1 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 2: Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these. 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: New sermons every week. 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 2: I hope you're blessed today. We are just a few 6 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 2: days away from Elevation Nights Fall Tour. 7 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: Go to Elevation Nights dot com right now. 8 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 2: I want to see you in Miami, Florida, Tampa, Florida, Knoxville, Tennessee, Atlanta, Georgia, Birmingham, Alabama, Lubbock, Texas, Dallas, Texas, 9 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:43,160 Speaker 2: or Houston, Texas October third through the twelfth. 10 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 1: We are excited. 11 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,880 Speaker 2: Clap your hands for Elevation Nights. 12 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: We had a good time here. 13 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 2: Me and ten thousand ladies had a good time here. 14 00:00:58,320 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 1: Friday and night. 15 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 2: We heard a word from the Woman of God and 16 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:07,320 Speaker 2: put us on the right path. I told Holly, I 17 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 2: only want to preach to women. After being here, I 18 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 2: think I'm going to put a no men allowed sign 19 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 2: at the door. There's just a receptivity and a responsiveness, 20 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 2: so get ready for that. Starting twenty twenty six, Elevation 21 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 2: Church will be. 22 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: Man free. 23 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:36,759 Speaker 2: It's good to see you today. I have a word. 24 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 2: Last week I preached on. He was the one. He 25 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 2: was the one. Well, this week, there's a scripture in 26 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 2: a story in John chapter five that the Lord brought 27 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 2: to my mind. Stay standing for just a moment, and 28 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 2: I'm going to share this this story with you, and 29 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 2: then one other scripture from the Old Testament to get 30 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 2: us ready for what God wants to speak today. Let 31 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 2: me actually do it from my iPad so I can 32 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 2: make sure I have the right version. In John chapter five, 33 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 2: verse one, a story that may be familiar to you, 34 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 2: the Bible says, sometime later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem 35 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 2: for one of the Jewish festivals. 36 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: Now there is in Jerusalem, near. 37 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 2: The sheep Gate, a pool which in air make is 38 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 2: called Bethesda, and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 39 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 2: Here a great number of disabled people used to lie, 40 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 2: the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there 41 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 2: had been an invalid for thirty eight years. When Jesus 42 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 2: saw him lying there and learned that he had been 43 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 2: in this condition for a long time, he asked him, 44 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 2: do you. 45 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: Want to get well? 46 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,359 Speaker 2: Sir? The invalid replied, I have no one to help 47 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 2: me into the pool. When the water is stirred. While 48 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 2: I'm trying to get in. Someone else goes down ahead 49 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 2: of me, and then Jesus said to him, get up, 50 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,679 Speaker 2: pick up your mat, and walk. And I watched this 51 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 2: at once the man was cured. He picked up his 52 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 2: mat and walked. Thank God for miracles. Yeah yeah, whether 53 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,799 Speaker 2: you need a miracle, whether you've seen a miracle, or 54 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 2: whether you are a miracle, Thank God for miracles. Now 55 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 2: go to Deuteronomy two, verses two and three. Then the 56 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 2: Lord said to me, you have made your way around 57 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 2: this hill country long enough. Somebody shout long enough. Now 58 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 2: turn north. And that's the title of my message today. 59 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:54,119 Speaker 2: Now turn north. Just look at three people and say, 60 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 2: now turn north. When you've told three, you can be seated. 61 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 2: Now turn north. Oh yeah, got a word for somebody, 62 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 2: Now turn north. 63 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: And you tell me to turn north. 64 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 2: It means absolutely nothing to me because I have no 65 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 2: sense of direction. 66 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: Me and Holly were on a walk a. 67 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 2: Few months ago, and she thought it was an adventure 68 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 2: and we had no idea where we were going, and 69 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:29,840 Speaker 2: I looked at her. We turned around about three or 70 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 2: four different times, and I said we need to go 71 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 2: back because we were at that point where we could 72 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,720 Speaker 2: turn back and I knew where the car was or 73 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 2: if we kept going, which she thinks is fun. 74 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:45,480 Speaker 1: She said, oh, this is a part of the experience. 75 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 2: And I looked at her and I said we both 76 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 2: laughed when I said this. I said, Holly, I love you, 77 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 2: but I'm not going to be lost much longer. 78 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: Can't take it. 79 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:02,159 Speaker 2: For her, it's fun, but for me it's frustrating, slightly 80 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 2: fearful because I have no sense of direction. Me pre 81 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 2: GPS was a very anxious me. And I thought about that. 82 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 2: How because she has a better sense of direction than me, 83 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 2: she can tolerate uncertainty for a longer period of time. 84 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 2: She kind of knows where she is, generally speaking, and 85 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 2: it enables her to enjoy the journey more. And for me, 86 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 2: since I have no clue where I am, I set 87 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 2: my GPS every time I'm driving over to the church, 88 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:43,600 Speaker 2: just in case. We've been in this building since twenty sixteen, 89 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 2: just in case I start thinking about the sermon and 90 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 2: forget the turn because I need help. And if the 91 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 2: GPS just stopped and said, you know, turn north, i'd go. 92 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 2: You got to talk to me and right or left, okay, 93 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 2: and show me a picture in real time and so 94 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 2: you know, but it's not like that for people who 95 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:05,559 Speaker 2: kind of know where they're going. 96 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: You can, you can. I guess this is a principle. 