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Speaker 1: Let's go to the Word of God. It is a
Speaker 1: tremendous honor to be here today and to be with
Speaker 1: this amazing team. How about the new song I had?
Speaker 1: Maybe they're not new to anybody but me, but could Lord.
Speaker 1: That's why I would say sing it again. When you
Speaker 1: have a team like this ministry has you are you?
Speaker 1: People are spoiled writing and you don't even know it.
Speaker 1: You act like that's normal music and that's normal worship.
Speaker 1: What is wrong with you? And then you know to
Speaker 1: see Stephen and see Holly and see their beautiful family
Speaker 1: fulfilling that dream. He does not just get up and preach.
Speaker 1: There is a tremendous price that is paid to bring
Speaker 1: a fresh word from the Lord. He is not a
Speaker 1: robot kind of preacher. Deal. He can't just get up
Speaker 1: and say it. He does so much more than that
Speaker 1: when he preaches. And you know that's the especially you
Speaker 1: who are sitting here and at all the campuses every week,
Speaker 1: and people have no idea, They have no idea. The battles,
Speaker 1: the mental battles, the spiritual battles. Not just He, but
Speaker 1: Holly and the family carry a tremendous, tremendous load. And
Speaker 1: I get emotional about it because I've watched God do
Speaker 1: it at my place, and I've been there for thirty
Speaker 1: something years, and when I see in my mind kids
Speaker 1: doing what they're doing so quick, so fast, God is
Speaker 1: up to something that we can't even imagine with this ministry.
Speaker 1: And if you'll be faithful, and I know you will,
Speaker 1: it includes every one of you and your gift and
Speaker 1: what God has planned for you. And I want to
Speaker 1: just preach a few moments this morning, but I want
Speaker 1: to go to the Book of John chapter twenty one.
Speaker 1: I don't preach long. They usually have me on a
Speaker 1: clock for thirty minutes starting right now, and I'll preach
Speaker 1: about thirty minutes and then the keyboard guy can come
Speaker 1: out and I'll know my thirty minutes is up. But
Speaker 1: I want to read something. I do believe the Lord
Speaker 1: gave me a message for this place. I do, especially
Speaker 1: after hearing the last song. It freaked me out. The
Speaker 1: last song freaked me out because one of the lines
Speaker 1: that it was write another story. Actually, I gave them
Speaker 1: five titles for one sermon, and one of them was
Speaker 1: write another story. And I honestly, I'm kind of blown
Speaker 1: away at that. But that's how God does it. John
Speaker 1: chapter twenty one. I'll begin reading with verse Let's go
Speaker 1: to verse John twenty one. Let's go to verse twenty four.
Speaker 1: This is the disciple who testifies of these things and
Speaker 1: wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true.
Speaker 1: And there are so many other things that Jesus did
Speaker 1: listen to this which if they were written one by one.
Speaker 1: I suppose that even the world itself could not contain
Speaker 1: the books that would be written. Amen, while you have
Speaker 1: your Bible open, flip over to the Old Testament. Just
Speaker 1: one quick scripture in Jeremiah chapter thirty. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Jeremiah chapter thirty six, Jeremiah thirty and I'll make reference
Speaker 1: to this in that way. We won't do it. I'll
Speaker 1: just keep moving verse twenty two. Now, the king was
Speaker 1: sitting in the winterhouse in the ninth month, with a
Speaker 1: fire burning on the heath before him, or the fireplace.
Speaker 1: And it happened when Jehordah had read three or four columns,
Speaker 1: that the king cut it with the scribes knife some
Speaker 1: translations say the pen knife. We would call it a
Speaker 1: pocket knife, and cast it into the fire that was
Speaker 1: on the heath, until all the scroll was consumed in
Speaker 1: the fire that was in the fireplace. I want to
Speaker 1: talk to you for just a few moments, and I'll
Speaker 1: give you my title as I go along. But I
Speaker 1: do believe the story is still being written over elevation Church.
Speaker 1: I really do believe that churches, when you reach where
Speaker 1: you are as a ministry, will do one of two things.
Speaker 1: You will become a peruser of history. You just live
Speaker 1: in the greatness of what God has done in the past,
Speaker 1: or you continue to write history, and you have to
Speaker 1: choose by your faith and your belief and what God
Speaker 1: is going to do as a foundation off of what
Speaker 1: He's already done. The best days, I declare today are ahead.
