1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 2: podcast and I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God has moving 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: in your life. 7 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. 8 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,479 Speaker 2: Our scripture today is found in Mark chapter six, verse 9 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 2: one through six. I want to read this to you 10 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 2: from our Savage Jesus series, which just keeps going. This 11 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 2: is now the longest series that I've ever preached. 12 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: I didn't intend it. I just got stuck in it. 13 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:39,599 Speaker 2: But we've been just tracking this man named Jesus that 14 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,480 Speaker 2: we thought we knew so much about, and he keeps 15 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 2: shocking us and surprising us. And we realize that we 16 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 2: can spend our whole lives studying about him and only 17 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:53,959 Speaker 2: begin to glimpse how great he is and also how 18 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 2: revolutionary his life was and his time here on earth. 19 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 2: And so we want to pick up in March six today, 20 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 2: and we're in for a real treat today because we 21 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 2: get to see Jesus take a trip back home, and 22 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 2: we get to see the response to his ministry from 23 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 2: those who knew him as a little boy. And we'll 24 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 2: get to evaluate that in the light of our own lives. 25 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 2: And I want to read you the scripture and then 26 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 2: take some time teaching it today. Very excited about this 27 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 2: particular message. The scripture says in Mark chapter six, Verse one, 28 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 2: Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by 29 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 2: his disciples. When the Sabbath came, he began to teach 30 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,680 Speaker 2: in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. 31 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 2: Where did this man get these things? They asked, what's 32 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 2: this wisdom that has been given him? 33 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 1: What are these remarkable miracles he is performing? It's going good, right, Wow, 34 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: this guy's good. Whoa write that down? Hey? This is amazing. 35 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: But then something shifts in the tone of the text. 36 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 2: And this is where we'll spend our time trying to 37 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 2: discern the difference between their amazement in that verse and 38 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 2: their annoyance in the next one. Isn't this the carpenter 39 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 2: in this mary Son, the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, 40 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 2: and Simon. 41 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:23,519 Speaker 1: Aren't his sisters here with us? 42 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 2: And they took offense at him, And Jesus said to them, 43 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 2: a prophet is not without honor except in his own town. 44 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:37,359 Speaker 2: Among his relatives and in his own home, and he 45 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 2: this next part, I know you think they made a 46 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 2: mistake when they typed it in for the screen because 47 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,639 Speaker 2: it says that Jesus could not and we're not used 48 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 2: to seeing anything that he can't do. And so I know, 49 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 2: you think I need to fire the production team who 50 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 2: put the scripture up. That it should say he would not, 51 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 2: that he was unwilling to, but it actually it actually 52 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 2: says he could not. 53 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: He was unable to. 54 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 2: There was one thing that even Jesus was not able 55 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 2: to do, and it was to override the unbelief of 56 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:17,079 Speaker 2: the people that he wanted to heal, that he wanted 57 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 2: to serve, that he wanted to save. But the Bible 58 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 2: says that when Jesus came home, he could not do 59 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 2: any miracles there except lay his hands on a few 60 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 2: sick people and healed them. And it's interesting because when 61 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 2: we started the passage, the people were amazed at Jesus, 62 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 2: but now when we come to this verse, Jesus is 63 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 2: amazed at the people. And the only time we see 64 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 2: Jesus unable to do something in scripture, and the only 65 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 2: time we see Jesus amazed in scripture is in regards 66 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 2: to faith. It says he was amazed at their lack 67 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 2: of faith, and so there was something he wanted to 68 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 2: do for the people that he couldn't do for the 69 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 2: people because of something that was within the people. That's 70 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 2: what I want to speak about today. The title of 71 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 2: this message is Trapped in Nazareth. Trapped in Nazareth, And 72 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 2: on your way to your seat, look at the person 73 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 2: next to you and say, you seem stuck, Please be seated. 74 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 2: Sometimes people think Jesus was from Bethlehem. He was born 75 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 2: in Bethlehem. Oh little tell bethlm how still we see 76 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 2: the lie? 77 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 1: But he was born in Bethlehem. He grew up in Nazareth. 78 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 2: That's where this passage takes place, not where he was born, 79 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,719 Speaker 2: but where he was raised in Nazareth, not where he 80 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 2: did most of his ministry. He didn't do most of 81 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 2: his ministry in the place where he grew up, because 82 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 2: sometimes in order to be used by God, you have 83 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 2: to leave what is familiar. That's an important point and 84 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 2: we'll cover it more fully, But I just want to 85 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 2: tell you a little bit about Nazareth, which is twenty 86 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 2: five miles southwest of Capernaum. That was his base. That's 87 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 2: where he set up shop and moved around that Sea 88 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:17,600 Speaker 2: of Galilee to do miracles. That's where his fame was 89 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,719 Speaker 2: being published. When it says in verse one, Jesus left there. 90 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 2: He didn't leave the place where he was ministering and 91 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 2: go back home because it wasn't working out. He left 92 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 2: his success to go back to where he started. And 93 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 2: that interesting. He didn't go back because he needed a 94 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 2: room in Mary's basement or to sleep on the couch 95 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 2: for a little while while they raised some funds for 96 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 2: the ministry. He wasn't go funding me and trying to 97 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 2: get it off the ground. He was in fact going 98 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 2: back home for a specific purpose, which we know because 99 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 2: it says this important detail that he took his disciples 100 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 2: with him. 101 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 1: Now, why is it important. 102 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 2: That he took his squad if I may call them 103 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 2: a squad, just to modernize the. 104 00:05:58,200 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: Text a little bit. 105 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 2: If the Bible were written today, it would say he 106 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:04,799 Speaker 2: went accompanied with his squad. 107 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: He went with them, and he went. 108 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 2: Back to the people who he grew up with, and 109 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 2: he took them with him. Now that's important why because 110 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,359 Speaker 2: he's taking them as a part of their training, he 111 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 2: is commissioning them to change the world, and he takes 112 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 2: them back. I'll never forget when I took Colley to 113 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 2: Monk's Corner for the first time. She was so bored 114 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 2: and she acted so interested, and I knew I found 115 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 2: the woman I wanted because she pretended like Monk's Corner 116 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 2: was the most fascinating city in the United States of America. 