1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 5 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 6 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 3: Enjoy the message. 7 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: Hello, Elevation family. 8 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 3: You ready for a great day today? 9 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 4: Or what? 10 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 1: Hey? Stay standing at every cabinis if you would not mind. 11 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: I'm so so honored privileged to be here with each 12 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 1: and every one of you. I know I'm not as 13 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: handsome as Pastor Stephen, but I love the same God 14 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,919 Speaker 1: as him for sure, and excited to see what the 15 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: Lord has in store for all of us today. It's 16 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,279 Speaker 1: another Sunday, or maybe somebody could be watching this at 17 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: another point in time throughout the week. But for us, 18 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: right now, it's Sunday and another day at the beginning 19 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: of a week that God has given all of us. 20 00:00:58,000 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 3: It's an honor. 21 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: Not everybody gets this gift, not everybody has this moment 22 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: right here, and this being such a life giving, amazing 23 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: church week in and week out, you know, we lift 24 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,320 Speaker 1: up the name of Jesus. But I do recognize that 25 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 1: our weeks can sometimes be hard, right, you can come 26 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: through just some stuff. You don't have to raise your hand. 27 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: I'm sure some of us have been through some things 28 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: this week. We're like, I just got to get to church. 29 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: I just gotta get there. Maybe my wife's there this weekend, 30 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 1: let me get there. Maybe maybe my husband's there. Let 31 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,119 Speaker 1: me just get there. But maybe my breakthrough is there. 32 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 3: I gotta get there. 33 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:39,320 Speaker 1: But it's very very possible for something to be interesting 34 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: but not to be moving. It's possible for something to 35 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: be very very essential but it not to be personal. 36 00:01:54,360 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: And something can even be informational but not transformational. We're 37 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: gonna be opening up the Bible in a few moments, 38 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: and there's some things that might be interesting, but we're 39 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: not just wanting them to be interesting. We want them 40 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 1: to be moving. Do you know? For the nerds that 41 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 1: are in the room and online right now, the Sun 42 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:22,919 Speaker 1: su and is the largest star in our galaxy. 43 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 3: Some of y'all knew that it's the one. 44 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: It's the this this star right here. Actually everything in 45 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: our in our solar system revolves around it. It has 46 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 1: the hottest part of the Sun is at its core. 47 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: I think some scientists believe the Sun's actually gonna burn 48 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: out in like five billion years or something. 49 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 3: I've read that somewhere. 50 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:49,239 Speaker 1: See all that that might be interesting, it's not moving 51 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 1: you and I can't even exist without that su and Sun. 52 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: But even hearing that it's essential, But all that stuff 53 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 1: doesn't even feel that personal. It might be informational, but 54 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:08,519 Speaker 1: it's not transformational. But today we're not gonna talk about 55 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: the Sun Son. Today we're gonna talk about the Son Son. 56 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: Colossians Chapter one tells us that the Sun is the 57 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: image of the invisible God, the first born over all creation. 58 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,239 Speaker 1: From him and to him and through him are all things, 59 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 1: and in him all things. 60 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 3: Are held together. 61 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: The Bible tells us that even heaven and earth, everything 62 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: comes from him. He is the first born from among 63 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: the dead, so that in everything he. 64 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 3: Might have the supremacy. 65 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: We're gonna talk today about the Son of God, and 66 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: I pray that it's not just informational. I pray today 67 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: that God would transform us from the inside out, that 68 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: we would not leave wherever we are the same way 69 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: we came in. Can you, in this moment lift your 70 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 1: heart and your faith and say, God, move me today. 71 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: God changed me today. God opening my eyes today. I 72 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: need you so God, in the name of Jesus, at 73 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: every single location wherever we may be, I thank you 74 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 1: that today is not just another Sunday. Today is not 75 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: just today where we're opening up some old tages. No, God, 76 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 1: we're opening your word and it's alive and active and 77 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 1: sharper than any double edged sword. Would you move us today? 78 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 1: Would you change us today? Would you help us to 79 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 1: look more like you? Carry us? Sustain us, push us 80 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 1: forward in Jesus stain we pray, Amen and amen. At 81 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: every location, can we clap our hands? Come on? Can 82 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: you give God? Pray and give somebody a high five 83 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,479 Speaker 1: and say, hey, I'm a move today. I'm a move today. 84 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: Tell him I'm a move today and you may be seated. 85 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:14,720 Speaker 1: I'm a move today. I am fired up to. 86 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 3: Be here at Ella Patient Church. 87 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 1: Come on. I love your pastors so much, both Pastor 88 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 1: Steven and Pastor Holly. They are two of the most authentic, 89 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: life giving, generous, kind people I've ever had the opportunity 90 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 1: to meet. We actually had the opportunity to sit with 91 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: them at a birthday party not too long ago. We 92 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 1: had a mutual friend who was having a birthday party, 93 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: and I wanted to tell you your pastor got up and 94 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: shared such life giving words about this individual, and I 95 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: just appreciate that someone that has as big of a 96 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: world as he does is interested in making other people's 97 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 1: worlds as big as they can possibly be. He is 98 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 1: an individual that is like, how can I make you better? 99 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: How can I lift you up? His wife as well. 100 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:11,479 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you all this right now. Please be 101 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: the best church you can possibly be to your pastors. 102 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,280 Speaker 1: If you're not praying for him, start praying for him. 103 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: They need to know that you got him covered. It's 104 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: easy to comment. Can you be the one to cover? 105 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: Can you be the one that says I have your back? 106 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 1: Can you be the one to say I love you 107 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 1: so much? Even if the sermon that week you feel like, man, 108 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: that wasn't for me, that was for somebody else, you 109 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: walk up and say that was the best sermon I've 110 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: ever heard in my entire life. You speak words of life, 111 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,799 Speaker 1: words of encouragement, and don't just speak the words serve. 