1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Elevation Church podcast. Today, Larry Bride, the 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:09,880 Speaker 1: Elevation Matthew's campus pastor, shares a special message called the 3 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: Other Side of the Promise. We hope you enjoy this message. 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: I want to speak today on the subject of promises. 5 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,600 Speaker 1: If you remain standing for just a few more seconds, 6 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: I'm going to get to my text, and I specifically 7 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 1: want to speak a message to anybody who feels like 8 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: God's made you a promise and you're on the outside 9 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: of it looking at it. I just feel like there's 10 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: some people under the sound of my voice, maybe in Colombia, 11 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: that are standing outside of something they feel like God 12 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: called them into. I want to speak specifically to you today. 13 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: The main text we're going to jump into is going 14 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: to be in First Chronicles eleven, verses one through five. 15 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: He says this. This says all Israel came together to 16 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 1: David at Hebron and said, you are our own flesh 17 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: and blood. In the past, even while Saul was king, 18 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: you were the one who led Israel under military campaigns 19 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: and the lords. Your God said to you, you will 20 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: shepherd my people Israel, and you will become their ruler. 21 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: When all the elders of Israel had come to King 22 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 1: David and Hebron. He made a covenant with them at 23 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel, 24 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: as the Lord had promised through Samuel. David and all 25 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 1: the Israelites marched to Jerusalem, that is Jeebus. The gb 26 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: Sites who live there said to David, you will not 27 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: get in here. Nevertheless, I love that word. Nevertheless. David 28 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 1: captured the fortress of Zion, which is the city of David. 29 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 1: The title for today's message is this the other side 30 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: of the promise. Say to your neighbor, the other side 31 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: of the promise. Look on the other side of your 32 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: neighbor and speak over them the other side of the promise. Hey, 33 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: why don't you high five at least three people on 34 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: your way to your seat? Think you worshiped team? And 35 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: I want to jump into this topic of promises today. 36 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: And it's interesting the text we have going on in 37 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: First Chronicles, there's actually two promises that God is fulfilling 38 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: in this moment. One of them is easy to read 39 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: because it's said in the text. And the Lord fulfilled 40 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: his promise to David as he had spoken through Samuel. 41 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 1: And so the first promise that was fulfilled in this 42 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: is the one that David was walking in. The other 43 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 1: promise is a promise that God is fulfilling to nation Israel. 44 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 1: Two promises going on in the same moment. Do we 45 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 1: sometimes realize that as we're going through life, God is 46 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 1: doing more than just me. Sometimes I'm going through life, 47 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: I get so focused on me. I don't see the 48 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: bigger picture that God is drawing in the world. And 49 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: all of us are individual threads that God is weaving 50 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 1: together to put together a beautiful tapestry of His glory 51 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: to the world. And all of these promises are happening. 52 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: One was in motion for twenty years, David. The other 53 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: one four hundred and eighty years. On your row today 54 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 1: is somebody who's walking in a promise today, somebody who's 55 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:54,959 Speaker 1: going to see a promise fulfilled, or something's being spoken 56 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: over them. It might have been something that was spoken 57 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: over them ten generations ago that will find fulfill film today. 58 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:03,639 Speaker 1: All of God's promises are yes and amen in Christ. 59 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: I believe that, and some of us have forgotten the 60 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: promises that God has spoken over our life today. And actually, 61 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 1: actually the first word I want you to write down 62 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,399 Speaker 1: is the word promise. Write down the word promise. Say promise. 63 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: I was thirty two percent participation here at Valentine. Let's 64 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 1: try it again, say promise much better. You need to 65 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: get a little attitude about it, because you're blessed, you're 66 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: highly favored, and some of you are taking way too 67 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: much of a passive voice in the promises of God 68 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 1: and your standing back maybe if it no, no, no, 69 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: God's promises that you would step into something. And that's 70 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: what I'm speaking over with you today. But this story 71 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: in First Chronicles eleven did not start in verse in 72 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: First Chronicles eleven. It actually started back in Exodus chapter three. 73 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: I'm going to rewind a little bit to give you 74 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 1: some context for the story we're going to look at today. 75 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: In Exodus three seventeen, it says, and I have promised 76 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 1: to bring you out of your misery in Egypt, into 77 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: the land of the Canaanites, of the Hittites, Amorites, Parizites, 78 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 1: hip Bites, and Jebucides, a land flowing with milk and honey. God. 79 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: I heard the cries of Nation Israel as they were 80 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: under the oppressive thumb of the Egyptian slave masters, and 81 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: he heard their cry and he said, I'm gonna do 82 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: something about it. I will take you from slavery and 83 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: into the promised life. That is a promise that God 84 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: has spoken over you. Over you too, He's gonna take 85 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: you from those slave habits, those slave thoughts, and he's 86 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: gonna take you into promised land thinking and his promises. Yes, 87 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: and they met, and He's spoken it over you, and 88 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:27,720 Speaker 1: it's flowing with milk and honey. I love that. When 89 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 1: I first came to faith in Jesus, some of you 90 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 1: career Christians would talk in ways that I would not understand. 