117 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,479 Speaker 2: Now she had traveled by this point to forty nine 118 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 2: of the United States. She had seen many things, and 119 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 2: so I know there was nothing special about Monk's Corner, 120 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 2: But boy, she made me feel like she was interested 121 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 2: in Sonic where we hung out every Friday night, just 122 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 2: different landmarks like this that were important to my development. 123 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: Just didn't taking the disciples home to show him around. 124 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 2: He has a purpose. I'm not making a detour. He's 125 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 2: not even coming home for Thanksgiving. He's not checking in 126 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 2: it's not been a while. He's actually coming home for 127 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 2: a purpose. He's coming home for a purpose. And while 128 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 2: he is there, he is invited to give the guest 129 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 2: lecture in the synagogue on the Sabbath day. And as 130 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 2: he does that, as he stands up to teach, the 131 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 2: people notice that there is something about him that they 132 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 2: did not notice when he lived among them, because he'd 133 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 2: been there for a long time. But now that he's 134 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 2: been gone for a while, they see him differently when 135 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 2: he comes back. And since I already read the whole 136 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 2: passage to you, we may as well talk about the 137 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 2: fact that Jesus was rejected by. 138 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: Those who were the closest to him. 139 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 2: He found wider acceptance among the sinners than he did 140 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 2: the religious. In fact, one way that the prophet said 141 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 2: it was he came unto his own, and his own 142 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 2: received him. 143 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: Not that's a very sad. 144 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 2: Place to be, by the way, when the people closest 145 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 2: to you don't appreciate you, don't support you. 146 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: And don't express their love to you. 147 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 2: In fact, I have met grown men who are still 148 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 2: trying to prove something to their dead dad who never 149 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 2: said I'm proud of you. There's something about when you 150 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 2: wanted approval from somebody who was closest to you. And 151 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 2: we all have these people in our lives that we 152 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 2: really desperately crave for them to tell us that not 153 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 2: only what we do matters to them, but that they 154 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 2: admire us as a man, maybe some man thing. I 155 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 2: don't know, if you can help me sort this out. 156 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 2: Whether this is a gender thing or whether it's across 157 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 2: the board. I want to be admired by the people who. 158 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 1: Really know me. That means something. 159 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 2: To me, because I figure I can fake everybody else out. 160 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 2: But if the people who are closest to. 161 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 1: Me and now the most, if they don't think I'm 162 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: full of crap, I'm doing something, talk to me. 163 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:09,319 Speaker 2: I love how y'all look at me confused, like you're 164 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:12,319 Speaker 2: not full of crap. Sometimes, you know how you're real 165 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 2: nice to the server at the restaurant, but you yell 166 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:15,559 Speaker 2: at your wife. 167 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: Like that, like that thing that just made you go. 168 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 1: Do me? 169 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 2: So the pain of wanting someone close to you to notice? 170 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: Have you ever just wanted someone to notice? Come on, 171 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: I know you're sitting. 172 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 2: Next to them, so we got to play it straight. 173 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: Have you ever wanted somebody to just notice? 174 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 2: This is why I make Holly preach occasionally, because I 175 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:50,440 Speaker 2: just want her to know how freaking hard it is. 176 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 2: That's why she leaves me with all of the kids occasionally, 177 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 2: because she just wants me to know. This is not 178 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 2: as easy as I make it look. Okay, So every 179 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 2: once in a while, I got to leave these demons. 180 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 2: I mean blessings from the Lord, so you can know, so. 181 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:11,680 Speaker 1: You can know. 182 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 2: And yet what amazed me about the life of Jesus 183 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:18,679 Speaker 2: was how often the people closest to. 184 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 1: Him took him for granted. And that what happens me. 185 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,559 Speaker 2: You know this, sometimes when you get too close to something, 186 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 2: it becomes too common. Remember, these people had a hard 187 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 2: time seeing Jesus as their deliverer because they had seen 188 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 2: Jesus in diapers. It's kind of hard to believe he's 189 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,679 Speaker 2: going to save the world when you knew him in 190 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 2: his terrible twos. 191 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: Did Jesus have terrible twos? 192 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 2: I don't know. 193 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: That's a theological question for another time. 194 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:01,559 Speaker 2: But it's kind of hard sometimes to see the miracle 195 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 2: in something that you have become familiar with. He quotes 196 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 2: a saying because these people that he grew up around 197 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 2: don't seem to receive him on the same level that 198 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 2: the Gentiles, even who were not known to associate with 199 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 2: the Jews, and in fact were known in many ways 200 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:25,439 Speaker 2: to be resistant to the Jewish religion, had no problem 201 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 2: welcoming him. In fact, when he showed up for them, 202 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:29,559 Speaker 2: they came in droves to hear him speak. 203 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:31,199 Speaker 1: But now he's back. 204 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 2: Home, and the disciples must have been shocked, because I 205 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:35,680 Speaker 2: know they were looking forward to this. They're taking the 206 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 2: show back home, and certainly we're going to get to 207 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 2: see the impact of the ministry in this small town. 208 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 2: Nazareth isn't a big place. Nazareth is only like a 209 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 2: couple hundred people. 210 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:47,959 Speaker 1: The only reason you know. 211 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 2: The name Nazareth is because Jesus put it on the map. 212 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 2: Before Jesus, Nazareth was unknown. And so going back to Nazareth, 213 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 2: you know, twenty five miles from where we're doing all 214 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:02,679 Speaker 2: this great ministry, going through the precipitous cliffs of our Belle, 215 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 2: all of these routes that they would travel the seven 216 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 2: mile major trade route as they're going, don't you know 217 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 2: Peter was excited. I can't wait to show them what 218 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 2: Jesus can do. Boy, they're gonna be shocked when they 219 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 2: see what you've become. He's going back home, Bieber is 220 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 2: going back to Canada, Drake is going back to Toronto. 