Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation
Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope
Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to
Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.
Speaker 1: We honor your presence. God. That's never an interruption to
Speaker 1: our plans to give you praise. Anytime we can make
Speaker 1: an altar and worship you our sacrifice, it brings us joy. Lord.
Speaker 1: I thank you for a palpable sense of faith and
Speaker 1: expectation rooted in the hope of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Today.
Speaker 1: Feel it in my bones. I sense it in my
Speaker 1: brothers and sisters who have gathered, and I speak it
Speaker 1: over everyone who may not be able to feel it
Speaker 1: right now that you are able to do immeasurably more
Speaker 1: for every I can't. We have a great I Am,
Speaker 1: and today we celebrate that all things are possible through You. Now, God,
Speaker 1: we're not going to stop worshiping. We might stop singing,
Speaker 1: but this service is just getting started. I thank you
Speaker 1: that there is a powerful plowing word that has been
Speaker 1: planted in my spirit for this occasion, and I pray
Speaker 1: that today you would help.
Speaker 2: Me to deliver it just how you would say it
Speaker 2: through my mouth, through my vocal cords, but your words,
Speaker 2: your thoughts, your heart in Jesus' name, Amen.
Speaker 1: Hug seventeen Bulligion, Come a big hawk raised the Lord,
Speaker 1: raised the Lord. Don't take your seat yet. After you
Speaker 1: gave out all the hugs, you can stand, clap your
Speaker 1: hands and give God glory for bringing you through another day,
Speaker 1: another week. It feels kind of fired up today. It
Speaker 1: feels like we're getting a little pre Elevation Night's annointing.
Speaker 1: Chris Yall flows are ridiculous. Today we're getting ready to
Speaker 1: head out to the West Coast and we're gonna tell
Speaker 1: you some liberals out there about geez. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: We love the West Coast. Well, if you live in
Speaker 1: any of these cities, there are still some tickets available,
Speaker 1: not many. You want to act fast. We start on
Speaker 1: September to twenty fourth, and we'll be out through October
Speaker 1: third and the following cities. Go to Elevation Nights dot
Speaker 1: com Seattle, Washington, Vancouver, BC, Sacramento, California, Los Angeles, and Anaheim,
Speaker 1: Boise Idaho, Salt Lake City, are you shouting for Boise?
Speaker 1: That's never happened. Indeed, the Lord can do anything that's crazy.
Speaker 1: I said, La no shout, Seattle, no shout. I said, Boise. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what it's gonna be like when we get to Boise. Hey,
Speaker 1: remind me to drink a Celsius before we get to
Speaker 1: Boise because they're fired up. And Salt Lake City, did
Speaker 1: I say that already? In Denver, Colorado? Elevation Nights dot com.
Speaker 1: And if you want to come to one, go and
Speaker 1: get a ticket, and get a plane ticket and come
Speaker 1: on out one day when the Lord really blesses me,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna load y'all all up on a plane like
Speaker 1: Oprah did one time and take you with us. Until then,
Speaker 1: you just have to pray for us. And I also
Speaker 1: want to celebrate because it's not a small thing that
Speaker 1: over a thousand people were baptized in our church class school. Incredible. Man,
Speaker 1: if you knew the starting point of this ministry, you
Speaker 1: would know how much that means to me. That's amazing,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. And I think one of the reasons that
Speaker 1: the worship is so powerful today. I think the ladies
Speaker 1: lest some residual, annoying thing from your life. One of
Speaker 1: our worship leaders said, leading room in a leading excuse me,
Speaker 1: leading worship in a room full of women is a
Speaker 1: cheat code. They're just much more expressive, and that's crazy
Speaker 1: to me. But it's absolutely amazing, Holly, God used you
Speaker 1: in a great way. Thank you for the word, Thank
Speaker 1: you for your vision, for your leadership, all the moments
Speaker 1: that will continue to unfold because of the moment that
Speaker 1: you may possible through your faith. We celebrate you, and
Speaker 1: today I'm gonna do my best to get in the
Speaker 1: slipstream of what God spoke and preach a word to
Speaker 1: you today. I prayed that you would lean in to
Speaker 1: receive it last week when I left you, I left
Speaker 1: you in the muddy puddles of the Jordan River. Let's
Speaker 1: go back there for a moment. From Joshua chapter four.
Speaker 1: I'll be sharing with you today from Joshua chapter four,
Speaker 1: verses fifteen through Joshua five, and only one verse from
Speaker 1: Joshua five, verse one. Let's take a moment to remember
Speaker 1: how much this meant to me when God showed it
Speaker 1: to me, so I can appreciate to you from that
Speaker 1: same place, only reason I bring my notes up here.
Speaker 1: I know somebody said, why do you take all those
Speaker 1: notes up there? We don't see you look at them,
Speaker 1: And it's true. I get into it and I forget
Speaker 1: to look at the notes. But at least seeing it
Speaker 1: reminds me how excited I was writing it. And then
Speaker 1: I can come at it and remember when I was
Speaker 1: scribbling this, I was picturing us sharing in the word together.
Speaker 1: So what an honor to share God's word with you today.
Speaker 1: I'm so thankful for the opportunity. And wherever you are,
Speaker 1: even if you're online today, the word is no less effective.
Speaker 1: So get ready to receive it. And made this word
Speaker 1: reach you right where you are. Joshua, Chapter four, verse fifteen,
Speaker 1: say I'm ready. Then the Lord said to Joshua, wash
Speaker 1: my hands. Then the Lord said to Joshua, okay, so
Speaker 1: picture the scripture visually as well as verbally. Then the
Speaker 1: Lord said to Joshua verse sixteen, command the priests, carrying
Speaker 1: the ark of the Covenant Law to come up out
Speaker 1: of the Jordan. So Joshua commanded the priests come up
Speaker 1: out of the Jordan. And the priests came up out
Speaker 1: of the river carrying the ark of the covenant of
Speaker 1: the Lord. No sooner had they set their feet on
Speaker 1: the dry ground, than the of the Jordan returned to
Speaker 1: their place and ran at floodstage as before. On the
Speaker 1: tenth day of the first month, the people went up
Speaker 1: from the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua. Joshua said
Speaker 1: to the priests, and then the people went up. So
Speaker 1: watch I'm doing like this. Boom, boom, boom. The people
Speaker 1: went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on
Speaker 1: the eastern border of Jericho. On the eastern border of Jericho,
Speaker 1: what do you know about Jericho? Walls do fall? Somebody
Speaker 1: say it, walls do fall now, but before the walls
Speaker 1: of Jericho can fall, and before the Battle of Jericho
Speaker 1: can be won, because this will be the first fight
Speaker 1: for the children of God to occupy the Promised Lam.
Speaker 1: Before their first fight, Joshua is setting the frame verse twenty.
