1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,040 Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 5 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:13,399 Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 6 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 2: Enjoy the message. One thing I want to point out 7 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 2: to you that you may not be aware of. We 8 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:26,639 Speaker 2: typically group our messages a different series, and I decided 9 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 2: to preach a series called Savage Jesus. Why I did 10 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 2: it is because I'm tired of us pretending like Jesus 11 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 2: is safe. And one reason I wanted to use the 12 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 2: term savage Jesus is because. 13 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:46,959 Speaker 1: I knew that religious people wouldn't like it. 14 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 2: We typically like our heroes sath and we typically like 15 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 2: them better after they're dead. You notice this sometimes, don't you? 16 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 2: That the way that we present our heroes is that 17 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,320 Speaker 2: we prefer a certain version of them that is safe, 18 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 2: that doesn't offend us. And one of the things that 19 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 2: I hope about doctor Graham's legacy is that he is 20 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 2: not just remembered for only the amazing invitations that he gave, 21 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 2: but for the barriers that he broke down. 22 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:25,320 Speaker 1: It's good that we take a little time. 23 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:28,759 Speaker 2: This week to share some of his quotes about heaven. 24 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 2: But what he did here on earth in bringing Heaven 25 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 2: to earth and driving back darkness, I mean doctor Graham, 26 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:37,479 Speaker 2: doctor Demas. 27 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: Was a savage in his own way. 28 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:44,400 Speaker 2: What he did in Chattanooga, Tennessee in nineteen fifty three, 29 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,680 Speaker 2: that was the most savage thing I ever read about, 30 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 2: where he tore down the barriers that they had set 31 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 2: up to keep black people separated from white people at 32 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 2: his crusade and looked at two white ushers and said, 33 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 2: you can either leave those down or have the crusade 34 00:01:58,600 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 2: without me. 35 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: That's pretty savage. 36 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 2: I kind of like that version of doctor Graham, not 37 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 2: just you know, my wife and I often talk about this, 38 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 2: how for us growing up, Ray Charles was the pepsi 39 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:20,799 Speaker 2: guy because we came into his legacy at a time 40 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 2: when he was older, and that's what we knew him as, 41 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,799 Speaker 2: and we disregarded You see this happen every year on 42 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 2: the day that we celebrate doctor Martin Luther King Jr. 43 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 2: You see the same three quotes. I've decided to stick 44 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 2: with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. 45 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 2: The same three quotes I've been to the mountain, same 46 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 2: three quotes I've had. But doctor King did a whole 47 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 2: lot more than go to the mountain and have a dream. 48 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 2: He went to prison, he suffered not only the scorn 49 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 2: of those that he was trying to fight against, but 50 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 2: those he was fighting for. And so when you forget that, 51 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 2: when you sanitize some body down to the point that 52 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 2: you try to make them almost like we make them 53 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 2: a mascot. You ever see those little toys where you 54 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 2: pull the string and they have a few sayings that 55 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 2: they say, and there's like five. 56 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: Things that they say. 57 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 2: I'm afraid we've done that with Jesus. I'm afraid that 58 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 2: we've got it down to the point now where we 59 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 2: have a few things that Jesus said, you know, love 60 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 2: people and turn the other cheek, and you know a 61 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 2: few little things images of Jesus. Shepherd Jesus with a 62 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 2: pull string and he says nice comforting things. This little 63 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 2: little Jesus that we put on the shelf, and he 64 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 2: says the things that we want to hear. You even 65 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 2: hear people sometimes they'll say, well, that doesn't sound very 66 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 2: much like Jesus. Did you ever read some of the 67 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 2: things that Jesus really said. Jesus was more than free 68 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 2: hugs and warm feelings. 69 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: Jesus was Are you ready a savage? Gee? 70 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 2: Jesus walked in church one day. The poor people were 71 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 2: being exploited by being sold sacrifices at a marked up price, 72 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 2: and they could. 73 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: Not afford them, and so they were excluded. 74 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 2: From worship because the temple had become more about profit 75 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 2: and power than it had about the presence of God. 76 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: Do you know what Jesus did. He prayed about it. 77 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:33,040 Speaker 2: Oh oh oh, he posted on Pinterest about it. This 78 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 2: is not Pinterest, Jesus. This Jesus started kicking over tables. 79 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 2: He ripped out the ATM machines. 80 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 1: He drove out the tax collectors with the whip. Put 81 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 1: that on Pinterest. 82 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 2: Well to you, pharisees, blind guys, strain out a NAT's 83 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:59,039 Speaker 2: swallow a camel. You're of your father, the devil. I 84 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 2: never saw that on a coffee. You are of your father. 85 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 2: I am the way, the truth in the life. We 86 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 2: like that Jesus. Jesus was a savage. He answered them 87 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 2: not a word, because he was the word. He got 88 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 2: so mad at death that he decided to overturn it. 89 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 2: He got so cramped in his grave that after the 90 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 2: price had been paid, after he had done what needed 91 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 2: to be done, watch how savage he kicked the end 92 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 2: off of a borrowed grave. Why borrowed. He wasn't gonna 93 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 2: be there long. He was a savage when he got up, 94 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 2: I got to show you one thing, and I shall 95 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 2: save this for Easter. But the Bible says that he 96 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 2: folded the linen they had wrapped him in. He was 97 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 2: so savage that he folded it, because when you fold 98 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 2: a linen at a meal, it means I will be 99 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 2: back when he comes back. He's not coming back like 100 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 2: a lamb. He is the lion of the trial Judah, 101 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 2: and I feel his presence in this place. 