WEBVTT - Stop Crying, It's Coming! 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:02.920 Right now. I don't know what y'all wanna do on 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.800 the instruments, but we're gonna take twenty one seconds for 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.840 the year twenty twenty one, and we're gonna praise God 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:13.640 for his mighty power and his awesome work. And we're 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:17.320 gonna do it in Gaston and Concord and Lake Norman 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:20.599 and Valentine. We're gonna do it in our bedrooms and 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.560 kitchens and living rooms and cars. Praise them on the treadmill. 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.479 Some of y'all got a podcast going. Just holler in 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:32.120 the gym. They will throw you out bed. I praise 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:36.400 you Lord. I'm running and not growing weary. I'm walking 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.240 in a will knock fad. I give you a pray. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:53.120 I did you praised? I'm gonna saved the praise. Whoo whooh, 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:57.360 didn't that feel good. Let's get those hands out of 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:01.880 those pockets and start clapping. You clapping the Devil's hip. 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.480 It's back. It's back, it's back, it's back. I'm so 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:14.800 excited to preach. I broke my mic and I hadn't 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:22.720 even write my scripture, all right, so let me start 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:29.880 the sermon. Now, Welcome everybody to Elevation Church. I'm gonna 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:35.919 share with you today this scripture. I had a substitute 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:40.040 preacher ready because my voice was tired from preaching on 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:44.000 this tour. But it was almost like a battle of 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.399 two voices, because the voice of God was speaking to me, 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:53.680 and I was like, well, I'll preach this week. Somebody 0:01:53.840 --> 0:02:02.760 needs this word. The Lord brought me here for you. 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:04.680 You believe God loves you that much that he would 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:10.320 make sure you were here to hear this. I totally 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.880 believe that. I want to preach for a moment. From 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:18.320 Hagi chapter two, Draham said, are you preaching this week? Dad? 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.960 I said, I think so. God's speaking to me And 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:25.360 he said from Luke five, because that's what I've been 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.720 preaching in church and I preached it out there. I said, no, Son, 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:34.080 not from Luke five. He said, let's go. He was 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.520 so tired of hearing about Simon and the nets and 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.280 the boats. Chris didn't get tired of it. One time. 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.400 Chris got saved. Every night on the Elevation Nights tour, 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:49.760 he rededicated sanctified Spiritville. He was walking around speaking in tongues. Backstage, 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:55.840 David was eating grapes. Tiffany's about the only pure one 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:57.760 on the worship team. Don't let their smiles for me. 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.160 I love this scripture is such a powerful prophecy and 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:11.320 a promise for us. Listen to this Hagi too. That's 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.080 three books from the back of the Bible. You'd be 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:14.640 better off to start or back of the old tip. 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.520 So you go to Matthew, go back three books. That's hagi. 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:19.480 Be the easiest way to find it. If you like 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:27.600 to flip or look at the screens lazy booms. In 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:31.600 the second year of King Darius, on the twenty first 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:35.480 day of the seventh month, the word of the Lord 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:41.160 came through the prophet Hagi. The word of the Lord 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:47.560 came through the prophet Hagi. Speak to Zarabebel, son of 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.680 Shiel Tiel, Governor of Judah, to Joshua, a son of Joseidac, 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.480 the High Priest, and to the remnant of the people. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:01.920 Ask them, who of you is left? Who saw this 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:08.720 house in its former glory? How does it look to 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:13.600 you now? Does it not seem to you like nothing? 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:22.720 But now, be strong, Sir Rubebel, be strong, Zerubebel, declares 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:27.200 the Lord, be strong. Joshua, son of joseph Ac, the 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:32.279 High Priest, be strong. Say your name. Say it in 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.080 the chat right now, Be strong, Stephen, say your name. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.480 Be strong, because you have to talk to yourself this way. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:42.239 All right. God's not always gonna have a Hagie following 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:46.320 you around telling you you can do it. So say it. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.880 Say be strong and say your name. Say be strong, 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:56.559 Be strong, Be strong, all you peoples of the land, 0:04:56.640 --> 0:05:02.200 declares the Lord, and work for I am with you, 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:10.960 declares the Lord Almighty. This is what I covenanted with 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.080 you when you came out of Egypt, and my spirit 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:19.000 remains among you. Do not fear. This is what the 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:23.640 Lord Almighty says. In a little while won't be long. 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.599 It might be happening right now. It might happen before 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:31.799 you get home today. In a little while, I will 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.839 once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.760 and the dry land. I will shake all nations, and 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:44.440 what is desired by all nations will come, and I 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:52.240 will fill this house with glory, says the Lord Almighty. 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:58.440 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:02.640 the Lord Almighty. And the crypto and the bitcoin, it's 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.320 all mine, declare whatever they make I trade in it. 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:14.280 I am the Lord Almighty, and the glory of this 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:22.560 present house will be greater than the glory of the 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:27.520 former house, says the Lord Almighty. And in this place 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:34.919 I will grant peace. This place I will grant peace, 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:40.360 declares the Lord Almight, not declares Pastor Stephen. I wouldn't 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.760 give you two dollars for what I say. But when 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:47.159 God says it. And this is the word God said 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.080 to say to you today, you ready. God said to 0:06:50.120 --> 0:07:01.200 tell you this my title. Stop crying is coming. Who 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:12.680 stop crying is coming? Stop crying is coming. You may 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:23.160 be seated. Wow. Well, so we got to talk about temples. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.920 That's what's happening in Hagai too. They're rebuilding the temple, 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:33.000 the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem. It's been in 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:37.320 ruins for over fifty years because the people of God 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:41.000 got carried off to Babylon. He gave the history lesson 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.960 real quick. Just a little one, just a little one, 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:48.120 just a little context. Every blessing has a context. So 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.560 you don't want to just shout over something that you 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.080 don't understand the context that it's set in. All right, 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:59.239 very important to understand that they've been in Babylon because 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.720 they were carried off, not of their own choice, but 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.760 they've been in Babylon. When Psalm says that by the 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:10.520 rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept, they actually 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:15.280 hung up their their harps and their electric guitars and 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:18.240 their tailors and their martins hung it all up on 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:23.040 the willow tree, which represents sweeping, and they web for 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:27.720 seventy years. So what we're stepping into in Hagai chapter 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:31.320 two is much more than just the rebuilding. All right. 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.280 I hesitate to use that word because it's soapop culture 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.240 and it's so buzzy at almost certain words right now 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.280 just make you feel sick to hear them all over again. 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.360 We're going to rebuild this nation, and we're going to 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.600 rebuild this economy, and we're going to rebuild We're going 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:49.440 to build it back better, praise God. And that's not 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.840 the hype right here. This is the hope, the hope, 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:53.800 the hope, the hope, not the height, not the hype, 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:57.679 but the hope is that they are going to rebuild 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:02.640 the temple. But really, really, they are going to reinvent 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:09.440 their template. Template. And what comes to mind when I 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.880 say template will depend on your background. If you're like 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:15.360 in a computer background, a template means one thing, if 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.319 you are like in a machine, if you use machinery 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.600 and stuff. They use metal and wood as a template 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.280 for a pattern to build something. Or is even if 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.720 there's really any geniuses in here. Is even in DNA 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.320 and in genetic code, we talk about the template. But 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.640 understanding this will really help us to know what Hagi 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.880 had to do to encourage the people, because this temple 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:45.000 that they're rebuilding, that was destroyed, which represented the center 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:50.200 of Jewish life in Jerusalem, was completely unfamiliar to one generation. 