1 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:12,479 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:16,960 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 6 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 1: Are you ready for the Word of God? Now? Me too. 7 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:25,760 Speaker 1: I feel like we're so blessed this morning because we've 8 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: got Pastor Robert Madieu in our church bringing us the 9 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 1: Word of God this morning. He and his wife Taylor 10 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: live in Cedar Hill, Texas. He's a part of the 11 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 1: teaching team at Trinity Church. Most of the time he's 12 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: traveling the world though, preaching the Gospel, sharing the grace 13 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 1: and love and mercy of Jesus. And we're blessed because 14 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: this isn't his first time he's back with us. So 15 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: could you help me welcome Pastor Robert Madeu back to 16 00:00:52,720 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 1: the pulpit this morning. Oh, good morning, Elevation Church. Come on, 17 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 1: do you have another praise or Hallelujah on the inside 18 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: of you? Come on? Can we just take ten seconds 19 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: across every location? Come on, let's give God the best 20 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: praise that we die hallelujah. Oh come on, this is 21 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 1: the day that the Lord has made. Let's rejoice and 22 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 1: be glad in it. Who are you excited to be 23 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 1: in God's House today? Oh? I'm telling you I am 24 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 1: expressed so elated to be back at elevation. Can would 25 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:40,479 Speaker 1: you do me a favor before you take your seat? 26 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:42,960 Speaker 1: Across every location, I want you to look at your neighbor, 27 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: whichever one you like the best, and just get in 28 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: their face, get in their personal space, and just say neighbor. 29 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:51,919 Speaker 1: Come on, don't be afraid to talk to your neighbor. 30 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: Come on, say neighbor. I waited all week to sit 31 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: next to you. Now, see if they really meant it. 32 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: See if they really meant it. Come on, give somebody 33 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: a high five, show them some love. You can be seated. 34 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: Oh thank you, worship team. It feels good to be 35 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: in God's House today. Man. I so honored and privileged 36 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: to be here for a couple of reasons. As Chris mentioned, 37 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: this is my second time here on the weekend, and 38 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: I kind of have a rule. I have a rule 39 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: as I've been traveling that when you come to a 40 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 1: church like the first weekend, you're still kind of in 41 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: the guest category. You know, people don't know you, but 42 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: if you come back a second weekend, then you just 43 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: straight up family. Okay, So I hope you know I've 44 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 1: adopted myself into the Elevation family. Y'all are stuck with me. 45 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: I'm your cousin from the great country of Texas. So 46 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: it's gonna be good today. It's gonna be good, especially 47 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: because I just came back from Israel. I was in 48 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: Israel two days ago. I felt extra anointing. So I 49 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: was in the Holy Land of Israel now on the 50 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: Holy Land of Charlotte, and I was walking around Israel. 51 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: Is pretty signific to think that what happened on that 52 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: little parcel of land through Jesus turned the world upside down. 53 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: And then walking in here today just to think that 54 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: just thirteen years ago, what God has done through this church, 55 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: what started has now reverberated around the world. What God 56 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 1: is doing here in Elevation. And come on, how many 57 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: you know you are blessed, favored, and straight up spoiled 58 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: to be a part of this church. Come on, if 59 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,919 Speaker 1: this church has ever blessed your life, you ought to 60 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: give God some praise or this is unbelievable. I'm telling 61 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: you right now, the grass is not greener anywhere else. Okay, 62 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: if it is, it's astrochurch, it's not real. This right here, 63 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: this is real. And God had to have somebody special 64 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: to steward this, to lead this. And my wife and 65 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: I we so love and appreciate the life and the 66 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: leadership Pastor Stephen and Holly Ferdick. And anytime I got 67 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: the mic at elevation and come on, I'm gonna give 68 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: honor to where honors do. Would you help me thank 69 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: God for your pastors. Come on for their vision, for 70 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: their hearts to serve. Y'all could do better than that 71 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: across every location. Come on, make some noise for your leaders. 72 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: Pastor Stephen is undoubtedly one of the greatest preachers you 73 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: will ever hear. And not only does he has really 74 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 1: the relational equity to get anybody behind this pulpit. So 75 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 1: it is my honor to be here today, and I'm 76 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: gonna preach. I feel like preaching today. I feel like 77 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 1: preaching from Genesis all the way to the maps in 78 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,039 Speaker 1: the back. So it's gonna be good. Would you stand 79 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,719 Speaker 1: with me to honor the reading of God's word and 80 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: across every location. If you got a Bible, would you 81 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: wave it in the air like you just do? Care, 82 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: Come on some of your boble's a glowing thank you 83 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: for charging up your Bible today. I want to look 84 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: at Matthew Chapter fifteen. Today, Matthew fifteen. I want to 85 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 1: look at verses twenty one through twenty eight. Matthew fifteen 86 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: will start at verse number twenty one, and we'll land 87 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: at verse number twenty eight. When you're ready to read it, 88 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: why don't you say, yeah, you need some time to 89 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: find it. Say hold up, that was a lot. Hold up. 90 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a moment. Matthew Chapter fifteen, starting 91 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 1: a verse number twenty one. Look at what it says. 92 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:26,279 Speaker 1: It says. Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region 93 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 1: of Tire and Sidon, and a Canaanite woman from that 94 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: vicinity came to him, crying out, Lord, son of David, 95 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 1: have mercy on me. My daughter is demon possessed and 96 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:44,359 Speaker 1: suffering terribly. Jesus did not answer a word, so as 97 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:47,559 Speaker 1: disciples came to him and urged him send her away, 98 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: for she keeps crying out after us, And he answered, 99 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel. 100 00:05:56,200 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 1: The woman came and knelt before him, Lord, help me, 101 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: she said, and he replied, it is not right to 102 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:08,479 Speaker 1: take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs. 103 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: Yes it is, Lord, she said, Even the dogs eat 104 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:18,479 Speaker 1: the crumbs that fall from their master's table. And Jesus 105 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 1: said to her woman, only Jesus could get away with that. 106 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: By the way, woman, you have great faith. Your request 107 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: is granted. And her daughter was healed six months. I'm 108 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: tripping ron prescription. Let me worry that again. Her daughter 109 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: was healed three days. Oh no, my bad. Her daughter 110 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 1: was healed at that moment. It's almost like what she 111 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: said in verse twenty seven activated the miracle in verse 112 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: twenty eight. At that moment. I want to preach across 113 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: every location today, not long, about six and a half hours. 114 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: I'm playing just using this as a title. Get over it. 115 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: Get over it? Would you do me a favorite? Look 116 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 1: at your neighbor for the last time and just say, neighbor, 117 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: I know this message is for you. Get them all 118 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 1: this prayer. Father, thank you for your word across every location. 119 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: Speak to our hearts today. Lord, let us leave different 120 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: than the way that we came in in Jesus' name. 121 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: Everybody said, man, you may be seated in the presence 122 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: of the Lord. Get over it. You know, I really 123 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: hate to preach before I preach, but just watch this 124 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: real quick. Watch this, hear me. God will often use 125 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: desperation to push you into your purpose. I will offer 126 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: use desperation to push you into your destiny. In fact, 127 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: watch this. Desperation is the door that breakthrough walks through. 128 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that again. Desperation is the door that 129 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: breakthrough walks through. Some people wonder how come I han't 130 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: got my breakthrough you Sometimes it's because you hadn't got 131 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: downright desperate enough for God to do it in your life, 132 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: because desperation will open up doors that complacency will keep shut. 133 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: I'm telling you. I'll travel and people often ask me, Robert, 134 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 1: where's your favorite place to preach? Your favorite place to 135 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: preach in To be honest, I struggle to name a 136 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:37,680 Speaker 1: place because I want to articulate to them that the 137 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 1: effectiveness of preaching and ministry has little to do with 138 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 1: an address or a destination of a place, but everything 139 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 1: to do with the attitude and the disposition of the 140 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: people that are in the place. Come on, I would 141 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: rather preach in a basement with three desperate people than 142 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: to preach on the Bahamas with thousands of bougies, stuck 143 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: up people who act like they don't need God to 144 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 1: do anything in their life. But if you give me 145 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,959 Speaker 1: some desperate people, miracles will break. For if you'll give 146 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: me desperate people, signs and wonders will suck. If you'll 147 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: give me desperate people, the atmosphere will shift and pain 148 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 1: and God will sell himself strong and mighty when you're desperate. Hey, 149 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 1: that's a good sermon clip right there. It's actually a 150 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 1: good sermon. It's a good sermon. At least I thought 151 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: it was. I thought it was until after I preached 152 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: that message. I did what every confident, secure and emotionally 153 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: healthy preacher does after a message, I went online to 154 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: read the comment underneath that message. Now, in full disclosure, 155 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 1: most of the comments ninety percent of them were positive. 156 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: No comments like good word, ooh that blessed me preach bro. 157 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: There are a few fire emoticons, but those aren't the 158 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 1: comments that I have saved and snapshotted on my phone 159 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:09,439 Speaker 1: that I want to read for you today. Now, remember 160 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:12,680 Speaker 1: in that snippet. In that snippet that was not the 161 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: whole sermon. I said, and I quote, I would rather 162 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 1: preach in a basement with three people who are desperate 163 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 1: for God than to preach in the Bahamas with thousands 164 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 1: of stuck up, bougie people who act like they don't 165 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: need God to do anything in their life. That's what 166 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: I said in that clip. That was not the full sermon. Okay, Now, 167 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: what I was clearly stating is that as a preacher 168 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 1: and a pontificator of the Gospel, that a meager but 169 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: eager audience in a basement would be preferred over a large, 170 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:50,559 Speaker 1: apathetic audience in the Bahamas. My juxtaposition of the Bahamas 171 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 1: in the basement was solely to compare contrasts a magnificent 172 00:10:55,480 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: environment with the mundane environment. I was in no way, 173 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 1: shape or form trying to denegrate Behamian people or basement people. 174 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 1: I just needed two words that started with the letter 175 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: be But let me read the comments for you. It 176 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: says in your message, pastor, you mentioned the Bahamas stating 177 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:23,080 Speaker 1: that it has stuck up and bougie people. How can 178 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 1: a pastor say those things about a country? Have you 179 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 1: met everyone in the Bahamas. Very distasteful of you to 180 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 1: make those statements as a Bahaman. I am offended and 181 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: owed an apology. Next comment, Pastor, you have greatly offended 182 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:45,359 Speaker 1: a large group of Bahamans with your comments about the Bahamas. 183 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 1: Next comment and my favorite, the expression on his face 184 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: when he made that comment about my people tells me 185 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 1: everything I need to know. That was flesh coming through, 186 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: not God. Watch it again and watch his expression closely. 