1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,040 Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 5 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 6 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 2: Enjoy the message. 7 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:17,920 Speaker 1: We have a little fun today. 8 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,799 Speaker 2: I'm gonna take you to a Bible passage that. 9 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:23,119 Speaker 1: We can all relate to. 10 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 2: Turn in your Bible or just watch the screen, whatever 11 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 2: you need to do. Let's go together to Mark chapter two, 12 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 2: verses one through twelve. And this passage practically preaches itself. 13 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 2: So God, get me out of the way. Say what 14 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 2: you need to say to your people. Help them hear it, 15 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:47,959 Speaker 2: even if they're hard headed in Jesus name. Amen, that's 16 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 2: an honest preacher's a Two days later, when Jesus again 17 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 2: entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. 18 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 2: So many gathered that there was no room left, not 19 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 2: even outside the door. And the word to them. Some 20 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 2: men came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four 21 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 2: of them. All right, and since they could not get 22 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 2: him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an 23 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 2: opening in the roof above Jesus, and after digging through 24 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 2: it lowered the mat. So we've got four men and 25 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 2: we've got a matt. This is March madness. It's the 26 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:29,960 Speaker 2: final four. Whoa, you're so hateful, You are so hateful. 27 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: I worked on that joke for about three hours this week, 28 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: and look how you treated me. 29 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 2: I'll find me another church where they appreciate advanced humor. 30 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: I am one of these days, you're gonna look up here. 31 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 2: It's gonna be somebody not as funny as me, taking 32 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 2: my wit for granted. Kidding, I'm kidding. I see some 33 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 2: of the guests look at me. Now, let's get back 34 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 2: to the text. When Jesus saw their faith, he said 35 00:01:54,800 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 2: to the paralytic son, your sins are forgiven. 36 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: What did their faith have to do with his sins? 37 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 2: Is it possible that your life affects more than your life? 38 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 2: Is it possible that your example affects more than your existence? 39 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 2: When he saw their faith, he said, your sins are forgiven. Now, 40 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 2: some teachers of the law were sitting there thinking to themselves, 41 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:31,959 Speaker 2: why does this fellow talk like that. He's blaspheming who 42 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 2: can forgive sins? But God alone? Immediately, Jesus knew in 43 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 2: his spirit that this is what they were thinking in 44 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 2: their hearts. And he said to them, because he is 45 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 2: such a savage that he wins an imaginary argument. 46 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: He responds not to what. 47 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 2: They said, but to what they thought that they didn't 48 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 2: get the chance to say. 49 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:57,640 Speaker 1: So, he knows your intentions. 50 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 2: Touch somebody say, you can't fool You might be able 51 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:03,839 Speaker 2: to fool me, but you can't fool God. He knows 52 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 2: your motivations, and he knows your thoughts too, So he 53 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:12,839 Speaker 2: said to them. He responded to their thoughts, why are 54 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 2: you thinking these things? Which is easier to say to 55 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 2: the paralytic, your sins are forgiven, or to say, get up, 56 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 2: take your mat, and walk, but that you may know 57 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:27,920 Speaker 2: that the son of Man has authority on earth to 58 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 2: forgive sins. 59 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: Dot dot dot. 60 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 2: He said to the paralytic, I tell you, get up, 61 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 2: take your mat, go home. And he got up, took 62 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 2: his mat, and walked out in full view of them. All. 63 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 2: This amazed everyone, and they praised God, saying, we've never 64 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 2: seen anything like this. This is remarkable, this is miraculous. 65 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 2: But verse two is really where my sermon hinges. So 66 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 2: many gathered that there was no room left, not even 67 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 2: outside the door. Touch your neighbor, give them my title. 68 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 2: Say I got good news. I know your heart was broken, 69 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 2: I know you lost some things, but I got good news. 70 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 2: There's another door. Turn to your next neighbor, the one 71 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 2: you really wanted to talk to, and tell them there's 72 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:33,720 Speaker 2: another door. So let's lay a principle here, overlay it 73 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 2: on this narrative from Mark chapter four. Here's the principle. 74 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 2: Life's biggest opportunities aren't always obvious. Life's biggest opportunities aren't 75 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 2: always obvious. After the fact, they seem obvious. You know 76 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 2: that it was an idiot that cut Michael Jordan from 77 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 2: the team, But life's greatest opportunities are and always obvious. 78 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 2: Holly paid me a compliment Friday. I think it was 79 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 2: a compliment. She said, I didn't know what I was 80 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 2: getting when I married you. What I took that to 81 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 2: mean is is so much better. What I took that 82 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 2: to mean is it's an Ephesians three twenty kind of thing, 83 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 2: exceeding abundantly above all that she asked or imagined. I 84 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 2: think that's what she meant. I did not clarify. Sometimes 85 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 2: assumption is a beautiful marriage tool. But I just took 86 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 2: it like that anyway. She said, I didn't know what 87 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 2: I was getting when I looked across the North Greenville 88 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 2: University cafeteria and saw that silly boy with a buzz 89 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 2: cut and an extra large Superman T shirt that I 90 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 2: bought for a dollar twenty five at Goodwill. She didn't 91 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 2: know that there was a Superman inside that silly shirt. 92 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 2: I'm just talking a little bit. 93 00:05:58,560 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: This is what she said. 94 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 2: She said, I didn't know what I was getting when 95 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 2: I married you. Because life's greatest opportunities. I'm having fun 96 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 2: to enjoy my life. This is scriptural. This is scriptural. 