97 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 2: I'm trying to illustrate to you that, like it was 98 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,919 Speaker 2: for me on the hike, and like it is for 99 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:21,159 Speaker 2: me in the car, your ability to trust depends on 100 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:27,679 Speaker 2: your orientation to truth. We've all heard the phrase true 101 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 2: north meant to describe your core values, the things down 102 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 2: in you that don't change even though everything around you 103 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 2: might call that our true north kind of what we 104 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:45,600 Speaker 2: point toward the north Pole geographically, I guess, but you 105 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 2: know we have now taken that term to business, and 106 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 2: what's the true north for this company? What's the true 107 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 2: north for a church? A church needs to have a 108 00:06:54,560 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 2: true north. Jesus be the true North, and each family, 109 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 2: each individual, those things inside of you. And when you're 110 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 2: in situations that are uncertain, how much you can tolerate 111 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 2: and navigate uncertainty. We'll have a lot to do with 112 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 2: how much truth you've hidden and how much truth you know. 113 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 1: So write this down. 114 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 2: How much trust you have depends on how much truth 115 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 2: you've hidden. How much trust you have depends on how 116 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 2: much truth you've hidden. If you're having a hard time 117 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 2: trusting God in an area of your life right now, 118 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 2: it may be a sign that you have not hidden 119 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 2: the truth in your heart deeply enough for that situation. 120 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 2: And so when we haven't hidden the truth in our heart, 121 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 2: we always have to cling to traditions and certainties and 122 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 2: old ways of doing things. But if we be more 123 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 2: like Holly and get a good sense of where we're going, 124 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 2: we can be in situations that are very strange but 125 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 2: still have a very deep, solid sense of faith. 126 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: Well, I've already preached a whole sermon today. I feel 127 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: like that was pretty good. 128 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 2: But I want to talk about this man in John 129 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 2: chapter five that I read to you about because the 130 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 2: Bible says that he was hanging out in a place 131 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 2: in Jerusalem near the Sheepgate, a pool where occasionally the 132 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 2: waters would stir, and when the waters were stirred, there 133 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 2: was a superstition that if you could get into those 134 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 2: waters before anybody else did, you could be healed of 135 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 2: whatever had happened to you. 136 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: The Bible says that. 137 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 2: A great number of people used to lie, the blind, 138 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:56,479 Speaker 2: the lame, and the paralyzed. 139 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 1: And you know this verse is what really got. 140 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 2: My tension, where in verse five it said one who 141 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 2: was there, which made me wonder, of all the people 142 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 2: that Jesus could have. 143 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 1: Healed that day at that pool at that time, why 144 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: this one one was there? 145 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 2: Last week I preached on he was the one, And 146 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 2: I guess that's what got me into study in John 147 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 2: chapter five, because I wondered, why this one. You know, 148 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 2: I'm kind of expecting this great moment of faith, like 149 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 2: zach Chias who climbed up in a tree so he 150 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 2: could see Jesus, and Jesus is like, all right, if 151 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 2: you're gonna if you're gonna go climbing up trees, I'll 152 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 2: have lunch with you. 153 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 1: Come on down, I'm going to your house. Or like 154 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:52,959 Speaker 1: the woman with the. 155 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:55,079 Speaker 2: Issue of blood who pressed through a crowd even though 156 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,960 Speaker 2: she was ceremonially unclean, to get to Jesus. Or like 157 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 2: those men who it out shouting Jesus son of David 158 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 2: have mercy on Us, like screaming out of need for Jesus. 159 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 2: Since all of those factors were absent from the man 160 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 2: in John chapter five, it left me wondering, after all 161 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 2: week of studying, why this one. In fact, if you 162 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,679 Speaker 2: go on to read about this guy. He had a 163 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:26,559 Speaker 2: very damaged past. 164 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: He had a little bit of a. 165 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 2: I don't want to say this in a in a 166 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 2: in a bad way that makes you think that the 167 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:37,200 Speaker 2: things that we go through are always the result of 168 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 2: the sins that we commit. 169 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:40,679 Speaker 1: But he had something to do with his illness. 170 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 2: Because Jesus when he when he tracks him down a 171 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 2: little later, tells him, hey, you need to stop sinning 172 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 2: or something worse is going to happen. And even in 173 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 2: the passage like if you if you read this, when 174 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 2: Jesus says do you want to get well? The guy 175 00:10:57,920 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 2: kind of comes back at Jesus and doesn't really end 176 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 2: the question, Sir, I have no one to help me 177 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 2: into the pool when the water is stirred. While I'm 178 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 2: trying to get in, someone else goes ahead of me. 179 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 2: So he's kind of blame me. It's not like he 180 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 2: threw himself at the feet of Jesus when Jesus said 181 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 2: do you want to get well and say I'll do 182 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 2: anything anything, I worship you, Lamb of God. 183 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 1: Son of David. 184 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 2: None of that. So why this one last week? I 185 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,960 Speaker 2: shared that there are two lies that the enemy tells you. 186 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: These are not the only two lies. 187 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 2: The enemy is the father of lies, so he has 188 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 2: a lot of babies. They the enemy has way more 189 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 2: than two lives. 190 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 1: But there are. 191 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 2: Two that I want to deal with today, and I 192 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 2: dealt with them a little bit last week. But he 193 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 2: tried to tell you sometimes two things. You are no 194 00:11:55,920 --> 00:12:02,200 Speaker 2: one and you have no one. Either of those two things, 195 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 2: if you begin to believe them deeply in your heart, 196 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:09,320 Speaker 2: will keep you stuck in a belief of insignificance or 197 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:13,839 Speaker 2: a state of isolation. Watch how they work together. I 198 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:17,719 Speaker 2: am no one, I have no one. Since I am 199 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,960 Speaker 2: no one, I have nothing to offer. They wouldn't want 200 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 2: to hear from me. They wouldn't want to be with me. 201 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 2: They wouldn't want to do that with me. They wouldn't 202 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 2: want to accept me. I am no one, I have 203 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 2: no one. I am no one. I have no one. 204 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 1: In walks Jesus. 205 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 2: To one of the festivals and finds a man, and 206 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 2: the Bible simply says about him one who was there. 207 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 2: That's the only label. Well, his other label is he 208 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 2: couldn't walk. He was one who was there who couldn't walk. 209 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 2: He was one who was there who had fallen behind. 