WEBVTT - Reverse The Ripple 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:04.120 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:06.600 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:09.920 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.000 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:22.560 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:27.639 We honor your presence. God. That's never an interruption to 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:32.800 our plans to give you praise. Anytime we can make 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:40.160 an altar and worship you our sacrifice, it brings us joy. Lord. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.879 I thank you for a palpable sense of faith and 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:47.800 expectation rooted in the hope of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Today. 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.680 Feel it in my bones. I sense it in my 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.640 brothers and sisters who have gathered, and I speak it 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:56.440 over everyone who may not be able to feel it 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.800 right now that you are able to do immeasurably more 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:07.880 for every I can't. We have a great I Am, 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:13.520 and today we celebrate that all things are possible through You. Now, God, 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.679 we're not going to stop worshiping. We might stop singing, 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.760 but this service is just getting started. I thank you 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:28.399 that there is a powerful plowing word that has been 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.559 planted in my spirit for this occasion, and I pray 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:32.679 that today you would help. 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.120 Me to deliver it just how you would say it 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.600 through my mouth, through my vocal cords, but your words, 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:43.000 your thoughts, your heart in Jesus' name, Amen. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:53.480 Hug seventeen Bulligion, Come a big hawk raised the Lord, 0:01:55.640 --> 0:02:02.080 raised the Lord. Don't take your seat yet. After you 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.320 gave out all the hugs, you can stand, clap your 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:10.800 hands and give God glory for bringing you through another day, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:18.919 another week. It feels kind of fired up today. It 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.519 feels like we're getting a little pre Elevation Night's annointing. 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:26.480 Chris Yall flows are ridiculous. Today we're getting ready to 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.880 head out to the West Coast and we're gonna tell 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.480 you some liberals out there about geez. I'm just kidding. 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:39.080 We love the West Coast. Well, if you live in 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.799 any of these cities, there are still some tickets available, 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:43.760 not many. You want to act fast. We start on 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:47.400 September to twenty fourth, and we'll be out through October 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:51.679 third and the following cities. Go to Elevation Nights dot 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:58.519 com Seattle, Washington, Vancouver, BC, Sacramento, California, Los Angeles, and Anaheim, 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:03.160 Boise Idaho, Salt Lake City, are you shouting for Boise? 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:12.160 That's never happened. Indeed, the Lord can do anything that's crazy. 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:18.920 I said, La no shout, Seattle, no shout. I said, Boise. Okay, 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.760 that's what it's gonna be like when we get to Boise. Hey, 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.200 remind me to drink a Celsius before we get to 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.840 Boise because they're fired up. And Salt Lake City, did 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:33.080 I say that already? In Denver, Colorado? Elevation Nights dot com. 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:34.600 And if you want to come to one, go and 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.120 get a ticket, and get a plane ticket and come 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.120 on out one day when the Lord really blesses me, 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.600 I'm gonna load y'all all up on a plane like 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:46.520 Oprah did one time and take you with us. Until then, 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:51.200 you just have to pray for us. And I also 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.840 want to celebrate because it's not a small thing that 0:03:53.920 --> 0:04:05.680 over a thousand people were baptized in our church class school. Incredible. Man, 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.080 if you knew the starting point of this ministry, you 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.280 would know how much that means to me. That's amazing, 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.000 that's amazing. And I think one of the reasons that 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.400 the worship is so powerful today. I think the ladies 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:24.279 lest some residual, annoying thing from your life. One of 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.919 our worship leaders said, leading room in a leading excuse me, 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:28.920 leading worship in a room full of women is a 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:34.680 cheat code. They're just much more expressive, and that's crazy 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:39.240 to me. But it's absolutely amazing, Holly, God used you 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.520 in a great way. Thank you for the word, Thank 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:45.440 you for your vision, for your leadership, all the moments 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.640 that will continue to unfold because of the moment that 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.160 you may possible through your faith. We celebrate you, and 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.640 today I'm gonna do my best to get in the 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:57.880 slipstream of what God spoke and preach a word to 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.039 you today. I prayed that you would lean in to 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.279 receive it last week when I left you, I left 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.120 you in the muddy puddles of the Jordan River. Let's 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.720 go back there for a moment. From Joshua chapter four. 