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:56.040 They had only heard about it, they never saw it. 0:09:56.120 --> 0:10:00.800 The only people who saw Solomon's Temple, which was awesome, 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.600 and I'll tell you a little bit about it in 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:06.080 about forty five seconds. But the only ones who saw 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:12.120 it are now senior citizens. That's important. But let's talk 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:18.280 about Solomon's temple. It was so grand that one historian 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:22.080 said half of the gold in the world at the 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:27.880 time of Solomon was used to overlay the temple, half 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:32.319 of the world's gold. I started studying about it. I said, 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.200 what would you need half the gold in the world 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.680 for to build a temple? I mean, can't God meet 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.080 you anywhere? He met the Israelites and the tent in 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.320 the wilderness. He didn't need a bunch of gold to 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.800 meet with the people. I mean, he'll meet with you. 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.079 Some of you. You met God, not somewhere in a 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.800 church service, but you met God on the kitchen floor 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.520 trying to crawl to the toilet to throw up, promising God, 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.680 I will never do it again. If you will get 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.200 me through this, or if you will let the test 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.200 be negative, I will never do it again. I know 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.440 it's early to be in your business, but you can 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:11.960 meet God anywhere. I mean anywhere meet God throwing up 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.880 in the toilet bowl. But here's this temple that God 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.200 gave his people, and he wanted it built that way 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:22.000 because he's great and he's glorious. The silver is his, 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.280 the gold is his. He doesn't mind any of that. 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:26.679 Had a guy coming to church one tim, he said, 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:28.080 I would get baptized, but I don't want to stop 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:32.080 driving my nice car. I said, who told you that? 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:33.640 He said there was a preacher one time that said 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.080 if I wanted to give it, I had to sell 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.360 everything and follow him. I said, did the preacher that 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.280 told you that? Because the guy was rich, and apparently 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:42.800 he has some preacher that was trying to build a 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.400 building for the church. So he's trying to work this 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.600 guy saying, well, now, if you really want to be 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.480 a sincere Christian, the proof of your sincerity is poverty. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.720 So you got to sell everything and give it to God. 0:11:55.040 --> 0:12:00.800 Lord said, I'm not stuck in your scarcity. I can 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:06.240 bless you so much with my runover as the disciples. 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.720 God blessed them so much off of five loaves of 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:15.400 bread and two fish that they had to carry home leftovers. 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.840 God said, you will break your back trying to carry 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:24.440 home what is left over if you will seek me first, 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:29.199 not just money, but peace of mind. Don't you want that? 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.920 But meaning and purpose and significance that goes past this 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.720 present evil age. I feel like preaching and telling somebody 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:44.120 God's got it. God's got it anyway. It's a lot 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.680 of gold, right. The candlesticks were made of gold, five 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.360 on each side of the altar. In Sulomon's temple, the 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.160 basins were made of gold. You know, the tongs that 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.000 they would pick up the colds with, those were made 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:58.920 of gold. This is how crazy God is. Even the 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:06.880 hinges on the doors were made of goal. That's that's extravagant. 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:14.920 That was Solomon's temple. That was Solomon's temple. That is 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.320 not the temple that is being built in Hagai too. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.240 It's a different temple, and it requires a different template, 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.640 you know, psychologically speaking, Right now, you have a template 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.560 that is formed. They tell me this anyway, by the 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:36.880 neural pathways and associations in our brain. And really our 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:46.640 template is based on familiarity, not always truth. Now what 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:51.360 feels true to you might not be actually true. It 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:59.240 may just be your template. Everybody say template template. Now 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.000 imagine that the prophet hag guy. We don't know anything 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.679 about this guy. He's he's got some leaders. The Joshua, 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.000 who comes from the line of Aaron, who was the 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.840 first high priest, Moses's brother. You might remember here in 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.600 his name. One time Moses was like, I can't speak God. 