97 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 2: This is thoroughly scriptural. Life's greatest opportunity. Moses deliver a nation. 98 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 2: I am calling you to deliver an entire people group. 99 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 2: So what will you give me as a sign? Your stick, 100 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 2: the stick in your hand that you are using to 101 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 2: shepherd sheep is the sign that I'm going to give you. 102 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 2: But I am going to point to your calling through 103 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:52,919 Speaker 2: something that to you seems common. So God disguises calling 104 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 2: as common. God wraps calling in diapers and allows the 105 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,359 Speaker 2: Savior of the world to be born in a barn. 106 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 2: So much so that the people he came for missed him. 107 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 2: Because life's greatest opportunities aren't always obvious. It was interesting 108 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 2: to me that callings can appear common on the surface, 109 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 2: to the point that Gideon was called a mighty warrior 110 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 2: while he was hiding in a wine press. Why would 111 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 2: God hide such a mighty calling in such a wimpy man. 112 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 2: Because sometimes Superman wears a baggy shirt. Sometimes God uses 113 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 2: earthen vessels to release something that has precious value. I 114 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 2: preaching to somebody today who has been deceived about your destiny. 115 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 2: You thought God was going to show up in your 116 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 2: situation looking like Superman. Instead, God shows up in your 117 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 2: situation looking like a mustard seed. The seed doesn't look 118 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 2: like the tree. It shares the genetic code of the tree, 119 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 2: but according to the exterior, there is nothing to associate 120 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 2: the seed with the tree. And might it be that 121 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 2: what God is doing in your life right now is 122 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 2: not obvious. But that does not mean that there is 123 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 2: no opportunity for He says, when I open a door. 124 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: No man can shut it. 125 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 2: And when I decide to do something through your life, 126 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 2: no season, no person, and no human limitation can stop me. 127 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 2: I was always interested to learn that. After David made 128 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 2: his biggest mistake by sleeping with Bethsheba and having her 129 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 2: husband Uriah killed on the front lines of battles, he 130 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 2: went in and had another baby because the one that 131 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 2: was born from his mistake died. But the next one 132 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 2: he had was named Solomon, who was the wisest man 133 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 2: who ever lived at that point in time. And David's 134 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 2: greatest wisdom was born after his biggest mistake. Now, it's 135 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:50,679 Speaker 2: not always obvious. It's not always obvious that you are 136 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 2: becoming wiser. Usually wisdom feels like dumb decisions. While you 137 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 2: are gaining wisdom, often you have to gain will at 138 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 2: the expense of today for tomorrow. It's very powerful. It's 139 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 2: the principle I preach a lot, and I forgive you 140 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 2: if you're a little bored right now, because this is 141 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,319 Speaker 2: pretty much what I try to say every single week. 142 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 2: I try to show you how reward dresses as responsibility. 143 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 2: God is not going to put the reward right in 144 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 2: front of you. He is going to wrap it in responsibility. 145 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 2: David had no clue that Goliath was waiting for him. 146 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 2: He just knew he had bread to take to his brothers. 147 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 2: It was his responsibility that unlocked his reward. If he 148 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 2: had waited for the possibility of an opportunity to demonstrate 149 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 2: his warriorness, if he had waited for Goliath to show up, 150 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 2: he never would have had the opportunity to see what 151 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 2: God could do through him. But it was in his 152 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 2: assignment that his giant was waiting. Now, if this is true, 153 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:02,199 Speaker 2: it gives a whole new meaning to what John chapter 154 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 2: eleven says that when Jesus heard Lazarus was sick, he 155 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 2: stayed where he was a little while longer, because Jesus 156 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 2: is about to show all of those in Bethany that 157 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 2: resurrection is not an event but a person. I am 158 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 2: the resurrection. But if Jesus shows up and heals Lazarus 159 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 2: when they want him to, he will not have the 160 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 2: opportunity to reveal who he is that they don't yet 161 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,560 Speaker 2: perceive him to be. And so, in his waiting, which 162 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 2: seems cruel to Mary and Martha, he is actually staging 163 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,319 Speaker 2: a miracle so that when he gets there and Lazarus 164 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 2: has been dead, it's a good thing, because resurrection dresses 165 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 2: like death. Sometimes God lets something in your life die, 166 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 2: but don't worry when it dies. 167 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: Resurrection is who. 168 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 2: He is and what he does. And if you can 169 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 2: get the stone rolled away long enough to believe for 170 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 2: a little while, I hear a voice calling Lazarus out 171 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 2: of the grave. See the grave clothes wrapped up the 172 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 2: revelation of who Jesus was. When he got on the 173 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 2: scene and said, Lazarus, come forth, the grave clothes had 174 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 2: no choice but to fall off, because the voice of 175 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 2: the Lord unwraps death to present resurrection. Who he's a 176 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 2: miracle today. I came to priest to you. And the 177 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 2: greatest opportunities are not always obvious. The greatest opportunities are 178 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 2: often hidden. Jesus even taught in parables to hide the 179 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 2: wisdom of God from the people who wanted to understand 180 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 2: it with their human minds. He didn't want the elite 181 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 2: to get it, and so he put. 182 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: It in parables. 