WEBVTT - The Other Hand 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:04.680 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.200 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:10.520 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:12.600 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:17.200 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:19.439 I know y'all don't want to stand up anymore, but 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:22.560 will you stay standing for this scripture because God gave 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:28.560 us a good one today. Ah, God gave us a 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.400 good one today. You know how you were debating whether 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.919 to come or not? Can I go or not? You 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.600 did the right day, You did the right day, You 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:40.800 did the right thing. God gave us a good one today. 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.120 I shared on this topic with our kids Tuesday night, 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:45.600 and I was glad to and I thought it was 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:47.360 just for them. And I went back after I preached 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.720 and a few of my friends were here and all 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.440 my friends were crying and they're grown ups, and they 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:56.080 all said, that was for me. That was for me. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.560 That was for me. And then when I prayed what 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:02.440 the Lord would have me share with our church today, 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.520 he told me to give you this. So I'm going 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:11.720 to share this with you today from Exodus chapter three, 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:25.560 and well, okay, okay, okay okay. Exodus chapter three, verse nineteen. 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.399 Are you ready? But I know that the King of 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.880 Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:39.400 compels him. So I will stretch out my hand and 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:43.080 strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:55.040 perform among them. After that, he'll let you go. I 0:01:55.040 --> 0:02:00.960 will read this again and you will respond or appropriate letter. 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.440 So'll make me come through that screen. I'll come through 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.200 that screen and snatch you right out of your pajamas 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:11.800 and make you shout. But I know the Lord says 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.799 it's to Moses. Moses is eighty years old, and I 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.200 appreciate this to the youth because I'm hoping they can 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:22.400 get early when it took Moses his whole lifetime to understand. 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:30.519 And he's telling Moses the ambiance of a burning bush 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.440 that isn't burning up. It's on fire, but it's not consumed. 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:35.639 And he's telling him, I want to use you to 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.680 set my people free, and have an assignment in mind 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.480 with your name on it. But I know that the 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:46.359 King of Egypt will not let you go unless a 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.160 mighty hand compels him. So I will stretch out my 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:53.560 hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:58.639 I will perform among them. After that, he will let 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:05.320 you go. Now, if you have something in your life 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:08.720 today and it feels like it's got a hold of 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.640 you and you need God's help, it could be it 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.560 could be depression, it could be anxiety, it could be 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.720 a situation that's out of your control, but something that's 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:19.760 got a hold of you, like Pharaoh had a hold 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.359 of the children of Israel, and you need God's help 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:23.920 with it. If something's got a hold of you, we 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:25.320 don't have to say what. I'm not going to make 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.160 you say it on the microphone. Don't be nervous. I'm 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:28.960 not going to ask you to name it. But if 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.800 there's something that has a hold of you and it 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.680 feels like it won't let go, and you need God's 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.200 help today, I want you to raise your hand right now. No, 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:43.560 the other hand, the other hair. That's actually what I 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.920 want to preach to you about today. This message is 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:56.120 called the other hand, the other hand. God, I thank 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.119 you that your arm is not short. You can reach 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:01.000 everybody under the sound of my voice. Do it now, 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:08.240 Lord in Jesus' name, Amen, Maybe see it. Oh, I 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.360 was thinking, Chris, you know how we did in quarantine 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:12.880 where y'all woud stay up here on the stools, and 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:14.480 so I wouldn't fill a lonely up here preaching where 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.960 to go by myself? Can y'all come like for y'all 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.120 where you can bring with you? Are the stools still 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:24.240 back there? Did the youth X steal it and throw 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.279 them through windows for a segment or something like that. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.039 I don't know what they've been doing right here. Just 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:30.479 bring some people back. You want to come to Scott, 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.359 you should come, he should come, Skot coming fresh. I 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:35.920 did it during quarantine. I don't know if you're watching 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:37.720 it online. Did y'all stay connected during quarantine or just 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:43.960 watching that flips? And I would always have the worship 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.160 leaders stay up here. And it wasn't an aesthetic. It 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.320 was just survival, man, because y'all are so good to 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.880 look at while I'm preaching, most of y'all and then 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.039 I would say, well, I can't just do this without 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:57.719 someone to talk to. I can't talk to a camera. 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.080 So they became they replaced you for a little while, 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.000 but now y'all are back. But I thought it'd be 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:07.120 cool if y'all came out, so come on. We won't 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.839 wait for him. We'll just get started by ourselves. I 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.680 want you to go back in your mind, you're sixteen 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.640 years old. Close your eyes, you're sixteen. I do this 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.760 when I'm preaching to the youth. Before I preach to 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.599 the youth, I always put on the music I listened 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:27.799 to when I was sixteen, Pearl Jam, No Code and Okay, 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:29.640 so now open your eyes. So sixteen years old, you're 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.400 sixteen years old. I like to tell this story when 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.160 I speak to the students about one of the most 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.039 significant things that was spoken to me when I was 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:39.960 that age. Now, the coolest thing that ever happened to 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.839 me when I was a teenager is when Billy Joe Armstrong, 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.000 the lead singer of Green Day, called me on stage 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.880 to play his guitar at the North Trustan Coliseum. And 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.320 my best friend is here to verify that that really happened. 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.760 That was the coolest thing, Georgia, your dad was freaking out. 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.440 But the most important significant thing that happened to me, 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:02.960 at least this would be in the top three, was Well, 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.040 it's been twenty five years and I'm still telling you 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.200 about it. This is how big of a deal this 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:12.800 is that somebody saw something in me. Pastor Mickey, Pastor 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.000 Mickey White, I called him the other day and I said, 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.040 I'm still telling this story of when you came over 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.200 to our house twenty five years ago when I was sixteen, 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:27.200 because Pastor Mickey had just taken the job as the 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.560 pastor of Santie Circle Baptist Mission and he needed a 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.839 youth pastor, and he asked me to come work with 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.520 his youth And I think my mom kind of thought 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:40.640 that Pastor Mickey's church might be a cult. Oh y'all 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.240 have thought the same thing about elevation. You're sitting right 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:44.960 in a church you used to think that about, So 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:49.440 I'm going to look at me like that. But Pastor 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.560 Mickey said, well, I'll come over and talk to your mom. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.200 And he used to be in the autoparts business, so 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.640 he was a good salesman. So he has to convince 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:01.080 my mom for me to leave the Methodist church and 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.279 come over to the Baptist church and be his youth 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.520 pastor at this little church that was meeting in a 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.720 Woodman of the World building. And what made it more 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.680 dramatic is big, big guy pastor Mickey's what six six 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.720 sixty seven, he's in his seventies now. But he sat 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.080 down on the middle of the floor. There's like plenty 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:18.640 of seats open in the house, so I guess he 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.960 can at a Gandhi flow going on the floor. So 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.520 and he sits down, big old guy, and he tells 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.840 my mom, I've worked with youth, I've worked with kids 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.320 for twenty years, and God has his hand on Stephen 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.040 twenty five years ago. I can see it, can you. 