Speaker 1: The best years are not behind you. The most creative, powerful, open,
Speaker 1: incredible opportunities are not behind you. It's yet to be
Speaker 1: written over you. There is a group of people in
Speaker 1: the Scriptures that I want to talk about this morning,
Speaker 1: and you read, write over it and think it doesn't
Speaker 1: mean anything, but it does. They're known as scribes. Scribes
Speaker 1: in the Bible came from the tribe of Zebelin. Ezra
Speaker 1: was a priest, but he was all so in the
Speaker 1: Old Testament, a scribe. The job definition of a scribe
Speaker 1: would be to have access into throne rooms and into courtrooms,
Speaker 1: have access into places that most people will never get
Speaker 1: access in the throne room like a scribe would get
Speaker 1: every day, and his one purpose was to take a
Speaker 1: pen and a piece of paper and hear the conversation
Speaker 1: in the throne room where the king was and write
Speaker 1: it down and then present it to people. That's what
Speaker 1: a scribe did. He had a pen and paper scroll,
Speaker 1: and he would write. He had a very special role
Speaker 1: to record history, to write it, and in doing so
Speaker 1: he was making history. It would be history that was
Speaker 1: being made at that very moment that it was being written.
Speaker 1: I think about the story of Esther in the sixth
Speaker 1: chapter of the Book of Esther, and how that the
Speaker 1: Bible said, on a certain night, this involved a scribe.
Speaker 1: This whole miracle of Esther, in a whole group, of
Speaker 1: a whole Jewish nation was on death row, and the
Speaker 1: only thing that saved him was a scribe, the Bible said.
Speaker 1: The king couldn't sleep, and in order to get drowsy,
Speaker 1: he called for the scribe to bring the books that
Speaker 1: had been chronicled and read them. And he just so
Speaker 1: happened this scribe to open up and start reading. And
Speaker 1: he said, on such and such a day, there was
Speaker 1: an assassination attempt that was going to happen. But a man,
Speaker 1: a Jew by the name of Mordecai, sat outside the
Speaker 1: gate and he overheard the assassin saying what they were
Speaker 1: going to do, and he reported it to someone in
Speaker 1: the palace. And because of that, we stopped the assassination attempt,
Speaker 1: and the king was not killed, and the kingdom stayed strong.
Speaker 1: And the king woke up and he said, say that again,
Speaker 1: Read that again. What did you say. I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that was in the records. You mean,
Speaker 1: what did I do to reward this man? He was
Speaker 1: not aware. And when he heard it, he said, bring
Speaker 1: more to kay to the jew And I don't have
Speaker 1: time to read the whole and preach the whole story.
Speaker 1: You have to read the rest of the story for yourself.
Speaker 1: That's not what I'm preaching about. But what I want
Speaker 1: you to see is he reminded the king of his obligations.
Speaker 1: That something had been done, and the king had an
Speaker 1: obligation to do something. Take good notes when the king talks.
Speaker 1: When you hear words from the Lord like you hear
Speaker 1: on a regular basis, that the man's probably walked through
Speaker 1: something that we can't even imagine. Pull a pin and
Speaker 1: a piece of put your phone out and write down.
Speaker 1: When you hear the king make you a promise, write
Speaker 1: it down. Remind the king of his obligations. So powerful
Speaker 1: where scribes think of this that when Nebuconza invaded with
Speaker 1: his Babylonian army, the nation of Israel and took the
Speaker 1: city of Jerusalem and leveled it. The scripture said he
Speaker 1: gave in Second Kings, chapter twenty five special instructions. He said,
Speaker 1: you are to arrest. He said this to his military.
Speaker 1: Arrest their generals, arrest their military leaders. Arrest the royal
Speaker 1: seed or the royal family. The family's a threat. Everybody
Speaker 1: he's talking about is a threat. And then he makes
Speaker 1: this profound statement, and make sure that you arrest the
Speaker 1: principal Scribe. I'm scared Nebukanezzar in his mighty Babylonian army.
Speaker 1: I'm scared to death of the Principal Scribe. The guy
Speaker 1: who gets in the throne room and hears conversations and
Speaker 1: writes them down and communicates it to the people is
Speaker 1: one of the most dangerous individuals to my Babylonian culture. Sure,
Speaker 1: because if he hears, he has the capacity to go
Speaker 1: back and remind the people of where they have been
Speaker 1: before and whow that they didn't see a way back then.