183 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 2: He hid it hid, He hid the kingdom. The kingdom 184 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 2: didn't come announcing itself with trumpets and red carpet. It 185 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 2: wasn't obvious. It came looking like conflict now. Mark Chapter 186 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 2: two is the first of five conflict dialogues where we 187 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 2: see this carpenter from Nazareth doing ministry in Galilee. Having 188 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 2: to confront the wisdom of this world to reveal the 189 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 2: wisdom of God. He's teaching one day, and so many 190 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:33,560 Speaker 2: people have come to see him. 191 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: The crowd has gathered. 192 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 2: In Mark's gospel, the crowd is not necessarily a positive thing. 193 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 2: We would think that if Jesus was trying to build 194 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 2: a ministry, he would need a crowd. Jesus is so 195 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 2: savage sometimes if the crowd got too big, he would 196 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 2: start running people off by saying stuff they didn't want 197 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 2: to hear. He really would, and you'll have to read 198 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 2: how he fed people and they were happy. But after 199 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 2: they ate their happy meal, he turned around and said, 200 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 2: I'm not burger king. I know I'm mixing restaurants, but 201 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 2: go with the illustration. 202 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 1: He said, if you. 203 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 2: Eat my flesh and drink my blood, then you can 204 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 2: have this kingdom. And they say, WHOA. I was into 205 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 2: the miracles, but this, uh, this took a dark turn, 206 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 2: this cannibalism thing, and even the disciples couldn't understand that. 207 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:20,959 Speaker 1: But Peter did. After and when he was recounting to. 208 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 2: Mark so Mark could write this gospel account, he talked 209 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 2: about the crowd. The crowd had gathered and they were 210 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 2: listening to Jesus preaching, and the Bible tells us about 211 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 2: four men who brought their friend and they could not 212 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 2: get in because of the crowd. They had high hopes, 213 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:44,559 Speaker 2: you could say that their hopes were through the roof 214 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 2: ah great expectations. But then they were met at the door. 215 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: There are, by the way, there are four. 216 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 2: Doors in this passage that are not obvious, four doors 217 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 2: in this passage, this passage, and in our lives that 218 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 2: are not obvious, because life's greatest opportunities are not always obvious. 219 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 2: So they come to the front door and they can't 220 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 2: get in. 221 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: This represents the door of disappointment. 222 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 2: How disappointing it must have been that after you have 223 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:18,679 Speaker 2: carried your friend all this way only to find out 224 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 2: at church that not only is there no room in 225 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 2: the main auditorium, but they're not even seating in overflow. 226 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 1: Thank you very much, you can watch live stream. 227 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 2: These men were met at the door with disappointment. And 228 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 2: so if they had subscribed to the theology that many 229 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 2: of us live our lives according to, they would have 230 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 2: turned around and gone home because obviously everybody say, obviously 231 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 2: it's not God's will for our friend to get healed today. 232 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 2: If it were God's will for our friend to be 233 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 2: healed today, we would have gotten in the door. But 234 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 2: these boys, these boys, I wonder, do I have four 235 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 2: crazy ones? Just four? These boys said, we did not 236 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:19,040 Speaker 2: carry you all this way with your heavy self to 237 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 2: turn around and go home. Now, now I think these 238 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 2: boys had a little bit of a well maybe this 239 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 2: is the Monk's corner in me. But I picture their conversation. 240 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 2: I picture these boys. These boys didn't drive a priest. 241 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 2: That's what I'm trying to say. These boys, they're mad 242 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:42,359 Speaker 2: at the door with disappointment. Not to mention the man's disappointment. 243 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 2: He's learned to deal with disappointment. His entire life is 244 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 2: a disappointment. He can't walk, he can't dance, he can't 245 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 2: do what other people do. But they've come this far. 246 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 2: I said, they've come this far, and they didn't come 247 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 2: this far to go home. So Bubba says the Tommy, Hey. 248 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 3: Man, I was uh, I was looking around. I didn't 249 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 3: see no security cameras right back right around the south entrance. 250 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: Man, I reckon, wonder if you could. 251 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 2: Uh Bubba and Tommy and who else? Uh ah rufus. 252 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: Ruf rufous, that's the last one, I promise. 253 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 2: He said, what what do you reckon? If we uh? 254 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 2: If we get around there and they they're they're whispering 255 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 2: because they don't They don't want the man on the 256 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 2: mat to know what they're about to do. 257 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: Don't tell everybody all your plans. 258 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 2: Just sometimes sometimes you just got to do stuff. You 259 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 2: don't always ask permission. Sometimes it's better to ask forgiveness. 260 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:14,679 Speaker 2: What if we what if we went up? I know 261 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:17,800 Speaker 2: we can't get in, so what if we went up? 262 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 2: Sometimes you gotta change levels. You let me get behind 263 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:29,360 Speaker 2: my pulpit. Sometimes the reason you can't get in that 264 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:33,480 Speaker 2: door is because it wasn't your door. God is calling 265 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:34,119 Speaker 2: you higher. 266 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: Who am I preaching to? 267 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 2: Sometimes the reason you got rejected is because it was 268 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 2: the wrong level of relationship. And if those people would 269 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:49,880 Speaker 2: have liked you, it would have actually limited. I'm caffeinated today. 270 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 2: High five. Somebody say go higher. Come on, when they 271 00:17:54,600 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 2: go low, we go high. He's calling me higher. So 272 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 2: they go up and they do not find a door. 273 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 2: They make a door. Have you ever had to make 274 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 2: your own door? Nobody gave me money to start this church. 