WEBVTT - God Chose Me (Charles Metcalf) 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.320 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:11.040 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:13.560 gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:14.920 Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:21.720 If you're grateful for Jesus Old Pentecost Sunday, why don't 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:26.360 you take about five seconds and give Jesus, not me, 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.480 not the worship leader. I'm talking about Jesus of Nazareth, 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:34.800 the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Jehovah, Shirah, 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.800 the provider. Come on, the one that saw you when 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.680 nobody else saw you, the one that pulls you up 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:42.320 when nobody else can. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:48.800 Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus. 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.600 Well, good morning, Hello, nice to meet you. My name 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:58.480 is Charles, and I'm just grateful this morning. I'm trying 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:00.000 to be honest with you. I'm trying not to act 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:04.600 the fool up here, Donna let the jacket fool you. 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:08.920 I grew up Bowling Green, Kentucky. My dad was the 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.840 pastor ten people and somebody start playing see zeke. When 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:14.560 I grew up, they would start singing about the blood 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:18.319 of Jesus. Now I can't. I don't know where you at, 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.200 but where when I grew up they start talking about 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.520 the blood of Jesus that Zeke, now can you This 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.240 might just be for me, But there was a song 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:26.120 that my dad used to play on the way to 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.200 church every single morning that would talk that the blood 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:31.199 of Jesus would never lose its power? 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:32.000 Does Zeke you know this? 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.119 It reads check now this is the part right here 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.920 to theish ches. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:52.160 Come on, somebody indeed, floosh to theh come on singing church. 0:01:52.360 --> 0:02:06.040 Oh yeah, come on God, blood that gives me? 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:17.360 Come on to God. Will Here's. 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.919 All right, one last time, Come on, give Jesus a 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:26.040 shot of praise. You can grab your seat this morning, 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.840 Grab a seat. I want to take a moment to 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:33.600 welcome everybody watching online, all the campuses around the world. Ephan, 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.360 we love you so much. I am grateful to be 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.520 here this morning. I said it earlier, but my name 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:44.400 is Charles Henry Metcalf the third, just so my mama 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.440 would be grateful that I share that with you. And 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.480 I'm from Tulsa, Oklahoma, part of an amazing church out 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:55.000 there called Transformation church with the one of the best 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.360 lead pastors in the world, my friend, Pastor Michael Todd, 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.320 And I am grateful to be here. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:00.840 Oh yeah, you can give it up. 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:04.560 He's an amazing I'm grateful to be here this morning. 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.160 Before we jump into the world, I have to take 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.800 a moment just to say how grateful and honored I 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.840 am to be here. How grateful I am for your 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.040 pastor's Pastor Steven and Pastor Holly. Can we take a 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:20.040 moment and honor them? Thank you so much for this moment. 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.880 I'm very grateful. I don't take it lightly, and I 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:29.120 am excited to share this moment. I said that earlier. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.360 But I am a church kid. I grew up in 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.720 church my whole life. Every Sunday, every day the doors 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:38.040 were open, we was up in there shouting, yelling, and screaming. 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.119 And by we, I mean my dad and the other 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.000 eight people who were related to us, and the two 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:48.400 first time guests we had every single week. But I 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:50.600 just I love the church. I don't think there's anywhere 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.200 else you should be on a Sunday morning, anything else 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.480 worth giving your life to, anything else worth raising your 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:01.280 family in. It's near and dear to my heart. Speaking 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.240 of family, I do have one of those greatest things 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.680 in my life. I got to start off with the 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:09.080 most amazing woman in the world. 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:10.600 Oh, there go my babies. 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:15.240 Yes, So I'll introduce you to my mixed family here. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.800 So I have Arlow Phoenix, my son sitting on the 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.400 ground there, and then the white girl picking. 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.160 Her nose that is Luna Rose. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:26.960 And then we go back light skin again, so you 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:28.280 know what I'm saying. We went back and forth. We 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:33.200 got tan white, tan white. But so we me all 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.000 try to figure out. I'm Puerto Rican, I'm half black, 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:36.279 half white. I can't speak Spanish. 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.600 Okay, let's get that out the way. 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:43.120 But Jade October and then blonde hair, blue eyes in 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.840 my wife's arm is Blue Sunday. 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:46.680 We call her Sonny. 