187 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 1: Hashtag apology required urgently. Next comment, Wow, just wow. Sad 188 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: that he used this platform to offend hundreds and thousands 189 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 1: of people. Oh that's about one hundred more comments where 190 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:24,319 Speaker 1: that came from. That's the edited version right there. And 191 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:26,959 Speaker 1: the irony is the irony is is I went there 192 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,679 Speaker 1: was one dude. He tried to cancel my ministry from 193 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:31,839 Speaker 1: coming to the Bahamas. Start a campaign on Facebook to 194 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: cancel my ministry from coming to the Bahamas. And the 195 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 1: irony is is. I would love to preach in the Bahamas. 196 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: I would die to preach in the Bahamas. I'm gonna 197 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,600 Speaker 1: keep you one hundred. I would leave y'all right now 198 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: to go preach in the Bahamas. I mean, Valentine is beautiful, 199 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:56,119 Speaker 1: but it ain't the Bahamas, and I just found it funny, interesting, 200 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 1: and to be honest, quite sad. Some people missed the 201 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:08,120 Speaker 1: transformational truth of an entire message, not because it could 202 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: not be comprehended, but because they were offended. Ladies and gentlemen, 203 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,679 Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. We are now living in the age, 204 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: in the era of offense. Have you noticed that it 205 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 1: seems like everybody everywhere is perpetually offended about everything all 206 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: the time. Everybody is now offended. It is as if 207 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:41,320 Speaker 1: victimhood has gone viral and being easily offended is no 208 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 1: longer seen as a weakness in your character, but is 209 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 1: now your constitutional right to be offended? Oh you got 210 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 1: a right to be offended. Oh that didn't offend you. 211 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 1: Oh I'm offended for you. Everybody is offended. It's like 212 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 1: we're no longer living in the USA. We are now 213 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: in the USO because everybody is in the United State 214 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 1: of Offense. Everybody's offended. Men are offended, women are offended, 215 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:17,960 Speaker 1: the millennials are offended, the baby boomers are offended, Democrats 216 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: are offended, Republicans are offended, the atheists are offended, the 217 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 1: saints are offended. The new Orleans Saints are still offended. 218 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 1: You know, we're supposed to be in a super Bowl, right, 219 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 1: we were supposed to be everybody is. The vegetarians and 220 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 1: vegans are offended. Oh come, you heard about this, right. 221 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: There's a group, there's a contingency of vegans that are offended, right, 222 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: and they are now calling for the removal hear me 223 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: of meat based metaphors. They want to ban on phrases 224 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 1: like bring home the bacon. They are rallying for less 225 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 1: offensive and more health conscious frame like bring home the Broccolian. 226 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: Animal rights activists have jumped on the same bandwagon, backed 227 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: by PETA. They feel that some of our commonly used 228 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 1: phrases and idioms are offensive and are actually encouraging animal cruelty. 229 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: Phrases like you're beating a dead horse and you can 230 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: kill two birds with one stone should be removed and 231 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: replaced with less offensive ones like you're feeding a fed 232 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: horse and you can feed two birds with one scud. 233 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: That is a for real article. No, I see somebody, 234 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 1: I'll judge it. And you laugh. You're like, oh, come on, vegans, 235 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: animal activists, get over it. That's silly. Understand it's silly 236 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 1: to you but it's serious to them, so so serious 237 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 1: that some of these animal activists actually got arrested. They 238 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 1: were arrested because they were going to steakhouses with speakers 239 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 1: and they were playing the sound of slaughtered cows at 240 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: these states. And when the managers came out and said, no, 241 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: hold up, y'all, can't do this, y'all gotta move, I 242 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 1: had to they refused and got sent to jail. They 243 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 1: got arrested. It was very serious to them. And this 244 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 1: is the variability of offense that an offense that's silly 245 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 1: to me might be serious to you, and an offense 246 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: that's serious to you might be silly to me. And 247 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: I don't care who you are under the sound of 248 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 1: my voice. Every single person has something, some offense, some 249 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 1: touchy subject that if the right person on the wrong 250 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: day when you forgot to pray, hit that butty. Oh 251 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 1: you find yourself in a jail cell right next to 252 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: the animal activists. Oh what do we do with our offenses? 253 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 1: Our offenses? You remember that game operation? Yeah, board game. 254 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 1: This is before Fortnight. They had these board games and 255 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:05,159 Speaker 1: there was a patient on the board game. You had 256 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 1: to get the tweezers, You had to get like his 257 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 1: heart or his organ. But if you hit the wrong 258 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 1: spot the patient on the board games, his nose would 259 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: light up and turn red. That's you, that's me. All 260 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,719 Speaker 1: of us have offenses that if the right person hid it, 261 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 1: your nose would light up like Rudolph. What do we 262 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: do in a culture of offense? My Texas in Matthew 263 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:31,160 Speaker 1: chapter fifteen, But in Matthew chapter twenty four, offense comes up. 264 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 1: The disciples privately come to Jesus and say, hey, Jesus, 265 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 1: how can we know the end of the age. How 266 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: can we know when you are coming back? You're going 267 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 1: to return? And Jesus gives them a litany of things. 268 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:45,880 Speaker 1: He says, let no man deceive you. Many will come 269 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,320 Speaker 1: in my name saying I am Christ, and they will 270 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: deceive many. He said, Nation will rise against nation, and 271 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 1: kingdom against kingdom. There will be wars and rumors of wars, 272 00:17:56,040 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: and earthquakes and diverse places and diseases, and Estillan says, 273 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: and when you're reading Matthew twenty four, you can get 274 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:05,679 Speaker 1: lost in the suspense of the earthquakes and the diseases 275 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 1: that you'll miss. Matthew twenty four, Verse ten, where Jesus says, oh, 276 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:15,920 Speaker 1: and then many will be offended. In other words, Jesus says, 277 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: one of the blues clues from my return is that 278 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 1: you will be in a culture, in a society of offense. 