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.720 I can see him sitting on the floor saying, God 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:47.520 has his hand on Steven. He said in a way 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.600 I've never seen his hand on any of the kids 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:54.960 that I've ever worked with. And it did the trick. 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.120 My mom let me do it, and I served as 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:58.880 his youth pastor. And I'm thinking at the time, like, 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.640 and this is a little thick. You're laying it on 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:03.560 a little thick right now? Does it really take all 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:08.360 that you know the most? But but what I felt 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:12.440 when he said that, I mean, on one hand, that 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.640 felt cool, But on the other hand, it kind of 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:21.160 was kind of scary. It felt like maybe it felt 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.600 maybe like I'm special, Like, oh, God's hand is on 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.560 your son. But on the other hand, I'm like, and 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:31.239 what exactly does that mean? And yet when he said it, y'all, 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:35.680 I can't exactly explain this to you, But inside I thought, Oh, 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:41.920 that's what I'm feeling. That's what I'm feeling. Because I 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.679 had made my personal commitment to Christ, not the one 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.160 where your parents make a commitment to raise you so 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:48.840 that you can meet Christ, but where you decide to 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.679 follow Jesus for yourself. I had to make that commitment, 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.120 and I sensed, you know, something is different. And so 0:08:55.480 --> 0:09:00.200 here's this man who has been in ministry for many years, 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.439 and he says something like God's hand is on Stephen. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.880 And when I told this story to the young people Tuesday, 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:08.880 I looked right at him as many of them as 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.240 I could in the eyes, and I said, God has 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:18.200 his hand on you. Because a lot of them never 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.240 had Pastor Mickey sit on the floor chrisscross applesauce and 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:25.760 say that when they were sixteen, and maybe a lot 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.440 of them never even had anybody say something like I 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.960 believe in you, you know. And I think, what a 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.559 difference would it make if they get the revelation right now, 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.200 not that they're going to be a preacher or a 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:41.520 pastor one day. That's not what Pastor Mickey meant. That 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.240 was a part of my pack. But he meant something 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:50.360 different when he said God has his hand on Stephen. 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:53.719 I want you to say that out loud, or put 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:55.680 it in the chat, whatever the case may be. But 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.040 say God, Wait, hold on, don't say my name, say 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:05.120 your name God, God has his hand on y'all said 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:10.640 that so quiet. It was terribly unconvincing how you said it. 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.240 You said it with the wrong voice inflection. Say it again, 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:35.640 God has his hand on God has his hand on Graham. 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:37.960 One more time. This time, get the name of the 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.079 person next to you. This might be good for like 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.760 little Starbucks after church if you're single or whatever, but 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:44.880 I'm not using it for that music for illustration. Get 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:46.679 their name real quick, and now say their name. Look 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:50.240 I'm right in the eyes, and say God has his 0:10:51.000 --> 0:11:00.440 hand on Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop. You need to hear that. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.280 You hadn't been feeling like that lately. I know you 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:05.680 hadn't been feeling that lately. It doesn't make it any 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:11.240 less true. He wasn't talking about a feeling. He wasn't 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.839 talking about something that necessarily has a physical sensation. I'm 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.199 seeing it in the chat. God has his hand on Dawn. 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.680 God has his hand on Leanna. God has his hand 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.360 on Esther. God has his hands on Say. God has 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.680 his hands on Adam. God has his hand on Peter. 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.640 God has his hand on me. It's his hand on me. 