1
00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,080
Speaker 1: How are you doing, Christian amazing? Have you recovered from

2
00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:07,520
Speaker 1: tour fully? I was recovered last Sunday? Huh I felt

3
00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:13,319
Speaker 1: good last Sunday. Yeah, last Sunday was crazy? Were you here?

4
00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:20,240
Speaker 1: God is so faithful? I wanted to I wanted to

5
00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:22,919
Speaker 1: just mention real quick, how good of a timing this

6
00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:25,320
Speaker 1: is for you to be in church every week. Some

7
00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:27,159
Speaker 1: people are here for the first time or back for

8
00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:32,240
Speaker 1: the first time. This is a good one. This weekend,

9
00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,480
Speaker 1: we're getting ready, we're starting getting ready for our year

10
00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:44,800
Speaker 1: end offering. Why is that exciting? Because it builds our faith,

11
00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:49,440
Speaker 1: it shows our love for God. And we're inviting everybody

12
00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:51,880
Speaker 1: all over the world that's a part of this ministry

13
00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:54,319
Speaker 1: to be a part of this year end offering. Now,

14
00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:59,600
Speaker 1: the official date of the offering is December twelve. How

15
00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,200
Speaker 1: do y'all know it better than the pastor they already

16
00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,920
Speaker 1: talked about it, But we do it every year. It's

17
00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:09,400
Speaker 1: an opportunity for those who have been blessed by this ministry,

18
00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:12,360
Speaker 1: who God has used this ministry to change your life

19
00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:17,119
Speaker 1: to be a blessing. And so for thousands we'll begin

20
00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,920
Speaker 1: the process of tithing and putting God first in the

21
00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:24,280
Speaker 1: area of your finances with that first ten percent that

22
00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,600
Speaker 1: belongs to him anyway, the whole hundred is his. You

23
00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:34,040
Speaker 1: know that right, So for all of you who already

24
00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,200
Speaker 1: trust the Lord in that way, thank you for making

25
00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:40,800
Speaker 1: the ministry possible. For those of you who are praying

26
00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:44,160
Speaker 1: about it. We always do an above and beyond offering

27
00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:46,800
Speaker 1: every year, Holly and I have been doing that every

28
00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,240
Speaker 1: year for over fifteen years now. It's a privilege to

29
00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,840
Speaker 1: do it. It's a privilege to do it. It's an

30
00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:56,640
Speaker 1: honor to do it. When I look around and see

31
00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,880
Speaker 1: what God has done and what He's building. Nobody has

32
00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:04,120
Speaker 1: begged me to give. I invest in this ministry because

33
00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:08,200
Speaker 1: I believe in this ministry and I believe God's promise.

34
00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:11,040
Speaker 1: How about you? Do you believe? Do you take God

35
00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:16,679
Speaker 1: at his word? Well, this is an excellent time and

36
00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,840
Speaker 1: they'll share all the details about how to do it,

37
00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,000
Speaker 1: but I just wanted to mention it. I always pick

38
00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:23,959
Speaker 1: a word at it's been getting later and later. I

39
00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:25,919
Speaker 1: used to pick a word that we could focus on,

40
00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:28,120
Speaker 1: and I would pick it in the summer and then

41
00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:32,160
Speaker 1: they would make all these graphics and videos around that word. Lately,

42
00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,320
Speaker 1: I've been picking it just so late that I don't

43
00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:37,720
Speaker 1: even tell Hollywood it is until I tell the whole church.

44
00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,480
Speaker 1: And last week I was preaching the passage, the same

45
00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:43,360
Speaker 1: passage that I'm going to preach here today. I'm going

46
00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:47,120
Speaker 1: to continue what God started last week. God dropped something

47
00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:54,000
Speaker 1: amazing last week. And there was a scripture in Hagi

48
00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:57,160
Speaker 1: two nine that said that the glory of this present

49
00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:01,519
Speaker 1: house will be greater than the glory of the former house.

50
00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:06,760
Speaker 1: And we'll unpack it a little week by week. I'm

51
00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,040
Speaker 1: not going to preach about giving today. Okay, So if

52
00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,040
Speaker 1: you're like exit strategy, texting your church partner or something

53
00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,800
Speaker 1: like that, you don't need to do that. But our theme,

54
00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,240
Speaker 1: our one word that we're going to come around, is

55
00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:23,840
Speaker 1: a simple word better. Doesn't that feel good to believe

56
00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:30,079
Speaker 1: that whatever, whatever you've seen before, tell somebody you haven't

57
00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:38,960
Speaker 1: seen anything yet. Oh oh oh, you want to say it? Okay,

58
00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,880
Speaker 1: say it in the King James, you ain't seen nothing yet.

59
00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:52,320
Speaker 1: God is always bringing us into something better. So for

60
00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,160
Speaker 1: our year end offering, I wanted to mention that I

61
00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:59,920
Speaker 1: also want to celebrate the eleventh year anniversary of elevation

62
00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:11,320
Speaker 1: and Blakeney, let's give God praise for Elevation Blakeney. Oh yeah,

63
00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,040
Speaker 1: that's where I preached live for about five years before

64
00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,279
Speaker 1: we moved over here to Valentine, and I might go

65
00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,479
Speaker 1: back if you'll ever stop acting righting. I love it

66
00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:25,239
Speaker 1: over there. A lot of great stories in that place,

67
00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:27,960
Speaker 1: not the building, but the people saw God do amazing

68
00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,279
Speaker 1: things there. So Father, I thank you for your presence today.

69
00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:36,039
Speaker 1: Your presence is real, it's not abstract. We thank you

70
00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:40,160
Speaker 1: that your presence is more than just like energy. Your

71
00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,680
Speaker 1: presence is more than just feelings. Your presence is the

72
00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:47,640
Speaker 1: bedrock where I can come back to every time and

73
00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,400
Speaker 1: just know that you are with me in every moment.

74
00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:53,520
Speaker 1: I thank you for the promise that I have concerning

75
00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,600
Speaker 1: your presence, that in your presence is fullness of joy

76
00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:04,240
Speaker 1: at your right hand, pleasure Forevermore so, Lord, we want

77
00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:08,000
Speaker 1: to enjoy your presence today. We're taking a moment just

78
00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,480
Speaker 1: to put everything out of our mind that's causing confusion,

79
00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,920
Speaker 1: everything that's got us tied up in knots, everything that's

80
00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,120
Speaker 1: got us just like poppin' alka Seltzer with heartburn because

81
00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:23,560
Speaker 1: we're worried about it. Everything that's got us angry, frustrated, offended,

82
00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:26,599
Speaker 1: we're putting all that that doesn't get to play on

83
00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:29,080
Speaker 1: the movie screen right now, Lauren. But we want to

84
00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:33,400
Speaker 1: see your goodness, your love, your glory. We want to

85
00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,200
Speaker 1: see it revealed. We want to see Jesus. We want

86
00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:38,400
Speaker 1: to see the one who is and was and is

87
00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,120
Speaker 1: to come. We want to see him as he really is.

