1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:12,559 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:17,760 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 6 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: You know what the Lord showed us on our campus 7 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 1: pastor call this week, that the glory of the latter 8 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 1: house will be greater than the glory of the former house. Well, 9 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: what in the world does that mean? I mean, God 10 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: said that through the prophet to some exiles who were 11 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: coming back and rebuilding the temple. And it was so 12 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: small compared to Solomon's temple, and so plain and so simple. 13 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: It says that the people who saw Solomon's temple started crying, 14 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 1: and they were crying so much that the people who 15 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: were shouting, because they never had a temple at all before, 16 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: they were like, WHOA, this is awesome, this is amazing. 17 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,320 Speaker 1: This is a house for God. This is the place 18 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: we can meet with him. They couldn't be heard above 19 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: the weeping of those who could only compare what they 20 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: were looking at with what was before it. And so 21 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: God said, I don't want you to look at it 22 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:21,839 Speaker 1: and compare it to the old Temple. And I believe 23 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: you're saying that to somebody in this room. I don't 24 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 1: want you to compare what I'm doing in your life 25 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: right now to what I did in your life in 26 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:35,680 Speaker 1: a previous season when you didn't have a bad knee. 27 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: I'm preaching to the over forty now. I know you 28 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: used to be the star wide receiver and receiver in Villain, Texas. 29 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: But right now, right now, I need you to understand 30 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: it's not what the temple is made of. I told 31 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: our campus pastors. Even as our church is kind of 32 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: coming back, and you know, after the pandemic, it takes 33 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: time for people to come back, and so a lot 34 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: of the buildings they don't look like they did before 35 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:04,639 Speaker 1: that thing that happened, which I can't say because Indo'll 36 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: take it out the YouTube algorithm. So I'm gonna just 37 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: beep it out, the thing that happened, and then if 38 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: you look at what it is right now and try 39 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 1: to compare it to what it was, you missed the 40 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 1: whole point. Because he said the glory of the Latter House, 41 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: what I'm doing right now, He's pointing to Jesus, will 42 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: be greater than the glory of the former house. So 43 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: this is what I told them. Don't look for the gold, 44 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: look for the glory. The gold is the external, that's 45 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: Solomon's temple. Look for the glory. So what God is 46 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: doing right now, He's trying to get you to attenuate 47 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: your mind to what he is filling you with. What 48 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: do you want to be filled with? You want to 49 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: be filled with fear, You want to be filled with depression. 50 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: All you have to do if that's what you want 51 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 1: to do, it's just do everything you see the world doing. Okay, 52 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,919 Speaker 1: But if you want to be filled with joy, unspeakable, 53 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: full of glory in the holy ghulfs, you can't. Oh God, 54 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna start my sermon right now. Watch this. You 55 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: can't do what the world does and get what the 56 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: word says. So are you ready for the word of God? 57 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: I want you on your feet in the ready position. 58 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: I am gonna pick up where I left off last week. 59 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: Somebody shall copy that, copy that copy that. That was 60 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: the last thing in my sermon last week. So let's 61 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: pick up with the scripture that I mentioned last week. 62 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: But I didn't get to mine it. Hebrews Chapter thirteen, 63 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: verse seven, case your feet hurt from standing, only got 64 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: one verse, then you can sit down. Did anybody come 65 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 1: to church from over one hundred miles away today? What? 66 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: For real? Where from? Huh? I love that place. That's 67 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: one of my favorite places. I didn't hear a word 68 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: they said, anybody come from over five hundred miles? Y'all 69 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: remember the song from the nineties, I would walk five 70 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: hundred And we're really gonna get YouTube flags the cite 71 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: who comes to Elevation Church. It's a great worship song, right. 72 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:57,720 Speaker 1: How about all the new songs we've been singing. You've 73 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: been enjoying that hmm. Lately we've been getting in these 74 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: writing rooms and just wanting to single word of God. 75 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: And so you probably didn't hear it if you're watching 76 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 1: this later, but we just sang a song and it 77 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 1: goes straight from Matthew five. I'm gonna talk a little 78 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: bit about my dad today in the sermon, and I'm 79 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,039 Speaker 1: gonna talk about him kind of, you know, kind of 80 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: tell you some of the good stuff, but the bad 81 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 1: stuff or whatever. It's gonna be what it is. But 82 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: one memory of my dad that's really precious to me? 83 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: Is he loved? My mom can tell you the Sermon 84 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: on the Mount Matthew five six and seven. So I 85 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: was thinking, like when we were writing that song where 86 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 1: we just go through the attitudes blessed to the poor 87 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: and spirit for their kingdom having blessed us and more 88 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: they become, and just singing those scriptures, I was thinking, men, 89 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: the el Tring would love this. He'd be running laps. 90 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 1: And so it's just exciting. We're gonna be recording again, 91 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 1: what is it, October sixth, So we're gonna be recording 92 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 1: some new songs on October sixth, So you're all invited 93 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 1: for that. Also, you're all invited to Elevation Nights. We're 94 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: gonna take this glory on the road. That's right, I'm 95 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: gonna do it. So if you're in Atlanta, Nashville, Tulsa, 96 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 1: Fort Worth, Houston, Orlando, Sunrise, or Jacksonville, come on out. 97 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 1: That's October twenty sixth through November fourth Elevation Nights dot 98 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:28,599 Speaker 1: com so they don't have to come from five hundred miles. 99 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 1: We'll come to you. Man. It's gonna be so exciting. Welcome, Welcome, welcome, Wow, 100 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: look at you you walking, talking miracle, you live in 101 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: breathing miracle. The devil is so confused because you're you're 102 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: praising God after all he puts you through. This week, 103 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: he's like flipping out. He's summoning all his little junior demons, 104 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,039 Speaker 1: Like I thought, I told you to a tackle, then 105 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 1: I got dead. But they ain't just take, They just take, 106 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: They just tame, and they've made it a day. Hebrew's thirteen. 