself in the biblical story. 128 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: It's easy to do that with Joshua. 129 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 2: So now God's telling Joshua, I'm gonna lead you into 130 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,279 Speaker 2: this land. You're gonna have to lead millions of vagabond 131 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 2: nomadic people who love to complain and forget what I 132 00:06:58,480 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 2: do for them. 133 00:06:58,920 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 1: The moment I do it. 134 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 2: So I want you to go get them ready and 135 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 2: go do that, okay, and by the way, don't be afraid, 136 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 2: don't be discouraged. 137 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: And it's easy for us. 138 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 2: To make the jump because we want to personalize the 139 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 2: Bible and all of a sudden, now instead of taking 140 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 2: over the land and leading millions of people, it's just 141 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 2: symbolic of. 142 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: Whatever we need to do in our lives. 143 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 2: So it's like the apartment that we hope we get 144 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 2: or the college we want to get into, and so we. 145 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 1: Can shrink it down. But I think part of that 146 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: is good. 147 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 2: Maybe sometimes I go too far with it because I 148 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 2: have a passion as a preacher to make it personal. 149 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 2: I feel like I failed if all of that did 150 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 2: is teach you a history lesson about somebody who lived 151 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 2: a long time ago called Joshua. So there's a part 152 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 2: of me that wants to make it personal. Perhaps sometimes 153 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 2: I take it too far, and we forget the magnitude 154 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 2: of the miracles that the Bible illustrates. 155 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: That Joshua going. 156 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 2: Into the Promised Land wasn't like you asking a girl 157 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 2: out on a date. 158 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: But we can do that in our. 159 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 2: Desire to personalize the Bible, which I think is a 160 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 2: good thing. We can well, we can miss the point 161 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 2: or loose the perspective, and so I just want to 162 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 2: bring it into perspective here that Joshua. 163 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 1: Must have been terrified. You know what, I read that scripture. 164 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 2: That feel while I was reading it that you're like, yeah, 165 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 2: get over it, Joshua, go do it, you know, just 166 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 2: get up and do it. Get up and do it, 167 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 2: Get up and do it. I got to defeat the Jebusites, 168 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 2: the Hitsites, the Parasites, the Canaanites, the Cellulites, those most 169 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 2: dreadful enemies of all. And God tells him to do something. 170 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,559 Speaker 2: He tells him to do something in the face of 171 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 2: all of these enemies that he knows he must encounter. 172 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 2: God says, be strong and courageous. Then he tells him 173 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:39,479 Speaker 2: what not to do. 174 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: Do not be afraid, do not be discouraged. 175 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:55,839 Speaker 2: Something within me rises to Joshua's defense. I can't help 176 00:08:55,880 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 2: it if I feel afraid. I can't help it if 177 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 2: I feel discouraged. How can you tell me not to 178 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 2: feel afraid? God, when all of these battles that I've 179 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 2: never fought before waiting in front of me, How can 180 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 2: you tell me not to be afraid when I'm leading 181 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 2: people who have only known. 182 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:23,320 Speaker 1: The wilderness into warfare. How can you tell me not to. 183 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 2: Be discouraged when I have to go in under resource 184 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:28,559 Speaker 2: then may be overwhelmed. 185 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 1: How can you tell me. 186 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:32,719 Speaker 2: Not to feel afraid and not to feel discouraged? But 187 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:37,679 Speaker 2: God didn't say don't feel afraid, and he didn't say 188 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 2: don't feel discouraged. 189 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:40,559 Speaker 1: I think the. 190 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 2: Essence of what God wants to say to you is 191 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 2: just because you feel afraid doesn't mean you have to 192 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 2: be afraid. 193 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 1: Just because you feel. 194 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 2: Discouraged doesn't mean you have to be discouraged. Just because 195 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 2: you have fear doesn't mean fear has to have you. 196 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 2: Come on, talk to me somebody. And for most of us, 197 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 2: our default setting is fear and discouragement. 198 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: Our default setting. 199 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 2: In the situations that are unfamiliar to us is anxiety 200 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 2: and discouragement. You see, God has given you a destiny. 201 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 2: I want you to believe that, even if you can't 202 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 2: see it right now, even if it's not your destiny 203 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 2: to lead millions of people into the Promised land, God 204 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 2: has given you a destiny as a parent. God has 205 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 2: given you a destiny on your job. It's part of 206 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 2: your destiny. God has given you a job to do. 207 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 2: And know you're not Joshua, but you have a job 208 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 2: to do. I would like for you to repeat after 209 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 2: me the following declaration, I have a destiny all right now. 210 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 2: I need you to know that the bigger the death, 211 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 2: the bigger the enemies. 212 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:09,719 Speaker 1: That was helpful for me to. 213 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 2: Realize because in seasons of my life I was hard 214 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 2: on myself, feeling like there was something wrong with me. 215 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:24,200 Speaker 2: And it's because God's promises in my life, while they 216 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 2: seemed attractive, sometimes aren't so automatic as we think that 217 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 2: they should be. In the text that I read to you, 218 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 2: God is telling Joshua that the real enemies to your 219 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 2: destiny are not the Canaanites. The real enemy of your 220 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:47,119 Speaker 2: destiny are not the Hittites. 221 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 1: The real enemies of. 222 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 2: Your destinies are not the Jugsites. These are all the 223 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 2: people that he would face as he moved forward in faith. 224 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 2: But God wants Joshua to know that your real enemy 225 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 2: is not another person. 