Speaker 1: Verse twenty. Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones
Speaker 1: they had taken out of the Jordan. He said to
Speaker 1: the Israelites in the future, when your descendants asked their parents,
Speaker 1: we've gone from the Lord said to Joshua. To Joshua
Speaker 1: said to the priest to the priest did it for
Speaker 1: the people. For the people are doing something that will
Speaker 1: not even accomplish a purpose that may be seen in
Speaker 1: their own lives, but in a generation that is yet
Speaker 1: to come in the future. When your descendants asked their
Speaker 1: parents what do these stones mean, tell them, Israel, cross
Speaker 1: the Jordan on dry ground, for the Lord, your God
Speaker 1: dried up the Jordan before you, until you had crossed over.
Speaker 1: The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he
Speaker 1: had done to the Red Sea, when he dried it
Speaker 1: up before us until we had crossed over. He did this.
Speaker 1: That's the best thing I've read in a long time.
Speaker 1: Tell somebody he did this. So we were testifying last week,
Speaker 1: we're talking about rescue your testimony. Rescue your testimony from
Speaker 1: the clutches of depression. Rescue your testimony from the clutches
Speaker 1: of despair, Rescue your testimony from the regrets of your past,
Speaker 1: and testify to your neighbors. Say he did this. He
Speaker 1: did this. I'm standing here because he did this. Come on,
Speaker 1: let's have a testimony service real quick. How many No,
Speaker 1: God did yes, let's practice. Let's see if you rescued
Speaker 1: your testimony last week. I'm gonna ask you a question,
Speaker 1: and you say, what you think? Who opened your prison doors?
Speaker 1: God did? Then say it, say God did? Who dried
Speaker 1: up your ocean floors? Think about that thing? Who saved
Speaker 1: you and set you free, Who gave you victory right,
Speaker 1: who gave you another day, who made you another way,
Speaker 1: who gave you the breath of prays, who gave you
Speaker 1: a brand new name?
Speaker 3: Ah, somebody shot God did put.
Speaker 1: It in the comments? Not did Now? He did this
Speaker 1: so that all the peoples of the earth might know
Speaker 1: that the hand of the Lord is powerful, and so
Speaker 1: that you might always fear the Lord, your God. The
Speaker 1: final verse I'm going to read, and then I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what we're going to talk about today. But we're
Speaker 1: already talking because God is speaking now. When all the
Speaker 1: Canaanite emrich kings west of the Jordan and the kings
Speaker 1: along the coast heard how the Lord had dried up
Speaker 1: the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over,
Speaker 1: their hearts melted in fear. It's no longer just the
Speaker 1: people of God who know who God is. It's the
Speaker 1: enemies to Ah. I see this, and they no longer
Speaker 1: had the courage to face the Israelites today God wants
Speaker 1: to do something very special in your life. He wants
Speaker 1: to reverse the ripple. That's the word of the Lord
Speaker 1: and Father. As we declare it today. We walk in it,
Speaker 1: we stand in it, we decree it, and we believe that.
Speaker 1: Most of all, we thank you for it, because only
Speaker 1: you could do it in Jesus' name. Amen, you may
Speaker 1: be seated. You may be seated reverse the ripple. You
Speaker 1: will know what that means in about thirty two minutes.
Speaker 1: I do my job because the Lord has some things
Speaker 1: that he wants to turn around your life. Yeah, rescue
Speaker 1: our testimony, and God is going to reverse the ripple.
Speaker 1: I wish we could teach this on the lake. It
Speaker 1: would be a good illustration. Right, how many of you
Speaker 1: like the lake? How many you got a boat? You
Speaker 1: could take me out on the lake. I'm gonna hitch
Speaker 1: you up. You got how many of you? How many
Speaker 1: you have a boat. So if we went out on
Speaker 1: the lake, I could demonstrate the ripple effect. Right, you
Speaker 1: know what it is. It's when one thing happens and
Speaker 1: another thing happens, and another thing happens. And we use
Speaker 1: it metaphorically, but it would be good if we could
Speaker 1: be at the lake because we could. We could get
Speaker 1: a rock, and then we could drop the rock and
Speaker 1: we could watch the ripple, and then I could teach
Speaker 1: the lesson. I could say, and just like this rock
Speaker 1: hit the water, and we wouldn't even have to get
Speaker 1: in the water because I know it's getting kind of cold.
Speaker 1: We could just do it from the shore right there
Speaker 1: in your boat. We could drop the rock, watch the
Speaker 1: rip and we could talk about how things in our
Speaker 1: life happen that cause a ripple. And sometimes it's not
Speaker 1: even until you're living in the ripple that you realize
Speaker 1: the rock was dropped. If we're at the lake, and
Speaker 1: maybe you could have me a bottle of diet coke.
Speaker 1: Don't text me about aspertain, I don't care. I've made
Speaker 1: peace with Aspertame, and we would talk about the ripple
Speaker 1: effects of decisions that you and I have both made,
Speaker 1: words that we spoken. Man, I could probably teach a
Speaker 1: whole leadership class just from a rock and a ripple.
Speaker 1: Many times as a leader, I never saw myself as
Speaker 1: being that important, and I don't think I am important.
Speaker 1: I think God is important, but I think he uses
Speaker 1: people in important ways. And I think that when you
Speaker 1: speak for God your word's way more because many times
Speaker 1: I said things to people in passing as a leader,
Speaker 1: and for good I said them and they kept those
Speaker 1: things with them for three years, good and bad, good
Speaker 1: and bad. And one lady I met one time. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to take a long time with this setup,
Speaker 1: but I want us to get at the lake. Dropped
Speaker 1: a rock, We see the ripple. A lady one time
Speaker 1: told me she kept a voicemail that I sent her
Speaker 1: when her husband died. She kept it for four years.
Speaker 1: Never met her one time on the Before you get
Speaker 1: too impressed with me, because I'm just ride around leaving
Speaker 1: voice memos, praying for people all the time. My kids
Speaker 1: have told me things I said that I said because
Speaker 1: they were true, but the way I said it, it
Speaker 1: stuck with them in a way that they weren't ready
Speaker 1: to hear it Like that, And with all three of
Speaker 1: my kids and with my wife, I can go back
Speaker 1: to times where I spoke something not realizing the weight
Speaker 1: of the rock that I dropped and the ripple that
Speaker 1: it calls for the person that I spoke to. So
Speaker 1: now I got to walk into situations and scenarios and
Speaker 1: take responsibility for my ripple. That's a whole word, take
Speaker 1: responsibility for your ripple. The things you just say passing,
Speaker 1: Oh well, I'm just speaking my mind. Well, why don't
Speaker 1: you just speak your mind inside, do a little internal
Speaker 1: monologue and scream in your pillow. But make sure that
Speaker 1: you respect you're calling enough to take responsibility for your ripple.
Speaker 1: When the Lord said to Joshua, and Joshua said to
Speaker 1: the priest, and the priest led the people, and the
Speaker 1: people demonstrated God's stathfulness in a way that even impressed
Speaker 1: their enemies. We are watching the ripple effect of a
Speaker 1: revelation from God. The very fact that we are sitting
Speaker 1: here today preaching about an incident that happened, an event
Speaker 1: that occurred this long ago go proves my point the
Speaker 1: power of a ripple, the ripple effect of your thoughts
Speaker 1: leading to your actions, leading to your habits, leading to
Speaker 1: your character becoming concrete, so that what you call destiny
Speaker 1: later was actually a decision when the rock was dropped.