102 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 1: So let's get started. 103 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 2: In the series, Mark, chapter one, verse one. 104 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: Through fifteen records these words the. 105 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 2: Beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 106 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 2: It is written in Isaiah the prophet, I will send 107 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 2: my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way, 108 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 2: A voice of one calling in the desert. Prepare the 109 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 2: way for the Lord, Make straight paths for him. Interesting 110 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 2: that Mark does not start with the birth of Jesus Christ. 111 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 2: I wonder if he does that so that we will 112 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 2: not be so attached to our image of him as 113 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 2: a baby. Do you remember that movie with the race 114 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 2: car driver, And do you remember he said, I like 115 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 2: the baby Jesus the best a lot of us. Do 116 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,479 Speaker 2: we worship a certain version of Jesus? That is said, well, 117 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 2: Mark isn't going to give us that portrait of Jesus. 118 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 2: And it's correctly called a portrait. Because scholars say that 119 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 2: Mark's gospel is not only the oldest gospel from which 120 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 2: the other gospel writers would take the base information and 121 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,679 Speaker 2: add their own commentary. But one of the things about 122 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 2: Mark's gospel that we will notice, because I plan to 123 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 2: host our entire study from this gospel account, is that 124 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 2: he wrote in terms of action, and you don't get 125 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 2: in this gospel a lot of the commentary about what 126 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 2: Jesus actually taught. You get more of a picture. The 127 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 2: scholar that I studied said that Mark writes with a 128 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 2: paint brush. He would rather show you than tell you, 129 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 2: because the highest level of proclamation of the gospel is demonstration, 130 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 2: not explanation. 131 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: Some people can explain. 132 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 2: To you all about propitiation and atonement, but there's so 133 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 2: mean to their wife, that why I wanted Jesus. That 134 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 2: can't keep you from treating your family like crack. And 135 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 2: so Mark is going to show us portraits of Jesus. 136 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 2: We will be looking at least five or six in 137 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 2: this series. But he starts it off and he goes 138 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 2: to this scene in verse four, And so John came. 139 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 2: And so John came baptizing in the desert region and 140 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 2: preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, 141 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 2: and the whole Judean countryside, and all the people of 142 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,439 Speaker 2: Jerusalem went out to him, confessing their sins. They were 143 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:41,079 Speaker 2: baptized by him in the Jordan River. John was a savage. 144 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:45,079 Speaker 2: He wore clothing made of camels hair, with a leather 145 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 2: belt around his waist, and he ate locust and wild 146 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 2: gluten loaded honey. And this was his message. After me 147 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 2: will come one more powerful than I. After me, will 148 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 2: come one more powerful than I, the thongs of whose 149 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 2: sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and Untie, 150 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:11,679 Speaker 2: I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you 151 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 2: with the Holy Spirit. At that time, Jesus came from 152 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 2: Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 153 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 2: As Jesus was coming up out of the water, he 154 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 2: saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on 155 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 2: him like a dove, and a voice came from heaven. 156 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 1: You are my son, whom I love. With you, I 157 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 1: am well pleased. 158 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 2: At once the spirit sent him out into the desert, 159 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 2: and he was in the desert forty days being tempted 160 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 2: by Satan. He was with the wild animals and angels 161 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 2: attended him. After John was put in prison, Jesus went 162 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 2: into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. The time 163 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 2: has come, he said, the Kingdom of God is near 164 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 2: pent and believe. 165 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 1: The good news. 166 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 2: I want to use as a construct for this first message, 167 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 2: before and after, before and after, the way that I 168 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 2: study scriptures. 169 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:17,319 Speaker 1: I was telling him Buck the other day. I don't 170 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:18,599 Speaker 1: know if he was listening, but I was trying to 171 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 1: explain to him between. 172 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 2: Sets, how I look for little words and commonalities in 173 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 2: a text. And that's a great way for you to 174 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 2: study the scripture as well. To observe patterns in the scripture. 175 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 2: It help you know what to pay attention to. And 176 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 2: I was noticing in this passage of scripture. In verse four, 177 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 2: it says John came. In verse seven, it says after me, 178 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:46,200 Speaker 2: one will come. In verse nine, it says that Jesus came. 179 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 2: And in verse eleven it says a voice came. In 180 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 2: Verse thirteen, it says that the angels came. So John came, 181 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:02,560 Speaker 2: one will come, Jesus came, avoid angels came. 182 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: I guess you could see. 183 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 2: We're getting a picture here of Jesus Christ on the 184 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 2: come up. And we start with this very powerful statement 185 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 2: of validation where the Father says, you are my son 186 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 2: whom I love with you, I am well please. But 187 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 2: before that validation happened, there is a preparation that is mentioned. 188 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:26,839 Speaker 1: I think preparation is. 189 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 2: So important, and obviously so does God, because when he 190 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 2: sent his son into the world, before he performed any miracles. 