1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: in your life. 7 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:16,919 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. 8 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 3: I'm so glad you're here. 9 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 4: It's great to see you in the presence of the 10 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 4: Lord today. Give yourself a hand because you made it. 11 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:26,279 Speaker 1: I said, give yourself. 12 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 3: A hand because you made it. 13 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 4: I want to share this scripture from Isaiah forty three 14 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 4: to one and two, a promise that I have never 15 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 4: preached about before, but it has meant a lot to 16 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 4: me personally through the years, and I think you'll see why. 17 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 1: The prophet says. 18 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 4: But now this is what the Lord says, He who 19 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 4: created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel, do not fear, 20 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 4: for I have redeemed you. I have summoned you by name. 21 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 4: You are mine. 22 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,039 Speaker 3: When you pass through the waters, I will be with you. 23 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 4: And when you pass through the rivers, they will not 24 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 4: sweep over you. 25 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: When you walk through. 26 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 3: The fire, you will not be burned. 27 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 4: The flames will not set you ablaze. For I am 28 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 4: the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. 29 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 4: So today I want to talk to you from this subject. 30 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 4: The title of this message is not something but someone, 31 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 4: not something but someone. And then for a subtitle to 32 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 4: the message, we're going to call it. 33 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 3: Still in it, still in it. 34 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 4: High five four people that you can reach and say 35 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 4: still in it, and please put it in the chat 36 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 4: as well. Still in it, Still in it. Welcome today 37 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 4: to our epham. 38 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 3: Around the world. Wherever you are, God is with you. 39 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 3: Still in it. You may be seated. Somebody shouts, still 40 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 3: in it, still in it, Still in it. 41 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 4: Well, thank you so much. Forty six looks good on me. 42 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 4: Huh forty six years old. Forty six and still not fixed. Well, now, 43 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 4: this is ridiculous. Y'all are a disobedient class. 44 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 3: I didn't tell you to say this. 45 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. That is very calm. 46 00:02:48,120 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you, Okay, thank you, Oh thank you? 47 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 3: Are y'all done? 48 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: Now messing up my sermon intro? I appreciate it so much. 49 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: It means a lot. 50 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 4: It kind of goes along with what I was going 51 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 4: to say to start the sermon. 52 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 1: Forty six years old. 53 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 4: I've been preaching for thirty years, and then I've been 54 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 4: pastoring for twenty. 55 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 3: I'm still learning how to do this. 56 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 4: Not saying that like humble pie, I am still learning 57 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 4: how to do this. And even sometimes I realize that 58 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 4: the way I've been doing it is completely wrong, and 59 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 4: then I try to correct and let the Lord speak 60 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 4: to me. 61 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: When that happens, it happened a year or two ago. 62 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 4: I was praying so hard for God to give me 63 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 4: my sermon points. I'm kind of OCD about my sermon points. 64 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 4: I don't care as much about matching my clothes, but 65 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 4: I like all of my message to match. I like 66 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 4: it all to start with the same letter. I like 67 00:03:57,680 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 4: for it all to have the same cadence. I like 68 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 4: for it to have an arc. I like for it 69 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 4: to have continuity. I like for there to be layers 70 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 4: to the message. And I want to present something pretty 71 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 4: when I preach. But the Lord spoke to me in 72 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 4: my preparation one time and said, I didn't die for pretty. 73 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 3: I died for people. 74 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 4: And you're so worried about your points. You keep praying, Lord, 75 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 4: give me my points, give me my points, give me 76 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 4: my points. And he said, I want you to shift 77 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 4: that and start praying not for the points, but pray 78 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 4: for the people. 79 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: And if you'll pray for. 80 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 4: The people, I'll give you the points, because the points 81 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 4: are what you care about, and the people are what 82 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 4: I care about. And if you'll pray about what I 83 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:40,720 Speaker 4: care about, I'll give you what you need. Ever since then, 84 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 4: it shifted me so that when I sit down to preach, 85 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 4: I picture people, some that I know, some that I've invented, 86 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 4: some who are a composite sketch of many individuals that 87 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:56,159 Speaker 4: I've met through the years. I bring Tom to the 88 00:04:56,200 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 4: table all that you've been through and all that God is. 89 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: Done in your life. 90 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 4: I tell myself, if this isn't true for Tom, it 91 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 4: isn't true for anyone because of what you've been through. 92 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 4: I tell myself when I'm preparing a sermon that even 93 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 4: if they don't all start with the letter in, it's 94 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:19,159 Speaker 4: okay because somebody in the room is going through Parkinson's 95 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 4: and they don't care anything about my points. They don't 96 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 4: care anything about my points. Somebody in the room just 97 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 4: got a promotion and they don't really care about my 98 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 4: points either. They just think about that paycheck. They're just 99 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,040 Speaker 4: thinking about that vacation they're going to be able to take. Now. 100 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 1: Then I think about all those people are gonna have 101 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: to manage now. 102 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 4: They didn't think about that part when they prayed for 103 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 4: the promotion, but they canna find out real soon. So 104 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 4: I need to get them prepared for that promotion. And 105 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 4: they don't care anything about the points. And instead of 106 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 4: focusing on something to say, I've learned to focus on 107 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 4: someone to say it too. 108 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:56,839 Speaker 1: Always remember that God. 109 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 4: Gives you influence in life, not for something, but for someone. 110 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,840 Speaker 4: Seek first the Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these 111 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 4: things will be. 112 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: Added to you as well. 113 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,919 Speaker 4: If you seek the kingdom, you get the things thrown 114 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 4: in like a prize at the bottom of a happy meal. 115 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 4: But if you seek the things, you miss the kingdom, 116 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 4: and the things aren't even the things you think they're 117 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 4: going to be. Many of us live our entire lives 118 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 4: thinking that there is a thing. We think there is 119 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 4: a thing that will make us satisfied. We think there 120 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:31,840 Speaker 4: is a thing that will make us confident. We think 121 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,600 Speaker 4: there is a thing that will make us feel finally happy. 