1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: in your life. 7 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message Joshua Chapter fourteen. 8 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 2: Please remain standing for one moment in respect and honor 9 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 2: for the word of God. The Lord has given me 10 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 2: something today that is so beautiful to me, and I 11 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 2: pray that I can show it to you accurately today 12 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 2: and that you can receive it. I praise God in 13 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 2: advance for the way He's going to show you today 14 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 2: who He really is in your life and who you 15 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 2: really are in his eyes. A man, I'm so glad 16 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 2: you're here. I prayed you wouldn't miss church today. I 17 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 2: was like, Lord, whoever needs to hear it, even if 18 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 2: their kids fight them all the way to church and 19 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 2: they got a flat tire, help them to roll down 20 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 2: the street on a hub. Captain, get this message today. 21 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 2: So if you tuned in, it wasn't by mistake. We 22 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 2: were praying that everyone who would need this message would 23 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 2: get it, even if it's two years later and you 24 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 2: found it on YouTube after watching a cat. 25 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:19,320 Speaker 1: Video or bts. This is gonna be your message, This 26 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: is gonna be the one. 27 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 2: The Lord has heard the questions you've been asking, He's 28 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 2: seen the struggle you've been facing, and he wants to 29 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 2: give you something today to see. 30 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:30,319 Speaker 1: It in a different light. 31 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 2: Joshua chapter fourteen a very pivotal scripture for the nation 32 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 2: of Israel and for us. As Joshua gives the inheritance 33 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 2: that God promised so many centuries ago to the people 34 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 2: who were walking into the land, and as he's dividing 35 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 2: up the different parcels or the lots, casting lots to 36 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 2: decide which tribe will live on what lot, one person 37 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 2: takes initiative named Caleb, and I want to read you 38 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 2: his speech that he made to Joshua, because he's trying 39 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 2: to convince him that he's supposed to live in a 40 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 2: certain place, and so he's going to tell him some 41 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 2: things from his resume, and he's also going to tell 42 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 2: him some things and reflect on some things that have happened. 43 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 2: And I want you to eavesdrop on it today Joshua fourteen, 44 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 2: verse six. 45 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 1: Then the people of Judah came to. 46 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 2: Joshua at Gilgal and Caleb the son of Jeffina. 47 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:24,519 Speaker 1: I'm so sorry I got to put this in here. 48 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 2: I wonder if it's significant that it's Judah because that 49 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 2: represents praise in the Bible, and I wonder if there's 50 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 2: something about praise that helps us to take possession of 51 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 2: the promises of God. 52 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: I just wonder that out loud in your presence today. 53 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but I wonder if some of the 54 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 2: problems that you've been focusing on, if you could get 55 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:48,639 Speaker 2: in a place of praise, you might see the solution clearly. Today, 56 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 2: We're never going to make it through the next day 57 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 2: versus if we keep interrupting, So. 58 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:55,959 Speaker 1: Start over. 59 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 2: Then the people of Judah came to Joshua, Gilgal and 60 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 2: Caleb the son of Jeffuna. Then I said to him, 61 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 2: you know what the Lord said to Moses, the man 62 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 2: of God in Kate desh Barnea, concerning you and me. 63 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 2: I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of 64 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,079 Speaker 2: the Lord, sent me from kay desh Barney. I was 65 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 2: just a young man, just forty years old. That's very youthful, 66 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,920 Speaker 2: very youthful age. I was forty years old when Moses 67 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 2: sent us to spy out the land, and I brought 68 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 2: him word again, as it was in my heart. But 69 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 2: my brothers who went up with me, made the heart 70 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 2: of the people melt. Yet I wholly followed the Lord, 71 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 2: my God. I didn't let it get to me. I 72 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 2: didn't let it get in me what they said. And 73 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 2: Moses swore on that day, saying, surely the land on 74 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 2: which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for 75 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 2: you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed 76 00:03:55,320 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 2: the Lord, my God. And now behold, behold, the Lord 77 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 2: has kept me alive, just as he said. These forty 78 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 2: five years since the time. 79 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: That's a long time to wait for a promise to 80 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: come to pass. 81 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 2: That's a long time to suffer for somebody else's disobedience. 82 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 2: Forty five years I survived the wilderness. It's been forty 83 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 2: five years since the time that the Lord spoke this 84 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 2: word to Moses, while Israel walked into wilderness. And now behole, 85 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 2: I am this day, eighty five years old. I am 86 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 2: still as strong today. Eighty five that's still flexing. I'm 87 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 2: still as strong today as I was in the day 88 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 2: that Moses sent me my strength now is as my 89 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 2: strength was then, for war and forgoing and coming. So 90 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 2: now somebody shout, now there's been a long time coming. 