221 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 1: Jesus is going. 222 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 2: Back home to Nazareth and he's preaching and it's amazing. 223 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 1: They're amazed. 224 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:31,839 Speaker 3: Ooh that's good, Jesus, Oh that's good. 225 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 2: And all of a sudden somebody said, wait, he's one 226 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 2: of us. And the moment they categorized him as one 227 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 2: of us. 228 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:41,440 Speaker 1: He became common. 229 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 2: And the moment you categorize something is common that was sent. 230 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: To be special, you trip over the miracle. 231 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 2: Because you miss it in the mundane. 232 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: Yes, Lord, I'll preach it just like that. 233 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:03,079 Speaker 2: God said for me to tell some of you husbands 234 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 2: that some of the things that you used to be 235 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 2: amazed about in the woman that you married are some 236 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 2: of the same things you're complaining about eight years in. 237 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: Mike Purnitt, you said it. You know how it is. 238 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 2: It's some of the things that are amazing when a 239 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 2: relationship begins. 240 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 1: Oh, he's just so, he's so amazing. He's just mysterious. 241 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 2: Okay, I want to holler at you in eleven years 242 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 2: about how mysterious he is and how amazing it is, 243 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 2: because in eleven years you might be mad that he 244 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 2: won't talk. It was sexy that he was mysterious, it 245 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 2: was amazing, But now what was amazing is annoying. 246 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: Let me help the fellas out. 247 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 2: You know how she looks amazing when she comes out 248 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 2: for a date. The reason she looks amazing is because 249 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 2: you don't yet have a glimpse into the process by 250 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:08,439 Speaker 2: which she looks amazing. 251 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:09,959 Speaker 1: And I promise you. 252 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 2: Something about the process that it takes to make her 253 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:14,960 Speaker 2: look amazing. 254 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,959 Speaker 1: It's going to be two hours of you waiting. 255 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 2: I'm not preaching about me, he qulls averb. 256 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,119 Speaker 1: A prophet is without honor only in his hometown. 257 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 2: In other words, sometimes the people who are the closest 258 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 2: treat it the most common. And this is the principle 259 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 2: that we would summarize by saying familiarity breeds contempt. But 260 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 2: I'll tell you something else. It also breeds complacency. And 261 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 2: when something is so close to you for so long, 262 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 2: when when God puts something in your midst that is 263 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 2: magnificent and miraculous, but you live among it long enough, 264 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 2: sometimes you have been around it so long that you 265 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 2: cease to be amazed by it, and you start taking 266 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 2: things for granted. In one way, if people take you 267 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 2: for granted, I want you. 268 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: To know, it's a compliment. 269 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 2: It's a compliment to your consistency. 270 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: If people take you for granted. 271 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 2: This is why your kids never say thank you, because 272 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 2: they always eat. 273 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:48,239 Speaker 1: Starve them three days. Cut the water off. 274 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 2: For a week, you know, the reason they don't thank 275 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,480 Speaker 2: you for it is because it's always there. I had 276 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 2: to understand this about preaching because when I started preaching, 277 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 2: people were always pinched my cheek. 278 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 1: Oh, that was so good. And one day they stopped 279 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: pinching my cheek. 280 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 2: And at first I was offended because I thought they 281 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 2: didn't appreciate me. And then I realized that maybe it 282 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 2: wasn't that I wasn't preaching good anymore. Maybe I had 283 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 2: preached consistently well enough for long enough that they no 284 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 2: longer felt the need to pat my bottom to get 285 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 2: me to do it again. 286 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 1: This is what I teach our staff at Elevation Church. 287 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 2: I'll say, you know you're getting good at something when 288 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 2: people stop telling you that you did a good job, 289 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 2: because it just becomes what they expect from you, and 290 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 2: they'll stop complimenting you because you're consistent. So when they 291 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 2: stop complimenting you, that in itself is a compliment. In 292 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 2: other words, if I'm telling you, thank you so much 293 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 2: for doing this on time, that's. 294 00:16:58,360 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 1: Not a compliment. 295 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 2: Translation, you are so unreliable and undependable that I am 296 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 2: literally shocked that you got your stuff together for once. 297 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 1: Thank you for making your bed. What are you twelve? 298 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 2: I expect you to do it. You're supposed to do it. 299 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 2: You don't have to thank me for preaching. I preach 300 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 2: because it's fire shut. 301 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,439 Speaker 1: Up in my bones. Who unto me if I do 302 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: not preach the gospel. If you want to send me 303 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:33,679 Speaker 1: a gift card, I'll spend it. But I don't have 304 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:34,239 Speaker 1: to have it. 305 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 2: I don't have to have it touch somebody say I 306 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 2: don't need it, not to survive on because I have 307 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 2: matured like Jesus, to the point that even when they 308 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 2: did not see him for who he was, he still 309 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 2: did what he could. He could not do many miracles, 310 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 2: but he did what he could, unappreciated what he could, 311 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 2: uncelebrated what he could, unnoticed what he could, unrecognized what 312 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:02,040 Speaker 2: he could. 313 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:05,200 Speaker 1: Taken for granted what he could. Here's the danger. 314 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 2: While it is a compliment to you, when people take 315 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 2: you for granted, it is a danger to them because 316 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 2: what is consistently hear me Lake Norman, what is consistently 317 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 2: taken for granted is eventually taken away. Here comes Jesus 318 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 2: to his hometown, Nazareth, and he's coming with the same 319 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 2: healing power that resurrected a twelve year old girl in 320 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 2: Mark chapter five that healed a woman with the issue 321 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:44,920 Speaker 2: of blood. 322 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 1: She didn't take Jesus for granted. 323 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:48,479 Speaker 2: She knew she had one shot to get to him, 324 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:51,360 Speaker 2: and she wasn't gonna throw away her shot. 325 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 1: She knew this might be the only chance that I have. 326 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,159 Speaker 2: It's funny to me people come to uh Elevation sometimes 327 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 2: from other parts of the country, and it always shames 328 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 2: some of us who live here because it's in our backyard. 