226 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:04,439 Speaker 1: Your real enemy is not even a situation. 227 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 2: Because if you don't know this, you'll spend your whole 228 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 2: life fighting the wrong things. God says, let me tell 229 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 2: you what to fight. Fight your fear. Let me tell 230 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 2: you what to fight, fight your discouragement. If you can 231 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,319 Speaker 2: fight discouragement, you can fulfill your destiny. 232 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it over my shoulder, to the left 233 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,200 Speaker 1: side of the room. If you can fight your fear, 234 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 1: if you. 235 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:34,839 Speaker 2: Can face your fear, you can move forward into your destiny. 236 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: And this is important for Joshua to know. See, because 237 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: Joshua has been around a while. 238 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 2: By the time that God is calling him Bible background, 239 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 2: he's already. 240 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:44,960 Speaker 1: Served under Moses. He served under Moses as. 241 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,319 Speaker 2: A commander, and he won some great battles under Moses, 242 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 2: and he did some great things under Moses. But now 243 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 2: Moses has left the building, and so God is talking 244 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 2: Joshua into Now. 245 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: God is very persuasive, Okay, So when. 246 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 2: God tries to talk you into something, as we've already seen. 247 00:12:57,679 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 1: He'll use repetition. 248 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 2: But he also knows how to locate the thing that 249 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 2: is keeping you from doing what you're called to do. 250 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: Now the people of. 251 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 2: God are standing at the edge of something. They are 252 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,559 Speaker 2: out of Egypt, but they are not yet into Canaan. 253 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: That's where so many Christians live. 254 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 2: I've come out of some things, but I haven't moved 255 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 2: into the things. I've made some progress, but I have 256 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 2: not fully possessed the promise. I've become aware of God's presence, 257 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 2: but I haven't fully accessed his promises. And that's where 258 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 2: Joshua stands. And he's been here before forty years ago, and. 259 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:39,680 Speaker 1: Moses was in a position to possess the promised land, 260 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 1: and he sent some spies into the land. 261 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 2: A lot of people don't know this part of the story, 262 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 2: you know. I mean, they may have heard a little 263 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 2: bit about it, but they don't know the details, the 264 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 2: details that kept them from experiencing their destiny, the details 265 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:59,440 Speaker 2: that caused hundreds of thousands of them to die in 266 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 2: the desert looking at promises that they could have possessed, 267 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 2: The details that keep you from being the dad that 268 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 2: God called you to be, doing the things God called 269 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 2: you to do, enjoying the life that Christ himself. 270 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:14,199 Speaker 1: Died to give you. I feel a. 271 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 2: Holy burden on this message today because somebody is looking 272 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 2: at a promise that you're not living in. And the 273 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 2: reason that you're not living in it has nothing to 274 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 2: do with creditors, and it has nothing to do with 275 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 2: seventh grade teachers and it doesn't even have anything to 276 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 2: do with what you experienced in your past. 277 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 1: It is your fear and discouragement. 278 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 2: And so Joshua goes into the land forty years ago. 279 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 2: Remember he was serving under Moses at this time. And 280 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 2: he goes into the land and he looks at it, 281 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 2: and there's eleven other spies. There's Joshua and Caleb and 282 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 2: ten other spies. And they go into the land and 283 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 2: they look around. They come back and it's interesting. I 284 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 2: want to show you this. Can I show you? Look 285 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 2: at numbers Chapter fourteen, The Bible gives a recording of 286 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 2: the report that the men brought back, and this is 287 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 2: kind of sad to me. It says in numbers thirteen, 288 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 2: thirty one and thirty two that the men who had 289 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 2: gone up with him said, we can't attack those people. 290 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 1: They are stronger than we are. And they spread among the. 291 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 2: Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. 292 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 2: And they said, the land we explored devours those living 293 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 2: in it. All the people we saw there are of 294 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 2: great size. Let me point out something to you that 295 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 2: you may miss on the surface. They were being realistic. 296 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 2: Most of what they're saying is true. They are bigger, 297 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 2: They are stronger. 298 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 1: We can't do it on our own. 299 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 2: On our own, but Joshua knew something that those spies 300 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 2: had forgotten. 301 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 1: We're not on our own. We have a promise. 302 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 2: We have a promise of God's presence, and if he's 303 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 2: with us, he's more than the. 304 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: World against us. 305 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 2: And so these spies are trying to talk Moses out 306 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 2: of the very thing that God brought them here for. 307 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 2: These spies are trying. 308 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: To, let me ask you a question. 309 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 2: What have you talked yourself out of that God. 310 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: Is trying to bring you into? 311 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 2: What are you talking yourself out of right now that 312 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 2: God is trying to bring you into in your relationships? 313 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 2: What are you talking yourself out of that God is 314 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 2: trying to bring you into in your personal life? And 315 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 2: I don't care what category you use. We've all got 316 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 2: something that we're talking ourselves out of. 317 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 1: The message God gave me today is that. 318 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:12,400 Speaker 2: You can talk yourself into it. Just like you've been 319 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 2: talking yourself out of it, you can talk yourself into it. 320 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 2: One thing I noticed about myself from an early age 321 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 2: is that I can be persuasive when I need to be. 322 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 2: And so sometimes in school, when I would need an 323 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:28,640 Speaker 2: extension on a paper I knew I could usually get 324 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:31,160 Speaker 2: one because I have this way of talking myself out 325 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:31,679 Speaker 2: of things. 