Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation
Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope
Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to
Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.
Speaker 1: Also want to mention a few things that are going
Speaker 1: on in the church. Let's see our e Fam Reunion Tour.
Speaker 1: Our teams have been visiting cities across the United States
Speaker 1: this year, and I wonder if they're coming to you next. Now,
Speaker 1: put it in the chat where you want our e
Speaker 1: Fam Reunion Tour to come next? Put it in the
Speaker 1: chat and why they should come? Give us a good reason.
Speaker 1: Do you have good barbecue? Is there a mighty spirit
Speaker 1: of revival brewing in your city? Is there a really
Speaker 1: cool bowling alley? I don't know, but some reason that
Speaker 1: we should come. So far, we've been to Tampa, Houston, Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and Philadelphia. Over six hundred volunteers have showed up afterward
Speaker 1: to serve over one thousand hours. Worse, with our outreach partners,
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty five people have been baptized at
Speaker 1: our pop up watch parties. Next week they're headed to Phoenix,
Speaker 1: but we don't know where next, so you'll have to
Speaker 1: help us decide. Just put it in the chat where
Speaker 1: should we show up next? But I know that whether
Speaker 1: they show up or not, God is right there with
Speaker 1: you right now, so we're not waiting for next week.
Speaker 1: Somebody say, I need a word from God right now,
Speaker 1: right now, right now, right now, right now, right now.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to share with you today from the scripture
Speaker 1: that God has given us in Hebrews chapter eleven. Of
Speaker 1: all of the scriptures that God could have picked for
Speaker 1: us to study, believe he picked this one for us
Speaker 1: today in Hebrews eleven twenty three through twenty nine. You
Speaker 1: ready by faith. Moses's parents hit him for three months
Speaker 1: after he was born because they saw he was no
Speaker 1: ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.
Speaker 1: By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to
Speaker 1: be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He chose
Speaker 1: to be mistreated along with the people of God, rather
Speaker 1: than to enjoy check out this curious construction of words,
Speaker 1: the fleeting pleasures of sin. He regarded disgrace for the
Speaker 1: sake of Christ. As of greater value, of higher worth
Speaker 1: than the treasures of Egypt. Because he was looking ahead
Speaker 1: to his reward by faith, he left Egypt. Not fearing
Speaker 1: the king's anger. He persevered. He persevered because he saw
Speaker 1: him who is invisible. By faith, he kept the passover
Speaker 1: and the application of blood, so that the destroyer of
Speaker 1: the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel. By faith,
Speaker 1: the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land,
Speaker 1: but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.
Speaker 1: Now let me lift these two verses so we can
Speaker 1: get into our topic for today. This a word from
Speaker 1: the Lord today, it says in verse twenty four, by
Speaker 1: faith Moses, when he had grown up, and then it
Speaker 1: says in verse twenty seven, moved down, he persevered. So
Speaker 1: the message God gave for today. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you like it or not. This is a broccoli kind
Speaker 1: of Bible passage today. This is not briars. This is broccoli.
Speaker 1: But if you're mature enough to receive this word, and
Speaker 1: you've got all your molers and you could chew it.
Speaker 1: The Lord told me to talk about too grown to
Speaker 1: give up, too grown to give up. We need your
Speaker 1: help with this message. Lord, so give them the faith
Speaker 1: that they need. The faith comes from you. The faith
Speaker 1: comes from you. Even the faith comes from you, not
Speaker 1: just the grace. Even the faith must come from you.
Speaker 1: Impart it right now to every believer in Jesus' name,
Speaker 1: Amen be seated. Pretty legendary story in our family. Think
Speaker 1: it was about seven years ago. Me and Graham were
Speaker 1: watching some music on TV and I told him, if
Speaker 1: you name that song that that man is singing right now,
Speaker 1: I'll give you a thousand dollars. And I was bluffing
Speaker 1: because it was in the middle. It was a Jimmy
Speaker 1: Hendrick song and he was already playing the guitar solo
Speaker 1: and it wasn't on the screen the name of the song,
Speaker 1: so I thought it was safe. And he goes fire
Speaker 1: and that was correct. It's great an interesting dilemma, my
Speaker 1: integrity as a dad or my money. And then I thought, well,
Speaker 1: maybe there's an option, see, and I was shocked he
Speaker 1: got it. I was shocked he got it. I was like,
Speaker 1: how did you know that the song was called fire?
Speaker 1: He said, I just guessed. I still don't know to
Speaker 1: this day how he knew. It's a mystery. But what
Speaker 1: happened next is the stuff of legends. I said, what
Speaker 1: if I buy you a Clemson jersey instead? And he said, yes,
Speaker 1: I bought him a jersey, and I came out about
Speaker 1: nine hundred and sixty dollars ahead. It wasn't a real jersey.
Speaker 1: He was only six. From time to time he will
Speaker 1: still say, just out of nowhere, Ah, it's thirteen now. Ah,
Speaker 1: I can't believe I took the jersey. I could have
Speaker 1: had ten jerseys. Ugh. And I don't know exactly what
Speaker 1: stirs it up in him, this deep sense of regret,
Speaker 1: this bitterness toward me. But he'll sometimes put it in
Speaker 1: my face as in accusation, some kind of like a
Speaker 1: parental judgment of how could you take advantage of a
Speaker 1: six year old like that? But it's pretty common he'll
Speaker 1: bring it up. He'll bring it up all the time
Speaker 1: because then he'll say I was too young to know
Speaker 1: what I was doing, and you took advantage of me.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, no, I was just teaching you. It's
Speaker 1: a lesson. It was actually teaching you to value something.
Speaker 1: The problem is sometimes you don't really know what's valuable.
Speaker 1: You know, the old son that said, don't know what
Speaker 1: you got until it's gone. I would say, you don't
Speaker 1: know what you've got until you're grown. You know, you don't.
Speaker 1: In the passage that I read you, what got me
Speaker 1: thinking about it is that it mentions Moses as a baby.