91 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: But now give me this. 92 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 2: Hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day. 93 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 2: For you heard on that day how the we're there, 94 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 2: with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord 95 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 2: will be with me and I shall drive them out, 96 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 2: just as the Lord said. And then Joshua blessed him, 97 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 2: and he gave hebren to Caleb, the son of Jafunah 98 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 2: for an inheritance. 99 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 1: Well, look at. 100 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 2: Your neighbor and give them my title, and then I 101 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 2: want to share a lesson with you. Look at him, 102 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 2: and first of all, say you look amazing. Tell them 103 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 2: you've never looked better. And now tell him say I 104 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:31,720 Speaker 2: appreciate that, but my Maker is my mirror. 105 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:35,919 Speaker 1: They didn't get it. 106 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 2: Look at the next person and say, I appreciate it, 107 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 2: but my Maker is my mirror. Thank you, Lord for 108 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 2: illumination of your word in Jesus' name. 109 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 1: Amen. 110 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 3: Amen, Well let's give him one more shout as we 111 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 3: take our seat. 112 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 1: Amen. I wasn't really a shout, it was more of 113 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 1: a murmur. 114 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 2: I will teach you how to shout one day like 115 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 2: you do when your kids don't clean up. 116 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: Do that. 117 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 2: But for the Lord, Amen, it's great that we get 118 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 2: to see how God makes a nation. He's forming a nation. 119 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 2: He said, I want a people that can present me. 120 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: To the world. 121 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 2: And he didn't do it the typical way, because if 122 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 2: you wanted to have a great nation, you would pick. 123 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,359 Speaker 1: A rich one, a wealthy one. 124 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 2: And yet, instead of making a nation that was already 125 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 2: great greater, God found a man who was too old 126 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 2: to have kids with a wife who was barren in 127 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 2: her womb, and created a great. 128 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: Nation out of an impossible situation. 129 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 2: I am preaching so hard already, and I'm trying to 130 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 2: throttle down. 131 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: But this is a message in itself. 132 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 2: Is that when God found Abram, this was before he 133 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 2: had a consonant in his name. The artist formerly known 134 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 2: as Abram on to be Abraham. He was the father 135 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 2: of many nations, but when God called him, his stuff 136 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 2: wasn't even working anymore. And the reason I'm telling you 137 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 2: that is because sometimes God will speak something over your 138 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 2: life and you will look in the mirror. 139 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 1: And not see it. 140 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 2: He'll speak something in your soul and you'll look in 141 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 2: the mirror and you won't see it, which is so 142 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 2: important to know that it's not how God sees you 143 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 2: that determines where your life ends up. If it had been, 144 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 2: Moses wouldn't have died in the wilderness. It's not how 145 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 2: God sees me. It's how I think God sees me 146 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 2: that determines where I end up. I'll prove it to 147 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 2: you all the way from Genesis chapter one. Remember, let 148 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 2: us make man in our image. God needed someone to 149 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 2: show the world what he looked like, or else he 150 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 2: would have just been a concept. God would have been 151 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 2: an abstract theory. So he made man, and one man 152 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 2: to reflect who he was. He needed someone to show 153 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 2: his nature through. So he made me in you. And 154 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 2: when you insult the product, you insult the manufacturer, which 155 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 2: is why it's good to know our theology that he 156 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 2: made me from the dust, that God took something that 157 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 2: seemed filthy and something that seemed finite and made something 158 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 2: that would reflect what is eternal. Then after making the man, 159 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 2: he began to create not only the world the man, 160 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:40,079 Speaker 2: but a nation through Abram, through someone who seemed unlikely, 161 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 2: And the nation of Israel spent a whole lot of 162 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 2: time trying to figure out what we spent our whole 163 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 2: lives trying to figure out, or at least our teenage 164 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 2: years and our twenties, is like, what's my identity? So 165 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 2: what you're really seeing in Joshua be fourteen is not 166 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 2: just people getting some realist state, but they're coming into 167 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 2: their identity, their national identity. 168 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:06,479 Speaker 1: And it's hard because. 169 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 2: They've been through so much and they started from something 170 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 2: so small. It is easy for them to see themselves 171 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 2: according to what they've been through or where they started. 172 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 1: And now they're breaking up. 173 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 2: There's nine and a half tribes that get this land, 174 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 2: and so Joshua and the priests they're shaking this receptacle. 