1 00:00:01,580 --> 00:00:02,779 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Furtick. 2 00:00:02,820 --> 00:00:05,859 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:07,660 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: I hope this inspires you. I hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,660 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 2: I hope it gives you perspective to see God is 6 00:00:12,580 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 2: moving in your life. Enjoy the message. I want you 7 00:00:20,460 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 2: to look at this Scripture in Luke, chapter 6, and 8 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:35,690 Speaker 2: share a little story from the life of Jesus. Over 9 00:00:35,710 --> 00:00:38,710 Speaker 2: the last two weeks, I've been unpacking what it means 10 00:00:38,810 --> 00:00:42,409 Speaker 2: to examine your examples and kind of think about what 11 00:00:42,430 --> 00:00:46,990 Speaker 2: you're modeling your life after and what mold you are 12 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 2: squeezing your mind into and what determines the way you think. 13 00:00:51,140 --> 00:00:52,940 Speaker 2: Just stay standing for one more moment while I read 14 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,220 Speaker 2: the Scripture, and then you can be seated. You can 15 00:00:56,300 --> 00:01:01,060 Speaker 2: use that premium seat we put in this campus. Welcome 16 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:03,180 Speaker 2: to all of our locations and our eFam around the world. 17 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:06,260 Speaker 2: This is the last sermon I'm going to preach in 18 00:01:06,300 --> 00:01:08,260 Speaker 2: this stream of teaching, but I think it's going to 19 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,899 Speaker 2: be a really important one. Luke, chapter 6, verse 1, says, 20 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 2: One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grain fields, and 21 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,910 Speaker 2: his disciples began to pick some heads of grain, rub 22 00:01:19,970 --> 00:01:24,050 Speaker 2: them in their hands, and eat the kernels. I just 23 00:01:24,090 --> 00:01:27,390 Speaker 2: have a theory, but I think Peter started this little 24 00:01:27,430 --> 00:01:32,210 Speaker 2: grain-picking thing. Verse 2, some of the Pharisees asked, why 25 00:01:32,290 --> 00:01:35,370 Speaker 2: are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath? Jesus 26 00:01:35,510 --> 00:01:39,369 Speaker 2: answered them, have you never read what David did when 27 00:01:39,470 --> 00:01:43,369 Speaker 2: he and his companions were hungry? He entered the house 28 00:01:43,430 --> 00:01:47,950 Speaker 2: of God and taking the consecrated bread, he ate what 29 00:01:48,010 --> 00:01:52,350 Speaker 2: is lawful only for priests to eat, and he also 30 00:01:52,410 --> 00:01:55,070 Speaker 2: gave some to his companions. This is a key verse. 31 00:01:55,530 --> 00:01:58,290 Speaker 2: Then Jesus said to them, the Son of Man is Lord. 32 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:05,220 Speaker 2: the Sabbath. I want to talk to you today about 33 00:02:07,260 --> 00:02:10,419 Speaker 2: when the gift becomes a prison. Lord, I thank you 34 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:12,260 Speaker 2: for what you showed me. There's no way I can 35 00:02:12,650 --> 00:02:14,389 Speaker 2: preach it the way you showed it to me, but 36 00:02:14,410 --> 00:02:16,570 Speaker 2: help me to come as close as humanly possible in 37 00:02:16,610 --> 00:02:18,970 Speaker 2: these moments. I'm excited about it. God, I want you 38 00:02:19,010 --> 00:02:22,930 Speaker 2: to distribute this food through me. I pray that we 39 00:02:22,950 --> 00:02:27,490 Speaker 2: would just block out distractions and receive the seed of 40 00:02:27,530 --> 00:02:33,670 Speaker 2: your Word, the incorruptible Word of God, fall in our 41 00:02:33,710 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 2: hearts now. In Jesus' name, amen. You may be seated. 42 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 2: When the gift becomes a prison … I watched this 43 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 2: documentary about Olympic athletes the other day. All the Olympic 44 00:02:50,340 --> 00:02:56,530 Speaker 2: athletes on camera were depressed in the documentary talking about … 45 00:02:57,270 --> 00:02:59,190 Speaker 2: Did you see this? It was called The Weight of Gold. 46 00:03:00,330 --> 00:03:03,109 Speaker 2: I'm not recommending it. Nobody's sponsoring me to say this. 47 00:03:03,169 --> 00:03:05,650 Speaker 2: If they want to, then I'll consider endorsing it formally. 48 00:03:05,690 --> 00:03:09,930 Speaker 2: I'm not against that. But the thing that got my attention, 49 00:03:09,970 --> 00:03:13,770 Speaker 2: regardless of the point of view that I'll never understand, 50 00:03:13,910 --> 00:03:18,210 Speaker 2: is watching Michael Phelps, who did a great voiceover, by 51 00:03:18,250 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 2: the way, for the whole documentary. He was just narrating 52 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 2: the process of kind of going from the greatest human 53 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:28,740 Speaker 2: accomplishment that you can imagine and being the most celebrated, 54 00:03:28,820 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 2: decorated athlete in the history of the Olympics to going 55 00:03:32,020 --> 00:03:36,180 Speaker 2: to the fact that then he had moments of even wondering, 56 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 2: do I want to live? So then I thought, man, 57 00:03:40,370 --> 00:03:43,090 Speaker 2: we need to pray for Michael Phelps. But then there 58 00:03:43,110 --> 00:03:46,270 Speaker 2: was another athlete and another athlete, and they all kind 59 00:03:46,310 --> 00:03:48,270 Speaker 2: of shared the same thing. I understand it was just 60 00:03:48,330 --> 00:03:50,430 Speaker 2: a documentary, and there's a storyline. I get it. I 61 00:03:50,450 --> 00:03:54,860 Speaker 2: get it. But it got me thinking about how such 62 00:03:54,900 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 2: a great talent that came from God actually became a 63 00:03:59,300 --> 00:04:04,620 Speaker 2: trap for these individuals. As they were describing what it 64 00:04:04,700 --> 00:04:07,100 Speaker 2: felt like to wonder, who am I when I'm not 65 00:04:07,140 --> 00:04:09,940 Speaker 2: in the pool? Who am I when I'm not on 66 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 2: the uneven bars? One of the ironic things was watching 67 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:19,220 Speaker 2: a gymnast talk about the difficulty of balance. because she 68 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 2: was saying there was no balance in my life. I 69 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:29,930 Speaker 2: became this machine, and I lost me. I thought about 70 00:04:29,970 --> 00:04:34,849 Speaker 2: how that can happen, that a talent that comes directly 71 00:04:34,890 --> 00:04:37,010 Speaker 2: from God … Because there's no way my body is 72 00:04:37,029 --> 00:04:38,650 Speaker 2: going to do those things. It wouldn't matter how much 73 00:04:38,710 --> 00:04:40,550 Speaker 2: I trained. So, it obviously came from God, and they 74 00:04:40,570 --> 00:04:44,210 Speaker 2: worked hard too. But something that was God-given, like the 75 00:04:44,310 --> 00:04:48,909 Speaker 2: talent to be the greatest athlete one of the greatest 76 00:04:48,990 --> 00:04:52,390 Speaker 2: athletes in the world, could actually leave you feeling trapped 77 00:04:52,450 --> 00:04:56,150 Speaker 2: because you don't even, after a while, have a concept 78 00:04:56,270 --> 00:05:01,710 Speaker 2: of self that is separate from the skill set you've 79 00:05:01,750 --> 00:05:07,060 Speaker 2: developed and honed. When the gift becomes a prison … 80 00:05:08,100 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 2: Did you know that the Sabbath in Luke, chapter 6, 81 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 2: was meant to be a gift to the people? I 82 00:05:16,620 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 2: don't know if you've been paying attention, but there are 83 00:05:19,460 --> 00:05:26,980 Speaker 2: some issues that are controversial in our world today. Yet, 84 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:33,830 Speaker 2: there is no amount of controversy that we experience that 85 00:05:33,870 --> 00:05:37,690 Speaker 2: can compare to what Jesus went through with these characters 86 00:05:37,750 --> 00:05:40,940 Speaker 2: called the Pharisees You may have heard of them before 87 00:05:40,980 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 2: in the Bible, the Pharisees. They're not as bad as 88 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:48,350 Speaker 2: we think they are. They're actually people who got caught 89 00:05:48,410 --> 00:05:51,010 Speaker 2: up in something that was meant to be a good thing, 90 00:05:51,089 --> 00:05:54,510 Speaker 2: which is protecting and preserving the law of God. But 91 00:05:54,550 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 2: in the process of trying to protect the truth, they 92 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 2: got it twisted. This is exactly what's happening in Luke, 93 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:07,620 Speaker 2: chapter 6. While Jesus' disciples are snacking on the seeds 94 00:06:07,980 --> 00:06:10,740 Speaker 2: from the heads of fully ripe grain in a field, 95 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 2: the Pharisees call Jesus to the side. Why are you 96 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 2: doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath? Everybody say Sabbath. 