1 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 2: Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 2: new sermons every week. Hope you're blessed today. 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: I'm so glad you're here. It's great to see you 6 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: in the presence of the Lord today. Give yourself a 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: hand because you made it. I said, give yourself a 8 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: hand because you made it. I want to share this 9 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: scripture from Isaiah forty three to one and two, a 10 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: promise that I have never preached about before, but it 11 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,160 Speaker 1: has meant a lot to me personally through the years, 12 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: and I think you'll see why. 13 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 3: The prophet says. 14 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: But now this is what the Lord says, He who 15 00:00:54,480 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel, fear, for 16 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: I have redeemed you. 17 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 3: I have summoned you by name. You are mine. When 18 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 3: you pass through the waters, I will be with you. 19 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 1: And when you pass through the rivers, they will not 20 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 1: sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you 21 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: will not be burned. The flames will not set you ablaze. 22 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One 23 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: of Israel, your Savior. 24 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:32,479 Speaker 3: Today I want to talk to you from this subject. 25 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: The title of this message is not something but someone, 26 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: not something but someone. And then for a subtitle to 27 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: the message, we're gonna call it. 28 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 3: Still in it, Still in it? 29 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: High five four people that you can reach and say 30 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: still in it, and please put it in the chat 31 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 1: as well. Still in it, Still in it. Welcome today 32 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: to our epham around the world, world. Wherever you are, 33 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: God is with you. Still in it. You may be seated. 34 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: Somebody shouts still in it, still in it, Still in it. Well, 35 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: thank you so much. Forty six looks good on me. Huh, 36 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 1: forty six years old. Forty six and still not fixed. Well, now, 37 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: this is ridiculous. Y'all are a disobedient class. I didn't 38 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: tell you to say this. 39 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 3: Thank you so much. That is very kind. 40 00:02:51,520 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, Okay, thank you? Oh thank you? 41 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 3: Are y'all done? 42 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: Now messing up my sermon intro. I appreciate it so much. 43 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 1: It means a lot. It kind of goes along with 44 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: what I was going to say to start the sermon. 45 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 3: Forty six years old. 46 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 1: I've been preaching for thirty years, and then I've been 47 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 1: pastoring for twenty. 48 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 3: I'm still learning how to do this. 49 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: Not saying that, like humble pie, I am still learning 50 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: how to do this, and even sometimes I realize that 51 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: the way I've been doing it is completely wrong, and 52 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: then I try to correct and let the Lord speak 53 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: to me. 54 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 3: When that happens. It happened a year or two ago. 55 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: I was praying so hard for God to give me 56 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: my sermon points. 57 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 3: I'm kind of ocd about. 58 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: My sermon points. I don't care as much about matching 59 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 1: my clothes. But I like all of my message to match. 60 00:03:58,400 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: I like it all to start with the same letter. 61 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: I like for it all to have the same cadence. 62 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: I like for it to have an arc. I like 63 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: for it to have continuity. I like for there to 64 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: be layers to the message. And I want to present 65 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: something pretty when I preach. But the Lord spoke to 66 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 1: me in my preparation one time and said, I didn't 67 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: die for pretty. I died for people. And you're so 68 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: worried about your points. You keep praying, Lord, give me 69 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 1: my points, give me my points, give me my points. 70 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: And he said, I want you to shift that and 71 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: start praying not for the points, but pray for the people. 72 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 3: And if you'll pray for. 73 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: The people, I'll give you the points, because the points 74 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: are what you care about, and the people are what 75 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 1: I care about. And if you'll pray about what I 76 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: care about, I'll give you what you need. Ever since 77 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: then it shifted me so that when I sit down 78 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: to preach, I picture people, some that I know, some 79 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: that I've invented, some who are a composite sketch. 80 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 3: Of many individuals that I've met through the years. 81 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: I bring Tom to the table all that you've been 82 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: through and all that God has done in your life. 83 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,479 Speaker 1: I tell myself, if this isn't true for Tom, it 84 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,559 Speaker 1: isn't true for anyone because of what you've been through. 85 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 1: I tell myself when I'm preparing a sermon that even 86 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 1: if they don't all start with the letter in, it's 87 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: okay because somebody in the room is going through Parkinson's 88 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 1: and they don't care anything about my points. 89 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 3: They don't care anything about my points. 90 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:34,480 Speaker 1: Somebody in the room just got a promotion and they 91 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 1: don't really care about my points either. They just think 92 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: about that paycheck. They're just thinking about that vacation they're 93 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 1: going to be able to take now. Then I think 94 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 1: about a those people are gonna have to manage now, 95 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: they didn't think about that part when they prayed for 96 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 1: the promotion, but they can find out real soon. So 97 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 1: I need to get them prepared for that promotion. And 98 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 1: they don't care anything about the points. And instead of 99 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: focusing on something to say, I've learned to focus on 100 00:05:55,200 --> 00:06:00,279 Speaker 1: someone to say it too. Always remember that God gives 101 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: you influence in life, not for some thing, but for someone. 102 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:08,239 Speaker 1: Seek first the Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these 103 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: things will be added to you as well. If you 104 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: seek the Kingdom, you get the things thrown in like 105 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,280 Speaker 1: a prize at the bottom of a happy meal. But 106 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: if you seek the things, you miss the kingdom, and 107 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: the things aren't even the things you think they're going 108 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: to be. Many of us live our entire lives thinking 109 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: that there is a thing. We think there is a 110 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: thing that will make us satisfied. We think there is 111 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: a thing that will make us confident. We think there 112 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: is a thing that will make us feel finally happy. 