326 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 1: To understand. It comes in handy as a preacher to 327 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:36,440 Speaker 1: be persuasive because you have to get people. 328 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 2: To do things that they need to do that they 329 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 2: don't want to do. And so you're trying to tell 330 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:41,159 Speaker 2: people to trust God and their finances. And problem with 331 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 2: that is they already feel broken. So now that you 332 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 2: tell them that they want to trust God with their finances, 333 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:45,919 Speaker 2: if they need to trust God with their finances, they 334 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 2: don't want to trust God with their finances because they 335 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,719 Speaker 2: don't have many finances. But you want to get them 336 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 2: to see that the reason you don't have any finances 337 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 2: because you're not trusting God in your finances. And if you 338 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 2: trust God and your finances, it would open your eyes 339 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 2: to the supply that He has available for you. And 340 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 2: if you see Khi first as his kingdom and his righteousness. 341 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: All these things. I'm preaching. My watch off my wrists. 342 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:04,399 Speaker 1: That's how excited I am about the Word of God. 343 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 2: Just hold it rus so I don't even want it back. 344 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 2: I don't even care what time it is. I might 345 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 2: preach through lunch, because there's some things in your life 346 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 2: that you've been talking yourself out of. One time, my 347 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 2: senior year of high school, they put me in an 348 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:21,440 Speaker 2: ap English class with Eunice Cox, and Eunice Cox was 349 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 2: rumored to be a tough teacher. But it's no problem 350 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 2: for me. I got this because I got the gift. 351 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 2: And so I came upon my first book report and 352 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 2: I wasn't going to finish it on time. I knew 353 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 2: wouldn't fish it on time, but I wasn't worried about 354 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 2: it because I could talk my way out of it. 355 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:38,880 Speaker 2: I've always talked my way out of things, speeding tickets 356 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 2: and all kinds of things I've talked myself out of. 357 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:44,399 Speaker 2: Why not this paper too. But Eunice Cox was waiting 358 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 2: for me at the door and she said, I noticed 359 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:48,680 Speaker 2: you didn't turn your assignment in. And I smiled real 360 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:50,679 Speaker 2: sweet because I got some southern charm. I grew up 361 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 2: in a small town. I know how to talk to people, 362 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 2: I said, miss Cox, I said I was going to 363 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 2: talk to you about this, and she said, I don't 364 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 2: want to hear it. And she said, she said, Stephen Furdet, 365 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 2: you have met your match in Eunice Cox, I said, 366 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 2: but miscop. 367 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: She said no. 368 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:19,199 Speaker 2: I said, but I was gonna no, And I said, 369 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:21,919 Speaker 2: I said, well, what can I do? She said, well you, 370 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 2: if I were you, I'd try to get a good 371 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 2: gread one on the other ones, because you did a 372 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 2: zero on this one, and you might want to bring 373 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 2: up your average. 374 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:33,119 Speaker 1: So now I want you to understand something. 375 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 2: When God called Moses, Moses was reluctant to do what 376 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,439 Speaker 2: God had called him to do. And Moses had a 377 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:46,080 Speaker 2: million excuses, and so do you Why you can't be it, 378 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 2: why you can't do it, why you can't go forward? 379 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 1: And it come on, how many of you are good 380 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 1: at talking yourself out of things? 381 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 2: How many of you, by the time I get done 382 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 2: preaching sometimes and you've even had your lunch, you have 383 00:19:58,359 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 2: forgotten what the sermon. 384 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 1: Is e than about. Shame on you. And I'm just kidding. 385 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 1: It's how it works. 386 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 2: We are so quick to talk ourselves out of things. 387 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 2: But when Moses started telling God, you know, I can't speak, 388 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,639 Speaker 2: and I can't do it, and I'm not eloquent, and 389 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:17,120 Speaker 2: I'm not trained, and I'm not equipped, and I'm not able. 390 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 2: God said to Moses, you have met your match in Eunus. 391 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 2: Cos you have met your match in the Lord your God. 392 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 2: Have I not commanded you? I don't even want to 393 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 2: hear it out of your mouth. Why you can't. I 394 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 2: am the greater one, I am the power within you. 395 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 2: I am the one who calls you by name. I 396 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:41,160 Speaker 2: know what's in God because I put it in you. 397 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 2: I know what you don't have because I left it out, 398 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 2: and I command you. 399 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 1: To be courageous. So it occurs to me. 400 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 2: That maybe the reason that God is speaking to Joshua 401 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:05,479 Speaker 2: on this level is because Joshua has seen firsthand the 402 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 2: devastation that it causes when God's people talk themselves out of. 403 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,439 Speaker 1: What God is trying to bring them into. 404 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 2: You know, those spies said to Moses, we can't do it. 405 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 1: They're stronger, they're bigger. And Joshua spoke. 406 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 2: Up and he got everybody's attention. The Bible says in 407 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 2: numbers fourteen six that he tore his clothes and said 408 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 2: to the entire Israelite assembly, Hey, come. 409 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 1: On, guys. 410 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 2: The land we passed through and its lord is exceedingly good. 411 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 2: If the Lord is pleased with us, he will lead 412 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:47,399 Speaker 2: us into that land, a land flowing with milk and 413 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 2: honey and will give it to us only. 414 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:50,200 Speaker 1: Do not rebel. 