210 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 2: He was one amongst many who could not do what 211 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 2: other people could do. 212 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 3: Why this one? 213 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 2: We've already examined that it was no great faith that 214 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 2: he exhibited or demonstrated. We've already examined that there are 215 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 2: probably things that would have kept the other people from 216 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:22,199 Speaker 2: thinking he was worthy of help. 217 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 3: Why this one? 218 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: And you wonder that about yourself sometimes? 219 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 2: Why would God use me when there are so many people? 220 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 2: I love what the man said, because we think about 221 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,839 Speaker 2: this sometimes. He said, every time I try, someone else 222 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 2: gets ahead of me. This man is prone to comparison. 223 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 2: This man is prone to excuses. And the Bible says 224 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 2: verse five, one who was there. Jesus didn't stay and 225 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:00,119 Speaker 2: heal everybody at the pool that day. 226 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: Jesus didn't call for a line of people. 227 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 2: This is a particular miracle that Jesus performs at a 228 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 2: particular time for a specific person. 229 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:14,959 Speaker 3: One who was there. 230 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 1: Now, touch your neighbor and ask them, are you the one? 231 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 2: It's the obvious question, are you the one? 232 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 1: Because it's a lot of people. 233 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 2: In church today, it's a lot of people online today. 234 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 3: But what if you're the one? 235 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: Ask them? 236 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 3: What if you're the wy? 237 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 2: What if you're the one who needs to hear this 238 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 2: message today more than anybody else in the room. What 239 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 2: if you're the one that God gave Pastor Stephen this 240 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 2: message for What if you're the one who takes this 241 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 2: word and walks out of here different than you came in? 242 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 2: Ask them again, what if you're the wie one was there? 243 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 2: He was there in a place that he did want 244 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 2: to be. He was there in a place where he 245 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 2: probably had contributed to being himself. A lot of times 246 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 2: we think God will get us out of situations if 247 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 2: we didn't get ourselves into them. 248 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 1: This is a miracle. 249 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 2: They should encourage all the ones who have done dumb 250 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 2: stuff and you need God to deliver you from your 251 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 2: own hand, your own decisions. 252 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: Clap if you screwed. 253 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 2: Up a time or two and you need God to 254 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 2: do something about. 255 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: The situations you created. 256 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 2: I love y'all. Y'all are such a real church. I said, 257 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 2: clap if you screwed up. That was the loudest you 258 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 2: clapped all Sunday. I pass the Elevation Church. And he 259 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 2: was the one that was chosen out of all the others. 260 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 2: But there is one little detail in this verse that 261 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 2: stood out to me as. 262 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: Being maybe a little irrelevant at first. 263 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 2: Then I realized God doesn't waste any words, and so 264 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 2: I found why he was the one in the same 265 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 2: verse that said he was the one verse five one 266 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:32,560 Speaker 2: who was there had been an invalid for thirty eight years. 267 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 2: How many think that's a long time to suffer like that, 268 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 2: thirty eight years. How many think thirty eight is old. 269 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 2: Bible don't say he was thirty eight years old. I 270 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 2: said he'd been in that state for thirty eight years. 271 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 2: And the crazy thing about it was when Jesus heals 272 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 2: this guy. Look, you expect people to be happy when 273 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 2: God does something in your life. You got to understand 274 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 2: that sometimes people want to think like that their God, 275 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 2: and they should get to decide who God blesses and 276 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:21,400 Speaker 2: how God does things. So this man in verse nine 277 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 2: is cured, picked up his mat and walked. 278 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:24,639 Speaker 1: But look at verse nine part p. 279 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 2: The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 280 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 2: And so the Jewish leaders said to the man who 281 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 2: had been healed, you can't do that. It's the sabbath. 282 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:40,359 Speaker 2: The law forbids you to carry your matt. The law 283 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 2: won't let you do that. Not God's law, their law. 284 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 2: There's nothing in the Bible that says you can't carry 285 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 2: your mat after you get healed on the Sabbath. That's 286 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:56,680 Speaker 2: just something they added to it after the law came 287 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 2: through Moses. 288 00:17:58,440 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: Do you'll remember Moses. 289 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:03,120 Speaker 2: He's the one who brought down the ten Commandments from 290 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 2: the mountain. 291 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: He brought Yeah, Yeah, he. 292 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 3: Was the wine. He's the wine. 293 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 1: Oh that was Will saying that. I don't know who 294 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:10,919 Speaker 1: said that. 295 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, he was the one who came down with the 296 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 2: with the with the tablets from the mountain. And one 297 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 2: of them was to honor the Sabbath, right to honor 298 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 2: that God. 299 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 1: Wrested from his work by resting from yours. 300 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 3: But he was not the one. 301 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 2: There was no part of that commandment, no clause of 302 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 2: that commandment that said that if you are healed from 303 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 2: a crippling disease on the Sabbath, don't carry your mat around. 304 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 1: That's just stuff they added on later. 305 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 3: It was their law. 306 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 2: So now we've got an interesting dilemma going. 