1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Right now. I don't know what y'all wanna do on 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 1: the instruments, but we're gonna take twenty one seconds for 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty one, and we're gonna praise God 4 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: for his mighty power and his awesome work. And we're 5 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: gonna do it in Gaston and Concord and Lake Norman 6 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 1: and Valentine. We're gonna do it in our bedrooms and 7 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 1: kitchens and living rooms and cars. Praise them on the treadmill. 8 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,479 Speaker 1: Some of y'all got a podcast going. Just holler in 9 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: the gym. They will throw you out bed. I praise 10 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 1: you Lord. I'm running and not growing weary. I'm walking 11 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 1: in a will knock fad. I give you a pray. 12 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 1: I did you praised? I'm gonna saved the praise. Whoo whooh, 13 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: didn't that feel good. Let's get those hands out of 14 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: those pockets and start clapping. You clapping the Devil's hip. 15 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 1: It's back. It's back, it's back, it's back. I'm so 16 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: excited to preach. I broke my mic and I hadn't 17 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: even write my scripture, all right, so let me start 18 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: the sermon. Now, Welcome everybody to Elevation Church. I'm gonna 19 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:35,919 Speaker 1: share with you today this scripture. I had a substitute 20 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 1: preacher ready because my voice was tired from preaching on 21 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: this tour. But it was almost like a battle of 22 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 1: two voices, because the voice of God was speaking to me, 23 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: and I was like, well, I'll preach this week. Somebody 24 00:01:53,840 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: needs this word. The Lord brought me here for you. 25 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 1: You believe God loves you that much that he would 26 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: make sure you were here to hear this. I totally 27 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: believe that. I want to preach for a moment. From 28 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: Hagi chapter two, Draham said, are you preaching this week? Dad? 29 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: I said, I think so. God's speaking to me And 30 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 1: he said from Luke five, because that's what I've been 31 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: preaching in church and I preached it out there. I said, no, Son, 32 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 1: not from Luke five. He said, let's go. He was 33 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: so tired of hearing about Simon and the nets and 34 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: the boats. Chris didn't get tired of it. One time. 35 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: Chris got saved. Every night on the Elevation Nights tour, 36 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: he rededicated sanctified Spiritville. He was walking around speaking in tongues. Backstage, 37 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: David was eating grapes. Tiffany's about the only pure one 38 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: on the worship team. Don't let their smiles for me. 39 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: I love this scripture is such a powerful prophecy and 40 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: a promise for us. Listen to this Hagi too. That's 41 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 1: three books from the back of the Bible. You'd be 42 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 1: better off to start or back of the old tip. 43 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: So you go to Matthew, go back three books. That's hagi. 44 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: Be the easiest way to find it. If you like 45 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: to flip or look at the screens lazy booms. In 46 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: the second year of King Darius, on the twenty first 47 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: day of the seventh month, the word of the Lord 48 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: came through the prophet Hagi. The word of the Lord 49 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: came through the prophet Hagi. Speak to Zarabebel, son of 50 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 1: Shiel Tiel, Governor of Judah, to Joshua, a son of Joseidac, 51 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: the High Priest, and to the remnant of the people. 52 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: Ask them, who of you is left? Who saw this 53 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: house in its former glory? How does it look to 54 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: you now? Does it not seem to you like nothing? 55 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 1: But now, be strong, Sir Rubebel, be strong, Zerubebel, declares 56 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: the Lord, be strong. Joshua, son of joseph Ac, the 57 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 1: High Priest, be strong. Say your name. Say it in 58 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: the chat right now, Be strong, Stephen, say your name. 59 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 1: Be strong, because you have to talk to yourself this way. 60 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:42,239 Speaker 1: All right. God's not always gonna have a Hagie following 61 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: you around telling you you can do it. So say it. 62 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: Say be strong and say your name. Say be strong, 63 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:56,559 Speaker 1: Be strong, Be strong, all you peoples of the land, 64 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 1: declares the Lord, and work for I am with you, 65 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: declares the Lord Almighty. This is what I covenanted with 66 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: you when you came out of Egypt, and my spirit 67 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: remains among you. Do not fear. This is what the 68 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: Lord Almighty says. In a little while won't be long. 69 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,599 Speaker 1: It might be happening right now. It might happen before 70 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:31,799 Speaker 1: you get home today. In a little while, I will 71 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,839 Speaker 1: once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea 72 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: and the dry land. I will shake all nations, and 73 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: what is desired by all nations will come, and I 74 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 1: will fill this house with glory, says the Lord Almighty. 75 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares 76 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty. And the crypto and the bitcoin, it's 77 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: all mine, declare whatever they make I trade in it. 78 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 1: I am the Lord Almighty, and the glory of this 79 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: present house will be greater than the glory of the 80 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: former house, says the Lord Almighty. And in this place 81 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:34,919 Speaker 1: I will grant peace. This place I will grant peace, 82 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 1: declares the Lord Almight, not declares Pastor Stephen. I wouldn't 83 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: give you two dollars for what I say. But when 84 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 1: God says it. And this is the word God said 85 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: to say to you today, you ready. God said to 86 00:06:50,120 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: tell you this my title. Stop crying is coming. Who 87 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: stop crying is coming? Stop crying is coming. You may 88 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 1: be seated. Wow. Well, so we got to talk about temples. 89 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 1: That's what's happening in Hagai too. They're rebuilding the temple, 90 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem. It's been in 91 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: ruins for over fifty years because the people of God 92 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: got carried off to Babylon. He gave the history lesson 93 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: real quick. Just a little one, just a little one, 94 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: just a little context. Every blessing has a context. So 95 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: you don't want to just shout over something that you 96 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: don't understand the context that it's set in. All right, 97 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:59,239 Speaker 1: very important to understand that they've been in Babylon because 98 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: they were carried off, not of their own choice, but 99 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: they've been in Babylon. When Psalm says that by the 100 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept, they actually 101 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: hung up their their harps and their electric guitars and 102 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: their tailors and their martins hung it all up on 103 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: the willow tree, which represents sweeping, and they web for 104 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: seventy years. So what we're stepping into in Hagai chapter 105 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 1: two is much more than just the rebuilding. All right. 106 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: I hesitate to use that word because it's soapop culture 107 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: and it's so buzzy at almost certain words right now 108 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: just make you feel sick to hear them all over again. 