113 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 1: We think that there is a thing that will make 114 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: us feel secure. We think there is a thing that 115 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: will bring us joy. And things can bring for a 116 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: little while it works until it doesn't. A thing can 117 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: be a thing, but the thing has a thing. That's 118 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 1: only the thing until the thing is just a thing. 119 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 1: The thing can do the thing until the thing is 120 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: just a thing. What I'm trying to say is it's someone, not. 121 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:06,600 Speaker 3: Something. 122 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: I'm preaching to someone today who is going through something 123 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: very difficult in your life. You say that's generic. I'll 124 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: be more specific. You are still in it, even though 125 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: you thought God brought you out of it. Somebody says, 126 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: still in it. And that's why we are surprised sometimes 127 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 1: by the fiery trials One Peter four, verse twelve. The 128 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: disciple said, my friends, do not be surprised at the 129 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 1: fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you 130 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: as though something. 131 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 3: Strange were happening to you. 132 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, 133 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: so that you may be overjoyed when His glory is revealed. 134 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:56,239 Speaker 1: Did you see the progression in the text? 135 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 3: He said, You're going to. 136 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: Rejoice when his glory is revealed, but don't be surprised 137 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: when the fire comes to test the proven value of 138 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: that which your life is built upon. I won't spend 139 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: very long in that because in the Book of Isaiah, 140 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: in a different context, the prophet is speaking to someone 141 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: or actually a group of people who are in exile 142 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: because of their sin and disobedience. 143 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 3: The Lord has allowed. 144 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: Them to be carried away into Babylon for a while 145 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: to bring them back to himself forever. 146 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 3: The Lord allowed them to be carried. 147 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 1: Away for a little while in order to bring them 148 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: back to himself forever. And in Isaiah forty three, verse one, 149 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 1: two of the most hopeful words that can appear appear 150 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 1: in scripture, where the prophet says, I know you've been 151 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 1: a long way off. I know you're in a strange place. 152 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 1: I know you're in a situation that you are not 153 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 1: equipped to deal with, and I know that it's your fault. 154 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: When you open Isaiah forty three, verse one, get ready 155 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: to shout. But now, I think those two words should 156 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 1: be our first point. But now, and as a matter 157 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:12,840 Speaker 1: of fact, let's just focus on one word. Now, somebody shout. Now, 158 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:15,559 Speaker 1: you whispered it like you were gonna get in trouble. 159 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: If you said it loud, you won't get in trouble. 160 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 3: Say it loud. 161 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 1: Now, say it to your past, Say now, say it 162 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: to your shame, Say now, say it to that stuff 163 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 1: from childhood. 164 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 3: You're still dragging around. Say now, say. 165 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,559 Speaker 1: It to the people who rejected you, but God's bringing 166 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: somebody else to replace them. Say now, yeah, say it 167 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: to the side of you that worries about the future 168 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: so much that you can't concentrate. 169 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 3: On the present. 170 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 1: Say now, I feel a now anointing rising up in 171 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 1: this place today. I feel that the Lord has anointed 172 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 1: me for you. Now. I know I didn't know you 173 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: fifteen years ago, but God put you here. 174 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 3: Now. 175 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: I know there have been some times in your life 176 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: that you wish you could get back. But now, if 177 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: I could nominate two words from the text to turn 178 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: on the lights and encourage somebody, I would nominate. But 179 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 1: now the butt lets me know something came before it 180 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: that was gonna cancel it out. Then now lets me 181 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 1: know it's not over and it's not too late. The 182 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 1: butt lets me know that there was something that was 183 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:17,439 Speaker 1: blocking me. The now lets me know that there's something 184 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 1: bigger that's breaking through. Somebody shout, But now I better 185 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 1: calm down, because this is just my first point. But 186 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 1: I came to announce now to somebody. I came to 187 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: get you out of your pity party today. I came 188 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 1: to get you from thinking about when you're seventy years old. 189 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,080 Speaker 3: You're seventeen, somebody, shout now. 190 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: I came to preach to a student section to tell 191 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 1: you you don't have to wait till later to have 192 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: an impact for God. Shout now. I came to say 193 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 1: you're called right now. I came to say you're chosen 194 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: right now. I came to say you're wis right now. 195 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: I came to say your life doesn't start when you 196 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: go to college. You got a ministry on your campus. Now, 197 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 1: I need a sixteen year old to shout now, I 198 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 1: need an eighteen year oldest shout now. I need an 199 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: eighty year old to shout now. I need a midlife 200 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: christis forty six year old to shout now now, Jesus, 201 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: I need you now. 202 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 3: But now, two beautiful words married. 203 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:23,079 Speaker 1: The sister of Lazarus wouldn't go to the gate, and 204 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: Martha came to Jesus and said, if you would have 205 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 1: been here, my brother wouldn't have died. But I know 206 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 1: that even now God will give you whatever you ask. 207 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 1: I'm not going to make you shout the whole sermon, 208 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: but let's just keep it going for. 209 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 3: A little while. 210 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: Shout now, but now, and every time the devil tries 211 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: to drag you back to your past, but now, but now, 212 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,199 Speaker 1: every time he tries to drag you back to your shame, 213 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: But now, but now, this is what the Lord says 214 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: Isaiah forty three, Verse one. Please, this is what the 215 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 1: Lord says, He who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel. 216 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: Do not fear. 217 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 3: Somebody needs to hear that. Do not fear. 218 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: You say you brought me all the way out here 219 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: just to tell me something that simple. Do not fear. No, 220 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:29,840 Speaker 1: I brought you all the way out here so God 221 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 1: could tell you something that simple. Because if I say it, 222 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: who cares? Because I don't know what you're facing. But 223 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 1: if God says it, and he only knows what you're facing, 224 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 1: but he knows the plans he. 225 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 3: Has for you to give you a hope in the future. 