122 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 4: We think that there is a thing that will make 123 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:39,359 Speaker 4: us feel secure. We think there is a thing that 124 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,160 Speaker 4: will bring us joy, and things can bring for a 125 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:43,919 Speaker 4: little while. 126 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 1: It works until it doesn't. 127 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 4: A thing can be a thing, but the thing has 128 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 4: a thing that is only the thing until the thing 129 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:56,280 Speaker 4: is just a thing. The thing can do the thing 130 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 4: until the thing is just a thing. 131 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 1: What I'm trying to say is it's someone and not something. 132 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,559 Speaker 4: I'm preaching to someone today who is going through something 133 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:09,039 Speaker 4: very difficult in your life. 134 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: You say that's generic. I'll be more specific. 135 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 4: You are still in it, even though you thought God 136 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 4: brought you out of it. 137 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: Somebody says, still in it. 138 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 4: And that's why we are surprised sometimes by the fiery trials. 139 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: In one Peter four, verse twelve. 140 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 4: The disciple said, my friends, do not be surprised at 141 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 4: the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test 142 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 4: you as though something strange were happening to you. But 143 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 4: rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, 144 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 4: so that you may be overjoyed when His glory is revealed. 145 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 3: Did you see the progression in the text? 146 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 4: He said, You're going to rejoice when his glory is revealed, 147 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 4: but don't be surprised when the fire comes to tell 148 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 4: the proven value of that which your life is built upon. 149 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 4: I won't spend very long in that because in the 150 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 4: Book of Isaiah, in a different context, the prophet is 151 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 4: speaking to someone, or actually a group of people who 152 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 4: are in exile because of their sin and disobedience. 153 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: The Lord has allowed. 154 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 4: Them to be carried away into Babylon for a while 155 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 4: to bring them back to himself forever. 156 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 3: The Lord allowed. 157 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 4: Them to be carried away for a little while in 158 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 4: order to bring them back to himself forever. And in 159 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 4: Isaiah forty three, verse one, two of the most hopeful 160 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 4: words that can appear appear in scripture, where the prophet says, 161 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 4: I know you've been a long way off. I know 162 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 4: you're in a strange place. I know you're in a 163 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 4: situation that you are not equipped to deal with, and 164 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 4: I know that it's your fault. When you open Isaiah 165 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 4: forty three, verse one, get ready to shout. 166 00:08:57,559 --> 00:08:58,439 Speaker 3: But now. 167 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 1: Think those two words should be our first point. 168 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 4: But now, and as a matter of fact, let's just 169 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 4: focus on one word. 170 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 1: Now, somebody shout. 171 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 3: Now. 172 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 4: You whispered it like you were going to get in trouble. 173 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: If you said it loud, you won't get in trouble. 174 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 4: Say it loud, now, say it to your past, say now. 175 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 4: Say it to your shame, say now, Say it to 176 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 4: that stuff from childhood you're still dragging around. Say now, 177 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 4: say it to the people who rejected you, but God's 178 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 4: bringing somebody else to replace them. Say now, yeah, say 179 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 4: it to the side of you that worries about the 180 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 4: future so much that you can't concentrate on the present. 181 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 4: Say now, I feel a now anointing rising up in 182 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 4: this place today. I feel that the Lord has anointed. 183 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 3: Me for you. Now. 184 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 4: I know I didn't know you fifteen years ago, but 185 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 4: God put you here. 186 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 3: Now I know there have been some times in your 187 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 3: life that you wish you could get back. 188 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 4: But now, if I could nominate two words from the 189 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 4: text to turn on the lights and encourage somebody, I 190 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 4: would nominate. But now the butt lets me know something 191 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 4: came before it that was gonna cancel it out. Then 192 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 4: now lets me know it's not over and it's not 193 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 4: too late. The butt lets me know that there was 194 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 4: something that was blocking me. The now lets me know 195 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 4: that there's something bigger that's breaking through. 196 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 3: Somebody shout, But now. 197 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 4: I better came down because this is just my first point. 198 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 4: But I came to announce now to somebody. I came 199 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 4: to get you out of your pity party today. I 200 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 4: came to get you from thinking about when you're seventy 201 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 4: years old. You're seventeen. Somebody, shout now. I came to 202 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 4: preach to a student section to tell you you don't 203 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 4: have to wait till later to have an impact for God. 204 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 3: Shout now. 205 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 4: I came to say you're called right now. I came 206 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 4: to say you're chosen right now. I came to say 207 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 4: you're wis right now. 208 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 3: I came to say. 209 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:49,959 Speaker 4: Your life doesn't start when you go to college. You 210 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 4: got a ministry on your campus. Now. I need a 211 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 4: sixteen year old to shout now. I need an eighteen 212 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,319 Speaker 4: year old to shout now. I need an eighty year 213 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 4: old to shout now. 214 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 3: I need a. 215 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 4: Midlife christis forty six year old A shout now now, Jesus, 216 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 4: I need you now. 217 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: But now, two beautiful words. 218 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 4: Marry, the sister of Lazarus wouldn't go to the gate. 219 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 4: And Martha came to Jesus and said, if you would 220 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 4: have been here, my brother wouldn't have died. But I 221 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 4: know that even now God will give you whatever you ask. 222 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 3: I'm not going to make you shout the whole sermon. 223 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 1: But let's just keep it going for a little while. 224 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 3: Shout now, but now, And every. 225 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 4: Time the devil tries to drag you back to your past, 226 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 4: but now, but now, every time he tries to drag 227 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 4: you back to your shame, but now, but now, this 228 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 4: is what the Lord says Isaiah forty three, Verse one. Please, 229 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 4: this is what the Lord says, He who created you, Jacob, 230 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:05,959 Speaker 4: he who formed you, Israel. 231 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 1: Do not fear. Somebody needs to hear that. Do not fear. 232 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 4: You say you brought me all the way out here 233 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 4: just to tell me something that simple. 234 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 1: Do not fear. 235 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 3: No, I brought you all the way out here so God. 236 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: Could tell you something that's simple. 