Speaker 1: And the reason this scripture is so significant in Hebrews
Speaker 1: chapter eleven that this particular book of the Bible is
Speaker 1: because the author is writing to an audience of believers
Speaker 1: who are in many ways babies in their faith. And
Speaker 1: so now he uses the example of baby Moses. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw that. In verse twenty three,
Speaker 1: let's look at it again. It talks about how when
Speaker 1: he was little, and the Pharaoh had issued an edict
Speaker 1: to kill all the firstborn of Israel because while they
Speaker 1: were living in Egypt, they became very powerful, and he
Speaker 1: knew that if they became too powerful, they would no
Speaker 1: longer serve his purpose. Therefore, he set up a system
Speaker 1: by which the midwives, when they were delivering these Hebrew babies,
Speaker 1: would kill all the firstborn children. Moses' parents had the
Speaker 1: faith to see the purpose of their child, or the
Speaker 1: potential of their child, when he was still just a baby.
Speaker 1: And that's a beautiful thing. If you've ever had someone
Speaker 1: see potential in you before you saw it in yourself.
Speaker 1: That's a beautiful thing. How many of you ever had
Speaker 1: somebody that you just borrowed some of their belief in you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's an awesome thing. People like Aunt Jackie who told
Speaker 1: me God has a very special plan for you. He
Speaker 1: has a really special plan for you. And at the
Speaker 1: time when she was saying that to me, right, because
Speaker 1: that's something that sounds really good, is something that maybe
Speaker 1: you know, if you hear that in your own right,
Speaker 1: you could fill that with your own preferences of what
Speaker 1: that plan is. But she said it to me. But
Speaker 1: the beauty of it was that she saw it in
Speaker 1: its baby form. She saw it in its baby form.
Speaker 1: She believed in what was in me in baby form.
Speaker 1: And see, Moses's parents had the faith to see the
Speaker 1: significance in what was hidden. So I want to spend
Speaker 1: just a moment right now. This is not the whole message,
Speaker 1: but it'll set up the context. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about hidden significance, hidden significance and how some of the
Speaker 1: things that are most significant are hidden for the very
Speaker 1: reason that they are significant. In Moses's case, he was
Speaker 1: hidden until he was three months old, so that he
Speaker 1: could stay alive and God all and hides the most
Speaker 1: significant things in order to protect the potential of that
Speaker 1: thing until the time is right. Now. We know Moses
Speaker 1: as the red sea parter. We know Moses as the
Speaker 1: prophet who commanded plagues. We know Moses as the one
Speaker 1: who brought water out of the rock. We know Moses
Speaker 1: as the man who saw God face to face. But
Speaker 1: his parents saw it his destiny when he was in diapers,
Speaker 1: and they had the good sense to hide what was
Speaker 1: significant so that it wouldn't be killed before it had
Speaker 1: the chance to develop into what it was destined to be.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I teach my son about
Speaker 1: creativity is don't show people things that you're working on
Speaker 1: too early while you're working on them. Don't post everything
Speaker 1: that you are creating out of a need for instant validation,
Speaker 1: because it will short circuit your creativity to see what
Speaker 1: it could be. I have this rule about sermons. I
Speaker 1: never tell anybody what I'm preaching about ever. The reason
Speaker 1: is because if I show it to them before I
Speaker 1: really know it for myself, the look on their face.
Speaker 1: You know, there's this look that people get when you're
Speaker 1: trying to tell them, you know, I was gonna talk
Speaker 1: about Hebrews eleven, and you got to grow up in
Speaker 1: all this stuff and Moses and the Pharaoh and all that.
Speaker 1: And they look at you kind of like with this
Speaker 1: polite kind of confusion. It's a very specific look they
Speaker 1: get in their eyes, like I'm sure you'll do something
Speaker 1: with this. It's like a look that you give to something.
Speaker 1: It's like a house that's just like dilapidated, and it's like,
Speaker 1: I'm sure somebody could fix it up. I'm sure the
Speaker 1: bones are good, you know, And they look at you
Speaker 1: that way. So I taught my son, I said, never
Speaker 1: show your embryos. When God is doing something significant in
Speaker 1: your life, it is good for it to remain hidden
Speaker 1: for a time. How many would agree Moses was a
Speaker 1: significant figure in the history of God's people. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: pretty big deal. Maybe the most significant figure in the
Speaker 1: history of Israel. Maybe maybe. I mean. Hebrews eleven mentions
Speaker 1: a lot of them, mentions Abraham, It mentions Jacob. It
Speaker 1: mentions how you got Enoch who didn't even die. God
Speaker 1: took him up because he was pleasing to God. It says,
Speaker 1: without faith, it is impossible to please God because he
Speaker 1: who comes to God must believe that he is. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but do you really? And that he rewards those who
Speaker 1: diligently seek him. That's an amazing scripture. And the author
Speaker 1: of Hebrews, you have to understand he's giving us a
Speaker 1: picture of those who did not quit on what God
Speaker 1: called them to do. And to give us a picture
Speaker 1: of those who didn't quit, he shows us someone who
Speaker 1: was almost killed before he even had an opportunity to
Speaker 1: be called. The thing that I want you to know
Speaker 1: is that everything significant that I ever did in life,
Speaker 1: I was tempted to quit. I am preaching this message
Speaker 1: to somebody today who is tempted to quit on something
Speaker 1: God called you to do. And I understand how people
Speaker 1: love to take a sermon and put their initials on
Speaker 1: it for whatever they want it to mean. Trust me,
Speaker 1: I've seen it happen over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: So you haven't smoked in three weeks. But then I
Speaker 1: preached on don't quit, and you go get a pack
Speaker 1: right after I've reach because the pastor said don't quit.
Speaker 1: I know how y'all are. Y'all are real shifty. Sometimes
Speaker 1: with these scriptures real slippery sometimes with these scriptures, real
Speaker 1: manipulative sometimes with these scriptures. But please let us reason
Speaker 1: together at the mercy seat. I'm talking about quitting on
Speaker 1: what God called you to do. And the picture is
Speaker 1: of a man that God called to deliver a nation,
Speaker 1: but he was almost killed before he even had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to be called. And this helps me understand why
Speaker 1: some of the people who have the most significant purpose
Speaker 1: to accomplish for the Kingdom of God go through the
Speaker 1: heaviest attacks at the formative stages of their life. So
Speaker 1: his parents had had the oh Man the faith. It
Speaker 1: says they had faith. Everybody shout faith. Now, I'm concerned
Speaker 1: in the church that we have confused childlike faith, which
Speaker 1: is what Jesus told us to have, with childish faith.