226 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: See, it's not saying something, it's someone saying something that 227 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: gives it the power so that if someone says to 228 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:02,839 Speaker 1: you it'll be okay. It may mean nothing, but if 229 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: somebody who lived through the death of a spouse says. 230 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 3: To you, when you lose your spouse, it will be okay. 231 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 3: It's not something that they said. Is someone who said it. 232 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 3: But now this is what the Lord says. 233 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 1: There's the thing that he says, don't fear, and there's 234 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: the one who said it, the Lord. I love the 235 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: Lord because only he can tell me something that ridiculous, 236 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 1: and I have to submit to it. 237 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 3: If you tell me, don't be afraid. 238 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: I love when people give me advice about pastor in 239 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 1: the church. Just let the Lord lead you. And that 240 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:45,320 Speaker 1: means a lot, considering you've never done it before. But 241 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 1: the fact no, I mean, I appreciate it, but I 242 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: appreciate the fact that the one who knows where he's 243 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 1: taking me is the one who's speaking to me. And 244 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 1: I also want to point out not only the phrase 245 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:01,959 Speaker 1: but now, but I want to point out the phrase 246 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:04,199 Speaker 1: in verse one, where he says, I have redeemed you, 247 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 1: I have summoned you by name. Our first point is 248 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 1: but now our second point is by name. And yes, 249 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 1: they're all going to start with the same letter, because 250 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: I still like my points. The Lord is working on me. 251 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: You know, when the Lord is speaking this verse, he's 252 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 1: speaking it to the nation of Israel. And so it's 253 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: interesting that in order to deal with their fear, in 254 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: order to deal with their panic, in order to deal 255 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: with their pain. He speaks to their past. He says, 256 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 1: he who created you Jacob, he who formed you Israel. 257 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: Now you may be confused and think that God is 258 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 1: speaking two different people, and he kind of is. But 259 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: the interesting thing about God calling them by name is 260 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 1: that Jacob is both a name and a nation. Israel 261 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: is both a a name and a nation. By this point, 262 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: when Isaiah is prophesying, they have become a nation in captivity. 263 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: But he calls them from captivity, and he calls them Jacob, 264 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: and he calls them Israel. He calls them by name. 265 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: But the interesting thing is that Jacob's name was changed 266 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 1: to Israel when he wrestled with God. 267 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 3: And did not let go. 268 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: And so you would think that by the time God 269 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 1: calls them by name, he would no longer speak to Jacob, 270 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 1: only call them Israel. 271 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 3: However, God is not. 272 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: Uncomfortable with bringing all of who you are into the 273 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: season of your life that you're in. And for every 274 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: nation that God builds, there is a name that comes 275 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 1: along with it. So for every Israel that God raises up, 276 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: there is a Jacob that comes along and rides shotgun 277 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: in the car. 278 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 3: For everything that God in your life that is awesome. 279 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,240 Speaker 1: There are some other things that you bring along in 280 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 1: the process that you wish he would get rid of. 281 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 3: And so when God says I have. 282 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 1: Called you by name, Jacob, I have called you by 283 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 1: name Israel, he is speaking. 284 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 3: To both parts of me, not only the part of me. 285 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 3: And I can tell this is a little too fancy. 286 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: So let me say a little bit simpler. God knew 287 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 1: you when he named you. And so when God calls you, 288 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 1: he calls you Jacob, he calls you Israel. One speaks 289 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 1: to all that you have been, one speaks to all 290 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: that you will be. And God calls both to come forth. 291 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: And so that's why you don't have to be afraid. 292 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 3: When you're still in it, when. 293 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: There's a situation in your life that you thought God 294 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 1: would have delivered you out of. And I'm going to 295 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 1: work on this for a moment, because it can confuse 296 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: you to the point where you think that the event 297 00:16:56,920 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 1: is your identity. And so you struggle with a certain thing, 298 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:04,920 Speaker 1: or you have struggled with a certain thing, the event 299 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 1: becomes the identity. This even happens to entire families because 300 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 1: of the brokenness that a family can experience, which is 301 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 1: an event, we will say things like I come from 302 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 1: a broken home. The only issue I have with you 303 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 1: calling the home broken is that. 304 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 3: God might want to call it blessed. And so don't 305 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 3: let the fact that there. 306 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 1: Was some brokenness in your past or even in your present, 307 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: because let's be honest, some of us, it's not I. 308 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 3: Come from a broken home. My home is still. 309 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 1: Broken, but it's still blessed even though it's still broken. 310 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 1: And so be careful of people who give. 311 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 3: You partial testimonies. 312 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: A partial testimony goes like this, I was struggling with depression, 313 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: and God delivered me from depression. The problem I have 314 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,160 Speaker 1: with you your testimony is I know you still cry sometimes. 315 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 1: The problem I have with your testimony is I know 316 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 1: that it sounds good on a microphone, but you are 317 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,479 Speaker 1: still struggling to live it out on Monday. The problem 318 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:15,640 Speaker 1: I have with that testimony that God delivered me from 319 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 1: anxiety makes the person feel like if they still feel anxiety, 320 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:25,359 Speaker 1: that God has failed them in deliverance. But feeling anxious 321 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:30,880 Speaker 1: doesn't mean God has failed. Feeling is not failing. Feeling 322 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 1: is not failing. Feeling is not failing. So that when 323 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 1: you feel that you have failed, it does not mean 324 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 1: that you have failed. Because God, the one who created you, God, 325 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,680 Speaker 1: the one who formed you, God, the one who named you, God, 326 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 1: the one who makes nations out of names. God knows 327 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: my Jacob, even as he calls my Israel. 