Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message Joshua Chapter fourteen.
Speaker 2: Please remain standing for one moment in respect and honor
Speaker 2: for the word of God. The Lord has given me
Speaker 2: something today that is so beautiful to me, and I
Speaker 2: pray that I can show it to you accurately today
Speaker 2: and that you can receive it. I praise God in
Speaker 2: advance for the way He's going to show you today
Speaker 2: who He really is in your life and who you
Speaker 2: really are in his eyes. A man, I'm so glad
Speaker 2: you're here. I prayed you wouldn't miss church today. I
Speaker 2: was like, Lord, whoever needs to hear it, even if
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Speaker 1: Video or bts. This is gonna be your message, This
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Speaker 2: The Lord has heard the questions you've been asking, He's
Speaker 2: seen the struggle you've been facing, and he wants to
Speaker 2: give you something today to see.
Speaker 1: It in a different light.
Speaker 2: Joshua chapter fourteen a very pivotal scripture for the nation
Speaker 2: of Israel and for us. As Joshua gives the inheritance
Speaker 2: that God promised so many centuries ago to the people
Speaker 2: who were walking into the land, and as he's dividing
Speaker 2: up the different parcels or the lots, casting lots to
Speaker 2: decide which tribe will live on what lot, one person
Speaker 2: takes initiative named Caleb, and I want to read you
Speaker 2: his speech that he made to Joshua, because he's trying
Speaker 2: to convince him that he's supposed to live in a
Speaker 2: certain place, and so he's going to tell him some
Speaker 2: things from his resume, and he's also going to tell
Speaker 2: him some things and reflect on some things that have happened.
Speaker 2: And I want you to eavesdrop on it today Joshua fourteen,
Speaker 2: verse six.
Speaker 1: Then the people of Judah came to.
Speaker 2: Joshua at Gilgal and Caleb the son of Jeffina.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry I got to put this in here.
Speaker 2: I wonder if it's significant that it's Judah because that
Speaker 2: represents praise in the Bible, and I wonder if there's
Speaker 2: something about praise that helps us to take possession of
Speaker 2: the promises of God.
Speaker 1: I just wonder that out loud in your presence today.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but I wonder if some of the
Speaker 2: problems that you've been focusing on, if you could get
Speaker 2: in a place of praise, you might see the solution clearly. Today,
Speaker 2: We're never going to make it through the next day
Speaker 2: versus if we keep interrupting, So.
Speaker 1: Start over.
Speaker 2: Then the people of Judah came to Joshua, Gilgal and
Speaker 2: Caleb the son of Jeffuna. Then I said to him,
Speaker 2: you know what the Lord said to Moses, the man
Speaker 2: of God in Kate desh Barnea, concerning you and me.
Speaker 2: I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of
Speaker 2: the Lord, sent me from kay desh Barney. I was
Speaker 2: just a young man, just forty years old. That's very youthful,
Speaker 2: very youthful age. I was forty years old when Moses
Speaker 2: sent us to spy out the land, and I brought
Speaker 2: him word again, as it was in my heart. But
Speaker 2: my brothers who went up with me, made the heart
Speaker 2: of the people melt. Yet I wholly followed the Lord,
Speaker 2: my God. I didn't let it get to me. I
Speaker 2: didn't let it get in me what they said. And
Speaker 2: Moses swore on that day, saying, surely the land on
Speaker 2: which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for
Speaker 2: you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed
Speaker 2: the Lord, my God. And now behold, behold, the Lord
Speaker 2: has kept me alive, just as he said. These forty
Speaker 2: five years since the time.
Speaker 1: That's a long time to wait for a promise to
Speaker 1: come to pass.
Speaker 2: That's a long time to suffer for somebody else's disobedience.
Speaker 2: Forty five years I survived the wilderness. It's been forty
Speaker 2: five years since the time that the Lord spoke this
Speaker 2: word to Moses, while Israel walked into wilderness. And now behole,
Speaker 2: I am this day, eighty five years old. I am
Speaker 2: still as strong today. Eighty five that's still flexing. I'm
Speaker 2: still as strong today as I was in the day
Speaker 2: that Moses sent me my strength now is as my
Speaker 2: strength was then, for war and forgoing and coming. So
Speaker 2: now somebody shout, now there's been a long time coming.
Speaker 1: But now give me this.
Speaker 2: Hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day.
Speaker 2: For you heard on that day how the we're there,
Speaker 2: with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord
Speaker 2: will be with me and I shall drive them out,
Speaker 2: just as the Lord said. And then Joshua blessed him,
Speaker 2: and he gave hebren to Caleb, the son of Jafunah
Speaker 2: for an inheritance.