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.160 I'll be sharing with you today from Joshua chapter four, 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.680 verses fifteen through Joshua five, and only one verse from 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:26.000 Joshua five, verse one. Let's take a moment to remember 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:27.800 how much this meant to me when God showed it 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.159 to me, so I can appreciate to you from that 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:34.360 same place, only reason I bring my notes up here. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:36.920 I know somebody said, why do you take all those 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:38.960 notes up there? We don't see you look at them, 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.920 And it's true. I get into it and I forget 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.240 to look at the notes. But at least seeing it 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.240 reminds me how excited I was writing it. And then 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.320 I can come at it and remember when I was 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.400 scribbling this, I was picturing us sharing in the word together. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.880 So what an honor to share God's word with you today. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.600 I'm so thankful for the opportunity. And wherever you are, 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:04.320 even if you're online today, the word is no less effective. 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:06.800 So get ready to receive it. And made this word 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:11.280 reach you right where you are. Joshua, Chapter four, verse fifteen, 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:18.920 say I'm ready. Then the Lord said to Joshua, wash 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:24.240 my hands. Then the Lord said to Joshua, okay, so 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:28.680 picture the scripture visually as well as verbally. Then the 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:34.680 Lord said to Joshua verse sixteen, command the priests, carrying 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:39.080 the ark of the Covenant Law to come up out 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:45.880 of the Jordan. So Joshua commanded the priests come up 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.920 out of the Jordan. And the priests came up out 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:54.520 of the river carrying the ark of the covenant of 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:58.800 the Lord. No sooner had they set their feet on 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.120 the dry ground, than the of the Jordan returned to 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:06.720 their place and ran at floodstage as before. On the 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:11.440 tenth day of the first month, the people went up 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.600 from the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua. Joshua said 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:19.440 to the priests, and then the people went up. So 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.480 watch I'm doing like this. Boom, boom, boom. The people 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:27.080 went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:31.720 the eastern border of Jericho. On the eastern border of Jericho, 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:37.400 what do you know about Jericho? Walls do fall? Somebody 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:42.360 say it, walls do fall now, but before the walls 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.840 of Jericho can fall, and before the Battle of Jericho 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.640 can be won, because this will be the first fight 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.240 for the children of God to occupy the Promised Lam. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:57.800 Before their first fight, Joshua is setting the frame verse twenty. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:03.920 Verse twenty. Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:08.640 they had taken out of the Jordan. He said to 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:13.800 the Israelites in the future, when your descendants asked their parents, 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.280 we've gone from the Lord said to Joshua. To Joshua 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.200 said to the priest to the priest did it for 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.520 the people. For the people are doing something that will 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.880 not even accomplish a purpose that may be seen in 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.640 their own lives, but in a generation that is yet 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:31.080 to come in the future. When your descendants asked their 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:36.640 parents what do these stones mean, tell them, Israel, cross 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:40.240 the Jordan on dry ground, for the Lord, your God 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:44.480 dried up the Jordan before you, until you had crossed over. 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:52.440 The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.000 had done to the Red Sea, when he dried it 0:08:55.080 --> 0:09:00.679 up before us until we had crossed over. He did this. 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.560 That's the best thing I've read in a long time. 