237 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 4: Because if I say it, who cares because I don't 238 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 4: know what you're facing. But if God says it, and 239 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 4: he only knows what you're facing, but he knows the 240 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:41,320 Speaker 4: plans he. 241 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: Has for you to give you a hope in the future. 242 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 4: See, it's not saying something, it's someone saying something that 243 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 4: gives it the power, so that if someone says to 244 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:59,439 Speaker 4: you it'll be okay. It may mean nothing, but if 245 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 4: somebody who lived through the death of a spouse says 246 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 4: to you. When you lose your spouse, it will be okay. 247 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 4: It's not something that they said. Is someone who said it. 248 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 3: But now this is what the Lord says. 249 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:21,320 Speaker 4: There's the thing that he says, don't fear, and there's 250 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 4: the one who. 251 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: Said it, the Lord. 252 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 4: I love the Lord because only he can tell me 253 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 4: something that ridiculous, and I have to submit to it. 254 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 1: If you tell me, don't be afraid. 255 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 4: I love when people give me advice about pastor in 256 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 4: the church. 257 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 3: Just let the Lord lead you. 258 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 1: And that means a lot, considering you've never done it before. 259 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 4: But the fact no, I mean, I appreciate it, but 260 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 4: I appreciate the fact that the one who knows where 261 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 4: he's taking me is the one who's speaking to me. 262 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 4: And I also want to point out not only the 263 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 4: phrase but now, but I want to point out the 264 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 4: phrase in verse one where he says, I I redeemed you. 265 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 1: I have summoned you by name. 266 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 4: Our first point is but now our second point is 267 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 4: by name. And yes, they're all going to start with 268 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:14,439 Speaker 4: the same letter because I still like my points. 269 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 1: The Lord is working on me. 270 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 4: You know, when the Lord is speaking this verse, he's 271 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 4: speaking it to the nation of Israel. 272 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 1: And so it's interesting that in order to. 273 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 4: Deal with their fear, in order to deal with their panic, 274 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 4: in order to deal with their pain, he. 275 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 1: Speaks to their past. 276 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 4: He says, he who created you, Jacob, he who formed 277 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 4: you Israel. Now you may be confused and think that 278 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 4: God is speaking two different people, and he kind of is. 279 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 4: But the interesting thing about God calling them by name 280 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 4: is that Jacob is both a name and a nation. 281 00:14:54,960 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 4: Israel is both a name and a nation. This point, 282 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 4: when Isaiah is prophesying, they have become a nation in captivity. 283 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 4: But he calls them from captivity, and he calls them Jacob, 284 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 4: and he calls them Israel. He calls them by name. 285 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 4: But the interesting thing is that Jacob's name was changed 286 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 4: to Israel when he wrestled with God and did not 287 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 4: let go. And so you would think that by the 288 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 4: time God calls them by name, he would no longer 289 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 4: speak to Jacob, only call them Israel. However, God is 290 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 4: not uncomfortable with bringing all of who you are into 291 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 4: the season of your life that you're in. And for 292 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 4: every nation that God builds, there is a name that 293 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 4: comes along with it. 294 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:49,479 Speaker 3: So for every Israel. 295 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 4: That God raises up, there is a Jacob that comes 296 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 4: along and rides shotgun in the car. For everything that 297 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 4: God does in your life that is awesome, there are 298 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 4: some other things that you bring along in the process 299 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 4: that you wish he would get rid of. 300 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 3: And so when God says I have. 301 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 4: Called you by name, Jacob, I have called you by 302 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 4: name Israel, he is speaking to both parts of me, 303 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 4: not only the part of me. And I can tell 304 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 4: this is a little too fancy. 305 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: So let me say a little bit simpler. God knew 306 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: you when he named you. 307 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 4: And so when God calls you, he calls you Jacob, 308 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 4: he calls you Israel. One speaks to all that you 309 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 4: have been, one speaks to all that you will be. 310 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 3: And God calls both to come forth. 311 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 4: And so that's why you don't have to be afraid 312 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 4: when you're still in it, when there's a situation in 313 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 4: your life that you thought God would have delivered you 314 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 4: out of. And I'm going to work on this for 315 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 4: a moment, because it can confuse you to the point 316 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 4: where you think that the event is your identity. And 317 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 4: so when you struggle with a certain thing, or you 318 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 4: have struggled with the certain thing, the event becomes the identity. 319 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 4: This even happens to entire families. Because of the brokenness 320 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,119 Speaker 4: that a family can experience, which is an event, we 321 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,919 Speaker 4: will say things like I come from a broken home. 322 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 4: The only issue I have with you calling the home 323 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 4: broken is that God might want to call it blessed. 324 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 4: And so don't let the fact that there was some 325 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 4: brokenness in your past or even in your present, because 326 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 4: let's be honest, some of us it's. 327 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 1: Not I come from a broken home. My home is. 328 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 4: Still broken, but it's still blessed even though it's still broken. 329 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:45,360 Speaker 4: And so be careful of people who give. 330 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 3: You partial testimonies. 331 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 4: A partial testimony goes like this, I was struggling with 332 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 4: depression and God delivered me from depression. 333 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 3: The problem I have with. 334 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 4: Your testimony is I know you still cry sometimes. The 335 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,119 Speaker 4: problem I have with your testimony is I know that 336 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 4: it sounds good on a microphone, but you are still 337 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 4: struggling to live it out on Monday. The problem I 338 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 4: have with that testimony that God delivered me from anxiety 339 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:17,400 Speaker 4: makes the person feel like if they still feel anxiety, 340 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 4: that God has failed them in deliverance. But feeling anxious 341 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 4: doesn't mean God has failed. 342 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 3: Feeling is not failing. Feeling is not failing. Feeling is 343 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 3: not failing. 344 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 4: So that when you feel that you have failed, it 345 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 4: does not mean that you have failed. 346 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,359 Speaker 3: Because God, the one who created. 