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:48.839 And then the amazing queen in the middle is the 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.159 queen of our home, Abbey Rose. That's the love of 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.880 my life last ten years. So that's my amazing family. 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.960 I love you, kiddos. If you're watching, listen. 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:58.560 To La la. 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:03.040 Okay, we gotta hand out instructions. Okay, we're gonna jump 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.440 into the word today. I am grateful for this moment. 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.960 If you got your bibles, go ahead and grab them, 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.560 pull them out. We're gonna be in the Book of Galatians. 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:14.800 In the Book of Galatians is where we're gonna be. 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.599 Favorite book of the Bible I can't even lie to 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:22.600 you is Galatians. If you're looking to jump into reading scripture, 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.600 a good place to start. I think this is amazing 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.400 and uh yeah, this is just a beautiful moment. I'm 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:35.080 gonna read five verses and then we're gonna share for 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:36.120 just a moment. 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:38.160 If you got to say I got it. 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.120 If you don't say hold up, okay, if you of 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:45.240 y'all little slow s, all right, shout out, who got 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.039 a real Bible? Put a punch your real Bibles in 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:48.560 the air wave. I'm like, you just don't care. That's 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.680 what I'm talking about. Come on, if you had to 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:53.880 charge your Bible, I'm not mad at you. 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:54.320 You know what I'm saying. 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.800 I just hope it don't die when you need it most. Okay, 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:03.200 here we go. Gas chapter number one, starting in verse ten, 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:10.320 says this, Obviously, I'm not trying to win the approval 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:15.880 of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:21.160 I would not be Christ's servants. I gotta stop right there, 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.960 but I gotta keep going. Okay, Okay, dear brothers and 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.000 sisters want to I want you to understand that the 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:31.480 gospel message I preach is not based on mere human reasoning. 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:36.400 I received my message from no human source, and no 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:37.080 one taught me. 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:42.839 Instead, I received it by direct revelation of Jesus Christ. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:45.520 You know what I was like when I followed the 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:49.239 Jewish religion, how violently I persecuted God's Church. 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.120 I did my best to destroy it. 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.680 I was far ahead of my fellow Jews in my 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:02.560 zeal for the tradition of my ends, Verse number fifteen, 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:08.280 the most dangerous piece of literature you will hear today. 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:18.240 But even before I was born, God chose me, and 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:22.400 he called me by his marvelous grace. Then it pleased 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.440 him to reveal his son to me, so I would 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:29.120 proclaim the good news about Jesus to the gentiles. You're 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.000 taking notes. Write down the title of my sermon at 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.680 the top. You definitely should take notes. It's like a 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.200 fast pass. When you get to Heaven, you show them 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.440 your notes. They put you in the short line. Can 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.480 wave everybody as you go by top of your notes, 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:51.520 title of my sermon three words. God chose me. God 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.720 chose me. Let's pray together. Dear Lord, we thank you 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:01.040 for choosing us. You didn't have to. As a matter 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.560 of fact, you had reasons to look over us. But 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.240 in your grace and your kindness and in your mercy, Lord, 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.600 you chose us. And so I pray this morning, and 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.680 we will be reminded of that truth. It's in the 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:17.560 beautiful name of Jesus we pray. And everybody said, a men, you. 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.560 Got to see the picture. I have four beautiful children. 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:23.960 And you know, there's a lot of things people don't 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:25.640 warn you about when you have kids. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.040 You know, they they just they see you doing it, 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.240 and it's just they just let you do it. You 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:31.680 know what I'm saying. Some of y'all you be seeing 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:33.800 young people. They're like, we're gonna have some kids. You're like, oh, 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.360 that's so sweet, go ahead do it. You don't give 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.560 them any prep, no warning. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.559 There's a lot of stuff you got to just figure 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:42.400 out as you go. 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.200 And all our kids are close together. 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.319 We have a six year old, a four year old, 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.319 a three year old, and a two year old, so we. 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:51.160 Had to waste no time. 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:56.160 So but a beautiful thing about raising children is one 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.520 of the responsibilities I felt is as their dad, there 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.440 was some things about them that I wanted them to 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.400 know that are true about the Metcalf family before they 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.560 went out into the world trying to discover some things 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.920 about who they were, or who they should be, or 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.680 who they should be trying to please or impress. I, 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.240 as their father, wanted to decide some things for them 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.080 so they wouldn't have to wait to discover them. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:23.000 So what we did as a. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:27.720 Family is we created our Metcalf Confessions. We say these 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:31.720 every single morning, and my son Arlo, who loves to 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.000 tell his sisters what to do, particularly likes to take. 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:35.720 Charge in the morning. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.120 But the Metcalfs, every single day we wake up and 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:44.160 say this. Metcalfs carry peace and purpose, kindness and compassion, 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.840 boldness and bravery and loving lights. 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:49.400 We added at the end of it. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:53.120 My kids would all scream because God chose me at 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:53.480 the end. 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:54.840 But we'll get to that later. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.920 But what I did with these confessions is I realized 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.920 that there was something they need to hear every single 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.960 day to not be informed by their situation, but so 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:09.240 they could inform their situation who they were. I didn't 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.320 want to raise kids who are going out into the 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.560 world looking for the world to tell them who they 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:15.800 were looking for, their friends, to tell them who they 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.920 were looking for the situation. I wanted them to show 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.160 up into a chaotic situation and say, I carry peace. 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.120 So in the name of Jesus, I don't. 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:27.880 Know what's going on in here, but Metcals carry peace. 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.360 That's who we are, it's what we do. I am 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:34.400 not subject to the atmosphere. The atmosphere is subject to 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.679 the God on the inside of me. So when we 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.000 walk up in the room, purpose is in the room, 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:45.280 because Jesus is in the room. I decided it for them. Now, 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:49.040 it's easy to acknowledge the importance of a confession to 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.360 a six' five four and two year, old and the 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:53.400 importance of those. 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.000 Things BUT i want to. 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.599 Submit to you this morning that whether you recognize it or, 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.320 not there are some confessions that you believe and you 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:04.440 confess every single. Day and here's the tension with a. 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.560 Confession whether or not it is, true, right or the 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.959 most powerful, thing you will always reap the effects of your. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.760 Confession this is you. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.520 Ever seen those documentaries On netflix where the police be 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.520 pressuring people and they didn't even do, nothing and they 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.280 just lock them in the room for ten days and they're, 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.880 like you, Know sammy's over there talking and they're, Like, 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:24.079 sammy what you? 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.040 SAY i don't, know, man you got anything you need 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:26.320 to tell? 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:30.559 Me and they won't confess to something they know they didn't. 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.880 Do just because the pressure of the. 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.160 Situation the confession seems like it'll get them out of the. 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.120 Moment and what, happens they reap. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.040 The effects of that, confession whether or. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.719 Not it is. True the same is true in your. 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:48.200 Life there are confessions that we, say that we believe 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.640 that we, say maybe not out loud to, everybody but 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:57.240 really the most powerful confessions happen up. Here psychologists will 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.280 tell you that the voice in your, head you know that, 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.079 VOICE i know you don't some of y'all may talk to. 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:03.960 Yourself you look, Crazy it's all, Right we glad you. 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.640 Here also call at the end for everybody who talks to. 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:13.160 Themselves but psychologists will tell us that the voice in your, 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.880 head no matter positive or, negative it originates either from your, 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:21.640 father your, mother or the lack. Thereof so there's confessions 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.840 that start in your, mind that voice that tells you 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:28.080 you're not good. Enough you heard that, somewhere you saw that, 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.120 Somewhere you had an experience somewhere that told you that 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.439 that was, true and so at first you didn't know 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.360 what to do with. It but then life situation started 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.280 to inform that, belief and you started to believe it 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.760 so much that now every time you go to try something, 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:46.160 new there's only one confession that comes. Up you're not good. 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.800 Enough nobody cares about. 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.720 YOU a life experience happened when you were a child 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.360 where you felt overlooked or. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.200 Undervalued and so now anytime you. 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.840 Go to risk the take the risk of, relationship every 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.080 time you go to step, out there's a belief in 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.240 your heart and there's a confession that comes out that 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:09.240 nobody cares about, you nobody sees. You you have to 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.760 work to be. Seen you're only as valuable as what 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.480 you can. Do all things you may not articulate out, 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.800 loud but we know it's true by the way we live. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.880 Now the power of confession is not Something i'm making up. 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.480 Today in, fact The bible would tell you In romans chapter, 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:29.120 ten verse nine that the most insane, miracle the most 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:33.960 powerful transformative moment In the life of a believer happens 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.840 because of a belief and a. Confession The bible says 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.719 In romans ten to, nine if you believe in your 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.520 heart and confess with your Mouth Jesus's, lord. 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:44.880 You shall be. 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:49.400 Saved so if a belief and confession is sealing your, 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.719 eternity what are you think is. 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:52.680 Doing to you every single? 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.880 Day what do you think those thoughts that live in 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:57.640 your mind unchecked are doing to your? 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.880 Confidence what do you think though thoughts. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:04.320 That just Ravage you've tried, before and now time and time, 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.199 again you failed so much that you believe it's better. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:08.320 To not try than to try and. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:13.160 Fail when you slowly start to believe stuff about, yourself 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.679 and maybe it didn't or originate with a family, member 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.320 maybe it wasn't a parent or a. Coach you, see 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.400 there's a moment in all of our lives where we 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.040 can't remember who the voice, is but now it sounds 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:29.480 like our own and it's all you, know it's all you, 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.480 think it's all you, see it's how you. 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.560 Operate and no matter how old you, are we all have. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.960 Some beliefs about ourselves that keep us from being Who 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.400 god wanted us to. Be what do you believe about? 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:45.400 YOURSELF a better, question how do you talk to? You 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.920 IF i was to put your daily dialogue up on 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.440 this screen and the thoughts that you, say would it 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.800 be something you would want somebody saying to your? Kids 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.560 would it be something that you wanted to? Replicate for 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.360 many of, us the truth is it's not the, case 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.360 because we're hard on ourselves and we don't give ourselves, 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.560 grace and we feel, like, dangy you should be further by, 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.560 now or you should know better by, now or you 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.920 should have more money by, now or, see you're not like, 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:12.680 them and see you're never going to be, That and, 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.360 slowly but, surely we talk ourselves out of the same 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.640 power that Raised christ from the, dead that lives on 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:22.240 the inside of, us and we slowly shrink, back and 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.040 we slowly, settle and we settle for a version of 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.480 our self that is accepted by other, people but they 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.160 don't know What god put on the inside of. You 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.000 so you can pretend like everything is, Fine you can 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.720 settle for a level that everybody else applause, for but 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.320 you are the only one who knows what you had 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:44.560 to give up to be that version of. Yourself and 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.520 there's things That god wants you to. Do there's things 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.640 that you know you're supposed to. Do there's differences you're 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.960 supposed to make in your. Family there's things that you 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.640 Know he's put on the inside of, you but somewhere deep, 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:54.360 down you don't. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.360 Believe you don't know if you can do. IT i. 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.160 Relate there's a moment in scripture THAT i. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.720 Love there's this father and he comes To jesus and 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.440 he's Asking jesus to heal his. Daughter and he says 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.440 the most powerfully honest. Thing he, says you, Know, god 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.440 can you please help? Me And jesus, says anything is 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:14.480 possible if you, believe and he responds in tears and. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:18.120 Agony he, SAYS i do, believe but help me with my. 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.800 Unbelief many of, you there's a part of you that 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.040 Believes god could use. You there's a part of you 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:25.920 that believes that you're. Important there's a part of you 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.160 that believes That god shows. You there's a part of 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:29.360 you that believes you're the. 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:29.920 Parent for those. 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.880 Kids but at the exact same, time there's another part 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.360 of you that doesn't know if you have what it 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.880 takes to be the Father you didn't. Have there's a 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.040 part of you that doesn't know if you can continue 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.560 with the pressure of raising those. Kids there's a part 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.680 of you that doesn't know if you deserve the. Promotion 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.920 there's a part of you that doesn't know because you know. 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.480 YOU i was standing back there on the side as 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:52.400 they sang that SONG i can't. ZEEK i was, Like, 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:54.480 yo the tag at the, end you gotta sing that 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:56.720 last little. Tag i've come a long, way because that's 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:57.680 the whole, song, man. 