88
00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:45,839
Speaker 1: Reveal Jesus to us today through your word. It's in

89
00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:51,440
Speaker 1: his name. We pray. Amen. Everybody say amen. Act achieving.

90
00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:59,040
Speaker 1: All right, be seated. We're going back to Hagai chapter two.

91
00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:04,080
Speaker 1: So it's like, my mom cooks so much food. You're like, Mom,

92
00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,200
Speaker 1: what were you thinking that the whole football team was

93
00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,120
Speaker 1: coming over here? She over prepares. And I felt a

94
00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:14,000
Speaker 1: little bit like that last week. Honestly, when I look

95
00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:16,240
Speaker 1: back over my outline, I had four points and we

96
00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:20,960
Speaker 1: got to one. So I just put it in the

97
00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,920
Speaker 1: fridge and I figured, all right, well we'll we'll get

98
00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,880
Speaker 1: this out this week. And then God, God was speaking

99
00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,360
Speaker 1: to me in such a unique way. I'm excited about it.

100
00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,880
Speaker 1: I'm excited about it. Y'all sound excited too. I'm gonna

101
00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:39,520
Speaker 1: be honest, it feels exciting in here. It's amazing. Wow,

102
00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:46,800
Speaker 1: y'all quiet down now this church. Let me read you

103
00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:49,559
Speaker 1: this scripture. See if this will put a spark plug

104
00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:54,359
Speaker 1: in your spirit real quick. In the second year of

105
00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,640
Speaker 1: King Darius, on the twenty first day of the seventh month,

106
00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:02,800
Speaker 1: the word of the Lord came through the prophet Hagi.

107
00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:10,160
Speaker 1: The word of the Lord came through the prophet Hagi.

108
00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:13,440
Speaker 1: All right, so we got we gotta talk about that

109
00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:16,840
Speaker 1: for a minute. God is going to give you a

110
00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:22,880
Speaker 1: word for your weakness. The more you work the word

111
00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:26,520
Speaker 1: that He gives you, the more strength you will discover

112
00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:31,920
Speaker 1: that was there all alone. The word of the Lord

113
00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:35,480
Speaker 1: came through Hagi. And I love how God speaks through

114
00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:40,240
Speaker 1: people in seasons when we need it, don't you. And

115
00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:44,480
Speaker 1: this is what the Lord said to Hagi. Speak to Zarabebel,

116
00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:49,400
Speaker 1: son of Shialtl, governor of Judah, to Joshua's son of

117
00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,160
Speaker 1: Josephac the high Priest, and to the remnant of the people.

118
00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:57,960
Speaker 1: Ask them, so this is crazy, because God speaks. How

119
00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:01,040
Speaker 1: many need God to speak to you today? Put a

120
00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:02,680
Speaker 1: hand in the chat. Put a hand in the chat,

121
00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:04,160
Speaker 1: Put a hand in the chat. Put your hand in

122
00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:05,800
Speaker 1: the ear. I need God to speak to me. But

123
00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,720
Speaker 1: here's what's crazy. God doesn't speak with an answer. He

124
00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:16,880
Speaker 1: speaks with a question. Sometimes you will ask God for

125
00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:22,240
Speaker 1: an answer and he will answer with a question. One day,

126
00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,480
Speaker 1: I'm going to preach a sermon called the Blessing of

127
00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:30,680
Speaker 1: a better question. So a better question would be like,

128
00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,040
Speaker 1: instead of God, why did I have to go through

129
00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,000
Speaker 1: all that? It would be God, what do you want

130
00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:40,480
Speaker 1: to do now through the things that I went through?

131
00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,280
Speaker 1: And why is the devil so intimidated of me that

132
00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:46,560
Speaker 1: he brought all that against me? What is it in me?

133
00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:54,080
Speaker 1: That's a better question, because a bad question it would

134
00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,320
Speaker 1: be like, God, why did they reject me? Well, you

135
00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:59,959
Speaker 1: can never know that. Maybe they rejected you because they

136
00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,760
Speaker 1: they are stupid. Maybe they didn't see the value of you.

137
00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:09,320
Speaker 1: A better question is God, what were you using rejection

138
00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:15,720
Speaker 1: to protect me from? That's a better question. And so

139
00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:20,040
Speaker 1: we rejection proof our spirit by asking three questions, or God,

140
00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:24,560
Speaker 1: are you redirecting me through this rejection telling me that

141
00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:27,000
Speaker 1: this is not the one? God? Are you protecting me

142
00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:29,360
Speaker 1: from something that I can't see? And there was a

143
00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:31,080
Speaker 1: third one, but I forgot it. All right, Let's go on,

144
00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:37,840
Speaker 1: And he said, ask them, ask the people who of

145
00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:42,839
Speaker 1: you is left? Who saw this? House. Everybody say this

146
00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:47,920
Speaker 1: house good, good, good, good good, this house in its

147
00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:52,520
Speaker 1: former glory. How does it look to you? Now? Does

148
00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:58,880
Speaker 1: it not seem to you like nothing? But now be strong?

149
00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:04,360
Speaker 1: But now I feel you're anointing God. Be strong, But

150
00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:10,679
Speaker 1: now be strong. That's my title for this message today.

151
00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:17,720
Speaker 1: But now be strong. Say it, but now be strong.

152
00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:22,400
Speaker 1: Last night you were a little weak, But now be strong.

153
00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,200
Speaker 1: Three years ago you just gave into the temptation. But

154
00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:27,760
Speaker 1: now you're resisting the devil a little bit more. But

155
00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:34,560
Speaker 1: now be strong, Zorabebel, declares the Lord. Be strong. Joshua

156
00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:37,840
Speaker 1: was son of Joseph Aak be strong, brit be strong,

157
00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:42,960
Speaker 1: Might be strong, Holly, be strong, Elijah, be strong, all

158
00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:46,520
Speaker 1: you people of the land, declares the Lord, and work

159
00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:52,160
Speaker 1: for I am with you, declares the Lord Almighty. This

160
00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,120
Speaker 1: is what I covened with you. I didn't say nobody

161
00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:58,240
Speaker 1: would be against you. I just said that I would

162
00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:03,920
Speaker 1: be with you. God never promised the absence of problems.

163
00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,840
Speaker 1: He promised his presence right in the thick of it.