191 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: Before he. 192 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 2: Raised any dead people, before he opened any blinded eyes, 193 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 2: he went through the waters of baptism, and before he 194 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 2: went through the waters of baptism, this man called John, 195 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 2: who was an unlikely looking preacher who did not fit 196 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:58,680 Speaker 2: the stereotype of how a clergyman should dress, was preparing 197 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 2: the way the Lord I broke in this introductory message 198 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 2: into four sections the first one is called preparation. Preparation 199 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 2: and prepare the way for the Lord. And so John 200 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 2: came to prepare the way for Jesus. And Jesus came 201 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 2: verse nine from Nazareth. And Mark said, this is the 202 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 2: beginning of the Gospel. But it was not the beginning 203 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 2: of the life of Christ. The life of Christ in 204 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 2: its early years took place primarily in Nazareth. When I 205 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 2: say Nazareth, it means nothing to you other than that 206 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 2: you associate it, perhaps with Jesus, and it meant next 207 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 2: to nothing to the people in Jesus' day. In fact, 208 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 2: Nazareth was the kind of place. Now, I grew up 209 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 2: in a place that is famous for its culture and 210 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 2: its impact. I grew up in Monk's Corner. But some 211 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 2: of you grew up in places like Nazareth. Nazareth was 212 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:00,439 Speaker 2: a no name place for no name people. So when 213 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 2: the Bible says that Jesus came from Nazareth, it means 214 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 2: that the Son of God and the Savior of the 215 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 2: world came from. 216 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 1: An unexpected place. 217 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,679 Speaker 2: John, the Baptists, who many scholars associate with the tribe 218 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:16,199 Speaker 2: of the Essenes, was preparing the way in the wilderness, 219 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 2: and Jesus was coming up in Nazareth. Perhaps you've heard 220 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,719 Speaker 2: that he was a carpenter. I think it must have 221 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,719 Speaker 2: been a real trip to be making wood out of the. 222 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: Trees that you spoke into existence. 223 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 2: Have you ever thought about what it would be like 224 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 2: to make a table out of a tree that you 225 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 2: put in the ground. You know, the Bible says in 226 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:42,559 Speaker 2: Colossians that all things were created and are sustained by 227 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,959 Speaker 2: the power of his word. Yet Jesus meant the first 228 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 2: thirty in obscurity in Nazareth. Hey, they had us saying, 229 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 2: where you're from Valdosta, Valdosta State. 230 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: They had a saying about Nazareth. 231 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:02,559 Speaker 2: They would say, can anything good come from Nazareth? They 232 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 2: said that about Jesus because the authority that he spoke 233 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 2: with did not match the background that he came from, 234 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 2: and the works that he would do so outstrip the 235 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 2: expectations of the people. He taught with authority and not 236 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 2: as one of their teachers of the law. They had 237 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 2: us saying, can anything good come from Nazareth? That no 238 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 2: name place for no name people, that place that we. 239 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: Don't plan our vacations to. 240 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 2: Jesus came from Nazareth, not from Jerusalem. It would have 241 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 2: made sense for him to come from Jerusalem, the center 242 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 2: of the temple call. 243 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: It would have made sense for him to come from 244 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 1: perhaps a. 245 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 2: Place in the Roman Empire that was more empirically important. 246 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: But Jesus came from Nazareth. 247 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 2: He came from Nazareth, and the people wanted to know 248 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 2: can anything good come from Nazareth? But it was his 249 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 2: place of preparation. And when God has a great purpose 250 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 2: for your life, he will often involve a season of obscurity. 251 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: Let's be honest about it. 252 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 2: In the beginning was the Word, and the word was 253 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 2: with God, and the. 254 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 1: Word was God. 255 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 2: It's not like Jesus needed to learn what he already was. 256 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 2: But even Jesus went through a season of obscurity before 257 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 2: he fulfilled his purpose. And some of you are in 258 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 2: Nazareth right now, and you're wondering the same thing that 259 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 2: the people wondering about Jesus. Can anything good come from Nazareth? 260 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 2: Can anything good come from singleness? Can anything good come 261 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 2: from losing my job? Can anything good come from cancer? 262 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 2: Can anything good come from middle school? Can anything good 263 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 2: come from a broken heart? Can anything good come from depression? 264 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: Can anything good come from divorce? 265 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:01,119 Speaker 2: But I love him because he takes the most unlikely 266 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 2: places and fulfills the greatest purpose. 267 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 1: How need you do to shout right now? 268 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 2: If you've ever been in Nasareth wondering God, what am 269 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 2: I doing here? 270 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:13,119 Speaker 1: Jesus came from Nasareth. 271 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 2: Great things come from small places, New beginnings come from 272 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 2: dead ends. Jesus came from Nazareth. It was his place 273 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 2: of preparation. Preparation is kind of the opposite of the 274 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 2: primary value of our day. 275 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: We live in the age of instant validation. 276 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 2: Instead of thinking an issue through, we post it immediately 277 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 2: to see if we can get someone to agree or 278 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 2: disagree with us, just because we want attention. 279 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 1: See how quite gets when I preach real good. 280 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 2: Just see how they were shouting like forty seven seconds ago. 281 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: Did you see how quickly all the shouts. 282 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 2: Dissipated from the room, just because I told you the truth. 283 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: There is nothing off limits. 284 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 2: We will stage our kids instead of raising them, We're 285 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:18,440 Speaker 2: staging them for the. 286 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:19,479 Speaker 1: Approval of people. 287 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 2: Stand here, shut up, smile, Stand here, shut up, smile 288 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 2: Because I yelled at you all day. But if I 289 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 2: can post something that made it look like we had 290 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:34,439 Speaker 2: a good day. Maybe somebody will tell me I'm a 291 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 2: good mom. 292 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,120 Speaker 1: If it's too much, come give me chunks. I don't 293 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 1: want to tear the church apart on the first week 294 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:49,479 Speaker 1: of the series. I was planning to do like six weeks, 295 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: but I don't know if we're gonna survive. The first 296 00:17:53,240 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: Jesus came from Nazareth and he was baptized John. That 297 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 1: confused me at first. 