109 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: We're going to rebuild this nation, and we're going to 110 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: rebuild this economy, and we're going to rebuild We're going 111 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 1: to build it back better, praise God. And that's not 112 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: the hype right here. This is the hope, the hope, 113 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 1: the hope, the hope, not the height, not the hype, 114 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,679 Speaker 1: but the hope is that they are going to rebuild 115 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: the temple. But really, really, they are going to reinvent 116 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 1: their template. Template. And what comes to mind when I 117 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: say template will depend on your background. If you're like 118 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: in a computer background, a template means one thing, if 119 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 1: you are like in a machine, if you use machinery 120 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 1: and stuff. They use metal and wood as a template 121 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: for a pattern to build something. Or is even if 122 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 1: there's really any geniuses in here. Is even in DNA 123 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 1: and in genetic code, we talk about the template. But 124 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: understanding this will really help us to know what Hagi 125 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: had to do to encourage the people, because this temple 126 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 1: that they're rebuilding, that was destroyed, which represented the center 127 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:50,200 Speaker 1: of Jewish life in Jerusalem, was completely unfamiliar to one generation. 128 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: They had only heard about it, they never saw it. 129 00:09:56,120 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: The only people who saw Solomon's Temple, which was awesome, 130 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: and I'll tell you a little bit about it in 131 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 1: about forty five seconds. But the only ones who saw 132 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: it are now senior citizens. That's important. But let's talk 133 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: about Solomon's temple. It was so grand that one historian 134 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 1: said half of the gold in the world at the 135 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 1: time of Solomon was used to overlay the temple, half 136 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:32,319 Speaker 1: of the world's gold. I started studying about it. I said, 137 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 1: what would you need half the gold in the world 138 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 1: for to build a temple? I mean, can't God meet 139 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 1: you anywhere? He met the Israelites and the tent in 140 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 1: the wilderness. He didn't need a bunch of gold to 141 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: meet with the people. I mean, he'll meet with you. 142 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:47,079 Speaker 1: Some of you. You met God, not somewhere in a 143 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: church service, but you met God on the kitchen floor 144 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: trying to crawl to the toilet to throw up, promising God, 145 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 1: I will never do it again. If you will get 146 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 1: me through this, or if you will let the test 147 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 1: be negative, I will never do it again. I know 148 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:03,440 Speaker 1: it's early to be in your business, but you can 149 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 1: meet God anywhere. I mean anywhere meet God throwing up 150 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 1: in the toilet bowl. But here's this temple that God 151 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 1: gave his people, and he wanted it built that way 152 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 1: because he's great and he's glorious. The silver is his, 153 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: the gold is his. He doesn't mind any of that. 154 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:26,679 Speaker 1: Had a guy coming to church one tim, he said, 155 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:28,080 Speaker 1: I would get baptized, but I don't want to stop 156 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 1: driving my nice car. I said, who told you that? 157 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 1: He said there was a preacher one time that said 158 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 1: if I wanted to give it, I had to sell 159 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: everything and follow him. I said, did the preacher that 160 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: told you that? Because the guy was rich, and apparently 161 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: he has some preacher that was trying to build a 162 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: building for the church. So he's trying to work this 163 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: guy saying, well, now, if you really want to be 164 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 1: a sincere Christian, the proof of your sincerity is poverty. 165 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: So you got to sell everything and give it to God. 166 00:11:55,040 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: Lord said, I'm not stuck in your scarcity. I can 167 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: bless you so much with my runover as the disciples. 168 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 1: God blessed them so much off of five loaves of 169 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: bread and two fish that they had to carry home leftovers. 170 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 1: God said, you will break your back trying to carry 171 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 1: home what is left over if you will seek me first, 172 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:29,199 Speaker 1: not just money, but peace of mind. Don't you want that? 173 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: But meaning and purpose and significance that goes past this 174 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: present evil age. I feel like preaching and telling somebody 175 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 1: God's got it. God's got it anyway. It's a lot 176 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 1: of gold, right. The candlesticks were made of gold, five 177 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 1: on each side of the altar. In Sulomon's temple, the 178 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: basins were made of gold. You know, the tongs that 179 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: they would pick up the colds with, those were made 180 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 1: of gold. This is how crazy God is. Even the 181 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: hinges on the doors were made of goal. That's that's extravagant. 182 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: That was Solomon's temple. That was Solomon's temple. That is 183 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: not the temple that is being built in Hagai too. 184 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 1: It's a different temple, and it requires a different template, 185 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: you know, psychologically speaking, Right now, you have a template 186 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 1: that is formed. They tell me this anyway, by the 187 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: neural pathways and associations in our brain. And really our 188 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: template is based on familiarity, not always truth. Now what 189 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 1: feels true to you might not be actually true. It 190 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: may just be your template. Everybody say template template. Now 191 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: imagine that the prophet hag guy. We don't know anything 192 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,679 Speaker 1: about this guy. He's he's got some leaders. The Joshua, 193 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: who comes from the line of Aaron, who was the 194 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 1: first high priest, Moses's brother. You might remember here in 195 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: his name. One time Moses was like, I can't speak God. 196 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: He's like, here comes Aaron. He'll speak you shut up 197 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 1: and do what I tell you to do. Here's your staff, 198 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 1: because God always send you what you need. And so 199 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: that's who Joshua, the son of josephak is. He's from 200 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: that priestly line of Erin. And then there's Zorubbabel, who's 201 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 1: a governor now here here, here's something that will help 202 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: you to know. The king at the time is called Darius. 203 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: This is before he start hoody and the blowfish. Darius 204 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 1: was the I just got to keep you all awake 205 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 1: during this history lesson because y'are kind of shifting around 206 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: like a I when's he gonna preach? Here a sermon? 207 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 1: This is the sermon, okay, Because every blessing has a context. 208 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 1: Every blessing has a context. And so Darius wasn't even 209 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 1: supposed to be king. But there was a coup when 210 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: the Persians took over Babylon. The Persian king his name 211 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 1: was Cyrus. He sent the Jews back. He's like, I 212 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: want you all to like me, so y'all can go 213 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: rebuild whatever you want. And that's who is back in Jerusalem, 214 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 1: more specifically in the Southern Kingdom of Judah, rebuilding sixty 215 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 1: thousand of them. They come back and they start rebuilding 216 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 1: the temple. Because for the Jewish people, their template, the 217 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: way they saw it, their model was that spirituality should 218 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 1: be the center of life, not the periphery. We are 219 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: almost in the day where I preach the exact opposite. 