415 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 2: Don't do this, don't die outside of your destiny. Don't 416 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 2: let your fear keep you from your future. Don't be discouraged, 417 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 2: don't rebel. If the Lord is pleased, he'll leave us 418 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:09,159 Speaker 2: in land us sloan milkod out even give it to us. 419 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:09,400 Speaker 1: Only. 420 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,159 Speaker 2: Do not rebel against the Lord, and do not be 421 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 2: afraid of the people of the land. And stop get 422 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 2: forfeiting your future for your fear of people. Stop forfeiting 423 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:20,360 Speaker 2: your future, for your fear of failure. 424 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:21,880 Speaker 1: You hear me, stop. 425 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:25,120 Speaker 2: Forfeiting your future because of what they might think about you. 426 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,640 Speaker 2: Their protection is gone. But the Lord is with us. 427 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 2: I mean, you gotta believe down deep in your soul 428 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 2: that God is with me in this moment. He's with 429 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 2: me when I'm feeling, He's with me when I don't. 430 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 2: He's with me when I'm faithful. He's with me when 431 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,639 Speaker 2: I'm faithless. He's with me when I'm right. He's with 432 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 2: me when I'm wrong. He's with me when I'm a whole. 433 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 2: He's with me when I'm broken. Somebody shout, God is 434 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,160 Speaker 2: with me. Touch your neighbors say he's with you too. 435 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 2: He's with you too. No matter how hard Joshua tried, 436 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 2: he couldn't talk Moses into it. 437 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:04,160 Speaker 1: You know why, because nobody. 438 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 2: Can talk you into your destiny. But you touch your neighbors, 439 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 2: say talk yourself into it, talk yourself into it. 440 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 1: It is interesting that when God speaks. 441 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,920 Speaker 2: To Joshua, he tells him what to do, lead these 442 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 2: people to inherit the land. Now, the problem with a 443 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 2: lot of us is that we have shrunk our lives 444 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:34,879 Speaker 2: down to the size of our own personal interest. We 445 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,399 Speaker 2: don't have anything bigger than us worth fighting for, so 446 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:42,879 Speaker 2: it doesn't take much to discourage us. If I didn't 447 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 2: preach every time I don't feel like preaching, you would 448 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 2: hear from me three times a year. You know how 449 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:55,400 Speaker 2: I preach every week. I talk myself into it, and 450 00:23:55,440 --> 00:24:00,439 Speaker 2: I tell myself, there's somebody come into church today who's suicide. 451 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,680 Speaker 2: There's somebody coming to church today whose kid is on drugs. 452 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,680 Speaker 2: There's somebody coming to church today that has been told 453 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 2: all their life they're workless, and you get to tell 454 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 2: them God loves them, and maybe you can smile at 455 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 2: them and make them feel through your countenance that God 456 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 2: has not forgotten them, that he. 457 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,400 Speaker 1: Knows them by name. But by the time I stopped. 458 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 2: Talking to myself, I'm ready to talk to you. Now. 459 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:24,959 Speaker 1: We can preach, now we can do it. Now we 460 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 1: can go. 461 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 2: But see, you've got to talk yourself into your purpose. 462 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:33,640 Speaker 1: I have a purpose. 463 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:35,680 Speaker 2: I don't need to ask God to give me a purpose. 464 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 2: I have a purpose. You have a purpose to glorify God, 465 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 2: to be transformed into the image of Christ, to be 466 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 2: conformed into the image of Christ. 467 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,159 Speaker 1: It's not that you don't have a purpose, is it. 468 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 2: Every time God truest to bring you into it, you 469 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:52,640 Speaker 2: talk yourself out of it. 470 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 1: And so he says, this is not just a value, Joshua. 471 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 1: There are people to you. 472 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:06,440 Speaker 3: Your destiny is connected to something much bigger than you. 473 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,439 Speaker 1: So go do it and be strong and courageous. 474 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,160 Speaker 2: But God is a good coach, and a good coach 475 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,040 Speaker 2: doesn't just motivate you. He instructs you. 476 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,479 Speaker 1: Wow yea. And so he gives him the mechanics. And 477 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:20,880 Speaker 1: this is what I was excited about. I mean that part. 478 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,880 Speaker 2: I was excited about that part too, But I really 479 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 2: wanted to. 480 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 1: Show you this. He said in verse A. 481 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 2: Keep this book of the Law always on your lips. 482 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 2: This this stood out to me in Deuteronomy thirty one, 483 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:36,639 Speaker 2: I told you I have a lot of scripture today. 484 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 1: Isn't that kind of what you came for? Though? Okay, 485 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:41,879 Speaker 1: us are. 486 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:48,359 Speaker 2: In don me thirty one Before Moses died and climbed 487 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,439 Speaker 2: up on Mountaineebow, and he died. And God didn't let 488 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 2: the Israelites find his body because he knew that if 489 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 2: they found his body, they would continue to worship his bones. 490 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 2: Because sometimes the only way for God to get you 491 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,640 Speaker 2: to move past something in your life is completely taken away. 492 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 2: Before he died, he called the nation together, he said, 493 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 2: and he gave him a little speech. He gave him 494 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 2: a little talk. He gave him a little uh. He said, 495 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:09,920 Speaker 2: I'm not going into the land, but you are. Joshua's 496 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 2: gonna lead you. He pulls Joshua beside him, and he 497 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:17,199 Speaker 2: tells him be strong and courageous, for you must go 498 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,199 Speaker 2: with this people on the land. The Lord swore to 499 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 2: their ancestors to give them, and you must divide it 500 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 2: among them as their inheritance. 501 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 1: Not you may, but you must. Not you should, but 502 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:36,359 Speaker 1: you must, and you must do it. 503 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 2: And as you do it, know that the Lord himself 504 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 2: goes before you and will be with you. 505 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,199 Speaker 1: He will never leave you, nor forsake you. Do not 506 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: be afraid. Do not be. 507 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 2: So. When God speaks to Joshua after the death of Moses, 508 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 2: Joshua has heard. 