279 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:28,160 Speaker 1: Matthew in Luke seventeen, not Matthew twenty four. Jesus brings 280 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 1: up this issue of offense, and he calls his disciples 281 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: and he says, to the disciples, let's look at it. 282 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,200 Speaker 1: He says to the disciples, he's talking to disciples, any 283 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: disciples of Jesus. Okay, not four of you. Good to 284 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: see you. And look what he says to the disciples. 285 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 1: He says, it is impossible. It is impossible. That got 286 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 1: my attention, because you know, when the God of the 287 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: impossible is saying something is impossible, you better pay close attention. 288 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 1: What is impossible, Jesus to heal the sick, to raise 289 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: the dead. He's like, oh, that's easy. Now, here's what's impossible, 290 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 1: that no offense should come. In other words, Jesus saying, 291 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: I guarantee you offenses are gonna come in your life. 292 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: It is a part of being a breathing human. Offenses 293 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 1: are gonna come. He promises you that offenses are coming 294 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:18,479 Speaker 1: he promises you. Your spouse is gonna get on your 295 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: last nerve. He promises you, somebody's gonna send you the 296 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: wrong text message. He promises you, somebody's gonna see you 297 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 1: at Walmart about to pull on a parking spot which 298 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: shall signal turn, and they gonna squeeze in there. And 299 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: he promises you. Offenses are gonna come. He later says 300 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:38,200 Speaker 1: in the text, now don't let the offenses come through you. Now, 301 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 1: you don't be out there just causing offenses. He says, 302 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 1: if you do that, it would be better for you 303 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: to put a millstone around your neck and jump in 304 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:48,919 Speaker 1: the bottom of the sea. A millstone was a stone 305 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: about the signs of a washing machine. He said. Now, 306 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:55,400 Speaker 1: you don't be the one doing offenses. He said, But offenses, Oh, 307 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:58,439 Speaker 1: they're gonna come. It is impossible for them not to come. 308 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:01,919 Speaker 1: But I noticed in the he did not say that 309 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: it is impossible for you to not get offended. Because 310 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 1: offenses and offended are two separate and distinct things. Oh, 311 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 1: can I teach in her a little bit today? There's 312 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 1: a difference between offense and offended. Offense is what happened. 313 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:30,400 Speaker 1: Offended is a reaction. Offense says, you did it, offended 314 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 1: says I'll never forgive it. Offense Pastor Stephens says, is 315 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:41,159 Speaker 1: an event. Offended is a decision. The power of what 316 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 1: Jesus is saying in this text is that offenses, Oh, 317 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 1: those are inevitable, but offended, now that's optional. So if 318 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:55,359 Speaker 1: offenses are inevitable, but offended is optional, that means it 319 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: is possible and plausible for you to live your life. 320 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:07,399 Speaker 1: Jesus says, I got a power and a grace that 321 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: not many believers tap into. But it is possible for 322 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 1: you to live your life unoffended. Oh, So the question 323 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:18,719 Speaker 1: I've been waiting all week to ask you At every location, 324 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna drink the water before I ask it. Hold 325 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 1: on one second, ready, this is the question I'm been 326 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 1: waiting all week to ask you? What is your current 327 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:33,880 Speaker 1: level of offendability? I know offendibility is not a dictionary, 328 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: but you know what I mean? How much does it 329 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: take for you to get offended? And the only reason 330 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: I'm asking you is because in my own life, in 331 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:46,480 Speaker 1: my own life, as I was seeking God, he spoke 332 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: to me so clearly and said, Robert, your level of 333 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 1: offendability is too high. He said, I got big things 334 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 1: in store for you, massive things in store for you, 335 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,679 Speaker 1: things that your eyes have not said and your ears 336 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: have not heard. Neither has it entered into the heart 337 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: of men. The big things I've already prepared for you. 338 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: But he said, you'll never be able to handle the 339 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: big thing as long as it keeps taking the smallest 340 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:20,439 Speaker 1: thing for you to get offended. He said to me 341 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:27,479 Speaker 1: that your level of offendability is actually an indicator of 342 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:31,880 Speaker 1: the level of your spiritual maturity. So what God will 343 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:36,360 Speaker 1: often do is put your miracle on the other side 344 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,399 Speaker 1: of an offense, so that you will be faced with 345 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: a decision to stay small where you are, or to 346 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 1: grow up and get over it. Oh I'm preaching it 347 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: here today. I might not get a lot of amen's, 348 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 1: but this is for somebody. What do we do with 349 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: our offenses? And when God spoke that to me, I 350 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,800 Speaker 1: didn't shout, I didn't clap, I didn't do the Holy 351 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 1: Ghost two step. I got offended. I say, God, what 352 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,920 Speaker 1: do you mean my current level of offendability is too 353 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 1: I don't get offended easily. Oh, I was so man. 354 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: I didn't talk to Jesus for like two weeks. No 355 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 1: I'm for real, because you do know that God knows 356 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: how to offend you. Oh, come on, can't nobody offends 357 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:25,880 Speaker 1: you like Jesus. Jesus knows how to offend you. He 358 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 1: can't help but offend you. It's who he is. Come on, 359 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:33,480 Speaker 1: he is the way, the Oh there, it is the 360 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,639 Speaker 1: truth and the life and the truth. By nature it offends. 361 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 1: Sometimes Jesus will tick you off with the truth. Before 362 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: that truth can transform you, he will offend you. I'm 363 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: telling Jesus is like spandex toddlers and drunk people. He 364 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: gonna give you the truth, whether you will like it 365 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 1: or not. Somebody get that tomorrow. I'm telling you, Jesus 366 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:07,680 Speaker 1: he of every relationship you have. Every relationship you have 367 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,439 Speaker 1: runs the risk of offense. Come on, relationship is the 368 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,399 Speaker 1: context of offense. You don't get offended in isolation. Come on, 369 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 1: you don't look in the mirror talking about I can't 370 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 1: stand what you did to me, at least not all 371 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,480 Speaker 1: of us. Come on, it's in the context of relationship. 