298 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 2: And so if you're reading this and you're like, I 299 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:06,119 Speaker 2: don't read the Bible much, but that's kind of weird. 300 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 2: Don't you get baptized because you need to be forgiven 301 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:09,400 Speaker 2: of your sin? 302 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 1: And isn't Jesus the one who didn't have any sin? 303 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: That's what John thought. 304 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 2: John was surprised when Jesus came to be baptized, because 305 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 2: you know, he's lining them up and he's dunking them, 306 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 2: and John did not. John's baptism was not like ours, 307 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 2: you know how our baptism we let you read something 308 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 2: and share something. John was such a savage one time 309 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:36,119 Speaker 2: he looked at the crowd and said, who told you 310 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 2: to come out here? 311 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 1: You brew the viperse? 312 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 2: What if when you got in the tank, let's go 313 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:48,400 Speaker 2: to Gaston for a baptism. Can you imagine Kid Hester 314 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 2: telling that big boy that was in the tank today. 315 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: I was so nervous Ken was gonna drop him. 316 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 2: Imagine if he called him a snake before he talked 317 00:18:55,560 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 2: to him. And John's baptism was a baptism of repentance. 318 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 2: He was fighting against the oppression of the system that 319 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 2: had made principles more important than people, and so was 320 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 2: he was rebuking really the leaders. And he'd say, you snakes, repent, 321 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 2: you snakes, repent, you snakes, repent. He turns around and 322 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 2: there's the savior of the world. You Savior of the world. 323 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,880 Speaker 2: I should baptize you. I was just telling them I'm 324 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 2: not fit. 325 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:38,360 Speaker 1: To tie your shoes. This isn't right. 326 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 2: But Jesus says something, and Mark doesn't give it to us, 327 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:44,359 Speaker 2: because probably I really believe this hold on I'm ocd in. 328 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 1: This thing's crooked. 329 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:51,399 Speaker 2: Probably Mark was writing his recollections not based on his 330 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 2: own personal experience. We don't even historically know who who 331 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,199 Speaker 2: Mark was with one hundred percent accuracy, but we have 332 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 2: reason to believe that these recollections were based on the 333 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:09,680 Speaker 2: memory of Peter Peter, who tried so hard to keep 334 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:15,360 Speaker 2: Jesus from the Cross Peter, who had an expectation of 335 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 2: an earthly kingdom that would overthrow Rome. And it really 336 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 2: matches the style of Peter that Mark's gospel would include 337 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 2: very little detail. Is just really one thing after another 338 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 2: after another. His favorite word that Mark uses, and you'll 339 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:33,360 Speaker 2: see it over and over again when you come back 340 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:33,640 Speaker 2: to church. 341 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 1: Every week of this series. 342 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:40,960 Speaker 2: Is immediately or suddenly, and it's just Jesus is on 343 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 2: the move. 344 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: Now. 345 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 2: The thing about it was that for half of Mark's gospel, 346 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,239 Speaker 2: Jesus is on the move through Galilee where he did 347 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 2: his ministry. The other half he's headed to the Cross, 348 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 2: the place he came for all along. Peter did not 349 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 2: understand that before, but he did after. And there's a 350 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,879 Speaker 2: breathlessness of this god gospel that comes across because Jesus 351 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:07,679 Speaker 2: is headed to the cross, headed to his purpose, headed 352 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 2: to redemption, which makes possible reconciliation, and he has no 353 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 2: time to waste. So we will forgive Mark if he 354 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,120 Speaker 2: leaves out a lot of the details. He just tells 355 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:20,439 Speaker 2: us that Jesus came and was baptized, But Matthew tells 356 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 2: us because there are four gospel accounts that Jesus told 357 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 2: John the reason that he did it. He said, this 358 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 2: must be done to fulfill all righteousness. 359 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 1: In other words, it was an act of obedience. 360 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 2: And if there's any word that might be more unpopular 361 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:40,879 Speaker 2: than preparation in our culture, it's obedience. Nobody tells me 362 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:49,199 Speaker 2: what to do. I pray to Jesus during football games. 363 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,399 Speaker 2: Nobody tells me what to do. 364 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:02,160 Speaker 1: Jesus power than his submission to the will of his father. 365 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 1: He said, I've got to do this in obedience. 366 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 2: John said it doesn't make sense, and Jesus said, it 367 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 2: doesn't have to make sense. It is written, and therefore 368 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:21,119 Speaker 2: it must be accomplished. And so John doesn't argue with 369 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 2: him about it. He just does it. And when he 370 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 2: does it, the Bible says that a dove came from 371 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 2: heaven descended on him. The dove is often used to 372 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 2: symbolize peace. Here, it is a symbolic indication of the 373 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:44,679 Speaker 2: presence of the Holy Spirit and God validates the sonship 374 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ. This is different than the transfiguration Holly. 375 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 2: In the Transfiguration, which happens many chapters later, he will say, 376 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 2: this is my son whom I love. Listen to him here. 377 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 2: It's personal. He says, you are my son whom I love. 378 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 1: With you, I am well pleased. 379 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 2: It is a direct validation of Jesus' ministry, and it 380 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 2: came after Jesus' obedience. I'm afraid that a lot of 381 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:28,119 Speaker 2: times we want validation before obedience. But validation does not 382 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 2: come before obedience. 383 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,399 Speaker 1: It comes say the word. 384 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 2: This is a message of before and after. Now, notice 385 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 2: what hasn't happened yet. At the moment that God the 386 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 2: Father validates his son, Jesus has not opened the first 387 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 2: blinded eye. Jesus has not healed anybody of leprosy or 388 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 2: cleansed them of their condition. Jesus has not caused any 389 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 2: lame people to walk. 390 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 1: Not at this point. 