Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
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Speaker 4: Hey, everybody today, the Lord gave me a word he
Speaker 4: can give it to me today.
Speaker 3: Gave it to me Monday, so I've been sitting with
Speaker 3: it all week, so i can't wait to get to it.
Speaker 3: So I'm not going to do any announcements. So I'm
Speaker 3: just going to get right to it because I'm excited.
Speaker 3: We're going to revisit Genesis chapter thirty two, the scripture
Speaker 3: that I shared last week. We're going to jump in
Speaker 3: at verse twenty four. Some things that the Lord has
Speaker 3: been dealing with me about and some things I believe
Speaker 3: he wants to assure you about. This will be a
Speaker 3: word of assurance for somebody today.
Speaker 1: Genesis chapter thirty two, verse twenty four, The.
Speaker 3: Bible says, so Jacob was left alone and a man
Speaker 3: wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that
Speaker 3: he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of
Speaker 3: Jacob's hip so that his hip.
Speaker 1: Was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.
Speaker 3: The man said, let me go for his daybreak, but
Speaker 3: Jacob replied, I will not let you.
Speaker 1: Go unless you bless me.
Speaker 3: And I talked last week about the blessing of letting go,
Speaker 3: that sometimes it's not our strength, but our surrender that
Speaker 3: determines our ability to move forward in life. And specific
Speaker 3: what Jacob was letting go of and this passage wasn't
Speaker 3: the man. It was letting go of a previous version
Speaker 3: of himself.
Speaker 1: Because watch this. The man asked him, what's your name? Jacob?
Speaker 3: He answered, now, he had pretended to be his brother Esau,
Speaker 3: and we'll talk about that in a moment, but now
Speaker 3: he's saying his own name. And when he said his
Speaker 3: own name verse twenty eight, the man said, your name
Speaker 3: will no longer be Jacob.
Speaker 1: But Israel, because you have.
Speaker 3: Struggled with God and with humans and have overcome. Jacob said,
Speaker 3: please tell me your.
Speaker 1: Name, but he replied, why do you ask my name?
Speaker 3: Then he blessed him there so Jacob called the place
Speaker 3: ten yell, saying it is because I saw God face to.
Speaker 1: Face, and yet my life was spared.
Speaker 3: Last verse, I want to read key verse for today,
Speaker 3: Verse thirty one, Genesis, chapter thirty two. The sun rose
Speaker 3: above him as he passed Tenniel, and he was limping
Speaker 3: because of his hip.
Speaker 1: The sun rose above.
Speaker 3: Him as he passed Tenneoh, and he was limping because
Speaker 3: of his hip. Turn to your neighbor and say, I've
Speaker 3: got good news. Tell them the limp won't make you late, and.
Speaker 1: That good news. Let's pray. Father.
Speaker 3: I commend your people to you now, and I ask
Speaker 3: you to flow through me Holy Spirit, with clarity, supernatural accuracy,
Speaker 3: and indelible power. Make an imprint on the lives of
Speaker 3: your people, a mark that can't be erased. In Jesus' name, Amen,
Speaker 3: touch your neighbor on your way to your seat, and
Speaker 3: tell them I'm not late.
Speaker 1: Praise God.
Speaker 3: I think the reason that I'm perennially drawn to this
Speaker 3: text is because it illustrates one of my favorite things
Speaker 3: to teach people from the Bible, and that's the concept
Speaker 3: of progressive revelation. And when I say progressive revelation, it's
Speaker 3: not just so I can use big words so that
Speaker 3: you don't get confused at certain points in your life
Speaker 3: where you learn something that causes you to have to
Speaker 3: unlearn everything you thought you knew up until that point.
Speaker 1: Progressive revelation is the idea that as God is.
Speaker 3: Going in the scriptures, we see more and more of
Speaker 3: who He really is, and so you don't get all
Speaker 3: of God just by reading the Book of Genesis. You
Speaker 3: don't get all of God just by reading Genesis, Exis
Speaker 3: of Vidgicus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, the Pinituke, or those first five
Speaker 3: books of the Bible.
Speaker 1: You don't get all of God. By reading all the
Speaker 1: way to.
Speaker 3: The Book of Malachi I'm finishing the Old Testament, or Matthew, Martin,
Speaker 3: Luke and John, or all of the Epistles, the letters
Speaker 3: that Paul wrote to the Church, or James, or even
Speaker 3: the Book of Revelation. You don't get all of God.
Speaker 3: Even when you finish, if you go all the way
Speaker 3: to the Book of Maps in the back, you still
Speaker 3: will not have mastered God. This scripture is interesting, isn't it?
Speaker 3: Because Jacob asked this angel for his name, and he's like, no,
Speaker 3: not yet, I'm not going to tell you, I'm going
Speaker 3: to make sure you know your name. But God's name
Speaker 3: wasn't revealed until Moses came along, so that would be
Speaker 3: many years later, it would be many centuries later. That's
Speaker 3: what I mean by progressive revelation. Now, it's not like
Speaker 3: God got his name when Moses came along. But there
Speaker 3: are things that we know as we go. And so
Speaker 3: when when I tell you today that you're not late
Speaker 3: in life, that may be difficult for you to believe
Speaker 3: because of what you thought you knew that you needed
Speaker 3: to do by now, who you thought you needed to
Speaker 3: be at this stage in your life. And the thing
Speaker 3: about God's activity is that his revelation is on a schedule,
Speaker 3: but this schedule is usually not seen by us. His
Speaker 3: revelation is on schedule, and it's a schedule that you
Speaker 3: can't see.
Speaker 1: So write that down as a point today, Revelation is scheduled.
Speaker 1: Revelation is scheduled.
Speaker 3: Judging by the percentage of people who wrote that down
Speaker 3: when I said write it down, we either need some
Speaker 3: more elevation pins to hand out at the door, or
Speaker 3: you'll need it an extra two hours of sleep.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure which one it was.
Speaker 3: It's hard for me to believe that I'm pastoring this
Speaker 3: church going into our eighteenth year.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Why is so crazy is when I visioned myself starting
Speaker 3: a church, I was sixteen, but I thought I'd start
Speaker 3: the church when I was in my forties. So now
Speaker 3: here I am in my forties and I've been pastoring
Speaker 3: the church for eighteen years.