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:09.440 Tell somebody he did this. So we were testifying last week, 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:13.280 we're talking about rescue your testimony. Rescue your testimony from 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:17.320 the clutches of depression. Rescue your testimony from the clutches 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:21.320 of despair, Rescue your testimony from the regrets of your past, 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:25.160 and testify to your neighbors. Say he did this. He 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.480 did this. I'm standing here because he did this. Come on, 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.400 let's have a testimony service real quick. How many No, 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:37.199 God did yes, let's practice. Let's see if you rescued 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.800 your testimony last week. I'm gonna ask you a question, 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:45.120 and you say, what you think? Who opened your prison doors? 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:51.720 God did? Then say it, say God did? Who dried 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:57.439 up your ocean floors? Think about that thing? Who saved 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:02.600 you and set you free, Who gave you victory right, 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:06.760 who gave you another day, who made you another way, 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.120 who gave you the breath of prays, who gave you 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:12.320 a brand new name? 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.400 Ah, somebody shot God did put. 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:28.320 It in the comments? Not did Now? He did this 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.160 so that all the peoples of the earth might know 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.360 that the hand of the Lord is powerful, and so 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.560 that you might always fear the Lord, your God. The 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.520 final verse I'm going to read, and then I'll tell 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.040 you what we're going to talk about today. But we're 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:48.840 already talking because God is speaking now. When all the 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:53.480 Canaanite emrich kings west of the Jordan and the kings 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.200 along the coast heard how the Lord had dried up 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.400 the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:04.760 their hearts melted in fear. It's no longer just the 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.120 people of God who know who God is. It's the 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:13.280 enemies to Ah. I see this, and they no longer 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:17.560 had the courage to face the Israelites today God wants 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.199 to do something very special in your life. He wants 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:25.960 to reverse the ripple. That's the word of the Lord 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.920 and Father. As we declare it today. We walk in it, 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.000 we stand in it, we decree it, and we believe that. 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.400 Most of all, we thank you for it, because only 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:39.760 you could do it in Jesus' name. Amen, you may 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:49.480 be seated. You may be seated reverse the ripple. You 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.360 will know what that means in about thirty two minutes. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:56.960 I do my job because the Lord has some things 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:03.760 that he wants to turn around your life. Yeah, rescue 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.920 our testimony, and God is going to reverse the ripple. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.680 I wish we could teach this on the lake. It 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.200 would be a good illustration. Right, how many of you 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.120 like the lake? How many you got a boat? You 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.520 could take me out on the lake. I'm gonna hitch 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.120 you up. You got how many of you? How many 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:24.640 you have a boat. So if we went out on 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.920 the lake, I could demonstrate the ripple effect. Right, you 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.679 know what it is. It's when one thing happens and 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.160 another thing happens, and another thing happens. And we use 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.920 it metaphorically, but it would be good if we could 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:39.920 be at the lake because we could. We could get 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:44.280 a rock, and then we could drop the rock and 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.439 we could watch the ripple, and then I could teach 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.440 the lesson. I could say, and just like this rock 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.000 hit the water, and we wouldn't even have to get 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.520 in the water because I know it's getting kind of cold. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.079 We could just do it from the shore right there 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.719 in your boat. We could drop the rock, watch the 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:04.120 rip and we could talk about how things in our 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:09.640 life happen that cause a ripple. And sometimes it's not 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.920 even until you're living in the ripple that you realize 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:18.840 the rock was dropped. If we're at the lake, and 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:20.880 maybe you could have me a bottle of diet coke. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.360 Don't text me about aspertain, I don't care. I've made 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:30.480 peace with Aspertame, and we would talk about the ripple 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.840 effects of decisions that you and I have both made, 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.160 words that we spoken. Man, I could probably teach a 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:41.160 whole leadership class just from a rock and a ripple. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:46.079 Many times as a leader, I never saw myself as 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.400 being that important, and I don't think I am important. 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.120 I think God is important, but I think he uses 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:54.400 people in important ways. And I think that when you 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:59.040 speak for God your word's way more because many times 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.440 I said things to people in passing as a leader, 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.720 and for good I said them and they kept those 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:10.120 things with them for three years, good and bad, good 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.319 and bad. And one lady I met one time. I'm 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:14.840 not going to take a long time with this setup, 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:18.360 but I want us to get at the lake. Dropped 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.560 a rock, We see the ripple. A lady one time 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.960 told me she kept a voicemail that I sent her 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.520 when her husband died. She kept it for four years. 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:29.800 Never met her one time on the Before you get 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.080 too impressed with me, because I'm just ride around leaving 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.120 voice memos, praying for people all the time. My kids 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:41.600 have told me things I said that I said because 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:45.680 they were true, but the way I said it, it 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.840 stuck with them in a way that they weren't ready 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.560 to hear it Like that, And with all three of 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.120 my kids and with my wife, I can go back 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:58.680 to times where I spoke something not realizing the weight 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.960 of the rock that I dropped and the ripple that 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.240 it calls for the person that I spoke to. So 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.280 now I got to walk into situations and scenarios and 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:12.080 take responsibility for my ripple. That's a whole word, take 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:17.160 responsibility for your ripple. The things you just say passing, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.120 Oh well, I'm just speaking my mind. Well, why don't 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:24.920 you just speak your mind inside, do a little internal 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.200 monologue and scream in your pillow. But make sure that 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:34.600 you respect you're calling enough to take responsibility for your ripple. 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:39.760 When the Lord said to Joshua, and Joshua said to 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:43.520 the priest, and the priest led the people, and the 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.880 people demonstrated God's stathfulness in a way that even impressed 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.480 their enemies. We are watching the ripple effect of a 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:54.520 revelation from God. The very fact that we are sitting 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:58.600 here today preaching about an incident that happened, an event 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:02.080 that occurred this long ago go proves my point the 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:06.760 power of a ripple, the ripple effect of your thoughts 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.920 leading to your actions, leading to your habits, leading to 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:14.000 your character becoming concrete, so that what you call destiny 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:18.760 later was actually a decision when the rock was dropped. 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.000 And yet, wouldn't it be nice if life were as 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:27.160 simple spiritually as it is physically, Because if we were 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.080 at the lake doing this lesson, we could look at 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:34.920 the rock and we could predict with a few inches, 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.760 you know how big the ripple would be. If we 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.160 had a few minutes, we could drop a little rock, 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.160 a big rock, a medium rock, and we could start saying, 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.760 you know, this one's gonna ripple. I'm just saying the 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:51.320 bigger the rock was, the bigger the ripple would be Physically. Spiritually, 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:55.200 it's a little different. You never can tell looking at 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:59.240 the rock how big the ripple is going to be. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.440 Not in the Kingdom of God, so that Jesus walks 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.159 around saying things like, if you have the faith of 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:10.880 a mustard seed, you can move a mountain. What kind 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:15.640 of mustard seed moves a mountain? A supernatural one, one 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.440 that has been watered by the word of God, one 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.800 that has been cultivated by a heart of faith. What 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:25.879 kind of lunch has the power to provide for the 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:29.600 physical hunger of five thousand You would think such a 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.720 little lunch could maybe only feed a little boy. But 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:36.199 when God dits it, the ripple becomes something that you 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:41.200 would have never realized. Oh, I feel like preaching, because 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.480 a rock in the hands of a shepherd should not 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:47.520 bring down a nine foot giant. But you can't tell 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.479 the size of the ripple from the size of this 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.879 rock if it's in God's hands. So we came to 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:57.639 remind the devil today that my rock might be little, 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.640 but a little rock can make a big ripple if 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:05.920 God gets a hold of them. Yeah, let's switch this 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:10.800 thing around. Let's stop looking at the size of our resource, 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.680 the size of our strength, the size of our knowledge, 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.920 the scope of our understanding to determine what God can do. 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:23.120 Let's stop letting the waves of unbelief block us from 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:28.800 the reality of the ocean of God's provision. Yeah. Yeah, 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:32.439 let's reverse the ripple. And what I mean by that 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.399 when I say reverse the ripple, well, I mean a 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:35.920 few things. Let me break it down a little bit. 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.200 The first thing that I mean by reverse the ripple 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:45.840 is that instead of starting with what you see, start 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:52.000 with what God has said. Life changing, life changing right there, 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:58.200 just if you would start with what God said. And 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:02.720 many times, we like the Nation of Israel and Joshua 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:07.359 chapter four, come to places in our own lives where 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.080 we need God to do something and apologize if I'm 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.800 not preaching to you right now that if He doesn't 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:18.120 do it. So this is not like I need God 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:19.720 to help me wake up on time. You sent alarm 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:24.000 clock for that. But this is something different. And one 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.199 of the things that I respect about the Bible is 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:31.520 that it will repeat something over and over again because 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.840 we learn through repetition. And if you look at this 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:39.679 Joshua chapter four, there are several times that God tells Joshua, 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:41.760 take these stones out of the water, kind of like 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:46.280 they're building an altar. Okay, like Holly preached on reflect 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:50.199 about the altar. Go on her YouTube and watch that 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:54.439 message and wear your steel toed boots because she was 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:58.800 stepping on our toes. But she did it so sweetly. 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:04.000 She did it in ballet flats. It was unbelievable. And 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:07.960 the Lord is telling Joshua, like, before you get to 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:10.600 your first fight, I want you to approach it from 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.480 a place of thinking about your future. Now, this is marvelous. 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:18.000 Frame the fight that you're facing from a place of 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:23.760 future faith. And that is often very hard, right because 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.960 we're just in the moment and knowing in the moment. 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.760 Remember it's like that rock in that ripple, knowing in 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:31.840 the moment what the ripple is going to be. It's 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:35.720 not always predictable in the spirit, is it? Is it 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:40.280 you came to church? Because she was cute and asked 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:43.520 you to come. Then you messed around and got too 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:47.439 close to the boat, and Jesus hooked you and pulled 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:53.120 you in, and now you're one of us. Boy, God 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:56.920 is tricky with that ripple. God is tricky with that ripple. 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:58.760 You didn't even know. I was just gonna go. So 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:01.600 I just just going to get to shut up, And 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:03.679 now I'm bringing people. I don't know what happened. Tell 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:05.800 your neighbor. It's the ripples, the ripples. To ripple, it's 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:09.119 the ripple. It's the ripples. The ripple. God will drop something. 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.680 God will just put you somewhere. God will drop you somewhere. 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:15.440 You will think that you're there because it's a new job. 