91 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 1: I would simply ask, how you doing today, blessed and 92 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:39,359 Speaker 1: highly favored brother, And I'm like, what understand the lingo? 93 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 1: What do you mean? And they would use things like 94 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: I just can't wait to get to the other side 95 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 1: milk and honey, baby, it's flowing with milk and honey. 96 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: I'm like, what on earth are you talking about? Flowing 97 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: with milk and honey. Oh, it's this thing of when 98 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: I get to the other side of this thing, life 99 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 1: gets better over there. So if I to the other 100 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: side of this, life is better over there. And what 101 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: I took that to mean for Christianity is it will 102 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 1: just suck here until I get over there. This is 103 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: just going to be miserable. No, that's not the life 104 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:17,600 Speaker 1: you are called to live under the authority of Jesus Christ. Oh. 105 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: I rechecked that thinking the other side of the promise. 106 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: If I can just get to the other side of 107 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: the promise, life is going to get better over here. 108 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: And what I would speak over every one of you 109 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: is is to remind you that God has made you promises. 110 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 1: I want you to think very personally about a promise 111 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: that God has made you. It might be some of 112 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: you are here today and the promise you feel that 113 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,040 Speaker 1: God has made you that you will have that child, 114 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,679 Speaker 1: but it's been fifteen years. Some of you, the promise 115 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 1: that God has made you is your marriage will be fruitful. 116 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: Some of you feel like the promise that God has 117 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: made you is that that son that's on that opioid 118 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: addiction he will be freed from those things. Some of you, 119 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: the promise is that when you lay your head down 120 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: at night, you won't be dominated by the shame that's 121 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: been this dark cloud over your life for all these years. 122 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 1: And sometimes what happens is the longer we live outside 123 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: of something, the more we believe we don't belong in 124 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: that thing. I want to remind you that the promises 125 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: of God are yes and Amen. He has spoken it 126 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 1: over you, and in fact Tewod Corinthians one twenty says, 127 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 1: for no matter how many promises God has made, they 128 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 1: are yes in Christ, and so through him, Amen is 129 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: spoken to us by the glory of God. I want 130 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: to remind you what is the promise that God has 131 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 1: made over your life? Is it joy? Is it peace? 132 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 1: Is that He'll never leave you, never forsaken you. For me, 133 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:35,600 Speaker 1: the promise that God has spoken to me that I've 134 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: been claiming for a long time in my life is forgiveness. 135 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: What's yours? What's your promise? And I want to remind 136 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: you today that you need to start getting an attitude 137 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: about yourself that you will see that promise come to 138 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: pass in your life. You don't need to settle for 139 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: second rate, second class Christianity. You are his first choice. 140 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:55,840 Speaker 1: You are not leftovers because of your choices. You are 141 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: a first option because you are the bride of Christ. 142 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 1: But milking honey, baby, milking honey. It's funny because if 143 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 1: I teach you a very shallow version of Christianity. It 144 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: wouldn't be that. It's just milking honey, come to Jesus 145 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 1: and everything gets better. That's not real. It's mostly me 146 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: milking honey. And then you get slapped with a problem. 147 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: You're like, WHOA, what was that? I didn't It's kind 148 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: of like when I got married to my beautiful wife, Janet, 149 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: almost nineteen years ago. I walk into this beautiful thing 150 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,119 Speaker 1: and we became wedded, and I'm looking like, baby, milking honey, 151 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: let's go, and then we got married. I'm like, oh, 152 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 1: I didn't know that marriage came with some misery, like 153 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 1: not not you, But I didn't know that the promise 154 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 1: came with problems. And some of us walk away from 155 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: promises because you're expecting milk and honey and you get 156 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: something that looks very different. Second word I want you 157 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: to write down is possess. Say possess. God gives you 158 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: the promise, but he wants you to possess it because 159 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 1: there's another side of this promise. In Deuteronomy seven, what 160 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: says when the Lord God brings you into the land 161 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: you are entering to possess and drives out before you 162 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 1: many nations now who's gonna drive him out? God will 163 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 1: God said, he'll drive him out. Who needs to possess it? 164 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 1: You and me, Our job is to possess. God's job 165 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: is to drive out. But he said many nations, the 166 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: hit sites, the Gergoshites, Amorites, Canaanites, Parasites, hit bites, Jebusites, 167 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 1: seven nations larger and stronger than you. Time out. Now, God, 168 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: you said I'm gonna get into the Promised Land. But 169 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 1: there's a problem with the promise because the promised Land 170 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:47,840 Speaker 1: is inhabited by nations larger and stronger than me. Oh, 171 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:49,720 Speaker 1: I thought it was milk and honey. God, but you're 172 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 1: telling me it's actually larger and stronger. And some of 173 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: the reasons I think we walk away from promises is 174 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: because I'm expecting milk and honey, and I don't know 175 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: what to do when I get large and stronger. Because 176 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 1: God said, this is the Promised Land, but you're standing 177 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: in it. You're a big dude. This isn't what I 178 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: thought it would look like. God. I thought I was 179 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: looking at milk in the honey, but now I'm looking 180 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 1: at larger and stronger. I'm like, I'm just to stand 181 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: in that land, but there's a big problem in the land. 182 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 1: The other side of the promise is it's larger and stronger. 