107 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: Hebrew's thirteen, verse seven. Remember your leaders who spoke the 108 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: word of God to you, consider the outcome of their 109 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: way of life, and imitate their faith. Say my title 110 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 1: one more time to your neighbor. Copy that you may 111 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: be seated, You may be seated. How many have you 112 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: heard the sermon last week? Y'all? Do know they're free online, right, 113 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: so if you ever sleep in or can't be here, 114 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: make sure you catch up. A lot of times it's 115 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: on the second listen that you really get what God 116 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: wanted to say to you, because on the first listen 117 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: you're kind of like judging me, like, you know, if 118 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: I agree with this, if you can do it? There? 119 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: What are those shoes? You know? Just looking at stupid stuff. 120 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: And then sometimes on the second time, it's not the distractions, 121 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: but it goes deeper. It goes deeper. You go, oh, 122 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: this is I got it on one level and I 123 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: got it on the second. Listen. So there's a value 124 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 1: in repetition. There's there's also a danger in repetition. I 125 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: felt like my sermon last week was a little more 126 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: on the negative side. I'm not apologizing for it because 127 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: I took it from the Bible where God warned Moses. 128 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: It says he warned him, and I was warning you 129 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: make sure or see to it that you build according 130 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain. 131 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: That's where God met with Moses and showed him how 132 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: to build the tabernacle, Holy of Holy's, table of show bread, 133 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: all that stuff he showed him on the mountain, because 134 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: then he had to go down to where the people were. 135 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 1: I always had these great ideas about ministry until people 136 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: showed up and messed up my ideas of ministry because 137 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: they don't do it like you tell them to, and 138 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 1: they don't run the first base, then second based in 139 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 1: third base. See them over there climbing the fence, playing 140 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 1: in the dirt and stuff. And that's me too, right, 141 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: that's me too, and that's tricky to be a leader. 142 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 1: How many leaders do we actually have here today? Worship leaders? 143 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 1: Let's start their worship leaders? Really cool. I want to 144 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: ask that again, but this time I want every parent 145 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: to raise your hand. How many worship leaders do we 146 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: have here today? Whether you want to or not, you 147 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 1: are teaching your children not only how to worship, and 148 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: some of that, you're teaching them as well. If you're 149 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 1: kind of a one hand in the pocket hand lifter, 150 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: they'll probably do same thing. But it's also true that 151 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 1: you're teaching them what to worship every time you set 152 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:14,199 Speaker 1: the schedule to say, well, we'll go to church if 153 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: we have time. Wow, I just felt an arctic wind. 154 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 1: It's true. And I'm so grateful that Christy Collins pulled 155 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: out her iPhone and captured this video that I'm about 156 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: to show you because I feel most of the time 157 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 1: like i'm failing. As to Dad, I'm wired. I'm hard 158 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 1: wired to be hard on myself and some of you 159 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 1: are too easy on yourself, and some of us are 160 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 1: too hard on ourselves, and then we can help each 161 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 1: other out. But Holly's really good about it too. She's 162 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: always sending me these time hops do you'll do time 163 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 1: hop where it shows you this is what you were 164 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: doing five years ago, this is what you were doing 165 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:58,839 Speaker 1: seven years ago, this is what you do nine years ago. 166 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: And so it's just showed me it Charlotte Knights game 167 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: with the boys, just to remind me, good dad, You're 168 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 1: good dad, and I need that. But what Christie captured 169 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 1: we were doing our recording with Elevation Worship in Maverick 170 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: City called Old Church Basement. I sat right there with 171 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: my kids on that ledge. Our whole family was on 172 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 1: that ledge. The building still wasn't fully open. With COVID. 173 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 1: Tested made this album. It's touched the world. It's probably 174 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 1: it's probably one of my favorite things I ever worked 175 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: on as a songwriter, as a pastor, as a producer, 176 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:41,559 Speaker 1: and I'm so thankful for everyone who's involved. But the 177 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: greatest part of the night wasn't on YouTube. The greatest 178 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: parts never are. The greatest part was when we were 179 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:57,959 Speaker 1: recording the song wait on You, I'll trust in your primis. 180 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 1: I'm gone on, wait on you gotta do with a 181 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: little growl, I'm going no, you gotta aggressively wait on 182 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 1: the Lord. Wait when I just couldn't take it anymore. 183 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: And we were about thirty seven minutes into the song 184 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:18,439 Speaker 1: and I shumped off the ledge and I ran down 185 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 1: and I couldn't take it anymore. And I looked up 186 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,080 Speaker 1: and Abby was standing beside me. Now, my children are 187 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 1: very competitive. Last week I baptized Gramma called him up 188 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: on stage. I gave him a speech. I gave him 189 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: a Bible and Abby said that was a that was good. 190 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: When am I going to be in a sermon again? 191 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 1: So I picked this out because it fit with my 192 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 1: theme of copy that. Watch this little fifty second video. 193 00:12:43,720 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 1: I love this. I like that one. I favorited that 194 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 1: one on my phone. I could see it in those moments, 195 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:38,199 Speaker 1: you know those moments. I will interview your wife this 196 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,559 Speaker 1: week and talk about those moments next week. If you 197 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: don't nod your head at me, do you have those 198 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: moments where you need an example, a better example. I 199 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 1: want to go ahead and beat all the trolls to it. 200 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,079 Speaker 1: I'm not going to be on Dancing with the Stars 201 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:56,440 Speaker 1: with those moves. I know that I understand that my 202 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: moves are unorthodox. My kids tell me this all the time. 203 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 1: They keep me humble. But we didn't choreograph that we 204 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:09,839 Speaker 1: didn't practice, that we didn't have to. I didn't tell her, 205 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 1: you know, I think I'm gonna do this like this 206 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: wounded eagle, move like an eagle that was shot but 207 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: not killed. I'm gonna come through, and I need you 208 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: to do it with me, so I don't look stupid. 209 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: It'd be cute if you don't. I watched her. I 210 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: realized that there's what I say and there's what she sees. 211 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 1: When people do what people see. Yeah, the challenge for 212 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 1: a lot of people I'm preaching to is that sometimes 213 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: you have to be something that you've never seen before. 