112 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 1: Jump on a team, being an e group. These are 113 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:57,160 Speaker 1: the things Pastor seven and Pastor Holly are trying to build, 114 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: not something for themselves, something for the Kingdom of God 115 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: and something to lift and make your family all that 116 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: God has called it to be. Don't waste this moment. 117 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: What a gift God has given you and me and 118 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: this world. And Pastor Stephen and Pastor Holly'll yeah, you 119 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: can clap your hands for sure. I'll say this last thing. 120 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna open up the text. I gotta say this 121 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: last thing. Our church is twelve years old now, and 122 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: I remember before our church got started reading Sun Stands Still. 123 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: I remember seeing the videos of the baptisms that were happening. 124 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: Remember we were sitting in our living room. There were 125 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: only twelve of us who were on the team at 126 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 1: that point in time. The whole church was in the 127 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: living room at that point in time. And we're watching 128 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: these videos and it's been humbling to see all that 129 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: God has done in and through our church Shoreline City 130 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: over the last twelve years. But I know if you 131 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: dig deep into the soil of our church, you're going 132 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: to see all this residue and all these seeds of elevation. 133 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 1: So I want to say thank you church for being 134 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 1: faithful and lifting up the name of Jesus Christ the 135 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 1: way you do. Because you have impacted our lives more 136 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: than you can ever possibly imagine. I even shave my 137 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 1: head to look like chunks. That's what I did. So 138 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: thank you, Chunks for keeping your head shaved. 139 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 3: To love you so much. Amy. 140 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: Hey, we're gonna open up God's word today. You guys 141 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: read it? You guys ready, go with me? Go with 142 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:39,320 Speaker 1: me to second Second King, Second Kings, Chapter seven, Second Kings, 143 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: Chapter seven. We're gonna begin reading in verse number three. 144 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:47,559 Speaker 1: If you didn't bring your Bible, gonna put the verses 145 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: on the screen so that you can follow along with us. 146 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:55,320 Speaker 1: Second Kings, Chapter seven, Verse number three. It says, now 147 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 1: there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of 148 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: the city gate. They said to each other, why stay 149 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 1: here until we die? 150 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 3: If we say, we'll. 151 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 1: Go into the city, the famine is there and we 152 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: will die. And if we stay here, we will die. 153 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:20,559 Speaker 1: So let's go over to the camp of the Arameenes 154 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 1: and surrender. 155 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:27,719 Speaker 3: If they spare us, we live. If they kill us, 156 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 3: then we die. 157 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 1: Amen. For those of you like to take notes, the 158 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: title of today's message is I can't stay here. I 159 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:52,719 Speaker 1: can't stay here. I can't All of us. You know this, 160 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: All of us are someplace. Duh, you're in a place 161 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: right now. You're at one of our location. You're online, 162 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: you're in your living room, you're at a coffee shop, 163 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 1: you're in some part of the world. You're in this building, 164 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: you're in a chair. Yes, you're someplace physically, but all 165 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 1: of us are someplace emotionally, financially, mentally, even professionally. You know, 166 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 1: you went and got your master's degree, and then you 167 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: keep on interviewing but can't get a job because everybodys 168 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 1: saying you're overqualified. You're like, what does that mean? Just 169 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 1: give me a job. I'm somewhere. I'm somewhere emotionally, I'm 170 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: somewhere relationally. Some of us don't have a ring on 171 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:36,079 Speaker 1: our finger. We want to have a ring on our finger. 172 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 1: We're at church this weekend to find our boas. 173 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 3: That's a church stoke boas. 174 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: Right there, You're some place. There's someplace even in our 175 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,319 Speaker 1: physical bodies, right. I mean, I don't know about y'all, 176 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:52,679 Speaker 1: but I've got this backfat that won't go away. 177 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 3: I keep on trying to do planks. 178 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: But it's like Earl, I ain't leaving, okay, I'm staying 179 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: right here with you. 180 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 3: It's me and you for the rest of your life. 181 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: Brother, we're all some place, every single one of us, 182 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 1: and some of us are in a good place. And 183 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: it's nice to be in a good place. When you're 184 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: in a good place, like with your finances, you did 185 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 1: to Dave Ramsey, like, right, you did it. You got 186 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: your thousand dollars, you got my emergency fun. Yeah, I'm 187 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 1: snowballing right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, let my car break down. 188 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 1: I got the money. You know, you're feeling feeling good. 189 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 3: I'm in a good place. 190 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 1: It's nice to be in a good place where things 191 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: are clicking on all cylinders, things are moving the right direction. 192 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 1: It's like every three you take it's nothing but net 193 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:44,319 Speaker 1: You're like, yes, I'm feeling it. I'm good, I'm strong. 194 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:47,439 Speaker 1: A good place is great, for sure, But even even 195 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:49,439 Speaker 1: it's interesting, a good place can become a grave. 196 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 3: You know this, If you stop growing. 197 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 1: Even a good place can become a grave. Because you're like, 198 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: my marriage is good. I'm just gonna preserve it. You 199 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: just can't press. You gotta keep going on date nights. 200 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: You gotta keep telling her she's beautiful. You gotta keep 201 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: on patting your hubby on the booty and going you're cute. 202 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 3: That too much for you? 203 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,679 Speaker 1: With that too much? That too much. I'm talking to 204 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: spouses now, I'm talking to spouses. 205 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 3: All right. You gotta keep that fire alive. 206 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 1: A good place can become a grave if you don't 207 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 1: keep growing. So we want to make sure we keep 208 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 1: on growing. If your business is like at a place 209 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: you never thought it would be, it's like it's in 210 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: a good spot. You can get into preservation mode. It's 211 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: so possible. Like I don't want anything bad to happen. 212 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,679 Speaker 1: But you didn't get there by not pursuing and taking risks. 