Speaker 1: And if God could do it, then he can do
Speaker 1: it again. And that's why he's dangerous. When they were
Speaker 1: taken into captivity and Jeremiah twenty three, Jeremiah asked the question,
Speaker 1: will we ever be assembled again. We're so scattered, we're
Speaker 1: so defeated, we're so humiliated. Will we ever be a
Speaker 1: people again? And God gave him a message, and he said,
Speaker 1: remember what I did for Egypt and how I brought
Speaker 1: Moses out. But then God said, but I've got news
Speaker 1: for you. That for them was that for them? For you,
Speaker 1: the story of Moses and the Israelites coming out of Egypt,
Speaker 1: that for you is a story, But for them it
Speaker 1: was a miracle. And somehow we have to go from
Speaker 1: doing more than reading this book and it being stories
Speaker 1: about David against Goliath and stories of Hezekiah having a
Speaker 1: death sentence and being given fifteen more years. We have
Speaker 1: to go beyond reciting, and then we need to pull
Speaker 1: out our pen and start writing and say, if he
Speaker 1: ever did it before, All the stories that are written
Speaker 1: are just to let us know he's the same God today.
Speaker 1: What he did for seventeen years, He'll do it again
Speaker 1: and again and again, from faith under faith, from glory
Speaker 1: under glory. Take a praise break if you believe he'll
Speaker 1: do it again. Godfid Jeremiah. I don't want you to
Speaker 1: just read about Moses and how he brought them out.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, I have a remnant that is
Speaker 1: going to come from the north, southeast, and west, and
Speaker 1: you're going to write a new chapter, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: see my faithfulness in your life, in your family, in
Speaker 1: your generation against your giant. I'm not playing games. If
Speaker 1: I ever did it before, if he ever healed cancer before,
Speaker 1: he can do it again. If he ever redeemed and
Speaker 1: restored a family and a marriage, he can do it
Speaker 1: again to them. When I think about and I don't
Speaker 1: even know all the stories, when I think about Chunks
Speaker 1: and his wife, and I think about Stephen, and I
Speaker 1: think about his family coming here with nothing but a dream.
Speaker 1: And you've done so much, so fast, so incredibly, so well.
Speaker 1: Sure have impacted my life life. In my ministry, we
Speaker 1: sing your songs every week, and I travel all over
Speaker 1: the world, and I'm telling you people do all over
Speaker 1: the world. What happens in this room. It can't stay
Speaker 1: in this room because you, for whatever reason, have been
Speaker 1: given access to the throne room. And God says, Stephen,
Speaker 1: come in here, and God says to the team of
Speaker 1: musicians and singers, come in here. Now. Don't take this
Speaker 1: like it's normal. Don't act like you're just another ministry.
Speaker 1: Don't go around, stay humble, stay obedience, stay pure, stay clean,
Speaker 1: because I'm trusting you with throne room stuff, and write
Speaker 1: it down. Give me all the glory. It'll never stop.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I'll give more instructions. I'll
Speaker 1: give more words, I'll give more ascribing the the greatness
Speaker 1: of God through song. I'll give it more and more
Speaker 1: and more. But what we need in this hour when
Speaker 1: I'm fighting Hell, I don't need somebody to give me
Speaker 1: a story. I need somebody to give me a pen.
Speaker 1: God wants to change the period to a comma. He's
Speaker 1: still doing miracles. And the most dangerous place that a
Speaker 1: church can get is when they do more reading than writing.
Speaker 1: The most dangerous place that a person in their walk
Speaker 1: with God can get is when all they can do
Speaker 1: is recite history of how God used to move in
Speaker 1: your life, and how you used to have devotion, and
Speaker 1: how you used to really be on fire and couldn't
Speaker 1: wait to get here. The most dangerous season in your
Speaker 1: life is when you're focused more on where you have
Speaker 1: been instead of where you're going and where you are.
Speaker 1: This is why in the New Testament were extremely unpopular
Speaker 1: with Jesus. I cannot find anywhere in the Bible where
Speaker 1: Jesus ever complimented scribes. He was always saying, like in
Speaker 1: Matthew twenty three, woe unto you scribes and Pharisees. They
Speaker 1: followed Jesus around, and every time he was trying to
Speaker 1: give him a fresh page of new miracles, all they
Speaker 1: could do is compare it to the old Book of
Speaker 1: Moses and say, you can't do that because we're living
Speaker 1: over here in what used to be. Stop reading your
Speaker 1: history and get your pen out. I appreciate the seventeen years,
Speaker 1: but your best chapter have yet to be written. I
Speaker 1: don't know who I'm preaching to accept this church, and
Speaker 1: you are the church, not buildings. It's the people God.
Speaker 1: When I'm saying church, I'm saying, if you're affiliated with
Speaker 1: this thing, he is about to give you your best chapters.