Speaker 1: And yet, wouldn't it be nice if life were as
Speaker 1: simple spiritually as it is physically, Because if we were
Speaker 1: at the lake doing this lesson, we could look at
Speaker 1: the rock and we could predict with a few inches,
Speaker 1: you know how big the ripple would be. If we
Speaker 1: had a few minutes, we could drop a little rock,
Speaker 1: a big rock, a medium rock, and we could start saying,
Speaker 1: you know, this one's gonna ripple. I'm just saying the
Speaker 1: bigger the rock was, the bigger the ripple would be Physically. Spiritually,
Speaker 1: it's a little different. You never can tell looking at
Speaker 1: the rock how big the ripple is going to be.
Speaker 1: Not in the Kingdom of God, so that Jesus walks
Speaker 1: around saying things like, if you have the faith of
Speaker 1: a mustard seed, you can move a mountain. What kind
Speaker 1: of mustard seed moves a mountain? A supernatural one, one
Speaker 1: that has been watered by the word of God, one
Speaker 1: that has been cultivated by a heart of faith. What
Speaker 1: kind of lunch has the power to provide for the
Speaker 1: physical hunger of five thousand You would think such a
Speaker 1: little lunch could maybe only feed a little boy. But
Speaker 1: when God dits it, the ripple becomes something that you
Speaker 1: would have never realized. Oh, I feel like preaching, because
Speaker 1: a rock in the hands of a shepherd should not
Speaker 1: bring down a nine foot giant. But you can't tell
Speaker 1: the size of the ripple from the size of this
Speaker 1: rock if it's in God's hands. So we came to
Speaker 1: remind the devil today that my rock might be little,
Speaker 1: but a little rock can make a big ripple if
Speaker 1: God gets a hold of them. Yeah, let's switch this
Speaker 1: thing around. Let's stop looking at the size of our resource,
Speaker 1: the size of our strength, the size of our knowledge,
Speaker 1: the scope of our understanding to determine what God can do.
Speaker 1: Let's stop letting the waves of unbelief block us from
Speaker 1: the reality of the ocean of God's provision. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's reverse the ripple. And what I mean by that
Speaker 1: when I say reverse the ripple, well, I mean a
Speaker 1: few things. Let me break it down a little bit.
Speaker 1: The first thing that I mean by reverse the ripple
Speaker 1: is that instead of starting with what you see, start
Speaker 1: with what God has said. Life changing, life changing right there,
Speaker 1: just if you would start with what God said. And
Speaker 1: many times, we like the Nation of Israel and Joshua
Speaker 1: chapter four, come to places in our own lives where
Speaker 1: we need God to do something and apologize if I'm
Speaker 1: not preaching to you right now that if He doesn't
Speaker 1: do it. So this is not like I need God
Speaker 1: to help me wake up on time. You sent alarm
Speaker 1: clock for that. But this is something different. And one
Speaker 1: of the things that I respect about the Bible is
Speaker 1: that it will repeat something over and over again because
Speaker 1: we learn through repetition. And if you look at this
Speaker 1: Joshua chapter four, there are several times that God tells Joshua,
Speaker 1: take these stones out of the water, kind of like
Speaker 1: they're building an altar. Okay, like Holly preached on reflect
Speaker 1: about the altar. Go on her YouTube and watch that
Speaker 1: message and wear your steel toed boots because she was
Speaker 1: stepping on our toes. But she did it so sweetly.
Speaker 1: She did it in ballet flats. It was unbelievable. And
Speaker 1: the Lord is telling Joshua, like, before you get to
Speaker 1: your first fight, I want you to approach it from
Speaker 1: a place of thinking about your future. Now, this is marvelous.
Speaker 1: Frame the fight that you're facing from a place of
Speaker 1: future faith. And that is often very hard, right because
Speaker 1: we're just in the moment and knowing in the moment.
Speaker 1: Remember it's like that rock in that ripple, knowing in
Speaker 1: the moment what the ripple is going to be. It's
Speaker 1: not always predictable in the spirit, is it? Is it
Speaker 1: you came to church? Because she was cute and asked
Speaker 1: you to come. Then you messed around and got too
Speaker 1: close to the boat, and Jesus hooked you and pulled
Speaker 1: you in, and now you're one of us. Boy, God
Speaker 1: is tricky with that ripple. God is tricky with that ripple.
Speaker 1: You didn't even know. I was just gonna go. So
Speaker 1: I just just going to get to shut up, And
Speaker 1: now I'm bringing people. I don't know what happened. Tell
Speaker 1: your neighbor. It's the ripples, the ripples. To ripple, it's
Speaker 1: the ripple. It's the ripples. The ripple. God will drop something.
Speaker 1: God will just put you somewhere. God will drop you somewhere.
Speaker 1: You will think that you're there because it's a new job.
Speaker 1: And then you meet Gene, and Gene is going through chemotherapy,
Speaker 1: and you went through chemotherapy. So now you minister to
Speaker 1: Gene out of what you went through, so that you
Speaker 1: can comfort him with the comfort by which you have
Speaker 1: been comforted. This is the ripple, the ripple, the ripple,
Speaker 1: the ripple, the ripple. And by the way, what if
Speaker 1: we did that more often? What if we started asking God,
Speaker 1: what do you want to do? Not just for me
Speaker 1: but through me? God who can I touch you touched me?
Speaker 1: Who can I help you healed me? Who can I
Speaker 1: be a blessing to you? Blessed me? When are you
Speaker 1: gonna hand somebody a fifty dollars bill one time? In
Speaker 1: set a waiting on one? When will you be the ripple?
Speaker 1: This is not my message, so pace yourself. I'm just
Speaker 1: setting up this idea of reverse the ripple, reverse the ripple.
Speaker 1: And I have learned in my life that if I
Speaker 1: do not consider please listen to me. If I do
Speaker 1: not consider causes, I will spend my life chasing consequences.
Speaker 1: Consider the cause, or you will spend the rest of
Speaker 1: your life managing consequences. Consider the cause, or you can
Speaker 1: spend the rest of your life looking for tips on
Speaker 1: TikTok for how to be more peaceful. But after you
Speaker 1: have done everything TikTok told you to do, I mean
Speaker 1: you can do everything. You could take your walk barefoot
Speaker 1: on the grass, walk backwards, barefoot on the grass, sipping
Speaker 1: of protein smoothie with collagens in the smoothie. You can
Speaker 1: do all of that. You can do red light, blue light,
Speaker 1: black light, blue light, stroke light, you can do all
Speaker 1: the lights on your face. You can do all of it.