329 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 1: And it's on their bucket list, and they're excited. They 330 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 1: got the. 331 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 2: VIP brochure, they got an Elevation Worship hoodie on with 332 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 2: the Elevation youth had on, and they got some They 333 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 2: know all the songs better than the people who live 334 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 2: in Waxaw. 335 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:26,400 Speaker 1: And it's kind of crazy to. 336 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:30,479 Speaker 2: Us because they come with a spirit of worship. They're early, 337 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,679 Speaker 2: they don't complain about the park, and they didn't have 338 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 2: to deal with it because they got there early. And 339 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 2: then it puts some of us to shame because what's 340 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 2: on their bucket list is in our backyard. And sometimes 341 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 2: we can take something for granted, and I'm guilty of it. 342 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:48,160 Speaker 2: Sometimes that God has given me the privilege to pastor 343 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,879 Speaker 2: such a wonderful, beautiful church, full of such diversity of thought, 344 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 2: diversity of ethnicity, diversity of income, diversity of background, diversity 345 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 2: of strength. And sometimes I can let it become just 346 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 2: another Sunday. 347 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 1: But the devil is a liar. This is not common. 348 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:09,360 Speaker 1: This is not common, This is not common. 349 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 2: And I will not take these things for granted. 350 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 1: I will not allow my. 351 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:29,400 Speaker 2: Miracle to become trapped in my familiarity. Here what I said, 352 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 2: because you might have clapped over it. I will not 353 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 2: allow my miracle to become trapped in my familiarity. Jesus 354 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 2: comes to Nazareth, full of healing, full of resurrection, full 355 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 2: of blind eye opening power, full of death, ear opening power, 356 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 2: full of lame to walk, blind to see power, full 357 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 2: of dead raising power, and all that power shows up 358 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,399 Speaker 2: in a little town like Nazareth, and Jesus has not 359 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,880 Speaker 2: lost any power on the twenty five mile journey through 360 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 2: the cliffs of our Bell. But the people have lost 361 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:09,159 Speaker 2: their appreciation of his power. And since they have lost 362 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 2: their appreciation for his power, they have limited the potential 363 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 2: for his power to be released into their lives. I 364 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 2: wonder has it happened to some of us when we 365 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 2: first got saved. We were grateful. It felt good to 366 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 2: be forgiven. It felt good to be free. It felt 367 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 2: good to have something to live for. It felt good 368 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,360 Speaker 2: to have an orientation in life that was not us 369 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 2: on a throne. It felt good to not need people 370 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 2: to tell us what we were worth because we had 371 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,719 Speaker 2: been bought with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. 372 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:41,400 Speaker 1: But something happens. 373 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:45,159 Speaker 2: Because we don't have to sacrifice bulls and goats and 374 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 2: pigeons and doves and bulls, and since we don't have 375 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 2: to smell the blood of the sacrifice, sometimes we can 376 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:53,920 Speaker 2: become complacent and treat the blood. 377 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: Of Jesus which was shed for us, as a. 378 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:59,119 Speaker 2: Common thing because we don't feel it. And because we 379 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 2: don't feel it, we begin to become familiar with it. 380 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 2: And when you become familiar with it, sometimes you miss 381 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 2: the power of it. And some of you are tripping 382 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 2: over your miracle because it's been in front of you 383 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:17,239 Speaker 2: so long you have stopped being amazed. I came with 384 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 2: a word for somebody. Stay amazed. Don't get jaded by it. 385 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 2: Don't start to back up and put your hands in 386 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 2: your pocket and act like. 387 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: You got yourself here. 388 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:31,200 Speaker 2: If we can get honest, you know you still need 389 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 2: that same grace. If it wasn't still flowing, you wouldn't 390 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 2: be still breathing. Don't blame me like that. There's some 391 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 2: stuff in your life that if it had not been 392 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:51,120 Speaker 2: for the Lord on yours I five five people. Tell them, 393 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:55,640 Speaker 2: I'm still amazed. Stay amazed by it. Don't get too 394 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 2: comfortable with it. Don't start thinking you earned what you 395 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,640 Speaker 2: first received. Don't start acting like God owes you will 396 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,680 Speaker 2: favor to leave you on the planet. Every pay is 397 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,879 Speaker 2: a gift, Every breath is a gift. Now, let's do 398 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:14,159 Speaker 2: what David said. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. 399 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 2: Let everything that has hands clap those hands. 400 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 1: Holgy people and. 401 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:30,119 Speaker 2: Shallow to God with a voice of triumph. 402 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 1: Power came to Nazareth, but it was trapped. 403 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 2: It was trapped in their familiar expectation, and they missed 404 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:46,199 Speaker 2: the miracle. 405 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:47,440 Speaker 1: They tripped over it. 406 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:54,119 Speaker 2: Literally, it's implied in the word that mark Usus says 407 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 2: that they were amazed. But then when they started thinking 408 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 2: about it, watched their dialogue. Where did this man get 409 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:06,919 Speaker 2: these things? They didn't deny his power? What's this wisdom 410 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 2: that has been given him. They didn't deny his wisdom. 411 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 2: What are these remarkable miracles that he is performing. They 412 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 2: didn't deny his miracles. They didn't doubt it. They despised it. 413 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:29,360 Speaker 2: Why did they despise it? Because he looked like one 414 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 2: of them. He came in a common way, and when 415 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,640 Speaker 2: God comes in a common way, we trip over him. 416 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 2: In our process of trying to get to something that 417 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 2: we think is important, we trip. Here's what they said. 418 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 2: Isn't this the carpenter there tripping? They're tripping? They thought 419 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 2: he was tripping. Who does he think he is? This 420 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,120 Speaker 2: guy is tripping. I love how they call him this, 421 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 2: this man, this dude. It's only five hundred people in 422 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,159 Speaker 2: the town. You know good and well what his name is. 423 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,239 Speaker 2: But they gave him a different name. What's what they 424 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 2: called him? The carpenter? Common This one's even better. Isn't 425 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 2: this Mary's son? You don't do that. In Jewish custom, 426 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 2: you call the child by the name of his father. Now, 427 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 2: maybe at this point Joseph's dead, But even if Joseph 428 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,159 Speaker 2: is dead, you still call him by the name of 429 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 2: the father, unless you don't know exactly who his father is. Remember, 430 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 2: Jesus came from questionable circumstances. Mary said it was God. 431 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:46,440 Speaker 2: But none of us saw the pregnancy test. That angel 432 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,919 Speaker 2: didn't tell us. She was telling the truth. So we 433 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,679 Speaker 2: know Mary's his MoMA. She's got the same nose. But 434 00:25:54,880 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 2: that daddy thing baby, that baby, that baby might have, 435 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 2: I don't know. Mary was talking to Tom. They spent 436 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 2: a lot of time together. It is circulated. See Nazareth's 437 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,119 Speaker 2: small town. You didn't grow up in a small town, 438 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 2: so you don't know how it goes in a small town. 439 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,880 Speaker 2: It didn't take long for this rumor to become embedded. 