307 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 1: On in John chapter five. 308 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:52,400 Speaker 2: It is their word versus God's word. It is men's 309 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 2: law versus God's law. I'm just about ready to preach 310 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:02,160 Speaker 2: right now. And they said to the man, you can't 311 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 2: do that. The law forbids you from doing that. On 312 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 2: the Sabbath. You can't carry your matt you can't do that. 313 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,160 Speaker 2: And I love verse eleven because the man looked back 314 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 2: at them and said, that's nice to hear what you 315 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:23,840 Speaker 2: think I can and can't do. But there's one thing 316 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:26,639 Speaker 2: I've noticed. Every day i've been coming to this pool. 317 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:30,399 Speaker 2: I've been coming to this pool every day for years now. 318 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 2: I've been laying in my spot every day for years now. 319 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 2: I've been asking for help every day for years now. 320 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 2: I've been waiting for a change every day for years now. 321 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 2: I've watched these festivals come and go every day for 322 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:48,720 Speaker 2: years now. I've watched Pilgrim's stream in and out of Jerusalem, 323 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 2: in and out of the Temple for years now. And 324 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:54,640 Speaker 2: for every day I sat here, and for every year 325 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:57,359 Speaker 2: I came here, and for every prayer I prayed here, 326 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:01,119 Speaker 2: and for every request I made here, never told me 327 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 2: to get up and walk. So guess what, if you 328 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 2: don't have the power to give, you don't have to 329 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:11,919 Speaker 2: give the permission for me to do it. Now. Now 330 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 2: I love it, because watch this, he said verse eleven. 331 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,719 Speaker 2: Give it to me again. The man who made me 332 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 2: well said to me. So, I hear what you're saying 333 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 2: to me, but I know what he did for me. 334 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 2: And now watch this. What you said I can't do 335 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 2: is in conflict with what he told me that I 336 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 2: could do. 337 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: I hear God saying, take it up with the one 338 00:20:58,520 --> 00:20:59,159 Speaker 1: who made me. 339 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 2: I see in this text every person in this room 340 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:14,400 Speaker 2: in a certain situation in your life where the law 341 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 2: is powerless to raise you, an effort is powerless to 342 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 2: raise you, and people that you have depended on have 343 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 2: been unable to raise you because they're human too. 344 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 3: So I'll tell you what. Let's do. 345 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 2: Let's take just a moment and then just about fifteen 346 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 2: seconds and see if we can worship the one who said, 347 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,919 Speaker 2: let there be life and there wants. 348 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,400 Speaker 3: Let's see can we worship the. 349 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 2: One who was there, the one. 350 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:58,879 Speaker 3: Who was there in the beginning. What's the word? And 351 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:00,639 Speaker 3: the wordless with God? 352 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 2: And the word was God, and everything that was made 353 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 2: was made through him. 354 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 3: If he made it, he can change it. If he 355 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 3: made it, he can race it. 356 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 2: And if he made it, he gets salamling, thank you me, 357 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:26,199 Speaker 2: so one. 358 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 3: I love this word. I love this word. Five five, 359 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 3: five people. 360 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 2: And saying, get up right down, you've been. 361 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 3: Laying down long enough. You've been laying down long enough. 362 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 2: All right, everybody's still sending you that fifteen minutes to 363 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:49,280 Speaker 2: write notes. 364 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 3: Get up and give him praise. You gotta love him in. 365 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 4: Sight of those lines, you get up and get up, 366 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 4: Get up, Get up, Get up. 367 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 3: Get up, Get up. Yet I want a key change. 368 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 4: Get up, Get up, Get up, Get up, Get up, 369 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,359 Speaker 4: Get up, get up. 370 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: That's what he said. 371 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 2: The man who made me well said I could do it, 372 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 2: So you got you gotta you gotta get this attitude right, 373 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 2: like I hear my fears saying I can't. But the 374 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 2: man who made me well, well, I feel like that 375 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:12,200 Speaker 2: the man who made me If it's a conflict between 376 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 2: the people who didn't make me and the man who 377 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 2: made me well, is that what he said, the man 378 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:28,679 Speaker 2: who made me well. You heard about the woman at 379 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:33,920 Speaker 2: the well. She's in John chapter four. This is John 380 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,160 Speaker 2: chapter five. Reflect is over, Holly. This is the man 381 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 2: at the well. And by the way, I'm not talking 382 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:45,920 Speaker 2: about the well. 383 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 1: That he thought he needed to get to to get well. 384 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,919 Speaker 1: I'm saying, y'all sit down. I gotta teach now. 385 00:24:55,359 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 2: That you have been lying here long in the how 386 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 2: long is long enough? It depends on what you're talking about. 387 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 2: If you're talking about a sermon, you probably like that. 388 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 2: You're probably good right now, past Dirk, you probably if 389 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,440 Speaker 2: we will wrap it up, send us home right now? 390 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 1: About long enough? How long is long enough? 391 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 2: When Jesus learned that he was lying there for a 392 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 2: long time, I wanted to use a familiar textas week, 393 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 2: because even though everybody hasn't heard it, a lot of 394 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 2: people having last week. We're talking about a very obscure 395 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 2: king that you may have never heard of, named Yusiah. 396 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,119 Speaker 2: And he was the one who rebuilt and restored, and 397 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,639 Speaker 2: he was the one who took Philistine's down, and he 398 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 2: was the one. And you know, as many times as 399 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 2: I've heard the story in John chapter five, I never 400 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 2: knew why he was the one Jesus chose. It mystified 401 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 2: me because I don't even like the guy. I don't 402 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 2: even like him, he'd say, thank you, I don't even 403 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:04,159 Speaker 2: like him. And you know, you don't have to like 404 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 2: the people for God to lift them. You have to 405 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:13,680 Speaker 2: like You don't have to like me for God to 406 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 2: lift me. If I humble myself under his mighty hand, 407 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 2: he'll lift me In do time, and he'll give me 408 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 2: everything I'm supposed to have and everything I'm supposed to be. 409 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 2: Just so you don't run around trying to win popularity 410 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 2: contests with people and find out they don't have a 411 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,680 Speaker 2: prize to give when of you be bad to win 412 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 2: a whole popularity contest and there was no prize. When 413 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 2: we read about the one that Jesus chose to heal 414 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 2: that day, and the Bible says that he was thirty 415 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,719 Speaker 2: eight years old, and that the religious teacher said today, 416 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 2: you can't do that. 417 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 1: The law forbids you. 418 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 2: It was not the law of Moses that was recorded 419 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 2: that forbade the man. So a lot of the things 420 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 2: you accept as limitations come from man, not from God, 421 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 2: come from flesh, not from spirit. And so it's a 422 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:04,959 Speaker 2: good thing to ask every once in a while. Is 423 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 2: this limitation self imposed? Is it socially imposed? Or is 424 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,920 Speaker 2: God okay? Is God saying to you what he said 425 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 2: to Moses in Deuteronomy to verse two. Let's go back 426 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 2: there for a moment, because after they had wandered in 427 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 2: the wilderness, does anybody remember why the Israelites ended up 428 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:37,399 Speaker 2: wandering in the wilderness for decades? I didn't hear an 429 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 2: answer in that not they couldn't go in. They wouldn't 430 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 2: go in. Not, they couldn't, They wouldn't Moses in the 431 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,199 Speaker 2: delegation of spies in to check out the land. They 432 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,359 Speaker 2: came back, and they were very, very focused on what 433 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 2: intimidated them. So they did not receive the promise. After 434 00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 2: their wilderness period had ended. In all of that generation 435 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 2: that had doubted and not believed had died in the wilderness. 