175 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:24,839 Speaker 2: This is how they would cast lots. They would take 176 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 2: the thing and shake it and they would have little 177 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 2: wood blocks with different codes on them, and then they 178 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 2: would kind of shake it out and what it fell 179 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 2: on that meant this tribe gets that land, and this 180 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 2: tribe gets that land. When Caleb interrupts the process, he's like, 181 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 2: hold on, you're not going to figure out where I 182 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 2: live by just rolling some dice. 183 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 1: Okay, I got a promise, Moses said. 184 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 2: Now, remember Moses was the one who was supposed to 185 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 2: lead the people into the land, but he was unable 186 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 2: to do it. And here's how I would put it 187 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 2: if I were a preacher. 188 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 1: He got them out of each but he. 189 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 2: Never got Egypt out of them, because they were oppressed 190 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 2: for you know, four hundred and thirty years. And when 191 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 2: you've been under something for any length of time, when 192 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 2: you've been under the power of any influence for any 193 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 2: length of time, that influence becomes your identity. 194 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: So now your. 195 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 2: Addiction speaks more to you about your potential than God's 196 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 2: word over you, than the prophetic gift that's. 197 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: Inside of you. 198 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 2: It happens to all of us when when you've been 199 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 2: suffering from something, you can begin to take on the 200 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 2: name of your disease or your issue. It's rating the 201 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 2: name of your creator, whose image you were made of. 202 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 2: But see, it's how you see it. It's how you 203 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 2: see yourself. And I think I can prove to you 204 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:49,559 Speaker 2: if you give me like two and a half minutes, 205 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 2: that the reason the people didn't go into the land 206 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 2: under Moses was because Moses never really saw himself in 207 00:10:58,520 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 2: the image of his creator. 208 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: Abram did. 209 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 2: Abram did, even though he had a hard time getting 210 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 2: with it, even though he was like, you got any 211 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:07,439 Speaker 2: pills for that or anything like that, because I'm old now. 212 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 2: And even though he had to wait for Isaac and 213 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 2: he messed up in the process and ended up producing 214 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 2: something that caused him more trouble by sleeping with Hagar. 215 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,559 Speaker 2: Even though all of that happened, God still called him 216 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 2: the Father of faith, the father of many nations, and 217 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 2: to show him who he was, he brought him out 218 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:27,199 Speaker 2: of his tent, out of his limitation, out of his situation, 219 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 2: and he said, Okay, here's your revelation. Here's your situation. 220 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 2: Get out of your situation, and now look up, preach 221 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 2: into somebody. 222 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 1: Look up. And he said, count the stars if you can. 223 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 2: I don't know how far he got before he was like, 224 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 2: what's the point of God, akin, you know three hundred 225 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 2: and forty three hundred and forty four. 226 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 1: What are you trying to show me? 227 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 2: And God said, as many as they are, so shall 228 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 2: your descendants be, So shall your seed be. So he 229 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 2: gives him an image, an image, not just an idea, 230 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,319 Speaker 2: but an image. 231 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 1: Now. Colossians one fifteen look. 232 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 2: It up real quick says that Jesus is the image 233 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 2: of the invisible God. That's very powerful, that Jesus shows 234 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 2: us what God is like that the Word became flesh 235 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 2: and dwelled among us. That's what Jesus is. He is 236 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 2: the image of the God that we can't see. Did 237 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 2: I get it right? Colossians one fifteen, that he is 238 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 2: the image of the invisible God. This is the challenge 239 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 2: for everybody under the sound of my voice. There is 240 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 2: a way that God sees you because he formed you. 241 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 2: There is that you see you. There is a way 242 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 2: that others see you. And where you go from this 243 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,839 Speaker 2: point forward in your life is going to depend on. 244 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 1: Which mirror you believe. 245 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 2: I got all these mirrors in my house that are 246 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:06,679 Speaker 2: messed up, and I know they're messed up because they 247 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 2: keep showing me. My beard is supposed to be black. 248 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,440 Speaker 2: But I look in those mirrors and they're messed up. 249 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 2: They're defective. I'm gonna take them back to the store 250 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 2: because they keep showing me these gray patches. Like I'm 251 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 2: forty years old and I started rebuking mirrors in my house. 252 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 2: You know, these lines coming up under my eyes, and 253 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:25,679 Speaker 2: I'm like, you are a liar like your father the devil. 254 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 2: I cast you back to the pit of hell or 255 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 2: this it actor how many, ever, looked in a messed 256 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:35,439 Speaker 2: up mirror. How many, ever, have people around you that 257 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:36,719 Speaker 2: made you feel a certain. 258 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: Way about yourself. 259 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 2: When Moses was coming into his identity and assignment, he 260 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 2: had to deal with the fact that he was really 261 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 2: living with two different images of who he was. And remember, 262 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,559 Speaker 2: God is using Moses to deliver the Israelites out of 263 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:58,199 Speaker 2: this Egyptian oppression. 