391 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 2: Jesus has not even taught the crowds in a way 392 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 2: that would captivate them to the point that they would 393 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,160 Speaker 2: stay and skip dinner just to hear what this man 394 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,160 Speaker 2: has to say. Jesus has not packed out the house 395 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 2: to the point that some men will tear off a 396 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 2: roof to get their friend. 397 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 1: In so he can be healed. He has done none 398 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 1: of that yet. 399 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:19,120 Speaker 2: And before he ever performs his first miracle, the heavenly 400 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 2: Father speaks a word a validation, and maybe you need 401 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 2: to hear that God's love for you is never based 402 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 2: on your performance before he ever did anything. It's kind 403 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 2: of like he got the trophy before he even showed 404 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 2: up for practice. 405 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 1: It's kind of like God does not validate. 406 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 2: How people validate, because people will validate you based on 407 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 2: what you do for them. People will validate you based 408 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,440 Speaker 2: on the value that your actions carry that will contribute 409 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,879 Speaker 2: directly to their well being. But God does not validate 410 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 2: based on performance. He validates based on relationship. He did 411 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 2: not v validate what Jesus would do. He validated who 412 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 2: he was. And just in case you haven't heard it 413 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 2: in a while, and you feel kind of dirty and 414 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 2: kind of ashamed of yourself and kind of like you 415 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,360 Speaker 2: don't belong in the presence of God and like you're 416 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 2: not one of those good church people. I want you 417 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 2: to know you're still his child, You're still made in 418 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 2: his image, You're still blood with his blood. Every drop 419 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,440 Speaker 2: he's spilled was on purpose, and one of those drops 420 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 2: had your name on it. 421 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,359 Speaker 1: And if the blood was enough for me, it was 422 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: enough for you. 423 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 2: And you don't have to stand here ashamed and look 424 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 2: forward to one day when God will never love you anymore, 425 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,479 Speaker 2: that he loves you right now. 426 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:49,679 Speaker 1: I set You're free right now, loved right now, cleansed, 427 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 1: right now, healed, right now. Somebody shout, I. 428 00:25:54,160 --> 00:26:02,120 Speaker 2: Am I am his child, I am accepted. Jesus did 429 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,400 Speaker 2: not perform his ministry for acceptance. 430 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:05,720 Speaker 1: That's why he. 431 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:11,199 Speaker 2: Didn't care what anybody thought about it. When you know 432 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 2: somebody more important approves of you, it makes the opinions 433 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 2: of people a whole lot less significant, isn't that true? 434 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:31,199 Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't care. This sounds bad, this 435 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 2: sounds unpastoral, But. 436 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: I don't care as much what you think about this sermon. 437 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 1: I care. I will check Facebook, Instagram. 438 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 2: But before that, before ever, I said, before I'll walk 439 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 2: off the stage, Holly will meet me and I look 440 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 2: at her and she'll be like you slated. 441 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:05,159 Speaker 1: When she says. 442 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:10,400 Speaker 2: That, that will matter a little bit more, a little 443 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:16,199 Speaker 2: bit more because she lives with me. And if the 444 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,920 Speaker 2: person who knows me the best here's what I have 445 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,679 Speaker 2: to say and feels like it was aligned with the 446 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:27,480 Speaker 2: character of my life, I. 447 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 1: Don't need the Graham. 448 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 2: No. 449 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: I think this is important. 450 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,879 Speaker 2: I think it's so important that we receive the validation 451 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 2: of God each day, or we will need from people 452 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 2: what they are not capable of giving us. How are 453 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,399 Speaker 2: they going to accept you unconditionally? They don't even like 454 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 2: themselves some of the time. And a voice came, and 455 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 2: a voice came. John came. That's preparation. A voice came, 456 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 2: that's validation. But notice when he came, when he when 457 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 2: the voice spoke, church, pay did you just little stuff 458 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 2: in the Bible? 459 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,399 Speaker 1: Don't just read seventy seven verses I'm getting coffee and 460 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 1: then post about it and post about it. Read it? 461 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:23,359 Speaker 2: Do read it. It came before he performed any miracles. 462 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 2: It was not contingent upon his performance, and it came 463 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,400 Speaker 2: after his obedience. 464 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: At that time, Jesus came from Nazareth. 465 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 2: The galley was baptized by John and the Jordan check 466 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 2: it out first in his first in on the screen. 467 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 1: Is it on there? 468 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 2: As he was coming up? That means, as he was 469 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 2: doing what he was supposed to do. As he was 470 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 2: coming up, he saw heaven torn open? Is that what 471 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 2: it says? My eyes are closed and depending on you 472 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 2: to validate the heavens torn open? And the voice spoke, 473 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,960 Speaker 2: so he saw vision and he heard a voice, but 474 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 2: he didn't see it until he was on the way up. 475 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 2: So it meant that he went all the way out 476 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 2: to the Jordan, got in the water, went down, and 477 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 2: on the way up, God said, I'm proud of you. 478 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 2: And when he came up noticed this. The synergy of 479 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 2: the text is this, when he came up, the dove 480 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 2: came down. When he came up to fulfill that which 481 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 2: was spoken of, that which was prophesied about him in 482 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 2: obedience when he came up. 483 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 1: Now here's where a lot of us get it twisted. 