328 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 3: Does it make sense out of my mouth like it 329 00:18:58,920 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 3: does in my head? 330 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: He said, I called you by name. I think I 331 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 1: want to demonstrate this. Let's say right now, in this sermon, 332 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:17,160 Speaker 1: I was thirsty and I was like, I need some water. 333 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 3: I'm making my need known. I need some water. 334 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,639 Speaker 1: Thank you, Chunks. I watched that I got the water. 335 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate Chunks. I'm just grateful for you, Chunks. 336 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 1: I'm just grateful for you got the water. But I wonder, 337 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: what's just now. All I did in that situation was 338 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 1: I made the need known. So I didn't say, Chunks, 339 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:00,159 Speaker 1: I need some water. I didn't tell them I'm was 340 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 1: going to do this in my sermon or anything like that. 341 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,679 Speaker 1: I just kind of figured somebody, all these people that 342 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 1: love me and saying me Happy birthday, you're not gonna. 343 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 3: Let me stand up here and go I'm gonna bring 344 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 3: me some water. 345 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: Right. But the Lord said, when I called you, look 346 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 1: at this This is a powerful word, he said, verse one, 347 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 1: I have summoned you by name. Someon is a powerful word. 348 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: It's a specific word. It's not a word like I 349 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 1: wish someone would someone means that God knows who he 350 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 1: wants to do it. 351 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 3: So let me try again. 352 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:40,640 Speaker 1: Take the water. We're just gonna do the illustration again. 353 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 1: And this is what I want you to see. But 354 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 1: now by name Israel, Jacob, Jacob Israel. All the parts 355 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 1: of you that sit in that seat with you, all 356 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: of the parts of you, all the parts of your home, 357 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: all the parts of your family situation. The Lord said, 358 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:02,120 Speaker 1: when I called you, I summon you by name. 359 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 3: Watch this, Holly, would you please bring me some water? 360 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,959 Speaker 1: And this is what's great about it, because she doesn't 361 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 1: mind bringing me the water. Watch this because verse one, 362 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,920 Speaker 1: she said, I have summoned you by name. 363 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 3: You are mine. 364 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: So now I don't know what would happen if I 365 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: asked your wife to bring me water. You might be 366 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,920 Speaker 1: offended and she might have an attitude, she might spit 367 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: in it. I don't know your wife like that, but 368 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: she's mine. So when I said her name and I said, Holly, 369 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 1: would you bring me? 370 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 3: When I summoned you. I could get used to this. 371 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:50,360 Speaker 1: That's a good feeling. I wonder if this summoning thing 372 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: only works when I'm preaching a sermon. 373 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:54,920 Speaker 3: I'm I try to summon out at home. 374 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: I summoned her right Holly by name, and she brought 375 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: me the water. So I've got the water from my wife. 376 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 1: But then there's something I can get from her that 377 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 1: I don't really want to get from him. 378 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 3: She can hold my hand. 379 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 1: Everybody's turning red in the church. I'm just talking about this. 380 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 3: Watch this. 381 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 1: I got the water, and I bet, because it's her, 382 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 1: I bet she'd give me some sugar too. That's all right, Hey, 383 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 1: don't be jealous about it. Get in some marriage counseling. 384 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: You can get some sugar too, because she's mine. Because 385 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:48,120 Speaker 1: she's mine, she's mine. When I just asked for the thing, 386 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 1: when I called for something, I got the thing. 387 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 3: But when I summoned by. 388 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:04,959 Speaker 1: Name, I didn't get the thing. I got someone. And 389 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:09,640 Speaker 1: nothing against chunks, but there is an intimacy to this 390 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 1: thing that is not there for that thing. And I 391 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 1: need the one to come to me in my low moments, 392 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,479 Speaker 1: who will not only bring me the water, but who 393 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 1: will watch this walk with me because after this water 394 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: is gone, I still need somebody to walk with me. 395 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,919 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna help you because some of the things 396 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 1: that you've been praying about in your life, you just 397 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 1: keep asking God to give you the thing, the thing, 398 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: the thing. So God, get me through this situation. So 399 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 1: God change this circumstance. So God take away this pain. 400 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,879 Speaker 1: So God give me this advance, So God give me 401 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 1: this favorable outcome. And you can call for the thing 402 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,199 Speaker 1: you can. You can ask God for something, or you 403 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 1: can ask for someone. You can get somebody to bring 404 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: you water, or you can have the water and the walk, 405 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,439 Speaker 1: because there will be times in your life where you 406 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: might be standing at a red sea and you might 407 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:10,119 Speaker 1: need someone to show you what to do at that 408 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: red sea. So if all you have is the thing, 409 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,800 Speaker 1: all you're ever gonna be is stuck at the sea. 410 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: But if you learn not to call of the God 411 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: of Moses, the one who opened up the oceans, and say, 412 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 1: I need you now to do the same thing for me. 413 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:39,199 Speaker 1: I don't just need something, I need someone someone. And 414 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 1: the Lord said, I've called you by name, I have 415 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 1: summoned you by name. I have called you by name, 416 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,680 Speaker 1: which means that when he called you, he knew you 417 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,359 Speaker 1: had what he needed you to have. So don't freak 418 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: out about the situation. If he summoned you for it, 419 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:05,400 Speaker 1: you're the one for it, say, lie, pause and think 420 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 1: about it. I called her to be with me because 421 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,479 Speaker 1: I knew she had what I needed for what I 422 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: wanted to prove. And this is why the Lord says, 423 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 1: do not fear, because I knew what I put inside 424 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 1: of you when I summoned you. 425 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,680 Speaker 3: And here's the other thing. He didn't just call Israel. 