WEBVTT - The Sticking Point 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:04.560 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdeck. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:07.040 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:10.400 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:12.440 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:21.960 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.360 Come on, everybody feels comfortable, just lift your hands. Everybody 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:31.640 who doesn't feel comfortable, lift your hands. King of King's, 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:35.760 Lord of lords. Jesus is your name. We bless you, 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:42.800 honor you, respect you, admire you, and adore you. But 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.760 really we want you to know that we need you. 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:52.479 We know that for the things that we encounter as 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:54.720 human beings that we cannot understand on the level of 0:00:54.720 --> 0:01:02.280 our existence, we need divinity. Would you direct the paths 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:09.720 of each of the precious people that you assemble together today. See. 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.080 I know that we think we decided to come to church, 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:17.040 but really you brought us to this place something that 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.840 you want to remind us of, something that you want 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.680 to show us, something that you want to reveal, and 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:27.039 whatever it is, clear out the debris of disappointment that 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:31.080 has accumulated in our souls this week a place for 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:35.280 your glory and your presence to dwell. We are your temple, 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:42.560 and we reverence you, and we worship you, and we 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:50.360 praise you in Jesus' name, and the whole church set together. Amen. Amen, 0:01:52.200 --> 0:02:04.520 come on, let's show the Lord that he's important to us. Well, 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.280 look at the person next to you and tell them 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:10.480 I love you so much. Tell them I love you. 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.840 Come on, tell them I love you like Homer loves 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:20.240 donuts on the Simpsons. Come on, tell them I love 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:28.400 you like Kanye loves Kanye. Tell them you're my number 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:32.040 one with the lemonade. Tell them right now, see if 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:35.079 they're saved. How many of you are saved delivered on 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:44.919 your way to heaven? Glad about it? God is so faithful. 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.040 We want to welcome all of our campuses. Let's do 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.679 that right now, Valentine. Let's welcome all of our locations 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:57.400 all over the Charlotte area Asheville, North Carolina, Greenville, South Carolina, Toronto, Canada, Melbourne, Florida. 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:02.160 Come on, let's thank God for Raleigh more a man. 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.120 Should we see who's watching on our epam our extended 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.760 family around the world. There's always many different cities in 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:15.240 states and nations watching somebody pull it up for me. 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.959 Go ahead and pull it up on the Elevation Church YouTube. 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.240 Make sure you go on the Elevation Church one because 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.840 it'll have the most viewers. You go over to Elevation Worship, 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:30.880 it's not as popular. So good, are you all gonna 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:35.840 get that new song? You never lost a battle? Are 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.480 you gonna get that on Friday? Make sure you get 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:43.200 that stream that that's gonna be so good. You can 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.200 just get it stuck in your head all the time. 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.360 Now how many you'll have that song stuck in your head? 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.160 We didn't sing it today, but which seems like a 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.760 strategic misfire that we're releasing it Friday and we didn't 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:57.560 sing it today. But anyway, it's a good song to 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.520 get stuck in your head. But I promise you your 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.800 wife would rather hear Tiffany and Chris sing it than you. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:07.200 You can't sing, So download it, stream it and play it. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.520 Let the professionals do it. You can sing along. Tell 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:18.920 me where you're watching from on the comments of YouTube. Oakland, California, Wisconsin, Seattle, Nigeria, Rockwell, 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:23.599 North Carolina. You have been to Rockwell? Have you heard 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:30.720 of it? I had neither. Uh Indiana Charlotte supposed to 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:35.560 be at church. You better have the flu and measles, 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:46.760 the mumps, the shingles or something. Uganda, Atlanta, Chicago, Pennsylvania, Brazil, Baltimore. 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:54.560 It's so fast, it's scrolling so fast. Guatemala, Dominican, Indonesia. 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.400 Ask somebody, where did you come from? And what are 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.640 you cooking for lunch? Cannot come over? Ask them that 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:03.080 real Quie way, hey man, welcome our Epham around the world. 