220 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 1: For us, spirituality is like the last thing that we 221 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: consider when we're making decisions. We will sooner move to 222 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: a city based on the climate than we will based 223 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: on the church. Lord Jesus, you didn't tell me is 224 00:15:57,960 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 1: going to be this quiet? You didn't tell me my 225 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 1: church turn Presbyterium. When I took one week off to 226 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 1: go on the road. You know what I noticed on Corona? 227 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 1: You know what I noticed. I would see people and 228 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: it's not fine. I don't care. You wear a mask, 229 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: you don't wear a mask. I'm not here to talk 230 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 1: to you about that. I'm not a doctor. But what 231 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 1: I would notice is I would see people everywhere, no mask, 232 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: mask off, future style, everybody mask off, all everywhere, And 233 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: I come up to them and we would be in 234 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: a ballgame, a restaurant, a movie, a mall, anything, And 235 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: I say, have you been back to church? You all 236 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 1: in the building ought to help me with this. You're 237 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: here I'm talking to now. That's a chance for you 238 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: to be sophisticated and superior. Nah. We hadn't made it 239 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: back to church, but you made it to the ball field. Nah, 240 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: we haven't made it back to church. Because for us, 241 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 1: our template, our cultural template, the pattern of this world 242 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 1: is yet God is an add on. God is an 243 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 1: app and scripture is a salad bar and I pick 244 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 1: what I want. That's our template. That's our template. It 245 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 1: doesn't matter what what's true. Oh no, no, you gotta 246 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 1: live your truth. What if your truth is trash. It's 247 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: the fleece, y'all, it's the fleece. I'm burning up. And 248 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 1: so they know, before we can rebuild the walls, which 249 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 1: Nea Maya will come along later and start to do 250 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 1: not without opposition, before we can rebuild the economy, we 251 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: gotta build this temple. But they get discouraged in the work, 252 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 1: you know, because it doesn't look like the old one. 253 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:52,400 Speaker 1: It doesn't look like the one we heard about. This 254 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: is the temple. Man, I thought it would be better 255 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: than this. You so make your decision to follow Christ, 256 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:08,200 Speaker 1: and then he doesn't give you a raise by next Monday. 257 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 1: This is Christianity. I'm sorry. You have a bad template. 258 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: If you just think that God exists to deck your 259 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:22,199 Speaker 1: temple out in gold everywhere, that is not all God is. 260 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: You know what Bible verse I love John eleven thirty five. 261 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 1: How many of y'all need to memorize more scriptures, less 262 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 1: football stats chunks, and more scriptures fantasy football. God, if 263 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: I could just take some of y'all's heads and put 264 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: three Bible verses, so we'll start. We'll start today. Baby steps, 265 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 1: baby steps, baby steps, all right, because you don't do 266 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:57,439 Speaker 1: it once. John eleven thirty five put it on the 267 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:04,399 Speaker 1: screen and Jesus wept. Now, look, it's not even the 268 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 1: week hasn't even started yet, and you memorized the whole scripture. 269 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: Give yourself a ham. Come on, that's good, that's good, 270 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:20,719 Speaker 1: that's good. Jesus wept, and Jesus wept. You're like, well, 271 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,639 Speaker 1: what does that have to do over the the temple? 272 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 1: Because it's all about expectation right in John eleven thirty five, 273 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 1: Jesus is going to see these sisters named Mary and Martha, 274 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 1: and their brother died, and Jesus didn't show up when 275 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 1: they thought he would, or when they thought he should, 276 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,919 Speaker 1: and he could and they thought he should, but he didn't, 277 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:51,920 Speaker 1: and they were crying. They were crying. Now, Jesus did 278 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:55,159 Speaker 1: not say to the sisters what your dad might have 279 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: said to you, that my dad would say to me. 280 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 1: If you don't stop cry, finish it, I will give you. 281 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 1: Y'all are traumatized. I felt trauma. Your shoulders got tense 282 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 1: when you said, ah, he didn't say that. He wept 283 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 1: with them. He wept with them. He weeps with me. 284 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 1: He knows my disappointments. They don't have to stay hidden. 285 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 1: I can bring them right out in the light of day, 286 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 1: because he knows the deeper disappointment behind the disappointment that 287 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: created the disappointment. He knows the descendants of my disappointment. 288 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,399 Speaker 1: He knows what disappointment led to what disappointment. Jesus did 289 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,160 Speaker 1: an ancestry treat on all the things I'm frustrated about, 290 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 1: and he sees all of that. He knows the real 291 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 1: template that's driving my behavior. Knows the same about you. 292 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 1: He knows why watch this, you push people away who 293 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: are trying to love you. You don't even know why 294 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 1: you do that yet. It's a mystery to you. You 295 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 1: don't even know why. Yet when things get good in 296 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 1: your life, you find some way to screw them up. 297 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:21,119 Speaker 1: And he knows why. It's because you figure, rather than 298 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 1: let somebody else take it away from me like happened 299 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:28,040 Speaker 1: last time, I'll just take it away from myself. I 300 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 1: will take my ball and go home. I will take 301 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,680 Speaker 1: my blessing and go home. So watch this. If your 302 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 1: template is every relationship ends in pain or betrayal. If 303 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 1: that is your template, you will start creating the very 304 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: thing that you fear to avoid being surprised by it 305 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 1: ever again. If that's your template, the template of these 306 00:21:54,800 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 1: people was a temple that had so much gold that 307 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 1: they had to start putting gold in weird places like 308 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:09,720 Speaker 1: the wash basin. They made Solomon's Temple's wash basin gold 309 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: just because God is that glorious. So then they start 310 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 1: building a new one. Ah, we're gonna build a temple. Oh, 311 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,360 Speaker 1: we're gonna get our life together. Oh, we're gonna lose 312 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: twenty pounds. You know what. The hard thing about keeping 313 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: weight off is nobody congratulates you from not putting it 314 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 1: back on. Oh you've lost weight. Nobody has ever said 315 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: to me, you still look decent. It's been six years 316 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: and you haven't fluctuated. Your jeens look the same size. 317 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 1: That's awesome, good job. Nobody compliments you when the genes 318 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: stay the same size. That's what's difficult is they're not 319 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: just rebuilding a temple. God is reinventing their template and 320 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:58,919 Speaker 1: their identity. They've been in Babylon so long they have 321 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: forgotten the songs of Zion. They've been on pandemic on 322 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 1: church online so long that they don't even remember how 323 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,440 Speaker 1: to be in a crowd without being scared of catching 324 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 1: their death around people. Do you see why I have 325 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 1: no patience with people that say the Bible isn't relevant 326 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: to our day? Is this not us? Is this not us? 327 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,119 Speaker 1: Not only have you been rebuilding what was destroyed in 328 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:33,439 Speaker 1: the last two years, you've had to reinvent. You have 329 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:35,960 Speaker 1: the same title, but it's a completely different template for 330 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 1: your job. I talked to the campus pastors when they 331 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,120 Speaker 1: were calling church members and we couldn't pray for people 332 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 1: and lay hands on them. I said, this sucks for you, 333 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: doesn't it. You signed up to do ministry with people 334 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 1: and now you're basically running a call center because you 335 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:57,160 Speaker 1: can't touch. And touch was your template for ministry. It 336 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:01,919 Speaker 1: was so hard to reinvent. It's been hard for me 337 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: to reinvent my identity as a pastor for years. My 338 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: adult identity for my ego was just like in high school, 339 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: it was how much do you bench press? But then 340 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,120 Speaker 1: as a pastors, how many people come to your church? 341 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: So I went from bench to attendance. Oh yeah, you 342 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 1: got ten thousand. I remember those days, small beginnings. Sorry, 343 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 1: don't be discouraged. I'm tell you the Lord to give 344 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 1: you twenty. Can I get a thirty? Can I get 345 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 1: a forty? Can I get a fifty? Wait? Man, wait, 346 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,119 Speaker 1: wait a minute minute. Now you're talking about I was 347 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 1: coming up in the church wondering would anybody come back? 348 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 1: I mean after training behavior. You know, I'm not fuscinating 349 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: to anybody that comes on online because really, really, really, 350 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: God has given us a template for ministry now that 351 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: we can reach you wherever you are. I praise God 352 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: for it. I mean there's some places we can't put 353 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: a building, but I can preach the Bible and we 354 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,159 Speaker 1: can watch this. I'm about to say something cool. You'll clap. 355 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 1: God can give you a breakthrough where there is no 356 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 1: church building. So now God is expanding the territory of 357 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 1: the church. I hear from Zimbabwe about this ministry and 358 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:23,120 Speaker 1: South Paulo, Brazil. I hear from everywhere. I hear from Kentucky. 359 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: Whoa God is good? Sometimes God says your template is 360 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,679 Speaker 1: too small for what I want to do. This is 361 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 1: not a temple built by human hands. This is a 362 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 1: temple that his name in heaven is unknown to men, 363 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: but it is revealed to us. It is it is 364 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:48,919 Speaker 1: a shadow of Jesus Christ. Wow, all that is in 365 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:57,159 Speaker 1: this text. Yeah, it's a text about reinventing. It's a 366 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: text about temples, text about templates. It's a text about trauma. 367 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: Is a text about tears, and there's a time for tears. 368 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,439 Speaker 1: If sadness was a sin, Jesus couldn't have died for 369 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 1: yours because he cried. Disappointment doesn't make you wrong. Anger 370 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,680 Speaker 1: doesn't make you wrong. There is just as much of 371 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: a danger of stuffing it and letting it come out sideways, 372 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 1: then letting it out. That's why I hate to hear 373 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 1: preachers say you don't need therapy and counsel and all 374 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:43,199 Speaker 1: you need is the Holy Ghost. The blood is on 375 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 1: our hands when we talk like that, because God uses 376 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 1: all of that in people's lives. It's all a part 377 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 1: of the process that he uses. Matter of fact, that's 378 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: so dumb. Let's take that to the extreme. You don't 379 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: need airplanes, all you need is the Holy Ghost. I 380 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: don't see any preachers fly into their preaching engagements with 381 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: their own wings. So stupid God uses stuff. And even 382 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 1: in the text I read, it said the word of 383 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:12,399 Speaker 1: the Lord came through hag II. Sometimes the help that 384 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,879 Speaker 1: you need, the healing that you need, comes through people. 385 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 1: Sometimes even you know, like I treat my daughter different 386 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: than my sons, and sometimes I have to catch myself 387 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,879 Speaker 1: because they'll remind me you are too easy on Abby. 388 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 1: It wasn't like that for us, and they're right for them. 389 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:38,199 Speaker 1: It was dry it up for her. You know, it's like, 390 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,120 Speaker 1: I'll buy you one, don't worry about it. What's wrong 391 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:48,959 Speaker 1: with me? Yeah, it's different raising boys and girl. It's 392 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:54,399 Speaker 1: like a different template. It's different. So what God is 393 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 1: trying to get the people to do in Hagi Too 394 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: is not just to build what they had before four, 395 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 1: but to get ready for something better. All right, So 396 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 1: all this time you're spending wishing that it would be 397 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 1: like it was before is completely wasted because God's not 398 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:26,439 Speaker 1: gonna make it what it was before, because if he 399 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 1: listened to you and made it what it was before, 400 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 1: he couldn't make it better. And the Bible says that 401 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 1: we go from glory to glory as we are being 402 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: transformed by the image of God, not your image of 403 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 1: what God is supposed to be like, not your template 404 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 1: of what you were told God was like when you 405 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 1: were seven. Not your template of what men have always been, 406 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: or women have always been, or Church has always been. 407 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 1: God is not consulted your template. It will be according 408 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 1: to His truth. God, what is your truth? That's what 409 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 1: I want to be, my blue crip. I gotta get 410 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,360 Speaker 1: in the word and find out what God said about 411 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 1: me before what people said about me became a faulty 412 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 1: template to keep me trapped and buried in the rubble 413 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: of yesterday. It's gonna be better. It's gonna be better. 414 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 1: It's gonna be better. And sometimes the enemy of better 415 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 1: is not bad. It's before all right, how guy shows up? 416 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 1: The people have gotten so discouraged building the temple externally 417 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 1: and internally because there's resistance on the outside and there's 418 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 1: disappointment on the inside. And both are happening to you 419 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 1: right now. It's almost impossible to live in this world, 420 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: own a smartphone and not be an idiot. Everything is 421 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 1: against us, you know what I'm saying. And it's a 422 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 1: little bit of boath, it's a little bit of you, 423 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 1: it's a little bit of the world. It's a little 424 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: bit of the devil. It's just this perfect storm, all right. 