97 00:06:21,990 --> 00:06:26,830 Speaker 2: Sabbath to us may just be something Jewish people do. Yet, 98 00:06:27,110 --> 00:06:28,789 Speaker 2: for many of us, we would have a hard time 99 00:06:28,890 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 2: understanding What a great gift it was when it was 100 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 2: originally given from God. In fact, God said,' I gave 101 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:40,540 Speaker 2: you the Sabbath so that you could pattern your life 102 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,410 Speaker 2: after the way I created the world, so that you 103 00:06:44,430 --> 00:06:47,370 Speaker 2: do your work in six days, and on the seventh 104 00:06:47,610 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 2: you rest.' It was a pattern so that God wanted 105 00:06:54,220 --> 00:06:56,740 Speaker 2: us to then copy him, to know that we can 106 00:06:57,300 --> 00:07:00,040 Speaker 2: rest from our labor. It ultimately was a shadow of 107 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,670 Speaker 2: what Jesus Christ would accomplish, that he is our Sabbath rest, 108 00:07:04,490 --> 00:07:06,890 Speaker 2: and that when we trust in him for our salvation, 109 00:07:07,330 --> 00:07:10,470 Speaker 2: it is complete, and we can rest from our labor 110 00:07:10,530 --> 00:07:13,630 Speaker 2: because of what he did for us. Yet, isn't it 111 00:07:13,690 --> 00:07:17,330 Speaker 2: funny how a gift God gave them so they could 112 00:07:17,390 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 2: reflect on the rhythm of his creative ability … has become, 113 00:07:21,580 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 2: by the time of Jesus, a trap by which they 114 00:07:26,300 --> 00:07:31,140 Speaker 2: accuse Jesus of blasphemy. There were many things Jesus argued 115 00:07:31,180 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 2: with these teachers about in his day, but nothing was 116 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:39,220 Speaker 2: more controversial than the Sabbath. Nothing was more controversial to 117 00:07:39,260 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 2: them than trying to catch him break the Sabbath. 118 00:07:44,340 --> 00:07:45,940 Speaker 1: I don't know why I never. 119 00:07:45,810 --> 00:07:50,050 Speaker 2: Studied it before, but as the Pharisees are accusing Jesus 120 00:07:50,110 --> 00:07:53,500 Speaker 2: in Luke, chapter 6, of breaking the Sabbath, in Luke, 121 00:07:53,510 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 2: chapter 5, everything is breaking. Like in Luke, chapter 5, 122 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 2: verses 1-11, the disciples are out fishing, and they can't 123 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 2: catch anything without Jesus, but when they went deeper into 124 00:08:06,100 --> 00:08:09,500 Speaker 2: the water and obeyed Jesus at the point of their frustration, 125 00:08:09,980 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 2: they had a great catch so much that their nets 126 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:17,130 Speaker 2: began to break. A few verses later, Jesus is teaching 127 00:08:17,170 --> 00:08:19,270 Speaker 2: in a house, and there are some men who need 128 00:08:19,290 --> 00:08:22,390 Speaker 2: to get their friend to Jesus because he's a paralyzed man. 129 00:08:22,750 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 2: His body won't work appropriately, so since they can't get 130 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:28,340 Speaker 2: him through the front door, they climb up on the roof, 131 00:08:29,180 --> 00:08:33,110 Speaker 2: break the roof to bring their friend to Jesus. Then 132 00:08:33,150 --> 00:08:34,709 Speaker 2: at the end of Luke 5, if you want to 133 00:08:34,750 --> 00:08:37,130 Speaker 2: study this later this week, this would be an awesome 134 00:08:37,170 --> 00:08:39,069 Speaker 2: thing for you to pack and take out and snack 135 00:08:39,190 --> 00:08:41,330 Speaker 2: on sometime during this week so you can read what 136 00:08:41,350 --> 00:08:46,620 Speaker 2: I'm saying. Jesus describes that when new wine comes into 137 00:08:46,780 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 2: old wineskins, the old wineskin can't hold the new wine. 138 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:55,140 Speaker 2: If you try to pour something new that God has 139 00:08:55,210 --> 00:08:58,910 Speaker 2: given you into something old to hold it, it will 140 00:08:58,950 --> 00:09:03,229 Speaker 2: waste the wine and the skin will break. So, in 141 00:09:03,270 --> 00:09:05,550 Speaker 2: that context now, I want to show you how the 142 00:09:05,650 --> 00:09:10,750 Speaker 2: nets were breaking, the roof was breaking, the wineskins are breaking, 143 00:09:11,210 --> 00:09:16,270 Speaker 2: and here is Jesus breaking the Sabbath on purpose by 144 00:09:16,309 --> 00:09:19,910 Speaker 2: the Pharisees' definition in order to engage them in a 145 00:09:19,990 --> 00:09:23,890 Speaker 2: conversation that will confront the very nature of the corruption 146 00:09:23,910 --> 00:09:27,069 Speaker 2: of their way of seeing and teaching God's Word in 147 00:09:27,130 --> 00:09:30,930 Speaker 2: conformity with their culture and not the character of God. 148 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,699 Speaker 2: Maybe I should slow down for a minute. I feel 149 00:09:36,780 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 2: all wound up. I'm glad that Jesus will break stuff. 150 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:50,570 Speaker 2: I'm grateful that Jesus will break stuff. Some things I 151 00:09:50,730 --> 00:09:55,910 Speaker 2: need him to break. There are some chains I've tried 152 00:09:55,950 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 2: to pull myself free from for years I need Jesus 153 00:10:00,940 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 2: to break. There are some even thought patterns I need 154 00:10:06,740 --> 00:10:11,660 Speaker 2: Jesus to break the pattern of my thought. Some of 155 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:16,059 Speaker 2: the things I maybe grew up thinking were normal I 156 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 2: need God to break me out of. The tradition … 157 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:26,829 Speaker 2: Let's talk about tradition for a moment. When my tradition 158 00:10:27,910 --> 00:10:32,050 Speaker 2: and the truth contradict one another, one has to break. 159 00:10:38,980 --> 00:10:40,500 Speaker 2: How many of you, if Jesus was doing a casting 160 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:42,580 Speaker 2: call for disciples, would try to sign up and be 161 00:10:42,660 --> 00:10:48,540 Speaker 2: one of the 12? Raise your hand. I was thinking … 162 00:10:49,820 --> 00:10:51,319 Speaker 2: It would have been easy to be a disciple of Jesus, 163 00:10:51,340 --> 00:10:53,180 Speaker 2: because when I ask what Jesus would do, I have 164 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:54,819 Speaker 2: to use my imagination and read all these words. All 165 00:10:54,860 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 2: I'd have to do if I was a disciple and 166 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:57,300 Speaker 2: I had lived 2,000 years ago and been able to 167 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:58,709 Speaker 2: see him in the flesh is follow him and do 168 00:10:58,730 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 2: what he did. I don't think it would have been 169 00:11:01,190 --> 00:11:06,010 Speaker 2: that easy, really, especially because everything he would do would 170 00:11:06,050 --> 00:11:14,050 Speaker 2: contradict everything I had seen done. Disciple. It said Jesus' 171 00:11:14,150 --> 00:11:22,819 Speaker 2: disciples did something. Then Jesus is defending his disciples. Well, 172 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:26,910 Speaker 2: everybody in here is a disciple. The word disciple just 173 00:11:26,950 --> 00:11:32,569 Speaker 2: means learner. So, everybody in here is a disciple. I 174 00:11:32,570 --> 00:11:35,209 Speaker 2: want you to write something down. I don't know if 175 00:11:35,230 --> 00:11:39,650 Speaker 2: we still give out elevation pins in the time of … No? Yeah, 176 00:11:39,690 --> 00:11:42,750 Speaker 2: everything has changed, y'all. Everything has changed. You don't even 177 00:11:42,770 --> 00:11:45,680 Speaker 2: get elevation pins anymore. What has the world come to? 178 00:11:46,500 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 2: All right. Just put it in your phone or put 179 00:11:47,740 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 2: it in the chat. You got yours. You brought your own. 180 00:11:50,300 --> 00:12:00,260 Speaker 2: Write this in the chat. Discipleship by default or design? See, 181 00:12:00,380 --> 00:12:04,559 Speaker 2: everybody in here is being a disciple. I'll never forget 182 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:08,660 Speaker 2: when Holly had to ban the movie Kung Fu Panda 183 00:12:09,020 --> 00:12:13,630 Speaker 2: from our house, because our boys were just kicking everything 184 00:12:14,660 --> 00:12:16,620 Speaker 2: around the house kicking everything all the time, and she 185 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 2: had to put a temporary moratorium on Kung Fu Panda 186 00:12:20,540 --> 00:12:25,020 Speaker 2: because they were kicking without Mr. Miyagi to show them 187 00:12:25,059 --> 00:12:28,190 Speaker 2: how to do it, so they're just running around kicking crap. 188 00:12:29,890 --> 00:12:31,530 Speaker 2: I did the same thing watching Karate Kid when I 189 00:12:31,570 --> 00:12:34,190 Speaker 2: was little. I put my foot through a picture window 190 00:12:34,230 --> 00:12:37,010 Speaker 2: in my mom's house. She was more worried about the window. 