509 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 1: This speech before. It's not his first time here yet. 510 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 2: But when God gives the speech, he adds one thing 511 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 2: that Moses left out. See, Moses told him what to do, 512 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:11,160 Speaker 2: told him why to do it. God showed Joshua, how 513 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 2: would you like to know how to keep yourself encouraged? 514 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 2: Because you need to know they aren't always going to 515 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:21,639 Speaker 2: text you encouragement when you need it. 516 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 1: That's part of being a grown Christian. 517 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:29,400 Speaker 2: You need to learn to encourage yourself. 518 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you. 519 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 2: Touch your neighbor and say, I can encourage myself. If 520 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 2: you encourage me, I appreciate it. If you're nice to me, 521 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 2: I appreciate it. If you say kind things to me, 522 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,680 Speaker 2: that's cool. But I need you to know that even 523 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 2: if you don't, if you get too busy, or if 524 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 2: you forget about me, or if you don't know what 525 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,399 Speaker 2: to say to me, I need you to know I 526 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 2: can encourage myself. 527 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 1: Greater is he that is in me than he that 528 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: is in the world. 529 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 2: I learned to encourage myself because I can't always count 530 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 2: on a text, and I can't always count on a hunk, 531 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 2: and I can't. 532 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,120 Speaker 1: Always count on a man, and I can't always even 533 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 1: count on my own friends. 534 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 2: But I can encourage myself. So God, God tells Joshua, 535 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,160 Speaker 2: He says, I'm not always gonna speak to you like this. 536 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 1: You know you have moments in. 537 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 2: Your life where God himself will speak to you, and 538 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 2: they're awesome. 539 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:24,160 Speaker 1: One time, I was. 540 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 2: Coming home to Charlotte when we were first starting the church, 541 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 2: and I was nervous, and I was afraid and discouraged. 542 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:34,879 Speaker 2: I was discouraged because people weren't showing up yet, and I. 543 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,040 Speaker 1: Was afraid because I didn't know if they ever would. 544 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 2: And so I was afraid and discouraged. And those are 545 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 2: two states. You cannot fulfill your destiny. And let me 546 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 2: show you something. If you are afraid right now, it 547 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 2: is not because the devil is making you afraid. There 548 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 2: is somebody on your road that has more to be 549 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 2: afraid of than you, and yet the confession of their 550 00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 2: life is I have fear, but fear to doesn't have me. 551 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 1: If you are discouraged. It is not. 552 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 2: Because of your conditions or your circumstances. They may have 553 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 2: been a contributing factor, but they are not the deciding factor. 554 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 2: Discouragement is a decision that I make. Discouragement is a conversation. 555 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 1: That I have with myself. 556 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 2: Discouragement is that thing inside of me that says this 557 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 2: is the way it will always be. See it's not 558 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 2: getting any better. See that woman right there doesn't like 559 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 2: your sermon. 560 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: Look how she's looking at you, and that guy's asleep. 561 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 2: Discouragement is a little voice inside of your head that 562 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 2: you listen to. And our problem Doctor Martin Lloyd Jones, 563 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 2: the great Welsh preacher, once said, our problem is that 564 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 2: we spend too much time listening to ourselves and not 565 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:50,080 Speaker 2: enough time talking to ourselves. Now, y'all are about to 566 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 2: think I'm crazy, but I talk to myself all the time. 567 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 1: How many of you talk. 568 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 2: To yourself all the time? Well, sure you do. 569 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: You've been doing it since you were three mm boom 570 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 1: boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom 571 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 1: boom boom boom. 572 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 2: But somewhere along the way between putting together legos and 573 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 2: the big one Gules hit and the widowing Gules hit, 574 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 2: and you talked yourself through it. 575 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 1: Now somewhere along the way. 576 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 2: You turned against yourself wood, and. 577 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 1: So now you're. 578 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 2: Listening to yourself like the sawmistead. He was having a 579 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 2: bad day, and so he started talking about the day 580 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 2: he was having. And he said in Psalm forty two, 581 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 2: verse four, he said, these things I remember as I 582 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,560 Speaker 2: pour out my soul, how I used to go to 583 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 2: the House of God under the protection of the mighty 584 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 2: one shouts of joy. You know, right before this, he said, 585 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 2: my tears have been my food day and night. And 586 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 2: he's he's in this cycle. But he did something in 587 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 2: verse five. It's kind of a strange technique. And and 588 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 2: and if you do this, people might think that you're crazy, 589 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 2: but if you don't do it, you really will be crazy. 590 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 1: So you can decide. 591 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,040 Speaker 2: Whether you want people to think you're crazy or whether 592 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 2: you really want to be crazy. Because he's been listening 593 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 2: to himself for four verses, he's been listening to his tears, 594 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,560 Speaker 2: he's been listening to his trials, he's been listening to 595 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 2: his past. But in verse five he totally shifts and 596 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 2: instead of listening to himself. 597 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:35,040 Speaker 1: He starts preaching to himself. It's very powerful. Why my 598 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:41,520 Speaker 1: soul are you so downcasted? What did you see the shift? 