Speaker 1: And that's just crazy to me.
Speaker 3: And God set the schedule for when he wanted me
Speaker 3: to do this. And then Holly, she's very Holly has
Speaker 3: an interesting concept of time. Usually she's the one behind
Speaker 3: schedule in certain areas of life.
Speaker 1: She's doing a lot better with it.
Speaker 3: There was one time where she was the one who
Speaker 3: was early and I was running late. Usually in our
Speaker 3: marriage it's you know that I'm waiting in the car
Speaker 3: and she's running a little late. Very stereotypical male thing
Speaker 3: to say in the sermon intro, but it was true
Speaker 3: in our marriage, especially.
Speaker 1: For the first few years.
Speaker 3: But in one of our first conversations about this church,
Speaker 3: she said, you know, I believe it's time for us
Speaker 3: to go start this church. We were in our twenties,
Speaker 3: we had only been married a couple of years, and
Speaker 3: she said, I think it's time. I said, it's not time.
Speaker 3: We're going to do it later. I'm going to go
Speaker 3: do something else for twenty years and learn everything I
Speaker 3: need to know, and then we'll start the church. And
Speaker 3: so she pointed me to the resources that God had
Speaker 3: given us, and she let me see that in that moment,
Speaker 3: although we didn't feel like we had the experience that
Speaker 3: we needed, and I didn't feel like that I had
Speaker 3: the knowledge that I needed, that God's calling is more
Speaker 3: important than human knowledge. So she was the person who
Speaker 3: said to me, I believe it's time for us to.
Speaker 1: Go do this, And the.
Speaker 3: Stupidity of youth, aided by faith in God, led us
Speaker 3: to start a church in our twenties.
Speaker 1: Praise the Lord.
Speaker 3: Now, the thing about that is at the time that
Speaker 3: she made mention of that to me and I talk
Speaker 3: about progressive revelation. There are a lot of mistakes that
Speaker 3: I believe I made because I started the church so early,
Speaker 3: that I probably would not have made if I had
Speaker 3: been more mature. When I started the church at age
Speaker 3: twenty seven, there were some things I didn't know yet
Speaker 3: about human nature, and to be honest, some things I
Speaker 3: didn't know about myself, my own deficits, my own psychological
Speaker 3: garbage that I probably hadn't dealt with properly. There were
Speaker 3: a lot of things that I still had to go
Speaker 3: through to really know who I was. Remember in the
Speaker 3: text that I read you, Jacob not only doesn't know
Speaker 3: who God is fully, but he doesn't know who he
Speaker 3: is fully yet either.
Speaker 1: And he was ninety years old when this happened.
Speaker 3: So tell somebody next to you, there's hope for you yet.
Speaker 1: And one day I was just going through a list.
Speaker 1: This was recent.
Speaker 3: I was going through a list of all of the
Speaker 3: dumb things that I did in the foundational stages of
Speaker 3: our church that I regret now because looking back, I say,
Speaker 3: that was so dumb that I set it up that way.
Speaker 3: If I hadn't set it up like this, we wouldn't
Speaker 3: be dealing with that.
Speaker 1: Now I see that this was a bad idea. I
Speaker 1: thought it was good.
Speaker 5: But now this this thing that was so good thought.
Speaker 3: I thought it was so good when we started, and
Speaker 3: this thing that I said.
Speaker 1: And now is just ah. And I'm just beating myself up.
Speaker 3: That's my spiritual gift, just to beat the crap out
Speaker 3: of myself. And so I'm doing all this jiu jitsu
Speaker 3: on myself making myself feel bad, and again, with wisdom,
Speaker 3: she steps in and says something that's so simple but
Speaker 3: so wise. She's like, why are you punishing yourself for
Speaker 3: decisions that you made with revelation that you didn't have
Speaker 3: at the time.
Speaker 5: Why are you punishing.
Speaker 6: Yourself over yesterday's mistake with today's revel.
Speaker 1: The truth of.
Speaker 3: The matter is that at every stage along the way
Speaker 3: of leading this church, I've tried to do what I
Speaker 3: thought was right in that season with the resources.
Speaker 5: That I had.
Speaker 3: And I can respect that, because even if I.
Speaker 1: Came to see later then I could have done it better.
Speaker 1: I did what was right at the time.
Speaker 3: I led in the light that I had, with the
Speaker 3: light that I had, with the knowledge.
Speaker 1: That I had, with the wisdom that I had. Meager,
Speaker 1: though she were, I.
Speaker 3: Led this church the best I could in the light
Speaker 3: that I had. I want to call your attention to
Speaker 3: two parts of Genesis, chapter thirty two, Verse thirty one.
Speaker 3: One says the sun rose above Jacob as he passed,
Speaker 3: and the other says he was limping.
Speaker 5: Now, for the rest of this message, I want to
Speaker 5: talk about.
Speaker 3: Those two physical elements, but I want to use them
Speaker 3: symbolically for spiritual purposes for what you're going through in
Speaker 3: your life. It says the sun rose that's number one,
Speaker 3: and he limped. So there's two characters at play in
Speaker 3: this text. There's the light and the limp. The light
Speaker 3: and the limp. And what I want to make the
Speaker 3: case to you about in your life Jacob's life. My
Speaker 3: life today is that the light didn't stop the limp,
Speaker 3: but the limp couldn't stop the light.
Speaker 1: They're like preaching that today.
Speaker 3: So here he is Jacob ninety plus years old, getting
Speaker 3: ready to go deal with his brother Esau, who he
Speaker 3: cheated out of a blessing twenty years earlier.
Speaker 6: Jacob has spent twenty years in sort of a layover
Speaker 6: situation at his uncle's house.
Speaker 1: His uncle is named Laban.
Speaker 3: As it often happens in life, what happened to him
Speaker 3: during the layover was even more important than what happened
Speaker 3: when he got to the destination. It was at Laban's
Speaker 3: house that he met his wife, Leah. It was also
Speaker 3: at Laban's house that he met his second wife, Rachel.
Speaker 3: Turn to your neighbors, say you only get one just
Speaker 3: the Old Testament progressive revelation, and.
Speaker 5: So is it truth?