214 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 1: When I read my scripture, remember your leaders who spoke 215 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 1: the word of God to you. Put it on the 216 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: screen again. Because there's no power in my words. There's 217 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: power in God's words. Remember your leaders who spoke the 218 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: word of God to you, who told you I can 219 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 1: do all things through Christ, who strengthens me, who told 220 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: you God's hand is on you, who told you that 221 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: there's nothing more important than God, who told you that 222 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 1: if Christ isn't at the center of your life, the 223 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: whole thing will fall apart. Who told you and taught you, 224 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: who preached to you and taught to you that you 225 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: are who God says you are. But in reading this, 226 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 1: I realized that a lot of the people that I 227 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 1: preached to never really had someone to speak this word 228 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: over their life. So then they went with what the 229 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 1: world told them because they didn't know what the word 230 00:15:53,080 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 1: said about them. That's uh, what I was going to 231 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: tell you about my dad because one time my mom. 232 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: My mom was so good at this. She would cover 233 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 1: for his crazy as she'd pulled him to the side, 234 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 1: and she'd say, you know, he's doing real good. I said, 235 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: he's not doing real good. He's crazy. He's crazy. I 236 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: can't stand him. And he was doing he's coaching my teams, 237 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 1: he's doing all this stuff. But one day she said, 238 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: did you know he didn't have a dad growing up? 239 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 1: I didn't know that. I knew he didn't have his 240 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: dad long, but I didn't know that his dad had 241 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: killed himself. I didn't know that my dad had found 242 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: his dad dad on his own birthday when he was eight. 243 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: I didn't know that. I didn't know that he was 244 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 1: making everything up. So even that one time when I 245 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 1: said I hated him and I wanted to kill him, 246 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 1: when I was a teenager, and he picked me up 247 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 1: from school early and told me we were going out 248 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 1: to the National Forest and he had two guns in 249 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 1: the back of the truck and one of us was 250 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: going to kill the other one. Even though that isn't 251 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: necessarily the best parenting tactic, and it's not doctor Philip Roof. 252 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 1: He didn't have focus on the family growing up. All right. 253 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 1: I did the best I could. I did the best 254 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:21,120 Speaker 1: I could. He's doing real good. If you saw, if 255 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:25,360 Speaker 1: you saw what he never got to see. So when 256 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:29,159 Speaker 1: the author of Hebrews is saying, here, remember your leaders 257 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:33,199 Speaker 1: who spoke the word of God concerning you, he's not 258 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 1: so much talking about their words that they spoke, the 259 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 1: word of God that they spoke. But then he says 260 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: something really powerful. That's what I want to teach on today. 261 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 1: Somebody shall copy that. Put it in the chat right now. 262 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 1: Copy that. That's what they say on a walkie talkie 263 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 1: right copy that. It means I heard it, I've got it. 264 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 1: I'm on it. You see these security people around our 265 00:17:55,960 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: church keeping you safe. Thank God for them. If you 266 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: knew how crazy some Christians are, you'd be clapping better 267 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:13,679 Speaker 1: than that for the security team. But they say it 268 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:17,120 Speaker 1: all the time I copy that, go, I assume Row 269 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 1: four copy that. And I wanted to call the sermon 270 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:27,919 Speaker 1: that because that which you copy is that what you become. 271 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:34,399 Speaker 1: That which you believe is that what you become. And 272 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 1: so when he says, remember your leaders who spoke the 273 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,439 Speaker 1: word of God to you, there are a lot of 274 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 1: words that were spoken to you and over you and 275 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 1: about you that have to be uprooted before the word 276 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: that God spoke about you can be planted. Now, remember 277 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:51,919 Speaker 1: the Hebrews have not been a part of Christianity for 278 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: too millennium like we have, So they haven't had two 279 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 1: thousand years to get used to the idea that we 280 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:04,640 Speaker 1: are justified by faith, not worse, it's all new to them. 281 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: They have not had two thousand years to get used 282 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 1: to the fact that it is by grace you have 283 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: been saved through faith. It's not the blood that a 284 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: high priest takes. And remember I talked about this last week, 285 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,679 Speaker 1: that they serve in a tabernacle that is an earthly 286 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 1: copy of a heavenly reality. But even Moses, as holy 287 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 1: as he was, as important as he was, as amazing 288 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: as he was, only Moses could only lead them so far, 289 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 1: and In the middle of this, he gives them an instruction. 290 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:40,879 Speaker 1: As he concludes his letter, he says, consider the outcome 291 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: of their way of life and imitate their faith, or 292 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: in other words, copy that can I preach. If y'all 293 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: have had enough, I'll go eat some Keto pancakes and chill. 294 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 1: But the Lord said to me, first of all, consider 295 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: the outcome. And that hard to do when really what 296 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: you're seeing all day long in people's lives is you're 297 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 1: seeing just what I called it last week, a snapshot. 298 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 1: Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate 299 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 1: their faith. So question I've been thinking about is the 300 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:27,680 Speaker 1: way of life that I am choosing producing the outcome 301 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 1: that I desire? Is the way of life that I'm 302 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: choosing producing the outcome that I desire? We need more 303 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 1: leaders in the world today, less opinions. We need more leaders, 304 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: less influencers. Oh yeah, oh yeah. This is the part 305 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,640 Speaker 1: to my sermon where I am a crotchety old man 306 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,880 Speaker 1: telling you that what you are seeing on your real 307 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: r E E L is not real R E A L. 308 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 1: This is the God's honest truth. The writer of Hebrews said, 309 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 1: imitate their faith. But we live in a time where 310 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:34,679 Speaker 1: we are imitating their faith. So consider the outcome. I 311 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,679 Speaker 1: wonder what happened five minutes after they took that picture. 312 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 1: I wonder what happened five minutes after they posted that. 313 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 1: I mean just five minutes, not five years. Let's talk 314 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 1: about five minutes after one day in church. I was 315 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: so sick of like preachers, always trying to be perfect. 316 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:54,880 Speaker 1: Me and my family we wake up every morning quote Ephesians, 317 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: pray and sing the Beatitude. And I said, let me 318 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 1: show you what this family is really like, and showed 319 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 1: one of our Christmas videos that was so beautiful and 320 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 1: welcome elevation and made it unto you as a child 321 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: is born and a savior this day in the city 322 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 1: of David that the Xavier as the country Chrystlier. And 323 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 1: then I showed the outtakes, and Holly Ferdick was one 324 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 1: step short of having to be bleeped what she was 325 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:22,639 Speaker 1: saying to those kids in those outtakes. So watch this 326 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 1: outcome outtakes. Nobody is showing you their outtakes. You are imitating. 