191 00:12:40,530 --> 00:12:42,449 Speaker 1: Than my foot at first. I remember her running in 192 00:12:42,490 --> 00:12:46,969 Speaker 1: the room, my window. I'm like, my bloody ankle, my Achilles. 193 00:12:47,770 --> 00:12:57,099 Speaker 2: Anyway, I'm going to therapy. But I realized that I 194 00:12:57,300 --> 00:13:02,839 Speaker 2: am a disciple of somebody or something. Now, what I 195 00:13:02,860 --> 00:13:04,699 Speaker 2: was trying to get across in the last two weeks … 196 00:13:04,740 --> 00:13:07,170 Speaker 2: How many of you were following with my messages about, 197 00:13:07,470 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 2: be careful what you copy? Then I preached a whole 198 00:13:12,059 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 2: sermon called Copy That. Don't copy the dysfunction. Some of 199 00:13:20,140 --> 00:13:27,330 Speaker 2: us were discipled by dysfunction. Now we have dysfunctional norms 200 00:13:27,429 --> 00:13:30,350 Speaker 2: in our hearts that have become the default of how 201 00:13:30,390 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 2: we approach life. So, we were discipled or taught in 202 00:13:36,020 --> 00:13:39,860 Speaker 2: dysfunctional ways. I'm not even talking about blaming your parents 203 00:13:39,940 --> 00:13:42,690 Speaker 2: or your nursery was painted blue and you really liked green, 204 00:13:42,730 --> 00:13:45,010 Speaker 2: and to this day it really bothers you because green 205 00:13:45,030 --> 00:13:48,069 Speaker 2: means go and blue got you thrown off. So, now 206 00:13:48,110 --> 00:13:50,810 Speaker 2: I'm not talking about some blame game we play. I'm 207 00:13:50,830 --> 00:13:55,459 Speaker 2: talking about understanding that the patterns that were established in 208 00:13:55,500 --> 00:13:59,460 Speaker 2: your heart usually started in ways you weren't even aware 209 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 2: of at the time. Some of us were discipled in dysfunction. 210 00:14:06,059 --> 00:14:08,949 Speaker 2: I thought about this too. Some of us had an 211 00:14:09,010 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 2: apprenticeship in anxiety. because we were either in an environment … Again, 212 00:14:18,179 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 2: my mom wrote me a letter, and she was sharing 213 00:14:20,100 --> 00:14:23,210 Speaker 2: with me some of the things she saw growing up 214 00:14:23,670 --> 00:14:26,970 Speaker 2: to help me understand some of the things she modeled 215 00:14:27,010 --> 00:14:27,330 Speaker 2: for me. 216 00:14:27,630 --> 00:14:29,950 Speaker 1: She was showing me, this is what I saw. 217 00:14:30,450 --> 00:14:32,870 Speaker 2: These are some things I went through. These are some 218 00:14:32,890 --> 00:14:35,410 Speaker 2: things that happened to me that I've never told you about, 219 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:37,740 Speaker 2: because up until now, I haven't known if it was 220 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:38,740 Speaker 2: appropriate to share. 221 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 1: But I don't want you to spend. 222 00:14:40,140 --> 00:14:44,580 Speaker 2: Your whole life wondering why certain things happen in your 223 00:14:44,620 --> 00:14:47,540 Speaker 2: heart over and over again when I can expose you 224 00:14:47,580 --> 00:14:49,420 Speaker 2: to some of the things I saw or some of 225 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:54,300 Speaker 2: the atmosphere I was raised in. The fact is, we 226 00:14:54,340 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 2: come to church and teach you to worship God, but 227 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 2: we only get 90 minutes a week with you. Okay, 228 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,540 Speaker 2: let's be honest about most people's church attendance patterns. Ninety 229 00:15:04,590 --> 00:15:13,370 Speaker 2: minutes a month is If you were raised in a 230 00:15:13,430 --> 00:15:16,250 Speaker 2: home of anxiety and were in here teaching faith and 231 00:15:16,350 --> 00:15:17,730 Speaker 2: trust God, and. 232 00:15:17,690 --> 00:15:20,910 Speaker 1: By faith the worlds were formed, but if your life was. 233 00:15:20,950 --> 00:15:27,990 Speaker 2: Framed by worry and what if and scarcity … Many 234 00:15:28,050 --> 00:15:31,530 Speaker 2: of us have a full apprenticeship in anxiety. 235 00:15:32,210 --> 00:15:32,930 Speaker 1: I thought about this. 236 00:15:33,410 --> 00:15:40,750 Speaker 2: Some of us had an internship in insecurity. And we 237 00:15:40,790 --> 00:15:43,750 Speaker 2: were taught not to trust God to be enough to 238 00:15:43,790 --> 00:15:46,370 Speaker 2: meet our needs, but to know everything that was wrong 239 00:15:46,410 --> 00:15:49,270 Speaker 2: with us, because it was repeated over us, and it 240 00:15:49,310 --> 00:15:52,430 Speaker 2: was insinuated if it wasn't said out loud. So when 241 00:15:52,460 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 2: you come to church, you have to realize that you have. 242 00:15:54,900 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 1: Been discipled by default. 243 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:00,540 Speaker 2: But following Jesus gives me the option. 244 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:01,740 Speaker 1: This is what I want you to know. 245 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 2: You don't get to decide how you were raised, what 246 00:16:05,300 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 2: you were born into, any of that. 247 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: Those decisions were made for you. 248 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,660 Speaker 2: But you get to decide from this point on … 249 00:16:11,730 --> 00:16:24,210 Speaker 2: What time is it right now? 1028 Eastern Time, August 22, 2021, 250 00:16:24,210 --> 00:16:27,370 Speaker 2: the year of our Lord and Odom and I. From 251 00:16:27,510 --> 00:16:31,130 Speaker 2: this moment forward, or whenever you're watching this, from this 252 00:16:31,250 --> 00:16:34,700 Speaker 2: moment forward, you get to decide,' Who do. 253 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 1: I want to be discipled by? 254 00:16:45,830 --> 00:16:48,970 Speaker 2: In the Scripture, you have the Pharisees who have been 255 00:16:49,010 --> 00:16:53,550 Speaker 2: discipled by generation after generation of scribes and teachers of 256 00:16:53,590 --> 00:16:54,370 Speaker 2: the law. 257 00:16:54,410 --> 00:16:56,990 Speaker 1: The law was good. God gave the law. It was 258 00:16:57,050 --> 00:16:57,990 Speaker 1: a gift from God. 259 00:16:58,330 --> 00:17:02,340 Speaker 2: God gave them the Sabbath as a gift to reflect 260 00:17:03,270 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 2: and remember. One little-known thing about the Sabbath is that 261 00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 2: God said one time, I gave you this as a 262 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 2: gift to remember when you were slaves in Egypt and 263 00:17:13,180 --> 00:17:17,930 Speaker 2: I brought you out. Isn't it crazy that a gift 264 00:17:18,010 --> 00:17:20,990 Speaker 2: God gave them to remember how they were set free 265 00:17:21,550 --> 00:17:27,620 Speaker 2: from their slavery, they have now become slaves of the Sabbath? 266 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:33,820 Speaker 2: Mark says it real clear. He says that Sabbath is 267 00:17:33,940 --> 00:17:39,820 Speaker 2: made for man, not man for the Sabbath. But by 268 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,159 Speaker 2: the time Jesus is walking the earth and touching and 269 00:17:42,180 --> 00:17:45,570 Speaker 2: healing and teaching with power, preaching the kingdom of God 270 00:17:45,609 --> 00:17:49,650 Speaker 2: and inaugurating a new order of things, by the time 271 00:17:49,690 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 2: the true King has come, they have turned the gift 272 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:59,740 Speaker 2: God gave into a prison. Anything can become a prison. 273 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 2: Right now, technology is enabling me to preach this word 274 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:08,260 Speaker 2: to somebody who couldn't hear it any other way. I 275 00:18:08,300 --> 00:18:11,780 Speaker 2: praise God for the gift of technology. On the other hand, 276 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:20,580 Speaker 2: I curse the day our phones ever got smart. I 277 00:18:20,619 --> 00:18:22,340 Speaker 2: don't have the faith yet, but I bought a flip 278 00:18:22,380 --> 00:18:25,530 Speaker 2: phone two years ago. When I get enough faith, I'm 279 00:18:25,570 --> 00:18:27,310 Speaker 2: going to hook it up, and I'm going to be 280 00:18:27,350 --> 00:18:29,730 Speaker 2: the only person … They're going to call me Flip 281 00:18:29,750 --> 00:18:33,370 Speaker 2: Phone Furtick. Yeah, if you want to. 282 00:18:33,330 --> 00:18:34,350 Speaker 1: Talk to me, you're going to have to. I don't 283 00:18:34,369 --> 00:18:34,989 Speaker 1: have the faith yet. 284 00:18:35,030 --> 00:18:37,570 Speaker 2: I'm not there yet, because I'm tethered to this right now, 285 00:18:37,830 --> 00:18:39,810 Speaker 2: but I'm praying for the day where I can have 286 00:18:39,850 --> 00:18:42,610 Speaker 2: enough faith to be set free from the curse of this. 287 00:18:43,970 --> 00:18:44,709 Speaker 2: but it's a gift. 288 00:18:45,490 --> 00:18:47,190 Speaker 1: Welcome our eFam around the world. 