Speaker 1: Well, look at.
Speaker 2: Your neighbor and give them my title, and then I
Speaker 2: want to share a lesson with you. Look at him,
Speaker 2: and first of all, say you look amazing. Tell them
Speaker 2: you've never looked better. And now tell him say I
Speaker 2: appreciate that, but my Maker is my mirror.
Speaker 1: They didn't get it.
Speaker 2: Look at the next person and say, I appreciate it,
Speaker 2: but my Maker is my mirror. Thank you, Lord for
Speaker 2: illumination of your word in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 3: Amen, Well let's give him one more shout as we
Speaker 3: take our seat.
Speaker 1: Amen. I wasn't really a shout, it was more of
Speaker 1: a murmur.
Speaker 2: I will teach you how to shout one day like
Speaker 2: you do when your kids don't clean up.
Speaker 1: Do that.
Speaker 2: But for the Lord, Amen, it's great that we get
Speaker 2: to see how God makes a nation. He's forming a nation.
Speaker 2: He said, I want a people that can present me.
Speaker 1: To the world.
Speaker 2: And he didn't do it the typical way, because if
Speaker 2: you wanted to have a great nation, you would pick.
Speaker 1: A rich one, a wealthy one.
Speaker 2: And yet, instead of making a nation that was already
Speaker 2: great greater, God found a man who was too old
Speaker 2: to have kids with a wife who was barren in
Speaker 2: her womb, and created a great.
Speaker 1: Nation out of an impossible situation.
Speaker 2: I am preaching so hard already, and I'm trying to
Speaker 2: throttle down.
Speaker 1: But this is a message in itself.
Speaker 2: Is that when God found Abram, this was before he
Speaker 2: had a consonant in his name. The artist formerly known
Speaker 2: as Abram on to be Abraham. He was the father
Speaker 2: of many nations, but when God called him, his stuff
Speaker 2: wasn't even working anymore. And the reason I'm telling you
Speaker 2: that is because sometimes God will speak something over your
Speaker 2: life and you will look in the mirror.
Speaker 1: And not see it.
Speaker 2: He'll speak something in your soul and you'll look in
Speaker 2: the mirror and you won't see it, which is so
Speaker 2: important to know that it's not how God sees you
Speaker 2: that determines where your life ends up. If it had been,
Speaker 2: Moses wouldn't have died in the wilderness. It's not how
Speaker 2: God sees me. It's how I think God sees me
Speaker 2: that determines where I end up. I'll prove it to
Speaker 2: you all the way from Genesis chapter one. Remember, let
Speaker 2: us make man in our image. God needed someone to
Speaker 2: show the world what he looked like, or else he
Speaker 2: would have just been a concept. God would have been
Speaker 2: an abstract theory. So he made man, and one man
Speaker 2: to reflect who he was. He needed someone to show
Speaker 2: his nature through. So he made me in you. And
Speaker 2: when you insult the product, you insult the manufacturer, which
Speaker 2: is why it's good to know our theology that he
Speaker 2: made me from the dust, that God took something that
Speaker 2: seemed filthy and something that seemed finite and made something
Speaker 2: that would reflect what is eternal. Then after making the man,
Speaker 2: he began to create not only the world the man,
Speaker 2: but a nation through Abram, through someone who seemed unlikely,
Speaker 2: And the nation of Israel spent a whole lot of
Speaker 2: time trying to figure out what we spent our whole
Speaker 2: lives trying to figure out, or at least our teenage
Speaker 2: years and our twenties, is like, what's my identity? So
Speaker 2: what you're really seeing in Joshua be fourteen is not
Speaker 2: just people getting some realist state, but they're coming into
Speaker 2: their identity, their national identity.
Speaker 1: And it's hard because.
Speaker 2: They've been through so much and they started from something
Speaker 2: so small. It is easy for them to see themselves
Speaker 2: according to what they've been through or where they started.
Speaker 1: And now they're breaking up.
Speaker 2: There's nine and a half tribes that get this land,
Speaker 2: and so Joshua and the priests they're shaking this receptacle.
Speaker 2: This is how they would cast lots. They would take
Speaker 2: the thing and shake it and they would have little
Speaker 2: wood blocks with different codes on them, and then they
Speaker 2: would kind of shake it out and what it fell
Speaker 2: on that meant this tribe gets that land, and this
Speaker 2: tribe gets that land. When Caleb interrupts the process, he's like,
Speaker 2: hold on, you're not going to figure out where I
Speaker 2: live by just rolling some dice.