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.960 Let's give out. Let's give out seventeen hunks on our 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:33.480 way down to our seat? Can we do that? Are 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:38.520 you ready for the Word of God? Come on list? 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:46.760 Thank God for the worship team. It's the reason I 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:48.640 said that I don't know how else to transition them 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.160 off the stage, and I want to have to awkwardly 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.080 you can be seen. I want to talk to you 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.679 about something today that came up. In a creative team meeting, 0:05:56.600 --> 0:06:01.040 I was asked the question about songwriting and sermon writing, 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:05.360 which one do I enjoy more, to which I responded, 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.120 it depends on what part of the process you catch 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:12.640 me during, because there are certain times where a sermon 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.720 idea will come to me and I will feel enlightened 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:21.720 and spiritual and confident, can't wait to preach it, Get 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.680 me a new nine volte battery in my microphone, and 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:28.120 gather the people. I have something to say from heaven. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.599 Then five minutes later, I look at the same idea 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:35.880 and it just seems so ridiculous and simple and basic. 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.800 And I basically tell y'all everything I know every week. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:42.719 I'm just waiting on you to actually do it one time. 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.200 Just kidding. You're great, You're growing. I know you're disciple. 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:53.839 But it's like the process of creativity. It has certain 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:55.640 points in it. When I was talking about it, I 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.920 called it the sticking points, and as I talked to 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.520 about that creatively, I want to speak about it today. 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.159 That's the title of my message, is called the sticking point. 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:10.080 Because everything that you love in life is going to 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.440 have a part of the process that you don't like 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:16.760 and a part that is going to tempt you to quit. 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.800 And it doesn't mean you don't love it. I don't 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:22.800 know when we started thinking that we have to love 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.840 everything or like everything all the time. You know, I 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.280 quit my job because I wasn't feeling it. Well, were 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:34.320 you feeling indoor plumbing? Go back to work and pay 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.560 your bills, and I have to love everything all the time, 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.320 you know, because everything that you love is going to 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:44.280 have a part. I called it the sticking point. It's 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:50.760 going to have a part or parts that you don't prefer. Okay, 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:52.240 I can't tell if you're with me yet. Let me 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.040 take this a level deeper. Every person that you love, 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:04.520 look straight ahead, is going to have some parts that 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.880 you don't prefer. I'm gonna say it that way. It's 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.520 gentler than saying that you don't like or that you 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:15.760 want to change. Not me. I love everything about him 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:23.200 you're dating. It's been two weeks. I can tell because 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.480 every person. And there's a parable about this. Jesus said 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.960 that the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:33.839 found a treasure and was excited, and so he liked 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.400 the treasure so much that he sold everything and bought 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:40.000 the field that the treasure was in. So if you 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:45.720 want the treasure, you've got to buy the field. This 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:52.200 isn't going good. We want the treasure, not the dirt 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:57.320 that comes around it. We want the treasure or the blessings, 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:02.000 or sometimes we want those thosefo moments. But even if 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:06.800 you love your marriage, there will be sometimes where you 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:11.320 just want to control the TV without any voting. You know, 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.720 even if you love your kids, there will be times 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:20.280 where you will secretly google adoption agencies to see I've 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.840 never actually done that. For the record, I'm getting hate mail. 