436 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 1: Moses is recounting in Deuteronomy chapter two, verse three. 437 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 2: He says that the Lord said, you have made your 438 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 2: way around this hill country. 439 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,639 Speaker 1: Now would a minute who said that? Go back to 440 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 1: verse two. 441 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 2: Then the Lord said to me, I want to give 442 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,680 Speaker 2: you a scripture memory verse for this week. 443 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:22,640 Speaker 1: Deuteronomy too too. 444 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 2: Then the Lord said to me, and I want that 445 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,080 Speaker 2: to be the thing that becomes your true north. 446 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 1: This week. 447 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 2: We live in a time of a lot of noise 448 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 2: and not a lot of signal, a lot of static 449 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 2: and not a lot of songs. So if you get 450 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 2: a Deuteronomy to to frequency going this week, then the 451 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,800 Speaker 2: Lord said to me. Then the Lord said to me, 452 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 2: and this is what the Lord said to Moses. 453 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 1: You have made your way around this hill. 454 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 2: Country long enough, I hear God saying, long enough, long enough, 455 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 2: Now turn north. The wilderness of kate Eshbarnia where they 456 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 2: made a bad committee decision to stay in what was 457 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 2: comfortable but miserable to them instead of progressing into what 458 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 2: was uncertain full of battles. 459 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 1: That decision was. 460 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 2: Made in a southeastern part, and God said to Moses, 461 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 2: now turn north. And I think that until what God 462 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 2: speaks to me becomes my true north, I will always 463 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 2: be lost in my life. The law forbids you to 464 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 2: carry your mad You can't do that. Your anxiety is 465 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 2: always going to tell you what to do, until God's 466 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 2: word becomes your true north, so that you realize that 467 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 2: He's greater than any storm of fear that you feel. 468 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 2: Is your true north your feelings, or is your true 469 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 2: north your faith. We live in a time where people 470 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 2: do not know the difference between truth and belief. 471 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: Belief is not necessarily truth. 472 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,920 Speaker 2: When you say the phrase that's my truth, you would 473 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:33,320 Speaker 2: be better served to say that's my belief, because it 474 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 2: might be your belief, but it might just have been 475 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 2: what you believe based on Did you notice what the 476 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 2: Bible said about the man who was lying down on 477 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 2: his mat is, said that he. 478 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 1: Had been lying, had been past tense. His situation changed. 479 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:59,000 Speaker 2: Soken yours, His perspective changed, soken yours. If anyone is 480 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 2: in Christ, he is a new creation. The old is gone, 481 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 2: the new has come. And part of belonging to God 482 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 2: and part of becoming what he has called me to be, 483 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:14,160 Speaker 2: is realizing that sometimes I have circled around something so 484 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 2: long that it seems to me like my natural habitat. 485 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 2: But the wilderness was not meant for you to live in. 486 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 2: It was meant for you to pass through. There come 487 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 2: moments in your life that God will call you out 488 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 2: of wilderness, thinking out of wilderness, living out of isolated patterns. 489 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,160 Speaker 1: You had to do that for a season. 490 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,320 Speaker 2: Let's praise God for what he gave you to survive 491 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,160 Speaker 2: in the wilderness. But then God will speak to you 492 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 2: and say, now turn north. Whose word is this today? 493 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 2: God is saying, where I've had you is where I've 494 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 2: had you. 495 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 1: Where I put you is where I put you. 496 00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,960 Speaker 2: And thank God that you made it as far as 497 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 2: you did, as long as you did without what you had. 498 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 2: But what the man said in John chapter five, I 499 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 2: have no one to help me is no longer true. 500 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:22,760 Speaker 2: It had been true for thirty eight years. For thirty 501 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 2: eight years, it was all he could do is wait 502 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 2: for somebody who never came to help him. 503 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 1: And that's all you can do with the law. 504 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 2: You fall, you get up, You fall, you get up, 505 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,480 Speaker 2: you fail, you feel ashamed, you try to. 506 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:37,360 Speaker 1: Make it through another day. 507 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 2: You cope, you hide it, you numb it, you do 508 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 2: whatever you can to get through it. That's all you 509 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,840 Speaker 2: could do. Because I have no one to help me. 510 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 2: Moses can only take you so far. The law will 511 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:57,960 Speaker 2: always have its limits. And that is what the man 512 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,760 Speaker 2: in the text did not realize, yes, is that while 513 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 2: he was saying I have no one and feeling like 514 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 2: I am no one, standing right in front of him 515 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:15,720 Speaker 2: was the one who singled him out, who picked him out. 516 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,200 Speaker 2: Who of all the people, Now, you gotta get this, 517 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,400 Speaker 2: you gotta get this. Of all the people that God 518 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,560 Speaker 2: could have put in that family and that business and 519 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 2: that job and that rule, in that season, in that church, 520 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,080 Speaker 2: in that ministry, in that seat, of all the people 521 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 2: that God could have put there, you were the one 522 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 2: he put there. 