164
00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:12,520
Speaker 1: He said. I was with you in Egypt, and I'm

165
00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:14,840
Speaker 1: with you to this day, declares the Lord. My spirit

166
00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,760
Speaker 1: remains among you. Do not fear. This is what the

167
00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:21,240
Speaker 1: Lord Almighty says. In a little while, I will once

168
00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,560
Speaker 1: more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and

169
00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:29,080
Speaker 1: the dry land, and I will shake all nations, and

170
00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:33,480
Speaker 1: what is desired by all nations will come. And I

171
00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:42,400
Speaker 1: will fill which house, this house, this house, with glory,

172
00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:46,840
Speaker 1: says the Lord Almighty. The silver is mine and the

173
00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:51,360
Speaker 1: gold is mine, declares the Lord Almighty. And the glory

174
00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:59,760
Speaker 1: of this present house will be greater, better, greater than

175
00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,760
Speaker 1: the glory of the former house. Now it's not going

176
00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:07,040
Speaker 1: to have as much gold as the old house, because

177
00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,800
Speaker 1: Solomon's temple had a lot of gold, but it's going

178
00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:19,880
Speaker 1: to have more glory. Oh Jesus, the glory of this

179
00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:21,760
Speaker 1: present house will be greater than the glory of the

180
00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:24,960
Speaker 1: former house, says the Lord Almighty. And in this place

181
00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:32,160
Speaker 1: I will grant peace, declares the Lord Almighty. There's a

182
00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,600
Speaker 1: book called Making Peace with Your Past, and you may

183
00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:41,160
Speaker 1: have read it. There's a course or program that goes

184
00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:44,000
Speaker 1: along with the book, and millions of people had probably

185
00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:47,080
Speaker 1: benefited from it. I don't know. I never did the course.

186
00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:49,400
Speaker 1: I've always remember the title Making Peace with Your Past.

187
00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,080
Speaker 1: It's about dealing with the trauma that happens to you,

188
00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:59,120
Speaker 1: so that your trauma watch this doesn't become your template,

189
00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:07,199
Speaker 1: so that what you went through doesn't become the ceiling

190
00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:13,719
Speaker 1: of what you think can be possible in your life.

191
00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:16,640
Speaker 1: Like we discussed last week a little bit, you know,

192
00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,720
Speaker 1: not only are they building a temple, but they are

193
00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:27,800
Speaker 1: reinventing their template. They're getting a new blueprint for how

194
00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,040
Speaker 1: God is going to bless them now, and they need

195
00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:34,400
Speaker 1: one because they've been in Babylon for over fifty years.

196
00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:39,439
Speaker 1: And while they were in Babylon as exiles, almost an

197
00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:44,720
Speaker 1: entire generation died that had seen the former temple. So

198
00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,959
Speaker 1: now when we get to Haggai chapter two, the prophet

199
00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:51,080
Speaker 1: is encouraging the people because they have become two things

200
00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:59,679
Speaker 1: that you have become distracted and discouraged. Distracted and discouraged,

201
00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,960
Speaker 1: distracted in that they have lost their sense of priorities.

202
00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,960
Speaker 1: They have gotten comfortably settled now they've come back to

203
00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:13,920
Speaker 1: their homeland, but in the process of building the Lord's

204
00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:18,360
Speaker 1: Temple where God's presence would dwell at that time, they

205
00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:23,400
Speaker 1: got distracted by building their own houses. Never happens to you,

206
00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:28,920
Speaker 1: happens to me sometimes Sometimes I go to read my Bible.

207
00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,320
Speaker 1: Then I see a text. The text makes me think

208
00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:33,760
Speaker 1: of something else that I need to text. Before I

209
00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:37,480
Speaker 1: know it, I'm on Wikipedia searching about giraffes. How did

210
00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:42,960
Speaker 1: I get here? But it does put a question in

211
00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:49,400
Speaker 1: your mind? Are you distracted? And are you discouraged? Now?

212
00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:52,520
Speaker 1: I love how Guy's method because, as I mentioned, he

213
00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:56,440
Speaker 1: asks a question, who of you is left That's what

214
00:14:56,480 --> 00:15:01,920
Speaker 1: we talked about last week. The remnant remnant it means

215
00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:05,160
Speaker 1: whatever is left over. Now get this picture. They're looking

216
00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,760
Speaker 1: at a city that is still for the largest part

217
00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:13,200
Speaker 1: in Ruin. When the Babylonians came to take the people out,

218
00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:17,640
Speaker 1: they actually destroyed everything that they left behind. Now at

219
00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:21,320
Speaker 1: this point they haven't seen Neemiah yet. You've heard of him, right.

220
00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:23,520
Speaker 1: He rebuilt the walls of the city, which was the

221
00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:25,800
Speaker 1: protection of the city. But he did that later. The

222
00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,680
Speaker 1: walls are still down. The infrastructure of the city was

223
00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,520
Speaker 1: completely shut down, or at the very least, it was

224
00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:37,120
Speaker 1: about as organized as the DMV. It was about like

225
00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:40,280
Speaker 1: the airport's security right about. Now, it's just it's a mess.

226
00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:45,880
Speaker 1: But in the middle of all of that mess, God

227
00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:48,840
Speaker 1: sends a messenger to ask a question, who of you

228
00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:54,320
Speaker 1: is left. You have to learn how to focus on

229
00:15:54,400 --> 00:16:02,760
Speaker 1: what is left, not what is lost. Sometimes the distraction

230
00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:06,360
Speaker 1: is you thinking about something that you had in the

231
00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:09,320
Speaker 1: past that you don't have right now. Sometimes you are

232
00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,600
Speaker 1: missing things that God is bringing because you are missing

233
00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:17,000
Speaker 1: people that God removed. I'm not saying that everybody that

234
00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:18,880
Speaker 1: leaves your life is because God took them out because

235
00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:21,240
Speaker 1: they couldn't handle you on the next level. That's not

236
00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:25,440
Speaker 1: my message. But there was a word in there where

237
00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:29,720
Speaker 1: he said, speak to the remnant. There are only sixty

238
00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:34,000
Speaker 1: thousand Jews that came back. Talk to those, Speak to

239
00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:37,120
Speaker 1: the ones who are still here. Work with the strength

240
00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:41,040
Speaker 1: that you still have, Muster the energy that is left

241
00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:45,360
Speaker 1: in your body. Take the opportunity that you have seriously.

242
00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:48,320
Speaker 1: And that's the first r that we mention. But the

243
00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,280
Speaker 1: second one, I think, I think it's really important because

244
00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:54,520
Speaker 1: his second rhetorical question, he says, who of you verse

245
00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:59,640
Speaker 1: three is left that saw this house in its former glory?

246
00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,240
Speaker 1: And then the second question, it's also a rhetorical question,

247
00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:09,479
Speaker 1: how does it look to you? Now? What a question?

248
00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:16,560
Speaker 1: This is not just rhetorical, this is historical because there's

249
00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,320
Speaker 1: a few of these, a few of these returning exiles

250
00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:27,280
Speaker 1: who saw Solomon's temple firsthand, and they remember what they

251
00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:31,960
Speaker 1: think it was like. Oh, by the way, the future

252
00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,720
Speaker 1: and the past have one thing in common. They're both fiction.

253
00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:44,200
Speaker 1: The future you imagine for you, you you know, thirty pounds

254
00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:49,960
Speaker 1: lighter or or thirty million richer or whatever it is.