Speaker 1: Okay, I got a promise, Moses said.
Speaker 2: Now, remember Moses was the one who was supposed to
Speaker 2: lead the people into the land, but he was unable
Speaker 2: to do it. And here's how I would put it
Speaker 2: if I were a preacher.
Speaker 1: He got them out of each but he.
Speaker 2: Never got Egypt out of them, because they were oppressed
Speaker 2: for you know, four hundred and thirty years. And when
Speaker 2: you've been under something for any length of time, when
Speaker 2: you've been under the power of any influence for any
Speaker 2: length of time, that influence becomes your identity.
Speaker 1: So now your.
Speaker 2: Addiction speaks more to you about your potential than God's
Speaker 2: word over you, than the prophetic gift that's.
Speaker 1: Inside of you.
Speaker 2: It happens to all of us when when you've been
Speaker 2: suffering from something, you can begin to take on the
Speaker 2: name of your disease or your issue. It's rating the
Speaker 2: name of your creator, whose image you were made of.
Speaker 2: But see, it's how you see it. It's how you
Speaker 2: see yourself. And I think I can prove to you
Speaker 2: if you give me like two and a half minutes,
Speaker 2: that the reason the people didn't go into the land
Speaker 2: under Moses was because Moses never really saw himself in
Speaker 2: the image of his creator.
Speaker 1: Abram did.
Speaker 2: Abram did, even though he had a hard time getting
Speaker 2: with it, even though he was like, you got any
Speaker 2: pills for that or anything like that, because I'm old now.
Speaker 2: And even though he had to wait for Isaac and
Speaker 2: he messed up in the process and ended up producing
Speaker 2: something that caused him more trouble by sleeping with Hagar.
Speaker 2: Even though all of that happened, God still called him
Speaker 2: the Father of faith, the father of many nations, and
Speaker 2: to show him who he was, he brought him out
Speaker 2: of his tent, out of his limitation, out of his situation,
Speaker 2: and he said, Okay, here's your revelation. Here's your situation.
Speaker 2: Get out of your situation, and now look up, preach
Speaker 2: into somebody.
Speaker 1: Look up. And he said, count the stars if you can.
Speaker 2: I don't know how far he got before he was like,
Speaker 2: what's the point of God, akin, you know three hundred
Speaker 2: and forty three hundred and forty four.
Speaker 1: What are you trying to show me?
Speaker 2: And God said, as many as they are, so shall
Speaker 2: your descendants be, So shall your seed be. So he
Speaker 2: gives him an image, an image, not just an idea,
Speaker 2: but an image.
Speaker 1: Now. Colossians one fifteen look.
Speaker 2: It up real quick says that Jesus is the image
Speaker 2: of the invisible God. That's very powerful, that Jesus shows
Speaker 2: us what God is like that the Word became flesh
Speaker 2: and dwelled among us. That's what Jesus is. He is
Speaker 2: the image of the God that we can't see. Did
Speaker 2: I get it right? Colossians one fifteen, that he is
Speaker 2: the image of the invisible God. This is the challenge
Speaker 2: for everybody under the sound of my voice. There is
Speaker 2: a way that God sees you because he formed you.
Speaker 2: There is that you see you. There is a way
Speaker 2: that others see you. And where you go from this
Speaker 2: point forward in your life is going to depend on.
Speaker 1: Which mirror you believe.
Speaker 2: I got all these mirrors in my house that are
Speaker 2: messed up, and I know they're messed up because they
Speaker 2: keep showing me. My beard is supposed to be black.
Speaker 2: But I look in those mirrors and they're messed up.
Speaker 2: They're defective. I'm gonna take them back to the store
Speaker 2: because they keep showing me these gray patches. Like I'm
Speaker 2: forty years old and I started rebuking mirrors in my house.
Speaker 2: You know, these lines coming up under my eyes, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, you are a liar like your father the devil.
Speaker 2: I cast you back to the pit of hell or
Speaker 2: this it actor how many, ever, looked in a messed
Speaker 2: up mirror. How many, ever, have people around you that
Speaker 2: made you feel a certain.
Speaker 1: Way about yourself.
Speaker 2: When Moses was coming into his identity and assignment, he
Speaker 2: had to deal with the fact that he was really
Speaker 2: living with two different images of who he was. And remember,
Speaker 2: God is using Moses to deliver the Israelites out of
Speaker 2: this Egyptian oppression.
Speaker 1: And when Moses first first starts to act on his.