Speaker 1: I believe this one of the great stories. I'm going
Speaker 1: somewhere and I'll get there. Just relax, Just go with
Speaker 1: me a minute. In Judges chapter five, Deborah is a singer,
Speaker 1: but nobody would fight, so she jumps on the horse
Speaker 1: and a singer goes out on the front line and
Speaker 1: starts leading the charge. And when she looked behind her,
Speaker 1: all the twelve tribes of Israel were there, but only
Speaker 1: one of them followed her into battle. The name of
Speaker 1: that tribe was Zebbelin. And when the battle was over
Speaker 1: and the victory was one, she turned around, and the
Speaker 1: spirit of prophecy came upon her, and she said, because
Speaker 1: of your courage, and because of your fearlessness, and because
Speaker 1: of your willingness to go out and fight and do
Speaker 1: what you could do on the battlefield, when I led
Speaker 1: you with nothing but a song and went into the battle,
Speaker 1: and you followed the tribe of Zebelin. This prophecy is
Speaker 1: spoken over the tribe of Zebelin in Judges chapter five,
Speaker 1: in verse fourteen. Out of you Zebelin will come those
Speaker 1: of people who know how to handle the pen. Out
Speaker 1: of Zebelin, they that handle the pen of the writer
Speaker 1: will come. In other words, your weapon will be your pen.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you things, and I'm going to give
Speaker 1: you songs, and I'm going to give you whords, and
Speaker 1: i'm gonna give you books, and i'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: dreams and i'm gonna give you visions. And it's gonna
Speaker 1: get in your fingers and it's gonna get in your
Speaker 1: chord structures, and it's gonna get in your lyrics, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna get in your sermons. And I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you the hand of the writer, because if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do something, I can't have a church that's living in
Speaker 1: what I used to do and how I used to sound,
Speaker 1: and the new music and the new flow and the
Speaker 1: new annoying. I need somebody who will start with a
Speaker 1: fresh page and say, God, we don't have to be
Speaker 1: like every other church. We don't have to sound like
Speaker 1: every other sound, we don't have to act like everybody else.
Speaker 1: We want a fresh instruction from the throne room. Now
Speaker 1: watch this. It's interesting that in Second Chronicles, the Bible
Speaker 1: said that the tribe of Zebelin was paired with the
Speaker 1: tribe of Isacar for forty years. They camped out together,
Speaker 1: those two tribes Isecar. The Bible says of Isecar, it
Speaker 1: says that they had understanding of the times and knew
Speaker 1: what Israel ought to do. But the one that God
Speaker 1: trusted to stay with them and pair up with them
Speaker 1: was a little tribe called Zebelin that had the anointing
Speaker 1: to write down what gods they had the understanding of
Speaker 1: what was going on. They understood what the devil was
Speaker 1: up to, They understood what God was up to, and
Speaker 1: they knew what Israel the Church ought to do. And
Speaker 1: he said, you write it down. They were not intimidated
Speaker 1: by transition. But what is amazing? And I can't make
Speaker 1: this up. You just go study it for yourself. The
Speaker 1: people with the hand of the ready writer. The people
Speaker 1: became a place because the Bible said in the Book
Speaker 1: of Matthew and in the Book of Isaiah chapter nine,
Speaker 1: a great light shall come to the people of zebeliny
Speaker 1: messionic prophecies. And then in Matthew chapter one, it talks
Speaker 1: about the genealogy of Jesus. And here's what's amazing. Do
Speaker 1: you know where the tribe of Zebelin settled on the
Speaker 1: Sea of Galilee, in an area called Capernaum, where Jesus
Speaker 1: did more miracles in that region than any other spot
Speaker 1: on planet Earth. Old everything that got around him broken,
Speaker 1: and he wanted to do it where there would be
Speaker 1: pens and paper. It ought to have been ascribes. Heyday,
Speaker 1: let's see what he's gonna do today. Let's hear what
Speaker 1: he's gonna preach. But instead they follow him around and
Speaker 1: he heals somebody, and they come up and say Moses,
Speaker 1: and the law said, you can't heal on the Sabbath.
Speaker 1: How dare you do that, my God? I can instead
Speaker 1: of writing down and proclaiming revelation and truth. They're living
Speaker 1: in yesterday. And Jesus fasted for forty days and forty nights,
Speaker 1: came out of the wilderness. And I want to preach
Speaker 1: right there, but I gotta keep moving. But can I
Speaker 1: throw you one little thing? The Lord spoke to me.
Speaker 1: He said, if the devil comes against you like he
Speaker 1: did me in the desert of your life, with unusual opposition,
Speaker 1: with an unusual satanic temptation, trying to destroy you from
Speaker 1: what I've called you to do. There are seasons you
Speaker 1: don't live like this, but there are seasons where you
Speaker 1: need to. You need to match his level of aggression.