183 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 1: And some of us that have been following Christ for 184 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,479 Speaker 1: a while know that when you get into this new opportunity, 185 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 1: it comes with a new opponent. It's got seven nations 186 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: larger and stronger than you. And actually, the way that 187 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 1: the text is written, it goes from big, it's a 188 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: bigger and it's like, God, I just got done with him, 189 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 1: and now he's bigger than the last one seven nations, 190 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 1: like oh, I'm exhausted before I even show up who 191 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: and some of us are defeated. And that's why we 192 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 1: don't move towards possession, is because we're looking at the 193 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 1: enemy rather than the promise. We're looking at what's inhabiting 194 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: it rather than the one who gave it to me. 195 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:21,200 Speaker 1: Seven nations and each one he's big, like he's real big. 196 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: And then oh God, and now I'm up here praising 197 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,959 Speaker 1: on Sunday the Lord is and then like, I'm good, 198 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:38,559 Speaker 1: where's my defl like the enemy, look, I got you. 199 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 1: But then the closer you get and you're like, oh snap, 200 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: he's a lot bigger. The closer you get to it. 201 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: And some of the reasons we don't possess the promises. 202 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: We're intimidated by the inhabitants that are in the land. 203 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: And God says, this land is yours. I've promised it 204 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: to you, but there's a problem with it. It's not 205 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:04,079 Speaker 1: yes it's flowing with milk and honey, but yes, they're 206 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 1: larger and stronger than you. That's why the Israelites where 207 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 1: they got into problems. They came out of Egyptian slavery 208 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 1: and they were going to go towards the promised land. 209 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: Moses dispatches twelve spies, all twelve of them came back 210 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: after surveying, and I say, yep, milk and honey, absolutely 211 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: milk and honey. Only two of them thought they could 212 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 1: actually inhabit the land. God said, I didn't ask you 213 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 1: all that. I told you you were gonna get in. 214 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:26,079 Speaker 1: Quit telling me what you can't do, and start realizing 215 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: what have already done for you, because your job is 216 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: not to drive them out. I will take care of that, 217 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:33,839 Speaker 1: because our pastor taught us that if it's bigger than me, 218 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: it's not my battle, that's the Lord's. This is my land, 219 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna possess it. I know you're big, and 220 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 1: I need to teach you to size up your opponent 221 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: because every level is a new opponent and at this level, 222 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: with this opponent, this opponent will develop things in me 223 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:59,959 Speaker 1: that can only be developed in this level. At this level, 224 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 1: there is a level. How do you size up your opponent? Now, 225 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:09,080 Speaker 1: Once upon a time, I'm a fighter, I'd be like, 226 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: all right, how do I size how? How How am I 227 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 1: gonna take him? I can't take him. I can't give 228 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: me four other guys. That dude's like bigger than the sun. 229 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 1: He's like shot. He's like, ah, it's not my job 230 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:23,439 Speaker 1: to fight him, but to size him up. The size 231 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 1: of my opponent shows me the size of my promise. 232 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: Whoo if you're that big, oh, I can't wait to 233 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:30,560 Speaker 1: see the size of the promise that's waiting for me 234 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 1: right there. Thank you, guys, And some of you have 235 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:37,679 Speaker 1: walked away and you're not possessing the promise because you've 236 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 1: been intimidated by the inhabitants. We get this in video games. 237 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: We understand that in video games, every level gives you 238 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,679 Speaker 1: a new opponent, each one's tougher than the last. The 239 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: greatest video game of all time. Mike Tyson Punch Out, 240 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: Oh My Soul, absolutely amazing. Level one Glass Shoe. He's 241 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:03,560 Speaker 1: one ninety nine pop out step back, pop out step, 242 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: And that's how you beat him, really easy, thirty two seconds. 243 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,839 Speaker 1: You can do it every time you get into the 244 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: second level. Ah now I'm von Kaiser. Then I'm gonna 245 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,199 Speaker 1: move up to Piston, Honda, bald Bull. I'm working through 246 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: all fourteen fourteen of these levels just to get to 247 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: Mike Tyson. But I had played this game the other 248 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: day with my son, and I let him know a 249 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: secret that all of us gamers know about that if 250 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 1: you've ever played the game before, they have these codes, 251 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: these cheat codes. There's a cheat code in in Mike 252 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: Tyson punch Out zero zero seven three seven three five 253 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 1: nine sixty three that if you type that code in, 254 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,680 Speaker 1: it will cheat you through fourteen levels and take you 255 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: right to Mike Tyson. So I had this dad moment 256 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: the other day and I'm like, boy, type in the 257 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: cheat code, and he did, and he's standing there ding 258 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 1: ding ding. The round starts one punch three seconds He's 259 00:13:56,480 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 1: knocked out flat, Like there are no cheat to the 260 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:04,079 Speaker 1: promises of God, you cannot bypass levels. You gotta go 261 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: through every one of them. Deuteronomy seven twenty two says this, 262 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: The Lord, your God, will drive out those nations before you. 263 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: He's repeating it again. It's not your job to fight it, 264 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 1: but it is your job to possess it. He will 265 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: drive them out before you, little by little. You will 266 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 1: not be allowed to eliminate them all at once. How 267 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 1: do we possess the land little by little, little by little? 