264 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: And when Moses first first starts to act on his. 265 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:06,560 Speaker 2: Impulse, he does the right thing, but he does it 266 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 2: the wrong way. He defends his people, but he does 267 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 2: it by murdering an Egyptian. So he's ahead of his 268 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 2: time and he's out of his own but he's doing 269 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 2: the right thing. But he still doesn't know who he 270 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 2: is yet, and it's difficult for him because he doesn't 271 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 2: really fit in with either group that he's living with. 272 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 2: The Hebrews are the people he was born from. The 273 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 2: Egyptians are the people that he was raised by. But 274 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 2: he identifies more with the people that he was born 275 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 2: from than the people he was raised by, so he 276 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 2: doesn't really fit in. And when you don't really fit 277 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 2: into either group, you end up running. That's what happened 278 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 2: to Moses. He confronted an Egyptian who was beating a 279 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 2: Hebrew one day, and he killed him and buried him. 280 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 2: But then the next day he went out and saw 281 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 2: two of his brothers fighting, and he was like, break 282 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 2: it up, guys. You know we're suffering enough from them. 283 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 2: We don't have to kill each other. And this is 284 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 2: in Exodus chapter two. I want to show it to. 285 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: You real quick. You got it Exodus two. 286 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 2: The man said back to him, who has made you 287 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 2: a prince and a judge over us? 288 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: Do you mean to kill me as you have killed 289 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: the Egyptian? 290 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 2: And then Moses was afraid and thought, surely the. 291 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 1: Thing is known, and he ran. He ran. 292 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:25,640 Speaker 2: We don't really see him in his next stage of 293 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 2: his assignment until forty years later. He ran because he 294 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 2: was to Hebrew to be an Egyptian, and to Egyptian 295 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 2: to be a Hebrew. And when you don't really fit 296 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 2: in with either, you don't know who you are, and 297 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 2: you spend years of your life running from who you 298 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 2: really are, looking in the mirror of your last mistake. 299 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 2: He ran, and he ran, and he ran. And see 300 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 2: the question is the right one, he said, who made you? 301 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: Who made you? But if you don't know that. 302 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 2: You will hand other people your mirror to show you 303 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 2: who you are. And let me tell you something about people. 304 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 2: People would rather define you by your worst mistake. What's 305 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 2: crazy about Moses is he killed a man and there's 306 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 2: only one verse in. 307 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 1: The Bible about the murder. Now, if you let church people. 308 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 2: Write the Bible, they would have had a whole book 309 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 2: about it. Would be called the Book of Moses's murder, 310 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 2: the Book of Moses's mistake, the Book of Debi's divorce, 311 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 2: the book of your lowest moment. But maybe God doesn't 312 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 2: see you through the lens of your mistake. 313 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 1: Maybe he sees you through the lens of his grace. 314 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 2: Maybe when he looks at you, he sees the finished 315 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 2: work of Jesus Christ. Have you ever thought about the 316 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 2: fact that if they didn't make you, they can't define you. 317 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: My maker, there is my mirror. I promise. I'm trying 318 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 1: to be as calm as I can be. 319 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 2: But when God showed me that my maker is my mirror, 320 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 2: he showed me Moses standing in front of the burning bush. 321 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:18,639 Speaker 2: And God's like, I'm gonna use you. You're gonna be 322 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:19,399 Speaker 2: the one to do it. 323 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 1: You're the one. 324 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 2: Who's had the conflicted identity and so many mistakes, and 325 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,199 Speaker 2: you don't even really believe in yourself. And so I 326 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 2: was thinking about you and how you might be standing 327 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 2: in front of something that God is speaking to you 328 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 2: and is burning on the inside, but you can't really 329 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 2: locate yourself because honestly, you don't fit into either group. 330 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:39,680 Speaker 1: You don't really fit in with really. 331 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 2: Churchy people because they are so perfect and they pray 332 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 2: so much, and they make Bible verses out of their 333 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 2: kids sandwiches before they pack them in the lunch box 334 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 2: numbers thirteen thirty one, cut out with scripture stencils and 335 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 2: pack it in the lunch box like the Fish and 336 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 2: the Loaves and the Little Boy. And you are not 337 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 2: churchy enough, but you're really not worldly enough, because the 338 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 2: spirit of God is on the inside of you when 339 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 2: you try to sin, telling you that you're something greater 340 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 2: than that. And you're kind of righteous, but you're kind 341 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 2: of ratchet, and you're kind of a worshiper, but you're 342 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 2: kind of worldly, and you kind of worry but you 343 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 2: kind of worship, and you're kind of organized, but you're 344 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 2: kind of chaotic, and you're kind of powerful, but you're 345 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 2: kind of petty and you come on, I'm preaching to somebody, 346 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:34,440 Speaker 2: and you're a little bit of both. 347 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,159 Speaker 1: And your self concept is in development. 