Speaker 1: That's what Jesus said. If you're coming at me with
Speaker 1: extreme temptation and extreme demonic opposition, I'll match that. I'll
Speaker 1: come at you with extreme fasting, extreme prayer, extreme dedication,
Speaker 1: extreme worship now short worship the Lord, my God ever now,
Speaker 1: and then we need to break out of our little thing.
Speaker 1: When God's about to do something new We need to
Speaker 1: get to a point that we tap into the level
Speaker 1: of the extreme. Every once in a while. I'm so
Speaker 1: tired of little cookie cutter churches and services. Every once
Speaker 1: in a while we need to break out of a
Speaker 1: routine and say, God, I want to see the extreme
Speaker 1: move of God for a few days around here. Tap
Speaker 1: your hands and praise him. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I gotta hurd all right, all right, now, watch Jesus
Speaker 1: comes out of the desert and walks into the synagogue
Speaker 1: in the region of Zebelin, and he opens up the
Speaker 1: book and he begins to read from Isaiah. The spirit
Speaker 1: of the Lord is upon me. He's annoying me to
Speaker 1: heal the broken hearted, to open the eyes of the bond,
Speaker 1: said at liberty them that are bound, and to preach
Speaker 1: acceptable year of the Lord. And then the Bible said
Speaker 1: in every eye was fastened on him. You gotta understand.
Speaker 1: They had heard that over it was a young fata
Speaker 1: yon fast They were just sitting out there, Oh we've
Speaker 1: heard this sermon blah blah blah blah blah. But this
Speaker 1: time when he walked in and open that book, the
Speaker 1: Bible said, every eye was fastened on him, and then
Speaker 1: he walked over. He said, this day this scripture is
Speaker 1: fulfilled in your ears, and he had closed the book
Speaker 1: closed it said, I'm done with that chapter. Now get
Speaker 1: your pen out. Boys yard supposed to be the writers,
Speaker 1: let's go do this, but they wouldn't do it. This day.
Speaker 1: It's fulfilled this day. I don't want you just reciting
Speaker 1: the history stories. I want you writing what I'm doing
Speaker 1: in this day. Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever.
Speaker 1: You would think that every one of those scribes would
Speaker 1: have been so happy, but they were so locked into
Speaker 1: what God had done that they would not receive what
Speaker 1: he wanted to do. Listen to me carefully. God says,
Speaker 1: I'm giving this ministry a weapon, and your weapon will
Speaker 1: be the weapon of the pen. Songwriters, praise team, worship leaders.
Speaker 1: God's given you the weapon of the pen. I've been
Speaker 1: doing this a long time. I started going over to
Speaker 1: Australia and preaching at Hillsong when it was a church
Speaker 1: smaller than what I'm looking at in this room. They
Speaker 1: had no campuses, they were not worldwide. They had one
Speaker 1: hit song. When I went over there the first time,
Speaker 1: and I watched God do things that would astound you,
Speaker 1: because when God trusts the church with throng room conversations,
Speaker 1: it's so serious that you cannot take it, likely because
Speaker 1: it becomes so familiar. But just as easy as it's given,
Speaker 1: it can be taken. And I'm not here to create.
Speaker 1: But we've all seen things happen that that that will
Speaker 1: not happen to this ministry. Because when God gives the
Speaker 1: pen and he gives the revelation, if you'll follow it,
Speaker 1: he'll fight the battle. The pen is your weapon. What's
Speaker 1: this right where I've been trying to get Now I'm
Speaker 1: ready to preach. They're following and around criticizing. The scribes
Speaker 1: are supposed to be writing the miracles. Instead they're picking
Speaker 1: to death the miracles. I can't believe your disciples ate
Speaker 1: on the sabbath. They plucked corn on the sabbath, and
Speaker 1: he was going to heal somebody. That's all they could see.
Speaker 1: But in John chapter eight, the Bible said they brought
Speaker 1: the woman taken in the act of adultery, and notice
Speaker 1: who brought them. According to John eight, the scribes and
Speaker 1: the Pharisees brought a woman caught in the act of
Speaker 1: adultery and threw her at the feet of Jesus, and
Speaker 1: they said Jesus Moses. And the Law says she's finished.
Speaker 1: The Law says it's over. The Law says that her
Speaker 1: book is written and concluded, and we're going to stone
Speaker 1: her to death. What do you say, Jesus, I can't
Speaker 1: prove it, but I'm gonna preach it like I want to.