268 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: Because the Lord said, if I allow you to eliminate 269 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: them all at once, you don't develop the gifts that 270 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 1: can only be developed through that opponent. And if you 271 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: bypass that opponent, You're going to miss a gift that 272 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring to you. And some of you get 273 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 1: confused because you think, when I get to the other side, 274 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: then I'm standing in the promise. No no, no, no, 275 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: no no no. The very fact that I start playing 276 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: the game facing my first opponent means I'm already in 277 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 1: the promised baby, and I go from promise to glory, 278 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: to glory to glory, strength to strength. That's what it 279 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: means to grow in the promise of God. I don't 280 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 1: get to the promise, I grow in the promise I 281 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: grow in it. It's not when you get to the 282 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: other side. You're standing in in now. I got to 283 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:23,000 Speaker 1: understand milk and honey, larger and stronger, But every one 284 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: of these builds a dependence upon the Lord. The greatest 285 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 1: gift that God can give you is dependence upon Him. 286 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 1: Third word I want you to write down is the 287 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 1: word persevere. Say persevere. First word was promise, Say promise. 288 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: Second word is possessed, say possess, say persevere. Really, well 289 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 1: done here, Valentiner. I like that Hebrews ten thirty six. 290 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 1: It says you need to persevere so that when you 291 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: have done the will of God, you will receive what 292 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 1: he has promised. Because what I've realized in my own 293 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: life is sometimes if it's not looking like I expect 294 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: did I'm expecting milk and honey, but I get larger 295 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: and stronger. I will stand over here and say, God, 296 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: did you forget your side of the deal? Here? Where 297 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: are my promises? At you forgot? And I'm trying to 298 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 1: remind him of the other side of the promise. And 299 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: I get this picture in my head that God is 300 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 1: standing over here and he's looking back at me saying 301 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 1: I have now forgotten mine, because it is yes and amen, 302 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: and it is always available to you, he says, I 303 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 1: think you've forgotten. You're a part of the promise, and 304 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 1: you're a part of the promises. Perseverance, You're part of 305 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 1: the promises. To keep moving towards the possession of the promise. 306 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: But how do we persevere? Little by little, little by little. 307 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: Perseverance is one of the greatest gifts. And I'm praying 308 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: a spirit of perseverance would bust out in this place today. 309 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 1: Perseverance towards the promises of God, by the saints of God. Perseverance, 310 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 1: because when I start interpreting the promises based upon the scenery, 311 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: I stop moving towards the possession. I start holding my 312 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: finger up. The winds have promise, where are they flowing today? Well, God, 313 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 1: I guess you're just not really in my favor today. 314 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: No no, no, no no, no no no no no. God's 315 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 1: promises are yes and m and in spite of in 316 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:17,400 Speaker 1: place of irregardless of what circumstances are going on around you. 317 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:20,399 Speaker 1: And some days when it looks like milk and honey, 318 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 1: you're just skipping towards the promises of God. You're just 319 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:27,879 Speaker 1: woo and some days, when it's larger and stronger, you 320 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 1: just stop moving. Possession is not a passive experience. It 321 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 1: is an active participation. The other side of the promise 322 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:44,200 Speaker 1: is my perseverance. How do I persevere when I don't 323 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,679 Speaker 1: even want to keep moving? How do I persevere when 324 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,680 Speaker 1: I feel like I've been forgotten? I got knocked down God, 325 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 1: and he says, get back up? He said, I've been 326 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 1: down for very long. He said, then roll forward. You 327 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: just gotta keep moving towards possession. And for me, I 328 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:02,919 Speaker 1: think one of the things that that I get real 329 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 1: confused with with perseverance is I think I've got always 330 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 1: got to have the greatest motives and motivations in life, 331 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 1: because imbalanced teaching will just say, well, you just do 332 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 1: it all for the glory of God, brother, And I 333 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: don't know, do you know how some of you might 334 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 1: struggle with this, Like you ever get in a situation 335 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:23,919 Speaker 1: that you start telling a lie, and you tell it 336 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:25,720 Speaker 1: long enough you just start to believe it is the truth, 337 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:29,439 Speaker 1: like you might do that. I struggle with that and 338 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 1: the other side of it. Sometimes I will pray about 339 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:35,159 Speaker 1: something so long that I'll just assume it's a promise. 340 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:39,120 Speaker 1: That God has made. I get promises, I get prayers, 341 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: and I get my preferences all mixed up, and sometimes 342 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 1: I get in a world that I cannot discern between 343 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: my preferences and his promises. Here's what I do know. 344 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,440 Speaker 1: If he promised it, and if it came from his mouth, 345 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 1: it has the potential to be experienced in my life 346 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: because it is yes and amen, and it is available 347 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: for me to possess. But the promise he spoke that 348 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 1: can be possess, I must persevere towards it. I gotta 349 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 1: move towards If it's a prayer. Does He answer prayers 350 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 1: sometimes like I want, sometimes not like I want, But 351 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:11,920 Speaker 1: none of those prayers will be experience unless you persevere 352 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: to possess it. Preferences I don't know. Does he answer 353 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,120 Speaker 1: some of those? Maybe, Like I'm sure there's some young 354 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: lady watching who's like, my preference would be a guy 355 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: who's like six foot four and you know, loves Hallmark Channels, 356 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: yet still manly enough to cut his own trees for 357 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 1: Thanksgiving in the woods and you know, make six figures 358 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:37,360 Speaker 1: and loves my cat. You know, Like, I don't know, 359 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 1: Maybe God will give you that. Maybe the promise will 360 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 1: come bald in five foot seven. I don't know. I 361 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 1: do know this that my God, who's big enough to 362 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: save me and redeem the world and bring Jesus back 363 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,160 Speaker 1: from the dead, is also good enough to purify my motives. 