Speaker 1: Sometimes the stuff that happens.
Speaker 3: While you're trying to get where you're going becomes the
Speaker 3: stuff that's the most important, and that while you're on
Speaker 3: the way to where you're going, you stumble over what
Speaker 3: you were actually supposed to do all along. I mean,
Speaker 3: that is absolutely true in my life.
Speaker 5: And yet we don't see.
Speaker 3: By all the light that there is only the light
Speaker 3: that we have. Right now, somebody is living in the life,
Speaker 3: but only a little bit of light. All night long,
Speaker 3: Jacob has wrestled with a man. He's not sure who
Speaker 3: the man is at first. He's not even really sure
Speaker 3: who the man is when the match is over, but
Speaker 3: he has a little bit of a better picture, a
Speaker 3: little bit of a clearer picture, and he's wrestling, grappling,
Speaker 3: and in many ways losing in this battle against this
Speaker 3: opponent that he can't see. He is living in the
Speaker 3: light that he has. And as daybreak comes and he
Speaker 3: lets the man go, and he lets go of his
Speaker 3: former self to receive his new identity, the light rises
Speaker 3: over him.
Speaker 1: He walks past nile.
Speaker 3: He says, this is the place where I saw God.
Speaker 3: The sun is rising and he's limping at the same time.
Speaker 3: To me, that is very powerful to describe what it
Speaker 3: is like to walk with God. I remembered this funny story,
Speaker 3: and Graham probably doesn't remember it, but one of his
Speaker 3: early birthdays, I was out preaching in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be home for his birthday.
Speaker 3: Somebody let us borrow you know what story I'm about
Speaker 3: to tell. Somebody let us borrow their little plane, and
Speaker 3: so we were gonna fly back that night so I
Speaker 3: could preach at night and then fly back.
Speaker 1: Remember this. We got on the plane.
Speaker 3: The plane was very small, so it couldn't get really
Speaker 3: above the weather, so we had to circle around all
Speaker 3: these storms.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to be back by his birthday. He's
Speaker 1: finally had four or five at the time.
Speaker 3: And we got on that plane and the pilot said, well,
Speaker 3: we're going to be able to get you home. It's
Speaker 3: just a matter of win because we're gonna have to
Speaker 3: stop a bunch of times to refuel this plane because
Speaker 3: the plane is very little and they can't hold much fuel,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna have to fly around the weather.
Speaker 1: So we don't know.
Speaker 3: We took a three hour trip from Oklahoma City to Charlotte,
Speaker 3: North Carolina, and twelve hours later, at seven am, I
Speaker 3: walked in the front door and Graham was just waking
Speaker 3: up on his birthday, and he said, how'd you get
Speaker 3: here so quick?
Speaker 1: Because he thought I left that morning. He thought I
Speaker 1: left that morning.
Speaker 3: He had no idea that I had been flying all
Speaker 3: night to get there what he called quick. People ask
Speaker 3: me sometimes how did Elevation Church grow so quick? Sometimes
Speaker 3: people look at your life and they can't understand how
Speaker 3: you are where you are, and they look at you
Speaker 3: and they think it just came natural. But what they
Speaker 3: don't see is I thought all night. I thought all
Speaker 3: night to get here. I fought all night and half
Speaker 3: the morning. I thought all night and half the morning.
Speaker 3: And that's before my husband even woke up. That was
Speaker 3: my second fight, and the kids were the third. Getting
Speaker 3: them to get dressed was the third. I thought all
Speaker 3: night to get here. There is a sense in which
Speaker 3: Jacob business passage serves as a model for all of
Speaker 3: us who have been going through things that others don't
Speaker 3: see me showing up looking like we plan to get
Speaker 3: there along.
Speaker 5: But they don't really know what you.
Speaker 3: Went through to get there, do they? They don't really
Speaker 3: know what you went through to show up at the job.
Speaker 1: Every day last.
Speaker 3: Week do they, And you would never tell them that
Speaker 3: because to tell them what you went through to get
Speaker 3: there would make you feel a little vulnerable and insecure
Speaker 3: because you don't think you're supposed to fight because nobody
Speaker 3: else shows you their fight. You only see the fragments
Speaker 3: of their life that shine through a screen light, and
Speaker 3: so through the light of the screen, you can't really
Speaker 3: see the struggles that other people deal with. So now
Speaker 3: here you are in your life feeling like, oh, I
Speaker 3: feel like I'm a little behind. Oh I feel like
Speaker 3: I'm not where I'm supposed to be. Who says you're
Speaker 3: not where you're supposed to be, Well, I'm not where
Speaker 3: they are. Well, how do you know where they are really?
Speaker 3: Because you don't know what they dealt with last night.
Speaker 5: You don't know what they were doing last night.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going through their mind right now,
Speaker 3: So why would I compare myself with somebody I can't
Speaker 3: see through? And I think it's worse than ever for
Speaker 3: our kids, because now I gotta compare myself.
Speaker 1: To the whole world at all times.
Speaker 5: When I first.
Speaker 6: Started learning how to play guitar, I just had to
Speaker 6: be better than my friends.
Speaker 3: In Monk's corner who also played guitar. There were three. Now,
Speaker 3: I gotta look at a four year old in Japan
Speaker 3: who can play Stairway to Heaven left handed on one string.
Speaker 1: I suck.
Speaker 3: And just about when you think you're doing pretty good,
Speaker 3: here comes somebody.
Speaker 6: Y'all, there is a man in our neighborhood.
Speaker 1: I testify God as my witness. I am not lying
Speaker 1: that when we walked by.
Speaker 3: His house yesterday, yesterday he was putting up his Christmas lights.
Speaker 3: Pray for all the dysfunctional.
Speaker 6: People who are clapping for that, like that's normal.
Speaker 5: That's a demon.
Speaker 3: That's a childhood trauma that needs therapy. Because it's November
Speaker 3: fifth or sixth or something like that. It just got
Speaker 3: cold three hours ago, and you're blasting simply having a wonderful.
Speaker 3: He had music playing in his yard. All the kids
Speaker 3: were out there, nobody was fighting.
Speaker 5: I was like, what's wrong with me?
Speaker 3: I don't even know where we keep our Christmas lights.