Speaker 1: This is my sermon. I'm gonna preach it like I
Speaker 1: want to. The same finger that wrote the commandments on
Speaker 1: the stone with a finger of fire. Now he kneels
Speaker 1: down in the dirt and he says, I've been waiting
Speaker 1: on this for three thousand years. You want to know
Speaker 1: what I got to say about this woman who's messed
Speaker 1: up her life. And everybody says the book is finished.
Speaker 1: She's in a mess, she's filthy, she's dirty, and nobody
Speaker 1: can help her. He says, and he took that finger.
Speaker 1: That was the same God that wrote the commandments. Now
Speaker 1: the finger is skin, God in skin. And he starts
Speaker 1: writing in dirt. Stone is permanent, but dirt. He's writing
Speaker 1: in dirt. What was he writing? He was saying, I
Speaker 1: know that you messed up, woman, but let me give
Speaker 1: you some advice. If you ever found a dirty, rotten
Speaker 1: center that's really messed up, and you want to see
Speaker 1: them get get in bad trouble, don't throw them at
Speaker 1: the feet of Jesus. Throw them at the feet of
Speaker 1: a denominational board, throw them at the feet of a
Speaker 1: bunch of mean preachers, throw them at the feet of
Speaker 1: a bunch of self righteous Christians. But if you ever
Speaker 1: want to see somebody get set free, throw them at
Speaker 1: the feet of Jesus. Why. I can't prove it. I
Speaker 1: can't prove it, but I got a feeling when he
Speaker 1: started writing. He said, I know they think I touched dirt.
Speaker 1: I touched dirty, dirty people, and dirty families, and dirty
Speaker 1: marriages and dirty ministries. I'm not afraid to touch the dirt.
Speaker 1: But I'm going to write another story. I know Moses
Speaker 1: and the Law said you're finished, But I'm going to
Speaker 1: write a new story. I don't know about you, but
Speaker 1: I'm glad he can write you out of your miss
Speaker 1: he can write you out of alcoholism, he can write
Speaker 1: you out of drug addiction. I don't care how long
Speaker 1: you've wrestled with it. I don't care how messed up
Speaker 1: your life is. If you'll let Jesus he'll write another story.
Speaker 1: Give him a praise if you believe. Praise him just
Speaker 1: a minute. Praise him at every campus. He's writing another story.
Speaker 1: It's not over. You don't have to live in the past.
Speaker 1: You don't have to live in shame. You don't have
Speaker 1: to live in disgrace, you don't have to live in condemnation.
Speaker 1: He's writing another story. Sit down, I'm almost done. I
Speaker 1: have seven more minutes. Nine tend to preach all seven.
Speaker 1: Tell somebody sitting besides you, I don't know what you're
Speaker 1: going through. Come on, do it. I deputize you. Turn
Speaker 1: to somebody beside you and say, I don't know what
Speaker 1: you're going through, but he's gonna write you out of that.
Speaker 1: Miss it's not over. It's just a comma. It's not
Speaker 1: a period. There's another chapter coming to your broken heart.
Speaker 1: There's another chapter coming to your divorce. There's another chapter
Speaker 1: coming to your addiction. There's another chapter coming to your abuse. Now, now, now,
Speaker 1: how many of you glad he wrote you out of
Speaker 1: the book of Moses and into the book of Jesus.
Speaker 1: How many of you glad he wrote you out of
Speaker 1: death and out of defeat and into victory and to
Speaker 1: eternal life. Everybody who knows your name is written in
Speaker 1: the Lamb's Book of life. Shout just for a minute,
Speaker 1: we're gonna preaching them in the shell and praise him.
Speaker 1: The enemy set you were finished. The enemy set your
Speaker 1: family would never come up. I had a generational terses,
Speaker 1: but he rode another story. She now see. I'm an
Speaker 1: organ generation preacher. That's why you That's why I can't
Speaker 1: go on. You shouldn't have touched that B three. Y'all know,
Speaker 1: y'all grew up with all these little Corg keyboards and
Speaker 1: all that. But I'm a preacher that came up in
Speaker 1: old tents and double white trailers. I preached all in
Speaker 1: North Carolina. They called it a church. It was a
Speaker 1: double white trailer, and all we had was a poolpit,
Speaker 1: a microphone, and an organ. But when the Holy Ghost
Speaker 1: started moving, that place started shaking. He needs to leave
Speaker 1: me alone. He needs to leave me alone. I don't
Speaker 1: want him there on your seventeenth anniverse. You got to
Speaker 1: stop for a minute, all right, then let me finish.