440 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,040 Speaker 2: Where did he come from? None of us really know. 441 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 2: It wasn't what he did that they doubted. It was 442 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:35,880 Speaker 2: where he came from. Where did he come from from? 443 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:40,120 Speaker 1: Nazareth? Who was one of them? 444 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 2: And so they looked at him for a minute, Oh 445 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 2: this is good, and then they remember, wait, he's. 446 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 1: One of us. He can't be special. He came from us. 447 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,679 Speaker 2: What would make them think like that? What was it 448 00:26:55,720 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 2: about Nazareth that had them trapped in their percep Okay, 449 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 2: now we need Nathaniel because you know Christmas time everybody 450 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 2: always sings Mary. 451 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 1: Did you know? But Mary wasn't even in church that day. 452 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 1: She wasn't even there. She wasn't even in the synagogue. 453 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 2: You don't hear this preach from Pulpits a lot, I 454 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 2: think because it's hard to tie up with the boat. Jesus' 455 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 2: family thought he was crazy during the three years of 456 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 2: his ministry. In Mark chapter three, they came to get 457 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,639 Speaker 2: him from Capernaum. They came to bring him back home 458 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,399 Speaker 2: because he had gotten Here's how we say it in 459 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 2: the South, too big for his breeches. That's a Southern saying, 460 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 2: bridges being our pants. 461 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how you say it 462 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 1: back home. I went to Australia. 463 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 2: In Australia they call it tall poppy. It means when 464 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 2: you get to Hi, you want to grow up too high. 465 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 2: Somebody needs to cut you down. This is what's happening 466 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 2: in Nazareth. They're like, ooh, it's good, ooh, the healer 467 00:27:54,840 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 2: is here. Wait a minute, Mary's boy, this is tooo familiar. 468 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: This feels like us. And when it felt like. 469 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 2: Them, something within them caused them to push it away. 470 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,160 Speaker 1: We only see why in John chapter one. 471 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 2: And I'm so glad that God gave us four Gospels, 472 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 2: because Mark puts one perspective, Matthew puts one, Luke puts one. 473 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 2: In Luke four, it says that they were so offended. 474 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 2: Scandalon is the Greek word. It means to set a trap. 475 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 2: They were so offended they became trapped in their offense, 476 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 2: and God's power could not operate at its full capacity 477 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 2: because their mentality was trapped in their offense. 478 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 1: Why were they so offended? 479 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 2: What was it about Nazareth and the people of Nazareth 480 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,280 Speaker 2: other than the fact that they grew up around Jesus? 481 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: Was there something else? There had to be something. 482 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 2: Else for them to push away, to have sickness in 483 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 2: their village, but. 484 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,960 Speaker 1: Push away the one that could heal them, for them. 485 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 2: To have demon possession oppressing their children, but send away 486 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 2: the one who could make the demon shriek and run 487 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,440 Speaker 2: out of town. What was it about Nazareth that made 488 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 2: them push away the one who came to set them free? 489 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 2: What was it about Nazareth? Well, Nathaniel's gonna tell us. 490 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 2: Nathaniel doesn't get a lot of speaking parts in the Bible, 491 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 2: so let's pay close attention. Is very uncommon that Nathaniel speaks, 492 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 2: But the Bible tells us one thing that he said 493 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 2: that this whole text and our entire understanding of why 494 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 2: God often cannot do what he wants to do in 495 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 2: our lives. It hinges on this because when Philip came 496 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 2: to find Nathaniel, he was excited about Jesus. This is 497 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 2: when Jesus was first assembling his squad, this is before 498 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 2: he sent them out to do any miracles. And Philip 499 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,200 Speaker 2: comes running up to his friend Nathaniel. He's called Nathaniel, 500 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 2: and John's gospel other right call him Bartholomew. He had 501 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 2: an alias here he's called Nathaniel. And Philip comes to 502 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,320 Speaker 2: Nathaniel because sometimes the first thing you do when you 503 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 2: really meet Jesus is drag people with you. Sometimes, when 504 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 2: God really gets a hold of your life, you will 505 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 2: bribe people into coming. 506 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 1: To church with you. 507 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 2: You'll buy them Starbucks to get them to sit with 508 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 2: you in church because. 509 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: You know how messed up they are. But you can't 510 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 1: tell them that. 511 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 2: But if you drag them in this church and let 512 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 2: me open the Bible, God will tell them, and together 513 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit in you can get them fixed. And 514 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 2: so you say come with me to church, and they say, 515 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 2: I don't like church, and you say, well, this is 516 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 2: a normal church, and they say, I'm in the church 517 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 2: before I hearn about that evolution in church in churance 518 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 2: in that the church. 519 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 1: That's the church where you're coming with me. Now shut 520 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: up and come. 521 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 2: And so Philip found Nathaniel verse forty five, John one 522 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 2: and told him we have. 523 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:52,480 Speaker 1: Found the one. 524 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 2: Somebody shout, we found him. This is the one Moses 525 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 2: wrote about in the Law, and whom the prophets also wrote, 526 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 2: Watch Jesus of Nazareth, where's he from again? Nazareth the 527 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:15,720 Speaker 2: son of Joseph. And Nathaniel's reaction helped me to understand 528 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 2: why the people of Nazareth resisted Jesus and missed his miracles. 529 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 2: And it helped me understand why I tend to push 530 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 2: people away sometimes. And it helped me understand why sometimes 531 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 2: I reject the love people are trying to give me, 532 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:37,560 Speaker 2: but really I'm rejecting something else. Because when Philip said 533 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 2: we found the one, Nathaniel was excited. But when he 534 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 2: said where he was from, Jesus of Nazareth, Philip said 535 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 2: forty six, Nazareth, let me do this in my best 536 00:31:54,360 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 2: ai voice. Practice Nazareth Nazareth. Tell me about Nazareth. Watch 537 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:09,720 Speaker 2: what he says. It hinges on this. I thought they 538 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,960 Speaker 2: only rejected Jesus and took offense and were trapped scandal 539 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,720 Speaker 2: on to set a trap. I thought they were offended 540 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:21,440 Speaker 2: by Jesus because they were so familiar with him. But 541 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 2: now I think the reason that they rejected Jesus is 542 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 2: because they rejected themselves. Apparently Nazareth had a reputation because 543 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 2: the first thing Nathaniel said was Nazareth. 