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:29.560 But everything you love. Even preaching, there's times when when 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:33.440 I'm preaching that I feel the spirit. And then there's 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.720 times where I look at the wrong person in the 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:41.640 room and I feel another spirit, the spirit of stress, 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:45.320 the spirit of Aland even people will walk out sometimes 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.439 while you're preaching, and I called it when I was 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.840 talking to them, the sticking point. It's the moment where 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.760 you start to doubt what you were so secure in. 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:59.040 It's the moment where your mood doesn't match your mission, 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.720 but you've got to push through anyway because you've got 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:06.680 something important to do. It's the moment where, oh, I 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.760 didn't know that about you. When I said I'd do well, 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:16.400 you did, and now you do. The sticking point. For 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:21.400 a scriptural example, I thought of no better passage than 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:25.560 the classic Exodus, where God led his people out of 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:30.720 Egypt through the Red Sea. Did you notice what I said? 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:35.480 Am I set up through the Red Sea, not over 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:41.840 it on a boat? But through it on foot. You 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.160 are going through something right now, you are at a 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.720 sticking point. I don't know if it is a state 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:53.040 of mind, because sometimes we are stuck not in our situation, 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:58.560 but in our state of mind. Even recently, Holly pulled 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.520 up a picture from a few years ago when we 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:05.000 were flying home from Seattle and we got stuck in 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:09.240 Chicago overnight on a layover. We were laughing because we 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.359 were in such a bad mood. We were just remembering 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:17.439 how late it was. It was probably ten o'clock at night, 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.040 but let's make it two in the morning, just for 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:24.040 dramatic effect on the story, creative license. But it was late, 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.360 and our bags were checked and we had no clean underwear, 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.920 and we checked into this horrible hotel that American Airlines 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.640 had put on and we were stuck in Chicago, and 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.960 we were laughing about that. We weren't laughing when it happened. 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.160 We were laughing looking at when it happened, you know, 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.280 two or three years ago. And remember that when we 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.520 got stuck in Chicago. Well, why were we stuck in Chicago? 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.719 Technically American Airlines. But if you take it apart a 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:54.080 little bit more, the city of Chicago is a city 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:58.080 that we like. We had visited there by choice before 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:03.440 when I preached for Steve Munsey and Jmatt. We stayed 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:07.440 over two extra days just so we could shop and 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:11.000 watch the Cobs. We we had a good time too. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:14.720 We ate deep dish pizza. This was in my early 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:16.520 thirties when I could do it and just plank a 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.360 little bit and it will fall right off. But we 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.960 did some. We had marital enrichment in the hotel room 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.840 on that trip. That was a good trip. So there's 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:32.240 nothing wrong with Chicago. It wasn't. It wasn't Chicago. It 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:39.240 wasn't like it was Des Moines. I loved Yll so much. 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:43.280 You're so triggered my hands from there. When's the last 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:47.520 time you went to see her? Huh huh. It wasn't. 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.440 It wasn't the situation that we were stuck in. The 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:55.679 reason we called it stuck is because it wasn't on 0:12:55.720 --> 0:13:02.360 our schedule. You better get to the text. Verdict Exodus, 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:07.440 chapter fourteen, verse ten. The Israelites are leaving Egypt right 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:11.800 God heard their cry. They were stuck as slaves for 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:18.560 four centuries serving Pharaoh, who had taken away their building materials. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:23.800 Increasing their requirements while reducing their resources. So they're stuck, 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:28.240 and God hears them, and God breaks through, and God 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.760 uses Moses to lead them out, because there comes a 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:36.280 period where God sees you stuck and realizes that you 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:40.040 cannot get yourself out of the situation. So he said, 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.840 I've heard the cries of my people, and I have 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:46.120 come down to visit them. And when he chose Moses 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.760 to do it, he knew all about Moses's brokenness, and 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:53.600 he knew all about Moses' reluctance. And he led them out, 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:57.080 and he compelled Pharaoh to let them go, not the 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:01.400 first time, not the second time, but after ten plagues 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:05.960 of negotiation. You know, sticking point is a negotiation term. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.640 They talk about it in business. Well, we almost had 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:12.160 the deal done, but then the asking price was a 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.120 sticking point because they wouldn't let me finance it over 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:16.760 five years. They wanted me to pay it off in 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.760 three or or they wanted me to leave the septic tank, 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:21.360 and I wanted to dig it out and take it 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.600 with me. We hit a sticking point. You know, you 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:25.960 hit a sticking point in your faith, you hit a 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.160 sticking point in a relationship, You hit a sticking point 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.280 in your life, and you've come as far as you 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.440 can come. And then God comes down and he sees 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.400 you struggling, and he does for you what you cannot 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:42.120 do for you. And then don't shout. You come to 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:49.600 something that wasn't on your schedule. Exitus fourteen, verse ten, 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.440 when Pharaoh drew near. Wait, what's Pharaoh doing in the picture? 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:58.480 I thought we were done with him? No, okay? Can 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:02.160 I preach on half of a verse? Y'all got anything 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:06.240 to do after this? Or should we just? Okay? Complete 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.960 the sentence? If you grew up in church, complete the sentence. 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:17.160 Where God guides, he provides. True, let me add to it. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:24.120 Where God doesn't guide, he still provides because He's so good. 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.120 Have you ever had God bless you when you were 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:33.920 going backwards and doing the wrong stuff? There's angels in 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:38.120 this section over here? Have you ever Elijah in the Bible, 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:42.560 he was running from Jezebel in the wrong direction from 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:46.640 his assignment. He lay down and wanted to die, even 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.400 though he had seen God do great things, and the 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.880 Angel made him a cake. He was going away from 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:57.120 his assignment, and God fed him with an angel food cake. Now, 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.800 don't look at me like the reason that you always 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.320 it's because you were always good. Some of you know 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:07.240 that you didn't deserve it. You didn't earn it, you 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.720 didn't pray enough to get it. You didn't quote Philipians, 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.160 you didn't always take the right turn or follow the 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:18.240 north star. But God tracked you down under a broom 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:22.400 tree and bless you anyway. I need some people who 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:26.200 are blessed anyway to shout, just ten seconds, just shout, 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:37.920 because He fed you even as you fled from him. 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.520 So where God guides, he provides. But even where God 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:42.880 doesn't God he'll still take care of you because you're his. 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:47.520 And then I wanted to add one more. See if 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:51.840 you could put this on Pinterest. Okay, because they're leaving Egypt, 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:57.360 here comes Pharaoh, their enemy behind them. They hear clickety clack, 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:04.520 clickety clack, clickety clack. That's Pharaoh's Lamborghini's. These are fast 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:08.359 cheeriots because they're here Pharaoh's best and they're being chased 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.920 down on their way out. And so they turn around 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.360 and see something that they can't go back to, look 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:19.480 forward and see something that they can't get over. Now 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:26.560 they got to go through it because where God guides. Now, 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:33.400 not that one, this one where God guides Pharaoh follows. Wow, 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.600 And so in negotiation terms, they've reached a sticking point. 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.920 Because here's a little business tactic. Okay, I'm gonna do 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.159 a seminar on negotiating right now. I'm not gonna charge you. 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:51.600 It's not forty nine dollars. You could just listen. If 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:55.359 someone is holding on to something in a negotiation, that 0:17:55.440 --> 0:18:01.560 means it's valuable. If they don't let it go easy, 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:05.720 that means it has great worth. I don't know who 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.879 I'm preaching to, but the devil hasn't been letting you 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:12.760 go easy. You've been trying to shake this for a 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:18.000 long time. And the reason, maybe the reason, if the 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.600 devil is real, and if destiny is a fact and 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:24.280 not just a concept or a fantasy, maybe the reason 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.280 that it's been so difficult for it to let you 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:35.120 go is because what you carry is of such great value. 