426 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 1: He called Jacob too, so when he called you to 427 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,720 Speaker 1: do it, he knew where you would be. 428 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 3: Right now, go back to the history of this for 429 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 3: a moment, would you. I already alluded to it, he said, 430 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:41,680 Speaker 3: do not fear. 431 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:43,639 Speaker 1: I ever deemed you. I've summoned you by name. You 432 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: are mine. But verse two is really what I wanted 433 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,240 Speaker 1: to preach about, because this is where I think so 434 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:52,080 Speaker 1: many of us are. When you pass through the waters, 435 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:57,680 Speaker 1: I will be with you. And just like he can 436 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: call you by name, you can call him too. When 437 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 1: you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. 438 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:07,680 Speaker 1: When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned. 439 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: The flames will not say you blaze that this is 440 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: not just nice things God's saying so you can sleep 441 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: better at night. These are actually historically anchored events that 442 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:18,120 Speaker 1: God's people have seen him do in the past. But see, 443 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,880 Speaker 1: they haven't seen it firsthand just yet. It's one thing 444 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 1: to hear that God opened up in ocean. It's another 445 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:26,679 Speaker 1: thing to stand in front of one and believe him 446 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 1: to do it. Now. It's one thing to believe that 447 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 1: God can do it for your friend, but it's another 448 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 1: thing to believe that he's calling your name. And I 449 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 1: love the promise because he's reaching in to the history 450 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,919 Speaker 1: things that they've heard about God doing and speaking to 451 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: something that they're about to see him do. Now, watch this. 452 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 1: This is really good. He said, when you walk through 453 00:26:55,080 --> 00:27:01,400 Speaker 1: the fire, you will not be burned. I think every 454 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 1: word of that is important. 455 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 3: First of all, he says, when not if. 456 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 1: We got to be careful promising people stuff that God 457 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 1: did not promise them. We got to be careful claiming 458 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 1: things as promises from God that are really just preferences 459 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 1: of our flesh. Because the Bible would be a lot 460 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 1: easier for me to preach if I can write it 461 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,439 Speaker 1: how I want, and I wish that there was a 462 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 1: work around for this water that you're walking through, but 463 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 1: there may not be. And so the Lord says, there 464 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,639 Speaker 1: will be times when you walk through the waters and 465 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,160 Speaker 1: I will be with you, and when you pass through 466 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:44,639 Speaker 1: the rivers. 467 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:46,440 Speaker 3: These are two different incidents, by the way. 468 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,320 Speaker 1: One can be found in Exodus fourteen, where the people 469 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:54,680 Speaker 1: of God crossed through the waters the ocean the Red Sea. Also, 470 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,200 Speaker 1: you may want to read in Joshua chapter three, how 471 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 1: they crossed over the Jordan River into the Promise land. 472 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:02,400 Speaker 3: Moses, my servant is dead. 473 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,439 Speaker 1: Now Joshua will get ready to lead these people. And 474 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 1: the Lord did all of that for them, But will 475 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 1: he do it for me? Isn't this the question that 476 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 1: we wonder when we come up on the situation? 477 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 3: Will he do it for me? Can he use me? 478 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,920 Speaker 1: I understand how God can use them. Remember he summoned 479 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: you by name, but now by name, and he says, 480 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:32,160 Speaker 1: when you walk through the waters. But here's the part 481 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 1: I couldn't figure out. In verse two, he says, when 482 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 1: you walk through the fire, you will not be burned. 483 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 3: The flames will not set you ablaze. 484 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: And what I couldn't figure out is if I'm in 485 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 1: a fire, Why am I walking? So I mean, let's 486 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 1: just take a vote. How many of you fire on 487 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 1: both sides, just gonna slow it down to a cool walk. 488 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 1: How many of you would vote that there is a 489 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 1: better way to get through the fire than walk. So 490 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: the fire represents something that you're going through, and the 491 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: walk represents someone that you're doing it with. And the 492 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 1: Lord said, the reason that you cannot do what he 493 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 1: said in verse one, do not fear, is because you 494 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 1: are so focused on something you have forgotten someone. So 495 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 1: now you're running all around how to do this? Now 496 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 1: you're trying to escape situations. It's not something, it's someone. 497 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: And the someone that is with you in the fire 498 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 1: is another than the God who created you and formed 499 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 1: you and knows you and called you by But now 500 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 1: in the fire, I'm beside you. It must take faith 501 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,719 Speaker 1: for you to walk through fire. It must take faith 502 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 1: for you to slow down the pace a little bit. 503 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 1: It must take faith for you to come through this 504 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 1: like I know it's gonna be all right. It must 505 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 1: take faith for you to continue in what God spoke 506 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 1: to you, even though you don't feel his presence. And 507 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 1: so I wish we had an example somewhere in the 508 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:36,400 Speaker 1: Bible of when some one was in the fire and 509 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: God did something about it. Should I use Jonah? No, 510 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 1: Jonah was in the belly of fish, the only thing 511 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 1: we could use Jonah. Should I use Lazarus? No, he 512 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:57,720 Speaker 1: was in the tomb, then got the wrong one. Should 513 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 1: I use I'm just going through. Should I use Shadrack? 514 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 1: Should I use me Shack? Should I use a bed Nogo? Well, 515 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:15,120 Speaker 1: let's call on the three Hebrew boys then to find 516 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 1: out about how God but now calls me and summons 517 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 1: me by name, because he said, when you're in the fire, 518 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 1: you will not That's my third word, is not so 519 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:32,480 Speaker 1: I got now, I got name? I got not. He said, 520 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 1: but now when you walk through the fire, I have 521 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 1: summoned you by name, and you will not be burned. 522 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 3: I don't know if you're getting good notes from. 523 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 1: This message, but this is prophetic for somebody. Let's check 524 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 1: on Shadrack, me Shack, and a bed Nogo. Let's check 525 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 1: on King Nebkinesser, who erected a statue ninety feet tall 526 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 1: made of gold nine feet why, and said, everybody here 527 00:31:58,520 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: the sound of. 528 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 3: Them, and bow to the statue. 