Speaker 1: You can meditate, you can pontificate, you can blow be eight,
Speaker 1: you can hyperventilate because you are not getting peace until
Speaker 1: you consider the source. You get all attempts you want,
Speaker 1: but until you get the truth, you will not come
Speaker 1: through this. Jordan, here's what I'm trying to say. You
Speaker 1: can't fix the ripple till you find the rock. I'm
Speaker 1: appreciate this in Boise too. Tell them get ready. You
Speaker 1: can't fix the ripple till you find the rock. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of religion is ripple management, behavior modification,
Speaker 1: empty tradition. God, I promise I'll never do it again
Speaker 1: until three point thirty, and it's three twenty five right now.
Speaker 1: That's ripple management. That's white knuckling, not worship. Ripple management
Speaker 1: cannot bring you to a place of restoration. It can
Speaker 1: only bring you to a place of relief temporarily. So
Speaker 1: what are the areas in your life right now where
Speaker 1: you are trying to fix ripples but you don't even
Speaker 1: know what rock was dropped that cost it to begin with.
Speaker 1: This is like quoting Bible versus on top of trauma
Speaker 1: that you won't deal with. This is like whitch in
Speaker 1: friend groups. Every time they see what's really secret hidden
Speaker 1: in you and call it out and confront it, It's
Speaker 1: gonna get quieter and quiet. It's gonna be a reverse
Speaker 1: ripple today. Usually we start small and get big. Were
Speaker 1: going the other way today. We're reversing the ripple today
Speaker 1: until we get down to what is the thing that
Speaker 1: was dropped that caused you to do it? What was
Speaker 1: dropped that caused me to do it? Why did I
Speaker 1: lose my temper because they're annoying? Really because the people
Speaker 1: at work were annoying, but you didn't go off on
Speaker 1: them because you knew you couldn't get away with it.
Speaker 1: You went off on them at home, not because they're annoying,
Speaker 1: but because you know they'll forgive you. And the real
Speaker 1: rock that made you do it was the fact that
Speaker 1: you don't take responsibility for it. And until we get
Speaker 1: real about this stuff, we will spend our entire lives
Speaker 1: riding the waves of our ripples going I'm so anxious,
Speaker 1: I'm so anxious, I'm so anxious. Well, cut your thumb off.
Speaker 1: Jesus said it'd be better to lose your whole hand
Speaker 1: then go to help. So I'd rather fix it. I'd
Speaker 1: rather fix it wear the rock drop than live the
Speaker 1: rest of my life frustrated by the ripples it You
Speaker 1: say this is just an Old Testament story, are you
Speaker 1: absolutely crazy out of your mind? Ridiculous? Do you not
Speaker 1: understand that this is the entire threat of the New Testament.
Speaker 1: It is law versus grace, It is us never really understanding.
Speaker 1: And I hope to come back to this in a
Speaker 1: moment if this sermon comes full circle. But speaking of
Speaker 1: full circle, there is a place called Gilgal and Joshua
Speaker 1: chapter four. If you've never heard of it, you can
Speaker 1: be forgiven. But the word gilgal actually means circle. And
Speaker 1: isn't it interesting in a passage that demonstrates the power
Speaker 1: of the Lord spoke to Joshua, Joshua spoke to the priest,
Speaker 1: The priest spoke to the people. The people did what
Speaker 1: God told them, and it was a demonstration to the
Speaker 1: nations that didn't even know God. Isn't it interesting that
Speaker 1: circle after circle after circle after concentric circles, And let
Speaker 1: us not forget about the circle of the generation that
Speaker 1: isn't even old enough to ask the question yet that
Speaker 1: is being affected by their faith or lack thereof, which
Speaker 1: brings us back to the Red Sea, which was the
Speaker 1: central motif of Israel's identity. Now Rugeman says that it
Speaker 1: is the I think his exact wording is the primal narrative,
Speaker 1: but I just I like the simplified things. So core
Speaker 1: story that better. Primal narrative. I sound like you got
Speaker 1: to pay to hear about something like that, and you
Speaker 1: didn't pay anything to get in here today. So core
Speaker 1: story and when God brought them through the Red Sea
Speaker 1: was their core story. In fact, even when Joshua says,
Speaker 1: go get some rocks, tell your neighbor, get some rocks
Speaker 1: to tell your kids what God did, why would he
Speaker 1: think like this. Surely you have more important things to do, namely,
Speaker 1: when they get to Gilgal, they got to cut off
Speaker 1: everybody's foreskin because none of these people have been circumcised yet.
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to illustrate how this whole text
Speaker 1: is circular. But this all has to happen at Gilgal.
Speaker 1: But before you get to Guild, go listen to me good.
Speaker 1: Before you get to Gilgal, before you go to Jericho,
Speaker 1: before you even get to the place of cutting away,
Speaker 1: that's going to happen. Before you go in, get some
Speaker 1: rocks to tell your kids what God did. I like that.
Speaker 1: Get some rocks to tell your kids what God did,
Speaker 1: and you're going to tell them what God did, not
Speaker 1: what you did, because all you did was walk. Y'all.
Speaker 1: We take too much credit. Sometimes. I see everybody of
Speaker 1: hustle and grind on Instagram, but I saw you also.
Speaker 1: I saw you hustle and grind. But I also saw
Speaker 1: you hide and grumble and groan and grieve. I saw
Speaker 1: all of that too, And the real testimony of it
Speaker 1: from my life is what God did. When they showed
Speaker 1: that video, I want to thank our creative team for
Speaker 1: the video they showed earlier in the service of the
Speaker 1: ripple effect of this ministry. Thank you. That was excellent.
Speaker 1: That was well done. It wasn't bragging on us, but
Speaker 1: it was showing the people that all the way from
Speaker 1: Valentine to Boise to Botswana. Anytime the sermon ain't going
Speaker 1: good today, I just say Boise and all the way.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna show you something that's gonna blow your mind.
Speaker 1: I got teary on the front row. I said for
Speaker 1: to keep it together, save your emotion for when you
Speaker 1: get up there. Do not leak this thing out on
Speaker 1: the front Rule and I'm like, but God, this is
Speaker 1: touching me right now, and he said, stuff it down
Speaker 1: and share it with them. So here's what it is.
Speaker 1: Because you said whoa and I said boise, And there
Speaker 1: was somebody on the video that said that they were
Speaker 1: from Botswana and we're here at Valentine. But it took
Speaker 1: me back. It took me back to just yesterday a
Speaker 1: story that I was telling my son on the second row,
Speaker 1: because he asked me something about the early days of
Speaker 1: this church, and he asked me something about the phase
Speaker 1: when we were just moving here and we only had
Speaker 1: our core team, and he asked me something about the
Speaker 1: way it is now and the way it was then,
Speaker 1: and going out to minister to people all over the world,
Speaker 1: and the reach and the ripple of the ministry. He
Speaker 1: didn't say ripple, but that's what we were talking about.
Speaker 1: And I was sitting there talking to him and I said,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I got to compose myself for a minute,
Speaker 1: because this conversation takes me back to how before I
Speaker 1: would come out to our team and tell them we're
Speaker 1: going to reach the world. We're gonna touch the world.