348 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 2: And this is when it's very important who holds your mirror, 349 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 2: because if the wrong people show you, you get a 350 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 2: distorted image of yourself, and then you start matching in 351 00:18:56,119 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 2: your life what you see in your mind. 352 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: That's what That's what Moses did. 353 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 2: God's like, all right, got a job for you to do. 354 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna use you. I'm gonna give you everything you need. Cool. 355 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:20,640 Speaker 2: Moses is like, uh but uh but uh but see 356 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 2: the thing about me. Watch what's what He says. This 357 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:30,360 Speaker 2: is Exodus four ten. It's which mirror you're looking at, right, 358 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,400 Speaker 2: So if you look at the mirror of what you're 359 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 2: missing and you only see what's not there, that's what 360 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:43,959 Speaker 2: Moses did. He's like, he goes, oh my lord, this 361 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 2: is an Exodus four ten. Oh mg, he says, oh 362 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 2: m L. He's like, I'm not eloquent. I am not eloquent. 363 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 2: It's funny because I got the scripture on the back 364 00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 2: screen right now, and it's got a typo in it. 365 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 1: It says I I am eloquent. He said, the opposite. 366 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,640 Speaker 2: That's that's what he said, right there, I am not eloquent, 367 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 2: and you really have both voices. That's that's kind of 368 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:11,400 Speaker 2: how it feels, right like one is saying I am 369 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 2: and one is. 370 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:16,359 Speaker 1: Saying I'm not. And I don't know which one. 371 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 2: I got this thing on the inside of me that 372 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 2: feels like I can do it and I'm supposed to 373 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 2: do it and I'm gonna make it. But I got 374 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,200 Speaker 2: this other thing saying and I don't know which way 375 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:26,920 Speaker 2: to look. 376 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 1: So he said, I'm not eloquent. 377 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 2: And then he says, either in the past or in 378 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:37,920 Speaker 2: the last five minutes, nothing has changed since you started speaking. 379 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,639 Speaker 2: It's still the same. I got saved and my nose 380 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,880 Speaker 2: is still big. I got saved, and I'm still kind 381 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,439 Speaker 2: of cross eyed and I read slow. I got saved 382 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 2: and I still don't feel intelligent enough. I got saved 383 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 2: and I still got memories. I got saved, and I 384 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 2: love God, but I still got trauma. I got saved 385 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 2: and I love God, but I'm still limited. 386 00:20:57,880 --> 00:20:58,880 Speaker 1: By my experience. 387 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:07,400 Speaker 2: He said, I'm not. I'm not what you think I am. 388 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 2: God's answer is so instructive. Next verse, the Lord said, 389 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:26,680 Speaker 2: who has made who made your mouth? Who made your brain? Yeah, 390 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 2: but I'm just weird. What if the world is weird 391 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:32,440 Speaker 2: and we're the normal ones? 392 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, I like it. 393 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 2: I gotta be careful who I look at when I preach, 394 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,719 Speaker 2: by the way, because you're like a mirror. Oh they 395 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 2: put this Chris is Chris Brown around? If he's around 396 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 2: bringing back up, Colin comeson when the worship leaders are leading. 397 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 2: They don't know this, but there was a choir out 398 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 2: here today at Valentine and they were standing on these 399 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 2: risers and if Chris didn't coming, you'll have to do okay, 400 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 2: so LJ. They think that they're just up here saying 401 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,239 Speaker 2: I tell about you'll, we could teach a whole thing 402 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 2: on this. Can y'all still see me back here, because 403 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 2: I want to tell this to them. One time, they 404 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 2: discovered that a lot of primates and all humans are 405 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 2: softwired with mirror neurons, so our brains actually experience the 406 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,120 Speaker 2: same emotion that somebody were watching if we're tuned into them. 407 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 2: And they got it from a monkey that was watching 408 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,119 Speaker 2: a man open a nut, and they had it hooked 409 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,440 Speaker 2: up to his brain and they saw the same brain 410 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,680 Speaker 2: activity in the monkey's brain that was in the man's 411 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,199 Speaker 2: brain who was opening the nut. And they realized that 412 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:35,199 Speaker 2: all humans are wired in such a way with mirror 413 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 2: neurons that I experience your reality by watching you experience it. 414 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 2: So this is why when a parent gets mad, kids 415 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 2: can feel that stuff. They can feel that tension. It's 416 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 2: called a mirror neuron. Here's what was happening while you 417 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 2: were singing. This is how I fight my battles. Somebody 418 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:54,680 Speaker 2: out there was going through a battle, but they've been 419 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,400 Speaker 2: feeling like they were losing. 420 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,440 Speaker 1: But God puts you out here as a mirror. 421 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 2: Well, now, all of a sudden, they didn't feel victorious 422 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,640 Speaker 2: this week. But when they saw you worshiping God, don't 423 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 2: run from me. I got you by this leather coat. 424 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 2: When they saw you worshiping God, they didn't feel like 425 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:16,639 Speaker 2: they had the victory. But while you were shouting the victory. Now, 426 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 2: I wonder if you would do that for somebody on 427 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 2: your row right now. I know you had a hard 428 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 2: week too, But magnify the Lord with me. 429 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,920 Speaker 1: Let us exalt his name together. If you don't have 430 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 1: faith today, borrow mine. You are gonna make it. I said. 431 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 1: So it's called mirror neurons. 432 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 2: And just as contagious as faith is, so is cynicism. 