347 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,919 Speaker 4: You, God, the one who formed you, God, the one 348 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 4: who named you, God, the one who makes nations out 349 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 4: of names. God knows my Jacob. Even as he calls 350 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:55,200 Speaker 4: my Israel. Does it make sense out of my mouth 351 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 4: like it does in my head? He said, I called 352 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 4: you by name. I think I want to demonstrate this. 353 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 4: Let's say right now, in this sermon, I was thirsty 354 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:16,639 Speaker 4: and I was like, I need some water. I'm making 355 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 4: my need known. I need some water. Thank you, Chunks. 356 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 4: I watched that I got the water. 357 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate Chunks. 358 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:39,919 Speaker 4: I'm just grateful for you, Chunks. I'm just grateful for 359 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 4: you got the water. But I wonder, what's just now. 360 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:51,200 Speaker 4: All I did in that situation was I made the 361 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 4: need known. So I didn't say, Chunks, I need some water. 362 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 4: I didn't tell them I was going to do this 363 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 4: in my sermon or anything like that. I just kind 364 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:02,680 Speaker 4: of figured somebody, all these people that love me and 365 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,160 Speaker 4: saying me happy birthday, you're not gonna let me stand 366 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:07,360 Speaker 4: up here and go, I'm gonna bring me some water. 367 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:14,680 Speaker 6: Right, But the Lord said, when I called you, look 368 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 6: at this just a powerful word, he said, verse one, 369 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 6: I have summoned you by name. 370 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: Someon is a powerful word. It's a specific word. 371 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:28,879 Speaker 4: It's not a word like I wish someone would. Someone 372 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 4: means that God knows who he wants to do it. 373 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 4: So let me try again. Once take the water. We're 374 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 4: just gonna do the illustration again. And this is what 375 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 4: I want you to see. But now by name Israel, Jacob, 376 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 4: Jacob Israel. All the parts of you that sit in 377 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,679 Speaker 4: that seat with you, all of the parts of you, 378 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 4: all the parts. 379 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: Of your home, all the parts of your family situation. 380 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 4: The Lord said, when I called you, I summon you 381 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 4: by name. Watch this, Holly, would you please bring me 382 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 4: some water? And this is what's great about it, because 383 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 4: she doesn't mind bringing me the water. Watch this because 384 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 4: verse one she said, I have summoned you by name. 385 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,920 Speaker 1: You are mine. 386 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 4: So now, I don't know what would happen if I 387 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 4: asked your wife to bring me water. You might be offended, 388 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 4: and she might have an attitude. She might spit in it. 389 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 4: I don't know your wife like that. But she's mine. 390 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 4: So when I said her name and I said, Holly. 391 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 3: Would you bring me? 392 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 1: When I summoned. 393 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 3: You, I could get used to this. That's a good feeling. 394 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 4: I wonder if this summoning thing only works when I'm 395 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:48,639 Speaker 4: preaching a sermon. 396 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 1: I'm I try to summon out at home. 397 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 4: I summoned her right Holly by name, and she brought 398 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:57,399 Speaker 4: me the water. 399 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: So I've got the water from my wife. But then 400 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 1: there's something I can get from. 401 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:09,920 Speaker 4: Her that I don't really want to get from him. 402 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:15,879 Speaker 4: She can hold my hand. Everybody's turning red in the church. 403 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 4: I'm just talking about this. 404 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 3: Watch this. 405 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 4: I got the water, and I bet, because it's her, 406 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:25,640 Speaker 4: I bet she'd give me some sugar too. 407 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: That's all right, hey. 408 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:33,880 Speaker 4: Don't be jealous about it. Get in some marriage counseling. 409 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 4: You can get some sugar too, because she's mine. Because 410 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 4: she's mine, she's mine. When I just asked for the thing, 411 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:52,199 Speaker 4: when I called for something, I got the thing. But 412 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:57,400 Speaker 4: when I summoned by name, I didn't just get the thing. 413 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 4: I got someone. And nothing against chunks, but there is 414 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 4: an intimacy to this thing that is not there for 415 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 4: that thing, and I need the one to come to 416 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 4: me in my low moments who will not only bring 417 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 4: me the water, but who will watch this walk with me, 418 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 4: because after this water is gone, I still need somebody 419 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 4: to walk with me. And I'm gonna help you because 420 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 4: some of the things that you've been praying about in 421 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 4: your life, you just keep asking God to give you. 422 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,719 Speaker 3: The thing, the thing, the thing. So God, get me 423 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 3: through this situation. 424 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 4: So God change this circumstance, So God take away this pain. 425 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 4: So God give me this advance, So God give me 426 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 4: this favorable outcome. And you can call for the thing 427 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 4: you can. You can ask God for something, or you 428 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 4: can ask for someone. 429 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:53,159 Speaker 1: You can get somebody. 430 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 3: To bring you water, or you can have the water and. 431 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 4: The walk, because there will be times in your life 432 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 4: where you might be standing at a red sea and 433 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 4: you might need someone to show you what to do 434 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 4: at that red sea. So if all you have is 435 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 4: the thing, all you're ever gonna be is stuck at 436 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:13,400 Speaker 4: the sea. 437 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:14,439 Speaker 3: But if you learn not. 438 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 4: To call of the God of Moses, the one who 439 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,239 Speaker 4: opened up the oceans. 440 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,719 Speaker 3: And say I need you now to do the same 441 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,399 Speaker 3: thing for me. 442 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 4: I don't just need something, I need someone, someone and 443 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,920 Speaker 4: the Lord said, I've called you by name. I have 444 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:44,160 Speaker 4: summoned you by name. I have called you by name, 445 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 4: which means that when he called you, he knew you 446 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 4: had what he needed you to have. So don't freak 447 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 4: out about the situation. If he summoned you for it, 448 00:24:54,640 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 4: you're the one for it, say, lie, pause and think 449 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 4: about it. I called her to be with me because 450 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 4: I knew she had what I needed for what I 451 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 4: wanted to prove. 452 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 1: And this is. 453 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:14,640 Speaker 4: Why the Lord says, do not fear, because I knew 454 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,679 Speaker 4: what I put inside of you when I summoned you. 455 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,280 Speaker 4: And here's the other thing. He didn't just call Israel. 456 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 4: He called Jacob too, so when he called you to 457 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 4: do it, he knew where you would be. Right now, 458 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 4: go back to the history of this for a moment, 459 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 4: would you I already alluded to it, he said, do 460 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 4: not fear. 461 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 3: I ever deemed you. 462 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 1: I've summoned you by name. You are mine. But verse 463 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 1: two is really what I wanted. 