372 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 1: I submit to you that if Jesus has never offended you, 373 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: you might not have relationship with Jesus. Had all, he 374 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 1: will offend you, So all I'm saying is that sometimes 375 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:37,160 Speaker 1: Jesus is offending you, and sometimes people are offending you, 376 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,679 Speaker 1: and sometimes it's both at the same time. And that 377 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 1: is exactly what is happening in our text today. In 378 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:48,159 Speaker 1: the Gospel of Matthew fifteen, the Bible says, a Canaanite woman, 379 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 1: a Canaanite woman, She is a pagan to the Israelites. 380 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: A Canaanite woman. This is years of strife, years of offense, 381 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 1: years of arguing between the Canaanites and the Israelites. Do 382 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:05,879 Speaker 1: you know how much courage it took for that woman 383 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 1: to roll up on this Jewish man named Jesus and 384 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:13,199 Speaker 1: his Jewish homeboys, after the years of a fence between 385 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 1: the Canaanites and the israel Do you know how much 386 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: courage it took for her to walk up to him 387 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaker 1: that day? Come on, have you ever had to walk 388 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 1: into a room that you knew the people in the 389 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: room hated you, but you had to walk in anyway 390 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:31,680 Speaker 1: because your check was in there or whatever. I mean, 391 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 1: you know how much courage it took for this woman 392 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: to walk into this room. What would make a Canaanite 393 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 1: woman walk into a room in an atmosphere with the 394 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 1: Jewish Messiah and his disciples. I'll tell you what made 395 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:48,679 Speaker 1: her do it. The devil was messing with her daughter. 396 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 1: And come on, when the devil is messing with your child, Oh, 397 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 1: come on where the parents had. When the devil is 398 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: messing with your child, all stuff will come out of 399 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: you that you didn't even know what's there. When the 400 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 1: devil is messing with your child, Oh you'll find a 401 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: prayer room you're like, don't play that music. Come on, 402 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:12,399 Speaker 1: play on some elevation. Ha laylu You'll get costco oil 403 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 1: and just start throwing it all over the world. Oh, 404 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 1: come on, I didn't know this till I had kids myself, 405 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,199 Speaker 1: my wife and I I did not know this that 406 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 1: It's one thing for the devil to mess with your job. 407 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,400 Speaker 1: It's one thing for him to mess with your Honda accord. 408 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,959 Speaker 1: It's a whole other thing when he starts messing with 409 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: your child. Come on, have you noticed other people can 410 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,640 Speaker 1: say the same thing about your child that if you said, 411 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: but they say it, it's a problem. Come on, you 412 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:41,920 Speaker 1: know your child will make you call on the word 413 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 1: late and say I'm gonna be late today. Walk right 414 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,960 Speaker 1: into the teacher's classroom and said, what did you say 415 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 1: about my child on this note? No, no, he's creative. 416 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 1: You can't teach. That's the real problem. So mess with 417 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 1: people's children. I'm telling you, Oh, your child will make 418 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: you low kick A eighth grade on the playground said, 419 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: I wish you would bully my kid again. Also, this woman, 420 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:10,120 Speaker 1: she walks right into that room. She said, I don't 421 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 1: care if you're rolling your eyes, Peter, suck your teeth 422 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 1: all you want, Judas, I don't care. I don't care. 423 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: I don't care what y'all think about me. This is serious. 424 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,399 Speaker 1: I'm tired of the devil torment in my baby girl. 425 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 1: I'm tired of being up all night with her. I'm 426 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: tired of this. And I heard that this Jesus has 427 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 1: the power to heal the sin and raise the tam. 428 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 1: I heard the demon shrimble and just the mention of 429 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:43,400 Speaker 1: his matchless name. So, Jesus, if you're steal in the 430 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 1: demon passing out business, please I feel I preach you 431 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:53,920 Speaker 1: now have mus see. Oh don't care what y'all think 432 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:59,200 Speaker 1: about me. This is my baby girl, said Lord, please, 433 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,639 Speaker 1: Son of David, she's a pagan talking about Son of David. 434 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,399 Speaker 1: I'm telling her some trouble that hits your life that'll 435 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 1: make you say whooh, Father, God, Jaho, Vagirah, all your names. 436 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:15,359 Speaker 1: I need you, please help my baby girl. She cries 437 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:19,199 Speaker 1: out to him, and Jesus hears her. He hears her 438 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 1: loud and clear. But after she cries out, son of David, 439 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 1: have mercy, Jesus pulls out his phone. She just goes, Lord, 440 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 1: son of David, have mercy my baby girl. And Jesus, oh, 441 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,800 Speaker 1: you don't believe it. It's in the text verse twenty three. 442 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 1: Jesus did not answer a word. He didn't say, and 443 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: she pours out her heart and he completely ignores her. 444 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: Have you ever had to deal with the offense of 445 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 1: being ignored? The offense of being ignored? Where did that 446 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 1: come from? See, I'm so glad you brought that out there, 447 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 1: because this is how life works. An offense is actually 448 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 1: a stumbling block. It's a stumbling block. You're just going 449 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 1: through your life and all of a sudden, just out 450 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 1: of the plu you got an offense. Have you ever 451 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 1: had to deal with the offense of being ignored? Where 452 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 1: you cried out to Jesus he didn't say, Yes, he 453 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: didn't say no, he didn't say maybe nothing at all. 454 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 1: All the pain of the offense of being ignored is 455 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,440 Speaker 1: so frustrating. I can relate. I can relate to this 456 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 1: woman because I have a father, a Nigerian father, and 457 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: I remember being a kid and I would I would 458 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:57,880 Speaker 1: ask my dad like my teens and I would ask 459 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 1: my Nigerian father. I'd be like sixteen, and I asked 460 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 1: him a simple question. I can see it like it 461 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 1: was yesterday. He'd be at the kitchen table reading the paper. 