529 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 1: I made of myself and there were three boys who 530 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 1: were exiles in Babylon who said, we will not bow. 531 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,680 Speaker 3: And the king said, we'll see about that. 532 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 1: What if verse fifteen, when you hear the sound of 533 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 1: the horn, the flu, the zither, the lyar, the harp, 534 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,120 Speaker 1: the pipe, and all kinds of music, if you're ready 535 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 1: to fall down and worship the image I made, that's good. 536 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,360 Speaker 1: But if you do not worship it, you will be 537 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 1: thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what God. 538 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 3: Will be able to rescue you from my hand? You've 539 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 3: got to find out, because. 540 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 1: It's not something. Because see he's a king who made 541 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,400 Speaker 1: a statue, and that's a thing, and it's ninety feet 542 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,400 Speaker 1: tall and it's nine feet wide, and it's made of gold. 543 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:02,960 Speaker 1: But God is not a thing. He is God. He's 544 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 1: a sum one. What God will be able to rescue you? 545 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:12,800 Speaker 1: And here we get the names Shadrack, Mishaq, and Abed Andago, 546 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 1: And they replied to him, King Nebukanezar, we do not 547 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,440 Speaker 1: need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If 548 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,880 Speaker 1: we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we 549 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 1: serve is able to deliver us from it. That is 550 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 1: something he can do. God can get you out of debt. 551 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:40,240 Speaker 1: That's something he can do. God can restore your relationship 552 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 1: with your daughter. That's something he can do. God can 553 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 1: give you freedom from the craving. That's something he can do. 554 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,479 Speaker 1: It's a thing he can do because he's God, and 555 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:55,520 Speaker 1: there is nothing that is impossible to God. So God 556 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,760 Speaker 1: can do this thing, whatever. 557 00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 3: The thing is. 558 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,200 Speaker 1: He can reduce the prison sentence. He can cause the 559 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,120 Speaker 1: marriage to have love again. He can heal the pain 560 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,120 Speaker 1: in your body. God can give you a better job. 561 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,040 Speaker 1: God can move you to a more favorable part of 562 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:15,320 Speaker 1: the office. God can do the thing. But I didn't 563 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 1: come to get a thing for my situation, because things change. 564 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 1: But Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. 565 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:35,000 Speaker 1: So if y'all gonna sit there while I preach, go ahead. 566 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 1: But if we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the 567 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:46,080 Speaker 1: God we serve is abl to do exceeding abundantly above 568 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:56,160 Speaker 1: all we ask or thing, and he will deliver us 569 00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:08,040 Speaker 1: from Your Majesty's hand nixt Verse. But but even if 570 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:19,879 Speaker 1: he doesn't, we're doing the grown up Bible today. We're 571 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,320 Speaker 1: doing the He did not take my panic attacks away. 572 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,160 Speaker 1: I had one last night, but I came to church 573 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,839 Speaker 1: and praised him anyway, because he's the Lord. Oh got 574 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:37,000 Speaker 1: me doing. I'm preaching that Kenvi would preach that that 575 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:43,239 Speaker 1: even is this of Jesus. We want you to know 576 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,560 Speaker 1: your Majesty, that. 577 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:55,160 Speaker 3: We will not but now by name will not what's 578 00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:55,680 Speaker 3: your will? 579 00:35:55,719 --> 00:36:00,520 Speaker 1: Not? What's your will? Not? What's your Even if the 580 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,640 Speaker 1: feeling stays, I have faith to walk through it. Even 581 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:08,439 Speaker 1: if they walk away, God walks with me. What's your 582 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:14,399 Speaker 1: will not? I've told you mine before. The enemy torments me. 583 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,520 Speaker 3: A lot of times with feelings that my entire. 584 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:23,560 Speaker 1: Ministry will end in failure. Many do, many do, and 585 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:28,160 Speaker 1: yet I made a decision one day that it may 586 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:33,360 Speaker 1: end in failure, but I will not live in fear. 587 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:36,359 Speaker 1: I just won't do it. 588 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 3: I'm plan to fail. 589 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:41,080 Speaker 1: O't pray to fail. 590 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:42,399 Speaker 3: I'm preparing not. 591 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,400 Speaker 1: To fail, and I'm taking every precaution. But if something 592 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:49,200 Speaker 1: happens and it ends in failure. There was a time 593 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:52,319 Speaker 1: where I was terrified to get on the stage and 594 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,040 Speaker 1: speak in public, and. 595 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:56,520 Speaker 3: That's kind of important for me to do. 596 00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,960 Speaker 1: You're like, what were you twelve? No, I'm talking about 597 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,400 Speaker 1: when I was in my thirties, and I would. 598 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:04,440 Speaker 3: Have to get up and do it. 599 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:07,560 Speaker 1: And a lot of times the only way that I 600 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,919 Speaker 1: could get through the first five minutes was to grip 601 00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:15,600 Speaker 1: the sides of the pulpit real hard. But I will 602 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:23,600 Speaker 1: not stop preaching just because I have to preach. 603 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:25,640 Speaker 3: Your panic. 604 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,319 Speaker 1: And see, I want you to have some conviction in 605 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:36,239 Speaker 1: some area of your life that even if I will not, 606 00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:41,759 Speaker 1: I will not. You know this story about Daniel and 607 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,000 Speaker 1: the lions, then he wasn't even in there. Shadrack, Mishack 608 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:45,520 Speaker 1: and have been to go, we're in there. He was 609 00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,400 Speaker 1: in the lions then he would you understand what I'm saying. 610 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,400 Speaker 1: Daniel went to the lions, then Shadrack and Mishak and 611 00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,200 Speaker 1: have been to go went to the furnace. And then 612 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,279 Speaker 1: we want to preach those things and expect God to 613 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:59,760 Speaker 1: bring us out of our situation by five o'clock today. 