464 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 4: To preach about, because this is where I think so 465 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 4: many of us are. 466 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:51,679 Speaker 1: When you pass through the waters, I will be with you. 467 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,399 Speaker 4: And just like he can call you by name, you 468 00:25:55,440 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 4: can call him two. When you passed through the rivers. 469 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 4: They will not sweep over you. When you walk through 470 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 4: the fire, you will not be burned. The flames will 471 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:06,120 Speaker 4: not say you blaze that. This is not just nice 472 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 4: things God's saying so you can sleep. 473 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: Better at night. 474 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 4: These are actually historically anchored events that God's people have 475 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,160 Speaker 4: seen him do in the past. But see, they haven't 476 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 4: seen it firsthand just yet. It's one thing to hear 477 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,679 Speaker 4: that God opened up in ocean. It's another thing to 478 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,679 Speaker 4: stand in front of one and believe him to do it. 479 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 3: Now. 480 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,119 Speaker 4: It's one thing to believe that God can do it 481 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 4: for your friend, but it's another thing to believe that 482 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 4: he's calling your name. 483 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: And I love the promise because. 484 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 4: He's reaching in to the history things that they've heard 485 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,399 Speaker 4: about God doing and speaking to something that they're about 486 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 4: to see him do. 487 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,399 Speaker 1: Now watch this. This is really good. 488 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:53,880 Speaker 4: He said, when you walk through the fire, you will 489 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:59,120 Speaker 4: not be burned. I think every word of that is important. 490 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,400 Speaker 4: First of all, he says, when. 491 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:03,880 Speaker 3: Not if. 492 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 4: We got to be careful promising people stuff that God 493 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:16,160 Speaker 4: did not promise them. We got to be careful claiming 494 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,199 Speaker 4: things as promises from God that are really just preferences 495 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 4: of our flesh, because the Bible would be a lot 496 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 4: easier for me to preach if I can write it 497 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 4: how I want. And I wish that there was a 498 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 4: work around for this water that you're walking through, but 499 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,360 Speaker 4: there may not be. And so the Lord says, there 500 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 4: will be times when you walk through the waters and 501 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 4: I will be with you, and when you pass through 502 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 4: the rivers. 503 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 1: These are two different incidents, by the way. 504 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,920 Speaker 4: One can be found in Exodus fourteen, where the people 505 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 4: of God crossed through the waters the ocean the Red Sea. Also, 506 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 4: you may want to read in Joshua chapter three, how 507 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,160 Speaker 4: they crossed over the Jordan River into the Promised land. 508 00:27:57,800 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: Moses, my servant is dead. 509 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,199 Speaker 4: Now Joshua'll get ready to lead these people. And the 510 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 4: Lord did all of that for them, But will he. 511 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 3: Do it for me? 512 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,199 Speaker 4: Isn't this the question that we wonder when we come 513 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 4: up on the situation? 514 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:14,879 Speaker 1: Will he do it for me? Can he use me? 515 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,120 Speaker 4: I understand how God can use them. 516 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 1: Remember he summoned. 517 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 4: You by name, but now by name, And he says, when. 518 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 1: You walk through the waters. 519 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 4: But here's the part I couldn't figure out. In verse two, 520 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 4: he says, when you walk through the fire, you will 521 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:37,159 Speaker 4: not be burned. 522 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 1: The flames will not set you a blaze. And what I. 523 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 4: Couldn't figure out is if I'm in a fire, why 524 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 4: am I walking? So I mean, let's just take a vote. 525 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 4: How many of you fire on both sides, just gonna slow. 526 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 3: It down to a cool walk. 527 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 4: How many of you would vote that there is a 528 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 4: better way to get through the fire than walk. So 529 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 4: the fire represents something that you're going through, and the 530 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 4: walk represents someone that you're doing it with. And the 531 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 4: Lord said, the reason that you cannot do what he 532 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 4: said in verse one, do not fear, is because you 533 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 4: are so focused on something. You have forgotten someone. So 534 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 4: now you're running all around how to do this? Now 535 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 4: you're trying to escape situations. It's not something, it's someone. 536 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,200 Speaker 4: And the someone that is with you in the fire 537 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,479 Speaker 4: is another than the God who created you and formed 538 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 4: you and knows you and called you by name. But 539 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 4: now in the fire, I'm inside you. It must take 540 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 4: faith for you to walk through fire. It must take 541 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,959 Speaker 4: faith for you to slow down the pace a little bit. 542 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 4: It must take faith for you to come through this 543 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 4: like I know it's gonna be all right. It must 544 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 4: take faith for you to continue in what God spoke 545 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 4: to you, even though you don't feel his presence. 546 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 3: And so I wish we. 547 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 4: Had an example somewhere in the Bible of when some 548 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:36,640 Speaker 4: one was in the fire and God did something about it. 549 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 4: Should I use Jonah? No, Jonah was in the belly 550 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 4: of fish, the only thing we could use Jonah. 551 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 3: Should I use Lazarus? No, he was in the tomb. 552 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:57,120 Speaker 1: Man I got the wrong one. Should I use I'm 553 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 1: just going through. 554 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 3: Should I use Shad? Should I use me Shaq? Should 555 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 3: I use a bed Nogo? 556 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 4: Well, let's call on the three Hebrew boys then to 557 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 4: find out about how God but now calls me and 558 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 4: summons me by name, because he said, when you're in 559 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 4: the fire, you will not That's my third word, is 560 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 4: not so I got now, I got name? 561 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 3: I got not. He said, but. 562 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 4: Now when you walk through the fire, I have summoned 563 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 4: you by name, and you will not be burned. I 564 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 4: don't know if you're getting good notes from this message, 565 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 4: but this is prophetic for somebody. Let's check on Shad, 566 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 4: rack Me, Shack and a bed Nogo. Let's check on 567 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 4: King Nebukinesser who erected a statue ninety feet tall, made 568 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 4: of gold, nine feet wide, and said, everybody here the 569 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 4: sound of the music, and bow to the statue I 570 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 4: made of my self. And there were three boys who 571 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:06,440 Speaker 4: were exiles in Babylon who said, we. 572 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 3: Will not bow. 573 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,320 Speaker 1: And the king said, we'll see about that. 574 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,720 Speaker 4: What if verse fifteen, when you hear the sound of 575 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,000 Speaker 4: the horn, the flu, the zither, the lyar, the harp, 576 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 4: the pipe, and all kinds of music, if you're ready 577 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,560 Speaker 4: to fall down and worship the image I made, that's good. 578 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 4: But if you do not worship it, you will be 579 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,480 Speaker 4: thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. 