WEBVTT - Thought Bubbles 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:04.519 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:07.000 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:10.360 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:12.399 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:16.560 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:23.680 All right, somebody say, I'm in the choir. That's the 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.279 first time that some of you have ever been in 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:30.640 a choir not wearing a robe. Praise the Lord. We 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.680 are so thankful for his presence. If you're sitting here 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:36.519 going like I need to adjust my computer, everybody on 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:40.760 that stage seems happy and the world is really a 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:44.639 mess right now, do not adjust your monitor, adjust your mindset. 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.000 That pastor is preaching already and he didn't even get 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:57.240 his open Wow. So who gets to stay today? I 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.440 know that the Jane gets to stay. You know. I 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:02.640 leave these worship leaders up here just to have company. 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:04.880 We're used to having so many more people in the building. 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.080 And I don't mean that to diminish those of you 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:09.560 who are here, but it's just a critical mass issue. 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.919 And of course we've done more ministry than ever before 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.840 in this season, so I'm glad Jane gets to stay. 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:23.080 That's great, Leota. They don't ever let you stay. Aaron, 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:24.880 you stay up there the whole time? Do you stand 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.960 the whole time? Do you sit down here? It's weird 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.640 preaching because I'm always playing this game while I'm talking. 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.720 Oh yeah, y'all can be seated by the way. I'm 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:37.720 going to jump into this part two of what I 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:42.959 started last week, the continuation. Let's keep it going. I've 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:47.039 heard so many testimonies of people remembering who they are 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:51.040 in Christ. Now, everybody in here, get ready because we've 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:54.120 got a job to do today. I'm just reminding you, 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.120 I only want faith in this room right now. There's 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:02.400 enough fear everywhere else. I said, I only want faith 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.880 in this room because somebody's got something going on in 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.560 their life and we're going to join together and minister. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.160 And when I scan, it's weird. When I scan people, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.720 I have this bad habit of where I draw thought 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.480 bubbles when I'm looking at people's face, and I make 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.519 up all this stuff that people are thinking. And I 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:24.040 can't do that with you because I can't see you. 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.280 So it's kind of nice. I can picture you anyway 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:30.399 I want. But when people are in the room man. 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.160 Sometimes it's surprising how their faces look. And I don't 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.440 always mean in a bad way some people. I mean 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.720 I every once in a while we'll see somebody who's 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.000 very reserved and they'll be up shouting me down while 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:42.720 I'm preaching. I'm like, oh, you need it that point. 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:47.399 Don't shout too much. People will know your business. Then 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.520 some people, like I know exactly what they're thinking because 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.480 I know him. Chris is back there. I'll draw a 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:54.320 thought bubble over his head and I look at him, 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.600 and I'm the he's thinking, that'd be a good song lyric. 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.440 When he's writing all that stuff down, he's just multi asking. 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.560 He's just writing down song, lyric, grocery list, all of it. 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.560 How many multitasks when you listen to a message? All right, 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:13.120 stop that, just one thing at a time. Focus, Focus 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.000 Holly's I know exactly what Holly's thinking. How can he 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:23.680 be so annoying and so attractive? That's my man. He's 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:27.680 a messenger, but he's my my messenger. She's thinking, how 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:29.920 beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news? 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:39.000 Then I get it close, Okay, that's good. My son, Elijah, 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:42.760 my firstborn, he's always thinking is he going to say 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:44.200 the part where da da da? Because he's the only 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.960 when I tell my messages to before I appreach him. 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.400 Somehow we get on the same frequency and he'll get 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.840 it before I even say it. It's weird, isn't it. 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:54.840 It's weird. He'll just be He'll just be on it 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.120 before I even say it. It's like we're connected or something. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:02.000 It's amazing. And then he's probably thinking about, you know, 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.920 making a beat too, but he's mostly thinking like, oh, 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:06.400 is he going to say the part that he told me? 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:10.960 Larry Price thinking how am I going to rip this 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:14.520 off and teach it to the campus fectors? Am I 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:23.240 right about it? I heard him ripping my message from 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.000 last week off on a conference call with our staff 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.120 and it was the supervisors in our church, and he 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.320 preached it better than I did. Yes, you did. He 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.719 took that little one talent of a message that I 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.919 preached and multiplied it to two four and I was 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:39.520 taking notes and I was like, well, now I'm going 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.520 to preach another part because we were talking about I'm 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.160 not what I thought. Put it in the chat. I'm 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:48.159 not what I thought. I'm not what I thought. And 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.240 you know, you can be a wonderful person but have 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:54.840 a terrible thought. You can be a sane person but 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:59.880 have a crazy thought. You can be a happy person 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:04.000 and have a depressing thought. So when we separate ourselves 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.000 from our thoughts, it's kind of like Isaiah fifty five 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.520 where God says, sighs the heavens are above the earth. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.680 So my ways above your ways, and my thoughts above 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:15.880 your thoughts. And I want more God thoughts in my life, 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.520 thoughts that come from God, Thoughts that lead to God. 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:24.840 And I wonder do you want some. I mean, let's 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.159 be honest. The signal to noise ratio is out of 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:32.719 control in our world today. There is a famine for 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.200 the word of God, words of peace, comfort, love, joy, 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:39.960 and encouragement. My buddy called me yesterday and said, you 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:44.040 got to keep on preaching from another place. He's been 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.159 watching me preach for ten years. He said, God knows 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.359 how much his people are needing right now, and you 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.159 need to allow it to flow through you. I said, 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.360 you're right. Pray for me about that, because people need 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.920 faith and I don't have it. I need God to 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.479 do it in me and then speak it through me 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:04.440 for you. So this week I want to talk about 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:14.120 thought bubbles. Thought bubbles. What if I could see what 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:19.640 you're thinking right now? First of all, would you still 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:25.520 have a job, Tiffany, would you still be married, would 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.760 you still you know? The things you think, the things 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.600 that you never mentioned, things that make you miserable, the 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.000 things that you think about that you would like to 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:39.159 really embrace. But to be honest, it's hard for you 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.559 to sometimes think outside We say think outside the box, 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:45.400 but it's also hard to think outside the bubble. And 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.280 so I'm looking at the room today and I can't 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.800 see you, and I wonder, like if I was drawing 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:54.320 a thought bubble over your head, if I could see it, 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.240 how God sees what's really going on? Because how many 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.719 know there's a difference between a what's it called a 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.720 die log box. I'm thinking of the old cartoons. I'm 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:06.480 thinking of Calvin and Hobbs specifically, and I'm thinking about 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:11.600 how some things are best left in the bubble. Let 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.840 me break that down. Just because you think it doesn't 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:20.960 mean you have to say it. Some things are best 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.640 left in the bubble. And I'll tell you another thing. 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:25.800 And I'm going to show you this from Mark chapter five, 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.960 the same story we were in last weekend is that 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:33.080 you don't have to believe everything you think. Are you ready, 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.960 let's talk about thought bubbles. Remember that the woman with 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:41.160 the Issue of Blood is no longer called that, not 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.160 from God's perspective. That's not how God thought of earth. 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.400 And the way that we talk about ourselves isn't how 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.000 God thinks of us either. God doesn't categorize us. I 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.520 hate to break this to you by ethnicity. God doesn't 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:58.400 categorize us. In Christ. There's neither j nor gentile, male 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.240 nor female. That doesn't mean we're not different. That means 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.880 that our core identity is not determined by something external. 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.960 So in Christ, I have a new nature. In Christ, 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:13.559 I have infinite possibility. But my thoughts. Have you ever 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.560 noticed how you often get stuck in your head and 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.400 so you can never really receive what Heaven has to 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:25.480 speak because you live under an open heaven, but you 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:30.440 have a closed mind. Come on, let's go to Mark 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:35.000 chapter five. Let's go to Mark chapter five where the 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:39.760 woman formerly known as the Woman with the Issue of Blood, 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:43.000 the artist, formerly known as the Woman with the Issue 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:48.800 of Blood, now known as a Daughter of God. It 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.640 just blew my mind that I've always read about this 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:55.760 woman's persistence. She pressed through the crowd to get to Jesus. 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.320 I've always studied about her intention if I can just 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.120 touch the this garment, and I think all of that 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:07.520 is important, but I never realized it was about her identity. 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:12.800 The Bible says that she set her intention and she 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:19.720 took action, and in verse twenty eight, it says that 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:23.600 she was healed first of all because she thought, I know, 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.120 you've already watched the sermon five times since last weekend 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.320 because you loved the word of God, and you memorized 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.839 Philippians too. But just for those who hadn't had the time, 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.560 it said she was healed because she thought and always 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.040 thought that she was healed because she touched and she 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.320 was when she touched them. It represented faith. But there's 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:43.760 two parts of faith. The flip side of works on 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:49.240 faith starts with a thought and they say that every action. 