544 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,960 Speaker 1: Can anything good come from there? 545 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:51,640 Speaker 2: That's how I feel about myself sometimes, you know, because 546 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:56,720 Speaker 2: I know myself. And when they took offense at him, 547 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 2: at first I was angry with them. Then I realized 548 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:06,960 Speaker 2: they weren't really rejecting him. They had a reputation. And 549 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 2: Nazareth is this backwoods town. Nazareth is on nobody's bucket list. 550 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:19,000 Speaker 2: They talk funny in Nazareth. It's not like Jerusalem. It's 551 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:20,400 Speaker 2: not a very religious place. 552 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 1: Nazareth. 553 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:29,800 Speaker 2: You mean the boy with a baby daddy, who were 554 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 2: not even short Nazareth. He came from us. It wasn't 555 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:38,360 Speaker 2: that they couldn't believe what he did. They couldn't believe 556 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:48,080 Speaker 2: it came from them. His miracles to them were remarkable. 557 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 2: But when they tried to reconcile the fact that he 558 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:58,840 Speaker 2: was one of them with what he was doing, they 559 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 2: couldn't reconcile the fact that something good could come from us. 560 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:06,719 Speaker 1: And when you have a view of yourself that has 561 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:07,680 Speaker 1: been shaped. 562 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:16,440 Speaker 2: Year after year, even generation after generation, by stereotypes, or 563 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:20,359 Speaker 2: by generalizations, or by failures, it comes to a point 564 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,560 Speaker 2: where you really start to believe that nothing good can 565 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,960 Speaker 2: come from you. And some of you are right there today, 566 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:31,960 Speaker 2: trapped in Nazareth because you got some things in your past, 567 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,120 Speaker 2: and some of them aren't even your fault. But just 568 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,680 Speaker 2: because it wasn't your fault doesn't mean it's not your prison. 569 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,320 Speaker 2: And in this room there is sexual molestation that happened 570 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,920 Speaker 2: twenty three years ago and still dominates. 571 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:48,719 Speaker 1: Your perception of what your future can be. 572 00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:52,760 Speaker 2: And there are many in this room who are still 573 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:57,719 Speaker 2: imprisoned in a failed relationship. The relationship failed five years ago, 574 00:34:57,760 --> 00:34:59,680 Speaker 2: but you are living in it in this very moment. 575 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:05,640 Speaker 2: Can anything good come from someone like me? He's just 576 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,960 Speaker 2: like us, He's one of us. And they were amazed 577 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 2: at first, and then they began to despise what they 578 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:16,120 Speaker 2: were first amazed that when they realized, wait a minute, 579 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,120 Speaker 2: he's one of us. There is a part of us 580 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,400 Speaker 2: that is able to believe that God is great. 581 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,000 Speaker 1: But when we try to reconcile the fact of. 582 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:29,680 Speaker 2: His greatness with the reality of our brokenness, we start 583 00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:33,520 Speaker 2: to feel like these people and we push Jesus away. 584 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,440 Speaker 2: And it's not that we can't believe that he's great, 585 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,439 Speaker 2: it's just that we can't believe that anything good could 586 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:41,920 Speaker 2: come from. 587 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:42,680 Speaker 1: Our life. 588 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,720 Speaker 2: Because there's so much that I don't know, and there's 589 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,040 Speaker 2: so much that I should have done it, so much 590 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,960 Speaker 2: that I shouldn't have done. And now I'm trapped in 591 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,480 Speaker 2: Nazareth because see, I've made some mistakes and I know 592 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,600 Speaker 2: Jesus is a healer, and I know he's amazing, and 593 00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,720 Speaker 2: I know he's a miracle. World is not his miracle 594 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:06,240 Speaker 2: working power. That's in question. Here is me. I'm trapped 595 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:10,919 Speaker 2: in Nazareth. It's me and I'm a preach till all 596 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,080 Speaker 2: of your facade comes falling off because you come in 597 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,720 Speaker 2: this church and you look at me a certain way, 598 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,600 Speaker 2: and you come with this sterile approach to God, but 599 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,960 Speaker 2: he can't do what he really wants to do in 600 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:29,400 Speaker 2: your life. Because you're trapped in Nazareth. So you listen 601 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:34,360 Speaker 2: to me preach, and you'll sing a few songs, and 602 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:35,800 Speaker 2: you'll say a few prayers. 603 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 1: But Jesus is limited in what he can do through. 604 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:43,759 Speaker 2: Your life because you are trapped in what you were. 605 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:54,360 Speaker 2: Nazareth was so unknown and so disregarded that Nathangel's first 606 00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,359 Speaker 2: response was not Nazareth. 607 00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:58,480 Speaker 1: Not Nazareth. 608 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:04,560 Speaker 2: Like the devil tells you, you. 609 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,560 Speaker 1: You really think you can raise those kids? 610 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,120 Speaker 2: You never saw it done. What makes you think you're 611 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:12,239 Speaker 2: going to be any better than your dad was? It's 612 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:16,360 Speaker 2: what tells you you can't. It's what can be in 613 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:21,879 Speaker 2: proximity of the power of God, but not receive. They 614 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:28,160 Speaker 2: were right there, but they resisted and rejected it. And 615 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:31,799 Speaker 2: yet it wasn't Jesus they were rejecting. It was that 616 00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:37,080 Speaker 2: they had been rejected and people have said something about 617 00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:41,400 Speaker 2: you long enough you start to believe it's really true. 618 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:44,960 Speaker 2: And I am convinced that the people of Nazareth that 619 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:49,520 Speaker 2: day were not rejecting Jesus as much as they were 620 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:54,640 Speaker 2: rejecting themselves. See, you have to develop your view of 621 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,359 Speaker 2: who God is through the prism of who you think 622 00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:01,839 Speaker 2: you are. And if you believe the rest of your 623 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:05,919 Speaker 2: life that you are worthless, it will be very hard 624 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:09,040 Speaker 2: for you to worship a God who thought you were 625 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:20,000 Speaker 2: worth dying for. As a matter of fact, I want 626 00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,440 Speaker 2: to help set somebody free who has been disappointed because 627 00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,160 Speaker 2: someone rejected you. A lot of times they're not rejecting you. 628 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,800 Speaker 2: A lot of times what they are rejecting is something 629 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,160 Speaker 2: that had nothing to do with you. And sometimes they 630 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:37,080 Speaker 2: push you away because there's something pushing on the inside 631 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,480 Speaker 2: of them. A lot of what we experience as rejection 632 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:44,359 Speaker 2: is really just projection. It's people who have been disappointed, 633 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,160 Speaker 2: who have been hurt, And now you're thinking, what's wrong 634 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,040 Speaker 2: with me? Why doesn't she appreciate me? It's not you 635 00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:54,720 Speaker 2: she doesn't appreciate. Is that she can't appreciate herself because 636 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:58,160 Speaker 2: she has not yet healed from something. Sometimes when people 637 00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,400 Speaker 2: are pushing you away, it's not even about you. Stop 638 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:05,400 Speaker 2: being so self centered. Stop thinking that people are responding 639 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:09,279 Speaker 2: to you. People have real hurts, people have real issues. 