580 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,680 Speaker 3: Then what God will be able. 581 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 1: To rescue you from my hand? 582 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 3: You about to find out? Because it's not something. 583 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 4: Nah da, Because see he's a king who made a statue, 584 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,880 Speaker 4: and that's a thing, and it's ninety feet tall and 585 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,040 Speaker 4: it's nine feet wide, and it's made of gold. 586 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 3: But God is not a something. 587 00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:58,840 Speaker 4: He is God. 588 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 3: He's a some one. What God will be able to 589 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:04,680 Speaker 3: rescue you? 590 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 4: And here we get the names Shadrack, Mishak, and Abednago, 591 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 4: And they replied to him, King Nebukanezar, we do not 592 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 4: need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If 593 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:21,480 Speaker 4: we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we 594 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 4: serve is able to deliver us from it. That is 595 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,959 Speaker 4: something he can do. God can get you out of debt. 596 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 4: That's something he can do. God can restore your relationship 597 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:41,160 Speaker 4: with your daughter. That's something he can do. God can 598 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 4: give you freedom from the craving. That's something he can do. 599 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,080 Speaker 4: It's a thing he can do because he's God, and 600 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 4: there is nothing that is impossible to God. 601 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 3: So God can do this thing, whatever the thing is. 602 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,800 Speaker 4: He can reduce the prison sentence, He can cause the 603 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 4: marriage to have love again, and heal the pain in 604 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:01,520 Speaker 4: your body. 605 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:03,640 Speaker 3: God can give you a better job. 606 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,640 Speaker 4: God can move you to a more favorable part of 607 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:07,360 Speaker 4: the office. 608 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:12,879 Speaker 3: God can do the thing. But I didn't come to. 609 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:18,319 Speaker 4: Get a thing for my situation, because things change. But 610 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:26,600 Speaker 4: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. So if. 611 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,640 Speaker 3: Y'all gonna sit there while I preach, go ahead. 612 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:36,680 Speaker 4: But if we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the 613 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 4: God we serve is evil to do, exceeding abundantly above 614 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:50,719 Speaker 4: all we ask or thing, and he will. 615 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:54,640 Speaker 3: Deliver us from Your Majesty's hand. 616 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:00,360 Speaker 1: Nixt Verse but. 617 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 4: But even if he doesn't, we're doing the grown up 618 00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:18,600 Speaker 4: Bible today. We're doing the He did not take my 619 00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:22,000 Speaker 4: panic attacks away. I had one last night, but I 620 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 4: came to church and praised him anyway. 621 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,160 Speaker 3: Because He's the Lord. Oh got me doing. I'm preaching that. 622 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 3: Can't we preach that? 623 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:33,600 Speaker 4: That? 624 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:39,839 Speaker 3: Even is this of Jesus. We want you to know 625 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:44,719 Speaker 3: your Majesty that we will not. 626 00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:52,440 Speaker 4: But now by name will not what's your will? Not? 627 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:54,479 Speaker 3: What's your will? 628 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,920 Speaker 4: Not? What's your Even if the feeling stays, I have. 629 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:00,080 Speaker 1: Faith to walk through it. 630 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,760 Speaker 4: Even if they walk away, God walks with me. What's 631 00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:10,240 Speaker 4: your will not? I've told you mine before. The enemy 632 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,279 Speaker 4: torments me a lot of times with feelings that my 633 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:18,640 Speaker 4: entire ministry will end in failure. Many do, many do, 634 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:24,480 Speaker 4: And yet I made a decision one day that it 635 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,600 Speaker 4: may end in failure. 636 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:29,960 Speaker 1: But I will not live in fear. 637 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,840 Speaker 3: I just won't do it. I plan to fail. I 638 00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:37,720 Speaker 3: don't pray to fail. 639 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,960 Speaker 4: I'm preparing not to fail, and I'm taking every precaution. 640 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:45,080 Speaker 4: But if something happens and it ends in failure. There 641 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,200 Speaker 4: was a time where I was terrified to get on 642 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,640 Speaker 4: the stage and speak in public. 643 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,920 Speaker 1: And that's kind of important for me to do. You're like, 644 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:55,720 Speaker 1: what were you twelve? 645 00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,000 Speaker 4: No, I'm talking about when I was in my thirties, 646 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,040 Speaker 4: and I would have to get up and do it, 647 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,160 Speaker 4: and a lot of times the only way that I 648 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,520 Speaker 4: could get through the first five minutes was to grip 649 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:07,160 Speaker 4: the sides of. 650 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:14,120 Speaker 7: The pulpit real hard. But I will not stop preaching 651 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:20,279 Speaker 7: just because I have to preach. 652 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:22,239 Speaker 1: Your panic. 653 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,960 Speaker 4: And see, I want you to have some conviction in 654 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:32,840 Speaker 4: some area of your life that even if I will not, 655 00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:38,360 Speaker 4: I will not. You know this story about Daniel and 656 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:39,839 Speaker 4: the lions, then he wasn't even in there. 657 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:41,680 Speaker 1: Shadrack, Mishak and have been to go, We're in there. 658 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,400 Speaker 1: He was in the lions then he would you understand 659 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:45,000 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. 660 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 4: Daniel went to the lions, then Shadrack and Mishak and 661 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:49,360 Speaker 4: have been to go went to the furnace. 662 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:50,759 Speaker 1: And then we want to preach. 663 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,680 Speaker 4: Those things and expect God to bring us out of 664 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:58,319 Speaker 4: our situation by five o'clock today. Because what I love 665 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,640 Speaker 4: about the scripture that I gave you, listen to this 666 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:05,360 Speaker 4: when they said we will not serve your God, so 667 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:09,000 Speaker 4: worship the image of gold. You have set up. It 668 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:13,440 Speaker 4: gave me a picture. It's okay to feel it, but 669 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:14,360 Speaker 4: don't kneel to it. 670 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:20,759 Speaker 3: You got it. 671 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,440 Speaker 1: So I may feel lust, but I don't kneel to lust. 672 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,080 Speaker 4: Everybody wants to preach about the stuff we want God 673 00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:31,640 Speaker 4: to take away. 674 00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:33,960 Speaker 1: Take away anxiety. We'll deal with your lust. 675 00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,160 Speaker 4: Some of your anxiety is dealing from your lust because 676 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,040 Speaker 4: you crave what you can't have and what you want 677 00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:40,960 Speaker 4: what you don't have. And now you're lusting after stuff 678 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:42,919 Speaker 4: that you're not supposed to have, and you're anxious because 679 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:44,239 Speaker 4: you can't get it because God don't want to give 680 