364 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 1: If I just keep moving towards him. He is good 365 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 1: enough and he's big enough, and he'll do that. I 366 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:02,679 Speaker 1: just gotta keep moving because there is some guy. The 367 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,479 Speaker 1: only reason you came to church today is some pretty 368 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:11,919 Speaker 1: girl invited you. Praise God. Wooh. I don't care what 369 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 1: guy you here. He's gonna meet you here. And maybe, 370 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:18,880 Speaker 1: just maybe, even if I'm moving forward towards my preferences, 371 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 1: I see God's promise and he upgrades my preferences to 372 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:24,439 Speaker 1: what he would prefer for my life. Maybe God is 373 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 1: just big enough to do all that too. Maybe he can. 374 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:29,879 Speaker 1: And that's one of the reasons I think I love David. 375 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:33,479 Speaker 1: The character of David, I so resonate with him because 376 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 1: in First Chronicles eleven, this is actually the third time 377 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:39,439 Speaker 1: he's being anointed. The first time he's anointed is in 378 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 1: his teenage years, because at that point, about twenty years earlier, 379 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: Saul had made some bad choices. Who was King of Israel. 380 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,480 Speaker 1: God's like, yo, we have picking somebody else. He's gone crazy, 381 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 1: and so he tells his prophet Samuel go to Jesse's 382 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,640 Speaker 1: house and one of his sons, I'm going to anoint king. 383 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:00,679 Speaker 1: So Samuel shows up at uncle jesse house and Bo 384 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:06,240 Speaker 1: and Luke walk out. Different Jesse. Samuel shows up and 385 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: actually Jesse's oldest son, Elieb, is outside mowing the lawn 386 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: and the prophet sees him and he says, God, look 387 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 1: at that guy. He's tall, he's good looking, he's muscular, 388 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:24,399 Speaker 1: he's amazing. Let's use him. And God says, nope, I 389 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:28,160 Speaker 1: don't pick based upon your criteria. I'm looking at the heart. 390 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 1: I know you're looking for who could play the part, 391 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 1: but I'm looking at the heart. That's great dating advice 392 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,160 Speaker 1: for some of you. You're looking for somebody who could 393 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: play the part rather than at the heart. Anyway, he says, nope, 394 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,239 Speaker 1: not him. And so now the prophet has all of 395 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 1: these seven brothers parade by the prophet, all seven brothers, 396 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 1: and God's like, nope, nope, nope, and he says it 397 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: seven times and they get to the end and the 398 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,640 Speaker 1: Dad's like, hey, this is all I got. And Samuel's like, sure, 399 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,680 Speaker 1: you got anybody else? Oh yeah, I got one boy. 400 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 1: He's out in the back forty he's with the he's 401 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,919 Speaker 1: with the sheep. Bring him here and he comes up. 402 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:04,119 Speaker 1: He's a teenage boy that hadn't even been invited to 403 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,399 Speaker 1: the party. And God says, that's the one I've picked. 404 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,360 Speaker 1: He anoints him king over Israel, and he is king 405 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,359 Speaker 1: at that point, but he's still a teenage boy who's 406 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: tending flocks. He had stepped into the promise, but for 407 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:15,400 Speaker 1: the rest of his life he was going to grow 408 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: into the promise. And the next scene you see from 409 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 1: David is he delivers bread and cheese basically a cheese 410 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 1: pizza from Papa John's to his brothers on the battle lines. 411 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 1: And he drops off the pie and he hears this 412 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: giant haunting nation Israel. He's like, wha punk me this 413 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 1: Old Testament translation. And most people don't preach this story 414 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:48,639 Speaker 1: correctly because as David starts running towards his promise, he says, hey, 415 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 1: what will be done for the guy who kills him? 416 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 1: It is what's in it for me? The whole motivation 417 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: was selfish, is what's in it for me? And then 418 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,360 Speaker 1: the guy standing around, We're like, yo, you're gonna get 419 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: a lot of money, a really pretty girl to marry, 420 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: and you'll never have to pay taxes. So basically, this 421 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,919 Speaker 1: is a millennial's dream job right here. And he's like, 422 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 1: I'll sign up for that. And his oldest brother, Eliab, 423 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 1: remember the one that he thought he was gonna be king, 424 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:20,919 Speaker 1: He's already practicing his wave, the one who didn't get picked. 425 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: He overhears what's happening with his Brother's like, I can't 426 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: believe you're up here? How dare you do that? You 427 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 1: look little punk and little and David, it says in 428 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:33,160 Speaker 1: the scriptures, he says, can I even talk? He turned 429 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: his back to his brother and he said, again, what 430 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: will be done for the guy who kills him? And 431 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: the only reason, the primary motivation for him going to 432 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 1: fight Goliath was selfish. It was all about what he 433 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:48,919 Speaker 1: was gonna get, and it was about his promise, and 434 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 1: God blessed him. And if you're moving with bad motives today, 435 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 1: God will upgrade those. As you keep moving forward, God's 436 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,280 Speaker 1: gonna meet you right where you're at. That's why I 437 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: love David. He was just moving. You might not have 438 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: been the best motivation. But at least he was moving. 