213 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: You got there because you trusted God, and we're believing 214 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 1: him for more. So I just want to encourage you. 215 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 1: Don't get just stuck in a good place trying to 216 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 1: protect it. No, But when I say I can't stay here, 217 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: some of youall aren't thinking about a good place. You're 218 00:12:55,520 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 1: thinking about uh bad place. Tough. I can't stay here. 219 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: I can't stay in this marriage like this. I can't 220 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: stay here. I didn't sign up. I didn't say I 221 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: do so i'd have a roommate. I'm trying to have 222 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 1: my soulmate. I want I want to I want to 223 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: have a connection with someone, and now we're sleeping in 224 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 1: different bedrooms and we're not talking about divorce, but we're 225 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: thinking about it. I can't stay here. I can't stay 226 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: here with my dad. I can't stay here with how 227 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: tired I am? Why am I so tired all the time? 228 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: Why am I or why does it always feel like 229 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: I'm way down? Why do I Why don't I have 230 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: the joy that I used to have? Where'd my fire go? 231 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 1: Where where'd my energy go? Why? Why am I waking up? 232 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,080 Speaker 1: And I want to just stay in the bed? I 233 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 1: can't stay here. I can't stay in this depression. I 234 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 1: don't want this. I'm I'm trying to muster all this smile. 235 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,679 Speaker 1: I can to stand at the door and to greet 236 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 1: people as they come in, but on the inside, I'm 237 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:09,560 Speaker 1: feeling like I'm dying. I'm smiling at you, but I 238 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: need you to smile back at me. I can't stay here. 239 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: Can somebody please help me? Can somebody please give me 240 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 1: some hope? Can somebody please give me some strength? I 241 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: can't stay here numb, maybe even lukewarm? Is the day 242 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 1: like you're on fire for God? As they say, on fire, 243 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: excited about God? Couldn't help, but keep your hands up. 244 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: And now it's just like they're heavy, Like you're carrying 245 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 1: two kettlebells and can't lift them way down. 246 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 3: How about you. 247 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 1: But family drama too, can be one of the hardest 248 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 1: things navigating. Man. Oh man, I love my mother in law. 249 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 1: I love her. Thank you Jesus for. 250 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 3: Family. 251 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: My family. 252 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 3: Family. Sorry about that, honey, but family. 253 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 1: Family. Who remember they were like, have kids? Remember they 254 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: said that have kids? You need you, need you to 255 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: have kids. I'm saying, yeah, I can't wait. Now you're like, 256 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 1: oh my lord, can I put these kids back? Can 257 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 1: I gotta get a refund on these kids right here? 258 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 3: I love them so much. 259 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 1: But it can it can be taxing, it can be difficult, 260 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: It can be hard. It can be oh doctor's bill, 261 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 1: Oh soccer game, Oh football game, Oh camp. Oh you 262 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 1: need skills training here, and then you need skills training there, 263 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: and then we gotta go here, we gotta get ready 264 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 1: for college over there, and then we I mean, you 265 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: got all this stuff if you're a single person trying 266 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: to navigate, I've got so much on my brain. I'm sixteen, 267 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: seventeen years old, and I'm supposed to have everything figured out. 268 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: And I don't have everything figured out. I don't know 269 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: what college I'm going to. I don't know how I'm 270 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: gonna pay for college. I don't even know what's gonna 271 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 1: happen to my mom and my dad. Help me, somebody. 272 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 1: I can't stay here. 273 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 3: So it brings us to our text. 274 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: In The Two Kings, chapter seven, verses three and four, 275 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 1: there are four lepers and they are sitting there now 276 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: leprosy back in the day. 277 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 3: Well, this would be a disease. 278 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: We don't know if it was like exactly leprosy. It 279 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: guess to be some type of skin disorder, but it 280 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: would make you unclean. I mean, at that point in time, 281 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 1: you have certain rules where you're not allowed to be 282 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: around certain people, you can't touch certain things. And hear 283 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:09,919 Speaker 1: these four lepers and they're all hanging out together. You 284 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: have to read the rest of the even chapter six 285 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: and chapter seven, they. 286 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 3: Really go together. But when you read them. 287 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 1: You find out that the aramines, the enemy's army has 288 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:24,919 Speaker 1: surrounded the city and they have been encamped around the 289 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: city for so long, and they're basically suffocating God's kids 290 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:34,879 Speaker 1: to death. They're not letting any food or water in 291 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 1: it got dark. I mean it got very very dark. 292 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:43,880 Speaker 1: Individuals were doing some of the most heinous crimes, even 293 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:46,360 Speaker 1: against their own family. You can read it. I don't 294 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:49,160 Speaker 1: want to say it because I might lose your attention. 295 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 1: That's how horrific the things are that we're going on 296 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: in the text. So this is a tough place. It's 297 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:01,880 Speaker 1: a hard, difficult spot that they are in. They are 298 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 1: in a place they do not want to be like 299 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 1: some of us. So they're sitting there outside the city gate. 300 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: They're not allowed to go into the city because they're lepers. 301 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 1: The sitting there and they start talking to each other 302 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 1: and we get a look seat into their conversation. 303 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:27,640 Speaker 3: And these guys we find out are crazy. 304 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:29,920 Speaker 1: You gotta have a couple of friends like this, just 305 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:32,399 Speaker 1: so you know, you gotta have a couple leper friends 306 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 1: and a little it's a little bit off. You can't 307 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: have everybody in your left it's just real squeaky clean. 308 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 1: You gonna have somebody to be like I'll pull up 309 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 1: right now. You gotta have a couple of people like 310 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: that in your life and in your corner. Don't get 311 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 1: so saved that you can't throw hands right. You want 312 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: to make sure if something pops off, call your boy you. 313 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: So you're the leopers are sitting there and they say, Okay, 314 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 1: we're gonna die here, We're gonna die. We sit here, 315 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:13,160 Speaker 1: we're gonna die. If we're going to the city, we're 316 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: definitely gonna die. But if we go to the enemy's camp, 317 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 1: they're probably gonna kill us too. But they might not 318 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:35,159 Speaker 1: kill us with the enemies camp. Maybe they'll take us 319 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 1: like as prisoners, and we'll at least get some food. 320 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 1: So they're sitting there in this deductive reasoning, they get 321 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: to the place where they go. 322 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 3: I know, if I stay in this exact same spot. 323 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:57,440 Speaker 1: And I keep thinking the exact same way, and I 324 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 1: keep doing the exact same thing thing, then this right 325 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 1: here is going to bring me to a place of death. 