Speaker 1: And these Hebrew believers, remember, they were just babies. They
Speaker 1: were still being weaned off the sacrificial system that Moses instituted.
Speaker 1: See in Moses' sacrificial system. You may know a little
Speaker 1: bit about this. I'm not going to go into great
Speaker 1: depth about it. But their sin was atoned for by
Speaker 1: the blood of bulls and goats. Their sin was atoned
Speaker 1: for by the offering that was made by the high
Speaker 1: priest who had to do it every year. And so
Speaker 1: the theme of the Book of Hebrews is that Jesus
Speaker 1: Christ is superior to the Mosaic Covenant, to the Mosaic Commandments,
Speaker 1: to the Mosaic customs. So we're looking at a group
Speaker 1: of believers who are learning a brand new way to
Speaker 1: do things and in their embrace of Jesus Christ. You know,
Speaker 1: in order to in order to walk in this new
Speaker 1: way of life that Christ offers, it involves a letting
Speaker 1: go of what they have known now that they have
Speaker 1: a new identity. See, they're transitioning their identity from being
Speaker 1: justified by the law, which doesn't work. It doesn't work.
Speaker 1: You can't even keep the speed limit. Please don't look
Speaker 1: at me like you can keep the law. Be holy
Speaker 1: as He is holy. So the law was just designed
Speaker 1: to bring us to the place where we would know
Speaker 1: our need for grace and receive it right so that
Speaker 1: you would quit trying to keep the commandments in your
Speaker 1: own strength, so that you could receive the grace of
Speaker 1: God the person of Jesus Christ. And this is the gospel,
Speaker 1: and it still works today. And you can be forgiving
Speaker 1: of your sin without a bull without a goat, without
Speaker 1: eternal God. I don't need another high priest. I don't
Speaker 1: need somebody to change their mind about me. Whoever calls
Speaker 1: on the name of the Lord will be saved. You
Speaker 1: can be forgiven right now. Not seven steps, not three classes,
Speaker 1: not ten years of sobriety, but right now. He can
Speaker 1: save you, right now. And yet they are being tempted,
Speaker 1: as God is birthing the Church into the world, to
Speaker 1: return to the thing that they were set free from. Okay,
Speaker 1: we talked about hidden significance. Let's talk about conflicted identities.
Speaker 1: It's when you're not used to the new way of
Speaker 1: doing things enough so you return to what you knew
Speaker 1: knew because what is new in that moment is costing you.
Speaker 1: It is costing you. The example of Moses is a
Speaker 1: perfect illustration of maturing. Enough can I preach about maturity?
Speaker 1: It seems like every sermon people want to click on
Speaker 1: these days is you know miracles? But what about maturity?
Speaker 1: What about maturity to know what to do with a
Speaker 1: miracle when God gives it to you, so you don't
Speaker 1: mismanage it. And in Hebrews eleven there is a picture
Speaker 1: of a prophet. Moses was a prophet. He's not your
Speaker 1: typical prophet. In fact, I thought the writer Hebrews was
Speaker 1: pretty nice to Moses when he explained his story, And
Speaker 1: I want to show you that now, because there's a
Speaker 1: lesson even in this. You know, all I'm deciding to
Speaker 1: do is figure out what not to tell you today,
Speaker 1: because there's so much good stuff in his So let
Speaker 1: me give you a contrast. This will be good in
Speaker 1: verse twenty seven by faith Moses when he had grown up.
Speaker 1: I read you this, but I'm reading it again. For
Speaker 1: a reason, he refused to be known as the son
Speaker 1: of Pharaoh's daughter. He chose to be mistreated along with
Speaker 1: the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting
Speaker 1: pleasures of sin. I can't stop there. Twenty six. He
Speaker 1: regarded disgrace for the sake of tribes as of greater
Speaker 1: value than the treasures of Egypt because he was looking
Speaker 1: ahead to his reward. Okay, this is a description or
Speaker 1: a picture of maturity. In Acts chapter seven, it tells
Speaker 1: us that Moses this was forty years old when he
Speaker 1: made the decision to be identified with God's children, not
Speaker 1: the Egyptians that were oppressing them. Now, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of great stuff in the backstory that won't make time
Speaker 1: to get into the message today about how his parents
Speaker 1: floated him down the Nile River in a basket, the
Speaker 1: same Nile River he would turn into blood eighty years later.
Speaker 1: He floated on to survive when he was a baby,
Speaker 1: And I thought about preaching faith to float, because sometimes
Speaker 1: you feel like you're floating between two things, waiting to
Speaker 1: see what it's going to be. And I thought about
Speaker 1: preaching that, But I have discipline, and I'm only going
Speaker 1: to preach one message today, and this message is about
Speaker 1: how one day Moses makes a decision to be identified
Speaker 1: not with the Egyptian who raised him, but with the
Speaker 1: parents that birthed them. This is not primarily a racial text.
Speaker 1: This is not primarily a nationalistic text. Conclusions could be
Speaker 1: drawn in those directions, but what's really happening here is
Speaker 1: about Moses choosing what he will be defined by. And
Speaker 1: I want you to realize in your life today that
Speaker 1: you have a decision about what you will be defined by.
Speaker 1: Even though his early life was defined by an assassination attempt,
Speaker 1: even through the trauma of floating through a basket, some
Speaker 1: of us end up in therapy because our pampers were
Speaker 1: slightly too tight. This man was floating down a river
Speaker 1: in a basket coated with tar. And even though his
Speaker 1: life began with trauma, he made a decision in this
Speaker 1: moment that I will not be defined by something that
Speaker 1: I have become bigger than. And this is where the
Speaker 1: significance of the text is in the detail It says
Speaker 1: when he grew up. When he grew up, I wonder,
Speaker 1: are there some things that God is waiting for us
Speaker 1: to outgrow that we are praying for him to remove.
Speaker 1: And the challenge of Moses's life is, in order to
Speaker 1: become what he really was, he had to outgrow everything
Speaker 1: that he had ever known. You see it in the text.