Speaker 2: Impulse, he does the right thing, but he does it
Speaker 2: the wrong way. He defends his people, but he does
Speaker 2: it by murdering an Egyptian. So he's ahead of his
Speaker 2: time and he's out of his own but he's doing
Speaker 2: the right thing. But he still doesn't know who he
Speaker 2: is yet, and it's difficult for him because he doesn't
Speaker 2: really fit in with either group that he's living with.
Speaker 2: The Hebrews are the people he was born from. The
Speaker 2: Egyptians are the people that he was raised by. But
Speaker 2: he identifies more with the people that he was born
Speaker 2: from than the people he was raised by, so he
Speaker 2: doesn't really fit in. And when you don't really fit
Speaker 2: into either group, you end up running. That's what happened
Speaker 2: to Moses. He confronted an Egyptian who was beating a
Speaker 2: Hebrew one day, and he killed him and buried him.
Speaker 2: But then the next day he went out and saw
Speaker 2: two of his brothers fighting, and he was like, break
Speaker 2: it up, guys. You know we're suffering enough from them.
Speaker 2: We don't have to kill each other. And this is
Speaker 2: in Exodus chapter two. I want to show it to.
Speaker 1: You real quick. You got it Exodus two.
Speaker 2: The man said back to him, who has made you
Speaker 2: a prince and a judge over us?
Speaker 1: Do you mean to kill me as you have killed
Speaker 1: the Egyptian?
Speaker 2: And then Moses was afraid and thought, surely the.
Speaker 1: Thing is known, and he ran. He ran.
Speaker 2: We don't really see him in his next stage of
Speaker 2: his assignment until forty years later. He ran because he
Speaker 2: was to Hebrew to be an Egyptian, and to Egyptian
Speaker 2: to be a Hebrew. And when you don't really fit
Speaker 2: in with either, you don't know who you are, and
Speaker 2: you spend years of your life running from who you
Speaker 2: really are, looking in the mirror of your last mistake.
Speaker 2: He ran, and he ran, and he ran. And see
Speaker 2: the question is the right one, he said, who made you?
Speaker 1: Who made you? But if you don't know that.
Speaker 2: You will hand other people your mirror to show you
Speaker 2: who you are. And let me tell you something about people.
Speaker 2: People would rather define you by your worst mistake. What's
Speaker 2: crazy about Moses is he killed a man and there's
Speaker 2: only one verse in.
Speaker 1: The Bible about the murder. Now, if you let church people.
Speaker 2: Write the Bible, they would have had a whole book
Speaker 2: about it. Would be called the Book of Moses's murder,
Speaker 2: the Book of Moses's mistake, the Book of Debi's divorce,
Speaker 2: the book of your lowest moment. But maybe God doesn't
Speaker 2: see you through the lens of your mistake.
Speaker 1: Maybe he sees you through the lens of his grace.
Speaker 2: Maybe when he looks at you, he sees the finished
Speaker 2: work of Jesus Christ. Have you ever thought about the
Speaker 2: fact that if they didn't make you, they can't define you.
Speaker 1: My maker, there is my mirror. I promise. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to be as calm as I can be.
Speaker 2: But when God showed me that my maker is my mirror,
Speaker 2: he showed me Moses standing in front of the burning bush.
Speaker 2: And God's like, I'm gonna use you. You're gonna be
Speaker 2: the one to do it.
Speaker 1: You're the one.
Speaker 2: Who's had the conflicted identity and so many mistakes, and
Speaker 2: you don't even really believe in yourself. And so I
Speaker 2: was thinking about you and how you might be standing
Speaker 2: in front of something that God is speaking to you
Speaker 2: and is burning on the inside, but you can't really
Speaker 2: locate yourself because honestly, you don't fit into either group.
Speaker 1: You don't really fit in with really.
Speaker 2: Churchy people because they are so perfect and they pray
Speaker 2: so much, and they make Bible verses out of their
Speaker 2: kids sandwiches before they pack them in the lunch box
Speaker 2: numbers thirteen thirty one, cut out with scripture stencils and
Speaker 2: pack it in the lunch box like the Fish and
Speaker 2: the Loaves and the Little Boy. And you are not
Speaker 2: churchy enough, but you're really not worldly enough, because the
Speaker 2: spirit of God is on the inside of you when
Speaker 2: you try to sin, telling you that you're something greater
Speaker 2: than that. And you're kind of righteous, but you're kind
Speaker 2: of ratchet, and you're kind of a worshiper, but you're
Speaker 2: kind of worldly, and you kind of worry but you
Speaker 2: kind of worship, and you're kind of organized, but you're
Speaker 2: kind of chaotic, and you're kind of powerful, but you're
Speaker 2: kind of petty and you come on, I'm preaching to somebody,
Speaker 2: and you're a little bit of both.