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:50.760 Let me see if I get the quote right, every 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.960 action is the ancestor of a thought. No, every thought is. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:59.040 It's something about how thoughts I should have looked that up. 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.280 It's something about I thought I had it, but I didn't. 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:05.600 I should have looked at it. The thought is always 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.920 You know, people will say, follow your feelings. That would 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.319 be a bad idea for ninety eight percent of us, 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:16.719 a really bad idea for ninety eight percent of us. 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:23.360 It would lead to violence, poverty, weirdness, and other stuff 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.080 we can't talk about in church, but we'll talk about 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:30.320 it sometime. So follow your feelings. But I want to 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.360 say that a little differently. If you follow your feeling 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.480 back to the thought that created it. If you follow 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:41.120 your feelings backwards, a lot of times you can find 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.800 that it starts with how you think about God, how 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.760 you think about you, how you think about your season, 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:57.479 and how you define a blessing. She thought she got 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.440 what she came for, but Jesus was working off of 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:06.920 a different blueprint because after the issue that she came for. 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.000 You know, we come to God for many different reasons, 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.640 but a lot of times the reason that we come 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:17.199 to God isn't the reason he called us. He said, 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.720 my thoughts are not your thoughts, and my ways aren't 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:24.440 your ways. So God thinks higher. And a lot of 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.120 the things in my life start with the phrase I 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.280 never would have thought. And I don't know if she 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:32.600 knew it, but Joanna was preaching today because she helps 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:34.840 us on our staff. And she said, I never would 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.360 have thought we'd be in an auditorium with just the 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.720 staff preaching the church. Well, I never thought it either. 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.480 This is the year of I never would have thought. 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:46.600 Go back through your phone, A fifty percent of your 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.120 text are things that you never would have thought that 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.680 you'd be sending. You never thought. You never would have 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.120 thought you'd be buying a kid a new computer, not 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:56.800 so they could play games on it, but so it 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.560 could be a classroom. You never would have thought that. 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.440 And the woman never would have thought that. On the 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.120 way this is the woman we call the woman with 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.320 the issue of blood. She never would have thought that. 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:13.080 On the way to heal Gyrus's daughter, the important synagogue official, 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.360 that the person who we would think was the priority 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:21.040 that Jesus would call her daughter. She never thought of 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.600 herself as a daughter. Now, the way that you think 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:28.640 of yourself determines what you will do and what you 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:33.520 won't do. The way that you think of yourself, and 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.000 if you think of yourself, remember this is kind of 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.680 a review from last week. If you think of yourself 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:44.560 primarily in terms of your position, that's limiting, right, I 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.400 didn't get to tell you this last week, but I 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:50.040 told the campus pastors. I said, when I was at 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:54.280 the ball field a couple of years ago, when I'm 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.120 at the ball field, I'm a different I'm not a 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.920 different person. I don't have multiple personalities or anything like that. 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:06.199 I'm a very nice person in most situations. But at 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.960 the ball field, it's just people can call it wearing 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.960 different hats or different roles, like there's one you, but 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.120 there's many roles, many manifestations of you at any moment. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:20.400 Right like just before I came out to preach to you, 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.320 I was being dad and I enjoyed that. And so 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:24.920 when I would go out to the ball field, I 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.400 mean the ump would make a bad call, and you know, 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.040 I got a good loud voice. God gave me to 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:35.800 preach and to help people, you know. And one of 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.440 my kids got called out and he wasn't out, and 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.679 I had it on video. This was several years ago, 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.320 back on when we played at mint Hill and I 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.320 came out with the phone and I showed the umpire. 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.240 I know you're not supposed to do this, but I said, hey, 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.400 mister ump, I wouldn't mean him. I was very polite 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.720 I said, I got it on video. The call was bad. 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:55.439 You need to reverse the call. This is an instant 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:57.960 replay booth. So come on, just watch this real quick. 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.000 I got it. I'll put it in slow motion for you. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.280 I didn't yell at them or anything like that, but 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.640 one of the other dads he thought it was cute 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.600 when I came back over because I didn't reverse call 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.240 to when we get off the field. And then and 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:14.000 then when I came back over, the guy said, careful, verdict. 