439 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: That's the thing I'm trying to speak over you. Perseverance 440 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,639 Speaker 1: keeps moving. It might be selfish, I don't care. God's 441 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 1: gonna Upbrade as you go that as a teenager. The 442 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 1: second time he's anointed is easy. In his twenties, about 443 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 1: ten years have passed. What had happened at that point, Saul, 444 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:23,120 Speaker 1: who had been king, dies. There were the twelve tribes 445 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 1: of Israel all decided, each one of them just figure 446 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 1: out who they wanted to be their king. So they 447 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 1: have an election in their state to see who they 448 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:33,199 Speaker 1: want to be their king. And only two of the 449 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:38,920 Speaker 1: twelve picked David. Ten of them picked one of Saul's sons. 450 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:41,880 Speaker 1: Sounds a lot like the spies in the Promised Land, 451 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:46,080 Speaker 1: doesn't it. Ten of them got it wrong. And here's 452 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:49,199 Speaker 1: what I want to speak over you today. Some of 453 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,119 Speaker 1: you are standing on the outside of a promise because 454 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,359 Speaker 1: you didn't get picked. I want to speak over you. 455 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 1: Just because they didn't pick you means that God changed 456 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: his decision about you. God's promised are still available to you, 457 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: even if you've been overlooked. Even if you didn't get picked, 458 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 1: they are still yes and Amen in him, and he 459 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 1: is faithful. He's taking all of these small steps. Little 460 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 1: by little. He is in his promise, but he's growing 461 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,920 Speaker 1: towards his promise little by little. And it brings us 462 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:23,200 Speaker 1: to First Chronicles eleven. He's in his thirties right now, 463 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,439 Speaker 1: some twenty years of past between the first time he's 464 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:29,159 Speaker 1: anointed and this third time he's anointed. And what you 465 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:33,400 Speaker 1: see is the fulfillment of the promise. But what's interesting 466 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 1: about this In First Chronicles eleven, Verses three and four says, 467 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: when all the israel the elders of Israel, had come 468 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 1: to David at Hebron, he made a covenant with them 469 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: at Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed King David 470 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: over Israel, as the Lord had promised through Samuel. David, 471 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:59,160 Speaker 1: and all the Israelites marched to Jerusalem. That is jeebus. 472 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,000 Speaker 1: And what you start to see happening in the life 473 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,400 Speaker 1: of David, as you start to see him come to realize, 474 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: is the only reason that God fulfilled his promise was 475 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,360 Speaker 1: so that the promise that God had made Israel could 476 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: be fulfilled through him. God blessed David to be a 477 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,400 Speaker 1: blessing to Israel. And the very first time he's anointed, 478 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:29,400 Speaker 1: he goes running towards his promise. Third time, he knows 479 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 1: it's not about him any longer, and he walks and 480 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 1: he marches with the Israelites towards theirs. He starts to realize, 481 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 1: I know I'm on the other side of the promise 482 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: when I'm not at the center. In Christ, we know 483 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,720 Speaker 1: we're on the other side of the promise when it's 484 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,159 Speaker 1: not about us. Why do I put myself at the 485 00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:00,199 Speaker 1: center of every single promise? I struggle with that. And 486 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:04,399 Speaker 1: as David is leading the Israelites towards gIBIS, now the 487 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:08,680 Speaker 1: context of the story is seven nations larger and stronger 488 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 1: than you, David Israel. You can't defeat them, but I 489 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: will drive them out. Little by little, four hundred and 490 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,359 Speaker 1: eighty years have passed from Exodus three to this moment. 491 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: Little by little, twelve generations had passed bye. And God 492 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,639 Speaker 1: is faithful to fulfill his promises. Maybe, just maybe some 493 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,439 Speaker 1: of the promises I feel like God has given me 494 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 1: will be experienced in the next generation coming after me. 495 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 1: That's what David's realizing. Maybe it's for the nation, or 496 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,159 Speaker 1: maybe it's for the next generation. They don't all have 497 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:40,920 Speaker 1: to center around me. And he goes to Jeebis. Seventh, 498 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 1: This seventh nation larger and stronger. And if you look 499 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: at the map, each one of these seven nations held 500 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: a different part of the town. The sixth, the Gurgoshites, 501 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 1: the Amorites, the Pariziites, the Hivites, the hit Sites, all 502 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 1: of them had been defeated. There's only one nation, larger 503 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 1: and stronger, waiting to be displaced out of the Promised Land. 504 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 1: And it is smack dab in the center of Israel. 505 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 1: It's Jeebus. This is the hardest enemy to get out. 506 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 1: They had been there for generations, thick fortified walls, never 507 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,639 Speaker 1: been defeated before. They had been there so long. The 508 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,399 Speaker 1: israel Lites, as they're marching towards the city are probably 509 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,360 Speaker 1: telling David, like, you know, David, you know they've been 510 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,160 Speaker 1: here forever, right, Like you know that your mama's mama's 511 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 1: mama's mama's mama struggle with this too. You know that 512 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: this one you're gonna be just like your daddy. This 513 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 1: one's been here forever, This one you'll never get rid of. 514 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 1: And David just he didn't really listen to all that 515 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 1: It's funny because the picture of the physical land really 516 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 1: represents the spiritual condition of a lot of our hearts. 