255
00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:54,280
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Like that future, that future

256
00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:57,800
Speaker 1: is no more imaginary than the story you tell yourself

257
00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:03,240
Speaker 1: about how the past was. Because watch this, the future

258
00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:06,480
Speaker 1: is filtered through your ignorance. You don't know what's gonna

259
00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,400
Speaker 1: happen at one thirty today. You didn't even know cam

260
00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:12,520
Speaker 1: was coming back, did you. Nobody told you that, nobody

261
00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:15,520
Speaker 1: called you, nobody approved that with you. You You didn't see

262
00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:18,560
Speaker 1: that coming, And you really think you can predict what

263
00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:20,560
Speaker 1: it's gonna be, Like, I love people. You need to

264
00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,680
Speaker 1: make a ten year plan, Honey, I need a ten

265
00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,560
Speaker 1: minute plan. It's twenty twenty one. I need a ten

266
00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,720
Speaker 1: second plan. I need a way right now, in this moment.

267
00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:36,600
Speaker 1: Not to freak out. Now, no certificates you so far

268
00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,200
Speaker 1: out there in the future and see yourself married, or

269
00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:40,560
Speaker 1: see yourself divorced, or see yourself whatever condition you are

270
00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:42,560
Speaker 1: praying about. That's opposite of the condition that you prayed

271
00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:47,240
Speaker 1: yourself into. Right now, that's a fantasy, but so is

272
00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:53,720
Speaker 1: what we tell ourselves about our best. You know, nobody

273
00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:58,080
Speaker 1: ever really believed in me. I wish I could ask

274
00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:01,400
Speaker 1: all of your middle school teachers how much they had

275
00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,119
Speaker 1: to put up with out of you just not to

276
00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:06,560
Speaker 1: kick you out of school, because the truth is you

277
00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:09,359
Speaker 1: should have been expelled. The fact that they believed in

278
00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:12,560
Speaker 1: you is the fact that they graduated you and gave

279
00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,280
Speaker 1: you a C just to get you out of their class.

280
00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:20,879
Speaker 1: You know, I'm having fun with it, but it's real.

281
00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:24,560
Speaker 1: It's really it's really kind of a deep thing to

282
00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:30,560
Speaker 1: consider that sometimes what holds you hostage is a story

283
00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:36,280
Speaker 1: that you have told yourself that never really happened, like

284
00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:40,760
Speaker 1: you memorized it in your heart, and then with time

285
00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:45,720
Speaker 1: you look back and say, oh, well, maybe actually I

286
00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:49,480
Speaker 1: was part of the reason to blame for that, huh,

287
00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:52,160
Speaker 1: Because now I've seen the same exact pattern play out

288
00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:58,320
Speaker 1: in eight straight relationships. Maybe it wasn't eight dysfunctional devils

289
00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:04,760
Speaker 1: that I was dating. Maybe the smell is coming from

290
00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:11,679
Speaker 1: inside the car. I'm gonna give y'all twenty seconds to

291
00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:18,280
Speaker 1: wake up hear the word of the Lord. I think

292
00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:20,280
Speaker 1: it's something under the floor mats, I don't think. I

293
00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:27,760
Speaker 1: don't think it's And so the people who were there

294
00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:32,439
Speaker 1: to see it firsthand. You gotta imagine this amazing moment

295
00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:37,760
Speaker 1: right back from Babylon. Future is in front of us. Man,

296
00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:40,399
Speaker 1: maybe we can be a nation again, Maybe the glory

297
00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:42,800
Speaker 1: of God will visit us again. And at the moment

298
00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:50,080
Speaker 1: of great possibility comes the memory of the past, the

299
00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:54,480
Speaker 1: past as it never really was the past, as you

300
00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:58,399
Speaker 1: imagine that it was the past, as you remembered that

301
00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:02,960
Speaker 1: it was. I keep a list of stuff that I

302
00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,359
Speaker 1: did for my kids, So when they go to therapy

303
00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:10,120
Speaker 1: one day as adults, I'm gonna make sure their therapist

304
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,679
Speaker 1: gets that list before they start. Here's what they're not

305
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:18,119
Speaker 1: telling you. Here's all the vacations that they don't remember.

306
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:21,040
Speaker 1: Here's all of the times that I was nice to

307
00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:24,800
Speaker 1: them and didn't take their phone. Here's the time I

308
00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:27,760
Speaker 1: could have thrown them out a window, but I didn't

309
00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:31,760
Speaker 1: because I'm a good, good father, and I got a

310
00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:43,159
Speaker 1: list to prevent. It's been it's been traumatic. It's been traumatic. No,

311
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,159
Speaker 1: it's really been traumatic for these people. This is not

312
00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:51,320
Speaker 1: like they the economy was shut down for months. Their

313
00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,880
Speaker 1: nation was completely destroyed. No, no, no, I don't mean

314
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:57,200
Speaker 1: like the economy was destroyed and the stock market was fluctuating.

315
00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,080
Speaker 1: I mean they had to they had to develop a

316
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 1: completely new template in Babylon. So now you've got two

317
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 1: things happening simultaneously, and you always do. You've got the

318
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:12,600
Speaker 1: new generation who didn't see Solomon's temple. You've got the

319
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:16,120
Speaker 1: older generation, specifically the priests, the Leevites, and the leaders

320
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,800
Speaker 1: who saw the old one. And Ezra tells us what

321
00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:26,480
Speaker 1: happened that made Haggi's encouragement necessary. Go to Ezra chapter three.

322
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:33,200
Speaker 1: Please right there on the y'all aren't flipping your bibles.

323
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:38,239
Speaker 1: You got it on your phone. See, this is one

324
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,880
Speaker 1: of those things where as a preacher, I want to fuss.

325
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,080
Speaker 1: I remember when people used to bring their Bibles to church.

326
00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:48,120
Speaker 1: But you know what, I don't think that's necessarily better

327
00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 1: than having it right there on your phone. Because if

328
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,199
Speaker 1: it's right there on my phone, I can just have

329
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,880
Speaker 1: it any time that the devil hits me. I could

330
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 1: just look at it. Nobody even knows that I'm reading

331
00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:01,000
Speaker 1: my Bible. I'm acting like I'm paying attention. To this meeting.

332
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 1: Let me check my notes real quick. But I'm really

333
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 1: over here in Obadiah. So notice the temptation. Oh it

334
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 1: was better when people used to bring their Bibles to church.

335
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,120
Speaker 1: Oh it was better before they didn't read them during

336
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 1: the week back then. So now watch this. This is

337
00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:23,400
Speaker 1: on the screen. Put it up on the screen. Ezra

338
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 1: chapter three, when the builders laid the foundation of the

339
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,920
Speaker 1: Temple of the Lord, I'm a preacher ready for this.