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:15.640 He's like, here comes Aaron. He'll speak you shut up 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.560 and do what I tell you to do. Here's your staff, 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.400 because God always send you what you need. And so 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.160 that's who Joshua, the son of josephak is. He's from 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:27.480 that priestly line of Erin. And then there's Zorubbabel, who's 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.160 a governor now here here, here's something that will help 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:33.600 you to know. The king at the time is called Darius. 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:38.160 This is before he start hoody and the blowfish. Darius 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.880 was the I just got to keep you all awake 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.160 during this history lesson because y'are kind of shifting around 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.320 like a I when's he gonna preach? Here a sermon? 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:51.320 This is the sermon, okay, Because every blessing has a context. 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:57.160 Every blessing has a context. And so Darius wasn't even 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.240 supposed to be king. But there was a coup when 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:04.240 the Persians took over Babylon. The Persian king his name 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.000 was Cyrus. He sent the Jews back. He's like, I 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:08.520 want you all to like me, so y'all can go 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:13.160 rebuild whatever you want. And that's who is back in Jerusalem, 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:17.400 more specifically in the Southern Kingdom of Judah, rebuilding sixty 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:22.240 thousand of them. They come back and they start rebuilding 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:28.600 the temple. Because for the Jewish people, their template, the 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:33.520 way they saw it, their model was that spirituality should 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:38.760 be the center of life, not the periphery. We are 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.320 almost in the day where I preach the exact opposite. 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.120 For us, spirituality is like the last thing that we 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:50.240 consider when we're making decisions. We will sooner move to 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.560 a city based on the climate than we will based 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:57.960 on the church. Lord Jesus, you didn't tell me is 0:15:57.960 --> 0:15:59.320 going to be this quiet? You didn't tell me my 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:01.680 church turn Presbyterium. When I took one week off to 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:05.480 go on the road. You know what I noticed on Corona? 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.080 You know what I noticed. I would see people and 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:09.760 it's not fine. I don't care. You wear a mask, 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.120 you don't wear a mask. I'm not here to talk 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:12.840 to you about that. I'm not a doctor. But what 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.640 I would notice is I would see people everywhere, no mask, 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:21.080 mask off, future style, everybody mask off, all everywhere, And 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:22.320 I come up to them and we would be in 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:26.280 a ballgame, a restaurant, a movie, a mall, anything, And 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:30.840 I say, have you been back to church? You all 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:32.640 in the building ought to help me with this. You're 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:36.080 here I'm talking to now. That's a chance for you 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:41.800 to be sophisticated and superior. Nah. We hadn't made it 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:47.120 back to church, but you made it to the ball field. Nah, 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.440 we haven't made it back to church. Because for us, 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.920 our template, our cultural template, the pattern of this world 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:59.520 is yet God is an add on. God is an 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.240 app and scripture is a salad bar and I pick 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:07.600 what I want. That's our template. That's our template. It 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.840 doesn't matter what what's true. Oh no, no, you gotta 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:21.680 live your truth. What if your truth is trash. It's 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:26.520 the fleece, y'all, it's the fleece. I'm burning up. And 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.280 so they know, before we can rebuild the walls, which 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.639 Nea Maya will come along later and start to do 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:38.119 not without opposition, before we can rebuild the economy, we 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.960 gotta build this temple. But they get discouraged in the work, 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:47.920 you know, because it doesn't look like the old one. 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:52.400 It doesn't look like the one we heard about. This 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.000 is the temple. Man, I thought it would be better 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:01.760 than this. You so make your decision to follow Christ, 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:08.200 and then he doesn't give you a raise by next Monday. 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:13.720 This is Christianity. I'm sorry. You have a bad template. 