Speaker 1: He was raised as an Egyptian, but he was born
Speaker 1: as a Hebrew. And yet there came a moment of decision,
Speaker 1: I will not be defined by my environment. I will
Speaker 1: not be limited by my experience. I will not be
Speaker 1: affiliated with the events that brought me to this point.
Speaker 1: There is something that God is calling you to outgrow
Speaker 1: in this moment, and I wonder what it is. See,
Speaker 1: because until you grow past the point of needing God
Speaker 1: to change things, until you grow past the point some
Speaker 1: of us have to outgrow the need for everybody to
Speaker 1: like us or validate us in order to see what
Speaker 1: God has really put in us. He chose to be mistreated.
Speaker 1: He chose to be lonely. He chose to be a weirdo.
Speaker 1: He chose the uncomfortable space of growth. You know what,
Speaker 1: Growth is chosen, not change. Change will slap you right
Speaker 1: in the back of your head. Change will kick you right,
Speaker 1: you know how, you know anyway? Change will kick you
Speaker 1: in the shin. I'm editing as I go, I'm editing
Speaker 1: the sermon for consumption for the mass market. But growth
Speaker 1: is chosen. Growth is chosen, And in the moment he
Speaker 1: has a decision to make, and so do you, and
Speaker 1: so did the Hebrew Christians. Do we outgrow what we've
Speaker 1: known so we can become who we really are? And
Speaker 1: Moses didn't even do it the right way. In fact,
Speaker 1: in Acts chapter seven, it tells us that one day,
Speaker 1: when he was forty years old, this is Stephen giving
Speaker 1: us this information, he decided to visit his own people,
Speaker 1: the Israelites, and he saw one of the and being
Speaker 1: mistreated by an Egyptian. So he went to his defense
Speaker 1: and avenged him by killing the Egyptian. Well, that's one
Speaker 1: way to do it. You know, he feels something on
Speaker 1: the inside. He knows that he's not what he's around.
Speaker 1: He understands that there's something different in him than the
Speaker 1: people of the culture he's surrounded in. So he does
Speaker 1: something out of his impulse that is really an indication
Speaker 1: of his destiny, and he kills an Egyptian, and verse
Speaker 1: twenty five really got my attention. Moses thought that his
Speaker 1: own people would realize that God was using him to
Speaker 1: rescue them, but they didn't. So now we understand what
Speaker 1: it means to say that Moses chose to be misunderstood
Speaker 1: rather than to give up who he was. Grow up,
Speaker 1: Grow up? Why are we still in seventh grade and
Speaker 1: we are fifty three years old and we still filter
Speaker 1: the majority of our decisions through what will other people
Speaker 1: think about this? We spend money with that filter, we
Speaker 1: say things with that filter. We don't say things with
Speaker 1: that filter. Now, I think it's important to consider what
Speaker 1: others will think about things I do. I think that's
Speaker 1: why you brush your teeth, That's why you make sure
Speaker 1: when you go out in the morning, like there's a
Speaker 1: smile on your face. That's a good thing to think
Speaker 1: how your life is affecting others. But I don't think
Speaker 1: you should be controlled by it. Not as grown as
Speaker 1: you are. Are you really so grown in your body
Speaker 1: but so small in your spirit that one person's opinion
Speaker 1: can move you off your purpose. You are much too
Speaker 1: grown at this stage in your life to be taking
Speaker 1: your cues from a culture that doesn't even know Christ.
Speaker 1: And our growth has been so stunned. And I'm going
Speaker 1: to tell you why, because mostly what we have been
Speaker 1: taught is sin suppression. We have not been taught transformative thinking.
Speaker 1: We have been taught push it down and don't do
Speaker 1: that where anybody can see you, and don't tell anyone
Speaker 1: how it really is. So we push things down, we
Speaker 1: never deal with them. We never really know how to
Speaker 1: bring it to Jesus. And we've heard a lot about
Speaker 1: forgiveness of sin, but what about freedom from sin? What
Speaker 1: good is it for God to forgive me of sin
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna live running back to the same thing
Speaker 1: that He brought me out of. So now I want
Speaker 1: to get into a section of the message. This is
Speaker 1: going to go on my YouTube channel as a standalone.
Speaker 1: This is a little mini message within the message I've
Speaker 1: been promising this for a long time, and I'm an
Speaker 1: preach it right now. I want to talk to you
Speaker 1: about sins with benefits. Sit down and listen to this.
Speaker 1: In verse twenty five, it says he chose the reproach
Speaker 1: of God's people, or we could say he chose the
Speaker 1: inconvenience of purpose over the pleasure of sin. Anybody who
Speaker 1: says sin doesn't feel good didn't do it right. Amen.
Speaker 1: Everybody quotes this verse to talk about how sin runs out.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing I've learned about. We could call
Speaker 1: it Egypt. We could call it the place where we
Speaker 1: go to have our needs met. If you do not
Speaker 1: appreciate and acknowledge the need that a sin is meeting,
Speaker 1: you won't know how to get that need met in God.
Speaker 1: And you will come right back to it. Now. I
Speaker 1: know how that sounds. Appreciate my sin, My sin killed Jesus.
Speaker 1: How can I appreciate my sin? I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: appreciating the consequence of it. I'm not talking about willfully
Speaker 1: rebelling against God. Even the apostles said, where sin increased,
Speaker 1: did grace that much more increase? But shall we continue
Speaker 1: and sin that grace may have bound God forbid? How
Speaker 1: should we have died and send live any longer to it?
Speaker 1: But is the message that we're preaching in churches really
Speaker 1: helping people get free? Quit sinning? Let's put it on
Speaker 1: the church sign. Yeah, quit sinning, Quit cussing. You know what,
Speaker 1: I would rather you keep cussing and not quit growing
Speaker 1: than thinking that the whole point of the Christian faith
Speaker 1: is behavior modification. I would rather you. Now this may
Speaker 1: separate some of us, because some of us may be
Speaker 1: so addicted to the gospel message of quit sinning, quit,
Speaker 1: quit sinning, quit, quit, quit, quit, quit. But today I
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about the sin of quitting,
Speaker 1: The sin of quitting. Did you know that quitting is
Speaker 1: a sin. I'm not telling you not to put your
Speaker 1: resume out. Maybe you do need another job. I'm not
Speaker 1: telling you stand in an abusive relationship. That's foolish. I
Speaker 1: want you to be safe. But to quit on what
Speaker 1: God gave you to do and the deposit that He
Speaker 1: called you the guard is the greatest sin of all.