340
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 1: They lay the foundation, and the priests, the sons of Asaf,

341
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 1: with their vestments and trumpets, and the Levites, the Sons

342
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:46,200
Speaker 1: of Asaf with symbols, took their places to praise the Lord,

343
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:52,439
Speaker 1: as prescribed by David, King of Israel. Next verse, please

344
00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 1: with praise and thanksgiving. They sang to the Lord. He

345
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 1: is good, good, his love toward Israel endures forever. So

346
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:12,199
Speaker 1: they were singing, I am good, you are loved, I

347
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:16,160
Speaker 1: am good, you are loved. And all the people you'll

348
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:19,200
Speaker 1: get ready to act out the text gave a great shout.

349
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,879
Speaker 1: That's a medium shout. Wasn't a bad shout, but it

350
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:34,120
Speaker 1: wasn't a great shout. All the people gave a great shout.

351
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,880
Speaker 1: I want to see which campus can shout the loudest.

352
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 1: Make a video of your campus and send it to

353
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:47,639
Speaker 1: me real quick. Ah, the people take a great shout,

354
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 1: a great shut I'm coming a baby shout. No, no, no,

355
00:24:55,320 --> 00:25:07,360
Speaker 1: that's a great shout, a great shout. Look at the foundation.

356
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:12,400
Speaker 1: This is amazing. We're gonna have a temple again. We're

357
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 1: gonna have a temple again. We're gonna have a temple again.

358
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:16,639
Speaker 1: Touch three people and tell them we're gonna have a

359
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 1: temple again. Touch twelve people. Tell them we're gonna have

360
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 1: a temple again. That's twenty four people till we're gonna

361
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 1: have a temple again. Oh, I heard about the temple.

362
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,400
Speaker 1: Always wish I could have a temple. My grandad would

363
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: tell me about temple. You talk about the instances. He

364
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,199
Speaker 1: tell me about the bulls, tek about the prayer, time

365
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 1: about the Holy of Holies, talking about sacrifice, about you

366
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 1: told me talking about the mercy, talking about the press,

367
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 1: time about the glory, tell me about the interesting, talking

368
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 1: about the better. We have a temple. We have a temple.

369
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: We're getting a temple. We're getting a temple. So they

370
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: they start blowing trumpets, they start playing at at OHA's.

371
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 1: They start having a party and praising God over the progress.

372
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 1: You have to learn to prace God over progress, not

373
00:25:55,400 --> 00:26:02,440
Speaker 1: just product. You have to learn that's what gives you momentum.

374
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: That's what gives you momentum. You have to praise God

375
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:13,160
Speaker 1: for ten yards, not just touchdowns. You have to praise

376
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 1: God for every trimester. You have to praise God. You

377
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 1: have to do it, or you'll get distracted and discouraged

378
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 1: like the Levites. Because while one generation is praising God, Oh,

379
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a temple, y'all. It's gonna be amazing.

380
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get in this temple and praise God. Oh,

381
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:43,160
Speaker 1: this is gonna be incredible. And here come the people

382
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 1: who should be leading the praise party. And while the

383
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 1: young people are blowing trump is you got trumpet sound

384
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 1: or anything like that, get one ready, and we just

385
00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 1: do it real quick. It says verse twelve. Many of

386
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: the older priests and Levites and family hads who had

387
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: seen the former temple wept aloud when they saw the

388
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:25,159
Speaker 1: foundation of this temple being laid, while many others. But

389
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 1: here's the problem. Thirteen. No one could distinguish the sound

390
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 1: of the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping

391
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 1: because it all just started sounding like noise. Has it

392
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: been noisy in your heart lately? You can't tell the

393
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 1: difference of whose voice is this? Is this God or

394
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 1: is this the devil? Or is it just my Twitter feed?

395
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: Is this God? Is this the devil? Or is it

396
00:27:56,160 --> 00:28:03,360
Speaker 1: just me? Is this fate or is this foolishness? How

397
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 1: could a group of people from the same nation be

398
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: standing at the same foundation and one of them pulling

399
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:20,120
Speaker 1: out trumpets, and one of them in tears, trumpets and tears,

400
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: trumpets and tears, both at the same time, trumpets and tears.

401
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 1: She shouting, come on now, he's sleeping in the same surname.

402
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: Trumpets and tears. Celebration, devastation, expectation, disappointment looking at the

403
00:28:54,960 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: same thing, one voice of saying this is a amazing

404
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: one voice of saying in length, oh, oh, one went better.

405
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: I mean we had solomon Temple and Solomon's temple it

406
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: was so good, and it was so much gold, and

407
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: Solomon's Temple, Solomon's Temple was visiting gonna be like it was,

408
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: and I used to have so much more. And at

409
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: some point the disappointment starts drowning out the faith has

410
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: that been happening in your temple, in your temple where

411
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 1: there's something to celebrate. Oh, by the way, the second

412
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: art that I want to talk about, because I did

413
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: rhymnet last week and apparently I'm only going to do

414
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 1: one this week is reference. There is a point of

415
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: reference that you could come to today in your temple.

416
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: And I remember, your body is the temple of the

417
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. So when we talk about temples and Solomon's temple,

418
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 1: this temple, by the way, it is eventually, everybody say,

419
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,959
Speaker 1: eventually put it in the chat if you know how

420
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 1: to spell it. Eventually it is eventually going to be

421
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: between two and three times bigger than the one that

422
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: they're weeping over. But right now it seems like nothing.

423
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: You have to be strong in seasons where it seems

424
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: like nothing, or it will always be what it is

425
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: right now. And I don't know who needs this medicine.

426
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: But wishing won't get the temple built. Wanting won't get

427
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: the temple built. Waiting won't get the temple built. Well,

428
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: the Bible says wait on the Lord. I know I

429
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: wrote a song about it. I believe that Bible verse two.

430
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: But when waiting on what God is going to do

431
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: or wishing for what God used to do, replaces working

432
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: with what God gave you. Right now, I mean right now,

433
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: be strong, right now, Man up right now, square up

434
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: with your enemies and say it's not gonna be what

435
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 1: it was, It's gonna be better. Here o preaching, I

436
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: feel like preaching. So the builders lay the foundation, and

437
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 1: there's trumpets, and the builders the foundation, and there's tears.

438
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: And it's not two different foundations. It's how you see it.

439
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: It's how you see it. Three months ago, he was

440
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: praising God because he could breathe, because he had COVID

441
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: so bad he wondered, am I ever gonna breathe normal again?

442
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: Made him almost cry with joy when he would breathe,

443
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: talking about my buddy Chunk started the church with me.

444
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: But you know, let a little time go by. He's

445
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: Olympic level breathing again. Just auto breath, mister, auto breath.

446
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: When you have been somewhere so low, you appreciate moments

447
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 1: of joy. Look, look, look, look, look, look how am

448
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: I saying this because I've been depressed. I've been depressed.

449
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: I'm not glad I was depressed. I'm not glad. If

450
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: you're going through depression. But one thing it did for

451
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: me is it made me know how valuable choy is.