289 00:18:49,900 --> 00:18:52,640 Speaker 2: Somebody is going to get saved off of this message, 290 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 2: and I'm trying to cast the devil out of your 291 00:18:55,060 --> 00:18:59,060 Speaker 2: YouTube feed and your algorithm. The same feed that is 292 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:01,770 Speaker 2: making you crazy is putting the Word of God in 293 00:19:01,790 --> 00:19:06,890 Speaker 2: your spirit right now. But the same gift that helps 294 00:19:06,930 --> 00:19:10,020 Speaker 2: me preach the gospel can become a prison. It can 295 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 2: put you on so many stupid headlines and half-truths and 10% 296 00:19:16,140 --> 00:19:20,260 Speaker 2: truths and 2% truths and conspiracy theories. 297 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 1: All of that. 298 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 2: Is contained in the same gift. 299 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:28,710 Speaker 1: Same thing with money. 300 00:19:29,970 --> 00:19:34,629 Speaker 2: God can bless you with income, but then that income 301 00:19:34,670 --> 00:19:36,429 Speaker 2: can cause you to step out a little too far, 302 00:19:36,450 --> 00:19:40,770 Speaker 2: a little too fast. Now, all of a sudden, you 303 00:19:40,830 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 2: are imprisoned in something you prayed for and God gave 304 00:19:43,700 --> 00:19:48,690 Speaker 2: you because you didn't know how to manage it. I 305 00:19:48,710 --> 00:19:51,300 Speaker 2: think I ought to teach you about this. that a 306 00:19:51,340 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 2: gift can become a prison. Intimacy is a gift from God. 307 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 2: All kinds of intimacy, not just sexual intimacy, but sexual 308 00:19:59,859 --> 00:20:03,939 Speaker 2: intimacy is a gift from God. You understand how when 309 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:07,120 Speaker 2: we talk about the Sabbath, a gift God gave that 310 00:20:07,180 --> 00:20:11,330 Speaker 2: became twisted … to imprison so that the Pharisees are saying, 311 00:20:11,690 --> 00:20:15,070 Speaker 2: you're not allowed to eat on the Sabbath. They have 312 00:20:15,350 --> 00:20:19,439 Speaker 2: become locked into the law and missed the spirit of 313 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:23,820 Speaker 2: the very gift God gave. That happens all the time 314 00:20:23,859 --> 00:20:27,100 Speaker 2: in our life. An Olympic athlete can say, you know, 315 00:20:27,140 --> 00:20:30,479 Speaker 2: this talent that was given to me by God that 316 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:33,990 Speaker 2: was such a good thing, it almost broke me. Someone 317 00:20:34,030 --> 00:20:36,830 Speaker 2: who starts to be blessed financially, they can say, you 318 00:20:36,850 --> 00:20:38,770 Speaker 2: know what? When I started getting more money, I stopped 319 00:20:38,810 --> 00:20:41,730 Speaker 2: trusting God as much. I had a man tell me 320 00:20:41,790 --> 00:20:44,390 Speaker 2: one time, I started thinking money was the answer to everything. 321 00:20:45,270 --> 00:20:47,270 Speaker 2: I started just skipping God in the process when I 322 00:20:47,310 --> 00:20:49,490 Speaker 2: didn't need to ask him anymore, and I basically designed 323 00:20:49,550 --> 00:20:53,740 Speaker 2: a life for myself that made God unnecessary. So he thought, 324 00:20:55,100 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 2: because the gift became a prison. I could give you 325 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 2: more examples, but I think you have your own. Things 326 00:21:04,410 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 2: that God gave you that you became a slave to. 327 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:14,780 Speaker 2: I'm not talking about the devil. The Sabbath didn't come 328 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 2: from the devil. 329 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:19,810 Speaker 1: It came from God. It's in the book of Genesis. 330 00:21:21,130 --> 00:21:25,150 Speaker 2: It's God that gave them that rest, but they turned 331 00:21:25,170 --> 00:21:27,429 Speaker 2: the gift of rest into a weapon. 332 00:21:29,020 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: They turned the gift of God. 333 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 2: Into a prison. In fact, just a few verses later, 334 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,570 Speaker 2: they go from picking on the disciples about eating grain 335 00:21:37,590 --> 00:21:40,429 Speaker 2: in a field on the Sabbath to telling Jesus he 336 00:21:40,490 --> 00:21:43,590 Speaker 2: can't heal a man with a withered hand on the Sabbath. 337 00:21:44,290 --> 00:21:47,250 Speaker 2: You mean to tell me that Jesus can't give this 338 00:21:47,330 --> 00:21:49,699 Speaker 2: man his ability to work on this. 339 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,060 Speaker 1: Day because you've set it aside as a day not 340 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:52,460 Speaker 1: to work? 341 00:21:53,210 --> 00:21:55,660 Speaker 2: But see how this happens in our lives so subtly 342 00:21:55,980 --> 00:21:58,959 Speaker 2: that a gift God gives you can become twisted to 343 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,659 Speaker 2: the point that the gift that was given to serve 344 00:22:01,700 --> 00:22:07,859 Speaker 2: you begins to enslave you. I think what's happening in 345 00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:12,620 Speaker 2: this passage is really demonstrated in what the disciples did 346 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,780 Speaker 2: that we have to do all the time. It says 347 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:19,830 Speaker 2: in verse 1, they took the heads of grain … 348 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,580 Speaker 2: When they would rub them in their hands, they would 349 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:29,870 Speaker 2: then eat the kernels. All right, so what's wrong with this? 350 00:22:31,130 --> 00:22:37,490 Speaker 2: What's so bad about it? Are they stealing in someone 351 00:22:37,510 --> 00:22:41,410 Speaker 2: else's field? No, because the Levitical law says the edges 352 00:22:41,450 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 2: of the field are to be left unharvested so the 353 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:45,859 Speaker 2: traveler passing through can eat from it, so they're not 354 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:53,170 Speaker 2: breaking any laws. But see, The Pharisees had 39 categories 355 00:22:53,990 --> 00:22:55,990 Speaker 2: of things you couldn't do on the Sabbath that God 356 00:22:56,030 --> 00:23:00,510 Speaker 2: never said you couldn't do on the Sabbath. Now, here's 357 00:23:00,530 --> 00:23:02,990 Speaker 2: what's going to trip you out, and this is how 358 00:23:03,230 --> 00:23:08,330 Speaker 2: weird religion can get. You're allowed to pluck grain on 359 00:23:08,350 --> 00:23:11,689 Speaker 2: the Sabbath, but you just can't harvest grain on the 360 00:23:11,730 --> 00:23:15,410 Speaker 2: Sabbath by the Pharisees' rule. Not God's rule, by the Pharisees' rule. 361 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,810 Speaker 2: How close do the Pharisees have to be watching the disciples? 362 00:23:21,109 --> 00:23:23,470 Speaker 2: Who's the sick one here? If you are. 363 00:23:23,490 --> 00:23:27,070 Speaker 3: Stalking me to the point that you are watching me 364 00:23:27,270 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 3: rub the heads of grain between my hands, I think 365 00:23:30,700 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 3: you are the one who has a problem and needs counseling, 366 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,060 Speaker 3: not me, because I'm hungry. 367 00:23:37,619 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 1: Yes, I'm talking about the comments section. 368 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:44,070 Speaker 2: I have never, ever in my life seen more crazy 369 00:23:44,390 --> 00:23:47,679 Speaker 2: than in the comments section of a Christian YouTube channel. 370 00:23:48,369 --> 00:23:51,689 Speaker 2: Because here I am now watching everything. Ah, they're not 371 00:23:51,710 --> 00:23:53,110 Speaker 2: supposed to do this now. It would have been fine 372 00:23:53,150 --> 00:23:53,390 Speaker 2: if they. 373 00:23:53,330 --> 00:23:53,899 Speaker 1: Would have plucked it. 374 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,440 Speaker 2: But when they rub the grain to get the husk 375 00:23:56,500 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 2: to fall away … Now, you know what the husk is. 376 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,500 Speaker 2: The husk is the worthless part that protects the kernel. 377 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,740 Speaker 2: The kernel is the seed the grain comes from, and 378 00:24:04,780 --> 00:24:07,510 Speaker 2: the husk is the part that covers the kernel. So, 379 00:24:07,550 --> 00:24:11,430 Speaker 2: the disciples are walking through, and Peter says, Watch this. 380 00:24:11,930 --> 00:24:13,870 Speaker 2: Jesus is looking right now. and they picked the grain. 