326 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:11,440 Speaker 1: And I know I do not want to die right here, 327 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 1: so I've got to do something. I like these guys. 328 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:18,440 Speaker 1: I like these guys because they do not get hung 329 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:23,880 Speaker 1: up on what they can't do. They start thinking about 330 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 1: what can I do. They don't get hung up on 331 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,639 Speaker 1: what I don't have. They start thinking about what. 332 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:32,159 Speaker 2: Do I have. 333 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:35,160 Speaker 1: So for you and I I am praying that while 334 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: you are you and I are in those spots of frustration. 335 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 1: We're in those places of like, Okay, how do I 336 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 1: get my company to that next level? How do I 337 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 1: get my marriage out of this spot? How do I 338 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: get my single life here? How do I get my 339 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: thought life there? How to get my physical body here? 340 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:48,920 Speaker 1: How to get my finances there? I don't want to 341 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:50,120 Speaker 1: stay here. I don't want to stay here. I don't 342 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 1: want to stay here. You and I get stuck so 343 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 1: many times because like I can't do this, I can't 344 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: do that, I can't do this, I can't do that. 345 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 1: But I'm trying to get you to see it from 346 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 1: another perspective. I wonder if this period of God today 347 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: could help you and I learn from some lepers, and 348 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: some lepers would be sitting there outside the city gate 349 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 1: and then decided to say, I know some things I 350 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 1: don't have, but I do have some things that I 351 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: can do, at least as an enemy's camp that I 352 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: can head to, at least as a place I can go. 353 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 1: I wonder where you can go. I wonder what e 354 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,160 Speaker 1: group is there for you. I wonder what prayer group 355 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,040 Speaker 1: is there for you. I wonder what campus pastor wants 356 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 1: to lay hands on you to help you get out 357 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:33,119 Speaker 1: of the spot that you're in. I wonder what friend 358 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,880 Speaker 1: is there. I wonder who is around you right now 359 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 1: that you can't see them because you keep thinking. 360 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 3: About what you don't have. 361 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 1: In God's like, I have put you in a community 362 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 1: of faith that will stand with you and stand beside 363 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 1: you and help you become all that I've. 364 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 3: Called you to be. 365 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 1: What do you have? What do you have? What can 366 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:04,159 Speaker 1: you do? Because it's something, there's something you can do, 367 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 1: it's something you do have. Because I can't stay. 368 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 5: Here. 369 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 1: I can't. If you're on a team and everybody on 370 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:21,400 Speaker 1: the team keeps telling you you're a complainer, but you say, 371 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: I'm not a complainer. I'm not a complainer. But you're like, oh, well, 372 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 1: they keep saying you're complaining. Then you I'm not a 373 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 1: complain I'm coming out a complainer. Then maybe maybe you're 374 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: a complainer. And it's a frustrating place to be, but 375 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 1: you go, I can't stay here, And instead of just 376 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 1: ejecting yourself out of the place where God has you, 377 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 1: maybe he's trying to change something on the inside of 378 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:44,959 Speaker 1: you because he knows what he has for your future, 379 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: so he's trying to tell you hey, friend, friend, I 380 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 1: love you. But you can't stay here with how you 381 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: think everybody's against you. You can't stay here with how 382 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: you see the world. You can't stay here with how 383 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 1: you process information. You can't stay here with how you 384 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 1: just skip past the word of God. You can't stay 385 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 1: here with how you don't ever pray, and how you 386 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: don't ever give, and how you don't ever serve. You 387 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,920 Speaker 1: can't stay here. If you stay there, you will die. 388 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: So these guys go, look with me. In verse number five, 389 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:19,239 Speaker 1: come on, keep on going with me. We'll walk through 390 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 1: the Bible here. You guys, ready, you're with me, You 391 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:20,960 Speaker 1: with me? 392 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 3: Versu five. 393 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 1: Look at dusk, Chapter seven, Verse number five. At dust 394 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:28,880 Speaker 1: they got up and went to the camp of the Aramians. 395 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,680 Speaker 1: Everybody say, at duska, that's important. At dusk they got 396 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:35,160 Speaker 1: up and went to the camp of the Aramians. When 397 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,120 Speaker 1: they reached the edge of the camp, no one was there. 398 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:44,639 Speaker 1: For the Lord had caused the airmens to hear the 399 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 1: sound of chariots and horses and a great army, so 400 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 1: that they said to one another, look, the King of 401 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 1: Israel has hired the hit Tight and Egyptian kings to 402 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,200 Speaker 1: attack us. So they got up and fled in the 403 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:06,240 Speaker 1: oh in the dusk, there it is again, and abandoned 404 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 1: their tents and their horses and donkeys. They left the 405 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 1: camp as it was and ran for their lives. At dusk, 406 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:20,680 Speaker 1: at dust, the four lepers decide, okay, let's go, and 407 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: they get up and they throw on their jays, then 408 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:27,719 Speaker 1: have jays and they start walking. They start walking. They 409 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,439 Speaker 1: start walking at dusk. That's what verse five tells us, 410 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 1: and a verse number seven it tells us at dusk 411 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,120 Speaker 1: is when the enemy started running. So when the when 412 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 1: the lepers got up over here, God calls the sound 413 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 1: over there. They got up here, but something happened over there. 414 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 1: Let me say it again. Let me say it again. 415 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 1: They got up and took a step here, and then 416 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: God did a miracle over there. 417 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 3: Honey, you can trust with my phone. 418 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 1: Trust my phone. It doesn't any any phone. It's no 419 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 1: throw it to me. Come on, I can catch it. 420 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 1: Come on, That's what I'm talking about. Thank you. I 421 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 1: got hands. I got hands Okay, so on my phone 422 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: right here is iPhone twelve. Sorry about that. I still 423 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 1: have an upgraded cricket cricket wireless. 424 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:22,399 Speaker 3: Uh kid, If you got cricket, God bless you. 425 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 1: Uh do calls go through with that being said? Uh uh? 426 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: On my phone, I have the next app, okay, next 427 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 1: that so I can get I can right now go 428 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 1: to that app on my phone. And if I changed 429 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 1: the temperature on my phone here, all the way back 430 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 1: home in Dallas, the temperature changes at home. I did 431 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 1: something here, but something happens all the way over there. 432 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,400 Speaker 1: This is a picture of what happens in Second King 433 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 1: chapter seven. 