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:19.200 And then you meet Gene, and Gene is going through chemotherapy, 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:22.560 and you went through chemotherapy. So now you minister to 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:24.800 Gene out of what you went through, so that you 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:26.840 can comfort him with the comfort by which you have 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:29.240 been comforted. This is the ripple, the ripple, the ripple, 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:33.280 the ripple, the ripple. And by the way, what if 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:36.160 we did that more often? What if we started asking God, 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:38.480 what do you want to do? Not just for me 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:42.920 but through me? God who can I touch you touched me? 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:47.040 Who can I help you healed me? Who can I 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:50.399 be a blessing to you? Blessed me? When are you 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:53.000 gonna hand somebody a fifty dollars bill one time? In 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:56.919 set a waiting on one? When will you be the ripple? 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:02.000 This is not my message, so pace yourself. I'm just 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:09.840 setting up this idea of reverse the ripple, reverse the ripple. 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:12.280 And I have learned in my life that if I 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:15.639 do not consider please listen to me. If I do 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:21.240 not consider causes, I will spend my life chasing consequences. 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:29.680 Consider the cause, or you will spend the rest of 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:38.200 your life managing consequences. Consider the cause, or you can 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:40.800 spend the rest of your life looking for tips on 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:44.320 TikTok for how to be more peaceful. But after you 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:47.280 have done everything TikTok told you to do, I mean 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:52.440 you can do everything. You could take your walk barefoot 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:57.080 on the grass, walk backwards, barefoot on the grass, sipping 0:22:57.160 --> 0:23:02.480 of protein smoothie with collagens in the smoothie. You can 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:05.480 do all of that. You can do red light, blue light, 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:08.920 black light, blue light, stroke light, you can do all 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:11.879 the lights on your face. You can do all of it. 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:16.160 You can meditate, you can pontificate, you can blow be eight, 0:23:16.480 --> 0:23:20.600 you can hyperventilate because you are not getting peace until 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:30.120 you consider the source. You get all attempts you want, 0:23:31.040 --> 0:23:34.560 but until you get the truth, you will not come 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:42.720 through this. Jordan, here's what I'm trying to say. You 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:51.480 can't fix the ripple till you find the rock. I'm 0:23:51.560 --> 0:23:55.760 appreciate this in Boise too. Tell them get ready. You 0:23:55.920 --> 0:24:00.040 can't fix the ripple till you find the rock. I 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:07.560 think a lot of religion is ripple management, behavior modification, 0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:12.920 empty tradition. God, I promise I'll never do it again 0:24:13.040 --> 0:24:15.199 until three point thirty, and it's three twenty five right now. 0:24:16.040 --> 0:24:26.679 That's ripple management. That's white knuckling, not worship. Ripple management 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:32.199 cannot bring you to a place of restoration. It can 0:24:32.280 --> 0:24:37.320 only bring you to a place of relief temporarily. So 0:24:37.680 --> 0:24:40.760 what are the areas in your life right now where 0:24:40.800 --> 0:24:45.000 you are trying to fix ripples but you don't even 0:24:45.080 --> 0:24:47.480 know what rock was dropped that cost it to begin with. 0:24:49.720 --> 0:24:52.320 This is like quoting Bible versus on top of trauma 0:24:52.400 --> 0:25:00.359 that you won't deal with. This is like whitch in 0:25:00.440 --> 0:25:04.200 friend groups. Every time they see what's really secret hidden 0:25:04.280 --> 0:25:08.800 in you and call it out and confront it, It's 0:25:08.840 --> 0:25:11.480 gonna get quieter and quiet. It's gonna be a reverse 0:25:11.600 --> 0:25:15.160 ripple today. Usually we start small and get big. Were 0:25:15.200 --> 0:25:17.680 going the other way today. We're reversing the ripple today 0:25:18.000 --> 0:25:21.760 until we get down to what is the thing that 0:25:22.040 --> 0:25:27.280 was dropped that caused you to do it? What was 0:25:27.560 --> 0:25:30.720 dropped that caused me to do it? Why did I 0:25:30.840 --> 0:25:36.560 lose my temper because they're annoying? Really because the people 0:25:36.640 --> 0:25:38.119 at work were annoying, but you didn't go off on 0:25:38.200 --> 0:25:40.119 them because you knew you couldn't get away with it. 0:25:42.119 --> 0:25:44.440 You went off on them at home, not because they're annoying, 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:50.600 but because you know they'll forgive you. And the real 0:25:50.800 --> 0:25:53.639 rock that made you do it was the fact that 0:25:53.720 --> 0:25:57.080 you don't take responsibility for it. And until we get 0:25:57.200 --> 0:26:01.000 real about this stuff, we will spend our entire lives 0:26:01.800 --> 0:26:06.520 riding the waves of our ripples going I'm so anxious, 0:26:06.920 --> 0:26:11.040 I'm so anxious, I'm so anxious. Well, cut your thumb off. 0:26:11.640 --> 0:26:15.000 Jesus said it'd be better to lose your whole hand 0:26:15.280 --> 0:26:21.440 then go to help. So I'd rather fix it. I'd 0:26:21.520 --> 0:26:25.040 rather fix it wear the rock drop than live the 0:26:25.080 --> 0:26:28.200 rest of my life frustrated by the ripples it You 0:26:28.280 --> 0:26:30.119 say this is just an Old Testament story, are you 0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:33.560 absolutely crazy out of your mind? Ridiculous? Do you not 0:26:33.720 --> 0:26:36.080 understand that this is the entire threat of the New Testament. 0:26:36.119 --> 0:26:40.359 It is law versus grace, It is us never really understanding. 0:26:40.400 --> 0:26:41.560 And I hope to come back to this in a 0:26:41.640 --> 0:26:44.280 moment if this sermon comes full circle. But speaking of 0:26:44.359 --> 0:26:46.800 full circle, there is a place called Gilgal and Joshua 0:26:47.000 --> 0:26:49.119 chapter four. If you've never heard of it, you can 0:26:49.160 --> 0:26:54.920