327 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:30,639 Speaker 1: Now I gotta get this across. I don't careful I 328 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 1: have to say it every week for then I'll be 329 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: up here seventy five years old, dragging my right leg 330 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 1: behind me, talking about what you're copying is cropped. It 331 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 1: is only showing you so much. And a lot of 332 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 1: the people that we are emulating and imitating and talking 333 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 1: like and captioning like. And you know what's the weirdest thing. 334 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 1: I thought we as parents were supposed to set an 335 00:22:55,640 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 1: example for our kids. But now I see grown men 336 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 1: and women trying to talk like a kid, and it's cringey, y'all, 337 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 1: it's cringey. It's cringey when you're a dad of three 338 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,679 Speaker 1: and you're still trying to show you got it. You 339 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,920 Speaker 1: got game. You know what you got, You got dependence, 340 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: you got bills to pay, you got a mortgage. Grow 341 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 1: up man, that's over. When I became a man, I 342 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:36,200 Speaker 1: put away childish things. Now I'm not talking about not 343 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,639 Speaker 1: having fun. I'm the goofiest dude in the world. But 344 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 1: what I'm saying is a lot of times like Romans 345 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:43,479 Speaker 1: twelve to two is my favorite verse to explain this. 346 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 1: It says, do not conform to the pattern of this world, 347 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,919 Speaker 1: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. So 348 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 1: a lot of people will make the distinction between the 349 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 1: pattern of this world and the renewing of your mind. 350 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 1: But really in the text, the juice of it is 351 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: intwo different words. It's conform transform. Conform is something you 352 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: can change, just like an attitude or a posture. Transform 353 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:17,160 Speaker 1: is different. Transform is something that has to happen because 354 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 1: of what's on the inside. So since you have Christ 355 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 1: inside of you, now remember you're not serving that a 356 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: tabernacle built with human hands. You don't have a high 357 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: priest that was selected from among men. You are not 358 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 1: serving a shadow or a copy. You have a risen 359 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,679 Speaker 1: Savior who set an example for you so that you 360 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: can copy that. And since that is in you, the 361 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 1: spirit of God is in you, not the spirit of 362 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 1: the world, not the spirit of worry, the spirit of 363 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: the world. You get to reproduce that because it's on 364 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 1: the inside, be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 365 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:00,880 Speaker 1: So what's in you has to come out. And that's 366 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: why the writer of Hebrew says, remember the word of 367 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:09,959 Speaker 1: God that was spoken to you, and copy that in 368 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 1: your heart, and copy that in your life. Oh, I 369 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 1: forgot to read you the verse after that. I really 370 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 1: truly forgot. This is not a little thing. I'm doing 371 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 1: in my sermon. Verse eight says, Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, 372 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 1: and forever. So, he says, remember the leaders who spoke 373 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 1: the word of God over you, consider the outcome, how 374 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,400 Speaker 1: it worked out for them. And we use all kinds 375 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 1: of excuses for bad examples. And so we'll do the 376 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 1: same dumb things that we saw growing up. And this 377 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: is what we'll tag it with at the end. And 378 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 1: look at me. I turned out all right, did you though? 379 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,359 Speaker 1: Did you really? Because maybe it just hadn't caught up 380 00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 1: with you yet, Like, well, I don't cost it my kid. 381 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: My dad did it too, and it was good for me. 382 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:08,360 Speaker 1: I turned out all right. I don't think. I don't 383 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: think you're all right. I'm watching it right now. I'm 384 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 1: seeing there's a little bit of a wound, just a 385 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:19,160 Speaker 1: little bit of a wound, just a little something. How 386 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: do you copy what you never saw? And he said, 387 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever. So 388 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 1: like the devil isn't very creative, God is a creator. 389 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:39,880 Speaker 1: The devil is not. The devil is so uncreative, everybody, 390 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: how uncreative is he? He's so uncreative that he only 391 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 1: has three temptations. That's the only way he can tempt you. First, 392 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 1: John says, the lust of the world, the lust of 393 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,160 Speaker 1: the flesh, and the pride of life, lust of the eyes. 394 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 1: This is the love of the world. I messed that up. 395 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this again. The love of the world 396 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,240 Speaker 1: is the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, 397 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 1: and the pride of life. Go to Matthew chapter four. 398 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 1: We said Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, 399 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 1: and a lot of time times we think we're facing 400 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 1: a brand new temptation, but we're not. It's just the 401 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:28,199 Speaker 1: same devil in a different disguise. I love helping my 402 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 1: kids navigate their life the best I can, but it's 403 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 1: tricky sometimes because we didn't have Snapchat, we didn't have TikTok. 404 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 1: But the same devil that was busy on TikTok was 405 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:46,160 Speaker 1: busy on doss or the rotary phone or fax machine 406 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:50,159 Speaker 1: or whatever you did with your messaging pigeon. It's the 407 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:54,159 Speaker 1: same devil, everybody say. It's the same devil and the 408 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: same three things that you're tempted with that derail you 409 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,400 Speaker 1: and sabotage you and bring you back down and get 410 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 1: you out of the pattern God, children, noun. It's the 411 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,120 Speaker 1: same three things it's in Matthew. For so Jesus goes 412 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 1: to the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Last week, 413 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,880 Speaker 1: when I finished Graham, you remember this is my son 414 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 1: I love, whom I'm well pleased. Graham is so funny. 