381 00:24:14,190 --> 00:24:15,750 Speaker 2: Jesus knew what was happening behind him, and he didn't 382 00:24:15,770 --> 00:24:17,689 Speaker 2: tell them to stop, because he wasn't following. 383 00:24:17,410 --> 00:24:18,470 Speaker 1: The pattern of the Pharisees. 384 00:24:20,369 --> 00:24:22,550 Speaker 2: I'll take it a step further. He didn't care what 385 00:24:22,590 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 2: they did with the grain, because he's the bread of life. 386 00:24:28,380 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 2: I think that's the most anointed verse in the Bible. 387 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 2: Jesus was going through the grain field. Jesus, the bread 388 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:42,160 Speaker 2: of heaven, the bread of life, is walking by grain. 389 00:24:42,780 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 2: And irony of irony, the Pharisees are arguing with the 390 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:51,110 Speaker 2: bread of life about how to pick grain on the Sabbath, 391 00:24:51,390 --> 00:24:54,730 Speaker 2: which he is. So they're picking what he is on 392 00:24:54,770 --> 00:24:57,050 Speaker 2: the day which he came to fulfill, and they're like, 393 00:24:57,310 --> 00:25:00,510 Speaker 2: you can't do that. Watch out for people who tell 394 00:25:00,550 --> 00:25:04,030 Speaker 2: you what God can't do. No, God can't bless you 395 00:25:04,050 --> 00:25:05,470 Speaker 2: like that. It has to be like this. 396 00:25:05,730 --> 00:25:06,870 Speaker 1: It has to fit this structure. 397 00:25:07,250 --> 00:25:16,139 Speaker 2: That's their wineskin, not your limitation. I was talking to 398 00:25:16,180 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 2: somebody one time. They said, you tend to let other 399 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:25,390 Speaker 2: people's insecurity become your limitation. Just because they haven't seen 400 00:25:25,430 --> 00:25:27,770 Speaker 2: it done before, you let them convince you that you 401 00:25:27,830 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 2: can't do it. I realized that what God has given 402 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 2: me doesn't have to conform with what someone else's wineskin 403 00:25:37,380 --> 00:25:47,310 Speaker 2: can hold. Jesus is like, have you never read what 404 00:25:47,330 --> 00:25:53,570 Speaker 2: David did? Now, the Pharisees here read a lot of Scriptures, 405 00:25:54,930 --> 00:25:57,170 Speaker 2: so for Jesus to challenge them about a Bible story … 406 00:25:58,420 --> 00:26:01,479 Speaker 2: How many of y'all heard of David before, by the way? 407 00:26:03,380 --> 00:26:07,240 Speaker 2: What did David do? I'm not talking about when he 408 00:26:07,270 --> 00:26:11,389 Speaker 2: killed Goliath, which is a great story, by the way. 409 00:26:12,030 --> 00:26:17,910 Speaker 2: I love that one. I'm talking about when David was 410 00:26:18,010 --> 00:26:22,170 Speaker 2: running from Saul. Can I teach you something real quick? 411 00:26:24,100 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 2: Israel wanted a king because all the other nations … 412 00:26:28,450 --> 00:26:32,330 Speaker 2: had a king. God wanted to be their king. He 413 00:26:32,369 --> 00:26:34,389 Speaker 2: didn't want them to have to rely on a human 414 00:26:34,430 --> 00:26:38,490 Speaker 2: king because God knew the hearts of men. When it 415 00:26:38,530 --> 00:26:40,870 Speaker 2: came time for them to choose a king, they chose 416 00:26:41,790 --> 00:26:46,750 Speaker 2: the tallest king they could find named Saul. When Saul 417 00:26:46,790 --> 00:26:50,609 Speaker 2: became king, all of his insecurities and limitations showed up 418 00:26:50,650 --> 00:26:54,630 Speaker 2: with him in the palace to the point that when 419 00:26:54,690 --> 00:26:58,820 Speaker 2: David was enlisted in his service, and subdued the Philistine 420 00:26:58,859 --> 00:27:02,179 Speaker 2: champion from Gath that you've heard of called Goliath, it 421 00:27:02,220 --> 00:27:08,290 Speaker 2: didn't make Saul happy. It made his heart harder. So, 422 00:27:08,310 --> 00:27:11,710 Speaker 2: we find David now in a position where God has 423 00:27:11,810 --> 00:27:14,630 Speaker 2: called him to be a future king, but he's having 424 00:27:14,670 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 2: to deal with a crazy king. David has a heart 425 00:27:21,060 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 2: like God's, but he has a king named Saul, and 426 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,220 Speaker 2: now he has to make a decision. whether he's going 427 00:27:28,260 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 2: to copy the king he sees or become the king 428 00:27:32,820 --> 00:27:40,140 Speaker 2: he is. David is not only a good fighter, he's 429 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:44,380 Speaker 2: also a skilled musician. Saul recruits him into his service 430 00:27:44,420 --> 00:27:47,660 Speaker 2: to play the harp for him. The Bible says Saul 431 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,780 Speaker 2: was starting to lose his mind to the point that 432 00:27:49,820 --> 00:27:51,919 Speaker 2: the only thing that would soothe him was the sound 433 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,770 Speaker 2: of the music. David would play for Saul He played 434 00:27:55,810 --> 00:27:57,850 Speaker 2: the song one day that Saul must not have liked 435 00:27:57,910 --> 00:28:01,450 Speaker 2: very much, because Saul threw a big spear at David, 436 00:28:02,060 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 2: but David eluded it twice and started to think, maybe 437 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 2: I'm not too safe with Saul. David asked Jonathan, Saul's son, 438 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,200 Speaker 2: who should have rightfully been the next king but wasn't 439 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:19,169 Speaker 2: going to be because God chose David. Everybody say that. 440 00:28:19,590 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 2: God chose David. When David ducked not once but twice 441 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 2: and asked Jonathan,' Is something wrong with your dad? Did 442 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,719 Speaker 2: somebody switch his pills in the cabinet? Should I get 443 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,630 Speaker 2: out of here?' Eventually he realized that the only recourse 444 00:28:35,790 --> 00:28:38,110 Speaker 2: he had was to run, which puts him in quite 445 00:28:38,130 --> 00:28:41,070 Speaker 2: a conflict, because he is anointed to be king by 446 00:28:41,170 --> 00:28:43,930 Speaker 2: Samuel the prophet, but his life is under threat from 447 00:28:44,010 --> 00:28:47,700 Speaker 2: Saul the crazy king, the one the people chose. Now David, 448 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 2: the one God chose, is running from Saul. Jesus said, 449 00:28:51,180 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 2: Have you never read what David did when he was hungry? 450 00:28:55,780 --> 00:29:02,710 Speaker 2: He takes him all the way back to 1 Samuel 21. 451 00:29:02,950 --> 00:29:07,610 Speaker 2: David and his men are running from Saul. He's crowned 452 00:29:07,630 --> 00:29:14,380 Speaker 2: to be king, but he's about to be killed. 1 453 00:29:14,390 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 2: Samuel 21. I told them to give you this story 454 00:29:16,940 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 2: so you could see the original. This is so powerful 455 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:26,620 Speaker 2: what David did. David went to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest, 456 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 2: and Ahimelech trembled when he met him and asked, Why 457 00:29:29,140 --> 00:29:31,489 Speaker 2: are you alone? Why is no one with you? And 458 00:29:31,630 --> 00:29:35,490 Speaker 2: David answered Ahimelech the priest, The king sent me on 459 00:29:35,530 --> 00:29:39,610 Speaker 2: a mission. That's a lie. Saul didn't send him on 460 00:29:39,650 --> 00:29:44,660 Speaker 2: a mission. Saul was trying to kill him. The king 461 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,900 Speaker 2: sent me on a mission and said to me, No 462 00:29:46,980 --> 00:29:48,740 Speaker 2: one is to know anything about the mission I'm sending 463 00:29:48,780 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 2: you on. I just want to study the Bible with you. 464 00:29:56,790 --> 00:30:02,550 Speaker 2: Go back to Luke 6. Jesus answered them, verse 3, 465 00:30:02,550 --> 00:30:06,260 Speaker 2: have you never read what David did? Then he mentions 466 00:30:06,300 --> 00:30:09,640 Speaker 2: this incident. You mean when he lied? You mean when 467 00:30:09,660 --> 00:30:13,650 Speaker 2: he lied to the priest? It gets even worse. It 468 00:30:13,670 --> 00:30:15,870 Speaker 2: gets even worse. Now go back to 1 Samuel 21. 