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:31.480 It's his hand on me. I'm glad Paster Mickey took 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.160 time out of his very busy life to sit down 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:39.160 on my floor and say something that bowld. I wonder 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.000 where would I be if I didn't believe that God 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:50.760 had his hand on me? And now I know he 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:57.080 was right, because now I know that the things that 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:01.240 I've seen God do through me had nothing to do 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:05.839 with me. So I don't mean to preach this early, 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.080 and I plan to pace myself, but I'm excited to 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.000 have some of y'all back in the room with me 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:21.600 my testimony that it was his hand. I didn't know 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.440 what he meant. It sounded good, it sounded profound. God 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.640 has his hand on Stephen. I thought that many just 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.520 wanted me to come over and be talk to the 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.160 youth and work with the youth. But twenty five years later, 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.720 I don't have to just believe it. I've seen it. 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:41.160 I've seen it, and sometimes it was confusing because God's 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:45.560 hand didn't always feel like a Swedish massage. Do you 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:49.959 understand what I'm saying. God's hand didn't always feel like 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.520 you know, I've experienced God's hand in so many different ways, 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.960 like the hem we growing up. Great is thy faithfulness, 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:01.520 Oh God, my Father, There's no shadow of turning with thee. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:08.080 All I have needed, Thy hand has provided. And so 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:12.920 many times I've seen God's hand like this, offering me 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.400 what I needed in the moment. All I have needed, 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:22.920 all I have needed, Thy hand provided. You'll know I'm 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:24.680 gonna come out of retirement and do a hymns project 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.320 one day. Great is our faith on this I know 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.120 all four verses of every hemn zeke you can sing harmony. 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.160 I'm gonna take the lead on those. Great is our 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:37.199 faith on us. All I have needed, not all I wanted, 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:45.360 not all asked for. Thank God. One of the things 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.560 I've become grateful for in the last twenty five years. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:49.160 Did he said, God's hand is on you is for 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:55.319 what he withheld. You know, you start off thanking God 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:59.120 for when his hand does this, and then you live 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:03.040 a little while and you learn to trust in Him 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:07.560 with all your heart, so you appreciate when He does 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:14.960 this too. I'm talking about his hand, because yes, He's 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.400 provided for me. I can tell you days and I 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.640 bet you've had them too. We're down to the dollar. 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:23.120 God came through for me, down to the dollar. I'm talking. 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.320 God didn't even round down. It was down to the dollar, 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.120 down to the decimal. There have been times in this 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:33.400 ministry where down to the decimal God has provided. And 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.200 it's not just money, and it's not just stuff. And 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.280 if you still think it's about bags and sneakers, you 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.360 need to be back at youth x because you haven't 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.120 grown up enough yet to realize that some of the 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.440 greatest things God will give you in your life. God 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.720 better not preach me on this front. Row some of 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:55.360 the greatest things. Now we're talking about God's hand. And 0:14:55.520 --> 0:15:00.760 sometimes it's like this, and he'll bring the right person 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.280 into your life at the right time, and you'll think, 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:05.880 how did God know that that's who I needed to 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:11.120 meet at this point in my life. And yet the 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:19.920 same hand that did this, well sometimes do this. They 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:27.760 stopped shouting Scottie hand like job said he gives and 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:32.320 takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Have 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:37.920 you realized that God's hand that does this, it's just 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:43.080 as capable when he's doing this. I was on the 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:44.560 front road of the Lord told me, make sure you 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:51.720 tell him I'm a gardener, and that the same hand 0:15:51.760 --> 0:16:00.520 that plants also prunes. Make sure you tell them that 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.600 the same hand that plants the seed of all that 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.120 you're meant to be and all that your life is 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:07.960 meant to contain and do for his glory. It's for 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.040 his glory. It's for his glory. That's why Pastor Mackey said, 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.080 God has his hand on you. Don't you think that 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.000 God gave you a gift so that you could use 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.600 it for your glory. It's God's hand on you. So 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:22.520 it's God's glory through you, and it's God's purpose. But 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.680 the same hand that plants do you all know the 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.840 scripture John fifteen, It says that every branch that bears 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:36.640 fruit he prunes same hand. The same hand his hand 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:41.920 does this. His hand sometimes does this taking opportunities that 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.800 you you thought, well, that's it right there, and then 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:55.120 God goes, nah, I know stuff all right, So praise him. 