484 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 2: We want the dove to come down before we get 485 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 2: into the waters of obedience. We want God to give 486 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 2: us peace about a decision that. 487 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 1: We know we need to make. 488 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 2: But I found out that peace comes after obedience. So 489 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 2: when Jesus went down into the waters, which signified his death, 490 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 2: and came back up, which signified his resurrection, it was 491 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 2: on the way up. It was as he was doing 492 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 2: the will of his father. It was as he was 493 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 2: in the process of fulfilling the purpose that he was 494 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 2: put on the earth for that he saw the heavens 495 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 2: open and he heard the voice of God saying, this 496 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 2: is my son, and the dove came down, But the 497 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 2: dove didn't come down until Jesus came up. 498 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,480 Speaker 1: And you know what, You are not going to get 499 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 1: the peace of. 500 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 2: God in your situation until you commit yourself to obey 501 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 2: what he's speaking to your heart. Peace comes after obedience. 502 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 2: And if you don't have the peace of God in 503 00:30:53,440 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 2: your situation, God's peace might be awaiting your obedience. But 504 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 2: we want to experience before what we can only experience after, 505 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,000 Speaker 2: So we put stuff off. 506 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,720 Speaker 1: You note like, well, I'll do it when I feel 507 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 1: a peace about it. That's a Christian thing. Only Christians 508 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 1: talk like that. 509 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 2: People who don't have this religious jargon to throw around 510 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 2: to cover up their lack of decisiveness have to either 511 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 2: do it or don't. 512 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 1: But we wait for a peace. I was just reading 513 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:33,960 Speaker 1: that text over and over. 514 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,440 Speaker 2: And as he was coming up, the dove didn't follow 515 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 2: him down to the water. Come on, Jesus, you got this. 516 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,160 Speaker 2: Come on, this is the right thing to do. I 517 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,520 Speaker 2: promise you, I promise you. The dove did not make 518 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 2: its appearance until Jesus was already wet. 519 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 1: Until you die to yourself and go down in the water. 520 00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:01,760 Speaker 1: And as he was coming up, came down. 521 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 2: So I had to do something the other day, and 522 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 2: I didn't want to do it in my flesh, in 523 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 2: my spirit, I am reborn, and I told somebody I 524 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 2: was gonna do it, and they said, oh, do you 525 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 2: have a peace about it? 526 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:22,840 Speaker 1: I guess you have a peace about it. 527 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:28,400 Speaker 2: I said no, That's why I'm doing it because I 528 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 2: want peace and I don't have peace. And I have 529 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:38,600 Speaker 2: spent the last several months waiting for peace that only 530 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 2: obedience can produce. Now, the love of God did not 531 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 2: come because Jesus obeyed, but the peace of God, the dove, 532 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:58,200 Speaker 2: the validation came as he obeyed. I said, I'm gonna 533 00:32:58,240 --> 00:32:59,720 Speaker 2: do what I need to do. 534 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: And the peace will follow. 535 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,840 Speaker 2: I'm gonna do what doesn't make sense and the peace 536 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:07,080 Speaker 2: will follow. 537 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,040 Speaker 1: I'm gonna join an e group at Elevation Church. 538 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,760 Speaker 2: I thought my leaders would shout and the peace will follow. 539 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:24,240 Speaker 2: But the peace came after the obedience. Peace comes after obedience. 540 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:29,200 Speaker 2: Peace comes after obedience. It's my whole message, and so 541 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 2: I'm repeating it in case you think this. 542 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:32,680 Speaker 1: Is a sub point, it is not. 543 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 2: Everything up until now was just to tell you this 544 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 2: Lake Norman, peace comes after obedience. Jesus went down Jesus 545 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,760 Speaker 2: came up. As he's coming up, the doth comes down. 546 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,479 Speaker 2: The voice from heaven speaks, and the validation of Jesus 547 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 2: Christ came. 548 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 1: After his obedience. 549 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:56,000 Speaker 2: Stop waiting to feel like it, Stop waiting for people 550 00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 2: to understand it. Stop waiting until everything gets just right. 551 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,120 Speaker 2: This is the day that the Lord has made. I 552 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,719 Speaker 2: will rejoice today. If you hear his voice, do not 553 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 2: hearden your heart, and then the peace of God, which 554 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 2: passes all understanding, will guard your heart and your mind. 555 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:23,560 Speaker 2: In Christ Jesus and peace. Here comes to dove, Here 556 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:29,080 Speaker 2: comes to dove, Here comes to dove. But this dove, 557 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 2: this dove has a mind of his own. This dove, 558 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,280 Speaker 2: this holy spirit. That's what it symbolizes in the Bible. 559 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,880 Speaker 2: And the dove comes down, and the dove is so beautiful. 560 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 2: Come on, Eljay, play some dove music, some dove descending music. 561 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:12,000 Speaker 1: I think that's Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star. And then abrupt change. 562 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:13,879 Speaker 1: You gotta get used to Mark, because he's our tour 563 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:18,040 Speaker 1: guide for this entire series. At once, verse. 564 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 2: Twelve, he doesn't even give us time to hang out 565 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,160 Speaker 2: with the dove, get a selfie with the dove at once. 566 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:31,239 Speaker 2: At once, immediately suddenly the spirit the dove sent him 567 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:36,440 Speaker 2: into the desert. Why is he going to the desert 568 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:37,440 Speaker 2: verse thirteen? 569 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:38,839 Speaker 1: Fill it in. 570 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,800 Speaker 2: And he was in the desert forty days being tempted 571 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:43,520 Speaker 2: by Satan. 572 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 1: Why would the dove lead you. 573 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:53,200 Speaker 2: Into a place where the devil was waiting. I don't 574 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:57,759 Speaker 2: like that dove. I want the other dog. Give me 575 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:15,239 Speaker 2: another dove real quick. And suddenly, right after the validation 576 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:22,839 Speaker 2: came the temptation. Because anytime God speaks a promise over 577 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:29,040 Speaker 2: your life, you will immediately have the opportunity to prove 578 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:30,240 Speaker 2: the promise. 579 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:32,240 Speaker 1: In the desert. 580 00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:37,320 Speaker 2: The same death that presided over his baptism now leads 581 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,960 Speaker 2: him into the desert, which seems on the surface to 582 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,960 Speaker 2: be a contradiction of the Lord's prayer. You know our Father, 583 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:46,719 Speaker 2: who are in heaven, Hello, will be your name, your 584 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,560 Speaker 2: kingdom Come. Jesus taught us this prayer, you will be. 585 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:50,399 Speaker 1: Done on earth. 