425 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:24,959 Speaker 1: And you're not just rebuilding, you're reinventing. Not just for 426 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 1: those of us in a midlife crisis, but for everybody. 427 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 1: You are always reinventing. That's the nature of it. Or 428 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:42,360 Speaker 1: you're dead, or you're reinventing, or you're dead. That's your 429 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 1: two options. So the Lord gave me these things I 430 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 1: want to teach. We don't have time to go through 431 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,480 Speaker 1: all of them today. But I heard a rumor y'all 432 00:30:54,480 --> 00:31:01,600 Speaker 1: are coming back next week. I heard that. Go ahead 433 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 1: and put it on your schedule and tell her I 434 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 1: can't next week. I got to hear the rest of 435 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,000 Speaker 1: this sermon. But let me give you. Can I give 436 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 1: you what I can give you today? Can I give 437 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 1: you what I give you today? Okay? Okay, okay, okay, okay. 438 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: It's four urs of reinvention, and I want to call 439 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 1: your attention to as many of them as I can 440 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: in the time we have left. And they're all from 441 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 1: the text. And the first one is a word you 442 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: may not hear a lot. It's in verse two where 443 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 1: God told hat guy speak to Zorrubb a Bell. I 444 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 1: thought it was so cool. Z a rubb a bell. 445 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 1: Everybody say, it is a rubb a bell. You need 446 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 1: a baby name, you've been praying for one. There you go. 447 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,200 Speaker 1: I've just throw that in your bag for free, all right, 448 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 1: That comes with the happy meal. This is a rubb 449 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 1: a bell. I thought it was cool how his name 450 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 1: said rubble in it. Almost if you slitch the letters around, 451 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,720 Speaker 1: it sounds like rubble. That's what they were looking at. 452 00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 1: The city was still burned. It didn't look like it 453 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 1: used to look. And that's a sad thing to look 454 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 1: around at your life, on your bank account, or people 455 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: that used to be there for you, all of that, 456 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 1: and go where did it go? Because we're back from Babylon, 457 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 1: but we're not exactly living in Zion, at least not 458 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 1: how it used to be, at least not how we 459 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 1: heard about it. We're back, we love God, we're here 460 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 1: for it. We're doing what we can. But it's not 461 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 1: exactly what we thought it would be. And so God 462 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:34,960 Speaker 1: tells Hagi has a word for him. He has a 463 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 1: word from the word of the Lord came through Hagai. 464 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:42,640 Speaker 1: Speak to Zarabebel, son of Shiltiel, governor of Judah, to Joshua, 465 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 1: son of Joseph the High Priest, and to the remnant. 466 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 1: That's the first word I want you to write in 467 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 1: your phone. Remnant, remnant, the remnant. It means what's left. 468 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:05,080 Speaker 1: It means the small park that stayed. When you find 469 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 1: yourself in a period of reinvention and nothing seems familiar 470 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 1: and nothing seems normal, and nothing makes sense, and nothing 471 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,880 Speaker 1: matches your prior map of meaning or knowledge. Nothing looks 472 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 1: like where you've been before, and you're looking at it, 473 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,920 Speaker 1: going where's the gold, where's the temple we heard about? 474 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 1: Where's all the stuff that used to happen? Or if 475 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 1: your body's starting to ache in ways that it didn't 476 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,160 Speaker 1: ache when you were twenty four, and you're figuring out 477 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,480 Speaker 1: how to work around that, God said, speak to the remnant. 478 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:38,400 Speaker 1: The remnant. The remnant can represent a fragment. Remember there 479 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:43,080 Speaker 1: were hundreds of thousands taken to Babylon, only sixty thousand 480 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:48,200 Speaker 1: came back. That can discourage you, especially if you're a 481 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:52,000 Speaker 1: leader like Zaraba Bel And you know, the hardest thing 482 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 1: about staying in the ministry has been for me fifteen years, 483 00:33:55,840 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 1: having to keep a good spirit even when people and 484 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 1: it breaks your heart, not if they leave to go 485 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 1: on and do something great for God. I'm telling people 486 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:11,360 Speaker 1: who just flat fall out and you go. This is 487 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,000 Speaker 1: how some of the campus pastors feel about the people 488 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,280 Speaker 1: who hadn't even come back to volunteer yet after everything 489 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 1: we did for you, really you, I was praying for 490 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,040 Speaker 1: you for every inbroom toenail. You call me at two 491 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 1: in the morning because you had heartburn and thought you 492 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,200 Speaker 1: had to go to the hospital and I would pray 493 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,719 Speaker 1: for you. And you can't come back. Let me run 494 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:34,960 Speaker 1: into you and Ruby Tuesday. I will cuss you out. 495 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,279 Speaker 1: But so see, if I'm the devil and I'm not. 496 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,839 Speaker 1: If I'm the devil, if I'm the enemy, I'm gonna 497 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:56,000 Speaker 1: try to get you so focused on who left that 498 00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:03,399 Speaker 1: you don't see what's left. There's still a remnant, even 499 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,120 Speaker 1: if it's a fraction of what it once was, there's 500 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:10,399 Speaker 1: still a remnant. There is a remnant, Yo, I don't 501 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:14,239 Speaker 1: have anything to be grateful for. There's a remnant. You 502 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:20,120 Speaker 1: just did it. Did you breathe in? Did you breathe out? Well, 503 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:27,600 Speaker 1: let everything that happ BRep praise the Lord. Even if 504 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,200 Speaker 1: you lost your business, you still got prep. Even if 505 00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:37,120 Speaker 1: you lost your port friend, you still got brought Hey, 506 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,400 Speaker 1: who's not to say that that dude was rubble. Maybe 507 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,440 Speaker 1: God was clearing him out so you could get ready 508 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:51,239 Speaker 1: for something better, better, better, better, bad happen bad, y'all 509 00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,040 Speaker 1: better not let me go on tour. I feel fired up. 510 00:35:54,320 --> 00:36:00,480 Speaker 1: Holy Ghost ripped it, annoys it. I'm not with you 511 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:04,680 Speaker 1: all today. God said, if you stay so focused on 512 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,480 Speaker 1: who didn't come back, who didn't support, who didn't like, 513 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:12,479 Speaker 1: who didn't endorse, who didn't click through, who didn't do it? 514 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:14,560 Speaker 1: This is what the Lord said to me one season 515 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,160 Speaker 1: of ministry. He said, if you keep focusing on who 516 00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:22,880 Speaker 1: left and what's lost, you are not going to see 517 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:36,720 Speaker 1: who's lost and what's left. Because I was crying because 518 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,280 Speaker 1: some people left out on me that I thought, what, oh, 519 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:43,960 Speaker 1: we'll never leave. Be careful on those people. That's like 520 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,960 Speaker 1: Peter saying I will never deny you, Lord. She's like 521 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,839 Speaker 1: before that rooster says God the doodle. He ain't even 522 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,360 Speaker 1: gonna get to the dow and you're gonna say you 523 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,680 Speaker 1: don't know me. You're gonna cut the rooster off, mid 524 00:36:54,760 --> 00:37:03,800 Speaker 1: crow and disown me. But while I'm crying over who left, 525 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,000 Speaker 1: God has given me a mission as a pastor. To 526 00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:11,720 Speaker 1: reach people who are lost. That's the mission of Jesus 527 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:17,719 Speaker 1: to seek and save what's lost. So the devil can't 528 00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:19,799 Speaker 1: take your No, there is one thing he can't do. 529 00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:24,840 Speaker 1: He can't take what God gave you. He can't, he can't, 530 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:32,040 Speaker 1: he can't, he can't. But if he can get you 531 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:40,399 Speaker 1: so depressed, so distracted, so disappointed, he wants to keep 532 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:50,800 Speaker 1: you crying, to keep you from seeing what's coming. Stop crying, 533 00:37:52,040 --> 00:38:01,040 Speaker 1: it's coming. Stop crying. It's coming. For everything that your life, 534 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,600 Speaker 1: God has made a covenant with you. I am with 535 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:09,560 Speaker 1: you to this day. And let me finish the sentence. 