599 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,479 Speaker 1: He's like, I'm done with this. If I wake up 600 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,600 Speaker 1: in the morning and ask myself how. 601 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 2: You feel, I'm gonna be fifty to fifty at best. 602 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 2: So I'm gonna wake up in the morning and tell 603 00:31:55,040 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 2: myself this will change your life, and tell myself today 604 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 2: we're gonna be blessed today. We're going to be favored today. 605 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 2: We're going to be a blessing today. We're gonna take 606 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 2: new ground today. We're gonna encourage somebody else today, we're 607 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:15,240 Speaker 2: gonna see the goodness of the court morning, the land 608 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,520 Speaker 2: of the living today. Why are you so downcast on 609 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 2: my soul? Why so disturbed in me? And then he 610 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 2: does something very powerful. He puts himself in his place. 611 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 2: Puts your hope in God, for I will yet praise him. 612 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 2: Sometimes you gotta put yourself in your place. 613 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:37,880 Speaker 1: Sometimes you gotta. 614 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,760 Speaker 2: Make discouragement bow its need in the presence of God, 615 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 2: and fear must battle. 616 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 1: To faith in the presence of God. Somebody give him 617 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:56,959 Speaker 1: a praise right now, Hey, Joshua, here's how you do it. 618 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 2: Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips. 619 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,440 Speaker 2: There's a land I'm taking you to. There's a promise 620 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,360 Speaker 2: that I'm leading you to, but you're going to have 621 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 2: to talk yourself into it. Meditate on the Law day 622 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 2: and night. The Law was five books of the Bible 623 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,480 Speaker 2: that we have now, Genesis, Exodus, Levic as numbers do 624 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,760 Speaker 2: run me Torah. It was a bible that Joshua had. 625 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:33,880 Speaker 2: God said, your life will follow the direction of your conversation. 626 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:40,280 Speaker 2: Your courage comes from your conversation, so does. 627 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,200 Speaker 1: Your fear, So does your discourage. 628 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:48,400 Speaker 2: Man, not just your conversations with others, but your conversation 629 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 2: with your self. So keep this Book of the Law 630 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 2: on your lips, not just in your mind, on your lips. 631 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 2: The Hebrew word for meditate is haga, and it means 632 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,719 Speaker 2: to mutter, because there was a Hebrew tradition that while 633 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 2: they studied the text and reflected upon it. 634 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:16,719 Speaker 1: They would mutter love the Lord. You go your heart. 635 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:26,759 Speaker 2: See, it's not enough to read the Bible. You have 636 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:34,200 Speaker 2: to rehearse the Bible. Come on Gaston Campus. It is 637 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:37,719 Speaker 2: not enough for you to hear this word. It is 638 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:41,040 Speaker 2: not enough for you to listen to me. Speak if 639 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,560 Speaker 2: you are going to live in that place. 640 00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,680 Speaker 1: What place? I'm not going to the land of Canaan. No, no, no. 641 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 1: But God has promised you his peace. 642 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,040 Speaker 2: If you are going to have his peace in your life, 643 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:58,919 Speaker 2: you're going to have to talk yourself into peace. God 644 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,359 Speaker 2: has given you his If you are going to live 645 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 2: in courage and fulfill your purpose, you're going to have 646 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,520 Speaker 2: to talk yourself into your purpose. 647 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:11,920 Speaker 1: Keep it on your lips. 648 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:14,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, So what you need and I'm going to get 649 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 2: very practical now, because what good is all this screaming 650 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:22,759 Speaker 2: and shouting if the moment it leaves my lips, it 651 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:27,520 Speaker 2: leaves your heart. The way that you keep it is 652 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 2: you need a phrase to fight with. 653 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:31,719 Speaker 1: Hear me. 654 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,560 Speaker 2: Your mind is always going to be murmuring and muttering. 655 00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:38,600 Speaker 1: Have you noticed that? Okay, it's always going to be 656 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:38,960 Speaker 1: doing it. 657 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,359 Speaker 2: So what you want to do is take control of 658 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:46,200 Speaker 2: the conversation by the spirit of God. And the way 659 00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,440 Speaker 2: you do that, you need a phrase to fight the 660 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,799 Speaker 2: devil with. Here's my current phrase to fight the devil with? 661 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,920 Speaker 2: This How I fight fear because I have a lot 662 00:35:54,960 --> 00:36:00,640 Speaker 2: of fear. I know I'm not supposed to. I know 663 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:05,680 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of the church. But I get scared sometimes, 664 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:10,239 Speaker 2: scared of big stuff and scared of stupid stuff. But 665 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,080 Speaker 2: I have learned that if I'm in a state of fear, 666 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:16,480 Speaker 2: the reason I'm there is because I talk myself, And 667 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:23,360 Speaker 2: if I talk to myself, then I can talk myself. 668 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,680 Speaker 2: There are really only two fears. They all fall under 669 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,759 Speaker 2: these categories. It's the fear of falling short and the 670 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,520 Speaker 2: fear of running out. Any fear you have in your 671 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,839 Speaker 2: life falls into one of those two categories. If you're 672 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,799 Speaker 2: scared to lose a relationship, it's because you're afraid of 673 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,560 Speaker 2: falling short in someone's eyes, or you're afraid of running 674 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 2: out of love, and if they're not there, you won't 675 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:45,960 Speaker 2: have love. 676 00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:47,680 Speaker 1: Every fear that you've ever had in. 677 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,719 Speaker 2: Your life falls under those two categories. Fear that I 678 00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:52,960 Speaker 2: will fall short or that I will not be enough, 679 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,000 Speaker 2: and fear that I will run out, that I. 680 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,799 Speaker 1: Will not have enough. So, since I know. 681 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,960 Speaker 2: That the key to me person and encourage and in 682 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,440 Speaker 2: strength and in purpose is to fight. 683 00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:06,600 Speaker 1: Back, somebody say fight back. 684 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,239 Speaker 2: You are not going to take the land automatically, and 685 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,879 Speaker 2: you are not going to live in peace and purpose automatically. 