275 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:24,399 Speaker 2: Nobody sponsored me officially, I wish they would have, but 276 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 2: you know, I'm kind of glad they didn't because I 277 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 2: had to learn how to dig. And sometimes one of 278 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:31,719 Speaker 2: the greatest things that can happen to you in your 279 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:34,680 Speaker 2: life is to be turned away at the front door 280 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:39,359 Speaker 2: because you discover another door. Somebody shot there's another door. 281 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 2: This is not the normal door. This is not for 282 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 2: normal people. This is not for people who want to 283 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 2: quit because the Wi fi was a little slow, or 284 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 2: skip church because it was forty three degrees. No, this 285 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 2: is for the people who have determined. Somebody shot up determined. 286 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 2: Now we have a fruit through view of faith. We 287 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:09,160 Speaker 2: think of faith as being something to fall back on. 288 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: Not Mark. 289 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 2: Mark mentions faith four times in his Gospel, and none 290 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 2: of them represent an attitude. 291 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 1: They always represent actions. 292 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 2: Faith to Mark is something you can see. Actually, it's 293 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 2: something that you can see in response to something that 294 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 2: you cannot see. Faith is the substance of things hoped 295 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 2: for and the evidence of things not seen. So it 296 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:49,119 Speaker 2: is something that you can see in response to a 297 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 2: hope that you can't see. That's a series right there, 298 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 2: there's another door. 299 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 1: There's another door. 300 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 2: And when Jesus verse five saw saw their faith not 301 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 2: heard their faith. It wasn't that they talked about how 302 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:12,679 Speaker 2: much they trusted God, it's that they refuse to go 303 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 2: home that easy. Yeah, I'll tell you this real quick, 304 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 2: just a little side thing. 305 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:21,359 Speaker 1: Me and Chris were turning to write a song. 306 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,199 Speaker 2: The other day, and I said, I know this is 307 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 2: the fifty first revision on this song, but I want 308 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 2: the devil to know I'm gonna keep coming because I 309 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 2: feel like we're supposed to finish this song. Chris Brown 310 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 2: looked back at me and said, if that joker doesn't 311 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:37,880 Speaker 2: know that by now about us, he hadn't been paying attention. 312 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:42,640 Speaker 2: Because I'm gonna tell you something. I'm not always the smartest, 313 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 2: but I don't turn around the first time somebody tells 314 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 2: me you can't come in this story. That's just not 315 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:49,160 Speaker 2: how I'm wired. 316 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 1: Now. 317 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 2: It's fine, it's fine. If you don't like me, you 318 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:57,159 Speaker 2: don't have to, but I'll find somebody who does. It's fine. 319 00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 2: Some people when I started Elevation didn't want to come 320 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 2: because they said it was a cult. And that's fine, 321 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 2: but I'll find another way. See if you just got 322 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:11,680 Speaker 2: four good friends, just four good friends, and sometimes if 323 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 2: you don't have four, father son Holy Spirit and me. 324 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 2: That's four. We're gonna do this. Those boys, those boys 325 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:34,920 Speaker 2: were like, we ain't going home. He's heavy. No, no, 326 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 2: no sermon. We will put him up on that roof 327 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 2: and we're gonna dig through that mud and we're gonna 328 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:40,120 Speaker 2: make a door. 329 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 1: We're gonna make a door. 330 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 2: I'm gonna get through to my kid, one way or another. 331 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 2: I'm not just gonna give up on him. Not that easy. 332 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 2: I'm gonna find a way to get through. I might 333 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 2: have to shut up. I might have to speak up. 334 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,360 Speaker 2: If that doesn't work, I'll do the other. I might 335 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 2: have to hug him. I might have to hit I 336 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:02,639 Speaker 2: might have to try some different ways. But now we 337 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 2: come to the to the door on the ceiling. There's 338 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 2: another door. If you can't get in the front door, 339 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 2: go up, it says another door. You gotta make it. 340 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 2: It's to look like a door. You got to dig 341 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 2: through it. There's a door, but you can't see it. 342 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 2: It's not visible, it's not something you can see. It 343 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 2: takes faith. If faith is something you can see in 344 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 2: response to something that you can't see. So make a door, 345 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:22,159 Speaker 2: make a door, Make a door. Tet so much, say, 346 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 2: make a door and make a door, make a door, 347 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 2: and make a door, and Jesus respected their carpentry. Jesus 348 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:34,640 Speaker 2: liked their work. He actually in verse five, he's preaching 349 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 2: and there's a distraction overhead. Now he's not even healing 350 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 2: this day. It's not even on his agenda to see 351 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:53,719 Speaker 2: sick people. Some of life's greatest opportunities are not always obvious, 352 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:56,919 Speaker 2: and some of God's greatest invitations will. 353 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: Show up in the form of interruptions. 354 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 2: And he's preaching, and he's probably doing a really good job, 355 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,919 Speaker 2: just going off context cluse. He is the word, so 356 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,400 Speaker 2: if he preaches what he is, it's probably pretty good. 357 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 1: Got a big. 358 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:18,959 Speaker 2: Crowd, and all of a sudden, Peter says something Matthew 359 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:19,440 Speaker 2: doesn't say. 360 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 1: Matthew describes the incident. 