Speaker 3: Holly's in charge of that. I'm not a man. I'm
Speaker 3: not a good man.
Speaker 7: With a kid, I start playing sports, I thought, well,
Speaker 7: maybe I'll coach their team.
Speaker 1: They start playing baseball.
Speaker 3: I found out real quick the standards for coaching little
Speaker 3: league baseball have changed since I played little league baseball.
Speaker 1: Used to be you know, show.
Speaker 3: Up, don't be drunk, don't yell at the umph. My
Speaker 3: dad coached my team and he didn't ever play baseball,
Speaker 3: didn't know about baseball. He went to the library and
Speaker 3: checked out a book. I saw you see him reading
Speaker 3: the book how to coach Little League Baseball. Times have changed.
Speaker 3: He bought a rule book. He memorized the rule book.
Speaker 3: He's out there teaching us to play baseball. He was,
Speaker 3: he was, he was well, the team was worse than
Speaker 3: he was. It was anyway, the whole season, all he.
Speaker 1: Let us do was bunt because we were that bad.
Speaker 3: So I'm out there thinking my boys, like, well, maybe
Speaker 3: I could, maybe I could coach the team. Maybe I
Speaker 3: could go to the library, go over to the car catalog,
Speaker 3: get a little book and learn how to coach.
Speaker 1: And maybe that'd be a good memory for the kids.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: I don't remember if they were seven or five or nine.
Speaker 1: I don't remember exactly.
Speaker 3: It's all blurry, but they start talking to me pretty
Speaker 3: much before the boys were in middle school. You got
Speaker 3: them on a travel team. Yet I'm like, a, who
Speaker 3: what doing good? I'm doing good to get them out
Speaker 3: there for every practice. Note if you don't have them
Speaker 3: on a travel team. This is what the man pulled
Speaker 3: me aside and explain. If you don't have him on
Speaker 3: a travel team by age ten, they'll fall behind. They
Speaker 3: won't even be able to make the middle school team.
Speaker 3: I said, wow, looks like you're not making the middle
Speaker 3: school team. They learned to wrestle or something. And it's
Speaker 3: nothing bad about travel teams or elite teams or AAU
Speaker 3: or any of that. That's all wonderful, except when your
Speaker 3: whole life begins to kind of feel like that, where.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm behind and I don't even know
Speaker 1: how I got behind, But it.
Speaker 3: Seems like everybody knows something, has something, sees something, and
Speaker 3: can do.
Speaker 1: Something that I can't do.
Speaker 3: What I realized about Jacob's life as the sun was
Speaker 3: rising and he was limping, is that he was born
Speaker 3: feeling behind. In the literal birth order of Jacob and Esau,
Speaker 3: they were twins.
Speaker 6: Separated by only a few seconds, Jacob was.
Speaker 3: Only going to get one third of the inheritance because
Speaker 3: that's the way it worked in those days, and.
Speaker 6: So when he was born, he came out grabbing his
Speaker 6: brother's heel.
Speaker 1: That's what the name Jacob means. It means heel grabber.
Speaker 3: There was something in him, even in the womb, that
Speaker 3: was wrestling against his brother, something that felt like I'm.
Speaker 1: Behind and I can't be behind.
Speaker 6: For all of his clutching and grasping at his brother's heel.
Speaker 7: He still came out second. Now, at age ninety.
Speaker 3: He's very blessed because he's stolen a blessing in a
Speaker 3: birthright from his blind father Isaac. But yet there's a
Speaker 3: wrestling match that happens on his way to reconcile with Esau.
Speaker 1: It's been twenty years.
Speaker 3: Since he's seen him, and as he's getting ready to
Speaker 3: go and face Esau and make it right with Esau,
Speaker 3: he hopes because Esau could kill him, an angel appears
Speaker 3: and wrestles him to the point where his hip is wrenched,
Speaker 3: and he leaves the presence of the angel to face
Speaker 3: his brother. And the only evidence that he has that
Speaker 3: he's met with God is his limb. We think the
Speaker 3: evidence that we've been with God is that our situation
Speaker 3: gets better. We then take all of the evidence that
Speaker 3: other people present to us of how good their life
Speaker 3: is and compared to them putting up their Christmas lights
Speaker 3: in April, compared to them whose kids are always on
Speaker 3: a field somewhere, getting better and better, and hitting coaches
Speaker 3: and batting cages. And we can barely afford to buy
Speaker 3: the bat to begin with, So how would we pay
Speaker 3: for the bat, the pitching, the coaching lessons, the private
Speaker 3: coaching lessons, if we.
Speaker 5: Could compare to them.
Speaker 3: I came to announce to you today that nothing in
Speaker 3: your life is originated divinely by your comparison to people,
Speaker 3: only by your commitment to purpose. The starting place for
Speaker 3: contentment is commitment to purpose.
Speaker 1: Why is that important?
Speaker 3: Because the alternative to commitment to purpose is comparison to people.
Speaker 3: If I'm comparing myself to people, I'm always grabbing heels.
Speaker 3: If I'm comparing myself to people, I'm always feeling either
Speaker 3: better than or less than.
Speaker 1: But neither of those will bring you close to God.
Speaker 3: If I'm comparing myself to people, I'll always feel like
Speaker 3: I was born behind. And here's why. Because everybody in
Speaker 3: here has a limp. But some limps are more easily
Speaker 3: hidden than others. Some limps show up later in life.
Speaker 1: Some limps show up privately.
Speaker 3: Some limps show up in intimate relationships. Some limps show
Speaker 3: up in an inability to hold down a job.
Speaker 1: Some limps have catastrophic results. Some limps have insidious.
Speaker 7: Effects that no one can see.
Speaker 8: Some limps you carry alone. But everybody came in here limping. Yeah,
Speaker 8: you came, but you're limping. You've been limping this week.
Speaker 3: It's been a long week because you've been limping, limping.
Speaker 1: I'm limping.
Speaker 5: I'm here, but I'm limping.
Speaker 1: I love God, but I'm limping.
Speaker 3: I'm bringing this back from last week because something needs
Speaker 3: to break in our lives to where we stop showing
Speaker 3: up on Sunday and not getting what we really need
Speaker 3: from God because we don't want anybody to see where
Speaker 3: we really limp, or where you stop coming to church
Speaker 3: every time you have to limp in because.