686 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:14,960 Speaker 2: So I've got a phrase that I do, and his 687 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,000 Speaker 2: four syllables on the front and his four syllables on 688 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:19,880 Speaker 2: the back, and I did it in four. 689 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,200 Speaker 1: Because you can breathe in four times and breathe out 690 00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,640 Speaker 1: four times. So I do it all the time. And 691 00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,319 Speaker 1: the devil doesn't like it. He really really hates it. 692 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,600 Speaker 2: So I'm doing it more and more because I like 693 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:31,600 Speaker 2: to make it mad and I like to fight back. 694 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,000 Speaker 2: I like to let him know he can't just push 695 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,120 Speaker 2: me around and keep me stuck in the wilderness. And 696 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,200 Speaker 2: he's not going to have my destiny and he's not 697 00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:40,080 Speaker 2: going to disrupt God's dream for my life with discouragement. 698 00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,000 Speaker 2: And anytime he rolls up on me and tries to 699 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,399 Speaker 2: make my soul downcast, I got some for him because 700 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,120 Speaker 2: he's trained my fingers for war and my hands for battle, 701 00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:48,799 Speaker 2: and he will not keep me out of the land 702 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,040 Speaker 2: God's promise. He will not keep me out of the purpose. 703 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,359 Speaker 2: I am going to raise my kids to love God. 704 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,000 Speaker 2: I am going to serve God and my generation. I 705 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,280 Speaker 2: am going to complete the calling that God has placed 706 00:37:58,320 --> 00:37:58,960 Speaker 2: on my life. 707 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,319 Speaker 1: I am going to go forward in Jesus' name. I 708 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:01,719 Speaker 1: am going to. 709 00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:03,600 Speaker 2: Build the kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. 710 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,560 Speaker 2: I am going to see it come to pass. 711 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,799 Speaker 1: So I just do this. I say Christ is in me. 712 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,240 Speaker 1: That's the first half. I am enough. 713 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,000 Speaker 2: Why don't you try it? You know, if you send 714 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:21,400 Speaker 2: in a restaurant and so I says, here, taste this, 715 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,320 Speaker 2: taste this, taste this, you try it. 716 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:27,439 Speaker 1: Say Christ is in me. I am enough. 717 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:32,760 Speaker 2: Tell them to your neighbor, tell them Christ is in you. 718 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,480 Speaker 1: You are enough. I love people who absolutely refuse to 719 00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,759 Speaker 1: participate with anything you do in church. 720 00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:43,719 Speaker 2: Do they have a secret meeting before church? Where does 721 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:44,840 Speaker 2: this happen in the lobby? 722 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:52,360 Speaker 1: When he says, touch your neighbor, do nothing, It's okay, 723 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:56,359 Speaker 1: it's okay. Let's go for ninety seven percent participation. Okay, 724 00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,320 Speaker 1: I think we're about eighty. Touch your neighbors. 725 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,000 Speaker 2: Say Christ is in you. 726 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:01,760 Speaker 1: You are enough. 727 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:04,400 Speaker 2: Now you gotta get it in that order, because if 728 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,040 Speaker 2: you start with you are enough, it's just a matter 729 00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,360 Speaker 2: of time before you find out that is just not true. 730 00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,399 Speaker 2: They're stronger than we are. Yeah, but didn't you hear 731 00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:11,960 Speaker 2: the verse. 732 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:16,480 Speaker 1: Level Christ is in me, I am enough. 733 00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,080 Speaker 2: Let's take the volume up a little bit. Christ is 734 00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:25,120 Speaker 2: in me, I am enough. Think about that. 735 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,520 Speaker 1: Fear that you have. Look at it and say Christ 736 00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,520 Speaker 1: is in me, I am enough. 737 00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:35,160 Speaker 2: Think about what was discouraging you last night, robbing you 738 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,160 Speaker 2: of your sleep, robbing you if you're tolling, robbing you 739 00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:41,320 Speaker 2: of your peace, robbing you of your purpose, and shout 740 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,239 Speaker 2: it out last say Christ is in me. 741 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:49,600 Speaker 1: I am enough. Now, now break it down. 742 00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:54,839 Speaker 2: If you walk around shouting like that, it's gonna cost 743 00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,680 Speaker 2: some trouble for you at your job. 744 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:04,120 Speaker 1: So God tells Joshua. He says, keep it on your. 745 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:10,240 Speaker 2: Lips, as the background, as the soundtrack. 746 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:12,640 Speaker 1: And take it into any situation that you face. 747 00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:16,640 Speaker 2: I love it because God at once gives him a 748 00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,600 Speaker 2: big destiny. How many of you believe that God has 749 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,560 Speaker 2: a destiny for you? How many of you want to 750 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:24,239 Speaker 2: believe that God has a destiny for you. 751 00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,440 Speaker 1: It's kind of hard sometimes because. 752 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:27,680 Speaker 2: I thought i'd be there by now, and I'm not 753 00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:32,560 Speaker 2: there by now. Well, well, he gives him a big destiny, 754 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,480 Speaker 2: but he gives him a small direction. He said, for 755 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,759 Speaker 2: you to fulfill your destiny, you're going to have to 756 00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:45,360 Speaker 2: talk yourself into it. So I was flying into Charlotte. 757 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:51,720 Speaker 2: You can stand I'm closer. I was flying into Charlotte 758 00:40:51,760 --> 00:41:00,120 Speaker 2: one time. Did you get blessed by this word at all? Today? 759 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,680 Speaker 2: I was, I was flying into Charlotte one time, and 760 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:07,440 Speaker 2: I started to tell you the story how I was 761 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:08,520 Speaker 2: discouraged and afraid. 762 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:13,000 Speaker 1: And while we were landing, I opened my window. 763 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,799 Speaker 2: And I remember it real clearly because the guy next 764 00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:18,880 Speaker 2: to me had been sleeping and he was kind of 765 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,520 Speaker 2: mad when I opened the window. But I opened the 766 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:25,000 Speaker 2: window and looked out and it was a perfect setting, 767 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,200 Speaker 2: like the sun was setting. And remember I was afraid 768 00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:30,640 Speaker 2: and discouraged. And I'm not comparing myself to Joshua. Why 769 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,759 Speaker 2: I don't have some kind of grandiose idea of what 770 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:34,359 Speaker 2: God put me. 771 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:34,799 Speaker 1: In the earth to do. 772 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,239 Speaker 2: But you know, for my calling, for my part to 773 00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,680 Speaker 2: play in the kingdom, I take it very seriously. And 774 00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:42,480 Speaker 2: I believe that God has given me a promise, and 775 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,680 Speaker 2: I believe that God has given me a purpose, and 776 00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:47,720 Speaker 2: I believe that He desires me to live in peace 777 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:53,000 Speaker 2: as I fulfill that purpose and possess that promise. And 778 00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:56,560 Speaker 2: so I was we were landing, and it was like men, 779 00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:58,719 Speaker 2: like a scene out of Thomas Kincaid. You know what 780 00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:00,680 Speaker 2: I'm saying? Like that, do you know that the guy 781 00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:01,600 Speaker 2: who paints all this stuff. 