452
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: It made me know how valuable happy is. That's the

453
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: thing about the bottom. That's what shows you where to

454
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: build from. But the problem is when you stop at

455
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: the bottom, when you stop at the bottom and go, oh, well,

456
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: this is the worst thing that ever happened to me,

457
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: or this is what I never saw coming, and then

458
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: you stop building. Do you know? That's what the people

459
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: did for sixteen years after Ezra chapter three. So the

460
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: first scripture I read you was actually the second scripture.

461
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: The second scripture I read you was the first script

462
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: sure chronologically. So what happened was they started building the

463
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: people under twenty five. Really, they would have had to

464
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 1: be really old to see Solomon's temple. They would have

465
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: had to be like seventy and stuff. I'm not saying

466
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 1: that's really old, but that's really old. That's a lot

467
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 1: of experience. And watch this. Their experience became the enemy

468
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: of their expectation. So people will tell you, oh, the

469
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 1: benefits of experience, there are some benefits to inexperience. Why

470
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 1: do you think Jesus didn't pick Bible scholars to be

471
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 1: His disciples. There is a benefit of ignorance. There's a

472
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: benefit to somebody who's just coming to the church for

473
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: the first time today that you won't have if you've

474
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: been here too. Now, there are benefits of being here

475
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: a long time. I really appreciate people been here a

476
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: long time. That's why I really celebrate. I used to

477
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 1: go to to church to be like, let's welcome all the

478
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: first time. Guess I'm like, why are you clapping for them?

479
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 1: They didn't do anything yet, they're the first time. Guess,

480
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 1: let's hear it for the fourteen year veterans. Let's hear

481
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: it for everybody who's stuck with it. So I get that,

482
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: But there is sometimes a benefit of not knowing that

483
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: this temple is not really that great compared to the

484
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: last one. When they came over to the worship night

485
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: mom in Jacksonville, I said, I'm sorry, y'all, this was

486
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 1: the lowest night we had because it was the eighth

487
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 1: night of the tour. They said, the lowest night. It

488
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 1: was awesome. They hadn't been to the otherwise. There is

489
00:35:53,400 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: a benefit when you haven't been there yet, never had

490
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: a temple. So they got the trumpets out while those

491
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:23,839
Speaker 1: who had the old template were in tears. Wow, one

492
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,240
Speaker 1: of the knights on tour, I had a real encounter

493
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: with God, Okay, and it was one of those where

494
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: sometimes God will comfort you, sometimes he will correct you.

495
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: Sometimes he will comfort you, correct you, and then comfort

496
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: you again like a little rebuke sandwich. You ever had

497
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:45,839
Speaker 1: the Lord do that? Be very tactful. So I'm out

498
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:50,919
Speaker 1: there in the particular night, all I could see because

499
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: we had just done this elevation night worship thing, and

500
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 1: I've still been processing it because I don't know how

501
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: to talk to you about it. Because there was so

502
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: much God showed me about our ministry and our future.

503
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: There were times over the past two years where I wondered,

504
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: have we seen our best days? Because you know, not

505
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna come back, and so you're really scared. You're

506
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 1: really scared. But I kept going in these arenas night

507
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: after night, man, and it was powerful because thousands of

508
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 1: people be singing the songs we sing here, just singing

509
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: them out, every single song like it's their favorite. Just amazing,

510
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: and every song that they were singing was like a

511
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 1: scene in my life from when I remember either when

512
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: we wrote it or when our church sang it or

513
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,760
Speaker 1: a season it got us through. So it was crazy

514
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 1: because there's a soundtrack like a song like do It Again.

515
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: I've seen You Move the Mountains and they're watching one

516
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 1: movie of how their nephew had cancer and got healed

517
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,439
Speaker 1: in and I'm watching another movie how when they came

518
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: for me so hard, I was so discos i was like, well,

519
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: maybe I'll just give up the church, you know what

520
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 1: I mean, like just being kind of a whimp about

521
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: the whole thing. But I'm remembering how God strengthened and

522
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:13,840
Speaker 1: sustained me. Brings us all to the same soundtrack with

523
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 1: so many different movies, same foundation, totally different response. You know,

524
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: I'm listening to a song like Rattle, remembering when I

525
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,879
Speaker 1: was writing the lyrics on the window of the room

526
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: in my house where I work out, and I'd send

527
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: a new lyric over to Chris and he had a

528
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 1: mic set up in his living room because we couldn't

529
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: be together because of the thing, so he would record

530
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 1: the new line and send it to me, and we

531
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:43,280
Speaker 1: did that what about thirty times. So when we're rocking

532
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 1: to Rattle, I'm not just partying. I'm praising God because

533
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: it went from the window to the worship service. God said,

534
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:58,240
Speaker 1: I will open up the window. So I'm out there. Yeah,

535
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 1: they're screaming it back, but we're all all scream and

536
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 1: live for a different reason. Something we didn't think we

537
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: would survive. But look at you right now, Look at you,

538
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: right now, Look at you, bisto. It's your frame of reference.

539
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: And this is what I had, this heart to heart

540
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: with God, you know, like not out loud, just in

541
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 1: my heart. The night that I told you about where

542
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 1: we didn't sell as many tickets, still more people in

543
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 1: the room that night than the town. I grew up

544
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: in sad frame of reference, frame of reference. I'm looking

545
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: up there and I'm like, look at all those empty

546
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: rows up there. The Lord said this, he may as

547
00:39:55,719 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 1: well said it in Hebrew and Greek. And because I'm

548
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: telling you it was just like a sentence. He said,

549
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: for almost a year you preached in an empty room.

550
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: Now you want to complain about empty rows. You see,

551
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: that's the devil. That's the devil. I went from being

552
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,319
Speaker 1: like all I need is Jesus and a camera, reach

553
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: them for the gospel. But watch how entitled how quick,

554
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: Watch how the devil can shift your frame of reference

555
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 1: to where you used to feel like, Oh, my god,

556
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: if we could ever just get back together again. But

557
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 1: then we're back together again, and I'm going, oh, there's

558
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 1: some empty seats up there. Maybe we didn't do it

559
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 1: too good. Maybe we didn't. And it's almost like the

560
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 1: Lord said, stop crying, dry your tears, and blow your trumpet,

561
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: because if you really take a good panoramic look at

562
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: the situation, you don't even deserve the stuff that God

563
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: gave you. On the foundation, I mean, really, really, really,

564
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: the mercy that i'm walking in, the favor that i'm

565
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 1: walking in, the grace that I perceive, the breath I

566
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: breathed in the day that i'm standing in, the strength

567
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 1: to stand here that came from God. He said, the

568
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: silver is mind and the gold is mind. And I

569
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:32,280
Speaker 1: want you to get grateful about what I gave you again.