517 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: Is because there's one space right in the center of 518 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:54,560 Speaker 1: the promised land that's still enemy held parts of my heart, 519 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,479 Speaker 1: parts of my mind, parts of my relationships that are 520 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 1: still enemy held territory. And God is saying enough, that 521 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: is my promised land I've made available for you. I 522 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: know nobody in fourteen generations has lived in it, but 523 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 1: you're going through. It's time for us to deal with 524 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: that jeebus, that that thing. I'm talking about, that thing 525 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,720 Speaker 1: because the first six had been defeated and they're moving 526 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 1: on towards the seventh. I think they listened to Pastor 527 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,720 Speaker 1: steven sermon, don't stop on six, because they're going right 528 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 1: in to number seven, and it's fascinating. Seven means complete, 529 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 1: it means whole. God's greatest promises that He will fulfill 530 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,960 Speaker 1: in your life for not the ones you drive, not 531 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 1: the ones you cash, not the ones you live in, 532 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 1: but they're the ones that make you whole. The enemy 533 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 1: has been stealing your joy too long because there's enemy 534 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 1: held territory that's right in the center, and nobody will 535 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 1: see it. Because this one. Looking from the outside, no 536 00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 1: one would even know. You look like you got it 537 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 1: all together. You roll up in a nice car, dressed 538 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 1: in the nicest things, but inside you're dying. Inside, you 539 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 1: feel like you're leaking. Inside, You're doubting whether or not 540 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 1: God even exists. I'm talking about that place. God wants 541 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 1: to make you whole. That's his desire. In this place, 542 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: he wants to make you whole. And I identify with 543 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,080 Speaker 1: this because I think all of us have those battles 544 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,080 Speaker 1: we've been facing for a long time. Earlier, I mentioned 545 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 1: that one of the promises I'm believing God for is 546 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 1: is this promise of forgiveness, very specifically forgiveness for the 547 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,480 Speaker 1: relationship with my father. You see, my dad was handed 548 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: a generational thing of alcoholism because his dad and his 549 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 1: dad's dad, and you go back as far as we 550 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,960 Speaker 1: can look, there was this thing that when you see 551 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 1: somebody living an alcoholic lifestyle, often the choices and the 552 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: chaos and the calamity come with it. I grew up 553 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: in a world that was extremely chaotic and abusive, grew 554 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 1: up a lot of my young adulthood hating my father. 555 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 1: If I'm being really honest, with you, this isn't sugarcoated. 556 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 1: And I grew up being so angry, and most of 557 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 1: my adult life I was working on trying to forgive 558 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 1: my dad, and I was a desire of my heart 559 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 1: and it really felt like God had made me a 560 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 1: promise to forgive my dad. But it had to go 561 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,880 Speaker 1: through these levels, these opponents of forgiveness, because forgiveness is 562 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: not a moment, it is a process. It is something 563 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:27,000 Speaker 1: you walk out little by little, and it's taken me 564 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 1: forty years because it started at this level of just 565 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,480 Speaker 1: being angry at my dad. Then it moved into another 566 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 1: level of lovel just being angry at everybody, and I 567 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 1: was like, that's not fun for anybody, because now you're 568 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 1: just angry at everybody, you don't even know why you're angry. 569 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: And then slowly you start to deal with your own 570 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,040 Speaker 1: anger issues. That's a level, and then there's a level 571 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 1: of actually admitting that it wasn't right, And then there's 572 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 1: a level of actually saying to your dad, this isn't right. 573 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 1: But then there's a level of saying, Dad, because of 574 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 1: your choices, I actually can't see you. So I went 575 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,720 Speaker 1: for about a four year period where I didn't talk 576 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 1: to my dad or see them because I said, because 577 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,560 Speaker 1: of the destructive behaviors you're choosing to live in, I 578 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,320 Speaker 1: can no longer let there be a part of my life. 579 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 1: And it was a level. And then God said, no, 580 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:03,720 Speaker 1: you got to advance out of that level because there's 581 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 1: another level after that, and you actually have to forgive 582 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 1: your father. You just can't pretend like it didn't exist 583 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 1: and separate. That's not forgiveness. That's forgetting. Forgetting will never 584 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 1: get you into the Promised land. Little by little, and 585 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,240 Speaker 1: then I had to actually ask my dad for forgiveness. 586 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 1: But then God said, now you need to ask him 587 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,720 Speaker 1: for forgiveness because I built up these walls and it 588 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 1: was punishing everybody else around. And I had to say 589 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:34,000 Speaker 1: to my dad, would you forgive me for building up 590 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 1: these It's a process. It's little in his heart. And 591 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 1: my dad got some bad diagnosis a year ago and 592 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:45,720 Speaker 1: he went into some ill health and I went to 593 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 1: see him last November. And this is a picture of 594 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 1: me with my father. His name is Leon Charles Brye. 595 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,760 Speaker 1: We share the same middle name. And that's the first 596 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,640 Speaker 1: picture that I've ever taken with my dad that actually 597 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:02,480 Speaker 1: felt like I've forgot given him. It's the first photo 598 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 1: I've ever taken where I actually love him. I wasn't 599 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:09,280 Speaker 1: embarrassed by him, and I wasn't ashamed of him. And 600 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 1: God really showed me in that photo. You're on the 601 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 1: other side of the promise, the thing, the promise that 602 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:18,480 Speaker 1: made you. You're on the other side of it was 603 00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 1: a process, and they're on the other side of it. 604 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,880 Speaker 1: And I said, moment, I treasure And I was at 605 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:29,800 Speaker 1: noon that day. Six hours later at dinner, we're sitting 606 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 1: at my mom's kitchen table and we're looking through this book. 607 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 