536 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:15,040 Speaker 1: If God is for us, who can be against us? 537 00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:20,319 Speaker 1: If God is with me, he is more than the 538 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,560 Speaker 1: world against me. I know you've been crying. It's all right. 539 00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:28,080 Speaker 1: But God sent me with a prophetic word like, ha, God, 540 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,239 Speaker 1: I see him reaching for the centuries to tell you 541 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:40,160 Speaker 1: stop crying. Is coming. You don't want to miss what's 542 00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:44,160 Speaker 1: coming because they're crying over what's gone. What's this, what's this? 543 00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:48,680 Speaker 1: What's coming is better than what's going. God has taken 544 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:54,640 Speaker 1: you from glory to glory, to glory, to glory to glory. 545 00:38:54,840 --> 00:39:01,960 Speaker 1: He didn't bring me this love, all right, if you 546 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,120 Speaker 1: feel comfortable, touch your neighbors. Say stop crying is coming. 547 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,960 Speaker 1: Stop crying is coming. Put it in the chack. Stop 548 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:13,719 Speaker 1: crying is coming. How long will you born? Oh what 549 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:19,960 Speaker 1: God that's rejecting. Fill your horn with oil. David is 550 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:27,400 Speaker 1: in the field. It's coming, is coming, is coming, is coming, 551 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,400 Speaker 1: is coming, is coming. I don't say that by feeling. 552 00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,120 Speaker 1: I say it by faith. It is common choice coming, 553 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:37,440 Speaker 1: piece is coming, Praise is coming, Restoration is coming, is coming, 554 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:41,799 Speaker 1: is coming. In fact, lift them your eyes. The hardness 555 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:51,959 Speaker 1: is here. Stop or more much? Right now? Whoa work? Whoa? 556 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,280 Speaker 1: I'm glad I finished this tour at home. I praiching 557 00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:03,640 Speaker 1: to the right church today. Get the ten second, build 558 00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:14,960 Speaker 1: a temple with prey, with pray. Stop crying. It's coming. 559 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:28,480 Speaker 1: And if the enemy can keep you crying, he can 560 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:34,799 Speaker 1: keep you from seeing what's coming. Hey, guys, said, I 561 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,799 Speaker 1: know what you're thinking. I'm thinking it too. This is 562 00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:45,080 Speaker 1: nothing compared to that. I saw pictures of Solomon's temple 563 00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:50,560 Speaker 1: on Pinterest. It was expensive, not no, no, it was 564 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:52,600 Speaker 1: the same place Solomon's temple was. But what made the 565 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:59,520 Speaker 1: same stuff? Because God is reforming it. He's reforming, He's 566 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:03,279 Speaker 1: reforming it. He's reforming your life. He's shaping it like 567 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,400 Speaker 1: a potter in the clay. He's reforming it. That's what 568 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:16,480 Speaker 1: it is. It's his hands, not the devils. And when 569 00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:20,799 Speaker 1: we write songs, they always the worse they suck when 570 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:25,840 Speaker 1: we start them, the better they get when we finish them. 571 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:27,840 Speaker 1: But then we take it home and we have the demo, 572 00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,759 Speaker 1: which is like the rough version. And there's this thing 573 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:35,480 Speaker 1: called demo witis. And it's when you listen to the 574 00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,800 Speaker 1: first version so much that you start thinking it's perfect, 575 00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:41,760 Speaker 1: but it really needs a lot of work. The devil 576 00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:47,319 Speaker 1: has some of y'all in demo witis. You thought, the 577 00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:53,160 Speaker 1: first version, what's the only version of who you are, 578 00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,680 Speaker 1: of what you do, of what your gifts are? But 579 00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:01,840 Speaker 1: the Lord said, I can't make it better if you 580 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:12,319 Speaker 1: keep going back. Stop crying. I know it sounds insensitive. 581 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,440 Speaker 1: Pastor Steve, Jesus wept. Didn't you see that? Yeah, I'm 582 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,160 Speaker 1: the one who told you about that. But that's not 583 00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:24,399 Speaker 1: all he did. Look at John chapter eleven, verse thirty eight. 584 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:30,279 Speaker 1: It says after Jesus cried, which is important. You know, 585 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:36,200 Speaker 1: trauma is Trauma is real. Seventy years in Babylon will 586 00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:41,279 Speaker 1: make you cry. It'll make you forget to sing when 587 00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,439 Speaker 1: you find out what your kids been doing behind your back. 588 00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:47,399 Speaker 1: It'll make you cry when you and your husband don't 589 00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,359 Speaker 1: even look at each other except when you're around people, 590 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:53,239 Speaker 1: so you can fake it real good. It'll make you 591 00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:57,960 Speaker 1: cry alone. God doesn't correct the sisters, but I'm glad 592 00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:01,279 Speaker 1: he didn't stop there, and you can't either, because in 593 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,000 Speaker 1: verse thirty eight John eleven thirty eight, it says not 594 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:11,560 Speaker 1: Jesus cried, but Jesus once more deeply moved game. So 595 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:21,800 Speaker 1: he cried, and then he came. Stop crying is coming. 596 00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,440 Speaker 1: I don't want the old temple to keep me from 597 00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:35,680 Speaker 1: seeing Jesus. Seriously, you know how it's said in the 598 00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,080 Speaker 1: verse and Hagai that from the day I brought you 599 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,839 Speaker 1: out of Egypt till now, did you catch that really 600 00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:42,359 Speaker 1: small thing in verse five? I didn't make a big 601 00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:43,600 Speaker 1: deal out of it, but it is a big deal. 602 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,120 Speaker 1: Because they thought that Pharaoh had to let them go 603 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,719 Speaker 1: for them believe Egypt. That wasn't their biggest problem. Their 604 00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:56,400 Speaker 1: biggest problem was letting go of Moses, because see, Moses 605 00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:59,319 Speaker 1: gave them the law, and they were so committed to 606 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,920 Speaker 1: that that when Jesus came, who is the true image 607 00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,279 Speaker 1: of God, to show them what God is really like, 608 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,560 Speaker 1: not to break the law, but to fulfill it. When 609 00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:14,319 Speaker 1: Jesus came, they could not recognize better because they were 610 00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:20,680 Speaker 1: stuck in before. So while we're fighting, like, hey Pharaoh, 611 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:22,640 Speaker 1: let me go, Hey addiction, let me go, Hey temptation, 612 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:24,600 Speaker 1: let me go, God's like the thing that you're holding 613 00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:30,319 Speaker 1: onto is the former glory. I don't know who it 614 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,960 Speaker 1: is of his three people as worth saying you gotta 615 00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:44,319 Speaker 1: let go a former glory to receive present help. Now 616 00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,560 Speaker 1: that means a lot of things. It means that the 617 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:51,959 Speaker 1: same Jesus who cried at the gate came to the tomb. 618 00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,480 Speaker 1: It didn't stop him from doing what he came to do, 619 00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,399 Speaker 1: because he didn't come just to cry or give him 620 00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:01,400 Speaker 1: a Hallmark car. He didn't just bake them a roast 621 00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,360 Speaker 1: so they could eat it three days later. He came 622 00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:08,520 Speaker 1: to show them who he was. He came to reinvent 623 00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:12,080 Speaker 1: their concept of God and to switch their template of 624 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:16,520 Speaker 1: truth that not only am I a healer, I am resurrection. 