570
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 1: I want you to dance on the foundation. I want

571
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: you to dance on the dirt floor. I want you

572
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 1: to dance in an unemployment. I want you to dance

573
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: in a season of heartbreak. Blowyard trump it, lift your

574
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: voice and give you God great sound, a break sound,

575
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:08,760
Speaker 1: A great gray gray gray? Is that great? How great

576
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:19,879
Speaker 1: is your God? How pray is your prey. I'm gonna

577
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: get fifty people a little space to try your tears

578
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 1: and blow your trumpet. Lord law God damn hold me.

579
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 1: I got roll. Whoa huh, Because y'all, I didn't know

580
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: if we'd ever be back in the building a south again.

581
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:53,720
Speaker 1: I gotta blow this trumpet. I am free, sane, whoa.

582
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: Because I've had the enemy try to get me so

583
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,320
Speaker 1: discouraged that I would just give him back up everythink

584
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 1: God gave me I have. I've had seasons where I'm like,

585
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: all right, God, these kids are yours. I'm so glad.

586
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: But now but now, but now, but now, but now,

587
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: but now, but now but now. I remember, you ever

588
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 1: get an attitude and you don't even know where it

589
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: came from, and it's kind of like faith, it's kind

590
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 1: of like anger, and you don't know which one it is.

591
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: I put you a little bit too far. This dude,

592
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 1: one time, I never told you this story to be

593
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: this guy. One time in Nashville. He was talking down

594
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 1: to me right before we start church. He's talking down

595
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 1: to me. He said, now, listen, you need to give

596
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:45,799
Speaker 1: me all your publishing and this and that and the

597
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 1: other and you're not getting none of it, but you

598
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 1: ought to thank me for it because you're a nobody.

599
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: And he was. He was right in the sense of

600
00:43:56,560 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: my illustrious, non existent career. I got on that verse

601
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: I couldn't get out. Does it not seem to you

602
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:10,280
Speaker 1: like nothing? But now be strong? That's what Hag Guy said.

603
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 1: That's what Hag Guy said. I want, I want to

604
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: I want to be Hag guy for you today it

605
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 1: seems like nothing. It's a foundation. But now I don't

606
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 1: even know where it came from. But I told the

607
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: guy on the phone over there Sycamore Comments, he's getting

608
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: my Q Dobi Bowle in that where it is Sycamore

609
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: Comments just moved to Charlotte. Nobody in the church hadn't

610
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: even gone to Sunday morning. I interrupted him. I say, hey,

611
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 1: appreciate it what you're saying. I'm out here starting at church.

612
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 1: God called me to start it, and I know it's

613
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 1: nothing right now, But one day I don't even know,

614
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:11,359
Speaker 1: because God knows I have my doubts. But in this

615
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: moment something took me over. It was like I heard

616
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: my voice, but I w wasn't making it talk. And

617
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: I'm telling the guy like I had good sense one

618
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:29,919
Speaker 1: day this church that God is building. Now, the key

619
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 1: about it was I didn't argue with him about who

620
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: I was, see because I know what John says that

621
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 1: without him I can do nothing. But see, I'm not

622
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:51,760
Speaker 1: without him. So I'm just an instrument. And without the breath,

623
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: the trumpet sits there looking stupid. But if God breaths

624
00:45:56,200 --> 00:46:00,080
Speaker 1: in that trumpet, if God breathes all that business, if

625
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:04,439
Speaker 1: God breathes on that marriage, if God breathes on that idea,

626
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 1: if God breathes on a ministry, what's it? Go wants it?

627
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:19,320
Speaker 1: So I said one day, somebody shout one day, one day,

628
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a church and we're gonna write songs

629
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: and sing up all over the world. I didn't scream

630
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 1: at him like that, but I said that that's not

631
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: the challenge to shout about it now. The challenge is

632
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: to shout about nothing. Can I talk to you like

633
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 1: I talked to my kids. Your comparisons are killing you.

634
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 1: I said it last week, I'm gonna say it this week,

635
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: and if you come back, I'll say it again the

636
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: next week too. You keep comparing your foundation with other

637
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: people's finishes, and so you are distracted and you are discouraged.

638
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: But if you change your frame of reference, I mean

639
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:37,919
Speaker 1: really really change your frame of reference. Remember how Dad

640
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:41,400
Speaker 1: used to talk about heads of hair because he was

641
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 1: a barber. We'd be going out to Ryan's Jaba, go

642
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 1: to nice restaurants or where they had the yeast rolls.

643
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 1: What was that one, the big fat, big fat yeast

644
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: roll Quincy's, Quincy's. How not forget Quincy's, Oh Jerusalem, if

645
00:47:55,719 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: I forget you. But when we would be eating, he

646
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 1: would be doing calculation how many heads of hair he'd

647
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:10,879
Speaker 1: have to cut the pay for the meal heads of hair?

648
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: And you know, and then today, you know, God will

649
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 1: do a little something for you. I'll bless you a

650
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: little bit and all of that. And I guess, like

651
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 1: compared to some people, I don't have a lot, but

652
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 1: I guess compared to some people, I have so much.

653
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 1: And yet either one is a death trap sea if

654
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: I think about my dad, who had to drop out

655
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: of school when he was still in middle school to

656
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: help with the family expenses, and I look at what

657
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 1: God did through me are for me? Really it wasn't

658
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: even me the foundation that he laid. I can get

659
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: so grateful, so quick and stuff stops being such a

660
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: big deal. I reframe. That's the word reframe. It's your

661
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 1: frame of reference that makes you praise God. It's your

662
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: frame of reference that makes you have a pity party.

663
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:33,400
Speaker 1: Same foundation, different frame. And honestly, some people probably if

664
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:35,479
Speaker 1: they had all the things that God gave me, they'd

665
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,320
Speaker 1: probably do much better with it, you know what I'm saying.

666
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:42,840
Speaker 1: And some people that you look at and you're jealous

667
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:49,279
Speaker 1: of the stuff that they are hiding from you, the

668
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 1: expense of what you envy. The people you think you

669
00:49:55,320 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: want to trade lives with, some of them would give

670
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:14,439
Speaker 1: anything to have what you think for granted, Graham asked

671
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 1: me the other day, would you trade this and that

672
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:20,799
Speaker 1: to be Kanye? Oh, I'll be Kanye, I said, so.

673
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: I get his creative brilliance and all that, but I

674
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:29,720
Speaker 1: don't get to be your dad. No bad trade deals

675
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:34,279
Speaker 1: off devil. I'm gonna be me. I'm gonna be me.

676
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna dance over this foundation that God gave me,

677
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna work on it, and I'm gonna get

678
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 1: better at it. And I'm gonna read the Seven Habits

679
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:51,920
Speaker 1: of highly Effective People and proverbs and Philippians. And I'm

680
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,879
Speaker 1: gonna do it, but I'm not gonna wish I was you,

681
00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:04,719
Speaker 1: because wishing won't work, and neither were worrying. You've been

682
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:16,880
Speaker 1: so disappointed that you become distracted, discouraged, comparing the empty

683
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 1: rose in the arena. What in the world has the

684
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: devil got you focused on that is so bad that

685
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:30,760
Speaker 1: you can't just simply like look around for a moment.