523 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:41,320 Speaker 5: Yeah, that is my true north that I'm called and 524 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,280 Speaker 5: chosen by God regardless. 525 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:51,600 Speaker 2: Of what I feel. Now turn north. That's the direction 526 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 2: of the Promised Land. Because you've circled around this long enough, 527 00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 2: you have convinced. 528 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 1: Yourself that you are alone. 529 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:08,279 Speaker 2: Until your loneliness has become a lie. I know the 530 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:12,520 Speaker 2: feeling of loneliness is real, But sometimes, just like the 531 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,880 Speaker 2: man in John five, you can't see what's right in 532 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:16,560 Speaker 2: front of you. 533 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,000 Speaker 1: Because of pain you carry inside of you. 534 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:31,960 Speaker 2: And Jesus when he learned it had been thirty eight years, 535 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:33,760 Speaker 2: I think he took a survey. 536 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:34,319 Speaker 1: I do. 537 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,440 Speaker 2: I think he asked around, how long you've been sick, 538 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:38,760 Speaker 2: How long you've been there? 539 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:42,160 Speaker 1: How long? Seven years not long enough? How long? Ten? 540 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:43,120 Speaker 1: Not long enough? 541 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:48,600 Speaker 2: Eighteen not long enough, twenty five not long enough, thirty 542 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 2: two not long enough, thirty seven not quite long enough, 543 00:34:53,120 --> 00:35:00,000 Speaker 2: thirty nine too long. It had to be thirty eight. 544 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,640 Speaker 2: Somebody say it had to be thirty eight. It had 545 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,719 Speaker 2: to be thirty eight. It had to happen right when 546 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:06,680 Speaker 2: it happened. It had to happen right where it happened. 547 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,560 Speaker 2: It had to happen through whom it happened. Because if 548 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:16,600 Speaker 2: you read down to Deuteronomy, chapter two, verse number thirteen, 549 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:20,600 Speaker 2: Moses goes on. Somebody say now turn north, and the 550 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:25,800 Speaker 2: Lord said, now get up and cross the Zared Valley. 551 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,560 Speaker 2: So we crossed the valley. They're moving forward into the 552 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 2: promised land. 553 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:30,560 Speaker 1: Now. 554 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,680 Speaker 2: They've been in the wilderness for so long. They've been 555 00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:36,239 Speaker 2: in the wilderness a long time. They've been living off 556 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,600 Speaker 2: of manna and water from rocks for a long time. 557 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,640 Speaker 2: They've been bitten by snakes for a long time. They've 558 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,320 Speaker 2: had shoes that didn't wear out but never got replaced 559 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:47,399 Speaker 2: a long time. 560 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:48,840 Speaker 1: It's been a long time. 561 00:35:49,280 --> 00:36:00,360 Speaker 2: How long Verse fourteen thirty eight years past, from the 562 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:05,560 Speaker 2: time we left Kadish Barneah until we crossed this arid 563 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:11,520 Speaker 2: valley thirty eight years passed. 564 00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:16,120 Speaker 3: Jesus walks up to the pool. 565 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,839 Speaker 2: And he says, I need somebody to use as an 566 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:27,040 Speaker 2: illustration of what I came to do, because my people 567 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:32,320 Speaker 2: are lost in a wilderness of religion, and my people 568 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:36,480 Speaker 2: are paralyzed under what the law is powerless to do, 569 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:41,080 Speaker 2: and they keep trying and falling short, and trying and 570 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:44,600 Speaker 2: falling short. And they are slaves to thinks that they 571 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,759 Speaker 2: are supposed to rule over, and they are servants to 572 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,680 Speaker 2: think that they are supposed to be masters over, and 573 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:55,000 Speaker 2: so I need somebody I can use as a tool 574 00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,439 Speaker 2: to show what I came to do. 575 00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:01,000 Speaker 3: How low thirty years. 576 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:05,080 Speaker 2: You're a perfect illustration because I'm about to show you 577 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,399 Speaker 2: what I can do to bring you out of a wilderness. 578 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:13,239 Speaker 2: With one word, get up with one word, pick up 579 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:17,840 Speaker 2: your mat with one word walk. I came to declare, 580 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,480 Speaker 2: when God gives you one word, you can walk in 581 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:25,000 Speaker 2: it for the rest of your life. One word from 582 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,359 Speaker 2: God can get you up. One word from God can 583 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:32,200 Speaker 2: make you whole. One word from God can turn it around. 584 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,440 Speaker 3: Now turn north. 585 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,840 Speaker 2: The man is sitting there, lying there one moment and 586 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:46,240 Speaker 2: walk in the next moment. 587 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:47,240 Speaker 1: And the only. 588 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:48,840 Speaker 3: Difference was what he looked to. 589 00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,319 Speaker 2: As long as he was looking at what was around him, 590 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:59,640 Speaker 2: he stayed stuck in what he had. But now turn north. 591 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,560 Speaker 2: I lift my eyes to the hills. Where does my 592 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:09,759 Speaker 2: help come from? My health comes from the Lord. Do 593 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:15,440 Speaker 2: y'all know that scripture? The maker of heaven and earth. 594 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,880 Speaker 2: So God is saying, you've turned to everybody. You've turned 595 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,640 Speaker 2: to everything. You've turned to drugs, you've turned to sex, 596 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,880 Speaker 2: you've turned to compulsive work ethics. You've turned to success, 597 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,520 Speaker 2: you've turned to status. You've turned to buying stuff you 598 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:29,799 Speaker 2: don't need to impress people you don't like, who aren't 599 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:35,800 Speaker 2: paying attention anyway. You've turned to everything else. Now turn north. 600 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,440 Speaker 2: You've turned to self help and you couldn't help yourself. 601 00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:41,520 Speaker 2: If you could have helped yourself, you would have been 602 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:41,799 Speaker 2: in the. 603 00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:42,640 Speaker 3: Pool by now. 604 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:44,960 Speaker 2: But I see you trying to get to the pool, 605 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:46,560 Speaker 2: and you couldn't get to the pool. 606 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:48,240 Speaker 1: So I got good news. 607 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,479 Speaker 2: Summer is over, but the pool is coming to you. 608 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:52,880 Speaker 3: The pool is open. 609 00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:58,560 Speaker 5: You can come to this water and drain from this SOUTHA. 610 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:04,160 Speaker 3: I don't know who needed to hear it. What's your 611 00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:14,320 Speaker 3: wilderness season? He's over to God. Come on, listen your. 612 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,320 Speaker 2: Hands and worsop for twenty seconds. 613 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:26,520 Speaker 3: Now, lords no, I released you from regretting the spirit. 614 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,600 Speaker 2: I release you from the bondage of yesterday's decisions. I 615 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:34,280 Speaker 2: release you from inferiority calls by the patterns of sith. 616 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:48,880 Speaker 2: I release you now, sird not gonna be lost forever. 617 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:54,440 Speaker 2: God gave me grace to get out. Now turn north. 