Speaker 1: God's gonna use us, God's gonna do something. It's going
Speaker 1: to be amazing. It takes me back to how before
Speaker 1: I would go and boldly speak to them. I would
Speaker 1: sneak into the bathroom and I would lock myself in
Speaker 1: the stall, and I would fight back my own reflex
Speaker 1: to walk out, because how can I walk out and
Speaker 1: tell them this? When I'm wondering did I mislead all
Speaker 1: of them? Can we really do this? Because I stood
Speaker 1: it a Jordan and I thought God spoke. But sometimes
Speaker 1: you think it and don't feel it when it comes
Speaker 1: time to do it. But I locked that stall and
Speaker 1: I said, God, if it's gonna happen, it's gonna have
Speaker 1: to be you. And when I tell my kids one
Speaker 1: day from Valentine, what you did all the way to Boisi?
Speaker 3: What's your did all the way to bock Swater, When
Speaker 3: I tell my children, what a thankful God you said?
Speaker 1: Truer worse ever, visss Fucus. And my stones will tell
Speaker 1: my story, and my stones will tell my story, and
Speaker 1: my stones will tell my story, and my sleepless nights
Speaker 1: will give.
Speaker 3: Way to a new day, and my stones will tell
Speaker 3: my story. And we'll shout it, validies, and we'll shout
Speaker 3: in noisy, and we'll shout in my slaughter and will
Speaker 3: shot till you get numb.
Speaker 1: Break through. Yeah, we're gonna turn this thing around right now.
Speaker 1: You keep talking how big these Amalekites are, how big
Speaker 1: these Canaanites are. We need to reverse this ripple. It
Speaker 1: doesn't start with the size of the Canaanites. It starts
Speaker 1: with the size of the God that you serve. Well, Oh, preachy, creachy, preachy, freechie,
Speaker 1: preachy preachie. I got a big God.
Speaker 3: I got a good God. I keep telling God how
Speaker 3: big it is.
Speaker 1: I want to tell him how big.
Speaker 4: Ah, if you saw my God, you'dn't understand my stout
Speaker 4: shout now like you need a wall to fall.
Speaker 3: Oh my mona, sound like boisey, sound like boisey.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, high five. Your neighbors say,
Speaker 1: reverse it, reverse it, reverse it, reverse it. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: when you rehearse it, you reverse it. You missed it.
Speaker 1: You were high five, and I said, when you rehearse it,
Speaker 1: you reverse it. When you tell him how you locked
Speaker 1: yourself in the bathroom stall, you remember that there is
Speaker 1: no space too tight, no mountains too high, no need
Speaker 1: too great, no ravine too dry For God to show
Speaker 1: up and do what God does. He did it at
Speaker 1: the Red Sea, he did it at the Jordans. He's
Speaker 1: doing it in you right now. It will be by
Speaker 1: faith who did God set me on fire for today?
Speaker 1: That you need to reverse the ripple because every time
Speaker 1: you think about the court case you go into panic attacks.
Speaker 1: Think about the judge and give it over to him
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be all right, baby boy. Every time
Speaker 1: you think about it, it sends a ripple. It sends
Speaker 1: you into fear, It sends you into self loathing, It
Speaker 1: sends you into hiding. It sends you back to drugs,
Speaker 1: it sends you back to sex. You shouldn't be having
Speaker 1: with people who are the ripple of a decision that
Speaker 1: you made that you never would have made had you
Speaker 1: been in your right place, in your right mind. Well,
Speaker 1: we got to find the rock or we can't fix
Speaker 1: the ripple. And see why I think Joshua was so intentional,
Speaker 1: everybody say intentional in this moment. And why God is
Speaker 1: so intentional with you and why He is revealing things
Speaker 1: even now for you, is because for forty years the
Speaker 1: story was told. Wat's just we went through the Red Sea.
Speaker 1: We clap when we talk about that. They cried because
Speaker 1: after they got through the Red Sea, they stopped. And
Speaker 1: I like to show you why. Well, sit down, let
Speaker 1: me show you why. When numbers chapter thirteen gets the
Speaker 1: verse thirty one, it's kind of a battle of opinions,
Speaker 1: kind of like you got going on in the world
Speaker 1: right now. Everybody's shouting about everything. A bunch of noise,
Speaker 1: a whole lot of ripple, not a lot of revelation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And when Caleb stood up, he was like, shut up,
Speaker 1: we can do it because they're about to go into
Speaker 1: the Promised Lamp. That's the saddest thing to me. When
Speaker 1: Holly was preaching, they built the altar, and God gave
Speaker 1: him the ten Commandments, and then they went in the
Speaker 1: wilderness forty years why ripple watch number thirteen go to
Speaker 1: thirty one. But the men who had gone up with
Speaker 1: Caleb only ones who said we can do it, as
Speaker 1: Joshua and Caleb to ten others said this, we can't
Speaker 1: attack those people. That's why I had you just singing
Speaker 1: I can't do it, but the Great I Am can. Earlier,
Speaker 1: that's why we wrote that so you can acknowledge it.
Speaker 1: We can't attack those people. They are stronger than we are.
Speaker 1: Now stay there, back right there, stronger then we are,
Speaker 1: and now watch what happens. Verse thirty two. They spread
Speaker 1: among the Israelites a bad ripple, a bad report. Bad
Speaker 1: reports have ripples, a bad report about the land they
Speaker 1: had explored about what God wanted to give them, about
Speaker 1: the size of the giants, And they said, the land
Speaker 1: we explored devours those living in it. All the people
Speaker 1: we saw there are of great size. We saw the
Speaker 1: Nephilm there, the descendants of Anac come from the Nephilm.
Speaker 1: We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, in our
Speaker 1: own eyes, and we looked the same to them. But
Speaker 1: why in the world would you start with your eyes
Speaker 1: if you're receiving God's promise? I told you at the
Speaker 1: beginning of my sermon, is what you see and what
Speaker 1: God says. God said you can have it, and you
Speaker 1: see that you can't. Which one is your rock? What
Speaker 1: are you building on? Verse thirty one Again, Please, they
Speaker 1: are stronger than we are. That's true. The disease is
Speaker 1: stronger than your body right now. That is true. The
Speaker 1: shame is real because the event really happened. That's true.
Speaker 1: The guilt is real. Because you really would have done
Speaker 1: it differently. That's true. All of that is true, but
Speaker 1: it's not your starting place. And this is a principle
Speaker 1: that I want you to receive from the word of
Speaker 1: the Lord today. If you start with your strength, you
Speaker 1: end in defeating. If you start with your strength, if
Speaker 1: you start with your smarts, if you start with your anything,
Speaker 1: you end in defeat because you run out reverse the ripple.
Speaker 1: Start with God. Tell your neighbor I'm a name dropper. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't mean that how you think I tell them.
Speaker 1: I don't mean it how you think I mean it.
Speaker 1: But I know the Great I am. So whatever I'm not,
Speaker 1: he is. I don't start with who I am. I
Speaker 1: drop the name of the Great I am. That's good
Speaker 1: right there, That's good like syuh right there. Because when
Speaker 1: you put the name of your God, the promise of
Speaker 1: your God, on the thing that you're facing, it reverses,
Speaker 1: not necessarily the situation, but it taps you into His strength.