640 00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,239 Speaker 2: Sometimes they can't get over what happened to them. To 641 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:16,360 Speaker 2: celebrate you, will you love them anyway? Are you strong 642 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:20,359 Speaker 2: enough in God? Is your relationship with him strong enough 643 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:24,120 Speaker 2: to know that what they say about me doesn't change 644 00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:31,840 Speaker 2: who I am. Men's denial cannot block my destiny. 645 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,160 Speaker 1: Jesus was still a. 646 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:39,160 Speaker 2: Prophet, whether they knew it or not, whether they celebrated 647 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:42,360 Speaker 2: him or not, whether they rolled out a red carpet 648 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,120 Speaker 2: or ran him out of town, he knew who he was. 649 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,879 Speaker 1: Do you know who you are or do you need 650 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:50,640 Speaker 1: people to tell you who you are? 651 00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,000 Speaker 2: Because if you let people tell you who you are, 652 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,239 Speaker 2: they'll say you're just a carpenter. They'll say you're just 653 00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:00,680 Speaker 2: a single mom. They'll say you're just a teenager. They'll 654 00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,440 Speaker 2: say you're just a divorceee. But if you know who 655 00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,480 Speaker 2: God is, you realize your life is not defied by 656 00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:09,279 Speaker 2: an event. Oh, as a matter of fact, it actually is. 657 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:13,160 Speaker 2: That event happened on a hill called Cavalry, when he 658 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,360 Speaker 2: set his blood for me, when the precious Lamb of 659 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,799 Speaker 2: God looked at me through time and set I'll die 660 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,319 Speaker 2: for him. 661 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:34,080 Speaker 1: So now I know that I am accepted by him. 662 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:39,920 Speaker 2: I love Jesus tenacity because a lot of us, if 663 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,799 Speaker 2: we would have been rejected in our hometown, that would 664 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:45,840 Speaker 2: have been enough to kill our mission. 665 00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,760 Speaker 1: But what I want to show you for everybody who. 666 00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:55,600 Speaker 2: Has been rejected or has been rejecting the grace that 667 00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:58,839 Speaker 2: God has been trying to give you. Sometimes you're rejecting yourself. 668 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:06,200 Speaker 2: Is that something good can come from Nazareth? I say 669 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:11,880 Speaker 2: something good can come from Nazareth. And I want to 670 00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,719 Speaker 2: tell you another thing. Well, I got you here. You 671 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:19,240 Speaker 2: don't have to stay where you started. How many praise 672 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:27,000 Speaker 2: God for that? I don't have to stay. 673 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,439 Speaker 3: I don't have to stay where I started. I don't 674 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:34,920 Speaker 3: have to be who I was. I don't have to 675 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:40,359 Speaker 3: be trapped in Nazareth. I don't go home and tell 676 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,840 Speaker 3: your husband you're leaving like he's Nazareth. 677 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,279 Speaker 2: People will abuse my little sermons sometimes take them out 678 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:49,920 Speaker 2: of context. 679 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,200 Speaker 1: Be quitting your job like it's Nazareth. 680 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,440 Speaker 2: You got a mortgage to pay, bro, and I need 681 00:41:56,440 --> 00:42:01,000 Speaker 2: you to tithe, So keep that job. Keep that job. 682 00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:10,319 Speaker 2: Maybe Nazareth isn't a place. Maybe it's a perspective. That's 683 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:14,719 Speaker 2: where we get trapped, not where we are, but what 684 00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,799 Speaker 2: we think about where we are. Jesus could have done 685 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,759 Speaker 2: it in Nazareth, they just weren't willing to receive it. 686 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,360 Speaker 2: And what's what he did, Because this is what somebody 687 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,240 Speaker 2: under the sound of my voice needs to do today. 688 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:28,600 Speaker 2: And I don't know why, but I feel like when 689 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,440 Speaker 2: I show you this, it's going to help you understand 690 00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:36,040 Speaker 2: how to get unstuck. That's something that has been playing 691 00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,759 Speaker 2: like it's on repeat on your playlist, over and over 692 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:41,840 Speaker 2: in your mind that you can't get out of. 693 00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:44,799 Speaker 1: It could be a failure. It could be a friend 694 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,560 Speaker 1: that left you. It could be somebody you keep trying 695 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:48,200 Speaker 1: to prove. 696 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,000 Speaker 2: Yourself to, but you're never going to prove yourself to 697 00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,480 Speaker 2: them because they've never proved themselves to themselves. So how 698 00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:54,319 Speaker 2: are you going to get their approval if they don't 699 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,839 Speaker 2: even approve of themselves. This is what's going to help 700 00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,080 Speaker 2: you because I never saw it before because I preached 701 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,399 Speaker 2: this passage. One day, I'm going to do a whole 702 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,160 Speaker 2: series called I Apologize, and it's going to be all 703 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:05,400 Speaker 2: the passages that I. 704 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,759 Speaker 1: Preached and I screwed them up, and I'm going to 705 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:08,239 Speaker 1: go back and. 706 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,440 Speaker 2: Apologize to those passages of scripture in a whole series. 707 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:13,040 Speaker 1: And this is installment one. 708 00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,840 Speaker 2: I apologize for stopping in verse six because often I 709 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:20,239 Speaker 2: would stop right here and say. 710 00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:21,040 Speaker 1: He was amazed at their lack of faith. 711 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,759 Speaker 2: But right there in the same verse, it says he 712 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:29,080 Speaker 2: was amazed at their lack of faith. Right there in 713 00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,399 Speaker 2: that same verse where it says he was rejected by 714 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,320 Speaker 2: the people who should have respected him the most. 715 00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,680 Speaker 1: Have you ever felt that way? 716 00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,240 Speaker 2: It could be a parent, it could be a child 717 00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,000 Speaker 2: that you've done the most for. The only people that 718 00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:43,799 Speaker 2: can really hurt you are the ones you really love. 719 00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:48,400 Speaker 2: There's nothing like being rejected by people that you expected 720 00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,520 Speaker 2: more from and even had the right to expect more from. 721 00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:53,520 Speaker 2: He should have been able to do ten times the 722 00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:56,520 Speaker 2: miracles in Nazareth. He should have been able to do 723 00:43:56,600 --> 00:44:00,600 Speaker 2: much more for the people who already knew him, and 724 00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:04,400 Speaker 2: that could have been enough to stop him. 725 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,560 Speaker 1: Soft Jesus would have stopped in Nazareth. 726 00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:11,239 Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry, y'all think I'm taking it too far. 727 00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:16,480 Speaker 2: I'll tone it down. I apologize. I'm so sorry. I 728 00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,760 Speaker 2: won't say these things anymore. I'm sorry. I won't heal anybody. 