Speaker 1: And sometimes I've had to keep crying while refusing to quit.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I've had to keep wrestling. We have an epidemic
Speaker 1: in our world today. It is the epidemic of quitters,
Speaker 1: quick quitters. There is no value in what is lasting.
Speaker 1: The priority is what is seen. So we will quit
Speaker 1: something to appear knowledgeable, rather than staying and becoming wise.
Speaker 1: It's an epidemic. We quit everything so quick. If it
Speaker 1: doesn't get ten likes in ten minutes, we delete it.
Speaker 1: I'm too grown to give up that easy. The Bible
Speaker 1: said Moses was grown enough to know this is not
Speaker 1: who I am, this is not all I am, and
Speaker 1: yes it's nice like He wasn't given up a life
Speaker 1: of poverty and failure. He was known as the grandson
Speaker 1: of Pharaoh, the most powerful man in the world, and
Speaker 1: he said, I would rather give that up for what
Speaker 1: God has for me. I would rather give that up
Speaker 1: because he was grown enough to discern what's really worth it.
Speaker 1: That's what Graanma is saying. You tricked me out of
Speaker 1: my money before I was grown enough to do a
Speaker 1: cost benefit analysis. So there's a contrast. Let's study this
Speaker 1: for a moment. The Lord's been dealing with me to
Speaker 1: teach a little deeper lately, so I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: do that. Is it twenty five? Give me twenty five? Uh?
Speaker 1: Huh uh huh. That's it. He chose. He didn't chose
Speaker 1: who he was born to. He didn't choose what he
Speaker 1: went through. Chose his response, and he focused on his
Speaker 1: reward because he knew that the pleasures of sin were fleeting.
Speaker 1: Next verse, disgrace for the sake of Christ was of
Speaker 1: greater value than the treasures of Egypt. We really believe
Speaker 1: that the treasures of Egypt. The way that the world
Speaker 1: defines your worth. You know all about it is status oriented.
Speaker 1: It's all the visible stuff, it's all the external stuff.
Speaker 1: He chose something that he couldn't see because he saw
Speaker 1: something that others didn't. It said, he persevered because he
Speaker 1: saw him who is invisible, So his values didn't come
Speaker 1: from something that was visible. Now, the more tempted that
Speaker 1: you are to quit, the greater the significance. Nothing I
Speaker 1: ever did in my life of significance that I wasn't
Speaker 1: tempted to quit. Now, when I am tempted to quit
Speaker 1: on something that God gave me to steward, I realize
Speaker 1: that the temptation to quit is an indication of the significance.
Speaker 1: We see A lot of us are addicted to quitting.
Speaker 1: You talk about addicted to pills, addicted to porn, addicted
Speaker 1: to the bottle, addicted to this, addicted to that. What
Speaker 1: about the addiction that we have to quitting. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what that looks like. In my twenties. I was
Speaker 1: reflecting on this with Holly the other day. I had
Speaker 1: this almost like mafia mentality with people in my life,
Speaker 1: and the way I operated was and this will sound
Speaker 1: really weird to some of the people who I've been
Speaker 1: friends with for almost all my life, because I am
Speaker 1: a loyal person. Through a stage where in my immaturity,
Speaker 1: at the first sign of conflict, I would quit a friendship.
Speaker 1: That was a protective mechanism. I believe it was something
Speaker 1: that I saw modeled many times. I believe that some
Speaker 1: of that has to do with just, you know, like
Speaker 1: how my dad grew up and you see things, and
Speaker 1: I do believe that's part of it. I also believed
Speaker 1: that I was immature, and I believe that I was insecure,
Speaker 1: and so the moment that a friendship I'm using this
Speaker 1: as an example, the moment that a friendship would have
Speaker 1: conflict associated with it, it was easier for me to
Speaker 1: quit or to flee from the friendship than to face
Speaker 1: what I needed to face. Many of us, the moment
Speaker 1: that a relationship starts getting really intimate, we quit getting closer,
Speaker 1: and we will even design drama in order to be
Speaker 1: a defense mechanism from us really having to push past
Speaker 1: the surface and really let someone see us. I was
Speaker 1: too insecure and too immature to know that the richness
Speaker 1: of intimacy is worth the willingness to push past the insecurity.
Speaker 1: And God is changing me now because I'm growing. I'm growing.
Speaker 1: And you know, the funniest thing about us is we
Speaker 1: celebrate so much when someone quote unquote steps out in
Speaker 1: faith to do something new. But I was thinking the
Speaker 1: other day, sometimes the reason that we're always stepping out
Speaker 1: to something new is because we don't want to stay
Speaker 1: and really change. And I know this sounds weird because
Speaker 1: the passage is about Moses leaving each but it is
Speaker 1: written to Hebrew Christians who have to stay in their faith.
Speaker 1: He is using the example of someone who left something
Speaker 1: that was not really true to them in order to
Speaker 1: encourage us to stay with what's really worthwhile. And when
Speaker 1: you're tempted to quit, here's what happens. You only see
Speaker 1: the benefit of quitting because the devil knows how to
Speaker 1: hide the price tag. That's how temptation operates. And we're
Speaker 1: not mature, we're not grown up. We're still look at
Speaker 1: this in Hebrews chapter five. I gotta show this Hebrews
Speaker 1: chapter five, Hebrews chapter five. Because you can't quit. You
Speaker 1: can't quit. You can't quit, You can't quit, You can't quit,
Speaker 1: you can't quit. You can't quit because of this. Look
Speaker 1: what he says in verse eleven. We have much to
Speaker 1: say about this, but it's hard to make it clear
Speaker 1: to you. Does you no longer try to understand? You
Speaker 1: quit trying to understand the moment. It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: Sometimes if we are a sermon and it doesn't rhyme,
Speaker 1: and they don't tell us exactly what to write down,
Speaker 1: we don't even listen anymore. It's frustrated about it. I'm not.