618 00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:07,200 Speaker 2: When they asked, oh, God showed me. I'm telling you, 619 00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,480 Speaker 2: while I was praying, God showed me somebody. You are 620 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:15,120 Speaker 2: going to walk in a completely different direction and manner 621 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:27,040 Speaker 2: of life because of this word. Today, you know something 622 00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:33,320 Speaker 2: interesting happened when Jesus healed that man. The religious leaders 623 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:37,640 Speaker 2: didn't like it, and the man didn't really even understand it, 624 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:42,879 Speaker 2: because the Bible says that when they asked him verse twelve, John, 625 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,560 Speaker 2: chapter five, who is this fellow who told you to 626 00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:50,759 Speaker 2: pick it up and walk? The man answered, I have 627 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:56,719 Speaker 2: no idea, for Jesus had slipped away. 628 00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:58,800 Speaker 1: Into the crowd. 629 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,600 Speaker 2: Sometimes God is trying to bring you back to your 630 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:05,160 Speaker 2: north and you don't even know it. 631 00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,880 Speaker 1: You don't even know it's him. 632 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:14,480 Speaker 2: God uses certain seasons in your life, even certain setbacks 633 00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:18,200 Speaker 2: in your life, and yes, certain blessings in your life, 634 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:24,440 Speaker 2: so that you will know your north, so you won't 635 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:29,799 Speaker 2: be like me with no sense of direction, just going 636 00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:35,200 Speaker 2: through your life. And I'm grateful that Jesus didn't just. 637 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:39,200 Speaker 1: Let that man walk away. 638 00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,120 Speaker 2: Because it was one thing for the man to see Jesus, 639 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,560 Speaker 2: but it was another thing for the man to look 640 00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:50,280 Speaker 2: at verse fourteen to see why Jesus had seen him, 641 00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:55,640 Speaker 2: because later Jesus found him at the temple and said 642 00:41:55,640 --> 00:42:00,360 Speaker 2: to him, see you are well again. 643 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:03,200 Speaker 1: I gave you a second chance. 644 00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:06,759 Speaker 2: I'm going to give you five seconds to praise God 645 00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:12,240 Speaker 2: for every second chance he's given you in your life. 646 00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:26,640 Speaker 2: One six, five four. See you are well again. Stop sinning, 647 00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:35,000 Speaker 2: or something worse may happen to you. I love that 648 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:39,080 Speaker 2: the passage didn't end when the man got up and walked. 649 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:45,120 Speaker 2: I loved that before Jesus let him go, he told 650 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:51,000 Speaker 2: him why he raised him to begin with. He told 651 00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:55,640 Speaker 2: him you were lying in your excuses, and now you 652 00:42:55,680 --> 00:43:00,560 Speaker 2: are risen by my power. Now that you know the truth, 653 00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:05,960 Speaker 2: now that you know you're north, I want you to 654 00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:10,080 Speaker 2: head in the direction of your future and never come 655 00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:11,040 Speaker 2: back to your past. 656 00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:15,719 Speaker 1: Who's this forth. 657 00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:16,800 Speaker 3: You can't go back. 658 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:19,160 Speaker 1: You can't go back. 659 00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:27,920 Speaker 2: So I don't want you to hear a word from 660 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,120 Speaker 2: God that turned the direction in your heart and then 661 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,600 Speaker 2: you just go right back to the same patterns of 662 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:35,080 Speaker 2: sin and isolation. 663 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,359 Speaker 1: That you came from. 664 00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,640 Speaker 2: That's why Jesus told him to take up your mat 665 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:43,160 Speaker 2: because I want you to make a statement. 666 00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:52,680 Speaker 1: I won't be back. Turn north, Turn north. 667 00:43:55,520 --> 00:44:00,440 Speaker 2: Everybody gets discouraged, man piano, please, everybody gets discos urged. 668 00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:06,600 Speaker 1: Everybody has moments of believing lies. I am no one, 669 00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,720 Speaker 1: I have no one. 670 00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:12,680 Speaker 2: Even the great prophet Elijah one time he had seen 671 00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:17,759 Speaker 2: a great revival and an outpouring of the demonstration of 672 00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:21,440 Speaker 2: God's power. And because of the threat that he received 673 00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:25,759 Speaker 2: from a woman named Jezebel, he ran forty days and 674 00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,120 Speaker 2: forty nights south. 675 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,800 Speaker 1: To the Mountain of God and hid in a cave. 676 00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,120 Speaker 2: And the word of the Lord came to him in 677 00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:36,480 Speaker 2: a cave, like the Word of the Lord is coming. 678 00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:37,719 Speaker 1: To you today in your situation. 679 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:44,719 Speaker 2: And he told Elijah in a whisper, leave here and 680 00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:50,879 Speaker 2: go back the way you came. You've gone so far 681 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:56,319 Speaker 2: south that you have forgotten who you are, and you've 682 00:44:56,360 --> 00:45:00,440 Speaker 2: lost yourself. But when the word of the Lord comes 683 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:05,680 Speaker 2: and says, now turn north, you turn. 684 00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:07,279 Speaker 1: You turn. 685 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,440 Speaker 2: And I want to say to somebody who feels like 686 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:13,200 Speaker 2: this word can't be for me because I don't deserve it. 687 00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:17,040 Speaker 2: God did not pick the person at the pool that 688 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,839 Speaker 2: day that deserved it the most to do. 689 00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:27,160 Speaker 1: It, for He picked the person I got to give 690 00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:28,040 Speaker 1: you this and I'll go. 691 00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:32,279 Speaker 2: He picked the person that he could use what they 692 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:35,640 Speaker 2: had been through to demonstrate what he could do. 693 00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:38,520 Speaker 1: Can God use you? 694 00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:49,160 Speaker 2: We all have a met we all have a mess, 695 00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:54,480 Speaker 2: we all have a mistake. But God can work through 696 00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:57,319 Speaker 2: that too. I want to pray for you right now 697 00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:01,319 Speaker 2: because God is saying, now turn north. He's saying to 698 00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,839 Speaker 2: obey what he's speaking. And you know you might have 699 00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,320 Speaker 2: to do this sometimes, just many times a day, because 700 00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:11,920 Speaker 2: I think I don't know about you, but my soul 701 00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:20,080 Speaker 2: can get southbound real fast and pulled down to the 702 00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:26,279 Speaker 2: level of feelings and preferences offenses. So I just want 703 00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,640 Speaker 2: you to hear the voice of the Lord like Moses did. 704 00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,960 Speaker 2: Now turn north. One greater than Moses is here. His 705 00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:35,399 Speaker 2: name is Jesus. And every time you look to him 706 00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:37,560 Speaker 2: there's living water. Every time you drink from him, you 707 00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:42,319 Speaker 2: will be filled. Now turn north. You see it. He 708 00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:46,440 Speaker 2: is the higher power. He is the one who gives permission. 709 00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:51,200 Speaker 2: He is the one who is present in this moment. 710 00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:56,360 Speaker 2: He is the one who was there. 711 00:46:58,600 --> 00:46:58,880 Speaker 1: Father. 712 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:07,040 Speaker 2: I pray over every stigma, every insecurity, over everybody who's 713 00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:09,520 Speaker 2: in this room, kind of wondering either why am I 714 00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:11,640 Speaker 2: the one going through this hardship or why am I 715 00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,319 Speaker 2: the one chosen for this pressure. You know, we come 716 00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:18,239 Speaker 2: from many different directions, but we all need the same thing. 