625 00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:19,919 Speaker 1: He came to prefigure what he would do he can, 626 00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:24,640 Speaker 1: So he cried everybody say, he cried, Come on, don't 627 00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:26,480 Speaker 1: tap out on me. This is the best part of 628 00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:28,640 Speaker 1: the sermon. I know y'all aren't going to listen to 629 00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,319 Speaker 1: a sermon about the glory of the Latter House and 630 00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,680 Speaker 1: skip the end of the sermon. This is the part 631 00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:36,600 Speaker 1: I wanted to preach us to because he cried, and 632 00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:39,240 Speaker 1: you've been crying, and you have a Christ who crist 633 00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,440 Speaker 1: So that's fine. He will cry with you. But then 634 00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,640 Speaker 1: you have a Christ too. After he stopped crying, he 635 00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,800 Speaker 1: came to the tomb. So he's coming to the tomb. 636 00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,840 Speaker 1: He's coming to the park that's buried. He's coming to 637 00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:54,799 Speaker 1: the park that's broken. He's coming to the park that's dead. 638 00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,640 Speaker 1: He's coming to the park that stinks. He's coming to 639 00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,920 Speaker 1: the park that's rotten. He's coming to the park that 640 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:04,000 Speaker 1: it's giving up on. He cried, he came. But that's 641 00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,880 Speaker 1: not the good part. The good part is verse forty three. 642 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:10,080 Speaker 1: Put verse forty three on the screen quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, 643 00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:14,720 Speaker 1: And when Jesus has said this, he called. So he cried, 644 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:20,920 Speaker 1: he came, and then he called in a loud voice. 645 00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:25,120 Speaker 1: And I hear that voice calling today through the halls. 646 00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:28,879 Speaker 1: Of history from the pages of Hagai to this very 647 00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:36,240 Speaker 1: moment in the house of God. Lazarus, come forth, Come, 648 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:42,960 Speaker 1: for he's speaking to your joy. He's speaking to your peace, 649 00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:47,840 Speaker 1: he's speaking to your strategy, he's speaking to your spirit. 650 00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:55,640 Speaker 1: Come far. So you cried a while, It's all right. 651 00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:59,560 Speaker 1: I am convinced that the sufferings of this present time 652 00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:08,920 Speaker 1: are not worth comparing to the glory that will be revealed. Suck. 653 00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:14,760 Speaker 1: Did you catch that whole sermon? He cried? He came, 654 00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:23,279 Speaker 1: he called. You got to call some things out today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 655 00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:28,200 Speaker 1: yeah yeah. You ain't not gonna come just automatically. You 656 00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:32,160 Speaker 1: can cry over it as long as you want, But 657 00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:35,200 Speaker 1: I believe that something deeper is call him from the inside. 658 00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:40,480 Speaker 1: What the prophet told the people was you got to 659 00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:47,720 Speaker 1: do the work. You gotta do the work. Is wishing 660 00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:52,720 Speaker 1: for something that you don't have keeping you from working 661 00:47:52,840 --> 00:48:03,040 Speaker 1: with what you do have. I don't know, Maybe it's 662 00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:08,520 Speaker 1: just me, but I needed this word that the Lord said. 663 00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:14,400 Speaker 1: You can cry, but eventually you gotta come, and you 664 00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,600 Speaker 1: got to call those things that be not as though 665 00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:23,600 Speaker 1: they are beneath your feelings. And the promise is it's 666 00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:29,280 Speaker 1: a covenant not a commitment. Commitments can be broken. Yeah, 667 00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:34,400 Speaker 1: covenants cannot, especially when one of the parties is the 668 00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:43,239 Speaker 1: one who cannot lie. So it's a lot of pain. 669 00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:48,760 Speaker 1: You know. When they laid the foundation, Ezra showed us something. 670 00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:53,360 Speaker 1: Give me Ezra three ten when they got that temple started, 671 00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:55,600 Speaker 1: and I think I'm gonna pick this up next week 672 00:48:55,600 --> 00:49:00,319 Speaker 1: for real, y'all, because y'all got one point. It's your fall. 673 00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:07,120 Speaker 1: You were shouting and receiving and glorifying. Die. I didn't 674 00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:12,480 Speaker 1: come to get through my points. I came to give 675 00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:21,200 Speaker 1: you this work. Stop crying. It's coming. It's coming, because 676 00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:24,960 Speaker 1: the Bible says an Ezra three that when the builders 677 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,440 Speaker 1: laid the foundation of this second Temple, the priests and 678 00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:32,600 Speaker 1: their vestments, with their trumpets, the Levites, the sons of 679 00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,279 Speaker 1: Asaf with their symbols, took their places to praise the 680 00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:38,200 Speaker 1: Lord like Dave had told them to. And with praise 681 00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:41,320 Speaker 1: and thanksgiving they sang to the Lord, he is good 682 00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:46,560 Speaker 1: his love to Israel, and dos forever. Probably better melody 683 00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:49,040 Speaker 1: than that, but that was the worst. They say, he 684 00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:53,800 Speaker 1: is good his love, oh Israel, and do it forever, 685 00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:57,520 Speaker 1: and all the people. I want you to do what 686 00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:21,440 Speaker 1: the text says, stand up, gave a great shout, a 687 00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:26,280 Speaker 1: great shout of praise to the Lord, because the foundation 688 00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:28,600 Speaker 1: of the House of the Lord was laid. Now that's 689 00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:31,080 Speaker 1: what I'm gonna pick up next week, because some of 690 00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:37,080 Speaker 1: us are comparing our foundation to somebody else's finish line, 691 00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:42,480 Speaker 1: and that's why we're discouraged. And next week, if you 692 00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:45,080 Speaker 1: will give me the opportunity and God gives me the strength, 693 00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:51,480 Speaker 1: I'm gonna preach about how to shout about foundations. I'm 694 00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:55,520 Speaker 1: gonna teach you. I'm gonna teach you how I'm gonna 695 00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:57,760 Speaker 1: teach you how to do a dance. When the scale 696 00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:02,040 Speaker 1: drops one pound. I'm gonna teach you how to dance 697 00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:03,719 Speaker 1: on the scale. And I'm gonna teach you how to 698 00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:05,239 Speaker 1: do it because when you lose a pound, you don't 699 00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:09,000 Speaker 1: celebrate by eating a cookie. When you lose a pound, 700 00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:13,439 Speaker 1: you buy some shoes. But if you're getting out of debt, 701 00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,680 Speaker 1: you don't go buy shoes. You eat cookies. So I'm 702 00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:19,800 Speaker 1: gonna teach you about how to shout over little stuff 703 00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,719 Speaker 1: next week and just redistribute the balance of this so 704 00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:26,200 Speaker 1: you could keep your progress going. Oh, I love y'all. 705 00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:28,879 Speaker 1: We're gonna do it next week. But I gotta show 706 00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:31,520 Speaker 1: you this because this is really what started me to 707 00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:35,280 Speaker 1: teach this message. They were shouting about what God was doing, 708 00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:38,719 Speaker 1: the new thing. Wow, we're gonna have a temple. I've 709 00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:42,640 Speaker 1: heard about this. One generation was saying, but it's not 710 00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:44,800 Speaker 1: like the old one. And watch what the Bible says 711 00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:50,840 Speaker 1: in verse twelve. But many of the older priests and 712 00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:52,920 Speaker 1: the Leevites and the family had the ones who should 713 00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:55,959 Speaker 1: have been leading, the ones who should have been known 714 00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:58,839 Speaker 1: that God is with us and we can't fail. He's 715 00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:00,600 Speaker 1: gonna do a new thing. So who he is is 716 00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:05,640 Speaker 1: what he does. He's reforming us. But when they saw 717 00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:13,920 Speaker 1: the foundation, they had seen the former temple. They had 718 00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:17,440 Speaker 1: the old template. This is what it has to look like. 719 00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:21,880 Speaker 1: This is what I thought marriage would be. This is 720 00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:24,719 Speaker 1: the city I thought I would live in forever. This 721 00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:26,439 Speaker 1: is how old I thought my mom would be when 722 00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,040 Speaker 1: she died. This is how I thought it would be. 723 00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,400 Speaker 1: When they saw the temple, it didn't match their template. 