415 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: I said, do you want a special meal after we 416 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 1: baptize you? He said, Jesus didn't get a special meal. 417 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,360 Speaker 1: I'll eat whatever everybody else is eating. Jesuson gets special meal. 418 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 1: He sisted, all right. So he wasn't saying it because 419 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 1: he was holy. He just was making a joke. The 420 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 1: next thing that happened, Matthew chapter four, I say, copy that. 421 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 1: So the affirmation of the Father and then the temptation 422 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: from the enemy. Okay, this is a pattern that you 423 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: can copy to be affirmed by your Father in heaven, 424 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 1: so that when you are tempted by your enemy in 425 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 1: the wilderness, you will have at your core your knowing 426 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:03,520 Speaker 1: of who you are. So Jesus was then led by 427 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: the spirit in the wilderness to be tempted by the devil, 428 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 1: and after fasting forty days and forty nights, you didn't 429 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:15,480 Speaker 1: do that grim. He was hungry, and the tempter came 430 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: to him and said, if you are the son of God, 431 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 1: tell these stones to become bred. I know you know 432 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: the scripture, but let's just move through, because there's a 433 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 1: lesson here for today. Jesus answered, it is written, man 434 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: shall not live on bread alone, but on every word 435 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 1: that comes from the mouth of God. Then the devil 436 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,200 Speaker 1: took him up to the Holy City and had him 437 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 1: stand on the highest point of the temple. If you 438 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 1: are the son of God, he said, throw yourself down, 439 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 1: prove yourself, show everybody what you can do. If you 440 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 1: got it flaunted, go ahead and show everybody who you 441 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 1: really are. Go ahead, and you know you got to 442 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 1: make it happen for yourself, For it is written he 443 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 1: will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift 444 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 1: you up in their hands, so that you will not 445 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:09,480 Speaker 1: strike your foot against a stone. And Jesus answered him, 446 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 1: it is also written, do not put the Lord your 447 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: God to the test one more. Now we've already seen 448 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 1: the lust of the flesh turn the stones into bread. 449 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 1: That's when you try to turn things into things that 450 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,320 Speaker 1: they were not meant to be. That's when you try 451 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 1: to turn sex into an object to gratify a spiritual need, 452 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 1: so that rather in the context of marriage expressing your sexuality, 453 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,960 Speaker 1: you express it in places where it spills over and 454 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 1: contaminates all the places of your life, because it creates 455 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 1: commitments that are not rooted in covenant, but are rather 456 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 1: rooted in convenience and pleasure. And so then the enemy 457 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 1: can rip you out because you turned a stone into bread. 458 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,560 Speaker 1: This is when we go seeking for people's validations, when 459 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,360 Speaker 1: our father's voice is not enough, when we didn't have 460 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 1: a leader that spoke the word of God over us. 461 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,200 Speaker 1: Then we are open to what the world thinks about, 462 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 1: and we will change everything until we get the exact 463 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: the exact compliment, the exact affirmation, the exact validation we 464 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 1: were looking for. That's the lust of the flesh, the 465 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,480 Speaker 1: lust of the eyes, you know, and the pride of life. 466 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:21,720 Speaker 1: This one right here, I've dealt with this a lot 467 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 1: in my life. Again, the devil took him to a 468 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 1: very high mountain verse eight, and showed him all the 469 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 1: kinds thrown this splunder. All this I will give you, 470 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,240 Speaker 1: he said, if you bow down and worship me. Now, 471 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 1: I never bowed down and worshiped the devil like that. 472 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:43,960 Speaker 1: But I have worshiped what the world worshiped. I have, 473 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 1: at periods in my life, thought that a certain level 474 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:51,480 Speaker 1: of success would make me a real man. I have 475 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,440 Speaker 1: thought that a certain amount of money would make me secure. 476 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,920 Speaker 1: And it really has to do with worship. I don't 477 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:02,400 Speaker 1: want to depend on God to be my provider. That's 478 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 1: too uncertain. So I start worshiping what's in the world, 479 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,479 Speaker 1: plus the fleshless, the eyes, pride of life. All this 480 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 1: I will give you. If you're about unworship me. And 481 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,640 Speaker 1: Jesus said, away from me, Satan, for it is written, 482 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 1: worship the Lord, your God, and serve him only. So 483 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 1: I realize now that I am a leader for these 484 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 1: three kids, for my wife, and God's made me a 485 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 1: leader in this church. And now I'm asking myself the question, 486 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:48,680 Speaker 1: what example do I want to say of what we worship? 487 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 1: Because I know what the world worships. The world worships talent, 488 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 1: the world worships sensuality. And here's the weird thing about 489 00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,520 Speaker 1: our culture. Okay, I appreciate the United States America shar 490 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,760 Speaker 1: North care Line, wouldn't rather be anywhere else. I'm born 491 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,720 Speaker 1: and raised in the Carolinas, and I'm proud of where 492 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 1: I'm from. But the weirdest thing about our culture right 493 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 1: now is the way we worship youth. We don't remember 494 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,640 Speaker 1: our leaders that spoke the Word of God over us. 495 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 1: They're irrelevant, they're not trendy. We rather go find somebody 496 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,760 Speaker 1: who hasn't even lived long enough that we can even 497 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,959 Speaker 1: know if they make it through their twinies. Huh do 498 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,000 Speaker 1: they even live to be thirty? And we will copy that. 499 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 1: You're ready for a guest freacher or something like that. 500 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,760 Speaker 1: I'm just stirred up about it because I am watching 501 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:44,480 Speaker 1: us copy the world and slap a Christian vocabulary on it. 502 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,479 Speaker 1: And there are no different values in the House of 503 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 1: God than there are in the world. It's not about 504 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,280 Speaker 1: the external stuff. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking 505 00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:00,680 Speaker 1: about the kingdom within you and the culture around you. 506 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,720 Speaker 1: And he said, you need to spend more time remembering 507 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,320 Speaker 1: those who spoke the Word over you, because that's what 508 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 1: Jesus did every time he was tempted, and that's what 509 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 1: you copy. You fight the world with the word, you 510 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:20,000 Speaker 1: fight the spirit of the world with the word. So 511 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,960 Speaker 1: every time the devil said do it, Jesus said, it 512 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 1: is written. He wasn't making this stuff up. All three 513 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:33,839 Speaker 1: things Jesus did to fight temptation, to fight hunger, to 514 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,920 Speaker 1: fight pride, to fight a census, and to agree with 515 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,920 Speaker 1: the spirit, all three things he said were already written 516 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:48,239 Speaker 1: in scripture. So Jesus said, I know what the word 517 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,359 Speaker 1: of my Father is on this situation, and I'm gonna 518 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:56,759 Speaker 1: copy that. I will not conform to this world. That's 519 00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:02,640 Speaker 1: why I'm glad. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. 520 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,720 Speaker 1: So it doesn't mean that the world stays the same, 521 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:13,799 Speaker 1: but my worship stays the same because I understand that 522 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,480 Speaker 1: what God did in my life yesterday it won't look 523 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 1: like what he's doing today. But watch this, David, the 524 00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:27,799 Speaker 1: same God that delivered me from that will deliver me 525 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:33,880 Speaker 1: from this. So I speak by the spirit of faith, 526 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:42,200 Speaker 1: not fear, imitate their faith, don't copy their flass. The 527 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,360 Speaker 1: world is weird and it's not working, and it's broken, 528 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,280 Speaker 1: and it hasn't been since Eve listened to the serpent 529 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:54,280 Speaker 1: twist the words of her God, and then Adam, instead 530 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,360 Speaker 1: of being a good husband and a leader, blame the woman. 