433 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,440 Speaker 2: So if you got cynical people holding up your mirror, 434 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 2: you'll always feel small. You'll always feel smaller than your child, 435 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 2: smaller than your giant, smaller than your addiction, because you're 436 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 2: not looking at your God. But when your maker is 437 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 2: your mirror. Three forty four, three forty five, three forty six, 438 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,160 Speaker 2: I'm still counting. God's not done yet. His mercies are 439 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 2: new with every rising up the sun. He who began 440 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,919 Speaker 2: a good work in me, will be faithful to complete it. 441 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 2: One thing about a mirror, it always shows you the 442 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 2: image in reverse. God knows how your situation turns out. 443 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 2: God knows how your story ends. God knows what he 444 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:47,400 Speaker 2: put in you. When this message flooded into my heart, 445 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,680 Speaker 2: I was like, it's gonna change somebody's life because they've 446 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:55,640 Speaker 2: just been looking in the wrong mirror, been looking at 447 00:24:55,680 --> 00:25:00,360 Speaker 2: their mistakes. When your mistakes are your mirror, you stay 448 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,399 Speaker 2: on the outside of Canaan, even though you have the 449 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 2: strength to go in, not because you are small, but 450 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:15,639 Speaker 2: because you see small. So the spies came back and 451 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 2: they were like, hey, Moses, Remember Moses has dealt with rejection, 452 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 2: his whole life, and so a lot of times when 453 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 2: people don't accept you, it's because they have rejected themselves. 454 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 2: Not all the time, a lot of times. And this 455 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 2: is a really important point. Everybody's acceptance is not a 456 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 2: blessing because the majority might be the wrong mirror. Ten 457 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 2: out of twelve said we can't go in. Ten out 458 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 2: of twelve said there. 459 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,120 Speaker 1: To be We went in. This is what they said. 460 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 2: We went to the land Moses, and they became the 461 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 2: mirror for the millions of people who had a promise 462 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,400 Speaker 2: from God but hadn't possessed it yet. This is why 463 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 2: so important who you're around, what you take in, what 464 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 2: you look at, you become what you behold. So the 465 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 2: people are giving a report and they're like, it's a 466 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:23,879 Speaker 2: great place. The valleys are fertile, it's a rich land. 467 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 2: We brought you back some grapes. Grapes were so big 468 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:32,159 Speaker 2: they had to carry them on poles. But then they 469 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 2: stopped looking at God, stopped looking at grapes and started 470 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 2: talking about giants. And when they looked too much at 471 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 2: the giants as their mirror, they saw themselves as grasshoppers. 472 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 1: That's what they said. 473 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:52,919 Speaker 2: Numbers thirteen thirty three They said, there were the Nephelum, 474 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 2: the sons of Anak who come from the Nephilum. 475 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: There were giants in the. 476 00:26:55,880 --> 00:27:01,680 Speaker 2: Land, big strong adversary that we would have to dispossess 477 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 2: to take the land. And we seemed to ourselves, wow, 478 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:09,880 Speaker 2: like grasshoppers. 479 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 1: Not to God. 480 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 2: We seem to ourselves like grasshoppers. Most people see God 481 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 2: really big. Even those who barely believe in God see 482 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 2: him really big. It's not how big you see God, 483 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 2: it's how much you believe that God is in you. 484 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 2: We seemed to ourselves as grasshoppers, and so we seemed 485 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,359 Speaker 2: to them. 486 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:45,159 Speaker 1: Our reflection determined our reality. We looked at him. What 487 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,640 Speaker 1: got me about it. 488 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 2: Is that they could have seen the exact same situation 489 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 2: in reverse. 490 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 1: Watch this. They were like, the giants are too big. 491 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 2: God promised us the victory, but I guess we can't 492 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 2: go in because of the size of the giants. Reverse it, 493 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 2: because God always shows you the image and reverse. So 494 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,480 Speaker 2: it's like this, God has already promised us the victory 495 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:10,680 Speaker 2: and the. 496 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,200 Speaker 1: Giants are so big. 497 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 2: If the giants are that big and God has promised 498 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 2: us the victory, if what is coming against us is 499 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:28,159 Speaker 2: that great, how much greater must God be within me? 500 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 1: Greater is he come on and help me? 501 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 2: That is within me, then he that is in the world. 502 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 2: The size of my giant is a proof of the 503 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 2: size of my God. 504 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 1: Thank you Lord. 505 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 2: If God is letting me experience a challenge this big See, 506 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 2: God is trying to use your enemies to show you 507 00:28:56,080 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 2: how valuable you are in his gigdom. And why would 508 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 2: you let your enemies hold your mirror? Anyway? Who cares 509 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 2: what the sons of anac think you look like? That's 510 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 2: what Caleb said. He was like, shut up, we can 511 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 2: do it. Hit somebody, say, shut up, I can do it. 512 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 1: It's in the Bible too. It's in the Bible. Caleb 513 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 1: said that he says shut up. 514 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 2: He silenced the people and said, if God is with. 515 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: Us, my maker is my mirror. 