724 00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:40,359 Speaker 1: And watch what happened. They wept. They wept, and the 725 00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:44,439 Speaker 1: sounds of celebration, the shouts of joy, while others were 726 00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:51,799 Speaker 1: shouting one generation is weeping over what it was, and 727 00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:55,319 Speaker 1: one generation is shouting over what it will be when 728 00:52:55,360 --> 00:53:03,239 Speaker 1: God gets done with it. What I want to know. 729 00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:06,840 Speaker 1: What I want to know is are you going to 730 00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:13,239 Speaker 1: keep weeping or start working? Because you have forgotten who 731 00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:17,080 Speaker 1: you are working with? The Lord Almighty is in you. 732 00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:20,640 Speaker 1: It's by His spirit that you're building. You are not 733 00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:23,800 Speaker 1: building this by yourself, and you're not going to build 734 00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:29,440 Speaker 1: it like before. He is able to do exceeding abundantly 735 00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:33,719 Speaker 1: above all you ask, above every template. Hey transcends that. 736 00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:43,440 Speaker 1: So within the same body you got shouts of joy 737 00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:51,560 Speaker 1: and weeping. Which one will you listen to? Which one 738 00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:56,520 Speaker 1: will you obey? He will begin a good work in 739 00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:00,400 Speaker 1: you will be faithful to complete it. Got to be 740 00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:03,640 Speaker 1: strong and do the work well. You're not working on 741 00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:07,600 Speaker 1: your own. It is God that works in you to 742 00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:11,880 Speaker 1: will and to do according to His good pleasure. So 743 00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:15,120 Speaker 1: maybe God brought you here to remind you what you're 744 00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:21,160 Speaker 1: working with. Ah, that there is a rim net that 745 00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,960 Speaker 1: God has left everything in your life that He intends 746 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:28,919 Speaker 1: to use in this next season. And I always read 747 00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:32,719 Speaker 1: how I always read the Ecclesiastes verse there is a 748 00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:38,359 Speaker 1: season for everything, But I live in Charlotte. I don't 749 00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:39,960 Speaker 1: know what the weather is like where you live, but 750 00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:44,760 Speaker 1: in Charlotte, we have like two or three different seasons 751 00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:47,640 Speaker 1: in the same day. A lot of times, especially right now, 752 00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:50,520 Speaker 1: we don't know how to dress, do we. We'll be 753 00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:55,640 Speaker 1: wake up in the morning shivering six layers. You'd be 754 00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:59,560 Speaker 1: sweating by three pm, shivering again at night. That surprises 755 00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:01,480 Speaker 1: people who come here from other parts of the country. 756 00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:04,399 Speaker 1: They just can't believe how violent it is. They put 757 00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:06,880 Speaker 1: up all their shorts and the next thing you know 758 00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:09,000 Speaker 1: is Wednesday. I need them again. I put them in 759 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:15,040 Speaker 1: the attic. I got bad knees, and it's confusing. So 760 00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:18,879 Speaker 1: remember Solomon who built the first temple. This is something 761 00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:20,319 Speaker 1: he said, I'll leave you with this and we'll pick 762 00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:24,960 Speaker 1: it up next week. Received this, he said, okay, I 763 00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:26,640 Speaker 1: got it. I know how I know what to type. 764 00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:29,239 Speaker 1: He said, Verse first one Ecclesies, He's three to one. 765 00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,120 Speaker 1: There's a time for everything, and a season for every 766 00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:38,640 Speaker 1: activity under the heavens. So new season, new temple, new template. 767 00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:40,879 Speaker 1: That's what's happening in your life. That's why you're uncomfortable. 768 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:47,240 Speaker 1: God didn't leave you. God didn't leave you. He's showing 769 00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:49,719 Speaker 1: you himself in a different dimension. That's all it is. 770 00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:54,080 Speaker 1: That's all it is. But watch this, he said. A 771 00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:56,200 Speaker 1: time to be born, a time to die, a time 772 00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:59,439 Speaker 1: to plant, a time to uproot, a time to kill, 773 00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:02,040 Speaker 1: time to heal, a time to tear down, a time 774 00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:08,719 Speaker 1: to build, a time to weep, time to laugh, time 775 00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:12,080 Speaker 1: to mourn, and a time to dance. And you know what, 776 00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:19,480 Speaker 1: sometimes you are doing both in the same season. I 777 00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:21,640 Speaker 1: thought those were two different seasons. Oh, I'm waiting for 778 00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:27,640 Speaker 1: that dance and season. Sometimes you are going to have 779 00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:31,359 Speaker 1: to dance while you dry the tears out of your 780 00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:41,960 Speaker 1: eyes and ape dancing anyway. For the glory of this 781 00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:47,720 Speaker 1: present house will be greater. God said, I will fill 782 00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:52,000 Speaker 1: the house with glory. You keep looking for the gold, 783 00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:55,080 Speaker 1: But God said, I'm trying to fill it with glory, 784 00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:59,239 Speaker 1: not what you can see, what you can't see. I 785 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:08,520 Speaker 1: will phil this house with glory. It is coming. It's coming. 786 00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:14,600 Speaker 1: She might not see it, you might not feel it. 787 00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:19,720 Speaker 1: He said, I want you to keep working even as 788 00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:27,480 Speaker 1: you're weeping. Be strong, Joshua, be strong, sir, rebebel. Speak 789 00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:34,720 Speaker 1: to the remnant. Strengthen what remains, because it's only the foundation. 790 00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:39,479 Speaker 1: And I don't care what the devil has been telling you. 791 00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:43,960 Speaker 1: Your best days are not behind you. I rebuke that 792 00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:48,400 Speaker 1: right now, in the name of Jesus, the glory of 793 00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:53,680 Speaker 1: the present House will be greater. Everybody who receives it. Shout, 794 00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:57,120 Speaker 1: shout like they did over the temple, sound like South, 795 00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:02,040 Speaker 1: over the foundation pen the glory of the President House. 796 00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:09,880 Speaker 1: What God is doing right now, It's sound big, greater glory, 797 00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:21,640 Speaker 1: to glory, strength to strength, sid it sign Lord, Thank 798 00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:23,880 Speaker 1: you for sending your word through today. We receive it. 799 00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:28,800 Speaker 1: Thank you for laying this foundation, We receive it. Thank 800 00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:33,600 Speaker 1: you for Jesus, who is the greater glory. We receive 801 00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:36,880 Speaker 1: your presence right now. Well, if you enjoy today's podcast, 802 00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:39,000 Speaker 1: there are a couple things I'd love for you to do. 803 00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:43,480 Speaker 1: Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast. You 804 00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:45,880 Speaker 1: can also help us reach others by investing today at 805 00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:49,520 Speaker 1: Elevation Church dot org, slash give and thanks again for 806 00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:51,600 Speaker 1: joining us on the Elevation Podcast.