462 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,760 Speaker 1: A simple question like, Dad, I'm sixteen, I'm grown, and uh, 463 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 1: there's a party going on this Friday at a house 464 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: you don't know, with people you don't know. And I'm 465 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 1: gonna be back probably about two am. Is it cool 466 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 1: for me to go this party? And my Nigerian father 467 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 1: would put down the paper and look at me. I 468 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:33,160 Speaker 1: asked the question. He would not say anything, but just 469 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:37,720 Speaker 1: give me a look like you haven't lost your mind, 470 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,640 Speaker 1: And I say a word, and then just go right 471 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 1: back to reading them. And it wouldn't make me so 472 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 1: mad because it just ignored me. All the offense of 473 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:55,040 Speaker 1: being ignored, I think being ignored is worse than being 474 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:59,240 Speaker 1: rejected because when I'm rejected. At least I know where 475 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 1: we stand. You don't like me, cool, thank you. Next, 476 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,480 Speaker 1: it's fine. I know you don't like me. But when 477 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: you ignore me and you don't say anything. When I 478 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 1: send you a text message and you don't respond at 479 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 1: all to the text and you're one of the crazy 480 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 1: ones that got the notification where it says you let 481 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: me know you saw it, didn't say anything. Ever dealt 482 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:34,960 Speaker 1: with the offense of being ignored. Wonder does anybody say, God, 483 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 1: do you send me to other people see me? I 484 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 1: think about David who wasn't even invited to the party 485 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 1: when they were looking for a king. He was completely ignored. 486 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 1: The offense of being ignored. It's so pervasive in our 487 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 1: culture today because we live in a society where everybody 488 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 1: has this incessant need to be noticed. Have you noticed, 489 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 1: like don't you see me? And it can be difficult 490 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,240 Speaker 1: to deal with the offense of being ignored. He said, 491 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 1: not a word if that was me. Oh, and I 492 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 1: came to Jesus and said, my baby girl is being 493 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:13,120 Speaker 1: demon possessed and he ignored me. Oh that's it, I'm 494 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,960 Speaker 1: over it. Oh that's cool. Oh no, that's cool. I said, 495 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 1: you didn't ignore blind Bartimaeus, you didn't annoy the one 496 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 1: with the issue of blood. Yeah, they posted all they miracles, 497 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 1: but you ain't got time for me. Now it's fine, 498 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: Now it's cool. You a good, good father. Yeah right, 499 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 1: you're a jerk. I'm over it. Not this woman, she 500 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:36,000 Speaker 1: kept asking, please, please, please. You know how crazy you 501 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,280 Speaker 1: look to be persistent when he didn't even say anything. 502 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 1: But I'm telling you sometimes there's power in your persistence. 503 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:44,480 Speaker 1: I don't know who this is for, but you gave 504 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:50,360 Speaker 1: up too soon. Don't stop. Keep pushing, keep pressing. She said, please, 505 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 1: I ain't leaving. Please. She was persistent. She didn't get 506 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,920 Speaker 1: a response out of Jesus. She got a response out 507 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 1: of his disciples. This woman kept going to disciples, get annoyed. 508 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:10,960 Speaker 1: They're like, this girl, Felicia is not gonna leave. Obviously, 509 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,920 Speaker 1: don't worry, Jesus, we got you, Jesus. I want to 510 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,479 Speaker 1: see what disciples say. They said, Jesus, here's what we 511 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 1: should do. Send her away for she keeps crying out 512 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:31,400 Speaker 1: after us. Somebody called it, send her away. She keeps 513 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:38,640 Speaker 1: crying out after us. Really, Disciples, where in the text 514 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:43,440 Speaker 1: did she cry out after you? You You can't do anything. 515 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 1: Didn't nobody say your name that they didn't want you. See, 516 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,240 Speaker 1: this is the problem with some people to hang around Jesus. 517 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:54,080 Speaker 1: Sometimes they get it twisted. You think people want you. No, 518 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,760 Speaker 1: I want Jesus. He's the only one that's got the 519 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:01,360 Speaker 1: power to change the situal way. If you move out 520 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:09,719 Speaker 1: the way I could get to them. The disciples represent 521 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:19,719 Speaker 1: the offense of the institution the church. Disciples clearly demonstrate 522 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:24,920 Speaker 1: for us that sometimes the greatest offenses we occur are 523 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:29,359 Speaker 1: not necessarily from Jesus, but from the people who bear 524 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 1: his name, the people who represent them. Have you ever 525 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:39,080 Speaker 1: dealt when an offense in the church the disciples come 526 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:42,520 Speaker 1: on the disciples, you're the very ones who are rejects 527 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 1: an outcasts. Then Jesus reached out to you, and now 528 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:51,959 Speaker 1: you're rejecting people because you've been around Jesus a while. 529 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,160 Speaker 1: Your Instagram followers are blowing up. Now you thinking that 530 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,640 Speaker 1: what do you do with the offense? When you've been 531 00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:04,040 Speaker 1: heard the institution of the church or people in the church, 532 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:06,319 Speaker 1: and you be shocked at the people who are not 533 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,000 Speaker 1: in any of the locations today and some of the 534 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:13,120 Speaker 1: people who are in them who are still wrestling with 535 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:18,879 Speaker 1: the hurt of the offense that came from somebody who 536 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:22,920 Speaker 1: bared his name. And if I could just speak to you, 537 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 1: just for a moment, can I tell you this. I'm 538 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,160 Speaker 1: not saying what they did was right. I'm not saying 539 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,279 Speaker 1: what they did was okay. But can I tell you this, 540 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:37,400 Speaker 1: Never project the nature of man onto the character of God. 541 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:44,040 Speaker 1: Never project the nature of man onto the character of God. 542 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,440 Speaker 1: Just because they forsook you. He's not gonna forsake you. 543 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,280 Speaker 1: Just because they were wrong. It doesn't mean God is wrong. 544 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,359 Speaker 1: Can I also say that God has this uncanny way 545 00:35:56,280 --> 00:36:01,719 Speaker 1: of also using the church to heal your church. So 546 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:07,120 Speaker 1: don't leave. Stay planted. And this woman, she didn't leave. 547 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,920 Speaker 1: She said, I'm gonst stay. And because she stayed, God spoke. 