586 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,640 Speaker 2: I know people think that football locker room made this 587 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:53,120 Speaker 2: prayer up. 588 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,640 Speaker 1: But Jesus taught this prayer on earth as it is 589 00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,480 Speaker 1: in Heaven. Give us us there daily bread, forgive. 590 00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,719 Speaker 2: Us our deathtints, we forgive our debtors, and lead us 591 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:06,200 Speaker 2: now into temptation. So why did the spirit of God 592 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,839 Speaker 2: lead Jesus into the very temptation that he told us 593 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:21,080 Speaker 2: to pray against. See, Jesus was a savage and he 594 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:24,520 Speaker 2: knew what to do in the desert, and he knew 595 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,640 Speaker 2: that the desert is the place where you. 596 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,080 Speaker 1: Prove the promise of God. 597 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,680 Speaker 2: I wanted to include this point because some of you 598 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:38,480 Speaker 2: are not in the place of validation as I speak today. 599 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:46,799 Speaker 2: You are in the place of temptation. So remember, Mark 600 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,760 Speaker 2: doesn't really break it down. He just tells us real quick, 601 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,640 Speaker 2: because Peter's just given him the highlights, and he's writing 602 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:58,440 Speaker 2: in a style that keeps the action moving, because this 603 00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:02,080 Speaker 2: thing is headed to the conflict of the cross, and 604 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:03,640 Speaker 2: he has no time to waste. So he just tells 605 00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:07,400 Speaker 2: us simply, he was in the desert forty days. He 606 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,360 Speaker 2: doesn't even mention that Jesus didn't eat in those forty days, 607 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:15,360 Speaker 2: doesn't even mention it being tempted by Satan. He was 608 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:16,600 Speaker 2: with the wild animals and angels that did. 609 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:17,839 Speaker 1: And that's all he says about it. 610 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,600 Speaker 2: If I went forty days with the animals, I would 611 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:26,600 Speaker 2: want to describe every detail of it. But Mark says 612 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,359 Speaker 2: he was there and he was tempted, but it didn't work. 613 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,600 Speaker 2: By the way, you don't have to do You don't 614 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:37,120 Speaker 2: have to explain every nuance of all of the trials 615 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:41,520 Speaker 2: that you go through. Sometimes we are so busy describing 616 00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:45,200 Speaker 2: what we are going through that we miss the opportunity 617 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,359 Speaker 2: to declare the praises of the one who brought us 618 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:56,399 Speaker 2: through it. He gives one verse to forty days he 619 00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:01,319 Speaker 2: was tempted, and then the angels came. But the angels 620 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:06,600 Speaker 2: did not come to protect him from the temptation. The 621 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:12,440 Speaker 2: angels came after the temptation. And sometimes we are expecting 622 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,759 Speaker 2: God to protect us from stuff when He wants to 623 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,759 Speaker 2: use the stuff to prove his power in our lives. 624 00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,759 Speaker 2: And so he puts you in a lonely place. But 625 00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,560 Speaker 2: even in a lonely place, you are under and open heaven. 626 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:33,560 Speaker 2: The greatest temptation of life is to find your validation 627 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:38,320 Speaker 2: in a source other than Christ. It is life's greatest temptation. 628 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:43,200 Speaker 2: Where will you find your validation? And so Satan says 629 00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,640 Speaker 2: to Jesus, if you're hungry, turn the stones into bread. 630 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,480 Speaker 2: Jesus said, I don't need it. I don't live by 631 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,520 Speaker 2: bread alone. I live on every word that proceeds from 632 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:53,440 Speaker 2: the mouth of God. 633 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:55,040 Speaker 1: By the way, it's. 634 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,800 Speaker 2: A bad idea to get in a scripture quotation. Contest 635 00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,200 Speaker 2: with the one who is the word of God. He 636 00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:01,200 Speaker 2: didn't just write it. 637 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:02,040 Speaker 1: He wasn't. 638 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,640 Speaker 2: Now you're debating scripture with the one who is it 639 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:10,279 Speaker 2: in plesh. 640 00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,279 Speaker 1: Okay, then prove it. 641 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:14,480 Speaker 2: This is life's great temptation to find your validation in 642 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:15,799 Speaker 2: anything other than God. 643 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:16,400 Speaker 1: Prove it. 644 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,560 Speaker 2: Throw yourself off the temple, prove it, make more money, 645 00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,120 Speaker 2: prove it, show him how great you are. Prove it. 646 00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:24,960 Speaker 1: Jes said, I don't need to prove it. It is written. 647 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:33,280 Speaker 1: It is written. I've already been. 648 00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:38,439 Speaker 2: Validated in the waters, so I don't have to prove 649 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:39,799 Speaker 2: anything in the wilderness. 650 00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:45,520 Speaker 1: I already ate. 651 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:51,600 Speaker 2: I do this anytime I'm going over to somebody's house 652 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:52,799 Speaker 2: and I'm not sure if they can cook. 653 00:40:55,880 --> 00:41:03,640 Speaker 1: It's just preemptive. It's wisdom. 654 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:07,640 Speaker 2: Jesus said, I'm not hungry for that. Bow down and 655 00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:12,000 Speaker 2: worship me. Why would I bow down to what is 656 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:13,280 Speaker 2: already under my feet? 657 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:19,640 Speaker 1: And the angels came, and then the angels. 658 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:25,080 Speaker 2: Came, and then the angels came, not before the temptation, 659 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:30,600 Speaker 2: but after the demonstration. And so if God has put 660 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:34,320 Speaker 2: you in a wilderness situation today, this could feel lonely, 661 00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,560 Speaker 2: this could be emotional, this could be in your body. 662 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,520 Speaker 2: Every wilderness looks different. But the purpose for your wilderness 663 00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:45,960 Speaker 2: is that you demonstrate the power of God in your life. 664 00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:49,360 Speaker 2: And the power of God does not come until. 665 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:54,800 Speaker 1: After, after after. 666 00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:03,840 Speaker 2: Maybe that's what faith is. Wow is believing before what 667 00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:05,879 Speaker 2: you will only understand. 668 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:07,640 Speaker 1: After. 669 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:21,440 Speaker 2: By the time Mark writes down these miracles, it's been thirty. 670 00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:22,640 Speaker 1: Years since stay happened. 