361 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 2: Heh he simplifies in Matthew nine, verse two, Matthew says, 362 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 2: some men brought to him a paralytic lying on the mat. 363 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,400 Speaker 2: When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, 364 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 2: what did Matthew leave out the fact that they ripped 365 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:40,359 Speaker 2: off this dude's roof. It sounds so nice when Matthew 366 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 2: says it, It just looks so easy. And they brought 367 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 2: their friend, and Jesus healed them. 368 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 1: Now something, did you hear that. 369 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 2: Jesus is preaching? You know? 370 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,120 Speaker 3: Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts 371 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:55,399 Speaker 3: them in PHPs like a wise man to builds house 372 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 3: on the rock. 373 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 2: Ranking down streams rows when blue begets that house, he 374 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,639 Speaker 2: didn'tvolvek that foundation on the rock. And right about the 375 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 2: time he's right about the time he's making his point, 376 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 2: here comes a sound. Remember that Mark is writing what 377 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 2: Peter told him to write. And consider that most scholars 378 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 2: believe that it was Peter's house that Jesus was preaching at. 379 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 2: So Matthew remembered the healing, Peter remembered the roof. It's 380 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 2: funny to me, it's perspective. Did you hear that? Keep preaching, 381 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 2: keep preaching, keep preaching. We're gonna check it out. But 382 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 2: about the time that the dirt starts falling from the 383 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,679 Speaker 2: from the mud on the ceiling, are you willing to 384 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:42,159 Speaker 2: get your hands dirty, by the way, or are you 385 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,240 Speaker 2: too afraid to mess up your manicure to go after 386 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 2: your miracle? I could preach manicures or miracles. The choices yours, 387 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 2: and they had to drop him. You can't get him 388 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 2: all the way down, and here comes the dirt, and 389 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 2: here comes the man. 390 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: We'll call him Matt. We don't know his thing. 391 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 2: Jesus says, I like your style, boys. That's what I 392 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 2: did when I came down, through your dirt, through your shame, 393 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 2: through your sin. I like it boys. 394 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 1: And now. 395 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 2: Rufus and Bubba, Willie and Jimmy all looking in. Now 396 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 2: what's going to happen next? And Jesus leans down and 397 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:54,719 Speaker 2: says to the man, son, your sins are forgiven. And 398 00:25:54,800 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 2: Willie says, what did he say? And Jimmy says, sounded 399 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 2: like he says something about sins. And Willie says, did 400 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:13,040 Speaker 2: he say anything about healing? And Jimmy says, no, just 401 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 2: something about sins. And Rufus says, that's good that he 402 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,640 Speaker 2: forgave his sins. But ken he fix his legs too 403 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 2: while he's at it. Because they did not bring the 404 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:33,200 Speaker 2: man before Jesus to get him forgiven. They brought him 405 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:37,679 Speaker 2: before Jesus to get him healed. So the question is 406 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 2: what do you do when God bypasses what you want 407 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:54,680 Speaker 2: to give you what you need. The most obvious thing 408 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 2: to do is to heal the man, But sometimes before 409 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:04,120 Speaker 2: God can do what is obvious and change your situation, 410 00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:08,919 Speaker 2: he wants to work within you so that when He 411 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 2: changes your situation, you will be ready. 412 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: To receive that. 413 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 2: In the Jewish mind, sin and suffering were highly connected, 414 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 2: so it was often assumed that if you were suffering, 415 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,920 Speaker 2: it was because of sin. Jesus dispels this in John 416 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,919 Speaker 2: chapter nine, when the man born blind was declared to 417 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 2: be not a sinner, but blind so that the works 418 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 2: of God and the glory of God might be revealed. 419 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:42,879 Speaker 2: We can't always connect situations with behavior. Yet it's something 420 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 2: that he said, before I do anything for you, I 421 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 2: want to do something in you. And that's where it 422 00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 2: takes faith, because the substance of things hope for and 423 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 2: the evidence of things not seen to know that God 424 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 2: is working. And you know, I think God for in 425 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 2: this passage. I think God that this man had friends 426 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,159 Speaker 2: who believed for him what he might not have been 427 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:15,400 Speaker 2: able to believe for himself. 428 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,080 Speaker 1: And if I were preaching this at. 429 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 2: At what's it called now youth X used to be 430 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,159 Speaker 2: called student takeover. I can't keep up with all the names. 431 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 2: I would preach the message around who are your four 432 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 2: that's really important? Who are your four. You got to 433 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 2: have the right four because the wrong four would have 434 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 2: dropped him off at the door. 435 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 1: But the right for we're willing to put him where 436 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: he belonged. 437 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 2: At the feet of Jesus. Now are they bringing you 438 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 2: to Jesus or driving you away? But to me, they're 439 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 2: not the primary heroes in the passage, because other than Jesus, 440 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 2: the most important people in the passage are the people 441 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 2: who doubted him. I want you to notice something, and 442 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 2: please pay attention to this. It's going to revolutionize the 443 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 2: way that you see some of your resentments in life. 444 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 2: When Jesus saw what the friends did for the man, 445 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 2: he forgave him. But the man was still on the 446 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 2: mat when he heard the thoughts of the critics, or 447 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 2: we might say haters. What the haters thought got the 448 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 2: man healed. What his friends did got him forgiven what 449 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,320 Speaker 2: his haters thought got him healed. I thought I'd give 450 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 2: you fifteen seconds to praise God for your haters. You 451 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,719 Speaker 2: might want to do it. Did anybody ever doubt you? 452 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 2: Did anybody ever walk away from you? Did anybody ever 453 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 2: stop supporting you? Did anybody ever walk away when it 454 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:01,440 Speaker 2: got a little tight? Thank God? Right? Now because sometimes 455 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 2: God will use judas more than he uses theater. This 456 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 2: is a messy message. This is a message for the 457 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 2: people who are ready. 