Speaker 1: You feel too guilty. That's how shame operates.
Speaker 6: The time when you need to drag your behind to
Speaker 6: this church the most is the time where you've done
Speaker 6: the dumbest stuff in your life and you say, God,
Speaker 6: I need a course correction.
Speaker 5: God.
Speaker 1: I need you to top me off. I need you
Speaker 1: to fill me.
Speaker 3: I feel empty, I feel.
Speaker 1: Crazy, I don't feel.
Speaker 3: Like myself limp in here and see if the Lord
Speaker 3: won't lift you up. The Bible says, humble yourself.
Speaker 6: Under the mighty hand of God, and in due time.
Speaker 1: He'll lift you up.
Speaker 3: So watch this, somebody say, the light is coming. It's
Speaker 3: a new day dawning on Jacob. The sun is coming
Speaker 3: up over Jacob. The night is over, the wrestling is over,
Speaker 3: the struggle is over.
Speaker 5: He has let go.
Speaker 1: Of his old self.
Speaker 3: He has received a new name. He has been touched
Speaker 3: and transformed by God. He is carrying destiny. He is
Speaker 3: on his way to his purpose.
Speaker 1: But he's limping.
Speaker 3: Because the light doesn't stuck the limb. Just because you
Speaker 3: know doesn't mean you can do it.
Speaker 6: It just because God.
Speaker 3: Just because God shows you who is calling you to be,
Speaker 3: doesn't mean you yet have the courage to do it.
Speaker 3: Everything that I've become in my life, everything I've accomplished
Speaker 3: in my life that was worthwhile for God, I confess
Speaker 3: to you, I limped into it. What are you limping
Speaker 3: into today? The light is coming and Jacob is limping,
Speaker 3: and those are not mutually exclusive. I don't know if
Speaker 3: this is too deep, if I'm preaching it. Maybe if
Speaker 3: at the wrong time to the wrong people or something
Speaker 3: like that. I thought this was the right message because
Speaker 3: sometimes we get confused that we think when the light comes,
Speaker 3: the limping stops. We think that when we see Jesus,
Speaker 3: meet Jesus, receive Jesus, growing Jesus, that that means that
Speaker 3: we're automatically going to accelerate and reach the place where
Speaker 3: He's called us to be.
Speaker 9: The evidence of this meeting with Jesus was a limp
Speaker 9: that never left Jacob's life. So I suggest to you
Speaker 9: that some of the times of the greatest light will
Speaker 9: also be the times of the greatest limp. And the
Speaker 9: Bible says that Jacob limped all the way to the
Speaker 9: place where he met his brother aside, you can get
Speaker 9: their limping.
Speaker 3: Where God has taken you, where he's calling you, what
Speaker 3: he's drawing out of you, what he's using you to do,
Speaker 3: what he's moving you into, how he's maturing you, how
Speaker 3: he's growing you.
Speaker 1: It might not be pretty, that's all right, nobody's is all.
Speaker 1: The pretty people.
Speaker 3: Just have really hidden limbs, just really hidden limbs, and
Speaker 3: some of the people with the biggest strut are compensating
Speaker 3: for something that they're dragging behind them. Now imagine you're Jacob,
Speaker 3: and maybe this is how you feel in your life.
Speaker 3: He's coming up on something that is the most important
Speaker 3: meeting he's ever had.
Speaker 1: If this goes bad, Esau kills him. The stakes are high.
Speaker 1: How many WOUM say that's high stakes?
Speaker 3: And it's not like it's even going to be a
Speaker 3: close call because Esau is a skilled hunter.
Speaker 1: Jacob is a skilled cook. By the way, that's.
Speaker 3: Part of the reason that Jacob felt very insecure in
Speaker 3: his life because he never had his father's love. His
Speaker 3: father loved Esau, so one of the reasons he pretended
Speaker 3: to be his brother was to get the love of
Speaker 3: a father who expected him to be something that he
Speaker 3: could never become because it wasn't according to his purpose.
Speaker 3: Jacob isn't just limping at age ninety. He's been limping
Speaker 3: all of his life because of the love that he
Speaker 3: didn't get from the only one who could really confer.
Speaker 1: A blessing on him. He's limping.
Speaker 3: See, there is a reason if in your life you're
Speaker 3: not who you're supposed to be. Yet there's a reason
Speaker 3: for that. There's an explanation for him. Yeah, I would
Speaker 3: love to be a better wife, but it's hard for
Speaker 3: me because I didn't see that model. I've been limping.
Speaker 3: I would love to be a more patient person, but
Speaker 3: I grew up in a family where people exploded with
Speaker 3: their temper, and I am trying to unlearn that template
Speaker 3: so that I can change it and turn it around
Speaker 3: so my kids don't live with my limp. And I
Speaker 3: wish I was farther along, and I wish I had
Speaker 3: saved more money, but nobody taught.
Speaker 1: Me how to do this thing.
Speaker 6: So I went into debt trying to compensate for the love.
Speaker 1: That I didn't get.
Speaker 6: I went into debt trying to compensate for the approval
Speaker 6: that I didn't get. I've been limping my whole life.
Speaker 6: I've been struggling my whole life.
Speaker 3: And the truth of it is, some of the people
Speaker 3: that are critical of you would celebrate you.
Speaker 1: If they could understand how hard.
Speaker 3: It was for you to get to this point with
Speaker 3: your limp. And don't let them intimidate you when they
Speaker 3: show you their dance. Because everybody limps somewhere. Everybody limps somewhere.
Speaker 5: They're not farther along than you.
Speaker 3: They're just called to a different place than you, so
Speaker 3: they have a different pace from you. So when you
Speaker 3: get there on Thanksgiving and they say I thought you'd
Speaker 3: be married by now, say I thought you would have
Speaker 3: learned how to pray and let God lead me by now,
Speaker 3: and stop trying to manipulate my life.
Speaker 10: I'm not late.
Speaker 5: I'm moving this thing along. The man i'm gonna marry
Speaker 5: is still earning his millions.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm not late.