671 00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:26,799 Speaker 2: And Peter is talking to Mark, telling him what to write, 672 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:31,600 Speaker 2: and he said, he said, I want you to use 673 00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:35,479 Speaker 2: half of half of this gospel account to talk about 674 00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:40,600 Speaker 2: the last week in Jesus's life. Peter was the one 675 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:44,040 Speaker 2: who told Jesus, you can't go to the cross. It 676 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:51,839 Speaker 2: will mess up our pr campaign. You can't die, that's 677 00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:53,800 Speaker 2: bad for ratings. 678 00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:57,279 Speaker 1: But after. 679 00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:01,440 Speaker 2: He had risen from the day and that then they 680 00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:08,319 Speaker 2: remembered his words, and the same disciple that spent all 681 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,799 Speaker 2: three years of jesus ministry trying to keep him from 682 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,319 Speaker 2: the cross took half of the gospel account that he 683 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,920 Speaker 2: recollected to talk about the very thing that he wanted 684 00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:23,359 Speaker 2: to keep Jesus from Wow. It goes to show that 685 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,600 Speaker 2: some of the dry places that we would avoid are 686 00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:32,960 Speaker 2: the very places that God will use the most. The 687 00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:37,680 Speaker 2: key is, can I believe it before I see it? 688 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:48,399 Speaker 2: Can anything good come from Nazareth? Can anything good come 689 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:53,520 Speaker 2: from my dysfunctional past? Can anything good come from this 690 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:55,880 Speaker 2: season that I want out of so bad? 691 00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:05,359 Speaker 1: And then the angels I came with an announcement. Your 692 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:15,400 Speaker 1: angel is already on the way. Your angel is on 693 00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:19,600 Speaker 1: the way. And don't give into the temptation. 694 00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,840 Speaker 2: To bow down and worship something that is less than God, 695 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,160 Speaker 2: or to compromise your values in this season. 696 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,680 Speaker 1: You know who you are. You heard it in the 697 00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:31,480 Speaker 1: waters of baptism. This is my child. I am well 698 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:32,359 Speaker 1: pleased with him. 699 00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,560 Speaker 2: This is my daughter, I am well pleased with her. 700 00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,800 Speaker 2: That's my boy, that's my girl. I got a purpose 701 00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,919 Speaker 2: for you. Do not doubt in the wilderness what God 702 00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:46,760 Speaker 2: showed you in the water. Your Angel is on the way. 703 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:52,200 Speaker 2: Your Angel is on the way. Don't turn the stone 704 00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,880 Speaker 2: into bread just yet. You brought to get some angel 705 00:44:54,920 --> 00:45:00,279 Speaker 2: food cake. Your angel is on the way. And the 706 00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:06,400 Speaker 2: God of all grace, after that you have suffered, after 707 00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:11,640 Speaker 2: you have suffered a little while, will himself, restore you, 708 00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:13,960 Speaker 2: make you strong. 709 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:19,920 Speaker 1: The strength comes after the suffering. 710 00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:26,080 Speaker 2: And that's what Jesus knew. That's what he knew with 711 00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:32,600 Speaker 2: the animals. That was proven after the angels came. There 712 00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:36,279 Speaker 2: is something today that you need to believe that you 713 00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,920 Speaker 2: cannot see, something that you need to believe that you 714 00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:44,600 Speaker 2: cannot feel. And it only makes sense on this side 715 00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:50,799 Speaker 2: of the cross, and after you have suffered. What verse 716 00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:54,600 Speaker 2: was that that said after you've suffered? 717 00:45:54,640 --> 00:46:00,799 Speaker 1: We just talked about it first what first? Who Saint Peter? 718 00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:11,359 Speaker 1: We finally got it after after. But let's just take 719 00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:13,239 Speaker 1: a moment. Let's do something that will really drive the 720 00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:14,320 Speaker 1: devil out of our desert. 721 00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:20,760 Speaker 2: Let's go ahead right now at every location and praise 722 00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:38,880 Speaker 2: God before for what we will only understand after. Come on, 723 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,239 Speaker 2: let's worship in the wilderness a little bit. If you 724 00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,840 Speaker 2: don't feel it good, that gives you a chance to 725 00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:45,839 Speaker 2: prove that. 726 00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:49,200 Speaker 1: It is faith, not feeling faith not silent. 727 00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:01,120 Speaker 2: Heavenly Father, we thank you for this moment you have 728 00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:05,080 Speaker 2: brought us to, and we thank you for the voice 729 00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:09,920 Speaker 2: that came from heaven that spoke into our souls today 730 00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:15,480 Speaker 2: that before we were ever created, you had a plan 731 00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,839 Speaker 2: for our lives that before we ever did anything right 732 00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:21,360 Speaker 2: or wrong, you had already determined our purpose in the earth. 733 00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,120 Speaker 2: We thank you that everything that we're going through in 734 00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,720 Speaker 2: this season and the wilderness will prepare us. 735 00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,440 Speaker 1: For the purpose that you know about in our lives. 736 00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:34,360 Speaker 2: That you know about, you know the plans you have 737 00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:36,960 Speaker 2: for us, plans to prosper us, not to harm us, 738 00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:39,239 Speaker 2: to give us hope and a future. We thank you 739 00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:42,719 Speaker 2: for the after, but we want to thank you for 740 00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:49,960 Speaker 2: the after while we're still living in the before. We 741 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,320 Speaker 2: don't want to wait for the angels to come. 742 00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:54,920 Speaker 1: To give you glory. 743 00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:57,560 Speaker 2: We know that one day every knee will bow and 744 00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:59,640 Speaker 2: every tongue will confess that you are Lord to the 745 00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:00,640 Speaker 2: glory of God the Father. 746 00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:02,440 Speaker 1: But we don't want to wait for that day. 747 00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:05,840 Speaker 2: So we make our decision to worship you right now 748 00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:08,600 Speaker 2: and to declare right now that Jesus. 749 00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:12,040 Speaker 1: Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. 750 00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:18,879 Speaker 1: We give you glory right now. Thank you for joining us. 751 00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:21,600 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 752 00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:25,160 Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 753 00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,799 Speaker 2: You can click the link in the description to give 754 00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:32,040 Speaker 2: now or visit Elevationchurch dot org. Slash podcast for more 755 00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:35,880 Speaker 2: information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 756 00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:37,480 Speaker 1: You can share it with your friends. 757 00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:40,040 Speaker 2: You can click the share button, take a screenshot and 758 00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,200 Speaker 2: share it on your social stories and tag us at 759 00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:43,080 Speaker 2: Elevation Church. 760 00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:49,759 Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening. God bless you.