469 00:30:15,870 --> 00:30:18,780 Speaker 2: This is crazy, y'all. This is who Jesus uses to 470 00:30:18,820 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 2: justify his disciples picking heads of grain and running around 471 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 2: rubbing heads of grain on the Sabbath, just trying to 472 00:30:24,420 --> 00:30:26,380 Speaker 2: get in trouble, just trying to get Jesus in a fight, 473 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,550 Speaker 2: just trying to get him to the cross quicker, just 474 00:30:28,590 --> 00:30:31,030 Speaker 2: doing dumb stuff on the Sabbath, like all of us 475 00:30:31,370 --> 00:30:33,750 Speaker 2: as Jesus' disciples do all the time, just the dumbest 476 00:30:33,810 --> 00:30:36,850 Speaker 2: stuff possible. Jesus is like, have you never read what 477 00:30:36,910 --> 00:30:39,570 Speaker 2: David did? When he went in the house of God … 478 00:30:39,650 --> 00:30:43,410 Speaker 2: Go back to 1 Samuel 21. I told them to 479 00:30:43,450 --> 00:30:46,860 Speaker 2: meet me in a certain place. Verse 3. Now then, 480 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,790 Speaker 2: what do you have on hand? This is what David did. 481 00:30:48,830 --> 00:30:51,130 Speaker 2: He asked the priest, What do you have on hand? 482 00:30:51,830 --> 00:30:56,190 Speaker 2: Give me five. I almost called the sermon, Give me five. 483 00:30:57,570 --> 00:30:59,770 Speaker 2: Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you have 484 00:30:59,850 --> 00:31:03,050 Speaker 2: on hand. Now, the priest answered, David, I don't have 485 00:31:03,090 --> 00:31:07,110 Speaker 2: any ordinary bread on hand. However, there's some consecrated bread here, 486 00:31:07,150 --> 00:31:09,910 Speaker 2: but you're not supposed to eat it, because it's consecrated. 487 00:31:10,630 --> 00:31:14,300 Speaker 2: Because every week on the Sabbath, they would bring the 488 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,380 Speaker 2: bread back to the table in the Holy of Holies 489 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:20,980 Speaker 2: and replace the 12 loaves that had been fresh with 490 00:31:20,980 --> 00:31:24,220 Speaker 2: 12 fresh loaves. Then the loaves they took away, only 491 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,720 Speaker 2: the priest can eat. So the priest is like,' I 492 00:31:26,780 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 2: have some bread, but you're not supposed to eat it. 493 00:31:30,290 --> 00:31:31,690 Speaker 1: David's like,' But my men are hungry. 494 00:31:32,980 --> 00:31:37,390 Speaker 2: So Jesus now is using the example of what David 495 00:31:37,450 --> 00:31:41,390 Speaker 2: did to let the Pharisees know that they have completely 496 00:31:41,590 --> 00:31:46,090 Speaker 2: missed the heart of the gift God gave, that they 497 00:31:46,130 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 2: have become so consumed with principles that they have lost 498 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,940 Speaker 2: sight of the people that. 499 00:31:52,860 --> 00:31:55,980 Speaker 1: The principles were meant to serve in the first place. 500 00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,220 Speaker 2: That you have twisted the gift. 501 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:02,000 Speaker 1: Of God that God gave and made it a prison. 502 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,010 Speaker 2: Instead of the gift of the Sabbath bringing you into rest, 503 00:32:06,410 --> 00:32:10,970 Speaker 2: you've put 39 categories on top of something that God gave, 504 00:32:11,370 --> 00:32:17,330 Speaker 2: and you have covered the kernel in a husk. You 505 00:32:17,370 --> 00:32:22,740 Speaker 2: have covered the kernel in a husk. What David did. 506 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:28,310 Speaker 2: What David did. Remember how nobody else would fight Goliath, 507 00:32:28,330 --> 00:32:32,190 Speaker 2: but David did? Remember how David took off Saul's armor 508 00:32:32,210 --> 00:32:35,670 Speaker 2: because it didn't fit him? What David did? Now Jesus 509 00:32:35,770 --> 00:32:40,130 Speaker 2: uses David as an example to say, I'm not copying you. 510 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:47,700 Speaker 2: I'm the original. I believe God wants to give somebody 511 00:32:47,900 --> 00:32:57,150 Speaker 2: permission to copy the original. Permission to do it differently. 512 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 2: God is sick of your excuses. He is. He told 513 00:33:02,140 --> 00:33:05,020 Speaker 2: me to tell you. He didn't say it mean like that. 514 00:33:05,060 --> 00:33:12,290 Speaker 2: He said, tell them. Does your God talk in a 515 00:33:12,310 --> 00:33:13,550 Speaker 2: British accent, or is that just a guy on the 516 00:33:13,590 --> 00:33:20,910 Speaker 2: Bible app? God said, I am trying to give you 517 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:27,510 Speaker 2: permission to break the pattern of the Pharisees. to separate 518 00:33:28,130 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 2: the chaff from the wheat. See, the chaff is the tradition. 519 00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:37,860 Speaker 2: The kernel is the truth. The kernel, that's the seed 520 00:33:37,900 --> 00:33:43,040 Speaker 2: the grain comes from. You know what the husk is 521 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:44,800 Speaker 2: around the kernel? I didn't grow up on a farm either, 522 00:33:44,820 --> 00:33:46,740 Speaker 2: but I just studied this this week. 523 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,120 Speaker 1: The husk is the part …. 524 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,600 Speaker 2: The reason they were harvesting by hand … This is 525 00:33:51,620 --> 00:33:55,600 Speaker 2: why the Pharisees were accusing them, because they said, that's threshing. Technically, 526 00:33:55,820 --> 00:33:59,230 Speaker 2: that's threshing. You're separating the husk from the kernel, and 527 00:33:59,250 --> 00:34:01,130 Speaker 2: you're not allowed to do that on the Sabbath because 528 00:34:01,150 --> 00:34:03,050 Speaker 2: technically you're doing work. Now, you can pick the grain 529 00:34:03,070 --> 00:34:04,930 Speaker 2: with your hand, but you can't thresh it, not on 530 00:34:04,970 --> 00:34:08,150 Speaker 2: the Sabbath. But God has been trying to thresh them 531 00:34:08,510 --> 00:34:12,540 Speaker 2: the entire time since they started putting layers of husk 532 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,840 Speaker 2: of humanity on the law that was given by God. 533 00:34:17,660 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 2: Some of us God has been threshing our life lately 534 00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:24,480 Speaker 2: to try to separate the kernel of the word he 535 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:28,380 Speaker 2: spoke over us and the character he implanted on us 536 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,040 Speaker 2: from the husk of what people have said about us. 537 00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,770 Speaker 2: God has been rubbing his hands lately. God has been 538 00:34:37,810 --> 00:34:40,410 Speaker 2: rubbing his hands lately because he's trying to get the 539 00:34:40,450 --> 00:34:42,750 Speaker 2: husk to fall off your life. He's trying to get 540 00:34:42,790 --> 00:34:45,490 Speaker 2: the chaff to fall off your life. All the worthless stuff, 541 00:34:45,810 --> 00:34:48,009 Speaker 2: all the worthless things you've been spending your energy on, 542 00:34:48,290 --> 00:34:50,710 Speaker 2: all the worthless things you've been telling your mind, all 543 00:34:50,730 --> 00:34:53,430 Speaker 2: the worthless things you've been worrying about, all the worthless 544 00:34:53,469 --> 00:34:56,630 Speaker 2: things … That's why the disciples are giving a demonstration 545 00:34:56,950 --> 00:34:59,250 Speaker 2: of what Jesus is doing on the earth. He is 546 00:34:59,410 --> 00:35:03,170 Speaker 2: rubbing away the husk of what is not working. He 547 00:35:03,270 --> 00:35:06,160 Speaker 2: is rubbing away the husk of everything that did not 548 00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:09,000 Speaker 2: come from his heart. For some of you, he is 549 00:35:09,140 --> 00:35:12,730 Speaker 2: rubbing away the husk of the house you grew up in, 550 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,390 Speaker 2: of the habits you have developed, of everything that is 551 00:35:16,530 --> 00:35:26,250 Speaker 2: keeping you from discovering the kernel of I started studying 552 00:35:26,290 --> 00:35:30,259 Speaker 2: about kernels, not like the Kentucky Fried Chicken, but the 553 00:35:30,820 --> 00:35:33,819 Speaker 2: kernel of wheat, and I found out something. I found 554 00:35:33,860 --> 00:35:38,420 Speaker 2: out that kernel also means in computer programming what is 555 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:44,089 Speaker 2: at the core of a computer's operating system and has 556 00:35:44,170 --> 00:35:50,230 Speaker 2: complete control over everything in the system. So, when it 557 00:35:50,290 --> 00:35:53,690 Speaker 2: says they rubbed away the husk and kept the kernel … 558 00:35:54,550 --> 00:35:56,730 Speaker 2: The Lord said for me to tell you, keep the kernel. 559 00:35:58,489 --> 00:35:59,090 Speaker 1: Keep the kernel. 560 00:35:59,110 --> 00:36:03,350 Speaker 2: I'm going to come preach this at Transformation Church. I'm 561 00:36:03,390 --> 00:36:06,860 Speaker 2: going to come preach this in Tulsa. See, some things 562 00:36:06,890 --> 00:36:09,700 Speaker 2: have to fall away for you to get to what's true. 563 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,100 Speaker 1: Sometimes that doesn't happen in a harvest field. 564 00:36:13,340 --> 00:36:16,140 Speaker 2: Sometimes that happens in your mind, in your habits, in 565 00:36:16,180 --> 00:36:26,400 Speaker 2: your prayer life, in your devotion. In a computer program, 566 00:36:26,660 --> 00:36:29,900 Speaker 2: the kernel is the operating system, and it has control 567 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,060 Speaker 2: over everything in the system. So, Jesus said, there's a 568 00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:33,959 Speaker 2: new kernel in town. 569 00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:39,460 Speaker 1: This system is broken. 