Speaker 1: He's getting me off timing. Listen, the reason that I
Speaker 1: brought that story up about Jeremiah thirty six. I want
Speaker 1: to show you. I want to show you something, the
Speaker 1: Bible said, God, if you read the whole chapter, God
Speaker 1: gave Jeremiah a powerful word for his generation. And the
Speaker 1: Scripture said, he got He got canceled by the culture
Speaker 1: and banned from the temple. They would not let him
Speaker 1: come to the temple and threatened him with his life.
Speaker 1: And God said, that's all right. It ain't about you preaching.
Speaker 1: I just need you to called a scribe. And the
Speaker 1: Bible said, in that chapter he called a scribe, and
Speaker 1: he said, tell him the sermon God gave you. And
Speaker 1: as long as you don't care who gets the credit,
Speaker 1: just let him write it down word for word. And
Speaker 1: the Bible said, he wrote it down word for word.
Speaker 1: And even though Jeremiah was banned from the temple, on
Speaker 1: the Sabbath, as the people were gathering, the Bible said,
Speaker 1: this scribe, his notes probably looked like that he took.
Speaker 1: He took what God told him through the prophet and
Speaker 1: stood on a rock. And as they were going in
Speaker 1: to get their latte at the coffee bar, he stood
Speaker 1: outside and started preaching the word of the Lord. And
Speaker 1: it was like a you remember what Jeremiah said, It's
Speaker 1: like a fire shut up in my bones. And when
Speaker 1: you get a song that came from the throne room,
Speaker 1: every my sheep, know my, when you sung two of
Speaker 1: those several of those songs, might that first one about
Speaker 1: all the names of God? My holy ghost said, whoo,
Speaker 1: that's one of ours. I'll be singing that one in
Speaker 1: my place. I'll be shouting on that one, and that
Speaker 1: last one I'll be shouting on that one, and the
Speaker 1: middle one too. I might as well take them all.
Speaker 1: Wat's this? And the man just stands up and starts
Speaker 1: reading what came as he wrote it down. And the
Speaker 1: Bible said that even the false prophets read that chapter
Speaker 1: when you get home. The false prophets stuck their ear out.
Speaker 1: And when they heard the word of the Lord, they
Speaker 1: knew this little thing that we're about to teach on
Speaker 1: seven ways to enjoy your winter vacation, that it just
Speaker 1: ain't gonna quiet get it. And the Bible said, they
Speaker 1: grab pens, read it, and they wrote down word word
Speaker 1: for word what the man was saying, and took off
Speaker 1: left the church and took off to the king's winter palace.
Speaker 1: And the king was setting by his fireplace, and they
Speaker 1: come in and they said, sir, this is so important.
Speaker 1: We need to tell you. Jeremiah has another hit. It's
Speaker 1: on fire, and we can pretend like we don't like it,
Speaker 1: but we like it. And we had to come interrupt
Speaker 1: your vacation, sir, at your winter palace, because the word
Speaker 1: of the Lord is crazy and it's messing up the
Speaker 1: whole congregation. And the king said, let me hear it. Now,
Speaker 1: this is where the story gets unbelievable. And they start
Speaker 1: reading word for word everything, and the king pulled out
Speaker 1: his pocket knife, your Bible said, and when he heard it,
Speaker 1: he said, I like that part. Leave it alone. That's
Speaker 1: the good part. I'm highly favored. I'm blessed. I'm oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do good. God is with me. I like that.
Speaker 1: But then they get to some of that stuff about
Speaker 1: but straighten up and live right, be hol in, be clean,
Speaker 1: stand before me and love me with all of your heart, mind,
Speaker 1: soul and strength. And if I don't like that, and
Speaker 1: he'd start cutting, cutting that out and ball it up
Speaker 1: and throw it into the fire cutting. I hate the preest.
Speaker 1: Just say I had you all happy a minute ago,
Speaker 1: but please don't become that ministry. We're not gonna cut
Speaker 1: and paste the word of God. We still need the
Speaker 1: blood of Jesus. We still need the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: There's no other name. I still believe that the Bible
Speaker 1: says that marriage is between a man and a woman,
Speaker 1: and we're not gonna cut that part out. I still
Speaker 1: believe the Bible says holiness is right and separation and
Speaker 1: coming out from the world and being different. Oh, come on,
Speaker 1: it's in the book. It's a Let's don't throw out
Speaker 1: everything because culture says it's too controversial. I'm afraid, and
Speaker 1: I'm old. I'm an old preacher, so I got to
Speaker 1: write to talk like this, And I just say to
Speaker 1: the young preachers, don't be a cutting edge preacher. Preach
Speaker 1: the eternal word of God. Let's don't cut hell out.