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:18.680 You're supposed to be a pastor. And you know what 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:26.280 I said back right now, I'm a dad. And wouldn't 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.240 it be great if every single one of your rules 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:36.920 work together perfectly to compliment one another. And so people say, well, 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.480 just be you. Which one the one that has to 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:42.440 bite their tongue or the one who's allowed to be honest? 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:48.560 Which one the one who keeps it real? Well, keeping 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.520 it real will maybe keep you unemployed and single if 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:55.280 you're bursting every thought bubble, saying everything you think, just 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:58.800 being everything you are, because you have to know what's 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:03.640 appropriate to the and the situation. But there comes a 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.280 time where something in your life will drive you to 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:12.640 a point where you will come outside of the confines 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:17.440 of what you thought you were, and you will embrace 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:21.560 something that you never knew you needed, Like the woman 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.920 with the issue who became the only person that Jesus 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:33.680 ever called daughter. I'm a daughter. I'm a son if 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.840 I did it for myself. I'm a dad. I'm a pastor. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.480 I'm a songwriter, I'm an author. Some of these things 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.360 I don't even like to say like that because it 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:44.080 misses the point. I'm not a songwriter. I write songs. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:51.280 I'm not an author. I sometimes write books. Sometimes every 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.680 ten years, I write a book. I'm not. You're supposed 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.680 to be a pastor. I'm also supposed to be a parent, 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:02.840 right And sometimes it's because I find myself in roles 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:04.480 and I promise you I'm going to read the Bible 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:08.320 verses in a minute, But I am preaching already. Just 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.600 because it didn't come up on the screen yet doesn't 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:14.240 mean I'm not preaching it. You categorize stuff too weird 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.280 in your mind. You're like, he's gonna preach it. I 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.600 am totally preaching the Word of God. Jyris was a 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:24.200 campus pastor at Elevation, I mean a synagogue ruler. But 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:28.760 he was also a dad, and he had a daughter. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.760 And he's no longer a campus pastor preaching a sermon 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:37.880 or making phone calls, or a worship leader, a piano player, drummer. 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.920 He's a dad. In this moment, he said, heal my daughter. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:45.920 I need you, I need you. Desperation will drive you 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:53.000 to see yourself differently, to lift the limits. And I 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.320 want to look at this one more time because the 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:59.560 woman thought, if I touch him, I will be healed. 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.400 And she was. And he called her back and he 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:08.520 gave her the miracle of a restored identity. That's not 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:12.760 so catchy, right, but that's what it was, the miracle 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:16.439 of remembering who you were before your issue consumed you. 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:21.640 You can go through things and you forget who you are. 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.080 You think you're what you have accomplished. But what if 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.600 God wants to reveal something that goes beyond your resume? 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.040 And the ability to navigate all of the different names 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.399 that I'm called by comes from knowing who I really 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:41.080 am beneath all the layers. I don't know I've ever 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:45.560 preached a more annointed introduction than right now. Now. Let's see, 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.800 do y'all want to go deeper? Or is that I 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:50.879 don't want to bring out if you're full on the rolls, 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:54.200 the yeast rolls, y'all remember Quincy's I don't want to 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:58.439 bring out any stake. So she thought she touched, and 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:02.080 then she heard from Jesus daughter, what an amazing thing. 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:07.000 And yet the text begs to be picked up at 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:11.119 verse thirty five, right because Gyros, who asked Jesus to 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.600 heal his daughter, at the same moment that the woman 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:20.359 was delivered from her issue, he was devastated as she 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:24.480 was being restored as a daughter, his own daughter died. 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.520 And I want to pick up right there in mark five, 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:32.600 verse thirty five, the Bible says, while Jesus was still 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:36.240 speaking to the woman, telling her who she really was, daughter, 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.840 look at it. In verse thirty four, daughter, he called 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:44.840 her daughter. Sorry, Eddie vetter, but he did, he called 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:50.120 her daughter. Come on, I gotta have fun up here, man. 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:54.560 It's lonely up here. But as he's calling her daughter 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:59.160 and reminding her of who she was, Gyros, the synagogue official, 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.440 the man who had often been identified by his position, 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.040 who was supposed to be a pastor, but right now 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:12.280 he's a parent. Her deliverance led to his disappointment, and 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:21.160 sometimes those two go together. Sometimes to deliver you, God 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:25.560 has to do it through a disappointment, and he will 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:29.160 allow people to let you down, to bring you things 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:34.080 that you didn't know to pray for. You know how 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:36.240 we quote Ephesians three twenty nine, and then who was 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.679 able to do measurably more than we ask or imagine? 