458 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 4: To thank God. Not just for the ways he blesses me. 459 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 4: That feel good, But I think it for my pain. 460 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 4: I think it for my heartbreak. I thinking for my disappointment. 461 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 4: I thank him for my opposition. That's the second door. 462 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 4: It's the door of opposition. One time Paul said, I'm 463 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:37,760 Speaker 4: staying in ephesis a little while. 464 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 2: And the reason I'm staying is not because the temperature 465 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 2: is so great and the cuisine is so wonderful. I'm 466 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 2: staying because there is a great and effective door of 467 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 2: ministry that God has opened for me. And you know 468 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:55,200 Speaker 2: how I know there's an open door because there are 469 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 2: many who oppose me. The reason that I know that 470 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 2: God is blessing is because the enemy is so busy, 471 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 2: and he would not be busy if God was not 472 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 2: blessing me. Come on, I'm gonna give you one more chance. 473 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 4: Thank him for the conflict, Thank him for the confusion. 474 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 4: Thank him, thank him, thank him, think him. Thank him 475 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 4: for the thorn his crisis sufficient, thank him for the loneliness. 476 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 2: Thanked for the wilderness, taken for the nose. Somebody say, yes, 477 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 2: if there had been no haters, he wouldn't have got you. 478 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 2: If there had been no weakness, you wouldn't be strong. 479 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 2: If there had been no resistance, you wouldn't be so resilient. 480 00:31:54,840 --> 00:32:00,120 Speaker 2: There are many who oppose me, but the opposition, I'm 481 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 2: gonna calm down and say it for all the intellectual people. 482 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:13,320 Speaker 2: The opposition proves the opportunity. Okay, investment terms, the really 483 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:17,480 Speaker 2: good investments you don't know about unless you have money. 484 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 2: It's a barrier to entry. The investments that most of 485 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 2: us can invest in are not the best investments. The 486 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 2: best investments are reserved for people. Now, I'm saying this 487 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 2: about money, but I mean it about battles and trials. See, 488 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 2: the biggest battles are reserved for the people that God 489 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 2: has his hand on, that he put a deposit in, 490 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,680 Speaker 2: and you cannot be defeated because if he opened the door, 491 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 2: nobody can shut it. So quit blaming your haters and 492 00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:58,640 Speaker 2: write them a thank you. 493 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: No, remember that. 494 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 2: Youth pastor that stood up at inside elevation. Were you 495 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 2: in here? Anna? He said, there's a lot of critics. 496 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,720 Speaker 2: I'm just getting started in ministry what do I do 497 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 2: about the critics? I said, That's what I said to him, 498 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:18,960 Speaker 2: said right there, right in that section, sit down this 499 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 2: week and write three thank you notes to him. 500 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:22,800 Speaker 1: From experience, I know. 501 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 2: That God will use some of that stuff to strip 502 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:32,360 Speaker 2: away your self sufficiency. And if everybody is clapping for you, 503 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,360 Speaker 2: the crowd is not always your friend. 504 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: So write them a thank you note. 505 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,320 Speaker 2: Because honestly, every time we have a baptism in the church, 506 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 2: I think about it because the only reason we do 507 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,000 Speaker 2: baptisms every week instead of two or three times a 508 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 2: year like we did for years, is because of that 509 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,480 Speaker 2: new story that they ran about us, where they said 510 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 2: we fake baptisms in the church. 511 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 1: I still don't know exactly what a. 512 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,960 Speaker 2: Fake baptism looks like, but I don't care because it 513 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 2: gave me an idea. If you're going to hit us 514 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 2: at the point of our baptisms, what we'll do is 515 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,160 Speaker 2: not two or three times a year, But how about 516 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,200 Speaker 2: if every single week we put it in the devil's 517 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 2: face that you can't stop when God opens a door. 518 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:28,479 Speaker 2: I don't even care what they say. Let's just let's 519 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:33,000 Speaker 2: while we're at it, let's ban the word hater. Because 520 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,279 Speaker 2: most of us don't have haters. We just have people 521 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:40,800 Speaker 2: who don't agree with us, and we label that haters. Okay, 522 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,880 Speaker 2: your coach is not your hater because he is not 523 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,640 Speaker 2: going to play you right now. 524 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:48,920 Speaker 1: Your coach is a trainer. 525 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,719 Speaker 2: He is teaching you that you are not good enough 526 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:58,480 Speaker 2: yet to get playing time. Timmy. The reason, the reason, Timmy, 527 00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:02,800 Speaker 2: you're not playing, tim is because you're not a player yet. 528 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,760 Speaker 2: So thank your coach. He's not a hater. He's teaching 529 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,760 Speaker 2: you to be a player. So you need to thank 530 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,279 Speaker 2: that boss who was hard on you. My boss is 531 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,200 Speaker 2: a hater. No, you're late to work. Your boss is 532 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:18,000 Speaker 2: not a hater because she expects you to be on time. 533 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,560 Speaker 2: I saw a supervisor. Just give him some praise right 534 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:24,520 Speaker 2: there on the a throw and Valentine, thank God for it. 535 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:32,600 Speaker 2: Because the opposition is the opportunity. I'm so annointed to 536 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:36,160 Speaker 2: say this to you right now. It feels like a 537 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:41,440 Speaker 2: freight train. This word is coming through the roof, is 538 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,240 Speaker 2: coming through the teachers of the law. Jesus is preaching. 539 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,720 Speaker 2: Jesus is healing. Nothing can stop it. Jesus is preaching. 