434 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 3: It's also a picture of prayer. 435 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 1: Mom, when you get on your knees and your kid 436 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,200 Speaker 1: is out at the party and you are praying here. 437 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:22,399 Speaker 1: If God begins to do something over there, it's like 438 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:27,719 Speaker 1: the alcohol does not taste the same over there. They 439 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 1: go to but they want to put it down because 440 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:35,640 Speaker 1: Mom or God is praying over here. There is something 441 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 1: about taking a step here that God does something over there, 442 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,679 Speaker 1: And I need you and I to be a people 443 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,080 Speaker 1: that says God, even if I don't see it, I 444 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: will take a step when it doesn't even make sense 445 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:05,120 Speaker 1: here there here there. 446 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 3: This is how God works. 447 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 1: See you and I want to see it, but you 448 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 1: don't get to see it unless you take the step. 449 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,360 Speaker 1: We say, God, show me. Then I'll take the step. 450 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,439 Speaker 1: God was like, no, no, no, no, We're not doing 451 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 1: it like that. We're doing it my way, and my 452 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,159 Speaker 1: way is the way of faith. My way is the 453 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,200 Speaker 1: way of trust. My way is the way that when 454 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: the water is going crazy and the waves are crashing 455 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 1: and it doesn't make any sense, that's what I want 456 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 1: you to give. When it looks like the economy is 457 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,200 Speaker 1: going upside down, that's when I want you trusting me. 458 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,919 Speaker 1: When it doesn't look like things are moving the right direction, 459 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,439 Speaker 1: that's when I want you to say, God, it doesn't 460 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,400 Speaker 1: make sense in my brain, but I can't stay here. 461 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take the step you're calling me to take, 462 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 1: so I can do what you're calling me to do, 463 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 1: and I can see a miracle that I would never 464 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 1: see had I not taken the step. Let me let 465 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:01,639 Speaker 1: me share it. Picture my family their way. All of 466 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 1: them are prettier than me, all of them. All of 467 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:05,399 Speaker 1: them are prettier than me. Okay, got my picture of 468 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 1: my family. Look at this. Okay, here here's the crew. 469 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: Here's the crew. There's an older picture right here, our 470 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,359 Speaker 1: nine year old now house corn rows, which I cannot 471 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: do because I'm involved my wife's my best friend. Okay, 472 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,239 Speaker 1: so she's my sexy piece of dark chocolate. I love 473 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,680 Speaker 1: her so much. She and I twenty seven years have 474 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: been married. Now it's gone by so fast. Still my 475 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,040 Speaker 1: best friend. I love her so much. So I got 476 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 1: my beautiful wife. Okay, we met in college and she 477 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: liked me first and was trying to you know, it's 478 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 1: a long story, y'all will talk about it at another time, 479 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,239 Speaker 1: but but I'm so so blessed. And then we've got 480 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: our nineteen year old son, Parker, who was absolutely amazing. 481 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 1: He's about to be a sophomore in college. Man stolen 482 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 1: our heart. Then we've got Grayson. He's our nerd, I 483 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: mean nerd nerd and plays the cello and football and 484 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: does the viola and knows stuff about the sun. I 485 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 1: mean he's just a little bit. He's our nerd. We'll 486 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 1: all be working for him one day, Okay, So we 487 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 1: love him so much. And then we've got my favorite child, 488 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: who's my daughter. Because she's my daughter, girl, Dads, can 489 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: I get an amen? Come on? 490 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 3: Can I get an amen? 491 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 2: Girl? 492 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 1: Dad's I tell my sons this all the time. I 493 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 1: like your sister more than you. That's why I say 494 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,240 Speaker 1: yes to her all the time. Okay, you're lucky. I'm 495 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:33,440 Speaker 1: feeding you tonight, Elle, What would you like so love 496 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,200 Speaker 1: all of our kids so much? Our oldest Parker, he's 497 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:41,480 Speaker 1: our biological son. Our last two are adopted, something we 498 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 1: always wanted to do since we were in college. And 499 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: after we had a Parker, we had Parker, and then 500 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 1: we were like, we were both fifty to fifty on 501 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: biological but we're both one hundred percent on adoptions. She 502 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 1: were like, Hey, let's go ahead and adopt and then 503 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 1: we'll just have some more kids later. So the adoption 504 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 1: process ended up taking like two and a half years, 505 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 1: so we ended up not having any. 506 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 3: More biological kids. 507 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 1: But when we first started the process, we drove about 508 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 1: three hours up the road to our adoption center and 509 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: this was like the first meeting where they were going 510 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,080 Speaker 1: to tell all these prospective parents what the process was like. 511 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 1: So they're sitting there and they're telling us all what 512 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 1: the process is like, and they bring in lawyers, and 513 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 1: they even bring in birth moms who are making this 514 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:29,000 Speaker 1: courageous decision to you know, find a forever home for 515 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: their child. I mean, just something that it's a heart 516 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:36,480 Speaker 1: of sacrifice. And love that I almost can't even comprehend. 517 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 1: I mean courageous, courageous birth moms and birth dads. We 518 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: got to meet some of their adoptive parents and then 519 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 1: they sit you down. They're like, okay, what type of 520 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: kid are you looking for? And you fill out this 521 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 1: questionnaire and then at the bottom of it, they're like, 522 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 1: how are you going to pay for it? Now, for 523 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 1: those who don't know, adoption is not free. Should be, 524 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:03,959 Speaker 1: but it's not. I'm talking like twenty thirty thousand dollars. Now, 525 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,800 Speaker 1: if you got it like that, congratulations to you. You're like, oh, 526 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 1: twenty thousand dollars, that's nothing I can do with the 527 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 1: right that. 528 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 3: Okay, God bless you. Okay, most of us. 529 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 1: We saw that on the line. My wife and I 530 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,440 Speaker 1: looked at each other. We're like, okay, how are you 531 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 1: gonna pay for this? We both I wrote give me 532 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:27,000 Speaker 1: that pen, honey by faith. I wrote that right there 533 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 1: and turning my application with confidence. So we're driving back home, 534 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 1: three hour drive back home, and we're driving home, I'm like, honey, 535 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 1: how are we gonna pay for this? 536 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 3: I know we put by faith in, how are we 537 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 3: going to pay for it? 538 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 1: The next morning, at at our church to go to 539 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: a men's meeting. I'm at this men's meeting and we're 540 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 1: setting up and this guy comes up to me and 541 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 1: he said, to be hate earl. My wife and I 542 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 1: heard that you're going to be adopting. I'm like, oh, man, 543 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 1: how don't you even hear that we just started the 544 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,960 Speaker 1: process that yet, Yeah, we're going to be adopting as well. 545 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 1: My wife and I we've never been able to have 546 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 1: kids ourselves, but we just sold this piece of land 547 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 1: and we want to be a part of your adoption story. 