Speaker 1: I can do all things through I gotta teach you
Speaker 1: all the Bible. Now, come on, I can do all
Speaker 1: things through Christ, who strengthens me. So I am not
Speaker 1: starting with my strength. Stop waking up in the morning,
Speaker 1: and discerning what you can do today based on how
Speaker 1: strong you feel when you wake up. You gotta reverse that. No, No,
Speaker 1: the first thing I'm not doing when I wake up
Speaker 1: in the morning is consulting my stress level. My stress
Speaker 1: level will keep me under all these sheets. But at
Speaker 1: some point, I've got to throw off the covers. I've
Speaker 1: got to stand up on my feet. I've got to
Speaker 1: declare that what God called me to do today will
Speaker 1: be done today, and what he called me to do
Speaker 1: tomorrow can wait till tomorrow. And what he never called
Speaker 1: me to do, somebody else can do. Because I am
Speaker 1: not responsible for their ripple. So you cannot fix the
Speaker 1: ripple until you find the rock. And the problem with
Speaker 1: God's people in this passage has really not changed very
Speaker 1: much at all, has it. They have allowed their identity
Speaker 1: to become filtered through an event, an event we didn't
Speaker 1: go in to the will. We've stayed in the wilderness
Speaker 1: because of an event. We did not have our confidence
Speaker 1: because we came from Egypt where we were slaves. But
Speaker 1: slavery was the event, not the identity. Help me, Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: somebody right now who's been divorced, Somebody right now who's
Speaker 1: had an abortion, somebody right now who tried to take
Speaker 1: your own life, somebody right now who has never been
Speaker 1: able to hold down a job, somebody right now who
Speaker 1: has never been able to be good with money. Those
Speaker 1: are events, They are not identities. Identities come from within.
Speaker 1: It is Christ in you, the hope of glory. He
Speaker 1: is your rock. And for everybody who has ever been rejected.
Speaker 1: Let me jump a few centuries to first Peter two seven,
Speaker 1: where Peter quotes the prophet saying, but to you who
Speaker 1: believe this stone, we're talking about stones right this stone
Speaker 1: being Christ, this stone is precious. But to those who
Speaker 1: do not believe, watch this. The stone that the builders
Speaker 1: rejected has become the corner stone. Stop living in the
Speaker 1: ripple of their rejection. They are not your rock. I said,
Speaker 1: They're not your rock. They're not your rock. They're not
Speaker 1: your rock. To the point that human ingenuity is so
Speaker 1: limited that they throw tried to throw Jesus away. They
Speaker 1: rejected the stone that God built the whole thing on.
Speaker 1: God is my rock. But first, something must happen at
Speaker 1: this place where your feet are right now. Something must
Speaker 1: happen at the place where you've stalled out. Something must
Speaker 1: happen at the place where you laid down. Something must
Speaker 1: happen at the place where you remain uncircum size. Something
Speaker 1: must happen here. And then then amazing how almost everything
Speaker 1: with God is opposite. Across brings life. What as across
Speaker 1: across his gruesome, across his death, No across is glorious.
Speaker 1: Rocks bring down giants. I'm gonna take you one more thing,
Speaker 1: just to throw it in because I feel like it's
Speaker 1: for somebody. I don't know what it's for. I don't
Speaker 1: want to miss it. M Uh. How fast the ripple
Speaker 1: happens doesn't always tell you how far it's going to go.
Speaker 1: Some things in your life are going slow because God
Speaker 1: is building something that's really really good. Put that in
Speaker 1: for free. This ripple may start slow, but it may
Speaker 1: spread wide. You don't know. You don't know. Somebody packed
Speaker 1: that little boy's lunch that he fed to the crowd
Speaker 1: that day. You might be a mom packing the lunch
Speaker 1: that we're gonna be talking about in Boise and Valentine
Speaker 1: and Botswana. That's the ripple. That's the ripple. That's the ripple.
Speaker 1: That's the ripple. That's the that's the ripple, that's how
Speaker 1: God does it. He takes something as simple as a stone,
Speaker 1: and I love him because sometimes the smallest pebbles have
Speaker 1: the greatest purpose. There was a widow in church one day.
Speaker 1: She put two mites, two coins in the offer, and
Speaker 1: Jesus said, that's the biggest ripple that's been put in
Speaker 1: that temple that today. All the rich people they didn't
Speaker 1: ripple at all. Jesus thought, I lott pebble. He said,
Speaker 1: that's all she has right there. You see how the
Speaker 1: smallest pebble can serve the biggest purpose. You see how
Speaker 1: the smallest rock, if the right guy's got it just
Speaker 1: enough rotations booming. We are preaching about him every Sunday.
Speaker 1: There's not a Sunday that goes by that I don't
Speaker 1: tell you David killed Goliath. Little pebble, big purpose. And
Speaker 1: yet we want to look at a fort twenty because
Speaker 1: this one is a little different. Where he said take
Speaker 1: the twelve stones out. Everybody say out of the Jordan,
Speaker 1: because normally a ripple happens when you throw a stone in,
Speaker 1: but this ripple is in reverse. You're gonna tell your
Speaker 1: children what I did. And you think a ripple only
Speaker 1: happens when a stone is thrown in. But this ripple,
Speaker 1: somebody shout, this ripple. Come on, After all I've been through,
Speaker 1: after all I've seen God do, after all the reasons
Speaker 1: I shouldn't be here, This ripple is not gonna happen
Speaker 1: because of a stone you threw in. It's gonna happen
Speaker 1: because of a stone that you take out. Now, now
Speaker 1: shall it Because there are some stones, Yeah, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: some ripples. There are some ripples that can only happen
Speaker 1: through removal. Touch three. People say, get it out, get
Speaker 1: it out, get it out, get it out, get it out,
Speaker 1: get it out, get it out, get it out, get
Speaker 1: it out, get it out, get it out, get it out.
Speaker 1: All that bitterness, get it out, get it out, get
Speaker 1: it out, get it out. All that regret, get it out,
Speaker 1: get it out.
Speaker 3: All that bias, all that judtment, all that president is.
Speaker 1: All that is security. Get it out. Because this ripple,
Speaker 1: the burst.
Speaker 3: Shall be last, and the last shall be burst. They
Speaker 3: that's so its we'll rad be joy this.
Speaker 1: Ripple. Come on. Twelve high fives say, this ripple is
Speaker 1: in reverse. Yeah. You keep waiting for God to put
Speaker 1: something in, But God said, I will reveal it when
Speaker 1: you remove it. Oh that was good to me. I'll
Speaker 1: try it again. I'll try it again. God removes to reveal.
Speaker 1: God wants to show you through this story. God wants
Speaker 1: to show you through this moment. God wants to show
Speaker 1: you through what you call a burden. God wants to
Speaker 1: show you through what you can't carry. God wants to
Speaker 1: show you through what you can't do. God is even
Speaker 1: using your enemies to cause you to depend on him.