Speaker 5: I'm not late. This is a layover.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get some blessings, some maturity, some strength, some lessons,
Speaker 3: some truth.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna get some things while I'm in Laban's house.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when I get where God is taking me, I
Speaker 3: got everything I need.
Speaker 5: Humble yourself. Tell your neighbor your limp won't make you late.
Speaker 3: Because what I love about Jacob is he's been up
Speaker 3: all night. He's tired, he's scared, he's afraid, he's in turmoil.
Speaker 3: He's got an ulcer. He's about the fight his brother.
Speaker 3: He doesn't know what's gonna happen next. He's uncertain, he's anxious. Pastor,
Speaker 3: I thought you were talking about Jacob. It sounds like
Speaker 3: you're talking about me. We're talking about all of us.
Speaker 3: We're talking about all of us. But the sun's coming up.
Speaker 3: The sun's coming up. The Sun's coming up. It's a
Speaker 3: new day in Jacob's life. And so watch what he does.
Speaker 3: Verse thirty one my favorite verse this week. I'll have
Speaker 3: a different favorite verse next week. I changed favorite verses
Speaker 3: Like most people change shoes. I change favorite versus every
Speaker 3: chance I get. Genesis thirty two, Verse thirty one, it says,
Speaker 3: and the sun rose.
Speaker 1: The light came, and he was limping.
Speaker 3: Now not only do I have to face he saw,
Speaker 3: but I gotta do it limping, and that means I
Speaker 3: can't even run. Has God got you in a place
Speaker 3: right now where you can't run from it? And did
Speaker 3: he do that intentionally? Is he trying to show you
Speaker 3: who you really are, who He really is? Have you
Speaker 3: been caught in the constant comparison trap where it is
Speaker 3: a cycle that makes you sick, a nauseating noticing of
Speaker 3: what everybody else has that you don't have.
Speaker 5: Wait up, I'm limping. I'm trying to catch you, but
Speaker 5: I can't.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Not only did Jacob feel this way, your great apostle
Speaker 3: Paul felt this way. He was writing to the Corinthian
Speaker 3: Church and they were doubting his credentials as an apostle.
Speaker 3: They said he didn't speak as well as a polus.
Speaker 3: So I wrote him a letter. When he got to
Speaker 3: about chapter fifteen of First Corinthians, that's a long letter,
Speaker 3: he started telling him how he really felt about it.
Speaker 3: He said, verse three, for what I received, I passed
Speaker 3: on to you as of first importance. Now that underscores
Speaker 3: the first part of my message. I started this message
Speaker 3: by telling you that we are all leading in the
Speaker 3: light that we have. That's what Paul said. He said,
Speaker 3: in the light that I have. I passed it on
Speaker 3: to you. Now Paul had more light than Jacob because
Speaker 3: he lived in the aftermath of the resurrection, not only
Speaker 3: the birth and death of Jesus Christ, but the resurrection.
Speaker 3: So he said, I received this revelation and I passed
Speaker 3: it on to you as a first important that Christ
Speaker 3: died for our sins according to the scriptures, and on
Speaker 3: the third that he was buried, that he was raised
Speaker 3: on the third day according to the scriptures, and that
Speaker 3: he appeared to Cephists as Peter, and then to the twelve.
Speaker 1: Now watch how long the list is that Paul gives,
Speaker 1: and I'll show you why I'm reading this.
Speaker 6: After that he appeared to more than five hundred of
Speaker 6: the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of
Speaker 6: whom are still living, though some of them have fallen asleep.
Speaker 1: Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,
Speaker 1: and last of all, he appeared to me, also as
Speaker 1: to one abnormally born.
Speaker 3: Last of all, if you ask for people to quote
Speaker 3: a scripture from the New Testament, the first ones that
Speaker 3: come to our mind are written by this guy, Paul.
Speaker 3: I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
Speaker 1: Learn the secret of being content.
Speaker 3: I am crucified with Christ, all of these wonderful things that.
Speaker 1: He passed on to us, the apostle Paul.
Speaker 3: And yet he said I was the last one that
Speaker 3: he appeared to in a literal chronological sense. He meant
Speaker 3: it that after Jesus had been taken up and they
Speaker 3: all got to see him in bodily form, he had
Speaker 3: to knock Paul down on the Damascus road, blind his eyes,
Speaker 3: and change his name from Saul to Paul, and bring
Speaker 3: him to a place of conversion. But he also meant
Speaker 3: it a little differently. Look at the verse again, verse eight,
Speaker 3: that says as to one abnormally born. Many believed that
Speaker 3: Paul was speaking here of the fact that the Corinthians
Speaker 3: called him names he was very small.
Speaker 1: That's literally what his name means, Paul means small. So
Speaker 1: there is much speculation among.
Speaker 3: Scholars that Paul was called the small one, the little one.
Speaker 3: There's even language in this text that makes us think
Speaker 3: that maybe Paul was calling himself some kind of freak.
Speaker 1: I'm a freak. I came last.
Speaker 7: He showed up to all the other apostles in physical form.
Speaker 1: But to me, I was the last one.
Speaker 3: And yet Paul says, even though I got a late start,
Speaker 3: even though I don't deserve it, even though I might
Speaker 3: be smaller than less than and.
Speaker 7: Have seen less than look at verse nine, for.
Speaker 3: I am the least of the apostles, and do not
Speaker 3: even deserve to be called an apostle because I persecuted
Speaker 3: the Church of God. Do you see how he's still
Speaker 3: limping over the life that he lived before he met Christ.
Speaker 5: He never got.
Speaker 3: Over that he was present at the stoning of Stephen,
Speaker 3: and he.
Speaker 5: Never forgot it.
Speaker 6: That guilt never went away from Paul, that shame never
Speaker 6: fully left him. He is still dealing with it and
Speaker 6: the church that he's trying to lead is throwing it
Speaker 6: back in.
Speaker 3: His face, and he says, I'm not going to argue
Speaker 3: with you about that. I'm not gonna pretend that I
Speaker 3: don't limp. I'm not gonna try to pretend like I
Speaker 3: was the first in line. I'm not here because I
Speaker 3: was the first in line.
Speaker 6: I'm here by faith, through grace and the grace of
Speaker 6: God that reached for me, that reached and pulled me
Speaker 6: from the back of the line.