548 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 1: Here's a check for five thousand dollars. We took a 549 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:44,520 Speaker 1: step here, then God was working there. I didn't know 550 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,960 Speaker 1: that when we took the step here that God was 551 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:54,400 Speaker 1: working over there. But this is how God always seems 552 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:59,760 Speaker 1: to do it. So I'm asking you, what step is 553 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,960 Speaker 1: God asking you to take that you're not taking because 554 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,920 Speaker 1: you think the step is dumb. You think the step 555 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. You don't have the resources for 556 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 1: the step, you don't have the connections for the step. 557 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,720 Speaker 1: You don't even think you have the favor for the step, 558 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,800 Speaker 1: you don't have the education for the step. And God's like, 559 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 1: since when did I ask you if you have all 560 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 1: their credentials to do the thing that it's gonna be 561 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:33,680 Speaker 1: done by My power, my glory. Anyway, take the step. 562 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,560 Speaker 1: I can't stay here. Well, counseling's not gonna do anything 563 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 1: for us. How do you know if counseling is going to. 564 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:43,040 Speaker 3: Do anything for you? Maybe you take that step there and. 565 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,400 Speaker 1: God starts working on your husband and or wife in 566 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,320 Speaker 1: that other bedroom. How do you know if you're gonna 567 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:51,280 Speaker 1: get accepted to the school unless you send in the application. 568 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 1: Go ahead and take the step here and see what 569 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,920 Speaker 1: God will do over there. How do you know if 570 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 1: God can get you out of debt or not? If 571 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,320 Speaker 1: you keep holding on to all your money, of course 572 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,800 Speaker 1: you're not gonna see a miracle. But what if you 573 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 1: started giving and saying, God, I'll live a life of generosity. 574 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 1: I wonder what God will do. 575 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:14,239 Speaker 5: There? 576 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:21,880 Speaker 3: Push that little nest button, pray. 577 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:28,600 Speaker 1: Give sir? What is he asking you to do? I 578 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,160 Speaker 1: don't know. I know the Holy Spirit he has a 579 00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,279 Speaker 1: way of talking to all of us exactly how we 580 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,000 Speaker 1: need to be talked to. You know the thing that 581 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,600 Speaker 1: he's like, You're like, dang, dang, dang. I wish that 582 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:42,480 Speaker 1: guy didn't come today, Dang, I just wanted to be 583 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 1: encouraged today. I didn't want anybody saying anything that I 584 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,120 Speaker 1: had to do anything. I just wanted them to say 585 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,440 Speaker 1: something to me that could feel good about myself and 586 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,680 Speaker 1: now here. So I'm not gonna do this. I'm not 587 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,600 Speaker 1: gonna do this, but I pray that the Holy Spirit 588 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 1: torments you in the best way possible, that he makes 589 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,919 Speaker 1: you so incredibly uncomfortable, because there's more that God wants 590 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 1: to do in you and through you. Dad, you think 591 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:05,879 Speaker 1: God has done with you yet? 592 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:06,359 Speaker 5: Mom? 593 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,080 Speaker 1: Do you think God is done with you yet? Retiree? 594 00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:11,680 Speaker 1: Do you think God is done with you already? Just 595 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,800 Speaker 1: because you're thirty seven and you only play pickleball? Do 596 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,600 Speaker 1: you think God is done with you? Now? I'm telling 597 00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 1: you he has so much more and sore for you. 598 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:26,759 Speaker 1: But you've got to take a step. I can't stay here. 599 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:30,000 Speaker 3: I can't stay here. 600 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,680 Speaker 1: No. Now, Look, keep on watching, look, keep reading the 601 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:34,440 Speaker 1: text with me, keep on going, keep on going, keep 602 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,759 Speaker 1: on going. Okay, Okay, so they left, they left, They left. 603 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,479 Speaker 1: Go to verse number eight. It's a brak Okay, Okay. 604 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:45,160 Speaker 1: The men who had leprosy reached the edge of the camp. 605 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,480 Speaker 1: The men who had leprosy reached the edge of the camp. 606 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:56,719 Speaker 1: Watch this, entered one of the tents and ate and 607 00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:05,200 Speaker 1: drank watch this. Then they took silver gold fu boo 608 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 1: just getting close. I don't even know what foo boo is, 609 00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:15,040 Speaker 1: and went off and hid them. They returned and then 610 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:19,320 Speaker 1: to another tent and took some things from it and 611 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:19,799 Speaker 1: hit them. 612 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,920 Speaker 3: Also. Okay, first eight, they get to the camp. 613 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,320 Speaker 1: Nobody's there because God did something with the sound of 614 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,680 Speaker 1: the feet. God did something with something small, and he 615 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:33,399 Speaker 1: turned into something great. God did something with something small, 616 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,040 Speaker 1: but he turned into something great. Then they get there, 617 00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:44,719 Speaker 1: there's nobody there, and they start going, yeah, yo, look 618 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:53,799 Speaker 1: at this tent right here. Ha yo, this is crazy. Yay, 619 00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,799 Speaker 1: I'm drinking. Camera follow me, camera, follow me, okay, camera 620 00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:11,200 Speaker 1: from hah ah. Pull up, boy, pull up. It's crazy 621 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:16,160 Speaker 1: over here. There's nobody here. We can drink everything we want. 622 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:23,160 Speaker 1: They left their clothes, they left their silver. They start 623 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:29,680 Speaker 1: taking the stuff and hiding it. Okay, these guys, I 624 00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:31,200 Speaker 1: guess maybe we would do that too. I don't know. 625 00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:34,759 Speaker 1: I don't know how I would act. I remember, they 626 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:38,200 Speaker 1: haven't been able to be around anyone. This' been with 627 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:44,600 Speaker 1: each other. They've been outcasts. Everyone looked past them, disrespected them, 628 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,440 Speaker 1: and now I was like, they got this whole big 629 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:52,279 Speaker 1: thing coming their direction. It's like, oh, my goodness, I've 630 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:56,640 Speaker 1: never had it like this before. So now now now, 631 00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:00,400 Speaker 1: now look at this verse number nine versnumber nine, goodness, 632 00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:06,920 Speaker 1: look at this. Then they said to each other, what 633 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:15,359 Speaker 1: we are doing is not right. This is a day 634 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:19,799 Speaker 1: of good news, and we are keeping it to ourselves. 635 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,880 Speaker 1: If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let 636 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,760 Speaker 1: us go at once and report this to the royal Palace. 