614 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,319 Speaker 1: Because what I love about the scripture that I gave you, 615 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:08,160 Speaker 1: listen to this when they said we will not serve 616 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,560 Speaker 1: your God, so worship the image of gold. You have 617 00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,440 Speaker 1: set up. It gave me a picture. It's okay to 618 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:24,160 Speaker 1: feel it, but don't kneel to it. You got it, 619 00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,839 Speaker 1: so I may feel lust, but I don't kneel to lust. 620 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,440 Speaker 1: Everybody wants to preach about the stuff. We want God 621 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,359 Speaker 1: to take away, take away anxiety. We'll deal with your lust. 622 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,560 Speaker 1: Some of your anxiety is dealing from your lust because 623 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,399 Speaker 1: you crave what you can't have and what you want 624 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,319 Speaker 1: what you don't have. And now you're lusting after stuff 625 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,319 Speaker 1: that you're not supposed to have, and you're anxious because 626 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:47,640 Speaker 1: you can't get it because God don't want to give 627 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:48,880 Speaker 1: it to you, because it's not meant for you to 628 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:56,799 Speaker 1: have it. Stop praying about anxiety so much. Start, start, start, 629 00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:08,440 Speaker 1: start controlling comparison. So I want this fruit, but I'm 630 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,200 Speaker 1: attached to this root that ain't gonna work. It's going 631 00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:16,000 Speaker 1: to keep growing and growing and growing and growing. Do 632 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,680 Speaker 1: not be afraid. Yes, Pastor, I agree with that. I 633 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,840 Speaker 1: want the Lord to remove fear from my life. But 634 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:23,759 Speaker 1: you might have to change some of what you watch 635 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:28,560 Speaker 1: before you fall asleep at night. If they are killing 636 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,520 Speaker 1: people while you are falling asleep, you're not going to 637 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:37,000 Speaker 1: be counting sheep at three am. 638 00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,799 Speaker 3: And it's fine. We watch normal TV too, I'm not 639 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:40,239 Speaker 3: telling you. 640 00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,960 Speaker 1: All I watch is The Chosen and the But I'm 641 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:49,719 Speaker 1: saying that you may have to make some adjustments. What 642 00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:51,640 Speaker 1: does this have to do with Shadratmishek In a bend 643 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:57,160 Speaker 1: to go, they said, we will not kneel even if 644 00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:01,040 Speaker 1: the fire gets hot. And by the way, the Lord 645 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:07,680 Speaker 1: did not promise that it would not be hot. He 646 00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:11,600 Speaker 1: did not promise that you would never feel Stop holding 647 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:17,319 Speaker 1: God to promises that he did not make. God did 648 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,960 Speaker 1: not say you would never feel stressed. God did not 649 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,120 Speaker 1: say you would never feel lonely. You will feel lonely sometimes, 650 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,279 Speaker 1: especially if you follow Christ. You're going to feel ostracized, 651 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:34,840 Speaker 1: left out, uninvited. You're gonna have fomo. And why are 652 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,520 Speaker 1: you laughing at that? When we grew up it was 653 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,560 Speaker 1: fomo like. It was fear of missing out right, and 654 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:43,879 Speaker 1: we were scared that everybody was off doing something fun 655 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,560 Speaker 1: without us when we grew up, right, But now they 656 00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:47,040 Speaker 1: don't have fun. 657 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:48,919 Speaker 3: They have they have proof of missing out. 658 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,920 Speaker 1: It's looking at all the pictures and scrolling at all 659 00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:52,239 Speaker 1: the stuff. 660 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, they're there without me, and they didn't ask me there. 661 00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:55,080 Speaker 3: They are right there. 662 00:40:55,080 --> 00:41:01,640 Speaker 1: I see them right there, pomo, And it's going to 663 00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:04,560 Speaker 1: be some flames. I just want to talk to you today. 664 00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:08,440 Speaker 1: Because I'm so sick of it. I'm so sick of 665 00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,880 Speaker 1: the preaching that is not based in a real promise. 666 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:23,879 Speaker 1: The moment I tell you shout and he'll bring you out, 667 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,440 Speaker 1: you just lose your voice. And now I shouted, and 668 00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:31,200 Speaker 1: now I got laryngitis, and I'm still not out, and 669 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,840 Speaker 1: I'm still dealing with it, and I still got to 670 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:38,680 Speaker 1: be disciplined. So now I shouted, and I'm still not out. 671 00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,879 Speaker 3: But the beauty of Daniel three is they said he will. 672 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:45,799 Speaker 1: We just don't know how he wants to do it yet, 673 00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:51,080 Speaker 1: and so we are not going to bow to this pressure. 674 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,719 Speaker 1: Even though we don't know how God is going to 675 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,360 Speaker 1: do it, read the Bible with me. 676 00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:57,480 Speaker 3: Even if he does not. 677 00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:01,200 Speaker 1: We want you to know we will not serve your 678 00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:03,520 Speaker 1: gods or worship the image of gold you have set up. Now. 679 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:06,399 Speaker 1: I told my friend when I preached this part, I'm 680 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:07,880 Speaker 1: just gonna let it come out however it wants to 681 00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:12,560 Speaker 1: come out. Then. Nebukinnezzar was furious with Shadrack, Meshack, and Abednego, 682 00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,440 Speaker 1: and his attitude toward them changed. He ordered the furnace 683 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,719 Speaker 1: heated seven times hotter than usual and commanded some of 684 00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:20,280 Speaker 1: the strongest soldiers in the army to tie up Shadrack, 685 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,640 Speaker 1: Meshack and abed to go and throw them into the 686 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:27,520 Speaker 1: blazing furnace. So these men, wearing their robes, trousers, turbans, 687 00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,520 Speaker 1: and other clothes, were bound and thrown into the blazing furnace. 688 00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,239 Speaker 3: It's getting close to the part that I want to read. 689 00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:36,000 Speaker 1: The King's command was so urgent and the furnace so 690 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:39,200 Speaker 1: hot that the flames of the fire killed the soldiers 691 00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:42,919 Speaker 1: who took up Shadrack, Meshack and Abed to go. These 692 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:47,480 Speaker 1: three men firmly tied fell into the blazing furnace, firmly tied, 693 00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:50,040 Speaker 1: bound with ropes. Now I know why the Lord left 694 00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:55,520 Speaker 1: the fire on burn the ropes off set them free. 695 00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,160 Speaker 1: God to use a fire to set you free. 696 00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,200 Speaker 3: God will use a fire to set you free. 697 00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:11,680 Speaker 1: That's not the verse I wanted to preach either. 698 00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:13,319 Speaker 3: Verse twenty four says then. 699 00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:16,160 Speaker 1: King Nevichanezar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked 700 00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:22,640 Speaker 1: the advisors, weren't there three men that we tied up 701 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:29,440 Speaker 1: and threw into the fire. They replied, certainly, your majesty, 702 00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:31,440 Speaker 1: You know these are some real sycophants. Man I mean 703 00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,600 Speaker 1: they've built the dude a ninety foot tall statue. He's compensating, 704 00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,560 Speaker 1: and they're going along with it, all right. And they said, 705 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:41,120 Speaker 1: they said, certainly, your majesty, yes, serves all three of them, 706 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:42,880 Speaker 1: shod wreck me shock in a bit and a go 707 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,360 Speaker 1: all three of them, just as you requested. 