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.320 If you don't say that. Part and SO i was 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:00.800 going back and. Forth he was, like, yes let's do. 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:01.560 It So i'm standing. 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:03.240 THERE i was about to walk, out AND i went 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.800 to take one step and it Said i've come a long, 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.439 way AND i broke down into tears BECAUSE i know. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.040 Me you may not know, me BUT i know. 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:15.600 Me and the worst thing we could do as believers 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.560 is get spiritual amnesia on where he brought you. FROM 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.200 i know we's sitting up in here On Pentecost, sunday 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.560 and you got your good makeup, on and you got 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.480 some nice clothes. On but do not get twisted where 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.600 he had to go to find. YOU i don't need 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:31.720 everybody but my Friend shaye. Nowhere he had to come 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.320 to find. Me he came and found me WHEN i 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:39.200 was broken and. Depressed and IF i forget, That i'll 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.639 stop believing some stuff about. Myself some of y'all you 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.840 don't struggle with belief in this. Way some of y'all, Think, 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.679 MAN i pulled myself up by my. BOOTSTRAPS i got me. 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.879 Here it was hard work and commitment and. Dedication, okay, 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:53.720 okay yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:59.680 Yeah you. Good but you ain't that. GOOD i hate 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:00.280 to break it to. 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.159 YOU i know your mama told you you could do, 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:03.919 anything And. 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.760 God has has done something for. YOU i want to. 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:13.719 Give you today a belief and a confession THAT i 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:18.440 know for a fact has the power to radically transform 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:23.960 your everyday. Life it comes from this Scripture glatians one point. 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:29.280 FIFTEEN i love this scripture Because, paul he's talking very 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:30.840 disrespectfully in the. 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.120 Scripture to be honest with. You he starts off in verse, 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:37.040 Ten he's, like, uh, OBVIOUSLY i don't care what you. 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.160 Think it kind of starts off as like a disc, 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:41.560 track you, Know LIKE i, say he's getting on the 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:42.280 beef Of kendrick And. 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:43.960 Drake he's Like, hey, YO i want some of. This. 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.040 Hey, now the context why he comes in so strong 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.520 is Because paul's kind of. Random he's kind of off the, 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.000 scene like they already had their, crew they agreed upon 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:54.720 people who was, there we Saw jesus were doing the. 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:58.800 Thing then this guy who used to Kill christians comes. 0:18:58.800 --> 0:18:59.920 In it's, like, HEY i got something. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.040 Saying they're like hey, brother uh real, quick somebody pat him. 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.720 Down, hey bartholow me where you at? Go just? Check come, 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:08.840 on you, guys Sacrifice. Bartholomew if it's all gonna do, 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:10.720 Something you're, Like, bartholome you get in, there, man you got. 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:14.159 It he's, like, WELL i don't even. Know paul's, like, 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:14.520 yeah go. 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:20.159 Ahead but the truth is there suspect about the origins 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:24.639 of his. Message their suspect if he's qualified. Enough and 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.960 at the, time the way you acknowledge someone's authority and 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.240 power is you asked who taught them what they. Know 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.919 so if you were connected to a disciple who walked With, 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.920 jesus then you were, Affirmed then you were, approved then 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:40.119 you were allowed to do and be a part of the. 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.920 Way paul comes in on some different energy and he's, like, 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:47.600 hey just so you, know ain't nobody give me, this 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:53.040 didn't no human come and teach. Me didn't nobody walk 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:56.040 me through their classes and their master. Class didn't nobody 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.119 come check on. Me god found me in the middle 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:01.879 of the. Road And i'm not worried about what you 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:06.040 think about, me And i'm not trying to impress. You he. 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:10.959 Says this message isn't of human. ORIGIN i got it 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:16.600 directly From jesus. HIMSELF i can just imagine the. Reader they're, like, dang, okay, 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:21.560 Okay i'm SAYING i ain't mad at, You. Paul most 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:23.879 powerful words he says at the end is he, says 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:25.960 BEFORE i was, Born. 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:31.960 God chose. Me now this confession is. DANGEROUS i have 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:32.360 to warn. 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:34.280 You if you want your life to say the, same 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:36.240 and you want to just stay and live a very, 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:38.680 comfortable safe, life do not mess. 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:39.000 With these three. 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:42.840 Words but if you want to find yourself connected to 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:46.480 the origins of this, movement the movement that they tried 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:48.399 to stop when the boy was two years, old but 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.440