548 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,040 Speaker 1: I don't know who that's for today, but God told 549 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:18,280 Speaker 1: me to tell you. If you'll stay, he'll speak. Don't 550 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:22,920 Speaker 1: walk away. If you stay, he will speak. But you 551 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,200 Speaker 1: might not like what he says, because look at what 552 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:29,400 Speaker 1: he says to her. He says, I was sent only 553 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:34,120 Speaker 1: to the lost sheep of Israel. Let me translate it 554 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:39,040 Speaker 1: for you, girl. I am here for you. You are 555 00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:43,960 Speaker 1: an outsider. I am here first for the children of Israel. 556 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,520 Speaker 1: I'm on a mission. I'm on an assignment. This is 557 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:53,520 Speaker 1: the offense of insignificance. Can you imagine how she felt? 558 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,200 Speaker 1: He said, I am not here for you. You're not 559 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:01,399 Speaker 1: my focus right now. My focus is actual on the 560 00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:07,120 Speaker 1: lost sheep of Israel, the offense of insignificance. And let 561 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,200 Speaker 1: me teach you just for a moment, y'all good? Because 562 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:16,240 Speaker 1: offenses are like lenses. Okay, anytime you have an offense 563 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,759 Speaker 1: with somebody, it's like a lens. Would you come up here, 564 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:22,719 Speaker 1: what's your name, Litho, Litho? Would you take off your 565 00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,279 Speaker 1: glasses real quickly. See, let's say I got into it 566 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:29,759 Speaker 1: with Letho, like you, bro, we had an offense, we 567 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:35,160 Speaker 1: had a falling out. The moment the offense occurs, put 568 00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:40,279 Speaker 1: them back on lenses. Offenses are lenses. I see it 569 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:43,839 Speaker 1: a certain way, you see it a certain way. You 570 00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,319 Speaker 1: always see the offense from your vantage point. That's why 571 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,680 Speaker 1: when you tell the story, they're always the villain and 572 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:53,759 Speaker 1: you're the victim. Can you believe they did that? That's 573 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,960 Speaker 1: why I always asked, did they really say that? Or 574 00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:01,319 Speaker 1: is that how you see it? Because if we just 575 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:07,920 Speaker 1: traded glasses, offenses or lenses. And if I put my 576 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:13,239 Speaker 1: goodness linto is blind, No wonder you saw it like that? 577 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,359 Speaker 1: Say yes, your issue and he's got mine on talking 578 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,040 Speaker 1: about man, how has he even reading the time clock? 579 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:29,920 Speaker 1: No wonder he going over? Because offenses are lenses. So 580 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,000 Speaker 1: when the fence comes, you gotta say, Lord, help me 581 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:36,759 Speaker 1: to see this the right way. Or even better, it 582 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,920 Speaker 1: gets somebody else in the situation that don't got glasses 583 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,520 Speaker 1: and say, both of y'all blind, both of y'all jacked up. 584 00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:46,920 Speaker 1: Let me tell you what's going on. Fences or lenses. 585 00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:51,160 Speaker 1: So watch this from her vantage point, I'm here only 586 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:55,239 Speaker 1: for the lost sheep of Israel. I'm insignificant, but from 587 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:59,879 Speaker 1: Jesus vantage point, it is not insignificance. It is precedents. 588 00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:05,440 Speaker 1: I'm not saying you're insignificant, but I'm saying the children 589 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:09,319 Speaker 1: of Israel take precedence. And just because they take precedence 590 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,880 Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're insignificant. Okay, I lost some of you. 591 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,960 Speaker 1: This is the equivalent of you springing your ankle and 592 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,480 Speaker 1: going to the hospital for them to see about your ankle, 593 00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:21,920 Speaker 1: and as they're rolling you in to take care of 594 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:25,640 Speaker 1: your ankle, All of a sudden, a gunshot wound victim 595 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,399 Speaker 1: comes in the room, so they put you to the side, 596 00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:31,480 Speaker 1: throw you a bag of ice, and they cream the 597 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,600 Speaker 1: gunshot victim wound in and they start treating him. How 598 00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:38,200 Speaker 1: crazy would you look? So? Oh, really, are you just 599 00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,440 Speaker 1: gonna take care of him? Oh? No, it's cool. I 600 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,879 Speaker 1: guess I'm insignificant. Now take your ice. I'm good Now. 601 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:50,800 Speaker 1: This hospital don't love people. I'm five nahaboo boo. But 602 00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:55,520 Speaker 1: now saying you're insignificant, it's just that this victim takes precedence. 603 00:39:56,320 --> 00:40:01,480 Speaker 1: But in the culture where everybody is a narcissist, he 604 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:07,480 Speaker 1: focus is on you. You'll look at insignificance and go, man, 605 00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:11,920 Speaker 1: I guess he doesn't care about me at all. If 606 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,800 Speaker 1: that was me, if that was most of us, these 607 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:19,080 Speaker 1: three what already made us be over it and be going. 608 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:22,000 Speaker 1: How many people do you know who felt like they've 609 00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,319 Speaker 1: been ignored by God and people and the church has 610 00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,759 Speaker 1: hurt them, and they've been made to feel insignificant so 611 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:33,120 Speaker 1: they walk away. But not this woman, Oh, this woman, 612 00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,840 Speaker 1: watch this. She gets down on her knees, she changes 613 00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:43,719 Speaker 1: her posture. She says, Jesus, please Lord, please help me 614 00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:46,400 Speaker 1: she said, no, I know it's a lot of offenses, 615 00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:50,000 Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna walk away. I'm just gonna worship you. 616 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,680 Speaker 1: Come on, you know you are on the edge of 617 00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:56,160 Speaker 1: your breakthrough. When you could have walked away, you had 618 00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,520 Speaker 1: every reason to quit, to walk away and throw on 619 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,120 Speaker 1: the t but thiss Dad, I just said, no, I'm 620 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:06,120 Speaker 1: gonna worship you. I'm gonna give you a glory and honor. 621 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:10,240 Speaker 1: I don't understand this. I don't know why this is happening, 622 00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:14,520 Speaker 1: but I know that you're still worthy, you still deserve 623 00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:24,040 Speaker 1: my worship. Please, please, please. She just worship him. Oh, 624 00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:27,000 Speaker 1: they said it in the testimony video. She said, I 625 00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:32,319 Speaker 1: started to seek the healer more than the healing. She 626 00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:37,360 Speaker 1: just worshiped. She didn't walk away, and I would have 627 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:44,320 Speaker 1: thought that the worship would have got God's attention. Jesus 628 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:51,400 Speaker 1: turns up the heat even more, brings the hardest offense. 