708 00:43:45,719 --> 00:44:01,120 Speaker 4: And he said verse twenty five. Look, I see. 709 00:43:57,560 --> 00:43:58,480 Speaker 3: Four men. 710 00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:02,400 Speaker 1: That we tied up and threw into the fire. 711 00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:05,239 Speaker 3: I see four men. 712 00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:11,560 Speaker 1: Wait, no, no, we tied three. We threw three. I 713 00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:19,320 Speaker 1: see four. This is like a math impossibility, So we 714 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,880 Speaker 1: threw three. I see four walking around in the fire, 715 00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:31,960 Speaker 1: unbound and unharmed. The fire did not kill them, It 716 00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:36,400 Speaker 1: only took off what was holding them. I see four 717 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:45,040 Speaker 1: walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed. And the 718 00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:51,160 Speaker 1: fourth looks like a son of the gods, because he was. 719 00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:57,080 Speaker 1: Because it was Jesus in the fire with shad Raggy, 720 00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,920 Speaker 1: me Shaggy and a bed in nego, we might as 721 00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,759 Speaker 1: well not guess like Nebukanezar. We know his name. It 722 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:09,080 Speaker 1: was Jesus. We know he is the fourth man in 723 00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:12,560 Speaker 1: the fire. We know it was Jesus the bride and 724 00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,920 Speaker 1: morning scar. We know it was Jesus the lamb that 725 00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,600 Speaker 1: was slain from the foundations of the world. We know 726 00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:21,880 Speaker 1: it was Jesus, just like it was Aaron's branch that 727 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,840 Speaker 1: butt it. It was Jesus. It was Jesus. In the fire, 728 00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:28,759 Speaker 1: there were three men, and there's four men, and I 729 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:32,480 Speaker 1: see a fourth man that looks like a son of 730 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,919 Speaker 1: the God. So shadrack me shake in a bed. Neigo said, 731 00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:40,839 Speaker 1: God can do something, but it's not something that I'm 732 00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:45,920 Speaker 1: confident in. It's some wood that I'm confident in. Because 733 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,760 Speaker 1: if I was confident that there would be no fire, 734 00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,200 Speaker 1: my faith would fail me. Now, if I was confident 735 00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:55,880 Speaker 1: that there would be no water, my faith would stop short. 736 00:45:56,320 --> 00:46:02,960 Speaker 1: For my faith is not in something someone hans I nosing. 737 00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:15,120 Speaker 1: So nether Canessar approached the opening. I'm almost done. I'm 738 00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:20,880 Speaker 1: almost done. But tell somebody still in it. Tell somebody 739 00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:25,960 Speaker 1: else still in it. Tell a third person still in it. Now, 740 00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:30,440 Speaker 1: tell a fourth person still in it, because never Canessar 741 00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:35,200 Speaker 1: approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, shadrack 742 00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:39,400 Speaker 1: me shack, and a bed ago. Servants of the Most 743 00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:45,080 Speaker 1: High God come out come here. So shadrack me shack 744 00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:49,160 Speaker 1: and a bed and ago came out of the fire. 745 00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:56,160 Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Three went in, four walked around, three 746 00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:00,040 Speaker 1: came out, Come on, help me real quick. Three he 747 00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:07,400 Speaker 1: went in, four, walked around, three came out. That means 748 00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:17,320 Speaker 1: there's someone still in it. So I came to the 749 00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:25,760 Speaker 1: player for every firewalking, say, talking, shutting out, shot a side. 750 00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:30,680 Speaker 1: I don't know what your fire is, but there's Sublie 751 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:38,000 Speaker 1: still in it. It hurts, but he's in it. Made 752 00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:42,640 Speaker 1: me cry, buddy is in it? S not what I expected. 753 00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:44,239 Speaker 5: But he did. 754 00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:47,160 Speaker 1: He did it, He said it. 755 00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:47,880 Speaker 5: He did it. 756 00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:56,720 Speaker 1: High five four people say he's still in it. He's 757 00:47:56,800 --> 00:48:01,080 Speaker 1: still in it. God's not drunk with you. God will 758 00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:04,800 Speaker 1: make a house visit to Babylon. Gone'll make a house 759 00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:08,200 Speaker 1: visit to a prison. Gone'll make a house visit to 760 00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:11,640 Speaker 1: the belly of a fish. Gonal make a house visits. 761 00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:17,440 Speaker 1: He's still in it. He still in it. He still 762 00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:28,040 Speaker 1: in it. Even though I made the mistake. My God 763 00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:40,480 Speaker 1: will make a way. But now I have smmon you. 764 00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:46,239 Speaker 3: Summon not something. 765 00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:51,319 Speaker 1: But some one. 766 00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:56,120 Speaker 3: God called you. 767 00:48:56,120 --> 00:49:04,840 Speaker 1: You. Hear me, bro, He called you, and he called 768 00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:08,600 Speaker 1: your Jacob, just the same as he is calling your Israel. 769 00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:18,600 Speaker 1: It's not something someone now stand to your feet wherever 770 00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:25,800 Speaker 1: you are, even if you're only joining this message online. 771 00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:35,000 Speaker 1: When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned. 772 00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:39,600 Speaker 1: When lets me know that the trial is guaranteed. Don't 773 00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:43,799 Speaker 1: be surprised at the fiery trials. Matter of fact, don't 774 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:48,160 Speaker 1: be surprised. If this entire sermon at three o'clock doesn't 775 00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:51,160 Speaker 1: even feel like it was for you, don't be surprised 776 00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:58,600 Speaker 1: by it. When you walk through the fire, Behali, my 777 00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:06,799 Speaker 1: confidence is who I'm walking with. So if listen to me, 778 00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:11,160 Speaker 1: if there is something that you thought God was going 779 00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:13,720 Speaker 1: to do in your life and it is not happening, 780 00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,920 Speaker 1: or it is not happening on schedule, the word of 781 00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:23,160 Speaker 1: the Lord is your confidence is not something, is someone. 782 00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:24,840 Speaker 1: That's what he said. 783 00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:30,120 Speaker 5: He said, I will walk with you, and that's how 784 00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:32,400 Speaker 5: I can walk through fire, and that's how I can 785 00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,520 Speaker 5: walk through failure, and that's how I can walk through struggles. 786 00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:40,200 Speaker 3: And that's how because he summoned me. 787 00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:46,239 Speaker 1: By name Father, it is my sincere prayer that this 788 00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:53,560 Speaker 1: message today will go far deeper than a head knowledge. 789 00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:57,880 Speaker 1: It is my sincere hope today that we will not 790 00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:03,800 Speaker 1: hear this as a candy coded placebo message of principles 791 00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:08,960 Speaker 1: to help us survive just another six days. My prayer 792 00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,080 Speaker 1: is that we would not hear this message with a 793 00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:18,240 Speaker 1: false expectation of a delusional deliverance that leads us doubting 794 00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:22,759 Speaker 1: even more on the back end. But my prayer is 795 00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:27,239 Speaker 1: that we would see the fourth man. Yeah, the one 796 00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:32,400 Speaker 1: who is still in the fire. I prayed as I 797 00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:35,120 Speaker 1: prepared today, Lord, for someone who is still in it. 798 00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:39,200 Speaker 1: I was praying for something to say, and you gave 799 00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:42,840 Speaker 1: me someone to say it to. You're still in the fire, 800 00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:49,480 Speaker 1: and so is he. Jesus never left that fire. He's 801 00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:53,840 Speaker 1: still in it. So that whatever fire you face today, 802 00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:56,920 Speaker 1: he is your fourth man. 803 00:51:58,080 --> 00:51:59,680 Speaker 3: You can talk to him. 804 00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:02,880 Speaker 1: You can walk with him, you can cry with him, 805 00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:05,200 Speaker 1: you can process your pain with him. 806 00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:10,680 Speaker 3: Not something, but someone. 807 00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:16,920 Speaker 1: And his name is Jesus, the one who will never fail. 808 00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:26,839 Speaker 1: I trust in God, my Savior, the one who will 809 00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:27,520 Speaker 1: never fail. 810 00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:32,160 Speaker 2: Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 811 00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,279 Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 812 00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:37,920 Speaker 2: get you all of these new messages as soon as 813 00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:40,719 Speaker 2: they're available. 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