540 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,720 Speaker 2: Jesus is healing, nothing can stop it. And he uses 541 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,640 Speaker 2: the opposition to bring the man healing. Now, what is 542 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:55,640 Speaker 2: God using in your life right now that you are 543 00:35:55,680 --> 00:36:04,959 Speaker 2: trying to get away from There's another door. There's another door, 544 00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:13,680 Speaker 2: and this door, this door is called obedience. The first 545 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,439 Speaker 2: door is disappointment, the second one is opposition. This one 546 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:24,560 Speaker 2: is obedience, and it is the kind of obedience that 547 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:38,080 Speaker 2: has to trust God in an impossible situation. See what 548 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:43,440 Speaker 2: the friends did got the man forgiven, but there was 549 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:48,239 Speaker 2: something that he had to do to be healed. And 550 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,040 Speaker 2: it is by grace we are saying through faith. It's 551 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:55,120 Speaker 2: the gift of God. It's not of works, but faith 552 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:59,959 Speaker 2: expresses itself in works. Please don't sleep on me, brother, 553 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:06,759 Speaker 2: this is very important. It is your faith express Jesus said, 554 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:11,319 Speaker 2: so that they may know who I am. It's not 555 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:15,040 Speaker 2: even about you anymore. And it's not about your dysfunction, 556 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:20,680 Speaker 2: and it's not about your limitation, not anymore. This is 557 00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,680 Speaker 2: bigger than you. So I want you to do what 558 00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,520 Speaker 2: you can't do. I want you to do what you've 559 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:28,160 Speaker 2: never been able to do. And the proof of my 560 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:31,080 Speaker 2: presence is going to be in enabling you to do 561 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:38,800 Speaker 2: something practical. Get up, take that thing that they carried 562 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,479 Speaker 2: you in and lowered you down on what you came 563 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:47,640 Speaker 2: in on. You're going out with, but instead of it 564 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,400 Speaker 2: holding you, you'll. 565 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:52,680 Speaker 1: Be holding it. 566 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:07,239 Speaker 2: Help me, God, help me right now, because somebody's still 567 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:12,799 Speaker 2: lying on that mat. And you got resurrection power on 568 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:16,960 Speaker 2: the inside of you. It's on the inside of you, 569 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:22,319 Speaker 2: but you got to walk it out. That man came 570 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:27,160 Speaker 2: in through the roof, but he left out the same 571 00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,640 Speaker 2: door that they wouldn't. 572 00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:30,560 Speaker 1: Let him through when he got there. 573 00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,280 Speaker 2: And what I'm declaring today by the spirit of God 574 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:43,759 Speaker 2: is if you will get up, you can get up. 575 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:50,520 Speaker 2: If you will forgive, you can forgive, if you will 576 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,400 Speaker 2: be whole. I'm not saying the mat will go away. 577 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,400 Speaker 2: I'm saying that you will not spend the rest of 578 00:38:56,440 --> 00:39:00,239 Speaker 2: your life lying down on it and blaming others for 579 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:06,600 Speaker 2: the condition that you're in. So get up in front 580 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:10,360 Speaker 2: of all of these other people. Think about the courage 581 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:14,400 Speaker 2: that this demonstration requires. Because the people that are watching 582 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,719 Speaker 2: this man are not even cheering for him. They don't 583 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,160 Speaker 2: even like the fact that he interrupted the service, and 584 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,279 Speaker 2: that Jesus thinks he can forgive him. So now he 585 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,959 Speaker 2: has to get up and walk in front of people 586 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,960 Speaker 2: who don't want him to. Now he has to get 587 00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:31,560 Speaker 2: up and take his first steps. When most of us 588 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,799 Speaker 2: took our first steps, somebody was cheering us on. But 589 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,160 Speaker 2: he has to do it in the face of conflict. 590 00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,080 Speaker 2: He has to do it in the face of doubt. 591 00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,759 Speaker 2: He has to do it in the face of critics. 592 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:44,880 Speaker 2: He has to do it in the face of people 593 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,480 Speaker 2: who didn't even want him in the room. And I wonder, 594 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:54,040 Speaker 2: are you willing today in the face of adversity, in. 595 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,680 Speaker 4: The face of weakness, in the face of everything that has. 596 00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:01,600 Speaker 2: Been against your entire family, our whole life. Will you 597 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:18,040 Speaker 2: get up? Will you? 598 00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:19,240 Speaker 1: Will you become a door. 599 00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:25,120 Speaker 2: When God wants to show people who he is, he 600 00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:31,880 Speaker 2: picks somebody with an issue. 601 00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:35,120 Speaker 5: And he wants to show who he is through you. 602 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:40,120 Speaker 5: Somebody say, there's another door. This is the door of revelation. 603 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,879 Speaker 5: And the people were not amazed when the roof came off. 604 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,080 Speaker 5: They were amazed when the man got up. 605 00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:53,000 Speaker 2: They were not amazed even by Jesus's preaching. They were 606 00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:57,640 Speaker 2: amazed by the man's demonstration. And there are some of 607 00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:01,400 Speaker 2: you that are about to become a door for people 608 00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:05,680 Speaker 2: to see Jesus through your life. And here's who He's 609 00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:10,080 Speaker 2: gonna pick. The people who were paralyzed, who have made 610 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:10,759 Speaker 2: a decision. 611 00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:12,400 Speaker 1: I may not be able to get. 612 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,560 Speaker 2: Rid of my issue, but my issue is not keeping 613 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:20,879 Speaker 2: me from Jesus. See, there's another door. And when you've 614 00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,640 Speaker 2: done all that you can do, and you've tried all 615 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,920 Speaker 2: that you know to try, and self help isn't helping, 616 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,200 Speaker 2: and people have stopped believing in you a long time ago, 617 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:34,759 Speaker 2: and truth be told, you've given up on yourself. But 618 00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:36,960 Speaker 2: God called me to be like those four men and 619 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,960 Speaker 2: carry you today and put you at the feet of Jesus. 