782 00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:02,520 Speaker 1: It was like the. 783 00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,560 Speaker 2: City of Charlotte was bathed in the orange sunset. 784 00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:07,120 Speaker 1: And orange was our. 785 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,600 Speaker 2: Church color, and it's also the color of God's team, 786 00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:13,759 Speaker 2: the Clemson Tigers. And so these two things served to 787 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:15,520 Speaker 2: confirm to me that God, God was speaking. 788 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:16,360 Speaker 1: I just felt something. 789 00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:17,799 Speaker 2: I got my notebook out that I had and I 790 00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,080 Speaker 2: just wrote down, just fast as I could write the 791 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:21,600 Speaker 2: impressions that I was receiving. 792 00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:23,319 Speaker 1: As we were landing in Charlotte. And it started with 793 00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:24,960 Speaker 1: this idea, this is your city. 794 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:26,960 Speaker 2: I have given it to you for influence, not that 795 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,759 Speaker 2: it is in other people's city too, but just that 796 00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:30,480 Speaker 2: God had called me here. You made the right decision, 797 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:31,759 Speaker 2: you did it, and I want to give it. And 798 00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:33,240 Speaker 2: it was about a page and a half of stuff 799 00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,560 Speaker 2: that I wrote down, and a couple of days later 800 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,080 Speaker 2: I read it to our team. It's very encouraging, very inspiring. 801 00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:42,319 Speaker 2: The reason I told you that story is because I 802 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:46,879 Speaker 2: have landed in Charlotte many times since then. Almost every 803 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,360 Speaker 2: time I'm landing, I opened my window just in case 804 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,640 Speaker 2: that can happen again. And you know what, It's never 805 00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,560 Speaker 2: happened like that again ever ever. 806 00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:57,439 Speaker 1: I mean I've even put my notebook out and gotten 807 00:42:57,480 --> 00:42:57,920 Speaker 1: my pen. 808 00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:05,200 Speaker 2: Ready, and what I see is, but see, you can't 809 00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,239 Speaker 2: live in a place where you're depending on God to 810 00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:15,200 Speaker 2: always give you a sunset and a poem. And the 811 00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:19,160 Speaker 2: since I get from the Lord is I've already spoken my. 812 00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:20,200 Speaker 1: Promise to you. 813 00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:32,600 Speaker 2: Now you've got to speak it to yourself. There are 814 00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:36,080 Speaker 2: some promises in your life that you have not yet possessed. 815 00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,759 Speaker 2: And you're waiting on somebody, or you're waiting on God, 816 00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:41,960 Speaker 2: or you're waiting on a circumstance to a line. 817 00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:45,960 Speaker 1: It's not going to happen that way. If you are 818 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:47,480 Speaker 1: going to experience the. 819 00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:50,279 Speaker 2: Peace of God, it won't be because God gives it 820 00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:54,040 Speaker 2: to you. He's already given you peace. In John fourteen 821 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:55,600 Speaker 2: twenty seven, when. 822 00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:59,320 Speaker 1: Jesus, like Moses, was preparing his followers for his departure 823 00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,960 Speaker 1: and telling them about the Holy Spirit that was coming 824 00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,680 Speaker 1: and not only to live with them, but to live in. 825 00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,919 Speaker 2: Them, God told Joshuah, I'm with you, but God tells 826 00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,280 Speaker 2: you something even better. He says, I'm in you, Christ 827 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:15,880 Speaker 2: is in me, and I'm more than enough. And he 828 00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:20,320 Speaker 2: tells his followers peace I leave with you my peace. 829 00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:23,520 Speaker 2: I give to you. I don't give like the world gifts. 830 00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:28,120 Speaker 2: Don't let your hearts be troubled. Don't let them be afraid. 831 00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,600 Speaker 1: You see it, You see it. Don't let your heart 832 00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:35,319 Speaker 1: be troubled. Don't let it be afraid. Why are you 833 00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:38,520 Speaker 1: so downcast? Stop listening to. 834 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:43,640 Speaker 2: Your situation and start preaching to your situation. In the 835 00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:47,399 Speaker 2: name of the Lord, tripones will live in the name 836 00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:48,000 Speaker 2: of Lord. 837 00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,120 Speaker 1: The promise will come to pass. 838 00:44:53,440 --> 00:45:00,160 Speaker 2: So Jesus said, I have given you my peace. I'll 839 00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:08,080 Speaker 2: talk yourself into it day and night, the refrain of 840 00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,680 Speaker 2: my heart. You need a phrase to fight the devil with. 841 00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:17,400 Speaker 2: I'm not afraid anymore. I feel fear, but I'm not afraid. 842 00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,439 Speaker 2: He didn't say I couldn't feel it. He just said 843 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:25,000 Speaker 2: I had to face it. He didn't say that the 844 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:26,920 Speaker 2: fear wouldn't come upon me. He just said that it 845 00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:30,799 Speaker 2: shouldn't define me. Come on, I'm preaching to somebody. You've 846 00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,879 Speaker 2: been stuck, you've been afraid, you've been terrified, you've been 847 00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:35,960 Speaker 2: worried about it. 848 00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:36,760 Speaker 1: You've been stressed. 849 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,000 Speaker 2: But lift your hands in the presence of the Lord, 850 00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:40,640 Speaker 2: and say, Christ is in me. 851 00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,799 Speaker 1: I am enough. Say it again, Christ is in me. 852 00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:48,120 Speaker 1: I am enough one more time. 853 00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:50,200 Speaker 2: God said it three times to Joshua. 854 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,880 Speaker 1: I want you to say it three times too. Christ 855 00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:56,560 Speaker 1: is in me. I am enough. Now. 856 00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:00,520 Speaker 3: Clap your hands and thank God. Clap your hands and 857 00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:05,160 Speaker 3: praise God. Open your mouth and speak, pray, speak peace. 858 00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:11,640 Speaker 3: I will yeah, pray so my God and my God. 859 00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:14,960 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. 860 00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,719 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 861 00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:21,280 Speaker 2: this ministry. 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