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.400 I believe this in my core. Some of you are 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:43.080 at a sticking point right now, and Pharaoh won't let 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:47.880 you go easy because once you get through this, there 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:59.560 is great glory after this. If you're ever, if you're 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:01.640 ever in them stating with someone and they're like, oh, yeah, 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:05.040 I'll throw it in. It's nothing. Hey, you can have 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:08.280 that too, it's nothing. But if they ever pull it back, 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.280 you know, every time you try to get out of 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.240 depression and addiction and you try to stop with the pills, 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:15.040 and you try to stop with the porn, and you 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:22.400 try to stop with the complaint, this is a sticking 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.320 point for some of you. You've been flushing it, but 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:27.919 then you buy it again, and then you've been deleting it, 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.040 but then you put it back, and then you've been 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:32.719 walking away from it, but then you feel drunk to it. 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.920 And I wanted to tell you that when you get stuck, 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:40.280 that means you're on the verge of something significant. God 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:53.720 has his hand on your line. That's the first half 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.639 of the first verse. And Pharaoh drew near where God 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:01.480 guides Pharaoh follows the proof of God activity in your 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:07.960 life will often be the increase of resistance. And behold, 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:10.680 the Egyptians were marching after them, and they fear greatly. Yeah, 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:14.159 I bet they did. This is not stuck in Chicago. 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:18.199 This is not this is not We're going to have 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.919 to catch the six thirty five am flight out Central 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:26.320 Standard Time. This is pulse's pounding panic triggered by the 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:33.040 trauma of a lifetime of bondage. And so they're standing there, 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:36.720 and this is one thing that happens. They start arguing 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:38.720 with Moses. Look at says verse eleven. They said to Moses, 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:40.919 because they're no graves in Egypt, that you've taken us 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:42.960 to die in the wilderness. What have you done to 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:45.880 us in bringing us out of Egypt? So now they're 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:49.960 fighting the one who's helping them. Parents. Don't worry about it. 0:20:52.000 --> 0:21:01.080 They'll thank you one day, maybe if you don't kill them. 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:04.399 Mm hmm. Is this not what we said to you 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:07.000 in Egypt? Verse twelve. Leave us alone that we may 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:09.399 serve the Egyptians. I never heard them say that. All 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:11.199 they were doing before they got out was praying to 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:18.280 get out. Well that's all, admit. Okay, when you get stuck, 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:31.119 you get stupid. I'm not saying you are stupid, But 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:36.240 for me, some of the dumbest decisions I made was 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:39.360 because I got sick of being stuck. So I'm gonna 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:46.760 just do something. Ah, sick of this? You know when 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:56.480 you hit send? Oh no, unsend nonsense. Understand understand. I 0:21:56.600 --> 0:22:02.280 might have been the unsend button. But when you get stuck. 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:04.800 Elijah came in our room the other night, this was 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:09.440 Friday night, and we were both to sleep. We were 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:16.199 off duty on parenting for the night and our office 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:21.199 hours are you know, seven am to five pm, and 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:25.359 it's off duty. And he comes in the room laughing, 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:28.160 and we were both asleep, and he's like, you're not 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:32.680 gonna believe this. He's laughing, and he had Jim Shorts, 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:38.200 Mesh Elevation youth champion, Jim Shorts, hanging from this bracist. 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:44.679 He said, get it off, get it off. And I 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:46.879 was going to write, but I said, first, let me 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:53.040 get a video real quick, let me show this. Listen. 0:22:57.440 --> 0:23:03.120 He stuck on d you from a whole bras out Jess, 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:16.320 look broh, because I wish you would look at your 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:21.360 neighbor and tell them when you get stuck, you get stupid. 