Speaker 1: But the writer of Hebrews was you stopped trying to understand?
Speaker 1: In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers.
Speaker 1: You need someone else to teach you the elementary truths
Speaker 1: of God's word all over again. He said it, I
Speaker 1: didn't you need milk, not solid food? Anyone who lives
Speaker 1: on milk? Still being an infant is not acquainted with
Speaker 1: the teaching about righteousness, but solid food is for the mature.
Speaker 1: Watch this, who by constant use, have trained themselves to
Speaker 1: distinguish good from evil. Constant use, you can't quit every
Speaker 1: time it doesn't make sense. And for the love of
Speaker 1: Paul McCartney, you can't quit every time you don't understand something.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I said. Paul McCartney is a
Speaker 1: name in my mind, and that was a deep connection.
Speaker 1: I didn't follow it. I didn't either, But listen to me.
Speaker 1: He's talking about Moses, the infant that God protected, and
Speaker 1: how God protected certain things in your life in an
Speaker 1: infant stage because he saw potential for this moment. Don't
Speaker 1: quit before you get to see it, he persevered. Moses
Speaker 1: did because he saw something that was not a parent
Speaker 1: to the naked eye, the treasures of Egypt, the benefits
Speaker 1: of sin. I know it sounds bad, but certain sins
Speaker 1: meet certain needs. Don't you love to judge people. I'm
Speaker 1: just being honest with you. I love judging others. It
Speaker 1: is the greatest escape from having to reflect on myself.
Speaker 1: It is amazing. I do not recommend it because it's
Speaker 1: got a surcharge the search charge is shame. It's the
Speaker 1: hidden expense. Now watch what the devil would do. He'll
Speaker 1: try to get you. He'll tempt you with something. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about tempting you with something that
Speaker 1: you heard about in youth group. I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: temptation to quit, the temptation to stop short of all
Speaker 1: that Christ has for you. And in that moment when
Speaker 1: you're tempted to quit, he highlights the benefit and hides
Speaker 1: the expense. Because if you quit showing up, if you
Speaker 1: quit trying, here's what you can expect to experience. Relief.
Speaker 1: But relief is not freedom. We don't know the difference.
Speaker 1: We don't know the difference. So we run around quitting
Speaker 1: everything that would change us, running from everything that would
Speaker 1: revolutionize us, and resisting everything that God sends to grow us.
Speaker 1: It feels like freedom, but it's really just temporary relief.
Speaker 1: Sexual immorality is temporary relief with the price tag of
Speaker 1: permanent bondage. Gossip. Oh that was a quiet one right there.
Speaker 1: Did you hear all of the rhness in the atmosphere,
Speaker 1: The flowing of the amen says they see stuff. The
Speaker 1: immediate vacation from having to deal with yourself. What Moses did.
Speaker 1: He had the ability, even though he didn't do it perfectly, y'all,
Speaker 1: he murdered a man and God called it faith. God
Speaker 1: does not frame our mistakes like we frame our mistakes.
Speaker 1: And the process of maturity is learning to get from
Speaker 1: your father what you used to get from Pharaoh. Wow,
Speaker 1: that every need that sin is meeting in your life,
Speaker 1: God can meet it in a better way. That every
Speaker 1: need that manipulation is meeting in your life, God can
Speaker 1: meet it in a better way. When we manipulate things,
Speaker 1: do it in our own strength. Do it without praying
Speaker 1: about it, Do it without caring about others, Do it
Speaker 1: without considering the consequence, do it without being true to
Speaker 1: the integrity of who we are. When we manipulate something,
Speaker 1: we are trying to meet in need. The need is
Speaker 1: for us to be certain Faith can meet that same need.
Speaker 1: Faith can be certain that, no matter what the outcome is,
Speaker 1: all things are working together for my good. So I
Speaker 1: don't have to control anything. I can trust God in everything.
Speaker 1: And Moses chose, and you have a decision to make.
Speaker 1: Will I be identified with what I've known? Will I
Speaker 1: be known as where I came from? Or will I
Speaker 1: in this moment of my life, in this seat. He
Speaker 1: was forty when he got there. But you don't have
Speaker 1: to be forty. You can do it when you're fourteen.
Speaker 1: You might be eighty. You can do it if you
Speaker 1: make the decis in this moment, I will not be
Speaker 1: defined by my environment. I will not be defined by
Speaker 1: the events that happened to me. He persevered because he saw,
Speaker 1: He saw what others couldn't see. Therefore looking unto Jesus,
Speaker 1: who is the author and finisher of our faith, who
Speaker 1: despised the shame of the cross but endured it for
Speaker 1: the joy set before him. And I believe God is
Speaker 1: calling us into a season of greater faith than needing
Speaker 1: to see the reason. I believe God is calling us
Speaker 1: to deeper faith than giving up the first time it
Speaker 1: doesn't work out. I believe God is calling somebody that
Speaker 1: you cannot give up on yourself, because He has not
Speaker 1: given up on you yet. Because even when He had
Speaker 1: to track down Moses in the wilderness forty years later
Speaker 1: and bring him back to Egypt to deliver the people
Speaker 1: before Moses chose God, God jo's Moses. So I don't
Speaker 1: think you'll get to quit. You don't get to quit.
Speaker 1: It's not an option. The blood bought you, the grace
Speaker 1: of God called you. There's a hand of God on
Speaker 1: your life. His grip is stronger than yours. Too grown
Speaker 1: to give up, I've seen God do too much to
Speaker 1: give up. I've been too developed. He should have killed
Speaker 1: me when I was a little kid, because I know
Speaker 1: too much about God to walk away. Now. You know
Speaker 1: how many times I've had to fight to get to
Speaker 1: this pulpit to say something to you, and it would
Speaker 1: have felt better not to. You know how many times
Speaker 1: Jesus wanted to call a legion of angels to deliver
Speaker 1: him from the cross, and it would have felt better
Speaker 1: not to. Moses didn't make it all the way to
Speaker 1: the Promised Land. So the author of Hebrews wanted you
Speaker 1: to know when you're tempted to quit, and I want
Speaker 1: a minister in this moment. Have you been tempted to quit?