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.080 If you just think that God exists to deck your 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:22.199 temple out in gold everywhere, that is not all God is. 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:31.480 You know what Bible verse I love John eleven thirty five. 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.480 How many of y'all need to memorize more scriptures, less 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:42.720 football stats chunks, and more scriptures fantasy football. God, if 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.760 I could just take some of y'all's heads and put 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:50.080 three Bible verses, so we'll start. We'll start today. Baby steps, 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.960 baby steps, baby steps, all right, because you don't do 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:57.439 it once. John eleven thirty five put it on the 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:04.399 screen and Jesus wept. Now, look, it's not even the 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:08.520 week hasn't even started yet, and you memorized the whole scripture. 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:12.760 Give yourself a ham. Come on, that's good, that's good, 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:20.719 that's good. Jesus wept, and Jesus wept. You're like, well, 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:23.639 what does that have to do over the the temple? 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:29.399 Because it's all about expectation right in John eleven thirty five, 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:33.240 Jesus is going to see these sisters named Mary and Martha, 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:35.800 and their brother died, and Jesus didn't show up when 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:39.080 they thought he would, or when they thought he should, 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:44.919 and he could and they thought he should, but he didn't, 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:51.920 and they were crying. They were crying. Now, Jesus did 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.159 not say to the sisters what your dad might have 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:56.800 said to you, that my dad would say to me. 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:03.439 If you don't stop cry, finish it, I will give you. 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:15.200 Y'all are traumatized. I felt trauma. Your shoulders got tense 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:22.240 when you said, ah, he didn't say that. He wept 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:29.480 with them. He wept with them. He weeps with me. 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:35.280 He knows my disappointments. They don't have to stay hidden. 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:39.040 I can bring them right out in the light of day, 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:42.879 because he knows the deeper disappointment behind the disappointment that 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:47.560 created the disappointment. He knows the descendants of my disappointment. 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:52.399 He knows what disappointment led to what disappointment. Jesus did 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:55.160 an ancestry treat on all the things I'm frustrated about, 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:58.040 and he sees all of that. He knows the real 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:00.920 template that's driving my behavior. Knows the same about you. 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:05.040 He knows why watch this, you push people away who 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:07.560 are trying to love you. You don't even know why 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.840 you do that yet. It's a mystery to you. You 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.240 don't even know why. Yet when things get good in 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:16.160 your life, you find some way to screw them up. 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:21.119 And he knows why. It's because you figure, rather than 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:24.080 let somebody else take it away from me like happened 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:28.040 last time, I'll just take it away from myself. I 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:31.480 will take my ball and go home. I will take 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:34.680 my blessing and go home. So watch this. If your 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:39.000 template is every relationship ends in pain or betrayal. If 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:43.320 that is your template, you will start creating the very 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:47.840 thing that you fear to avoid being surprised by it 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:54.760 ever again. If that's your template, the template of these 0:21:54.800 --> 0:22:00.560 people was a temple that had so much gold that 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:04.399 they had to start putting gold in weird places like 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:09.720 the wash basin. They made Solomon's Temple's wash basin gold 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:14.480 just because God is that glorious. So then they start 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:17.040 building a new one. Ah, we're gonna build a temple. Oh, 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:19.360 we're gonna get our life together. Oh, we're gonna lose 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:21.760 twenty pounds. You know what. The hard thing about keeping 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:24.240 weight off is nobody congratulates you from not putting it 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:29.480 back on. Oh you've lost weight. Nobody has ever said 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:34.720 to me, you still look decent. It's been six years 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:37.280 and you haven't fluctuated. Your jeens look the same size. 