570 00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:44,760 Speaker 2: So, Christ, Jesus Christ … Now, we talk about Jesus, 571 00:36:44,980 --> 00:36:47,489 Speaker 2: and we sing about Jesus, but I wonder, do we 572 00:36:47,590 --> 00:36:51,149 Speaker 2: really understand what we have inside of us to say, 573 00:36:51,330 --> 00:36:57,210 Speaker 2: Christ in you, the hope of glory? It means no 574 00:36:57,270 --> 00:37:01,489 Speaker 2: amount of husk, no amount of habits, nothing that has 575 00:37:01,530 --> 00:37:05,360 Speaker 2: been covering you, because when God does this … You 576 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,920 Speaker 2: know what I love about God? He threshes by hand. 577 00:37:09,060 --> 00:37:12,219 Speaker 2: I love God because he threshes by hand. He knows 578 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:13,580 Speaker 2: exactly what needs. 579 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,800 Speaker 1: To fall off my life. He knows exactly who needs. 580 00:37:16,590 --> 00:37:17,629 Speaker 2: To fall out of my life. 581 00:37:18,250 --> 00:37:21,670 Speaker 1: Somebody thank God for the breakup. Somebody thank God for 582 00:37:21,710 --> 00:37:25,050 Speaker 1: the pink slip. Somebody thank God for the relocation. 583 00:37:25,489 --> 00:37:27,669 Speaker 2: That's God getting ready to bless you. 584 00:37:28,110 --> 00:37:31,009 Speaker 1: And everything that doesn't come from him has got to 585 00:37:31,050 --> 00:37:34,180 Speaker 1: fall off. It has got to fall off. 586 00:37:41,570 --> 00:37:45,969 Speaker 2: Work the kernel. Even on the Sabbath, even if you've 587 00:37:45,989 --> 00:37:47,990 Speaker 2: been in a bad situation, there. 588 00:37:47,870 --> 00:37:50,110 Speaker 1: Is a kernel of the goodness of God. 589 00:37:50,450 --> 00:37:54,089 Speaker 2: The kernel doesn't look like much, but everything that is 590 00:37:54,210 --> 00:37:57,250 Speaker 2: going to be in the grain is in the kernel. 591 00:37:57,610 --> 00:37:59,870 Speaker 2: It just hasn't come to maturity yet. 592 00:38:03,450 --> 00:38:04,529 Speaker 1: The kingdom of God is. 593 00:38:04,489 --> 00:38:10,930 Speaker 2: Like that kernel. God is in the business of removing 594 00:38:10,950 --> 00:38:15,919 Speaker 2: some things He said, did you never read what David did? 595 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,319 Speaker 2: How hard would it be to be David? The only 596 00:38:21,580 --> 00:38:26,560 Speaker 2: king you've ever seen is bipolar. He really was. They 597 00:38:26,580 --> 00:38:28,819 Speaker 2: didn't diagnose it like that at the time. They said 598 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,250 Speaker 2: an evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul, but 599 00:38:31,290 --> 00:38:33,130 Speaker 2: not only was it a mental disorder, it was a 600 00:38:33,150 --> 00:38:38,710 Speaker 2: spiritual warfare. That's what David grew up seeing as king. So, yeah, 601 00:38:38,750 --> 00:38:41,390 Speaker 2: make a decision, and so do you. Am I going 602 00:38:41,410 --> 00:38:48,239 Speaker 2: to copy Saul or copy God? He had opportunity after 603 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:52,219 Speaker 2: opportunity after opportunity to get revenge on Saul. One time 604 00:38:52,340 --> 00:38:59,680 Speaker 2: Saul was relieving himself in the cave, and David got 605 00:38:59,739 --> 00:39:01,320 Speaker 2: so close to him he cut off a corner of 606 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:01,739 Speaker 2: his robe. 607 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:02,360 Speaker 1: He could have killed him. 608 00:39:02,380 --> 00:39:06,130 Speaker 2: He had a decision to make. Am I going to 609 00:39:06,180 --> 00:39:10,759 Speaker 2: copy Saul or and continue to sow the same kernels 610 00:39:10,820 --> 00:39:16,140 Speaker 2: of conflict that made him crazy? But see, God chose 611 00:39:16,180 --> 00:39:24,180 Speaker 2: David because he said, I want a man after my 612 00:39:24,260 --> 00:39:28,859 Speaker 2: own heart. I want a woman who will copy me. 613 00:39:30,340 --> 00:39:34,460 Speaker 2: who will learn from me. To be discipled by Jesus 614 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:43,069 Speaker 2: means more than wearing a bracelet of WWJD. It really 615 00:39:43,110 --> 00:39:47,270 Speaker 2: means you have to allow him to do what he 616 00:39:47,290 --> 00:39:53,860 Speaker 2: didn't stop the disciples from doing. to separate the husk 617 00:39:55,300 --> 00:40:01,270 Speaker 2: from the heart. There were certain seasons in my life 618 00:40:01,630 --> 00:40:08,890 Speaker 2: where I owe the Devil an apology for giving him 619 00:40:09,010 --> 00:40:16,799 Speaker 2: credit for something Jesus Christ was actually doing, because all 620 00:40:16,860 --> 00:40:23,000 Speaker 2: I felt was this. I felt was threshing. I'm like, 621 00:40:23,380 --> 00:40:26,120 Speaker 2: oh God, I'm losing this person, and I'm losing this thing, 622 00:40:26,180 --> 00:40:32,940 Speaker 2: and I'm losing this opportunity. That was God threshing my 623 00:40:32,980 --> 00:40:38,140 Speaker 2: life by hand. That was God. Aren't you glad he 624 00:40:38,180 --> 00:40:42,839 Speaker 2: doesn't just use a sickle and thresh you like he 625 00:40:42,860 --> 00:40:46,220 Speaker 2: threshes everybody else? Just come on through and make a row. 626 00:40:48,340 --> 00:40:53,700 Speaker 2: God loves you enough to thresh you by hand so 627 00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,799 Speaker 2: he can get to the kernel, the kernel of the 628 00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:58,960 Speaker 2: prophetic word he has spoken over your life, the kernel 629 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,890 Speaker 2: of your true beauty unadorned, the kernel of who you 630 00:41:01,930 --> 00:41:03,930 Speaker 2: really were all along before all of the layers of 631 00:41:03,930 --> 00:41:06,489 Speaker 2: 39 categories of what God can't do got on top 632 00:41:06,550 --> 00:41:08,489 Speaker 2: of you. God is threshing all of that away now 633 00:41:08,969 --> 00:41:11,799 Speaker 2: in Luke, chapter 6, and the nets are breaking. The 634 00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,719 Speaker 2: roof is breaking, and the wineskins are breaking, and the 635 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,640 Speaker 2: Sabbath is being broken, because it has become a prison 636 00:41:17,660 --> 00:41:20,900 Speaker 2: when it was meant to be a gift. God is 637 00:41:20,940 --> 00:41:24,020 Speaker 2: breaking you out. That's what all this has been about. 638 00:41:24,340 --> 00:41:27,640 Speaker 2: Quit giving a praise service to the Devil by telling 639 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:34,200 Speaker 2: everybody you're under attack. You're not under attack. It's not 640 00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:40,339 Speaker 2: a threat. It's a threshing. It's a threshing. It's a threshing. 641 00:41:41,530 --> 00:41:46,609 Speaker 2: What happens after the threshing depends on whose hands you're in. So, 642 00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:55,930 Speaker 2: when God does this, you do this. I'm excited. I'm 643 00:41:55,950 --> 00:41:59,969 Speaker 2: getting ready to see God. Reveal something in me that 644 00:42:00,010 --> 00:42:02,830 Speaker 2: I forgot was even there. I'm getting ready to see 645 00:42:02,950 --> 00:42:07,680 Speaker 2: God do Ephesians 3.20. I wish you'd participate in this 646 00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,739 Speaker 2: sermon and just do what God has been doing. Just 647 00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:12,890 Speaker 2: do this. Oh, I can't wait. 648 00:42:13,450 --> 00:42:16,710 Speaker 1: To see what God has in mind. I'm filling my 649 00:42:16,830 --> 00:42:20,250 Speaker 1: horn with oil. I mean fresh oil. I'm filling it 650 00:42:20,270 --> 00:42:23,810 Speaker 1: to the top, running over. I'm getting my joy back. 651 00:42:24,070 --> 00:42:25,450 Speaker 1: It's reaping time now. 652 00:42:26,510 --> 00:42:30,110 Speaker 2: God has been taking the husk off my heart and 653 00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,500 Speaker 2: the husk off of my mind, and God has been 654 00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:36,200 Speaker 2: shedding me of wrong thinking. Now I'm getting ready to 655 00:42:36,340 --> 00:42:46,420 Speaker 2: see what God put inside of me. He's harvesting you 656 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:51,069 Speaker 2: by hand. He knows when the fields are ripe. He 657 00:42:51,260 --> 00:42:55,029 Speaker 2: knows when the time is right. He doesn't need permission 658 00:42:55,310 --> 00:42:58,310 Speaker 2: from a Pharisee to do it on the right day. 659 00:42:58,730 --> 00:43:02,590 Speaker 1: He's been doing it all along. The threshing was a blessing. 660 00:43:11,010 --> 00:43:17,480 Speaker 2: So, I don't know who needed to know, that's God's 661 00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:25,469 Speaker 2: hand you feel. That's God's hand. He's going to keep 662 00:43:25,489 --> 00:43:30,759 Speaker 2: the kernel. I'm going to tell you something else we 663 00:43:30,780 --> 00:43:33,760 Speaker 2: need to teach theologically. God, forgive me for not teaching 664 00:43:33,780 --> 00:43:39,080 Speaker 2: this enough. Christ in you is the operating system of 665 00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:49,470 Speaker 2: your life, not the condemnation in you. I was thinking 666 00:43:49,510 --> 00:43:52,510 Speaker 2: about David. Y'all stand up because it pressures me to close. 