Speaker 1: So this ripple is in reverse. Don't wait for something
Speaker 1: else to come. Take that thing out that is keeping
Speaker 1: you from believing what he spoke. If it's an addiction,
Speaker 1: it's got to go. If it's pride, it's got to go.
Speaker 1: If it's your thoughts of yourself, it's got to go.
Speaker 1: If it's your need to be right to go. Every
Speaker 1: stone must go. And this woman, this woman of God,
Speaker 1: confirmed my message. She preached on altars. She talked about rocks.
Speaker 1: I was already getting ready to preach. She talked about rocks,
Speaker 1: and then she went home and sent a verse to
Speaker 1: our Bible club. We've been we've been going through the
Speaker 1: Book of Ezekiel. I wanted to say, stuck in the
Speaker 1: weird part of the Book of Ezekiel. But that sounds sacrilegious.
Speaker 1: But the reason y'all don't think it's weird is because
Speaker 1: y'all don't read it. So anyway, judge me all you want.
Speaker 1: You can't condemn me. But but she said, she said
Speaker 1: it was. It was one thirty in the morning. She
Speaker 1: had preached from reflect she had poured her heart out,
Speaker 1: and she said, I gotta go do my key verse,
Speaker 1: because we swap around and do the key verse. I said,
Speaker 1: I'll do it for you today, Babe, I can do
Speaker 1: this for you. I'm gonna chat gpt a little bit
Speaker 1: and said over. But she said, I'm gonna go do it.
Speaker 1: And she said, she said, I'm gonna do it, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go do it. And she sent it to me,
Speaker 1: and she sent Ezekiel eleven nineteen. And the Lord said,
Speaker 1: now you know that I got the right message for
Speaker 1: you about removing the rocks, because the Office said, I
Speaker 1: will give them an undevii hour watch this, Holly, one
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning, and I put a new spirit
Speaker 1: in them. My will removed from them their heart of stone.
Speaker 1: Now I can fix the ripple because I found the rock. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been my hard heart and the nature of the
Speaker 1: Lord is that he removes to reveal, because verse twenty says,
Speaker 1: and then when he does that, when he gives to
Speaker 1: this Jesus heart, this heart that is sensitive to the
Speaker 1: ways of grace, This heart that knows that you need them,
Speaker 1: This heart that knows that he did it, not you.
Speaker 1: This heart that remembers that you are in the bathroom
Speaker 1: stall long before you are in. Boy. See the heart
Speaker 1: that remembers that the Lord did this, and that he's
Speaker 1: bigger than our enemies. That heart, that heart of flesh,
Speaker 1: that heart that is justified only by Jesus, made righteous
Speaker 1: only through him, his blood, his word, his covenant, his water.
Speaker 1: Verse twenty. Please, then they will follow my decrease. Watch
Speaker 1: the ripple. When I remove it, then they will follow, beautiful,
Speaker 1: and be careful to keep my loss. Now stay with
Speaker 1: me for one more minute, because there is one more
Speaker 1: story that has nothing to do with Jordan Rivers. But
Speaker 1: it is in John's Gospel, and the Lord alerted it
Speaker 1: to me as a confirmation and a word for those
Speaker 1: who are struggling with shame, condemnation, and rejection and guilt.
Speaker 1: And it has been ripping through your sanity. It's been
Speaker 1: ripping through your relationships. It has been ripping through your
Speaker 1: professional life. It has been ripping through every part of
Speaker 1: your life. And what's going to happen if we don't
Speaker 1: share this story right now is that you're going to
Speaker 1: think that the point of my message is that you've
Speaker 1: got to pick up a big heavy stone and carry
Speaker 1: it and show God that you really mean it this time.
Speaker 1: But that's religion ripples. We're dealing with rocks today. And
Speaker 1: when Jesus walked the earth, he did something very very
Speaker 1: interesting because he was the rock, right, he was the rock,
Speaker 1: and he demonstrated something one day in an unlikely way
Speaker 1: to win. John chapter eight, verse three, Please on the
Speaker 1: Screens says they brought a woman who was caught in adultery.
Speaker 1: Now I think that has a double meaning. I think
Speaker 1: that she was caught means that they saw her doing it.
Speaker 1: I also think that means that she didn't want to
Speaker 1: do it. She was caught. Follow me, I think when
Speaker 1: we get caught, usually we were caught. It's not that
Speaker 1: we wanted to do it. I wonder what rocks were
Speaker 1: dropped in her life to cause this ripple. But nobody
Speaker 1: wanted to know that did that? Now? They just brought her,
Speaker 1: charged her, made her stand before the group verse at
Speaker 1: verse four, and said to Jesus, teacher, this woman was
Speaker 1: caught in the act of adultery. How right they were,
Speaker 1: And in the law of Moses commanded us to stone
Speaker 1: such women, to stone such women. I just told you,
Speaker 1: an event is not an identity. She's not such woman.
Speaker 1: She's not a such woman. Who in the world do
Speaker 1: you think you are labeling people according to their worse mistake?
Speaker 1: In lowis moment, I'm about to show you what Jesus
Speaker 1: thinks about this, and for when you label yourself. So
Speaker 1: we got a stoner, right, what do you say? Inn't
Speaker 1: that crazy? How our text in Joshua had a question
Speaker 1: what do these stones mean? And now you've got a
Speaker 1: group of people, probably men. The Pharisees and the teachers
Speaker 1: of the law were men, and they want to stone
Speaker 1: the woman because they put her identity through the grid
Speaker 1: of the event. So here's where we are, Here's where
Speaker 1: you are. You've been there, you might be there right now?
Speaker 1: What do you say? What do these stones mean? What
Speaker 1: do you see? Let's see how the rock responds to
Speaker 1: their rocks verse six. They were using this question as
Speaker 1: a trap in order to have a basis for accusing
Speaker 1: him a trap. They're trying to trip him up. But
Speaker 1: he's the rock. He ain't go trip over what he is,
Speaker 1: stumbling block or a cornerstone. It all depends on how
Speaker 1: you see him in order to have a basis for
Speaker 1: accusing him. But Jesus bent down, Uh huh. Zoom out
Speaker 1: so they can see online what I'm doing, not that
Speaker 1: I'm Jesus. I'm just trying to make the text come alive,
Speaker 1: and started to write on the ground with his finger.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's writing her a new story. Maybe he's writing
Speaker 1: a new chapter. Maybe he's writing something that she's gonna do.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's writing down all their sins. Because watch this.
Speaker 1: Watch what happened when he did when he stooped verse
Speaker 1: number seven. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened
Speaker 1: up and said, let any one of you who is
Speaker 1: without sin be the first to throw the stone at her.
Speaker 1: Watch what God does when they go to throw their rocks.
Speaker 1: Watch what he does. The next time guilt tries to
Speaker 1: tell you that you can never recover, watch what God
Speaker 1: does the next time you try to go back to
Speaker 1: your past and imprison yourself over something everybody else has forgiven,
Speaker 1: but you. Verse number eight says as they circled around her.