531 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 1: So in my family, I gotta go through this whole time. 532 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:10,880 Speaker 1: I gotta weed out the worldly values daily, daily, transform 533 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:15,839 Speaker 1: your mind. You don't do that one time, you won't 534 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:20,880 Speaker 1: even get out of church good. Today. It'll probably be 535 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,640 Speaker 1: somebody with elevation sticker in the parking lot that'll make 536 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:30,120 Speaker 1: you so upset. They'll probably be playing worship music too, 537 00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:34,960 Speaker 1: probably be playing weight on you like quit flying and 538 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:42,839 Speaker 1: dry right there, right there. It doesn't take long. I'm 539 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:49,480 Speaker 1: gonna say it again. Stop copying crazy, consider the outcome. 540 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,680 Speaker 1: Where's this taking me? And now I ask that about thoughts? Right, 541 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,680 Speaker 1: some things that are really bad feel really good to 542 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:02,839 Speaker 1: think really good. And I don't know if you should 543 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:09,200 Speaker 1: confess this or not. I love judging people. I am 544 00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:14,240 Speaker 1: completely addicted to it. It's so fun. Oh, it's so fun. 545 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:23,480 Speaker 1: But how it feels the ooh, the outcome, the outcome 546 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:27,319 Speaker 1: of that thought process. One of my friends asked me 547 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,200 Speaker 1: the other day, how do you want to feel at 548 00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,880 Speaker 1: the end of this day? Reverse engineer it with your decisions, 549 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:42,120 Speaker 1: consider the the what outcome, And to consider the outcome, 550 00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:46,200 Speaker 1: you got to monitor the inputs. Now, we live in 551 00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:50,160 Speaker 1: a time where everybody wants this product, whether that's millions 552 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,040 Speaker 1: of dollars or the kinds of cars or the kind 553 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:53,640 Speaker 1: of success or the kind of marriage, or the kind 554 00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,080 Speaker 1: of life. I want that outcome, but I don't want 555 00:37:56,080 --> 00:38:00,400 Speaker 1: to emulate that process, so we get it backwards. The 556 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:04,160 Speaker 1: writer and Hebrews said, imitate their faith and consider their outcome. 557 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:09,160 Speaker 1: We want to imitate someone's outcome, but we don't want 558 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:16,839 Speaker 1: to invest our faith. So I want what you have, 559 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,960 Speaker 1: but I don't want to do what you did. So 560 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:24,600 Speaker 1: now I'll put it on a credit card at age 561 00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,360 Speaker 1: twenty three to have what you had at age thirty 562 00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,920 Speaker 1: two that I didn't want to wait a decade to achieve. 563 00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:37,879 Speaker 1: We need better examples. And I'm not just talking about 564 00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,239 Speaker 1: cussing and drinking and chewing and tobacco and all this 565 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,160 Speaker 1: stuff we always love to say, the external stuff. I'm 566 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,439 Speaker 1: talking about the internal stuff too, and I'm talking about 567 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:50,239 Speaker 1: the values that we model. I told Elijah the other day, 568 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,440 Speaker 1: we have so much good times. Man. He said, one day, 569 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:54,920 Speaker 1: I wish we could record all this stuff. Me and 570 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,640 Speaker 1: you talk about working out and just put it out 571 00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,560 Speaker 1: to be the biggest podcast. I said. I said, well, 572 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,720 Speaker 1: we would all so get canceled. Because we talk about 573 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:05,520 Speaker 1: everything we talk about Hebrew's thirteen. We talk about other 574 00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:08,600 Speaker 1: stuff too, and we talk about everything because he's sixteen, 575 00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,640 Speaker 1: and I don't want him to imitate everything about me. 576 00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,880 Speaker 1: I really don't. He started driving recently and I'm like, 577 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,400 Speaker 1: every road rage that I ever showed him is coming 578 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,640 Speaker 1: up behind me in the rear view mirror and I 579 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,239 Speaker 1: see it coursing through my son, and I'm like, don't 580 00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:25,560 Speaker 1: copy that, don't copy that, don't copy that. You know 581 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,239 Speaker 1: how nice to your mom? Copy that? You know, I 582 00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,879 Speaker 1: study the order God, copy that, not that, not that, 583 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,920 Speaker 1: not that. But then my kids get mad at me 584 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,760 Speaker 1: because you know, like me and Holly, we do PDA 585 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,799 Speaker 1: stuff all over the house all the time because it's 586 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:46,600 Speaker 1: my house. Because it's my house. And yes, I will 587 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:50,360 Speaker 1: walk up to your mom in my kitchen and I 588 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,839 Speaker 1: will kiss her with my whole mouth, right in front 589 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,080 Speaker 1: of you. And if you don't like it, you don't 590 00:39:56,080 --> 00:40:02,280 Speaker 1: have to look. Oh, sexy stuff is only allowed on TikTok. 591 00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,239 Speaker 1: I forgot not in the marriage because the world told 592 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:07,960 Speaker 1: us that the place for that is out of battance. 593 00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:12,040 Speaker 1: But Devil, I don't coffee. You are technological batters. I'm 594 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:16,080 Speaker 1: not coffeeing crazy. I kiss my wife, I hold her 595 00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,920 Speaker 1: hand with taking a nap. We are married. The marriage 596 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:26,360 Speaker 1: bat is under fire Hebrew's thirteen four. Not kiss her again, 597 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,040 Speaker 1: you go play outside, build a ford, kick a can. 598 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:38,440 Speaker 1: I don't care, because I want you to know you 599 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,040 Speaker 1: are supposed to kiss your wife and love her more 600 00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:44,280 Speaker 1: twenty years. I'll tell your marriage is dirty and gross 601 00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:49,759 Speaker 1: and nasty, So save it for your wife. What I 602 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:55,200 Speaker 1: want to emulate something that's where them are dating. I 603 00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,000 Speaker 1: don't do it all the time. That's why that video 604 00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:01,000 Speaker 1: meant so much to me because I saw a time 605 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:05,680 Speaker 1: I got it right, a time where I wasn't you 606 00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:09,120 Speaker 1: know how we hit so self conscious, and I saw 607 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:12,000 Speaker 1: how she did it even better. She was about to 608 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:13,839 Speaker 1: start head banging. I don't know if you'll saw it 609 00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,560 Speaker 1: because we watched guns n' Roses videos too. I'm gonna 610 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:19,279 Speaker 1: keep it real with you. So she was about to 611 00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:26,920 Speaker 1: start head banging. Consider the outcome. Where's this headed? Not 612 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:28,680 Speaker 1: just what does it look like feel like in the moment? 613 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:33,719 Speaker 1: Where is this headed? If you keep, if you keep 614 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:37,040 Speaker 1: emulating that, if you keep there's two sides of this, Okay. 615 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,360 Speaker 1: I think you got to think of yourself in this passage, 616 00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:43,040 Speaker 1: thinking about what were the examples that were set for you. 617 00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:45,719 Speaker 1: Because you copy what you saw and you don't even 618 00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,719 Speaker 1: realize you're doing it. You don't copy what they told 619 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,040 Speaker 1: you to do. One thing my dad did that was 620 00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,040 Speaker 1: so brilliant is he struggled with alcoholism. And he took 621 00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:56,200 Speaker 1: so many times to talk to me about what that 622 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,719 Speaker 1: was like for him, and he said, if you will 623 00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:04,640 Speaker 1: commit yourself early, you can break this. This has been generational. 