717 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:24,560 Speaker 2: Spirit of Christ, I thank you for opening my eyes 718 00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,759 Speaker 2: to the mystery of thirty eight years this week, when 719 00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:31,440 Speaker 2: I study, I realized that what the man did at 720 00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:33,480 Speaker 2: the pool when he got up, is what Moses did 721 00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,560 Speaker 2: in the wilderness, when they got up and crossed over 722 00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:41,279 Speaker 2: the valley and faced forward into the promise. We thank 723 00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:44,120 Speaker 2: you for your exceeding, great and precious promises toward those 724 00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:44,680 Speaker 2: who believe. 725 00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:45,319 Speaker 1: This house. 726 00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:50,200 Speaker 2: Today I proclaim those promises over your children. I thank 727 00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:52,040 Speaker 2: you that we are citizens of the Kingdom of light, 728 00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:56,880 Speaker 2: not darkness. Now we turn north. I thank you that 729 00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:01,480 Speaker 2: we are shielded from the fire. Darts of the wicked win. 730 00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:01,960 Speaker 1: And when the. 731 00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:03,920 Speaker 2: Enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit of the 732 00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:08,200 Speaker 2: Lord will raise up a standard. We turn north. Our 733 00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:09,839 Speaker 2: eyes are on you. We don't know what to do, 734 00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:13,399 Speaker 2: but our eyes are on you. We will be worshippers 735 00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:18,040 Speaker 2: in this battle. We now turn north. You take what 736 00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:21,440 Speaker 2: the enemy meant for evil, and you turn it for good. 737 00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:26,480 Speaker 2: We now turn north. We don't look to the east 738 00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,960 Speaker 2: or to the west. Where our health comes from. Our 739 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:32,080 Speaker 2: health comes from the north. Our health comes from the Lord. 740 00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,440 Speaker 2: Our health comes from the maker of heaven and earth. 741 00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:41,279 Speaker 2: And we give you praise and honor and glory. And 742 00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:44,080 Speaker 2: we make a declaration to the places where we've been lying. 743 00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:49,000 Speaker 2: We will not be back. We will not revisit these 744 00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:50,440 Speaker 2: things over and over again. 745 00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:51,400 Speaker 1: We will not. 746 00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:55,560 Speaker 2: There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are 747 00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:56,120 Speaker 2: in Christ. 748 00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:59,040 Speaker 3: Jesus. Now turn. 749 00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,800 Speaker 2: And as we clap our hands, and as we celebrate 750 00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:08,960 Speaker 2: your word, we expect a visitation of power at the 751 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,680 Speaker 2: pool of a testa. This week, power and grace under 752 00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:17,880 Speaker 2: the fives covered colonnades. This week, power and a demonstration 753 00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:19,080 Speaker 2: of your authority. 754 00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:22,640 Speaker 3: You are God, and we've. 755 00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:27,080 Speaker 2: Got the grace to get up hoigh five. 756 00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:28,520 Speaker 3: Everybody you can reach. 757 00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:32,400 Speaker 2: Us, say, get up by grace, Get up by grace. 758 00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:36,320 Speaker 3: Thank you Jesus. 759 00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:43,040 Speaker 1: Come on, Clap those hands and celebrate his word. Clap 760 00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:50,040 Speaker 1: those hands and celebrate. Go on, head's bowed eyes close. 761 00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:54,880 Speaker 2: I want to lead somebody into a relationship with Jesus 762 00:49:54,960 --> 00:50:00,560 Speaker 2: right now, nobody moving. The Bible says that if you 763 00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:02,600 Speaker 2: will confess with your mouth and believe with your heart 764 00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,480 Speaker 2: that God raised Jesus from the dead, you will be saved. 765 00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:14,160 Speaker 2: That sounds like turning north to me. The word repent 766 00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,359 Speaker 2: does not mean to feel bad about what you've done. 767 00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:20,879 Speaker 2: It means to turn and change your mind. It means 768 00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:24,480 Speaker 2: to come back to your Father for somebody who's been 769 00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:28,520 Speaker 2: going south today and God is turning you in a 770 00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:32,600 Speaker 2: new direction. I want to remind you that the Cross 771 00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:35,480 Speaker 2: was the turning point of human history, the resurrection was 772 00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:39,879 Speaker 2: the proof that Jesus was God's son, and today will 773 00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:43,120 Speaker 2: be the defining moment of your new life in Christ. 774 00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:46,960 Speaker 2: With heads bowed and eyes closed all over this room, 775 00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:51,440 Speaker 2: all of our campuses, watching online all over the world, 776 00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:54,680 Speaker 2: I'm going to lead you in a prayer. This prayer 777 00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:58,720 Speaker 2: is not magical. It's a connection point for you and God. 778 00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:02,840 Speaker 2: And if you will mean this with your heart today, 779 00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:06,879 Speaker 2: God will hear from heaven, heal you of your sin, 780 00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:10,439 Speaker 2: forgive you and redeem you for your wrongs, and give 781 00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:13,640 Speaker 2: you a new beginning. Heads bowed, eyes closed, all over 782 00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:17,640 Speaker 2: the church, repeat after me, Heavenly Father, I am a 783 00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:23,120 Speaker 2: sinner in need of a savior, and I believe that 784 00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:27,880 Speaker 2: Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior 785 00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:33,200 Speaker 2: of the world. And today I make Jesus the Lord 786 00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:37,080 Speaker 2: of my life. I believe he died that I would 787 00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:42,080 Speaker 2: be forgiven and rose again to give me life. I 788 00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:48,279 Speaker 2: receive this new life. This is my new beginning. On 789 00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,200 Speaker 2: the count of three, if you pray that, shoot your 790 00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:52,640 Speaker 2: hand up one, two, three, all over the room. 791 00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:57,680 Speaker 1: Put it in a chat. I receive Jesus. I receive Jesus. 792 00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:00,480 Speaker 1: We're celebrating right now. 793 00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:05,319 Speaker 2: We're celebrating right now, every turn and around life. Come on, 794 00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:10,439 Speaker 2: celebrate every new beginning, every new future. Hey, I hope 795 00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:13,399 Speaker 2: you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, make sure 796 00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:15,960 Speaker 2: to share it and subscribe so we can get you 797 00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:19,040 Speaker 2: all of these new messages as soon as they're available. 798 00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,560 Speaker 2: I also want to take a moment and thank all 799 00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:23,839 Speaker 2: of you who are a part of Elevation. Whether you 800 00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:27,560 Speaker 2: support us financially, or serve with us, or just share 801 00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:30,239 Speaker 2: these messages, it's because of you that we're able to 802 00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:33,200 Speaker 2: reach people all around the world. And if you want 803 00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:35,880 Speaker 2: more information on how to be a part of Elevation, 804 00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:39,800 Speaker 2: click the link in the description. 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