Speaker 1: Not necessarily quit like how people see quit, but usually
Speaker 1: you quit inside, and you quit in increments. I took
Speaker 1: Greek for two weeks in college. After two weeks, I
Speaker 1: realized God did not call me to speak Greek, and
Speaker 1: I went to the registrar and I got a drop slip,
Speaker 1: and I walked to Hal Freeman's office, and the moment
Speaker 1: he saw me walk in the door, he goes furred
Speaker 1: it and he laughed as diabolical laugh. He said that
Speaker 1: didn't take long. He saw the drop slip, and he
Speaker 1: tried to convince me to keep taking Greek, but I quit.
Speaker 1: I had to take it again in college, I mean
Speaker 1: in a seminary three times, three times. I finally finished.
Speaker 1: He said that didn't take long because I was never
Speaker 1: really committed to it. And I think it's shocking. One
Speaker 1: time Paul told the Galician church, I'm shocked how quickly
Speaker 1: you turn away to another gospel. I'm shocked how quickly
Speaker 1: you'll stop believing what I've spoken over you because of
Speaker 1: somebody else saying something different. You feel something different because
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen overnight. It took Moses forty years to
Speaker 1: grow to the point, and then forty more before he said,
Speaker 1: saw it come to pass. Wow, but you're too grown
Speaker 1: to give up. You need faith and patience. Faith without
Speaker 1: patience is childish faith. God sent me to tell somebody
Speaker 1: you can't quit. There's too much connected to you to quit.
Speaker 1: I know it would be momentary relief. But can you
Speaker 1: see past the expense to see the benefit. The Psalmist said,
Speaker 1: praise the Lord O my soul, and forget not all
Speaker 1: his benefits, who forgives all your sins, heals all your diseases,
Speaker 1: redeems your life from the pit, and crowns you with
Speaker 1: love and compassion. And I would rather go through a
Speaker 1: season of temporary uncertainty than compromise the truth of my identity.
Speaker 1: You're making a decision right now, and you've been really
Speaker 1: tempted to quit. Stand stand. You know what it shows
Speaker 1: me that you've been tempted to quit. It's significant what
Speaker 1: God gave you to do. I know, the stronger the
Speaker 1: temptation to quit, the greater the significance. You know how
Speaker 1: many times Moses wanted to quit once he started leading
Speaker 1: God's people out of Egypt. You know how many times
Speaker 1: he wanted to One time, I think he was ready
Speaker 1: to ask God to kill him, to kill them or
Speaker 1: kill him. But we can't. I can't keep up with
Speaker 1: this anymore. One time he got so burdened and overwhelmed
Speaker 1: because he was trying to do everything himself. He was
Speaker 1: trying to do more than he was made to do.
Speaker 1: A pastor came to visit me three years ago, and
Speaker 1: he came to tell me that he was quitting the ministry.
Speaker 1: I thought that he had had sex with somebody that
Speaker 1: wasn't his wife, but that wasn't the case. I thought
Speaker 1: he had maybe had a financial impropriety, but that wasn't
Speaker 1: the case. But the temptation to quit was from the
Speaker 1: strain and the burden of maintaining what he had built.
Speaker 1: And I think everybody can relate to that. I really do.
Speaker 1: So I said, why did you come tell me that
Speaker 1: you wanted to quit? He said, because I wanted to
Speaker 1: see if you could convince me not to. So he said,
Speaker 1: how have you done it? Fifteen years or at the time,
Speaker 1: I guess it was twelve, he said, and you didn't quit.
Speaker 1: And I wish I could have told him, because the
Speaker 1: joy of the Lord is my strength, and it is
Speaker 1: a blessing and a privilege to serve the mightiness of
Speaker 1: His splendid for his grace, and I just look unto
Speaker 1: him who is the author and finisher of my faith.
Speaker 1: But I had to be honest, I said every time
Speaker 1: that I was tempted to quit, Not only did I
Speaker 1: realized after the fact that it was an indication that
Speaker 1: there was something significant. There is something significant, There is
Speaker 1: something significant. They wanted to kill those Hebrew babies because
Speaker 1: of the significance and the strength that they represented. So
Speaker 1: after realizing that every time I wanted to quit, I
Speaker 1: realized it was time to shift, and that to keep
Speaker 1: doing what God had called me to do, I needed
Speaker 1: to shift how I was doing it. And he didn't quit.
Speaker 1: Not all stories have a happy ending, but the dude
Speaker 1: still went back and did it because he didn't quit,
Speaker 1: he shifted. I don't know what you want to quit today.
Speaker 1: Maybe you just want to quit trying but keep your
Speaker 1: body present. Maybe you want to quit really trying to
Speaker 1: love people and just become this bitter, cynical person that
Speaker 1: never tries again because people suck. Could you tell that
Speaker 1: was coming from a deep place inside of me. When
Speaker 1: I said I felt possessed for a minute, God said,
Speaker 1: don't quit. Shift. Shift. When Moses was overwhelmed later in
Speaker 1: his life, this was not the last time that he
Speaker 1: would have to make the decision when he was overwhelmed
Speaker 1: because there were too many people and he was running
Speaker 1: on empty and they were asking him for everything, and
Speaker 1: his father in law Jethro came to see him with
Speaker 1: his two daughters, and he said, I see what you're doing,
Speaker 1: and you're spread tooth in and it's not going to work.
Speaker 1: You've got to shift how you're doing this. You don't
Speaker 1: have to quit what God has called you to you
Speaker 1: have to shift how you're doing it. And I sat
Speaker 1: there with that pastor and we listed everything that he
Speaker 1: was doing that somebody else could do everything that he
Speaker 1: was doing. Remember, maturity is first and foremost the ability
Speaker 1: to discern what is worth it. And I bet we
Speaker 1: found seven or eight things that were worthless on his
Speaker 1: list that he needed to be weaned from so that
Speaker 1: he could have the strength to continue in what God
Speaker 1: has called him to do. Don't quit, shift, shift, shift
Speaker 1: into a new way of doing it. And this is
Speaker 1: the challenge to choose to go through a season of
Speaker 1: struggle instead of embracing the relief. He persevered because he
Speaker 1: saw him who is invisible. Do you always need results?