Speaker 1: As they circled around her, he again stooped and wrote
Speaker 1: on the ground. Next verse that this those who heard
Speaker 1: begin to go away, one at a time. This is
Speaker 1: comical the older ones first, because if he was writing
Speaker 1: their sins in the dirt, the ones who had lived
Speaker 1: the longest had the most ripples. So they took off
Speaker 1: running because I got ripples. If we really started listening
Speaker 1: what you've been through, you wouldn't be commenting on anybody
Speaker 1: else's Instagram, would you arm them? So I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the rock, not their rocks. The rock. He got down
Speaker 1: in the ground, and he began to write, and they
Speaker 1: all started leaving. Watch this until say it with me.
Speaker 1: Only Jesus was left sit again. Only Jesus was left
Speaker 1: one more time for repetition. Only Jesus was left, because
Speaker 1: only Jesus was right. Until the only one right was
Speaker 1: the only one left, the only one who had the
Speaker 1: right to throw a stone. He didn't throw it, He
Speaker 1: took it. You tell me about your sin, let me
Speaker 1: tell you about his grace. Grace, grace, God's grace, grace.
Speaker 1: Second pardon and cleanse within somebody self grace, grace, grace
Speaker 1: that is greater than all of my sin. So my
Speaker 1: sin sent a ripple, and his righteousness sin forgiveness. So
Speaker 1: my sin sent a ripple, but his death sent a
Speaker 1: different message to my shame. And the Bible says that
Speaker 1: it was just Jesus and her, and he looked around
Speaker 1: like he didn't know Verse ten, and asked her a question, woman,
Speaker 1: where are they?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: They didn't throw their rocks. That's because I am your rock.
Speaker 1: You let me defend you, You let me vindicate you,
Speaker 1: You let me justify you. You hear me. You don't
Speaker 1: even have to prove it to them. Stop posting to
Speaker 1: prove it, and pray about it, and get down on
Speaker 1: your knees with Jesus and let him restore you reputation.
Speaker 1: You walk different because while you're trying to fix the ripple,
Speaker 1: he's trying to get you to drop the rocks. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I love what he gave her as a gift
Speaker 1: in verse eleven, And I give it to you as
Speaker 1: I close today, God, this message is heavy in my heart.
Speaker 1: There must be somebody with a heavy heart of stone
Speaker 1: today that the Lord wants to break and he looked
Speaker 1: all around, and all the rocks were gone but one.
Speaker 1: All the rocks were gone but one. And then he
Speaker 1: told her, now that we got rid of their rocks,
Speaker 1: let's get rid of yours neither. I don't even know
Speaker 1: who was scorn. I don't even know who was skilled.
Speaker 1: They don't even be in the room. But he said,
Speaker 1: you can go now and leave your life of sin.
Speaker 1: You keep trying to fix the sin, that's the ripple.
Speaker 1: But when he removes the stone, Yes, when he takes
Speaker 1: that that hard place away. In fact, right now, I
Speaker 1: want us to stand to our feet and just lift
Speaker 1: our hands to the Lord. Just do it. Quit being
Speaker 1: so stubborn about surrendering to God. Quit letting that heart
Speaker 1: of stone tell you what to do and when to
Speaker 1: do it. Because there are some things that can happen
Speaker 1: in a moment, in the presence of God, that can
Speaker 1: ripple back to your home. Do you know that if
Speaker 1: you just get this word from God and feel an emotion, great,
Speaker 1: If I can give you one hour to escape the
Speaker 1: hell that you have to go through, I'll show up
Speaker 1: and do it. But what if we could send a ripple.
Speaker 1: What if in this moment you drop some rocks. Today.
Speaker 1: I know that we keep waiting for something else to come,
Speaker 1: another blessing, another opportunity. But the Lord gave me a
Speaker 1: different message today. He said, we're reversing the ripple. We
Speaker 1: are not starting with what is coming in. We are
Speaker 1: starting with what is coming out. So I call you
Speaker 1: out today, say out out of fear, out of bondage,
Speaker 1: out of shame, out of it, out of it, out
Speaker 1: of it, come out, come out, come out, come out,
Speaker 1: come out, come out, come out, part of stone, come out.
Speaker 1: Until the only one left. He's the only one right.
Speaker 1: Listen to me. What God says about you is right.
Speaker 1: Everything else is wrong. What you call yourself is wrong.
Speaker 1: What you thought your life was supposed to be is wrong.
Speaker 1: Who you thought was supposed to still be in your
Speaker 1: life right now it was wrong. He's right. And this
Speaker 1: rock just hear saying God in my spirit, Chris, can
Speaker 1: you sing it that high? Oh God, my God, I
Speaker 1: need you, Oh God, my God, I need you now now,
Speaker 1: Oh God, God. I reckon. This is why I heard it,
Speaker 1: this line right here, to call on it. I'll standing
Speaker 1: on you. So hang on right there, stay right there,
Speaker 1: stay right there. We're gonna go back into the bridge
Speaker 1: in a minute. But we're gonna hit verse twenty four
Speaker 1: one more time. You tell them what God did? You
Speaker 1: tell them what the central event of your life was
Speaker 1: not a failure. It was a cross your course story,
Speaker 1: your primal narrative. Your rock is a stone that was
Speaker 1: rolled away, and now this is the reverse ripple. The
Speaker 1: stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.
Speaker 1: You can build your life on him. He removes to reveal.
Speaker 1: He reveals to restore, and the word restore must literally
Speaker 1: mean restory, a new story. When the stone goes, the
Speaker 1: new story comes. So I'll give you this and I'll
Speaker 1: get out of your way. That he said what I
Speaker 1: did at the Red Sea, you weren't ready for yet.
Speaker 1: And you've stayed stuck in that regret for so long,
Speaker 1: and it has rippled the bad report, rippled through forty
Speaker 1: years of wilderness living. But now I want you to
Speaker 1: take a stone with you, because you are going into
Speaker 1: a season where I am rolling away your regrets. I
Speaker 1: am rolling away your reproach. Hallelujah, I am cutting away
Speaker 1: your flesh. Who opened your prison doors? God did, who
Speaker 1: dried up your ocean floors? God did, who raced you
Speaker 1: up from the dead. God did who justified, redeemed you,
Speaker 1: called you, created you, and breathed the very breath of
Speaker 1: life into you. So if he did it, then you
Speaker 1: heard your children. Then you hear your children. Now you
Speaker 1: are je.
Speaker 5: Don't hold it back, let it flow, Let it flow,
Speaker 5: let it flow. No flu unlock right now, no flu.
Speaker 1: You say, this is a holy moment. Now he said.
Speaker 6: You come on, let's take it up higher. Let's take
Speaker 6: it up higher. And the Lord says, it's your Jordan.
Speaker 1: Here, it's your Jordan. Here, it's your Jordan here. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is You heard it right, It's Jordan here, it's
Speaker 1: your Jordanaire gonna say you slop slow. Thank you for
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