0:23:32.160 --> 0:23:35.240 Maybe don't date anybody for six months until you heal 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:41.960 from the last heartbreak. Because when you get I'm in 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:48.640 Exodus fourteen, when you get stuck, you reach for stuff. 0:23:50.359 --> 0:23:53.239 You reach for the stuff that you flushed. When you 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:57.400 get stuck, when you get lonely, when you get hungry, 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:02.360 when you get tired. When you gets stuck, Ah now 0:24:02.400 --> 0:24:05.160 I got the whole thing hanging out my mouth. Ah 0:24:05.520 --> 0:24:08.639 Now I got a rainbow vacuum cleaner. Ah Now I 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:17.520 got a timeshare. When you get stuck, I didn't do 0:24:17.680 --> 0:24:20.760 it because I didn't love God. I didn't because I 0:24:20.960 --> 0:24:26.000 was stuck. And when you hit the sticking point, everybody's like, 0:24:26.119 --> 0:24:31.920 come on, rejoice, I can. I'm stuck. I'm stuck in 0:24:31.960 --> 0:24:37.840 a memory. You're miss stuck in a memory. I'm stuck 0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:42.359 in a pattern. I'm stuck in a generational thing that 0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:45.560 started before I ever came to the planet. I'm stuck. 0:24:47.880 --> 0:24:53.119 I get stuck preparing these sermons. It's horrible. I'm not 0:24:53.160 --> 0:24:54.919 playing now. I know I've been showing you, you know, 0:24:55.040 --> 0:24:58.359 like illegal footage of my children and everything in church. 0:24:58.920 --> 0:25:03.120 Orthodontist is gonna kick me Monday. He's a great orthodontist too, 0:25:03.119 --> 0:25:06.959 doctor doctor hull yoshall look him up. He's great. He's 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:10.960 got to fix that. Tomorrow. I'm gonna have we're gonna 0:25:10.960 --> 0:25:12.800 have some business for him. But when I get to 0:25:12.840 --> 0:25:17.440 prepare these sermons, I get stuck. And it's horrible because 0:25:17.440 --> 0:25:19.720 the sticking point it makes me want to just like 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:24.120 give up on everything I've worked on. Please don't think 0:25:24.119 --> 0:25:27.600 that I'm preaching to you about preaching. That's too meta. 0:25:29.040 --> 0:25:31.280 I'm preaching to you about preaching because that's where I 0:25:31.320 --> 0:25:36.800 get stuck, and I figured you might get stuck sometimes too. 0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:41.320 I mean, when I go to prepare, it'll just be 0:25:41.440 --> 0:25:46.360 moments where none of it makes sense for everybody that's 0:25:46.400 --> 0:25:52.879 like forty and older, Like when you had antennas on 0:25:52.920 --> 0:25:56.439 the TV and you you could see the station, but 0:25:56.600 --> 0:26:00.879 not fully because you're watching your neighbors A before you 0:26:00.920 --> 0:26:05.920 guys say before b C. It's under the blood now. 0:26:08.000 --> 0:26:11.080 But it'll scramble and I won't even know where to start. 0:26:11.080 --> 0:26:12.239 I'll be like, I don't know what to say. I'm 0:26:12.240 --> 0:26:13.879 preaching about Moses coming through the Red Sea, and I 0:26:13.880 --> 0:26:15.760 already preached about that before, and it was just mea sing. 0:26:15.760 --> 0:26:17.280 You know, they already know they got through the Red Sea, 0:26:17.359 --> 0:26:19.359 so this Swiller alert won't be interesting. So maybe I 0:26:19.359 --> 0:26:21.720 should started with Abraham, because it is Abraham, Isaac Jacob. 0:26:21.720 --> 0:26:23.120 And then Joseph went to Egypt, and you never meant 0:26:23.119 --> 0:26:24.520 to get trapped in Egypt. You went there to get food. 0:26:24.560 --> 0:26:26.080 But sometimes you get trapped where you went to get food. 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:27.760 And sometimes place where you go to Survior's place where 0:26:27.760 --> 0:26:29.640 you get stuck, maybe start there. But I already preached 0:26:29.640 --> 0:26:31.280 that a couple weeks ago, and to remember that they 0:26:31.320 --> 0:26:35.240 come every week. They don't ever miss. That's about burning 0:26:35.240 --> 0:26:36.520 bush because he went to the the burning bush and he 0:26:36.560 --> 0:26:38.280 was butcher was burning up, but it wasn't burn up. 0:26:38.280 --> 0:26:39.840 It would just burn it burn up. And maybe that's 0:26:39.840 --> 0:26:41.600 like us inside, because when your presence comes and our 0:26:41.600 --> 0:26:43.359 passion stays alive, even though we go through stuff and 0:26:43.440 --> 0:26:44.800 we burn what we don't burn up. And the proof 0:26:44.840 --> 0:26:46.320 of your presence is the fact that we're on fire, 0:26:46.320 --> 0:26:47.680 but we stay on fire even though we go through 0:26:47.680 --> 0:26:50.880 all kinds of hell. He has to do that. I'll 0:26:50.880 --> 0:26:52.600 come up the bricks and the straw, because you know, 0:26:52.840 --> 0:26:54.399 he hasn't really good to be talking about. Holly year. 0:26:54.440 --> 0:26:55.800 Sometimes you have all the mud, but you don't have 0:26:55.800 --> 0:26:57.119 the straw, and so you got to go get your 0:26:57.119 --> 0:26:58.879 own straw. And you didn't have a dad. So you 0:26:58.920 --> 0:26:59.920 try to be a dad and you don't have what 0:27:00.119 --> 0:27:01.200 you need to be what you're trying to be, and 0:27:01.240 --> 0:27:03.080 the devil use that as condemnation, try to keep you 0:27:03.119 --> 0:27:05.680 stuck in a slave as we are. And then after that, man, 0:27:05.720 --> 0:27:07.960 I'm like, oh my god, I need a nap. And 0:27:08.000 --> 0:27:09.760 I would just feel like, I don't know where to 0:27:09.800 --> 0:27:19.560 preach this sermon on Sunday and I'm stuck, and I 0:27:19.600 --> 0:27:24.199 get so stuck. I don't want to say anything. How 0:27:24.280 --> 0:27:27.879 y'all doing praise the Lord? And I figure you get 0:27:27.920 --> 0:27:30.800 stuck too, even if you don't preach sermons. I figure 0:27:30.840 --> 0:27:32.960 you go, you're not gonna have this meeting at the 0:27:33.000 --> 0:27:34.080 kids school, and I want to go down there and 0:27:34.080 --> 0:27:35.520 talk to Principle because I don't think principal is being 0:27:35.560 --> 0:27:37.280 fair to my kid. But I I don't teach my 0:27:37.320 --> 0:27:38.960 kids sometimes that people in fair life sometimes you got 0:27:38.960 --> 0:27:40.280 them go through things. Maybe the need to learn that. 0:27:40.720 --> 0:27:45.920 I figure you get stuck sometimes. I figure you get 0:27:45.920 --> 0:27:53.119 stuck too. Sometimes is a stuckond point. And this is 0:27:53.160 --> 0:27:57.880 not the first time that you've been stuck. And this 0:27:57.960 --> 0:28:01.120 is not the first time Moses was stuck. And that's 0:28:01.160 --> 0:28:03.800 the good thing about it. If he did it before. 0:28:06.520 --> 0:28:08.480 I just want to keep you breathing today because I 0:28:08.520 --> 0:28:12.840 know you've been stuck if he did it before. See, 0:28:13.680 --> 0:28:19.680