Speaker 1: Do you always need compliments? Do you always need a quicket?
Speaker 1: Or can you get an ugly dub every once in
Speaker 1: a while. I told Elijah, not every win is going
Speaker 1: to be pretty. Sometimes it's an ugly dub. Moses didn't
Speaker 1: do it just right, but he did it. Quit, and
Speaker 1: neither will you. God didn't bring you here to hear
Speaker 1: this so you could just quit in increments, you know,
Speaker 1: slowly withdrawing yourself from your own life until there's really
Speaker 1: nothing of you left, Slowly withdrawing from your relationships until
Speaker 1: there's no real intimacy, just the illusion of it. Slowly
Speaker 1: withdrawing your expectation from the gates of heaven until you
Speaker 1: no longer pray expecting anything to really happen, because you
Speaker 1: don't believe that he is or that he rewards those
Speaker 1: who diligently seek him. We grow in increments, we quit
Speaker 1: inn increments. And today the Lord said to tell you
Speaker 1: you're too groomed to give up. I want to pray
Speaker 1: for you. Now, stand up all over, all over the auditorium,
Speaker 1: all over Lake Norman, all over Matthews, all over Riverwalk,
Speaker 1: all over Winston Salem, all over, all over right there
Speaker 1: in your home. Why don't you stand right now? I
Speaker 1: want the enemy to see you standing. I wanted to
Speaker 1: know that you're still going to be standing tomorrow and
Speaker 1: the next day and the next day, and the next
Speaker 1: day and the next day and the next day. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I just hear the Lord saying, You're too grown,
Speaker 1: and I've done too much, and I've been trusted too much,
Speaker 1: and You've survived too much to give up over this
Speaker 1: father right now by faith, Like Moses, we want to
Speaker 1: see him who is invisible. What a paradox to see
Speaker 1: what we can't see, to believe what we can't understand. Lord,
Speaker 1: your ways are higher than ours. I bring before you
Speaker 1: all of your children, one by one, the ones you
Speaker 1: have called by name, the ones you have chosen, the
Speaker 1: ones that you have protected from their birth until this moment.
Speaker 1: And you saw their worth from the moment of their birth.
Speaker 1: You did not see it when the world converted upon them.
Speaker 1: It is not contingent on any behavior or performance, but
Speaker 1: their worth is great in your eyes. And yet they
Speaker 1: are quitting on themselves, giving up on themselves. We choose
Speaker 1: in this moment the riches of Christ over the treasures
Speaker 1: of Egypt. We choose in this moment the uncomfortable growth
Speaker 1: in our lives over the convenience and the relief of sin.
Speaker 1: I thank you Lord today that you have given us
Speaker 1: this message of freedom. We bring it all before you now,
Speaker 1: because we're standing between two identities too, and we need
Speaker 1: your help in these moments. God, that we would not hide,
Speaker 1: that we would not rhyme, that we would not take
Speaker 1: discomfort as a sign that it is time for us
Speaker 1: to leave. God, that we stand in this place. You
Speaker 1: have need of perseverance, you have need of faith. So God,
Speaker 1: we're not asking you to take away all of our problems,
Speaker 1: because I don't think that's the prayer you to answer.
Speaker 1: Would be nice, but it's not going to happen. Instead,
Speaker 1: increase our faith. We want to outgrow our insecurities. Until
Speaker 1: greater is He that is in us than he that
Speaker 1: is in the world. We want to outgrow what we've
Speaker 1: worried about. Is we worship you. No created thing, no
Speaker 1: created thing is is, no created thing has control over
Speaker 1: you or your will. And so God, right now we
Speaker 1: just we declare in the name of Jesus, the name
Speaker 1: that is above every name, the one whom we are
Speaker 1: identified with, the one who is seated in heaven. We
Speaker 1: declare that our identity is in Him, It is in you,
Speaker 1: and it is by you, and it is for you.
Speaker 1: We thank you for this word. Right now, I want
Speaker 1: to give an invitation for somebody to receive Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: as the Lord of your life right now. You've never
Speaker 1: trusted him for your salvation. You've never trusted him for
Speaker 1: the forgiveness of your sin. The Bible says that if
Speaker 1: you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and
Speaker 1: believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
Speaker 1: you will be saved. You will be saved, you will
Speaker 1: be set free, you will be made new. If anyone
Speaker 1: is in Christ, he is a new creation. And I
Speaker 1: believe this is a defining moment in your life. You've
Speaker 1: been running from God, You've been running from truth, You've
Speaker 1: been running from yourself. But God brought you to this moment.
Speaker 1: The situations and circumstances of your life have all aligned
Speaker 1: to bring you to this moment to place your faith
Speaker 1: in Jesus Christ, not by a pledge to do better,
Speaker 1: but by an open heart that receives the grace of God. So,
Speaker 1: right now, if that's you, right where you are, I
Speaker 1: want you to repeat this prayer after me out louding.
Speaker 1: God will hear from heaven, and he will forgive your sin,
Speaker 1: and he will cling you of all unrighteousness. Now repeat
Speaker 1: after me all across the church everybody praying out loud
Speaker 1: for the benefit of those who are coming to God
Speaker 1: Heavenly Father. I am a sinner in need of a savior,
Speaker 1: and I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of
Speaker 1: God and the savior of the world. And today I
Speaker 1: make Jesus the lord of my life. I believe Jesus
Speaker 1: died that I could be forgiven and rose again to
Speaker 1: give me life. I receive this new life. This is
Speaker 1: my new beginning. On the count of three, raise your
Speaker 1: hand if you just prayed that prayer one two three
Speaker 1: in the chat, say I receive Jesus. I receive Jesus.
Speaker 1: I believe that I receive the grace of God. And
Speaker 1: I'm walking in a new beginning. I said, I'm walking
Speaker 1: in a new begin Know who my Father is. My
Speaker 1: sins are forgiven, and we decree and declare over your life.
Speaker 1: The old has gone the news Colm, Let's give God
Speaker 1: a great sound of praise for all the souls coming
Speaker 1: home to the Father's arms. God, bless you. Thank you
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