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:45,040 Speaker 4: it to you, because it's. 681 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:45,759 Speaker 1: Not meant for you to have it. 682 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,760 Speaker 4: Stop praying about anxiety so much. Start, start, start, start 683 00:38:53,760 --> 00:39:05,480 Speaker 4: controlling comparison. So I want this fruit, but I'm attached 684 00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,880 Speaker 4: to this root that ain't gonna work. It's going to 685 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:12,799 Speaker 4: keep growing and growing and growing and growing. Do not 686 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,480 Speaker 4: be afraid. Yes, Pastor, I agree with that. I want 687 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,600 Speaker 4: the Lord to remove fear from my life. But you 688 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:20,720 Speaker 4: might have to change some of what you watch before 689 00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:25,560 Speaker 4: you fall asleep at night. If they are killing people 690 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,239 Speaker 4: while you are falling asleep, you're not going to be 691 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:33,400 Speaker 4: counting sheep at three am. 692 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,120 Speaker 1: And it's fine. We watch normal TV too. 693 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,280 Speaker 4: I'm not telling you all I watch is The Chosen 694 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,840 Speaker 4: and the But I'm saying that you may have to 695 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:47,040 Speaker 4: make some adjustments. What does this have to do with 696 00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,680 Speaker 4: shadrackmishek in a bed to go? They said, we will 697 00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:53,840 Speaker 4: not kneel even. 698 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:54,680 Speaker 1: If the fire gets hot. 699 00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:59,440 Speaker 4: And by the way, the Lord did not promise that 700 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:00,560 Speaker 4: it would not be hot. 701 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,000 Speaker 1: He did not promise that you would never. 702 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:10,359 Speaker 4: Feel stop holding God to promises that he did not make. 703 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:17,239 Speaker 1: God did not say you would never feel stressed. God 704 00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,040 Speaker 1: did not say you would never feel lonely. 705 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:23,320 Speaker 4: You will feel lonely sometimes, especially if you follow Christ. 706 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:24,400 Speaker 1: You're going to feel. 707 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:31,359 Speaker 4: Ostracized, left out, uninvited. You're gonna have fomo. And why 708 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:35,000 Speaker 4: are y'all laughing at that? When we grew up it 709 00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,520 Speaker 4: was fomo like it was fear of missing out right, 710 00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:40,239 Speaker 4: and we were scared that everybody was off doing something 711 00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,560 Speaker 4: fun without us when we grew up right. 712 00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,520 Speaker 1: But now they don't have fun. They have they have 713 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:45,520 Speaker 1: proof of missing out. 714 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,520 Speaker 4: It's looking at all the pictures and scrolling at all 715 00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:50,560 Speaker 4: the stuff. Yeah, they're there without me and they didn't 716 00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:51,080 Speaker 4: ask me there. 717 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:51,680 Speaker 3: They are right there. 718 00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:52,840 Speaker 1: I see them right there. 719 00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:59,960 Speaker 4: Pomo, and it's gonna be some flames. 720 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:01,839 Speaker 1: I just want to talk to you today because I'm 721 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:02,680 Speaker 1: so sick of it. 722 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,640 Speaker 4: I'm so sick of the preaching that is not based 723 00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:19,680 Speaker 4: in a real promise. The moment I tell you shout 724 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,720 Speaker 4: and he'll bring you out, you just lose your voice. 725 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,880 Speaker 4: And now I shouted, and now I got laryngitis, and 726 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,960 Speaker 4: I'm still not out, and I'm still dealing with it, 727 00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:34,240 Speaker 4: and I still got to be disciplined. So now I shouted, 728 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:37,160 Speaker 4: and I'm still not out. But the beauty of Daniel 729 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:41,360 Speaker 4: three is they said he will. We just don't know 730 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,839 Speaker 4: how he wants to do it yet, and so we 731 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,680 Speaker 4: are not going to bow to this pressure. 732 00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:48,359 Speaker 3: Even though we. 733 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,200 Speaker 1: Don't know how God is going to do it, read 734 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,080 Speaker 1: the Bible with me. Even if he does not. 735 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,839 Speaker 4: We want you to know we will not serve your 736 00:41:57,840 --> 00:41:59,839 Speaker 4: gods or worship the image of gold you have set up. 737 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:00,000 Speaker 3: Now. 738 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,000 Speaker 4: I told my friend when I preached this part, I'm 739 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:04,480 Speaker 4: just gonna let it come out however it wants to 740 00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:08,680 Speaker 4: come out. Then Nebukinnezzar was furious with Shadrack, Mishak and 741 00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:11,600 Speaker 4: a Bendigo, and his attitude toward them changed. He ordered 742 00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,120 Speaker 4: the furnace heated seven times hotter than usual, and commanded 743 00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,279 Speaker 4: some of the strongest soldiers in the army to tie 744 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,759 Speaker 4: up Shadrack, Mishak and a bed to go and throw 745 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:24,120 Speaker 4: them into the blazing furnace. So these men, wearing their robes, trousers, turbans, 746 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,120 Speaker 4: and other clothes, were bound and thrown into the blazing furnace. 747 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:29,879 Speaker 4: It's getting close to the park that I want to read. 748 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,000 Speaker 4: The King's command was so urgent and the furnace so hot, 749 00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,000 Speaker 4: that the flames of the fire killed the soldiers who 750 00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:39,799 Speaker 4: took up Shadrack, Meshak and abedd to go. These three 751 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:44,120 Speaker 4: men firmly tied fell into the blazing furnace, firmly. 752 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,399 Speaker 1: Tied bound with ropes. Now I know why the Lord 753 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:50,399 Speaker 1: left the fire on, burned the ropes off. I set 754 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,040 Speaker 1: them free. 755 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:55,920 Speaker 3: God will use a fire to set you free. 756 00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,200 Speaker 4: God will use a fire to set you free. 757 00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:08,279 Speaker 1: That's not the verse I wanted to preach either. 758 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:11,359 Speaker 4: Verse twenty four says then King Nevichanezer leaped to his 759 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:15,959 Speaker 4: feet in amazement and asked the advisors, weren't there three 760 00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:20,640 Speaker 4: men that we tied up and threw into the fire. 761 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:26,000 Speaker 8: They replied, certainly, your majesty. 762 00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:27,839 Speaker 1: You know these are some real sycophants, man. 763 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,360 Speaker 4: I mean they've aut the dude a ninety foot tall statue. 764 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,719 Speaker 4: He's compensating, and they're going along with it, all right. 765 00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,960 Speaker 4: And they said, they said, certainly, your majesty, Yes, sirs, 766 00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,040 Speaker 4: all three of them, shadrack me shot. 767 00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:40,920 Speaker 8: In a bit ago, all three of them, just as 768 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:57,600 Speaker 8: you requested. And he said verse twenty five. Look, I see. 769 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:55,040 Speaker 1: Four men. 770 00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,000 Speaker 4: That we tied up and threw into the fire. 771 00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:06,160 Speaker 1: I see four men. Wait, no, no, we tied three. We 772 00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:07,880 Speaker 1: threw three. 773 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:08,920 Speaker 3: I see four. 774 00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:16,959 Speaker 4: This is like a math impossibility, So we threw three. 775 00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:24,160 Speaker 4: I see four walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed. 776 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:29,600 Speaker 1: The fire did not kill them, It only took off 777 00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:31,600 Speaker 1: what was holding them. 778 00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:41,080 Speaker 4: I see four walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed. 779 00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:47,240 Speaker 4: And the fourth looks like a son of the gods. 780 00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:47,759 Speaker 3: Because he was. 781 00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:53,720 Speaker 4: Because it was Jesus in the fire with shad raggy 782 00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:57,359 Speaker 4: me shaggy and a bed and a go, we might 783 00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,520 Speaker 4: as well not guess like Nebkneszar. 