637 00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:34,120 Speaker 1: So in the middle and then grab it all the 638 00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:41,600 Speaker 1: stuff and hiding it. Somebody realizes, wait wait wait, wait, 639 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:52,080 Speaker 1: wait wait wait wait, we had nothing and now we 640 00:38:52,280 --> 00:39:01,960 Speaker 1: have all this, and I'm keeping it to myself. This 641 00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,360 Speaker 1: ain't right, and I like that. The Texas this is 642 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:11,240 Speaker 1: a day of good news. It's really a beautiful picture 643 00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:14,880 Speaker 1: of the gospel that you and I, You and I 644 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:24,759 Speaker 1: were lepers, outcasts, sinners, separated from God, and then we 645 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:29,399 Speaker 1: end up being drawn to a spot that we maybe 646 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,319 Speaker 1: thought would kill us. Like no, there's no way, there's 647 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,399 Speaker 1: no way. I can't I can't ever approached, I can't 648 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,560 Speaker 1: ever approached Jesus because of my sin and all my 649 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,560 Speaker 1: shortcomings and all my weaknesses and all my difficulties. But 650 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:40,120 Speaker 1: we get there and it's like, Oh my goodness, I 651 00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:44,400 Speaker 1: got an abundance of blessings. I got more coming my 652 00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:48,320 Speaker 1: way than I ever thought possible. I used to be lonely, 653 00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:50,640 Speaker 1: but now I've got more friends that I've ever had 654 00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:54,640 Speaker 1: in my entire life. I've had so many other pastors 655 00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,319 Speaker 1: in my life that didn't have my back, but now 656 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,680 Speaker 1: I have a pastor. I've got campus pastors. I've got 657 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:00,880 Speaker 1: leaders that are praying for me, that are believing for 658 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,080 Speaker 1: God's best in my life. I've got them. I've got 659 00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:06,440 Speaker 1: pastors with integrity and character, pastors that I can trust. 660 00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:07,719 Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, I've got this. 661 00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:10,800 Speaker 1: I've got. I've got a taste. I've got a taste 662 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,920 Speaker 1: of heaven on earth. I've got a taste that I 663 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,279 Speaker 1: used to be lost, but now I'm found. I got 664 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,560 Speaker 1: a taste that i used to be dead, but now 665 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,040 Speaker 1: I'm alive. I got a taste that I used to 666 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,359 Speaker 1: be broken, but now I've been put back together. I've 667 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,279 Speaker 1: got a taste that I used to be all up 668 00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,680 Speaker 1: in my head, but now I found myself walking in 669 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,400 Speaker 1: freedom and joy and in life. I used to be 670 00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,120 Speaker 1: a person that was just wandering around and I didn't 671 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:34,680 Speaker 1: know which way to go. But then God and his 672 00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,520 Speaker 1: grace and his mercy, he captured me and he pulled 673 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,320 Speaker 1: me up out of a glorious spit. How in the 674 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:50,879 Speaker 1: world can I keep this to my self? I heard 675 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:58,280 Speaker 1: it said that bad things, when they are kept secret, 676 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:06,320 Speaker 1: the usually tend to grow. But good things, when you 677 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:13,080 Speaker 1: keep them secret, sometimes they actually tend to lose their power. 678 00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:21,640 Speaker 1: Because there's something about you and I tasting the goodness 679 00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:26,920 Speaker 1: of Almighty God. And once I have tasted it, I 680 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:34,719 Speaker 1: cannot keep this to my self. I have to share it. 681 00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:43,279 Speaker 1: I have to. So these guys go, okay, okay, I 682 00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:47,160 Speaker 1: got good news. I got good news. We're gonna go back. 683 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:51,000 Speaker 1: We're gonna tell everybody. And they go back and they 684 00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,680 Speaker 1: start telling everybody, and they start with the gatekeepers because 685 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,200 Speaker 1: they can't even go into the city. So they talk 686 00:41:55,200 --> 00:42:02,920 Speaker 1: to the gatekeepers. Gatekeepers, look at your boys, look at 687 00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,600 Speaker 1: our clothes, Like, what you get all that jewelry? I'm 688 00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:11,120 Speaker 1: telling y'all, just up the road. Nobody's in the camp. 689 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:20,640 Speaker 1: They got grills, they got necklaces rings. I'm telling you, 690 00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,400 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, there is more up there than you 691 00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:30,040 Speaker 1: can even possibly imagine. It's better than you could ever 692 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:35,879 Speaker 1: even think than the gatekeeper. Tell somebody else, tell somebody else, 693 00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:37,640 Speaker 1: and it makes its way all the way to the palace, 694 00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:41,000 Speaker 1: and then the king hears it. The King's like, oh, man, 695 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,680 Speaker 1: I think they're trying to trick us. Those are Oromians. 696 00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:45,960 Speaker 1: They're trying to trick us. But they weren't being tricked. 697 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:51,600 Speaker 1: In actuality, God had worked a miracle because four lepers 698 00:42:51,760 --> 00:43:03,360 Speaker 1: decided to not stay here. I was wondering. I was 699 00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:15,759 Speaker 1: wondering who might eat because you won't stay there. I 700 00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:20,640 Speaker 1: was wondering five years from now, ten years from now, 701 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:22,279 Speaker 1: fifteen years from now. 702 00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,600 Speaker 3: I wonder what the ripple effect of your step might be. 703 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:32,160 Speaker 1: I wonder. I wonder because we we think, we think 704 00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:33,439 Speaker 1: it's not gonna matter. 705 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:34,399 Speaker 3: That's what they thought. 706 00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:38,960 Speaker 1: It's not gonna matter. I'll probably die, it's probably gonna 707 00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:43,239 Speaker 1: end in nothing. It's probably gonna fall flat on its face. Yes, 708 00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,720 Speaker 1: it's a possibility that it could fail, but it's also 709 00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,320 Speaker 1: a possibility that God could do something with your step 710 00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:54,200 Speaker 1: that would absolutely change an entire generation. 711 00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:58,040 Speaker 3: Dare I say elevation was a step. 712 00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,800 Speaker 1: That Pastor Stephen and Pastor Hall he took, and you 713 00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:02,759 Speaker 1: and I are on the other side of that. I 714 00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,720 Speaker 1: am so thankful that there have been men and women 715 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,960 Speaker 1: of God years ago that said I'm not going to 716 00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:13,000 Speaker 1: stay comfortable. I'm so glad they continue to take a step. 717 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,920 Speaker 1: And then God took that step, and he turned and 718 00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:19,479 Speaker 1: he magnified that sound, and before they knew it, things 719 00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:29,200 Speaker 1: were changing in a spot. Maybe they didn't even get 720 00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:36,719 Speaker 1: a chance to see you. So maybe the wrestle you 721 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:45,600 Speaker 1: have in you, you think it's just about you, But 722 00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:47,759 Speaker 1: there could be a teenager on the other side of 723 00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:53,360 Speaker 1: your yes. There's a business on the other side of 724 00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:57,239 Speaker 1: your yes. There's a grandchild on the other side of 725 00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,320 Speaker 1: your yes. I'm just praying that God would give you 726 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:01,680 Speaker 1: a picture on raying, God would give you a picture. 