516 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 2: And I always thought it was funny because he's like, hey, Joshua, 517 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 2: I know you're rolling these little lots around on the 518 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 2: ground to figure out who lives there. But remember God 519 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 2: gave me a promise that I would live in the 520 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 2: high place I want hebron, hebron three thousand feet above 521 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 2: sea level, above. 522 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: Sea level. 523 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:05,920 Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to take a month off after I 524 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 2: appreciate this message. I'm giving you everything I got. You've 525 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 2: been living a c level. You've been looking in the 526 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 2: wrong mirror. You've been consulting the mirror for your flesh. 527 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,720 Speaker 2: You put twenty minutes into your makeup today, but you 528 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 2: didn't you didn't get in this mirror right here. 529 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: This is a mirror too. This is a mirror too. 530 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 2: You've been struggling over external issues, but what about what's 531 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 2: in you? 532 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 1: James said something curious. 533 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 2: He said, if you listen to the word and don't 534 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 2: do it, you're like a man who looks at himself 535 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:48,520 Speaker 2: in a mirror. In the beginning was a word, and 536 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 2: the word was with God, and the word. 537 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 1: Was God, My maker is my mirror. So I can't look. 538 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,239 Speaker 2: I can't run around the people who are struggling with 539 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 2: their own sin of self to determine mine. 540 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 1: And I can't use the situation either. 541 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 2: That's why I love Caleb because it's almost like he's lying. 542 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 2: Come moment, he's eighty five and he's walking. I'm talking 543 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 2: about I still got it. Now, what mirror are you 544 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 2: looking at? Look at somebody says I still got it? 545 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 2: It'll feel good to say it. Too, I still got 546 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 2: it because I'm not talking about the flesh. I'm talking 547 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,720 Speaker 2: about faith. And the wilderness can do one of two 548 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 2: things to you. It can kill you or it can 549 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 2: make you stronger. Caleb said, all that I went through, 550 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 2: I didn't get bitter. I didn't get the wilderness in me, 551 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 2: even though I went through the wilderness. In fact, everything 552 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 2: I went through over the last four and a half 553 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 2: decades only serve to convince me. 554 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 1: That much more that I still got it. 555 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 2: I mean, if God promised it to be back then 556 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,800 Speaker 2: and saw me through all this, I don't want to 557 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 2: live at the level of feelings. You settle too low. 558 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 2: You settle for what you see, You settle for what 559 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 2: people say. You settle for old templates, you settle for 560 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 2: old scripts, you settle for emotions. When you're stated in 561 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:35,240 Speaker 2: heavenly places with Jesus, you got to settle up. 562 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 1: You gotta get up above what. 563 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 2: You see, above what you feel, and above what you've 564 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 2: been through. 565 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 1: He said, I want to live. 566 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 4: I want to live where the blessings are. I want 567 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 4: to live where the battles are. You can't have a 568 00:32:56,080 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 4: victory without a battle. God is raising you up right now. 569 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:12,360 Speaker 4: He's doing it through a process. The level you will 570 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 4: settle on is the level that you see yourself. And 571 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:21,040 Speaker 4: it makes me so sad to think of how many 572 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,360 Speaker 4: times that you and I have gone to the wrong mirrors, 573 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 4: and so we see a grasshopper when we're really a giant, 574 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:39,800 Speaker 4: When we see a failure. 575 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 2: When really it was a lesson, when we see what's 576 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,720 Speaker 2: missing because we can only see through the filter of 577 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:56,240 Speaker 2: our fear. God said, let us make man in our image, 578 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 2: in our likeness. You are not my maker. You will 579 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:10,239 Speaker 2: not be my mirror. When God said I Am to Moses, 580 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,440 Speaker 2: you know my name is I Am, he was trying 581 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:22,080 Speaker 2: to get in to see you are as I am. 582 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 2: That's what a mirror does. God says, I want to 583 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:32,319 Speaker 2: see myself in you. When God sees you, he sees himself. 584 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:37,000 Speaker 2: He sees his son. Christ is the image of the 585 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,600 Speaker 2: invisible God, and if he is in you, he is 586 00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:42,480 Speaker 2: more than the world against you. 587 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,160 Speaker 1: I want to pray for a few hundred people today. 588 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,840 Speaker 2: You will know who you are if the message resonated 589 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,080 Speaker 2: with you in a personal way. 590 00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,920 Speaker 1: And it's this. You've been going to the wrong mirror. 591 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:08,759 Speaker 2: You've been consulting physical, natural, relational, elements incomplete fragmented elements, 592 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,759 Speaker 2: and you don't know who you are right now, and 593 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,560 Speaker 2: you're stuck between two realities. 594 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 1: The message God gave me was your Maker is your mirror. 595 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,839 Speaker 1: And you know what's beautiful. You're his. 596 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:30,800 Speaker 2: He wants to use you to reflect himself to the world, 597 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,200 Speaker 2: and so he's gonna give you some stuff. 598 00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:35,840 Speaker 1: Some of it's gonna. 