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:56.640 How you praise him when he does this, when he 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:04.560 gives you an opportunity praising him. Now, I'm gonna lift 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:06.720 your hands like you lift your hands. Can you lift 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:15.680 him when he does this? God's hand. Say it again. 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:23.639 God's hand is on say your name, God's hand. And 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:27.200 that's what the Lord told Moses. He said, I see 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:31.720 my people suffering. It's been four centuries, and I've chosen you, 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:36.439 the fugitive murderer who has forgotten who he really is, 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:42.240 if he ever really knew. But I've seen my people suffering, 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.800 and I know that it's not going to be easy. 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:48.840 So I'm gonna stretch out. I'm going to show you 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.359 the verse again because I learned a few things about 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.879 God's hand. I learned that God's hand is provision. I 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:59.080 learned that God's hand is protection. But I also learned 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:05.919 God's hand is power. He said, I know that he 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:10.560 will not let you go unless a mighty hand Verse nineteen. 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:16.879 A mighty hand compels him, A mighty hand, and the 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.880 mighty hand of God in the judgment of the Ten 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.520 Plagues against Egypt, was what God used to release his 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:27.760 people into ultimate freedom. A mighty hand. And the Lord 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.920 tells Moses, it's not going to happen in your own strength. 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.680 It's not going to happen in your own intellect. It's 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.080 not going to happen in your own ability or your strategy. 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:39.639 It's not going to happen even in the leadership gifts 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:43.200 that I've given you. It's going to take another hand. 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:46.440 And the thing about it is, this is what God 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:48.639 showed me. I was looking at the passage, and I 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.520 looked at it again a few times after I ap 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:52.399 preached it the other night, and the Lord said, you 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.680 miss something. I said, what did I miss? And he said, 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:56.680 you missed the other hand? I said, what's the other hand? 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:58.919 Look at him verse nineteen. He said, I know that 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:04.480 the king of Egypt, that's Pharaoh, will not let you go. He' 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:07.640 see it. I didn't see it either. He won't let 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:12.760 you go. That means your enemy thinks he has you 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:17.400 so strong in his grip, and he won't let go 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:26.160 unless unless there is another hand that has stronger than 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:30.320 his hand. So while you feel like the devil has 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.960 you like this, you know, let's be honest. A lot 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:35.320 of the chains in this room are forty two years old. 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.560 These are not saplings anymore. These are oak trees that 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.560 go down deep. I mean there's some real deep stuff 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:44.080 that's holding you in here. It's got you like this. 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:46.840 I mean by the throat, I mean it's got you. 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:48.879 It won't let you breathe. You try to move, you 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:51.360 can't move. You try to move up, you can't move up. 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.000 You try to step into a new opportunity, you can't 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.560 do it with a free heart. It's got you like this, 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:00.679 It's got you so strong. But God's to tell you 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:05.399 about the other hand. And this is what Moses needed 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.280 to know. It's no different for everybody in the room 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:21.879 today that your father is stronger than your pharaoh. So 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.720 like with Graham. With Graham, he wrestles me. In fact, 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:26.600 since you're here, you want to do it real quick, 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:28.760 just illustrated. Come here, real quick, come here, Come go ahead. 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:31.360 I'm gonna show you. He hates when I do this 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:35.880 because he's strong. Graham is so strong. He's thirteen. He 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:40.000 won the state championship for hold on for freestyle wrestling. 