686
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:37,359
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm working on it. You know it's hard

687
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 1: for me. For me, I'm more of a tears than

688
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 1: a trumpet person. I'm more of a what's wrong than

689
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 1: what's right person? Glass half empty? Didn't I tell you

690
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:51,719
Speaker 1: last week? I'm not a glass half empty or a

691
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 1: glass half full. I'm a hoospilled the water so I

692
00:51:53,800 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: could put you. But I'm working on it. I'm working

693
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 1: on what God gave me, what God gave me, And

694
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 1: in't it crazy? Faris? Their enemies opposed the rebuilding to

695
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 1: the temple, but they couldn't stop them. Yet what their

696
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 1: enemies couldn't do, they could do to themselves. Sixteen years,

697
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 1: the foundation sat there until the word of the Lord

698
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:34,439
Speaker 1: came through Hagod and said that what God is going

699
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:39,960
Speaker 1: to do next will be better than what he did before.

700
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: Better will not be found in going backward. Tewod Corinthians

701
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 1: three seventeen and eighteen says, now there's that word again.

702
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 1: Now so they wrote the book making Peace with your Past.

703
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:13,759
Speaker 1: I wonder does somebody need to write a book called

704
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 1: making peace with your present, with how it is, with

705
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 1: how it really is the idolatry of tomorrow and the

706
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 1: lie of yesterday. Now the Lord is the spirit. And

707
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:44,320
Speaker 1: where the spirit of the Lord was wrong? Answer Ferdick,

708
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 1: Where the spirit of the Lord will be? Pay attention class,

709
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:56,879
Speaker 1: Pay attention class. Where the spirit of the Lord is,

710
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:06,880
Speaker 1: there is freedom. But now be strong. But now be strong.

711
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:13,359
Speaker 1: And we all who with unveiled faces. That's the old

712
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: veil that they had to wear to look at the

713
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 1: glory because Moses would come down wearing a veil, and

714
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: so they couldn't see his face. But they don't need

715
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 1: that anymore. Now we contemplate not the old glory, not

716
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:32,879
Speaker 1: the former glory, the Lord's glory. We are being transformed

717
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:38,880
Speaker 1: into his image. The hard part is God gives you

718
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: an image of himself, that's who you're becoming. But the

719
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 1: enemy gives you a different image. Worst case scenarios, past mistakes,

720
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:54,400
Speaker 1: other people's life. The Bible says, where the spirit of

721
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: the Lord is, there is freedom. It is the freedom

722
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:02,799
Speaker 1: to become the version of me that God sees. It

723
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 1: is the freedom to build the life with the resources

724
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 1: he gave me that he called me to build. We

725
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:15,479
Speaker 1: are being transformed into His image. So when I say

726
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 1: our word is we in the year is better, I'm

727
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:20,919
Speaker 1: not saying that because you're going to get a better

728
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:26,399
Speaker 1: spouse or a better house. I'm saying that He is

729
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: transforming you the better image with ever increasing glory. And

730
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: watch where it comes from. It comes from the Lord.

731
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:48,520
Speaker 1: It comes from the Lord, who is the spirit. The trumpet.

732
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:57,800
Speaker 1: Did you get a trumpet? I don't know. L J.

733
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 1: Doesn't sound too much like a trumpet. Yeah, mh, LJ.

734
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 1: This is about to put me in tears. Right now,

735
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 1: you've a job. Oh you know what? You know what?

736
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:35,400
Speaker 1: We don't need it. They got one. If you believe

737
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 1: the word that came through hag I. I want you

738
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:43,800
Speaker 1: to give God sixty seconds of chlor But now be strong.

739
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:51,560
Speaker 1: Yesterday's over, but now be strong. Lit your hands to

740
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 1: come on. Open it up, Open it up, Open it up.

741
00:56:55,800 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 1: River walk open eath, mam, open, open, open, open, Oh, oh,

742
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:17,000
Speaker 1: bit open, come on, open your mouth. Guess long, but

743
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 1: now be strong say it. But now be strong. Not

744
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 1: one day in the future when you get stable, but

745
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:29,000
Speaker 1: now be strong. Does it not look like nothing, But

746
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 1: now be strong. The spirit of the Lord is here,

747
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: But now be strong. I will grant peace in this place.

748
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: When Joshuva got ready to fight the battle, he was

749
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 1: looking at walls. God told him something very strange. He said,

750
00:57:51,000 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 1: before the walls fall, blow a trumpet. That's the exact

751
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:04,200
Speaker 1: of logic. But when you have faith, when you have

752
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:08,040
Speaker 1: holy ghosts, have a increasing glory. The spirit of the

753
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:10,760
Speaker 1: Lord is here. Faith. When you got that hack ey

754
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:14,840
Speaker 1: word of the Lord, the glorious coming, the glorious coming.

755
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 1: When you got that kind of faith, you announced to

756
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:24,560
Speaker 1: the enemy, I am strong in the Lord. He's strong

757
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 1: in the Lord and in the power of his mind.

758
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 1: Get back to work. Sixteen years you're going to stand

759
00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: there and cry over something that's never coming back. Be

760
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 1: strong in the Lord and in the power of his mind.

761
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 1: We give you glory. Lord. Some people will look at

762
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 1: this sermon and they'll laugh at it. Oh, they look

763
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:56,919
Speaker 1: so stupid, shouting like that. Well, God, I'd rather look

764
00:58:56,920 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 1: stupid shouting than be depressed cry. So I give you

765
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 1: my shout, my Hollylujah, I give you glory, GLORI. We're

766
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 1: not shouting over the finished product. We're shouting over the foundation.

767
00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 1: The deeper you dig, the higher you build. God, So

768
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 1: thank you for everything you've dug out. Thank you for

769
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 1: everything you've cleared away. Thank you even for the tears,

770
00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 1: because the tears taught us how to praise you. I

771
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 1: pray for every man and woman, boy and girl who

772
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:51,360
Speaker 1: heard this word today, not just that the word would

773
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: come through the microphone, but that it would get into

774
00:59:54,840 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 1: their temple. And the glory of this present house, the

775
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 1: one I'm looking at right now, the job you gave

776
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:11,000
Speaker 1: me right now, the place you put me right now,

777
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:14,920
Speaker 1: the challenge you gave me right now, the season you

778
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:21,200
Speaker 1: gave me right now, will be greater above anything I

779
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:26,440
Speaker 1: could ask, beyond anything I could imagine. We received this

780
01:00:26,520 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 1: word right now in Jesus's name. Amen. Well, if you

781
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: enjoy today's podcast, there are a couple things I'd love

782
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: for you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate, and

783
01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:51,440
Speaker 1: review this podcast. You can also help us reach others

784
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 1: by investing today at Elevation Church dot org, slash give

785
01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 1: and thanks again for joining us on the Elevation Podcast