Speaker 1: And your self concept is in development.
Speaker 2: And this is when it's very important who holds your mirror,
Speaker 2: because if the wrong people show you, you get a
Speaker 2: distorted image of yourself, and then you start matching in
Speaker 2: your life what you see in your mind.
Speaker 1: That's what That's what Moses did.
Speaker 2: God's like, all right, got a job for you to do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use you. I'm gonna give you everything you need. Cool.
Speaker 2: Moses is like, uh but uh but uh but see
Speaker 2: the thing about me. Watch what's what He says. This
Speaker 2: is Exodus four ten. It's which mirror you're looking at, right,
Speaker 2: So if you look at the mirror of what you're
Speaker 2: missing and you only see what's not there, that's what
Speaker 2: Moses did. He's like, he goes, oh my lord, this
Speaker 2: is an Exodus four ten. Oh mg, he says, oh
Speaker 2: m L. He's like, I'm not eloquent. I am not eloquent.
Speaker 2: It's funny because I got the scripture on the back
Speaker 2: screen right now, and it's got a typo in it.
Speaker 1: It says I I am eloquent. He said, the opposite.
Speaker 2: That's that's what he said, right there, I am not eloquent,
Speaker 2: and you really have both voices. That's that's kind of
Speaker 2: how it feels, right like one is saying I am
Speaker 2: and one is.
Speaker 1: Saying I'm not. And I don't know which one.
Speaker 2: I got this thing on the inside of me that
Speaker 2: feels like I can do it and I'm supposed to
Speaker 2: do it and I'm gonna make it. But I got
Speaker 2: this other thing saying and I don't know which way
Speaker 2: to look.
Speaker 1: So he said, I'm not eloquent.
Speaker 2: And then he says, either in the past or in
Speaker 2: the last five minutes, nothing has changed since you started speaking.
Speaker 2: It's still the same. I got saved and my nose
Speaker 2: is still big. I got saved, and I'm still kind
Speaker 2: of cross eyed and I read slow. I got saved
Speaker 2: and I still don't feel intelligent enough. I got saved
Speaker 2: and I still got memories. I got saved, and I
Speaker 2: love God, but I still got trauma. I got saved
Speaker 2: and I love God, but I'm still limited.
Speaker 1: By my experience.
Speaker 2: He said, I'm not. I'm not what you think I am.
Speaker 2: God's answer is so instructive. Next verse, the Lord said,
Speaker 2: who has made who made your mouth? Who made your brain? Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I'm just weird. What if the world is weird
Speaker 2: and we're the normal ones?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 2: I gotta be careful who I look at when I preach,
Speaker 2: by the way, because you're like a mirror. Oh they
Speaker 2: put this Chris is Chris Brown around? If he's around
Speaker 2: bringing back up, Colin comeson when the worship leaders are leading.
Speaker 2: They don't know this, but there was a choir out
Speaker 2: here today at Valentine and they were standing on these
Speaker 2: risers and if Chris didn't coming, you'll have to do okay,
Speaker 2: so LJ. They think that they're just up here saying
Speaker 2: I tell about you'll, we could teach a whole thing
Speaker 2: on this. Can y'all still see me back here, because
Speaker 2: I want to tell this to them. One time, they
Speaker 2: discovered that a lot of primates and all humans are
Speaker 2: softwired with mirror neurons, so our brains actually experience the
Speaker 2: same emotion that somebody were watching if we're tuned into them.
Speaker 2: And they got it from a monkey that was watching
Speaker 2: a man open a nut, and they had it hooked
Speaker 2: up to his brain and they saw the same brain
Speaker 2: activity in the monkey's brain that was in the man's
Speaker 2: brain who was opening the nut. And they realized that
Speaker 2: all humans are wired in such a way with mirror
Speaker 2: neurons that I experience your reality by watching you experience it.
Speaker 2: So this is why when a parent gets mad, kids
Speaker 2: can feel that stuff. They can feel that tension. It's
Speaker 2: called a mirror neuron. Here's what was happening while you
Speaker 2: were singing. This is how I fight my battles. Somebody
Speaker 2: out there was going through a battle, but they've been
Speaker 2: feeling like they were losing.
Speaker 1: But God puts you out here as a mirror.
Speaker 2: Well, now, all of a sudden, they didn't feel victorious
Speaker 2: this week. But when they saw you worshiping God, don't
Speaker 2: run from me. I got you by this leather coat.