Speaker 1: Hell's in the book. Hell is real and ever now
Speaker 1: and then somebody needs to Hell is So where'd that
Speaker 1: come from? Somebody needs It needs to be more than
Speaker 1: a cuss word. It needs to be a conviction word.
Speaker 1: It needs to be something that somebody hears and says,
Speaker 1: Oh my God, God, that's the word of God. Let's
Speaker 1: not cut out the judgment. Let's not cut out I'm
Speaker 1: preaching better than you're letting home. Let's not cut out
Speaker 1: the safetity of life. Jeremiah, when you were in your
Speaker 1: mother's wound, before you ever got there, I called you,
Speaker 1: let's not cut that out. I'm not gonna cut it out.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna cut out the rapture. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: cut out He's coming back again. The trumpet's gonna sound,
Speaker 1: the dead in Christ are gonna rise, and we're going
Speaker 1: home to meet the Lord in there. Read the word
Speaker 1: sit down. I'm almost done. You know, if you're not
Speaker 1: careful in a great church like this, the Lord will
Speaker 1: give you a word. Because this man spends time in
Speaker 1: the throne room, and you know, and you know when
Speaker 1: he speaks to you, because it rocks you to your
Speaker 1: core and people all around. You may not be that
Speaker 1: big of a deal into it, but when it's yours,
Speaker 1: write it down. Here's the point. The Lord spoke to me,
Speaker 1: and he said to tell people at Elevation Church, I
Speaker 1: spoke to you. I made you a prophetic promise. And
Speaker 1: just because it has not happened, there is a tendency
Speaker 1: to pull out your little pocket knife and start whittling down. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe he really didn't say it, and you get it
Speaker 1: trimmed down to just what you can do, just what
Speaker 1: you think you're capable of, just what your mind can conceive.
Speaker 1: But if God said nations, then nations it shall be.
Speaker 1: If God God says world wide, then worldwide. It's help me.
Speaker 1: Get your knife off the promise. Get your knife off
Speaker 1: what God's telling you, music team. If God says you
Speaker 1: can feel colosseums better than the rolling stones beyond, say
Speaker 1: why don't we get that mentality? And say, God, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take my knife off of it. I'm tired of
Speaker 1: trimming down the promise to what I can do. Maybe
Speaker 1: the first seventeen years was just a test. Maybe where
Speaker 1: you're going is gonna require more faith, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: look back in seventeen years and say, turn to somebody
Speaker 1: right now and say, the lords gave you that promise,
Speaker 1: Get your knife off of it. The Lord told you
Speaker 1: that there was life beyond your day, and just because
Speaker 1: you hadn't met them yet, get your knife off that
Speaker 1: promise and learn how to praise heal until the answer comes.
Speaker 1: Let me finish play and they'll know I'm almost done.
Speaker 1: So here's where I've been trying to get to. This
Speaker 1: whole little sermon a back of two and verse two.
Speaker 1: Write the vision, make it plain. But here's what got
Speaker 1: me Psalms forty five in verse one. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: believe what God's pen is. Throw it up for me,
Speaker 1: Psalms forty five and verse one. And the Lord answered me,
Speaker 1: there it is. Everybody, watch this. My heart is indicting
Speaker 1: a good matter. I speak of things which I've touched
Speaker 1: and made touching the King my tongue. Everybody shouting. My
Speaker 1: tongue is the pen whatever I start praising him for,
Speaker 1: whatever I start prophesying, whatever I keep praying and praying
Speaker 1: and praying about, and preaching and preaching and preaching about
Speaker 1: and praising and praising and praising about and prophesying to
Speaker 1: a new generation, a new generation. My children will be
Speaker 1: used of God. They will do mighty things. My tongue
Speaker 1: is the pen of the ready rib. Do you believe that?
Speaker 1: Do you believe that there's power in what you continually praise, pray,
Speaker 1: preach and prophesy. The Lord said, this is not the
Speaker 1: final chapter of elevation. But tell the people to lift
Speaker 1: their voice and ascribe the greatness of their God. Tell
Speaker 1: the people that the pen is in this house, and
Speaker 1: that means miracles are ready to be written. That means
Speaker 1: stories and books are ready to come forward. That means
Speaker 1: businesses are about to be started. That did not start
Speaker 1: in the flesh. They were born in the sanctuary under
Speaker 1: the anointed word of God. You're a vout to write
Speaker 1: new chapters of your family. The first few were addiction
Speaker 1: and brokenness and curses. But the next generation, the next
Speaker 1: chapter will be blessed, will be annoyed, will be favor
Speaker 1: Get up on your feet at every campus and give
Speaker 1: the Lord the money. Please. Well, if you enjoyed today's podcast,
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