629 00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:58,480 Speaker 1: He looks at her and says, you're worshiping, but you 630 00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:02,560 Speaker 1: know it's not right to take the children's bread and 631 00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:12,719 Speaker 1: toss it to the dogs. Jesus, the compassionate Savior, the 632 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:18,960 Speaker 1: loving Father full of grace, caused this woman a dog. 633 00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:23,839 Speaker 1: Now there are some cultural differences that we don't understand 634 00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:28,239 Speaker 1: because in that culture, if you were outside of the 635 00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:32,480 Speaker 1: covenant with Abraham, you were an outsider. You were a dog. 636 00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:36,200 Speaker 1: Dogs were outside. So it was very common for Jews 637 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:40,960 Speaker 1: to call gentiles dogs. Jesus were just keep him with 638 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,640 Speaker 1: the culture called her a dog. But if you study 639 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:46,160 Speaker 1: this text, one of the things you will find is 640 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:50,040 Speaker 1: that he doesn't use the common Greek word for dog, 641 00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:53,360 Speaker 1: which was a wild dog. That's what they called him. 642 00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:59,160 Speaker 1: He uses pet dog, pet dog. And if you study this, 643 00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:02,440 Speaker 1: you'll see all these comentators and scholars defending Jesus like now, 644 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,600 Speaker 1: hold up, now, hold on now. He did call her 645 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,920 Speaker 1: a dog, but it was a pet dog, Okay, not 646 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,520 Speaker 1: a wild dog. He used a different term. It was 647 00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,960 Speaker 1: a pet under defending Jesus, and I'm reading it going, uh, 648 00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:17,040 Speaker 1: either way you look at it, it's bad. Pet dog, 649 00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:19,640 Speaker 1: wild dog. He called her a dog. This is the 650 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:26,000 Speaker 1: offense of being insulted. Have you ever felt like, be honest, 651 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:32,120 Speaker 1: your situation was insulting. How can you help others people's 652 00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:36,719 Speaker 1: children and your child is on drugs? How can you 653 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:40,080 Speaker 1: help so many other marriages? Your marriages is falling apart? 654 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:45,359 Speaker 1: Have you ever felt insulted. He called her a dolt. Yes, 655 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:50,359 Speaker 1: a pet dog, but it's still a dog. Oh if 656 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:55,640 Speaker 1: that was me, let's be honest, if that was most 657 00:43:55,719 --> 00:44:05,839 Speaker 1: of us, we've been ignored, were made to feel insignificant, insulted. Oh, 658 00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,560 Speaker 1: I'm over it, and I think this woman, for a 659 00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:15,560 Speaker 1: moment was over it. It's like I tried everything I know. 660 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,319 Speaker 1: He keeps bringing a fence after a fence, and to 661 00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:26,120 Speaker 1: add it, Oh, you call me a dog. Whatever, Jesus, 662 00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:29,759 Speaker 1: I'm over it, but I think somewhere it hit her. 663 00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:34,480 Speaker 1: You should be. Wait a minute, you call me a dog. 664 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:43,800 Speaker 1: You call me a pet dog. All the other Jewish 665 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:50,680 Speaker 1: people say wild dog, you said pet dog. Wait a minute. 666 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,600 Speaker 1: There's a difference between a wild dog and a pet dog. 667 00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:01,719 Speaker 1: A wild dog doesn't have a place. A pet dog 668 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:06,400 Speaker 1: has a place. A pet dog can find shelter. A 669 00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:09,160 Speaker 1: pet dog can be protected when it's raining, when it's 670 00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:12,000 Speaker 1: cold down. So you call me a pet dog. Wait 671 00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,960 Speaker 1: a minute. Wait a minute. What wild dogs have to 672 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,440 Speaker 1: scrap for food and go through trash cans and get 673 00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:21,719 Speaker 1: whatever bones and leftovers they find on the street, but 674 00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:26,360 Speaker 1: not a pet dog. Pet dogs get to eat whatever 675 00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:31,040 Speaker 1: their master is eating. Oh, if the master's eating steak, 676 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:35,799 Speaker 1: the pet dog is eating steak. If the master's eating lobster, 677 00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:40,560 Speaker 1: the pet dog is eating lips. Wait a minute, maybe 678 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,440 Speaker 1: it has nothing to do with the dog, but just 679 00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:48,560 Speaker 1: showing me that life is predicated upon who your master is. 680 00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,960 Speaker 1: So guess what, Jesus, I don't care if you call 681 00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:56,000 Speaker 1: me a dog, a cow, or a cat. I'm not 682 00:45:56,160 --> 00:46:01,560 Speaker 1: walking away just because of these offenses, the even stumbling blocks, 683 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:07,200 Speaker 1: these are actually stepping stones. So I'm the gins over it. 684 00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:12,759 Speaker 1: I'm over being ignored. I'm over the church herds. I'm 685 00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:18,720 Speaker 1: over being made to feel insignificancewer I'm over being insulted. 686 00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:24,080 Speaker 1: Was not our sager insulted? And he hung on the cross. 687 00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:28,600 Speaker 1: And that is that Father forgets them, for they know 688 00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:33,520 Speaker 1: not one thing. Do I got to dip over this 689 00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:38,239 Speaker 1: or somebody want to give got the best praise that 690 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:48,640 Speaker 1: you can't it over it? And at that moment, at 691 00:46:48,800 --> 00:47:06,640 Speaker 1: that moment in the midical pain, at that moment, which 692 00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:14,239 Speaker 1: moment the moment you get over it? Before I came 693 00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:17,239 Speaker 1: in the service today, I told him they said, when 694 00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:22,640 Speaker 1: do we bring the miracle out? I said, bring out 695 00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:29,400 Speaker 1: the miracle the moment I get over that last offense. 696 00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:34,200 Speaker 1: But the miracle was back there the whole time. I 697 00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:38,520 Speaker 1: came to tell somebody to take God's got your miracle. 698 00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:47,359 Speaker 1: You just gotta take a stop, get over it, Get 699 00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:53,799 Speaker 1: over it ease here in my heart today I know 700 00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:58,279 Speaker 1: we use it over it casually to dismiss and say 701 00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:01,160 Speaker 1: that the offense wasn't not a deal. I'm telling you 702 00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:04,520 Speaker 1: it could have been a big deal. I'm not saying 703 00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:10,360 Speaker 1: they're right. I'm just saying you have a decision. You 704 00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,960 Speaker 1: can stay stuck where you are. You can say I 705 00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:23,360 Speaker 1: want my miracle more than any offense that comes my way. 706 00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:32,960 Speaker 1: Offense is an event. Offended is a decision, and God 707 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:37,759 Speaker 1: wants to give somebody the grace today to get over it. 708 00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:44,640 Speaker 1: She would have never gotten her miracle she walked away 709 00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:49,719 Speaker 1: at any one of those offenses. No wonder. Jesus looks 710 00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:54,640 Speaker 1: at her and says, woman, you have great faith. She 711 00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:57,440 Speaker 1: is one of the only two people in the entire 712 00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:04,640 Speaker 1: New Testament that Jesus commended their faith. Why does she 713 00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:08,000 Speaker 1: have great faith? She said, I'm not gonna let any 714 00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:13,359 Speaker 1: offense stop. Ma'am want the grace to get over it. 715 00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,640 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. 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