667 00:43:54,760 --> 00:44:01,820 Speaker 2: Then we get the next service in. But when Jesus 668 00:44:01,860 --> 00:44:06,040 Speaker 2: said what David did, did you never read what David did? 669 00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:11,690 Speaker 2: He could have talked about a lot of things. He 670 00:44:11,710 --> 00:44:15,649 Speaker 2: could have talked about Bathsheba because David did that too. 671 00:44:17,090 --> 00:44:20,090 Speaker 2: He could have talked about Amnon, David's son he wouldn't 672 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,690 Speaker 2: deal with. He could have talked about Absalom, David's son 673 00:44:22,710 --> 00:44:24,770 Speaker 2: he was passive-aggressive with and wouldn't let him come past 674 00:44:24,790 --> 00:44:27,049 Speaker 2: a certain distance. He could have talked about all of that, 675 00:44:28,010 --> 00:44:31,509 Speaker 2: but he didn't. By the time it says in Acts 676 00:44:31,510 --> 00:44:34,910 Speaker 2: 13 that David was a man after God's own heart, 677 00:44:36,270 --> 00:44:41,330 Speaker 2: it doesn't mean all of his decisions were perfect. It 678 00:44:41,370 --> 00:44:50,450 Speaker 2: means he kept the kernel of God's heart. The Enemy 679 00:44:50,489 --> 00:44:53,850 Speaker 2: wants to wrap you in so much condemnation that you 680 00:44:53,870 --> 00:44:58,470 Speaker 2: can't see the kernel. That's why God brought you here today. 681 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,880 Speaker 2: That's why he's been allowing you to go through. I 682 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,960 Speaker 2: don't think it probably felt good for the grain, but 683 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:12,359 Speaker 2: it was good, because he is removing everything that does 684 00:45:12,450 --> 00:45:20,380 Speaker 2: not belong and breaking everything that is holding back. purpose 685 00:45:20,420 --> 00:45:26,160 Speaker 2: he created you for, to get you out of that prison, 686 00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:33,410 Speaker 2: to uncover the kernel of your true character. He will 687 00:45:33,489 --> 00:45:38,370 Speaker 2: even allow life sometimes to do this to you. Sometimes 688 00:45:38,450 --> 00:45:41,020 Speaker 2: it doesn't feel so gentle, and sometimes we don't know 689 00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,239 Speaker 2: how to praise God for this, but I want you 690 00:45:44,260 --> 00:45:48,700 Speaker 2: to rub your hands together real quick. You can still 691 00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:50,969 Speaker 2: do this on COVID protocol, isn't it? You don't have 692 00:45:50,989 --> 00:45:57,109 Speaker 2: to rub somebody else's palm. I want you to hear 693 00:45:57,130 --> 00:46:03,060 Speaker 2: the Lord saying, the fields are ripe now. I'm bringing 694 00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:05,880 Speaker 2: you into a moment where you can grow up past 695 00:46:06,660 --> 00:46:11,060 Speaker 2: what you grew up around to establish a different pattern. 696 00:46:12,530 --> 00:46:14,910 Speaker 2: to break tradition with the things that are not true 697 00:46:14,930 --> 00:46:16,529 Speaker 2: about you. You don't have to keep doing this. I 698 00:46:16,550 --> 00:46:21,640 Speaker 2: know it'll hurt after a minute. But, Lord, we pray 699 00:46:21,700 --> 00:46:24,760 Speaker 2: for release for the captives today. Some people are captive 700 00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:29,980 Speaker 2: by the customs of their life, and some people are 701 00:46:30,020 --> 00:46:33,290 Speaker 2: captives in a certain area of their character, but I 702 00:46:33,330 --> 00:46:35,790 Speaker 2: see something coming forth today by faith. I really do. 703 00:46:35,810 --> 00:46:41,430 Speaker 2: I believe that you have been unlocking, as I've preached 704 00:46:41,450 --> 00:46:46,049 Speaker 2: this word today, You literally have been walking through the 705 00:46:46,090 --> 00:46:51,390 Speaker 2: grain field. I thank you, Lord, that when you walk 706 00:46:51,410 --> 00:46:55,650 Speaker 2: through the grain field of my life, you know how 707 00:46:55,690 --> 00:46:59,899 Speaker 2: to take the husk off. I thank you, Lord, for 708 00:47:00,060 --> 00:47:02,879 Speaker 2: everything you have spoken over her life, over his life. 709 00:47:03,820 --> 00:47:06,239 Speaker 2: Thank you for everything you've planted in them, the experiences, 710 00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:11,400 Speaker 2: the wisdom, the gift you've given. We will not allow 711 00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:14,850 Speaker 2: the lies of the Enemy or the patterns of Saul 712 00:47:15,930 --> 00:47:19,950 Speaker 2: to keep the king in them from being born. So, Father, 713 00:47:19,989 --> 00:47:24,750 Speaker 2: I thank you now in Jesus' name, not David's name, 714 00:47:25,450 --> 00:47:28,420 Speaker 2: the Lord of the Sabbath, the Lord of the gift, 715 00:47:28,780 --> 00:47:34,700 Speaker 2: the God of the grain field. I commit you into 716 00:47:34,900 --> 00:47:42,010 Speaker 2: their hands. It's not the spear that was in Saul's hand. God, 717 00:47:42,050 --> 00:47:45,560 Speaker 2: it is the grain in your hand that gives me 718 00:47:45,739 --> 00:47:49,600 Speaker 2: confidence and faith today to know that we'll make it. 719 00:47:51,420 --> 00:47:53,359 Speaker 2: This may be a word, God, that needs to go 720 00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:55,259 Speaker 2: down deep for somebody. They may need to hear it 721 00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,080 Speaker 2: another time or two to really get it down deep, 722 00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:01,299 Speaker 2: but I thank you that your hand has been there 723 00:48:01,390 --> 00:48:06,190 Speaker 2: keeping the kernel of their purpose, keeping the kernel of 724 00:48:06,230 --> 00:48:14,120 Speaker 2: their life that nothing anyone does can change it. Father, 725 00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:23,859 Speaker 2: our hands are open. Our lives are yours. In this 726 00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:27,529 Speaker 2: place today, there's somebody who needs to give your life 727 00:48:27,810 --> 00:48:33,790 Speaker 2: over to God. You have been running from him. He 728 00:48:33,830 --> 00:48:37,290 Speaker 2: has been walking through the grain field trying to get 729 00:48:37,410 --> 00:48:42,050 Speaker 2: your attention. He wanted you to hear this message today 730 00:48:43,390 --> 00:48:47,750 Speaker 2: so you could know that salvation is a gift from him. 731 00:48:49,050 --> 00:48:54,620 Speaker 2: It's not of works or behavior or keeping 39 Sabbath 732 00:48:54,660 --> 00:48:58,200 Speaker 2: laws or getting your life together. It's to believe in 733 00:48:58,300 --> 00:49:01,880 Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, his Son, the Savior of the world, the 734 00:49:01,940 --> 00:49:07,069 Speaker 2: Lord of the Sabbath, the God of all creation. Right now, 735 00:49:07,130 --> 00:49:10,120 Speaker 2: I want to give you an invitation. Wherever you are 736 00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:11,799 Speaker 2: in the world, if you're right here in this room, 737 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:18,069 Speaker 2: I'm going to pray a prayer. It's not magical. It's 738 00:49:18,090 --> 00:49:20,480 Speaker 2: not about the words or the order of the words. 739 00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:24,879 Speaker 2: It's about your heart. The Bible says that if you 740 00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,360 Speaker 2: confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe 741 00:49:27,380 --> 00:49:29,120 Speaker 2: in your heart that God raised him from the dead, 742 00:49:29,420 --> 00:49:32,120 Speaker 2: you will be saved. That's a promise, not a probability. 743 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:36,790 Speaker 2: You will be saved. I want to give you that 744 00:49:36,810 --> 00:49:40,350 Speaker 2: opportunity right now to place your faith in Jesus Christ, 745 00:49:40,570 --> 00:49:43,140 Speaker 2: what he did for you, how he died for you, 746 00:49:43,180 --> 00:49:45,820 Speaker 2: how he took your sin on him, how he rose 747 00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:47,719 Speaker 2: from the grave so you could have a new life. 748 00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:50,600 Speaker 2: We're going to pray that prayer right now. For everyone 749 00:49:50,620 --> 00:49:52,819 Speaker 2: who wants to put your faith in Jesus, you've been 750 00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:54,800 Speaker 2: running from God, and he called you to this moment, 751 00:49:54,820 --> 00:49:56,640 Speaker 2: and he's speaking to you. I want to give you 752 00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,380 Speaker 2: this moment to put your life in his hands. Repeat 753 00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:05,910 Speaker 2: after me. Heavenly Father, today is my day of salvation. 754 00:50:07,030 --> 00:50:11,630 Speaker 2: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 755 00:50:12,930 --> 00:50:17,980 Speaker 2: Today I make Jesus the Lord of my life. I 756 00:50:18,020 --> 00:50:21,980 Speaker 2: believe he died that I would be forgiven and rose 757 00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:27,080 Speaker 2: again to give me life. I receive your new life. 758 00:50:27,950 --> 00:50:30,070 Speaker 2: This is my new beginning. 759 00:50:30,850 --> 00:50:32,820 Speaker 1: I am a child of God. 760 00:50:33,460 --> 00:50:35,440 Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us. 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