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:43.080 Why do we always think that more is going to 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:52.760 be bigger? Sometimes more is deeper. So while he's calling 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:56.879 her daughter, he said, go in peace. She left with healing, 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:59.800 but he wanted her to leave with peace. Peace only 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:03.000 come from knowing who you are. Peace can't come from possessions. 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:07.320 Peace can't come from positions. Peace can only come from 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:12.240 knowing who I am. Purpose. That's where peace comes from, 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:15.800 what God put me here for. And while he was 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:20.600 still speaking, while she was being delivered from her issue, 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:26.440 Gyrus was devastated. The Bible says in verse thirty five, 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:31.920 some people came from the house of Gyrous the synagogue leader. 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:35.320 What's it called when you put something in between the 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:36.959 comments that you could take out of the sentences. I'm 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:41.840 not good at grammar. Huh A positive? Well, this one's 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:47.160 not positive, it's negative. Oh, a positive is the synagogue leader. 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:50.640 It's called and a positive. Put it in the chat 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:52.680 because me and Holly are having a marital fight right now. 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:58.520 We need to be delivered. So just connect these two. 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:04.040 Everything's connected, right. She's receiving something positive and he's losing 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:09.320 something priceless. And yet he's still being identified by his 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:13.919 position the synagogue ruler, Gyrus, the synagogue ruler. But today 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:17.560 he's not a CEO. Today he's a dad with a 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:20.960 broken heart. Let's just talk for just me and you 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:22.880 for a minute. Let's pretend to be friends. I'm sure 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:25.520 we would be. I'm sure you would. You would love 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:27.439 me if you know me, and I would love you too. 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.520 I know you're amazing, But let me get out of 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:32.119 like preacher mode for a moment and just talk to 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:35.560 you like a dad or like a brother, or like 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:42.240 a friend or something like that. Like what is the 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:46.679 thing that you thought God was going to do and 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:54.040 the opposite happened? The opposite? I don't mean about a 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:55.800 parking space. I'm trying to go a little bit beneath 0:21:55.840 --> 0:22:01.399 the surface. This whole year. How many of you predicted 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:06.119 this year going exactly yeah? How many of you everything 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:09.920 that was on your resolution list is right on schedule, 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:12.040 because I want to meet you, and I want you 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:13.359 to lay hands on me, and I want you to 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:20.280 transfer that annoying to me. So his position, the synagogue ruler, 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:24.480 the woman is restored to her rightful identity. His position 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:27.879 is irrelevant because it really doesn't matter what title that 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:32.680 you have in moments like this does It really doesn't 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:35.840 matter what title you have in moments like these. And 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:39.560 so he thought Jesus was gonna heal her. What else 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:41.720 would he have thought. Jesus was on the way, the 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:44.399 crowd is around. I'm thinking he thought he was going 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:47.240 to get his daughter healed. But Jesus stopped for another 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:51.119 forgotten daughter, And in the process of restoring that daughter, 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:56.000 he lost his daughter. You see it. He lost his 0:22:56.080 --> 0:22:59.000 twelve year old daughter to a woman who for twelve 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:01.800 years had been consumed by an issue. So there's a 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:06.240 trade off. There's she she got her miracle, he didn't. 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:09.159 And what happens next. This is where I want to 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:11.840 start my sermon. This is where I want to start 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:15.680 my sermon. The Bible says that some people came from 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:19.119 the house of Gyrus, the synagogue leader. That's that's a 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:24.320 positive your daughter is dead? They said, why bother the 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:29.159 teacher anymore? I bet if I could see your thought bubble, 0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:32.640 a lot of it would say why bother? Or a 0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:36.720 less g rated version of that, right, why even bother? 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:40.679 Like what's the point? Like why even put anything on 0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:44.520 the calendar these days? Like why even try right now? 0:23:44.560 --> 0:23:48.520 Like why bother? What's the point? I gotta show you something. 0:23:48.560 --> 0:23:50.600 You're ready and rule in my sleeves. I'm ready to 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:52.960 preach now, why bo? I'm back full in preacher mode. 0:23:52.960 --> 0:23:54.639 Now I'm a preacher right now. I'm a preacher right now. 0:23:54.680 --> 0:23:56.800 I'm a preacher right now. I'm a preacher right now? 0:23:57.040 --> 0:23:59.760 Why bother the teacher anymore? That was what was in 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:01.960 their bubble, right, and they said it out LOUDE I 0:24:01.960 --> 0:24:04.600 think about Jesus says he can read your thoughts, so 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:07.000 he can see not only what you say, but he 0:24:07.040 --> 0:24:11.560 can pop your thought bubble and know what's really in 0:24:11.600 --> 0:24:14.679 your heart. I want to talk about thought bubbles today. 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:19.760 So Jesus overheard what they said right and told Gyrus, 0:24:21.960 --> 0:24:29.719 don't be afraid, just believe. Depends on how you hear that, 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:33.160 whether you hear it as being something that he said 0:24:33.640 --> 0:24:35.960 as a cliche or whether you hear it as something 0:24:36.280 --> 0:24:39.520 that he said to keep Cyrus's faith alive in the 0:24:39.600 --> 0:24:42.879 moment where I was about to die, because there's a 0:24:42.920 --> 0:24:47.240 crowd around, and everybody's telling he's hearing all these voices, 0:24:47.280 --> 0:24:50.840