599 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,000 Speaker 2: Be giants in front of you, some of it's gonna 600 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,279 Speaker 2: be giants inside of you. 601 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:41,400 Speaker 1: David was good at killing. 602 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,480 Speaker 2: Giants as long as they were standing in front of him. 603 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:45,600 Speaker 2: It was the ones within him that took him out. 604 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,680 Speaker 2: Some of them are gonna be short term, some of 605 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:50,759 Speaker 2: them are gonna be long term. If you go to 606 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,920 Speaker 2: the wrong mirror, you'll always feel small. 607 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,319 Speaker 5: But if you will learn how to worship and get 608 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,279 Speaker 5: in the word of God and believe the promise that 609 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:03,680 Speaker 5: He spoke for your life and get in this mirror, you. 610 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,279 Speaker 2: Are not going to win over insecurity. Looking in the 611 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,480 Speaker 2: mirror of Instagram, it is only going to show you 612 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,240 Speaker 2: what you're not, what you can, and what you want. 613 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,040 Speaker 2: But if you get in this mirror, I'm telling you 614 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,800 Speaker 2: the word of God can do something for your spirit. 615 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,160 Speaker 2: It can make you stronger in your spirit than your 616 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:22,839 Speaker 2: enemies are in your situation. 617 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,799 Speaker 1: Now stand up on your feet. I want to pray 618 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,879 Speaker 1: with you. I want to pray with you. I want 619 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,960 Speaker 1: to prophesy over you. I don't want anyone moving or leaving. 620 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,440 Speaker 2: The Lord said that this word would hit deep for 621 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,280 Speaker 2: the ones who needed it. Have been seeing themselves, according 622 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:44,080 Speaker 2: to past experiences, have been looking in a rear view 623 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,040 Speaker 2: mirror at something that happened, and are about to wreck 624 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,680 Speaker 2: in the face of their future. And he said that 625 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:56,800 Speaker 2: today he wanted to give you a different mirror, different mirror. 626 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,600 Speaker 1: Caleb said, I'm not just settling for my lot in life. 627 00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,520 Speaker 1: I'm not just settling for depression. 628 00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,279 Speaker 2: I was hesitant to preach the message because I thought 629 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,960 Speaker 2: people would hear it like it was some you know, 630 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:16,400 Speaker 2: God give me my BMW, you know, God make me famous. 631 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:20,000 Speaker 2: That's not what Caleb said. He said, I want the challenge. 632 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,720 Speaker 2: I want the altitude. I want the opportunity to prove 633 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,920 Speaker 2: God again. I want to live at the high place. 634 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,880 Speaker 2: I want to be my higher self. I'm still strong. 635 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,600 Speaker 1: I still got it. I still got it. 636 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,960 Speaker 2: My faith went through testing forty five years and I survived. 637 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,799 Speaker 2: I still got it. I'm not ashamed of what I 638 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,960 Speaker 2: went through. It proves that God was with me. I 639 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:46,160 Speaker 2: still got it. 640 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,319 Speaker 1: Thank you for your word, Lord, It shows us who 641 00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:56,640 Speaker 1: we are. 642 00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,359 Speaker 2: Thank you for worship where we can reflect you, where 643 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,400 Speaker 2: we can behold your glory. 644 00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,399 Speaker 1: Close your eyes, visualize. 645 00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,040 Speaker 2: The king told Elisha that he would strike the ground 646 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:17,760 Speaker 2: three times. Elisha said you, you've got to see the victory. 647 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,960 Speaker 2: Before you see the victory, open the east window and shoot. 648 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,000 Speaker 1: It's the first creation is You got to. 649 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:29,760 Speaker 2: Be able to see yourself made of dust but touched 650 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:31,040 Speaker 2: with divinity. 651 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:33,520 Speaker 1: You got to see. 652 00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:38,080 Speaker 2: Yourself free, even though you don't feel free, even though 653 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,479 Speaker 2: you still keep running back to lesser stuff. You gotta 654 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:44,000 Speaker 2: know you got a higher purpose and a greater name. 655 00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,320 Speaker 2: I wish you would lift your hands in His presence, 656 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,799 Speaker 2: wherever you are. I wish you would lift them high 657 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,279 Speaker 2: and surrender. I wish you would lift them like the 658 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,960 Speaker 2: burden has been rolled away, and begin to sing. I'm 659 00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:58,279 Speaker 2: gonna see a victory. I'm gonna see a victory. I 660 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:02,080 Speaker 2: shall see it, gonna see it in my spirit. I'm 661 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,960 Speaker 2: gonna see it in my heart. I'm gonna see it. 662 00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:09,520 Speaker 2: I'm gonna see deliverance. I'm gonna see the red Sea part. 663 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,520 Speaker 2: I'm gonna see the mountains mooth. I'm gonna see. 664 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,120 Speaker 3: It come to pass in my blood line. I'm gonna 665 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,560 Speaker 3: see it. I'm gonna see it. I'm gonna have the 666 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:23,200 Speaker 3: joy of the Lord. I'm gonna see it. I'm gonna 667 00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:26,840 Speaker 3: fulfill it. I'm gonna walk in it. I'm gonna receive it. 668 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,360 Speaker 3: I'm gonna prove it. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna 669 00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,719 Speaker 3: make it. I'm gonna sound it, I'm gonna declare it. 670 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:37,040 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. 671 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,759 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 672 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,320 Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 673 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:45,960 Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give 674 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:50,000 Speaker 2: now or visit Elevation Church dot org slash podcast for 675 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:54,040 Speaker 2: more information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 676 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,359 Speaker 2: You can share it with your friends. 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