729 00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:21,600 Speaker 2: If y'all don't like it, I'll go back to the 730 00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:24,520 Speaker 2: carpenter shop. It's cool. Just please don't make fun of me. 731 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:30,640 Speaker 2: We get so worried about rejection that we miss God's 732 00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:35,719 Speaker 2: next direction for our life. And the moment you understand 733 00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:41,440 Speaker 2: that many of the rejections that we experience are really redirections. 734 00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:49,600 Speaker 2: You will no longer be trapped in Nazareth. Some of 735 00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:54,600 Speaker 2: us have gotten bitter offended. We're trapped scandaloon to set 736 00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:56,719 Speaker 2: a trap trapped in Nazareth. 737 00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:59,560 Speaker 1: What is Nazareth? The place where people said you couldn't 738 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,399 Speaker 1: a place where who was supposed to be there wasn't there? 739 00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:06,040 Speaker 2: The place where you failed and you had great expectations 740 00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:12,480 Speaker 2: and you disappointed them. Here's what happens next. He was 741 00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:18,240 Speaker 2: amazed at their lack of faith. Then Jesus, so rejection 742 00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:22,680 Speaker 2: is not the end, because the next thing he did 743 00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:25,440 Speaker 2: after they rejected him in Nazareth. 744 00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,680 Speaker 1: Watch this went around teaching. 745 00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:33,319 Speaker 2: From village to village, calling the Twelve to him. 746 00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:36,040 Speaker 1: He's already called them to be his disciples. 747 00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:41,280 Speaker 2: Now he can release them into their ministry, calling. 748 00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:43,919 Speaker 1: The twelve to him. God, I love your word. 749 00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:47,120 Speaker 2: Thank you for showing me this, because I thought rejection 750 00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,759 Speaker 2: minute was over. But when I read this, I realize 751 00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:55,279 Speaker 2: that some of our greatest blessings can only come on 752 00:45:55,360 --> 00:46:01,319 Speaker 2: the other side of rejection. And to send them out 753 00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:07,400 Speaker 2: two by two and gave them authority over impure spirits. 754 00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:11,280 Speaker 2: These were his instructions. E take nothing for the journey 755 00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,399 Speaker 2: except the staff. Touch somebody say you don't need it, 756 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:15,960 Speaker 2: You don't need it. Whatever you don't have, you don't 757 00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,080 Speaker 2: need it. Whatever they didn't give you, you don't need it. 758 00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:20,719 Speaker 2: Whatever they didn't say, you don't need it. Whatever wasn't 759 00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:22,719 Speaker 2: put in your path, you don't need it. Don't take 760 00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:26,520 Speaker 2: it with you. Wear sandals, but not an extra shirt. 761 00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:28,120 Speaker 1: Verse ten. Whenever you enter. 762 00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,080 Speaker 2: A house, stay there until you leave that town. And 763 00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:32,560 Speaker 2: if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, 764 00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:38,439 Speaker 2: leave that place. Don't you stay trapped in Nazareth. Don't 765 00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,560 Speaker 2: you spend the rest of your life trying to prove 766 00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,600 Speaker 2: yourself to people. Don't you spend the rest of your 767 00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:46,200 Speaker 2: life apologizing for a week's season. 768 00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:52,440 Speaker 1: They won't welcome you. 769 00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:54,080 Speaker 2: If it doesn't work out there, if you can't get 770 00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:54,479 Speaker 2: it right. 771 00:46:54,400 --> 00:47:00,360 Speaker 1: This time, leave that place. Leave that place. It's not 772 00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:02,120 Speaker 1: an address, it's not a zip code. 773 00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:08,120 Speaker 2: It's a perspective, and shake the dust off your feet 774 00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:11,399 Speaker 2: as a testimony against this. Must be why he brought 775 00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:15,279 Speaker 2: the disciples to naza because he wanted to show them 776 00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:20,160 Speaker 2: what to do with rejection, and he knew that they 777 00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:26,239 Speaker 2: were not ready to be released in ministry until they 778 00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:34,080 Speaker 2: had first been rejected. The road to resurrection is paved 779 00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:43,640 Speaker 2: with rejection, and the stone that the builders rejected, that 780 00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:50,480 Speaker 2: the people tripped on, became the chief cornerstone. Jesus had 781 00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:54,680 Speaker 2: showed them how to cast out devils, Jesus had showed 782 00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:57,879 Speaker 2: them how to heal the sick. Jesus had showed them 783 00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:01,239 Speaker 2: how to touch lepers. But now he's showing them how 784 00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:03,000 Speaker 2: to do one more thing that they're gonna need and 785 00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:04,160 Speaker 2: then they can be released. 786 00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:08,520 Speaker 1: He had to show them how to shake it off. Oh, 787 00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:12,000 Speaker 1: I feel the spirit of Taylor Swift. And he had 788 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:13,279 Speaker 1: to show them one more thing. 789 00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:16,759 Speaker 2: It's not always gonna go like you wanted to go, 790 00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:18,960 Speaker 2: and not everybody is gonna see. 791 00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:20,000 Speaker 1: What you want them to see. 792 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,759 Speaker 2: And you're not always gonna make the right moves, and 793 00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:25,799 Speaker 2: there are gonna be some mistakes. But if you will 794 00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:35,640 Speaker 2: say it off and move forward in faith, you're ready. 795 00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:41,440 Speaker 2: Now you're ready. Now you failed some and you're ready. 796 00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:45,160 Speaker 2: Now you've heard a lot as you're ready. Now you're 797 00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:50,759 Speaker 2: humbled by it. You're stronger because something you now know 798 00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:56,920 Speaker 2: that only God can approove of you. You now know 799 00:48:57,040 --> 00:49:01,600 Speaker 2: not to look to people for their validation. You're coming 800 00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:10,360 Speaker 2: out of Nasareth. Stop tripping. Stop tripping over what people think. 801 00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:15,640 Speaker 2: Stop tripping trying to get somebody to clap for you 802 00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:20,040 Speaker 2: who's not even paying attention. They got their own car payment. 803 00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,080 Speaker 2: Stop needing people to validate what you know. 804 00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:29,680 Speaker 1: God made you already. 805 00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:39,240 Speaker 2: Those disciples went out from there and they started casting 806 00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:43,000 Speaker 2: out demons, taking authority. 807 00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:48,880 Speaker 1: But first they had to go through rejection. First, they 808 00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:52,880 Speaker 1: had to go through disappointment. First, they had to go 809 00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:55,839 Speaker 1: to Nasareth. Twenty five mile trip. 810 00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,719 Speaker 2: Jesus took the boys on just to show them what 811 00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:03,160 Speaker 2: to do, and it doesn't work, Just to show them 812 00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:07,880 Speaker 2: that even Jesus had to be rejected. He was despised 813 00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,560 Speaker 2: and rejected, you know why, so you would never have 814 00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:14,960 Speaker 2: to be You might be rejected by people, but you 815 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:21,480 Speaker 2: will never be rejected by him. 816 00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:24,040 Speaker 1: And I want to tell you one more thing. Stand 817 00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:24,879 Speaker 1: up so I'll quit. 818 00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:32,399 Speaker 2: God selects what man rejects, so people pick Saul. God 819 00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:38,880 Speaker 2: wants David. You better celebrate everybody who's ever hurt, everybody 820 00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:42,160 Speaker 2: who ever had someone. 821 00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:45,520 Speaker 1: Come on the stone that the builders rejected. 822 00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:53,440 Speaker 2: I feel resurrection and power rising up in thirty people. 823 00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:55,880 Speaker 1: Where are the thirty. 824 00:50:56,239 --> 00:51:00,120 Speaker 2: We're coming out of national, coming out of the gray, 825 00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:05,279 Speaker 2: coming out of here, coming out of failure. 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