624 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,120 Speaker 1: He told me about his dad's death. He told me 625 00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:08,520 Speaker 1: about what it was like to grow up in an 626 00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,080 Speaker 1: abusive home like that. He said, but you can break it. 627 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:15,960 Speaker 1: Even though he couldn't break it, he struggled with it 628 00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:20,640 Speaker 1: so long, sometimes victorious, sometimes defeated, but he was determined. 629 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:24,240 Speaker 1: Watch this to give me permission to break a bad pattern. 630 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,279 Speaker 1: And I don't know who you are, but there's one 631 00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,520 Speaker 1: person the Lord said to tell it to. You're a 632 00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:38,520 Speaker 1: good person. You have bad patterns. Now the enemy condemns you. 633 00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,279 Speaker 1: You're worthless, you're this, you're that, you're da dah da 634 00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:42,799 Speaker 1: da dah. And then you start to believe that and 635 00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,239 Speaker 1: you copy that and you identify yourself with that. You're 636 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:48,279 Speaker 1: a good person. Christ has made you new. You're a 637 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:56,000 Speaker 1: new creation in Christ. God made you that way. But 638 00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:01,879 Speaker 1: if you have bad patterns, pattern of their and they're 639 00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:08,840 Speaker 1: new and on your mind. So there are always voices 640 00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:12,120 Speaker 1: speaking over you and to you and about you. What 641 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:16,080 Speaker 1: are you gonna copy? There's the example that was set 642 00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:19,719 Speaker 1: for you. Even in some cases, there's the season of 643 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,520 Speaker 1: life that you were in and the season of life 644 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:25,960 Speaker 1: that you are in. What are you gonna copy in 645 00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:27,880 Speaker 1: this season of your life? Jesus knew what to do. 646 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:31,200 Speaker 1: He said, it is written. It is also written. It 647 00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:35,120 Speaker 1: is written because I am not consulting with my enemy 648 00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:41,160 Speaker 1: for my life strategy. I'm not gonna copy it. I'm 649 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:42,880 Speaker 1: not gonna I'm not gonna take these thoughts and just 650 00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:47,120 Speaker 1: think them because I know where they lead. Even recently, 651 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,279 Speaker 1: the Lord began to deal with me. He said, I 652 00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:54,360 Speaker 1: want you to stop indulging your insecurities. He said, it 653 00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:58,720 Speaker 1: gives you self pity, and you use that to sedate 654 00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:03,359 Speaker 1: the pain of pressure. I wrote all this down as 655 00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,239 Speaker 1: fast as I could so I could remember what I 656 00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:10,520 Speaker 1: was hearing from God's voice. But what it costs you 657 00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:16,680 Speaker 1: is much greater than what it offers you. Consider the outcome. 658 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:22,160 Speaker 1: Because when you tell yourself lies about yourself and limitations 659 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,760 Speaker 1: about yourself, that do not. Now you do have limitations. Okay, 660 00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:27,120 Speaker 1: so I'm not one of these. Can be anything you 661 00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:28,920 Speaker 1: want to be. I think sometimes you need somebody to 662 00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,799 Speaker 1: tell you get a backup career and keep your day job. 663 00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,239 Speaker 1: You are not going to make it on Kickstarter. That 664 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:39,600 Speaker 1: being said, the limitations and the lies that come from 665 00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:43,240 Speaker 1: what you have copied in your heart or what you saw. 666 00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,200 Speaker 1: See a lot of times God, like the people in Hebrews, 667 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:49,640 Speaker 1: He was bringing them. God was bringing them into a 668 00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:53,640 Speaker 1: better covenant. Look at Hebrews eighty seven. I think this 669 00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,160 Speaker 1: is the last scripture. IM gonna have time to show 670 00:44:55,200 --> 00:45:01,040 Speaker 1: you today. Are you full? You fool? Did you save 671 00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:09,160 Speaker 1: room for dessert? It just says this, It says Hebrews said, 672 00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,800 Speaker 1: for if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, 673 00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:13,600 Speaker 1: that's the one Moses got from Sinai. That was the 674 00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:19,920 Speaker 1: law that we broke. That we broke if it hadn't 675 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,520 Speaker 1: been for the limitations of that covenant in that insomuch 676 00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,640 Speaker 1: as we were flawed, God is perfect. We are flawed. 677 00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:28,040 Speaker 1: This isn't gonna work. No place would have been sought 678 00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:32,080 Speaker 1: for another. And the other one, of course, is the 679 00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:33,960 Speaker 1: covenant that begins not with what we have done, but 680 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,600 Speaker 1: with what God has done and that we're accepted in Him. 681 00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:42,160 Speaker 1: So this is our new starting place. But the enemy, 682 00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:45,799 Speaker 1: he will take you back to what you saw all 683 00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:49,719 Speaker 1: your life, and even as God is blessing you with 684 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:55,520 Speaker 1: something better, you will sink back down to the baseline 685 00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:58,520 Speaker 1: of what you saw. Because what you copy in your 686 00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:07,080 Speaker 1: heart the direction of your life. It is written. I 687 00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:13,120 Speaker 1: am not copying the world anymore. I did it. It's exhausting, 688 00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:19,560 Speaker 1: it's depleting, it's depressing. I'm not doing it anymore. I'm 689 00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:21,640 Speaker 1: not going to measure myself how I'm told I'm supposed 690 00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:26,000 Speaker 1: to measure myself anymore. I did it. I barely lived 691 00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:28,120 Speaker 1: through it. I'm not going to copy the way the 692 00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:32,000 Speaker 1: world spends time anymore. Where the proof that you are 693 00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:35,239 Speaker 1: significant is that you are so busy that you have 694 00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,919 Speaker 1: no time or margin to consider anything that God might 695 00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:43,760 Speaker 1: invite you to do. So now we're just all running around. 696 00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,759 Speaker 1: I asked one guy, when do you take your day off? 697 00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,000 Speaker 1: He said, well, I don't take a day off. Devil 698 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,279 Speaker 1: never takes a day off. And in my mind, I'm like, 699 00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:56,160 Speaker 1: are you copying the devil or God? Because God took 700 00:46:56,200 --> 00:47:08,760 Speaker 1: a they are It's in our rhythms, it's in our rest, 701 00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:14,400 Speaker 1: it's in what we receive and what we release. And 702 00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,239 Speaker 1: the Lord wants you to release some things that were 703 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:21,200 Speaker 1: spoken over you by those wrong voices so that you 704 00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:27,160 Speaker 1: can receive something better. And copy that, and copy that. 705 00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:32,520 Speaker 1: Just get it on your mind all week long, and 706 00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:39,040 Speaker 1: copy that, the word of God that was spoken over you. Father. 707 00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:43,920 Speaker 1: I thank you what you gave me today. I hear 708 00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:48,840 Speaker 1: you speaking from heaven right now, and I want to 709 00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:52,319 Speaker 1: hear your children say copy that. I hear you, God, 710 00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:56,440 Speaker 1: I hear you talking to me. Pastor Stephen was talking 711 00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:59,200 Speaker 1: to a lot of different people, but you were speaking 712 00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:04,280 Speaker 1: to me. God. You showed me something on the mountain. 713 00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:11,640 Speaker 1: You showed me something in your presence. You invested something 714 00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:14,719 Speaker 1: in me, and the thief comes to kill still and 715 00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:22,680 Speaker 1: destroy it. So Lord, I want to bring the people 716 00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:26,879 Speaker 1: before you today, such a vast group Lord that you've 717 00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,680 Speaker 1: called us to. Pastor, some people just starting out in 718 00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,080 Speaker 1: their faith, some people not even sure if they have faith. 