Speaker 5: I came to.
Speaker 3: Preach to somebody who's been limping. I've been behind lately.
Speaker 3: I don't know what I need to know. I didn't
Speaker 3: get what I wanted to have.
Speaker 5: But watch what Paul said, give me the next verse.
Speaker 5: I'm the least. I don't deserve it. But by the grace.
Speaker 3: Of God, I am what I am. I'm not racing
Speaker 3: to become something that I'm not called to be.
Speaker 1: I am what I am.
Speaker 5: Somebody say, I.
Speaker 3: Am what I am, and where I am is where
Speaker 3: the great I am wanting me to be. So I'm limping,
Speaker 3: but I'm not late. So I'm not up to your standard.
Speaker 3: But I'm not living for your approval because I'm not
Speaker 3: created by your hand. Because my days aren't ordained in
Speaker 3: your book.
Speaker 5: I find somebody say I'm right on time.
Speaker 1: I'm right on time.
Speaker 6: Because watch this. The light is coming. The light is coming.
Speaker 6: The light is coming. The light is coming. The light
Speaker 6: is coming.
Speaker 10: I've been depressed, but.
Speaker 5: The light is coming.
Speaker 10: I've been down having rubble figuring it out, but the
Speaker 10: light is coming. I've been unsure, down on myself, rolling
Speaker 10: in his security.
Speaker 6: But the light is coming. The light is coming. The
Speaker 6: light is coming. The joy is coming.
Speaker 5: A new day is darning. I'm waking up.
Speaker 3: So what I always was, I am what I am
Speaker 3: by the grace of God, and the grace that brought
Speaker 3: me safe thus far will lead me home. If I
Speaker 3: gotta get their limpis, if I gotta get there a.
Speaker 5: Little behind, if I gotta get there.
Speaker 10: Tuesday, if I gotta put it back to Wednesday, if
Speaker 10: I gotta.
Speaker 3: Make up for it at the end of wedding three,
Speaker 3: I shall do it.
Speaker 1: And the Lord said, it's no coinci. Then I'm preaching
Speaker 1: this on daylight.
Speaker 3: Save these times Sunday, because something happened this morning. When
Speaker 3: you woke up, you had an extra hour you didn't
Speaker 3: know you have. God said, I'm gonna give you time
Speaker 3: I'm gonna restore the years.
Speaker 5: You're gonna have time to do it.
Speaker 3: Whoever is forrests hidden deep right now. And I don't
Speaker 3: want this shout to get in the way of your
Speaker 3: receiving this ministry, because it is a terrible thing to
Speaker 3: watch everybody else go ahead of you and feel like
Speaker 3: you're limping, to watch everybody else be happy and feel
Speaker 3: like there's some demon in you that won't let.
Speaker 1: You enjoy life, to watch everybody else.
Speaker 3: Move up in their career, and to feel like you
Speaker 3: keep moving backwards, staying plateaued. Every time you get a
Speaker 3: little momentum, you get a little set back.
Speaker 1: You're limping.
Speaker 3: But the grace of God came to Paul, if God
Speaker 3: came to Jacob, the light of God is dawning in
Speaker 3: your life to let you know.
Speaker 1: You're not late.
Speaker 3: In order for you to be late, there would have
Speaker 3: had to be something that God did not account for
Speaker 3: that happened.
Speaker 1: In your life.
Speaker 3: And if something happened in your life that God didn't
Speaker 3: account for, then he's not God.
Speaker 1: So the fact that God started.
Speaker 11: It means that he knows where it's supposed to be
Speaker 11: right now, means that when God called you, he accounted
Speaker 11: for traffic.
Speaker 3: I'm so tired of watching people beat themselves up over
Speaker 3: comparison that has nothing to do with their calling, asking
Speaker 3: little four year olds what college are you applying to.
Speaker 3: We've gone absolutely crazy in this culture to say to
Speaker 3: you that the spirit that gets on you, that has
Speaker 3: you subjecting yourself to a standard that has nothing to
Speaker 3: do with the spirit of God. It has to let
Speaker 3: you go right now, in the name of Jesus, put
Speaker 3: your Christmas lights up in February for all I care.
Speaker 1: I'm not late. I abide in Christ.
Speaker 3: And since I abide in Him, that means that everything
Speaker 3: in His season that is supposed to come forth is
Speaker 3: coming up.
Speaker 1: Somebody's shout is coming up.
Speaker 3: Say I abide in Christ, and everything in my life
Speaker 3: is coming up, is coming up. Say it again, I
Speaker 3: abide in Christ, and everything in my life is coming
Speaker 3: up lovely in abundance at just the right time.
Speaker 1: I dare you to give God a praise for that.
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: The light's coming.
Speaker 12: Man.
Speaker 1: I know it's been a dark night. You've been wrestling alone,
Speaker 1: you've been feeling behind your whole life. But the light
Speaker 1: is coming limp into it.
Speaker 3: I said, Lord, what do you want me to tell
Speaker 3: them about this message that they can never forget?
Speaker 1: He said, to tell him limp into it. Limp into it, because.
Speaker 3: One thing I love about Jacob he might have been limping,
Speaker 3: but he didn't lay down. And that's how you accomplish it,
Speaker 3: and that's how you make it, and that's how you grow,
Speaker 3: and that's how you know who God is.
Speaker 1: Is you limp into it.
Speaker 3: The beauty of today's limp, he said, it becomes tomorrow's lean.
Speaker 3: Follow me real quick, y'all got like three minutes for
Speaker 3: me to finish this message. M it'd be weird if
Speaker 3: I preached a message called You're not late and you
Speaker 3: told me to hurry up and finish my message. Be
Speaker 3: kind of ironic because I was reading about I was
Speaker 3: reading about the end of Jacob's life. Yeah, Minister l J,
Speaker 3: that'll be good. He uh, he lived fifty more years
Speaker 3: after this wrestling match. So guess what he saw didn't
Speaker 3: kill him.
Speaker 1: He Sau didn't kill him. He had to limp to Esau.
Speaker 3: In Genesis thirty three, verse four, the Bible says that
Speaker 3: he made his way toward Esau. Remember, he's limping and
Speaker 3: as Esau's coming toward and the Bible says verse four
Speaker 3: Genesis thirty three, Verse four, I got shit.