620 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,239 Speaker 2: Let me tell you about Jesus. Jesus is not your 621 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,760 Speaker 2: average preacher. He is the Way, the truth, and the life. 622 00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:53,040 Speaker 2: He is the Resurrection, He is the good Shepherd. He 623 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:57,880 Speaker 2: is the true Vine. And in John chapter ten, verse nine, 624 00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,080 Speaker 2: when he got ready to say who he wants, he said, 625 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,879 Speaker 2: I am the door. So if you want to come in, 626 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:08,680 Speaker 2: come on in. If religion locked you out, come on in. 627 00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:09,840 Speaker 1: If your sin. 628 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,000 Speaker 2: Kept you out, come on in. I am the door. 629 00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:28,879 Speaker 2: And because I'm the door, nothing can come into your 630 00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:42,360 Speaker 2: life without first going through me. So I've allowed some 631 00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:44,960 Speaker 2: things in your life that you don't like right now, 632 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:50,200 Speaker 2: but don't let them paralyze you another day, because all 633 00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:54,319 Speaker 2: I'm asking you to do is walk through this door. 634 00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:57,760 Speaker 2: That's all I'm asking you to do. I'm not asking 635 00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:03,799 Speaker 2: you to be perfect, but I do expect progress. I 636 00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:09,919 Speaker 2: am the door. Your ex husband is not your dad 637 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:14,920 Speaker 2: who wasn't there is not your own opinion of yourself 638 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:23,800 Speaker 2: is not. I am the door. And when I open 639 00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:35,879 Speaker 2: the door in your life, no mistake, no sickness, no situation, 640 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,680 Speaker 2: even if they roll a stone to seal the entrance 641 00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:46,000 Speaker 2: on Friday, I am the door. And when I speak 642 00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:55,040 Speaker 2: up the resurrection power come. My praise is a door give. 643 00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,880 Speaker 4: There's some praise right now. 644 00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:09,680 Speaker 2: Don't you miss this moment? Assist the door. Stand up 645 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:19,279 Speaker 2: at every location. No one leaving shut those doors. There's 646 00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:25,080 Speaker 2: another door. And the Lord gave me this message as 647 00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:31,280 Speaker 2: an announcement, not as an intellectually stimulating conversation or amount 648 00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:35,920 Speaker 2: of log for your entertainment purposes. But you are standing 649 00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,279 Speaker 2: at an open door, and the door is open. But 650 00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:43,839 Speaker 2: it's not always obvious. It doesn't look like a door, 651 00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:49,799 Speaker 2: does It looks like a ceiling, looks like disappointment, looks 652 00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,520 Speaker 2: like looks like teachers of the law, looks like opposition. 653 00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:56,640 Speaker 2: It looks like a command to do something you can't do. 654 00:44:56,680 --> 00:45:00,720 Speaker 2: It looks like obedience. It looks like Jesus. It looks 655 00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:06,080 Speaker 2: like revelation. It looks like the word made flesh. This 656 00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:21,560 Speaker 2: is your door. This is your door, This is your door. 657 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:24,680 Speaker 2: I know it didn't work out the way you plan. 658 00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:31,920 Speaker 2: I understand that. I know it's disappointing. That's fine. Be disappointed, 659 00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:39,000 Speaker 2: but don't die in it. Don't die at an open door. 660 00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:46,600 Speaker 2: Something on the other side. There's another door. There's another door. Yes, Lord, 661 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:51,880 Speaker 2: I'll say it again, there's another door. It might not 662 00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:55,200 Speaker 2: be who you expected, what you expected, when you expected. 663 00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:58,960 Speaker 1: How you expected. There's another door. 664 00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:03,520 Speaker 2: Fill your horn with oil and be on your way. 665 00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:06,000 Speaker 2: For the one who has the key of bath and 666 00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,560 Speaker 2: says what I open, no man can shut. 667 00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:16,040 Speaker 1: And behold. 668 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:25,800 Speaker 2: Jesus said, I stand at the door. That's me knocking. 669 00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,759 Speaker 2: That's me trying to get your attention through the circumstances 670 00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:34,399 Speaker 2: of your life. That's me. And if you open it, 671 00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,040 Speaker 2: I will come in, heads bowed, eyes closed. There's somebody 672 00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,240 Speaker 2: in this place who needs a relationship with Jesus. 673 00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:41,520 Speaker 1: That's him at the door. 674 00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,440 Speaker 2: That's not a preacher, that's not an emotion that's the 675 00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,279 Speaker 2: spirit of God. Heads bowed, eyes closed. Right now, if 676 00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,759 Speaker 2: you're far away from God, you hear him knocking on 677 00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,480 Speaker 2: your heart today he wants to come in. All you 678 00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,880 Speaker 2: have to do is believe it's my grace through faith. 679 00:46:57,160 --> 00:46:58,160 Speaker 1: Faith opens the door. 680 00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:02,080 Speaker 2: So with hedge about and eyes closed on every location, 681 00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:03,440 Speaker 2: I'm going to lead you in a prayer right now. 682 00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:05,319 Speaker 2: If you want to come home to God or come 683 00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:05,800 Speaker 2: to Him. 684 00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:07,960 Speaker 1: For the first time, this is your moment. This is 685 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:08,440 Speaker 1: your door. 686 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,560 Speaker 2: All praying together as a church family, repeat after me, 687 00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:17,560 Speaker 2: Heavenly Father. I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God, 688 00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:23,480 Speaker 2: and today I make Jesus the Lord of my life. 689 00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:26,640 Speaker 2: I believe in my heart that God raised him from 690 00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:31,200 Speaker 2: the dead, and I confess with my mouth that Jesus 691 00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:36,640 Speaker 2: is Lord, and I believe I am saved. This is 692 00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:41,200 Speaker 2: my new beginning. With head still bout and eyes still closed. 693 00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:42,960 Speaker 2: If you just prayed that on the count of three, 694 00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:46,560 Speaker 2: shoot your hand up boldly, come forth, one, two, three, 695 00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:49,560 Speaker 2: all over this room, all over our campuses, all over 696 00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:54,319 Speaker 2: Lake Norman, all over Matthew's online. Right now, let's glorify 697 00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:58,840 Speaker 2: God for this new beginning. Somebody just step through and 698 00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:04,040 Speaker 2: open door. Somebody just stepped into a resurrected future. I 699 00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:08,120 Speaker 2: can't hear your church. Let's praise God like somebody just 700 00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:16,200 Speaker 2: came running back home. Thank you for joining us. Special 701 00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:19,040 Speaker 2: thanks to those of you who give generously to this ministry. 702 00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:22,319 Speaker 2: Is because of you that this ministry is possible. You 703 00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:24,759 Speaker 2: can click the link in the description to give now 704 00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:29,200 Speaker 2: or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more information 705 00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:31,680 Speaker 2: and if you enjoyed the podcast. 706 00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:34,120 Speaker 1: You can subscribe. 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