784 00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,239 Speaker 3: We know his name. It was Jesus. 785 00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:06,360 Speaker 4: We know he is the fourth man in the fire. 786 00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,960 Speaker 4: We know it was Jesus, the bride and morning scar. 787 00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:13,000 Speaker 4: We know it was Jesus, the lamb that was slain 788 00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:14,960 Speaker 4: from the foundations of the world. 789 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,360 Speaker 3: We know it was Jesus, just like it was Aaron's branch, 790 00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:19,080 Speaker 3: the butt it. 791 00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:22,680 Speaker 4: It was Jesus. It was Jesus in the fire. There 792 00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:25,680 Speaker 4: were three men, and there's four men, and I see 793 00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:29,920 Speaker 4: a fourth man that looks like a son of the God. 794 00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,120 Speaker 4: So shadrack me shake in a bed. Nego said, God 795 00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:38,200 Speaker 4: can do something. But it's not something that I'm confident in. 796 00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:41,879 Speaker 4: It's some one that I'm confident in. 797 00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:43,120 Speaker 3: Because if I was. 798 00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,560 Speaker 4: Confident that there would be no fire, my faith would 799 00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,600 Speaker 4: fail me. Now, if I was confident that there would 800 00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:53,200 Speaker 4: be no water, my faith would stop short. But my 801 00:45:53,400 --> 00:46:02,879 Speaker 4: faith is not in something but someone, and I know hisay. 802 00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:11,719 Speaker 4: So never Canessar approached the opening. I'm almost done. I'm 803 00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:17,520 Speaker 4: almost done. But tell somebody still in it. Tell somebody 804 00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:22,560 Speaker 4: else still in it. Tell a third person still in it. Now, 805 00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:27,080 Speaker 4: tell a fourth person still in it. Because never Cansar 806 00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:31,480 Speaker 4: approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, shad 807 00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:35,600 Speaker 4: rack me, shack and a bed. Ago servants of the 808 00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:41,160 Speaker 4: Most High God, come out, come here, so shadrack me 809 00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:45,760 Speaker 4: shack and a bed, and Ago came out of the fire. 810 00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:47,160 Speaker 3: Wait a minute. 811 00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:54,759 Speaker 4: Three went in, four walked around, three came out, Come on, 812 00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:59,960 Speaker 4: help me real quick. Three went in, four, walked around, 813 00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:08,880 Speaker 4: free came out. That means there's someone. 814 00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:14,719 Speaker 3: Still in it. So I came to the Claire. 815 00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:19,560 Speaker 4: For every firelock in, say, talking. 816 00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:24,279 Speaker 3: Shutting out, shown a side. I don't know what dork 817 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:31,760 Speaker 3: fire is, but the dugla still in it. It hurts, 818 00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,320 Speaker 3: but he's in it. 819 00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,640 Speaker 4: Made me cry, But he's in it. 820 00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:39,279 Speaker 3: S not what I expected. 821 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:40,960 Speaker 4: So he did it. 822 00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:49,239 Speaker 3: He did it, He did it. He did it. High 823 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:53,680 Speaker 3: five four people say, he's still in it. He's still 824 00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:57,920 Speaker 3: in it. God's not drunk with you. God will make 825 00:47:57,960 --> 00:47:59,600 Speaker 3: a house visits of Babylon. 826 00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,600 Speaker 4: Gone'll make a house visit to a prison. Gone will 827 00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:06,320 Speaker 4: make a house visit to the belly of a fish. 828 00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:11,120 Speaker 4: Gone'll make a house visit. He's still in it. He 829 00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:14,600 Speaker 4: still in it, He still in it. 830 00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:21,920 Speaker 3: Even though I made the mistake. 831 00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:28,640 Speaker 4: My God will make a way. 832 00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:30,359 Speaker 3: But now. 833 00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:47,960 Speaker 1: I asked, summon you, summon not something, but some one 834 00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,720 Speaker 1: God called you. 835 00:48:52,719 --> 00:49:01,440 Speaker 4: You hear me, Bro, he called you, and he called 836 00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:05,200 Speaker 4: your Jacob, just the same as he is calling your Israel. 837 00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:13,480 Speaker 1: It's not something someone. 838 00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:17,040 Speaker 4: Now stand to your feet wherever you are, even if 839 00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:27,359 Speaker 4: you're only joining this message online. When you walk through 840 00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:34,080 Speaker 4: the fire, you will not be burned. When lets me 841 00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:37,040 Speaker 4: know that the trial is guaranteed. Don't be surprised at 842 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:41,600 Speaker 4: the fiery trials. Matter of fact, don't be surprised. If 843 00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:45,799 Speaker 4: this entire sermon at three o'clock doesn't even feel like 844 00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:46,600 Speaker 4: it was for you. 845 00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:48,280 Speaker 1: Don't be surprised by it. 846 00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:52,120 Speaker 3: When you walk through the fire. 847 00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:59,239 Speaker 1: Behali, My confidence is who I'm walking with. 848 00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:06,319 Speaker 4: So if listen to me, if there is something that 849 00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:08,719 Speaker 4: you thought God was going to do in your life 850 00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:11,440 Speaker 4: and it is not happening, or it is not happening 851 00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:14,799 Speaker 4: on schedule, the word of the Lord is your confidence 852 00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:15,279 Speaker 4: is not. 853 00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:21,440 Speaker 1: Something, is someone. That's what he said. 854 00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:26,719 Speaker 9: He said, I will walk with you, and that's how 855 00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,000 Speaker 9: I can walk through fire, and that's how I can 856 00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:32,080 Speaker 9: walk through failure, and that's how I can walk through struggles, 857 00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:32,840 Speaker 9: and that's. 858 00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:36,799 Speaker 1: How because he summoned me. 859 00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:42,839 Speaker 4: By name, Father, it is my sincere prayer that this 860 00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:48,280 Speaker 4: message today will go far deeper than a head knowledge. 861 00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:54,480 Speaker 4: It is my sincere hope today that we will not 862 00:50:54,600 --> 00:51:00,000 Speaker 4: hear this as a candy coated placebo message of princepe 863 00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:05,560 Speaker 4: to help us survive just another six days. My prayer 864 00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:08,680 Speaker 4: is that we would not hear this message with a 865 00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:14,840 Speaker 4: false expectation of a delusional deliverance that leads us doubting 866 00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:19,400 Speaker 4: even more on the back end. But my prayer is 867 00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:23,799 Speaker 4: that we would see the fourth man. Yeah, the one 868 00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:29,040 Speaker 4: who is still in the fire. I prayed as I 869 00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:31,759 Speaker 4: prepared today, Lord, for someone who is still in it. 870 00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:34,080 Speaker 1: I was praying for. 871 00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:37,600 Speaker 4: Something to say, and you gave me someone to say 872 00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:41,719 Speaker 4: it to. You're still in the fire, and so is he. 873 00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:48,560 Speaker 4: Jesus never left that fire. He's still in it. So 874 00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:53,480 Speaker 4: that whatever fire you face today, he is. 875 00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:53,520 Speaker 1: Your fourth man. 876 00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:57,719 Speaker 4: You can talk to him, you can walk with him, 877 00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:02,000 Speaker 4: you can cry with him. Process you're paying with him, 878 00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:11,000 Speaker 4: not something, but someone, And his name is Jesus, the 879 00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:19,360 Speaker 4: one who will never fail. I trust in God, my Savior, 880 00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,120 Speaker 4: the one who will never fail. 881 00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:27,359 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. 882 00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:30,120 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 883 00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:33,680 Speaker 2: this ministry. 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