Speaker 2: When they saw you worshiping God, they didn't feel like
Speaker 2: they had the victory. But while you were shouting the victory. Now,
Speaker 2: I wonder if you would do that for somebody on
Speaker 2: your row right now. I know you had a hard
Speaker 2: week too, But magnify the Lord with me.
Speaker 1: Let us exalt his name together. If you don't have
Speaker 1: faith today, borrow mine. You are gonna make it. I said.
Speaker 1: So it's called mirror neurons.
Speaker 2: And just as contagious as faith is, so is cynicism.
Speaker 2: So if you got cynical people holding up your mirror,
Speaker 2: you'll always feel small. You'll always feel smaller than your child,
Speaker 2: smaller than your giant, smaller than your addiction, because you're
Speaker 2: not looking at your God. But when your maker is
Speaker 2: your mirror. Three forty four, three forty five, three forty six,
Speaker 2: I'm still counting. God's not done yet. His mercies are
Speaker 2: new with every rising up the sun. He who began
Speaker 2: a good work in me, will be faithful to complete it.
Speaker 2: One thing about a mirror, it always shows you the
Speaker 2: image in reverse. God knows how your situation turns out.
Speaker 2: God knows how your story ends. God knows what he
Speaker 2: put in you. When this message flooded into my heart,
Speaker 2: I was like, it's gonna change somebody's life because they've
Speaker 2: just been looking in the wrong mirror, been looking at
Speaker 2: their mistakes. When your mistakes are your mirror, you stay
Speaker 2: on the outside of Canaan, even though you have the
Speaker 2: strength to go in, not because you are small, but
Speaker 2: because you see small. So the spies came back and
Speaker 2: they were like, hey, Moses, Remember Moses has dealt with rejection,
Speaker 2: his whole life, and so a lot of times when
Speaker 2: people don't accept you, it's because they have rejected themselves.
Speaker 2: Not all the time, a lot of times. And this
Speaker 2: is a really important point. Everybody's acceptance is not a
Speaker 2: blessing because the majority might be the wrong mirror. Ten
Speaker 2: out of twelve said we can't go in. Ten out
Speaker 2: of twelve said there.
Speaker 1: To be We went in. This is what they said.
Speaker 2: We went to the land Moses, and they became the
Speaker 2: mirror for the millions of people who had a promise
Speaker 2: from God but hadn't possessed it yet. This is why
Speaker 2: so important who you're around, what you take in, what
Speaker 2: you look at, you become what you behold. So the
Speaker 2: people are giving a report and they're like, it's a
Speaker 2: great place. The valleys are fertile, it's a rich land.
Speaker 2: We brought you back some grapes. Grapes were so big
Speaker 2: they had to carry them on poles. But then they
Speaker 2: stopped looking at God, stopped looking at grapes and started
Speaker 2: talking about giants. And when they looked too much at
Speaker 2: the giants as their mirror, they saw themselves as grasshoppers.
Speaker 1: That's what they said.
Speaker 2: Numbers thirteen thirty three They said, there were the Nephelum,
Speaker 2: the sons of Anak who come from the Nephilum.
Speaker 1: There were giants in the.
Speaker 2: Land, big strong adversary that we would have to dispossess
Speaker 2: to take the land. And we seemed to ourselves, wow,
Speaker 2: like grasshoppers.
Speaker 1: Not to God.
Speaker 2: We seem to ourselves like grasshoppers. Most people see God
Speaker 2: really big. Even those who barely believe in God see
Speaker 2: him really big. It's not how big you see God,
Speaker 2: it's how much you believe that God is in you.
Speaker 2: We seemed to ourselves as grasshoppers, and so we seemed
Speaker 2: to them.
Speaker 1: Our reflection determined our reality. We looked at him. What
Speaker 1: got me about it.
Speaker 2: Is that they could have seen the exact same situation
Speaker 2: in reverse.
Speaker 1: Watch this. They were like, the giants are too big.
Speaker 2: God promised us the victory, but I guess we can't
Speaker 2: go in because of the size of the giants. Reverse it,
Speaker 2: because God always shows you the image and reverse. So
Speaker 2: it's like this, God has already promised us the victory
Speaker 2: and the.
Speaker 1: Giants are so big.
Speaker 2: If the giants are that big and God has promised
Speaker 2: us the victory, if what is coming against us is
Speaker 2: that great, how much greater must God be within me?
Speaker 1: Greater is he come on and help me?
Speaker 2: That is within me, then he that is in the world.
Speaker 2: The size of my giant is a proof of the
Speaker 2: size of my God.