1: This is a book my cousin put together of my 608 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 1: grandma's journals. Grandma Agnes, my dad's mom. It's her recipe book. 609 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,240 Speaker 1: It's a journalist started back in nineteen fifty nine, did 610 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,120 Speaker 1: it all the way into the nineties when she passed away. 611 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 1: Simple farm woman from Minnesota, I mean, didn't get into 612 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:55,160 Speaker 1: her plumb until the late eighties. You know, some days 613 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,680 Speaker 1: the entries would be it's thirteen below, we picked the eggs, 614 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:02,200 Speaker 1: build the hay, things like that, and it was just fun. 615 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 1: I'm sitting there going through this story with my mom 616 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,840 Speaker 1: and it's just incredible. Just you know live in that 617 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,400 Speaker 1: promised land. And I come across this entry from November 618 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,759 Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy eight. I would have been eight years 619 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:20,040 Speaker 1: old at that time, and it says Dorothy calls at 620 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 1: about four o'clock in the morning, Dorothy's my mom, Like, Mom, 621 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,840 Speaker 1: what's this? Like? What was that about? She goes, you 622 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 1: don't remember. I'm like, Mom, No, I don't what are 623 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,720 Speaker 1: you talking about? She goes, I can't believe you don't remember. 624 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,399 Speaker 1: I'm like, Mom, Now you're kind of freaking me out. 625 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,359 Speaker 1: Like she goes, that was when your dad was having 626 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:44,560 Speaker 1: the affair. Oh. And as she said those words, it's 627 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 1: like a flood of memories just downloaded, and it started 628 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,400 Speaker 1: to remember all of the chaos that was around that moment. 629 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:51,879 Speaker 1: God had covered it so that I wouldn't see it 630 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 1: until forty years later. His grace covered me until I 631 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:58,600 Speaker 1: was ready to see it. But in that moment, if 632 00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:03,560 Speaker 1: you don't understand the struggle, you won't possess the promise. 633 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,600 Speaker 1: In that moment, I felt like I forfeited all of 634 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:11,400 Speaker 1: this promised land territory and I'm back at level one. 635 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,319 Speaker 1: And God says, no, no, no, you have forgiven your 636 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,680 Speaker 1: father and you've walked it out and it's been a 637 00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:18,919 Speaker 1: little bitter little and I know it's been forty years, 638 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,479 Speaker 1: but you have forgiven him. And I'm not telling you 639 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,600 Speaker 1: you lost all that territory. I'm just showing you more 640 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:33,719 Speaker 1: territory you can possess. It's little by little, And I 641 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,719 Speaker 1: felt God speaking into my spirit saying this, this is 642 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:41,720 Speaker 1: a jeebus. This is a generational thing that's been there forever. 643 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,320 Speaker 1: And he says, this one is about the next generation. 644 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,520 Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with you. And God spoke 645 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,879 Speaker 1: into my spirit says, if you face this unforgiveness issue. 646 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,280 Speaker 1: Because I didn't want to face it, my dad passes 647 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,279 Speaker 1: away two months later after that photo. I didn't get 648 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,839 Speaker 1: a chance to talk to him about like why this happened. Dad. 649 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,040 Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance to make that resolution with him. 650 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,160 Speaker 1: But God's working on me, and I didn't want to. 651 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,600 Speaker 1: And God said, listen, this isn't about you. This is 652 00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:10,600 Speaker 1: about your kids. And he says, if you face this one, 653 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:21,239 Speaker 1: they'll never have to. And so what it means is 654 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,200 Speaker 1: you got to take your kids back through all of 655 00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:27,560 Speaker 1: these levels. Don't just pretend like it didn't happen. You 656 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,279 Speaker 1: walk them through that so that you can show them 657 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,200 Speaker 1: the next level they get to stand in. And I 658 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,319 Speaker 1: realized that I'm on the other side when I'm not 659 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:40,920 Speaker 1: at the center. That's what David realized with the Israelites, 660 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:45,279 Speaker 1: and he moves towards Jeebus and the Jebisides who live 661 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:49,239 Speaker 1: there said to David, you will not get in here. 662 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:51,719 Speaker 1: And that's what the devil has been telling you for 663 00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:54,319 Speaker 1: a long time. You'll never stand in that promise. You'll 664 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,600 Speaker 1: never get there. And I'm so glad that David was 665 00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,360 Speaker 1: there in that moment because his response is our response. 666 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,640 Speaker 1: It is the attitude of perseverance, and it's the word 667 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,560 Speaker 1: that I speak over you. And this next word is 668 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,600 Speaker 1: the word that absolutely can change your life. This next 669 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:08,240 Speaker 1: word is the word that when you come up against 670 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,760 Speaker 1: opposition and you don't think it's ever going to happen, 671 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:19,160 Speaker 1: you speak to the thing as David did. And David said, nevertheless, nevertheless, Nevertheless, 672 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:24,040 Speaker 1: I know it doesn't look like you should be successful. Nevertheless, 673 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:28,279 Speaker 1: I know you're tired and exhausted and frustrated. Nevertheless, I 674 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:32,160 Speaker 1: will move forward. Nevertheless. It's the sound of perseverance. It 675 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,919 Speaker 1: is the attitude of a follower of Christ. Who's going 676 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,520 Speaker 1: to move into the promised land, who will possess the 677 00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,479 Speaker 1: promises that God made for you? But you will never 678 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:46,480 Speaker 1: possess it if you don't persevere toward it. Thank you 679 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,000 Speaker 1: for joining us. Special thanks to those of you who 680 00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:52,080 Speaker 1: give generously to this ministry. Is because of you that 681 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,040 Speaker 1: this ministry is possible. You can click the link in 682 00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,879 Speaker 1: the description to give now or visit Elevation Church dot 683 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:02,280 Speaker 1: org slash podcast for more information and if you enjoyed 684 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,319 Speaker 1: the podcast, you can subscribe. You can share it with 685 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,640 Speaker 1: your friends. 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