719 00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:41,720 Speaker 1: Yet your word says, imitate their faith. We've been copying 720 00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:46,120 Speaker 1: the wrong stuff. Lord, We've been taking fear and just 721 00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:50,040 Speaker 1: living in it and rehearsing it and regurgitating it and 722 00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:53,880 Speaker 1: feeding it and living in it and regurgitating and rehearsing that, 723 00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:57,399 Speaker 1: and so we repent of that. We repent. We want 724 00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:01,440 Speaker 1: to do it different. Gots to say that, God, I 725 00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,400 Speaker 1: want to do it different. I'm on to stand up 726 00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:07,480 Speaker 1: on your feet. We're going to pray this together. It's 727 00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:11,040 Speaker 1: not my job to transform your mind. It's your job 728 00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:13,439 Speaker 1: to cooperate with the Holy Spirit of God. So say Lord, 729 00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:18,239 Speaker 1: I want to do it different. I want to do 730 00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:23,440 Speaker 1: it different. I want to do it different. The way 731 00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:27,400 Speaker 1: I've been doing it hasn't been working, and I'm tired 732 00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:34,279 Speaker 1: of it, and I'm weary and I'm heavy laden. So 733 00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:38,840 Speaker 1: I'm taking your yoke today and I'm joining up with Jesus, 734 00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:44,120 Speaker 1: and I'm hooking up with you Holy Spirit, because your 735 00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:51,400 Speaker 1: burden is light. So for all the spirit of heaviness 736 00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:54,279 Speaker 1: that we've been under this week, we exchange it now 737 00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:59,040 Speaker 1: for the garment of praise. We thank you for your 738 00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:01,440 Speaker 1: word that has been spoken over us. Maybe we didn't 739 00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:05,120 Speaker 1: have a person to speak it to us. I pray 740 00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:11,160 Speaker 1: for somebody today who was verbally abused and now the 741 00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:18,359 Speaker 1: trauma of that experience has them trapped. Your word says 742 00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:23,720 Speaker 1: that Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. 743 00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:29,640 Speaker 1: So it's not too late. It's not too late for 744 00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:35,240 Speaker 1: you to break the pattern. It is not too late 745 00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:40,200 Speaker 1: for you to live. It is not too late for 746 00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:44,640 Speaker 1: you to love. Maybe you weren't loved like you were 747 00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:47,239 Speaker 1: supposed to be loved. Maybe you didn't have leaders, Maybe 748 00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:49,399 Speaker 1: you don't even know what to copy. And now here 749 00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:52,800 Speaker 1: you are, and you're grown, and you're trying to raise kids, 750 00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:56,240 Speaker 1: trying to be something that you never had the chance 751 00:50:56,320 --> 00:51:08,480 Speaker 1: to see. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 752 00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:15,440 Speaker 1: And even if Moses couldn't show you, there's something greater 753 00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:19,239 Speaker 1: than Moses that's here. Oh, not only just an example. 754 00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:25,680 Speaker 1: You have the Holy Spirit inside of you. God has 755 00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:29,960 Speaker 1: seen you as you really are, not as you thought 756 00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:33,200 Speaker 1: you were, and not as you were last year, not 757 00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,200 Speaker 1: as you were ten years ago, not as you were 758 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:41,000 Speaker 1: before this sermon. Today you are changing from glory to 759 00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:45,759 Speaker 1: glory with ever increasing glory. And what God put in 760 00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:49,520 Speaker 1: you is greater than anything but the world can throw 761 00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:59,360 Speaker 1: against you. Now immitate that you know what. Look at me. 762 00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:06,799 Speaker 1: You haven't even seen the blueprint of the true you. 763 00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:11,319 Speaker 1: You haven't even seen it. You haven't even seen it. 764 00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:14,240 Speaker 1: I saw an interview where a man said Steve Jobs 765 00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:16,880 Speaker 1: was walking him around before he died, and he was 766 00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,080 Speaker 1: taking him through and he was showing him all this 767 00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:22,520 Speaker 1: stuff that Apple had already invented, but people wouldn't find 768 00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,680 Speaker 1: out about un till three years later. He said, And 769 00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:27,560 Speaker 1: we went through this door in that door, and we 770 00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:29,480 Speaker 1: had to put our eye on the thing and the 771 00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:31,880 Speaker 1: other eye on the other thing. And it was sixteen 772 00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,640 Speaker 1: security clearances, and there was a table and he said, 773 00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:40,759 Speaker 1: Steve Jobs said, look, he's walking me through. He was 774 00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:47,040 Speaker 1: walking me through, showing me stuff that he had already designed, 775 00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:54,240 Speaker 1: stuff that was already prototype. You know, God can walk 776 00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:57,680 Speaker 1: you into your future and show you who you are 777 00:52:57,719 --> 00:53:06,759 Speaker 1: going to be when you get free. Yeah, that's why 778 00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:09,959 Speaker 1: I worship, because I need God to get me past 779 00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:14,160 Speaker 1: all the security clearance and show me what he sees 780 00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:18,319 Speaker 1: that I'm gonna be that hasn't been released yet. Come on. 781 00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,120 Speaker 1: I love the scripture. It says it does not yet 782 00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:25,600 Speaker 1: appear what we shall be. That means no eye has seen, 783 00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:29,680 Speaker 1: no gear has heard, neither has it even answered into 784 00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:34,440 Speaker 1: your heart what God has revealed. But God has revealed 785 00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:39,440 Speaker 1: it by his spirit. Show me, by your spirit, God, 786 00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:42,919 Speaker 1: what you see in me. Show me, by your spirit, God, 787 00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:46,200 Speaker 1: what I am stripped of the stuff that was said 788 00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:53,319 Speaker 1: about me, that I repeated in my heart and helped 789 00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:58,279 Speaker 1: me to take what you see in heaven, and as 790 00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:05,080 Speaker 1: it is in heaven, our Father, who ard in heaven. Hello, 791 00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:06,560 Speaker 1: of your name, you Kingdom. Come, here will be done 792 00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:12,759 Speaker 1: your kingdom. Come, Let the culture go, your kingdom. Come. 793 00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:16,760 Speaker 1: You will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 794 00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:21,600 Speaker 1: See to it that you build according to the pattern 795 00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:26,359 Speaker 1: that God showed you on the mountain. See to it 796 00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:28,440 Speaker 1: that you remember what your father spoke to you and 797 00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:31,320 Speaker 1: the baptism at the Jordan, when you're facing that devil 798 00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:48,319 Speaker 1: in the wilderness, and copy that that that that you 799 00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:52,520 Speaker 1: see that victorious Savior risen from the grave. The Bible 800 00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:55,440 Speaker 1: says that as he has risen, so are we risen. 801 00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:58,640 Speaker 1: So I'm coming up too. If he got up, I'm 802 00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:02,640 Speaker 1: right behind him. I'm not staying down. My Savior didn't 803 00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:11,319 Speaker 1: stay down. Happy that I hear you, Lord, And your 804 00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:19,200 Speaker 1: word never returns. Boy, It accomplishes what you send it 805 00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:24,279 Speaker 1: to do. Heads bowed, eyes closed, We seal this word 806 00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:28,399 Speaker 1: now in the soil of our faith Lord, we make 807 00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:31,840 Speaker 1: a pact with you. We make a pact with you 808 00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:36,520 Speaker 1: concerning our purpose and concerning our peace, that we are 809 00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:44,319 Speaker 1: rejecting the world's patterns and aligning with your promise. Thank 810 00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:46,759 Speaker 1: you for joining us. Special thanks to those of you 811 00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,879 Speaker 1: who give generously to this ministry. Is because of you 812 00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:52,919 Speaker 1: that this ministry is possible. 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