727 00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:03,520 Speaker 1: You're like, I'm not gonna try out for the team. 728 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,640 Speaker 1: You don't know what God can do with just to 729 00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,000 Speaker 1: try it. I'm just telling you. I'm just telling you 730 00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:12,120 Speaker 1: don't know what God will do with a step when 731 00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,520 Speaker 1: you begin to get uncomfortable. I can't stay here, I 732 00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,640 Speaker 1: can't stay here, I can't stay here. I can't stay here. 733 00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,520 Speaker 1: I can't stay here. I can't stay here. I can't 734 00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:23,600 Speaker 1: stay here in my mind I can't stay here in 735 00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,640 Speaker 1: my finances, I can't stay here in my spiritual life. 736 00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:30,400 Speaker 1: I can't stay here in my mindset. I can not 737 00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:39,160 Speaker 1: stay here. You will be shocked and what God will 738 00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:46,359 Speaker 1: do with a step. The beautiful thing about this as 739 00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:53,680 Speaker 1: we all can take a step. I was when I 740 00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:57,120 Speaker 1: was preparing this message. It just dropped into my heart. 741 00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,600 Speaker 1: I have not preached this. This is what I honest 742 00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:01,880 Speaker 1: I pray. I was like, God, what do I need 743 00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:05,320 Speaker 1: to share with my beautiful elevation family? And this is 744 00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,879 Speaker 1: the passage God has dropped in my heart. I was like, Lord, 745 00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:09,600 Speaker 1: I got some better sermons. I feel like in this 746 00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,640 Speaker 1: This one dropped into my heart and I was like 747 00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:16,719 Speaker 1: I was trying to turn into steps. I was like, okay, God, 748 00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:18,720 Speaker 1: tell me what steps can give me give some steps 749 00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,920 Speaker 1: to give to people. And I didn't get any steps 750 00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:27,719 Speaker 1: and get any steps. I thought, the Lord tell me, 751 00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:32,839 Speaker 1: impress them my heart, don't give steps, invite them into 752 00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:33,640 Speaker 1: an experience. 753 00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:46,440 Speaker 3: Ezekiel, chapter two, verses two. As he spoke, the. 754 00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:53,800 Speaker 1: Spirit came into me and raised me to my feet 755 00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:59,960 Speaker 1: next to Ezekiel. I think it's Chapter three, verse twenty four. 756 00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:07,560 Speaker 1: Look at this. Then the Spirit came into me and 757 00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:13,560 Speaker 1: raised me to my feet. Then Acts chapter one, verse 758 00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:17,960 Speaker 1: number eight. Maybe you've read it, but you will receive 759 00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:24,480 Speaker 1: power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you 760 00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:27,840 Speaker 1: will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria, 761 00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:33,560 Speaker 1: and to the ends of the earth. Then one of 762 00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:41,520 Speaker 1: my favorite passages in Acts chapter number two, when the 763 00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:45,800 Speaker 1: day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 764 00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:49,239 Speaker 1: Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind 765 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:52,359 Speaker 1: came from heaven and filled the whole house. Oh where 766 00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:55,600 Speaker 1: they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues 767 00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,279 Speaker 1: of fire that separated and came to rest on each 768 00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,680 Speaker 1: of them. All of them were filled with the Holy 769 00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:03,279 Speaker 1: Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the 770 00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:05,799 Speaker 1: Spirit enabled them, shipping all the way down to verse 771 00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,280 Speaker 1: number fourteen. Then Peter stood up, looking again the Spirit 772 00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:13,000 Speaker 1: standing someone up. Then Peter stood up with the eleven, 773 00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,800 Speaker 1: raised his voice and addressed the crowd. Fellow Jews and 774 00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:19,720 Speaker 1: all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain 775 00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:23,120 Speaker 1: this to you. Listen carefully to what I say. These 776 00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,960 Speaker 1: people are not drunk as you suppose. It's only nine 777 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:30,600 Speaker 1: in the morning. Know this is what was spoken by 778 00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:34,840 Speaker 1: the puffet Toul in the last days. God says, I 779 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:39,640 Speaker 1: will pour out my spirit on all people. Your sons 780 00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:43,399 Speaker 1: and tartars will prough a sigh. Your young men will 781 00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:47,640 Speaker 1: see visions, your old men will train dreams. 782 00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:54,480 Speaker 6: I felt, I felt that all of a sudden, all 783 00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:59,560 Speaker 6: of a sudden, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, 784 00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:05,160 Speaker 6: all of a sudden, the spirit of the Living God 785 00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:09,960 Speaker 6: would sell us up and raise us to our feet. 786 00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:14,839 Speaker 1: And is gonna come up sudd it's good, would come 787 00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:15,880 Speaker 1: up seven. 788 00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,680 Speaker 4: I'm all on the sun. 789 00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,440 Speaker 1: It's gonn come on of the sand. 790 00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:30,240 Speaker 4: It still come on the sandst come. 791 00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:37,640 Speaker 1: Standing see me coming mother the sad. It's gonna come 792 00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:38,960 Speaker 1: on the side. 793 00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:39,759 Speaker 4: Come home. 794 00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:48,800 Speaker 1: It's gonna come on the sun. Come on. His spirit 795 00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:49,480 Speaker 1: is breaking. 796 00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:53,120 Speaker 4: Let's gonna come. 797 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:53,880 Speaker 1: Up on the sand. 798 00:49:55,760 --> 00:50:07,360 Speaker 4: It's gonna come up the sun. Pass well, let you see, 799 00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:15,279 Speaker 4: but you're out. Let me say time side, I pay 800 00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:16,080 Speaker 4: to come out. 801 00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:22,960 Speaker 1: Let's say he will come me go peace. 802 00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:34,920 Speaker 4: The straight side. Come on. 803 00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:39,399 Speaker 1: Let me see walty Jim. 804 00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,799 Speaker 4: Every game with chi side. 805 00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:56,120 Speaker 1: Come Holy Spirit. I pray over every location. I pray 806 00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:59,960 Speaker 1: over every man. I pray over every woman. I pray 807 00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:03,400 Speaker 1: pray over every teenager. I pray over every college student. 808 00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:06,640 Speaker 1: I pray over every married person. I pray over every 809 00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:10,359 Speaker 1: single person. I pray over every retiree. I pray over 810 00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:13,560 Speaker 1: every single one of us that are online, that are 811 00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:16,960 Speaker 1: at any location. And in the name of Jesus, right now, 812 00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:20,560 Speaker 1: I ask that the Holy Spirit would fill us up 813 00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:23,160 Speaker 1: from the top of our head to the soles of 814 00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:26,000 Speaker 1: our feet. I thank you, o God, that what we 815 00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:29,840 Speaker 1: need to do cannot be done in flesh. It cannot 816 00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:33,200 Speaker 1: be done by our strength. It's not Pie, Mike, it's 817 00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:37,840 Speaker 1: not by power, but it is Pie your spirit. So 818 00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:41,080 Speaker 1: Spirit of the Living God, what you raise us to 819 00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:43,800 Speaker 1: our feet? Would you get us out of our heads? 820 00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:46,920 Speaker 1: Would just surround us with the right people, and may 821 00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,160 Speaker 1: we live our lives for your glory. 822 00:51:49,600 --> 00:52:52,719 Speaker 5: In the name of Cheese, thank you for joining us. 823 00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:55,480 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 824 00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:59,040 Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 825 00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:01,960 Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give now, 826 00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:06,440 Speaker 2: or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more information. 827 00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:10,120 Speaker 2: And if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. You 828 00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:12,200 Speaker 2: can share it with your friends. 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