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:40.720 That's awesome, good job. Nobody compliments you when the genes 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:46.800 stay the same size. That's what's difficult is they're not 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:53.600 just rebuilding a temple. God is reinventing their template and 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:58.919 their identity. They've been in Babylon so long they have 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:03.760 forgotten the songs of Zion. They've been on pandemic on 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:07.520 church online so long that they don't even remember how 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:10.440 to be in a crowd without being scared of catching 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:17.119 their death around people. Do you see why I have 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:19.920 no patience with people that say the Bible isn't relevant 0:23:19.960 --> 0:23:25.560 to our day? Is this not us? Is this not us? 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:29.119 Not only have you been rebuilding what was destroyed in 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:33.439 the last two years, you've had to reinvent. You have 0:23:33.560 --> 0:23:35.960 the same title, but it's a completely different template for 0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:40.800 your job. I talked to the campus pastors when they 0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:43.120 were calling church members and we couldn't pray for people 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:45.240 and lay hands on them. I said, this sucks for you, 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:48.359 doesn't it. You signed up to do ministry with people 0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:52.720 and now you're basically running a call center because you 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:57.160 can't touch. And touch was your template for ministry. It 0:23:57.200 --> 0:24:01.919 was so hard to reinvent. It's been hard for me 0:24:02.000 --> 0:24:06.040 to reinvent my identity as a pastor for years. My 0:24:06.359 --> 0:24:09.800 adult identity for my ego was just like in high school, 0:24:09.840 --> 0:24:12.480 it was how much do you bench press? But then 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:15.120 as a pastors, how many people come to your church? 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:20.320 So I went from bench to attendance. Oh yeah, you 0:24:20.400 --> 0:24:26.359 got ten thousand. I remember those days, small beginnings. Sorry, 0:24:26.480 --> 0:24:28.560 don't be discouraged. I'm tell you the Lord to give 0:24:28.560 --> 0:24:30.359 you twenty. Can I get a thirty? Can I get 0:24:30.359 --> 0:24:32.399 a forty? Can I get a fifty? Wait? Man, wait, 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:36.119 wait a minute minute. Now you're talking about I was 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:42.040 coming up in the church wondering would anybody come back? 0:24:44.160 --> 0:24:47.520 I mean after training behavior. You know, I'm not fuscinating 0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:50.760 to anybody that comes on online because really, really, really, 0:24:51.080 --> 0:24:53.040 God has given us a template for ministry now that 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:56.280 we can reach you wherever you are. I praise God 0:24:56.320 --> 0:24:59.080 for it. I mean there's some places we can't put 0:24:59.080 --> 0:25:02.840 a building, but I can preach the Bible and we 0:25:02.920 --> 0:25:05.159 can watch this. I'm about to say something cool. You'll clap. 0:25:05.400 --> 0:25:07.480 God can give you a breakthrough where there is no 0:25:07.640 --> 0:25:12.840 church building. So now God is expanding the territory of 0:25:12.960 --> 0:25:16.960 the church. I hear from Zimbabwe about this ministry and 0:25:17.160 --> 0:25:23.120 South Paulo, Brazil. I hear from everywhere. I hear from Kentucky. 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:28.560 Whoa God is good? Sometimes God says your template is 0:25:28.600 --> 0:25:31.679 too small for what I want to do. This is 0:25:31.680 --> 0:25:34.840 not a temple built by human hands. This is a 0:25:34.880 --> 0:25:38.840 temple that his name in heaven is unknown to men, 0:25:38.920 --> 0:25:42.000 but it is revealed to us. It is it is 0:25:42.080 --> 0:25:48.919 a shadow of Jesus Christ. Wow, all that is in 0:25:48.960 --> 0:25:57.159 this text. Yeah, it's a text about reinventing. It's a 0:25:57.200 --> 0:26:06.520 text about temples, text about templates. It's a text about trauma. 0:26:07.200 --> 0:26:12.240 Is a text about tears, and there's a time for tears. 0:26:14.080 --> 0:26:16.439 If sadness was a sin, Jesus couldn't have died for 0:26:16.520 --> 0:26:23.840 yours because he cried. Disappointment doesn't make you wrong. Anger 0:26:23.880 --> 0:26:27.680 doesn't make you wrong. There is just as much of 0:26:27.720 --> 0:26:31.560 a danger of stuffing it and letting it come out sideways, 0:26:32.359 --> 0:26:36.560 then letting it out. That's why I hate to hear 0:26:36.680 --> 0:26:40.000 preachers say you don't need therapy and counsel and all 0:26:40.040 --> 0:26:43.199 you need is the Holy Ghost. The blood is on 0:26:43.280 --> 0:26:46.560 our hands when we talk like that, because God uses 0:26:46.640 --> 0:26:49.280 all of that in people's lives. It's all a part 0:26:49.320 --> 0:26:53.320 of the process that he uses. Matter of fact, that's 0:26:53.359 --> 0:26:55.840 so dumb. Let's take that to the extreme. You don't 0:26:55.880 --> 0:26:58.840 need airplanes, all you need is the Holy Ghost. I 0:26:58.840 --> 0:27:01.600 don't see any preachers fly into their preaching engagements with 0:27:01.640 --> 0:27:05.520 their own wings. So stupid God uses stuff. And even 0:27:05.560 --> 0:27:07.000 in the text I read, it said the word of 0:27:07.000 --> 0:27:12.399 the Lord came through hag II. Sometimes the help that 0:27:12.440 --> 0:27:14.879 you need, the healing that you need, comes through people. 0:27:22.040 --> 0:27:25.600 Sometimes even you know, like I treat my daughter different 0:27:25.640 --> 0:27:27.560 than my sons, and sometimes I have to catch myself 0:27:27.560 --> 0:27:29.879 because they'll remind me you are too easy on Abby. 0:27:30.720 --> 0:27:34.040 It wasn't like that for us, and they're right for them. 0:27:34.040 --> 0:27:38.199 It was dry it up for her. You know, it's like, 0:27:38.400 --> 0:27:42.120 I'll buy you one, don't worry about it. What's wrong 0:27:42.160 --> 0:27:48.959 with me? Yeah, it's different raising boys and girl. It's 0:27:49.000 --> 0:27:54.399 like a different template. It's different. So what God is 0:27:54.440 --> 0:27:56.760 trying to get the people to do in Hagi Too 0:27:57.880 --> 0:28:00.280 is not just to build what they had before four, 0:28:02.119 --> 0:28:10.720 but to get ready for something better. All right, So 0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:16.080 all this time you're spending wishing that it would be 0:28:16.200 --> 0:28:22.240 like it was before is completely wasted because God's not 0:28:22.400 --> 0:28:26.439 gonna make it what it was before, because if he 0:28:26.560 --> 0:28:30.480 listened to you and made it what it was before, 0:28:31.240 --> 0:28:36.840 he couldn't make it better. And the Bible says that 0:28:37.000 --> 0:28:41.680