Speaker 1: Thank you Lord.
Speaker 2: If God is letting me experience a challenge this big See,
Speaker 2: God is trying to use your enemies to show you
Speaker 2: how valuable you are in his gigdom. And why would
Speaker 2: you let your enemies hold your mirror? Anyway? Who cares
Speaker 2: what the sons of anac think you look like? That's
Speaker 2: what Caleb said. He was like, shut up, we can
Speaker 2: do it. Hit somebody, say, shut up, I can do it.
Speaker 1: It's in the Bible too. It's in the Bible. Caleb
Speaker 1: said that he says shut up.
Speaker 2: He silenced the people and said, if God is with.
Speaker 1: Us, my maker is my mirror.
Speaker 2: And I always thought it was funny because he's like, hey, Joshua,
Speaker 2: I know you're rolling these little lots around on the
Speaker 2: ground to figure out who lives there. But remember God
Speaker 2: gave me a promise that I would live in the
Speaker 2: high place I want hebron, hebron three thousand feet above
Speaker 2: sea level, above.
Speaker 1: Sea level.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to take a month off after I
Speaker 2: appreciate this message. I'm giving you everything I got. You've
Speaker 2: been living a c level. You've been looking in the
Speaker 2: wrong mirror. You've been consulting the mirror for your flesh.
Speaker 2: You put twenty minutes into your makeup today, but you
Speaker 2: didn't you didn't get in this mirror right here.
Speaker 1: This is a mirror too. This is a mirror too.
Speaker 2: You've been struggling over external issues, but what about what's
Speaker 2: in you?
Speaker 1: James said something curious.
Speaker 2: He said, if you listen to the word and don't
Speaker 2: do it, you're like a man who looks at himself
Speaker 2: in a mirror. In the beginning was a word, and
Speaker 2: the word was with God, and the word.
Speaker 1: Was God, My maker is my mirror. So I can't look.
Speaker 2: I can't run around the people who are struggling with
Speaker 2: their own sin of self to determine mine.
Speaker 1: And I can't use the situation either.
Speaker 2: That's why I love Caleb because it's almost like he's lying.
Speaker 2: Come moment, he's eighty five and he's walking. I'm talking
Speaker 2: about I still got it. Now, what mirror are you
Speaker 2: looking at? Look at somebody says I still got it?
Speaker 2: It'll feel good to say it. Too, I still got
Speaker 2: it because I'm not talking about the flesh. I'm talking
Speaker 2: about faith. And the wilderness can do one of two
Speaker 2: things to you. It can kill you or it can
Speaker 2: make you stronger. Caleb said, all that I went through,
Speaker 2: I didn't get bitter. I didn't get the wilderness in me,
Speaker 2: even though I went through the wilderness. In fact, everything
Speaker 2: I went through over the last four and a half
Speaker 2: decades only serve to convince me.
Speaker 1: That much more that I still got it.
Speaker 2: I mean, if God promised it to be back then
Speaker 2: and saw me through all this, I don't want to
Speaker 2: live at the level of feelings. You settle too low.
Speaker 2: You settle for what you see, You settle for what
Speaker 2: people say. You settle for old templates, you settle for
Speaker 2: old scripts, you settle for emotions. When you're stated in
Speaker 2: heavenly places with Jesus, you got to settle up.
Speaker 1: You gotta get up above what.
Speaker 2: You see, above what you feel, and above what you've
Speaker 2: been through.
Speaker 1: He said, I want to live.
Speaker 4: I want to live where the blessings are. I want
Speaker 4: to live where the battles are. You can't have a
Speaker 4: victory without a battle. God is raising you up right now.
Speaker 4: He's doing it through a process. The level you will
Speaker 4: settle on is the level that you see yourself. And
Speaker 4: it makes me so sad to think of how many
Speaker 4: times that you and I have gone to the wrong mirrors,
Speaker 4: and so we see a grasshopper when we're really a giant,
Speaker 4: When we see a failure.
Speaker 2: When really it was a lesson, when we see what's
Speaker 2: missing because we can only see through the filter of
Speaker 2: our fear. God said, let us make man in our image,
Speaker 2: in our likeness. You are not my maker. You will
Speaker 2: not be my mirror. When God said I Am to Moses,
Speaker 2: you know my name is I Am, he was trying
Speaker 2: to get in to see you are as I am.
Speaker 2: That's what a mirror does. God says, I want to
Speaker 2: see myself in you. When God sees you, he sees himself.
Speaker 2: He sees his son. Christ is the image of the
Speaker 2: invisible God, and if he is in you, he is
Speaker 2: more than the world against you.