Speaker 1: It says that Esau ran to me Jacob, and the
Speaker 1: beauty of that is that Jacob couldn't run to it,
Speaker 1: so it ran to him. Did you hear what I
Speaker 1: just said to you?
Speaker 3: Because you've been thinking, well, if I would have had
Speaker 3: this opportunity sooner, I could have done it.
Speaker 1: But I can't now because look where I am now.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, you limped to it, and God will make
Speaker 3: it run to you. In fact, when the writer of
Speaker 3: Hebrews many centuries later, remember it's progress of revelation. We
Speaker 3: don't even know at this point in the story that
Speaker 3: Jacob and Esau are going to go.
Speaker 1: And you don't even know at.
Speaker 3: This point in the story that this is the nation
Speaker 3: of Israel that Jacob is carrying with them. We don't
Speaker 3: know any of that yet, and you don't know any
Speaker 3: of that yet. But it's all on God's schedule of revelation,
Speaker 3: so that at the end of Jacob's life. This is
Speaker 3: what the author of Hebrews said about in verse twenty,
Speaker 3: that by faith Hebrews eleven, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau
Speaker 3: concerning things to come.
Speaker 1: Now watch this, and this is how I want you
Speaker 1: to leave today. Verse twenty one.
Speaker 3: By Faith Jacob, when he was dying, fifty years after
Speaker 3: he wrestled with God.
Speaker 1: When he was dying, blessed each of.
Speaker 3: The sons of Joseph and worshiped leaning on the top
Speaker 3: of his staff.
Speaker 1: So what it means to me is that my limping
Speaker 1: today will teach me to lean tomorrow.
Speaker 3: The greatest blessing of Jacob's life happen not as he
Speaker 3: was running grabbing, but as he was leaning. So the
Speaker 3: Lord said, limp into it. But make sure that what
Speaker 3: you're leaning on can hold you as you do, because
Speaker 3: for what you're going through. You can't lean on the addiction.
Speaker 3: It won't hold you for what you're going through right now.
Speaker 3: You can't lean on your own understanding. It can't direct
Speaker 3: you for what you're going through right now. You certainly
Speaker 3: cannot lean on what other people are saying that you
Speaker 3: should do because they don't know either. They are just
Speaker 3: as lost as you, and they don't have the light.
Speaker 3: So today, if you've been limping and yet you see
Speaker 3: some light coming through, I want you to stand up,
Speaker 3: because I want to pray for you, in this moment
Speaker 3: and in this season of your life, that you would
Speaker 3: not lie down and die in the light, but that
Speaker 3: you would live to see the scheduled revelation of who
Speaker 3: God has created you to be and what He's called
Speaker 3: you to do. Father, in Jesus' name, I take a
Speaker 3: page from Hebrews chapter eleven, and I bless your people
Speaker 3: by faith for some of the things that were going
Speaker 3: forward into nothing.
Speaker 1: But faith will get us there. Nothing but faith will
Speaker 1: carry us forward.
Speaker 3: Specifically, now, I want to pray for someone who has
Speaker 3: been limping and thought that it made them less.
Speaker 1: And maybe the light that you want to give them today.
Speaker 3: Is knowledge that you've still got them right where you
Speaker 3: want them, and even just that would be enough to
Speaker 3: keep them going forward.
Speaker 1: Our eyes are on you, Jesus, the author and the
Speaker 1: finisher of our faith.
Speaker 3: We fix our eyes not on things that are seen,
Speaker 3: but things that are unseen, for what is seen is temporary,
Speaker 3: but what is unseen is eternal. Thank you for the light,
Speaker 3: Thank you for your word. Thank you for the Gospel
Speaker 3: of your son Jesus. Thank you that we don't wander
Speaker 3: like those in darkness, hopeless.
Speaker 1: Thank you that you have not left.
Speaker 3: Us in our ignorance, but you have given us the
Speaker 3: light of the revelation.
Speaker 7: And this in the face of Christ, the glory of God.
Speaker 7: We have seen you.
Speaker 1: Face to face, and yet we did not die.
Speaker 3: We call this place Panio, and we thank you for
Speaker 3: the light of the gospel flooding in.
Speaker 1: Thank you for new beginnings today.
Speaker 3: Right now I want to pray for somebody who needs
Speaker 3: to make this stay their new beginning, somebody who the
Speaker 3: Lord Jesus Christ is calling unto himself.
Speaker 1: Right now. You know, when the light comes and you.
Speaker 3: Can't see any way forward, but that next step, that's
Speaker 3: all God calls you to take. The very first step
Speaker 3: of faith, is to give your life to Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: And right now it would be.
Speaker 3: My privilege and my honor if you say I've been
Speaker 3: far away from God and this message.
Speaker 1: Today I feel God drawing me back.
Speaker 3: And yes I'm limping, and yes I'm limited, and yes
Speaker 3: I've wasted some time, but I'm coming toward the light today.
Speaker 1: You take that one step toward him.
Speaker 3: He will carry you, he will rescue you, he will
Speaker 3: save you, he will cleanse you, he will forgive you,
Speaker 3: he will make you.
Speaker 1: A new creation. He will change your name. With head's
Speaker 1: ballot and eyes closed.
Speaker 3: All over this campus and all of our campuses, We're
Speaker 3: going to pray a prayer out loud for those who
Speaker 3: are coming to God, are coming back to God. Repeat
Speaker 3: this prayer after me, Heavenly Father. I am a sinner
Speaker 3: in need of a savior, and I believe that Jesus
Speaker 3: Christ is the Son of God and the savior of
Speaker 3: the world.
Speaker 1: And today I make Jesus the Lord of my life.
Speaker 3: I believe he died that I would be forgiven and
Speaker 3: rose again to give me life. I receive this new life.
Speaker 3: This is my new beginning. On the count of three,
Speaker 3: raise your hand. If you prayed that one, two, three,
Speaker 3: shoot your hand up. I want to celebrate with you
Speaker 3: thought that.
Speaker 10: The Lord.
Speaker 3: Along. Can we clap our hands?
Speaker 5: Can we celebrate together?
Speaker 7: Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 3: Hey.
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