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.880 It was a small tournament, but it was still state championship. 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:46.959 And I won a state championship when I was in 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:49.399 eighth grade too, But there was nobody else in the 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:51.840 weight class, and so I won the state championship. So 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:55.560 we'll have battles, and I'll say old man versus young man, 0:20:56.280 --> 0:21:00.080 South Carolina versus North Carolina state champions And he's so 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:02.560 quick and he's so good. But what I do. I 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:06.840 got old man moves. I got old man moves. I 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:11.520 got pressure points I can do right here, see right there, 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:17.960 right there, that spot right there, right there, in my hands, 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:24.480 I can stop him. All I need is this anointed 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:29.359 forty one year old thumb, and all of a sudden, 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:32.600 watch this. It doesn't matter how much youth you have. 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:35.639 I will put my thumb in his tech right there. 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:38.239 If he now, I'll let him wrestle me. But if 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:40.520 it gets too rough, because he's getting too strong for 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:42.760 me to play with him, I can't play with him anymore. 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:44.919 He'll get on my legs so quick, and I'm not 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:47.800 gonna go out like that. I don't know who's videoing this. 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:50.600 I don't know if this is Instagram live. So sometimes 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:52.560 I got fup. Just put him right there, all right, 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:54.400 all right, you're done, go back down there. They want 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:56.239 to fight right now. I saw it. I saw him 0:21:56.240 --> 0:21:58.840 getting in his status. I'm not getting taken down in 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:04.560 front of the world. Ah ah, God said, I know 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:07.920 where to put the pressure. See that's why I'm God. 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:11.840 I've been doing this a long time, and I'll see 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:15.639 your enemy shoot it in on you. But when I 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:20.400 use my hand, I got a mighty hand. I got 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:29.080 a strong hand. I don't even have to flex I'm God. 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:34.840 So Pastor Mickey didn't tell me that part. He told 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:37.320 me God's hand was on me. I thought it meant 0:22:37.359 --> 0:22:39.920 God is my provider. I didn't know that the same 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:46.040 hand that brings provision also brings pressure. And how God 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:54.480 will use the pressure of life to bring me into freedom. 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:57.280 I know it won't let you go unless a mighty cant. 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:03.200 A mike can't mighty hand. Twenty five years later, I 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:07.280 can tell you that God has a mighty hand. Ten 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:11.080 plagues later, Moses and Pharaoh knew it's a mighty hand. 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:16.439 It's a mighty hand. It's a mighty hand. It's a 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:22.159 mighty hand. It's a hand that you can't always feel it, 0:23:22.240 --> 0:23:27.240 you can't always see it. But see, Moses was well 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:29.359 acquainted with this hand, whether he knew it or not, 0:23:31.440 --> 0:23:34.800 because when he was a baby, all the little Hebrew 0:23:34.800 --> 0:23:41.080 boys were getting killed by Pharaoh, not him. His mom 0:23:41.080 --> 0:23:43.960 made a basket and put him in the Nile River. 0:23:44.040 --> 0:23:47.280 This is ect of this chapter two, and the Bible 0:23:47.320 --> 0:23:51.400 says that that basket floated to the daughter of Pharaoh, 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:53.120 and she saw the basket and she drew it out, 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:55.679 and she felt sorry for Moses because he was crying, 0:23:55.880 --> 0:24:00.159 and she took him and God raised him. As a 0:24:00.200 --> 0:24:03.639 matter of fact, as I thought about that basket floating 0:24:03.640 --> 0:24:05.480 down the Nile River, I thought about your life and 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:10.639 my life, because what are the chances did a basket 0:24:11.280 --> 0:24:14.560 could float down the Nile River and miss all of 0:24:14.560 --> 0:24:31.359 the alligators unless there was a hand. I'm grateful for 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:33.639 God's hand how he guided me past certain attacks. You know, 0:24:33.680 --> 0:24:35.840 the same hand that did this sometimes does that, and 0:24:35.880 --> 0:24:42.000 sometimes God just did that with his hand. Anybody grateful 0:24:42.000 --> 0:24:51.040 for the times God did that and anxiety came for 0:24:51.119 --> 0:24:55.760 your life. You thought about ending your life, and the 0:24:55.800 --> 0:25:01.159 gators almost got you, but God's hand died that. We 0:25:01.200 --> 0:25:03.679 don't really even know how to praise God. When I 0:25:03.720 --> 0:25:06.199 say praise God, and I say, you know, what do 0:25:06.280 --> 0:25:08.719 you have to be thankful for? You don't even know 0:25:08.840 --> 0:25:14.119 the things that God did this and if he didn't 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:18.359 do this, you wouldn't be here. I'm thankful that he provided. 0:25:19.119 --> 0:25:21.560 I'm thankful that he pruned and took some things out. 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:26.399 I'm thankful that he protected with his mighty hand and 0:25:26.480 --> 0:25:30.560 an outstretched arm. God said, I see your struggle, and 0:25:30.600 --> 0:25:33.119 I know that it won't let you go easily. And 0:25:33.160 --> 0:25:35.680