Speaker 1: I want to pray for a few hundred people today.
Speaker 2: You will know who you are if the message resonated
Speaker 2: with you in a personal way.
Speaker 1: And it's this. You've been going to the wrong mirror.
Speaker 2: You've been consulting physical, natural, relational, elements incomplete fragmented elements,
Speaker 2: and you don't know who you are right now, and
Speaker 2: you're stuck between two realities.
Speaker 1: The message God gave me was your Maker is your mirror.
Speaker 1: And you know what's beautiful. You're his.
Speaker 2: He wants to use you to reflect himself to the world,
Speaker 2: and so he's gonna give you some stuff.
Speaker 1: Some of it's gonna.
Speaker 2: Be giants in front of you, some of it's gonna
Speaker 2: be giants inside of you.
Speaker 1: David was good at killing.
Speaker 2: Giants as long as they were standing in front of him.
Speaker 2: It was the ones within him that took him out.
Speaker 2: Some of them are gonna be short term, some of
Speaker 2: them are gonna be long term. If you go to
Speaker 2: the wrong mirror, you'll always feel small.
Speaker 5: But if you will learn how to worship and get
Speaker 5: in the word of God and believe the promise that
Speaker 5: He spoke for your life and get in this mirror, you.
Speaker 2: Are not going to win over insecurity. Looking in the
Speaker 2: mirror of Instagram, it is only going to show you
Speaker 2: what you're not, what you can, and what you want.
Speaker 2: But if you get in this mirror, I'm telling you
Speaker 2: the word of God can do something for your spirit.
Speaker 2: It can make you stronger in your spirit than your
Speaker 2: enemies are in your situation.
Speaker 1: Now stand up on your feet. I want to pray
Speaker 1: with you. I want to pray with you. I want
Speaker 1: to prophesy over you. I don't want anyone moving or leaving.
Speaker 2: The Lord said that this word would hit deep for
Speaker 2: the ones who needed it. Have been seeing themselves, according
Speaker 2: to past experiences, have been looking in a rear view
Speaker 2: mirror at something that happened, and are about to wreck
Speaker 2: in the face of their future. And he said that
Speaker 2: today he wanted to give you a different mirror, different mirror.
Speaker 1: Caleb said, I'm not just settling for my lot in life.
Speaker 1: I'm not just settling for depression.
Speaker 2: I was hesitant to preach the message because I thought
Speaker 2: people would hear it like it was some you know,
Speaker 2: God give me my BMW, you know, God make me famous.
Speaker 2: That's not what Caleb said. He said, I want the challenge.
Speaker 2: I want the altitude. I want the opportunity to prove
Speaker 2: God again. I want to live at the high place.
Speaker 2: I want to be my higher self. I'm still strong.
Speaker 1: I still got it. I still got it.
Speaker 2: My faith went through testing forty five years and I survived.
Speaker 2: I still got it. I'm not ashamed of what I
Speaker 2: went through. It proves that God was with me. I
Speaker 2: still got it.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your word, Lord, It shows us who
Speaker 1: we are.
Speaker 2: Thank you for worship where we can reflect you, where
Speaker 2: we can behold your glory.
Speaker 1: Close your eyes, visualize.
Speaker 2: The king told Elisha that he would strike the ground
Speaker 2: three times. Elisha said you, you've got to see the victory.
Speaker 2: Before you see the victory, open the east window and shoot.
Speaker 1: It's the first creation is You got to.
Speaker 2: Be able to see yourself made of dust but touched
Speaker 2: with divinity.
Speaker 1: You got to see.
Speaker 2: Yourself free, even though you don't feel free, even though
Speaker 2: you still keep running back to lesser stuff. You gotta
Speaker 2: know you got a higher purpose and a greater name.
Speaker 2: I wish you would lift your hands in His presence,
Speaker 2: wherever you are. I wish you would lift them high
Speaker 2: and surrender. I wish you would lift them like the
Speaker 2: burden has been rolled away, and begin to sing. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna see a victory. I'm gonna see a victory. I
Speaker 2: shall see it, gonna see it in my spirit. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna see it in my heart. I'm gonna see it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna see deliverance. I'm gonna see the red Sea part.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna see the mountains mooth. I'm gonna see.
Speaker 3: It come to pass in my blood line. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: see it. I'm gonna see it. I'm gonna have the
Speaker 3: joy of the Lord. I'm gonna see it. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: fulfill it. I'm gonna walk in it. I'm gonna receive it.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna prove it. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: make it. I'm gonna sound it, I'm gonna declare it.
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